Clearly you never met the Assassin from my world, or the Sasaki Kojiro of Japan at least.
That aside, this was getting very repetitive. No matter what we threw at him, this guy just won't quit. Seriously, I was kind of glad the Holy Grail War does not apply to this world, he would be a monster to deal with as either a Lancer or a Berserker.
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"Now then, let's continue our little bout." Kokabiel called up a ball of light into his hand and slammed it into the ground, making the ground explode spectacularly in front of me and showering the area with dust, reducing my field of vision.
"Surprise!" The smoke on my right parted to reveal a very disturbing looking Kokabiel and a spear that was aimed for my neck, and I have no time!
Oh damn it!
"BBOOMM!"
"GRAGH!" I got treated to the sight of Kokabiel getting blindsided by an explosion that sent him crashing through a wall a few feet away. Slightly dazed, I turned to find Akeno with that ever-so-sadistic smile of hers.
"Hello Emiya-kun. Sorry for the long wait." She waved as the others came into view. "We needed a bit more time to get ourselves back on our feet."
"You won't hear me complaining." I turned to find a slightly panting Sona Sitri as she came up to me. Noting the similar states of the other females, I reached into one of my dimensional pockets and pulled out several cloaks to cover themselves up. "I would presume that Kiba has been dealt with safely?"
"Indeed." Sona replied while gratefully taking the cloak and wrapping it around her body tightly. "At least we do not have to worry about the armors or him attacking us anymore. Unfortunately we may not be able to deal with Kokabiel in our current state."
"That said." Ise punched his gauntlet into the palm of his other hand. "We can at least lay a few punches on him. That much he owes us for the mess of the town."
"Right then." Rias conjured up another ball of dark energy as Kokabiel got back up to his feet. "Time to get back the interest he owes us." With a throw of the dark energy, the battle restarted with a loud explosion.
"BBBOOMMM!"
I could only say that the resulting series of attacks were something of scuffles mixed with magic and extreme violence. There was no order, no rules, just all out chaos that somehow managed to be retained within the barrier. Rias's group were dealing out the heavy attacks while Sona's group was providing support. On the other side of Kokabiel, the exorcists were dealing with the close combat aspect with Griselda directing the attacks to Xenovia and Irina, making sure that the Fallen Angel could not fly off so easily each time the devils brought him down to the ground. Mitelt provided artillery from a distance while I dealt with the middle and long range attacks.
Yet despite the overwhelming firepower, Kokabiel looked thrilled at the prospect of fighting all of us at once.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" Kokabiel grabbed two spears in his hands and spun on the spot, redirecting some of our attacks at each other while dodging some of Rias's dark ball of energy. Then with a move that screamed cheating, he actually grabbed hold of Akeno's lightning and threw it back at the devils in quick succession, causing them to lose focus due to the electric shocks. He followed shortly by stabbing his spears into the ground to detonate and blast the exorcists away.
"This is getting my blood boiling~" Kokabiel crackled as he directed that animalistic smile at me. "Let's kick it up a notch!" Gripping both his spears, he threw them both at me before using his wings to shoot a few more feathers, forcing me to play defense and getting myself pushed back further.
"OUI, BIRD BRAIN!" Ise came charging with several rounds of those 'Dragon Shots', making Kokabiel pause in his attacks. But those attacks did not do much damage and apart from distracting him, it had the unintended effect of irritating Kokabiel.
"You call that an attack?!" Kokabiel raised an arm and swing lazily, the resulting gust of wind pushing Ise away and sending him to the wall, making him cough out blood before sliding down the crater he made.
"Darn it!" With a grimace, I called out Arondight to help me get some of my strength back and rushed forward to attack. With a ruthlessness matching the dark knight, I started to push Kokabiel back enough for Akeno and Tsubaki to aim their fireballs and lightning at him, before Momo and Reya threw in their own set of attacks, causing the ground to buckle and collapse under us in a cloud of dust, making us lose our footing temporarily.
"Think we got him?" Ise panted as he collapsed to his knees. He got his answer shortly afterwards in the form of the smoke parting and black feathers spewing from behind.
"ARHG!" Everyone yelled out in pain as they buckled from the feathers stuck in various parts of their bodies, leaving only me and Mitelt still relatively fine.
"That was not too bad, but still not good enough." Kokabiel commented as he used his wings to clear away the smoke and dust. "Guess you lot are not ready for this type of assault."
Darn it. One last shot.
"Mitelt, bring on as much spears as you can!" I called out to her as I created two [Thunder Customs] and led the charge to attack, using one spear to conjure the lightning while the other to assist in close combat. Then I decided to take a leaf out of Archer's book and started to call out several other spears and swords, alternating with a new one each time the current set got intercepted by Kokabiel, thus giving me the constant edge of being unpredictable while pushing Kokabiel back to the spot I wanted him to be in.
"YES! This is what I want boy!" Kokabiel crackled even as some of the weapons' sharp edges cut deeply into his flesh and drawing blood. "Now we are getting somewhere!" Then with a bravado that defied all reason, he proceeded to punch all of my weapons with his bare fists before grabbing my head and lifting me off the ground. Then with a roar, he threw me straight up into the air before following me shortly and delivering a drop kick.
Thankfully I had something in mind.
'SHNGK!'
"AAAHHRG!" Kokabiel yelled out in pain as he stopped in his motion to deal with the sword attached to the leg that was about to hit me. With him distracted, I called out to Mitelt.
"NOW!"
Kokabiel looked up from his leg to find a few dozen spears aimed straight for him. With a snarl, he made to fly away only to widen his eyes at the sight of the spears homing in on him like heat-seeking missiles. The more he dodged, the more the spears seemed to speed up.
"That is new! Someone has been training hard!" Kokabiel directed a quick glance at Mitelt with an expression that almost resemble pride at his former subordinate. "Looks like you can create these type of spears now."
"Wait till you see what they can do next!" She raised both her hands to gesture her spears to cluster together and with the sounds of gnashing gears, merged to form very rough imitations of birds. "Have some on me!" She sent them off with a hand, making them fly around like some predator hungry for Fallen Angel's flesh.
"OH~ how exciting!" Kokabiel flexed his fingers. "Let's try them out then!" He grabbed the sword stuck in his leg and yanked it out before throwing it at the incoming barrage of spears. With a light clenching of his fists, he called out several balls of lights of different colors, each one glowing menacingly in the dark, before directing them at the make-shift birds. To no-one's surprise, they hit the birds and broke them into many pieces, but what no one else expected were for the pieces to glow and reformed themselves to back to their original forms. Their speed then went up considerably as they circled around Kokabiel, making a few explosions as some hit his body.
"Oh, so they multiply and explode with such intensity!" Kokabiel commented on the sight with an air of discussing on the weather. "Not bad, but…"
"SHRING! BOOM!"
"AAAAAHHHH!"
"Not good enough dear." Kokabiel said as the birds exploded spectacularly from his barrage of spears, pushing me back while taking Mitelt by surprise, leaving her with deep wounds and a crippled wing that sent her crashing to the ground.
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A/N : The Story Needs More Power Stones ;)
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