Lachlan's blood splattered across the wall behind him, he fell to his knees and gripped his shoulder tightly, his eyes were squinting from the extreme pain. Looking towards the wound Lachlan saw that it went all the way through, leaving a gashing hole in his shoulder, his arm only being held onto by a thin thread of bone and veins.
"Oh, well aren't you lucky. If you hadn't moved in time it would have gone straight through that heart of yours," Alfredo said as his grin appeared from and more gruesome. Holding out his palm another ice shard began to form.
"You know what? I might take a bit of inspiration from you," Alfredo said as a fire began to form with the ice. It wasn't a clustered flame concentrated in the centre of the shard but rather a flame that spread throughout it.
He began walking towards Lachlan, slowly and menacingly, making sure Lachlan feared every step Alfredo took with more fear than the last.
Lachlan lifted up his hand and slammed it against the ground, the entire surface was swiftly encased by ice, Alfredo's legs were frozen along with it. He quickly disappeared from his spot, appearing next to Alfredo with a fist of blue flames.
"Go to hell," Lachlan smashed Alfredo in the face. This all happened in a second, Alfredo didn't have any time to protect himself. The ice shard was quickly shattered in his hands, causing it to explode on himself. "An arm for an arm you prick!"
Alfredo was on the floor, the force had pushed him across the room and he wasn't able to stop in time because of the ice. His body had smashed against the wall, making it too powerful hits from both sides of his body.
Looking down he noticed his hand was completely gone along with half of his forearm. The rest of his arm and right side of his body was charred heavily. He felt it getting more difficult to breathe, his ribs were broke and it possibly stabbed himself in the lungs.
"Well played," Alfredo remarked. Ice began to form around his right arm before extending and creating another hand. He held it up to his face and clenched his fists. "Control over the elements is such a useful tool yet you humans haven't discovered its full potential yet."
Lachlan could see Alfredo's chest, it was moving ever so slightly, his ribs were fixing themselves. Alfredo took a deep breath. "Kekeke. Well, now that I'm fully healed I suppose I should finish this. Oh yes, I will say though that letting me heal myself was a rather idiotic choice. But I suppose that's what makes you human."
Alfredo appeared next to Lachlan in the blink of the eye, his ice hand had long since changed into a weapon. It was a blade, he swung it towards Lachlan's neck, it whistled as it broke apart the wind.
Lachlan rose his arm and created a shield out of ice, the two forces smashed against each other. Lachlan got swept from his feet and his body smashed against the wall. "Good, I see that you're learning. Too bad you couldn't have done that earlier."
Lachlan took a bit of inspiration from Alfredo, using his missing limb and creating a weapon in its place. He used ice as it was the only strong physical element he can control, both fire and wind wouldn't be able to block anything. But that didn't mean he couldn't use it.
He swung his blade once more, a torrent of flames engulfed the lab as everything was either melted or burnt to a crisp. Alfredo slammed his legs down and created a barrier or iron, frozen by ice. He then leaned forward and pushed against it, along with that came pillars of dirt.
The barrier completely nullified Lachlan's attack, behind Alfredo lay an untouched part of the lab while the area surrounding him was covered in scorch marks, the metal had melted and his barrier was thoroughly melted along with it.
"Kekeke, it seems your control over your elements is getting better; well, at the very least you're being smarter in how you control it," Alfredo complimented in a slightly mocking tone. "Now let's see if you can block this one."
Alfredo slammed his hand against the ground before he gripped firmly, his hand of ice was still being held slightly in the air but it was moving around ever so slightly. He swiftly yanked back, pulling the ground along with him, he shouted as he exerted his strength unto his feet.
The ground began to rupture as it was being pulled out, it was splitting apart and the metal was breaking apart with it. The crack quickly went past Lachlan's feet and Alfredo grinned. He grabbed onto the dirt along with his ice hand and attempted to pull everything apart.
The ground began to split apart, creating a chasm beneath Lachlan's feet. Lachlan swiftly commanded his gravity stone and floated in the air, he suddenly remembered that he should have used the stone much earlier.
