Capítulo 75: 30 Days A Revenant [Arc 12]
[ARC 12: 30 DAYS A REVENANT]
For the rest of March, Mia & Serena had fought hard to keep their new stars. On April 1st, Charlotte had an announcement for the student body in the amphitheatre, widescreen behind her.
"Hello, Urasaria students!" she chimed direct in to the microphone.
Silence.
"I said, hello, Urasaria students!"
Silence.
She nodded like she was speaking to a standing ovation. "It's only thirty days until the rankings are closed, to be Urasaria's next student body president!"
Her hands swept to the screen behind, and the leaderboard glowed to life.
'MAD DOG (600)
SYMPHONY (560)
ECLIPSE (550)
PRETTIEST PINK (549)'
"And if we get rid of us pesky fourth-years!"
'RAIN-ON-A-WEDDING (315)
CARVE (302)
LAVENDER MENACE (294)
SWARM (273)'
"Rankings close on April 30th, midnight! Our time! Good luck! It'll be an April like none other!"
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Urasaria's resident narcissist had been called in to the docks that day, a sailor who had gone postal. She stepped in to the warehouse, Carve's sawblade readied -
- and there, her foe stood at the other end, a hundred feet separating she and he; she started her rush forward, leaping on Carve's blade and riding it quick -
- and the man rushed out the back doors and to the docks behind, ocean up ahead, narcissist in pursuit behind as he ran -
- and leaped in to the water, Kirihara sighing as she came up to the edge, readying to step off the hovering saw; but in the next instant -
- a tentacle erupted out of the water and shot to Carve's center hole, gripping and starting to yank it down; Kirihara leaped off and back, another dozen tentacles shooting for her out of the water -
- but the next scene was instant. Her sawblade burst in to a hundred pieces, metal shards shredding to bits the tentacles around, sudden barnacles present on each as the pieces spun red -
- and she laughed as the shards flew back to her, forming to a solid saw once more; but she bad no time to rest. The ground began to rumble, and before she could react -
- it started to buckle and cave inward, suddenly collapsing; her footing suddenly lost, the water caught her as she fell, tentacles yanking her down to the depths -
' - Carve!'
- and a whirl of steel went through the hideous trunks, seeing her foe below, tentacles bursting out of his back; but the next scene was instant.
A spin of his tentacles around, new beasts reforming as he spun with the speed of light in circles, whirlpool starting to form and swallowing her as it churned -
- and the pressure of the spiral claimed her body, throwing her in a permanent loop as she was caught direct in -
- and the keen ends of a dozen scales slashed her back open; with a drowned grunt, Carve reformed to steel armor, protecting her from the sharp scales floating within the whirlpool as she spun. The collapsed wall of the docks passed behind, and with few options left, she threw her hand to her armor's chest, ripping a spear out of Carve's armor; a thrust against the wall, trying to slow her steady spiralling descent down -
- and sighing as it scraped only wall, no escape left but down to the depths below, starting to lose her breath -
- but the next scene was instant. Her armor reformed to a solid harpoon, saws at each end ready to spin and buttress the whirlpool; she threw the sharp projectile down -
- and the keen end pierced through the man's skull and out his head, whirlpool fading as he sank rigid below.
She kicked her way back up to the surface, gasping for breath, and annoyed she'd have to go back down to scan.
[April 2nd]
Matoi had gotten a request for a Revenant resistant to explosives that day, and knew why as soon as she entered the shattered avenue.
"They sent a fucking WOMAN?"! shouted the teenage male at the other end, three hundred feet separating the two, buildings already collapsed all around. "EXPLOSION!"
- and as might be expected, an explosion erupted at his feet and claimed his entire body; out of the cloud of smoke he stomped like an explosive reaper -
" - -that's- your Revenant name?" droned Matoi, not even bothering to take her sword out as she started her rush forward, imminent heat growing from Wedding's eyes as she ran, a hundred feet separating the two, and in the next instant -
- an explosion erupted at her feet and blast her with the strength of a thousand away, and as she flew -
- an explosion of her own erupted behind and threw her to the ground, stopping her fell as she shot to her feet again, only a hundred feet between the two as he stomped forward.
