!!!
The sword of Hamilvan, was stuck in between the imploded, destroyed and shattered Torsos of the Bears that were facing the frozen Calestro.
The tip of the sword reached the stomach of the slouched young man after it pierced through the reinforced bodies of the two bears in front of him.
Their stomachs were drilled unto, the hole big enough to reveal wires, cogs and a box-shaped object whirling inside of their bodies while bits and pieces of metal shards were falling from the air.
"P.R.O....T.E..C.T."
- The Guttural voice that resembled a lightning spoke once more, with a long pause mid-sentence.
"SEC....URE."
- Then the monotonous feminine voice chimed in, her intonation softly dissipating away before a momentary silence took place, afterwards, she then wobbly continued.
Before in unison, they declared.
"F.I.N.ISHED!"
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Unable to mutter up any words, Calestro could only find himself frozen as he stared on the blade that had pierced through both the bodies of the bears standing before him, despite the searing sensation brought by the otherwise cold blade drilling through his stomach, he had never once diverted attention to it.
Only focused.. on the two before him, his eyes widened; Irises shaking.
*Shrill..*
*Clang!*
The mama bear, the one in between the shielded Calestro and the unresponsive Papa Bear slowly attempted to raise her head, despite it visibly shaking as it did so.
"SON. . . .
. . .RUN."
Calestro blinked, and after a short gasp and a momentary inhale;
"..NO..!!!!!!!!"
With his eyebrows furrowing, Hamilvan was able to singlehandedly pull the blade out, blood still prevalent on his teeth while those silver irises showed no signs of abandoning its blaze.
"Hmph."
He then lifted up his feet before planting it directly on the upper corners of the Papa Bear's back before he-
*Fwoosh!*
Leaped away, delivering enough force unto its back that both bears began to wobble and eventually-
*Slam*
Fall down, though was supposed to fall down directly on the paralyzed stature of Calestro, the already dead head of the Papa Bear managed to slightly rotate its torso to the left, effectively bringing down their fall not on the young man, but on his right.
The head then proceeded to shakily raise itself briefly, before quickly slamming down on the floor again; *Static..* - The crimson coloured eyes flickering before transitioning into a deep, brown colour.
With ragged breaths, a racy mind yet a body that failed to respond; Calestro found his knees collapsing in face of what had just fell, his veins surging with overwhelming adrenaline to accomodate the a-thousand beats per minute of his heart: With only enough strength to slowly raise his shaky hands, Calestro extended it out before caressing the pink flower on the Mama Bear's head.. Which had now began to..
Transition from a healthy pink, to a limp, soft, brown colour.
"NOOOOOOOOOO..!!!!!!"
With his irises shaking, face proliferating in sweat and hands trembling, he hurriedly looked around and fiddled with his waistbelt, scurrying through the contents of each pouch before..
"..!!"
He pulled out a.. cylindrical object? both ends covered with stainless steel whilst its middleground were filled with cyan-coloured, neon-lines.
"..Please Please..Please Please...!!"
Calestro then slammed his hand on one end of the cylindrical object before pulling the lid out and throwing it away; revealing three, metal protrusions on the inside of the object. For the other end, he also did remove the lid with unrelenting hysteria, before separating the cylindrical object into two, identical, yet smaller versions.
"..Please..! Please..! Please Please...!"
Calestro continued by stabbing the head of the bears with the cylindrical object using its metallic protrusions, to which the bears' eyes flickered briefly before returning back to their, idle, brown, wilted-like colouration.
"..! What is this.. Imbecile Doing..!?"
- Hamilvan, with appaled eyes, a raised eyebrow and a sword resting inside his scabbard; subtly tilted his head as he saw Calestro pull out a rather;
"..What..Magical..Gadget is that..?"
..Peculiar Cylindrical Objects that he used to stab the heads of the bears that still remained unresponsive before him.
"Wait..!"
Upon seeing the eyes of the already defeated bears flickering in response to having the object drilled unto their heads, Hamilvan felt panic surge through his veins before he instinctively gripped the pommel of his already sheathed sword.
"..Is it..! Is it healing them..!?"
