Hey its been a while got lazy then had to focus on school again. Don't worry thought I'm gonna work double time to catch up with this story. So enjoy el new chapter.
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Chapter 5: The Dark Cloud Approaches
Dante jumped into the air avoiding a massive swing from Siegfried's sword. Siegfried speed was blinding, showing his master swordsmanship as he handled the huge blade rather easily against Dante. Dante smiled as his following attack was deflected once again.
"For someone that looks like Optimus Prime, you move pretty quickly." Dante said as his face became more twisted and insane as Siegfried swung again and missed, cutting a giant Oak tree right in half. Siegfried smiled as he continue to force Dante back from the massive sword as Dante did the best he could to avoid the massive blade.
"If I ever meet this Sir Prime, I will cut him down as well!" Siegfried swung downward with all his might, driving half his blade into the soil. Dante back flipped out of harms way and landed safely on a rock as Siegfried pulled his sword from the ground. He shook his head smirking and readies his sword. "Man, you've been living under a rock for sure. How about you let me help and dig you out!"
Dante slashed upward missing Siegfried on purpose, as a trail of dirt kicked up into Siegfried's face. Blinded shortly, Dante hit Siegfried's sword out of his hand followed by two leaping kicks to the chest. Siegfried flew back up against a tree, as Dante leaped upward and attempted to cut Siegfried in half.
"Watch out Sir Siegfried!" cried Arthur as he picked up his lance and hurled it at Dante. "I told you to stay out of this small fry!" Yelled Dante as he spun in midair, catching the lance as he spun back he launched the lance back at Arthur and continued downward to Siegfried. Siegfried moved his head at the last second, causing Dante's sword to be stuck in the tree. Siegfried stayed immobile as Dante struggled to pull out his sword.
"Sir Dante, I feel dishonored. You are holding back on me aren't you?" Dante stopped for a second then smiled. Siegfried reached over and quickly grabbed his sword and swung at Dante forcing him to leave his sword in the tree.
"Please," Siegfried began as he took a canister of water and cleared the dirt from his eyes. "Let us begin anew, Sir Dante." Siegfried grabbed Dante's sword and pulled it out of the tree throwing it at Dante's feet.
"Hold nothing back so that I know I am truly worthy of traveling with you." Dante smiled as he picked up his sword from the ground and pulled out his gun Ivory from her holster. "To think," Dante said to himself.
"To think people say chivalry is dead."
Japan
Ryu and Mitsurugi finally exited the forest and walked along the freeway along side on of the mountains of Japan. Ryu enjoyed explaining to his new found companion that cars where not strange metal creatures made of metal that served other purposes besides killing small creatures on the road. Spending time with the samurai was turning out to be an interesting experience indeed.
"Ryu-san, this Ken masters we are going to see, is he a western by any chance?" Ryu smiled as they walked down the long road under the beating sun.
"Yes, he is a dear friend of mine, as well as my rival. He came to me and master many years ago. Ken's father wanted to instill displine and honor into his son. We pretty much are like brothers, and he keeps me up to date with the world as I help him test his skills from time to time."
"Is he a strong fighter?" Mitsurugi asked with a certain excitement. Ryu pulled out a picture of Ken at the second World Tournament.
"Well, his style is the same as mine. However, it is more unpredictable to say the least. His uppercut tends to set his opponent ablaze." Mitsurugi's heart skipped, such promising opponents in this time, he could barely contain his excitement.
"How much longer until we reach this Ken Masters?" Mitsurugi asked as he handed back Ryu's photograph.
Ryu looked up at the sky then back towards the road ahead. "In about another day if we keep up this pace." Mitsurugi leaped into a sprint as he looked back at Ryu.
"Then we should get there in no time if we run!" Ryu smiled as he hurried to catch up with the excited samurai.
