Author's Note: This fanfic is a novelization and continuation of Monty Oum's Dead Fantasy series begun on the anniversary of this great man's passing, February 1st, 2016, in honor of him for The Monty Oum Project. That being said, I could still use some help with this. While I did my best researching and watching let's plays of Dead or Alive, I am still by no means an expert on the characters. So if anyone that knows Dead or Alive better than me and would like to help me in this endeavor, please send me a PM stating your interest.

DISCLAIMER: I own nothing nothing found in this story, all rights go to their respective owners.

Dead Fantasy Novella I

Rasping for breath while running through temple ruins, the gunner Yuna attempted to escape her pursuers. She jumped a gap along the broken bridge as two shadowy figures ran after her along either side of her path. Eventually, she saw a light in a doorway just ahead of her. "A way out?" She wondered, but upon coming to the other side of the doorway found it was just a more open space within the temple, chains holding up certain portions. "Great, what now?" She wondered aloud.

Just then, a flower petal floated down from overhead, even though there shouldn't be any kind of flowers in this place. However, the flower petal glowed and in its place, a blue garbed ninja appeared before her, and next to her, a kunoichi dressed in a short purple dress tied by a red ribbon dropped in from above. Yuna knew who they were, the one in blue was Kasumi, and the one in purple her half-sister Ayane, although why they were currently pursuing her was something she didn't know.

"Hold on," Ayane spoke to Yuna.

"We need to talk." Kasumi added, but while steadying her breathing, Yuna pulled out her twin pistols, showing she had nothing to say to them. "Oh great." Ayane muttered as she pulled out her tokkosho and Kasumi her sword.

"Guess we're doing this the hard way." Kasumi sighed. "Go!" She told her sister, who immediately charged forward while she teleported from where she stood.

Yuna began shooting at Ayane, but the kunoichi jumped up and behind her without being hit. Ayane swung her tokkosho at Yuna, but the gunner flipped away and turned just in time to see and block Kasumi's sword with her guns as the ninja appeared behind her. She fired at close range, but Kasumi arched her back to just narrowly avoid the bullets and slash her sword down.

Yuna avoided it and kicked at Kasumi, who ducked and rolled away as Ayane came up and attacked with her tokkosho again. Again, Yuna dodged and fired her pistols in return, but Ayane deflected them by spinning her tokkosho around in front of her as Kasumi swooped in over her and struck. Yuna stopped to block the blade and hurdle over Kasumi, shooting at her while rolling back to her feet.

Ayane stabbed down at her while she was still rolling, but Yuna kicked herself to the side and down to the next level of the temple before charging a Burst Shot as she turned back on them. But before she could fire, Kasumi appeared in front of her, knocked the guns upward, grabbed Yuna's shoulder, and rolled over her, brining Yuna down onto her legs where she thrust Yuna into the air.

"Do it." Kasumi told her partner as Ayane jumped to her feet, allowing her half-sister to use her as a stepping stone to jump as Yuna.

Yuna cringed and balled up as the attack came, but before anything happened, someone else suddenly swooped in and nabbed Ayane's tokkosho right out of her hands, pushing her down while Yuna landed on her feet.
"Thanks a million, Rikku." Yuna said as her Al Bhed cousin landed next to her

"Don't mention it." Rikku replied with a smug grin before tossing Ayane back her weapon. "Take it." She said, evidentially wanting a fair fight, and took out her dual knives as Yuna once more readied her guns. "Alright Yunie, let's drop these losers."

Yuna chuckled at her cousin's brazenness. "You got it." She agreed as Ayane clicked her tongue and span her tokkosho while Kasumi charged her ninpo.

The four fighters squared off two-on-two, and then Kasumi and Ayane made the first move, Kasumi taking Yuna while Ayane went for Rikku. The thief flipped back and jumped into the air, severing a chain from a stone scaffolding and allowing it to fall toward Yuna and Kasumi.

Grabbing the chain she severed, she warned her cousin and Yuna ducked out of the way without question.

When Kasumi saw it coming, she prepared her ninpo, but was too little to late, by the time she teleported she had already been hit into the air. But she used the chance and teleported onto the swinging stone scaffold and ran along it to jump at Rikku as she still held onto the dangling chain. The Al Bhed swung herself at Kasumi as well, but when the two met in mid-air, Kasumi got her legs around Rikku's neck and twisted her body back to throw Rikku into the stone scaffold she had just used to hit her.

"Got you!" Ayane shouted as she approached Rikku and slashed at her while she was collapsed on the ground.

But far from out, Rikku pumped herself up and over the blade of Ayane's weapon and swung her knives. "Not today you don't." She retorted, and when her blades were blocked, she kicked Ayane's legs out from under her and flipped herself back as Kasumi attempted to kick her.

Yuna came in from the side, holding Kasumi back as Ayane stayed on Rikku and blocked her next attack as she kicked off a pillar, flipped over her, and attempted to kick Kasumi from above. Kasumi flipped over the thief, jumped off Yuna and then used ninpo to speed back at her, knocking her down as Ayane flipped in and kicked Rikku away.

Yuna quickly rolled back to her feet and shot at Ayane before she could attack Rikku again. Then Kasumi ran in from behind Ayane and struck Yuna away from her just before Rikku kicked the ninja away before dealing with Ayane again.

The kunoichi spun her tokkosho at Rikku's legs, but she flipped over it and after clashing weapons for a moment, Rikku landed a kick to her chin that knocked her off balance for a second just in time to block a blow from Kasumi, at which time Yuna came in and kicked her into Ayane, knocking them both down. "Let's try this again," Yuna said, charging a powerful bullet in her pistols. "Burst Shot!"

