Fort Arashi shook violently as silver light filled the sky. The earth rumbled and the clouds churned from the blasts as the surrounding area was weathered away.
"Moorza isn't holding anything back is he…" hissed a slender woman wrapped in cloth, covering her from head to toe as she hung upside down from a tree. Her features were not visible but the faint glow of her eyes could be seen, an ominous, ghostly green, through the cloth. Countless small blades were attached to her body.
"Of course not." Said another figure below the first. "We represent the Council of Gods. We have to give a strong first impression."
The second figure was a boy, small and thin, much like the girl, though he seemed younger, like that of a child. He was wrapped in similar cloth, and over the cloth he wore a set of black, morphed and misshapen armor. On his back were tied two swords, both larger than himself.
Just then the earth shook violently and the trees trembled. An intense pressure seemed to overtake the entire world, sending shudders through all who felt it.
"It's beginning."
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Moorza, the Silver God of the Moon, floated in the air above Fort Arashi, glaring down as he saw no damage had come to the base. Then the pressure hit him and he tended up, his eyes narrowing as he sneered down at a figure walking out of the fort. It was a boy, shrouded in black aura.
Akuro stepped into the sight of the god high above him. He felt giddy, he could sense an extremely powerful aura coming off of this god, more powerful than anything he'd experienced before.
Stopping, Akuro put his hands in his pockets and looked up at the god, tilting his head with a grin, his cloak billowing in the cold night wind and the chains clinking together on his arms.
"Quite the entrance." Akuro spoke. "You come to fight?"
"Where are your armies?" Moorza asked. "Are you not the new king of hell?"
"I am. But I won't need my army. You came alone, so I'll face you alone."
Moorza sneered. "Seems the old man wasn't lying when he said you were arrogant."
Akuro snickered. "I've got a reason to be. There isn't a god in existence that can challenge me. Not that I've seen."
"Allow me to be the one that disproves your theory then, boy."
Moorza raised a finger and a spark of silver light fell to the earth, breaking apart into smaller ones until it created a sort of smokescreen, like hail or a blizzard, each drop, each flake of snow, a miniature explosion of aura that would burst on contact. Akuro dashed forward, leaning low to the ground as black aura materialized around his legs and he exploded into motion, little more than a blur, almost impossible to see at his speed.
When he cleared the storm of aura, he looked up, seeing Moorza dropping from the sky and crashing to the ground, a massive chakram held in his hand which he crashed into the earth, splitting it open in an eruption of silver light. Akuro vanished just in time, dodging the attack.
"What?" Moorza exclaimed in surprise as Akuro reappeared behind him, his foot crashing into the God's head with a resounding *SNAP* as his body was sent spiraling across the barren land.
Moorza skidded to a stop, using his chakram to help slow the roll and give himself balance as he stood to his feet.
"I see." The god growled. "So you aren't all just luck after all."
Akuro sighed. "See, that's what I've been trying to say this whole time." His expression became cold. "Me becoming Death was never an accident."
A shroud of black aura enveloped Akuro then, the pressure from his power so intense it caused the clouds to be pushed away from him and the ground to split open and quake, rocks and boulders floating up into the air as his Aura Cloak took a solid shape. A black mask resembling that of a dragon now covered Akuro's face, red eyes shining through two small slits in the mask, while scales covered his skin and black cloth flicked in the wind. Large spikes grew out from his back at random angels while talons grew from his hands and two massive black horns curled from his head.
Moorza's eyes widened. 'What the hell is this kid…?' He wondered. Then he put his head in his hand, laughing.
"How fitting, that you're a black dragon." The god spoke. "Ironic really."
Moorza hunched forward, holding his chakram out, silver light glowing from it while silver scales grew down his arm, massive luminescent talons growing from his hand while white wings sprouted from his back. The ground around Moorza's feet split and shattered apart from his intense aura.
The air stirred and twisted like a hurricane as the two auras clashed.
They were evenly matched.
"This…" Akuro growled, his scythe materializing in his hand, the blade size much larger due to being extended by his aura. "Is gonna be fun.."
A moment later the world erupted into motion as the two beasts exploded at one another, their auras crashing into one another, causing the earth below them to crack, splitting in two as if a planet sized blade had struck the earth when Akuro's scythe came into contact with Moorza's Chakram.
Akuro hooked Moorza's chakram with his God Slayer, then swung violently downwards, throwing the god to the split in the earth below, crashing to the bottom of the massive ravine. Black aura then surrounded all sides of the split before moving inwards, forcing the earth to close on the god, but that wouldn't keep Moorza down.
