My eyes didn't open at first, nor could I feel anything. My body was calibrating my conscience, but it wasn't as fast as I had assumed.
"How are you doing over there? The Villains are going to beat us if you don't hurry up!" Firaga called to me, but her voice was still distant.
It had been almost an hour since I started calibrating, but this body was much different than my original. Sofia had made significant changes to the clone, and I was going through them all as I waited, but I was almost done.
"There. Sorry about that. This thing is a beast, and I was stuck in here while I was getting everything in order," I growled in my new voice as I pulled my new body out of the fluids, but I didn't look like myself.
"Why do you look like that?! That's almost scary looking, and that is something for me to say!" Firaga exclaimed, and I laughed, but my voice was much deeper and rough.
I had shaped my body to look just like the Kratos from the video game, but the older and more built version.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"One of my favorite characters, and his name is Kratos, so it was fitting, I think. How did it go with the Chimera System?" I asked as I stretched out my ashen white skin.
"Already set it up with my two clones, but it turned out good. You will see as soon as we get out of here! Don't you think that we should do that?!" Firaga frowned.
"No rush. We have thirty minutes. I am tracking them. Make me two great blades quick, and then we will get out of here. If we had more time, I would get you to put them on fifty-foot chains that retracted inside me," I explained, and Firaga nodded.
"That is easy since I can freely edit this body you're in. You need to hurry up!" Firaga complained as she slapped her hands on my muscled chest.
Suddenly, a fire started to burn me from the inside, dropping me to one knee, then it got worse, but I bore it. The side of my waist burned open, and two-inch thick chains poured out of the side of me, and I let out a low growl.
Firaga pulled back and stood up, walking to her anvil, the chains following her. She reached one hand over the anvil, and the other grabbed her hammer as a silver blob dropped down.
One of the chains climbed up, connecting to the shiny blob, then Firaga struck it, making the metal splash out. The splash went out like a rock hitting the water but then stopped and sucked back into the shape of a massive curved blade with teeth on the back.
"Let's go! I will attach the Chimera Blade when we get up to the surface!" Firaga shouted at me, and I grinned.
The Max Power System had just leveled up, and I could feel myself get stronger, but I was still a ways away from my previous strength. I grabbed the massive blade and called up to the tree for a way out as the chains sucked back into my body.
A hole started to open up in the room, and I jumped up, but I had to bounce off the sides to make my way up. I burst from the ground to find the two clones holding the new weapon, the girls were all waiting as I landed, and Firaga followed behind me.
"Woah! Let's go, God of War!" Sofia cheered, and I grinned.
"Is that really you, Daniel?" Amy asked, giving me a peculiar look.
"Yeah, it's me, but I am going to keep my main body here for now. Firaga and I should be enough, but I want everyone on guard. This is our first real battle, and this will set the stage for every fight after," I said in my deep and gruff voice.
"We got it, but what happened to Firaga?! What kind of metal did she eat to look like that?! Or was this what happened after you two did it?" Melody asked.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"Yes, he fucked my brain back straight; now, let me attach this damn weapon so we can get going!" Firaga growled, stomping over to the clones holding a large strange, scaled blade.
The empty chain followed her, and she grabbed the big weapon, dripping metal on it, then hitting the hilt and chain with her fist. The metal splashed out a bit, then sucked back, forming the connection.
"Woah! Is that a System?!" Melody asked as Firaga tossed the blade at me.
"Yup, the Chimera System, and I got Max Power inside of me. We have to get going; love you all and be safe!" I called as the Tree picked Firaga and me up.
"I will scout ahead, don't waste time, and kill them all! The faster you get back, the sooner we can regroup," Firaga ordered me, and I frowned at her as the tree's massive arms pulled back.
"You sound like you aren't going to be fighting?!"
"I am not. I want to see just how effective you are with this new body. I will watch for stragglers that try to get past you, but there are only a few of them," Firaga called over, and I groaned, but it was too late to complain.
I was flung into the air like a rocket with a massive blade in each hand, but once I reached the top of my arc, I stuck the Chimera blade behind me. The scaled green blade transformed into a dragon's head, and I roared into the open air.
"DRAGON'S BREATH!"
Fire burst from the dragon's mouth, and I rocketed forward as massive green dragon wings burst from my back. The sword could augment into three forms right now, and the weapon also amalgamated into my body.
I could see the forest's edge coming fast, and I could sense the Villains about four hundred miles from the forest's edge. This gave me time to make it about two hundred miles past, and I retracted the Chimera blade, falling to the ground.