Description[]
Nova vs The Arcane Treaty! When two orphaned, sword wielding outcasts meet on the field of battle, who will win and who will die?
Interlude[]
Necro: Outcasts. Every group's got one, be it by association or by action, these "Lone-Wolf Mavericks" often prove to be super powerful!
Boomstick: Who even are you?!
Necro: Wiz is out sick. Just read the script.
Boomstick: All right. Isaac Rayner, The Fallen Blade Knight of Nova Vanguard!
Necro: And Ember Pendragon, the self-proclaimed Dragon Knight and leader of The Golden Lions!
Boomstick: This sub's name is Necro, and I'm Boomstick!
Necro: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win, a Death Battle!
Isaac Rayner Forges Into Death Battle![]
Necro: Born in Terrin, a small town in the Nova Kingdom, Young Isaac Rayner and his Older Brother Eric aspired to be in the Nova Vanguard, a group of elite troops that protected the lives of Royalty.
Boomstick: You sure his early life went well? Someone always dies in these kind of stories.
Necro: Terrin was destroyed by a group of Red Kingdom soldiers, and his parents and friends were killed. His brother and a few other children from the town managed to escape and survive.
Boomstick: There it is. Anyway, Isaac and his brother joined the army immediately and excelled, quickly earning a place at the Ritual of Trial, which, despite having a dumb name, is pretty intense! It's pretty much an obstacle course which can result in one's really painful death if they slip up. Both brothers succeeded, by the way.
Necro: Isaac was only fourteen, by this point.
Boomstick: What even was this guy's life?! Anyway, he actually got something pretty cool from that horrible event, an ability called a Cosmos. That's something everyone has, and just can't use without it being unlocked by the ritual after the obstacle course. Isaac's is called Endless Blade Craft, and it lets him summon any sharp weapon that he can think of instantly! Hey, Necro, everyone's got one of these Cosmos things, right?
Necro: Yes. I myself can summon and control purple bones.
Boomstick: So, uh, could you wake mine up for me?
Necro: Of Course.
(Suddenly, the lights go out and Boomstick screams, Necro chuckles, and the lights go back on.)
Boomstick: What the hell was that?! (As he speaks, streams of beer begin to spurt from his fingers tips. Boomstick smiles and starts laughing.) Never mind, this is awesome!
Necro: Well, that makes sense. Anyway, Isaac and his brother both were accepted onto the Vanguard, and both completed many mission alongside the rest of their teammates, but eventually, luck runs out. The Vanguard was sent to kill the Red King, who had recently shown himself and attacked the Nova Kingdom. The battle between them was short and decisive. Isaac and his crew was defeated rather handily, and midway through the fight, Isaac panicked and ran away from the fight. The Red King noticed this and went after him, imprisoned him in the Red Shackles, an item designed for torment, cursed him and yeeted him to another universe. The rest of the Vanguard was also blasted to other universes. Now, he just wanders around forever.
Boomstick: So he's an immortal hobo? That's pretty rough. Anyway, one of his old teammates eventually ended up finding him, and when he didn't remember her, she went all psycho bitch on him and attacked him! He managed to win the fight, and she explained everything to him!
Necro: And so, he set off again to redeem himself for deserting all those years ago, by killing the Red King!
Boomstick: Quit it with all that dramatic stuff. We all know everyone's here to see how much stuff this guy can break!
Necro: I suppose so. Isaac is rather powerful, easily being able to catch speeding bullet trains with one hand, throw ocean liners like a spear, or simply hack mountains, clouds and continents apart with total ease!
Boomstick: That's not all this guy can do! He's fought with people like the Red Vizier, who sub atomically destroyed the moon! I don't really know what that means, but I've heard it's powerful.
Necro: How did you even pass school?
Boomstick: I didn't.
Necro: That makes sense. Anyway, Boomstick is right, sub-atomically destroying the moon takes a lot of TNT. Given the size of the moon, and assuming a composition of rock, the amount of energy needed to destroy the moon in such a way would be equivalent to 283 Octillion tons of TNT!
Boomstick: ...How many zeroes is that?
Necro: Twenty Nine. Anyway, Isaac's also pretty fast, as he can easily travel at many times the speed of light, as shown when he outpaced Nora's light trapping darkness with ease. And he's also quite skilled in multiple different martial arts, such as karate, judo and tae-kwon-do.
