The battle between a goddess and a hunter.
My part
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“Hey, Azarel, I got you a new mission.” His shapeshifting friend, Min, said. “Finally...” Azarel said.
It’s been two months since his last mission, and his last mission was a boring one. It was supposed to be a duo mission, him and Yukino Ikezawa, an elite of the Menagerie, but instead, he did it solo. Solo is more his style. The demon hunter told Yukino to wait at SP Central Park, but the girl did argue with him, but finally gave up. Azarel’s too stubborn. And the boy quickly dashed away.
Azarel arrived at the mansion, miles away from civilisation. “Wonder what’re they doing here.” He said to himself, and did a chi jump, and landed on the roof. He jumped inside the chimney, and ended up in a fireplace. Nobody’s there. “Um, hello? Intruder here!” He shouted out loud. The house remained silent. Azarel was just about to turn on the lights, and explore the place, until he heard the faint sound of a truck, getting louder, and clearer every second. Looks like it’s them. He thought to himself, and quickly hid inside a room. He heard the sound of stuff being unloaded, presumably from the truck, and then, the sound of some keys, and an opening door.
“Hah! We’re gonna be rich! If we get to sell this shit, we’ll never have to work, ever again!” He heard the shouting of a drunken man. Now’s the time. He thought, while slowly opening the door of the room where he was hiding. He saw about a dozen men all wearing black suits, inside the house carrying boxes, and three other men sitting at a sofa, two were drinking beer, while the other drank tea. Azarel walked out of his hiding place, and immediately all their eyes turned to him. “Well, I would love to have a cup of tea, but i’m afraid imma have to kill you dudes.” He said as calm as someone ordering pizza. “Get that bastard! Kill him!” One of the men drinking beer, presumably the leader, wearing a white suit, commanded. And immediately, all the men, except for the leader charged toward Azarel pulling out their handguns. The demon hunter was used to these type of situations, and let his right purple eye bloom gold and summon three chi wolves and five clones to handle the men, and pursued the leader, he ran to the garage, and saw that the leader was trying to escape with a truck, Azarel unsheathed his laser sword and held it with both hands the laser sword glow red, and he launched a laser beam, slicing the truck, and the leader’s left leg off, making him scream in pain. Then, the kid walked right up to him, and said “Sorry. I’m just following orders.”, and sliced his head off.
“What are the orders?” Zen asked. “The names Serena, located at Nighton.” His friend replied
“What does she look like?”
“Not she, but it.” The shapeshifter replied mysteriously.
“So… she looks like… a giant firefly? Weighs two hundred and seventy two kilograms? Twelve feet tall? Eight eyes? AND, she’s an official RHG? People must be outta their mind.” Azarel said as he sat on top a house reading the info about this, Serena creature, for the seventh time.
The lone hunter stuffed the files into his backpack, and pulled out his laptop. “Time to research.” He said to himself. He typed in ‘Serena - The Goddess of Fireflies’ at RHG Files, and the top result was: RHG File number 836: Goddess of Fireflies and Serenity. He clicked the link, but suddenly, he noticed, that he was being watched by someone, or something from the woods located at the right of the village. The chi user shut his laptop down, and put it inside his bag. He jumped down, and tied his bag to his bike, which was tied to a tree, and dashed toward the woods.
Azarel scanned the woods, and tried smelling down the scent of the thing that was watching him. No luck, he searched for the creature with the help of some clones and chi wolves. Still no luck, they searched the whole woods, only to find some fireflies following them, it’s almost as if the fireflies are stalking them. Creepy.
After hours and hours of searching, the last Zen decided to go to the town, to get some food at the village, and maybe ask some of the villagers about Serena. Azarel untied his bag from his bike and his bike from the tree, and rode his bike quickly toward the village, downhill, hardcore style, jumping over some boulders, jumping over the village gates, doing wheelies, and other stuff. After he arrived, he brought a bowl of miso ramen, and a Coke. There, he heard a man say something that brought his attention. “That creature is very strange, it’s about twelve feet tall, it has no mouth and nose on its head, it has some normal human-like arms, but, on its shoulders, it has two snake-like limbs which are two meters long and it ends in a beak and it has two eyeballs on top of the beak, that creature has red hair, eight eyes that form a circular pattern on its head, four on the left side of her head, and four on the right side, the lower half of the head has four strange purple stripes, it wore some kind of armor made by thousands of fireflies, it has a snake-like limb on each shoulder. And also, if you think that was crazy, her lower body part was even crazier, it’s lower body is about two meters long, it has six giant beetle-like legs, and the underside of her lower body glows. You heard that right, it glows! It has golden lines on the sides of her body, and believe it or not, it has wings! The thing can fly! Imagine that! A firef-” The man was cut off by Azarel. “Excuse me, sir, but may I ask you some questions?” The man looked around, searching for the sound of the boy, or man that cut hi off, for there was a crowd around him. “Right here, sir.” The hater of crowds said.