Lachlan tossed a medium-ranked stone at Alfredo's feet. '20 times Earth's gravity downwards'
Alfredo's knees collapsed under the sudden pressure, his eyes widened with shock when he realised what was happening. "Well ain't this a surprise, I didn't expect you to have gravity stones. Tsk, if only I had my damn wings."
Lachlan was intrigued by what Alfredo said last, but he failed to notice something raising from the depths of the chasm. It was a vine, climbing up the walls before reaching out and wrapping around Lachlan's leg, it pulled him down with a sudden force that he wasn't expecting.
Alfredo began pushing the Earth together with great difficulty, his face was red from the blood rushing through his veins. His breathing was erratic as sweat poured from his entire body.
The split between the dirt began to close, it closed quickly but Lachlan was able to swiftly create a barrier around him. He made sure to not miss a single spot as he covered his body in compacted ice.
On top, Alfredo had collapsed from exhaustion. 'Well I'll be damned, I didn't expect to be done in so badly by a damn mortal. Ha, suppose that vessel is going to be close to perfection for that one's strength'
Alfredo lost consciousness for a mere moment, but that mere moment was just enough for the other soul inside the body to release itself. Alfredo's black eyes began to brighten as the darkness returned to his pupils.
"Lachlan!" Alfredo swiftly pulled apart the dirt but the remaining strength just wasn't enough to completely free Lachlan. He began to control the vine wrapped around Lachlan's leg and got it to untangle itself. It began climbing up the chasm with Lachlan's body with it, digging apart the dirt with great difficulty as it was almost stone at the level they were at.
When Lachlan got out from there he noticed Alfredo had returned to his normal self. He shattered the ice surrounding him and looked at the situation closely.
Alfredo sighed deeply at Lachlan's caution, he looked around at the laboratory, the bodies of his researchers that have had their skulls broken into the ground. While the others had scorch marks across their body. Some were still breathing, only ever so faintly.
"Lachlan, I don't know how long I'll be able to hold it back so you're going to have to do me a favour," Alfredo clenched onto his arm, the pain from having it cut off just processed in his brain. "I'm going to need you to kill me right now, don't hesitate, don't ask questions. Just kill me while I still have the ability to fight for control."
"We don't need to do that, we can just bring you back to the glass box," Lachlan explained desperately. He had just found someone else like him, he didn't want to see him go so soon. Not when he hasn't actually found out everything he wants to know.
"No!" Alfredo shouted. "I just want to get this over with, I don't want to remain a threat to humanity, I don't want to hurt so many people. And more then ever, I don't want that thing to ever take full control over my body."
Lachlan clenched his fist as he hesitated, but after taking a deep breath he understood what Alfredo was going through. He was scared, completely terrified at what the other half could do should it not be stopped.
"Okay," Lachlan appeared next to Alfredo, his ice hand had changed shape to form a thin blade. "But before that, I want to know one more thing, what will the next tame unlock."
"You'll gain the ability to see every beasts' upgrade paths, getting a beast from normal to good will be as simple as cooking. Now hurry! I can't hold on much longer!" Alfredo shouted with desperation.
Lachlan's hand slashed downwards, it cut through Alfredo's neck like nothing was there, he hadn't put up any resistance, no barriers, just skin and bone. The head dropped to the floor, both gravity stones were still activated.
Lachlan reached to the side and picked up the medium-ranked gravity stone. He swiftly deactivated it before putting it back in his pocket. He held his head high, but his fists were clenched tightly from disappointment. He still had many unanswered questions.
He let out a deep breath before holding his path wide, facing Alfredo's corpse. 'I can't let Alfredo's efforts go to waste, I won't take any chances."
A trail of flames flew out of Lachlan's hands, they encased Alfredo's body and burnt it completely to ash. This time there was no maniacal laugh to follow right after, just silence.
"Lachlan!" Phoebe suddenly appeared from the elevator shaft, the door had been ripped open and the whole group was there. Phoebe ran up to Lachlan and wrapped her arms around her, her breathing erratic as her heartbeat was pacing. "Why didn't you inform us, we could have helped."
"Sigh, if only I had the time to inform you all. Unfortunately, time really was of the essence," Lachlan explained as he hugged back. "I'm sorry I made you worry so much, there just wasn't much I could do. But considering you're all here now I suppose that means you heard the explosion."
