CHALLENGE TO ULTIMATE MATCH 1998
PROLOGUE
Iori strangled Orochi with all his might in uncontrolled anger. The whole area erupted terribly due to their powers.
"Iori, stop fighting back, just accept your fate." Orochi tried to get his hands off, but Iori's madness was now beyond his control.
"Arrrggghhh!!!!" Iori yelled in madness and strangled harder. Chizuru could only watch from far as Kyo charged at them in anger as well. His fist was burning.
"Kyo!" Chizuru could only exclaimed, but Kyo wasn't listening anymore.
Orochi!!! Iori!!!" Kyo slammed his burning fist at Iori, pushing the powers through Orochi as well.
Suddenly the time around them seemed to slow down, even slower, while the other part of the world began moving again. The Earth seemed to be rotating again.
"Kyo, you fool." Orochi's body glowed, as Kyo himself had gone into berserk mode. "Bring back Yuki!!" he yelled. Orochi's body seemed to be vanishing into the darkness of the glyph behind them. But then a pair of arms appeared from the darkness and grabbed Orochi from behind.
"What is the meaning of this?" Orochi was too shock to react.
"You have lost, Orochi, and now I shall show you who is mightier after all." The figure emerged from the darkness. Kyo could only yell in shock as the figure in red tuxedo opened his right eye and let out a cunning smile. Kyo already knew who he was by seeing the red eye glowing again.
"Masaka… Rugal?!" The whole area was covered in a very bright light which shone from behind Rugal. Nothing could be seen at all after that.
Nearly 10 months later….
In the sunken Lack Noah under the ocean bed. The main control room which was long out of order was operating again. Skulls of the fallen fighters grouped together by themselves and formed a gigantic bowl, as a red light glowed on the wall forming an unusual glyph. The computer monitor displayed 'Operation Resurrection' and all of a sudden, blood started filling the bowl until it overflowed. The statue of Goenitz nearby started shaking, as if it was waiting for the blood to flow into it. The blood; the Orochi blood flowed and filled the lines on the floor and on the wall until it reached the glowing red light, forming the glyph on the wall. The monitor displayed 'Back To The world'. The wall crumbled down revealing some untangled wires ahead of the other part of the room. The Orochi blood gathered at a corner forming the shape of a human.
'Monsieur Is Back' The monitor displayed. At that time, the Orochi blood had formed the body of Rugal once more. He laid on the ground without his tuxedo, with his black singlet and without his Orochi power. (This is Rugal 94, of course.) The remaining blood started flowing towards the statue of Goenitz and filled it.
"Urrghgh." Rugal opened his eyes and looked around. "This is…" he took some time to remember where he was. "Black Noah." He slowly got up. He looked at his own body, trying to believe what he was experiencing right now. He held his hands in front of his own face, looking carefully at it, and his face seemed to be in a hysterical state for the moment. He clinched his fists trying to gather his energy once more.
"I'm back from the death!!!" he finally exclaimed after some while. Then he turned and looked at his portrait which was still dangling on the wall. But what he saw at first caused his eyes to open wide.
The guy without a shirt, with white hair and the glowing glyph tattoo on his chest filled his mind. Rugal had never face to face with him, but he knew who he was.
"Orochi!!!" He stomped hard onto the floor shaking the whole Black Noah that it came off the corals that were holding it from the very moment it sank onto it. He calmed down after some while.
"Yes, I'm back. And you, Orochi, have lost this battle. Now, I shall show you who is mightier now. Ha ha ha ha. Everyone's gonna be happy to see me back." He turned and looked out at the window. The ocean view beautiful, actually, but he wasn't feeling that way. He turned to the corner and saw that Goenitz was lying on the floor. The Orochi blood had resurrected him as well by filling up the statue of himself.
"Oh, Goenitz, so you're back as well, heh? Great, this is time for redemption!" he slammed both hands on to the floor with all of his powers, rumbling the whole Black Noah until it started rising up to the surface of the ocean once more. The old and muddy Black Noah was cruising onto the ocean surface once more.
"Now that's better." He looked through the window again, viewing the ocean and the sky and the sunlight. "It's been a long time since I saw all of this."
"It is time to give them all a surprise once more!" He put both hands into his pockets and removed them in an instant. Several invitation letters flew out of his pockets and flew out o Black Noah across the ocean, flying towards the respective recipient.
"This is the ultimate match everyone's been waiting for." He went to the control panel. "Destination: Miami!" Black Noah started sailing towards Miami. He went and grabbed Goenitz by the leg and dragged him down the hall into another room. Goenitz was still in sleep state, as Rugal took him to a room with a gigantic cross leaned against the wall.
Meanwhile in New Mexico, America…
Kyo Kusanagi was sitting on the ground of a grassy hill. He looked on at the beautiful scenery.
"Couldn't believe it's 1998 already." He looked up into the sky. "And no sign of Iori or Orochi since then." He laid back onto the grassy ground. "Well, I guess this is really my vacation after all. But one day, I'll still meet Iori and Kagura again. I better rest as much as I can before Iori comes again."
But all of a sudden a very thick appeared out of nowhere surrounding the area. Kyo got up in surprise.
"Nani kore? Where did this came from?"
He he he he." A mysterious voice laughed in the mist of the fog.
"Dare da? Show yourself. Kyo raised his hand ready to fight. Flames were erupting from his hands again. He heard another weird sound behind him and turned back. The next thing he knew, a heavy blow landed on his head and he fell onto the ground, without knowing what happened.
"Gotcha at last." The mysterious figure appeared from the thickness of the fog. Blades were dangling from the end of his cloak as he pushed them aside. It was Zero.
"Target captured, Sir." A few men appeared and got hold of Kyo.
"Good. Take him back to base."
"Roger." They carried Kyo away.
"Looks like it's time to begin the next plan, Master Nests." Said Zero, before turning and walked away back into the fog. Nests had captured Kyo.
On the other side of the country, in Washington….
Iori was having a shower in the bathroom of his rented apartment. He stood there letting the water flowed all over him as he let his mind flew away for the moment.
Since the end of the last battle against Orochi, Kyo and Iori had split up. The blood feud was supposed to have ended. But Iori wasn't happy because he couldn't hand Kyo the final blow. And when he heard of rumors that Kyo had fled to America, he went there as well without wasting anymore time. Plus, he had heard that Kyo's teammates and father were searching for him since he left without saying a word.
"Kyo…" He thought as he rubbed his hair in the shower rain. It was exactly that time when Kyo was taken down by Nests; Iori felt a heavy feeling in his heart. He let out a little chill.
"Kyo… It's him." He rushed out of the bathroom and dried himself with the towel.
"I can feel it. It's him. He's somewhere. But… chotto." He stopped wiping, let the towel dangling on his head and looked at the window. "What is this feeling? As if he's in some sort of trouble or so. Why am I getting this feeling?" He held his chest and slammed the wall after that.
"Uurrgghhh. Kyo… Orochi…" he went into the room and dressed up. "Kyo, just tell me where you are. But play all this kind of tricks with me. I hate all this feeling." And then he came out of his room fully dressed up and leaped through the window down to the ground floor, six floors below! He landed without any single problem. He stood up and looked around. He was living at a very secluded area, so not many people were visible to him over there. The alley was just so quiet.
"Kyo, your life, your soul… is mine. Don't you die before I claim your life with my own hands. Just wait for me. I'll find you till I get you no matter what, no matter when, and then I'll kill you!" He dashed down the quiet alley, seeking for Kyo without caring for anything else around him at the moment.