Akuro leapt back as silver light burst from the crack, splitting it open once more like an erupting volcano as the god leapt out of the earth, streaming through the air towards Akuro, his talons colliding with his wall of black aura, sending him careening to the ground, which shattered in on itself from the impact, creating a crater.
Moorza threw his chakram, which sang is as it flew towards Akuro, it's silver aura gradually getting larger and larger as it soared through the air. Akuro raised his hand, massive talons of black aura grabbing the chakram, the two forces colliding with each other and violently clashing before erupting and blasting outwards in a massive explosion of dark and light, chaos, that left a massive depression in the earth where Akuro stood, unfazed.
The chakram whistled back to Moorza's hand as he hung high in the air above Akuro.
"God warned me you'd be strong." Moorza spoke. "But I never imagined you'd be able to go toe-to-toe with me."
Akuro suddenly broke out into a crazed laughter.
"Go toe-to-toe with you?" The air suddenly became thick and cold. "I promise… I'll do much more than that."
Akuro raised his hand, and then Moorza froze, looking up. The sky was pitch black as far as the eyes could see, no clouds, no moon, no stars.
"How… there's no way…"
"This… is my world, foolish god!" Akuro roared before waving his hand downward. The entire sky seemed to collapse and rush downwards upon the earth, a blanket of darkness swallowing the world.
Moorza was violently struck and sent flying towards the earth, crushed between the wave of shadow the ground below. As the sky struck the world, everything for thousands and hundreds of thousands of miles was completely leveled to nothing. It was much like when Lilith had destroyed New York, but this was on a much, much larger scale, and was with much more effect. Not only the forests and cities, but even the mountains themselves were destroyed.
When Akuro's aura had faded out, he hunched over, panting from exhaustion. That attack had costed a lot of his aura, though it was replenishing quickly now. He'd be back at full strength within the next couple minutes. He grinned. He was certain no god could've survived that attack, it was the strongest move in his arsenal. Nothing could beat that.
"Are we… flexing now..?" Came a voice.
Akuro shivered, looking up.
Moorza stood, his clothes tattered and blood oozing from his body as black aura cling to him, eating away his aura. The god could barely rise to his feet and looked half dead, but his wounds were healing and he was regaining his aura quickly.
"If we are showing off.." Moorza growled, "how much destruction we can invoke.."
"How are you..?" Akuro asked, awestruck, but also, strangely, excited.
"I think I've got you beat!" The god roared, then Moorza rose his hand into the air, silver aura glowing high in night sky above him, creating a ring like a gateway.
Akuro's eyes widened and he shivered when he saw what was being pulled through the gateway. It was the moon.
Though Akuro felt fear rise up in him, he couldn't help but grin. It was the first real challenge he'd had in an extremely long time, and he intended to enjoy it.
"This is your world, maybe, but the sky is mine!" Moorza roared, and then the moon began to fall from the sky. It's size was more than something one could imagine or put into words, and as it appeared, the world went into chaos, everything was upset and the ground began to break apart and split as the two gravities fought one another. The surface of the moon also began to break apart into massive boulders and meteors that crashed into the earth, sending it into oblivion as shockwaves of fire and destruction were sent across the world's surface.
"This is it, Akuro! Your extinction!" Moorza cried as the moon grew ever closer.
'Can't exactly stop this attack…' Akuro thought. 'I'm gonna have to go defensive.'
Black aura enveloped Akuro's body in a sphere, a protective ball, and he did the same for Fort Ashira, covering it in his aura. As the moon crashed into the earth, the world's surface burned away and smoke and dust billowed into the sky and the land was split open and fire exploded in a shockwave across the land across the globe.
Black streaks of aura flashed through the moon, splitting it apart, and as it exploded open into a million pieces, large and small, Akuro burst into the air above it, the real moon's light casting an eerie glow over him as he flew into the sky.
"What?! You're alive?" Moorza asked, enraged and surprised.
"I won't go down that easy, bitch!" Akuro roared, flying down towards the god, the butt of his scythe crashing through Moorza's chest, skewering him. They both streamed towards the ground before impacting the red hot scorched earth, the impact creating ripples in the earth and sending boulders flying into the air as Moorza was pinned below Akuro, who then rose a hand into the air.
Akuro grinned as aura was sucked into his palm, creating an orb of condensed black energy. "Too bad you didn't kill me, huh?"
Akuro slammed his hand down, his Dark Implosion exploding outwards, but it was met with a similarly powered silver aura that fought back against it, the two swirling together chaotically before erupting forth and annihilating the earth, leaving nothing remaining in its wake.