monster and magic (end, for now)

ลำดับตอนที่ #31 : A very scary abomination

   Oh! Jordan! How hard of you to fight a teenage girl who use dream and hallucination to fight! How hard of you! You must be tiring!

   Meanwhile, I was fighting a freaking monster disguised as a tough armored guy.

   As the wall raised from the ground, separated us from one another.

   To be honest, I wasn’t as down as I should be. Separated from everyone really gave me some alone time, though alone time in an evil castle filled with traps. 

   So I strolled around the maze, finding a way to get out of this mess. About 20 minutes later, I found the big room, similar to Jordan.

   In the center of the room stood a knight in steel armor, he had a blond-color hair, an ember predator-like eyes, his armor shoulder was decorated with dragon and goat head, and on his breast plate with lion head.

   He glanced at me, his eyes were filled with killing intention.

   I made a defensive stance and slowly walked toward him, seeing that, he pulled out his sword, a very big and long sword about 7 feet longs.

   [Jordan told me that the sword was called a claymore, but only the greatest history nerd would know that.]

   “Ava Veluca Anker” He said my full name “I have waited all this time. And now, the moment has come.”

   “Have we met?” I honestly asked.

   “My bad, I have not introduce myself properly.” He said “My name is Chimera, the eldest of Typhon’s monster children and the commander of lord Ludwik’s arm…”

   I threw my staff at him.

   Okay, you might be asking ‘Ava! You attacked him when he is monologuing! That is poor sportsmanship! But I mean, he literally bowed to me when he said it, I got to take the chance he kindly present to me.

   My staff went right on and hit his head, he stumbled back a step, but I would prefer him completely knockout altogether, but I guessed life don’t just go the way you want it to.

   Chimera raised his head, his predator eyes gleamed with rage. Oops.

   He ran toward me, with his sword in his hands, so I summoned my staff with the force [Just kidding, I used magic.] back into my hand. Chimera jumped up into the air the way no human could possibly do and swung his sword at me, so I used my staff to block.

   Pro tip: Do not use a wooden staff to block a sword.

   His sword hacked through my staff as if it was made from paper.

   As the sword came closer to my face, I used my trump card, I closed my eyes and imagine myself being 20 meters away, and I blinked myself to that spot.

   Even though I managed to escape unharmed, the Chimera guy was able to cut some of my front hairs, which made me want to kick his butt even more.

   Chimera turned toward me, but instead of rushed at me again, he turned sideways to make the dragon head facing me.

   And then it spited out fire.

   Yes, what…the…heck.

   I was at first try to stop the fire using magic, but the flame was too hot and chaotic, so I couldn’t even bend it, and ended up falling to the ground to dodge it.

   ‘New plan!’ I thought to myself ‘Avoid the dragon head!’

   I jumped up to my feet, with the-pieces-of-wood-that-once-was-my-staff in both hands and rushed directly toward my opponent. Chimera made a defensive stance, but I made a high jump and tried to smack him in the head.

   Then the lion head opened it mouth and spitted out fire.

   I was able to turn mid-air from the fire, but my hand was burnt, and the pain was quite a lot, and fell to the ground left to him.

   And then the goat’s head spitted fire.

   “Oh! Come on!” Would be what I said if I wasn’t trying not to die at the time. Instead, I scrambled for my dear life and back up 20 meters away.

   “Why do you even need a sword when your armor can breathe fire!?” I asked.

   He didn’t answer, but all of the heads opened its mouths and blasted a column of fire, rendered me trap, and slowly walked toward me, making me trap even more.

   ‘Amaterasu!’ I thought ‘Help me out here!’

  ‘How?’ She asked.

   ‘Do you have like, some kinds of special items to to help me live pass this situation!?’

   ‘And why did you assume that I have those sorts of things?’

   ‘Mars have that flying-skeleton-horse-power-chariot.’

   ‘Well, come to think about it, I have these things. I will send it to you now.’

   Three objects landed into my grips, an old rusty iron sword, a mirror the size of a car wheel and a jade necklace.

   “What am I supposed to do with this!?” I said out aloud.

   But before Amaterasu could explain how these things suppose to save me, all of Chimera’s armor’s head turned at me and unitedly blasted a fire column, and it was too close to dodge.

   But before the fire hit me, the mirror floated out of my hand and got in front of me, the fire was stopped in front of the mirror like it was blocked with barrier.

   Chimera stopped the fire “Impossible!”

