Chapter 7: Fairy Tail Rising 2
What the! It copied your magic that fast!? Unreal! Despite the setback though, you felt a grin creep across your face and your blood boil with excitement, "You're a strong one aren't you?" you commented. You put that little comment about its origin in the back of your head for now, since from what you know, these guys were all made to copy a specific Fairy Tail mage in the beginning.
And you had a good idea who this guy was made to copy from its abilities with swords.
"As are you," it responded with an almost respectful nod, "Still, I cannot allow you to defeat me and take my life. I must live on and carry the hope of my bretherern."
So the others of its species are dead then? That's a sad story.
"I'm sorry to hear that, what a waste of such strong opponents," you shook your head, "Now though, you've got my blood pumping, so don't disappoint!" you shouted, shooting forward towards it.
"I won't!" it retorted, slashing out its twin blades and firing another large pair of compressed green energy blades at you. Smart of it not to just fire your own magic back at you which you could devour, despite your magic being much more powerful than the one it could use naturally.
"If you can eat my magic, I just wont use it then!" you shouted, grinning. Turning side ways, you dodged between the two energy blades, grinding your feet along the ground before pushing off again.
"Arrogant of you!" the lizardman retorted, pushing off to meet you, blades at the ready.
The lizardman came in first, thrusting one blade out towards your chest, targeting the largest and central part of your body. Grinning still, you lashed out with an uppercut, layering a slight barrier of your magic over your fist and punching the blade upwards away from you.
The lizardman roared as its arm wound back hard, and on a weaker opponent would have come right out of the socket. But it didn't falter, instead it lashed out with the second blade in the shadow of the first, swinging around towards your side.
You quickly spun around it just before it dug into your flesh and lashed out with a spinning back fist that caught the green scaled humanoid in the jaw and lifted it up into the air from the force behind it, sending it spinning. It felt like hitting steel!
Even as it shot up into a spin backwards from your blow, it lashed out itself with a roundhouse kick using its momentum that you just managed to tilt your head back enough for it to brush your chin and no more.
You shot forward, even as it shot its blades out to catch itself, stabbing them into the ground and bleeding off its momentum in an instant.
You jumped into a knee strike, but just as you were closing in to hit it, its head shot up and from its mouth, the lizardman release released a wide, beam of green energy from its mouth.
Eyes widening, you thrust your hands out and created a glowing blue barrier to block it, the force behind it pushing you back dozens of feet as it impacted your barrier before you dug your feet into the ground and redirected it into the air.
"That was almost like a roar or bellow attack." you noted as you let the barrier around your hands dissipate.
Panting, the lizardman stood up from its crouched position, pulling its blades from the ground easily, "Indeed it is based on a dragon slayer's roar attack," it explained, very forthcoming, "I once copied a dragon slayer's abilities. I lost them not long later as I usually do, but I remembered how the abilities were used. It took time, but applying the way my origin used raw magic energy to create energy blades, I created my own version."
"Roar of the lizardman huh?" you couldn't help but begin clapping, you were deeply impressed. This is no mere animal, it- no, he by the sound of his voice, is as intelligent as any human, "No, that sounds like too much of a dragon knock off. Lizard's Howl fits better I think."
"Lizard's Howl? As good as name as any I suppose," the lizardman responded, shrugging his shoulders, and then readying his blades, "Prepare yourself human, now I will come to you!" With another flap of his wings, the lizardman shot through the air towards you, both blades tips pointed out towards you in a skewering formation.
This time, you shot forward yourself to meet the lizardman. As you did, you held your right hand out and the air shimmered as your personal blade from your time as a Rune Knight - which you were supposed to give back but didn't bother - appeared from your Requip space and landed in your palm.
The biggest problem right now was his reach with those swords when you were limited on your magic usage. And while your Heat Blade wasn't a big a blade, more a short, thick blade favoured for heavy slashes, it still increased your reach by a good two feet.
It was a sword you favoured mostly because you hadn't yet worked out how to increase the temperature of your Sea God attacks. So using it in conjunction with your magic let you imbue the magical ability of the blade into your magic and super heat the sea water into scalding levels.
Instead of slashing out with the sword though like anyone normally would, you turned just as you were about to clash blades with the lizardman and caught the double slash he unleashed with the thick golden flat of your blade.
The Rune Knight's were little help when it came to training your magic, but they did have many weapon users, mostly sword wielders, and everyone was well versed in hand to hand combat.
Stopped in his tracks and unable to land the twin stab he was going for, the lizardman grunted and pivoted on his feet, lashing out with his wings this time, and you noticed in your peripherals, that the edges of his wings were glowing with familiar green power.
He could fire those energy blades with his wings too!? Awesome! But, not fast enough.
Channelling your magic through the Heat Blade, you directed a burst of flame out of the side that caught the green scaled humanoid's blades. He roared in pain as his front was roasted and he was blown backwards.
That was the good thing about magic tools. Rune Knight's got the good ones, and they were generally dependent on the competency of the user. And you were very competent.
"Chance!" you yelled, grinning widely. Using your Sea God's Burst along your feet, you shot forward much faster than any time you had in this fight yet.
Then you threw the arm holding your blade out, propelled forward by another set of Burst's! You threw your sword so hard it shot out of your hand like a bullet and rocketed towards the lizardman.
Flying backwards, face up, the lizardman had barely any time to react. He flapped his twin wings hard, and just managed to swing his blades up into a cross guard as the red hot Heat Blade made contact.
"Raagh!" the lizardman roared, using his wings to align himself properly again, and push against your thrown blade. The force behind your thrown attack continued to push him back a good few metres before he dug his feet into the ground, digging up small trenches and redirected it into the air.
Too bad for him though, he didn't break it! You closed the gate on your Requip space sending it back, and then pulled it back out into your grasp in an instant.
Just as you reached the lizardman, following in the shadow of your blade which he had just managed to redirect, and was still looking for in the air. Realization appeared in his eyes, but it was too late.
Coating your hand in your barrier magic, you lashed out and drove a devastating punch into his stomach, driving spit from his mouth, fanged teeth bared to the world. The swords fell from his grasp, even as your knuckles throbbed and took damage through the barrier, you were lucky he was wearing that hoodie or your knuckles would probably have been ripped and gushing blood.
Those scales were no joke!
Your punch lifted him up into the air, but even bereft of his breath and weapons, he lashed out with the arm nearest to you, claws growing bright green, "Lizard's Iron Claw!" he roared, thrusting his fingers straight for your face.
Using Burst once more from one of your feet, you gave yourself a sudden momentum to spin around the attack and grab his attacking arm, which you promptly dragged around and up behind his back in the standard arresting technique and drove him face first into the ground, hard.
Your sword stabbed right into the ground beside his face a second later just as he went to lash out with his wings and he stopped, releasing a sigh. "It is your win human." he conceded defeat. He already knew you could have stabbed him in the back of the head and killed him then.
The fact the realized that near instantly told you just how great his combat instincts
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