A few miles away Raven kept watch on Ryu. He though about Soul Edge and knew from the stories told by the kunoichi Taki what kind of evil could come about from the cursed sword. Raven looked a few meters away from Ryu's location someone had been following him ever since he discovered Soul Edge a few days ago. Raven jumped down from the tree he was standing on and pursued the shadowy figure.
"Whoever this guy is, I cannot allow him to interfere, even if it means stopping him myself."
Raven swooped down and ran toward the dark person, silently approaching that no human ears could hear him coming. Raven leaped upward into the trees making a soft approach. The man continued walking, wearing a similar gi to Ryu except darker as well as huge prayer beads around his neck red hair sticking and standing upward. Raven thought to himself the man's stance and walk was not that of a holy man. Raven dropped down and silently drew his weapons and opened his mouth to speak.
"Why are you following me…" the man spoke catching Raven off guard. The man turned around, revealing two small red eyes set in a stone like dark skinned face. Raven felt a shiver go down his spine as he looked at him, a face of a man twisted from anger and ambition.
They stared at each other in complete silence for five minutes. Raven could only stare in uncertainty, the person in front of him reminded him of old ghost stories of warriors who could not be defeated by ordinary men. His look paralyzed him. After a long uneasy silence, the man turned around and began to walk away.
"Hey" Raven called at the stranger snapping out of his trance. "Why are you following that man? Answer me!"
The man turned his head and stopped walking.
"You are weak. Leave."
Raven pulled out both of his small fighting knives and charged at the man. "I will not allow you to interfere!"
"Foolish man…" said the dark figure as he sidestepped and parried Raven's attack. The force of the parry alone knocked Raven off his feet making him hit the ground hard.
"What insane strength for a parry is he even human?" Raven said to himself as he threw the two knives at the dark man.
The man raised his arms and one leg as he glided towards Raven leaving after images of himself. Raven stood and watched in disbelief as the man approached him. "I missed?"
The sky above them darkened, as the man grabbed Raven and pulled him downward into the ground. Only white flashes could be seen.
Mitsurugi looked back and turned to Ryu. "Look Ryu-san the clouds, they gather under the sun directly." Ryu looked as he felt a sinking feeling in his stomach. He remembered the story Ken told him of their Masters murder and how the sky inexplicably went dark on a sunny day.
"In my time," Mitsurugi said with a serious tone in his voice, "that is a bad omen."
Raven laid on the ground as the man stood over him, a red symbol of ten glowing as he whispered to his defeated foe…
"...Shun Goku Satsu…"
America
Dante attacked Siegfried, both swords emitting sparks and echoed throughout the forest. Siegfried parried Dante and grabbed him by the jacket tossing him into the air, followed by a swing from the blunt side of Siegfried blade ramming into Dante's back. Siegfried continued to swing as he slammed Dante into a tree.
Siegfried pulled back, drove his sword into the tree as Dante jumped up, ran up to the handle, and kicked Siegfried in the face pushing him back.
"C'mon Siegfried, is that all you got!" Dante said as he moved forward and attacked Siegfried with his sword. Arthur looked on the grand battle becoming worried. Siegfried was attacking and landing blows that would have defeated the average person maybe worse. Yet this silver haired Dante was still going as if these attacks were only flesh wounds. Arthur was beginning to think this Dante was not just human or human at all.
Dante hurled his sword at Siegfried like a javelin as Siegfried ducked underneath the flying blade and retaliated by hitting Dante and launching him into the air. Siegfried ran towards Dante, pulling his blade out of the tree and jumped after him to land the final blow.
"Oh no you don't!" Dante pulled out Ebony and Ivory and fired at Siegfried. Siegfried deflected and blocked the shots with his giant blade simply by turning it to the side. He landed back to the ground and looked around.
"Sir Siegfried, behind you!" cried Arthur. Siegfried spun around to see Dante impale him with his sword.
