Onimusha Legacy

Authors Notes: Sorry about the late update, but I had writers block and other commitments.

Chapter 4 – The Assault on Police Town

Rio frowned with worry as Miyuki drove frantically to Police Town, she hoped everyone at Team WARRIOR was alright and hoped this was just some freak malfunction or something but there was a nagging suspicion that something is VERY wrong.

When they arrived both women were horrified, the whole place looked closed off, there were burning cars everywhere as well as several dead and wounded police officers and civilians.

"Oh my…" Miyuki gasped with shock.

"Come on!" Rio said as they rushed inside Police Town. The whole place looked like a war zone, there were genma attacking police town and the police were on the retreat running, firing weapons or carrying wounded comrades and setting up makeshift barricades.

They came to a few offices and during this, Rio tore off her trenchcoat, getting into action. She decided Maki can chew her out later and put on the gauntlet, for she was ready to take on some genma. Miyuki now noticed the gauntlet on Rio's arm.

"Rio?" Miyuki began

"I'll explain later!" Rio cut her off. "Try to hold them off here, while I go and look for the others!"

"Alright!" As both knew this hardly the time for questions, they had to act now before all of Police Town gets slaughtered. Rio got most of the genma using her swift and powerful attacks of her magical tonfars, making quick work of them and not wanting to waste time with them. She had to get to Maki and her comrades from WARRIOR or else….

"Hang on, guys! I'm coming!" Rio shouted at it, punching away the genma and absorbing their souls as Miyuki fired at genma coming from behind.

They managed to fight their way to the offices, and then they came across the Section Chief who barely noticed Rio was out of uniform.

"Kinezono! For once I'm glad to see you!" He said as he was too busy firing at the genma with a shotgun from behind a makeshift barricade of desks.

"What the hell happened here, Chief?" Rio asked.

"I don't know, first our communications got messed up, then these things started coming from the basements we couldn't hold 'em off." The chief panted. "They managed to get some of our men by surprise."

"Yeah, our casualties are pretty high…we've already lost 12 officers and we've got a lot of others wounded." Said Horiuchi another officer who worked at homicide who was unloading buckshots at the incoming genma.

"What happened to Capt Kawasaki?" was the first thing Rio asked.

"I don't know!" the Chief shouted. "When last I saw her, she somehow managed to get far from here before things got hot."

"Kinezono, get that blast door! It might not hold them, but it'll slow them down!" Horiuchi said.

"I'm going to go find Maki now! I promise I'll be back to clean up." Rio said, using her gauntlet to absorb the souls once more, and then unleashing a fire gust on the wave of genma, totally incinerating them. The chief and the other officers stood amazed by Rio's powers.

"Kinezono? What the hell was that?" the chief asked.

"Long story, I can tell you guys about it later." Rio said, looking serious. "More of those guys will be back though, so I'm going to get to Maki to see if she's okay."

"Be careful, Kinezono. And thanks." The chief said to her.

Rio rushed to an emergency door and using her gauntlet, forced it open easily off its hinges. That brought down the blast allowing her to head up the stairs. However, soon as she reached upstairs, an explosion occurred, knocking Rio close off the platform. She manages to barely grab onto a ledge in time and then clambers down to find herself surrounded by bulkheads and genma.

"Uh-oh." Rio muttered nervously. Suddenly her radio comes to life.

"Rio! Can you hear me?" called Miyuki's voice.

"Barely. I'm trapped and now there's a lot of genma!" Rio shouted.

"Hold on! I'll help you. There's an emergency ladder close to where you are!" Miyuki said as she picks up an automatic rifle from a fellow, fallen officer. After taking down some genma herself, she then finds something on the floor, something that looks like a rosary. On a whim she puts it on, she may need this.

Using what she saw Rio did, Miyuki held out her arm and the rosary started to absorb the genma's souls. Impressed by its powers, she decided she would hang onto it till the disaster is dealt with.

After managing to defeat the genma in the area she was stunk in, Rio proceeded further, only to encounter what looks like a large heavily spiked ball rolling towards her. She barely got out of the way as she rolled out of the way, as the thing formed into a bipedal creature; his skin was a weird patchwork of green flesh and metal. There were spikes on the metallic parts of his body.

