KlKlang-Klang!With the help of a single droplet of Dragon blood, Lapu-Lapu is back to his peak performance. Magellan on the other side fought with a dumbstruck look on his face.
"Did I just witness a Chinese Dragon appearing out of nowhere and did a casual business with this monkey before me?" Magellan thought as he slowly lost his advantage against Lapu-Lapu"s relentless attacks.
His armor is slowly being chipped away together with his previous arrogance.
"ridículo! This is cheating!" He bellowed complaining at the unfairness of the situation.
CLANG!~
"covarde índio!" He mocked his opponent as a coward Indio. Lapu-Lapu did not understand him of course. The latter was just smiling happily as he hacked and slashed to his heart"s content.
His wounds and dents are piling up from his arms, chest, and sides! Even his helmet has chipped marks from close calls of Lapu-Lapu"s wild slashes.
Finally, Magellan noticed the incredible soreness he felt all over his body. He felt the armor becoming stiffer and his breathing became very heavy. And with a clear look, he realized that Lapu-Lapu was not using the sharp edge of the heavy cutla.s.s, but the rough opposite side instead!
No wonder his metal armor remained intact despite the huge dents. He was doing it on purpose to prolong the fight as well. Magellan suddenly realized that his muscles had gone too stiff and the joints hurt a lot!
His body was heavily inflamed from the heavy hits from Lapu-Lapu"s cutla.s.s. Not to mention, his c.o.c.ky look on his face seems to tell him that he was confident that he will not lose the fight nor at least die from it.
He had a Dragon as back up after all!
The wicked smile from the brown warrior told him that the latter was enjoying the fight to the fullest!
It was until then he realized what Lapu-Lapu was actually doing. They were not wild slashes at all but purpose-filled to not kill Magellan but to experience an expert battle against him!
SHOOOK!~
ACK!~
A poisoned arrow went straight deep at the small unarmored slit in Magellan"s left leg resulted in the sudden stop of their ferocious fight.
"And there goes the killjoy." The sound of the man"s voice came again. Elric traced the origin of the arrow only to become utterly shocked - again.
"KAHAYAAAG!!!" Lapu-Lapu shouted irritably.
With one look at the lodged arrow on the Spaniard"s left leg, he already knew who owned that special poisoned arrow.
He turned around to glare at the distant figure of a woman clothed in various colored fabric with shamanic scriptures written all over the edges. She was holding a longbow who confidently glared back at the chieftain of the island.
She was Kahayag, the 200th wife of Lapu-Lapu and the most powerful Babaylan or shaman of the entire Visayan islands. Her appearance on the island was a complete mystery but despite that, she was still one of Lapu-Lapu"s wife. It was her who told Lang, the eastern Dragon King, of the possible bad outcome of the battle.
And it was also her who shot the arrow from a distance of more than five hundred meters to precisely hit the small exposed leg of Magellan.
"Your playtime is over! Finish that foreigner and come home!" Kahayag, turned around and left. Her figure banished mysteriously as it blended into the dense forest behind her.
"It was a good fight, White man," Lapu-Lapu said as he prepared to finish off the downed Spanish captain.
Lapu-Lapu raised his heavy cutla.s.s, with the sharp edge facing down this time, and was about to hack the foreigner down. But realizing that it was not a clean victory on his side, he decided to turn around instead.
"Leave." He said as he threw a bottle with an antidote from the poison beside the feeble captain.
"My stupid wife is angry and I haven"t got my fill yet. And that look in her eyes. how dare she. Just you wait-" Lapu-Lapu left the area with a mumbling mouth.
Understanding the island chieftain"s intention, Magellan"s pride surged in unexpectedly.
"Is he looking down on me? Just because I am wounded doesn"t mean I am not going to fight!" Magellan thought as he forced himself to stand up and grabbed the hilt of his sword.
"INDIO!" Magellan shouted in rage as he struggled his way to push a good hack at the brown man"s back.
Instinctively, Lapu-Lapu quickly turned around to receive the attack only to realize that the expected hack did not come.
Magellan took his handgun he was hiding at his back. He was going to end the fight in one good bang. But before he could pull the trigger, a bamboo spear with a metal tip suddenly came piercing him from his side.
It went through his thick armor as if it was just a thin piece of paper!
"DIE!" one of Lapu-Lapu"s men took the initiative to finish the captain of the invading Spaniards. Along with it, Magellan lost his grip on his handgun. His sword was too far away so he feet-flicked a nearby spear near his foot, caught it, and lodged it deep into the heart of the backstabbing islander.
However, three more island warriors came from other sides and threw rocks, arrows and even mud just to stop the Spanish captain"s unyielding fury.
