[mystogan]

i am being occupied by a lot of things, so i am not able to prepare a chapter quickly, i am having lot of work to do in which i am finding less peaceful time to write, but i'll try to post the next chapter as soon as possible
as always i am trying to improve my writing and make less mistakes and i hope it is turning out that way

for now here is the next chapter, "Chapter 14: Scared to Fight"

Spoiler for Chapter 14: Scared to Fight:

Black lightning sparks were flying everywhere, arwin swung the grey wand and fired a wave of lightning, Fynn was moving with inhuman speed and dodged the lightning, he instantly appeared infront of arwin and punched in his gut, arwin bent down and stepped back holding his stomach, he went for another attack, arwin quickly stepped ahead and swung his sword at his head , fynn twisted and moved, the blade went past his head cutting a few strands of hair, arwin made another swing, fynn caught his armed hand, arwin blocked his side kick with his free hand,with his free hand fynn using two fingers poked in arwin’s eyes

“ahhhhh!”he yelled, dropped the greywand and holding his eyes, he blindly ran away from fynn, yelling in pain,

“are you mad!?, who pokes someone in the eye!?”he said

“i am trying to kill you, how is poking you in the eye worse?”he said in confusion
Arwin felt hot liquid in his hands, he slowly tried to open his eyes and peeked

“Ahh!!, and now they are bleeding!!”he was yelling and running up and down the hall

(Fynn)i’m still here, does he even realize he is in a battle right now, is he an idiot.

He was running blindly yelling and he ran into a pillar and fell on his back, on the other side fynn watched arwin with a confused face, the atmosphere had suddenly gotten comic and light for a moment.
After sometime he slowly opened his eyes, his vision was reddened, he rubbed his eyes and cleared it, he felt the blood flowing out of his eyes, for a moment he just lay there.

(Arwin) just like tears of blood, how very suitable for someone like me

Arwin was lying on his back, instantly fynn appeared above him holding the greywand arwin had dropped before,

“die!”saying fynn made straight stab into him,arwin caught the blade with his bare hand, pulled his legs upward and kicked fynn in the face from the side, he fell back releasing the greywand. Arwin’s hand was bleeding, he had caught the blade in his sword hand that made wielding the sword difficult now.

He swapped the glove in his left hand with his insignia wrist band in his right hand, to cover the wound in his palm.Fynn had gotten up and stood before him.

(Arwin) come on, think!, since we started fighting he hasn’t used any proper magic
he only fought physically and he moves with inhuman speed, he is dodging all my lightning attacks.What is he doing exactly!?.......................if he want to fight like that the so be it.

Arwin fired a stream of black lightning, fynn moved and easily dodged it, arwin was above fynn and attacked with his greywand shining green spilling black, fynn moved and dodged the attack the greywand missed and hit the ground, arwin maintained a constant flow of lightning around him not giving fynn any opening to attacks physically. Fynn moved towards the far side of the hall, arwin sent a stream of lightning to the place where he will land, fynn changed his direction went to the centre of the hall, arwin continued the same pattern of attack four more times with no success, finally the two of them stopped. Arwin had tired himself out and was breathing rapidly.

“you are just tiring yourself out”said fynn

“i am not tiring myself out, if my attacks were a success” said arwin

“but they are not”said fynn

“really?, look around you”said arwin with a grin

Every time arwin’s attack with greywand missed and hit the ground,at all the spot where it hit the ground a green magic circle appeared and were connected with black lightning flowing from one circle to another, the circles were connected like dots forming a pentagram with fynn standing in the middle of it, markings and incantations appeared on the floor beneath fynn and he was paralyzed standing and was unable to move.

“And now you die!!”yelling arwin threw the greywand like a spear, the sword went right through fynn’s chest and came out from the back, spilling blood all around him, he coughed up blood, and was dying. After a few moments moment arwin felt the presence of a strange dark magic around him and then it was gone, suddenly arwin felt an enormous amount of magical pressure coming from Fynn, the magical pressure broke the pentagram and the magic circles disappeared.

Fynn started to move, he pulled out the bloodied sword out of his body, with a spray of blood from either side of his body, he tossed the sword aside like a stick and then looked at arwin with a wicked face.

Arwin was stunned with shock to see the man in front him still moving,fynn’s hands were completely stained red so were his clothes and there was a slit in his chest, more blood was running down his mouth as he spoke with a demonic smile on his face.

“so where were we”

..............

Raegan made a hand sign and a series of explosions followed, Erica dodged and jumped out of the smoke

(Erica)something is wrong he is only using basic magic spells, he is hiding something

Suddenly Erica felt a presence of a strange dark magic, she held herself feeling cold by the magic and then it was gone. She saw towards Raegan he was not to be seen. Reagan appeared behind her, she quickly turned around summoning a dagger in her hand simultaneously, she went for a stab, raegan caught the dagger , the dagger corroded in his hand and crumbled into particles of a rusted metal. He tried to touch Erica with the same hand. Erica quickly placed her hand on her torso a white magic circle appeared on her torso and threw her away from raegan.

