Chapter 53: A Sweet Ending
__________ POV Ashton__________
The four of us were all locked on the giant snake. Silva kept charging his energy spheres endlessly, waiting for the snake to get far away enough from Zigg.
One of Zeno's dragons carried him back into the clouds just so he could get a clearer view of the site.
It's quite clear that the snake realised we didn't want to attack it there. Because it didn't move to follow any of us. So we need to lead it properly.
I looked at Maha. A silent understanding was formed between us. I used an explosion to dash towards the snake at breakneck speeds.
I was fast, but not fast enough it seems, one of its tails came crashing down onto my head.
I leaned backwards whilst in midair, releasing a small explosion to break some of it's momentum, and I used the rest of it to send myself flying backwards.
But as the snake focused on me, Maha threw a knife towards one of its eyes.
Or tried to anyway, it managed to close it in time, the knife remained stuck in its thick scaled skin. We weren't really going to let that discourage us.
The tail managed to do some damage to me, but it's really nothing much. Gon could've done more If he hit me properly.
While it was distracted Zeno also took the chance to slash the back of its head a few times. It instantly turned its head and tried to bite into him.
I used my strings to pull him away from the snake's open mouth. I had to use En to spread my Nen fast enough to help Zeno.
Whilst he was pulled backwards he released a large dragon that caught a large portion of the snake in its mouth and started dragging it away.
It now only had one of its tails around a tree. And it was uprooted instantly, it quickly tried to grasp Zigg's body, probably realising that was the reason for our hesitation.
But Maha wasn't really planning on giving him that chance. He immediately grabbed Zigg and dodged out of the way. The snake's tail didn't have enough speed due to it being pulled in the opposite direction.
After it was pulled a few hundred meters away the dragon finally crushed it onto the ground. We could all hear a crunch sound as the dragon smashed it into the ground. But it wasn't dead yet.
From above, two large spheres of aura were quickly descending onto the snake. It instantly tried to escape.
But I put my hand on the ground and used another one of my Hatsus as my eyes turned scarlet. The earth around it turned pitch black and immediately grasped the snake and held it in place.
This is what I called 'Nature Ressonance' something I could hardly do before becoming a specialist, something that I completely mastered now.
A perfect combination of Manipulation, Specialist and Enhancement.
I imbue the earth inside my En range with Nen, strengthen it and control it. The strength relies on the amount of Nen I am willing to spare.
This time, I put just enough to trap it for a few seconds this time.
By the time it managed to break through it was already too late, the spheres exploded and razed everything in that part of the forest. At least a few hundreds of meters were completely erased.
Silva also landed somewhere near Zeno after they landed. We all looked towards the snake, which wasn't dead yet. It seems that this one is a lot more resistant than I thought.
It managed to intercept the spheres with one of its tails whilst the other protected its head. Leading to it losing only one tail and half of the other.
But the explosion left it dazed. Zeno looked at me pleadingly. I guess I should give this to him huh?
I ran behind him just as he strengthened his body, releasing an explosion and sending him flying towards the stunned snake.
He grabbed onto the snakes head with his hand as he came to a stop. His hands were covered in purplish dragons.
]He used one of them to dig into the snake's eye, passing through its eyelids and into the brain.
He looked it in the eyes, extended his middle finger and pierced its head through its eye.
Maha looked on with a large smile stretching on his face, as he held the remains of his son closely to his chest. I couldn't help but grow a smile of my own.
It looked both sweet and grim. Sweet because it was a father finally retrieving his son's remains. It is also a Grim scene for obvious reasons.
But not one of the member of the Zoldyck family seems to be sad. Silva has a large smile on his face whilst Zeno just closed his eyes in contemplation.
A bit of a shame we couldn't torture the snakes a bit more. But this one was quite a bit more dangerous than the others. It's better that its life was ended smoothly.
Zeno looked at the snake's corpse. Taking his hand out of its brain and looking at it with satisfaction.
"Well then... Let us head back for now." I said, breaking the Zoldycks out of their spells.
Silva and Zeno both nodded. I think I will keep one of the bodies of the snakes too. I ripped open space and took the least destroyed one, the one that Silva killed.
They didn't object at all, I think they don't care much about the bodies of the snakes.
Maha also slowly got up. Not letting go of his son's remains yet. He put them over his shoulder.
"Ashton... Here you go." He threw me the piece he likely took from Zigg's neck.
"Thank you, old man. Now, I think some celebration is in order. And a proper burial too." I said with a warm tone.
"No... Thank you. This wouldn't have been possible without you..." Maha looked at the dead snakes.
"I don't have all that much time left... I was afraid I wouldn't get to see my son again. At least now I can rest in peace." He said with a tired smile on his face.
I guess he is even older than Netero. Even if he retained more of his strength over the years, old age will still catch up to him. He has a year or two left, at most.
"I don't need any thanks, old man. I did what I had to, Zigg was like family to me..." He didn't look surprised by my claim.
"I didn't want to accept his disappearance at first, you suffered this long due to my denial," I said whilst shaking my head.
"Well, no reason to dwell on past mistakes for too long. I think the other family members also noticed the fight..." Maha said, not losing his smile.
Yeah, they definitely did. It wasn't exactly a quiet confrontation. Now Silva has some explaining to do. I can't wait to see him pull that off.
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