The Raijin Event
A
Storm and the Sun
Special

FINAL PART

Raijin came to a stop right in front of a glowing, golden mountain.
The sun, though shining high in the sky, was perpetually stuck over this certain location- a sure sign something demickey was going on.

The kami sped up and found a large cavern covered by a boulder bound by golden chains.
"Amaterasu must be in there!"

Suddenly, a shining jade typhoon spun nearby.
It was Susano.

"You have bothered me long enough, you rat!" He roared and raised his Ten-Span Sword. "You will surely perish for being an annoyance!"

"What have you done to Amaterasu!" Raijin responded as he pulled out his right drumstick, "Tell me!"

"Don't you dare speak her name!" Susano went ballistic and swung his sword.

"I call upon the powers of Thor!" Raijin roared as a terrific lightning bolt struck his stick.
The kami's appearance changed to one of more muscle and now he had an iron chestplate and red cape. His once black hair was golden, like a sea of wheat.

"HRAHHHHHHHHH!" He roared and charged forward with his lightning drumstick.

KAPOW!
The mountain shook when Raijin delivered his powerful blow, which also caused a storm to form and scatter lightning around them.

"How was that?" The kami taunted as he looked at the crater and smoke he left behind.

But the smoke dissipated to reveal Susano standing without hurt, without injury, and without loss of energy.

"Incredible." The storm king god murmured, "For someone of your caliber. You probably burnt off a few skin cells, to be honest."

Raijin stepped back as his form returned to normal.
"No way... YIKES!" He yelped when Susano continued his interrupted attack.

Though the kami avoided the cut, Susano's might ensured that the blade caused a huge fissure in the earth when it struck the ground.
"How dare you flee, coward!?" The storm god growled and teleported next to the kami.

"Shoot!" Raijin sped up to avoid a stab.
"UNGH!" He was struck by the shockwave and sent crashing into the sealed cavern.

"The last thing you will see is the sun." Susano raised his weapon, "And with the Nihon Gem, I will make sure that sentence will last for eternity!"

The green gem on his necklace shone like a thousand suns as the god powered up his weapon.

Raijin sped up and saw Susano slow down to the point that his chop was irrelevant.

Susano struck down on Raijin, only to hit an after image.
"Huh!?" He turned to see Raijin was behind him, "You weasel!"

Raijin ran around the slowed down storm god and ended up behind him.

Susano once more struck an after image.
"You- I will destroy you, Raijin!" He roared and fired a beam from his sword.

"Just what I needed!" Raijin smirked and easily moved out of the way.

The beam from Susano's sword struck the entrance to the cavern and caused a powerful explosion that made a large mushroom cloud.

Of course, Raijin did not prepare for the explosion and was sent flying out of the mountains, crashing into a grassy plain 3 kilometers away.
"Ungh!"

The mushroom cloud rose and disappeared from sight.

Susano teleported just a few meters away from the kami.
"Hrrr... I hate you!" He turned to face his nemesis and powered up his sword, "I swear I will cast you into the deepest part of Yomi never to return!"

Raijin groaned as he stood up.
"Why have you done this, Susano? Why have-" He stopped when he remembered he was the one that caused this.
"No..."

"No need to cower, I will kill you regardless!" Susano raised his mighty blade, "HRAHH!"

Suddenly, a powerful ray of sunlight shot out from the explosion site and struck Susano in the body, sending the storm god away in a powerful blast.

"Ha... Ha..." Raijin panted and turned to the crater.

A glowing figure arose from the smoke and the ashes.
A majestic person radiating a shining light.

The sun started to move again.

"That... is... enough!"
A booming voice sounded as the figure touched down.

Raijin smiled when he noticed who it was...
But frowned when he finally inspected her.

Amaterasu, the once beautiful and glorious goddess of the sun, was now defiled and broken. The face that at a time past shone like everything priceless had a hideous scar across the left eye and the hair that had flowed like mountains springs was cut to her neck.

