Shattering Humanity-Chapter 140: Mach 1: Shelly’s Special SeiõrShield System!
{Back on Roronora City’s Initiation Arena, "Main Stage"}
The Don Laban picks up the cold SunSword with a hand that is now covered in a calm, sad blue SeiõrShield.Juxtaposed to the previous blood red aura from before, the aura visually seems more calm, and the Seiõr being released from Laban is creating slight gusts of wind inside the old basketball arena, evident by Shelly’s blowing hair on the other side of the court.
Shelly doesn’t shy away at all and even smiles while still gripping her katana in her shiny teeth. Both her other swords sheathed.
Shelly: "Dish yor neksht color phase, Lah-bahn? Good. I was shtarting to feel a little bad for kicking yor assh sho eashily."
The Don puts her hand over her Eyelien and from an Eyelien users perspective, her entire hand goes hidden within the sad blue aura being emitted. But for Shelly, she can clearly see the Don peeking through her fingers.
To her, the Don Laban doesn’t seem to move but the fighting instincts within her own brain makes Shelly swing her tooth wielded katana to block an incoming attack. Successfully clashing with a now completely cold SunSword of Don Laban. On the opposite side of the court the after image of Laban with her hand over her eye fades.
(Note: To an alien eye user, well trained in combat, after-images are basically ineffective, due to the eye’s ability to keep up and send impulse messages to the host’s organic computer, making them block attacks, even when the human host doesn’t know why its body is moving on its own.
But to a non Eyelien/IceEye user like Shelly, she must rely solely on her own fighting instincts and prowess to decide how her body should move in attack and defense. Her ability to keep up with this speed and strength makes watching Shelly’s fights, the only way to believe the spectacular event.As if watching a human that is capable of stopping a hurricane, a tsunami, or even an earthquake.)
Her two other swords holstered, Shelly is using purely her neck, back and leg muscles, to push back against the Don Laban. The Don is using all her body weight plus the help of Seiõr.
With her hands free while her mouth grips the katana, Shelly starts to deliver an impressive escapade of gut and rib shots to her enemy with her long arms, but like the formidable foe she is, Laban takes them like a champ, flinching after taking 7-8-9 wide open shots to her torso.
They disengage their blades and back off but immediately jump back in. The two incredible legendary fighters, both now ’in the zone’, are dodging each other’s swiping blades or clashing them, as well as the wind of kicks, and punches whiffing.
The arena is quiet in respect. The few spectators who have stayed, know they are witnessing history. They watch as both female fighters narrowly dodge the moves of their opponent in a dance-like manner.
An old man ’pet’, abandoned by his Master, talks to himself.
Old Man in Audience: "That Blondie, she’s different from the others I’ve seen who fight with that style. Instead of her insisting on using all three blades at her disposal, she uses the blade of the sword between her teeth strictly for defense. As long as she has confidence in the strength of her neck and spine, she’s able to use her fist for accurate attacks on the spots left open.Spots, even highly trained sword fighters don’t practice to defend."
The old man’s skill of analysis is proven true not soon after.
Shelly and the Don’s cold blades clash again but Shelly’s blade slides down, sparks coming off the blades as she stops at the hilt. From a crouched position, with her fist cocked back she comes back and uppercuts the Don in the chin.The uppercut makes Laban leave her feet, her apex about 10 feet in the air, and Shelly’s azule eyes grow wide at the chance of a combo. She reaches in her pocket.
As the Don begins to descend back to the court, her Eyelien looks around for Shelly’s golden hair. She spots Shelly, but it seems like she is just standing there, smirking with her hand in her pocket.
Don Laban(thinking): *Okay, I’ll land on my right foot, and force her to defend the side her blade isn’t on.*
As planned, she prepares to touch the hardwood first with her right foot, but to her chagrin, Shelly had already taken out the previously thrown pocket knife she caught earlier, and skipped it perfectly across the hardwood under Don Laban’s planting right foot as it lands on the folded pocketknife. The Don slips forward, off balance, but is saved from the floor... by Shelly’s knee. Connecting squarely with Laban’s forehead, stunning her, and perfectly knocks her upright. It allows Shelly to begin one of her combos that forces her opponent to keep standing up in an attack that can only be appropriately described as a ’Solo Jumping’.