"Too bad I though you were a lot stronger." Dante said as he looked at his opponent. Dante looked at his blade, followed by rolling his eyes and sighing as Siegfried smiled having caught the blade between his arm and his side. Siegfried grabbed Dante by the throat and bashed his handle into his face followed by a sword swing, instead of slicing driving Dante deep into the ground.
Siegfried dragged his sword off a limp Dante falling to one knee exhausted. "I pushed it too far; I just took this man's life."
Dante's hand shot up and pulled himself out of the ditch. Siegfried was shocked and attempted to pick up his blade to fight again, as Dante stepped down on it pointing his sword at him.
"Damn first some damn boyscout gets a cheap shot off me, and then I get beat by a guy dressed like a can of tuna." Dante said as he shook the dirt off his jacket.
"Time to stop playing around and get serious." Dante took his foot off Siegfried sword, stuck out his hand, and helped him up.
"Well tuna boy welcome to the party."
An abandoned church in Europe
Strider sat in the darkness watching the man in the white hood Zasalmel, going to his unholy work. Waiting for his chance to strike, as well as see what other developments would occur in the strange area.
Zasalmel stood as he read the incantations on the scrolls before the strange symbols that surrounded the set of Azure Armor known as Nightmare. Nightmare, the dark part of Siegfried when he became possessed by Soul Edge, the persona that made him feared throughout the entire known world and made him kill for souls even in his sleep. Even though Siegfried had rid himself of the cursed blade and struck down the eye of the evil sword, Zasalmel knew the evil within the sword could reincarnate itself and come to life with the right spells.
"Hahahaha, for a mortal you're really good at summoning an ancient suit of armor!"
Zasalmel clenched his fist as he continued with the ritual. "What do you want demon. Can you not see I am attempting to do something for our lord?" The demon emerged from the shadows exposing his meaty face and extremely thin body rival only by his massive brain open to the air. The demon adjusted his staff as he floated over to Zasalmel. Strider leaned forward as the demon began to speak softly.
"Lord Jedah is getting impatient, he wants this Soul Edge, and you are making little progress for that cause." Zasalmel gritted his teeth as he looked at the demon.
"Brainstern, this creation might even be stronger than you. So heed my advice and watch your tongue. What is it that you want?" Brainstern smiled as he melted back into darkness.
"Just here to tell you that Lord Jedah is coming to speak to you. Just thought you'd like to know hahahaha!"
Strider attached a message to his mechanical bird and watched as it flew out of the Cathedral. "Taki was right" Strider thought to himself "things are starting to get complicated."
London
Nina dodged Ivy's slashes back flipping her attacks as Vega watched occasionally jumping in and out of the fight. Ivy slashed downward as Nina dodged only to parry another kick from Vega. Vega smiled behind his mask as he jumped and took to the shies. Nina and Ivy exchanged quick kicks before Vega came down on them both nearly cutting Nina to shreds.
Nina looked at her side bleeding after swift attack from Vega. Out of the three, she was at a disadvantage, seeing how Ivy had a whip sword, and Vega's hand claw was posing a problem as well. If she could just get to her bag, her katana might give her more of a fighting chance.
Nina's thoughts were cut short as Ivy charged at Nina, unleashing the whip blade to attack Nina. Just as the whip was about to strike, Vega swooped down and caught the whip with his claw, pulling Ivy towards him and striking her in the stomach with his foot.
"Now!" Nina ran to her bag as Vega watched her jump onto it and grab the bag containing the staff. Vega smiled as he loosened the whip from his claws and gave chase as Nina jumped off to the next roof.
"Damn it!" said Ivy as Vega ran after Nina. Ivy ran after Vega and whipped her blade as Vega jumped off the roof. Vega was shocked as he watched the whip wrap around his feet and felt the tug of his body as it whipped around like a rag doll. Ivy then swung with all her might as she hurled Vega at Nina.
Vega desperately tried to regain his balance, only to watch helplessly as Nina turned around and double kicked him in the face. Vega was sent flying back to Ivy who in return kicked Vega face first into the ground. Ivy retracted her whip and attacked Nina.
