"I should've known" Elise facepalmed and gritted her teeth afterwards.
"That kid is a transformer" She spoke sharply.
Chris being taken aback by Perry's transformation immediately turned to Elise upon her unsurprised response "Wow, way to state the obvious!" he yelled.
"It's not my fault I didn't realize it sooner" Elise spoke in a rather calm tone.
"You have the saviour eyes and you can't even see this one thing!" Chris snapped at her.
"Umm...incase you forgot, I'm not master Benjamin" Elise argued.
"Ha, well what do we know...you guys look so much alike that I thought you were him back there" Chris replied with obvious sarcasm.
"Oh don't start something you obviously can't finish young man" Elise glowered at him irritatedly.
Jules could only stand behind them and watch as they argued. 'Umm...should I stop them?' He thought in a panic. They had a giant terrifying transformer in front of them who was very much aiming for their heads right now and these two were squabbling like little kids?.
"Ha, talking to you is such a pain" Elise sighed in frustration and began massaging her temples.
"You dare to ignore me" a deep unclear voice instantly echoed which completely drew their attention. They looked up and were met with the now tall and scary Perry.
"Die!!" The voice echoed and the various branches sticking out of his body elongated to become bigger and longer aiming towards them haphazardly.
Elise dunked immediately and managed to avoid one by a hair's breadth but afterwards, the long branch came rushing towards the guy behind her...Jules.
Jules inhaled heavily and reflexly landed a blow on the branch the moment it got to him, the tip shattering afterwards. "Huh?" A deep voice echoed and the branch grew back even longer and aimed towards Jules once again, another branch rushed towards him from behind as well.
Jules upon realizing the weight of the situation, focused on keeping his aura released and sent a kick to the branch aimed towards his front, his hand reached towards its shaft afterwards and he leaped through it, barely escaping the attack of the other branch which came from behind.
"Woah, way to go Jules!" Chris yelled in astonishment. He was pretty impressed that his buddy didn't panic but rather choose to attack Perry head on.
His eyes then darted down immediately to glance at Anne's unconscious body. "I can't keep loitering here" he abruptly stood up and began to walk away with Anne in his arms while the transformed creature was distracted by Jules' combat skills.
"Aura manipulation, blast!" Elise chanted and a large wave of a bright blue light rushed towards one of Perry's arms destroying it with a blast.
"Hya!" Elise began aiming towards each and every branch in his body with her blade like aura.
'Wow' Jules couldn't help but admire but it didn't last long as at that moment, another branch rushed towards him and this time he aimed to destroy it.
He ran away from it's tip as fast as possible and aimed towards the edge. The moment he reached it and was now faced with Perry, he grabbed onto the branch with all his strength.
"Hmph!" He then punched the edge with great force and the branch broke off in that instant. The effect of Jules' blow combined with Elise's constant viscious attack gave Perry little to no time to rejuvenate his long stretchy branches.
"Sh*t!" Zaya who was watching the whole scenario could only curse and grit her teeth. She glared at Elise as she effortlessly destroyed Perry's branches. She clutched onto her stomach right where Elise had stabbed even tighter. She couldn't just stand back and watch those scumbags attack Perry like that.
Zaya soon shifted her gaze and caught sight of the guy exuding greyish aura and trying to wake the other girl from her slumber. "Hmm" her lips curved up as an idea popped into her head.
Chris held onto Anne's arm and began to fill it with his magnetic energy. If he did so, he could attract with her energy and release her aura which would most likely wake her up. In that instant, an aura of golden hue began to slowly surround Anne. "Ha" Chris' expression lightened up into a smile.
"Wow, golden aura" A familiar voice spoke from behind and Chris turned to see who it was. "Hmm, if it isn't....umm...well..." He stammered. "Oh yeah, I've got no clue what your name is" He said with a rather clueless expression.
"Tch" Zaya gritted her teeth in anger. "It's Zaya you idiot!" she glared at him with obvious rage.
"Never asked" Chris shrugged.
Zaya only got annoyed even further and vanished only to appear behind him and lunge towards his back with her brass knuckles.
To her dismay, Chris had immediately sensed her presence and dodged her attack by a hair's breadth. "Woah!" He exclaimed.
"You might wanna take it easy ya know" he smirked. "Want me to call an ambulance to tend to your wounds?" He asked with the intention to annoy her further.
"Shut up you!" Zaya yelled irritatedly and was about to lung at him again but stopped halfway. Her eyes darted towards the girl laying on the floor and breathing calmly as a golden aura surrounded her. 'That's right' she thought. With a chuckle, she vanished and reappeared right in front of Anne, grabbed onto her and vanished once again.