In the middle of the combo, Shelly suddenly goes for a spinning leg sweep but this time, the Don regains composure before it connects and jumps up HIGH to avoid it. The Seiõr covered Don leaps so high in fact, she has to adjust while in mid-air, so the bottom of her white sneakers can connect with the top of the metal cage. Over 50 feet off the ground.
Don Laban: "Get ready Skalmönd...!"
Shelly looks up in amazement at the physical capabilities of someone who fights with Seiõr but soon the admiration fades and she realizes what is coming her way.Don Laban: "You better pray that Seiõr Spell of Hope you cast over 1,000 years ago...is still..."
As soon as the enemy DaeMon gets both feet firmly planted on a top bar, while upside down, she pushes off the roof of the cage.
Don Laban: "... EFFECTIVE!"
The DaeMon comes crashing down towards Shelly, like an actual blue meteor falling to Earth.
Shelly thinks about unsheathing Madame Fryer, but doesn’t.
Shelly(thinking): *No! Please let me do this on my own, Madame!*
She swings her strong neck to connect, however, even though she prepared for the attack, braced for impact, and even met the imposing force with a force of her own, the cold steel blade covered in sad blue Seiõr connects with the plain cold steel of the katana in Shelly’s jaw. Shelly goes flying immediately after the connection and skips against the hardwood but after an unsuccessful recovery attempt, her momentum is completely stopped by crashing HARD into the metal cage.
On impact, Shelly’s mouth opens and her katana pops out and up, a string of spit completing the disconnect between the two. Her jaw bites down, by the work of her own brain, she realizes she no longer has her blade there. The simple absence of the soft grip makes her remember her first loss. The justifiable and reasonable explanation as to why Daisuki gave that first loss to her.
{Flashback after Itsuka and Shelly’s sparring match.
Daisuki: "To be honest, both of you ladies were phenomenal. The only reason I gave the W to Itsuka, is because she never dropped her weapon once, while Shelly’s...."
{End Flashback}
Both of Shelly’s gorgeous human blue eyes adjust quickly after the sudden shock to her spine and she looks around for her falling sword. She sees it above her eye level, but can also see the Don, quickly coming in for another hit.
Shelly quickly thinks and finds her resolve. The Valkyrie by blood, has the thinnest layer of a "golden-pink" SeiõrShield around her now and she focuses on the airborne katana. As soon as her black sneakers, making the beautiful Seiõr energy stand out, touch the court, Shelly lunges forward towards both the Don Laban and the HFF’s #1 fighter reward sword. The Don smiles and thinks to herself while winding up her blade.
Don Laban: *She fucked up! She’s done for! There’s no way she can bite down on the handle and swing the blade around in time! I won! I WON SKALMÖND YOU BI-*
But before the Don Laban can swing her cold SunSword and finish her victory claim, the katana disappears out of thin air. An after image of Shelly disappears and then there is a ringing in Laban’s ears and her body goes numb.
Don Laban: "H-Huh? What? Wait- no...I-I was supposed to-!Why is the floor moving?! Does everyone...think I’m...a loser again?"
The Don’s SeiõrShield disappears, her left blue eye rolls to the back of her head and it goes white. Her Eyelien goes haywire in every direction. She falls and slides on her face. K.O.’d
Shelly lands on two feet and the ever so slight coating of golden-pink Seiõr fades. Now the less than 20 people left in the crowd, who were privileged enough to witness the legendary fight, stare in pure perplexity of the finishing move. The old man gets gitty, with a missing toothed smile.
Old Man: "Ha. Haha. Hahaha, it’s as if she heard me try to poke a hole in her technique, and she achieved victory not by the blade but..."
