A sudden gust of wind blew under the smothering thick darkened clouds; lightning discharged, thunder struck, Metals clashing against each other, buildings collapsing with forces of collisions. All sorts of rupturing beams shooting at all directions filled with clouds of smokes, dust and debris; the grounds opening with every hit heard. Many parts of the City of Bounty Hunters was out of order and without recognition it was as it would be; monsters against monsters, beasts against beasts, the Divine Humanes against the Bounty Collector's Henchmen and women viciously fighting to their death.
"Three against one. What a perfect fight. Looks as though we are the villains here." Dante related while withdrawing from a smoke with his speed. Followed by a woman on the Kirin charging straight at him with another marked woman standing straight with one hand gripping onto the rider's right shoulders from behind in her full scale mail as her plume of white feathers attached like a comb on her helmet flutters as she firmly placed her other hand on the gothic war hammer at her side.
Then Dante stopped, many distant to them staring directly to the stars in the skies then looked down at a defiled broken glass on the muddy floor near a half destroyed building making his pursuer stopped also just as the dust he caused before reaching the muddy grounds with his speed slowly died down.
Dante dusted his clothes then tightened the head band around his forehead while staring at his reflection showing the blanket of twinkling stars above the night sky.
"We came to take our guy back to his kingdom and here we are fighting against beings or whatsoever, not that I think we won't fight our way through but this, just for a single Humane. Or wait a little, why the sudden attack…? Is it something to do with getting most of the Divine Humanes in one place? That alone will leave the Kingdom lacking in some ways if one should attack… ? Who I'm I kidding, we have beings strong enough to defend the kingdom even when the King and I are not within reach."
Inward the smoke a figure was seen showing only his shadowy body while only his large glittering eyes seen just as trailing plants with many prickles on its' bodies broke out from the smoke towards Dante.
They're more faster and stronger than the Forest Nymphs hunters and the bounty hunters I easily vanquished or any other opponents I faced in the past. Well it's a good thing for a speedster like me. Dante reflected then he turned with his mouth half-opened and his eyes squinting facing the three head-on as the trailing plants with many prickles effortlessly passed through his vibrating body like he was invisible.
"It had no effect on him? Like he just disappeared!" The being marked being inside the smoke questioned.
"Don't be fooled, with my eyes," said the rider of the Kirin having a heterochromia iridium. "I could with no difficulty see his tricks behind his movement. It was just a dodge nothing special! Pamēla full speed ahead!"
With her call! The Kirin hit the muddy ground with it's front right hoof twice then a stance; a stretched neck downward as it's long antlers fixedly pointed to its target with it's dragon-like face slightly contorted.
Unexpectedly to Dante knowing he's the fastest man alive, which he believed it was totally true; Pamēla was already above him, glowing with a sudden burst of energy.
He slowly gasped within that space of time.
"She… could see where I'm positioned?!"
Staring at the mystical creature above, the rider looked down at him including the one standing behind now raising her gothic war hammer with an evil smile underneath her helmet spoke;
"We got you now."
Next, a blooming sound of destructive yellowish blast was seen and heard on striking Dante's with her gothic war hammer.
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Far at the northeastern part of the city which the distant blast was distinctly heard and the yellowish blast clearly seen even brighten up the night like day before dimming into nothing. The young lady with the marked 'V' on her wrist alongside Casaba and the one who absorbed Abbey's lightning bolts earlier were engrossingly fighting against him.
The young girl somersaulted all the way to Abbey then landed, squeezed the sai's handle in her palms of her hand making a stance with her feet and shoulders width apart as her toe pointing at the center line of the nonchalant Humane standing in front of her. With one eye squinted and her jaw put forward.
For now moving carelessly towards him would be deadly then only one option left. She pictured. At that moment, lightning struck from above just as awe transformed her face, she'd raised her arm up hoping to block off the lightning but it deviated to the one who absorbed it all. She swiftly gained back her composure without a second thought, slightly swallowed, held the main blade of her sai swiftly threw it at her opponent. However Abbey calmly weaseled it out and at that same moment he discharged lightnings from his hand in a calm way directly to the young lady but it was absorbed once again by the absorber then Abbey stood straight clasping his hand on the other thinking of what to do with them due to the fact that every lightning bolts he aimed at the young girl were deviated from her towards the one who absorbed it all, at that point the sai boomerang back behind him but Abbey was quick to move out of it way, thereupon a glowing eye was seen in a dark mist below Abbey just as a 'tekkokagi' appeared so with hands within the dark mist giving the opportunity to cut down the unalarmed Abbey despite all that the Humane turned himself into a living bolts of lightning making Casaba to stop half way of his attack. Before he got himself electrocuted he'd dematerialized himself then appeared in front of the young girl in a dark mist.
