An: Okay to start this off some things to note:
This will not be a SatsukiXRyuuko or RyuukoxSenketsu fic.
There will be a large amount of oc's in this story
This fic starts at the end of Episode 23 and diverges from there
Disclaimer: I don't own Kill la Kill or any connected franchises, I am just able to write fanfiction about it through the benevolence of the interwebs.
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[Magical Floating Text] yes I'm going to have this, its Kill la Kill people!
Two Sides
Chapter 1: Declaration
Ragyo stood on high above them, looking down as if they were insects, a smile adorning her face, she had just absorbed Houmaru and as the air seemed to ripple and blow around her, her laughter piercing the air.
Ryuuko and Satsuki could only brace themselves and wait for the air around them to calm.
"You're beautiful Lady Ragyo!" Harime exclaimed.
"Damn it! What's this power?!" Ryuuko cursed through gritted teeth. However Senketsu didn't seem to be paying attention to Ragyo.
"… Ryuuko, I'm getting an ominous feeling from behind her."
"What?" the girl questioned the Kamui until she heard a horrible scream from behind Ragyo.
The three Ladies turned to face the sound, to see the still armless Harime with a black blade protruding from the middle of her chest, blood leaking from the corners of her lips. The blade pulled back through her chest and a moment later two black blades came from the darkness beheading her from both sides. The body fell limply to the ground and the head, spinning through the air crashed to the ground at Ragyo's feet.
Ragyo was practically shaking in rage as a figure stepped from the darkness.
"The best thing about a sneak attack, is you can fell a powerful opponent with little risk to yourself."
His black cloak hugged close to his body as his hooded head gazed around. Coming to rest on each of the Kamui garbed women. Ryuuko froze as their gazes met, his face was covered by a smooth white mask with a black punk style skull pattern adorned on it, but it was his eyes, they were like deep, endless rippling pools of dark ink.
[MASKED MAN]
She was broken from her reverie as Ragyo and the man charged each other, Ragyo lunging forwards with her hand, the masked man raised an arm and blocked the blow by pushing the arm aside before raising his arm and a series of black threads flew from his sleeve coming together to form a black metallic blade which he gripped with a dark leather gloved hand, stabbing forwards.
"It's you! I never actually thought you were still alive!" Ragyo exclaimed.
"Life and Death are not all that different, you should not so strictly define them as absolute either." Came his calm, smooth answer.
Ragyo countered by knocking the blow aside, shattering the blade in the process and seeming to levitate into the air, the masked man however swiftly leapt high into the air above her as he created another black blade from the threads, flipping upside down, he seemed to find footing in midair, leaping forwards at her, swinging his blade…
Ryuuko and Satsuki had moved back into the air, away from their battle, as their greatest foe and the mysterious masked man exchanged blows the sister glanced at each other.
Neither really know how to react in the given situation.
"So… who is that guy?" Ryuuko asked, as Ragyo seemed to know him, she assumed the man was connect to the Kiryuin family and life fibers.
"I've never seen nor heard of this man in my life Ryuuko…" Satsuki's eyes were darting about following the quick movements of the dueling foes as they seemed to dance through the air.
"He's keeping up with Ragyo in Omnisilk Kouketsu, is he in a kamui as well? No, he's not giving off any great feeling of power, it's almost like…" she couldn't really describe it.
"A cold feeling moving up your body like's he's all around you but not there at all?" Senketsu spoke out suddenly completing Satsuki's thought, though she only gave a nod in response.
Ryuuko swallowed hard as she began to feel a cold chill run up her spin at their words.
"So are we going to help him or not?" Ryuuko asked, trying to shake the cold feeling away.
Satsuki turned to answer, but before she could Ragyo let out a blood curdling scream, returning the girl's attention to the combatants, it seemed Ragyo had tried to impale him her hand, only for him to remove said appendage from the rest of her arm. However to her that was not the problem, it was the odd unbelievable pain, and the fact that she wasn't regenerating!
"You…. How dare you! Impudent fool!"
The masked man just stood their gripping his twin blades, he raised his left arm, pointing one towards her.
"I'll admit, I'm proud, a bit greedy, and arrogant. Who with power isn't, but impudent, that's a little farfetched." His voice was smooth, calm, not the standard bravado filled shout of powerful fighters, but not a meek whisper, it was charismatic yet humble, oddly magnetic, but at the same time, gave you a foreboding feeling that drove you away.
Ragyo was about to retort when she noticed her hand WAS regenerating, just much slower than normally, that bade of his was somehow slowing her regeneration.
"Curious, but it seems that you won't be able to kill me with this level of att-"she was cut off as she spat out a courteous amount of blood.
"Impossible!" Satsuki shouted.
"How did he!" Ryuuko was shaking in the air out of fear.
Protruding out all over Ragyo's body were black blades, they had seemed to sprout and grow from inside her own body!
"Patchwork Blades, complete."
[Patchwork Blades]
"My blades are not solid, but made from densely woven threads as you saw earlier, when you shattered my blade in the first exchange, the smallest of fibers invaded your body when you breathed them in and they slipped through your oh so perfectly maintained pores, I'm not able to do that usually, but you take such perfect care of your body, I couldn't resist."
