Part 2: Shinu De Nuevo.
Arc 8: Heart Shaped Prison.
(In the forest surrounding Obscurité Village. The entire team is pouring one gigantic circular trail of gas around the village, to trap Kuragari inside with no way out.)
Able: (He is pouring gasoline alongside Kane.) *Cough* Hey, Kane.
Kane: Yeah?
Able: (He tries to hold back his coughs.) Please don't tell me you brought your cigarettes...
Kane: Uhhh... no?
Able: *Sigh* You did. (His coughing starts getting even worse and he can't hold it back.) What time is it?
Kane: 1:30AM, is something wrong?! You have been coughing a lot recently, are you sure your fine?
Able: (He leans against the tree and wipes the blood off of his mouth.) Yeah... yeah I'm fine. (He sits down, his back against the tree.) Just the gas...
Kane: Gas doesn't make you cough... especially not blood.
Able: *Sigh* I didn't want to tell you this... I only got about 2 hours left until I... let's just say have a reunion with dad.
Kane: What happened?
Able: It was 2 years ago.
(Able is running through a forest, carrying a wounded and bleeding 7 year old boy. The sun is starting to set as Able finally reaches a clearing with several other kids following behind him, one of them tuck on his point and point to a cloaked woman leaning against a tree.))
("It was during a hunt, the thing we were hunted sneaked into a small village during the night, when the morning came around. All the children in the village, were missing. Me and Sam took the job, it went like all of them. We found where the monster kept the children... most of them were either dead or 'traumatized'. Sam did what Sam does and fought the thing, and I got the kids out of there. The one I was carrying wasn't going to make it, I wanted to get him to a doctor as soon as possible, that was until she came to me.)
The Cloaked Woman: (She leans against one of the trees.) Good to finally meet you, Able Pendragon, 3rd Son of King Arthur.
Able: And you are?!
Cloaked Woman: Let's just say a mutual accomplice of Mr. Reyes. Quite the... situation you're in right now... in fact the one your holding right now, has about 2 minutes left... you on the other hand, well it's in the double digits at least.
Able: What are you getting at?!
Cloaked Woman: I'm saying... why not subtract a few digits off of yours and add it onto his.
Able: How long...?
Cloaked Woman: What do you mean?
Able: If I make this deal, how long will we live for?
Cloaked Woman: Can't tell you about him, but you... 2 years and a couple of Months, on exactly February 3rd 2020 at 3:30 AM, just as the sun rises.
Able: (He thinks for a second, a look of irritation grows on his face.) *Tch* Guess there's no other choice then... fine I agree to your deal.
Cloaked Woman: Good. I Lady Fate agree to take years off of your live and add it onto his.
(The lacerations on the boy's body start healing.)
Fate: (She starts walking through a portal.) Remember that date, Mr. Pendragon, and to say goodbye to everyone you love.
(Present.)
Kane: I see... Able, I don't know what to say.
Able: You don't have to say anything... *Coughing* Let's just get this done with.
Kane: *Slightly Laughing* So that's why you just didn't stand down from going on that date when the Wendigo was slowly taking control of you?
Able: No... I was just being stubborn and optimistic.
(Meanwhile.)
(Kuragari is sitting in his throne room, looking at his fingernails. Tomogui is sitting in the room, finishing the last of her food.)
Kuragari: Well, I guess the time is almost here. (He reaches into his coat pocket and takes out his journal and pen.) What to do, what to do. (He starts drawing something in his journal.) *Singing* Heiwa is almost here... and in the end it shall just be you and me, (He looks at a picture of Annah in the front of his journal.) forever in the peace of a deep mist, hopefully to never lose it all again. (He looks out one of the windows and sees that same old Green Cloak walking away from it.) Well I guess it's time for the slaughter to begin...
(Kuragari stands up from his throne and summons the Black Scythe. The group stands in front of the gas trail, facing the village. The only missing members are Belial, Dracula, and Azrael.)
