Blackbird

My senses flooded with adrenaline. So much adrenaline, in fact, that I sprung off my back and shot into the air with my gauntlets, taking careful looks around the vicinity.

Bolas was clutching his right eye and roaring while firing manic shots in random directions. These balls of sky-blue fire incinerated anything they touched instantly, making me wonder how I was even still alive.

The reason made itself apparent with a teleport to my left.

I craned my head to view her, “You don’t feel bad about hurting him?”

Luna didn’t expect a question from me, let alone a question that’s personal. It seems I’ve hit a soft spot, however, for her face became crestfallen as she looked at Bolas’s spinning and yelling form in the distance.

“Of course I do,” She gave a sigh before looking at me with cloudy eyes, “He’s technically my son. I raised him after slaying the bastard of a father that tried to eat him, saying his egg was a disgrace because it didn’t fall in line with the scale color of the Seven Lords.”

“And those are?”

“The colors are as follows: red, green, purple, black, blue, yellow and pink. As you can see,” She pointed at Bolas, “His are beige...or a green-tinted copper. In dragon society, he’s nothing more than an oversized gecko.” Luna’s face became angry as she thought back to that day, apparently.

“I see. Well then, I guess Bolas and I have something in common,” I stated with a smile. This perplexed Luna, and she made it known by quirking an eyebrow up. I helped her with, “In a way, Bolas and I are one in the same. I just figured something out that will undoubtedly end this struggle.” I concluded with a smile before taking off towards the massive planeswalker.

Luna was hot on my trail, however, her body enveloped in a cocoon-shaped aura of blue as she sped through the air beside me.

“We do not comprehend,” She yelled over the wind, “What have you figured out!?”

“Bolas has been supplying me with his own powers. When I fought against one of the aliens, he claimed that he was the Blue Mage of my Spark. In Magic lore, the Spark is something only Planeswalkers can have! This strand of information helped me piece together the rest of the puzzle right now!”

“And that is...” Luna trailed off.

“That the other aliens represent Bolas’s affinity with his core magics! If Sylvan was the Blue Mage, that would make Xiuhcoatl the Red and Veritas the Black,” I exclaimed happily as we just started nearing the raging dragon, “But that leaves one alien in a veil of mystery.”

“Silas Epista.” Luna finished with a cryptic tone to her voice. I nodded my agreeance.

“My theory doesn’t explain what he’s doing in my head. Something’s up with that guy, and something tells me I’m not gonna like the answer.” I replied determinedly, then willed more magic into my gauntlets and increasing the output of sky-blue flames.

I shot off at blinding speeds that I won’t be able to put in words, but let’s just say Bolas was feeling a little winded after the collision. In fact, the impact was hard enough to make me lift him off the ground and rocket him into the sky.

The big bastard let out a pained grunt and tried swatting me, but a blue ray of magic caught him in the chin as it flew past my back, making me look down momentarily to see Luna with a shit-eating grin on her face.

“Oh come now, Silas,” She exclaimed before firing another blast that freaked me out at the close proximity, “I’ve had a thousand years to perfect my accuracy! You should be comfortable enough to continue fighting!”

“I’m glad you’re havi- Shit! - I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself!” I yelled at Luna while Bolas roared as that ray hit him in the other eye, which made him switch the positioning of his occupied hand to said eye. The other one had a massive hole in the center as it leaked a profusive amount of scarlet blood.

I nearly lost my lunch as his eye began to grow blood tentacles that writhed violently in the air before growing dragon heads. No matter what Luna may say, I did not scream like a bitch when they started slithering down towards me.

As silly as it may sound, I’m deathly afraid of snakes. These niggas were slithering! SLITHERING!!!

“BLAST THE FUCK OUT OF ‘EM, LUNA!!! PLEASE!!!” I...um...vocalized.

“So noisy.” Luna stated before the sound of a gatling gun filled the air. Multiple rays of blue slammed into the snake-dragons as they leaped for me, blowing back twenty of those gross-looking sons of bitches. That took care of the immediate threat, sure, but the rest of the snakes came faster than a virgin’s first time!

Under no circumstances are you to believe that I screamed like a little girl.

More rays blew the blood-snakes to smithereens, but it seemed like there would be no end to them unless Bolas’s eye was closed.

I had an idea.

“Luna,” She looked at me, “Slice off his wings!” Her face paled.

“You plan to drop him!?”

I nodded.

“He can teleport!” She tried as she blasted more blood-snakes.

“Then wouldn’t he have already done it by now!? Just go do it!” I yelled out impatiently, watching Luna roll her eyes before flying down and around Bolas’s flailing tail.

I stopped the propulsion from my gauntlets, letting Bolas’s body fly away from my body and into the air some more. The snakes that were supposed to spell my doom jumped from Bolas’s stomach in an attempt to bite me.

I lifted a hand, mouthed “Eat your heart out, Tsuna,” and then stretched the other hand back behind me. My eye came to life, showing me the balance of my arms perfectly. The Sirios unit let me see how uneven my arms were, so I fixed them, which made the two white lines blend together into one solid line.

I took aim for the gem and the snakes as Bolas’s body continued to fly upwards, making me adjust my aim so that I was a few inches above the jewel’s position.

“X Burner...” I felt my hands charge up with an unholy amount of energy. I don’t know if this’ll work, but if it doesn’t then I’m screwed,”AIR!!!”

A larger torrent of darker sky-blue flame rocketed from my forward hand, but a softer, lighter torrent came out of my back one. This held me in place as the darker sky-blue torrent roasted the blood-snakes before rocketing towards Bolas’s jewel that floated between his massive horns.

I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, Luna coming towards Bolas’s back with what looked like a large pole of white, blazing magic. It’s very presence distorted the air around it, making me believe that it was increasingly hot.

She angled her head sharply and gave a massive roar of triumph that made me feel like less of a man, the magic around her horn bringing the pole of white energy around in a diagonal arc from bottom left to top right. A large crescent moon-shaped after image ripped into Bolas’s back and wings right as my torrent of condensed flames slammed into his jewel, shattering the thing instantly and making it expel all his stored magic.

Bolas gave a mighty roar as he flipped from Luna’s slash, his wings falling to either side of him as his ascent stopped then went in reverse. I could see the flames around his hands die out as he plummeted, and his face became fearful when he noticed his wings were falling beside him.

His fearful face became one of absolute rage as he roared loudly. So loudly in fact, that my Sirios unit began frizzing up and whirring unbearably high. My vision became like an unavailable channel for an old t.v, crackling black and white.

“Silas!” I heard Luna shout as my head swam and I became nauseous, the fire in my gauntlets stopping prematurely which made me begin a plummet of my own. A sickening whump that shook even the air alerted me to Bolas’s defeat, and I knew that I would be joining him soon.

"Revenge should be honey on our tongues, but it's turned to ash in our mouths..."