Climbing the Cathedral

Yui and the others were running up the stairs while taking out the guards when a Knight in a crimson armor was blocking their way.

He was holding a crimson bow when Kieron rushes at him blocking the path for the Knight while saying, "He is mine, you continue."

They pass the knight when he tried to pull the string a spear came for him. The knight evades and says, "You stopped me but can you stop this."

Suddenly a Phoenix came shooting out towards Kieron who smiled as he didn't put his armor on and runs at it while saying, "Bring it."

As the Phoenix and Kieron clashed a giant explosion was heard nothing could be seen as smoke was blocking the sight of the Crimson Knight while Kieron was standing without a scratch in the smoke while his shirt was done for.

He then begins to move forward as he comes out of the smoke surprising the Crimson Knight while shouting angry, "This was my favorite shirt."

He used the blunt side of his spear and takes out the Knight. Then he frees his mind letting all the sealed memories resurface in the Knight and Kieron says, "As compensation, I will confiscate this little one."

Kieron takes the Bow that the Crimson Knight was using and stored it away before beginning to move up.

The others heard an explosion making Kirito and Eugeo turn back to look when Yui says, "Keep moving."

"But what about Kieron?" asks Eugeo worried.

"He is alright, no fire can kill him," says Nora reassuring them as they heard Kieron voice making both nod and they begin to move again

Yui and the group continued as the took two Knights out that were posing as lost nuns as they arrived at a room where five Knights were awaiting them.

Yui stood in front of them and says, "Kirito, you and Eugeo continue once we made a hole for you two."

"You are really confident that you can move us," says the purple light armor wearing knight while the others had a standard knight armor.

"I'm pretty sure," says Yui as she gives a sign to Nora and the others as they rushed at the enemy.

Nora draws Excalibur while Yui transforms into BeoWolfmon. Dino and Inu entered Mega-Level as the rushed behind Yui.

Kate and Kayle get of their companions' wrists as Kate entered into 'The Rogue' protocol wielding a kunai and a kama looking like a ninja while Kayle for the first time showed her appearance having wings on her back while a sword appeared in her hand.

As they rushed at the four knights wearing normal armor, they began to rush towards them as well while the purple knight prepares to attack.

They were about to clash with the four knights when a beam of light comes at them. Kayle then suddenly created a barrier around Yui out of light surprising everyone when her sword suddenly was radiating light and swings it sending the light towards the purple knight who made way by evading the attack.

"Kirito now," says Yui as both Eugeo and Kirito took this chance and rushed through them all and passed them when suddenly the purple knight wanted to stop them Nora was there.

"You are mine," says Nora as she suddenly Lightning radiated all over her body.

She then strikes while the purple knights evade only to suddenly feel pressure behind her as Nora was not only surrounded by Lightning but also Flames in her eyes.

Nora was using Arc and Sol energy as she cut through the air while saying, "I hope you survive this."

The Sol and Arc energy were traveling in the air towards its target as the purple knight was sent flying through the room.

Yui had already taken care of their opponents as she was already in their minds recuperating their memories when she asks, "Did you kill her?"

"I don't think so," says Nora as she was dragging an unconscious body behind her.

"Then begin to release her memory," says Yui as she was almost done with the second knight.

Nora then begins to release the memories of the purple knight while Yui was working on her third knight when Kieron enters the room.

"It seems they are already done here," says Kieron as he walked over while looking at Kayle while asking, "What protocol is Kayle using?"

"She is using 'The Righteous' protocol," says Kate as she was still in her 'The Rogue' protocol making Duke come out.

"Still as beautiful as I remembered you," says Duke as Kate sighs at him.

Kieron walks over and picks up the sword of the purple knight ignoring the two as he put it in his Gate of Babylon.

"Still as greedy as I remember you," says Yui as she sees her brother pocketing the sword away.

"I can't just let it be on the ground. It looks as if it was a good sword like the bow I picked up just a moment ago," says Kieron as he goes back to his sisters' side and picks the last knight up to release her memories.

After doing so they continued while the transformers turned to wristwatches again. Inu and Dino didn't transform back as they followed the trio upstairs to find the room quite in bad shape with ice growing everywhere.

"What happened here?" asks Nora as she could see that this room was once a greenfield.

"It was Eugeo and Kirito. That's what happens when Eugeo uses his Perfect Weapon Control Art see," says Kieron as he takes the Blue Rose Sword out and shows it but using the Perfect Weapon Control Art in front of them as he turned the whole ground into ice.

Then they hear people moan in pain as they find Kirito, Eugeo and who seemed to be a blond knight that was wearing a golden armor while having a blue dress under it.

"She has the same style as master," says Nora as the knight resembled Arturia a bit in her choice of clothing.

"We should worry about that later first let's heal them up how about I take care of them while you two continue," says Yui as she began to use Medical Ninjutsu to heal all three.

