NightWarriors: The Return of the Key

Part 1 of 3

Author's Note: I don't own any of the Darkstalkers. All Darkstalker characters are own by Capcom.

It has been a year since disappearance of the Key of Destruction world. The humans have found out that the Darkstalkers are back, and complete fear was all over the world. The United States Government tire to recover up the existence of Darkstalkers, but failed as many people in American where attack by evil Darkstalkers. All out war broke out between the humans and the Dark ones. Death and pure chaos rain down on Earth. The moon showed signs of change and danger, something that no Darkstalker or human has ever seen was coming.

Somewhere in the vast area of the Demon World, Demitri Maximov had simply vanished. After the key awoke and the crystal ball had broke. The king of the entire demon world was gone. The two-strong demon houses started to attack the house of Aensland again, but their attacks would fail; because a new enemy made his presents known. This new enemy attacked the two strong houses in the demon world and destroyed them all in a single attack. The power and the might of this new enemy were never seen before.

A single man in a cloak took down all of Demon World in a single attack. He was just thought to be a roamer and nothing more, until he started to attack the Human World. Donovan with Anita, John, Felicia, Mai-Lee, and Hsien-Ko where liberating a small city out side of England. As they fought the army of the undead that were rising from the ground, a man in the cloak appeared. With one attack the man in the cloak wiped out the army of the undead. Felicia, John, Hsien-Ko, and Mai-Lee where in shook. They couldn't see the man face, but they did notice he was wearing metal gauntlets.

The hooded man faces them; "All is lost with out the key." The hooded man laughs as he charges forward at them. Before John could even get in the way, Hsien-Ko and Felicia hit the ground. The both of them where knocked out cold. The hood man stands behind John, "How does it feel to know that you will be the first one to die." John does around house kick and hits nothing but air.

John talked to himself, "How can that guy move so fast?" Sudden he was hit, he stumble backwards into something. The hooded man's voice came from behind him, "John Talbain, I am you're executioner." John eyes widen, "How do you..." Before he could finish his sentences, a silver knife impaled him. The hooded man laugh as John fell to the ground, as soon as his body hit the ground; blood spread out all over the ground.

The hood man turns to Mai-Lee, "Now for you. With out you, your sister is nothing." Mai-Lee clenched her sword and was ready to fight. The hooded man clench his hands and his aura around him changed. His aura was like a spirit aura, but there was something wrong with this aura. The aura was dark spirit and the aura was acting like a vacuum. The sucking wasn't aimed at Mai-Lee, it was aimed at Hsien-Ko. Hsien-Ko' body was drawn into the hooded man's body. The hooded man laugh, "With out the key there will be no balance. With out the key, I will continue to feed and kill. No force on this world can stop me. You're all doom."

Mai-Lee clenches her sword and charges at the hooded man. She swung her sword with all her might and actually got a good clean hit on him. The hooded man's hood flew back, as the man regain his balance, Mai-Lee all ready knew who he was. The man was TJ, she thought he was taken care of. TJ laughs at her, "What's wrong, you really thought you told get rid of me? Listen Darkstalker, I'm far stronger then you, and a better swordsmen." TJ throw off his cloak to reveal that he was armed with a sword on his back. TJ withdraws his sword, "Behold the Earth Sword, and your end."

Donovan swung his sword towards TJ, during this whole time he was on stand by. He kept a close eye on every move TJ did. TJ smiles as he easily dodges Donovan's attempt to strike him with his sword. TJ aim his left hand at Donovan with a fearsome dark attack. Donovan was ready to block, but this attack wasn't for him. The dark energy went through Donovan and hit Anita. Anita screamed in pain as she tried to stop the attack, but TJ over power her barrier. Donovan looks at TJ with great anger and charges at him.

TJ snapped his fingers and Donovan was caught off guard by explosions that went off. Donovan stumbles around some, but regains some strength. As soon as he swung his sword at TJ, he was impaled by TJ's sword. Donovan caught up blood and dropped his sword. TJ trust his sword furthered into him, "The hunter of the Dark, that was said to be the strongest of all Darkstalkers, doesn't seem so strong with out his Anita." TJ kicked Donovan off his sword and turns towards the unconscious Felicia, "Now, to kill you, Felicia. I won't have you around, might be risk."

TJ's sword started to glow as he was getting ready to strike a deathblow to Felicia, "It's time to die, cat girl. And this time there is no one to save you." TJ gets his sword ready to give death as a present for Felicia. He raises his sword and clenches the hilt as he jumps into the air. He gives his battle cry as he descends down towards Felicia.

