Chapter 19
When love is perfected,
fear cannot co-exist with it. Remember that love generates light and fear
resides in the darkness which has lost its power.
Oliver dived out of the way of the
oncoming beast. Of all things to deal with in a ship, why did it have to be
Zurui and Terrans at the same time? Zurui turned his horse around and charged
at David. David shot at the horse, but had to also dodge as Zurui simply
deflected the shots away with his whip-like staff. Oliver then said, “Let the
armor of the Ies always be sufficient for me.”
A helmet of light formed around
Oliver, next a chained set of panels made also of light covered his chest. From
there armor formed around his waist and legs, completed off by cleats that were
also made of light, allowing him to dig into the ground despite the metal
floor. From there, the tipir illumined all the room all the more as the shield
of energy surround Oliver. Zurui charged at Oliver and swinging his whip at
Oliver, but Oliver did not move, just
blocking the strike, then as the horse was about to trample him, Oliver
sliced out its legs and rolled under it, cutting its belly before shooting
again at Zurui. David began to lay down crossfire, So Zurui attempted to shoot
a replica of himself at David, but the shield around Oliver interfered,
distorting the energy clone into a money. The monkey flew across the room at
David, screaming with an insane laughter. It was like someone took the cackle
Kakios had made earlier, upped the octave and crossed that sound with a
screeching pterodactyl. David ran as he covered his ears to stop the sound from
blowing out his ears. Oliver ran toward Zurui, and Zurui decided to run out
into the hallway, so as Oliver followed, David was stuck battling the monkey
that had just flew at him.
Now you may not think a energy monkey
is really all that dangerous until you realize that he tipir that David was
using had no effect on the monkey since it was altered by the same sort of
energy that fueled David’s staff. So putting his tipir away, David prepared to
fight the monkey using a mix of martial arts. David raised his arms, like a
crane, but then as the monkey near, David turned his wing-like arms into razors
as he struck down at the creature. This however was a mistake, for the monkey
used his prehensile tail to grab onto the incoming attack, raise himself closer
to David and attempted to maul his face. David used a roundhouse kick to knock
the creature off his head. Then as the monkey ran back at him, he used a
sweeping kick to try to inflict more damage. However the monkey leaped up and
grabbed onto David’s hair trying to inflict more damage by straining his neck.
David went with the pull though and rolled back ward, rolling over the monkey
and effectually killing the annoying thing.
Meanwhile, Zurui and Oliver kept
locking staves in an array of alternating strikes. A few times Oliver had tried
to shoot at Zurui while they’re staves were locked, but Zurui managed to always
dodge them or use the staff that wasn’t locked to block the shots. This continued
to frustrate Oliver as the battle dragged on. David ran out into the hallway
and shot a series of shots directly at Zurui. This however was to no real
advantage because Zurui countered with another wave of energy that seriously
compromised the structural integrity of the hallway as well as knock Oliver
back a little. So seeing that Both David and Oliver were in the hallway and it
was nearing collapse, Zurui sliced at a few supporting beams and ran down a
different corridor.