"So you're the Onimusha? The name's Sparakon." The Genma introduced himself, bowing to her.

"Why the hell you guys are attacking Police Town?" Rio demanded.

"Now, if I told you the reason why, it wouldn't be any fun for later, wouldn't it?" Sparakon sneered at her.

"Damn you! Some of these people you killed were my friends! I won't let you off that easily!" Rio shouted, taking out her tonfars.

"Humans can be so predictable when they are angry…" Sparakon said, lunging at Rio. But the blonde woman simply side stepped the genma, the area where she was just standing now covered in long spikes.

"I have you now!" Rio shouted, hitting the genma with a serious punch that sent him spinning. Then she followed up with a drop kick as she grabbed his head and sent several kicks at his chest in a furious fit.

"Ha, is this what the new Onimusha is capable of?" Sparakon asked. "You have yet to discover your true powers and yet you can't even compete with the likes of me."

"Arrgh! Shut the hell up, monster!" Rio said as she threw a fist at it which missed him as he then rolled into a ball and came at her once more.

"Dammit!" Rio uttered, almost being pinned to the wall by its attack. The spiked genma then eyed Rio and saw its chance as Rio got up, almost exhausted from her battles.

"You can't keep up, human." Sparakon said. "You can curse your own shortcomings in hell!"

Suddenly, a powerful boom was heard and Rio saw a gaping hole at the side of Sparakon abdomen area. Another shot and most of its chest area was ripped open as it fell to its knees dead. Rio looked behind the decomposing corpse and saw Miyuki on the top platform with a shotgun.

"Rio, are you okay?" Miyuki shouted to her.

"I'm fine, thanks to you." Rio nodded to her friend.

"This area is still crawling of those things. Go and find Maki ASAP while I hold them off here." Miyuki said to her. "I can get to the emergency ladder from here, so hang on."

Miyuki began to fire at several genma as she heads to the panel that will release the emergency ladder in a hurry. After the ladder came down, Rio was able to get back to the top platform as she thanked Miyuki for the assistance while she went on her way.

Rio had become extremely exhausted as she ran from floor to floor. She then leaned against a wall to catch her breath, but there was no rest for the weary. More of the genma began to close in on her. Suddenly, she saw the set of them being gunned down from the shadows.

"It can't be…" Rio assumed, hoping that was Maya's gun in action. She was finally near the main room area as just then she heard a gun click. Instantly, she shouted, "Hold your fire!"

"Rio!" Maki called she was holding a shotgun, but looked relieved to see Rio as was Maya, who was with her along with Lilica, Yuji and Nanvel. All of Team WARRIOR seemed okay, but dragged from what has been happening.

"What happened, Maki?" Rio asked.

"I don't know, the communications array failed for some reason and then the genma attacked. We were taken completely off guard, we've had quite a few casualties, but we need to get the array online. We must call for assistance."

"Oh no!" Lilica gasped.

"What is it?" asked Maki as she then gasped when she saw through a very large genma heading for the roof.

"If she damages the upper array enough, we're done for." Nanvel pointed out.

"Rio, you and Maya get Nanvel to the roof. I'll have Lilica remain down here and Rio…" Maki ordered, and then produced a soul rosary from her pocket. "I found this earlier. It seems to have a similar property to your gauntlet, so I have a feeling you'll need it."

"Thanks Maki, lets go!" Rio shouted as Maya and Nanvel got their weapons ready and soon left the room.

Rio and Maya along Nanvel in tow fought their way past several genma, but as their adversaries lie defeated several more appeared them.

"Oh crap!" Rio said. "There's just no end to this."

"Rio, you get Nanvel to the roof while I'll hold them off!" Maya said.

"Maya?" Rio asked confused.

"Just go!" Maya replied readying her mini gun. "I owe these guys one for putting me in the hospital, so this is a little Jingu style payback I have in store for them."

"Just be careful, Maya." Rio said to her as she and Nanvel left. Maya licked her lips as she loaded grenade shells into a special gun she brought along.