Boomstick: Isaac isn't just all punches and kicks, in fact, he mostly attacks with his cosmos, Endless Blade Craft. This, as previously mentioned lets him summon bladed weapons instantly, but after some training, he learned how to make other stuff, like shields, hammers and even bladed wings!
Necro: Isaac can use pretty much any weapon he can get his hands on, but his favorites are, by far, his swords. Isaac's swords are often two handed, with a wide cross hilt and a meter and a half long blade.
Boomstick: No guns? Well, I just lost a few respect points, but all right. Back to those wings! Do they actually work?
Necro: Yes, they do. Actually, he can fire the blade feathers at his opponents, which gives him the ranged option that he normally lacks.
Boomstick: Well, Isaac did eventually get free of those pesky Red Shackles by... Destroying his own soul?
Necro: Alongside his sanity and emotions, yes.
Boomstick: I'm sorry, how on earth is that good in any way?! I mean, I would'a just left those things alone if they were gonna do that to me!
Necro: Relax, Boomstick. He got better. In fact, by killing his old self, a new self was born. Bigger, better and way tougher than before. You see, by doing this, he took complete control of himself, thus making him immune to abilities which would try and affect his soul, mind or emotions! This came in handy on numerous occasions, one of the more notable being during Isaac's fight with The Red Alchemist.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, I just got to this guy. Says here that he can Nullify and Copy Powers, as well as Instantly Kill things and... Erase stuff from Existence!? Damn, how on earth do you beat that?
Necro: Self Control is a good place to start. You see, thanks to having control over himself, Isaac can simply stop people from taking things that belong to him. Such as his cosmos or even his own existence.
Boomstick: And the whole Instant Death thing? Can he just, not die now or some shit?
Necro: No, but given how it sounds, such a misconception would likely be common. Well, you see, Instant Death is an unfair and twisted robbery of one's life. It's things like that that he can resist. I mean, if he were to get stabbed really hard, or perhaps disintegrated, or some thing of that nature, he would die. But against something cheap, like instant death or existence erasure, he's just fine.
Boomstick: Oh, that makes sense. He'll die, but only if you play fair. That's pretty broken.
Necro: Against people that are weaker than him, sure. But given his constant fights with the higher ups of the Red King's army and court, he has plenty of opportunities to die.
Boomstick: Well, Isaac's pulled off some insane shit, like killing the Red Prince and other members of the court, such as the Alchemist and Vizier. He's faced off against massive armies of Red Grunts and he's managed to win such battles! Hell, he's even killed his past and future selves when he faced off against them! But, while all that's great and all, did he ever defeat the Red King?
Necro: No. Isaac has fought with him, but the match was inconclusive. One of Isaac's teammates was damaged, so they were forced to run away. The Red King became super angry, and he screamed so hard that the universe itself shook so hard that people and objects started falling over! And Isaac managed to hold that scream's shock wave back with his own physical strength!
Boomstick: All right. But, despite all this "control over self stuff" Isaac has his fair share of drawbacks. For one, he doesn't really have any ranged options outside of throwing his swords and such, but he's not all that accurate. And despite his many years of life experience, he wasn't fighting for a good thousand or two of those.
Necro: Indeed. Isaac may be powerful, but his regeneration abilities are quite slow. He may be able to heal from life threatening injuries, but it takes quite a while for them to heal up. He's not really very versatile either, as pretty much all of his attacks are blades or physical attacks. And while he has been shown to think on his feet in battle, his most common strategy is simply to try and overpower his opponents, and if and when that fails, he's at a loss until he can figure out a new strategy.
Boomstick: But, even with all of this holding him back, Isaac's resolve to take down the Red King hasn't wavered since he embarked on this new quest, and it hasn't shown any signs of stopping!
Isaac Rayner: I'll kill the Red King, and anyone who gets in our way. Even myself.
Nora Talsilf: That seems counter productive.
Isaac: I don't quite get your meaning.
Ember Pendragon Warps Into Death Battle![]
Necro: In a backwater planet cut off from the rest of the universe, there lived a young girl named Ember Valentine Pendragon.
Boomstick: That name tho, anyway she she was an orphan and due to that was a jerk to just about everyone,until she made friends with Azure Kaminari.
Necro: Azure was an outcast due to the fact he didn’t want to use low level technology when he could use stuff that let people travel the freaking solar system! I mean, rakes or some kind of space ship thingie? Not much of a question.