She saw Raegan was completely different person now,before he was composed and cool, now he was wild, he had a demonic expression on his face.

“surprised?, well this is my magic, this is Decaying magic, anything i touch instantly decays and crumbles away, now let’s crumble away your clothes and see what’s bebeath” he sayed followed with a disgusting laughter.

(Erica) but he still as talkative and pervert as before. But something is different and that magic presence i felt before..

He advanced at Erica with his open bare hands, he simply had to land a touch on her, she moved swiftly and dodged his hands, simultaneously summoned a sword and dagger and counter attacked, Raegan caught both in one hand each and the blades crumbled to a pile of rust. She quickly got some distance and summoned her previous red blades of explosion. This time she powered the blades with her own magic energy and was able to execute an explosion from a distance, she swung the sword and began with a series of explosion, Raegan dodged the explosions as much as possible, but when the a large number of explosions took place around him at point blank range, he cast a spell and generated a field around him, the explosions just went puff in a cloud of smoke.

It worked as a smoke screen for him, he appeared behind Erica,she sensed him and turned, his hand landed on her arm, she quickly used a spell on herself and threw her away from him, the sleeve of her shirt was crumbling away , she tore it off the and threw away, saving her apparel from further damage.

(Erica)he even decayed the explosion into smoke, is he able to decay magic as well?

“You are right”said raegan “i know what you are thinking, i can even decay magical energy and i can use this property in any way i want”

(Erica)a close range fight is out of the question and he can even stop my long range magic attacks, there’s got to be someway.

“Godslayer” Erica summoned a katana, it’s thin blade was already cracked and chipped at places, the sword looked old. she swung it sideways with just one hand, the pressure of the swing was so powerful, a slash appeared on the wall. Raegan also felt the pressure from it.

“No matter how strong a weapon you use, it won’t cut me”saying he approached her, she thrusted the sword into the floor, the sword went inside cracking it, she then twisted it, the entire floor started to crack, she twisted it again, the floor shattered and both Erica and Raegan fell into it.

Fynn placed his hands on the ground and was crouching, his eyes turned completely red and were shining like rubies, steam was coming from his body, his skin tore open and black fur was coming out , as if he was wearing skin like clothes.

Infront of arwin stood a werewolf, three times the size of arwin, eyes blood red, saliva dripping from his jaws, with large claws he stood on his hind legs bending forward. The appearance of the beast was so terrifying arwin was stunned with fear by what he saw, he din’t move at all, sweat dripping from his chin and his legs were shaking while his heart racing.

The werewolf looked at arwin and let out a long howl, arwin started to move back step by step, fynn approached him and in moments was close to arwin, he kept running in order to maintain distance, the werewolf was attacking arwin with his giant claws and razor sharp jaws, arwin was moving along the pillars and the rubble trying to maintain distance from the monster. He was moving solely by his instincts trying to survive one attack after the other. Arwin remembered of the greywand, he did not look for it but blindly ran to the position where he last saw it, he used spell to give him a boost to run giving him a few second ahead of fynn.

Arwin spotted his sword running very fast and fynn closing in, he slided on his knees and quickly grabbed his weapon, he quickly turned and blocked the claws of his opponent with the sword, fynn pushed arwin behind and attacked again, fynn slashed at awrin twice, he was hit not only with sharp claws but also with brute force, he was thrown behind and crashed on the ground.

Arwin slowly got up, there were two large slash on his body from his side to the centre of his chest and cuts on his arm, his clothes were torn along with the attacks as well, blood was flowing out, there was also a cut on his right cheek from his right ear till the nose. He was breathing heavily and when he looked at the beast, started cowering with fear. Fynn started moving towards arwin slowly, arwin saw the beast advance, he got up in pain he tried to run in opposite direction, but could only take quick steps and came to the end wall and rested his back on the wall.

(Arwin)he..he is too powerful ,what the hell happened, how did he suddenly turned into a monster, i din’t see him cast any magic.......

Ofcourse!, he is not a wizard, he did not cast any magical spells even before, he was able to move that fast before because that is his normal speed in his human form, that explains the wierd magic i felt from him back in the city, he is a werewolf this is his natural form, but the way he fought he is not a savage beast he is an intelligent one, it’s like the soul inside him is still of that guy.

what should i do!?, i can’t go on like this,a close combat is suicide and i need to focus to use magic, b-but i am scared, h-he is going to kill me.No no no i don’t want to die! what should i do!, he is going to kill me!