Kane: Well no, going back, is everyone ready?
The whole group: Yes!
Kane: Good.
(Kane enters his phone's music player and starts blaring "Shoot to Thrill" - AC/DC from a pair of large speakers farther up the cliff.)
Amelia: How much did you pay for those speakers?
Kane: I didn't, I took a page out of Ryu Sakai's book. (He lights one final cigarette, smokes a tiny bit of it and throws it on the gasoline trail, a giant ring of fire surrounds the forest.) Let's go!
(The team run their way towards the village, while inside the church Kuragari gets jumped by both Belial and Dracula, they lunge at him through the windows, he is quick enough to know Belial away, but Dracula grabs hold of him.)
Dracula: Hello there, Van Helsing!!!
Kuragari: (Held in a strangle hold by Dracula.) Hey, Drac... been quite some time since we kicked each other's asses. Except this time I don't have the patience, nor the diligence to deal with you!!! (He summons the Black Scythe above Dracula and cuts the top of his head clean open.) It's your series finale, bitch!!! (He forces his hands down Dracula's brain, he uses raw force to slowly tear Dracula in half, the blood spraying everywhere, the intestines dropping the floor, he pushes through until finally, the once ruler of Vampires is ripped completely in half. He wipes the blood off of his face and kicks Dracula's body away.) Oh... I haven't felt this rush in such a long time!!! (He turns towards Belial and starts picking him up.) Ren?! Didn't I say "Game Over?!!!"
Belial: (He holds onto one of the church chairs.) Yeah... you did.
(Belial quickly grabs the chair and hits Kuragari with it, sending him flying through the church wall.)
Kuragari: (He starts slowly standing up, he brushes the dirt off of him, he opens his arm and admires the burning circle of hell surrounding him.) Hahaha...hahahaha!!! This scenery, is it not perfect?! Let it all burn!!!
(Kuragari touches the ground, and sends a burst of a wind Elementa towards Belial, the rocks, sand, and dirt blowing in his face. He covers his eyes with his arms, but loses of track of Kuragari amongst everything. Kuragari emerges above Belial, using a spinning attack with the Black Scythe in its normal Scythe form, he appears smaller and shorter than before.)
Kuragari: (He used Magica to change his body back to his old 5'2ft (158cm) height, his pants, shirt and coat are slightly too large for him.) Aah... now this feels... it feels. (He looks at his shaking hands and thinks for a single second, before clenching his fist again.) There's no time for that! (He lowers himself and with the Scythe in hand, he lunges towards Belial, he attempts to block the attack, but Kuragari slices right through his guard and cuts open his leg. He moves at an incredible speed around Belial, the only visible thing is the blade reflecting the moonlight.) Are you enjoying this, Ren?! Or should I say Belial, Prince of Hell?!
Belial: No, it is Belial, the King of Hell!!! Now stand your ground and fight me like a man, so I can properly rip your throat out!!!
Kuragari: *Sarcastically Frightened.* Oh!!!!
(The area that Kuragari is circling around Belial starts getting smaller as he moves in on him, Belial readies his sword, but he is unsure on what to do. Kuragari closes in on Belial, brutally lacerating every single part of his body at an incredible speed, when Kuragari finally finishes his onslaught, Belial is left bleeding from every single part of his body, he falls on his knees, helpless.)
Kuragari: (Looking at Belial.) Stings doesn't it?!
Belial: In the end... *Slightly laughing* I was truly powerless...
Kuragari: (He uses Magica to change back to his 6'3ft (193cm) height. He walks past Belial, patting him on the shoulder.) Look at little Lucifer Jr. Gonna cry? (He starts walking away from him.) See ya, chump.
Belial: (He tightens the sword in his right hand.) But there's still one more ace up my sleeve... (He stabs himself in the chest.) I will show you, the true power of hell!!!
