Rebirth of Phoenixraptor
July 14th, 2006 by Salem
Chapter 39 - The twins reentered the home to find that most of it looked the way it was except for the things that were not replaceable due to being broken beyond simple repair. “Where is Blue and Christina?” asked Haiku. “They are still talking outside,” said Salem. “Where is Mal?” asked Selene. “He went to let the horses loose to walk around the field,” said Zealot. “This isn’t like my place. Where’s the TV?” asked Jarody. Alarm bells began to ring and the light fixtures turned red and started to flash. “Don’t tell me the word TV is cause for alarm!” yelled Jarody. RedRaptor ran passed Jarody yelling, “There are intruders in the valley!” We must find them and kill them!” “Where are these intruders?” asked Selene running after Red out the door. “Mother and Christina spotted them,” said Red before transforming into her Velocir mode and took off for the other side of the valley. “They run fast,” said Zealot running up behind Salem and Selene. “Emhril!” called Selene, “You will not be able to keep up! Stay here and guard the house and make sure Haiku and Mage Khet are safe! You stay here and help Emhril, Mal!” “Understood!” answered Mal. Emhril was relieved, he did not want to run after the others only to have to fight.
Salem whistled loudly in the air. Darkwind, Skyclap, Raptor and Syntax heard the whistle and knew what it meant. The four horses rendezvous with the Blade Masters. Salem and Selene both climb up on Darkwind, Jarody and Vivien jump on Raptor, Zealot jumps onto the back of Syntax and David grabs Skyclap’s reins and is dragged a few feet before letting go. Skyclap just continued galloping to keep up with the others leaving David lying down on the grass. “I’m just no good at this land stuff,” David says to himself. David sits up in time for Detectives Lagan and Pacer to avoid hitting him as they race by on Need A Smoke and Brother In-law. The thought of calling out to them for a ride hits David too late. David gets up onto his feet and is clipped by Sturmer running at full speed to where the others went. “Hey! You wolf-like! thing,” called out David who realized that Sturmer probably would not stop even if it did hear him. David gets ready to start running when he notices someone with long blond hair running to the exit of Terra’s cave. “Blue and Pink are the only ones with blonde hair around here,” says David to himself. Then David remembered who it was. David ran to the blonde woman instead.
The Blade Masters on horseback found Blue, Red and Christina hiding behind a large log while a familiar figure shot at them with his light staff. Salem unsheathed her GunBlade and yelled, “Death Disk!” as she pulled the trigger to launch her attack on the C’Tan. General Carcass appeared out of nowhere and reflected the attack away from the C’Tan with his heavy armor. The large cannon barrel on General Carcass’ left shoulder folded down. “Hyper Velocity Cannon!” yelled General Carcass as a large orb of electromagnetic energy shoots out and heads for the three behind the large log. Vivien jumps off Raptor and uses her MirrorBlade to slice the ball of energy in half causing it to lose energy before it reaches the log. Vivien falls to the ground and starts to convulse uncontrollably. “Get close enough to it!” said General Carcass before turning to take aim for another shot. Zealot jumps off of Syntax, “Chain Saw!” he yells as his eternity chain from his SabreBlade wraps around General Carcass’ cannon and pulls to cause the large man to fall. “SLAM!!!” yells Lady Slambrawn as a highly compressed sound wave hits Zealot sending him a good thirty feet into the air. Jarody calmly dismounted Raptor and quickly transforms into his true Death form and holds his arms out to catch Zealot. Death stands still as Zealot lands on the ground behind him. Death turns, “Oops, I missed.” Selene jumped off the back of Darkwind allowing Salem to take over the reins. Selene landed next to Blue behind the log and starts to infect the log with her WitchBlade. Salem gets Darkwind to run at a full gallop to the left and catches her GunBlade.