"Hurt those I love and I will beat the bastard and nonsense out of you." Casaba raged just as his right eyes glowed more brightly in bronze.
"I can take good care of myself, you know." The young girl mouth thinned with displeasure. She was the youngest after all but want not to be treated as such.
She caught her Sai then folded her arms while murmuring to herself.
Abbey scoffed then levitated with the sight of lightning discharging beneath him to the ground in a fulminating way just as the clouds above turned more darker upon the thunder roaring rising within the clouds.
"This fight as been decided from the moment you raised your filthy hands on me, young ones. Leave your weak master and join me in search of greater power than this and you will be pronounced as my underlings if you are truly strong enough to be called one; the first thing I would definitely do is to change that outfit of yours."
"Huh?" The young lady blinked, staring at her outfit. While Casaba and the absorber glared at him without blinking as Abbey levitated above them with the sight of lightning reflecting on their bodies and sounds of thunder still could be heard above.
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At the very center of the city. Several big lumps of earth rose up high like a pyramid to the dark glittering sky as Gage in his iconic armour was on top of the highest peak standing while folding his arms then he shook his head on Abbeys' words.
"He is at it again." He sighed deeply.
Below, three marked beings skipped towards Gage in a way of climbing each lumps of earth surrounding the Divine Humane on both sides making a triangle position with Gage standing at the center of it all then the one marked 'U' with his hand pressing down his olive colored cocked brimmed hat in order for it not to fall off from his head by the wind was the first to closely reached the top with his final leapt to Gage. Without warning a massive hand of earth filled with mud and debris from above punched him straight back to the ground as he cratered, buried with the massive hand of earth. The woman with a close-knit green brows watched how he was smashed to the ground she tightly shut her heavy lower lips as she clenched her fists at that moment another massive fist launched at her then she drew in a very long breath just as her face puffed up, all of a sudden she let out a scream breaking her annihilator into dust then she leapt and landed at some distance to Gage as the other did so landing behind him after using the cap on his hands to easily swallowed up the massive fist of earth.
"We got you cornered." The woman smirked just as the wind swept through her long hair. "Out of moves?"
"One thing still bothers me." Gage said with a slightly closed eyes.
"And what's it?" The woman questioned.
He rolled his eyes to the bald man.
"Earlier you rated us by how many ordinary beast beings one could beat like a kind of game or something, here I was expecting to hear where the henchmen and women of the bounty collector are rated."
Three moving colossus-stony sculpture having hundred arms and thousands sculptured eyes within a single face suddenly formed high in the sky blocking most of the silvery rays of the moon and the few twinkling stars above as it stood tall right behind Gage!
With a fell gaze, Gage spoke in a cold, low and metallic voice,
"Heed, what do you owe me for this? My pleasure."
This alone shocked the two marked beings staring in awe at the colossus-thing in front of them.
The bald man held closely his cap at his chest slightly delighted.
Below where the being marked 'U' was buried within the piles of debris and mud. Nothing moved, it was as though no sound was heard but his olive colored cocked brimmed hat was seen slightly fluttering on a bent rod about to be swayed away by the cool wind before long a undertone voice was heard beneath the piles of debris and mud.
Sounds like he was talking to himself.
"… We ain't beaten easily… No. No. Not now… Okay promise me you won't hurt them… how should I know, I'm not in their minds… Gracious… you win… take over!"
Suddenly, he broke out from the muddy ground that moment his olive colored cocked brimmed hat swayed away by the cool wind but it was caught by him.
"It great to be back!" He vocalized, smoothly putting back his hat on his head with a flared nostrils as the mud washes away from his face and body revealing a now whitish face under a maroon glowing eyes with a wide spread smiling mouth up to his cheekbones and his red pickdevant beard and mustache now turned black, more longer and fuzzy than the latter also his dress which were black with red doublet and breeches had been converted into white with red doublet and breeches. He deeply sniffed the air around with his hands raised sideways.
"Hmm. What do I smell… ? Sniff… I smell ululation!"
Then he leapt extremely high while removing his sword from it's holder landing where Gage and the two marked beings were in one go.
"So… should I be grateful or what..?"
The woman and the bald man immediately withdrew in shock from their positions on another lump of earth Gage created.
"We're in bigger trouble." The bald man said tightly held his cap closely to his chest.
"Shit… I thought he said that thing is under control!" The woman slightly shuddered.
"Quiet down, you feebles… I promised him, I won't hurt any of you… for now."
Their mouths pinched shut as though holding back what they really wanted to say. Then he cracked his neck ready for an ecstatic fight against a Divine Humane as he pointed his sword at Gage with a maliciously smile upon his face.
"Shall we begin?"