1 Part 1

prologue

Gavin stood at the balcony of his castle. "My liege, Owens and his men have raided the main camps of our fleet and plans to attack us soon" Gavin stood there motionless then replied :  "let us ready for the coming brawl" The guard gripped his sword, "shall I alert our allies sir?" Gavin nodded with a emotionless expression. "The war has begun"

Chapter 1 : Expanding the territory

Gavin had a pattern so he could keep everything in order, he would let his men do warm up exercises then they would go in multiple groups in each direction to scan for enemy troops or invaders. Rarely they would find a lost villager but never an actual threat to their land. Finally one day Gavin stood up and stared out his throne room window.

"What's wrong my king?" his fellow 1st guard asked. "David we have scanned this land with no threats...but I'm tired of us making no progress!"

His guard looked at him confused. "Sir I'm not sure I understand" Gavin walked over to him. "We must expand for the good of our land...soon to become a nation!" The guard assembled all the best troops in the entire army and they set out in all four directions seeking to expand.

Meanwhile far south from Gavin's location... "Sir Owens should we not make ready in case of a night invasion?" Chris smiled and drew his sword, "Charles me and my fellow men have practiced our art of battle for years I'm sure we'll be fine" Around midnight David and a few others had made there way into Chris's land.

he snuck in through an open window and made his way to the throne room doors. He tossed a scroll through the doorway and it rolled halfway up the throne room.

A servant picked it up and looked over the message, then walked over to the king. "Sir Chris a message for you" Chris read through it, reading it carefully. "l see so the king of the north wants to make an alliance and merge our land together"

Chris walked out of his castle, down the steps and saw Gavin and his men.

"Tell me, what motive do you have of merging our two kingdoms?" Gavin told his men to stay as they were, the northern king walked up to Chris and put his hand out. "Ally with me so we may increase our kingdoms into a empire" Chris thought a moment then replied: "What are you entitled to this "agreement" Gavin answered: "Same as you, our land and troops in case needed" Chris agreed shaking his hand.

Soon after, Gavin and Chris had a army that covered the entire country. After about a year Chris was told an unknown fleet were headed toward the country near his location.  He sent word out to Gavin who received it moments later. Northern king and his main troops set off...It took two hours to get to the location where Chris was.

Just as they arrived Chris shouted "enemy closing in, prepare for battle!" Chris pulled out twin blades and Gavin gripped his long sword. Men came running in, two kings dashed into the fight beginning to take out the enemy force one by one. They had lost some men but in the end the two allies had come out victorious.

Suddenly a man in body armor arrived. "You may have defeated my men but I will finish this!" the foe  jumped at them but the two pulled out their swords stopping the man's sword attack by colliding their attacks as well.

"Amazing, his strength is equal to that of ours" Chris was surprised but didn't stop, finally Chris and Gavin broke from the clash, making him lose his balance. In an attack Synchro they sliced him in the back. "What kingdom sent you to invade this land!?" Chris demanded. "Jaycen from Pernica" he said before losing Consciousness from lack of blood.

"What's pernica?" Chris wondered. Gavin put his hand on Chris' shoulder, "we better prepare for any incoming enemies…

Days later they paid one of each of their class A men to go out of the country to spy on pernica. "Yes sir" he replied bowing and heading out. A few extra men volunteered to join him for the task.

CHAPTER 2 : on to pernica

Gavin's main class A guy John lead them through a forest until they reached a huge castle that was hidden in a group of giant oak trees. John signaled all the others to follow his lead as he climbed the trees. All six of them scouted from the top of the giant oak tree.

"I see two guards by the entrance, one on the roof and one at each of the castle's windows" "Then what'd we do?" one of his men asked. John thought for a moment… "Alright I have a tactic that should work" The man pulled out a small sharp dagger gripping it tightly, "1,2,3!" The leader threw the weapon at the guard standing on the roof impacting his waist. The soldier fell from the tall castle and landed in front of the castle's door.

The other guards gathered around the dying man checking his wounds, the leader of the six men pulled out a small pad and tossed it next to the group of men, the pad locked onto the ground and let out a loud beep before self-destructing in a bright explosion. When the smoke cleared, all the men were laying on the ground with blood all over the ground. Quickly John, followed by his men leapt off the trees and each landed on the opening of a window.

It was a narrow hallway with a red carpeted floor and purple walls. John signaled each of his men to check the rooms that were aligned with dark blue doors. Meanwhile the leader hid behind a corner of the long hall...

Moments later he could hear faint footsteps approaching from the other end of the hall. The solder pulled out a small blade and waited a few more seconds...Finally John dashed across the ride side of the corner to the left as he threw the small blade in the direction of the incoming target. John crouched back down on the corner of the hall. The man looked to see a guard of the castle down on the ground bleeding to death.

"Let us push forward" he announced to his men as they came out of the rooms they were checking. Just as they were making their way towards the main hall of the castle, a man dressed in fancy dark red clothes stopped them.

"Seems our guards are more worthless then I gave them credit for...it doesn't matter, you'll all be killed by the hand of Dahara!" He rushed towards them at such a fast rate, even John couldn't seem to catch up. The foe rushed past their leader and struck one of the other men in the gut. They let out a groan of pain before John threw another small blade in the enemy's direction. It soared across the hall when suddenly their foe caught it with merely one hand.

