Legacies of light

Φ Charging at the robot with my legacy on my legs and arms, I try to use my legacies claws to cut it, but it can’t get through.

“That will be ineffective,” the robot says flying away. When he is high enough in the air with his right arm, he shoots a blast of what seems to be condensed spirit energy. As I dodge it, I notice the power is nowhere are strong as it was the first time I saw it.

So, I decided to get closer to him, I create lots of snow the moment I jump to propel myself into the air where I use my ninja weapon and cut him. This weapon was actually able to make a cut in his exterior, I can work with this.

As I fall I wrap my chain around the robots body, and due to the zero gravity this far up, I am able to create an ice platform in the sky, which I jump off of for another strike at the robot.

As I approach the robot readies to fire another blast, but using the chain I wrapped around him earlier I move my body out of the way.

But instead of the blast going straight, it breaks into a scattershot and still hits me which leaves me stranded in zero gravity. Then using both cannons together, he fires a large blast at me. I create ice as a shield, but the force of the blast sends me into a building.

Recoiling in the building my thoughts go wild: when I am using the ninja weapon I can’t create ice as freely to defend, but if I could use my legacy on this weapon like Maple and Iancu I should be able to get past that.

But the only time I manage to do that was when I was messing with the kids, and I haven’t done it since. No, I have to, I must, I can’t let anyone die this time.

So, in the building, I begin to focus. A legacy is another soul inside my body, I activate it by sending that souls power into one of my limbs, so I must do the same with this weapon, treat it like a limb

As I sit there another blast is sent right at me.

Φ “Get behind me, everyone!” I shout to all the kids. As they run behind me, I stand up to face the alien, but I struggle to do so.

“Iancu, are you ok?” Morrigan asks me.

“Don’t worry about me, I am fine,” I say rubbing his head.

“Don’t you know little one, lying is a sin. When one uses the power from a greater soul like a legacy, it taxes their body quite a bit, and with all the times you have used it today, I doubt you should even be able to stand.”

“SHUT UP!” I scream as I walk towards him. Even if he is right, I won’t let him touch the kids, but more than that, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hurt the man who scarred my mom. Using my legacy on my shoe I dash forward at him.

But before my attack could land, he dodged out of the way and moments later his knee was in my stomach, which causes my legacy to turn off.

“How much sense does it make for me to have zero combat experience?”

Falling to the ground, I start to spit up blood, that last hit definitely had the use of spirit arts. “Though I shouldn’t mock a child for his lack of knowledge.”

Still, in pain I try to go for a kick, but he parries and hits me in the gut again.

“Iancu!” the kids shout as they run towards me.

“STAY BACK!” Standing up I say, “This is my fight.” Then I move toward him and proceed to engage him. No matter what I throw at him he continues to dodge or parry it, then he hits me in the stomach yet again.

It hurts so much that I feel like I am going to pass out, but ignoring the pain I continue to throw punches.

“Would you please just stop this pointlessness, I don’t want to injure you more than I have to, you’re a once-in-a-lifetime specimen,” he says kicking me in the stomach again.

“But now that I think about it, as long as your genitals are intact, we can make more, so I guess I don’t have to stop this. Come on, show me what you got, show me some of that vampiric strength,” He says giddily.

Dammit, dad, this is why I always asked for you to show me how to fight as a vampire, I knew it would come in handy at some point. Thinking about dad I regain my strength, then I continue to attack.

Ever since mom left, dads heart fell into an abyss, it is like he rejects everything mom used to stand for. I know as well as he does that mom wasn’t perfect, but the things she did, the things she stands for have meaning, and I hope by constantly working towards that meaning I might be able to pull dad out of the abyss.

Φ Even with his stomach battered and with blood spewing down his mouth, he still keeps going, what will power. I am more certain than ever this kid will work wonders with us, I need him now. It is time to end this.

Looking at him, I see Iancu using his legacy on his arm; probably a last desperate attempt at killing me. So, all I got to do is evade, then hit him with one more counter. But as I try to dodge I am on able to move my feet. Noticing his feet, I see he used his legacy on them. He must have increased the friction on the floor, so now we can’t move.

As his fist comes towards me, a big smile appears behind my mask; he exceeded my expectations. I had thought there was no way he had enough strength to use his legacy, but I guess I was wrong. He fist smashes into my face cracking my mask, and due to the friction my legs don’t move, my body just bends backwards.

Φ Using my legacy on my other arm I go into a blind rage as I constantly hit him in the face boosting the force of each blow. Unable to move our feet, me and him are stuck in the same place as I constantly beat down on him.

As I get tired, I hear all the kids behind me scream, “YOU CAN DO IT!”

“BEAT HIM IANCU!”

“DESTROY HIM!”

“PLEASE WIN IANCU!”

This energizes me to keep going, so I smash my fists against the alien's mask making more and more cracks as I go. “For dad, for mom, for everyone,” I say as my blows get harder.

But suddenly I feel my legs move; my legacy on my foot has come off. Then I feel the back of his heel move all the way to my chin, then I am sent flying over.

The blow almost knocks me out, but I somehow manage to keep myself conscious. As I try to get up, I see that my body has reached its physical limit.

