Dark Justice: Rule of Darkness
Level 1: Come forth, God Beast!
"Let us revive god, and bring him to the mortal world to show these criminals his wrath!"
"Estsuba ra'en ke' vu hadeh'm…" 5 sages chant as they stand upon a giant circle with many ancient symbols on it. The circle in the center glows as they sway their hands above it. The only thing lighting the stone temple is many torches. "Ryuuga…?"
"I can't let you finish this!" A teen with spiky black hair, a red jacket, armor on his upper body, and black attire dashed forward, with his hand glowing. His steps echoed as he ran quickly across the cobblestone floor towards the sages. The sages continued to chant, and one started chanting differently. As soon as he did, a man with no face and swords for hands rose up out of the ground. It powered up, and its swords became sharper, larger, and more powerful.
"Erraaah!" It shrieked eagerly.
"Outta my WAY!!! Lightning fist!" Ryuuga's fist electrified and he punched it in the stomach. The man fell over and turned to dust as Ryuuga kept running. The last pieces of his armor fell off, and now he seemed like just some poor commoner with tattered clothes.
"Iku a'denn kaaa…" The sages kept chanting. A different one chanted something else, and a large bird monster rose up out of the ground.
"Hna!" As the bird flew towards him, he pulled his fist back. "Lightning fist!" He punched the bird right in the face. It fell back and turned to dust as well. "This is too easy!" Ryuuga started running forward again, approaching the large circle seal.
"G-gaahhh…!" The sage with the long beard and bony hands stepped back in fear.
"En'ta kanshiii...asah…kahe'…" One of the sages chanted more and a large blue barrier rose up around the seal, blocking off Ryuuga.
"DAMMIT!" Ryuuga repeatedly pounded the barrier. It wasn't working; he was just bruising his knuckles. "Lightning fist!" Ryuuga's fist sparked and he punched the barrier. Lightning burst from his hand, but it didn't work; all he did was burn his own hand. "C'mon!" He repeatedly hit it, over and over, but the barrier still wouldn't fall. The sages chanted more quickly. "I didn't want to have to use this but…!" Ryuuga stepped back a few feet. He held out his arm and pointed his palm forward. He held his wrist using his other hand, and braced himself. "Judgment Lightning!!!" Light flickered in his palm, and a ball of lightning formed. "Haaaaaa...!" Electricity randomly shot out from the ball as it started to grow larger. His body glowed a blue-yellow tint, and he gained an aura soon after, and continued charging it for about 2 minutes.
But before he could finish, the sages did. "!" He suddenly stopped, although the aura didn't disappear. The whole place started shaking. "Wh…what's happening?" A deep growling could be heard from the circle as the sages stepped away from it. Electricity and fire spiraled out of the seal randomly. "Wait…it can't be…the god beast…?!" He stepped back in fear. The seal began to crack, and shattered as a large black spike slowly came out of the light. The spike moved up as the head of the beast could be seen. In an instant, a burst of magma and electricity shot up from the ground, and just as quickly, the magma and electricity disappeared. A gigantic, purple-black dragonic beast stood there. Its large teeth, the energy emanating from its body, the look of anger in it's eyes, it was all terrifying. "No…"
"Yes! Hail lord Vegalidon!" One of the sages yelled.
"RAAAAGGGH!" Vegalidon let out a huge roar, and the whole temple shook as if it was about to crumble.
Now what?! Ryuuga asked himself, looking at the beast. No doubt it'll kill me if I don't do SOMETHING. Looks like my only option is to kill it first…! Ryuuga moved towards Vegalidon. It slammed its giant claw down, but Ryuuga rolled out of the way and kept going. It then fired a laser beam at him. "Lightning fist!" Ryuuga swung his fist, unsure of what would happen. Luckily, he deflected the beam. "Alright!" He sidestepped repeatedly. "Lightning Fist!" He punched Vegalidon. But it didn't seem to do much anything. "What?!"
"GERRGGAAH!" It swiped its claw at Ryuuga, throwing him into the wall.
"Ugh!" Ryuuga immediately slid to the floor. At this point, he had given up all hope. His hand was in a lot of pain. As he looked down to see if there were any visible injuries, he noticed his aura. It was still active! It looks like I still have a chance to get out of this alive! Ryuuga struggled, but was able to get up. He held the heels of his hands together as he stretched his arms forward. The ball of lightning formed in his palms again, "Judgment Lightning!" Ryuuga fired a giant electric burst that engulfed the top half of Vegalidon's body.