"Big Brother! Your arm! What happened to it?" Sarah appeared from behind the ground and ran up to Lachlan. She held onto Lachlan's arm of ice, it was completely transparent yet it functioned completely normal.
The rest of the group finally noticed it as well. From the way Lachlan angled himself it was hard to see. They all ran up to take a look, some of them were amazed by Lachlan's idea while others were worried about Lachlan's health.
"Something I learnt from Alfredo's other half," Lachlan chuckled as he held up his hand, clenching it and moving his fingers around for all the see. "Granted it might take a little while to get used to it."
"Why don't you just use the bananas?" Phoebe asked worriedly as she held onto the hand. "It just might be able to heal it up completely, at the very least it should make it better."
"I suppose I could, but that would be using a life-saving trump card when my life isn't in danger. I would rather use it when I really need to use it. As for now, I can use it perfectly fine how it is. Not to mention I did freeze it not too long after it was wounded so I might just be able to stitch it back on," Lachlan explained. "Of course I don't expect it to work the same after that, but I now have a nice trick to make it work much better."
The ice around his arm changed shape into an axe head before changing into a sword and finally returning to its original shape. "See, it's like I've grown a shapeshifting arm."
Phoebe chuckled slightly. "I really don't know what I should do with you. At the very least you have to promise me to get it stitched up."
"Alright, alright, I can at least promise that much," Lachlan said. He reached out with his other hand and rubbed Sarah's hair. "As for you, we still got a town to explore now don't we?"
Hope You Enjoyed!
"Help us! Is anyone up there! If there is, please help us!" Shouting suddenly came out of the elevator shaft, it sounded like a female voice, one which Lachlan had familiarised himself with not too long ago.
He suddenly lunged towards the elevator doors and looked down, there was a bit of light at the bottom of the elevator shaft, Johanson could be seen, brightly lit up by some light. When she noticed Lachlan she began to wave her hand furiously through the air.
"Help us! We're currently trapped down here with no way of getting up!" Johanson shouted. Her hands wrapped around her mouth in the shape of a funnel, hoping that Lachlan could hear here from such a large distance.
"Is that one of the researchers?" Phoebe came over and asked. She leaned over to look down at saw Johanson.
"Indeed, she was one of the researchers researching into whether or not the hybrids were actually intelligent beasts or not. Unfortunately, her research hit a roadblock when she couldn't get her hands on any intelligent beast samples," Lachlan explained.
"Oh, so she's on our side then," Phoebe said before she jumped down, using her gravity stone to lighten her fall. Johanson jumped back with a bit of fright when she saw Phoebe jump down towards her.
Her expression then changed to shock when she noticed that Phoebe was slowly floating down. Similar to Brianna and Georgia, those researchers hadn't noticed the giant island above the city. They were too busy with research to even be bothered.
"So, where is everyone else?" Phoebe asked as she landed gracefully on the ground.
Johanson didn't respond momentarily as her mind was working at lightning speeds to comprehend the method that Phoebe used to float down so slowly. She finally snapped out of it after a few seconds. "Ah, yes they're just over there."
Johanson pointed towards a group of people huddled in a corner, a tamed beast was by their side, keeping watch. To the sides, the walls were lined with enclosures, filled with unique and exotic beasts.
Lachlan and the others swiftly hopped down the elevator shaft and looked around. Some of the beasts inside the enclosures stared at the group in a curious manner, some were furiously pounding against the glass while others were completely ignoring everything.
"Well I'll be damned, you have yourself quite the variety of beasts," Lachlan said as he quickly analysed everything he could see. There wasn't anything unique or special here, nothing he hadn't seen before but just the sheer variety of beasts was impressive enough.
"This is nothing, we have a lot more hidden further inside the breeding ground. These ones however are rather special, as they were the ones that the Vice-Leader worked on before he began to change," Johanson explained with a slight boast. "Unfortunately, I suppose he won't be able to see his progress with them."
It didn't take a genius to understand that Lachlan had won. Not to mention the vigorous quakes that were happening not too long ago have come to a stop. It was obvious the fight ended, and with Lachlan's appearance in front of her, she knew he had won.
