Tohuw Balagan and The Vanguard
Tohuw had traveled a fair pace, hopping merrily like a merry bunny. Finally, it seemed they had arrived. No one would interfere this time, hopefully. There was nothing but rocks and more rocks and stone.
He laid his bag somewhere over here, maybe over there, and walked away. Before long, an enormous body of metal as emerged, an orb of blue light shining in its helmet.
It seemed the damage it had taken earlier had been reverted, courtesy of someone. When those swords hit him, just before dying, he had the time to form a new core with what little life he had left and imbue it in his armor. To fight back would have only delayed the inevitable, but he did not think he would have noticed.
And yet, the demon spared him and carried him here, but why…?
“I’m surprised. I never thought you’d actually spare me. How scandalous for a lapdog.” Vanguard snapped.
The demon raised an amused eyebrow and turned to face his old friend. A huge, casually friendly grin curled on his lips.
“Dog you say? Yes, I guess that is correct. Looks like you had managed to get a new body. How have ya been pal? Eating well?”
Vanguard shook his head. “It’s no good, I messed up. I guess even something so simple turned out to be more troublesome than I expected. Well, it’s not like it would have changed anything anyway, but I had hoped I could have made a choice.”
“Aw, at least you tried. Can’t say I expected to see your ugly mug again, tin man. For a glorious hero, you sure took your sweet time.” Toe quipped back.
To that, the massive behemoth shrugged.
“What can I say? Reception was rather poor, but it looks like I ended up finding a good signal in here. Still, I can’t fathom why you would have spared me.” He said, almost mockingly. There was a long silence, the two circled each other like vulptures. Finally, the demon broke the silence with nonchalance.
“Do you know the game Tetris, Vanny-chan?” Toe asked with a cheeky, teasing tone.
“Now then, there’s no way I’d know something like that.” He replied calmly, shaking his head. But it was all wrong. This pretense of calmness was nothing but a farce. Both knew how much the other wished to leap at the other and ravage about.
Right now, there was no demon and no hero, only two madmen staring at each other.
“Right. The blocks keep moving from the top, and full rows make the blocks disappear. I love making four lines disappear at the same time. More precisely, I don’t want to do anything besides that. My heart is stolen just thinking of that moment when all the messy fragments disappear. From the point they started interfering, I already ruined the row. It’s true, letting you die there would have given me many advantages, it would have been much better for everyone. But I don’t like that kind of play. It’s much better to just remove the battery and reset.”
Toe took a few steps forward, his smile growing proportional to the throbbing in his side. This body, he had not fed it in so long. It would not last longer, not with that damned injury. Only one thing crossed his mind at the moment, it was to devour that fiend. Only he could satisfy him, other souls weren’t enough!
But then, he had to be the one to kill him.
If Vanguard still had that body, it would have been smiling in turn. “My my, you’re becoming more like them every time you open that mouth of yours.”
The considerable distance between the two lessened as they circled each other like vultures. The tension was enough to drive even the crows from this battlefield.
Tohuw grabbed his cane and allowed it to release a red smoke-like light. The world seemed to twist and turn grotesquely, as if reality itself was literally warping. Dozens of missiles appeared behind the white-clad man, ready to fire forth and devastate all in their path.
Vanguard took a fighting stance, a brilliant light like the sun shining from his fingertips and shaping into a dazzling weapon of unsung glory. Lightning cracked around the massive armor, ready to burst forth and strike mercilessly.
The demon smiled wickedly before speaking, no longer trying to hide his malice. “Then let’s end this-“
-Evil bastard!
-Evil bastard!
And the two opposing forces suddenly charged forth, clashing with all their might. And the winner takes it all.
