Chapter 243: Dome of Light 2 (1/2)

The lightning aura around Alex began to crackle and spread wide, crashing many lightning strikes around him as the aura also began to condense around his body, going around and enhancing his armour with an exterior aura of purple lightning with many symbols, claws around his gauntlets, the lightning aura forming and extending further than his actual hair, waving and crackling in the wind, the roar of a prideful king ambiently being heard in her ears as he continued to walk towards her, his eyes still white, tightly gripping his spear in hand, the aura of the beast behind him now clearly able to be seen from him as it was exuding from his every pore.

”L-lion…”

Abby barely managed to mumble, sweat running down her face, tightly gripping her scythe as she prepared for him to strike as she stared at what now seemed to her as a monster ready to turn her to shreds.

*Zzpp*

In the blink of an eye, Alex was now no longer in the place he used to be, gone without a trace only to once again reappear in front of her, striking straight at her stomach, which she only just barely managed to react, lifting her flaming scythe to block it.

However, that was far from enough to stop his strike as Abby was sent hurtling towards the wall of the light dome at incredible speed, her flames being immediately snuffed out and her scythe now cracked from the impact as she could not help but grunt and cough out blood as she tried her best to regain her balance.

Yet, before she even knew, she felt a heavy strike on her stomach, only to look up and find Alex's foot exactly where all the pain was, as she was sent crashing towards the light-filled ground, forming a massive crater, immense shock and waves of pain ravaging her entire body as she crashed, her eyes detaching from her head for a split second before she regained her vision.

”FUCK!”

She yelled out, still stuck on the ground, her body injured and weak as she stood up, her hands grasping the wound on her stomach as she looked all around her only to not find a trace of where Alex was.

”Where the fuck did all that power come from!? Is that spirit mode!? From when did you have that!? Yesterday you were nowhere near that strong! Plus, If you truly cared about me, would you really be hitting me like this!? Huh!? You Hypocri-”

She screamed like a lunatic, her desperation and madness clearly plastered on her face, before she was immediately cut off by a hand through her chest, fully infused with lightning, that made sure not to strike any vitals.

”F-fuck… F-fuck…” She cursed once more, pure hatred in her eyes as she coughed up blood on the ground, her legs feeling too weak to stand, failing her as she dropped on the ground, her body too weak to even move.

”You idiot! Don't you see I don't want to do this! I HATE doing this! I feel pain hurting you! But I still do it! I force myself to do it because I really do care about you! It's the only way!”

Alex spoke in a calm, hurting, tender voice that completely contrasted with his intimidating lion-like appearance.

”What kind of bullshit is that!? You're crazy! Once my sister comes back from killing that trash, fucking waste of space, she's gonna fucking kill you for what you did to me! Just you wait!”

Abby screamed her heart out, pure anger on her face as she used every fibre of her being to stand up, but only ended up squirming like a worm, flat on her stomach.

”You're the one who's crazy! You're being brainwashed! What I'm doing right now is not bullshit, this is to try and save you… When you snap back from your senses I'm sure you will understand…”

*Skrinsh* *Skrinsh*

Alex spoke, forming daggers made out of lightning, sticking them through all her limbs, pinning her on the ground so she could no longer move, making her scream from the pain, Alex's mental pain most likely even greater than what she was feeling physically as he now walked away from her and looked over at the rest of the fight, before he heard screams directed towards him from behind...

”Come back here you little bitch! It's not over between us! If you really think I'm being brainwashed, prove it! Unbrainwash me now!”

Not even bothering to turn around, he responded to her in a calm, serious voice.

”If I knew how, I would have done so already… And I have no time to experiment now… Moby is probably the only person who knows so I will wait for him to come and save you… For now, I've gotta go and do my part… So, you wait here patiently until all of this is over… Things shouldn't take too long… See ya!”

Alex spoke in a bright, upbeat voice, his cloak of lightning bursting back up around his body.

”Stop! If y-”

Abby screamed once more, only for her words to be immediately halted as she managed to catch a glimpse of Alex's face before he left, tears running down his white, lightning eyes, making her feel something odd in her cracking and eroding heart before she was once again snapped back to how she previously was by an immense headache that ravaged her mind, Alex now completely gone when she opened her eyes, making her inwardly curse.

At immense, lightning-fast speed, Alex dashed throughout the entire battlefield, leaving the sound of zaps and trails of lightning in his path as he headed straight for Hikari who was still joyfully spectating the fight ahead of her with no care in the world.

'Lightning beasts!'