On the second floor of the Earth Federation building on Volantis, a man sat in a dark room behind a desk staring out the window. Suddenly an alert came from his Holoring and a map popped up with a blinking red dot near the corner.
"Hmm the beacon went off from the Vault, hopefully those idiots made it to the planet's surface. Though I doubt." the man sat staring at the chart with the glare off his glasses before closing out the screen.
Suddenly another alert sounded and the screen came from the Holoring once again with a red blinking light. Though this signal was on the planet itself and not in it's orbit.
"Those useless bastards have found it. Ahahahaha, eck." the man threw himself in a laughing fit so hard he couldn't help but cough.
"Mikealeo, I need you to go and find them, well more precisely bring the Savorium back. That is top priority, understood?" the man spoke while filling a glass with wine, though the room was empty.
"Yes." the voice was brief yet confident followed by an orange light and a crash that left a hole in the ceiling.
'Ugh I don't care how strong he is, he WILL pay for that!' seeing the hole in the ceiling exposing the night sky had displeased the man severely causing him to spit out his wine.
"Damn my head is pounding"
Nicholas looked over to where Fuego was resting and saw him sitting up looking around the cave when suddenly his eyes rested upon Xavier and he jumped back.
"Firstly where am I? Who are you, you bastard? Why are you so close? Have you never heard of personal space?" Fuego was poking and pointing at Xavier to get him to back up.
Xavier stared at Fuego for a brief moment before getting up and walking away to the campfire. "Xavier, the bastard who saved your sorry ass and tended to your wounds. You're quite ungrateful."
"Wait no I didn't mean it like- ugh damn that hurts." Fuego attempted to apologize while getting up but fell back gripping his head.
Nicholas walked up to his still injured friend and stuck his hand out. "You really suck especially after people help you. Haha but don't mind him he's just tired from everything that happened, well we all are."
Fuego took his friend's hand as he helped him over to the fire where everyone else was sitting. "Commander you're here too? Did anyone else survive?" The commander just looked up at Fuego in silence while shaking his head.
Fuego just nodded in understanding especially since he witnessed everything firsthand before blacking out. 'I should be glad I'm alive honestly.'
"Though all those people had their lives sacrificed for a suicide mission from a Councilmage personally. We weren't sent here fro recon we were sent here for the damn Savorium in this cave!" Nicholas couldn't help but get angry at the nonchalant attitude the Commander was having in spite of all his subordinates' deaths.
Commander Luffy couldn't help but sigh and remain silent as Nicholas updated Fuego of the current situation.
"To make matters a even worse he just lied to everyone about splitting millions of Eurons! I'm positive he just pocketed it and sent it all to his family knowing where we we're headed still-" Hearing Nicholas' caused Fuego to raise his hand in order to get the man from continuing his rant.
Fuego just looked at the Commander in silence as the fire crackled. "All I want to know is do they know where we are?"
"Yes I sent out a beacon giving away our precise location. They should be arriving soon so it shouldn't be too long." Commander Luffy opened his Holoring and took out a few packages of rations and distributed them among everyone.
"Ha, the only funny part about this is this was your original group excluding me." Commander Luffy tried to lighten the mood but it was met with everyone just staring at him while they opened their rations.
Fuego opened his rations and his face distorted in disappointment when he discovered it was only coleslaw. He then packed it away in his pocket due to his Holoring being destroyed and stood up. "I need to go for a walk and clear my head. I'll be back."
"Do you want me to come with you?" Nicholas looked up at his friend knowing what his answer was but still asked him anyway. Fuego just shook his head and turned around slowly going deeper in the bright blue cave.
Fuego walked limped slowly through the cave while looking at the Savorium through out cave, his emotions swelling even more. 'Damn rich bastards! They think that we're just expendable, ugh my head."
Fuego grabbed his head and looked at his hand as stains of blood was all over his palm. "Maybe I'll go take a break before heading back." He then sat on the ground and saw a strange bright blue centipede about half a meter long. Fuego then reached to pick up the bug when a drop of blood form his hand fell on one of the stones it was eating.