“We ran into your friends,” said Blue as Selene continued to infect the log. Salem joined them behind the log and begins to fire a few firefly rounds. General Carcass gets back on his feet again and is hit by a few of the rounds, however he did not appear to have felt them hit him. “That armor makes him nearly invincible,” said Selene. “Nearly invincible?” asked Christina. “Where is David?” asked Salem. The detectives ride up with their muskets drawn. Detective Lagan’s height made Need A Smoke appear to be smaller than he really was when she dismounted and pointed her musket at Lady Slambrawn who is wearing some sort of armor that made her look bigger then she really was, “Freeze, Lady Slambrawn! You are under arrest for the assault of a Lysts Palace Guard Captain and several counts of murder!” The C’Tan pulls out a black metal quarterstaff and yells, “MimicBlade!” The black Blade becomes gel like and changes into a black version of the GunBlade. The C’Tan takes the reformed Blade, and takes aim for the tall female detective. Detective Pacer jumps off Brother In-law and yells, “Freeze!” pointing his musket at the C’Tan. The C’Tan pulls the trigger of the black GunBlade only to have nothing happen. Salem reloads her GunBlade with buckshot and R slugs then fires a couple of rounds at the C’Tan. General Carcass once again uses his large armored body to block the attack. “What is wrong with this thing?!” yelled the C’Tan still pulling the trigger of the black GunBlade.
“General Carcass!” called Selene, “We do not have to do this. There has never been a Blade Master fighting a Blade master before. We are all on the same side. Whatever these two have paid!” “They paid me nothing! These two like me, are serving a Powerful Master,” said General Carcass, “The Master demands your deaths! Now surrender and die!! Hyper Velocity!” “Chain Saw!” yells Zealot as he once again uses his Blade to pull the large General off his feet and on his back. The PanzerBlade fires into the air and the ball of energy safely leaves the atmosphere. Death reaches Vivien who is still convulsing on the ground and he uses his ScytheBlade on her. Christina sees what Death is doing and yells, “He is killing Vivien!” “No,” said Selene, “He is helping her. The ScytheBlade does not just kill.” Death pulls the electromagnetic energy from Vivien’s body. Vivien stops convulsing and begins to get onto her feet. The Blade becomes charged with the energy and gives off a frightening glow. “No one hurts my little sex slave but me,” said Death as he walks to General Carcass and Zealot. “This Blade is useless!” yelled the C’Tan, “MimicBlade!” The black GunBlade melts in the C’Tan’s hands and changes shape again. Death leaps toward General Carcass who was just beginning to get back on his feet, and yells, “Soul Reap!” as he swings his powerful ScytheBlade. A loud clash could be heard when Death’s ScytheBlade and the C’Tan’s white silver staff and black metal blade ScytheBlade crash into each other to become locked in a test of strength. “Not you again,” said Death. “I’m here to take your place! I am the new Death!” yelled the C’Tan. The two ScytheBlade warriors separate and clash a few more times. Death makes an upper cut slash and the C’Tan blocks the low slash and hits Death in the head with the other end of the staff.
General Carcass laughed as he stood up again, “I remember you, Lizard Man.” General Carcass pulls out a long piece of fabric from around his neck. Attached to the long fabric was the Tagi Challenge Champion Medal. “If you beat me, you can have this,” said General Carcass. The medal glinted in Zealot’s eyes and he smiled, “You got a deal.” Zealot jumped up in the air and swung his SabreBlade. General Carcass pulls his broad sword out and blocks Zealot’s attack. The two were locked with their swords in front of them until Carcass gives Zealot a low blow. Zealot jumps back and shadow steps into the shadow being created by the thick grass bed and jumps out behind General Carcass. “Chain Saw!” yells Zealot as his SabreBlade’s eternity chain swings around the General’s neck. The cannon on Carcass’ left shoulder swings back down over his back and knocks Zealot off who does a shadow step.
Selene completes her infection of the log and turns to Christina, “I need the GullBlade’s phoenix mode to combine with my WitchBlade.” “I left it in the MobilBlade,” said Christina, “I did not think I was going to need it. Can you use Salem’s firefly?” “I am out of firefly,” said Salem. “Knight!” called Selene. A large barn owl with shiny gold trim around every single one of his feathers appeared on the metallic log. “When did that thing get here?!” asked Blue. “Knight is usually around during battles,” answered Salem. “Get Rook to open the door to the MobilBlade and escort the GullBlade back here,” ordered Selene. The barn owl gave a single hoot and jumped into the air and became invisible again. “What a great idea! Unlike other birds, an owl’s wings are naturally designed to make no noise during flight,” said Blue.
