Fearsome Foe! Strike of Koshin Kan!
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In a mysterious misty place where nothing can be seen, but only silence and a stone piller remains. There stands an entity of 210cm with flowing crimson hair, and fierce eyes that can strike fear in enemies' souls as he views the surroundings with crossed arms. It was the mighty Demon Lord Zenki in all superiority as he views the world, and always prepared to strike down enemies. But it all seems too quiet for the powerful demon.
"Odd... everything seems too quiet." Zenki said noticing the eerie silence unknowingly to him was a shadow figure... he instantly sensed the entity and shifts himself to battle!
"Who's there!? GGGNNNN!"
The shadowy figure rushed with blinding speed striking Zenki through his gut causing severe pain as the figure was only showing it's menacing eyes and wicked smile that resembles someone to Zenki.
"Vasara?!"
"So you're Zenki huh...? I'll be coming for you and do give this to my dear old friend Asura."
The shadow figure pulls it's hand and giving a swift horizontal slash to Zenki's neck!
(( Enno Shrine ))
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
A scream was heard all over the shrine waking up Chiaki, Kasumi, Megumi, Akira, Rika and Ryu from their sleep.
"What was that?!" Chiaki was startled by the scream coming from the main shrine as she and the others rushed to see what happend.
Chibi-Zenki was sweating uncontrollably from a nightmare with an unnerving feeling at the same time Chiaki and the gang sees him in such a state.
"Zenki, what is the matter?" Rika asked the chibi lord as he quickly turns away.
"It's nothin.'"
"Are you sure? You seem troubled..." Kasumi weighs in as Zenki only scoffs.
"Can we go back to sleeeeep...? It's one in the moooorrrrniiiing." Ryu whines with a drowsey face at the same time the dragon lord Asura appeared in astral form.
"What's this nonsense?"
"Zenki must've had a bad dream." Akira answering the dragon lord's question.
"Probably not having all the evil seeds he can eat." Chiaki made a playfully gest as Asura went up to the chibi lord.
"What's gotten you sweatin' midget?" the astral being asked the chibi demon.
"Wouldn't you like to know!" Zenki went up to Asura's face unintentionally linked him to the nightmare, in the dream Asura noticed in shock the shadowy figure with menacing eyes and even more wicked smile that instanly awakens past memories of someone who was once a comrade.
"What?! No remarks?!"
Asura quickly turned away after seeing Zenki's nightmare ignoring the chibi's words, with concern in his eyes.
"If it was just a dream, then it's probably nothing." Megumi said seeing no problem as she goes back to sleep so did the others... while Asura was in deep thought...
"It can't be him... there's just no way..." Asura said with a clenched fist, for Zenki he too was in deep thought of the shadowy figure in his dream.
"Who was that guy? Those eyes looked like... Vasara's..."
The next morning, the sky was partly cloudy in the Shikigami-Chou and the residents Enno Shrine are going about their daily buissness mainly cleaning the shrine while grandma Saki is out.
"HMMMMMMM~~~~~ I still can hear Zenki's scream ringing in my ear." Ryu stretching his arms while cleaning the floor with Kasumi as she had a concern look in her eyes.
"Ne Ryu, Zenki seemed...uneased of something last night..."
"Kasumi, do you remember the legend? Zenki is the most fearsome demon god on the whole planet. I highly doubt there is actually anything that can scare him." Ryu responds to Kasumi, yet she still worries.
Akira and Rika were with Chiaki in the library cleaning up the shelves while Megumi was reorganizing the many texts.
"Geez! There's like a million of books in your library!" Megumi being dumbfound by the number of text.
"Yeah, Sorry about that Megumi." Chiaki apologizing to the ninja girl while Rika was in deep thought about last night involving Zenki.
"Rika, are you thinking about something?" Akira asked the quietly Rika who jumped out of thought.
"Oh. It's nothing Akira." Rika replied while coming across an ancient text, which cause the young blonde girl to tell her friends.
"Everyone, I found something interesting."
"What did ya find Rika?"
"I found this unique text."
What Rika found in the library was a story of the Shinjin that catches their attention.