"How did you-" Dahara cut him off throwing his own dagger back at him. John managed to doge it, causing the weapon to shatter a mirror that happen to be hanging on the wall.

"If this is the best you have to offer you might as well go back to where you came from, our king has no use for trash such as yourselves"

"We just came to speak with Jaycen" one of the men commented.

"But why should I allow such an audience?...especially since you invaded our castle and killed our guards?" John cave him a serious look then said: We didn't come to invade we came to avoid a war with your lord"  The man sighed and pointed his sword towards them.

"Fine ill escort you to our Lord, but ill be on guard" Dahara showed them to the throne room where Jaycen sat in a large chair with red rubies on the sides..

"What brings you men to my land?" Jaycen questioned.

"I was sent along with these men to halt  a possible war between us" John answered. Pernica's lord crossed his hands together pondering for a moment...

"Alright, we will be neutral…however, any attack on my men and I won't hesitate to wage war on you or any else that are involved" the guests thanked him for his time before heading back to their land…

"Gavin, I may have some unfortunate news on my end" Chris commented.

"Go on" the man replied turning to him and sitting at a table with him.

"Surprisingly a new threat has arose pointing their interest in our direction" Gavin sighed before replying : "Lord your men have any info on his estimate of men or anything we could use to our advantage?"

"No…regrettably they were incapable of such info" The king of Sikara, Gavin pondered his next step.

"I will call for you if any ideas arise" Chris nodded then left Sikara back to his land.

CHAPTER 3 : Power Solution

Gavin went through his archives of ancient books involving war or strategy. That's when something caught his eye, rituals on how to summon creatures with vast amount of power. He turned to a page that instructed how to summon Miserix a fire demon. The king brought two of his men with him to the top of his castle to begin his ritual. Both soldiers had to concentrate aiming both palms out in front of them while speaking a paragraph that was in Greek. Just then one of the King's men rushed in alerting them that a small army of men were coming this way. Once his men lost concentration…the dark red light became unstable and flew random around them, a solider was about to get hit when his king stood between them shielding his ally.

"What a strange feeling" Gavin commented before. Collapsing onto his carpeted floor…

He awoke still in the room and slowly got up. Gavin saw his men fighting off their foe's warriors. A warm feeling surged through him but he brushed it aside as if it wasn't there. Taking his katana the leader himself joined the fight. The dark haired warrior went sailing from his castle until he aimed his sword at the ground. Suddenly a large shockwave wiped out a full mile of land along with all foes in range. The remaining men ran away in fear dropping their weapons. Gavin stared at his blade, flames seemed to flow around the sharp blade. Just then a heavy armored soldier emerged from the dust around him.

"Who are you?" Gavin questioned keeping a tight grip on his sword. His foe said nothing, his eyes glowed red from its armor. The warrior pulled out a long red sword preparing to attack. Suddenly the strange armored man leapt towards sikara's king. At that moment The King's hand flew upward stopping his foe's incoming attack. Gavin's eyes widened, he hasn't mover his body. It must've been out of instinct. The King's eyes lit up red, he felt a warm feeling following throughout his body. His foe flipped up for another but was kicked in the torso coming down for another attack.

"Well done…I didn't think you'd be this good. But it's time I finish you…its nothing personal, my lord just wants to wipe out any possible threats. I Leoric Meinhart will kill you king of Sikara and please my lord to victory" The mercenary took out a grenade from a hidden compartment in his suit then tossed it in his target's direction. His combatant glistened with an outline of red energy just as they caught the projectile and threw it back. Leoric was struck in the face from both his grenade's speed on impact plus it's explosion from contact. Gavin watched as his combatant laid there with their suit coveted in black burns from their own weapon.

"I haven't forsaken my Lord's orders!" Meinhart fired a missile aimed straight for his opponent. His weapon blew up in a great burst of flames covering their battleground in fire and smoke. As smoke cleared Leoric saw his target still there unharmed.

"B-but" Gavin walked over picking him up by his armored shoulders. The villain could see red light once again filling the man's eyes before the king threw him with his arm away from his castle with super-human strength. Leoric hit a tree a few miles away.

"What's going on?" Meinhart commented getting up. They gave each other serious looks then ran full speed at one another, Chris finally showed up watching them trading blows. Suddenly Gavin tripped his enemy before hitting him with his bare palm in the center of the torso. His dark blue armor cracked apart before being send through the air once more, Leoric impacted a building outside their land and collapsed on top of him. Gavin let out heavy breaths when the red light vanished causing him to collapse. Chris walked over, helping his drained ally to his feet.

"Wow, that was some incredible strength his friend commented. They made their way back to Sikara castle. Once Gavin had rested, he told his allied lord about summoning Miserix a fire demon.

"My men lost focus and a red light went flying around the room. I shielded one of them and the red light hit me head on…seems Miserix entered me causing my body to obtain these super-human abilities"

"Could you summon one for me?" Chris asked.

"Ill try but won't be 100% chance of working" Sikera king aimed his hand at the center of the room concentrating on his wanted creature; Alagore, a water creature with powerful water abilities. Gavin let go, letting the blue beam of energy race across the room. Suddenly his ally pushed Chris into the beam's direction. Causing him to glisten with light.

"I can feel it's strength" Chris said with widened eyes.

"Good that means it was a success" Chris thanked his ally before returning to his land where both lords practiced their newly acquired powers until it seemed as though both had mastered their abilities…

It has been two months since. Michael's first attack against Sikara plus Chris' powers.