Detective Lagan and Detective Pacer kept their muskets fixed on Lady Slambrawn. “You are nothing to me. I’m Lady Slambrawn of the House of Slambrawn, Future Queen of Lysts!” yelled the woman. “She’s gone mad,” said Detective Pacer. Lagan feels a tap on her left shoulder and then a small gust of wind. Detective Pacer saw something shiny rush upward from Lagan. It was the LightningBlade, the thing that killed a countless number of people on the Slambrawn property. A lightning bolt rushed down to Detective Lagan. Vivien quickly flies by and cuts off the bolt’s path with her MirrorBlade. A cannon folds down over Lady Slambrawn’s right shoulder and a small cone swung around in front of her mouth. “SLAM!” yelled Lady Slambrawn and a highly compressed sound wave fires out of the cannon and hits Detective Pacer. Detective Lagan fires her musket at Lady Slambrawn and the small LightningBlade grabs the musket ball in the air and slows it down enough to drop it into Lady Slambrawn’s hand. “Don’t you get it? With my ThunderBlade, I’m too powerful for the likes of you.” Suddenly, a loud squeaking sound was coming from behind Lady Slambrawn. Slambrawn turned to see that Nuclear-Chipmunk was being chased by a large armored wolf like creature. Nuclear-Chipmunk weaved left and right, trying to keep ahead of the large animal. The LightningBlade attaches a wire on Sturmer’s back and takes off to the sky to send a lightning bolt down. Sturmer quickly stopped and four metal spikes folded out of small compartments in the SwitchBlade armor and dug deep into the ground. A lightning bolt struck Sturmer and the electricity passed thru the spikes and into the ground. The SwitchBlade’s spikes retract back into their individual compartments and Sturmer continues to chase Nuclear-Chipmunk.
“Christina,” called Blue, “There is no way your Blade will be back in time. You have to dig deep into yourself. You have the power in you. I know you do.” “Christina closes her eyes hard, trying to concentrate. “Where is Red?” asked Salem, noticing that RedRaptor was no longer behind the log with them. “You know what she is doing. Raptor Tactics,” said Blue. “Oh yes. I am very familiar with that form of tactics,” said Selene. Death and the C’Tan were still locked in battle answering blows with counterstrikes and following up with attempts of their own. Death slashes his ScytheBlade from the left with the C’Tan blocking it with his own ScytheBlade and trying to make Death lose his Blade with a spin move. The two get their Blades locked once again bringing them face to face. “With my Blade, we are evenly matched. I can keep this up for years. You however may feel the passing of time and will make a mistake, I think,” said the C’Tan. “You’re right. I would be very bored if I had to do this any longer. However, you’re wrong about being evenly matched. Just because you have a Blade, doesn’t mean you know how to use it,” said Death. Death releases the electromagnetic energy he took from Vivien into the C’Tan’s Blade. An explosion throws the C’Tan off his feet. “Death Blur!” yelled Death, who runs at a high rate of speed and slashes the C’Tan’s robotic body in half before the C’Tan hits the ground. The C’Tan’s legs land first and tumble in the grass but the upper body stays in the air. “A jet pack. Now that is cheating,” said Death. The C’Tan rises higher into the air, out of the reach of any enemy Blade Masters.
Zealot shows up under the General with his sword held up to Carcass’ crotch. General Carcass quickly jumps back to avoid the attack. Zealot grabs the General’s right arm and pulls down to send Carcass over his shoulder. General Carcass takes hold of Zealot’s tail and uses his own momentum to toss the lizard man up into the air. The PanzerBlade’s cannon folds over Carcass’ left shoulder again before the General lands flat on his back, and Carcass yells, “Hyper Velocity Cannon!” “Pawn!” called Salem, “ThievesBlade’s void!” Pawn’s black void opens up between the General and Zealot. The ball of electromagnetic energy safely enters the void before it closes, allowing Zealot to fall past it. “Harpoon!” yells Zealot. The tip of the SabreBlade shoots out as if it was fired by a gun. After a specific amount of chain leaves the SabreBlade, another section detaches so more chain can be let out. The very sharp tip of the SabreBlade hits General Carcass but does not penetrate. Carcass reaches up and grabs the chain. This is what Zealot wanted. Zealot retracts the eternity chain and pulls the General off the ground and himself down faster. The two meet in the air and Zealot was able to time a heavy kick right onto the General’s chest. The two hit the ground hard again leaving Carcass in a small crater.
