I am so sorry about the really long wait, life has been nothing but downs lately, my computer was stolen with all my files on it, couldn't afford the electric or gas bills for the last 2 months as I am the only one that's been working since my girlfriend was in the accident, I can't blame her nor would I. I did stop by the city library a couple times just to read the other fanfictions and boy did Spectral and Forgotten get really good, but anyways I always have trouble writing unless im alone so I just read and didnt write.

Chapter 24: Surprise, Surprise

Volume 2 Chapter 11

Ares Perspective:

Kota- "Hahaha look Fowler, we have someone who is as crazy as you." Laughing and smacks his knuckles together before sneering and dashing towards the woman named Sora.

Fowler- "Well I may be a little crazy but I don't intentionally aggravate those who can kill me!" He shouts as he lifts his blade and moves at frightening speed to the side of the woman named Sora

As soon as Kota and Fowler made their move, a blinding flash appeared from where Sora stood but an instant later it was over and what took Sora's spot was a girl surrounded by flames that spread from her body to her back and formed six wings they looked like two originated from the back of her shoulder blades, center of her back, and two more from her lower back. Kota stops instantly before the girl with fire wings and plants his fist in Sora's stomach, while Fowler appears on Sora's left side and slashes his sword diagonally aiming to cut her in half.

Kota hit her directly in the stomach and a whirlwind burst from his fist and wrapped around the girl leaving scratches, and shaking the fire flames slightly. Fowler, had begun his motion to slash downwards but Sora had raised her hand and caught the blade in the air and broke it with one quick twisting motion.

Sora- "Didn't you just say you weren't crazy enough to intentionally aggravate someone who can kill you?" She said smiling holding half of his Broken blade

Fowler quickly raised his shield to bash her and Kota pulled his right arm back and began to move his left arm forward, Sora with her fluid motion after breaking off the blade of the sword had begun her horizontal slash from bottom to top.

Kota believed he was faster than Sora and threw his left fist into the girls stomach and prepared to jump back in a swift motion. Kota had succeeded in jumping back after his fist hit Sora, and Fowler had pushed his shield into Sora and she was shot forward towards the ground and rolled for 2 seconds before she shifted her body in the air and landed on her feet but skid a couple more as she was still moving when her feet touched the ground.

Sora stood there covered in sand and surrounded by flames that formed wings, she dropped something and proceeded to dust herself off before saying "Was that it? I expected more from two arrogant angels. I will end this quickly and cleanse your dirty souls with my purifying flames." The fire that had surrounded her began to change in colors as it became more of a lighter orange and yellow and the flaming wings had a white tint in them.

Kota who had noticed that Sora dropped something took a closer look and noticed it was a hand that resembled one he would see every day, he then proceeded to lift both arms in front of his face and screamed when his left arm was still there but his right arm wasn't, he then realized before he threw his second punch she had already cut off his other hand.

Fowler-" She's unharmed Kota, hahahahaha what the hell... Hey Kota are you seeing this?" Fowler looking over at kota and noticed he was missing his right hand from the wrist down. She managed to cut off his arm with the broken tip of my blade? he thought to himself

Kota-" Yeah I can fucking see that but that bitch cut off my arm, and I just don't see how that's possible."

Fowler- " I don't think we can fight her, we should retreat while we still can." He said jumping back to Kota

Sora- "You two aren't going anywhere, you wanted to start this game, and so we are going to keep playing until someone wins. It has to be this way because I am very competitive!"

??? "Its true, shes extremely competitive... she has never accepted a tie, or a defeat. We once played tag for 2 whole days... she has amazing stamina." A man with a weird accent walks out from the shadows dressed nicely

Kota "Where did he come from? I didn't sense him before..." Kota flinched and raised his one remaining hand as wind started to move and wrap around his hand, the wind howling and screeching.

Fowler-"I dont know but now its two versus two, were in a lot of trouble." He said looking back and forth between the flaming girl and the mystery man

??? "You don't have to worry about me unless Sora asks me to help, but really it's one versus one... your friend looks dead to me." The mystery man says attracting Fowlers gaze

The man named Fowler turned his head and saw Sora standing over a scorch mark with ash blowing in the wind

Fowler- "Wha-what... what happened?" He says in a panic and dropping his broken sword

Sora- "I may have inadvertently disintegrated him when I transferred some of my phoenix's inner fire directly into your friend, if the person who receives the Phoenix's purifying flame has not committed a lot of sin they will survive with light burns and will usually never sin again however if they are too far gone that my flame can't save them, they simply turn to ash and return to the earth." She says sticking out her tongue in a type of oops manner