MEANWHILE...

"Sir Michael, when shall we proceed on the second attack on north"

"If you're referring to Sikara, we attack at Sun down to gain an advantage against them"

At 8:00 the sun finally went down, with Sikara in total darkness Michael along with more high class men made their way to his castle. With his new level of control, Gavin could since the coming threat from a few miles away.

"All guards keep watch over all entry points…if it comes down to it, I will push this button that signals our ally. Gavin showed them a watch with a shiny red button in the center. Once their threat was just yards away Gavin aimed his palm at the grassy terrain of their castle, creating a circle of thick burning flames all around it as a form of protection. Men shot arrows from high ground taking out some men while Michael and better armored men either caught, dogged or deflected each projectile. While his soldiers looked for a way past the flames Michael walked through it as if it were steam.

"How did he do that!?" Sikara's archers cried out. Gavin leapt from his castle, descending down right in front of his  challenger.

"Show me what you can do!" Michael pulled out two swords, he swung so fast even Gavin's instincts could barely stop it in time with his katana. Michael put more weight on his attack but they stayed equal. Just then a red spirit arose from the hero's body and slashed it's powerful claws across his target's chest. Michael lost his focus before getting forced back past the flames back into the grassy area. Sikera's king walked out of the orange light towards his combatant. Michael's soldiers charged him but were all struck in their torso. Causing them to fall onto their back.

"I'm not done!" Michael sprang to his feet, dashing for the hero. As he was inches from contact, Gavin threw his fist forward and his spirt struck him before Gavin's fist even made contact. Blood spat out of his mouth from his intense wound.

"G-good shot…but ill defeat you and your creature" Michael pulled out a bomb-looking device and threw it straight for Gavin's face. He tried deflecting it but was blinded by a flash of light, the projectile had been a flashbang.

"Damn it…I can't see!"

(N-now's my chance) The foe once again went for an attack but was punched by the red spirit in the side. Michael went sailing across the sky hitting a tree. The injured solider hit the ground in great pain. "B-but how could he hit me so easily even though I blinded him!?" His enemy walked over to him still blinded by the intense light.

"Because my spirit can also protect me without me having to consciously command it" The dark-haired lord fired a blast of red energy that wiped his invader out completely. "Oh I almost forgot" He faced his palm directed at the enemies behind the fire, shooting a Ki blast once more. They ran in fear but were wiped out as well, along with a mile of land.

After about a week Sikera was given a message alerting him that an unknown group was headed in their direction. Gavin smirked before folding the letter up, placing it in his back pocket. He walked over to the window closing his eyes. "Come on…) At that moment, a red aura outlined his body and he levitated off the floor. Now able to fly, the lord smiled taking off into the sky, feeling the sun's warmth on his body. He gained speed the longer he got used to flying. As he was reaching the ocean he could see a group of ships headed his way. The warrior flew over and descended down just a mile ahead of them, Gavin assumed they'd stop but instead one of the large ships fired a cannonball at him. Sikera evaded the projectile then flew up to the ship that had attacked him. Tons of men charged him from every direction but were forced back by Sikera releasing a shockwave of power. Just then a women dressed in fancy armor with a cape emerged from the captain's quarters. She had long black hair and pink eyes that glistened in the sunlight. The man blushed looking at the beautiful girl approaching him.

"Why are you trespassing on my ship?" She questioned crossing her arms. Gavin was nervous of what to say at first then replied: "I was alerted that this unit was planning to attack my land so I'm here to stop you" She began to laugh.

"You believe you alone can stop us?" She questioned. The warrior nodded putting his arms up preparing for combat.

She sighed. "Very well, since you leave me no choice, I Rcomi shall partake in this meaningless battle" She took a deep breath as a green aura outlined her body.

(Seems there's already others who've synced with a spirit) Rcomi slowly raised her hands up horizontally to each other, suddenly her green aura became brighter until it was like her entire body was incased in in it's light. She dashed forward with incredible speed. Gavin summoned his red spirit to block with it's large powerful arm but the force of Rcomi's blow shattered the spirit's arm sending Sikera across the ship landing on the edge about to fall into the water. The women walked over to him and picked him up by his collar.

"So, this is all you have to offer?" Her opponent lifted his head forward looking her in the eyes.

"I'm not finished yet!" His red aura returned as he backhanded the girl away. But she caught her balance just before impact sliding a few feet back. She watched as Sikera took a deep breath clinching his fists, his red spirit came out much bigger like a giant, his spirit shielded him as he stood inside the spirit's form.

"W-what is this? I've never seen a spirit come all the way out along with multiplying it's size!" Gavin smirked waving her to attack once more. She frowned gliding at him as fast as she could. As she threw a punch once more, it was stopped by a large katana made out of the creature's energy. Her eyes widened as the spirit threw her arms up with the blade and struck her protected torso. The green spirit armor shattered before she staggered back hitting a group of men that were watching.