"Right away but first," says Kieron as he stores the sword of the knight away while saying, "Can't have her running around with such a dangerous weapon."

"Really even now?" asks Yui as Kieron smiles.

"You should have seen my master's face when I plundered his Gate of Babylon a second time. After that, he almost went on a rampage to collect more swords because he was too afraid of Logan putting him in place," says Kieron as he was holding back his laugh.

"Yes well you should hurry or your sister will be fighting before you get the turn," says Yui as Nora was already gone while Kieron was talking with Yui.

"Oh shit, see you later older sister," says Kieron as he began to run trying to catch up as he passes Nora who was walking the stairs up slowly while he says, "The next opponent is mine."

"You can have him just make it quick to catch up with Mom and Dad," says Nora as she continued on her own pace letting Kieron go up alone.

Kieron once at the end finds himself in a big open bath it seemed as a man was taking a bath and Kieron says, "I didn't expect this."

"I neither," says the man as he continues, "Give me a second to dress up."

"Yeah, make fast don't need my sister to see you naked," says Kieron as the man stands up and puts on blue clothes that resembled his hair.

"I have a question, did you kill the other Knights while moving up?" asks the man as Kieron had his eyes on the sword the man had.

"No, we didn't kill them we just released their memories so they would know who they really are once they wake up," says Kieron as the man looked relieved.

"Good, then I won't kill you either," says the man as Kieron began to laugh making the man look at him confused and asks, "What is so funny?"

"Its almost Noon no one except for my sister or my parents can stop me. Try to stay alive," says Kieron as he could feel his power rise now in his body.

He takes Yamato out as well as Ea and rushes at his enemy who was holding his sword into the air. Kieron was almost in front of the man when the man swings his sword down.

The swing cut through the very fabric of time as it traveled towards Kieron who smiled and says, "Let's find out how good my father's sword really is."

He swings Yamato and cuts through the attack easily while ramming Ea into the surprised man.

Blood came shooting out of the man's mouth as he looked at the wound that wasn't healing as it while saying in disbelief, "This can't be happening."

"Why not. Yamato is known as the sword that can cut through anything while Ea is the first sword ever created," says Kieron as he had won this fight already because of his weapon choice.

He then uses the blunt side of Yamato to hit the man unconscious when Nora entered the bath and asks, "Did you kill him?"

"Hell no, I evaded his vitals. He was just shocked that his wound wasn't healing that the opportunity I needed to knock him out," says Kieron as he took Ea out of the man's body before beginning to heal and release his memory.

"I will continue then," says Nora as she passes Kieron as she keeps going up since their parents would be most likely awaiting them there.

She continues as she encounters a small man wearing the clothes of a jester and she asks, "Are you an Integrity Knight too?"

"No, I'm the Chief Elder Chudelkin," says Chudelkin not serious as if he was really a jester when Nora just swings Excalibur to kill him.

After the swing and blood began to spread on the floor did Nora continue since her parent only told her not to kill Integrity Knights making Chudelkin an exception to the no-kill rule.

Nora began to continue to move up when suddenly Chudelkin became bigger looking like a giant baby as he attacks Nora from the blindside only to be blocked by Kate who was still in her 'The Rogue' protocol.

"You won't touch my master," says Kate as she used both the kunai and the kama to block the attack.

"Kate go all out," says Nora as she continues walking up.

"Yes master," says Kate as she changed the protocol from 'The Rogue' to 'The Empress' as her kama and kunai turned into a staff her head turned to that of a bird as her color turned from green to gold as she hits her staff against the ground.

"No one shall stop my Queen to continue," says Kate as Soldiers made out of the same metal began to appear out of the staff as they were V.I. instead of A.I. that would follow Kate's command.

The Soldiers were equipped with a robust armor, a spear, and a shield. They began to surround Chudelkin as they grew bigger and they begin to slice Chudelkin apart with their spears while using the shield to keep him surrounded.

Kate was watching it happen until Chudelkin wasn't moving then the Soldiers turned back into their tiny form and returned to the Staff. Kate closed all the gates in the staff securing them again as she walks over to Chudelkin to make sure he was really dead.

Then Kieron arrived and says, "Didn't my father say not to kill anyone."

"He isn't a knight so he is an exception," says Kate as Kieron was looking around.

"And Nora?" asks Kieron as he didn't see his sister.

"She went further up," says Kate when she turns to Kieron and asks, "Can you burn him down?"

"Fine," says Kieron as he used a Fire Jutsu to burn the said corpse when they hear scream while the body was burning.

"He was really a tough opponent to have survived all that," says Kate as she walked away to follow her master.

"The last stairs my parents must be waiting there for us," says Kieron as he followed Kate up.

They arrived at the last floor as they find Nora in disbelief. They follow her view and find John laying in Nesiara's arms with one arm missing while their enemy was nowhere to be seen.