Boomstick: And so she was also an outcast because being a jerk and being associated with the weird kid all at once was about as good a combo as my father and his family.
Necro: Daddy issues aside, it didn’t really matter as her village was destroyed by a sorcerer.
Boomstick: Oh, Er... How did she escape?
Necro: Escape? Oh she didn’t. She was burned alive
Boomstick: I’m sensing a but here.
Necro: But, she was resurrected and granted a rune.
Boomstick: Runes are basically magical tattoos and she got a super powerful one. The dragon rune which fused her soul with that of Dragon turning her into a Dragon Magi not only meaning she's immune to fate manipulation and will stop ageing when she hits 30 and has pretty strong regeneration but also changing her appearance giving her a red streak in her hair as well as turning her eyes blood red. It even changed her personality increasing her greed to insane levels.
Necro: Correct. With this she gains several new abilities, starting with the ability called psychometry.
Boomstick: Which essentially allows her to know everything about any object she touches. But the object had to be loved, desired or needed during it's history if those conditions are not met then the object is immune to the ability.
Necro: As a Dragon magi Ember has near absolute control of fire. not only can she control fire stated to be 20 times hotter than the sun, which is Twenty-Seven Million Degrees Fahrenheit. So, Her flames would have to be 540 Million Degrees Fahrenheit! And she is completely immune to all but the very hottest flames.
Boomstick: Wait what?! Why would she want to use the thing that killed her?
Necro: I'm not sure. Maybe she was impressed with it’s destructive abilities?
Boomstick: I asked you, so I don't know.
Necro: Back on topic, all that pales in comparison to her most powerful ability, her Primal Energy manipulation.
Boomstick: Primal Energy is this weird kind of energy that basically allows the user to control the essences of life itself! Starting with psychic energy. With this she has telekinesis, can read and control minds, limited clairvoyance and she can create constructs with her mind. Now that's awesome!
Necro: That's not all, as she can manipulate spiritual energy, which allows her to control emotions and souls, as well create illusions that actually harm the opponent!
Boomstick: Are you sure they ain’t high on something?
Necro: Not entirely. She can also infuse that same spiritual energy into her strikes and weapons for some extra power!
Boomstick: Ember can also manipulate chi to create clones of herself, copy non magic fighting styles, enhance her already bonkers physical abilities, crawl up walls and paralyze people or she could just fire chi as beams like Iron Man!
Necro: There is something to note about chi. Chi, is split into two halves. Yin and Yang.
Boomstick: And all her abilities come from the yin side of the spiritual tracks! So if she overuses her powers, she could die.
Necro: However her body has a self-defense mechanism that makes her pass out before the imbalance would reach such a level.
Boomstick: She can also manipulate something called aura. This allows her to create constructs of aura and detect the stuff, but when push comes to shove, and things need to die in a hurry, Ember can simply make stuff and people implode! Messy.
Necro: Indeed. Next, Ember can also manipulate Aether. With this ability, she can phase through objects and use her signature ability, Warp, which lets her teleport.
Boomstick: So, She’s basically a Draconic Nightcrawler?
Necro: Pretty much.
Boomstick: Anyway, she can also summon beings based on her personality. Like her passion, personified into a massive flying fire breathing lizard of death that can destroy a star Called Ladon, and a literal knight in shining armour who uses a great sword and a bow and arrow Named Star Seeker.
Necro: Those are passion and loyalty but that's not all she has up her sleeve. Courage, a giant Phoenix named Phoenix with talons and feather sharp enough to cut metal, and Greed...
Boomstick: Which is a toad who can use his tongue as a weapon Named Fafnir. Now that's truly amazing. I mean a dragon and a knight? Nope, too lame. An eagle? No, no, let’s use a toad. Now that's truly worthy of being a summon!
Necro: she also has three more Arcadia her Determination
Boomstick: like Undertale!
Necro: NO! Like I was saying Arcadia is Ember's Determination personified into a pegasus which lets her fly at speeds many many times the speed of light, Shadow her rage personified into a wolf capable of cloning itself and Shadow a panther that can turn into smoke and Run at 60 times the speed of light.
Boomstick: Shadow is also a dick and rarely follows orders. No wonder she rarely summons him.
Necro: She also has a long sword called Dragon fang which is connected to her life force and resides on the physical and astral planes of existence.
Boomstick: Thanks to that confusing fact, it has three modes, each with a different effect. In the first mode, pink dragon , it glows pink and a single cut can make the opponent insane.