He looks on at the blonde haired blue eyed warrior, with the blade of her katana in her teeth, instead of the handle. It is slightly cutting into the corners of her mouth. She stands the victor with one foot on the unconscious Don Laban and puts her fist in the air.
The few people left in the crowd give her a standing ovation.
Old Man: "Shelly Skalmönd, was it? Not really the name one would think when describing a pure legend in the making, but I like it!"
{Rewind}
Reminder to previous note: To an alien eye user, well trained in combat, after-images are basically ineffective, due to the eye’s ability to keep up and send impulse messages to the host’s organic computer, making them block attacks, even when the human host doesn’t know why its body is moving on its own.
However, if a Seiõr user’s after-image is a product of an attack at ’Mach Speed’, there is nothing the host and Eyelien can do to protect itself. Being exposed to mach speed can destroy the body and will ’boil the blood from the inside’ while basically inebriating the individual.
HOWEVER, because of the verrrrrrry slight coating of ’Shelly’s Special SeiõrShield’ surrounding her, it not only allows her to achieve such speed while attacking, but it also protects her body from the negative side effects of moving at 767mph{343mps}.)
’As soon as her black sneakers, covered in her new aura, touch the ground, Shelly leaps towards both the Don Laban and the HFF’s #1 fighter reward sword.’ Shelly sees the same thing the Don saw, and knowing Laban truly doesn’t appreciate her tenacity as a fighter, Shelly smirks.
Shelly: *Thank you, Katsu. Thank you, Big Sis Itsuka. And thank you, Grandma Skalmönd. Because of you....!*
Now already having achieved the incomprehensible speed, Shelly opens her mouth, bites down on the blade, spreading the thin layer around the blade. Drawing blood from the corners of her mouth and with all the power the Valkyrie descendant could muster in her neck, back, and core abdominals, as well as the little Seiõr surrounding her, she swivels/twists her entire body mid-air, appears behind the over confident Laban and with the flat, not sharp, butt of the katana *CRRRACKKKS* Laban in the CVJ, where the back of her skull and top of the spine meet.
[SHELLY’S OFFICIAL POWER LEVEL SYSTEM!SEIÕRSHIELD OF HOPE- MACH 1: ACHIEVED]
Shelly: *... BECAUSE OF YOU THREE, I WILL NEVER LOSE AGAIN!*
{In the V.I.P Press Box with Katsu and Saku.}
Saku turns away from the rapid closing portal placed on the wall.
Daisuki can be heard before it fully closes.
Daisuki: "Wait Sa-!!"
Katsu is cracking his knuckles and stretching out his neck. The Yin Vessel raises an eyebrow to the unnecessary warmups of the Yang Vessel.
Saku: "You seriously want to throw hands after all the shit that’s happened today? You really want to go again, nerd?"
Katsu smiles with his Anjell Eye in 2nd Stage and a Yang aura. Suddenly, to Saku’s complete surprise, his rival division captain starts emitting a white SeiõrShield, his black hair the ’darkness within the white light’.
Saku gives a smile back, trying to not get mad or act timid.
Saku: "So how long have you known how to do that? We just learned about this ’Seiõr’ energy a few hours ago. I even converted an actual Völva to come to Sanpaku and help practice on using it properly..."
Saku and Katsu EyeEngage, as soon as they lock in, Katsu, surrounded by his SeiõrShield, begins to calmly approach Saku.
Saku: "... Now, because of your subtle hints, here and there after receiving these ’blessings’, combined with the things brought up during our Takamagahara philosophy discussions, and now, you waited until we discovered the existence of Seiõr to debut the fact you know how to control it.I think I’m starting to piece together some possibilities as to what you’re afraid to tell me.How many lives have you consciously lived, Katsu?"
The specific wording successfully makes Katsu’s smirk fade and now, the Yang Vessel with the Communication Eye of Wisdom, has a blazing black Yin aura and the Seiõr around him changes the same.
Katsu: "Saku, don’t even act like your dumbass would even believe me, if I told you why I’m going to enjoy beating your ass, every single day, until I kill you."