Fowler- "You... how are you so fast?" He said trembling

Sora - "Spirit of the phoenix, soul of a warrior, body of a goddess you know those kinds of things." She said before dashing right at the trembling shield wielder

Fowler - "Too slow shield quake!" Sora hit the shield and shook it, too slow Fowler said smashing his shield into the ground, causing the ground in front of him to rumble before earth spires rose quickly out of the ground piercing all in its path

Fowler smiling moved the shield to the side, his smile soon faded and he began looking left and right trying to find the phoenix girl, when he felt a small pinch before it turned into incredible pain around his back and chest, he looked down and saw a blade piercing through his chest and he immediately tried to turn his head to see his attacker

He felt searing pain coming from his chest and a small flickering light coming from the direction of the blade but determined to see his killers face he kept turning his neck.

however he wasn't fast enough and turned to dust before he had a chance to see his killers face.

Sora - "Didn't even need to break a sweat geez they were so weak, what levels do you think they were Galahad?"

Galahad - "Around 50, idiots didn't even use their skills well not that you wouldve let them or that it wouldve changed anything." He said with his devilish grin

??? - "Well it does look like you had fun with my students, though they were dispatched quickly so you have my thanks for not torturing them since you obviously have the power to do so." A surreal voice echoed in Sora and Galahad's ear drums

Sora - "Where is that coming from? I can't find the source..." She said looking left and right

Galahad - "He's manipulating the sound directly, he could be a mile away or standing right behind us and we would never know. I guess mom was right sound does carry" Laughing as he explained

??? - "Well im happy I don't have to explain that I am not talking to you guys with telepathy however I am close enough to have seen the way you quickly killed my squad... I have seen you before but the one named Galahad... he is someone new." The voice sounded louder as if the person behind it was getting closer

Galahad - "Ah yes im a fifty-fourth generation hero where as Sora is a first generation."

??? - "I had heard from a hero that the ancient rites of the summoning ritual meant all heroes had to be dead before new heroes could be summoned, so how are there generational heroes? I had always just thought Sora was a strong warrior..." He says clapping his hands

Sora - "Well thats a secret we can't reveal as it would be revealing someone who might want to remain hidden." She said smiling

??? - "Well no worries after I bring you back to Trium, Arch Angel Akuma will just extract your memories."

Sora - "Well I don't think you will ever know because I doubt you stand a chance against myself alone and with Galahad here you definitely don't stand a chance." She said calmly

??? - "My name is Hall K Enn, it is something you will have memorized by the time our fight ends." The voice screams

Galahad - "Get ready Sora, whoever this is, isn't an opponent we can fight acting half serious." He said as he slid his saber from his sheathe.

Hall "Hahaha a saber how original" The voice laughed

"Im an old school guy, besides I am a fencer by heritage." Galahad said with a devilish smile

Hall - "I don't know what a fencer is, but it is a unique weapon which is hardly used anymore... precision over strength, I think this will be fun indeed." Hall said as his voice resonated in the ears of the ex heroes.

Sora - "Can you reveal yourself, so we can just fight already?" She said beginning to pace with her weapon drawn

Hall - "Very well, I had wanted to talk a little longer but it may wait until we are in Trium." He said calmly

Sora and Galahad looking in both directions standing back to back so they would not be surprised when Hall emerged however this did not help when a sonic wave hit them and disoriented them. Sora saw a glint in the trees and charged towards it after tapping Galahad on the back. Within a flash she was in the trees looking around before she heard a whisper in her ear, "I am not that slow" followed by a snap. she recognized it immediately as the thumb rubbing up against the middle finger to create fiction. Sora quickly jumped from the tree in the direction she felt safest.

Looking back at the tree she was just in and how a loud bang erupted from within the area, sounded like a firecracker being held up to her ear.

Hall - "That is quite loud isn't it, I like to pretend that the sound is a part of me but it is not, it is everywhere and as long as things live there will be sound, I just need to amplify it is all." He said chuckling.

Hall then walked out from behind a tree close to where the sound just exploded from, he pointed both his hands towards us and snapped his fingers again.

Galahad - "HERE COMES THE BOOM!" He shouted before turning to nothingness and reappearing by Hall

Hall twisted his head towards Galahad while he travelled as if he knew what he did, and stepped on a branch less than an inch away from his left foot. He then used his skill to amplify the sound of the branch cracking and Galahad reappeared to the sound of a explosion right in his ear, in his extreme speed he kept going before losing his footing and crashing and then rolling for maybe 10 meters.