Necro: In its' second form, Jade Dragon, a cut from the blade destroys the opponent's soul, thus allowing her to instantly end the fight.
Boomstick: And finally, the blade's third form, Red Dragon covers it in red flames which can easily melt through titanium! Thought they would melt existence or something, but melting titanium's cool too.
Necro: She can also open portals to the sea of blood a section of the astral realm and trap people there.
Boomstick: This part of the astral realm is made of the Unfulfilled hopes and dreams of the dead and will destroy anything physical that enters it.
Necro: But now let's get into her stats. First off Strength which is where Ember excels in she's lifted buildings, mountain sized spaceships and even fucking stars. the average star like our sun weighs approximately 2 Octillion Tons and this girl lifted it like it was Nothing!
Boomstick: Her summons are pretty strong too. Fafnir beat Earl Lupin, such a dumb name, who turned the population of an entire planet into energy. Arcadia tanked the rotational energy of a planet the size of earth. Smoke and Shadow blew up a meteor twice the size of earth. Phoenix and Star Seeker beat people who sub-atomically destroyed both a moon and a planet and Ladon defeated Lux's summon Ronin, who created a pocket dimension with a Star and a planet. this would require the equivalent of 8 supernovas
Necro: that's not all in her fight with an Avatar of Yaweh she straight up tanked the Equivalent of 26 billion hypernovae or around 260 GigaFOE that's enough energy to destroy a Solar System
Boomstick: She's also very fast while fighting with Lux, the 2 traveled through galaxy so quickly that they'd have to be moving at 3.3 Quintillian times the speed of light! And she can react to Azure who crossed 100 trillion light years in the time it took for lightning to streak across the sky! This means she reacts at over 105 Septillion times the speed of light!
Necro: But that’s not all. If she gets angry enough, she can transform into her true form.
Boomstick: Which is a giant fuck you dragon! In this form, all of Ember's stats have been increased to the point can fight people Who Can destroy 3 galaxies. That's the equivalent of almost 32 sextillion supernovas! unfortunately her dragon form can only stick around for 20 minutes before running out of juice.
Necro: But, even with all that, Ember still has many weaknesses her Regeneration can be bypassed by particularly grievous wounds and other magi have died by various means before such as disintegration. Plus her Regen relies on magical energy the same energy for her spells so if she has to regenerate from a very bad injury her magic will become weaker and Vice Versa.
Boomstick: Plus she has very little in the way of defense, and she's also super arrogant!
Necro: Not to mention, she can't spam her spells otherwise she'd run out of energy and she’s a very straightforward fighter, so she's pretty easy to figure out.
Boomstick: But even then she’s still a freaking Draconic Nightcrawler with a sword who can manipulate souls! You would have to be crazy to attempt to fight this dragon knight.
Ember Pendragon: Guess you could say I’m to hot to handle.
Intermission[]
Necro: All right, the combatants are set, and the data's been run through all possibilities, and a victor has been chosen.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
Death Battle[]
The galaxy was quiet. No nigh endless hordes of Red Grunts screaming and jeering, no megalomaniac Alchemists trying to melt solar systems, no moon destroying Viziers, and best of all, No bratty immortal princes. In the rubble of a long destroyed city, forsaken and forgotten by time and civilization, Isaac Rayner, The Fallen Blade Knight of The Former Nova Vanguard, Or Forge, as his friends and a certain immortal evil king called him, lay resting and relaxing.
And why shouldn't he? He and his team had rescued Eric Rayner, Isaac's estranged older brother from The Red King's central stronghold, The Crimson Citadel. Many had nearly, or had died in the battle that had awaited Isaac and the rest of the newly reformed vanguard.
Beside him, lay Nora Talsilf, the former princess of the fallen Nova Kingdom. The two didn't speak. Isaac had heard Nora's near-death mumbelings while he and his other teammate Tim Takturn had carried her from the citadel. And Nora knew he'd heard her. And that, was bad, in and of itself.
But what made things worse, was that he agreed with all over her views. Albeit, the recipient was reversed, as being in love with yourself is very likely a mental condition. And so, they lay quietly, neither daring to break the silence, to ruin the moment.
And that moment, which both had tried so hard to preserve, was shattered like glass trying to block a fast ball, by none other than the unwanted, unfiltered words of Tim.
