The Big Four VS Fico

--Noboki's Perspective--

With Sky running at the helm, we charged out of Zealous with Dante, Tavian, and Amera close behind.

It was remarkable to see Amera back on her feet, and her weapon had been enhanced with golden strands, which made her even more powerful.

"You know, running into a powerful enemy is like the least used strategy in a successful battle. Are you sure that'll work, Sky?" Tavian asked. He nodded, summoning two golden sabers, and flipping his entire body.

As soon as he went airborne, Fico sped underneath him with a swipe of her claws.

Sky landed, swiping up with his sabers, and clashing with Fico a few times, pushing back, playing with the momentum of the saber, enlarging it, shrinking it, and activating it on multiple angles to push itself towards Fico.

"You'd be a damn fool to not die in one hit! This is going to hurt so much worse!" Fico screamed out.

Sky jumped up, bouncing off of a saber he threw in the air in some weird fashion, and then summoned the same claws as Fico.

I never knew him to be a person who could use multiple types of weapons, and thought he only stuck to that weird saber thing.

After he struck once with her claws, they morphed into six daggers that he grabbed onto with the spaces between his fingers. He threw them toward Fico, and they intersected with her body, and cut parts of her hair off.

They bank shot off of each other, grew in size, and created a grid behind Fico.

She turned her back at the wrong time, and using Avie's speed, Sky struck her in the chest with his boot, and launched her into the grid, cutting her body up even more, and causing her to pause while regenerating.

Sky swung a staff around next, planting it into the ground, and sprouting ice from the origin of impact.

Tavian jumped over it with his broadsword and came in to fight Fico.

He swung downward and Fico retaliated, swinging her claws toward his face.

When they approached the stubble on his face, Amera's Chakram collided with her claws, cutting her fingers, and pushing her back.

Dante grabbed Fico's arms from behind and slammed her head on the pavement behind them. She hit it so hard that she backpedaled while healing a cracked skull, and then, I finally swung my blade.

My katana was stuck in her side, Sky's saber was stuck in the opposite side, Dante's swords were impaling her arms, and Amera's Chakram was stuck in her legs. Fico was completely stuck.

We held that position for a moment, with Sky's saber sparking from the tension he was putting on it.

"I have so much of your focus! Aren't you forgetting about something a lot more... important...?" Fico asked him.

She smiled, and from the distance, we all heard a loud explosion, the cracking of rocks, and a ton of screams. All coming from the bunker.

"Do you have time to stay and fight us, Sky Asterio? If I were you, I would be more focused on trying to keep everybody alive... who do you trust, the people of Zealous, or the people who sought to kill you not even two months ago?" Fico asked with that annoying smile.

"Sky... GO!" I yelled out. He nodded at my command, giving me his golden saber, and running off to the bunker.

"That's right... run, you coward! At this rate, you'll never be Master Eirikr's Vessel!" Fico yelled out.

She pushed all of us back just by waving her hands like a command. It was a forceful push that made me exit her body and stay at a good distance, observing her movements.

"Part of my experience as Fico has been to gain the memories, the abilities, and the skills of several thousand people before me, all people who have been used to make me, the one who is called Fico, stronger in the end," She said.

Fico's eyes started to spark in the sunlight. It was a weird color at first, going completely grey, and then turning into a sharp, golden color.

I felt my knees go weak as I stared at her, watching more of her change.

Her hair grew grey, with golden tips all over, and a pitch-black shade near her back. Her horns grew in size, and she started to twitch as her teeth enlarged.

Around her, that goopy substance that covered the wound on my face started to circulate around her weapon, instead of soaking it. It looked like it could be weaponized now...

"Show me how well Orion trained you!" She said. The goop stood in place around her, and Tavian took the lead, brightening up with passion, and running at her.

He deflected some of the goop as he ran forth, letting Amera's Chakram lead the way while he pushed forward.

The substance was acting odd, like it had a mind of its own, and piloted itself to interfere with his charge. It appeared that Illya's Incarnation was no longer stopping Fico from using more of her latent power, but as long as we didn't have that speed from before, a chance still remained.

Tavian jumped over the goop, and Dante joined up with him. The two dodged together, pushing each other to keep momentum, and letting Fico get dangerously close to them with an attack.

"Bye!" Fico yelled out.

I threw my katana in the air and it was taken by the Chakram, pushed upward, and then sent toward Fico's arm with a ton of power. So much power that it hit the ground and cracked the blade, thus ruining the rest of the sword entirely.

Fico paused while watching the tip fly through her arm, and both Tavian and Dante struck with attacks that were blocked with the goop.

"I already told you, bye!" She yelled out.

The golden saber in my hands moved. I followed behind as quickly as possible, swiping up on her goop, and cutting through it like a hot knife through butter.

The golden strands sparked and turned black as they passed through the goop, and with it, I watched a black shade pour over my eyes as I fixated on Fico.

"It sucks... that we're terrible... at learning our lesson," I said, feeling the wound on my face throb.