She fired, and the bullets exploded behind her attackers, causing them to fly toward her and Rikku so they could kick them back again onto a higher level. Ayane gripped her side as she became more and more frustrated with her targets who ran up at them in order to finish them off. Ayane and Kasumi flipped back to their feet, and then another combatant suddenly entered the fray.

Running in between the sisters at Yuna and Rikku, both flipped back to avoid the new girl in a dark gold tank top and blue jeans as she kicked at them.

The martial artist Hitomi landed behind them and threw a few punches to the air. "So you resisted after all." She said, more as an observation than a question. "No choice then... bring it." She taunted the gunner and thief.

With a quick exchange of glances, Rikku and Yuna jumped over Hitomi so they wouldn't have attackers on both sides of them and the martial artist gave chase. Yuna shot at her, but the bullets missed and Hitomi punched her back as Ayane got in and knocked Rikku back with her.

Kasumi teleported in behind them and back-kicked Rikku into the air just as Yuna got back to her feet with Ayane behind her. Ayane tried to kick her feet out from under her, but the gunner shot her back from close range and jumped over Hitomi's incoming side kick, kicking off her as she shot the martial artist in the head before doing the same to Kasumi in mid air.

Yuna landed on the scaffold dangling from a single chain, caught Rikku as she fell, and tossed her up to the archways above them. To follow up, she then shot the scaffold off the chain and let it crashed onto the temple floor as she jumped up next to her cousin.

As the temple floor began to collapse, Kasumi teleported out of harms way while her allies had to run for it. Kasumi appeared behind Yuna and Rikku on the archway and Ayane ran up the side to jump over them, charging ninpo through her tokkosho and striking it at the ground between the cousins and caused an explosion. Both dodged, and then Ayane blocked, sidestepped, and kicked Rikku into Yuna as she came at her, throwing the gunner off balance so Kasumi could kick and throw her off the archway.

"Yunie!" Rikku cried and quickly grabbed her cousin's arm before she fell and tossed her back onto the archway, where she immediately began shooting at Kasumi again. But then Rikku got up in front of her and pushed her back before a stone pillar flew at the spot she'd been standing.

The pillar crashed through the archway and the section that held Yuna and Ayane up began to fall as a result of Hitomi's attack. The martial artist ran and jumped onto it to help her ally, making Yuna stop shooting to jump back from the archway, but was followed by her attackers.

Hitomi jumped lower and ran up the side of the next archway, got behind Yuna as she fired at Ayane, and kicked off of her to keep her from landing and allow Ayane to use her as a stepping stone to safety as well while Yuna was sent falling into the abyss below.

She called out to her cousin, and seeing it, Rikku quickly grabbed at Kasumi after blocking her next attack, then picked the ninja up and threw her down directly at Yuna. Kasumi used ninpo to teleport, but not before her back struck Yuna, causing her to take both of them back onto the archway into safety.

"Thanks again," Yuna gasped and got to her feet.

Rikku went after Hitomi again, but the martial artist caught her leg and punched her into the air. Kasumi then jumped over her and kicked the thief down as her cousin began shooting at her, but the blue garbed ninja began teleporting over and over again to keep from being hit until she could get close and drive her knee into the gunner's back.

Rikku then charged her and made a few feints before knocking the ninja back, but then Ayane took her place and her weapon clashed with Rikku's. The thief flipped back and over Yuna as she fired a Potshot at Ayane only to have Hitomi jump in at the same time and kick Rikku into her.

At that moment, Hitomi used all her strength and dropkicked the stone archway at a crack in front of her, causing it to break apart and throw Yuna and Rikku into the air. The martial artist then gave the stone slab falling before her a powerful punch, braking it again and sending the pieces flying into the cousins and plowing them out of the temple onto the high bridge that lead towards a long drop off.

Rikku got back to her feet fast and ran back at their attackers, meeting Kasumi as she teleported out in front of the thief. Rikku attacked repeatedly with her knives but was blocked and struck back down as Hitomi ran past and Ayane leapt overhead. The kunoichi then charged her tokkosho with ninpo again and threw it down at Yuna.

The gunner avoided the weapon itself, but not the following explosion of ninpo energy and was blasted into the air, where Hitomi jumped up and kicked her back towards the edge of a huge cliff. Rikku called back to Yuna as she ran to her side as got her back up again.

But they completely outmatched now, before they could even start to gain back any ground, Kasumi and Hitomi jumped over them and kicked off the back of their heads, sending them rolling forward at Ayane. Kasumi then teleported and grabbed Yuna's arm while Ayane grabbed Rikku's and threw the cousins into one another, kicked them in their heads, and let Hitomi sweep kick both of them off their feet.

"We end it here!" Kasumi told her team and all three ran forward at Yuna and Rikku.

And yet, another new fighter suddenly ran up from the cliff side and interrupted the battle again. Running in between Yuna and Rikku, the woman in black brought up her legs, kicking all three enemies away in the same second.

"Tif!?" Rikku spoke with surprise.
"What are you-?" Yuna began, but was interrupted by Tifa.

"No time to explain." The black garbed monk took a couple steps as she responded to her friends as their attackers got back to their feet and stepped toward them.

They readied themselves for the next round in response, with Yuna bringing up her pistols, Rikku swinging around her knives, and Tifa getting in a fighting stance as the Materia in her arms glowed brightly. "Let's do this."