"Hey, You two should kiss!" The young blonde man shouted. But even as he spoke, he wove to the side, to avoid the thrown sword, courtesy of Isaac, who had stood up like a rubber band being snapped into motion, already summoning and throwing a sword before his knees had even straightened. His normally clam face was simply disheveled, bright red and embarrassed.
Tim wasn't out of the woods just yet, as thick, dense, gooey darkness pulled at his left leg, dragging him to one knee in a fraction of a second.
"Okay, I get it! I'm sorry!" Tim said, his tone still coy. He clearly wasn't taking this seriously. In fact, he found both of their reactions hilarious, and had it not been for the thick dark matter which clung to his calf, he would have continued with his teasing.
"You had better be." Nora spoke with her head down, to hide her blush behind her dark hair. The darkness dispersed, and Tim sprung back up on his feet. Isaac huffed and pushed past Tim, who found this hilarious and burst out laughing. This action also forced him to dodge another one of Isaac's thrown swords, the vice-captain of the new vanguard not even having to look behind him to throw the blade with deadly accuracy.
Tim turned around and shielded his vision and watched the sword part the cloud barrier, and fly into space, clipping past the moon as it went, pulverizing a trail across the moon as it went. After a few more seconds, it had disappeared from sight.
"Good arm." Takturn remarked as he placed his hands on his hips and watched the rest of the clouds float across the sky. Nora stood with him quietly, now lost in thought.
Forge, had wandered over to the other side of the planet. Now, he stood at a beach which overflowed with garbage and rubble and wreckage. He shook his head, and a pair of bladed wings sprouted from his shoulders. With one mighty flap, he was in the air. The shock wave of the beat of his wings had demolished the beach underneath him, but Forge didn't particularly care.
With another beat of his wings, Forge crossed the ocean in an instant and landed on the frozen beaches of the north side of the planet. He touched down, willing the wings to disappear. They did so, and Forge began to wander about the frozen tundra.
Ember Pendragon's day was already going poorly before a random space sword rammed into her space ship. Travelling through solar systems, while fun at first, got boring after you did it for the billionth time. Stars zipped past her ship as she and her friends traveled through the star systems aimlessly. Sometimes, just flying around with no overarching goal was fun.
And then, the sword slammed into her ship, and smashed a large chunk of it to bits. The sword was stuck in the ship, so far, in fact, that point stuck into the cock pit, where Ember sat. The sudden crash brought two of her three friends up to the cock pit, Azure Kaminari, and Thanatos. Azure looked concerned about the sword, while Thanatos just looked angry, as usual.
"So, Ember, where'd the sword come from?" Azure asked in an even tone.
"Let's find out." She said, then putting the ship on auto pilot and getting out of the pilot's chair.
She knelt down next to the blade and laid her hand on the flat of it. With a flash of pink energy, Ember activated her psychometry. The sword's history flashed before her eyes. She saw it's creator, a man with black hair and golden eyes, throw it at another man. That man avoided the sword, and it flew off into space, eventually ending up embedded in the space ship.
"Some jerk threw this thing, and it ended up hitting us!" Ember exclaimed to her teammates. Azure considered this carefully, while Thanatos smiled.
"Wanna go talk to this guy?" The dreadlocked man asked. Ember grinned, and Azure sighed.
"I don't think this is a good idea."
"What isn't a good idea?" Amber, Ember's third and final teammate asked from the door.
"Someone threw a sword, and it ended up hitting the ship. Ember and Thanatos want to go "talk" to the guy who threw the sword."
"Tch. I don't really care, honestly." And with that, Amber left the room.
Ember and Thanatos were staring at Azure, who turned to the two of them, stared back for a second, and then sighed.
"Do what you want." Azure said in a defeated tone, then sighing and leaving the room.
Ember slipped back into the pilot's chair and turned the ship towards the direction the sword had come from. They reached the planet in no time, and Ember landed the ship on the north side of the planet. The ship touched down on the frozen tundra.
Though the ship entered the atmosphere soundlessly, Isaac heard it land. The Fallen Knight turned in the direction of the loud sound of the ship landing, and walked off towards it. What could this be? Isaac wondered as he walked. Just as he arrived at the ship's landing site, a door opened.
Hiss...
A young girl and a large boy stepped out of the ship. The girl, appeared to be tall for her age. She was lean, and paired with her dark skin and black hair with crimson tips, one could describe her as striking. She wore a dark red cloak and simple clothes underneath. Red eyes glared at Isaac, who simply glared back.
