//------------------------------// // Chapter 66: Fisticuffs With God // Story: The Last Human // by Blackdragn18 //------------------------------// “Even with all your powers restored you are too weak.” Bolas laughed as I shakily lifted myself off the ground. “It’s not over yet.” I turned my arms into a dragon head and hit him with fire. I watched as it just flowed past him, not even making contact. “My turn.” He raised his hand and a small flame appeared. He closed his hand and when once the taloned fist opened a massive ring of fire flew out heading right towards me. I braced myself but ended up flying back and slamming into the wall anyway. I pulled myself out of the wall. I growled and charged at him. He swung his tail, I dodged and continued after him. I dodged a fireball. Once I got a few feet away I jumped turning my hands into curved blades and I jabbed into his armor climbing up towards his face. As I got near his chest I was grabbed by a massive hand. The hand raised me to look at him. “Interesting strategy. Sadly it was not enough.” “One sec.” I opened my mouth and hit him in the eye with a shot of acid. He roared and dropped me. As I picked myself up I was smashed into the ground by a tail. “Few manage to harm me.” I heard him say as he lifted his tail. “None do it again.” He smashed me again. I rolled out of the way before he hit me a third time. “Let’s see if I can change that.” I turned my hands into a head and fired a large blast of acid at his chest. Nicol Bolas raised his hand, the acid stopped before turning and hitting me. “Fool! You cannot win. I am impressed by your persistence though.” I groaned as I tried to get up before falling over again. “Are you already done? After I just complemented you. Shame.” I was then levitated into the air in front of him. “Tell me human. Where’s your arrogant pride now?” “Hey, I have ways of backing up my arrogance.” “It would appear not.” He raised one of his claws and I levitated closer to him. “You are a disgrace and waste of potential. I’ll be taking that power of mine that you stole.” His eyes glowed and a stabbing pain coursed through my body. “Sorry, I’m kind of using those powers.” I said as I drained the magic holding me. As I began to fall I grew wings and flew straight into him. The impact managed to make him step back, as he was off balance I shot him with a massive shot of fire. It managed to make him back up before falling over the edge of the coliseum and into the darkness. I heard him roar as he fell into the void. “I won.” I said as I sat down on the ground. “Excellent work.” I heard Nicol Bolas’ voice. I looked behind me to see him sitting on the top of the coliseum. “What!? But I just beat you.” “You beat a mere copy and a poorly built one at that. If it were actually me you would have not survived ten seconds.” He flew off the wall and landed in front of me. “So you’ve come to finish me?” “No. You have shown your strength.” He lowered a hand, I stepped on it and he raised his hand back up to get me closer. “You may live. Next time you won’t be so lucky.” “What about the power you promised?” I asked. “That deal was fulfilled long ago.” “What?” “Figure it out.” Bolas then tightened his grip on me as he flew out of the coliseum and over the void. “What are you doing?” I looked down nervously. He didn’t respond and just flipped his hand dropping me. “Ahhh!” Hey! Stop screaming! What? Bob? Idiot! You’re alive. That’s a nice way to wake up I must say, it gets lonely in here. That’s because I’m so interesting. Sure. So how long have I been out? Four hundred thirty two hours. What!? How long is that? One million, five hundred fifty thousand two hundred seconds. I mean in days. 18. How is that possible? I was only there for a few hours. Nope, when you were gone all I could do was sit and watch the sun and moon fly across the sky Well I’ve been here way longer than planned. I jumped up and headed towards the abandoned town. So did you find what you were looking for? I think so. I then felt something in my pocket. I reached into it and pulled out that charm I had gotten when I beat Crosis. What’s that? I’m not entirely sure, I got when I killed Crosis in that weird world. Wait, you fought Crosis? Yep, and after his body disappeared I got this little bauble. That’s more than just a little trinket. What are you talking about? Don’t you see that purple aura coming off it? Yeah. I am kind of curious about that. That’s magic. This thing is filled with it. Really? Cool, wonder why he gave it to me. Just be careful. The magic coming from that thing is pretty strong. Alright. Thanks Celestia. I said sarcastically. Shut up. So did you get anything else? I’m not sure, he said he gave me the power but I don’t feel different. Rightfully so, the only change seems to be your voice. What? Your voice. It has changed somewhat. Really? I listened, sure enough my voice had changed. There was a hint of Bolas’ voice mixed in with my normal voice. Freaky. So who is he? Testing. Testing. That is so weird. Anyway what? You said that he gave you what you came for. Oh yeah, I met Nicol Bolas. Really? Yep, I found out where my arrogance and sadism has come from. Time to see if my trouble got me anything other than some magic jewelry. Maybe we should do that back home. No, it needs to be a surprise when I beat Celestia. “This thing has to do something.” I tapped the charm with my finger. I had been here for three days nothing about me seemed different. So I worked so hard and fought two gods so I could get a pretty bit of jewelry. That’s just rude. Maybe it’s just a magical trophy for all your trouble. No, if human stories as well as my encounter with him are to be believed Nicol Bolas doesn’t give you pretty little trophies to people. It has to do something. At least I hope it does. I raised the charm to my eye. Well if you think it may have some kind of power you should stop playing with it. Fine. I took the charm and put it in my pocket. I guess we better head home.