Zealot jumps forward and turns to start a new attack when, “SLAM!” Lady Slambrawn hits him with a compressed sound wave. The C’Tan swoops down and lifts General Carcass back onto his feet. The GullBlade swoops down and attaches to Selene’s WitchBlade. “GullWitchBlade, Phoenix Witch Mode!” yells Selene, as she reattaches herself to the infected log. The wood inside the metallic skin is flashed burn and heavy smoke shoots out of holes directed to the three evil Blade Masters. General Carcass and Lady Slambrawn start to cough uncontrollably and fall to their knees. “Carcass may be protected from attacks with that armor, but he still has to breathe,” said Salem. “Give up, General! You are outnumbered,” said Selene. “We don’t think so!” yelled what was left of the C’Tan. The C’Tan flies down to where his lower body came to a rest and pulls out his staff of light to hold it out over the ground before him. The air becomes static as an all consuming green light flashes. When the light dims, a small army of 24 Necron wraiths were floating before them with large serrated swords. “Pawn, ThievesBlade’s void,” ordered Salem. The small ferret opened his void, but the only thing that ended up happening was that thick smoke being sucked inside. “Those wraiths have souls,” said Selene. “Your simple trick just doesn’t work anymore. We will have what we came for!” yelled the top half of the C’Tan. “Your deaths!” yelled Carcass. “Attack them!” yelled Lady Slambrawn. The small army of Necron wraiths lunge forward with their swords held up high.
“ROAR!!!” echoed a Raptor scream over the large flat grass valley. “Good, Dark is back,” said Blue. Three velociraptors and a small size velociraptor come running over a small hill. The velociraptors quickly turned into Dark, Cold, Pink, and PurpleRaptor. DarkRaptor jumps into the middle of the Necron wraiths and grabs one by the arm. The other Necron wraiths slash their swords in Dark’s direction. Dark lets her feet slide under the Necron wraith she has a hold of getting herself out of the swords’ path and them uses the same wraith as a weapon against the others. Lady Slambrawn’s ThunderBlade cannon swings down over her right shoulder again and she yells, “SLAM!” PurpleRaptor counters the sound wave with a very powerful, “ROAR!!!” sending Lady Slambrawn flying back about fifty feet. General Carcass activates his PanzerBlade’s cannon and yells, “Hyper Velocity Cannon!” ColdRaptor jumps into the path of the ball of energy. “Cold! It kills whoever gets near it!” yelled Salem. But the energy ball hits ColdRaptor directly kicking up a cloud of dust. “Got you!” yelled Carcass, pleased that he claimed another victim. The dusts clears and ColdRaptor stands with the energy ball in her hands. “She went against Dark’s orders and replaces her organic body parts in favor for mechanical parts. The only thing of her organic body that is left is her skin and hair. ColdRaptor’s hand and arm mechanically transforms into a large cannon and she launches the ball back to General Carcass. The General turns and begins to run for his life from the energy ball.
Christina stands up and two long, curved rays of light, very much like two bows without string, form behind her. The energy from the two curved light rays peel and tear away at the fabric on Christina’s back until her bare white skin can be seen. Her shoulder blades look to be reaching out for the tops of the light rays, almost like arms. Christina’s eyes turn completely white and she yells, “LIGHT WINGS!” A shadow image of the extra appendages on her back connect with the tops of the light rods making a clank sound each followed by another shadow connecting creating a second clank sound each and finally the actual appendages themselves connecting making a final clank sound for each. The rods and appendages turn into large wings made of pure light. “She’s got stage one. Let’s see if she remembers to do stage two,” said Blue. “MimicBlade!” yells the C’Tan. His ScytheBlade melts and covers the C’Tan to become white PanzerBlade armor. The cannon comes up and over the C’Tan’s right shoulder, “Hyper Velocity Cannon!” yells the C’Tan and an orb of electromagnetic energy fires towards Christina. ColdRaptor tries to get to the energy ball, “Hyper Velocity Cannon!” yells General Carcass, firing his own energy ball. “ThievesBlade’s void!” orders Salem. “SLAM!!!” yells Lady Slambrawn, hitting Pawn. Vivien rushes to slice up the energy but Death grabs her ankle and holds her down. “You can’t take another shot to your system so soon,” he says. Both shots hit Christina but her light wings absorbed the energy from both of them. “Light Wings Transformation,” said Christina and her large wings fold down with a sound of something very powerful slowing down. “PhoenixRaptor Wings!” yells Christina, closing her eyes. The Light Wings open up again with a wave of a pure white light flooding the valley. The light dies down and large wings of white feathers could be seen on Christina’s back. “White?” said Dark, looking at Christina. “I just got so use to the wings being black,” said Blue. “Albino Raptor, albino wings,” said Selene.