   ‘The three regalia of Japanese emperor that I granted them.’ Amaterasu said ‘The mirror, represent purity. The Jewel, represent benevolent. And the sword Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, represent courage. Use it quickly, I have to return it to the museum before the security guard realize they’re missing.’

   A leather strap came out of the mirror and tie itself on my left wrist like a shield, I put on the necklace, which magically healed all my burnt wounds. With the impossible-to-pronounce-sword in my right hand, I was ready to go.

   Well, not really, sword is more of Jordan thing. So I didn’t exactly confident about the fight.

   Chimera drew out his sword and charged at me. He thrust his sword a me, but I managed to weakly parry the attack.

   [Parry? Holding a sword really make you lamer.]

   He turned his right shoulder at me and blasted a fire out of the dragon head, but I used the mirror-shield to block. 

   Then I tried to attack back, I hold the sword with both hands and swung it at Chimera, which he dodged easily.

   But then suddenly, as soon as my sword swung, a strong gust of wind exploded out of the blade, pushing Chimera backward a few feet.

   ‘Oh, I forgot to mention, the sword can control wind.’

   ‘Wait, wait, wait.’ I thought ‘Why would a freaking sun goddess gave a wind sword to someone?’

   ‘It’s complicated.’

   I smiled, because now, with this magic sword, I had a great advantage in the fight. I swung my sword again, the wind pushed him back again, so I swung again, again, again, till he was back up in the corner.

   “You are better than I thought.” He said.

   “Why thank you.” I answered.

   “It seems that it is the appropriate time to show you my true form.”

   “What?”

   He struck his sword to the ground and dropped to all four, and his body started to change. His armor melted into his skin and turned into a fur, his head shrunk into his armor and all three of the armor’s heads lifted up and became alive, all of his hands and feet turned into paws, body expanded into 12  feets high.

   That when I remembered what a chimera is.

   Stood in front of me was a giant monstrosity with three heads, lion on the center, goat on the left and dragon on the right, his body was that of a lion, but he had a tail of a snake, which was a snake’s head at the end.

   I nearly pee my pant.

   This is a really embarrassing thing I about to share, so if you somehow meet me face to face, do not bring it up, all right? Otherwise I will burn you alive right then and there.

   So, I scared of animal hybrid. Not the Liger or tigon and all those things, but the thing that was poorly made, those really haunt my dream. Like they just mashed everything they think is cool together and hope for the best.

   All the four head turned to me and made a facial expression that resemble a smile “And let’s the real fight begin.”

   All of the head blasted out fire at me, so I raised my mirror-shield to block, but I could sense that the fire was 100 times greater. Some of the fire blasted through my magic shield and burnt me, so I retracted my shield away and swung my sword, creating a strong wind that blew the fire away.

   ‘Here’ Amaterasu said, ‘Let’s me help you.’

   My sword glowed for an instance and my feet lifted from the ground, granting me the ability to fly.

   The dragon head spitted out fire at me, but I able to dodge it. But then, the snake’s tail head came up and bit me in the leg.

   A great pain was inflicted through out my body, I could feel a venom pouring out from the snake fang trying to run through my vein, the jade necklace trying its best to counter it, but it seems to not be enough.

   I raised my sword and with all my strength, swung to sword at the snake, trying to chop it off, but no effect.

   The snake pulled me down toward the other heads, all of its charged fire for a finishing blow.

   ‘Now or never!’ I thought and unleashed my strongest spell.

   “Chūmon no hikari!” I screamed, but to my surprise, instead of the light spread around my body, the light flew through my body into my left arm and shoot out a stream of pure light out of my mirror.

   The light vaporized all of the snake head and more than half of the goat head, and the rest of the heads screamed in agony.

   “Yes!” I shouted with joy “Chūmon no hikari!” I screamed again, but no effect, and I realized my trump card used nearly all my magic supply.

   Chimera jumped up and tried to smack me, but I managed to escape just in time. I raised up my sword and stabbed on the back of him, which made him scream even louder.

   ‘I must finish him now.’ I thought and swung my sword through Chimera’ body, cutting his shoulder, making a big torn between lion and dragon head, and then continue swinging through the dragon head, cutting it cleaned off.

   [Oh, I hope you aren’t eating something right now.]

   I flew down to the ground and turned back to Chimera, his body had turned back to humanoid, half his head was cut into a big wound, and his left arm was now a chunk of meat and his right was just disappeared.

   I walked toward him and said, “When you resurrect, try to reflect yourself on how you lose to a 13 years old girl.” And then I put him out of misery.