"Susano..." she murmured.

A typhoon signaled the god's return.
And he was not pleased.

"You... you have returned."
Susano responded, "I hold disdain for the times in which I had loved you, you disgusting wench."

Raijin gasped.

"And I regret that I had ever shared anything close to love..." Amaterasu held her aching chest as she held back a tear.
"Susano, why did you cause so much pain to the land? To our pantheon? To me? And to yourself?"

"I am not in pain!" Susano charged and backhanded the goddess, sending her crashing into the ground. "I delight in my power! The power I could only hold by my might!" He picked her up by the neck.

Amaterasu whimpered as Susano crushed her throat.

"Get off of her!" Raijin exploded in rage and shot up into the sky, then raised his drumstick and called upon a thunderbolt to strike it.

Susano ignored the kami and continued to tighten his grip.
"I... I hold nothing but contempt for you..." He glared at his sister, "I would not even spit in your direction... you senseless... vile... whore."

Raijin garnered an inconceivable amount of lightning on his drumstick.
"BY THE POWER OF RAIJIN! I HAVE THE POWER!" He yelled and dove down.

Susano turned and grabbed Raijin's drumstick without problems.
"Very well, I can kill you both!" He roared and threw Raijin into the mountain's rubble.
"Something I should have done with you a long time ago."

An audible snap was heard, and Amaterasu's body went limp.

"With the power of the Nihon Gem, not the Father nor the Sun can stop me..." Susano let Amaterasu's body fall and then watched it form into a glowing white ball.
"Now I shall reunite the family, down in YOMI!" He grabbed the ball and opened up the portal to Yomi, then threw the sphere in there.

Raijin groaned as he stood up in the midst of the rubble and then felt a sharp pain go through his back.

"I shall reunite you all..." Susano's gruff voice spoke as his blade pulled out of the kami's body, "I will wait for you there!" he teleported.

Raijin cried out in pain as he looked around for help.
He was dying, and he knew it. It was only a matter of time before his divine essence shot down to Yomi.
It was the end, a mortal lifespan in Yomi was his sentence of death- though he knew Susano had other plans.

Suddenly, a woman appeared near him.

"Hey!" Raijin called to her as he held his right flank, "Help... I... I..." he looked at the woman.

She wore a pitch black kimono and had pitch black hair. In fact, everything about her was morbid and dark... she exuded an aura that was ominous.
And that black mask that covered half her face.

"Do I look pretty?" This woman finally spoke.

Raijin was thrown off by the question.
"I... I need help..."

"Do I look pretty, Raijin?" The woman responded.

Something was wrong.

"Who are you?" Raijin asked as he started to step away from her.

The woman cackled and removed her mask, revealing a most horrifying sight. Her mouth was slit from one end of her face to the other.
"Come with me, Raijin!" She shrieked and extended her right index finger, which was ghastly sharp and covered in blood.

"AH!" Raijin screamed and ran off.
"I call upon my divine powers!" He raised his hands.

A lightning bolt shot out of the skies, but that was almost intercepted by a jade shield that had appeared.

"What?!" Raijin saw as his bolt scattered and only gave him a fraction of his powers, but enough to heal him regardless.

However, the woman was catching up.

"Oh snap!" Raijin saw this and started to speed up, "What is with thi- AHH!" he saw the woman was now at his heels.

"I will take you to Yomi! NO MATTER HOW FAST YOU RUN!" The woman shrieked as her finger extended to tap the kami's back.

Raijin groaned as he picked up speed.
"How are you so fast!?"

"I was created by the primordials to put to death those that can outrun Yomi!" The woman cackled as she kept increasing her speed.
"There is nowhere to run! Not even your brother could outlast me!"

"Well my brother is slower!" Raijin growled and sped up ridiculously, then circled around the world.

The woman was still behind him and not stopping.

