Worldmeld Preview Chapter (Battle Scene Practice)

Worldmeld Preview Chapter! Conflict on the outskirts! Misty vs Amaranth! (Battle Scene Practice)
by Johnnyd2

The outskirts of Tokkopolis were rarely this barren. But this was nighttime, a time in which very few souls would venture to these parts, lest they encounter many of the wandering monstrosities that roam around. Bandits, robbers, brigands, monsters you name it. All those and more roamed the outskirts, eager to infiltrate the walls of Tokkopolis and wreak havoc. However, even such creatures were strangely absent, as a conflict was approaching, and any foe with a brain cell could tell that they best not interfere.

"Freaking typical, of all the places i get called out too, and its the blasted outskirts." A redhead said to herself as she walked down a path, or what would pass for a path in these parts, not that the monsters cared for such formalities. "Relax Misty, you just gotta talk with whoever called you out, maybe we can work things out? Maybe.." Misty was cut off from her train of thought as she felt a surge of energy approaching. she whipped her pole-arm and pointed it out in the direction of the source. "This is powerful alright, but too focused to be a wild or feral monster, must be a humanoid." She thought to herself as she stood her ground.

"Jeez louise sis! Your awfully uptight, got a stick in there somewhere?" A cocky male voice declared as a brown haired boy shifted into view not too far away from Misty. She then realized who exactly this was.

"Amaranth?" Misty thought to herself as she glared in shock at her forlorn brother standing with a ivory clad claymore in one hand, and white armor covering his other. The adamant warrior chuckled to himself.

"Is this seriously how your going to greet me every time we meet? and after we've been apart for so long!" Amaranth stated as he approached Misty. Misty snapped back into it, as she readied herself. "Now, i feel like we haven't got, lets say, acquainted with our strengths and weaknesses. So how bout this, we beat the crap out of each other, and see how it goes?" he said with a tinge of fury in his eyes.

" So your not hiding in your sanctuary then, then lets go!" Misty shouted as she motioned her hand across her weapon covering it in a layer of ice. Amaranth was quick to strike as he leaped forward and brought his claymore down at Misty, who was quick to catch it with her blade.

"Not bad sis-" Amaranth was stopped short this time as the mage knight capatilized on this moment of opportunity and flipped a kick upwards knocking Amaranth away and disarming him in the process.

"I'd say this is more than bad for you bro!" Misty yelled as she charged and slashed several times in a frigid assault. Amaranth was quick to counter with his gauntlet, but his guard was quick to break under Misty's assault as she took advantage of her position and after several fierce slashes, shot forth a blast of water with her other hand and blasted Amaranth away.  "look whose down now?" Misty bragged as she stood in a triumphant pose, unaware of what was coming behind her.  "What?!" Misty looked back as she took the impact of a  flying light imbued claymore hard. Flung up into the air Misty saw that her target wasn't quite down for the count.

"Sheesh Mist how is it that the most obvious tricks get you in the end?" Amaranth said coyly as he caught his returning weapon in his hand. "Heads up! Rending Gale!" He shouted as he lept up at the prone catalyst with an aerial wind slash. The slash hit its mark sending the girl flying farther away til she hit the surface hard. The crusader landed and sighed. "Miss Mist Misty, How is it that you seem to take all this physical abuse fine? But i bet its nothing compared to your emotional issues! Wouldn't your sisters agree?" Amaranth taunted, wanting to get the most out of this battle.

"There we go!" Amaranth thought in his mind

Fear, Anger, Violence. All these thoughts and more ran like a river through the youngest Waterflower sister as a surge of energy shot forth from the point of her impact. "You picked the wrong button to press!" Misty said as she stepped out of the surge, her armor now took a more hardened and spiked appearance, her head covered by a crystalline helmet with fin like protrusions sticking out. She gave her brother a frozen death glare.

"So, this is your hyped up "Critical mode" Eh? You know what, I'm just going to stand here, and let you take a shot, a free shot, but i bet your too much of a wuss to do such a thing." Amaranth would regret saying these words, as the transformed Catalyst rushed through him in a stream of frozen water knocking him through several nearby structures to add on to the impact of this vicious attack. Misty shouted with the fury of the ocean as she rammed her aggressor forcefully until she crashed to the ground alongside Amaranth. Misty leaped out of the impact zone, feeling proud of one upping her brother like that. Or at least that's what she wanted to think.

"Well this cats got teeth after all! Bravo, ordinarily I'd just pop a big heal on myself, but that would feel like a crap out to me. So,  since you showed me yours, now it my turn!" Amaranth declared as he released a shining burst from himself. Blinding light consumed the area as Misty averted her gaze briefly, she figured that was too easy.