A few months back, Felicia and John where trying to convince Donovan to fight along side them. Felicia sighs heavily as she places her paws on her waist, "Come on, Donovan. We are on the same side and you know it. We need you, there is something that is coming and now since I can't get a hold of any other the Darkstalkers that might give us a hand, we turn to you." Donovan simply replies with, "I will not work with you, dark one."

Felicia throw up her paws, "I give up." John watches Felicia being unhappy about Donovan's answer. Jon turns back to Donovan, "Listen for a second, if you won't help us, you won't be able to keep Anita safe. And I know how much she means to you, even if you come off as a lone wolf. If you won't do this for us, do it for Anita." Donovan gives Jon a stare of death before answering, "Every well." Felicia turns to look at Jon as she was relieve to hear the answer.

Meanwhile in a parallel Earth, JJ finally was able to get his sword back, defeat his dark side, make out with Felicia once or twice and give the hero on this Earth a couple of moves as well as getting him pissed off. He had fun though; he was ready to return back to his home. JJ clenches his sword, "Hear my voice and guide me, Sword of Destruction. Lead me back home and bring me back to where I belong." His sword light up as it made a path for him to fallow. He looks back on more time to give a smile at the parallel Felicity Orphanage. He begins to fallow the path back to his world.

As the weeks past, Felicia, John, and Donovan finally met up with Mai-Lee and Hsien-Ko. The two sisters where in need of help as they had their hands full with fighting an army of the undead. Felicia and John offer to help, as for Donovan, he stayed on the sidelines. Only took the four without Donovan a whole week to defeat the army of undead. Felicia wasn't happy with Donovan; "You could have helped out." Donovan just stares at her and didn't answer.

Felicia clenches her paws as she slightly hisses at Donovan. John went over to Felicia, "Calm down, Felicia." Felicia just stomps her foot paw on the ground and walks away mad. Donovan stood there and watched the other walk away. He looks down at Anita, "Let's fallow, now." Anita just nods and follows Donovan. John walks along Felicia's side, "I hope he comes, when we need him the most." Felicia looks at him, "John, he has a name you know." He sighs, "I know, but just don't care."

Present time, TJ was about to kill Felicia. John was mortally wounded and dying. Donovan seems to be dead and Anita was knocked out. As for Hsien-Ko, she was separated from her sister Mai-Lee, which made her just fade away. TJ knew with the death of the Darkstalkers that where wanting to help the Human World, all hope would be lost. TJ descended down at Felicia's heart, until a Soul Beam hit him and made him fly back some. TJ clenched his sword, as he knew who hit him, "Lady Morrigan Aensland." Morrigan stood there not impressed by TJ's newfound powers, "Low scum demon, TJ. I will not let you go on with this. It stops here and now." TJ laughs at her, "Fool, you can't stop me and is it not a little late for you to seek redemption?"

Morrigan just busted forward at TJ. She came at him fast, as she attack him with everything she had. TJ was a mused by her, for he was moving fast then her and stronger. He countered her final attack she did. He blasted a dark beam into her to give him better ground to do his ending strike on her. TJ gets ready to kill her, "You once said a strong man, turns you on. So now that you face your end. Do I turn you on Morrigan Aensland?" He laughs, as he became nothing, but a blur to Morrigan. She had no time to dodge or counter his attack. This was her end, she knew there was nothing that could be done.

Suddenly Morrigan heard a loud sound of metal coming in contact each other. She was in shock as she saw the one she turned. The only one to turn the things around when there is no way to be seen or thought of. The one to bring balance and peace, the one that held the sword to bring all swords down. The Key of Destruction had returned just in time, "What's wrong can't you hit a little harder?" TJ growls, "How dare you. I will show you that I have the power to kill you, my dear brother. You will die today, JJ." JJ clenches his sword and pushed TJ back, "Not without a fight, TJ."

TJ charges at him and swings his sword with great speed. JJ blocks his attack, then push off his sword and gets into his fighting stance. TJ snapped his finger an explosion went off in front of JJ. JJ was sent back flying, but he quickly regained his guard along with his balance. TJ snarls some as he throws his hand towards his brother and fires a massive dark energy ball at him. JJ blocked the dark energy, but the force and energy of this attacked was pushing him back. TJ smiles evilly, "Nothing can stop my dark energy, it will brake through your defense and kill you."

JJ clenched the hilt of his sword. He felt his grip loosening up as he thought to himself, "I can't hold out like this, I have to think of something and fast." He pushed against the dark energy with his sword blade. He seemed to be out of ideas, until he remembered something. He quickly placed the back of the blade of his sword against his left hand as he continued to hold it with his right hand. The blade started to age and rust quickly. TJ thought he was going to win this fight, but he was about to get he shock of his life. JJ was forcing his sword to sleep then reawaken, but the problem is; that if he is off his life will be over.

To be continued...