"HEY!!"
I jerk my head toward the call.
I had been so wrapped up in combat, that without my noticing, the terminal doors had opened. Stepping out, was a man. Adorned in an obsidian black trench coat with a bird feather hood, along with a red and black suit. His eyes leveled at mine, he stared with raw anger. I stare back with sheer bewilderment.
"Well don't just fuckin' stand there!!"
I was jolted back to reality. It had been so long that I hadn't recognized him.
"Enshi!!"
"Damn right, that's my name! Bet you thought I fuckin' died, huh-"
"Not really."
"I bet you're wonderin' why I'm here-"
"I don't really care-"
"After you FUCKS left me behind on Garuda, I had ZERO FUCKING WAY OF GETTING OFF. So obviously I got fucking eviscerated by Aurelia, and she threw me over the side of the fuckin' thing. I thought I was dunzo. Enshi Rihari: Dead as hell. But Nah. This bitch,"
He gestures to the Great One's desecrated corpse. "Caught me in some of that weird-ass sludge shit. Yada yada yada, this fucker Atticus said he'd pay me if I just sat at this fuckin' shithole- AND I got this cool-ass ring,"
He holds up his left hand, brandishing an onyx ring. "And guess what, bitch?"
"Hm?" I had almost completely zoned out.
"GUESS WHAT THE FUCKING RING DOES!!!"
"Oh-uh...Makes you cooler...?"
He sneers, smiling. "Nah,"
He clenches his hand into a fist. "Tamajutsu: Red!!"
As per his command, his hand bursts into red flame. He flexes his palm, grinning.
"That's right, my perverted compadre! I can use my Twitch without losing any of my life span-"
"Are you fucking stupid?"
Enshi's face drops. "The fuck did you just say to me!?"
I take a step forward, glaring. "I asked if you were a fucking idiot." I gesture to his hand. "You think anything like that would come without consequence?! In your right mind, you NEVER would've taken the side of the same people that corrupted your sister. If you don't realize you're being controlled, I don't think you were very smart to begin with."
He grits his teeth, seething. "I don't even care anymore. Now, I have power you couldn't HOPE to achieve!"
I take a step forward. "Hang in there, Enshi. I'll win you back."
And in the blink of an eye, I begin a straight charge toward the Demon Wizard. He lets out a cry. "Speed Selection!"
Right as my fist was to connect with his face...he shimmers to nothingness, my hand making contact with empty air.
"Over here, dumbass!"
But my reaction was too slow.
As I turn my head to look at him, I'm slammed backward by a kick at light speed. Flipping in midair, I catch myself, standing upright. I wipe a trickle of blood from my nose. Enshi grins at me.
"Not so high and mighty now, are we?!"
"Speak for yourself."
Exploding all around me, sparks of black erupt from nothingness, flashing to life in a blinding display of power.
"Discord."
I shoot forward. He leans to the side, dodging before completely shimmering from sight once more.
His laugh echoes through the chamber.
My eyes swivel at incomprehensible speeds, attempting to locate his form. Damn! He was moving far faster than me.
Fine then. Speed means nothing to an attack you can't dodge. I clasp my hands together, forming the Tora symbol. "Neo City Domain!!"
Shooting outward from my body, a vast domain of energy engulfs the entire room, electricity sparking and arcing across its entirety.
I clap my hands.
"SURGE!!"
In a resounding boom, the entire domain erupts in an explosion of Calamity. Flying out from the discharge, is the unharmed form of Enshi circling around the room on angelic wings. He dives downward, veering straight for me.
Cocking my fist back, I completely shroud it in soul. Enshi grins, his teeth glinting with unfamiliar malevolence. And as my fist connects...something's off-
A signature above.
In what seems like an instance, I kick myself out of the way of both strikes, sending them slamming into the ground.
Clones?!
In an almost eerie manner, their cackles synchronize in a horrifying harmony as they begin once more to approach, slowly morphing back together.
I can't waste time.
In a flash, I appear before him, palm outstretched. He opens his mouth, and catches my strike...with his teeth?!! With completely unexpected strength, he swings me in his maw, sending me slamming into a wall.
I spit out blood. This was proving to be more difficult than I had imagined.
But I couldn't even waste time thinking.
He was already in front of me.
Before I could even perceive it, his fist gorges into my stomach, shattering my ribs. I let out a pained cry, and he cocks his head back in laughter as his barrage of strikes continues. I can feel my consciousness begin to slip.
His power was to do stuff that he sang, right? Then how the FUCK was he doing all of this without saying a word-
A final strike completely ruptured the wall behind me, and before I knew it, I was barreling down toward the grounds of Tenma.
This was an opportunity.
But I had to make this quick.
My wings sprouting from my back, I swerve around the facility, before darting off into the cover of the city. All below, people scream in horror...
But not at me.
Completely ignoring the buildings, simply boring through them, was Enshi. I wanted to help- but if I did, it was a sure thing I would be giving up my own life. Perching atop a building, I wasted no time, raising my hand to the sky. In an instant, flashes of black filled the air.
He was approaching.
I could feel his soul.
I had to be faster.
Blood begins to rupture and spray from my arm, as now immense strain is being put on it-
Right in front of me.
Time seemed to slow down for what was only a fraction of a zeptosecond- before his fist, flaming with the red sparks of the soul, slammed into my stomach.
My eyes went blank white, every orifice of my body straining not to shut down- and that was before the residual hit. With this blast of force, I was sent flying through the air, crashing through building after building, debris digging into my skin.
He was still coming.
He was still chasing.
Still tumbling through the air, I arch my brow.
"Fuck it."
Outstretching my hand, I catch my descent.
"Calamity Cloak"
Power.
In a complete and total blast of power, all before me gave way.
Gave way to my power.
Crumbing to dust.
25%
The left.
Almost effortlessly, I swerved away from the attack. Enshi, bewildered, makes an attempt to recover, darting backward.
So obviously I matched his speed.
With ease.
Grabbing onto his ankles and with a wicked pleasure, I hold his leg before my knee, before bringing it down upon it, snapping it with a sickening crunch.
Screaming out in pain, he discharges a blast of Tamajustu, resonating in all directions.
I smile.
Gripping his legs tighter, I spin him in a 360, before releasing him, sending him flying into a building, leveling it.
Shakily standing up, Enshi looks forth to see nothing.
Until I was there.
Not an inch from his face.
His face goes a pale white, as he turns tail to run. Futile.
In a swift motion, I grab him by his neck, holding him up above myself. He kicks and swings his legs, as if a child. Tears run from his face.
I couldn't help but smile.
Swinging my arm down, I drive him into the floor, and continue this, crashing through level after level, until his back is slammed directly into the ground below.
I cock my fist back.
He begins to sob.
His face erupts with blood as my fist connects.
Again.
Again.
Again.
My smile grows bigger.
It grows wicked.
I begin to laugh.
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In the barren wasteland, but one man rose.
The midnight moon reflected off his green-black hair. The blood splattered across his body had long since hardened, meshing into a sickening crimson.
His head on a swivel, he began to walk. Where had everyone gone? How long had it been? The capitol building but a hundred yards from him was the only thing giving him confidence that he was in the same location as before.
Looking above to the stars and sky, he squinted his eyes. He would find them.
He wouldn't let them down anymore.