the final bout (4)

Both Riven and Jordan rusht in, and Milo did the same. Riven went below, smashing his gontlet into Milo's chest. Then Jordan was above, shooting air and ink down on Milo's face, makeing his body hit the ground.

Jordan, if he tryed to use his sword, it most likely wouldn't of worked in the first place. He'd seen how strong Milo's skin was, and that was before he ate Xander.

Milo tryed to kick Riven back, but a ink wall apeared, blocking his kick. Then spikes protruded outta the wall, penetrating Milo's leg a little. Milo then used his other foot and kicked on the ground to make space beetween the three.

"Dang it I should be out there helping," Harkel thought.

"No, you're on the virge of fainting, and you no it. That direct punch did a number on you," Wren told Harkel, who kept opening and closeing his eyes.

Leo then steped up but was quickly stoped by his sister.

"No, you can't. You're gonna barely land a hit on him, and when you did land a hit, it wasn't a instant killing blow. And now you don't even have that buff anymore do you? Because if you did Jordan would be using our armor still," Tessa said while holding her brother back. All Leo could do was click his tung; he knew his sister was right.

Riven then tryed to force Milo down, but the wolf was resisting. Jordan then came from above with two swords, one being made outta ink, and started slicing Milo mulitple times. But Milo then did a quick howl, knocking the two brothers away.

"Dang, this isn't working. If I could get a blade like Harkel's… but I need to use the efect of my blade," Jordan said.

Another Jordan then appeared, but this Jordan didn't have no armor on. All this Jordan had was the sword.

The too Jordans then went ahead twards Milo. Riven also rusht in. One of the speshal traits of his true awakeing is that he basicly has the 'Wheightless' abilty on the hole time. He rusht and jumped over Milo and pushd him twards the too Jordans. Milo then stoped himself from going any closer but both Jordans were up close and started slicing him — one was more stronger than the other thank's to the armor. Before Milo could retalieight, Riven came from below, takeing his back leg, making him go to his nees. It allowd both Jordans to similtainously go for his neck but Milo was able to guard his neck and head with his arm's, both Jordans then boostid there attacks with ink and wind, makeing severel scraches.

"Damn, this is bad. I can heal, but the more I do, the more energy I lose. Even if I eat one of these weaklings, that won't stop them from just doing the same thing again. I need a better sorce. Wait… Ashley. The brown-haired boy killed her, didn't he?"

Milo, with his gard still up, looked around eagerly until he saw what he was looking for — Ashley's body was up against a tree, neck sliced open.

Milo then prepared to do another short howl and knock them like he did last time.

"Not this time," Jordan and his clone yelled out as they both gathered black liquid in there hands and covered Milo's mouth in the same type of muzzle as he originaly did to Ashley — but this one was stronger.

"Dang it, I need to think, and fast," Milo said in his mind. Then he thought of something. The wolf slammed his legs on the ground and put all his force into it. He launcht himself into the air, kicking up dirt and makeing a type of smoke screen. Jordan and his clone quickly blew the smoke away using air, but not quick enough. When it all cleared, they heard a crunching noise. Both Riven and Jordan turned to where they heard the sound. The two looked disgusted at what they saw.

Milo was eating Ashley's body — bones crunching, blood gushing on Milo's body and mouth. Riven and Jordan looked away. Even though they had a lot of power in them, they were still kids, and things made them sick to their stomachs — and this was one of them. They was holding themselves back from throwing up, while other teachers and students were throwing up — including Tessa, Wren, Harkel, Leo, and the boy who was healing Joey.

"This is barbarick. Even if you grow strength from eating others, why would he eat his own? If what Riven said was true, they've been here together for years. How could you just eat somebody like that, espeshally one that you knew for many years and that had went through the same things as you? This is some real fucked-up shit," Harkel said aloud so everyone could here, including Milo.

"Ashley…" Jordan said slowly. "I can tell now. She was diffrent from you and Xander. She had no choice in the matter. She was scared. But you and Xander, and whoever she was afraid of… you people are borderline insane. You enjoyed the killing — I could tell in her face she didn't want this. She was just scared for her own life. Xander deserved to die, and after what she did, Ashley deserved it too. But I can tell… you guys went through that experament because you just wanted power to force others and do anything to anyone you desired. And you deserved what happened to you. But not Ashley. She was just a girl who wanted to live a dream."