Arwin’s eyes became watery, drops of blood were running down the wall on which he was resting. The werewolf gave out a howl ready to attack, suddenly the hall began shaking, arwin looked upwards the ceiling was falling down.He moved away from the falling pieces of ceiling, fynn did the same. Erica jumped landed right infront of him,

“Erica?!”said arwin

“Arwin?, it is you”

“what’s happening how did fall here from above?”

“it’s a long story”she said

“that’s enough reuinion of you two”said Reagan while fynn stood beside him, “so this is other one, huh. No matter let’s kill both of them”

“so you are fighting with the werewolf . That creepy guy, he uses some kind of decay magic anything he touches instantly decays, we’ll have to work together and think of a way to counter that”said Erica

“what do you mean counter that?, you have not seen what that beast is capable of, one straight strike and he’ll rip you to shreds and it is impossible to dodge him carefully and use magic at the same time and now there is another guy here too” said arwin, he was trembling with fear

“so what!?, they will kill us anyway, we have to do something, look behind you the exit is already blocked by the rubble of the ceiling” said Erica

“you don’t understand!, we cannot defeat them! We must escape somehow” said Arwin

“i never knew you were such a coward, i thought you were capable of better than this. If you are going to keep whining then stay behind, i can fight and defeat them myself”said Erica,saying Erica approached towards their enemy, while arwin stood still in disbelief and shock.

The beast dived at her, she jumped high with a summersault above him, “Soul Rapier”,she summoned a sword with thin blade that had crafting of metallic curves coming from it’s hilt, during the flip she slashed on his back with a long cut, the beast fell down squealing, “Archangel”she switched her weapon, and swung it firing a large magical slash towards Reagan, he used a decaying shield and countered her attack, she summoned Soul Rapier in another hand ,quickly turned and block Fynn’s claws and held him, she switched Archangel with a crystal sword and blocked Raegan’s hand from behind, the crystal blade held up against his decaying magic. She somehow blocked both of them from either sides for a moment, fynn swept his claw with force and threw her at some distance, she landed on her feet sliding, her unique weapons in each hand. For the next couple minutes she kept blocking Raegan’s decay magic with the crystal sword, but it started to crack, simultaneously she was sparring with the werewolf’s claws with Soul Rapier, her skill in handling blades was much better than arwin’s, so she was able to block most attacks with sharp things, but she was not able to attack any of them.

(Erica)Damn it!, i thought changing the arena would give me some advantage, but i ran into that idiot, what a pathetic loser. That guy was absolutely no help, instead because of him now i am fighting a werewolf as well, he only made things worse for me, curse that fucking coward son of a bitch.

Arwin hid behind rubble while the two foes were focused on Erica. Raegan got an opening and touched her stomach, she started to feel a burn on her skin, in that moment Fynn swept her and threw her at some distance.She quickly got up and tore away the lower half of her shirt, there was a red mark on her stomach, just the top layer of her skin had burned a little. She felt wet around her shoulder, she put her hand on her back to check and saw red liquid on her hand, she was clawed from her neck to the centre of her back. But she couldn’t afford to slow down, the two attacked her again, she was running out of energy to keep up with the two, raegan focused his energy and succeeded in breaking the crystal sword, his advanced and touched her arm, she quickly swiped with Soul Rapier, he ducked and touched her thigh, she stepped back and tore of the other sleeve of her shirt and one leg of her pants, she felt and powerful jerk, fynn caught her and pinned her down and was about to tear off her face with his razor sharp teeth, she pulled her arm from beneath his claws, making few cuts, she quickly put her hand between and locked his jaws by putting a dagger between his jaws, he pulled back making painful noise from the tip of the dagger poking the ceiling of his mouth, she pulled her feet and kicked him his nose, the beast fell back she quickly got up and took a safe position behind the rubble.

(Arwin)what is she doing, does she not understand that we cannot beat them, she’ll kill herself if she keep on going like this, she did not see how terrifying that monster is, we have to run somehow. What should i do!!!, my feet are shaking,.. i am scared!...please ...help me.....

He closed his eyes and held his head in frustration, he felt weak and useless, suddenly an image of Vincent came to his mind.

Erica was cornered to the wall, the werewolf stood blood dripping from his mouth and Reagan next to him eyeing her. They attacked her like hungry dogs on a piece of meat, suddenly she was gone from the place she was standing a moment ago, they both were surprised and looked around in confusion. At the other end of the hall on a higher ground, arwin landed on a flat surface which was like a higher floor, holding Erica in his arms. It was too fast and she flushed when she realised she was being held by arwin like that. He then just dropped her on the ground like a bag, she fell on her butt

“oww, that’s not how you put down a lady when you are holding her like that”she said

“you are a lady?, oh, thanks for the news flash”he said

“ya, very funny”she replied, “of all times you choose now to joke around”

He turned and was about to go back to the fight, he closed his eyes for a moment let out a sigh and opened them, Erica saw fear and disbelief in his eyes a few minutes ago, but now along with fear there was something else she saw in his eyes.