16 Chapter 15: Explanation and The Truth (PT:3)
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"W-WHY DO YOU SIDE WITH HIM!!!" Sun yelled in anger.
"Why? Sun, I will ask you again. How long are you going to play your role as Hero?" Garo asks.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER! AS LONG I LIVE, I WILL SAVE THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN!" Sun Yells as he ready his staff to fight Garo.
"My apprentice Sun, naïf, as ever, didn't know the truth or lie. Seem I made the right decision to join Devil lord." Garo's hands change into an emerald crystal dragon hand.
Sun cover Chihane behind him as Chihane yells.
"SUN, I CAN FIGHT TOO!! MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!!"
"NO!! You can't. Garo is Element dragon, remember!? Your fire attack only gives him a boost." Sun said as Chihane looked at Sun with disbelief even though she knew it was true.
"Enough chat, let's finish this…." Garo lazy said. "You two is the one who didn't get the stone curse, which is a pain in the ass, and now I will have to do it. Thanks a lot, Alex."
"You're welcome, Garo." Alex reply.
Sun growled as he saw Garo walk toward them. Sun smashed the staff on the ground as a cloud of dust covered his entire area. The Yellow-hair monkey beast-man quickly grabs a few of his hairs and throws them right before him as the hair forms into himself.
"Chihane, use only physical attack. This is the fight we can't win, but we must try to save our friends!"
Chihane nods as Sun clears out the dust.
"Ho, the legendary Sun uses his trump card to save his friends. I am so honored." Garo said when he saw more than ten identical Sun-facing him.
Garo creates an emerald crystal staff to fight Sun.
"Let's go, Boys!" Sun yells to his clone as they all jump toward Garo.
Garo smirk as he dodges the first Sun attack and backflips when another Sun comes. Then he saw 7 Sun in the sky smash their staff toward Garo. The green dragon beast-man held his hands to the sky and blocked the attack, shaking the whole 5km area. Alex makes a magic barrier to protect his castle from Sun's attack impact.
Meanwhile, Chihane is in charge of her attack to smash the barrier that keeps her friends in that dark circle.
"Magic Fire Style: BLAZE IMPACT!!!" Chihane smashes the barrier with her fist that cover it in flame. As the fist hits the barrier, Chihane feels the barrier push her back, but she keeps strong and fights it.
"HaaaaAAAAAA!!!" Chihane screams as she tries to crack the thing, and finally, Chihane gets a crack on that barrier, but suddenly, a dark chain comes out from the ground and wraps around Chihane's body, making her trapped.
"That is far you go. Chihane." Chihane saw Alex with his palm toward the ground casting a spell on her.
"Fuck you!" Chihane cursed as she felt her energy being absorbed.
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With Sun, after he smashes his staff toward Garo. As Sun expected, it did nothing to Garo. The element dragon yelled as the whole area suddenly deadly sharp crystal surface from the ground, stabbing every Sun around him.
Every Sun yelps in pain as he forms back into a strand of hair.
Garo chuckled as he said. "Is this what you only can do? You are getting weaker, Sun."
Then suddenly, four Sun come out from the ground and grab every Garo's arm and leg.
"You are not the only one who can summon things from the ground." Sun smiles at Garo; this Sun is the exact clone like the other that holds Garo in his position.
"Is that so," Garo said as, with the flick of a finger, a huge crystal came out and stabbed each Sun in the abdomen. Sun clones smile plainly but still keep their hold strong.
"GAROOOO!!!" Garo looked at the sky and saw three Sun with his staff become bigger every second. "Eat this! Triple Giant Smash!"
First Sun swings a full 360 with the giant staff 400meters long, and the tip is 50meters thick. Paralyzed by the Sun clone, Garo can't move as he only watches the attack coming.
As the first staff smash, Garo with the whole ground explodes and shaken 5km area, then come second staff comes with a more significant impact as it stacks on top of the first one.
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With Alex, his spells are broken when he can't stabilize standstill when Sun attacks shake the whole ground.
Chihane down to her knees, panting as she looks at the actual Sun, flying down toward the ground as fast as ever. Chihane yelled, "Magic Fire Style: Flame Prison!" as she smashed her arm toward the ground as flame came out to the surface.
Alex who couldn't stand still as he saw a flame coming from the ground, surrounding him trapping him, and burning him.
"H-How is this Possible!? You should lose your energy right now!" Alex yells as he feels he is burning alive, even if the flame didn't touch him.
"N-Never underestimate Zodiac Warriors, Alex." Chihane stands up while panting. "I'm sorry, Sun, but I have to leave this to you." Chihane faints as she falls flat to the ground.
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With Sun, he roars as he is ready with the last stack of attack. Sun spins 360 three times as his staff gets more extensive and more significant than ever as he accidentally cuts the cloud in two while spinning.
"THIS IS THE END, GARO!!" Sun yells as he smashes the last stack on top of other staff. He is making a 5km area explode, and half of Alex's castle collapse because of the impact.
Chihane is flying away by the impact, same as Alex.
Mins later, all Sun clones turn into hair strands in that battle. Sun is breathing heavily as he uses his staff to support him to stand. Sun looks at the hole he just created and sees Garo lying in the crater, beaten.
"S-So… this is a power of Legendary Sun, what a powerful… Immortal, you are…" Alex said as he pushed some giant stone away from him. As Sun turns toward Alex.
"But still, he is always off guard as ever." Sun turns quickly to Garo; he is standing right in front of the monkey beast-man uninjured. Before Sun can move, Garo shoves his dragon arm straight into Sun's chest, pulling Sun's heart out of his body.
Sun yelled in pain, but no voice came out. Sun falls to Garo as the dragon kick Sun away from him.
"You lost Sun," Garo said as Alex was about to cast the stone spells on him before Sun recovered.
Sun with lifeless eyes staring at Garo.
"You wrong, Garo… Ryu once told me, what's the point? Become stronger if you can't protect what your love… at first. I didn't understand it, but now I know… What about you, Garo…." Sun voice a hallow.
"My loved one died thousand years ago." Garo reply.
"That is where I win… I fight for peace for everyone. While you didn't…." Sun slowly becomes stone. Unknown to them Sun pulls one of a strand of hair, and he lets it fly by the wind.
"Trust my word Garo… Ryu is the only one who can defeat you…." Sun's last word before he entirely becomes a stone.
"Then I will be waiting…." Garo said as walk away with Alex.
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The next day, Chihane opens her eyes, and she lies on a tree. She realizes that she is no longer on the battlefield and far deep in the forest.
"Good, you are awake." Chihane looked at the voice as she saw Sun.
"Sun?" Chihane asked as Sun shook as Chihane realized this Sun was a clone.
"We lost, Chihane…." Sun clone said as Chihane eyes willing with tears. "You must stay out of the battle while we will find Ryu."
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•Flashback End•
Akira looks at the floor as he and others hear Chihane's story.
"So, do you find Ryu?" Akira asked as he broke the silence as looked at Chihane.
"Yes, we are, and he was you."
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•To Be Continue•
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