"Say hello to my little friend!" Maya shouted, quoting Al Pacino as Tony Montana from the movie, Scarface. Several shots of grenade shells burst into flames as the genma exploded upon contact.

"How did you boys like my new gunpowder?" Maya winked at the incinerated genma as more came her way. "Don't worry; I got enough of these for everyone. Just come get some!"

Rio headed towards the roof as she had to stop that genma commander from destroying the upper array before everything else is thrown into more chaos then they are finished. At closer sight, she can see the commander preparing to destroy the array, as she stopped in time to see Nanvel and Rio.

"Ah, I was expecting you. How rude to keep me waiting." The genma commander said. It was close to resembling a human, but its features weren't all appealing to watch. It had several moving coils above its right shoulder and other forms of living tissue. "I am Elgon, the bringer of your soon to be demise."

"Your rampage ends today, you monsters!" Nanvel said to it.

"Oh no, it's quite the opposite. It has only begun." Elgon said.

"We won't be easy on you because you're sending a message to the fashion department, but for all the police officers who died defending this building." Nanvel said. "Rio, I'm going ahead to get the array set up. Make sure to get in some for me, okay?"

"Sure thing, Nanvel." Rio said, seeing Nanvel off as she was able to get into the array centre in time.

"Oh no, you will not!" Elgon said as he started to charge after Nanvel, but was stopped in his tracks as Rio fired several fire induced bullets at it.

Rio called out to it. "Hey, ugly…want to test your luck?"

"You'll regret that challenge, feeble woman!" the humanoid genma hissed, then unveils several tentacles from its torso which shot at Rio.

Rio dodged most of them with little effort, but ended up being caught by one of them around her left arm as she felt electric shocks surge through her body once it contacted to her skin.

"ARRRRRGGGGHHH!" Rio cried out in pain, but by sheer will, she desperately summons forth her flame katana and slashes the tentacle in half, freeing her.

"You're truly are a pest, human." Elgon said. "I'll enjoy making you suffer slowly and quite painfully. Genma servants, attack!"

Rio felt dizzy as started shaking her head, then she begun to strike down more genma that came to aid Elgon. With each critical hit, Rio pushed herself to stop these accursed monsters that came to destroy the place she worked hard most her life to become part of.

"I…won't…let…you…take…Police Town!" Rio screamed at the top of her lips as she continued to suck more of the genma's souls into her gauntlet. What she didn't notice were some of the genma's souls were pure purple souls that were also being drawn into her gauntlet. Suddenly, she felt the gauntlet react to the soul absorption as her body felt a new, yet pure surge course through it.

"What…what the hell is happening to me?" Rio muttered as purple flames surrounded her as her clothing caught aflame, her skin colour had become dark as ash as most of the veins appearing through her body were alighted. Her blonde pony tail loosened, revealing its length and moved as if it had a life on its own as it shifted colour from a golden blonde to a pure silverfish-blue colour. Her pupils then glistened to a red and yellow glow, as she then glared at her enemy before her in her Oni form.

"So, you've now realised your potential, Onimusha." Elgon said "Which will make killing you more fun."

Then Elgon unleashed all of his tentacles at once, but then the Rio-Onimusha simply sidestepped all of them using speed faster than what the genma commander could have predicted.

"How the…?" Elgon muttered as Rio then came at him with a cry in her Onimusha form, hitting the genma commander with repeated attacks with her tonfars all about his body. Once he was off balance, she then aimed her right hand at him, and fired several energy beams at him, ravaging the genma once and for all.

"Impossible…" Elgon simply as he fell to his demise, suddenly dispersing and leaving only a trace of his soul essence.

After that was done, Rio reverted to normal as she began to hold her chest, breathing heavily. What she felt just now was something she wasn't expecting from the powers of the Oni.

"Was that…the form of the Onimusha?" Rio asked herself bewildered.

"Rio, I'm almost done on my side." She heard Nanvel's voice said, then after a couple more seconds, she heard her shout, "I did it!"

