Chapter 85: Only I Am Worthy Part 3 (2/2)
”I don't want this anymore Bargaining. Stop this.”
Smirking, he stabbed Aoi with his own arm throwing her aside. ”You cannot, you signed the contract. You have no choice. The Garden is your home. Finish the task and kill them.”
Aoi snapped out of the trance, finding Zinnia lying on the ground moaning in pain. She looked up whimpering. ”Impossible. How could you…”
Aoi began laughing. ”That was a nice trick you've got there; too bad it didn't work!” Aoi grunted falling to one knee. ”Damn it, that attack was more effective than I thought! I don't care if you are considered worthy, I won't like you to stand in my way!”
An electrical blast was sent her way, as it did Jinx jumped down, grabbing Zinnia and rolling out of reach. While she was distracted, Jinx fired a sniper shot hitting Aoi directly in the head. She fell to the floor as the fog vanished. ”Looks like I'm the number one streamer now.”
”It's about time you showed up…” Alton coughed. ”Where the hell have you been?”
”Around. Fear not though the villain has been taken care of.”
Aoi lay on the floor, bleeding everywhere. Whispers screamed in her ears as her eyes snapped open and she met those screams with ones of her own. ”Aoi, Gemini! Aoi, Gemini! I am them both!”
”Give us a break, will ya!” Jinx yelled, firing serval gunshots off. Each one hit Paradox as she turned to her with a face of hate. ”Oh, shit.” Jinx was destroyed by an endless barrage of vines cutting her down taking her out of commission instantly.
Alton cast a wall of ice, blocking everyone off lying down. He began panting standing up. ”Please, Alton don't hurt her,” Goro begged. ”She needs help.”
”I'm sorry Goro, but she too far gone for that. The Garden has taken her. All we can do is stop her bloody crusade.”
Goro looked down horrified. ”Gemini, I'm sorry. I failed you both.”
Alton struggled to stand as the ice wall was obliterated. Alice limped overlooking up blankly. ”I'll back you up. We'll take her together.”
Alton turned to her nodding. ”We'll give it everything we've got.”
Alice held her hand out as a bow emerged from thin air. Gripping it tightly, she fired arrows of pure light in the air as a portal appeared. The arrow disappeared as Alton went to work slamming his foot down, freezing the entire floor. Paradox was frozen on the spot as Alton pushed onto the offensive skating forward and around his opponent hitting her with shards of ice more parts of her body freezing up. Paradox's eyes fixed on Alton as all the ice shattered and she lunged at him, gripping him by the neck. ”Only I am worthy! All else will fall before the Garden!”
Blasted with volts of electricity Alton was forced to bare the attack as Alice came in to rescue him. Another portal opened beneath them which Paradox instantly jumped away from. The portal saved Alton as one more opened above her. The beams of light from earlier blasted the area apart as Paradox fell for Alice's trap. Alice caught Alton distancing themselves from Paradox. He was on the edge failure as he couldn't even stand anymore. ”She's too powerful. Using the powers of the Garden, she has full control over it. We can't win. I just need to.”
”The Alice is against any plan you have; if you take any more hits like this, you will die. The Alice will take control of the situation.” She ordered flipping back into the portal back to fight Paradox. As Alice emerged a set of vines smacked her back. Holding her hand forward, the vines were ripped apart only for them to grow back instantly. Alice flinched as she was knocked to the floor. Paradox walked up to her staring down in disappointment. ”And you were meant to be the number two streamer. I despise such unworthy opponents!”
A cube smashed Paradox back as Iris held her hand, outguessing the attack by Paradox's words. ”Don't touch my sister!”
”Such foolish weaklings! Out of my sight!”
”Not, so fast” Alton yelled as serval blocks of ice smashed into her shattering on impact. Slightly dazed Alton punched the ground as small tremors began to unfold. Paradox looked down as the ground cracked and serval icicles ripped from the ground holding her down. ”Shattered throne!” The icicles dug into her, and all broke apart as shards of ice were wedged in slowly freezing her.
”Enough!” She screamed as electricity rippled through her body evaporating all the ice. A sharp bolt of electricity struck Alton as he fell to the ground. He eventually got himself back up as he looked at her with a smug look. ”Stay down already!” Alton was smashed down again, this time taking him much longer to get up. ”If you are so willing to be the first to die, so be it!”
Alton was zapped with an unrelenting amount of electricity as he began smoking before falling once again. He didn't move as Paradox chuckled by her victory. Turning away, she stopped hearing a painful laugh. ”Is that all you've got? You hit like a girl. It's. Going. To. Take. A. Lot. More. Then that. To kill me…”
”Why is it you never know when to quit? What is wrong with you?”
Alton turned to Zinnia who was tearing up as he stood up straight panting. ”You want to know what's wrong with me? I'll tell you, darling. I'm a hero; it's in my nature to keep fighting. Now shall we start again? Round two?”
”Foolish mortal. I'll show you the might of the Garden. Perish like your friends!”