"I wonder if we'll be able to take a look?" Lachlan asked. He was curious as to what Alfredo was working on in his final time of peace. Although he didn't say it aloud; if it was anything useful for them they
"I'm not too sure, aside from the Vice-Leader no one else knows the code to get into the breeding area," Johanson explained. "But I'll take you there anyway, it's the least I can do for you; you did save our lives after all."
The followed Johanson through the grounds, the further away from the elevator they got the more weird, unique, and exotic and beasts became. Johanson explained to them they were created through selective breeding, similar to what humans did to chickens and cows before the evolution.
The offspring from these selective breedings would sometimes come out for more powerful than its parents. However, there was also always the chance it could end up like a failure and even fail to be born.
"And Alfredo was the main person in charge of these breedings?" Lachlan asked.
"Some of them, he would then always either kill or injure the parents to give their blood to their offspring. Which we discovered triggers something in the younglings bodies and causes them to have rapid growth," Johanson explained.
The group knew that was a bunch of bullshit, Lachlan especially. Alfredo knew full well that the offspring needed the blood of both parents to trigger the rapid growth. However, this made the group all the more curious as to what Alfredo was focusing on so much.
Johanson led them to a large metal door, it stood 10 metres tall and was heavily reinforced. It looked like it would take a hit from a nuke before it breaks open.
"Well this is certainly a big ass door," Simon said as he knocked on the metal, the clanging sound echoing through the breeding grounds. "I wonder what he's hiding in there."
"Well, there's only one way to find out," Lachlan walked up to the door and placed his hand in the middle. Ice began to form, covering the gap between the doors and spreading slightly towards the edges.
'Alright, come on, I can do this' Lachlan pumped himself up as he placed his hand of ice on the door as well. The ice began to compact and move, the door began to screech loudly as it resisted the force trying to pry it open.
The ice was extending from the crack, expanding itself, opening the door along with it. Lachlan's face was tomato red as he felt the blood rushing to his head. 'Come on, just a little bit more, you can do it, you can do it'
Lachlan finally stopped once the door had been opened a metre wide, he melted the ice, creating a path through the door. One which ended up being 3 metres thick, with marks across it from the sudden force trying to crack it open.
"Well come on then, Alfredo's research isn't going to come to us now is it," Lachlan said as he stumbled through the gap, reaching the other side where he was greeted by the side of enclosures housing much more unique beasts along with different plants growing in their own, separate space.
"Wow, well ain't this something special," Simon said as he walked up to one of the enclosures housing a plant. It was small, only the length of a pinky finger yet the flower that bloomed on top sent them into a trance. It's deep ocean blue colours shone from the ceiling light.
'Analyse'
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Name: Yin Petaled Flower
Description: A rare flower that increases the Yin energy inside its consumer, powering up ice abilities and undead abilities by double. Useable only once.
Location: Can be found and grown in Yin energy-rich soil.
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Lachlan looked at the description with a slight hint of curiosity, granted it was already quite obvious. This flower was likely an ingredient for an upgrade path, one which might have benefitted Alfredo greatly.
The group then turned their attention to the beasts in the room. There were only 2, one which was a wolf that gave off a bloodthirsty aura and the other was a bird as light as the sun. They both stood roughly 5 metres tall yet the auras they gave off were so vastly different.
The wolf gave off an aura that would even frighten a military veteran while the other gave off an aura that seemed to heal their mental states. They were unique and powerful.
The wolf's body was black with green lines scattered across its body, its mouth was pouring out drool as it stared at the group. Its claws were black while the fur surrounding it was green. The wolf's eyes looked hollow and dark, like a black hole that devours everything.
The bird, on the other hand, was completely white, with the only bit of different colour on its entire body being its pupils. Whether it be its feathers or its legs, all was white like the sunlight. It looked at the group with curiosity, it hadn't ever seen these visitors before.