"H-huh?!...where.." Chris looked around hastily and was taken aback by what just happen. "Anne..she's got Anne, I can't find her!" he thought restlessly running around in search for the two women.
Meanwhile, Perry was at the verge of losing every bit of his energy as both Elise and Jules kept attacking him simultaneously.
"That's it Martin, aim towards wherever seems vulnerable" Elise said calmly and slid back after slicing off one of Perry's branchy arms once again, the arm immediately grew back afterwards. "Darn it" she gritted her teeth.
Jules nodded at Elise's words. He couldn't help but smile as she seemed to have acknowledged his usefulness during the battle. 'Pathetic right?' he sighed inwardly at the thought. "Woah" he leaped back as one of Perry's branches almost caught up to him. 'Seriously, they just keep coming'
"Guys!" Chris yelled in-between the tough battle.
"Hmm, you came to join in?" Perry's deep unclear voice echoed.
"No way in hell!" Chris yelled angrily and turned to both Elise and Jules in intervals. "The bitchy lady zoomed off and took Anne with her, I've got no clue where she went!" he spoke in urgency.
"What?!" Jules exclaimed.
"This just keeps getting worse" Elise groaned in frustration.
Perry let out a little laugh from inside his transformed form. 'Wow Zaya' he thought. Given that the vicious couple were distracted by the ginger head, he got enough time to regain his energy and create even more branches in his body.
"Elise look out!" Jules yelled immediately as one of his arms aimed towards her.
Elise flipped backwards instantly with great agility and landed on her feet but Perry didn't stop there, his branchy arm reached towards her again and she kept sliding back to avoid it.
"You leave me no choice" Elise said with gritted teeth.
"Aura manipulation, seal of judgement" she chanted and of course another mind blowing event occured due to her ability.
Her blue aura formed a big giant circular drawing from behind her. Two words were clearly visible on either end. The upper end had the words "PI" and the lower end with the words "TUA".
Jules looked forward at Elise in astonishment as she stood boldly with her shining aura behind her. He couldn't help but gape. He squinted his eyes greatly to get a clear view of the drawn seal, "Pi, Tua?" He pronounced. He wasn't a Giylberd native but he could clearly understand what those words meant from the few language classes he had received so far. "Good and bad..."
"Yep" Chris spoke from beside him. "Still can't believe she went for it tho" he let out a barely audible chuckle whilst staring at Elise too.
"What do you mean?" Jules couldn't help but ask.
"Well, I can't really explain this aspect of her ability" Chris looked up at him. "But I'd advice we step back a bit, haha" he added. "That dude is definitely gonna die"
Jules couldn't grasp the whole situation as well but he clearly understood what Chris was saying. "Okay" he nodded and both of them began to take light steps away from Elise and the transformed Perry.
"What..." Perry stammered but Elise didn't let him speak.
"Hmmm, the seal says Tua" Elise spoke that instant, her expression remained as serious as ever. "Then you must die"
Perry's eyes widened and his pupils dilated as the sight before him sent a shiver down his spine.
Soon, only the word 'TUA' could be seen on the seal and Elise stretched out both her arms with closed eyes. The seal moved closer to Perry and before he could react, it sent an outburst of a huge wave of blue light and attacked him with a single hit.
"Kurgh" Perry coughed out blood. The entirety of his transformed body began to crumble and shatter, the gnarling and grinding of the roots and branches could be heard and soon all that was left was the frail body of a small boy who immediately fell to the floor.
"What the hell was that?!" Jules exclaimed.
"Ha" Chris scoffed.
The seal drawing behind Elise disappeared and her knees grew weak making her fall on them. "Shit" she cursed.
"Elise!" Jules ran towards her and reached out his hand to help her stand up and she yanked it away. "Don't touch me" she glared at him while gritting her teeth angrily, almost like a viscious dog growling at him.
"Eh...okay" Jules stepped back awkwardly. 'She hates me again' he thought.
Elise staggered a little but managed to stand up straight and placed her arms on her waist. "Where's the other C-rank?" She asked urgently.
Chris flinched and began to scratch his head while sweating nervously. "Oh yeah...there was another one" he trailed off
"You idiot!, why didn't you look for her while I dealt with the kid you dimwit!" Elise snapped at him.
"That's enough insults in one sentence you know" Chris sighed.
"You deserve much more than that" Elise said exasperatedly.
