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| AXEMS: THE TOLARIAN CHRONICLES |
| BLADEWARDEN: This sword is the Sword of True Sight, and it can cut through any illusion you can send at me. Your powers are useless. However, Axem Image does not seem perturbed by this fact. Instead, she shoots a blue energy sphere at the Bladewarden. The Bladewarden raises his hand to slice through the sphere with the Sword of True Sight, but he realizes that the sword isn’t there. BLADEWARDEN: What? The blue sphere slams straight into him. The Bladewarden loses 100 HP. BLADEWARDEN: 340/550 The Bladewarden growls at Image. He pulls a gigantic sword out of its sheath on his back. BLADEWARDEN: Prepare to be defeated. He charges in at Image, swinging his sword through the air in a huge arc. Image sidesteps the sword and holds up her hand. A blinding ray of light erupts in front of the Bladewarden, blinding him. Image steps to his back and slashes him three times. BLADEWARDEN: 190/550 IMAGE: It seems that your words have backfired, Bladewarden. The light in front of the Bladewarden vanishes. BLADEWARDEN: This fight’s just starting. The Bladewarden pulls out three daggers and throws them all at Image. They move so fast that she is caught off guard, and they all hit her. Image loses 200 HP. IMAGE: 120/400 BLADEWARDEN: The daggers were poisoned. You can’t do anything to prevent me from winning. Image loses 30 HP from the poison. IMAGE: 90/400 IMAGE: Yes, I can do something. Watch me. Image begins to concentrate. Her eyes glow red, then blue, then red again. BLADEWARDEN: It’s useless. Give up. The Bladewarden rushes in and strikes a shearing blow. However, when the dust clears, Image is unharmed on the other side of the ring. Her eyes have stopped glowing. She begins to float in the air. The Bladewarden charges in for another blow, but Image evades it again. By this time, she has lost 30 HP from the poison. IMAGE: 60/400 A deep murmuring sound is heard throughout the Coliseum. Competitors in other fights stop fighting to listen. The spectators in the stands stop talking, all listening to the sound. It begins to fluctuate from soft to loud, loud to soft, and back again. Another note comes in, creating both a harmony and a cacophony at once. Image glows with a bright light. At last, the noise ceases and she opens her eyes. They shine a bright red amid the sea of white. She speaks to the Bladewarden with an impossibly deep and booming voice. IMAGE: You never told me what you are afraid of. BLADEWARDEN: I did. I told you that I am afraid of nothing. The illuminated figure of Image is seen to shake its head. IMAGE: Then allow me to give you one. To all except the Bladewarden, the Coliseum and the blinding light Image produces remain in sight. However, the Bladewarden sees something entirely different. The Bladewarden stands on the top of a flying ship. He looks around, panicked. The Bladewarden sees an ocean of lava in a gigantic cavern. He notices some steel pillars throughout the cavern and sees lightning arc from each pillar to the next, never ceasing. The heat presses in around him, suffocating him with an almost physical force. Despite the excruciating pain he is in, the Bladewarden is able to yell out. BLADEWARDEN: Is this all you can do? You’re pathetic! At that moment, the ship disappears. The Bladewarden falls. Just when he’s about to reach the lava, the illusion vanishes because he has just lost consciousness. BLADEWARDEN: 0/550 Axem Image stops the light and falls back to the floor. Around her, the world resumes. In a perfectly normal voice, she speaks a few words to the Bladewarden’s fallen body. IMAGE: You were wrong. Image walks away. HUNTER: The next feature match is about to begin! Bosh and Axem Midnight Blue, find your way to the feature ring now! STRIFE (thinking): I’ve heard of Midnight Blue’s battling power! This fight wouldn’t last long if he were fighting anyone besides that huge hunk of metal. However, he is fighting the huge hunk of metal, so I’m safe to leave the area to find Image. I’ll be back in time for my match. Axem Strife runs off to find Image. ELAPSE TIME STRIFE: Image! Wait up! Strife finds Image walking towards the Contestants’ Building. She slows down. IMAGE: What do you want from me? STRIFE: I just wanted to tell you what a good job you did in that fight! Image looks at Strife blankly. IMAGE: And that’s it? STRIFE: Aren’t you staying to watch the other feature matches? IMAGE (thinking): So that’s what this is? You come to watch me fight and cheer me on, so I’m obligated to do the same for you? I don’t think so! (speaking): No. I have other things to do. STRIFE: Oh. What a pity. Strife runs back to the arena. He arrives to the very end of the fight between Midnight Blue and Bosh. MIDNIGHT BLUE: Now…. FEEL MY WRATH! Midnight Blue unleashes a gigantic burst of dark energy. When it passes Bosh completely after many seconds, all that is left behind are the charred remains of an iron statue. END OF EPISODE ELEVEN |
| Episode Eleven |