"Ugh, enough yapping. Ashley was weak anyway. We was most likely gonna kill her off before or after we got to Earth. But doesn't matter — you did our job for us. I'ma thank you," Milo said with a cheeky smile.

This angered Jordan even more, as a big wolf-like beast came up from his shadow. Then a creature who looked similar to Milo came out and ran twards him. This shocked Milo. He didn't know Jordan had a abilty that could do something like this, and he wondered what else he could do. Milo then went in to fight an inky version of hisself, but there was a clear winner. Milo was way faster and way stronger than this inky creature. But it wasn't like Jordan's ink monster was weaker than Milo before he ate Ashley — it was because Milo grew way stronger after eating Ashley. Even tho she was weak, she could still give him a big power boost. He then destroyed his inky clone and rushed toward Jordan and Riven.

After puking they're hearts out, everyone was able to focus again on the battlefeild. Then they sensed two figuers. Everyone got on gard, but when they saw two figuers, they dropped them.

"Kira! Luka!" Nico yelled.

"Hey guys, what's happening?" Luka replied back, looking shocked at what he was looking at — Jordan and Riven being in front of a wolf-like beast, dead students, and teachers on the ground.

"Wait… you're awakened, aren't you?" Tessa asked.

Everyone knew why she asked that question, and they started to lead her toward Joey's unconscious body. She then started to heal the boy, and everyone imedietly started to see a result. Joey's eyes opend wide, and he started to cough up blood.

"Joey!" they all yelled.

"God, you scared us for a sec," Leo said. "I mean dude, even Wren was scared for you."

"Why is that such a big shock?" Wren said. "He's my friend too," she muttered.

Harkel could see Joey was looking in one direction. It was where Jordan and Riven were fighting Milo. When he looked over there, he was shocked at the way Joey was looking.

"Riven… Jordan…" Joey said weakly.

And everybody looked to where they was fighting and couldn't believe there eyes. The two brothers were being beaten by the werewolf. Jordan's clone was still there, which was why Jordan never wanted to use the ability. The clone wasn't just someone who would poof away after takeing a few hits or after a certain amount of time passed — no, the clone was its own person with Jordan's memory and body. This was the reason why Jordan never wanted to use the clone ability in the first place. It was like playing God with another soul — with his own soul. Milo had trashed Riven and the original Jordan. The clone then went for a killing blow on Riven, but the clone Jordan appeared, using his ink to push Riven out of the way. Milo was getting annoyed with the clone, since the clone had no armor. It was slower than the two. Milo then rushed ahead, grabbing the clone.

"Nooo, stop!" Riven yelled out.

But Milo didn't care, as he crushed the clone in the palm of his hand, killing it and letting its crushed body drop on the floor. Riven knew this wasn't his brother, but that didn't change the fact it had his brother's body and that it saved him. It was like looking at his actual brother dying, and he could do nothing about it. Riven was angry that he couldn't do nothing. But there was one boy who had more anger than him — it was Joey.

He didn't know what was going on. All he saw was a person he cared about being killed — a person he saw as a brother. In Joey's eyes, that was the Jordan. He didn't even take in the fact that there was another Jordan with armor on. He was only focused on the one that died.

"Jordan! No! Jordan! No!" As Joey kept repeating hisself, something started to happen. Riven and every bonded party member saw something in there system:

[System: User Joey Cross is doing something that was first seemed to be impossible… but now he's makeing it possible.]

Riven didn't no what the system was talking about, but he then heard a voice growing:

"Nooo! Stop hurting them! Stop hurting! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!"

Then when Joey yelled the last words, a beam of light came down, blowing everyone near him away.

[System: Joey Cross has unlocked the Light Affinity.]

Joey stood there alone, with a single light flashing on him thru the gray skies, with his hair flowing in a light golden aura surounding his body.

Joey had done more than unlock his true awakening form.