Chapter 29, Part 2 Promo: Arise, Drachenritter! · 12:14am Mar 12th, 2016
Inside the lake, Monster X’s body sunk down to the depths until he hit the bottom. Knocked limp by the blast wave and unable to swim, he could do nothing but crash down in slow motion amongst a cloud of silt. Upon his neck, Aria’s necklace began to crackle and pulse dimly. Unseeing eyes blankly stared up at the surface far above. He saw not the broken ice sheets on the surface, he felt not the icy cold of the water or extensive pain of his injuries. The only sensory input X could feel was his own heart beat, and a voice. A quiet, singing voice that wrapped around him as Aria’s heart began to usher a consistent glow. Jolts of energy began to spark out of it, causing Monster X’s body to twitch. X’s vision returned as he leered up at the surface, hearing the distant bellowing of Enjin.
-No…-
A gloved hand reached up and clutched the glowing heart.
-Not yet.-
Back at the bridge, an unworldly, fiery glow invaded the van window. Adagio Dazzle could hear and feel her pulse racing through her head despite the siren’s ears still ringing, but she was petrified. She slowly looked over towards the source of the glow as it enveloped her face. The deep river below and towering height of the bridge put the road on chest level with the burning behemoth. Part of Enjin’s chest opened up and several tendrils grasped the van, beginning to reel it in closer. But it wasn’t just Enjin she could see. Though it hurt her eyes to look into the brightness the eldest siren could clearly make out a familiar black outline in the haze. She didn’t need to mentally blot out the wings and horns to recognize the long haired being banging on the inside of Enjin’s core to no avail. Adagio lurched out and grabbed Sonata to try and pull her out of the van as it was her little sister’s side that was closest to the monstrosity, but the terrified Sonata reflectively clung to her sibling and sobbed. Adagio stopped trying to fight to free Sonata, accepting that even if she got her out of the van, this demon would still have them cornered on a pillar with no escape route. She stopped screaming for Sonata to let go and run for it, crumbling into her seat and putting her arms around one of the two beings she promised her aunt she’d look after, knowing she’d failed Hymnia for both of the two. The oldest siren patted Sonata’s back as her little sister pushed into her neck. Adagio Dazzle closed her eyes, her hearing returning just enough to detect Sonata's crying.
She could feel the van being lifted off the road beneath it. Well… at least they’d get to be reunited with their cousin soon.
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A flash of light burst across the outside of Adagio and Sonata’s eyelids. There was the crash of ruptured water and the roar of breaking ice, followed by Enjin grunting. Suddenly the inside of the van was hit with a whiplash and free-fall like a drop on a rollercoaster. The jostling ended almost as quickly as it started. Adagio opened her eyes again as the light faded, greeted to the sight of the stone laden river before her that fed into the lake. Had the feeling of weightlessness not come over her, accompanied by shards of their broken windshield, snow, and fragments of the bridge levitating in midair, she’d probably have fell out of the van and tumbled to the ground below. Instead, Sonata and herself were kept in their seats, clothing and hair floating about as if underwater. The van shifted, gently being raised up and wheels put beneath it. Placed back on the surviving portion of the bridge still connected to the road, the distortions to gravity subsided in a fraction of the second. Shrugging off the jolt, Adagio looked out where her window once was.
Another titan had arrived. While only at half his normal height due to the divide in Aria’s power, the fourteen story giant was still strong enough to equal Enjin’s stature and hold onto his opponent. Having burst out of the river, the newcomer stood behind Enjin with an elbow around the shadow’s throat in a tight hold. Having been previously holding an opened hand out towards the van to catch it with a gravity net and put it back on the road, the newcomer used its now freed limb to catch a snapping hand from Enjin by the wrist. While it was clearly struggling to hold Enjin still, based off its subtly stumbling feet, a dragon’s roar called out from past recurved fangs and it twisted itself around. Enjin’s neck remained unbroken, but that didn’t stop the back throw that hurled it away from what remained of the bridge from dislocating its skull as it crashed into the forest and knocked over another battery of trees. The new kaiju turned to face where Enjin had fallen, putting itself between the downed Aspect and the van. It shifted its head slightly to the side, red eyes glancing down at the vehicle.
While the new entity looked hardly any better than the demon of before and was so alien it was nearly unclassifiable as to what exactly it was supposed to be; it only took Sonata a second to recognize the black and white color scheme on the skin and armor, along with the distinct hue of cinnabar red in its eyes. The fact Monster X was wearing a glowing, giant version of a siren necklace around his neck, with a power output high enough both she and her sister could practically smell the magic coming off him, only confirmed that identification.
“That’s X!”
