User blog:Vertroyer/The Dark War - Chapter 8

They were all back at their one HQ they had left...

Each one was in a different room, different area, but nowhere close to each other. They all needed time to recuperate and recollect their thoughts about the tragedy that occured the day before.

Add's death struck everyone like a heart attack...

Her grave was right outside the HQ, and the funeral was over hours ago...

Haw was sitting around the meeting room, as always, except that there was absolutely no one in sight within the room other than him.

 Haw 

A member of ours died..... now what am I to do? I could only sit here and just think about why that happened.

That's right... we were weak.

Desert used to lift mountains, Ghosty used to summon armies, Unreal used to be Rambo's equivalent, I... I... I used to be.... a lot better.

Mann was right, we did rust over the years....

We are no longer as tough and powerful as we used to be. We were legends.

Now.....we're just nothing but a bunch of lousy mercenaries....

Their robot model is nothing like the tri-legged one. We are a dozen times weaker than what we used to be, while that behemoth is strong enough to send us all to extinction. It's power matches that of god's....

Yeah.... that's right.... I saw it all in the stronghold we raided... the file for Robot Z. I couldn't believe my eyes.... we didn't even see a percent of what it's capable of.

What do I do now? What?!

Desert was sitting next to an old structure near his HQ. The structure was an old skyscraper that was larger than most hills. He would always sit there under it's shade and think about stuff...

 Desert 

...... She's dead.....

I was the first to be pushed back.... I'm such a wimp...

I wish I could've done more back then...

I just ran in like a dumb brawn-fuelled dummy.....

That robot just threw back our whole team.... so how would I be able to do anything?!

I lifted the tri-legged mech, sure.... but that's just hundreds of times lighter than what I used to lift before.....

Can I even return to my former strength anymore?

Eclipsa was standing near a pond.... looking into the water... hoping for something....

Eclipsa

Why?

How could they do this? Cold hearted....

I can't blame them I guess.....if it's me who really didn't do anything.....

What have I degraded to? All I'm wielding now is just one spear....

I had powers before this....where did they disappear off to?

Too many questions..... but....but....

Did they.... really break our morale? Just like that?

Mann was in his room, playing around with the revolver in hand...

 Mann 

What a disaster....

And I thought my death would be the worst thing to happen to me....turns out it was the 2nd worst...

They....no....He got into our team.... he screwed it all up....

He bypassed our defenses, he disguised as "one of us".

He killed one of our colleagues....

Who would they kill next? It could be me, it could be the others, it could even be..... all of us.

Couldn't we just be replaced by better people of this generation?

Playful was sitting on top of an old wooden wall, glaring at the sky of the dark night...

Playful

Well then....

A piece of my heart broke... Addfire....

We used to be the closest of friends... and now..... she's just gone.... buried under the ground....

Too soon.....too soon....

I'm helpless on what to do, to keep crying or to to get up and fight knowing I'd just die anyway?

...

Should I just..... surrender?

Secretive was sitting by her magic orb somewhere in the grassy plains, contemplating the last event...

Secretive

This is devastating...

What's worse than her death is the fact that I couldn't revive her.... I didn't know how to....

No wonder the Witch is a lot better than me... I didn't even get worse through time because I may have been just that bad long ago...

I let the team down....

I can't even be brave enough to take responsibilty to the team's notice.

So now what do I take? And where do I take it?

Hunter was sitting on some random rock in another part of the plains, sharpening the edges of his bow...

Hunter

I'm thirsty...

But I can't fill this thirst...

The liquid that fills my thirst is out of reach.... and the tools I have do nothing...

The essence of vengeance, revenge, retribution....

How do I get it?

Unreal was standing next to the outer wall behind the HQ, flipping his gun around and eating an orange....

 Unreal 

Madness, I tell you....

Shields getting old, mobs upgrading, evil evolving....

We seriously do need an upgrade, or at least.... retrieve back our old levels of power...

The levels of power that used to shake and alarm all of Drakkonbane...

When will we get them back?

Ghosty was floating in the air, at an altitude where no one could see him. He faced the dark sky as well...

Ghosty

uhh.........hm......

I don't know what to do anymore.....

I would usually summon kirbies, maybe even a goat to be substitutes for an absent friend or something....