"YOU CANNOT RUN!"

"I can run..." Raijin murmured, "That's how I started this whole mess... Susano slaying Amaterasu... Me, I did that... By running!"

The kami sped up to the speed of light.

"SO DO NOT TELL ME I CANNOT RUN!" He yelled out in pain.

The woman cackled as she was at his heels, "Leave the planet, enter the cosmos, no matter where you are, I will follow!"
She extended her arm.

Raijin panted and kept on running.
The thoughts of Susano and Amaterasu living happily was his fuel. The faces of Fujin and Izanami, even Izanagi was in his mind.
Finally, Yuki.

The one person he had done this for, he had caused so much pain because of her.

There was only one person to blame for this pain.

"I MUST DO IT!" Raijin yelled at the top of his lungs as he was now dashing through space, "Follow me all you want, Death, but I will not stop!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The slit-mouthed woman cackled as she was so close to her target. Her feet at the same speed as Raijin's and not stopping down.

"No matter how close you get... You'll only stay there!" Raijin grunted and sped up so fast that space started to distort.

"YOU CANNOT FLEE ME! EVEN IF YOU LEAVE PHYSICAL MATTER!" The woman shrieked and went alongside him into the void.

"How about... Time?"
Raijin suddenly turned around and ran back.
"Follow me if you can!" He blasted away.

The slit-mouthed woman growled and turned to follow him.

Now was the kami's chance to fix everything. Even with death at his heels, he knew that this was all he needed to right the terrible things he had done.

"You will help me!" He turned and saw a very familiar face.

It was Raijin, but not him, the past Raijin, running to change history.

Raijin ran to the past Raijin and caught up to him.

"Huh!?" The other Raijin gasped when he saw the newer one, "What?!"

"I am so sorry, but this is for our own good!"
Raijin called out, "For the good of everyone! I must do this... Sorry.. me."

Raijin shoved past Raijin, causing him to stumble and lose speed.

The slit-mouthed woman extended her index finger and touched Past Raijin's back.

"YEEEEEOOOOOO!" Past Raijin screamed as he started to shrivel up into a glowing white sphere and instantly shot away.

Raijin murmured and closed his eyes.
"For the welfare of everyone..." He felt his body go numb.

The time stream started to shake and quake.

Raijin felt himself go faster, but soon he was engulfed in a light.
However, he also felt as if he was melting, like wax near a flame.

And indeed he was.

He was running so fast and so disconnected from time that his body started to lose its form. Raijin was slowly melting away the more he went.

The slit-mouthed woman was nowhere to be seen, perhaps because the god was already dying.

However, Raijin felt that this death... was forever.
He did not feel the compelling nature of Yomi calling to him.
He was dying, dying outside reality, outside time, outside life, outside hope.

He had broken everything he had loved out of selfishness.

"Izanami. Fujin. Susano. Amaterasu. Yuki.
Everyone... I am so sorry..."

"RAIJIN!" A booming voice called out, and a glowing ball descended in front of him.

"Amenominakanushi..." Raijin looked up, "Oh Primordial... I have messed with your creation... and I will pay for it."

"Why did you fall to selfishness, Raijin?" The primordial creator of the Japanese Pantheon spoke, "Why? Look how much pain you have caused. Not only to creation, to Nihon, but to your brethren..."

"I know... and I will pay with my own existence, for I have shamed us all!" Raijin kept running and running.
Even though he was melting away, the kami found the speed to run.

Amenominakanushi faded away.
"Very well... Your sacrifice is honored, though it is a payment for your folly."

"I... Under... STAND!"
Raijin cried out.
"I'm... sorry..."

Then there was silence...

SM'S TIEM:

You're probably wondering why this is here. I decided to reboot Storm and the Sun so it can run alongside Pantheon Protectors. The new differences in the upcoming chapters will be that Raijin is not going to be in it and a few plot things would be changed.
Sorry for the confusion!