The GullBlade separated from Selene’s WitchBlade and flies to Christina. “GullBlade, combine with Skyclap. Pegasus Mode!” ordered Christina. The GullBlade opened up just as it always did when switching into Angel Mode but this time the five point harness was now a six point harness. The GullBlade landed on the back of Skyclap and began to strap itself to him. The head of the GullBlade also opened up and covered Skyclap’s head as a golden breast plate formed on him. Skyclap bucked a few times then ran down the field. The large wings on SkyClap’s back began to flap and the horse took to the air, still moving his legs as if he were still on solid ground. Christina flew up and landed on Skyclap’s back. “His name makes so much more sense now,” said Zealot. The sword hilts come out and Christina removes them from the wings and combines them to become one large broad sword. Christina jumps off of Skyclap and dives down to the evil Blade Masters. “MimicBlade!” yells the C’Tan. The C’Tan’s PanzerBlade melts and become a blue and black GullBlade already in Angel Mode on his back. The C’Tan pulls out twin black blade swords from the wings and tries to combine them with no success. The C’Tan decides that two swords are better then one large sword and continues to fly up to the diving Christina to attack. DarkRaptor continues to fight with the small army of Necron wraiths.
Selene stands, “WitchBlade, Armor Mode!” she commands. Infection veins cover Selene and becomes a tubular like armor on her. “Take cover,” orders Selene. Salem loads buckshot into the GunBlade and the trigger timer. Salem jumps out into the middle of the battlefield and yells, “DEATH BLOSSOM!!” Salem activates the timer and pulls the trigger as she spins the GunBlade over her head. The GunBlade fired and the spinning keeps it in the air just over Salem’s head. The buckshot peppers the field with a few of the Blade Masters and the Raptors hiding behind trees and rocks. DarkRaptor continues to fight with the Necron wraiths using a few attacking wraiths as shields from the destruction of the GunBlade. General Carcass just stood where he was at first when the attack started but after a few buckshot came too close to hitting him in the face, he began to move back with his arms over his face. Lady Slambrawn too is forced to run away from the battlefield along with Nuclear-Chipmunk who was still being chased by Sturmer. The other horses had already fell back out of range with Darkwind having to nudge Syntax back because he was too busy watching Skyclap fly around in the air. Christina and the C’Tan clash with the C’Tan immediately trying to cut one of her wings. “You will leave without taking a life,” said Christina. “So many to defend down there. What a shame that they all will be dead,” said the C’Tan. Christina rushed in to give a powerful attack but hits nothing but air. The C’Tan had did a flip under her and was in the position to clip her wings. Vivien came up and sliced her sword through the GullBlade copy. The GullBlade lets go of the C’Tan and becomes a black staff again. The C’Tan activates his own jet pack to stop his fall but is attacked by Skyclap who runs right into him and uses his back legs to kick him down to the ground. The C’Tan hits the ground hard and explodes into hundreds of pieces with a scream, “NO!!!”
