Zero No Tsukaima Fan Fiction ❯ Zero no Tsukaima The Holy Knights ❯ Chapter 12

Left Arm of God Vs Boss Yellow

 

Seth removes his sleeve and stuffs it into his pocket, “So since you know everything about me and I know nothing about you how about you tell me your name.”

The man smiles at Seth's casualness, “My name is Tayo.”

“Tayo huh, that is a pretty strange name, I almost think you are are lying to me, but I haven't been here that long so maybe you are telling the truth.”

Tayo takes off his long sleeve shirt revealing a well toned upper body. He smirks at Seth who in comparison has a slightly less tone, “Perhaps you would feel better if I kill you quickly.”

Seth cracks his knuckles, “If you killed me quickly than you won't have any fun.”

Tayo nods and looks past Seth to Rain who has had her hood down the whole while, “She is a bute, when you die I'll take good care of her.”

Seth stops smiling and becomes much more serious. Tayo makes a kiss sound towards Rain and Seth races towards him and slams his fist in Tayo's jaw sending him skidding a few feet away. Tayo gets up and licks the blood off his lower lip. Seth charges forward again this time Tayo blurs out of sight. Seth spins around trying to find him and does, only not soon enough as Tayo connects with a crossing right punch that nearly knocks Seth to his knees. Tayo lifts his left knee connecting with the side of Seth's face and then slams his fist into Seth's gut. Seth stumbles backwards holding his abdomen. Tayo disappears again only to still be right in front of Seth catching him by surprise with a strong round house kick. Seth spirals down to the ground. He quickly scrambles to his feet and attempts to connect with a straight right punch, but Tayo side steps and uses Seth's momentum to flip him over onto his back. This time Seth kicks his legs up and kicks Tayo in the forehead making him very mad. Tayo does a front flip over Seth's head and drives his feet down onto Seth's diaphragm. Seth quickly rolls away from Tayo as he fumes over the sudden kick he received.

“I though you were a strong fighter.....I guess the red team and that short fat bastard were all weaklings after all, no wonder.....” Tayo walks back over to the table where the remaining red gang members are and quickly and efficiently kills him with a knife on the table.

Rain quickly runs over to Seth and checks on him, “Seth he is really strong we should run.”

“No I'm not gonna run we have finally found a lead, I'm gonna do my best.” Rain watches practically stunned as Seth sits up and then rises to his feet. “I think I am starting to figure this guy out.”

Tayo looks back at Seth with an amused grin, “Maybe this could still be interesting.”

Seth points at Tayo, “IGNIS!”

A straight beam of fire flies towards Tayo who at first is surprised by Seth's abilities. Tayo jumps into the air and the fire flies under him and slams into the wall behind him. Seth notes that the wall didn't catch fire which means that it must be made of brick in the basement. Tayo charges at Seth with a speed that might rival Airo's. Tayo uses his fading trick but this time Seth jumps up into the air. While in the air Seth spots Tayo as he is reappearing and fires another fire ball at him. This one nearly connects the heat of the flame obviously bothering Tayo at least a little. Seth lands on the ground and slams his fist into Tayo's shoulder making him expose his left side. Seth goes to kick him the side but Tayo does a spiraling flip and connects with a kick to the side of Seth's head just a brief second before landing on the ground. Seth quickly recovers and hits Tayo with a spinning backhand and follows up the attack with a spinning jump kick to the side of his head. Tayo stumbles backwards and looks at Seth with a strange mixture of rage and happiness.

Tayo puts his hand together in front of his chest and a strange light begins to emanate around his wrists. “I think you deserve to not be lied to any longer, I haven't been really fighting with you, more like a, serious sparring match.” Seth doesn't like the way this sounds and finds the strange light around Tayo's wrists to be even worse. Tayo lifts his hands over his head and quickly brings them down separating them. The light shatters like glass and a strange wind blows inside of the windowless basement.

Tayo runs at Seth now with an even greater amount of speed and slams both of his fists into Seth hitting his gut and his chest at the same time launching him half way cross the room. Seth manages to keep his feet even though the impact has sent him such a great distance. Before Seth can recover Tayo is already beside him and slams his foot into the side of Seth's leg the impact causing so much pain that Seth's leg buckles from under him. Tayo does a backflip to create some distance and then slams his feet into Seth's chest sending him crashing do into the floor and across the rest of the room. Seth slowly gets back to his feet using the wall to help him. Tayo this time is just standing where he was before. Seth swipes his hand from left to right while using the fire gauntlets hoping to hit Tayo. Instead trying to dodge Tayo runs through the flames so quickly that anything that caught fire instantly went out.

Seth looks over at Rain and then back to Tayo and realizes that this whole time his runes have not been working for him at all. Tayo starts charging at him again this time Seth starts to panic wishing that his runes would just activate if only to null the pain of the impending strike only a little.

“COME ON!!!!!!!!”

Seth's runes suddenly light up and he slams his fist into the side of Tayo's face launching him all the way across the room and through the banquet table. Seth is left dumb struck as the pain slowly starts to numb and he catches his breath again. Tayo in a fit of rage breaks the remaining parts of the table into smaller pieces. Tayo charges again at Seth using his fading technique but this time Seth can somehow follow the move and as Tayo brings up his foot to strick him Seth slams his fist into Tayo's knee effectively blocking and injuring him at the same time. Seth starts a barrage of punches all over Tayo's upper body until he takes a step back and a slams his fist into Tayo's face launching him across the room again and this time into the wall with such velocity that he leaves an imprint of his body in the wall. Seth charges at Tayo this time and is about to strike him when Tayo shouts his surrender.

“Wait, wait I give up, your runes seem to make you a lot stronger than my energy release.” Tayo smiles through his swelling face.

Seth doesn't think that Tayo would try anything especially with his almost broken left knee, “I want you to tell me where the guys who burned down Strine Village are.”

Tayo reaches into his pocket and pulls out what looks like a compass, “Here, seems you deserve what your are after. I can't tell you who is the one who burned down your village but I can only lead you to the next in command over me.”

“Next in command, you mean that there are even more of you?”

Tayo spits out some blood, “Yeah, as far as I know there are four more groups that hold command over my group. The way it works is that the group only really knows about the group above and below them. I know about those loser reds and unless they changed it the next group are the blues. I don't know much about them though, their leader is a secretive guy.”

Seth takes the compass and looks at it, “So I just follow this compass, it will lead me to the blues?”

“It is a kind of tracker magic so that leaders, if needed, could find the other leaders.”

“So why are you giving this to me?”

Tayo smiles again, “Now the remaining reds and the blues, depending on what you do to them will not be coming here looking for me. Like I said before when I fought you I could feel that you deserve to get what you are looking for.”

Seth puts the compass away, “Thank you Tayo, it's too bad we had to meet this way. You seem like a pretty alright guy compared to the red boss.”

Seth gets up and starts walking away, “Hey kid, “Not all of the bosses are like me, they won't fight to enjoy the fight, they will want to kill you.”

“So does that mean you didn't want to kill me.”

Tayo laughs while wincing, “I lost my cool a little when you kicked me in the face, but I don't like killing good fighters.”

Seth nods and walks over to Rain. The two of them leave the basement and leave the the building.

Rain looks at the compass, “So you think we can trust him?”

Seth nods, “Yeah, I think we can, he seemed like a good guy.” Seth takes a step and a painful zap runs up his leg, “Maybe Zion could help me out before we leave this town.”