fantasynovels: Celestial Zone 2.1 Fanfic Novel - Chapter 11: Diethard Vs Sapphire

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Celestial Zone 2.1 Fanfic Novel - Chapter 11: Diethard Vs Sapphire

author's notes: "nii-chan" means older brother in Japanese, usually used by family members or close friends of younger years.

ESProt is the name of the group that the Chiaki family created. It is a mercenary group which accepts jobs that hunts down ESPers, test ESPers to see if they are good or evil as well as "recover" ESP relics.

Both the Geek gods Artemis and her twin Apollo are masters of the bow. Sapphire would know as she is a Greek mythology fan.

Sapphire took a seat on the 2nd storey balcony of a Japanese restaurant, overlooking the streets, looking through the information she had collected on the person who was looking specifically for their family. Today, she wore simply; a blue sleeveless Tee and a white vest for the top, a white short skirt with a purple belt for the bottom, the belt buckle in the shape of Felix the Cat. A pair of soft doeskin calf length boots imported from New Zealand completed her outfit. Her hair was left free.

“Tch, what a joke. J.Jay huh. Class A ESPer. All because nii-chan tested him out.” Sapphire gave a small laugh, and then whistled appreciatively, “Ooooh… One of Achilles’s boys. No wonder he’s getting information.”

“Well, if it’s this, I can’t be bothered to go meet him face to face. Tch, no hopes of a fight coming anytime soon.” She muttered disappointingly to herself, sipping her Sake slowly, letting the warmth slide down her throat.

Munching on a salmon sushi, Sapphire sent a message back to ESProt, “False Alarm. Mission Cleared.” Putting down her phone, she sensed someone spying on her. Being careful not to do anything that might give her away, she sent out a tendril of ESP energy probing the entire area.

To her surprise, she found 3 altogether. “Well well.” She smiled, a glint in her eyes.

Purposely taking a walk in the Botanical gardens since she was nearby in town, she gave her watchers a place where she could talk or fight without anyone the wiser. Well, at least that is what Sapphire planned in her head while taking her time eating.

Before she could finish eating, a man with straight black hair running down to shoulder length and rotten eyes, wearing a black tee that read “Bitches Sucks” on the front and a pair of jeans cut off at the knees, sat down opposite her.

“Allow me, Diethard Dalton.” He introduced himself. “I wonder if after you eat, we could meet and talk somewhere, private.”

“A Class B ESPer. Trash.” Sapphire concluded in an instant after a probe, to herself. To him, she gave a smile, baring her white teeth, “Sure, but you are paying for this lunch if you want that talk.”

“As you wish.” He sat back, crossing his legs and his arms, a smile playing by his lips.

An hour and a half later, both Sapphire and Diethard are at the Botanical Gardens, just like she planned. But with him came the 3 others that were spying on her earlier, all three are females.

“Well, what is it, spit it out.” She said, looking bored and likely more interested on the dragonflies that were buzzing around her.

“You killed my friend, remember Elierd Frene?” Diethard gave a laugh, madness rising in his eyes. “Now you shall die too. Prepare to meet your death! To her, Claws, Poisonous Hands, Flame!”

The 3 ESPers sprang forward, one growing nails long and sharp like claws, another’s hands turned purple and the last, her fist growing a fireball.

Sapphire snapped her attention back to him, her concentration absolute. “Activate Energy Rose.” Her eyes glowed blue, brilliantly. On the palm of her left hand a glowing mark of a rose appeared. She went into a fighting stance, left hand on top, palm facing heaven, right hand down to the left, palm facing hell.

The fireball blazed and flew.

Sapphire caught the fireball in her left hand, it sputtered and died, just as the 2 other females reached her. Claws screamed and swiped at her head, Poisonous Hands slide and tried to reach for her bare skin just above her calf-length boots. Fireball took a few steps and threw another, bigger fireball, not at all amused her fireball was so easily vanguished.

Sapphire did an aerial cartwheel on the spot, grabbing Claws’s arm while in mid air, effectively dodging both girls’ attacks while allowing her to execute her own. She released all the energy she got from the fireball before as well as adding her own to a stabbing jab with 2 fingers to the elbow of Claws while in midair, red flowing marks appearing briefly on her arms.

When she landed, it was amidst a painful scream and a crack. One of Claws’s elbows is broken, the skin torn, white bones showing with all the blood spurting. Claws kneeled down holding her ruined elbow with the other hand, tears running down her face, teeth gritted against the pain. Poisonous Hands did a flip over Claws’s kneeling form, did a roll and slashed with her hands upwards one after another towards Sapphire’s face.

Sapphire did a back flip to get out of range of the poisonous hands, certain that no cure could be found. As she landed, out of the corner of her eyes an enormous fireball blasted. It flew towards her at a frightening speed. Sapphire turned to face it directly, taking a step forward and holding out both palms, as if pushing away the fireball.

The blast of heat as it connected with Sapphire engulfed her form for a moment, so hot was it that Poisonous Hands took a step back, shielding her face with her hands. Before the heat even cleared, a pair of fiery hands took hold of her. Before she could even utter a scream, she saw a pair of brilliant blue eyes staring at her. Now she burns.

Burn. Burnt.

All that was left was a pile of ashes and a lot of poisonous fumes.

Sapphire came running out of the thick smoke, her eyes blazing blue, clothes singed at the edges, in her hand pure ESP energy so concentrated it could be seen by naked eyes. She dashed past Flame who barely had time to form another attack, sure that her Ultimate Fire Blast had killed Sapphire, and stop right in front of Diethard, grinning. The pure ESP energy in her hands disappeared right after she passed Flame, one can only guess what she had done with it.

Flame’s only managed a small gasp she suddenly imploded, raining blood all over the place.

Diethard looked shocked as he took two steps back before trying to turn and run away.

“Xue Xin Ling!” A sword materialized in Sapphire’s right hand, a sword that looked like one of the swords that appeared in the Celestial Zone comic series, her favorite. Sapphire turned abruptly, the sword slashing an X. Claws, who was trying to sneak behind Sapphire, was caught by the sword, her good arm raised to slash downwards, her face in a mask of pain and hatred. Claws collapse, blood spurting furiously from 2 wounds, one running from the right shoulder all the way down to the left hip, the other running from the heart to the crotch.

She turned back towards Diethard, he was still running away. The sword disappeared, in its place, a bow that few would recognize, "Mystical Weapon - Artemis's Hunting Bow!". It is the bow used by Artemis, Greek goddess of the hunt. She drew the bow, a golden arrow appearing in her right hand, sighting down on Diethard. “Coward! Try as you might, Diethard. You can’t run away from my arrow.”

She released.

The figure of Diethard tumbled and fall as the arrow caught him full in the back, then suddenly sizzled and disappeared.

Clapping sounded from behind a tree, Diethard stepped into view, grinning maliciously. “Very good. Very good indeed, Weapons Mistress. Allow me my title, I am the Clone Master. Shall we begin?”

The sword, Xue Xin Ling, replaced the bow, as Sapphire turned to face him. The battle shall commence.