"This must be your.." Misty thought to hereself as she saw her brothers form reappear. His body was now fully adorned in an ivory tinted regalia of steel, a billowing white cape flowing from his back. Amaranth gazed at Misty from his helm, a flower shaped crystalline cover.

"Release? Hah, unlike yours, I actually had the time to name this one! Bloom White Rose! " Amaranth declared as a myriad of lights sprouted from his back, forming into translucent wings. "Now, its freaking on! Aurora Lance!" The armored combatant charged at Misty with a spear of light. The girl was quick to counter as she  formed and ice shield with one hand and blocked the charge. Still though, the force of the attack was great, so much that Misty had to forgo striking with the weapon in her other and to keep the shield up. "And thats my door!" Amaranth Sneered As he formed a shining blade with his free arm and struck at Misty. Try as she might, she felt her ice shield begin to crack.

"Think fast Mist, dont blow it, thats it!" Misty muttered a chant as a glyph adorned the shattering shield.

"oh come the hell on!" Amaranth panicked as the shield blew up in his face, literally! The force of the blow sent him crashing down to the earth oncemore. Misty landed back on her feet from her quick thinking, and likewise was her next action as she leaped into the night sky, the moonlight shining down on her.

"I Invoke thy forces of the  deepest depths and the frozen abyss! Legion Zero!" the catalyst declared as she formed a myriad of serpentine ice and water elementals from her energy. Misty then extended her arm forwards as her elemental entourage charged and roared at her downed target. leaving an explosion of frost and tidal energies in its wake. Misty smirked, but that was quickly wiped off her face. Amaranths wings had formed a makeshift barrier around him, so much so that they caught several of the serpents in their grasp.

"Took a lot out of you to make these elementals sis. Shame if something were to happen to them, like, I dunno, this!" Amaranth yelled with a mocking expression as his wings crushed the serepents in their grasp, their mistress clutching herself in pain as this happened. "Now the honorable thing in this case is to let you catch your breath after I crushed the life out of your pets here. But seeing as how I spent most of my life neglected and sealed away from everyone else, know, Honor is too much for me to spare." He stated as Misty let out a yelp of pain. Amaranth then billowed his wings out and crossed his weapons.

"Light of the Sanctum, beseech thee and tear thy foe Asunder! Lumus Myriadus!" He yelled out as his arms split into hundreds of smaller blades surrounding Misty. "Its been fun Sis!" Amranth declared as he shot foth the swarm of blades at Misty, slicing and dicing her armor and herself.
"Ash, Brock, my friends, My sisters, The rest of my family!" Misty's thoughts rushed through her head, her images mixed in with the pain she was inflicted with in rapid succession from the slicing blades. Misty twisted and writhed as she felt herself grow weak, her vision flashing by frantically.

"I guess, I wasnt strong enough after all." Misty thought in her mind as she felt herself shatter, both her armor and her emotions leaving her in her regular clothes, wounded greatly from the battle. Her body laid torn and bleeding quite a bit from the cuts and slashes from that vicious assault.  Amaranth dismissed his armor, reverting back to his civilian clothes. He then walked up to Misty. and in a surprising move, dismissed his weapon as well.

"You know I could kill you right here and now. but thinking about it, beating the crap out of each other, or more-so me beating it out of you has given me more entertainment than ive had in a while. I mean, it certainally beats striking at dummies and rats. So here is the deal, I let you live, hell i'll even invoke a recall portal just so you can go heal up, well, best as they can do anyway. But if you dont get strong enough for our next fight to top this one, I wont show mercy next time. Am i clear sis?" Amaranth looked Misty in the eye. Misty managed to force a nod as she teared up a bit.

"Good Mist, now, lemme see what i have, oh here we go, a Scroll Of Recall! Good for one trip to the users home base! Good thing its whoever uses the portal and not who uses the scroll itself, otherwise this would just be awkward!" Amranth pulled out the scroll and opened it. The scroll glowed as it conjured up a portal to the Glorious Dawn Guild Hall. The boy picked up Misty and whispered into her ears.

"By the way sis, if you see Ash, or that nerd you call a guild master, tell them that this is the work of the Imperators? Got it? good!" He stated as he heaved Misty through the portal.  Amaranth then stretched in a sense of relief after the intense battle.

"Now, speaking of guilds, time to get a check on that promotion." Amaranth smirked as he walked off into the night. Both sides knew one thing after this encounter, Everyone has their limits, and breaking them may be necessary in order to survive in this world.

Chapter End