Elswhere, Asura was on the roof of the Enno Shrine as the astral being reminisce of his past; where he remembers a time where he was betrayed by a tiger god who was once his equal before he gone rogue and stripped Asura of his dragon horns. That moment in Asura's life caused immense anger and frustration in the astral being as he slammed his fist to the tile roof clenching his teeth.
"Damn that bastard..."
At that moment Chibi-Zenki appered behind the frustrated astral being. "Hey, what's makin' you pissed?"
"Hmph, just a bad memory it's all."
"Doesn't sound like just a bad memory for you to look riled up."
"Tch."
The two fighting gods suprisingly have a simple conversation on top of the shrine while the others were cleaning the main parts and the library... though unknowingly they will soon face a truly terrifying enemy as thunderclouds were forming.
((Unknown Cave))
Far off in the mountans, in an abandonned shrine two thieves trespassing found an entrance to a dark cave in search for treasures.
"So what are we looking for exactly in this rancid cave?" the skinny thief asked holding his nose to block the smell.
"I heard that there's treasure here in this cave that's worth a fourtune!" said the tall thief clenching his fist in exceitment to find this "treasure".
Deeper in the cave the thieves discover a large stone wrapped with numerous seals, almost like an enprisonment of an evil entity... or worse.
"Is that the so called treasure you were talking about?"
"No idiot! The treasure is suppose to be in the stone." the tall thief pulls out a pickaxe from his backpack in order to break the large stone to see the treasure.
"You get those things off that rock while I smash it to get that treasure!" said the tall thief hitting the stone with the pickaxe while the skinny thief was getting rid of the many ropes and seals at that moment sees a sign. -Here lies dormant the black tiger god-
"Uh... I don't think there's any tresure here."
"What, did you say something?" The tall thief unfortunately broke through the stone as it glowed a fierce black aura breaking the seal and unleashing something... dark and malevolent. The aura showed terrifying eyes and a demonic grin towards the two frightened thieves, in an instant it engulfed the thieves in a wave of malevolence.
The aura flys out of the cave with break neck speed as it hovers around the area in search for something... "Hm hm hm hm... Free at last... now it's time to pay a "friendly" visit to my old acquaintances... Kagura... and especially you... Asura. I will maybe also see the great Demon Lords as well... Goki... and Zenki..."
The dark aura took off to an unknown path as it sets it's sights on the four divine beings... elsewhere in the woods was a wandering monk wearing sunglasses traveling when he sensed an evil presence as the monk looked up and notice the dark aura flying at high speed without noticing the monk.
"I sense something evil about that aura... looks like trouble." the monk said taking off his sunglasses looking at the trail the aura left. The monk is known as Souma Miki, an ally to Chiaki, Goki, and Zenki in many battles. Souma then follows the trail of evil essence to see where the dark aura is heading.
Back at the Enno Shrine, Chiaki and the others were about to see the text Rika discover while in the library.
"Sooo what's in the book that Rika found?" Ryu asked with curiousity looking at the book.
"It is an old story of the four gods that protected the heavens and earth. They represented the four directions of north, south, east, and west. And the gods were legendary creatures of tiger, tortoise, phoenix and dragon." Akira explains to Ryu as the others see a page with a unique illustration.
"Hey look at that page!" Kasumi notice the page showing the four gods, and a red haired woman.
"Those must be the gods!" Chiaki in awe of the illustration of the divine ones.
"Hey! The dragon and phoenix looks like Asura and Kagura!" Ryu pointing out the obvious to the others as they are seeing the red haired woman while Chibi-Zenki was having his seventh bannana facing the opposite direction.
"That woman looks almost like Kasumi!" Megumi noticing the similarities of the woman and Kasumi as the astral Asura was floating the other way.
"Her name was Kaede Yume, she was a priestess of the dragon god and phoenix goddess." Rika said having to be Kagura's reincarnation.
"Whoa! Yume? Like related to Kasumi?" Ryu was awestrucked in hearing Rika's words.
"Indeed Ryu."
"Ne Rika what was my ancestor like back then?" Kasumi wonders in awe seeing Rika smiling with nostalgia of her past life.
"She was a strong woman, kind and gentle with a just heart. Her kindness was like a shining star casting a warm glow."
"Wow..."
"She must've been the voice that told me I was Asura's decendant..."
