“Anto let’s go.”
“Right!”
Jumping off my back Anto goes left while I go right, then immediately I start to shoot arrows and Anto starts to shoot lighting at Adi. Taking his arm Adi wraps it around himself to block our attacks, but his arm leaves a gap around his back which it doesn’t cover.
Running faster I continuously shoot at Adi, which causes him to face my direction leaving his back exposed to Anto. Noticing this Adi constantly has to change directions and move backwards to defend himself.
Shooting more arrows, I start to curve some of my shoots making my arrows fly all around him and strike Adi from various directions. Unable to keep up with all my arrows, I start to land a few shoots all across Adi’s body.
Φ If the woman can hit me from any direction, I am better off focusing all my defence on the little boy. Turning to face the little boy, I see him running all over and shooting lightning out of Easifatan daggers, he is fast but his accuracy with the daggers is off.
As he keeps shooting at me, I notice him slow down, was he injured before he got here? At that moment I dig my arm into the ground and throw giant boulders at the boy which hit him directly.
Noticing that all the arrows have stopped I quickly turn around to see that the woman is behind me and has turned her bow into a sword.
Φ With all the force I can muster I swing my sword directly at Adi's arm, this time I am going to finish this. But to my surprise when my sword hit his arm, my sword doesn’t go through. What is going on did his arm just get harder?
With his giant arm, he slams me right into the ground, and then right in front of my eyes I see his arm grow more. “What is going on?”
“My legacy allows me to absorb moonlight and turn it into power, the more moonlight I absorb the harder and stronger my hand because. This is the power of my legacy, the god of the moon Thoth. A blessing I was given, so that I could protect the king of our country.”
Using my sword, I try to push the giant arm off of me but then suddenly, I feel a force other than his arm press me against the floor. “The moonlight my hand absorbs has the same properties as the moon itself, so when I absorb enough, I can access the moon's gravity field. Now feels how it has to have all the water in your body displaced!”
I scream in agony as I feel my organs being crushed and the water in my body moves arrows viciously. No, No, No, No, No, NO! I am going to die, I can’t die like this, it is too soon, and no one will remember me!
“You could always just borrow my power, Aster.”
Seeing the face of that scum in front of my face shakes me to my core.
“Oh, I know you can hear me since me and you are two souls in one body, take my power and I will save you from this situation. Your life won’t end anytime soon.”
Calming down, I say, to the pest in my mind, “Thanks for showing me your hideous face it calmed me down, and just so you know I would rather die a hundred deaths than use your fucking powers again.”
Feeling some of my bones crack all I can do is lie there as Adi continues. I was freaking out earlier, but I am sure Orb will remember me if I die like this, at the very least I can take solace in that fact.
“Do you have any last words lying scum!”
With a smile, I say, “Go harder.”
Then I close my eyes as Adi screams, “DIE!”
Suddenly I feel all the pressure over my body disappears, which causes me to open my eyes. Above me I don’t see Adi, I see no one. Looking to my left I see that Anto has switched places with me.
“I am sick of your interference!!” Adi screams as he pushes his hand down.
Running over there, I scream, “NO!” But then I hear a large cracking sound, “ANTO!”
Immediately Adi throws Anto at me, then says, “Say your goodbyes.”
Catching Anto, I fall to my knees, his body is bloody, and limb and he only has one eye open. “S-S-S-S-Sorry, the inverting angle was bad, so I had to switch us.”
“You idiot why would you take that for me.”
Spitting up blood, Anto says, “I-I am the on-n-ne who asked you to come he-e-ere I couldn’t let you die, and Mime likes you so I know you are someone wh-h-h-ho shouldn’t die.”
This is bad, he needs emergency medical attention, but where the hell am I going to find that I need to find some way to heal him right this second? Noticing the shine behind Adi I remember the golden apples.
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Immediately I start running towards them, but then I am smacked with Adi's arm and am sent flying. “Do you really think I would let you steal from us again?”
Getting up I scream, “Out of my way!!!” Coughing in my arms, Anto spits a lot of blood. “No, no, no, no.”
“Do-o-o-on’t worry ab-b-b-bout me, just run and meet up with C-C-Cyrus. There is no way y-y-you can beat him now.”
Looking at Anto, I take a deep breath then I say with a smile, “Kids should be protected, so shut up you idiot.”
Taking Dush’s scarf I tie Anto to my back and say, “Hold on for a little bit longer I promise I will deal with him.”
Holding out my bow, I prepare to fire, then I activate my legacy on it and say, “Lend me your strength, Apollo.”
Φ Looking at the woman I see her bow has altered as if it was a legacy, immediately I send my giant arm toward her.
But the moment it gets close she fires a single arrow, that ignites in bright orange flames and the moment it hits my arm it sends my whole body backwards.
Recoiling from the blow, I take a second to understand the situation. With just one arrow I was sent flying back, but how if she had a legacy why wouldn’t she use it? None of this matters I just need to crush her with swear force.
