End Of Our Worlds? Not today Chapter 07
#7 of EOOW? NT
The group arrive in a spacious room, completely empty and devoid of any accessories. The walls are still made of wood but small fibers and layers of magic is protecting the walls and roof if they watch closely.
"Wow, I've never thought that this tower could have such a big room." Goofy exclaims in awe, looking everywhere, taking in the size of the room.
"I must say it's quite a training room too." Oswald nods in agreement.
"It needs to be spacious, you should see this place when I train my students here, you wonder how this room did not explode before with all the types of magic being released at once. Thankfully, the enchantment I've added on the walls are doing wonders."
"It must be impressive to see and witness such powers with your students." Ortensia comments looking at Yen Sid. A little smile appears on the wizard's face for a very short of time. Ortensia barely saw it but she can swear that smile was a smile full of pride and fun memories.
"Yes, it's impressive and sometimes terrifying I must say but it's always a joy to see students being serious in what they do and seeing their progression throughout the years." Yen Sid says before stopping dead in his track and turns to Mickey. "All right Mickey, let's see what you can do now." He challenges as he spawns a shadow of himself at the other side of the room. "Defeat him by any means." He claps his hand, spawning a wall of magic between the group and Mickey to shield the group from any hazards during the showdown.
"All right, let's see where I am at." Mickey takes off his coat and studies the Shadow Yen Sid in front of him. He walks right slowly to see how his opponent would react and hopefully leave an opening for him to attack. The shadow however is quick to demand for some action as he casts a fireball on Mickey which to be fair is not threatening at all. This makes Mickey respond with a lightning bolt, deflected easily by the shadow. 'mmm no opening so far, maybe close combat is the way to go.' The mouse thinks and before he knows it, a flash of cyan light happens, spawning in his left hand a black long sword made out of sharp dragon scales; all outlined with the same blue cyan. Another flash happens and a second similar designed sword appears in Mickey's right hand but this time, it is pure white with red outlines and is hold in a reversed grip.
"DOUBLE SWORDS??!" The whole group says in amazement.
'How? I've never saw him train nor use a sword in reverse grip.' Yen Sid wonders internally, curious nonetheless.
Mickey's body glows in a faint cyan blue before disappearing and spawning right behind the shadow and swings of his swords. The opponent barely escapes the swings looking really surprised, almost stunned at the speed of movements and precisions of the swings. He throws more and more fireballs at Mickey, clearly trying to get as much as possible between him and Mickey; but this does not do any good as Mickey very quickly closes the gap and lands a hit with the side of one of his sword, making the shadow fly backward. Mickey was not done as he appears right under his foe between the ground and deals an electro-charged kick sending the poor shadow toward the ceiling at a ridiculously high velocity. Mickey's body transforms into a lightning bolt, moving pass the flying shadow and deals another charged kick sending him to the nearest wall. The group can only watch the shadow being kicked, punched around like a ball at a very high velocity around the room. Donald closes his eyes as he can't follow anything and is getting dizzy. Once Mickey has enough, he focuses a high voltage punch and deals the blow right in the Shadow Yen Sid's stomach, clearly killing him on the spot.
"I must say this is quite impressive and terrifying at the same time Mickey." Oswald congratulate his brother, while sweating at the display of such power. 'note to self: do not piss him off.'
"Yeah this is good, but not good enough. I do feel that your potential has not been discovered yet." Yen Sid stroke his beard, thinking how he can awake his apprentice's skills and true power.
"Let's try that again but this time, two against one." He spawns a replica of a vampire and werewolf.
"Are you kidding me?" Mickey gasps "This will be too hard master."
"Focus Mickey, focus." Yen Sid sternly says.
Without warning the werewolf lunges forward and swipes at Mickey at full speed. Mickey's reflexes kick in as he shields himself with his twin swords. 'oh goodness this going to end badly.'. He jumps over the werewolf and only now see the vampire flying full on him. Mickey's first reaction is to make himself as small as possible into a ball with both swords all out and he spins on himself turning himself into a dangerous ball. The vampire maneuvers to escape but just not enough and loses his right arm in the process. Right as Mickey lands, he receives a swipe by the werewolf sending him right into a wall at high speed.
"Michael!" Oswald shouts, his big brother instinct is telling him to run and check is brother but deep down, he knows that he will be alright and Yen Sid can stop it if it goes too far.
"Ow, that was a nasty hit" Mickey stands up and focuses on the werewolf. 'let's see how you will like that you monster.' At this moment an aura appears around Mickey, changing all the cyan outlines to a bloody red outline, outfit and his element included.
Yen Sid gasps 'What's that? What is happening to him right now?' he looks closely, even scare to even blink. 'Did he just switched...not that can't be right'.
The werewolf lunges at Mickey again, almost quicker then the first time but this time, Mickey is ready and without warning, Mickey launches a torrent of lightning to the lycanth who can only take them straight on, the mouse then punches the air creating a shockwave sending the Werewolf crashing against the opposite wall, disappearing in the process.
Mickey immediately scans the room for the remaining vampire but can't find him at all. He looks at Yen Sid, who did not blink since the very beginning of the second round.
"You destroyed him as well with that shockwave Mickey. How on earth did you learn all of that?" Yen Sid says as he disables the shield.
"I...I don't know, a lot thinks I'm doing now...I couldn't do it before." Mickey inspect his hands "I just...do it...I guess, like...I know I can do it and I just do it."
"That was wicked though bro, remind me to not piss you off in the future will ya?" Oswald gives a pat in the back of Mickey.
"Will do bro, will do."
"Mickey? What the hell happened to you when you fought the werewolf? Your energy turned bloody red." Yen Sid asks eagerly.
"I...I don't know actually. I just focused as much as I could on him and everything else became a blur and disappeared. I only saw that werewolf and I felt something switch inside of me."
"like a 'Werewolf mode activated' switch?" asked Donald
"Yeah...something like that and I felt something like that happening when I fought the vampire earlier but...it wasn't as strong."
"You...you...you have a passive ability, a very handy and strange passive ability at that." Yen Sid reflects, wondering what the hell happened to Mickey and how much changed in him.
"Passive ability? I thought mine was already determined." Mickey looks at his mentor, puzzled.
"The crystal, the bird...it changed it...but how? I need you to do some testing for me." Yen Sid requests.
"Sure, I have plenty of mana left." Mickey grins and then realizes what he just said. "plenty of mana left? How can I have that much mana?"
"Yeah, the attacks you did looked like they were heavy-mana hungry." Oswald agrees.
"You guys go train or something. I need some private, intense hours with Mickey to figure what is happening with Mickey. We will let you know when we are done." Yen Sid casually says.
"But...alright, let's go guys, we need to check our weapons and inventories as well. Take care Mickey." Ortensia walks toward the door with Oswald beside her, giving anxious looks behind to Mickey; Donald and Goofy following them closely.
"This is getting really interesting." Ortensia muses to her husband. "Listen guys, I'm going to Twilight Town with Fiona to get some more news about what's happening at The End Of Sea. Anyone wants to come or not?"
"Not really." The others say.
"So much is happening, need some air to breathe and think." Donald explains follow by a nod from Oswald and Goofy.
"We'll wait for you here." Goofy reply.
"Ok then, take care boys, I'll be back in a bit" She runs off to the Wardrobe Room to meet with Flora.
"You too, be careful." Goofy waves at her.
The trio walks back to their stuffs, noises and vibrations could be heard and felt caused by whatever Mickey and Yen Sid were trying out.