"He-he must've been saving that until he actually needed to use his creature's true power" Rcomi spat out blood in her hand and watched as it ran down her palm. She stood up with her spirit floating beside her transparent. "You little shit, I will have you pay for what you've done!" The girl moved her hand up in a grabbing motion, that's when a large wave of water came up nearly like a tsunami but it had no effect on the hero. Rcomi's eye twitched in anger. "Very well, let's see you get away from this unphased!" She and her spirit in sync threw both their arms up, a massive amount of the ocean levitated up and floated above them. She took a deep breath before crossing both arms down in opposite directions. Everyone watched as the large cloud of water split into thousands of sharp pieces of ice. They rained down on the warrior at incredible speed. Using the katana, Sikera managed to shatter a great portion of the projectiles when suddenly two got past his spirit's blade and pierced through it. Now wide open, the 50 shards of ice remaining shredded through his spirit also inflecting damage upon him since they were in sync with each other.

"D-damn it, how could I…" Gavin began coughing falling to his knees with wounds all over his body. His large spirit slowly shrunk back to normal size until it was barley visible.

(I have you know) Rcomi thought pulling out a small dagger. She placed a barrier around it giving it more strength then chucked it at her enemy. But as it looked like the battle was over, Gavin's creature managed to catch it just in time. She let out a cry in anger starring at the red transparent hand holding the dagger before fading away letting the blade hit the floor.

"How-how did you managed to stop my projectile attack when you're in no condition to continue fighting and you weren't even looking!?" At that moment, he began to laugh before replying : "These spirits can protect us without our conscious effort…also their power and limits are based on our will. A-as long as one keeps raising up against their enemy and fighting for what they believe in, their spirit will remain strong and protect it's user from incoming threats"

"For what we believe in…" Rcomi thought to herself for a moment…

"Sir are you alright?" One of the crew members asked noticing she was taking awhile to think. Finally she looked at her injured foe and slowly walked over to him. Sikera did nothing to stop her, he waited for what was coming to him. But instead of attacking the wounded opponent, she placed her hand on his shoulder. "You have made me realize the true meaning off what it is to fight with these creatures, I will help right the wrong doings of what I and my lord had done. But I must ask you for your help to rebel against my lord" Sikera nodded as she helped him to his feet. Rcomi allied with Gavin so she could help restore all that she had done, and go up against her own lord that she saw as an invincible foe…

So far Sikera had Chris and Rcomi on his side, both formidable fighters that were very useful on his side, along with the fact that all three of them had obtained an other-self which they could command as a spirit-like creature. Each of their spirits were unique in there own way making them very useful on the battlefield…

After about a month, Gavin was surprised to see Rcomi at his castle door, he allowed his men to open the large door to allow her inside. "Welcome, how have you been these past few weeks?" She looked at him with a serious expression. "It's finally time for you to help me defeat my lord, I had spent all this time training with my spirit, gaining more Endurance…stamina…will…me and my other-self have multiplied in our capabilities"

"Then show me, I'd like to see how strong you've gotten, for I too have reached new heights" She nodded as they went behind his castle where a large battle arena was. Sikera grinned with confidence letting his being's red light shine around his body. His opponent let out a sigh to relax herself before her green aura also surfaced from within her body.

"When ever you're ready" He announced. She suddenly grinned and dashed ahead, suddenly her spirit formed into a double of her copying her movement like a mirror. Gavin was surprised but was ready for the challenge, he once again increased the size of his spirit while he stood in the center. The large red being created two blades and waited for his foe to attack. Finally Rcomi leapt right in front of him while her duplicate jumped to the left. Both attempted to fire a lightning attack from their hands but were swatted away by the large energy blades. She flew back impacting the ground a few feet away while her doppelganger shattered from them being to far away and losing her concentration.

"I'm sure you have more techniques than just that after an entire month of training"

"It was tricky acquiring my level of power by training alone, but you're right I have a few abilities left" Rcomi stood firmly on the ground keeping her whole body still…Suddenly her right eye was completely filled with green light. Sikera was curious to see what she was planning. Just then her spirit once more appeared in the shape of her, emerging from a flash of light right in front of Gavin's massive spirit form. She began throwing punches at super-human speed, Gavin had incredible endurance along with power and strength…but his opponent's speed far surpassed his. She was able to get past his guard with her amazing speed throwing blows at his chest area. At first it seemed like she was just wasting her time when suddenly Sikera heard a loud cracking noise, he looked up to where her fist was making contact to see his spirit's barrier-like body was beginning to crack from all the repeated blows.

(This isn't good, her fast strikes are wearing down his endurance…at this rate he'll break leaving me nearly unprotected) His large spirit swatted at her as if she was a fly but her other managed to evade each swipe and continue striking the weakening.

"Damn…maybe if I try to strategize this" His being shrunk to half it's size while Sikera left it's protective body. Rcomi's normal eye widened in shock as she saw him racing toward her in a protective aura while the medium size spirit distracted the girl's duplicate. She tried calling it back but it was destroyed by a blast from the boy's spirit. She froze as Gavin stopped an inch away throwing a fake punch. She could feel a faint breeze just from the sheer force of his punch.

"Good match" He commented before walking over to an oak tree to sit in the shade. Rcomi looked to see Sikera's spirit already gone, thinking it probably vanished as soon as he defeated hers. At first she was annoyed at losing to him not just once, but twice now. Though she did enjoy the rush and was glad to finally have a friend. She went over and sat down next to him slowly falling asleep after only a few minutes. While she rested, Gavin signaled Chris to hurry over. After about 20 minutes he finally arrived. He ran up to him. "What is it, what's the alert?!" The warrior took him over to the oak tree and explained the situation.