"Hey! Look at what Kaede's wearing around her neck!" Chiaki getting everyone's attention as they see a sapphire pendant that looks exactly like Kasumi's pendant which caught everyone by surprise.
"That pendant is the same thing Kasumi's wearing." Megumi seeing the same dragon shaped jewelry.
"That's the [Dragon Soul]." Asura sheding some light to Chiaki and the others.
"It's an ancient and powerful relic in the Realm of the Dragon Gods, it protects the bearer from all evil and can gives him/her a unique abillity of healing. It was a gift to Kaede from my mother, they were good friends."
"I realized something... if there's a realm for dragon gods, would that mean there's three more realms for the tiger, tortoise, and phoenix?" Ryu wonders.
"Indeed there are other realms than just Asura's. All four kept the balance of Heaven and Earth, each of the four gods pass on the duty to the next generation." Rika said to the white haired boy.
Akira was looking at the illustration seeing the tiger and tortoise gods curiously. "Hey Rika what ever happen to the tiger and tortoise gods?" Megumi asked the blonde haired girl as she sighs in remembering a dark time long ago.
"You see Megumi..." just before Rika was about to explain... Asura, Zenki, Akira and she sensed something in the woods.
"Something is coming from the woods." Chiaki sensed evil presence from the woods.
"Let's check it out!"
Chiaki, Kasumi, and the others rushed to the woods to find the evil essence.
((Woods))
A purple mist was surrounding the trees as the seven enters the woods looking for the essence of evil.
"It's close... I can smell it." Chibi-Zenki said as the source is getting closer to them.
"Over there!" Megumi spots a giant shadow from the trees, it was a two headed chimera with dark fur, two horns on both heads and an eye in the center.
"That's must be where the evil essence is coming from!" Kasumi noticing the mist emitting from the demon.
"GRRRRAAAAAA!" Roared the chimera demon staring at the Zenki cast as it prepares to strike!
"Here it comes! Zenki!" Chiaki gets in position to cast the spell of Vajra.
"Do it already!" the little demon getting himself ready to fight.
"Are you ready Ryu?" Kasumi setting herself to cast the Dagra spell.
"Let's do it!" Ryu prepared himself for battle.
"Let's go, Rika!"
"Alright, Akira!"
"BREAK FREE! VAJRA-ON-ARK!" Chiaki casted the spell as the little Zenki glows brightly all over his small body.
"RELEASE! DAGRA RAJA!" Kasumi shouted as Ryu's body is being shrouded in a wild blue flame.
"DEMON GOD TRANSFORMATION! AKASHA-ON!" Akira shouted as his body glowed a light blue aura around his body.
"PHOENIX GODDESS TRANSFORMATION! MAHAR SAMSKHARA!" Rika too shouted as well and her slender body emmitting a golden aura.
Out of the light were four new entities standing infront of the two headed chimera.
"THE INVINCIBLE ZENKI HAS RISEN AGAIN!" shouted the red demon lord in his Super Shinto armature being of crimson design with green gems on his wrists and ankles standing at 210cm with his arms crossed.
"THE ALMIGHTY ASURA HAS RESSURECTED!" the dragon lord shouted in his own Super Shinto armature of azure design with yellow gems on his wrists and ankles at 210cm with his arms crossed as well.
"THE LEGENDARY GOKI HAS DESCENDED FROM HEAVEN!" shouted the blue demon lord standing at 185cm in dark blue armature, long icy blue hair with spikey helmet and fiery earrings.
"THE DIVINE KAGURA HAS DESCENDED UPON EARTH!" shouted the phoenix goddess standing at 176cm with flowing golden hair wearing celestial armature, silver crown in angel wings adorned her head along with emerald earrings.
"RRRRAAAAAAOOOORRRRRRRRR!" the chimera charged in at the four divine warriors as Zenki and Asura dodge the beast while Goki and Kagura got the girls out of the way.
"Come on you two headed freak! I'll crush you to oblivion!" Zenki rushed to the chimera as the demon stomped the ground making a chunk of stone a sheild to block Zenki's punch.
Asura grabbed the stone chunk from the chimera and smashing on one of it's head, the chimera attacks the dragon lord with it's tail but he dodged it in the nick of time. "What the hell is this aura I'm sensing...?"
