Hatman1801

A Hero Tale {Complete}

"Tch, figures..." Alvios jumped back, not wanted to get smashed. Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, the creatures didn't seem inclined to chase or follow up their attacks. These things could sit there and play defensively for however long they needed to, and every minute they wasted was another minute the others had to attack Corona.

He winced though as Jenso didn't even stop to consider much of a plan from his perspective. There was very little chance that blunt force was going to break these defensive titans,but no matter; maybe it would at least be distracted by Jenso. He instead jumped up above the one Jenso tried to attack/distract, and threw his sword down at the creature's back. Before impact, the blade shattered into several fragments of light, which flew around the creature like guided spears, looking to pierce and cut at the joints of the legs.

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Alvios scowled at the sight of these behemoths. He hadn't seen the crystalline coloration before; they must have developed only on the ones that stayed underground indefinitely. Alvios' blade became shrouded in light, and his left hand began to glow as well. "If they're still similar to the ones I've faced before, the undersides should be weaker than the tops. Let's go!"

With that, Alvios dashed forward, pointing his left hand up towards one of the the creatures' supposed face, a blast of light pelting it as a distraction as he moved to try and get beneath it so he could strike at it's underside with his blade directly.

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Alvios slowed as he looked at Jenso subduing the former humans. His hope boarders on naivety... Alvios turned away, swinging his sword at them once, a burst of light burning away the infected women. He pressed onward through the tunnel, taking care to kill them efficiently.

"Jenso, I've seen this happen too many times before, and trust me, I've tried everything in my power to cleanse them. At this stage, they're lost. It's better to end what fragmented consciousness is suffering, and keep moving forward. These things were stealing humans, and for some reason, bringing them through this cave. They had to be bringing them to something. Perhaps to feed or protect something larger. If it's important enough, once it's in danger, the ones that left may panic and turn around to try and stop us. Which means we need to end this quickly. Let's keep moving. Alvios had said all he needed to say. It was still bothering him to do what he was doing, but he knew it had to be done.

A-Alvy...don't...

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Alvios quickly looked between the bugs and the infested, zombie women approaching them. Alvios grit his teeth with the painful decision, but he made it quickly, running towards the cave with the women and cutting through them without a second thought, pressing onward as fast as possible. "Forget the Swarmlings Jenso, follow me!"

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"Well THAT didn't take long!" Alvios bolted back towards the center chamber, throwing a crescent-shaped blade of light into the swarm behind him. "JENSO! Turn back around, I found the right--" Alvios was interrupted as he reached the center chamber again, suddenly having to fend off enemies from all sides. Well, I guess every tunnel was right...damn.

Alvios looked around quickly, first towards the tunnel that Jenso had gone down, then towards the one tunnel that didn't have Swarmlings flooding from it. The one the random bird that just flown out of Jenso's chest had gone. Because that was just a normal thing apparently. "Get back here and follow your fire...bird...thing!" he shouted, hoping Jenso wouldn't take long to group back up with him.

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Alvios looked down the five paths, trying to look for any clue that one of them had something indicating which one led them to... well, wherever the Swarm nested he supposed. He wasn't really quite sure of the plan at this point. The idea was to come down here and just kill everything really. He hadn't really thought about what they might find.

"We'll split up. Walk for about ten minutes in one direction or until one of us finds something, then we'll come back here and see if we've found anything. If not, we try two more paths, same idea. If we've found something, then we'll be able to meet up back here. If we've found nothing after ten minutes in any one path, it just means we'll have to try again going deeper." Alvios drew his blade, stepping towards the entrance of one of the paths, before pausing and looking back at Jenso.

"A word of warning. The Swarm can infest people. Slowly takes over their mind, then their body. I've seen it happen before. They usually try to do it to women, and just kill men. I'm not sure why. Still, it doesn't matter who you see down here, if it isn't me, it's best you put them out of their misery." Alvios turned back towards the path he had chosen, grip tightening on his blade.

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Alvios would have sighed had it not been a waste of oxygen. With the cave curving like that, it wasn't possible to see the end from here. Who knows how much longer they would have to go?

Well, it had to end somewhere, right?

Alvios did a combination of swimming, bouncing, and walking over to Jenso, grabbing him by the back of the shirt. He guess Jenso could probably do something similar, if fire worked underwater. He built up energy in his legs, the space beneath his feet glowing slightly as he kicked off the floor, shooting the both of them forwards through the cave.

Swimming was for normal people anyway.

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Alvios held a hand out in front of him as the darkness surrounded himself and Jenso, and began emitting a bright light from the palm in an attempt to illuminate what was ahead of them. He was keeping his eyes on the ceiling before anything else; finding a pocket of air would be a priority over progressing, after all. Couldn't really kill much if they drowned.

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"Wait, we don't know--!" Well, so much for waiting to see what might be down there, or even how deep the cavern could be. Alvios took a deep breath himself, and dove into the water after Jenso. Guess we'll just turn around if we run low on air...

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Alvios' eyes narrowed, pointing his sword at Apollo. "You've been letting me sit here and defend this town nearly on my lonesome for weeks, while you've sat back doing paperwork while knowing full well where to go to end this? People have been infested. People have died. It's your fault that I had to kill Cilia!" Alvios looked to lower his sword, depression grabbing him. "All because of your greed and pride. If the city didn't need you to organize a few things, then I might just kill you here. Repentance through death."

Before Apollo could react and relax to that statement though, he flicked his sword back up, slicing off one of Apollo's ears and sheathed his sword in one motion. "I hope you'll listen to pain's teachings at least. Let's go to the docks, Jenso."