Now the boy, on the other hand, looked scary. A tall mass of muscle and rage, with dark eyes and skin, as well as short dreadlocks. He didn't hold any weapons, unlike the girl, who had a long sword strapped to her waist.
"How can I help you?" Isaac asked calmly. The duo looked at each other, and then they both smiled. The girl drew a sword from within her cloak. One of his swords.
"How'd you get that?" Rayner asked, his tone still calm, but now an air of unease had fallen over then tundra.
"You threw it. And it damaged our ship. So, we decided to bring it back to you, and maybe even thank you for throwing it at us." The girl spoke. She sounded excited, as if she were anticipating something. Something thrilling.
Isaac understood the meaning behind her words.
"You want to fight, don't you?" He said evenly.
"Yeah. I don't take kindly to people attacking us." She responded.
"I see. You know it wasn't on purpose. And yet, you still challenge me. Fine. I accept. I'll fight you, kid." Isaac said calmly, running his hand through his thick black hair as he spoke. When he finished, he lowered his hand to his chest. With a flash of amber light, a long sword appeared in Isaac's grip.
"The name's Ember Pendragon. Remember that name, 'cause it's the name of the girl who beat you!" She said, grinning and drawing her own sword, it's red blade shining in the bright sunlight.
"I'll fight too." Thanatos said, light and dark energy swirling around his hands.
"I kinda want to fight this guy alone, actually. How about you make sure we don't get interrupted? Because I'm pretty sure this guy's friends will show up at some point." Ember asked quietly. Thanatos grunted and grumbled, but followed orders. He jumped over to the edge of the tundra, awaiting the inevitable arrival of Isaac's teammates.
"And my name's Isaac Rayner. And I'm the guy who entertained an immature brat's fantasy for too long." Forge said, swiveling his left foot behind his right, turning to face Ember sideways.
Fight[]
And with that, the two dashed off at each other. Blades flashed, silver and red, and sparks flew as those very same blades collided. Forge and Ember stood evenly matched, in the center of that tundra, a crater having formed around them from the sheer force they were both exerting.
Isaac forced his blade downwards, using his weight advantage to shove the girl off balance. Ember recovered quickly, but not quickly enough. Isaac kicked the dragon knight in the gut, knocking her backwards. Forge rushed her again, relentlessly punching the teen in the head and shoulder, forcing her to the ground.
With another kick, he sent her skidding across the ground. Ember slammed into an icy mountain, which shattered like glass, chunks of ice and rock rained down on the poor girl.
Did I say poor girl? No, I meant pissed off girl. Ember stood up, more angered by the attacks than hurt and waved her hand at Isaac.
"Aether Shuriken!" She barked, a small ball of aether energy blasting across the battle field and striking Isaac before he even had the chance to react!
Before Isaac could regain his footing, another aether attack slammed into him, blasting him farther away!
"Oh, I hate this kid." Forge muttered as he forced himself up and braced for Ember's next attack. Sure enough, another ball of aether energy came flying at him. This time, Isaac summoned a shiny silver shield and when the energy ball slammed into the defense, it barely phased it, barely pushing Isaac back an inch.
However, Isaac didn't have much time to celebrate his successful defense, as a bright red sword pierced through his shield like it was no more than paper! Forge forced the shield away from him, in turn pushing Ember back. This gave him just enough time with craft another sword and parry her strike, as she hadn't been stalled by the shield long, and having dashed out from behind it, struck at the Fallen Knight with fresh vigor.
"Gotta say, kid. You aren't bad." Forge said calmly as he shoved Ember's attack off of him, then laying into the young dragon knight with a flurry of slashes.
"Crouching Dragon!" Ember cried, a wave of blue chi surrounding her body and blocking Isaac's attacks, each an everyone of them bouncing off of the shield with little impact.
Isaac clicked his tongue in annoyance and stepped back, already thinking of a new plan. "Aw, what's the matter? Is this immature brat to much for you?!" Ember taunted, to which Isaac responded by simply crafting a hammer and smashing her shield with a single strike!
"Not in the slightest." He said, awaiting her next move.
"Blasting Time!" Ember commanded, a bolt of chi blasting towards Isaac, who smashed through it with his hammer. he raised his eye brow at the attack, goading her into striking again. "Star Arms!" With this command, multiple flaming swords, whips spears and axes burst into existence, striking, cutting, thrusting and lashing at Isaac. Forge parried to flaming sword with a sword of his own, smashed the ax to bits with a blow from his hammer, blocked the spear with his shield, and cut through the whip with his sword. While he was distracted, Ember rushed him. She pulled her fist back, and when she was in range...