"Die!" cried Ivy as she came down on Nina. Nina quickly spun around avoiding Ivy's first strike pulling out her Katana to parry the next one. The two women exchanged swordplay before coming to a test of strength as both women fiercely stare each other down.
"You are very talented with a blade as you are unarmed. However I need that stone more than you." Nina stepped hard on Ivy's foot and pushed her off attacked the silver haired woman. Ivy blocked two hits before getting hit with a kick causing her to fall back, but not before Ivy turned her sword into a whip once again catching grip on Nina's sword.
"My face! You damaged my beautiful face!" Nina jumped back as Vega returned attacking again, each attack fueled by rage because of the scratch on his face inflicted by Ivy and Nina. Nina dodged and blocked, each of Vega's attacks were fierce but slower than before. Nina used her sword that was still wrapped up in Ivy's whip to parry Vega's attacks as Ivy struggled to her feet. Ivy retracted her blade causing Nina's sword to whip out of her hand as she watched in disbelief as Vegas following attack connected with her torso.
Ivy ran off and grabbed Soul Edge as Nina stood looking at Vega in disbelief, the blood running down her body as she gasped in pain the three blades penetrating her womb. Vega smiled as he pulled the blades out of Nina watched her fall. He licked the blood off his metallic talons and looked on the dying woman with a perverted smile.
"Oh well, seems like the white haired one got away. Heihachi will not be pleased but I will get to her eventually. At least I had the satisfaction of killing such a beautiful opponent." Vega knelt down running his figure threw her hair, a thickening fog covering the two bodies as Vega raised his arm again, thrusting his arm towards her neck.
Small bar in New York
Gene sat at the bar, taking a second shot. Running and fighting demons was a very exhausting job. Not to mention it sucked having to uppercut demons into the sky ever five minutes. Gene took another shot. Actually, upper cutting a demon into the atmosphere a demon into the atmosphere was not all that bad when he thought about it. In fact, it was pretty good.
Gene took another shot, looking at the ring he got off a demon he accidentally ripped off his arm. The red stone seemed to shine every time demons were near, good thing to have being an owner of one of the famed God Hands.
"Crash."
"Crap." Gene said as he dropped his glass. As he bent down to retrieve his glass, which was already broken. A gunshot rang out and nearly missed his head by an inch. "Holy Crap!" Gene screamed as he ran down the bar avoiding automatic gunfire. Gene slipped on the wet floor as the other customers ran out the bar flipping tables and chairs falling. Gene jumped over the bar, his head pounding. The gunfire, wild and random, destroying bottles of whisky and liquor, splashing and wetting his head.
"What the hell, now their coming at me with guns? This is some bullshit." Gene grabbed a white towel and waved his arm over his head.
"Okay I want to surrender peacefully if you stop shooting… at my head…with that machine gun." Gene looked over the bar and raised his eyebrow. All the destruction and chaos that had just ensued was the work of one person. She was a small girl wearing a red dress and blonde hair, looking very out of character in the city. She looked exactly like little red riding hood. Little red riding hood with an Uzi. The red stone in the ring began to glow again. The little girl pointed the gun at him again, causing him to stick up his hands in the air.
"That ring, there is a bounty on it. Even if I got to rip that arm off, I'm not leaving without it." Gene looked at the ring then back at the little girl.
"Exactly who are you?" The little girl reloaded her clip and gave Gene a look that sent a shiver down his spine, her eyes gleamed and face became a little more dark and twisted.
"My name is Baby Bonnie Hood, and I am a Special S-Class DarkHunter!"
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Wow Gene from God Hand managed to sneak his way in here. Yea people are gonna get hurt if B.B. Hood doesn't kill him.
Ok stay tuned for the next chapter will be action packed. Or as action packed works on a computer monitar can get. I'm working on the spelling so bear with me ladies and gents. Cya next time!