Road to a Hero:
Three chances in another world
Vol 2: Chapter 35. A Golden Sight
Calgary: “MY NAME IS CALGARY, AND MY MASK IS NOT GOOFY!...whatever why am I feeding into this…you’re not getting her out of that cell.”
Gray: “I dunnooooo, I feel like I am.”
Calgary: “You there boy, wearing a bandana with the Red Arrows symbol…I guess I know why you’re here.”
Calgary flows his golden mana around his body, clicking three times.
Calgary: “I’m gonna make this hurt.”
Gray: “Shit.”
Gray: {Calm down Gray, that looks like Rosemary's power…three clicks, so third stage…and he can go higher.}
Gray activates his spiritual sense and flows mana throughout his body. Calgary runs towards Gray while Gray grabs his short sword and stands his ground.
Gray {Can’t use a broadsword, it would be too slow…need to be fast and accurate.}
Calgary tries to hit Gray, but Gray dodges with a unique flow of ducks and turns. Gray attempts to swing his blade at Calgary but Calgary catches it.
Gray: “Doesn't this hurt?”
Calgary: “The bigger the stage, the stronger the defense.”
Gray: “Well…I think you greatly underestimate me.”
Gray surges mana throughout his body, breaking Calgary's defense and forcing him back. Gray dives with a forward thrust but Calgary jumps over him, but Calgary feels something wrong, and he looks down to see his foot wrapped in the cloak of darkness. Gray flips his body, flinging Calgary onto the stone floor.
Calgary: “You’re right, I did underestimate you… let's see how far you can go.”
With all the fighting going on, Soku is trying to pick the difficult lock as best she can. Gray gets ready for another attack, knowing he might not be able to keep up. Right as Calgary is about to strike, the three Athens guards run at him.
Calgary: “You traders.”
Gray {THEY’RE GONNA DIE! Cenic…no it'll blind the guards…Satic?…I promised not to use that…anything!?}
Calgary flashes between the guards, striking them down before they can hit him. But he turns to Gray to see a few knives heading right for his head. He ducks only to be met with a volley of explosions. Calgary gets knocked back, struggling to understand what happened.
Gray: “NICE PETER!”
Calgary bolts out of the smoke and tries to kill Peter. Gray grabs Peter with the cloak and throws him to a higher floor. Soku hears a crack and looks at her hairpin.
Soku: “It broke…I don’t have another one…”
She feels a hand on her shoulder and turns to see Peter.
Peter: “I got one.”
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Soku looks at Peter with great joy, she grabs the pin and punches Peter's arm before getting back to the lock.
Calgary: “Fine, I’ll just kill you first.”
Calgary clicks into the fourth stage, blowing wind around him as he does so.
Gray {Rosemary's fourth stage can bend the air…this is gonna hurt like hell.}
Calgary moves so fast that Gray can barely register, but he can perceive it just well enough to try and block. Calgary hits Gray right in his arms, the pure force cracks his arm guards and forces him back right into a wall. Gray gets back up only to be met with a flurry of strikes in the legs, arms, and chest. Calgary throws his arm up, causing the pack of explosives that Peter had just dropped to detonate. Calgary is unaffected but Gray uses the opportunity to force his mana into overdrive and strikes Calgary. Calgary gets pushed back, and Gray continues to fight him.
Calgary: “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THAT CAN YOU!? YOU’LL BREAK EVENTUALLY!”
Gray tries to use the wrist blade that Peter gave him, but due to Calgary's first punch, the mechanism gets stuck. Gray strikes the tool and forces the blade to stick out. Calgary and Gray trade blows, but Gray causes Calgary to step back because of the blade. Gray thrusts his arm into the air and swings it down, putting all his mana into it.
Gray: “BREAKER!”
A mana blade forms from the attack and slices through Calgary's golden cloak of mana, cutting his arms.
Calgary: “SHIT!”
Gray takes a step back, falling to his knees. He takes his mask off to spit blood out of his mouth and drops the mask on the floor. Gray looks at the Wrist Talon to find it broken, so he takes it off. He wraps the cloak of darkness around his newly broken hand like a cast and stands back up.
Calgary: “This is where you die, do you understand?”