- Hamilvan internally exclaimed, though still showing no signs of progress, Hamilvan furrowed deep his eyebrows and once again gritted his; reddish teeth before slouching into a stance, glowing orbs materializing in the air around him before they rapidly coalesced unto his scabbard.
"I CAN'T LET THAT..!!"
- Hamilvan thought to himself, eyes once again fuming with something ineffably fiery as he maintained that stance.. allowing more and more of those small, luminous spheres to concentrate unto his sword.
"..I..I MUST OBLITERATE THOSE MONSTROSITIES..!"
- He gripped the pommel even tighter, so much so that veins began to show visible markings on his already gloved; right hand.
"AND I WILL DO SO.. WITH THIS SINGLE STRIKE..!!"
Hamilvan, with unwavering concentration, steadfasted his gaze on the Calestro that continued to fiddle with his pouches as the cylindrical objects remained inserted on the heads of the downed bears.
"..No..! No No No No No No!"
- Calestro muttered, movements growing more and more urgent as fluids of not only sweat began to slide off his cheeks.
"..! Mother..!" - "..Fa..ther..!!" - Calestro weeped, pulling out an array of gadgets with some he proceeded to also insert on the fallen bears but to no avail.
"..?" - Upon hearing his wails, "Mother..? Father?" - Hamilvan found himself spacing out on a pair of familliar yet overly-distant terms. "...!!"
- Another sight had flashed unto his mind, this time depicting the small silhouette of a human sitting before a pair of corpses surrounded by an array of burning buildings and houses.
With his mind, flashing another memory, again did his;
"AGGHHSJKKKK GUHHKSKSMK!!!!"
Head felt like to was being ripped apart using the brute strength of two muscular arms, his hands began to tremble violently as he struggled against the pain inside of his mind, nerves beginning to show and pulsate around his forehead.
After the memory had subsided, Hamilvan nearly stumbled backwards before;
*Slam!*
He drove his left knee towards the ground; with enough force that it caused some pockets of hardened soil to elevate upwards. After such a motion, Hamilvan quickly raised his face and steafasted his attention on the wailing Calestro, his face consisting of:
Teeth gritted so hard that blood mixed in with some foam began to secrete out of it, his eyebrows furrowed so deeply that veins started to pulsate like a heart on his forehead while his eyes blazed with fire containing a spark so ineffably primal.
Without anymore pauses, Hamilvan grappled the pommel of his blade with such intensity that pulsating veins almost ripped the glove that was covering his right hand. Before;
*BOOM!*
He charged towards the young man, a singular leg leap bringing forth an acceleration containing enough force that it left a crater on the patch he stood on.
In less than a second, he covered the distance.
He quickly unsheathed his sword with a large sneer on his face, staring down on the lowered gaze Calestro as he flew in the air.
"I'll make sure to do the same to you..!! Remain paralyzed for the rest of your life..!"
He them pushed down the blade;
[ROAD: SWORD! POMMEL STRIKE!]
*CLANG!*
Calestro deflected the strike away with a forceful swing from his right arm using the area where the wrapped chains are even more prevalent.
With a similarly..enraged expression. Probably even more intense, Calestro looked up, amber-eyes minimizing to accomodate the size of anger that he was being consumed by, at that moment.
"You..!! Monster!"
- Calestro exclaimed, causing Hamilvan's eyes to widen, his shock momentarily overriding the hatred he felt for the young man.
"I will.. Destroy you too!"
Calestro remarked, with speeds surpassing that of a normal human, he stood up. Delivering his right fist with chains wrapped around its knuckles on a direction colission course with Hamilvan's stomach, who despite having just leaped, remained floating in the air due to the sheer speed the two were engaging in!
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*BOOM!!!*
"Kyaaaa!"
The lass then crouched beneath the tree trunk before she yelped out, both hands covering her head.
After a few seconds, letting the tremor subside. Yenna's head peeked out of the tree trunk, only to have her eyes widen again with a gasp as she beheld what the smoke concealed after it had started to dissipate.
Yenna saw both of the bears fell, followed by the sheer intensity of Calestro's wail sending shivers down her already shaky spine.
Panic, Urgency, Terror, Uncertainty all filled her heart, but before she knew it.