"Ah, this might be a real challenge if she's nearly as powerful as you and yet asking for your help…hopefully adding me into the equation will tip the battle in our favor"

"Which reminds me…have you actually trained with your spirit after all this time?" Gavin questioned crossing his arms. Chris nodded then replied : "I've gotten a lot of training done but not sure if I've gotten close to my other's full potential"

"I'm not fully rested yet but I guess I'll take you on to see how far you've come as a spirit user" Chris immediately summoned his spirit that looked like very transparent water. Chris clapped his hands together as his spirit aimed both palms out in front of itself shooting sharp ice sickles in his direction, Gavin had Miserix create a cyclone of fire that melted each projectile on contact.

"Alagore…let's kick it up a notch…ice cyclone!" Suddenly his spirit created a cyclone as well but this was made out of sharp ice sickles spinning rapidly.

(Shit, if I get caught in that I'm sure gonna be in bad shape for a few weeks. Too can play at that game) Sikera took in as much air as he could, Chris realized that his target's other had changed form into a massive dragon-like creature. The cyclone was only a few feet away when suddenly Gavin blew out all the air he had been holding, in sync Miserix released a breath of blazing red flames. The storm of fire melted it's way past the cyclone headed for Owens, but as it looked like h was going to get burned alive, the flames vanished along with the warrior's red other. Chris stood there motionless from shock…

"Looks like you still got along way to go until you catch up with either of us…After an hour of rest the three warriors headed off to Sencaro, the land Rcomi's lord ruled over. After about two hours of travel they finally reached the outskirts of the city. The city was filled with skyscrapers with a large dome in the center which made it obvious of her lord's location.

"Be ready, I'm sure there's plenty of fighters waiting for us already to try and stop us"

"How could he already know of our plan and that we're here?" Gavin questioned as they just stood behind some trees just outside the city. She looked him in the eye and replied : "Trust me…he always know, I haven't seen anything surprise him in the past years I've served him" They entered the city through an alleyway and bought some clothes to better blend in with the crowd of people that filled the streets.                                                                

"Wow this place is far more active than I was expecting" Sikera commented pushing past a crowd of people selling jewelry.

"Yea, you would think a city run by a corrupt man would be filled with more misery and sorrow, but even so, there is still plenty of dark things running a mock in Sencaro. The deeper you get closer towards the dome, the less people can hide their despair"

"But if it's so awful, why won't those citizens just leave?" Chris responded. She laughed saying : "Maybe some of the outer layer citizens like these could leave with little trouble but as I've said it's harder when you're in the downtown area anywhere near that monster's dome. There's banks he controls all around the city, he also has a law about limits on distance, such as if you live downtown you can't use outer region banks. Think of this area as first class, where he barley touches and let's them do what they want. But down by him he controls everyone and everything"

The men looked at each other with worried looks before continuing to follow Rcomi. As they made their way deeper into the city, they noticed that the streets began to be less active with people. Finally they were just a block away from the entrance of the city's large sphere.

"So what should our course of action be?" Chris asked as they carefully watched the few men that guarded the large door. Gavin thought for a moment…"Alright I have a plan, I'll use Miserix to draw their attention while you both look for a way in" They watched as Gavin placed his palm on the ground, a red trail of red light traveled down the road until reaching one of the guards. A red circle formed under him while the spirit appeared behind him before phasing inside the man.

     "What's it doing?" Chris commented. Sikera put his hand up signaling Owens to stay silent. The possessed man started firing rounds of ammo at the other nearby men.

"Wait won't you get hurt if they hurt the possessed host?" Sikera shook his head, "Think of his body as a protective shell. As long as Miserix is inside a living host he can't be hurt" After about minute of continuous fire all the guards, including the one that was possessed all fell to the ground dead. While Rcomi and Chris entered through a small window, Kevin began using his Spirit to bang against the large door so they could split up and so he could continue to get their attention…

Now on the second floor of the large dome Fortress, Chris and Rcomi carefully made their way down a narrow hallway that had doors on both sides of the hole each door handle seem to be made out of diamond. Just then as they made their way to the end of the hall a woman's voice called out demanding them to halt they turned around to see a tall woman with even black hair and green eyes wearing a black tracksuit. Lydia glared at the Intruders radiating power and danger.  "You don't belong here and should leave before I have to make you," she ordered.

She took a few steps forward, her knife like heels scraping on the ground.  Her eyes never left the intruders, much like a hungry big cat's never leave their prey.

"Out of our way" Rcomi responded. Her and Owens' auras began to glow as they started down their opponent. Lydia smirked and flicked her braid.  It made the whip snapping sound.  "Pathetic children.  Do you think you can come here like you own this place?" Her orange aura began to encircle her, whipping like flames from a wildfire. Their eyes widened in Surprise. (Don't tell me she has a spirit like ours as well) Without hesitation Chris summoned his spirit having it fire a gigantic icicle as sharp as a blade aim directly at their enemy's head. Rcomi gave him an annoyed look. "What's one projectile going to do!?" The icicle is obliterated  before it reached Lydia.  She sneered and crossed her arms over her chest.  "That better not be the zenith of your power, children.  That would disappoint me."

