Boss Battle
Chapter 2: Boss Battle: Keaton and Guildmaster
The Guildmaster looked at Malachi, before chuckling and smiling. He then raised both of his hands as dark energy swirled around them, before slamming them down on the floor, making a large dark circle around both groups and transporting them… to a large, empty field. Grass covered the whole area, with trees making a makeshift circle around the Rescue Teams. Team Maelstrom readied themselves, while the Guildmaster simply dusted himself off and Keaton landed on the floor, before readying himself. There was a moments pause, as everyone gave their opponents a moment to prepare, before Rune, Inigo, and Dielle launched themselves at the Guildmaster, with Techno, V, and Malachi doing the same to Keaton. Keaton, who was prepared for this, simply took off into the air, before making a slashing motion with his wings, causing several sharp… currents? Slashes? Whatever the proper term, he was using both Air Cutter and Air Slash, and aiming it at them. Techno and Malachi actively dodged the slashes, while V simply side-stepped them. V then launched herself up to Keaton’s level, startling him enough for V to grab him and throw him towards her teammates with a shout.
“Hey, catch!”
Taken by surprise, Keaton was barely able to move out of the way in time, and then used the currents in the air to create a Whirlwind, which threw both Technoblade and Malachi into the trees. Wait, where was V-!
“Gotcha!” V proclaimed loudly, before Keaton inhaled loudly, and then ROARED in her face, causing her to get sent flying backwards. Fortunately, V was able to flare her wings in time, but her sense of direction (aka her gyroscopes) was all messed up, and she could barely see since Keaton’s shout cracked her visor. Keaton, seeing how his shout had been the most effective thing so far, inhaled again, before promptly wheezing as he got Sucker Punched in the gut by V. Then the crackle of lighting was heard, and that was the only warning before a Thunder threw him downwards, courtesy of Malachi. Techno then picked up the coughing and twitching Keaton (who is now at Very Low HP), and then chucked him at the Guildmaster with a shout.
Meanwhile, the Guildmaster was having a pretty good fight. While yes, the three he was fighting were significantly less powerful than him, Dielle and Rune had Battle Bonded, while Inigo had thrown as many poison type attacks as he could. That, along with their good coordination and awareness of their surroundings, made him feel like he was having a great time! That was, of course, before he promptly got smacked on the back of his head by a thrown Battle Buddy. Alphonse looked down at Keaton, about to ask if he was alright, before Keaton promptly triggered the Battle Bond, healing both and giving new types to each.
…
There was a long moment of silence, before V promptly screeched in rage.
“ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!”
It seemed both Techno and Malachi agreed with her sentiment, if not QUITE as… angry? Fustrated? Pissed beyond belief? Anyway, it seemed like this Boss Battle just entered Phase 2.
…okay, that sounded a lot cooler in his head.
PHASE 2: Battle-Bonded Guildmaster and Keaton
Inigo, surprisingly, was the first to attack. He lunged forward and punched Keaton in the face. This, to everyone’s surprise, did absolutely nothing, and Inigo was blasted away by a wave of air. Technoblade then drew his sword, and ran forward, intent on finishing the fight. His sword, however, was blocked by a dark energy blade from the Guildmaster. The two struggled for a few seconds before V promptly suplexed the Guildmaster into the ground. There was a loud CRAAASSHH with a large amount of dust, causing everyone to cough and step back from the hole in the ground that certainly wasn’t there before. There was a small rumbling before, with a BANG, the Guildmaster burst out of the green ground, slicing at Techno with his dark matter sword, which Techno blocked with his diamond sword. The two struggled, each trying to physically overpower the other. Due to the Guildmaster being roughly half Techno’s size, the sight was rather amusing and comical, but also impressive. Then, with a war cry, Techno took out his Axe Of Peace, a glowing, enchanted, Netherite axe. The black blade, shining with purple enchantments, slashed and shattered against the dark matter sword. This resulted in an explosion of energy, with a shockwave throwing most everyone a good few feet back, and slamming Keaton into a nearby tree, which proved to finally be too much for his frail body, and he cried out in pain before fainting. The Guildmaster, having also been sent back a bit, looked at all the destruction that was caused, and took a deep breath. He looked at everyone as his Battle Bond faded, and said something that surprised everyone.
“Since you have bested me and my best friend in battle, I shall tell you my true name… Alphonse.”
Alphonse looked at Team Maelstrom with some amount of guilt and shame. He looked like he was about to apologize, but Rune cut him off.
