Chapter 12: Unholy Awakening

'Kanade...Tachibana...Uncle...Akira-san...thank you for everything...and goodbye.'

Was the final thought of Tsubasa as she finished her song with a single tear flowing from her eyes to her cheek. The effects were instantaneous…All the Noises surrounding the area were disintegrated. Even the mysterious girl got caught in it. Kitazaki managed to raise his arms to defend himself from the attack but he too felt a bit of power in that song. Akira and Hibiki can only look on with shock and disbelief as Tsubasa finally finish up but then….

COUGH!

Blood pour out from her eyes, nose and mouth as she cough a violent amount of blood before slowly her body fell the ground and only one word came to the mind of her friends as they watch Tsubasa collapse hard on the ground while blood were still flowing out of her.

"TSUBASA!/TSUBASA-SAN!"

The voice of despair and anguish from both Akira and Hibiki were heard that night.

Meanwhile, at the base, Genjuro can only look on with disbelief along with the rest but none were prepared to see the looks of terror and despair on a certain red hair girl face as she had a mortified look while tears were slowly flooding out from her eyes.

"Tsubasa…Tsubasa…."

She then held her head in pain as she too did what she can only do…scream her heart out in pain and sorrow for her best friend.

D-Decade and Hibiki quickly rushed to the down Symphogear User who by now her armored had power down. Akira quickly picked her up and rested her head on his chest. Hibiki meanwhile tried to wake her up but to no avail. Kazanari Tsubasa ceased breathing. Meanwhile, Akira felt numb. He was supposed to protect her. He promised all of them. He promised Kanade he would look after Tsubasa but now….Tsubasa died…she died because he was weak to stop it. Then it appear,

"Please don't die! Don't die…Hikari!"

The smiling face and the teary eye blonde hair girl appear in his head again. She was in a position like how Akira was cradling Tsubasa…the hole in her chest evident and the blood flows in Akira's armor. The girl with a shaky hand gently cares his cheek as Akira gently hold on to it.

"Don't cry, Akira….This is not your fault….Please don't blame yourself….I…Love…Yo…u…"

And with that the girl's hand dropped lifelessly on the floor.

Meanwhile, the User of the Nehushtan miraculously survives but not without suffering some injury like scratches and bruised. As she tried to get up, she coughs a bit of blood to show she had internal bleeding but thankfully not too severe.

"Damn it! I messed up! I underestimated that damn blunette too much. She almost killed me too had I not activate the shield in my armor at the last second."

Not far from her, Kitazaki look better than she did, other than a few scorch marks he was still combat effective.

"That was one hell of a power…Too bad she's dead. Her sacrificed was futile in the end. Hehehehe! Hahahaha! Too bad I can't' kill her myself, I would have love to hear her dying scre-?!"

But before he can finish his sentence, the Dragon Orphnoch was hit square in the face by a punch that sent him flying into numerous tree, evident with the vast amount of land and tree he was destroying while being dragged through the ground. As the smoke cleared from where Kitazaki stood, we see a figure crouching down a bit with dark red aura erupting from his body.

It was none other than D-Decade but now his visors were now blood red and he was gripping his smoking fist so tightly that it bleeds.

Play OPM: Dark Energy

He gripped both of his hand tightly before unleashing a roar so powerful that it enveloped him in a dome of red energy. Chris was caught in the effect and was screaming in pain before hitting a tree and landed hardly on the ground. Hibiki didn't know what was happening anymore. Just a moment ago, they were mourning for Tsubasa's death and the next thing that happen was Akira instantly disappear and appearing in front of Kitazaki all the while pulling his fist which was so fast for even her eyes to see. The punch hit of course, but Hibiki did not expect that it was that powerful that it sent the Orphnoch zooming past the trees. Then it happened…

"ROARRRRRRR!"

The unholy roar of a beast especially when D-Decade's mouthpiece seems to open and it shows sharp jagged teeth. And with that, D-Decade vanishes again in a burst of speed. The Dragon Orphnoch had only recovered when all of a sudden he felt his entire face being grabbed harshly before he felt himself pushed down with a few ton impacts on the earth creating a descent crater beneath them. Not done there, D-Decade sat atop the down Kitazaki and started punching his face over and over again.

"Roarrrr!"

As the roar continues to intensifies, so does each punches. The punches slowly became a blur and Kitazaki's own face slowly pushed them further into the ground. But somehow he managed just enough consciousness knock the berserk Rider to the side and this made the berserk D-Decade jump away as he crouch down on all four. Dragon Orphnoch quickly righted himself as he pant and notice that dust was coming out of his face.

