Chapter 30: Avatar of Greed?!

Chapter 30: Avatar of Greed?!

The alarms blares through the faculty, lighting up the arena in this red light. Claire jumps down in between Jake and Pravarasena, putting her hands out in front of each of them.

"Stop fighting..something is wrong." She says looking at the door.

She pulls out two of the scrolls and tosses one to Evie, and the other to Xander who is across the room. "You two, bring Amon and Scott back to life. I believe a monster has entered the building. "

Without a moment of hesitation they open the scrolls placing them in front of Scott, and Amon. White light emits from them as they circle around the two dead men and after a bright flash of light Scott stands up "Pravara!"

Xander backs away from the bag as it starts to squirm and then ignites with flames releasing Amon "Xander…"

Claire looks at them both "Calm down..we have a threat here, I don't know if it's a monster…"

Purple smoking begins to seep through the door as they hear a maniacal laughter. The door bursts open flying past Evie, but she doesn't even flinch, aiming her gun.

Claire steps forward heading to the stairs with Jake behind her she puts her hand on his chest "It's okay Jakey let momma handle business."

Jake's face goes bright red "M-momma?! There's no time for jokes right now!"

Everyone behind them has a blank expression on their face watching them bicker.

Jaden tries to get up but falls back down. "Yeah…I'm beat, I don't think I can heal you guys for a while…" he yawns "damnit and I'm getting sleepy again."

Xander puts puts his hand on his shoulder "I got you man, I won't let anything harm you, you sit back"

Jaden makes a blushing face as he jokingly says "My hero! "

Scott and Pravarasena look up at the purple.

Bright Purple eyes glow through the smoke, "Jake…I have returned~!" It says in a high pitched demonic voice. "I'm here to get revenge for what you did to me….to my wonderful body,….my wealth."

Evie shoots the rifle at the eyes in the smoke, but it seems to just go straight through. She goes to fire again but here's a couple of clicks "I'm out of ammo…" she drops it grabbing her shotgun. "I just have to get closer."

"Foolish woman…thinking these mere magical bullets would even affect an Avatar like me?!" The voice in the smoke says with confidence in his voice.

"Like the air bender?" Jake says with a smirk on his face.

Claire glows a red aura around herself " I thought it wasn't the time for this?"

"You're mocking me… very well…I'll just have to show you what I'm truly made of." The smoke clears to show Giovanno, but he has horns that curve upwards . His skin seems to be more of an ashy gray with blisters of brimstone, as well as Liquid gold flowing from out of his eyes sockets.

"Bask in this glorious gift given by the great God of Greed! MAMMMON!!!" He says out stretching his arms in a divine manner. "For I! Giovanno with this unholy gift shall fill these lands with Greed!"

Bastet comes walking out behind Giovanno, her aura now purple and her sand gold. She stands there silently waiting for Giovanno's order, her eyes now glowing purple aswell.

Amon gasps "Sister!" The ring on his ring finger glows as flames wrap around his legs as he bolts towards Giovanno. "Let my si-" the sand wraps around him as stares at Giovanno with a wicked smirk.

"This is your sister?…interesting." Giovanno says as he grabs his face, purple light starts to cover Amon as he screams in pain.

Pravarasena starts running at them jumping in the air, as the area around him starts to warp inward and outward.

Seconds later Giovanno gets sent flying back crashing into a wall.

Claire looks at him and yells "Don't get any closer to him! It looks like he has Leslie's ability!"

Xander dashes next to Evie "What's the plan?"

Evie looks at him "Considering we may be fighting Some type of demon with Leslie's powers…we need to make sure we don't get grabbed by him…we should be fine. His powers only work on those who are either exhausted, or completely unconscious."

Bastet let's Amon down as they both look at each other and moves out of the way as Giovanno walks back into the room unscathed. Looking around and smiling with glee.

"First Xander I need you to get Jaden out of here, if he gets ahold of him then we'll have even more trouble on our hands." Evie says watching Giovanno closely.

"Yeah, but Jaden is completely drained. Even if he did get put under his control it's not like he would have the actual energy to help them in any way."