POW!
"Dragon Punch!" She bellowed, striking Rayner with an Aura empowered punch! Isaac was hurt by the blow, being driven back a step. After another second, Ember realized something. Isaac wasn't exploding. There was no internal combustion. It would seem like Isaac was made of tougher stuff than she originally thought.
Without commenting, Isaac regained his balance and threw his sword and shield at Ember, who ducked under the shield and rolled away from the sword, crying "Fire Storm!" As she evaded. And just after she spoke, sure enough, a wind storm of flames and ash formed out of nowhere, and began assaulting Forge. The flames burned him, and the wind tossed him around, eventually slamming him into and through a thick wall of ice, which had begun to melt as a result of Ember's flames.
"Annoying!" Forge shouted, the sheer force of his voice blasting the storm away, like dust to an industrial fan. Several swords, lances and daggers appeared out of thin air, and with a battle cry, they were sent flying at Pendragon. She reacted quickly, calling up her magic once more. "Hands of fate!" She shouted, several large purple arms springing into existence, smashing and swatting the weapons away.
This, however, was the mistake Isaac had been waiting for. While the arms were busy, Isaac leapt into the air, soaring over the battle and landing behind Ember with a mighty crash!
"Gotcha kid!" Isaac said, punching Ember in the face when she turned to face him, stunning her again. Another punch pushed her back, and a kick sent her sprawling to the ground. An ax spawned in Isaac's hands, and he brought the blade down on Ember, who didn't react in time.
Instead, the sword of a gigantic knight which materialized just in time blocked Rayner's strike!
"The hell?!" Isaac exclaimed, swinging at the knight again, only for his attack to be parried by the armored warrior's blade. The knight of loyalty, as Ember called it, laid into Forge, chopping at him with the sword. Isaac managed to parry the blow, but was driven back.
The knight struck once more, but Isaac threw his ax at it and elected to go for one of his swords, the weapon appearing in his hands just as he thought of it. The knight blocked the ax, but while he was occupied with that, Isaac attacked him and struck his blade as hard as he could! Both swords shattered, but Isaac drew a new one and impaled the knight! With a twist of the blade, the knight was down, dissolving into pink sparks.
But now, Ember was upon him, slashing at him with her sword, which now glowed pink! While the two shoved against one another in yet another blade lock, Ember looked Forge straight in the eyes, and spoke again. "Eye of the Dragon." She said quietly, and the effect was immediate. Pink light enveloped both of them, light so intense that Isaac had to look away. When the glow subsided, and he looked back, what stood before him was not Ember. It was a large, red eye. A dragon's eye.
The dragon eye began blasting various beams of flames at Isaac, who parried the first and ducked away from the next, cursing Ember mentally as he did.
More flames rained down on the fallen blade knight, who created a large shield which he used to block the flames, the bright red flames licking at the formerly cool metal of the shield. How on earth am I gonna get out of this?! Isaac thought while he braced up against the shield, which began to melt. Isaac quickly made another shield and replaced the one he lost, now pushing himself towards the dragon eye, storming closer and closer with each step! And just as the eye was within striking range, it disappeared with a loud pop! The eye reappeared behind Forge, who turned just in time to block another wave of flames!
Frustrated, Isaac crafted a new shield, and simply rushed through the flames, warding them away with his defense! The eye disappeared again, but this time, Forge predicted it's movement and hurled a sword straight through it! The eye exploded, and Ember stood behind it, stunned at Isaac's escape. And this time, it was Isaac's turn to lay into her, first hurling another sword at her. She was barely able to react to the sword in time, avoiding it with difficulty, but unknowingly putting herself directly in the path of Isaac's next attack! Isaac slammed Ember in the back with a war hammer, an attack which knocked the wind out of her! While she stood stunned, trying to regain her breath, another hammer strike knocked her to the ground.
Just as Isaac was about to strike Ember again, a massive eagle appeared out of nowhere and snatched his hammer from his hands with it's massive talons.
"Not again!" Forge shouted, creating another hammer and turning to combat the eagle, which was already turning around for another attack! While Isaac was occupied with the eagle, Ember stood up again. With a shout, another summon, this one a massive red dragon burst into existence, blasting off towards Isaac, preparing a fire attack. Isaac turned towards the dragon and growled in frustration. Where's she getting this stuff?! He thought angrily, dodging the eagle's attack and preparing to do battle with the dragon and the eagle.