Despite the numerous inflamed muscles, poisoned state, and glaring wounds on his body, he remained a fighter and did not hesitate to bring more brown men to grave with him!
Lapu-Lapu watched it all with a bored look in his face. It was not a worthy battle anymore if his enemy is wounded while he is in his peak state.
He turned around and made the last command.
"Ubosa silang tanan!" He shouted, telling his men to kill all the remaining invaders.
His men, covered in blood and tribal tattoos gladly obeyed in revenge of their fallen brothers and burnt houses.
The Spanish soldiers on Magellan"s side have also finally realized one big problem - they were out of ammunition. And with the current situation, the most possible outcome at the moment is for them to be completely irradicated!
"FALL BACK!" Juan Sebastián Elcano, Magellan"s most trusted aide, and fellow adventurer immediately took command after seeing that their captain has fallen. He was too preoccupied defending himself and was unable to send immediate support to aid Magellan"s fare.
However, blaming himself does not help them at the moment. They must survive and the only way to do so is flee!
Under the cover of their last remaining firepower, Elcano and his twenty or less crew pushed back their small boats to the deeper tides and hastily rowed themselves towards the Victoria.
The island warrior continued chasing and unleashed every range of attacks they can as they threw rocks, arrows and even spear towards the escaping invaders - unfortunately, it was too dangerous.
The fleeing invaders may be few, but their accurate and fatal bullets were strong enough to scare the s.h.i.+t out of the chasing islanders. Try as they may using their boats, but the threat of the glaring cannons on the side of the s.h.i.+p also tells them it was not a good idea to push it further.
At least, the island warriors successfully defended their land from the Spanish invaders and Elric was able to witness it all.
YAAAAH!
ALALALLALALAAA!~
HAH!YAHAHAH!
The island warriors celebrated on the b.l.o.o.d.y sh.o.r.e as the sacrifices of their brothers had been faithfully avenged and the island they grew with is still free from the hands of the Spanish colonizers.
As they danced and celebrated, Lapu-Lapu was standing with an uncontended face. How could he not get mad? He wanted more fight! But his stupid Babylan wife finished intruded before they could reach the climax of their battle! It was infuriating on his side!
There were no other warriors strong enough to challenge him except for that certain Magellan. The chieftain of Cebu - Rajah Humabon was not interested in fighting and would spend his day doing politics, indulging in food and woman. No wonder he had such a bulging pot belly.
Come to think of it, he still had to deal with the conspiring warriors from Humabon"s side.
"PAMINAW!!" Lapu-Lapu roared and the joyful cheer of his people suddenly halted.
"Tonight we feast! The island we live, we have defended!" Lapu-Lapu shouted.
AYAYAYYAYAAAAH!
RAAAHAHAHA!
The men replied with a cheerful bellow.
"We need no G.o.d that they bring in sculpted rocks or woods. It is the spirit inside us who lead us! Mabuhi!" Lapu-Lapu added in inspiring energy.
"Mabuhi!"
"Ahoo-Ahoo!"
Their loud cheers continued as the battle of Mactan has ended in the island dweller"s favor.
***
Back at the Galeon s.h.i.+p known as Victoria, Elcano and his men were currently slumping in dead-tired bodies.
In the background, the sound of mutiny is slowly brewing and the new captain was too tired to deal with it. He was too depressed with the loss of his great captain. Their light and guide. His true friend and fellow adventurer.
Their plan did not go as they expected. There were just too many unexpected variables and things did not go as they planned.
Not to mention, they even witnessed the sudden appearance of the Chinese Dragon that quickly tilted the fight in the enemy"s advantage.
What the heck was that for?
While his men were arguing on what to do next. Elcano had his eyes closed in prayer while doing a gesture with the sign of a cross.
"G.o.d. May you lead Ferdinand Magellan"s spirit to your care." He mumbled faithfully and added,
"please give us a sign on what to do next."
And as if an answered prayer, a tall man with cold blue eyes and blond hair suddenly appeared before him.
Elcano"s eyes grew wide in surprise and could not help but feel pressured at the unexplainable presence of the tall man before him.
"Go-g-G.o.d?" Elcano stuttered in question.
The mysterious man did open its mouth but a faint voice can be heard inside Elcano"s mind.
"Rest."
And as it happened, everyone on the Victoria suddenly collapsed in deep sleep.
More people with the same appearance of the so-called "G.o.d" suddenly appeared out of nowhere and their hand immediately started to glow in brilliant lights and touched the heads of the unconscious adventurers - their memories being modified.
They were the Guardians, and they are here to do their job - keeping the secret of the Dragon"s existence.
As for the native witnesses of the island, well, they have their own secret to keep as they are under the protection of the Babaylan whom the Guardians do not dare to mess with.