Her fire aura launched itself at Chris and Rcomi.  It raced at top speeds to get to them. The rebel used her green other to clash with the incoming threat. Both warriors exchanged blows while Chris had his form a wall of thick ice. This made it a little tricky to keep track of her target's movements but she seemed to be keeping up well enough. Lydia made her aura shoot up and try to overwhelm the ice wall. She faded into the fire, obscuring her from her enemies.  She used her braid to weaken the ice until it shattered. Chris watched as his Spirit continued to try to keep the wall up meanwhile Rcomi stood back a few feet having her other aim it's Palm out in front of them toward the ice wall waiting for it to shatter. After moments of struggling the ice-wall finally shattered to pieces. Without hesitating the Warrior's being shot an energy blast toward Lydia. She attempted to block but was forced back sliding across the narrow Hall until hitting a door at the end of the hall.

" Either stay down or get out of our way already, we're going to take your lord down whether you like it or not" Lydia stood on her feet and laughed. She brushed off any damage and pushed off the door. "My lord is not easily defeated, and neither am I." Lydia's fire raged on still. It encircled all through the hall, raising close to the ceiling.

"Enough of this!" Chris clapped his hands together as hundreds of ice shards went shooting through the fire, most of them melted while some nearly reached their target before finally becoming a puddle at their feet. Rcomi focused with her other once more, she had Chris create a thick barrier of ice around her. Her right I once more shine green as her spirit dashed in the direction of her target.

"Time to finish this" using her spirits immense speed she was able to dodge the flames as they continued to fill the room until finally striking her foe in the jaw. The fire slowly began to fade as Lydia laid there with blood running down her chin.

She slowly got up but was very dizzy unable to see clearly. Lydia coughed blood and her eyes closed.  Her head dropped to the side. They sighed glad it was finally and walked past her. They continued through multiple halls until they saw a long line of guards in silver armor leading to a massive door.

"That's where our target is waiting" Rcomi commented. Just then she heard the guards shout stop, she looked over the corner to see Skiera coming down the hall towards the large steps. All of the men began firing at the dark-haired Warrior but it was ineffective with the protection of his spirit's barrier of red light.

Finally after about a full minute of shooting they realized they were out of ammo. The user smirked at them before he and his spirit in sync aim their Palm towards the crowd of men releasing a blast of red energy. The wave of energy took out all the men and knocked down the door in one shot. The Warrior looked upon the others disdainfully. He scoffed at their feeble attempts. He flipped his black hair from his face.  "I suppose you beat Lydia, did you?  How cute.  But it seems you're at your greatest disadvantage yet!" Gavin summoned his other's full form, a large armored figure holding two blades red and transparent. "It's time to defeat you once and for all" The villain finished his wine he had been holding before rising from his chair. A gray aura glistened around his body as he slowly walked down the stairs over to them.

"What makes you so sure you can win? My power far exceeds all of yours, possibly even put together" He brushed the dark hair out of his eyes and summoned his spirit only instead of being transparent his Spirit formed an exact copy of him.

"B-but how... it looks exactly like him as if it's not a spirit at all" Chris stood frozen in shock while his allies stood guard waiting for their foe to make his move.

"You all I must know nothing about your spirits, there is nearly limitless possibilities of a spirit, their power can continue to grow throughout the user's lifetime. Even to the point where they don't really even have a boundary anymore. I'm sure all of your spirits can only go a limited distance while mine on the other hand can go nearly as far as I wanted to the only downside is it the farther it goes the more concentration I have to put into it"

"I don't have time for this" Rcomi fired a blast of green energy as fast as she could, it soared at incredible aimed at the man. The man simply knocked her energy blast aside as if it was nothing.  He chuckled darkly and flexed his energy.  "You believed that would work, Rcomi? He confidently crossed his arms waiting for the next attack. The girl sighed in annoyance before having her other throw a barrage of punches as fast as she could. But she saw that the villain's other was easily deflecting each attack that came his way. Rcomi I was beginning to get angry at the fact that she couldn't keep up but proceeded to keep throwing blows as fast as her spirit could go. The other two watched as the two users traded blows at high speed.

"I can't even keep up with them can you?" Chris questioned. He looked over at Gavin who was paying close attention and was barely able to keep up but Owens could tell that Gavin was having a little trouble as well. The villain turned his attention to Chris and Gavin.  He strode towards them, "How pathetic.  Letting Rcomi do all the work while you just stand there?  Wouldn't make a difference anyway." Sikera frowned and summoned his large red spirit. "We'll see about that" he began throwing punches with his spirit's massive fist, they may have not been as fast but the man could feel the fierce strength Rush past him as he barely dodged. The red Spirit user formed a katana in one of his hands and began slicing faster than usual for the powerful villain. Finally after multiple slashes he managed to slash a piece of his shirt off. "H-he's fast" The hero commented a little out of breath having to use all his focus in his spirit's speed. The villain snarled at the cut shirt.  He shot his powerful aura at the boy, hoping to disintegrate him where he stood.  He shot another, less powerful one at the others to destabilize them. The first blast causes part of  Gavin Spirit to shrink from being weakened while Rcomi has her Spirit grab her and Chris and pull them out of the way at the last second. Gavin fell to his knees putting his hands on the ground as he breathed heavily from the stress on his body. "T-that attack must have done more damage to me then I thought" Finally the large red Spirit faded leaving him wide open. The villain grinned maliciously and advanced to attack again.  "First you, then the rest!  That was nothing compared to my full power!"