Gray: “If I die…then I die…and If I don’t…then I don’t…to be…honest…I couldn't care less…”
Calgary activates his fifth stage and starts slowly walking toward Gray. Peter climbs down and throws explosives after explosives while tears fall from his face.
Peter: “DIE, DIE, DIE!”
The explosives fly toward Calgary but to no effect. The pure power the fifth stage produces is blowing so much wind with each step that it throws the explosives to the side.
Calgary: “Boy, you should use your time wisely because you’re next.”
Calgary walks right up to Gray, right about to strike him. But Gray's eyes turn a pure white, and he somehow punches right through Calgary's defense, cracking multiple ribs and throwing him back. Calgary coughs and stands confused. Gray's possessed body is about to start fighting, and so is Calgary. Calgary moves so fast that the ground beneath him cracks and breaks, and the wind knocks Peter back and Gray, even when in his spiritual state activated, cannot move fast enough to do anything. So Gray is hit with another barrage of punches to his chest, causing immense pain and shock to fill his body. Even with the resistance of the spirit stage he's still pummeled, his armor broken, his body crumbling. But In the darkest time, the brightest light shines. A brighter gold color shines harder than Calgary's. Gray watches as a gold blur hits Calgary right in the face forcing him back.
Gray tumbles over, and his eyes return to their normal state. His ears stop ringing, his vision starts to focus, and he regains feeling in his body. Soku lifts him and he finally gets to see who saved his life.
Gray: “Rose…mary…”
He finally sees Rosemary and is also met with a strong hug.
Rosemary: “This time, I guess I'll save you.”
Gray: “I…love…you…”
Rosemary: "Love you too."
With that Gray falls unconscious, and seeps into a deep sleep. Gray sees glimpses of his parents, his old room, and his old face. Then black, he starts to walk around in a black foggy area. He seems to be wearing the same outfit he got summoned in, glasses and all.
Gray: “Azalea?”
A woman dressed in all black walks out of the fog and looks Gray right in the eyes.
Azalea: “Hello Gray Kyojin.”
Gray: “I thought you left my mind.”
Azalea: “I did…but I’m still a part of your soul.”
Gray: “Am I…dead…?”
Azalea: “No…you’re just sleeping. But you’re not out of the woods yet.”
Gray: “Have I done…good so far?”
Azalea: “You said that you wanted to live…that you would stop at nothing…that do anything to save your friends no matter the cost and you have stuck to it.”
Gray: “Are you mad…I didn’t join the Sect?”
Azalea: “My husband, Prometheus Yagari, saved my life hundreds of years ago with dark magic…he preserved my body for over a thousand years and stopped at nothing to save me…so I joined him in his hope of a new world…I was even gifted a cursed charm and a great source of mana…I died serving him…and when I first met you I was driven to get back…”
Gray: “Yeah?”
Azalea: “But I have seen what you’ve seen… thought what you’ve thought…felt what you’ve felt…heard what you’ve heard, I conclude…that my husband what wrong…my life was a curse on the world…and me bringing your life into this world was the best thing I’ve ever done. Thank you for fixing my mistakes.”
Gray watches Azalea's body get forced back into the dark fog with the fog going with her. Then in nothing but a white void, he looks to see his body in new clothes. His white armor, his dark cloak, and his mask. He can even feel the scar on his lip. Then nothing, he hears a sweet, calming voice in his heart, a voice he’s longed for.
All the senses rush back to his body, and he looks to see Rosemary running, carrying him piggyback style.
Gray: “Rose…what’s happening…?”
Rosemary: “I HIT CALGARY, AND NOW WE’RE RUNNING!”
Gray looks behind him to see Soku running cloaked in the wind while holding Peter.
Gray: “Where are we going?”
Rosemary: “Calgary’s right behind us, and the main door was locked, so we’re running up to Leo!”
Gray: “Alright, we could just jump out of a window or something.”
Peter: “THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYING!”
Rosemary: “I want to make sure Leo gets out with us.”
Gray: “And if he’s gone, or if he’s dead?”
Rosemary: “Then we jump!”
Gray: “Man, we’re gonna die.”
Soku: “PROBABLY!”
END OF Vol 2: Chapter thirty-five