Shadow Minato
Another little something that I prepared earlier. A story exploring Minato's dark alter ego. I might add more chapters to this if a lot of people like it or if inspiration strikes. Whichever (if either) comes first.
They were almost done. The monster that made mockery of their fallen friend's form had also summoned reflections of their personae. It was hard fought but one by one they had destroyed the imitations.
The thing that wore Minato's face was hunched over in a parody of exhaustion. It was a cheap trick to play on their emotions but it was working. None of them wanted to be the one that struck the killing blow. To be the one that killed "him" twice.
Metis charged at it her body sparking with the unrestricted power of orgia mode. She lashed out with a sweeping strike with her rod but it jumped with inhuman speed dodging the strike. There it floated like a leaf caught on the wind before it arced sharply down flying back towards Metis in a counter attack. Metis parried the attack and it was sent sprawling.
The attack was furious and if Metis had been flesh and bone she would have fallen. Its speed and power were well above human capabilities but its defenses were relatively weak and it was strangely clumsy.
"Psyche!" Metis's persona manifested between her and the aberration. The Shadow got to its feet and then moving, again with incredible speed, charged at the persona pummeling it with what seemed to be more than two arms. Psyche vanished under the brutal assault and Metis's rod came at it like a javelin impaling it through the chest before it had a chance to react.
Fuuka could only watch in horror at the scene before her. It was so much worse with her power, she could feel the familiarity of her friend's power inside that shadow (little did she know that she would become accustomed to watching her friends kill each other).
Metis's rod impaled it and suddenly she could hear him screaming in her head. Instinctively she covered her ears to drown out the sound but it only became louder and more terrible.
He was slowly disintegrating now. Fuuka could feel his gaze on her and she looked up. He didn't have eyes anymore but she knew he was looking at her. He was using her power against her. Making her see what the others couldn't see. Making her see what she didn't want to see. Then he was gone along with all the visions in her head.
She felt relief now that it was gone then her vision turned black as she fainted.
They were all standing in the other world now. Stars surrounded them and directly above them Nyx's red light shone down. Silhouetted in that light was Minato. Fuuka had seen this already. She'd seen it in her head when they killed the shadow shaped like Minato. Before she could stop herself she turned around to look behind.
Behind her was another Minato kneeling. There was a bright flash of light from the Minato in the sky and the other Minato lay down and slept.
Fuuka looked away from him. She felt something dark form behind him. She'd just pretend that it was Erebus.
In my experience as a reader fight scenes are hard to do right. It'a balance between being descriptive enough that the fight makes sense and keeping it short so it doesn't seem like it's in slow motion. For my first time writing one I kept it sort and simple.
So as always please review and give me some feedback especially if you have comments about the fight.