“If your body didn’t give out first my neck might have snapped.”

Tears forming in my eyes I say, “How did this happen, I put my all into this why couldn’t I do this?”

Walking up to me and kneeling, he says, “My suit was made to withstand impacts, so don’t feel bad, you probably would have killed a normal person on the first blow.”

His words play like background music in my head as the gravity of my failure falls on me, I have let those kids down, I have let Orb down, and now I am going to leave my father all alone. I am so sorry.

“Now Iancu, let us go while you're to friends are battling my little artificial angels.”

As he picks up my body, I gather all my strength and try to resist.

“Still got some fight left in you,” he says as he smacks me across the head.

Recoiling from the blow, I use my fangs and sink my fangs into his suit. I suck as much blood as I can before he rips me away and knees me in the stomach, after that I am flung towards the other kids.

“I like that tenacity, but it is still quite annoying, so I am going to have to make you docile.”

As the man approaches me, the kids get in his way, “Guys don’t be stupid I need you all to run.”

With tears running down Morrigan’s face he says, “We can’t leave you like this to be taken, even if it means we have to fight.”

“You have no chance you idiots, run!”

“Even if we have no chance, we can’t just leave you alone.”

Suddenly he rushes at us, but before he reaches us, I see something come down from above then his hand is sent flying. Looking over at who it is, I see my dad.

“IANCU!” he screams running over to me. “What the hell is wrong with you, why would you push your body this hard? You should’ve listened to me you fool!”

Unable to gather my thoughts, all I could say as I lightly grab my dad's clothes is, “Dad it was him, he was the one who kidnapped moms friend all those years ago. I tried to avenge mom, but I was too weak, I am sorry.”

Tapping my head, my dad says, “Iancu it is ok, don’t worry about that anymore, I will handle it,” right before walking away. Just before he left me, I saw dads face contort in anger.

Φ Walking over to the alien I say, “Hey do you enjoy takings things from me.”

“Sorry but have we met before, but I am guessing you're that little vampire's father.”

“First you hurt my wife, then you try to take my son as well, but thank god because it seems justice exists after all.”

Φ I can feel the hatred leaking out of him, and since I don’t know how he just cut off my arm, I need to strike first before he kills me. Reinforcing my body with spirit energy, I charge towards him and go for a hit on his temple with my heel.

But before it could land I see my leg get torn off, and then I see that a blade has appeared at his left arm. He must have hardened his blood into a blade, that’s how he got throw my suit.

I have lost this battle; I need to get out of here and regroup with the angels and my comrades at the meeting point. I infuse spirit energy into my remaining leg, and then I lunge away, but I see the blood blade extend and cut off my other leg which causes me to fall to the ground.

Φ Walking over to the alien I rip off his mask, and then taking a good look at his face I say, “Here I thought you didn’t feel pain, but your face tells me you're just tolerant, but hey let us see how much you can take.”

Using his one arm to push me away, the alien starts to drag his body away with one arm, so I step on his back and rip it off, which causes him to let out a scream. “Oh, that is what I wanted to hear.”

Holding his limbless body in my hand I say, “You seem to love research so how about we have a group project, let us see what hurts more, getting all your organs shredded or having your limbs ripped off.”

Sending my blood into his body I rip each and every one of his organs and his nerves until they are nothing but a pile of blood and meat, his screams echo throughout the rooftops the entire time.

Seeing his pathetic body I don’t really feel anything, not satisfaction or happiness, just the same worry for everything I love, that I have felt since Gloria died.

I came to this country to fulfil a childhood dream I had, but in the end, this country really has taken more from me than anything, and after all that happened today Iancu is no longer safe here, so we will be going back home.

Turning around I walk over to Iancu, I take a second to look at him, and what I see are the kids surrounding him crying over the state he has left himself in, but more than that even utterly beaten and bruised he is somehow radiating the light that Gloria always used to.

Staring at him it is like she is right here, like she isn’t dead. Utterly annoyed Captivant’s words ring through my head, as I run over to check on Iancu.

When I go over to him before I could say anything Iancu says, “Everyone this is my dad, despite how mean he looks he is very kind and will look after you all while I go to sleep.” Suddenly Iancu eyes close.

Quickly checking him I let out a sigh seeing he is just unconscious. But after I do that the kids pull on my jacket and say, “You were really cool.”

“Like a superhero.”

“Like Ninja man.”

“What would be your name.”

“Blood man.”

“Who do you think is stronger blood or ninja man.”

“Ninja man obviously,” the boy with the hood up says.

“But Morrigan Ninja wasn’t that strong.”

“Shut up stupid head.”

“Your stupid.”

As the kids start fighting I scream, “CALM DOWN.” They all fall to command. “Good now behave yourselves ok or I will leave you.”

“OK!” After gathering myself I ask the kids, “Hey what do you think of Iancu?”

“He is the best!”

“He is always looking out for us.”

“He feeds me and shows me how to read books.”

“I love him so much.”

“He makes Ichnaea liveable for us.”

“If it wasn’t for him I would hate my life.”

Looking at Iancu I say, “Maybe what you were doing was actually amazing.”