Blood Moon: Awakening

Chapter 10

The blade closed in and moments before it touched James, he pulled his head backwards thereby dodging the blade with it narrowly scarring his cheek. Without a moments hesitation, James gathered energy in his right hand and smashed it deep into Edwards' guts. Edward's hands flared upwards. The ground took two big depressions as red energy ran across the cracks and burst out at other sides of the field. Blood gushed upwards as his eyeballs seemed to almost rollback completely. He was losing consciousness when he pulled himself together. As his hands fell, he blasted James with an energy ball from his mouth, which James blocked with his left hand. James flew towards where his sword had landed. He spun himself in the air, touched and pressed down on the hilt. As he landed, the sword spun, separated into two, and he caught them. Edward staggered to his feet. He walked out of the depression and then fell to his knees, vomiting blood. His vision was blurry as he looked at James in anger.

"You can't be serious? Is this really the best you can do? " James smirked, looking down on Edward.

"Tch..." Edward scoffed as he tried to get to his feet. The armor on his stomach was completely shattered and had fallen off. He took a deep breath and brought out his energy blades as he released his breath.

"Oh? No more quips or smart talk? You’ve been unusually quiet. I am beginning to miss your small talk," James taunted.

"Don't assume for a moment that you have won. I'll definitely repay my debt to you. The one walking out of this alive... IS ME! " Edward roared, and his source energy beamed out of him.

"Don't kid yourself." James scoffed as he turned the swords back to energy spheres. He merged them together and doubled the size of the merged entity. Veins appeared over his left eye as the pupil became thin and glowed red. He lifted his arms upwards and released four swords as he separated his hands sideways and held down the farthest two.

Edward furrowed his eyebrows and launched at James. James stabbed the two blades in his hands into the ground and fired energy blasts at Edward. Edward dodged with quick footwork as he kept moving forward. James grabbed the two swords in the air, spun and shot them at Edward. He struck them both away and dashed closer to James. James held the two swords he stabbed into the ground, but before he could pull them out, Edward was directly in front of him.

"You are mine!" He roared. James' eyes widened. Edward glared. He pivoted his left leg firmly and twisted his body while gunning for James' neck. For a brief second, as he closed in, he saw James’ smirk just as the blade was about to touch his neck. James vanished and appeared at his back. A deep look of despair fell across Edward's face as he sliced the air, releasing a large wave of energy that travelled across the field and broke into the wall of the school's gym. It was a back-to-back situation. James had called for the two swords Edward had knocked away, and as he caught them, he sent them into Edward, piercing through his back and coming out through his guts. Edward coughed out blood and fell forward but caught himself. With a roar, he turned around and tried to strike James, but his face was met with a 360-degree kick from James, sending him spinning in the air and crashing on his head across the field.

"Dammit! I had no idea the power difference would be this great even without his full armor. " Edward, frustrated, face bloodied, bones aching, jaw cracked, banged the floor as adrenaline pumped through his body. He stood to his feet and faced James. James stretched his hands out and quickly brought them to an "X" position. In response, the swords stabbed at Edward dug through his armor and tore out his guts as they stabbed into the ground.

"Kaaaaaa!" Edward screamed in pain. James picked up the two swords on the ground in front of him and merged them together to form a larger one and shot it at Edward. Edward caught the sword with both palms, but the pressure pushed him in the air for a bit before he landed on the ground with his legs. He was dragged against the ground, his armor boots broke away, his legs began to tear till the muscles were exposed and blood was spilling out. He managed to hold back against the sword as it was still pushing against him. James ran towards him, picked up the blades that had pierced through Edward earlier, put his hands in an "X" position, dashed with incredible speed and sliced deep through Edward. Edward lost consciousness for a brief second and the sword pushing against him pierced through his chest, waking him up with much pain. He screamed till his eyes finally rolled back. James, who was now behind Edward in a crouched position, stood up, glanced at Edward, stabbed the sword in his right hand into the ground, then closed his right palm. The resulting effect was the large sword that had pierced through Edward turned into a large sphere, and as Edward's almost lifeless body was falling into the sphere, James flicked his fingers and the sphere exploded.

AT THE AMERICAN base, everyone was overjoyed! They jumped and hugged each other. They shook each other and screamed at the top of their lungs. Some of the operators even began to shed tears of joy. In the main office, Michael and Yu were overjoyed. They shook each other's hands and hugged each other. After a brief moment, they pushed each other away and tried to act dignified. Yu was calm as he sat on his chair with a smile. Michael immediately contacted James.

"Well-done, boy! You did it. I never had a shroud of doubt in you!"

"Thank you, sir! I am sorry I couldn't hold back against him. He's been completely blown to bits." James assured Michael

"Don't worry about it. The threat has been neutralized. That's what is important! " Michael boasted. He felt so proud, and so did Yu.

"You made me proud today, James! I am so glad you are..." Yu stopped as he could see traces of green energy gathering where Edward's body supposedly blew apart.

"Dad?"

"James, look out!" He yelled at the top of his voice!