“Ah! Come here, my boy, come.” The man told Azarel to come closer. The demon hunter obeyed him. “You see, I was hunting some deer at the woods with my friend, George, it was a quiet night, and we found a deer at a clearing in the middle of the wood, I was aiming my rifle at the deer's chest, when suddenly, me and George heard a soft voice say ‘Oh please, do not harm this creature, what has this creature done to you?’ Me and George looked around, but we didn’t see anything.” The demon hunter began to be uncomfortable with the situation, something is watching him. “I lowered my rifle, and asked about who is she.” The man continued. “That voice answered. ‘I am The Goddess of Fireflies, Serena’ Me and George were looking around again, confused, until I heard George say. ‘J-joe? Am I the only one seeing this?’ I sent him a confused look, until I saw what he saw. A giant firefly-like creature. I couldn’t believe what I saw, George and I were shocked, so we ran for it. We ran as fast as our legs could, and went to the pub, to discuss what we just saw. I think I also left a mark there, a long stick with some red cloth tied to it. I think that the thing rarely comes out, only three people have seen this creature, beside for George and I.”
Azarel didn’t need to hear anything else and quickly sprinted toward his bike, tied it to a tree, and ran toward the woods bringing his backpack with him. He heard the man, Joe, say something about being careful, and other stuff, but he didn’t listen. Only one thing is on his mind now. Kill the creature, complete the mission, and talk to Jim Nightshade.
“What do you mean, by something?” Azarel asked, confused. “She’s not human. She, is a creature. It has been reported that people were hearing some strange noises from the woods, and some have even seen her. It’s also said that she has been terrorizing the village.”
“From who did Jerome get the report?”
“The village leader of Nighton, Jim Nightshade.” The shapeshifter replied. Jim Nightshade? Isn’t he… no, it can’t be him. He probably has the same name by coincidence. That’s all. The demon hunter thought to himself. But what if it is him? What if… what if… Azarel came to a deep trance.
“Hello? Earth to Azarel, Earth to Azarel! Azarel! Snap out of it!” Min said in front of the demon hunter’s face while shaking his body violently. Azarel quickly snapped out of his trance. “Okay, geez, you can stop now.” The boy said, holding his head dizzily.
The teen dashed toward the woods, and created three clones to scout the woods once more, and to report to him if anyone of them saw a stick with some red cloth tied to it at a clearing. Meanwhile, Azarel started to become sleepy due to the lack of sleep, so he climbed up a tree, and laid down looking at the blue sky, and soon fell asleep.
He was woken up by one of his clones at night, while the other two clones were nowhere to be seen. “Where are the other two?” He asked once he was fully awake. “We found her, and we tried to kill her, but she put up a good fight. Her eight eyes can shoot lightning, he can shoot fire from her mouth, she can create lightning and fire swords, and she can fire lightning balls from those creepy elongated fingers, and she can shoot fire from the eyeballs on her snake-ish limbs” The clone said. “That’s all that we know from her currently, and the other two are fighting the beast.”