Scott walks up and takes the sword from Evie pushing her to the ground. "Give me my damn sword back!"

Xander glares at him "Wha-" he gets kicked in his chest by Scott dropping to his knees.

"Shut your damn mouth! Instead of standing there thinking of a plan, how about we just fight them!!" He says sliding towards Giovanno.

Giovanno puts one hand out gesturing him to come closer with a huge smirk on his face showing his monstrous teeth.

Everyone screams for him to stop, but it seems that their words don't affect him as continues to charge. Amon charges at him as his ring glows and he clashes his staff with Scott's sword.

Scott laughs "Good! I've been waiting to see your true power Amon! Egyptian Fire vs Celtic Ice!"

Giovanno nods at Amon as he blasts upward into the air with Scott sliding on ice behind him "The Air!? Hahahah! I'm liking this!"

Claire sighs "That idiot!"

Evie looks at Amon fighting Scott "It looks like he's good as new, even though he just came back from the dead. Xander go move Jaden somewhere safe…"

Xander stays down for a bit and picks himself up. "I'm going to kick Scott's ass after this…" he dashed towards Jaden.

"Heh..my hero has returned!" Jaden says in a tired voice.

Xander picks him up as his astral wings sprout out of his back. And he goes flying upward.

Giovanno looks up and sees this, he quickly appears in front of Xander surprising him, He grabs Xander's shirt twirling him and throwing him back into the ground.

Jake and Evie say "No!" They start to run over to the two boys in a smoke cloud

A loud THUD was heard inside the smoke cloud as they saw two glowing eyes accompanied by a menacing laughter.

Jake flickers as he turns and files in a different direction, Evie continues to run towards Jaden and Xander.

Giovanno gets sent flying out of the smoke "What?!" He says with a shocked impression on his face as he looks ahead of him and sees Jake waiting charging a black hole

"YOU'RE finished!" Jake yells slamming the black hole in the back of Giovanno's neck.

Giovanno begins to warp in pain but quickly begins to laugh as the back of his neck forms a mouth consuming the black hole.

He turns his head in a complete 180 degree rotation and shoots a ball of purple energy sending him flying to the ground landing on his knees.

Giovanno quickly drops down, when he lands he makes a crater into the ground "Fight me now Jake!"

He begins to continually strike Jake, hitting him in the forehead, grabbing his shirt and tossing him into a wall. He quickly runs up striking him in the center of his chest with pinpoint accuracy. Jake breaks out kicking him back, but Giovanno barely moves as he grabs his legs and slams him to the ground striking the center of his spine.

Giovanno picks up Jake by the back of his head holding him in the air "Thanks to your sister….I was able to hit every nerve that connects you to your power Jake….she visited me in hell and gave me a little secret about your people..." he taps his own head "Your powers come from here.."

Jake's eyes widened "What?!…" he thinks about when he was connected to her "That's why she gave me her technique so easily…and why I can get such results from image training." Jake flickers as Giovannos body starts to get foot like dents in it. Jack flips away from him landing as he coughs up blood, his blood looks like his aura.

Claire looks at Pravarasena "Handle Bastet! I'll deal with that monster!" She says running towards Giovanno.

Claire looks at her wrist as a screen appears, she presses it as an ALERT! Pop up appears. She shoots spiked energy beams at Giovanno.

He catches one and opens his mouth for the other and swallows it whole. "Interesting…it hasn't exploded yet?"

She gets right next to Jake "Alri-" she is shocked to see his blood with the same look as his aura "What did you do?"

Jake wipes his blood on his pants, not breaking eye contact from Giovanno as he replies to Claire "It's a technique I used on Dasean once, I haven't gotten around to completely understanding the cons to it but it essentially boosts everything about me, down to my very atoms." Jake's eyes begin to fade from its powered up state to normal. "Damn it…" he says exhaling as his breath is also back to normal.

"What happened?" Claire asks looking concerned

Giovanno yawns, "Please hurry, you're boring me…."

Jake nods "I am fine, but I'm going to have to fight him differently now…" the black tribal markings disappear as well.

"Then I'll provide support from a range." Claire says as her red aura appears around her and red energy spikes appear all around her.

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