"What a strange looking bug, maybe it's a Delfiend?' Fuego stared at the bug intensely as it ignored him until it reach the pebble with his blood on it. The bug just rolled it around for a moment before eating the blood covered pebble.
After eating the pebble the bug stopped and looked at fuego with its small beady eyes. "Ok don't look at me you're the one that ate it." Fuego couldn't help but blame the bug for its dietary habits.
Though instead of attacking him the bug scuttled away to a large nearby hole and climbed in it. The bug then returned with a large round, black and white object in its mandibles. It dropped the object in from of Fuego before sitting quietly.
"You want me to pick it up?" Fuego knew some Delfiends at higher ranks possessed a form of sentience equivalent to humans. He was suspicious of the bug bringing him the object after ingesting his blood. The centipede clicked it's mandibles together on annoyance and scuttled away from Fuego, leaving him alone.
"Wow, rude much!" Fuego couldn't hide his displeasure at the bugs attitude but ignored it and examined the object it brought further. It was a large pitch black egg with what looked like a snakes skeleton wrapped around it. "What the hell is is this....?" Fuego leaned in to grab the egg when he heard a bang from outside the cave.
Several pebbles dropped from cracks that were formed along the caves ceiling. Fuego quickly stood up with panic along his face. "I need to head back before this thing collapses." He walked towards the camp when suddenly an explosion blew him backwards. He was flying towards the end of cave when he saw that he was about to land on top of the egg.
Fuego quickly covered his hands with is face when suddenly the skeleton wrapped around the moved and but at his hand. "Ahhh! What in the..." Though his words were cut off soon he suddenly was wrapped in a cocoon made of bone and fire.
Nicholas watched his friends back with a concerned expression as his back receded deeper into the cave. A blue aura started to envelope him slowly. "You're no better than that snake Osman!" he spoke through his gritted teeth as he stared at Commander Luffi. The Commander spoke no words but released his aura in response to Nicholas' growing aggression.
"Eeeep!"
"Ow! What the hell Goldie!" Commander Luffi cried out in pain as Goldie bit his ear causing his aura to dissipate.
"Now how bout we focus on surviving till the rescue team gets here and not trying to kill each other? Xavier stepped between the two men in attempt to reconcile. Nicholas withdrew his aura but continued to stared at Luffi with murderous intent.
Xavier just sighed and looked up at the ceiling when a loud boom occurred out side the cave. Following the noise were cracks that grew along the ceiling of the cave. A few pebbles dropped down on to Xavier's face. "Just what are those two Delfiends out there doing?" when suddenly an explosion brought the cave down upon them.
"I'll have to admit that hurt a bit." the three men heard a voice come through the dust that filled the cave. Once the dust started to clear they could see a tall muscular man with golden hair emitting a bright orange aura. He had bright yellow pupils coupled with a shining smile.
Standing next to the man was a giant black lion standing at 3 meters in height.The lion'smane was a made of fire, it's tail had a ball of fire lit at the tip with white stripes all along it. It was a Royal Flame lion, a rare but powerful breed of Delfiend.
"ROOOOOOOAR!" the lion unleashed its deep red aura showcasing it's S rank strength. "Don't fret gentlemen for your rescue has arrived though it will be slightly postponed. The man and the lion both jumped out the hole through the roof.
"HIIIISSSSSS"
Nicholas got to his feet and looked around before spotting Luffi and Xavier standing next to each other near the hole. "Do you think he can handle that World Breaker by himself?" Xavier couldn't help but express his lingering doubt when everyone knew that a World Breaker needed at least 4 S rank Bearers to deal with it. "Don't even waste your breath, Mikealeo is the number one Magus and he isn't that weak." Nicholas dusted himself off while staring at the hole hearing the battle rage on.
