Chapter 126-Team Noah vs Prometheus
Khione pants heavily to herself as I limp through the volcanic underground cavern of Mt Fuji, until she stumbles into a wide open cavern.
Khione pants as she looks around, observing the cavern.
Connecting to the cavern are a couple of other passageways that Flint, Ana, Gaia, and Mary emerge from, one by one. Everyone is bruised, battered, soaked in blood and sweat, panting heavily, yet…still alive.
Mary smiles weakly.
"We're all…alive…"
"Where's Carbon…?" Khione asks.
"Someone has a crush!" Ana laughs, which devolves into a violent cough.
"Oh no, is Carbon…?" Mary asks.
"And Luciano, he's missing too!" Flint adds.
Gaia looks away sadly.
"Luciano…won't be joining us…"
Ana frowns.
"What…do you mean…?"
Gaia remains staring silently at the ground.
"Oh…I see…"
Mary trembles as well.
"It's alright," Flint says as he places a hand on Mary's and Ana's shoulders, and looks back and forth between the two girls with a tender smile, "We will carry on, for his sake."
Mara and Ana smile as well.
"Right!"
"Prometheus…should be right down that hall," Flint announces as he turns and faces the single corridor that no one emerged from, which leads upwards.
Flint then turns to face the rest of Team Noah.
"Are we ready? For the FINAl battle?"
Everyone else nods fervently.
"YEAH!"
"Well then-" Flint nods with a small smirk, "-LET'S GO SAVE THE WORLD!"
And thus…Team Noah heads down the corridor at last.
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The five still standing members of Team Noah continue ascending through Mt Fuji. As they do so, the volcanic dark red caverns floor and walls begin to darken. The walls turn into an eerie black rock with bright blue and purple crystals jutting out of the wall and running across the walls, floor, and ceiling, like veins. And thus, Team Noah reaches the summit of Mt Fuji, where a man stands in front of the some strange, withered, moss-covered stone contraption.
Prometheus.
"So you've come?" Prometheus smirks, "I'm surprised you made it. I for sure thought my A team of flame-based E-Chargers would be enough to defeat you."
Prometheus then looks around, noticing that Team Noah's ranks have diminished.
"Oh? It looks like some of you HAVE fallen."
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Carbon coughs weakly to himself as his eyes shoot open.
"Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that I'm being written off…" he says/
Carbon then sits up and looks around, noticing that Helios is gone.
"Wait, where'd he go?"
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"It's alright!" Flint booms as he slams a fist into his chest, "WITH THE STRENGTH OF OUR FALLEN COMRADES, WE'D NEVER LOSE!"
Prometheus' eyes then widen.
"Wait a minute, where's Noah? Are you guys crazy?! You can't win without me! I can LITERALLY stop you guys from E-Charging!"
"Noah this, and Noah that!" Gaia roars, "I'M SO FUCKING TIRED OF EVERYTHIGN BEING ABOUT HIM!"
Gaia then aims his wand towards Prometheus, and opens up a pitfall beneath him, which Prometheus begins to fall into.
"Earth Charge, Level One: Pitfall!"
Khione then resumes her Charge Stance.
"Star Charge, Level One: Constellation!" Khione shouts as she creates a star behind prometheus then teleports above him, "-We just need to hit Prometheus before he can negate our spells!"
"-And stop him from moving!" Mary adds as she holds a hand out to Prometheus, "Blood Charge, Level Four: Paralysis!"
Prometheus' eyes widen once he finds himself unable to move.
"-And then we land our attacks!" Ana exclaims as she enters her Charge Stance, then fires off a powerful tornadot towards Prometheus, "Infinity Charge: Grand Tornado!"
"Sand Charge, Level One: Sand Spears!" Flint shouts as he launches a rapid-fire flurry of kicks towards Prometheus, firing off a sand of spear with each kick.
Prometheus sighs as he watches all of the attacks flying towards him.
"Do you really…THINK THAT THIS COULD DO ANYTHING TO ME."
And then…with his blindfold still on, Prometheus chants: "FREEZE!"
And EVERYTHING, including time itself…grinds to a halt.
Prometheus then lands at the bottom of Gaia's pitfall in the world of frozen time.
Swiftly, Prometheus lifts up and pulls off his blindfold, revealing his new right Devil Eye, the eye that once belonged to Smokey Prometheus.
Flames then begin flickering around Prometheus' ankles as he crouches down and coils up his body.
Prometheus then LEAPS upwards, propelling himself upwards using his flames and lands at the top of Gaia's pitfall.
Prometheus then reaches up and snaps his fingers, and thus…time resumes.
Once everyone sees Prometheus standing there instead of falling into the pitfall, their eyes widen.
"What…what did he do?!" Khione cries.
"That must have been Smokey's Devil Eye that Noah told us about!" Flint exclaims, "The one that pauses time!"
Prometheus smirks as he observes all of the spells flying towards him, then chants: NULLIFY!"
And thus…Flint's and Ana's attacks INSTANTLY fizzle out, Khione's star disappears, and Gaia's pitfall closes up.
"N-no way…" Ana gasps.
"Prometheus negated ALL of our spells?!" Gaia cries.
But then, in the blink of an eye and before anyone can react, Prometheus reappears before Mary, causing everyone's eyes to widen.
Mary shrieks.
"I'LL START BY TAKING OUT THEIR HEALER!" Prometheus roars as he launches a flaming punch towards Mary, who cowers in response.
"MARY!" Everyone cries, however, no one is fast enough to reach Mary.
All except for one man.
Mary flinches and closes her eyes in fear, anticipating her oncoming demise.
But then, a moment later, when doesn't feel any pain, she opens her eyes again and turns forwards. And when she does…her eyes widen. For standing before Mary, with Prometheus' flaming fist piercing his chest…is Flint.
Prometheus then rips his fist out of Flint's chest, causing the old man to grunt then fall to the ground.
"M-M-MAAAASTEEEERR!!!"
Everyone then rushes over to Flint's side frantically and drops to the ground next to him.
"MASTER FLINT…" Khione sobs as she buries her face in his chest.
"Oh…no…" Ana whimpers as she covers her mouth.
"D-dammit…" Gaia grunts as he turns away.
As for Mary, she stands above Flint, quivering.
"Why…why…why did this have to happen…?"