Well, didn't work this time....

Guess the saying is true: A real friend cannot be replaced, not even by a thousand normal ones....

How many times do I have to increase my effort to make up for this?

Rubik was in a forest, observing nature quietly.

Rubik

Lately, a friend's soul was taken...

Our team had also faced a catastrophic tragedy....

There are many questions to be asked on this very gorgeous night when everyone is in doubt.

I have a question of my own that has been a concern for a long time, but it has been highlighted as of recently...

What will be the fate of The Iron Shield?

Spicy....of course....was at Addfire's grave. He stood there in front of the tombstone, staring at the name of what once was his celestial angel engraved on the rough stone.

 Spicy 

I love you.....

I would've fought the enemies of the world for you....

But I failed to protect you from one scumbag....

...

What have I done?

How could I be so careless?

YIS won that battle and the mental war on me.... my soul is empty, I'm dead from the inside...

Why should I continue to persist?

At this point, they were all inquiring about the situation, about what they should do, about what comes next.

This wave of sorrow infested each and every one of them... mercilessly.... until.....it ticked something off.

Not long after.... this wave of grief was washed away, and it was followed by determination, pure rage and a lust for someone's head on a silver plate. Great minds, apparently do think alike...

Haw flipped the meeting room's table, and sliced it with his katanas on max sharpness... he wouldn't stop until it turned into nothing but ashes. For the first time in several years, his katanas glowed blue once again....

"Simple. I'll give the mech...no.... YIS a run for his money. Enough crying!"

Desert unleashed a battle cry, and lifted the 300,000 ton structure behind him with little struggle and flung it towards a random mountain, obliterating the whole darn thing.

"Not only will I return to it, but I'll mash their faces with it too!!!"

Eclipsa's chest flashed white and blue, her armor set changed color and shape as a result. She turned into a totally-not-an-Undyne-The-Undying-ripoff warrior as she summoned a white beam spear in her hands.

"Well, they did not, and they're gonna have to try a lot harder than THAT!"

Mann threw his revolver away. Instead, he took out his prized Ambassador and the Dead Ringer. He opened a drawer and brought out a fedora, only to be placed on his head, it's shadow covering his right eye as it flashed white in the dark.

"But who would they find to replace us? NO ONE!"

Playful's shadows came back to life like never before. They merged into her soul and weren't visible to the outer world anymore. Her pupils turned pure black with a newfound power that the world has yet to see.

"Heh... you can have my surrendering when you pry my fury off my cold dead hands. And even then, I would have engraved it into my cold, dead, hands!"

Secretive stood up, opened her hands towards the sky. An unimaginable amount of blue energy emerged and took the shape of a Fenrir who howled to the moon.

"I'll take the rotten criminals with a one-way ticket on the pain train, straight into their graves."

Hunter's lizard half took over him, he started growing more carnivorous. He dropped his bow as his whole eyes glowed red, and tore apart the rock he was sitting on with just his hands. With every slash, he let out a little grumble and a roar of rage.

"Screw the tools, I'll use my bare hands!"

Unreal stopped playing around with the gun, and threw an orange high in the air. He fired a full magazine of bullets at the orange. They hit the centre one after the other,  each bullet that came before would hit the centre of the bullet after and crack it in 2. He did it with all 12 bullets...

"This instance, this moment, this period of time, we get it back. Now's the time!"

Ghosty turned himself upright and summoned a whole army of kirbies floating in the air, his soul turned obaque once again as he became determined to fight.

"Hundredfold, thousandfold, millionfold, whatever it takes to wipe you off of existence, YIS!

Rubik cracked his knuckles and snapped his fingers. The largest tree in the forest in front of him came to life. It grew massive arms, legs, green eyes and a jagged mouth. Rubik awakened an ent.

"The Iron Shield will become tougher than steel..."

Spicy's eyes came back with a vigorous color of red once again. He raised his hand to summon a whole field of magic-boosted piercing bones, and a group of gaster blasters were summoned behind. A wide grin showing his teeth was drawn on his face.

"Because YIS owes me a heart, I'll rip it right off his darned chest and break his ribs along if I have to..."

Drakkonbane was on the verge of changing permanently...

End.