She moved to speak but the blades shifted and she could only let out a pained gagging noise.
"Then as we fought your blows shaved away at my blades, adding to the fibers within your body, when enough were present, they came back together and this is the result, true my blade cannot cut your neck or main body, where your defenses are focused, but your soft organs, your flesh underneath that kamui, that I can cut, and with your slowed regeneration, how long do you think you will last with the majority of your vital organs shredded and pierced, seeing as the continued presence of the blades prevents them from reforming properly."
"How… he's a monster…" Ryuuko muttered, her eyes wide. "Satsuki, what is he?"
"….I- I…" Satsuki, at this point, couldn't even form an answer.
[Unfathomable]
"What's more, you could remove them, but they are caught in your kamui, so you would have to remove it, the second you did, you'd seal your fate and I'd finish you. So in conclusion, Ragyo Kiryuin, this is the end of you, your 'grand finale', and what a grand stage this is!" he held out his arms to the side, as the blades spun out into threads and retracted into his sleeves, the wind whipped his cloak about and he raised his voice.
"Here, at your apex, the do or die moment, will life fibers era begin, or will it be crushed before it has its chance. Parent and child faced off, only for the true adversary to appear and snatch his first victory, altering the events to come! This act is ending and with it you, yes, yes, you are not at the climax no, but this is the inciting action! Everything moving forwards is decided by this single moment, surely, this is the perfect place for you end, your grand stage! Your FINALE! RAGYO KIRYUIN!"
He let his hands lower ever slightly and held them out towards the impaled woman, as if beckoning her for an embrace, his cloak seemed to undo and open itself, within was a swirling darkness. Black threads flowed out, as the ends of the blade in Ragyo spun out into threads, as the threads met she was limply pulled towards her and into the depths of the swirling black.
"Yes, join here and now, through me experience what is to come." She was swallowed up and his cloak closed again, Ragyo's presence that immense power, seemingly erased from existence.
He turned his head and gazed at Ryuuko next, her body completely froze up. "Now for you…" he, while standing in midair seemingly, leapt forwards, flying at her, a blade forming of threads out of his right sleeve.
Ryuuko just hovered, frozen out of fear, unable to comprehend what had just happened.
Even as the blade approached her, moving towards her neck there was nothing she could do, just as he was about to connect Satsuki slammed her hilt into the side of the blade diverting it and swinging her shorter blade towards his head.
The man responded by spinning away to the side and sliding through the air, as if on solid ground.
"Ryuuko! Focus!" Satsuki shouted to the younger girl, snapping her from her trance.
"You struck my blade with your hilt to prevent shaving any fibers off, smart." He stood up straight and his blade returned to its threaded form and retracted into his sleeves.
"Who are you! Are those life fibers!" Satsuki demanded.
"Life fibers… well, if life fibers are a life form I would say these are their natural predators."
"Natural… Predators?" the young Kiryuin questioned.
"Death Fibers."
[Death Fibers]
Satsuki's eyes widened and her voice caught in her throat.
"Death fibers?" Ryuuko repeated.
[Yes Death Fibers!]
Down on the ground, the man's voice reached them.
"Death fibers?!" Ira shouted.
"Inumuta?" Uzu turned to see what the data specialist had on 'death fibers'.
"I don't have any data on that." Inumuta said.
Nonon just stared intently up in the air at Satsuki and the masked man.
"As for who I am, I'm just a simple school principal, a poet and a play write, and artist, free from the bounds of society. I came here to remove a road block in Ragyo Kiryuin, and also to deliver a challenge. To you Miss head of Honnouji."
"Oh?" Satsuki said, finding her voice again as she raised an eyebrow.
"At the start of next term, when your school should be repaired and your body rested, we of The Griswald Academy of Culture and Art, declare war upon Honnouji Academy, be ready, I don't want this to be too short."
[War]
Satsuki was going to retort when a blue of red and black shot past her, said blur was screaming madly at the top of her lungs.
"Ryuuko no!"
"Ryuuko get ahold of yourself!" Senketsu urged, but the girl didn't seem to hear him, this man's presence was driving her mad, shaking her very core and she felt that if she just stood there she was going to freeze like that and never be able to move again.
She swung her dual scissor blades diagonally downward from both sides, but he countered by forming a single blade of his own and parrying the strikes easily.
He formed a second blade and slashed at her long skirt, just above the thrusters on her Senketsu Shippu, causing them to fall away and the panicking girl to plummet towards the ground.
As she fell her she began to thrash about, trying to get control of herself again, and Senketsu was regenerating rather slowly. She could see Satsuki plunging down towards her at high speeds, their hands extending out towards each other.
Ryuuko could practically feel the ground approaching her, and he eye lids were becoming heavy, just as Satsuki was about to reach her, Ryuuko's eyes closed and she blacked out.
Chapter 1 End.
So I hope you enjoyed chapter one of Two sides, I'm also hoping you read and review, I am open to constructive criticism and honest opinions, but please, no hate messages about how you didn't like an event, I mean stuff like grammar, running on, too much description, to little description, that's what I'm looking for.