"How can you be so sure?" Commande Luffi raised an eyebrow while looking through the hole to the outside. Nicholas just shrugged before walking beneath the hole "Because he's my cousin" and then looked out towards the outside. Commander Luffi was about to say something to him when Xavier walked up and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Hey I know you might not care but we should probably go and find that guy before the cave collapses anymore."
Nicholas looked down to to where Fuego had walked and saw that there was a blazing fire coming from deep within the cave. He then balled up his fists as a blue light emanated from them and turned to Commander Luffy and began to walk towards him. "This is all your fault if you didn't -" Nicholas' eyes rolled to back of his head and he dropped to the ground unconscious. Standing behind him was Goldie with one hand raised as he shook his head.
"Well at least that's one disaster we could avoid" Xavier couldn't help but sigh as he attempted to pick up Nicholas' large body. "So you going to help or leave us here to die also?" Xavier looked at Commander Luffi in annoyance as he panted from his lack of exhaustion. Commander Luffi silently walked over and picked up Nicholas before throwing him over Xavier's shoulder.
"Aye! Why do I have to carry him?!" Xavier watched as Luffyiclimbed out the hole with Goldie on his back giving him the bird.
"Stupid monkey, just like your owner." Xavier grumbled in displeasure as he began to climb out the cave. Before he exited he cave from the hole Xavier looked back at the raging fire near the end of the cave, 'I'm sorry.' He apologized deep in his heart before completely climbing out the cave. He collapsed on to the ground dropping Nicholas beside him as he gasped for air. "I swear if I make it back I'm done with flying, vaults, the whole nine yards." he then laid on the ground.
"Don't worry you'll make it back to Volantis in one piece." Xavier looked up to see Mikealeo floating in the air with his arms crossed looking deep into the forest. He looked on as trees fell down and what ever was knocking them down was closing the distance between it and the Magus.
"HIISSSSSSS!" a 10 meter tall red lizard Delfiend with green glowing eyes emerged from the forest. "Holy Shit..." Commander Luffi eyes had widen from the sight of the Delfiend. The large lizard had black sharp claws, and a blazing emerald fire along its spine to its head giving it a green crown of fire. The Delfeind's eyes glowed brightly as it opened it's mouth and shot out a Fire Explosion towards Mikealeo as he stood in the air motionless.
"Holy shit is right." Xavier's jaw almost reached the floor when he witnessed Mikealeo stand there and take the full force fireball attack head on. The explosion create shockwaves as it knocked down several trees creating somewhat of an arena for their battle.
The Royal Flame Lion jumped out of the smoke and lunged towards the giant Delfiend covered in fire. 'That must be its Flame Body trait! It allows it's self to be covered in flames enhancing its attack and defense power.' Xavier gulped as he watched the battle take place but took out his Holoring to record it. Commander Luffi looked over and shook his head.
'Damn fool all he thinks about is money..' he then looked back to the battle and watched as the lion ran around the Delfiend attacking from all angles. The giant lizard just stood there as it was bombarded with many spells and attacks from the smaller Delfiend when suddenly it looked towards it and scoffed. "You weak feline, your presence is now a nuisance. The entertainment has become, well boring".
It bared it's teeth as its aura rose distorting the space around them. Everyone in the vicinity froze from the pressure of the aura, the lion suffered the worst because it was too close. "Now sleep eternally little kitty!" The Royal Flame lion fell unconscious from the pressure of the lizard Delfiend causing Mikealeo to go into a rage.
He looked at the Delfiend with murderous eyes as he formed a hand sign with his hands, the defined didn't move but looked on curious at Mikealeo's actions. "What do you believe those pitiful hands signs are going to do for you, hmmm human?" Once Mikealeo finished the hand signs he looked at the defined with a smile.
"Oh don't worry I don't normally get an opponent that I a use this on, plus you're a Delfiend so you should be able to take a few hits."
The defined became cautious at Mikealeo's words and began charging up another Fire Explosion when suddenly a large black dome enveloped it and Mikealeo. The Magus was calm and once the dome closed them completely he only spoke a few words.
"Arcane Release: Gaia's Mood!"
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