He began charging for another attack, more powerful and deadly than the last. The villain launched his attack quickly.  The aura barreled at Gavin at an alarming speed. The aura slammed into Gavin, knocking him back and into a wall.  The impact cracks the wall. "D-darn it, the battle's not going so well" He slowly stood back up clutching his arm in pain. "It's not over" Gavin watched as Chris released hundreds of icicles in the man's direction, firing as many as he could at full speed. The man launched an energy wall up to deflect Chris' icicles.  He turned his head to his current attacker. Gavin fell back with no energy to summon his other. Meanwhile their foe smirked as the shards of ice shattered on impact. Just then Sikera had an idea and began crawling towards his allies while the assailant was focused on Chris. Finally he reached Rcomi who was a few feet behind Owens.

"I-I have a plan" he said still barley able to move. She looked at him then back at Chris, The villain continued his  assault on Chris, going as hard as he had with Gavin.  He ignored the others to defeat each one by one until they all fall. They watched as he broke through Chris' defense causing him to stagger back before catching his balance. "W-who are you?" Chris finally asked. The man grinned as he crossed his arms and his gray spirit responded : "We, are Verkai…you shall fall at the end of my powerful other!" He threw consecutive blows at Chris with relentless speed and power. Suddenly he uppercut the blonde warrior sending him sailing across the room landing by the other two targets. They watched as blood ran from the boy's broken jaw.

"it's now or never" Sikera responded weakly getting up. He whispered in Rcomi's ear and she nodded. Rcomi placed her hand on Gavin's back as her green light glistened to from her body to his, an aura of red and green mixed together as power burst out of him.

"Time for the real battle" Gavin said as he walked up to Verkai. They stood just a few feet from each other facing each other...Just then they unleashed their spirits, throwing blows of immense power. The entire dome seemed to shake by their incredible power. Verkai was becoming impatient, he threw the hardest punch he could when suddenly he realized Sikera wasn't there. "What the!?"

"Over here" a voice called out. The villain turned to see his foe standing behind him. He threw enough blow but was caught by Gavin with one hand. The villain saw one of his eyes was red while the other was green.

"What is this!?" He yelled as Gavin let go of his arm. Verkai darted away from the kids to collect himself and his power.  "What is this?  Explain yourself!"

He powered up his energy to cover himself.  He kept his eyes on his foes

"You haven't figured it out" she called out. "I've transferred my spirit to him. Now he possesses the power of two others!" Gavin smirked before using Rcomi's spirit of speed to race up to Verkai. The assailant tried once more to hit his target but missed just as the hero moved out of the way and struck him in the torso with his spirit's immense strength. Verkai flew backwards until he slammed into a wall.  A pained scream escaped his lips.  He slowly slid down to the ground, his torso and head in immense pain. He glared at the warriors with his remaining strength. Sikera walked over to him and placed his hand on his fire's wounded chest. He proceeded to make a pulling motion when suddenly all watched as Gavin began pulling Verkai's spirit out. The gray ghost like thing tried to escape but couldn't break free of his grip. Risking it, Gavin absorbed the spirit inside him as well. He coughed and fell to his knees feeling great pain when suddenly...it just stopped. Rcomi rushed over, "Are you ok?" She asked worried. Gavin grabbed her hand, transferring her power back. "Y-yea, my weakened body just couldn't process all the power yet" They turned to the weakened foe. Verkai coughed and fell over, utterly weakened by Sikera.  Blood oozed from his mouth.  He glared at them all.  "Wh-who are you t-to think you can destroy me?!" He watched as Gavin summoned the gray spirit, it formed it's hand into a blade and aimed it at Verkai. "To think your own spirit has turned against you" Verkai grimaced.  "Do you think I'm the only one?  There are more.  You will never be safe!"

"As long as we stay strong, we'll overcome any foe that stands against us" The warrior had his new other stab the enemy in the chest to finish the prolonging battle. They watched as Verkai collapsed in a pool of his own blood.

"We've finally defeated him and this city will get better over time. Rcomi, you should take your place as lord here" She looked at him replying: "I can't do that, it'll just end up like what he did" Gavin sighed placing his hand on her shoulder. "I know you can do this, thinking negative and poorly of yourself will never solve anything" She hesitated then nodded walking over to the throne.

"You're right, I can do this, ill be far better than he was!"

A month had passed since Verkai's defeat, Rcomi took control of the entire city while Chris and Gavin returned to their land, the two soon decided to Unify their lands since they weren't that far, along with the fact they wouldn't have to brutally take over other lord's territory just so they could unite their lands…

Sikera was sitting on his throne watching the seconds go by when finally his loyal guard suggested he'd look over their map for any plans or ideas for the future.

"Well spoken, I shall look over our current progress and see how our power is holding" He made his way into the war room where a large map hung on the wall like a bill-board of their current progress. Added to Owens' land they had control of F.L along with G.A while Rcomi had control of  K.Y.

"Hmmm…seems we only know about four territories counting the two we beat awhile back, one who controlled L.A, while the other controlled C.O… Might need to send some men down there to take control of those two states. But in order to do that and still have a decent supply of men I should call Chris over for a meeting"

Few hours pasted when His ally arrived. One of Sikera's men led him into the briefing room and closed the door as Chris sat a few chairs away from him.

"Now that you're here we can decide on a plan of action"

"For what?" he questioned not sure why he was summoned there. Sikera took a breath and pointed at Florida, "Here is where we are, I currently have a supply of 90,000 troops ready at my command at any moment, you have…"

"About 80,000 men located in my land of Georgia"

"Exactly, surprisingly it took me this long to realize that I defeated the lords of Colorado and Louisiana, there by leaving them with no lord to control them"

"Your point is?"

