Chapter 11 Fortune's struggle
Meanwhile, before Shio and his crew arrived, and before Akiyoshi used his hidden power, Fortune was confronted by a very powerful foe.
Huff, huff, huff! Fortune struggled to breathe.
"Hahaha! Pathetic, I can't believe that this is what the strongest division can do. The Frozen Dragon Division is full of frauds." A strange enemy wearing a white uniform, with black eyes and messy hair said as he smiled.
'Damn it, after me and my team were trapped into this castle, I got separated from them, and just to make matters worse, I was ambushed by this elite rank guy.' Fortune thought.
"Come on fraud, show me a good time, okay." The strange man said.
"Hey, what's your name?" Fortune asked, "Mine is Fortune."
"You do not need to know my name, I have zero interest in telling you." The man replied, "Although if you wanna know my name, then you'll have to make me tell you."
"Challenge accepted!"
FROZEN SPIKES! Fortune unleashed his powerful magical ability, which filled the area with many spikes of ice.
The man dodged all of the spikes, and he used his magical ability, SHOCKWAVE SMASH, and he smashed all of the spikes.
He then moved towards Fortune, but then Fortune used his magical ability, Frozen Wall, which created a gigantic wall of ice.
The man used his Shockwave and smashed through the wall, and he used his magical spell DISTANCE PUNCH, and BOOOOOOM! AAARGGHH! Fortune was punched to the guts from a distance.
Fortune placed his hands on his guts, and he spitted blood, and more blood came from his nose.
"What was that?" Fortune asked.
"It's a spell that allows me to condense my magical power and shoot it from a distance. It's very powerful, the further away you are, the stronger the shot." The man replied.
'Damn, that guy is really powerful, he's probably the second strongest person in this castle. How am I supposed to win.' Fortune thought.
"Hahaha, fraud come on. Don't tell me that you're through already." The man said.
"Not yet, I can still go on. Bring it." Fortune replied.
"That's the spirit pal, give it your all and entertain me."
Fortune unleashed his ice and blasted the man with them.
The ices hit and pushed the man back, but he braked and punched them to tiny pieces, then he jumped up into the air, to Fortune's direction.
Fortune smiled slightly cause he saw a simple target in his mind he was thinking, 'You can't dodge in the air.'
He shot ice spikes at the man, they were moving at a very high speed, but them man, despite being in the air, he used his Shockwaves and blasted himself away from danger, dodging every last one of the spikes.
Fortune jumped out of the way, and the man only punched the ground.
Fortune protected himself with his strongest, defensive magical spell, QUADRUPLE LAYER ICE BARRIER, It was a barrier that was made out of four layers, all of them being very, very strong.
The man dashed towards Fortune, but Fortune did not worry as he had complete trust in his barrier, and so he thought he could catch a breather.
BANG! Fortune's barrier was complitely obliterated in an instant.
All that was left was Fortune's glaze into the abyss, as hopelessness sinked into him, so did the man's fist, sink into his face.
Fortune was knocked out, and he was barely conscious.
After a few minutes, he fel unconscious and was stuck in his own head.
No, it can't end this way. This is not how it should end. I can't lose like this.
He kept fighting and fighting in his own head until he heard a familiar voice behind him that said, "Fortune, please, you can stop now, you've done all you can, so come with me."
Fortune turned back to see, and he was shocked to see his mother, "Uhh, Mom." He said.
"Son, please stop fighting. You can't win this fight, so come with me." His mother stated.
"Mom, I can do it, don't you believe in me?" He asked.
"Please, we all want you to live, so come with me." She said, and Fortune followed.
Fortune found himself back where it all started. He found himself back with his family, all of them together, sitting in a table like it was before.
He saw his father, his grandpa and grandma, his uncle and his uncle's wife, his aunt and his aunt's husband, his three sisters and two brothers, his aunt's two daughters, and his uncle's four sons.
In his family, they were 20 of them. It was a big house, and they were wealthy.
Fortune saw all of them, and he smiled. He went and sat with them at the table.
He had missed all of this. He didn't know what was going on since he had aged back to being 10 years old.
He looked around, and he thought to himself, 'Why is this so familiar.'
He then decided to ignore all of it and had some quality time with his family.
He stayed with his family, and he enjoyed every second of it until one night.
There was a crescent moon, glowing like the sun. The mysterious enemy appeared.
One by one, his whole family was killed, his mother and father took him and hid him in a wardrobe, and his father held the enemy back for as long as he could.
His mother used a spell on Fortune. The spell was DARK MEMORY, it would erase the memory Fortune had of one day, and in times of need, the memory would return and make him re experience everything again.
Fortune peeked in the wardrobe door, and he saw a man with messy hair and black eyes.
Fortune returned to his head, and he saw his mother again.
"Do you see how much we sacrificed just so you can survive, so please, don't fight anymore." His mother said.
"Sorry mom, but that clip you just made me relive gave me more of a reason to kill that bastard." Fortune replied.
"If that's what you want, then I cannot tell you otherwise, but rather I shall support you as your mother."
Akiyoshi activated his magical power, which made everybody in the castle tremble, and that was when Fortune woke up.
To Fortune, staying in his head might have seemed like it was long, but it was instantaneous.
The man was too tensed by Akiyoshi's magical power, he didn't notice when Fortune woke up.
"Hey you." Fortune said.
The man quickly got back into reality and saw Fortune standing in front of him.
"Haven't you had enough, I was busy thinking that I should spare your life." The man said.
"Well, I wasn't planning on sparing yours."
"Hahaha, you th..."
"Tell me something." Fortune said, cutting off the man, "Are you the one responsible for the death of everybody in the Luster family?"
"Ha! As a matter of fact, I am, I was the one who killed everybody there in cold blood, oh man, that day was really good." The man replied.
"Damn You! You bastard, you were the one who killed my whole family, I have no family now, and it's all because of you!" Fortune said.
'Akiyoshi's magic is busy distracting everybody in the castle. I can use my powers within concern of anybody founding me out.' He thought.
The man stated his name, and he said that his name was: Loro.
Loro ran towards Fortune, but then Fortune unleashed a mysterious power.
His ice turned black, and his hair turned back as well. He was surrounded by black aura.
Fortune then used his spell, THE THREE-HEADED ICE DRAGON OF THE UNDERWORLD.
As the name said, a three-headed giant black ice dragon was created.
Loro looked at the dragon as it charged up a THREE-HEADED BEAM.
Loro used his strongest defensive spell, SHOCKWAVE DEFLECTOR.
Fortune fired the beams, and they fused into one mega beam.
Loro smiled as he thought that he would deflect the beam, but he was wrong.
The blast destroyed the deflector and went straight for him.
KABOOOOM! The blast exploded, and Loro's whole body was disintegrated into nothing, and in his final moments, he thought,'This power, it.. it's from the underworld.'
After Loro's defeat, Fortune fell down from his dragon as it vanished into nothing.
A few moments later, he was found by Iguro.
"Fortune, wake up. we still have enemies to deal with." Iguro said as he looked at the elite rank in front of him.