'Analyse'
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Name: Undead Wolf Tyrant
Age: Adult
Attribute: Darkness/Ghoul
Grade: Good
Innate Talent: 1st Grade
Level: 10
STR: 42(+20), AGI: 54(+20), VIT: 70(+20)
INT: 37(+20), PER: 40(+5), WIL: 32(+5)
Weakness: Weak Defence, Overwhelming Arrogance, Prideful
Strengths: Leg Strength (Level 2), Darkness Control (Level 2), Physical Damage Reduction (10%), Undead Control (Level 1), Tyrants Aura, Heightened Senses
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Name: Sunlight Falcon
Age: Adult
Attribute: Light/Wind
Grade: Good
Innate Talent: 1st Grade
Level: 10
STR: 62(+20), AGI: 74(+30), VIT: 50(+20)
INT: 39(+10), PER: 34(+10), WIL: 29
Weakness: Weak Wing Joints, Overwhelming Pride, Strong Curiosity
Strengths: Grip Strength (Level 6), Light Control (Level 2), Wind Control (Level 6), Physical Damage Reduction (50%), Body of Light, Maximum Speed (Level 10)
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They were both upgraded beasts with a high level of talent, not to mention the unique strengths. Lachlan could only assume that the strengths would get much more unique and stronger the further one goes up the grade list.
Simon suddenly ran up to the enclosure. "This one is mine, I claim it so I get to tame it."
Lachlan didn't expect anything less of Simon, but at the same time decided against fighting for it. Lachlan took what Alfredo said to him to heart and would always keep in the mind the restrictions for the other half. He decided he would wait until he's completely confident about his willpower before taming another beast.
"So, what are you going to name it? Granted that would only be if you can tame it," Lachlan said in a slightly mocking tone. "It is very difficult when it comes to taming an already aged beast, and considering it been in captive for a long time I don't think it likes humans all that much."
"What are you talking about, it won't follow me due to me being a human but rather, it would follow me due to my overwhelming strength and tenacity," Simon boasted proudly. "As for the name, of course I just have to call it something like Heatwave, or even better, Heatray."
'Well at least he's following his naming trend' Lachlan thought.
'Of course, I expect nothing else from this human' Catastrophe insulted.
'How about we come up with a name for it, at least that way it won't have to live its life being called Heatray. It could atleast call it something like Wildfire,' Calamity said. It took a bit of pride in its name, as it thought it was quite literally, a natural disaster.
'What are you on about, seeing that pure white body it should be called Lucifer, as it is the light bringer, in a literal sense as well' Aaron said with a sophisticated tone. 'At least that way it will have a sophisticated name it could look up to'
Taking that as an insult Catastrophe instantly started firing back, full force with everything he's got.
'Oh come on Aaron, just because your name is said to mean something doesn't actually mean that's what you are. As for us three on the other hand, I mean just search up the definition of our names' Catastrophe said.
'Yes, because that's all Lachlan had to do to come up with your names. And I'll fire that insult back at you; just because your name means something doesn't mean that's what you are' Aaron insulted back with the same insult Catastrophe said to him.
'Oh if Lachlan summoned us all right now we would whoop your ass so fast' Catastrophe threatened.
'Don't kid yourself, if I activated my aura you three wouldn't even be able to take a step in my direction' Aaron said.
Lachlan could feel the emotions whirling inside his tamed beasts, although it was only Catastrophe and Aaron that were really giving off a lot of rage. Calamity was calm as always while Disaster was slightly nervous.
'Come on you two, there's no need to be fighting each other when we might have to fight something else later, something much stronger than all of us combined' Disaster spoke up and interrupted the two's bickering.
The two shut up, they knew what Disaster was referring two and they didn't know how they would fare against it either. They were the tames of Lachlan, not the other half, but they weren't sure whether or not they'll be able to resist his commands.
"How about you name it Wildfire or Lucifer, change up the names a bit and try something different," Lachlan suggested to Simon. Hearing them settle down made him slightly relaxed, it was also slightly enjoyable hearing them bicker like little children.
"Yeah, Wildfire, I like it," Simon nodded at the name Wildfire but doesn't know the meaning behind the name Lucifer. Lachlan didn't blame him, he only knew about it from tv shows.
Hope You Enjoyed!
Yes, I'm talking about the Netflix show Lucifer, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Also, my mid-year exams start now so the release schedule might be slightly messed up. I will try my hardest to make sure there's at least 1 chapter a day though.
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