"You bastard….That actually hurt…Hehehe, so you've finally showed your true self. Yes! This is what you really are, Hakaisha! Show me more of that chaos in your eyes! Try and destroy me!"

What Kitazaki get was more roar filled with malice and anger as the berserk Destroyer pushed himself forward as he was now in front of Kitazaki with his hand now ready for a fierce side swipe to the face but Kitazaki managed to bent down but….his face was meet with a hard knee to the face which made him bent his body backward but before he can collapse to the ground, he felt his head grabbed by both hand and with the force of a cannon, D-Decade headbutted him so hard that shockwave passed through Kitazaki's back.

Kitazaki wobbled back but the berserker wasn't done just yet as it grabbed the Orphnoch by the throat before gripping it so tightly that a crack sound was heard. However the Dragon wasn't one to be one up by his opponent as he grabbed the offending hand and tried to crushed it as well and indeed, D-Decade's hand broke but not caring, he merely roar and slammed the Orphnoch into the ground and then doing so multiple time before tossing the body into a rock boulder. Kitazaki's body shatters the boulder easily and he grunted as he tried to get up.

He then roar out as well as he charge forward with speed almost equal to D-Decade and stabbed him from the back with his horn like weapon but it did little effect to the vengeful Rider as he only held the horn in place and with a quick movement, snaps it in half. He then used the snapped weapon and plunge it at Kitazaki's shoulder injuring him.

"Argghhh!"

Meanwhile,

Kanade arrived in her bike and was on the scene immediately. There she saw Hibiki still cradling the body of the deceased Relic user and Kanade didn't waste time and got there. Her horrified face was now morphing to tears of sorrow as she landed on her knee and gently she took Tsubasa's from the grieving Hibiki.

Kanade look at her best friend and tried to wake her up,

"Hey….Tsubasa…wake up. Don't go sleeping on me like this…Come on. Wake up….We need to go home. Everyone is waiting for you to wake up now, Tsubasa….Pease…"

No response. Hibiki with a sorrowful and tearful look gaze at the older girl and tried to tell her.

"Kanade-san…Tsubasa-san is-?!"

"No!"

That cried made the girl flinched as Kanade glared at her and said,

"Tsubasa can't be dead! She just can't! I refused to believe that! I won't believe that!"

She then look back at her best friend and yelled out forcefully this time.

"Tsubasa! Wake up! You can't die like this! You can't just leave us! You can't leave me! Who am I going to teased if you're gone!? Who am I going to call a crybaby if not you!? Please, Tsubasa! I understand now! I understand now what it would feel now if you had loss me so please wake up now because I don't want to lose my best friend!"

Memories of their time spend together flashes in her mind and it started to make Kanade eyes more blurry than ever. Her tears won't stop and despite what she did….Kazanari Tsubasa was not responding. She has and truly is….dead. And all Kanade could do now was cry out into the sky and scream out all her sorrow before she rested her crying face into her friend's shoulder. Hibiki despite not have known Tsubasa long, but she felt like she loss one of the important people in her life so all she could do was hugged Kanade and the two girls sobbed their eyes out.

Back to the Fight

By now Kitazaki was mostly mangle at this point. One of his arm torn, his leg twisted in the most painful of angles and most of all, part of his face dented. D-Decade meanwhile was just slowly walking to the down Kaijin and tossed the torn arm he held to the side. Kitazaki was now crawling on away while growling madly in pain.

"Grrrr….You damn fucker….I'll kill you…I can't just die like this!"

But he didn't get far as D-Decade stomp him in the back and lifted the Orphnoch easily by the head.

"Grrrr…..Roarrrr!"

He pulled his fist to give the finishing blow but before he could, he jump back as fireball headed his way.

He look at the direction where the attack came and saw a giant eastern red dragon made of pure mechanical existence roar at him. D-Decade roar back in anger but before he could charge forward,

STRIKE VENT!

A fireball hit him on the side and made the berserk Rider roll into the ground but quickly recovering as he finally saw one of his attack. It was an armored warrior with red and golden dragon theme armor that was unlike Faiz who was black and red motive with somewhat futuristic designed to him. On the Rider's hand was a dragon head like device that he was aiming forward while smoke comes out of it.

"Hakaisha, you seem to live up to your title. Stopping your rampant is of higher priority and as much as I want to destroy you, I rather do it when you're aware of your killer."