"GAAARRRGH!" It roared in pain.
"DIE!" Ryuuga put more effort into it, and the attack pushed more. A ripping could be heard as the blast got stronger. A loud cracking was heard as Vegalidon stepped back. Ryuuga stopped his attack, as he was running out of energy. "Huh?"
"Urrraaaaaggghhh…" It grunted loudly as it stood completely still.
"Wha…?!" The sages were scared now. They all watched as the smoke and dust cleared up. "AAAGH! God!!! No!" They were all shocked. Vegalidon had a burning hole blown right through the center of his chest.
"Whoa…!" Ryuuga fell over in surprise. He quickly came to his senses. "So, I guess all it needs is one more push, eh?" He asked, grinning.
"Don't you dare!"
"Heheheh…" Ryuuga's grin widened as he got up. His fist sparked. He ran at the still Vegalidon and leaped up to Vegalidon's face.
"W-wait a second! Hang on!"
"Lightning FIST!" Ryuuga punched Vegalidon in the eye, and the monster fell.
"Nooo!" One of the sages was about to attack. But he stopped. "…This isn't over. Not by a long shot! We still have a few tricks up our sleeve, you can't possibly stop us!" The sages started fading.
"Wait a minute-!" But before he could get to them, they vanished. "Ugh…" He looked at his burned hand. Now he had calmed down, the adrenaline stopped rushing. He started to feel the pain. As he gripped his hand, he noticed a sparkle. He looked down, and a small device was where the sages were before they vanished. A beeping noise went off. "Damn!" He didn't even have time to step back. The device exploded; it seemed to set off other bombs that were attached to the support beams. "AAAGH!" He went flying back and tumbled on the hard floor. When he realized what had happened, the pain already kicked in. It hurt just to move. The entire temple began to fall apart. Large pieces of stone fell from the ceiling and landed near him. Despite the pain, he was able to get up anyway and started running. As the temple collapsed completely, Ryuuga fell over as soon as he got past the temple entrance into the grassy field. "Huff…huff…huff…" He blacked out.
When he woke up, he found that he was no longer on the grass. He got up, and winced in pain as he fell back over. He was on a soft, white bed with lots of bandages on him in a small wooden room. It felt somewhat comfortable. It was the evening, and the sunlight shining through the window slowly dimmed.
"Hello? Is anybody here?" Ryuuga yelled, leaning towards the doorway.
"Oh, you woke up. Good." A young woman walked into the room. She had long brown hair with a flower pin in it, wide eyes, lightly tanned skin, and wore a pink dress. He stared for a moment. "My name's Mary."
"Did you treat my wounds?" He asked, almost suspiciously.
"Yeah." She replied. He seemed to react to this in a harsh way.
"…Why?" He asked, looking down. "What do you have to gain?" He scorned.
"You needed help, and I gave it to you. It's as simple as that. I'll bring you some tea." She walked out of the room. Ryuuga gripped the wall tightly, as if trying to dig into it. She walked back in. "Here's your tea."
"Thank you." He took the cup, but didn't drink from it. "You know…except for my sister, you're the only one who's ever been nice to me." He said.
"Really? I'm sure someone else has been nice to you." She replied.
"…" He turned to her. "All of them, liars… They used to be my friends. We played around a lot."
"Hey, Ryuuga! Come here, we're gonna go race at the crossroad!"
"Yeah! I bet I can run the longer road faster than you!"
"Ryuuga, play with us!"
"But thieves and criminals who were only a few years older than us used to beat us up…used to take everything we had. Our parents didn't believe the bullies were hurting us; on days when our parents were around, they criminals didn't show up. And the authorities wouldn't do anything…"
"Why?"
"…Because the criminals were the police chief's son."
"Heheh, pay up!" A tall boy with large muscles cornered the kids.
"Yeah, unless you want to die." The other boy added.
"I'd train hard every day, just so I could be strong enough to fight them off."
"Huff…huff…HYA! HA!" Ryuuga punched and kicked a rock repeatedly, for hours on end.
"But it wasn't any use. They were much stronger. No matter how hard I trained…"
"N…No!"Ryuuga yelled.
"What's that?! HUH?!"
"GAAAH!!" Ryuuga swung his fist at the boy. But he caught it, and tossed Ryuuga into a wall.