Hamilvan had already assumed a stance while the wailing young man remained; hysterically preoccupied with the fiddling of his waistbelt.
"...Crap..!!!! This..This is bad...!"
- She lowered her hand, which accidentally caressed the pocket beneath her armour.
"..!"
"I have that..!?"
- She exclaimed internally, afterwards; She swiftly pulled out a small, L-shaped object then closed her eyes before pointing it unto the air and pulling a contraption that allowed a colourful orb to shoot up from the gadget!
However, as the swift orb ascended;
..She blinked.
And then;
*CLANG!*
Calestro deflected Hamilvan's Strike! With his teeth gritted, eyebrows deeply furrowed and minimized Amber-coloured irises blazing with ineffable anger!
Before Yenna's widening eyes could expand completely, Calestro's body shot upwards with speeds that defied the air causing some of his garments to tear while his fist was already speeding towards Hamilvan's vulnerable torso!
*FWOOSH!*
*BOOM!!!!*
The orb, bursted into an array of colourful flickers in the air while sending out a loud, almost defeaning explosion to echo throughout the entire area with its volume intense enough that it vibrated the eardrums of Calestro, forcibly freezing his fist which was millimeters away from colliding with Hamilvan's core as he felt the pain proliferate from his ears to his head, to his throat, to his neck, to his nerves, to his veins, the sound spreading like wildfire everywhere.
"Ack—!!"
Before Calestro could even pause to grasp his head, a long, armoured leg raced in the air before slamming onto his cheek and hurling him away! Causing the blaze that was once burning from his irises to rapidly dissipate.
*SMASH!*
Hamilvan fell down with his right leg extended outwards, the explosion echoing not enough to silence the noisiness of his own analytical overthinking.
"..He..!"
- Hamilvan recalled the time where he swiftly pulled out his blade with the glow of the scabbard transferring to the pommel only to be;
*Clang!*
Deflected by Calestro.
"..Reacted..to my speed..!?"
Hamilvan felt his arms losing an ounce of their strength when faced with a conclusion.
"..He's..He is as fast as me..!!?"
- But was quickly silenced by a sneer and a click of tongue.
"Don't make me laugh!! No one is as fast as me..!!"
Ignoring the colourful spectacle and the once-piercing sound just now, Hamilvan found himself to be more shocked over Calestro's response.
"..And..Those eyes..!!"
- The sight of Calestro's unwavering glare that bored with such intensity through Hamilvan's similarly enraged though also crazed silvery eyes.
"..Anger..! Hatred..! No..! No Human being can possess such intensity like that..!! It is not possible..!!!"
- Hamilvan's eyelid twitched, a sweat trickling down his cheek. A distinct, yet not one that caused an excruciating pain memory resurfaced on the Commander's head, depicting of him, holding his blade standing before, others atop, sometimes kneeling before; either dead, incapacitated or paralyzed monstrosities with such eyes that peered and glowed even brighter than the full moon shining amidst the gloominess of the evening.
"..WHAT ARE YOU..!?"
Hamilvan, with a troubled expression broke out of his daze and with widened eyes did he stare at the smoke which bursted upon Calestro's collision with the tree.
"ARE YOU A BEAST!?"
Hamilvan exclaimed, to which was answered after the Smoke had cleared consisting of;
A crouching Calestro, with both hands already forming a cross stance while covered with blue-glowing chains slithering slowly on the floor.
"...No.."
Hamilvan locked in with the deep-furrowed glare of Calestro which remained concealed under the obscurity of his jet-black bangs, and rather muscular forearms hovering over his eyes, forming a cross-shaped block.
With Hamilvan's eyes remaining fuming with rage in contrast with Calestro's still blazing eyes though now.. subsiding; however rage was still present, his is somewhat less-intense.. somehow more..serene, as if controlled.
Seeing such a sight, Hamilvan fixed his stance as he shakily reached for the handle of his blade.
"..I..I MUST ELIMINATE YOU THEN!"
Hamilvan yelled internally;
"YOU ARE..A FUCKING MONSTER!"
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Chapter 19 Finished!
(Enraged Calestro vs Crazed Hamilvan!)
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