In front of me, I see her prepare to shoot another arrow, so I cover the front of my body with my arm. The moment the arrow hits I am sent flying back into a wall.
I reinforced my arm with spirit energy, yet I was still sent flying back. As I try to move, I feel a pain in my right arm. Looking at my arm I see there is a hole in my giant arm that leads all the way back to my real arm.
As I stare at her with fright she says, “Get out of my way,” while aiming another arrow.
Vexed by her words, I dig my hand into the ground and send boulders flying towards her.
Φ Turning my bow into a sword, I ignite it with flames then I cut through all the boulders. Looking past all the scorched rocks, I see that Adi has extended his huge arm and is using it to climb up through the room.
Noticing this I shoot an arrow at him, but since he is right next to a wall he uses his giant arm to send himself towards the dome at the top of the room that lets moonlight through.
This is my chance to grab an apple!
Φ Breaking the glass of the dome at the top of the room, I stand on the iron bars that make it up. While looking at the moon I remember the words my king told me.
“There is nothing wrong with trying to feed those near to you. So don’t apologize to me. You’re truly a good person!”
“Those words saved my life, and for my king, I will fight with all my heart!!!” Absorbing as much moonlight as I can I grow my arm then I shape it into a canon. Using the gravity that my arm creates, I shoot concentrated moonlight directly at the apples the woman is aiming for.
Φ As I am about to reach the apples, I see a bright light shine down towards me, so I dodge away and see the spot I was standing on is destroyed. Looking up I see the shape of his arm has changed, into a cannon.
“No more mercy, “Adi says with passionate eyes.
Laughing a little, I say, “Challenging me to a ranged battle was your last mistake.
Φ Ignoring the apples the women start to run towards me while shooting arrows. Shooting moonlight, I am able to clash and block the arrows she is shooting at me.
But then she starts to shoot multiple arrows at me at once, so I jump around the dome and shoot even bigger blasts of moonlight. Because of my higher vantage point, I can see everything below me and aim at it, so while shooting at her I shoot at all the staircases blocking her ascent.
But I notice that she starts running towards a wall, and moments later I see her shoot seven arrows at the same time towards the wall and then she starts to run against these arrows.
I aim my canon towards the walls, but then she shoots multiple arrows at me, while also shooting more arrows that curve and make more steps. “What kind of skill even is that!!!”
Shooting even more arrows, she says, “My teacher is of unsound mind.”
Then the woman shoots an arrow with a rope of spirit energy attached to the end. The arrows curves and wraps itself against one of the bars of the dome, then tying the rope to her waist she runs across the walls at incredible speed while shooting.
Shooting as many shoots as I can, in anger, I shoot, “DIE!!” Then charging up a big shot I shoot her directly on the wall.
“I got her.”
But moments later I see her jump towards the roof with fire under her feet. She used her legacy on the bottom of her foot to allow her to jump with a boost of flames.
Φ Landing on the bar making up the dome, I face Adi. I see his arm has grown even larger, and he says, “No way in hell will I allow any one of you to harm my kind. This is everything I have, Fallen Moon!”
As a large blast of moonlight comes at me, I say, “I will be borrowing this Anto.” Then I set Easifatan dagger into my bow and shoot it out with five flaming arrows.”
Φ All the moonlight energy I have shot out is pierced through, but I quickly dodge to the left allowing me not to get shoot by the arrows, but behind the arrows I see Atalanta.
She manifested her legacy on her feet and used the flames behind her feet to help her close the distance. As I try to manifest another giant arm, my hand is cut off by her flaming sword and instantly cauterized.
As I fall back, I let out a few tears and say, “Ahmed, sister!”
But before I fall through, I am caught by the women. “Let me go or you will regret it!”
“Shut up you dumb puppy, I told you guys that I mean no harm and I plan to keep it that way, so no way am I going to let you die. Now shut up and let me save you.” Putting me on her shoulder the women jump down.
Landing on the floor below, the woman goes to go look for the apples as I lay on the floor, so I ask, “How did you know I can only use my legacy on my right hand?”
“Because I know from experience that certain legacies especially arrogant ones that use the title god have weird restrictions on what they can be used on. For example, my Apollo will only act on things he deems beautiful so my legs and bow are my only mediums.”
“It isn’t smart of you to give me this information.”
“Trust if formed through baring your ass to each other.”
“Please stop with the vulgarities!!”
“See where turning into friends already.”
“Why would you even want to be friends with us.”
Giving an Apple to the injured young boy, she says, “Because I know a little child who loves to get fairy tale endings, so I want to help him reach such endings. And just so you know I can all but guarantee that my friends haven’t and won’t kill anyone.”
“That’s good for them, but my allies won’t be so nice.”
Φ Seeing Anto’s wounds slowly close, I say, “That’s fine since all three of these boys are strong.”