"There's something strange about that chimera's aura." Chiaki seeing something odd about the beast's aura as it looks created by something that is not an evil seed or bamboo shoot.
"I feel an enormous amount of malevolence..." Goki sensing the malevolence in the aura around the demon chimera as Kagura was in thought about the malevolence.
"This malevolence... can it be...?"
"Whatever it is, it's not friendly." Megumi said seeing Zenki and Asura fighting the chimera.
"Goki be careful about that aura!"
"I will Master. Let's go Kagura!"
"Right Goki!"
"Be careful guys!" Kasumi hoping that Goki and Kagura will be alright in the fight.
The chimera launches a dark fire ball at Zenki as the red demon lord deflects it with his fist towards the sky.
"Try this you freak!" Zenki struck the beast's left head but did not do much damage. "What is with this thing?!"
Goki and Kagura enters the fray seeing the chimera uneffected by the attacks by Zenki and Asura doing to it's heads.
"Kagura, do feel that malevolence from that thing?" Asura asked the young goddess as she also can feel the immense malevolence from the chimera.
"Yes, I do. Could it be possible..."
"How do you take this thing down?!" Zenki irritated by the chimera's incredible defense when Goki sees the eye in the center emiting the aura.
"Everyone! The eye in the center of it's chest must be emiting the aura."
"So the center eye is the weak spot. We need to hit at that point!" Kagura said to the others as the chimera lunged at the four.
Zenki rushed in with hands infront causing the beast to stop dead center as he throws it up in the air for Goki to do something about the chimera's tail.
"WILD TUNDRA FANG!" Goki striked the tail instantly freezing it when his arm felt that same unknown pain back at the Sakoya when facing of with the gorilla demon. The blue demon lord clenched his teeth to prevent a scream of pain to be heard.
"Goki!" Kagura rushed to the blue demon lord with worry.
"I'm alright!" Goki said getting back up holding on to his arm unaware of the chimera atempting to attack Kagura and him with it's frozen tail.
Asura rushed in front punching the frozen tail, shattering it into pieces giving the dragon lord a chance to hold the chimera down for Zenki to finish it off.
"TRY THIS! DESTRUCTIVE THUNDER FIST! INDOLA!" Zenki crashes his fist into the center eye unleashing thunderous energy causing the chimera to dissolve into smoke revealing the two thieves gasping for breath being free from the malevolence.
"Hey are you two alright?" Megumi sees one of the thieves as he was stammering about a dark aura which leaves questions for Chiaki and the others except for Asura who was in thought because of the malevolence.
"A dark aura of malevolence..."
"Who would do something that horrible?" Kasumi worries about the cause of creating the chimera when suddenly Kagura sensed a presence from the sky causing Asura who also sensed it to act.
"MOVE NOW!"
A dark fireball falls from the sky crashing to the ground unleashing flames on nearby trees.
"What the hell was that?!" Zenki shouted demanding to know where the fireball came from.
"Hm..mm..mm..mm..mm" A sinister voice filled the thick air causing Asura to grit his teeth in anger knowing this laughter. "To think that bastard's here..."
The large dark flame reveals an menacing pair of blood red eyes as it keeps burning away trees.
"It's been a long time hasn't it? How are you both been doing... Kagura...Asura..."
"Who are you?" Goki eyes narrowed as Asura walked closer to the flame.
"How long are you going be that overgrown fireball... Kan?"
"Hmph..." the dark fire smirked as it takes on a new form and appearence. From out of the flame was a new entity standing at 212cm with long dark hair with white stripes, a scar on his right eye, fang on the right side of his mouth, and his armature was battle scared with scratched chest piece, broken off shoulder pad on the right side with the left pad cracked, and wearing dark purple torn pant robes.
Chiaki, Goki, Kasumi, Megumi, and Zenki were shock at the sight of the terrifying entity excluding Kagura and Asura who only shown faces of discomfort.
"To think that I had to see you traitorous face again... Tiger God of Dark Flame: Kan!"
"Hmm mm mm mm. The feeling is truly mutual... Super Shinto Dragon God of Thunder Flame: Asura!"
To Be Continued...