“Don’t. All that you needed to say was that you trust us enough to give us your true name. As such, we will not tell anyone of it. So, we will all go back to the infirmary, get healed up, and address you as Guildmaster in public, and Alphonse in private. Now, after this whole ordeal, I think it’s best to check out that giant castle, yeah?”
Rune looked slightly worried by the end of her speech, but Alphonse simply chuckled and replied to her speech.
“I think that’s a great idea. We’ll go to Twinleaf Town, get healed up, and investigate the castle tomorrow. Tomorrow, Team Maelstrom, you will have an expedition into foreign grounds, and ones that are hopefully aren’t a dungeon. You have no reason to be worried.”
After that, they picked up Keaton from the semi-broken tree, and it creaked slightly as he was extracted. Alphonse transported all of them to Malachi’s Base, and then they all headed down to Twinleaf Town to get some healing.
~~~Timeskip~~~
Later on, during the night time, V was peacefully sleeping upside down with her metallic wings surrounding her. At the same time, Techno had made a perfect replica of a Minecraft bed, and was sleeping in it. Somehow.
~~~POV CHANGE~~~
Harry groaned, blearily blinking his eyes. It was so bright… why was it so bright? After a few more moments, Harry’s vision returned to normal. He then blinked in surprise several times at the sight of the headmaster sitting on a bench nearby… at least, he thought it was the headmaster.
“Er…are you Headmaster Dumbledore?” Harry called nervously, not paying attention to how weird his voice sounded. The… creature, as it were, startled, before getting up and nodding. He then slowly approached Harry, as if he were approaching a wild animal.
“Harry, are you feeling alright?” A mental voice asked him. Harry startled, before slowly nodding, eyes narrowing in suspicion and confusion.
“Harry. I need to pay attention to me, okay? Can you tell me everything that happened?” The voice -Dumbledore- asked him. Harry blinked a few times, before nodding. He summoned up the memories of facing Quirrelmort, and sort of… sent them? At the headmaster. He also added a feeling of confusion and the question of ‘why are you acting like this?’ to the thought. Harry could tell when Dumbledore received both the memories and the message, as he suddenly stiffened. Dumbledore hesitated, before responding to his message with a telepathic message.
“Harry, everyone in the school has changed. We don’t know into what, but there seems to be a… message board(?) on the grounds of the school. We’ve sent a message for help and for information and identification. It should be answered by tomorrow. You know when I mentioned everyone changed? Well, that includes you, and well, all the professors.” Dumbledore then sent an image of apparently what he saw, which was a weird techno dragon looking thing, with small dials on its ears, a dragon-like face, and a purple-ish exterior color, with a light blue color on the inside. There were seemingly no opposable thumbs, just three small claws on each hand. There were four legs, each purple on the outside, with the chest to tail having an odd light blue-white gradient on the inside of the body. There was also a small yellow color deep within the gradient, and green-yellow eyes.
Harry blinked a couple times, before moving one of his hands within his sight, and his eyes widening at the arm being the exact same as in Dumbledore’s memory. He started shaking in fear and shock, before Dumbledore gently put one of his hands on his shoulder to calm him down. Harry then realized why this happened. He was getting choked by Quirrelmort, and he smashed the Philosopher’s Stone into his head to make him stop. Then there was a bright flash of light, and… then he was here. Harry didn’t know what to think, but one thing he did know is that he was… a Miraidon? How did he know that? Regardless, the other thing he knew was that he needed to if Ron and Hermione were all right.
“Don’t worry, Mr. Potter. They are both alive and well. Madam Pomfrey’s been busy just keeping them out. I believe they said they were a… Zeraora for Mr. Weasley, and a Celebi for Ms. Granger. I’m not sure if there is any way for us to reestablish contact with the Ministry, or return to our human forms. Don’t worry, Mr. Potter, none of this is your fault. All the blame lies on me being foolish, and several traps being late. Did you know that it was meant to be a far more vicious and deadly plant, or that the keys were meant to attack the person riding the broom? There were initially significantly more deadly traps, but they were removed so we could have easier access. That was very good luck on your part, Mr. Potter, that you didn’t stumble upon the deadlier traps.” With that ominous and yet oddly comforting note, Dumbledore walked away, and opened the door. A few seconds later, an odd green fairy pixie thing zoomed around Harry, saying things too fast for Harry to process, before hugging him tightly.
This was clearly Hermione, and Harry gently put an arm over her. Then a yellow bipedal cat thing that had lightning marks over his body walked over to Harry and gave him a tight hug, not saying a thing.
Harry smiled, before hugging Ron tightly.
Harry didn’t know a lot, but he knew that no matter what, he and his friends would be able to see it through.