Detective Lagan had pulled Pacer behind a rock to protect him from Salem’s attack. His heart was weak and he was not waking up. Salem reached up to grab her GunBlade and brought it down in front of her. She opened the ammunition chamber and allowed the empty shells to fall on the grass. Salem reloaded the GunBlade with R slugs and closed the chamber. Salem took aim and started firing on General Carcass. He took his arms away from his face and started to laugh at her, “Your attacks have no effect on me!” Salem continued to fire. Lady Slambrawn was nowhere near Salem and Carcass. Slambrawn takes aim at Sturmer and yells, “SLAM!!” The compressed sound wave hits Sturmer and knocks him off his feet. The SwitchBlade launches hooked chains into the ground and pulls Sturmer back where he was. Sturmer turns and analyzes the ThunderBlade. A cannon forms onto the back of Sturmer and he “ROARS!!!” shooting a compressed sound wave to Lady Slambrawn who falls flat on her back. General Carcass’ PanzerBlade cannon folds over his left shoulder again and aims for Salem who is still shooting at him. Carcass begins to notice something wrong. The shots are hitting only one point of his armor and it is starting to cave in. Every shot pushes the armor in more and more, pushing a steel dent onto his chest. General Carcass puts his hand over the dent but it is in a spot that will not allow his hands to reach. “Hyper Velocity Cannon!” yells Carcass, trying to stop Salem’s attack. “ThievesBlade’s void!” commands Salem. Pawn catches the energy ball in the void and Salem reloads her GunBlade to continue her attack.
A slit opens up from nowhere and a blonde woman steps out holding the JumpBlade. Salem stops her attack in shock to not only see the JumpBlade but also to see Arian here and holding it. “Retreat!” ordered Arian. DarkRaptor could also see the JumpBlade in the woman’s hand and is enraged by the idea that someone was taking something from her. DarkRaptor lets out a horrific roar that busts the heads of the remaining three Necron wraiths and begins to run to the blonde woman. Detective Pacer wakes up to the relief of Lagan. “Are you alright now?” asked Lagan. Pacer makes a fist and punches Detective Lagan in the face before jumping up and running to the other side of the field. Detective Pacer reaches what remains of the C’Tan and picks up both the C’Tan’s light staff and MimicBlade. He then begins to run to Arian. Both Pacer and DarkRaptor meet on their way to the woman with the JumpBlade when Pacer pulls out his musket and shoots Dark in the leg. DarkRaptor tumbles in the grass. “BlueRaptor runs to Dark and RedRaptor starts to chase Pacer.
“Stop them!” ordered Blue, “They are going to use the JumpBlade to get away!” “They cannot!” yelled Selene, “The JumpBlade can only allow the person holding it to instantly jump to a place they have been to before!” Arian pulls out the ReverseBlade. “With this, “explained Arian, “I can use the ReverseJumpBlade to send someone to someplace they have not been before.” Arian gives the ReverseJumpBlade a swing and sends General Carcass away. A second swing of the Blade sends Lady Slambrawn away. ColdRaptor tackles Arian from behind, knocking her to the ground. Arian throws the ReverseJumpBlade and Detective Pacer catches it. “Lucky for me, Detective Pacer has been there before,” said Pacer as he removes the ReverseBlade from the JumpBlade. “I will be Death!!” Pacer yells to Jarody before using the JumpBlade to escape RedRaptor’s attack. ColdRaptor pins Arian to the ground, holding her for questioning. “ShadowBlade!” yells Arian before she vanishes from under ColdRaptor. “She has a Blade that allows her to shadow step!!” yells Zealot. DarkRaptor orders, “Purple, EQUAS!” PurpleRaptor immediately yells into the ground and forces Arian to come out. “Catch her!” ordered BlueRaptor, “She has questions to answer!” Arian finds herself circled by both the Blade Masters and the Raptors. Christina and Skyclap lands to join the circle. A glint of gold is seen leaving Arian and a lightning bolt hits the women instantly killing her. Nuclear-Chipmunk begins to run for the shoreline and his LightningBlade grabs him by the scruff of his neck and carries him away into the air. “I’ll get him!” said Christina. “Let it go,” said Selene. “But he is one of them!” said Christina. “If we catch him, what can we ask that will not be answered in squeak squeak,” said DarkRaptor. “Where is the Blade she was using?” asked Salem. “I think that flying thing took it before it turned her into a crispy critter,” said Death. “I think this confirms a feeling I had,” said Selene. “Yes,” said Salem, “We have someone working against us.”