Sonata yelped, still more than a tad dumbstruck. Upon seeing the alien and confirming her sister’s declaration, Adagio was hit with a sea of confliction. She clenched her jaw, face twitching every millisecond to alternate between a jaw dropped frown, a scowl, and the unreadable as she ripped through thought after thought. She wanted to place all blame on the kaiju, both of them, for causing all of this. For threatening Sonata and swallowing up Aria. She hated them….
The scowl twitched away to a defeated frown. Adagio closed her eyes, scrunching up her face as a tightened grip on her chest crushed in on her. She could blame them, but no amount of pride or aloofness was able to wholly exclude her from the equation. Aria was driven away from herself by her own hand, and now she was in more peril than either of them could have imagined. Adagio grimaced and breathed through her teeth, turning and tearing open the door handle to get out of the van. She opened her eyes and looked through tears before sprinting to the guard rail.
“X!”
She roared so loud it stung her throat. Monster X’s eye shifted, looking down at the siren out of its corner.
“G-get her…. back….”
Adagio stammered, speaking in a mix of crying, shouts, and pleads. She ripped her necklace off her head, ignoring the cold feeling stabbing through her upon doing so as she literally held her magic out at arm’s reach.
“Whatever you need to do! You can take them all if you want, JUST GET HER BACK!”
She wasn’t alone, as a second red glimmer joined Adagio’s necklace. Sonata, having followed her sister out of the van, looked at her necklace briefly whilst chewing her lip. Without a moment of pondering, she slipped it off her neck and held it out to the kaiju. Monster X let a slow breath gush out of his nostrils, forming a veil of mist in the winter air that wreathed over his face. He hadn’t been expecting this. Aria’s heart pulsed beyond its usual glow for a moment, in unison with its cousins’ gems. Monster X looked forward again at the source of shaking earth. Enjin had gotten back up, rearing up and smashing its fists into the now fractured ground beneath it before roaring at the group. Monster X outstretched an arm and pointed a finger in the direction of the roar, motioning for the sirens to get out of the crossfire he knew was coming.
The sound of van doors being shut behind him and an engine revving ushered Monster X to alter his stance into a readied pre-guard, arms spread out forward to the sides slightly with his hands uncurled. A snowflake kissed the ground and both kaiju charged at each other. Just before they would have collided, Monster X stopped his sprint and leapt up whilst spinning around. The double attack landed, first a backhand to Enjin’s jaw followed up by a double tail smack that toppled the Aspect as it struck in retaliation and buried its knuckle spikes into its opponent’s chest armor.
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Fuck yeah
Dis gonna be gud!
this is going to be outstanding! go get em x!!
"Someone is going to die today. Make peace with your deity, DEMON."
*EVIL LAUGH*
I'm wondering, is anyone in town besides Irys' group going to notice this?
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3803698 Well they are in a rural national park in the middle in the late afternoon/sun down during a very snowy winter. Not to sure many folks would be out at that time. Somebody is gonna hear or see the aftermath of something, but we're out of most prying eyes.
Besides this is the universe where we had a she-demon pop up in front of a crowded high school and a school dance with flying magical girls, under-reaction seems to be a thing.
3803714 Oh right, and in Friendship Games, despite major magical shenanigans happening several times, they pointed out to Cinch that if she tried to tell the authorities, she would be seen as a lunatic. So I suppose it is safe to say that the public in the human world never notices anything.
3803723 Least I tried to put this shenanigan in an out of the way place for it to make sense and not have Enjin and X have a fifteen story tall throwdown across main street.
3803687 I love this one
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Lllllllllets get ready to ruuuumblllleeeeeeeeee!
I can't wait for this chapter!
I was listening to this while reading it...
MONSTER X IS ABOUT TO LAY THE SMACKDOWN!!
personally, i thought something more like this...
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Niiiice. Ironically I was listening to these while writing
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Epic.
You should have stayed dead Enjin.
Have to admit Tarb... I did not see that coming.
I felt my heart beat faster with excitement the more I read this preview. Perhaps the Siren heart will amplify X's powers, letting him pull off a few surprising moves in this fight.
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Oh? Excellent.
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Confirmed, but this ain't gonna be easy. But something from Aria is going to drastically affect X
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Damn you Tarb, you teasing bastard!
With all these soundtracks, I'm surprised no one has suggested this one for when he RISES.
"And thus, the mirrored world of Equestria will firsthand bear witness.....to the WRATH of the KAIJU."
Enjin is about to get F###ed and by the way Garb, now that you made this promo, what the official release of chapter 29?
Ooooh, I'm EXCITED!
Well since we're on the subject of Dragon Knights...
The anticipation is killing me. When can we expect the next chapter to be out?
X VS. ENJIN IN KAIJU COMBAT?! There's going to be a fight tonight!