"And that's when I learned my special abilities."
"No…I won't let you…LEAVE US ALONE!" Lightning swirled around Ryuuga's fist. He punched the boy in the stomach, dropping him with one punch.
"Ugghhh…" The thief groaned on the ground, unable to move.
"I thought this was a good thing…but it wasn't. I was made an outcast for my abilities…Lightning power…is a very rare power. Everybody thought I was a monster."
"You're a monster!"
"Aaaagh!!!"
"What the hell are you?!"
"Don't come near me." Ryuuga's friends ran off.
"W-wait! Hold on!"
"The friends who I had defended…the ones who I trained to protect…the ones who were the whole reason I got my power…pushed me away…for something I had used to help them…" He got up.
"I'm sorry to hear that."
"Yeah, yeah." He looked around. "I think I should go." He slowly got up, and stumbled as he started walking.
"You should stay until you're healed." She said, going up to him. He stopped at the doorway.
"…Thank you." He ate and then went to bed. For a while he stared up at the ceiling, until he eventually dell asleep.
……………….
He suddenly woke up when an axe came down near his head, just barely near his face. "Whoa!" He got up, ignoring the pain, seeing a large, muscular, bald man with heavy armor and two large axes in his hands. His wrists were being held back by two ropes tied around that Mary was pulling back.
"GRH! Let Ganju go! Ganju will kill you!" The large man struggled.
"Okay!" Ryuuga pulled his arm back. "Lightning Fist!" He stepped forward and his fist charged with electricity.
"RAGH!" Ganju swung his arms down, throwing Mary across the room as Ryuuga swung his fist at Ganju's face. "Hawhawhaw!" Ganju raised up his axe to block the punch, although he still got pushed back. "Ganju DESTROY you!" He tossed his axe at Ryuuga.
"!" Ryuuga quickly fell down and lay on his back, the axe flying over him. He got back up as Ganju prepared to throw more axes at him. "Lightning Strike!" He moved his palm forward, and a quick shot of lightning hit Ganju.
"Gaaah!" Ganju fell back, but quickly regained balance. He tossed many more axes at him. Mary watched and slowly inched her way into the corner to make sure not to get involved.
"Lightning Fist!" He punched the floor, and the force threw him up into the air, and out of the way of the axes. They cut into the walls, and Ryuuga fell back down. Ganju didn't seem to be throwing any more axes. "Looks like you're out of ammo." Ryuuga said. He pulled one of the axes out of the wall and charged it with electricity. "Hya!" He swung it, and a crescent shaped wave of lightning traveled towards Ganju.
"Flare Burst!" Ganju stepped back and moved his hands forward. Suddenly a hot blast of fire spurted from his palms for a brief moment, blocking Ryuuga's attack.
"Huh?"
"That's right, I have powers too! I don't need those axes!" Ganju grinned widely. "Rahahahah! Heat Blast!" He created and threw a fire ball at Ryuuga.
"Lightning Strike!" Ryuuga shot lightning right through the fireball and hit Ganju in the chest, cracking his armor.
"Agh…I'm not finished yet!" He turned to Mary. "Heh…" His hands set ablaze as he ran at Mary. "Diiieeee!"
"Don't you dare!" Ryuuga ran right at Ganju.
"Blazing Pu-"
"Lightning Fist!" Ryuuga cut off Ganju and punched him in the stomach right as he was about to attack Mary. Ganju didn't seem to be dead, but didn't move. "Judgment Lightning!" He put his palm on Ganju's chest and lightning flared through him in a wild burst. The large man went flying at the wall, and slid down to the floor. It was clear that he was dead. Ryuuga was exhausted. He turned to look at Mary, who seemed horrified. She stepped back. "Wait!" She started to run away. He shot lightning at her and created a sort of whip with it, binding her.
"Let me go…you…monster…!" She yelled.
"…!!!" Ryuuga's seemed to almost cry. That phrase came through his memory again form his childhood.
"You're a monster!!"
"Grh…!" His hand trembled in anger, confusion, and sadness. The lightning rope tightened. Blood stained the ground as the house burned down, and Ryuuga walked out without remorse. "If the world can't understand me…or this power…I'll be what everyone thinks I am. A monster…And until I get my revenge on everyone who has turned me away…Justice hasn't been brought." He burned down the forest as he walked through it.