Seemingly understanding his attacker's word, D-Decade only roars out in fury as he dashes forwards while leaving a huge dent on the ground and in a short moment he would be upon the red theme warrior but before he could, the mechanical dragon suddenly caught him by the jaw and was flying into the sky. The struggling berserker tried to break free by punching the dragon at the side of its jaw but has little effect. Then it swoop down and landed head first into the ground and in extension, crushing D-Decade in the process. The dragon then finally lets go and D-Decade lay on the crater, seemingly injured but then he uses both of his hand and punch the ground thus making him stood upward as he jump up from the crater and look at both the new mystery Rider and the dragon that seems to encircle the red armored warrior.

"RrrrrrRARRRRRRRRR!"

D-Decade charge forward uncaring of his injury but the red Rider wasn't faze as he took out a card from his belt and it revealed a symbol of a golden theme dragon and the words 'FINAL VENT' to it. He inserted the card into his left arm that looks like a dragon head and closes it.

FINAL VENT!

The red theme Rider float into the air with the dragon also flying upward into the sky. The mystery Rider then move forward with his leg stretch forward and the dragon opens its jaw and blast him with flame but instead of hurting him, it acts like some sort of power boost and before D-Decade knew what hit it, he was kicked to the chest.

"Hiyargh!"

With a pushed from the red Rider, the berserk D-Decade was sent flying into the air and hit the ground. He grunted and tried to get up but before he could, he finally lay on his back and powers down thus returning him to Akira.

Akira grunted in pain as he tried to make sense what had happened just now…But he was too weakened to even stand up. He then remembers…

"I was fighting….Kitazaki…then that girl….and then…"

His eyes widen in horror when he realized that Tsubasa did the Swan Song and perished after doing so…and after that everything was blanked. He then heard footstep and only now realized that a dragon theme Rider was upon him and aiming a sword to his neck.

"Have you finally regained your mind or should I hit you some more?"

"Wh…Who are you?"

The Rider only stood there in silent before pulling back his sword and said,

"I'm the guy who just helped you from becoming something you will eventually regret being. Consider yourself lucky that no other human being was killed…aside from that blue hair girl who I would assume is your friend. But to shorten that, you met Takumi, right? Like him I'm also a Kamen Rider. Kamen Rider Ryuki. Tonight was only the beginning but like Faiz…I too have a goal to destroy you but not right now. You have much to consider tonight and yes, Kitazaki and that mysterious girl escaped so you're done for tonight. That is all."

With that, Ryuki took his leave, allowing Akira to lie on the ground while processing what just happened….Did he go berserk? From the way, Ryuki told him he did and that only happened when….Finally realizing it a second time, Akira stood up, ignoring his pained body and ran to the direction where he left Hibiki and Tsubasa.

Back at the Base

There was no sound heard on the 2nd Division but only the sound of mourning and grieve as the scenery changes to the morgue room where Tsubasa now lay on the operation table. Her cold and now pale face held nothing but peace as if she was sleeping. The occupant of the room were either silent or sobbing but not more than Kanade who only stood there silently as her bang covers her eyes as she gaze at her deceased friend. Akira was not far as he hugged the sobbing Hibiki close to his chest and his look was that of pain, sorrow but most of all regret. It was unlike him to held such face but at this point, he didn't care. The promise he made…broken. The person who was his friend but most of all the person he swore to protect was dead because of his weakness. His gaze look at Ryoko who understood his message went to Hibiki and hugged the sobbing girl into his chest as they shed tears together. Genjuro was also there but he hasn't said a word since all of this happened. Akira now stood behind Kanade and he gently held her by the shoulder where she flinched upon the touched.

"Kanade…I'm-?!"

But before more can be said, the red hair girl suddenly turns around and hugged Akira and buried her face on his chest. He then felt her shaking and before long, sob turn into cry as the girl openly cried on his chest and no more was said as they both sat on the ground with Akira feeling his own eyes tearing up as he held Kanade tighter on his chest and comfort her the only way he can although it was working little to ease the crying girl of her sorrow.

Author's Note

And with this done, I thank all of you who took the time to read this story. It's almost been half a year since I last updated so I hope you all forgive me. I had been dealing with personal life but that doesn't give me an excuse to leave you all hanging but now that the story has been update, here it is! XD So here it is. The Death of Tsubasa and also the moment where we see D-Decade partial awakening as the Destroyer but more will be seen and also hope you all have a good day and hope that despite the chapter is shorter than all previous chapter, I hope it delivers. Again as always, give a review as it will helped me better the story as well as flames will be deleted and ignore. This is Crimson and I hope to see you awesome Rider/Symphogears fans in the next chapter. Peace out! XD