"BOOM!"
Whatever Rias was about to call Galilei, she ended up getting cut off by an explosion that destroyed part of the main building and rocked the entire area they were in, causing many to fall to the ground.
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"What the heck just happened?!" Tsubasa yelled out while covering her ears. Ise ntally agreed as he shook his head to rid the ringing in his ears. Trembling slightly, he got on to his feet and directed his attention to the roof.
Whoa, cue a John William's Soundtrack.
On the top of the burning roof, Shirou was going sword crazy against the rogue exorcist with the double-bladed light sword ('or a lightsaber' Issei thought privately). From the looks of it, the both of them had been going at each other hard; Shirou had lost his custom blazer and was sporting a few cuts around his body, while Lyle had several parts of his clothing burned and half of his mask broken to reveal his face.
For every strike that Shirou makes, Lyle Wallner would imdiately counter with a flourish of his weapon and dodged with a few spins of his body as though he was doing a dance rather than fighting. Every so often Lyle would parry an attack that forces Shriou back, giving him a chance to use his gun on him. Shirou would then dodge the bullet, deflect it or even throw his sword to distract Lyle from shooting him.
Then there were the explosions.
"BOOM! BAM!"
Like so weird performance with pyrotechnics, the both of them seed to have laid out explosives around the area to prepare for this fight and they were making good use of them. Each one was aid specifically to disable if not outright kill the opponent in front of them, and more were added into the mix as Shirou used his flying swords at Lyle while the exorcist used his explosive rounds at Shirou.
But perhaps the craziest thing was the manner they were going at each other without a single care for their own survival. The both of them were sporting deep cuts that were staining the clothes they have and yet they were not bothering to dodge so of the attacks the other was inflicting. They were going at each other like their very existences demanded the enemy before them was to be destroyed at all costs, and their odd expressions of seriousness and exhilaration were rather disturbing.
Just as things were crazy enough as it were, the both of them seed to have co to a decision to stop holding back and bring out the big guns. Lyle pounced back to get more distance from Shirou, but the wizard did not hesitate to throw those Asian swords he was wielding at him, creating another pair and charging forward. Not to be deterred, Lyle parried one of the swords and using the montum to aim his gun at the other and knock it off, finishing off the maneuver with a light touchdown and throwing a dagger at Shirou. He rely sidestepped to let the blade fly past his face before doing sothing to his swords to make them longer and bigger, and swinging them right at the exorcist, who took out a charm in ti to create so spider-web barrier and absorb the resulting attack that pushed him back quite a fair bit.
Not to be outdone, Lyle used the opportunity to take out that desert eagle he had and aid it straight at Shirou. The wizard in turn did not hesitate to create a seriously murderous looking spear with barbs running down its end and threw it at the sa ti as Lyle pulling the trigger.
"BOORAOROM!"
The resulting explosions once again rocked the entire area that sent everyone but Kokabiel falling to the ground, the heat extending all the way to their area and making a few yell out in pain. After a while the wind picked up and blew so of the smoke away, revealing two battered but still fighting combatants who did not stop for a breather and just charged at each other again.
Damn, was that really Shirou?! He hardly fought that much even during the training camp!
"My, oh my, that is a very interesting young man." Galilei comnted as he watched the sparks fly between their weapons. "And that fighting style… correct if I'm wrong, but I think he is basically utilizing those disposable weapons in a manner that would give him the edge by changing his style all the ti."
"Yes." Kokabiel narrowed his eyes in interest as he looked closer. "Those weapons are unusual though, they are from different mythologies altogether, and they seed familiar yet different at the sa ti."
"Well with any luck, I might be able to obtain a sample from his body." Galilei replied as he looked on with a maniacal eye. Sothing about those words seed to light a fire in Ise as he glared at them. These guys already did sothing horrific to Kiba, and they wanted to do the sa thing to Shirou?!
"Like hell you will!" Ise transferred the boosted energy to his legs and rushed forward to aim a punch to his face. A brief flash of light was the only indication he needed to move his head back in ti to avoid his head rolling by Kiba.
"Damn it Kiba! Wake the hell up!" Ise now knew what Shirou must have felt about him whenever he did sothing totally off the norms; Kiba was so infuriatingly nonchalant about certain things but because of his temper, now he was being controlled and worse, it seed he had zero compulsions holding him back.
"Thank you my pet. That would have been disastrous." Galilei said with a nasty smile on his face. "And just in the nick of ti too." Before the others could react, the magic circle he was in started to glow a dark blue while the swords align themselves on top of one another and stack tightly. They glowed briefly before their form seed to deform and rge with one another, then with a final flash of light, the magic circle collapsed to reveal the rged sword.
"What the heck is that?!" Tsubasa muttered loudly as they looked at the sword in front of them and Ise had to agree with her. Despite the lethality of the holy swords, there was a certain air of 'nobility' that exuded from them, as though to show that they were weapons that were to be wielded by the chosen warriors. This 'thing' in front of them seed to be completely lacking any of that presence, and its mismatched form that possessed elents of the other swords seed to reflect the twisted nature of the people around it.
Inwardly, Ise was sowhat thankful that Shirou was not here to see this. He had the feeling that Shirou might go ballistic at the sight of that blade.
"Here Creed, you want to take it?" Galilei gestured to the exorcist who gleefully skipped forward and grabbed the reford blade in his hand. The blade seed to radiate a wave of bloodthirstiness as he swung it, as though the sword was bringing out the true nature of the wielder.
"Oh, this feels right in my hands!" Creed seed almost giddy with joy, a rather disturbing image considering he was holding on to an item that looked good for torture. "Now it seems I can have so fun!"
"Well then, you can take your pick." Galilei comnted as he stood back.
"RIGHTO!" Creed took out a charm and looked at the Student Council with a sneer. "Then perhaps I can have the ladies all to myself!" With that he threw the charm into the air, where it glowed brightly before a netting of light extended from it and draped around them.
"Oh shit, I think he is going to trap us!" Saji paled as so of the netting's ends touched the ground and spread towards them.
"You two, you must get out of here now!" Before Irina and Xenovia could react, Griselda grabbed the both of them by the collars and threw them as hard as she could away from them.
"Gen-chan, you need to move now!" Momo and Ruruko each took one of Saji's arm, and with a big heave, threw him out before the netting cut their escape route.
"Griselda!" Xenovia and Irina banged on the barrier, followed shortly by Saji and the others as they tried to break it to no avail. For a brief mont, they saw the others getting into a stance against the exorcist, then with a bright flash, they disappear along with the barrier.
"What the?! The heck they go?!" Xenovia turned around in agitation.
"You! Where are they headed to?" Rias rounded to Galilei who looked on calmly.
"Hmm, likely around here, so you needn't worry about them." The priest replied with a shrug. "If anything, you might want to start worrying about yourselves." At his words, the mind-controlled knight appeared in front of them in a flash, his cold empty eyes gazing at them. "I believe that it is ti for my side project to show so progress."
"Kiba, snap out of it man!" Ise stepped forward only to take a hasty back step to avoid a sword aid for his leg. Silently, Kiba created a pair of swords and got into a stance.
"Finally, so entertainnt." Kokabiel pushed himself further in his floating chair. "Hopefully we can get a proper performance."
"Genshirou-kun, I'm afraid you would need to work with us for this matter." Akeno comnted as they got into a stance. "If we want to help Sona and the others, we would need to take Kiba down quickly and preferably without much bloodshed." Saji could only grunt in irritation as he got into position with his gear deployed, while Ise looked at the mind-controlled knight with one thought in mind.
'Damn it, this is so going to hurt a lot!'
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