"This'll get fucking interesting -"
" - let me show you what a real explosion looks like." laughed Matoi.
A single missile erupted from her shoulder, flying down the street and in to the road -
- and the entire road split in half like an earthquake had struck it; Matoi leaped to the side, laughing as she saw her foe swallowed ahead, cars following beside in to the fissure of asphalt -
- but an explosion blasted the boy out of the fissure, landing quick with the distance still between them.
"Fucking - ragged cunt!" he shouted; a dozen grenades formed in his hands, and as he threw them forward -
- a hasty set of missiles blasted them back to him, explosions erupting all around -
- but a set of his own explosions blast them back to her -
- and a barrage of missiles blasted the projectiles skyward and away, tired of the explosive game in to which she had been thrown.
'Calling me a cunt. The sentence is death.' thought Matoi, starting her rush forward, imminent heat growing from Wedding's eyes; ahead, she saw him throw another volley -
- and a blinding light erupted from each; the flashbangs set her stumbling, and in the next instant -
- an explosion erupted at her feet and blast her with the strength of a lot of fucking explosions away, but as she flew -
- the next scene was instant.
Her barrage of missiles flew behind her, carapaces erupting in to a storm of metal shards, lasers working quickly on welding a solid wall -
- and in to the sudden barrier she smashed and fell, grunting as she stood again, rage-filled teenager still yelling on the other end.
"Fucking ragged bitch! You know you look a lot like Satsuki Kiryuin from Kill la Kill -"
- and a rage like none other entered her mind as she turned back to her wall, every otaku that had asked her out while it aired still fresh from Japan -
" - I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT A REAL BLINDING FLASH LOOKS LIKE!" shouted Matoi, who looked a lot like Satsuki Kiryuin from Kill la Kill; a laser erupted from Wedding's eyes and hit the barrier -
- and the entire avenue filled with blinding light; she grunted and turned, starting her rush forward again -
- and cursing as she saw the boy shrouded in his own cloud of smoke, explosions swallowing the blinding light as she ran forward, only fifty feet between the two. Ahead, his right hand swept out and back, throwing a dozen grenades forward -
- a final barrage erupted out of Wedding's shoulders, and as his eyes opened again -
- he saw with doomed vision her laser bouncing off the missiles, ricocheting with the speed of light around, and before he could react -
- the scorching beam disintegrated his head, and his corpse fell rigid and limp, leaving a laughing Matoi.
[April 3rd]
Mia had been called in to help guard a local horse derby that day, and was still walking down the street by midday.
With a sigh, she stepped on to one casual avenue -
' - are those fucking - dinosaurs?!'
And down the street, were a dozen fucking velociraptors, making with the speed of an extinct species towards her -
- underneath eleven sweeping fangs she dodged, and as the twelfth cleaved her chest open -
" - Worldwide!"
- a swarm of scarabs ripped and tore the scales off their bones, Mia panting as they fell dead around -
- and feeling her skin start to crack like their's.
'Fuck fuck fuck.'
With no time to waste, the scarab woman slowly turning dinosaur rushed up the avenue, civilians diving in shops around as she ran down the sidewalk, and as she passed one casual store -
- the windows shattered open behind, and as she turned -
" - glass - fucking dinosaurs?" she growled, teeth growing and lips cracking, swarm of glass shards with sudden teeth and limbs sprouting behind -
" - Scary Monsters!" growled a voice in her ear; with the speed of light she turned -
- and there was a utahraptor she knew as her foe; a sweep of its claws cleaved her chest open, pain staggering her back as her scarabs burnt to ash the swarm behind. She raised her sword high, and in a single sweep seeking its neck -
- that caught only air as it swept with the speed of light away; before she could react, its teeth were in her arm, seeking to rip her limbs open -
" - Worldwide!"
- a set of ice scarabs froze her arm, blunting the sharp advance and freeing her arm again - and a jet of water blast the beast a dozen feet away, panting and grunting as she stepped carefully black -
- and bizarrely, she saw it sniff the running water for a second.