"We have a total of 170,000 men at our side, we could divide them into three…which comes out as 56,666. I say have 56,000 in each state leaving the remaining 202 to scout the states we haven't explored yet so we can devise a strategy for a state when it comes to it" His ally thought for a moment, going over every part of his plan…

"I guess that could work, I'm not completely for it but it seems like our best option for now"

Once settled they had their units of men make their way to the two unoccupied states. They were to report any suspicious activity and/or report when they arrived at their point of interest. Gavin suggested Chris remain with him in the briefing room so they could both monitor their units and talk to each other instead of sending a messenger or over the radio as well.

"Since they didn't have transportation for this mission it was going to take awhile. Every few hours Chris would check in with his men for an update. They would say they were stopping for a break or they'd see a large animal. But nothing suspicious had happened. It was the next day around noon when Sikera's men announced they had arrived and scanned the area for anything strange or hostile but no such thing was found.

"Good, looks like we've claimed Colorado with ease, now for your men to obtain Louisiana then we'll have four states at our command"

It was three hours later when Owens' men reported they had reached their objective but also reported seeing a women and a group of men roaming the area. "Should we engage sir?" Before Chris could respond Sikera told him to form a small group to watch her while the other men got distance to avoid being detected.

"Yes sir" the troop replied before cutting out. The dark-haired man stood up and made his way to the two large doors that led outside.

"Where are you going?" Chris questioned. Gavin gave him a smirk then said: "I'm going to try and make it to them and help, who knows what'll happen if your men have to fight them. They may be a small group, but normally a small group just means they're strong enough to stand alone without an army"

"Alright…then here you'll need this" Chris gave the warrior a earpiece so they could communicate in case something bad happened. "Thought now would be the right time to use it since normally we can just send messages" The warrior nodded before using his two spirit's power to dash at incredible speed. With his heightened senses and reaction, he was able to avoid trees and buildings with ease.

"Can you hear me?" a voice said from his earpiece.

"Yeah I hear you loud and clear"

"How long do you think it'll take you to reach L.A?"

"About an hour, two at the most if I don't have any trouble along the way"

"Alright I check in after about an hour and a half then, Owens out" Sikera stopped half way there out of breath and rested for about 20 minutes before continuing his way to Louisiana…

Just then he was alerted that one of the women's men had spotted the group and shots were fired. Sikera focused on his objective to reach them before more than just the spy unit were killed. Gavin stopped a few feet away from the scene, most of the unit that were made up of about 50 men were already killed, he held in the vomit that crept it's way up the warrior's throat as he caught sight of their bodies. Suddenly he heard a solider begging not to be hurt. He leapt into a tree then onto an old house that seemed to be rotting away by nature with plants all overgrown on it like weeds.

He saw the women standing in front of the injured trooper asking him why'd they came here. Sikera formed daggers from his energy and waited.

"These men are useless, kill them…I'm sure their lord can't be far behind" She said with a dark smile on her face. Just as her four men prepared to execute the few remaining survivors, Gavin shot his four energy daggers aimed at each male assailant, hitting them either in the back or head. They hit the ground dead from one blow. The woman bristled and turned her attention to the newcomers. "So, I assume you all are goody-goodies then?  Perhaps you should mind your own business before it lands you six feet under!" She flipped her blonde hair and let her energy wind up at her feet, like a mini tornado. It made her clothes rustle and her hair whip.  Sikera dropped to the ground facing her. "Don't be so sure of yourself" He smirked letting his energy release as well. The trees began to fly around from the force of just his basic power. "Your move" He taunted. The woman's imaged faded to nothing.  In the blink of an eye, she was behind Sikera then threw him a hundred feet.  "You don't know Lisera the Mirage?  And you act so boastful.  How pathetic." Gavin started to laugh, "nope never heard of her, but I'm sure this'll be an interesting fight" Just then Chris came in on the earpiece, "Sikera what's going on!?"

"I've confronted the threat,  I'll have to get back to you" The warrior's aura became gray as he rushed his opponent. Just then he made clones of him to confuse her. Lisera began to shimmer and fade once again. However, this time the image burst into light particles. When the particles land on Sikera's clones, they explode again and turn into razor sharp wind energy blades. Lisera sits a distance away, watching the chaos of her explosions.  She sends a few more mirages and fades herself to remain in the wind.

Just then she felt a hand on her shoulder, nice trick, you're really surprising me" She went to attack luckily he evaded her at the last second. "How about you fight me instead of your fakes, I can sense your location so there's no point of trying to hide"

"Well, you see, I'm not actually here.  I'm at my base.  This me is just more particles than the rest, made to seem real.  If you all are so set on a real fight, come find me," Lisera said before becoming shimmery again.

"Damn" He struck the tree beside him in anger causing it to break from its roots falling over. (She's to far if I can't sense her energy, and don't have a clue on her whereabouts) Once it seemed cleared, he had the men hiding outside the city come back and take control. While they scouted further through the state, Sikera continued to search the area for Lisera…

Even with hours of searching he still couldn't figure out where she was. "This is getting tiresome, if she thinks so highly of herself then why hide like this without giving me a clue on where she is!?"

Lisera sat up some in her chair and touched her chest.  "Perhaps there are more viable threats in the area than I previously thought."

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