With a snap of his fingers, thousands of swords sparked in to existence. With another gesture they bust off, flying faster than light and spinning like a drill as the flew.
"REQUIEM na LANNA!" Forge shouted as more blades appeared and flew at the teenager's familiars.
The eagle easily weaved through the blades, zipping to the left and to the right, never once faltering or touching a blade. The dragon, however, simply gathered it's body about it and sprung through the swords, many blades striking and sparking the beast's scales, but ultimately failing to pierce the beast's skin.
Just as the massive eagle reached him, Isaac leapt up, crying out the name of his wings, "SCIATHÁN BLADE an FHÁSAIGH!". Lustrous silver wings, comprised of six curved single edged swords shimmered and appeared on his back. Forge quickly ducked away from the giant bird's strike, countering with a sword slash of his own after pulling of the flip.
The dragon had finally shoved through the blade storm, and swung it's great tail at Forge, who maneuvered underneath the tail and crafted a new blade, this one red rather than silver. He swung it into the beast, and hacked through its scales as if they were paper, the blade finding flesh and tearing through it easier than he did the scales. With one beat of his wings, Rayner drug his blade through the dragon, and having reached the creature's head, pulled his blade free with an artful flourish, splitting the skull and bifurcating the brain.
Ember's dragon's bloody chunks fell, and Ember looked in on fear and awe. He'd dispatched the dragon that easily? Whatever. Ember thought as the dragon dissolved into red sparks. It was time to get serious.
Sparks rose as Ember's giant Eagle disintegrated, Ember having dismissed the summon, now no longer needing it. She took a deep breath, and Isaac, who still flew, looked down at the girl, who was quite literally trembling with rage.
"ISAAC! LET'S FINISH THIS!" Ember shouted up at him. Isaac looked down at her and smirked. "Thought you'd never say that." He said, the weapons disappearing from his hands, now being replaced by red chains which looped around his wrists and hung down to his ankles.
He raised his fists and cracked his knuckles, the mere sound of which, created a shockwave which blasted Ember several meters back. Shit! Looks like he's finally gone all out! Looks like I can go all out too! Ember thought as she activated her sword's third and final form. Crimson flames burst from the blade, and she point the blade at Isaac, who got the unspoken message.
This next strike would end it all.
Ember blasted forwards, her final battle cry echoing throughout to solar system as she rushed towards her opponent. Isaac took a deep breath. With single beat of his wings, he exploded towards her, remaining silent as he flew. His next task would be a grim one, but in comparison to what he'd already done, this would be nothing.
As she flew, Ember remembered her friends. Azure, Thanatos and even Amber. They'd all stood by her in times of need, so now she'd have to do the same. It was with this thought in her mind that she swung her blade in a wide arc, attempting to split her opponent in half with a single blow.
As for Isaac, he simply decided to keep his temper in check better, as this was solely due to his outburst at a mere joke. And with this thought, Isaac raised his arm to intercept the flaming sword that was currently swinging at his torso.
Blade met shackle, and both sides pushed with all their might. Sparks flew, and a massive shockwave shook the very universe itself! People everywhere noticed, having to grab onto something to prevent being thrown around. Ember's muscles screamed in protest as the blade pushed towards Forge's face, the seasoned hero shocked at the girl's power. However, after getting over his surprise, he simply tensed his muscles more, and the blade stopped moving. Both sides were totally deadlocked, neither ever willing to give a centimeter.
That is, until, one side faltered in a rather major way.
Ember pushed harder than ever before, and something gave way. Red Dragon shattered into millions of pieces, unable to take the stress any longer. Isaac smiled as shock took the girl's face. That shock was followed by Isaac's fist.
K.O!
Forge struck the girl with his unrestricted strength, and she simply passed out for the sheer force of the blow, crumpling like a ragdoll. Well, at least whatever the space equivalent of that was. He sighed, and deactivated the chains. He had no more need of their power. He checked the girl's pulse, and wasn't surprised to find out that she was alive. He'd hit her hard, but not exactly hard enough to kill her or leave any permanent damage.
Grabbing the unconscious teenager by the arm, he flew back to the planet where this had all began. The kid wasn't that bad, but she really could benefit from an anger management course or two.