Galahad quickly got to his feet only to fall to one knee as he planted his shortsword into the ground and checked both ears and looked at his hands that were colored red, his devilish grin and he yelled "Dead witches! fhats uw naoooooooo!" (Deaf bitches! whats up now!)

Hall - "What did he say? Well doesn't matter apparently he thinks hes invulnerable to my attacks now haha if only he knew sound can affect water and his body contains about 70% of it." Hall said getting ready to snap his fingers again when a blade was sent flying right at him, he raised both hands and caught it and looked right at the flame coated phoenix girl, she saw her smiling a wide grin.

He attempted to jump away and did however missing an arm and angry he lifted his right arm and waved.

This would be the last thing Galahad would see as his eyes popped from the nonexistent sound he didn't hear but still existed, it caused his organs to turn and fail and nowhere for the sound to go but up it ran through his body and erupted from his eyes. Galahad screamed and wailed as he dropped his sword and conjured a giant crystal in the sky... and raised his arm and activated a skill no one present would ever forget.

A true light show was present as he conjured a ball of light inside the crystal that rotated intensely with the ball of light, laser beams shot from the crystal in every direction scorching the ground like a death ray, Sora who saw this skill jumped into the air and smashed down into the ground and created a crater before instantly appearing with herself cloaked in a small flame aura near Brooke and myself and grabbed us both searing our skin and burning us slightly before disappearing with us and reappearing in her crated, she put her back to the crater as her aura died out and looked up as rays of light scorched the earth above us.

After 5 seconds the light show ended and the woman named Sora climbed out from the crater in a hurry, I climbed to the top and saw Hall kneeling 20 or so meters from Galahad who was laying lifelessly, it wasn't apparent but both of halls legs had been severed and his wings were disfigured, his legs were pretty cleanly cut all over by the lasers, he mustve been extremely lucky to have survived.

Galahad however looked fine even though lasers had apparently ran over his body several times, he wasn't dead though and you could tell by the way his chest went up and down which meant he was breathing, Sora jogging towards Galahad very slowly, it was apparent that she was dead tired.

She lifted her head and saw Hall smirking as he placed his thumb and middle finger together. I couldn't see her face but she was without a doubt frustrated as her speed increased and her body swayed, she reversed her grip on the sword she carried and raised it above her head and arched her arm back and threw it with all she had left.

Hall watched the blade as it travelled towards him and waited for it to come closer but before it reached him it had begun to decline in its flight path and fell short hitting the ground 3 meters before him before the inertia of the blade kept going and forced the blade to keep going and it bounced towards him but stopped about 1 meter before him, he wasn't worried though because if it had gotten any closer or posed him any harm he would've cleanly knocked it out of the sky or caught it. He laughed and smacked his thigh as Sora fell to her knees knowing there was nothing she could do to save Galahad's life.

She shouted "Galahad I am so sorry, I tried I really did. Please someone save him, anyone I don't care who, please... PLEASE!" She screamed

Hall "I will let him live if you tell me who helped you with the ancient summoning rites, all you need to do is tell me how they allowed you to remain here so other heroes could be summoned, and who told you." The extremely dismembered Arch Angel shouted

Sora - "W-what?" She looked up at the Arch Angel in disbelief

Hall - "Tell me how you remained here and who told you how and I will let him live." He said calmly his blood already clotted itself and the bleeding stopped

Sora - "You will let us live if I tell you?" She said with hope in her eyes

Hall - "Yes, just tell me what I want to know." He said lowering his hand

Sora - "In the Dead mans land near the center of the continent there is a well hidden cave, it goes down very far. Inside the cave is an ancient looking door with markings all over it, inside the door is a gloomy voice that identified herself as Lucifer a fallen and disgraced Angel under a being called GOD or something, she held power and information and was able to disconnect our souls from the crystals the humans keep in Azol, as we were disconnected from the crystals I guess the king decided to summon more heroes. Please that's everything!" The worn out girl shouted

The dismembered Arch Angel had a stern look and asked "Is that really all?" In which the worn out woman nodded, and a wicked smile appeared on his as he began to laugh...

Sora began to shake and because I couldn't see her face she was probably crying or had a very upset look on her face, she is probably going to beg for Galahads life again

Hall - "Hahahahaha you didn't think I would real..." His words stopped and blood shot out of his mouth as a purple light had shot through his chest leaving a hole the size of a basketball, he looked down and then slouched and fell onto his left side.

I could tell Sora was as confused as I was as she was mumbling to herself.

And a split second later another Angel appeared, Sora looked lifeless as she just stopped mumbling and went quiet but this Angel looks really familiar.