(Ren's body falls lifeless on the sword, but suddenly it start convulsing, blood bursts from his back and out of it breaks a row of thin, brown-green spinal spikes. A slender right arm breaks free from the body next, a 34cm long piece of bone sticks out from the elbow, the hand of the arm is larger, the fingers turn into large claws, that transition from the brown-green color of the rest of the arm to a pitch black color. The head emerges from the back of Ren's head his face is pale. With thick horns sticking out the side of his head, that face forward almost like spears or spikes. His entire lower jaw is missing, instead replaced with a black void, with a long tongue nearly 80cm in length sticking out and sharp, rugged, thorn-like teeth protruding from the edges where the flesh stops and the void starts. His eyes have disappeared completely and his hair has faded away. His feet have three, long and thick toes, the skin just barely stretching over them. He fully emerges out of Ren's body, revealing that his entire chest and stomach area is covered by an ugly brown-green exoskeleton, it gives it a false look of malnutrition, he has a long tail with a stinger at the end of it like a malformed and irradiated scorpion, he stands at 9'8ft (300cm) tall, making even Kuragari look short.)
Kuragari: (Looking up at Belial.) Oh my god... you are one ugly motherfucker. (He summons the Black Scythe in his right hand.) Let's dance, Davy Jones!!!
(Belial picks up his sword, it looks tiny in his hands. He makes the first move, lunging at Kuragari, he deflects the lunge, sending Belial behind him, Belial stings Kuragari in the back with his tail, he grabs hold of the tail and yanks it out of his back, and start swinging Belial around with it, Kuragari throws him into the air and jumps after him. He readies his sword, but Belial regains his focus and blocks the blow. He kicks Kuragari and sends him flying to the ground, he focuses his momentum and lands right on top of Kuragari.)
(On the ground Kuragari is pinned down by Belial, he starts opening his jaw as wide as possible to take a massive bite out of Kuragari's throat. But Kuragari uses the Scythe to cut off Belial's tongue, he grabs hold off it and forces Belial off of him, after a small skirmish Kuragari gets the upper-hand on him and starts choking Belial out with his own tongue, using it as a garrote. Belial pushes his spinal spikes into Kuragari, with one nearly missing his heart.)
Kurgari: Come on, pretty boy. It'll take a lot more than that to kill me!!!
(Belial bites into Kuragari's left hand, he tears the hand in half, thrashing and mangling it until eventually Kuragari lets go of the garrote.)
Kuragari: (He holds onto his left hand. He notices Belial swallowing the other half of the hand, by dropping it into void.) Hey, fugly!!! Tell me; what does that void of yours lead to?! (He starts rushing towards him.) I'm going to find out!!!
(Kuragari rushes towards Belial, he is quick enough to catch him in his grasp. Kane, Mia, and Carter watch from a distance as he is swallowed whole by Belial.)
Kane: What the hell is he thinking?!
(Inside a dark pit filled with water, Kuragari drifts inside it, unconscious. His eyes jump open and he sits up straight. He looks around and sees hundreds, maybe thousands of souls trapped inside the void, all of them screaming for help, that inevitably won't come to them.)
Kuragari: (He stands up.) I see... everyone he consumes, is left to wander and scream in here for all eternity. (He raises his hand up to the air.) Well then... (The Black Scythe forms in his hand, but instead of its normal black color, it is pure white in color.) I set you all free!!!
(Kuragari sticks the Scythe down onto the floor, a blinding light overcomes the void, the souls all float away, being set free by him.)
(On the outside, Belial is chuckling in victory, when his stomach suddenly starts aching intensely, he holds onto and screams for dear life. Kuragari comes to him in his mind and utters "But you are to be trapped for all eternity inside your own prison." Belial explodes into a blinding light and from it emerges Kuragari holding both the Black Scythe in front of his face. His eyes focuses on Kane in the distance.)
Kuragari: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, death to death. Who. Is. Next. Kane?