"Chill out lady" Chris grinned. "Besides, I'm sure Anne's fine wherever those two may be. I released her aura afterall" he shrugged.
"We still gotta find them" Elise spoke blandly.
"Martin, stick with us. We can't risk losing you too"
"God, I should be sleeping right now" she sighed in frustration afterwards.
Somewhere in the dry desert.....
FWIP!. Anne flipped over and escaped from Zaya's grasp.
"You were awake huh?" Zaya scorned, she gathered her little strength left and stood up whilst glaring at Anne.
'Hmm, I should aim for her in a cool way like Elise does' Anne thought.
She then strerched out a hand with one of her guns and directly pointed it at Zaya. "Give up...uh..wait, what was your name again?" She asked.
"It's Zaya you idiot. Gosh, you all are so fucking annoying!" Zaya cursed angrily.
"Well, give up Zaya or whatever your name is" Anne said stretching out her gun once again, her golden aura surrounding her and supplying her with enough strength to generate a bullet at any moment.
Zaya clutched onto her stomach and stared at Anne angrily. "You're dead meat" she said.
"Yeah, and what can you do?" Anne scoffed.
At that moment three figures came running towards them.
"Anne, you're here!" Chris yelled in relief.
"Thank God, you're okay" a smile crept up Jules' face
"Huh? What are you guys doing here? What about the transformer kid?" Anne stared at them in curiosity.
"Oh, we killed that dude" Chris chuckled.
"I killed him" Elise said bluntly.
"As expected" Anne smirked.
Zaya stood frozen after hearing their words. "You...killed him?...you killed him?!" She yelled. In that moment, she ran towards Anne like a maniac and reached out to punch her with her brass knuckles but they flew out of her hands and Anne dodged sideways making her fall to the ground.
"I'll be taking these" Chris smiled and stretched out the pair of brass knuckles in his hands.
"How did you..." Zaya stared in horror.
"Shouldn't you have done that earlier" Anne turn to Chris with a raised brow.
"Well....at least I got them now" Chris shrugged.
"Ha, this is why you're the least useful one in the battle field" Anne argued.
"Huh? What did you say?!" Chris yelled in exasperation.
Zaya looked up and stared at Anne from behind. She seemed to be preoccupied with her banter with the other dude. 'I should use my last weapon, I can't lose like this' she thought I anger. She carefully reached out to a small pocket in her slinky outfit and slowly stood up.
'I'll kill you' she thought in anger and began to rush towards Anne.
"Huh?" Chris paused.
"Anne!" Jules immediately yelled.
Elise's eyes widened and she seemed shocked but not because of Zaya rushing to attack Anne, it was something else.
"Fire in the hole!!!" A masculine voice yelled and a motorcycle zoomed behind Anne.
"Eeeeek!!" Anne ran forward towards the other three in fright.
Zaya was taken aback by the sudden wave of wind and not only that, Anne was gone from her sight. "Tch" she gritted her teeth. She was about to run towards Anne again but another wave of wind rushed past her. She stared forward again and realized...she was much far away from them now.
A man in a motorcycle. He paused and looked towards Zaya from his helmet. "Nice, the perfect position" his lips curved inside his helmet. His hand held onto the handlebars of the motorcycle, his feet placed firmly on the foot pegs and he once again took off.
His bike zoomed in a circle completely preventing Zaya from moving any further and making her stand in place, her eyes widening in fear as she caught sight of a gush of reddish substance coming out of the bike....Fire!
The man in the motorcycle kept zooming around her, the fire increasing with every passing second. The engine roared and he kept circling around her in a flash completely trapping her in a ring of fire. In an instant, he zoomed away from the circle and stopped his bike.
Zaya breathed heavily in a panic. She tried vanishing out of the fire but she couldn't, her ability wasn't working. 'What in the world is happening?' She wondered. Soon, the fire caught up to her and there was no escaping it, she was going to die right there and then. "P..please..help" she stammered as tears slowly rushed out of her eyes, "Perry..." She muttered until she was completely engolfed in the fire and burnt to death.
"Woo!!" The man in the bike hopped out and slowly began to take off his helmet.
The quad looked from the completely burnt body of Zaya to the mysterious man with the motorcycle. Well...he didn't seem all too mysterious to some of them.
"What just happened?!" Jules exclaimed in shock at the sight of the burnt body in front of them after what had just occured.
"That idiot!" Elise curse.
"He came?" Chris wowed.
Soon, the man had taken off his helmet to reveal his face. "Hey kids, glad to see me?" He smiled.
"Marcus!!" Anne exclaimed happily.