It was like a blue and extinct nightmare as it rushed down the sidewalk, reptilian legs hurtling its body along at terrifying gait; its claws cleaved her chest open again. The pain set her off-balance, and in the next instant -
- her entire body was frozen solid, icy prison claiming her entire figure -
- and within, she dared not nod as she saw her foe suddenly standing still, glancing around as if confused, unable to detect the frozen woman.
A swarm of ice&fire scarabs flew slowly to the awning of one shop ahead, bursting open in a constant waterfall; the creature turned, sniffing again, growling as it started to turn back.
With no nod, she melted her icy prison, starting her charge at the beast again, sword bursting in to white flames as her weapon met its arms. In a whirlwind of blows they clashed down the sidewalk, Mia desperate to keep it underneath the waterfall as she fought, scarabs chilling her wounds as her skin started to turn reptilian -
- and growling as she felt her reactions increase, the two combatants growing in speed, waterfall starting to blur her vision as the two fought underneath, crimson water running off their bodies as her claws grew -
- and the keen end of an icicle pierced through his crouch and out his head, having been grown gradually over the course of their battle. A second sweep of her sword cleaved the beast in half, body turning human and rigid.
"Good." growled Mia - and coughed, realizing her teeth and features were back to normal. "Er - good."
[April 4th]
That day, Mia had gotten called in to one avenue -
- and groaned immediately as she entered it, seeing her foe at the other end five hundred feet away, six-chambered revolver in hand.
'I should have checked the address better.'
With a sigh, her shield of ice formed, and as she started her rush up the road, parked cars beside -
" - Sex Pistols!" shouted the man, turning his aim to her right; the crack of one gunshot arose in the air and flew towards the vehicle -
- but a shield of ice formed over the gas cap, keeping her protected as she ran past another car, and as she ripped her eyes behind -
- she saw the next instant scene. A yellow bullet erupted out of the frozen gas cap, shooting and flying towards her -
- and veering past through the car window beside, entering the tank from within -
- and in to a hundred pieces exploded the vehicle; the storm of fiery shards sliced and entered her chest, pain staggering her back, and before she could react -
- another two bullets entered her chest, starting to burrow within and gouge at her internals -
- but a swift swarm of scarabs entered her wounds, chasing after the zealous upstarts and yanking out the two bullets, bizarrely humanoid eyes&limbs on the projectiles -
- and as a scarab might snap a wishbone, the swarm tore their bodies in two. With a laugh, she started forward again, three hundred feet separating her from the man ahead; behind, another bullet entered her back -
- but a pillar of white flame claimed her entire body, burning to ash the bullet -
- and her lips pinched as she heard a fatal whimper from it. Bizarre guilt on her mind, she turned her eyes right -
- and a bizarre scene met her stare, sentient bullet carrying a container of gasoline and shooting towards her; coming to her quick, dousing her in its entire volley, she laughed as she ran -
" - no, try to set me on fire!" laughed Mia -
- and her blood grew cold as she felt the line of gunpowder below. A third bullet hit&lit the fuse, and before she could react, the explosion began -
- but the next scene was instant.
A pillar of ice erupted below her feet, launching her up and far away from the explosion, a hundred feet vertically from the man two hundred feet forward, and as she hit her peak and started to fall -
" - Worldwide!"
- a swift slide of ice formed in mid-air, and down she slid and slid, seeing the man turn his aim towards her below. A fork formed in the frozen path -
- and the man kept his eyes sharp on the forked path of ice, seeing two clouds of steam go down each, Mia disappearing within as the mid-air paths led behind him. He turned, dumping one decisive shot in to each cloud of steam -
- and a familiar boot smashed his skull in to the pavement, Mia laughing as she landed on a face crushed crimson and breaking her fall. She staggered for a moment, panting and crouching down.
"Get up!" whimpered a voice below, and as her eyes turned -
- she saw a sentient bullet on his hand, a #4 painted on its conehead, eyes and limbs. He looked up at Mia.
"He's dying." whimpered the bullet, #4 turned red. "All he wanted was -"
" - Revenants shouldn't talk." winced Mia, and a tuft of white flame burnt him to ash. She took her tablet out and scanned, and a scarab brushed against her neck.
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