“Well what the heck are we waiting for? We’ve gotta help them!” Azarel said before jumping from the fourteen meter long tree, he rolled to break the impact, and ran toward the battle ground led by the clone. They arrived at the battle ground to see that one of the clones have died, and the other was slashing the beast with his crimson laser sword. “Go and help your brother.” The chi master ordered before making eight more clones. “Attack the monster!” He ordered them before creating five chi wolves and also ordering them to attack. Serena put up quite a fight, slashing with her lightning sword and fire sword, shooting lightning from six of her eyes, and after the frenzy, all that remained are three clones, and two wolves. That creature is strong, I have to admit. Probably stronger than me in this state. I can’t risk using my golem, dragon or phoenix. I need to save energy, just in case I fail this attempt. And also, her skin looks like it’s full of stars. Strange. The boy thought to himself. Serena was tough, but she must have a weakness. The clones and wolves were fighting like crazy, and Azarel dashed in to help, he chi punched the creature, chi jumped, created three chi swords, and threw it at the firefly goddess, two stuck to its carapace, and she caught the other one. The Zen pulled out his plasma sword, clutched it with both hands, and launched a beam at Serena, then, he quickly changed swords, pulling out his laser blade, and sheathing his plasma sword, and quickly sent a laser beam toward the creature.
Serena dodged the plasma beam, but it exploded, sending her flying a few feet above the ground, and dodged the laser beam. The last chi wolf jumped up and bit her left arm trying to rip it off, but the goddess swung her arm violently causing the wolf to be sent flying away. The last clone jumped from a tree, and tried to hit her with a chi beam, but the giant firefly dodged it, and flew toward the clone cutting him in half.
“Where are you? Show yourself!” The goddess said. But Serena didn’t notice that Azarel was watching from behind from a tree, observing her fighting style, hidden in the shadows, and retreated.
Serena: She can shoot fire from her eyeballs that are located on top of her two meter long snake limbs, she can shoot lightning balls, create lightning and fire swords, fly, and she can also shoot lightning bolts from her eyes, but it seems that she can’t see from the eyes that are shooting lightning out. That’s what Azarel wrote on his laptop the very next day. Last night, he dashed toward his bike as quickly as he could, and he rode the bike to an inn, and bought a room. It was nice, the window was facing toward the hills, the food is nice, and it’s not that crowded. Today, he decided to research about the creature and opened her RHG page that he checked a couple of days ago. “This is the longest, hardest and weirdest mission that i’ve had so far.” He said as he waited for the page to load.
After the page loaded, Azarel looked at the page, reading all the info he needed, and he got a hunch, that the that the fifteen-thousand-year-old firefly’s enemies, so called “The Forces of Darkness”, had a connection to the demon invasion seven years ago. The boy shivered at the thought of meeting those demons that destroyed his village. So he made a plan, instead of killing the beast, he decided to make a deal with it. The boy sighed, and shut his laptop down, and pulled out his pencil and sketchbook from his bag, then started sketching the village.
***
It’s midnight and everybody at Nighton is asleep, except for one boy wearing full black attire. The boy that had attacked me. He went into the woods, presumably searching for me. I sent three fireflies to spy on him. He turned around and sent the fireflies a cold glare. Does he know? Before I could command the fireflies to retreat, he grabbed one of the fireflies, and squeezed him tightly. No! Why would anyone do such a horrible thing? I saw him smirk, and looked toward the place where I am hiding. “Show yourself. I can see you.” He says.
“Or else?” I ask.
“He dies.” He threatened as he squeezed the firefly tighter.
I can’t stand watching my friends die, so I quickly dash toward him, and attack him rapidly with my snake limbs.
***
Looks like my plan’s working. Good. I dodge her attacks easily, but then, I saw that her carapace began to glow brighter. My eyes widened, and I shut my eyes. But I felt myself being lifted up. She’s smarter than I thought. It’s a trap. She grabbed the hood of my sweatshirt and lifted me up. I immediately rip my hood off with my laser sword, and fell down, making my cap slide froward. I jumped back just in time to dodge the lightning from her eyes, and hid behind the trees. I made five clones to help me.
***
The Azarel’s charged Serena from five sides, front, back, left, right, and up. The goddess cut the Azarel in front of him in two, and it died. The firefly goddess fought the four other Azarel’s. But in the middle of the frenzy, he saw one Azarel with both of his eyes blooming golden. He’s about to create a chi phoenix. Serena quickly ran toward the demon hunter, and stabbed him in the chest with her lightning sword. The boy said. “Just so you know. I’m not part of the Forces of Darkness.” Before falling lifelessly to the ground. But to her surprise, he evaporated. It was a clone.
The three other clones pinned her to the ground. And the real demon hunter kneeled in front of her, and said. “Calm down. I won’t kill you, i’m just going to ask questions.”
“Liar! No, you-” Serena said but was cut off. “Answer, or else.” The b