Chapter 14 James and Max VS Loyd

"Oi! What do we have here?" James asked as he appeared.

"So who the hell are you?" Lloyd asked.

"I'm the Headmaster's supervisor, James is the name."

"Headmaster's supervisor, the boss did say something about you, I think, well sorry i really never paid attention to those sort of things anyway." Lloyd said.

"So as I asked, what's going on here?" James asked once more.

"Oh, sorry, I was in the middle of killing this guy after his friend blew himself up." Lloyd explained as he raised his hand up and attacked Max.

James used his speed and grabbed Max before Lloyd's attack could land.

"You're a fast one." Lloyd said.

"Sorry, but I can't have you killing our knights."James stated.

"That's ashame, I guess I gotta kill you then." Lloyd responded.

"Well, you can try." James responded.

Lloyd released a massive amount of bloodlust, which even Max sensed.

Lloyd quickly attacked, and James attacked as well. Their attacks collided and destroyed the area. They kept attacking one another without wasting a second, but their attacks were on par with one another.

James grabbed Lloyd's arm and threw him away. Lloyd landed and ran back to James. He unleashed his punch, but James dodged it and gave him a knee to the guts.

James then punched Lloyd in the face and hit him with a spin kick that made Lloyd twist.

Lloyd was able to land safely, and he countered with a kick to the face as well. James was pushed back, but he rebounded off the walls and kicked back.

Lloyd blocked the attack and was about to kick James, but then James did a backflip and then stood there.

"Man, you're a strong one, aren't you." He said.

"I can say the same about you." Lloyd responded.

"Hey, I got a cool idea wanna hear it?" James asked.

"Sure, tell me." Lloyd responded in excitement.

"How about we don't use our magic, nor weapons, and definitely no magical items, just straight hand to hand fighting and kicks." James suggested.

"Yeah, I like that idea. Let's do it. I'm glad that I'm now fighting somebody powerful, unlike those two weaklings I was battling against." Lloyd said, but then he received a kick to the face by James.

"And be glad that you will fall by these hands." He said.

Lloyd smiled and grabbed James by his leg, then crushed him with the ground and threw him to the walls.

James crashed, but he quickly got back and punched Lloyd away.

Both of them then attacked each other, pairing each other's attacks and countering them as well, this was an unbelievable display of martial arts and strength, Max himself couldn't believe his eyes.

He stopped watching the fight, and he crawled. He crawled to where Shina blew himself up. He stood up and searched.

He searched and searched until he found it, the only remaining thing of Shina his best friend. It was only a strand of his clothing, but he still took it.

He held it, and more tears dropped from his eyes. He recalled all of his memories with him, every day, hour, minute, and every second he spent with him.

He remembered his terrible jokes, him when he was serious, him when he was angry, and most importantly, him when he was happy.

More tears flooded his eyes, and he kept on removing them, and after a few seconds, he stopped crying. He quickly locked in, and he used his grieve, sadness, and depression, and he filled his anger.

He used his anger and filled his magical power, then he thought, 'That bastard, I'm gonna make him pay, I'll kill him and I'll avenge you Shina!'

James and Lloyd were continuing their battle, but then suddenly, a giant stone pillar appeared.

"Lloyd, you're fighting me now, I'll kill you, you bastard!" Max shouted as he activated his full power.

"Max, you idiot what the hell are you doing?" James yelled.

"You stay outa this you hear me. This is between me and that bastard Lloyd. So Lloyd, come at me, and I'll kill you. I'll shred you to pieces!" Max shouted in anger.

"Hahahaha, you weakling, you should've died alongside your friend!" Lloyd shouted as he charged straight to him.

Max was in a state where he created a new spell, wiactivated his most powerful attack, EARTH STYLE EARTHQUAKE BURIAL!

CRACK!

BOOM!

BANG!

The ground started to collapse, as if there was an earthquake, it cracked up and shattered entirely, and Lloyd fell inside, and all of the rocks crushed him together and buried him beneath the earth's surface.

Max looked down upon him, then he said, "Your body shall remain underground for all eternity, never to be found."

Max felt a sudden feeling, a feeling of relief and justice. He felt as though he had completed his duty for now.

"You idiot! What were you thinking?" James scolded.

"I'm sorry for talking to you the way I did, I didn't really mean to. But I wanted to be the one who gets to stop him, I wanted to be the one who gets to slaughter him." Max said, apologizing.

"So, do you think he's dead?" James asked.

"No, he's probably still alive and kicking, but he'll die down there, and he can't use his magical power because of your power." Max stated.

'James's power isn't an offensive ability many knights have. His power is called, promise. Once you promise him something, you can't break it, literally. Since Lloyd promised James that he won't use any magical powers, he can no longer use them.' Max thought.

"Max, let's go and recruit with the others."

"Right."

They quickly rushed to find the others, and to their surprise, everybody else had already found each other.

"Shio, Annie, Akiyoshi, Akane, Iguro, Fortune, Max and lastly me. It seems like there was only one casualty. And we managed to catch two of their members." James said.

"Hahahaha, it really doesn't matter that you captured us, it's not like you can escape here anyways and they've probably sealed all the secret exits that were here, so you guys are stuck her forever." Nino explained.

"Hate to say it but he's right, we're not leaving here until they decide to remove this castle." James stated.