"Okay, good work, Nanvel." Rio replied to her friend. "I'll be down there to help with the clean up of those monsters soon enough, the commander is gone for good."

"I got it, Rio." Nanvel replied.

With the communications array back online and with the genma commander dead, the police were just able to force the genma to pull back for now as Rio participated in the battle. As she watched the genma retreat, there was cheering from her colleagues…Rio can finally relax now, but thinking back to the attack, she may have lost some good friends that day. All she can do is sit back and try her best not to cry in front of everyone, she still needed to show them her strength that will get them through this.

Rio and her colleagues were among those trying to tend to the wounded which were everywhere. The causalities were quite grave and even not enough manpower to assist them to accumulate for the losses Police Town suffered today. There were so many police officers and civilians with all sorts of injuries in the attack, thankfully, Police town's hospital was relatively intact but it was already occupied with most of the wounded from the stations and civilians combined, so other wounded had to be moved to other hospitals. It was a mess as Maki and Chief Commissioner Arakawa co-ordinated the clean up and already Police Town's morgue was as just as full as its medical facilities.

Rio was busy searching for survivors. Because of her previous Onimusha transformation during the attack, her long flowing blonde hair was flowing wildly as her tattered clothing showed a bit of her skin. But Rio didn't mind that, as she was more concerned in helping tally up survivors and corpses, which was a hard thing for her to do.

She found another living police officer and rushed to her. "Hey come over here and help me!" she yelled as she assisted a paramedic in helping her onto a stretcher.

"Tell my husband and my children that I love them…" the officer said weakly.

"We're starting to lose her." The paramedic said.

"You're going to tell them yourself! Do you understand?" Rio said before the paramedics took her to an ambulance and drove away. Just then, a photo lied on the pavement on the place as the ambulance drove off. Rio went to pick it up as she saw it was of the same woman who got carried off with a man and two children, a boy and a girl in their pre-teens.

Rio then took a look on the face of her friend Maki Kawasaki. Ever since the end of the Black Diamond case, she has never seen Maki look so…tired…

It was the day after as repairs and restoration were still being carried out at Police Town as things were starting to look more normal, but as Rio Kinezono she passed by in the hallways, she noticed a lack of familiar faces a few in her section who were among the dead.

Rio thought of a friend, Taku Kuriyama as he was an affable person. He was killed in the first few minutes of the attack. He had a wife and three young children. Rio took it upon herself to tell them that he was dead.

Then, there was Akira Otsuki, he was a good kid whom Rio recently befriended. He was another one who perished in the attack.

There was also Keika Katsuri, a female officer. She was a friend of Rio's ever since she was first assigned to the force. She was a good friend and Rio was even a guest at her wedding a month ago.

Rio then thought of the woman whose name she learned was Yoko Inuzuka, the one she helped. She was glad at least she was going to make it…at least her kids won't have to grow up without their mom.

(Those damned genma…) Rio thought to herself, as she bit her lips and clenched hr fists, fighting back her emotions. Now Rio knows that the genma would kill without discrimination. Had she known about the seriousness of this, she would have tried to warn all of Police Town about them, but it was too late.

Rio went into the briefing room where Maki and the others were, as Maki acknowledged Rio's presence with a nod and started to explain her findings.

"Yesterday when the genma attacked, we found out an hour ago the communications was sabotaged before the siege."

"Sabotaged?" Rio asked as shocked along with the others.

"Yes, apparently the Genma had at least one insider who sabotaged the array, that's how they were caught off guard. We are doing a further investigation into the matter and it appears the genma have some human collaborators." Maki said.

"No kidding." Maya commented.

"Our casualties yesterday were quite…extensive." Maki explained hesitantly.

"How many?" Nanvel asked.

"So far, we've had over 65 dead and almost a hundred seriously wounded." Maki said, shaking her head sadly.

"You think the genma will come back?" Rio asked seriously.

"Not for another assault on Police Town but…no matter their next course of action, I have a feeling this just the beginning…" Maki said seriously.

Rio and the others knew well along with that Maki this wasn't over yet…

TBC

Author's Notes: This is the end of the first arc of the story as the next chapter will introduce a new arc.