The Hunter Becomes The Hunted
Chapter 1: Ironic Evil
Cross Information: This is a Kingdom Hearts (Based on The Balance Between Dark and Light by Dav Strife which was written by me) / Xiaolin Showdown (Based on The Time Has Come by Smurf-Chan) crossover. Just to make it clear this is majorly a Kingdom Hearts fic because Dav Strife is usually found in my other KH fics basd on his adventures. It is crossed with Xiaolin Showdown because of the other characters Zen and Zalak who appear in the 'The Time Has Come". These two characters have since been used in KH as well besides this fic and in other crossovers. The RE or Resident Evil element comes into play later on so stay tuned!
Authors Notes: Hey everyone I decided to do a fic which included both my Balance character (Dav Strife), Dark Lord Sigma's character (Ashura Dragoon) and MASmaster Zalak's character (Zalak). This is a combination of humour and action which I find to work best, let me know what you think. This on some sort of timeline would take place well after KH2's events. I changed Dav's weapons because I wanted to so there! But some people may notice that his weapons are similar to Virgil's in Devil May Cry 3 but I assure you, purely coincidence. The demons towards the end I did take from DMC3 and they are known as 'The Fallen' in the game. This chapter is dedicated to Dark and MAS, thanks guys.
Author Credit: Thanks to both Dark Lord Sigma and MASmaster Zalak for their contributions (Dark for Ashura in my fic and MAS for Zalak in 'The Time Has Come'). Finally thanks to you all who read this, many other characters will be included later on.
Story Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts belongs to Square Enix, Xaiolin Showdown belongs to Christy Hui and Devil May Cry 3 belongs to Capcom (from which I borrowed Demon models). Zalak and Asura Dragoon are property of Dark and MAS resepctively and Dav Strife belongs to me.
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Through out time villains have risen and fallen, evil and twisted fools try to take over a world and then fail at the hands of a warrior or sage of light. It is the textbook tale of good versus evil. This tale however throws that concept out of the window and into the sea of unpredictability.
Deep in the confines of a mountainous lair a man of the dark plots his ascension to the lordship of the world. Instead of plotting to destroy an adversary of good, he plots to eliminate his competition. Nothing ruins the plans of a powerful super genius faster than a reincarnated demon from the darkest regions of hell. Rayden has spent many years compiling dossiers on all things good and evil, biding his time to find the biggest threat to his plans and eliminate them.
In his command he has skilled assassins, murderous mercenaries, frightening foot soldiers and demonic spawns of hell that are forced to do his bidding. He is a master of the dark arts as well as the laboratory and a feared battlefield tactician. Yet he fears a single demon that exists on a backwater world known as 'Astanta', the land of mysterious artefacts known as Shen-Gong-Wu but they do not concern him, only Akima incarnate, Zalak Taijiya. Rayden has all the information on the demon that he could possibly need, from his fight with the original 'Xiaolin Dragons' in his past right down to his hate towards his brother Zen. Can Zalak defeat the threat by himself or will he have to seek help…?
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Zalak was slumped into a saggy, beaten up old arm chair inside Chase Young's lair on the world of Astanta. His day had started out slow and it didn't get any faster. His master was too busy training his latest recruit again, leaving no time for his other protégés. Everyone else went hunting for the mystical Shen-Gong-Wu, leaving him alone and bored out of his evil mind. He was fed up with his dark room (which he quite liked but was as boring as everything else in Chase's maze like dwelling). Stretching out to get rid of aches he headed for the exit and went outside into the sunlight. Looking around the idyllic view he decided on exploring a forest just south of the lair, hoping to find something to kill or torture just for the sheer fun of it. The forest was large, the trees rising sixty feet in the air and the canopy blocking out any sunlight from above.
Ten minutes of aimless wondering later he stopped and stared and the green roof of leaves above him, grinning slightly at the thought of killing his brother slowly and painfully. Something caught his attention, a simple summer breeze rustling the leaves of the forest but something else was there watching him. He threw quick glances all around him but saw nothing despite his superior sight and he began to grin at the thought of a fight. Without warning twenty zip lines fell from the trees and above and men clad in black stealth suits and red goggles emerged and surrounded Zalak, each one of them packing a fully automatic machine gun. All twenty aimed for him and cocked their guns ready to lay waste to him.
Zalak laughed and then melted away into his own shadow as the soldiers opened fire at him. They all looked around confused until the demon reappeared out one of the soldier's shadows and put one arm around his neck and reached for his machine gun with the other. He let loose the machine gun fire on the soldiers all the while using his hostage as a bullet shield. Ten were cut down before the gun finally spent its deadly load and clicked violently. In one fluid motion Zalak snapped the dying soldier's neck with one arm and threw the empty gun at another, hitting him right in the face knocking him to the ground. He then charged the nearest enemy who had produced a knife and thrust it at Zalak but he grabbed the arm, swung the man around and kneed him in the back snapping his spinal column. The knife he flung at another which caught him in the neck and he dropped dead. Three more advanced on him with knives drawn but they were soon dispatched with massive blow to the first's head, a second's neck being twisted 360 degrees and obviously snapping and the last dropping to the floor after he was impaled by his own knife. The final four soldiers met similar fates at the hands or should I say claws of the demon.
Zalak stood amid the carnage, both happy at the sight of the bodies and the blood but at the same time confused about being attacked. He turned around to find a long brown haired man dressed in a black suit laughing at how easily his men were disposed of.
"Hahaha…well it seems I picked the right person, or should I say demon to get rid of, wouldn't you agree?" He asked while grinning darkly.
"What the hell are you talkin' about?" Zalak growled, not liking this guy one bit.
"Forgive me, my name is Philip Rayden and I plan to take over all worlds in time. From my extensive research I have concluded that you my demon friend are the biggest threat to my plans and must be disposed of. Nice to have met you though, rest in peace… Mwahahaha" As he laughed he held both hands above his head and they pulsated with shadowy energy.
Three demons rose from the ground ready to do their commander's bidding. They each were tall brown demons with large white angel wings; a ferocious face staring and gnashing from their stomachs. Their arms were large with muscles and a large blue sword in their left hand's that could slice any person in two. Rayden disappeared as the angel demons let forth an ear piercing scream and circled above Zalak's head in the air. Without thinking Zalak pulled the only thing that resembled a weapon from his belt, The Golden Tiger Claws. He swiped them madly in the air and jumped through the portal it created, the demons however followed him through.
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Zalak landed with a thud on a road that lead down toward a beach and a small pier. Along the road sat white panelled houses with small brown fences separating them from their neighbours. He got back onto his feet and looked in the air. Sure enough the three hideous winged demons intent on ripping him apart were getting ever closer. He sprinted with great speed down the road with the Angel of Death trio perusing him. He sped past the houses without looking at then until a flash of blonde caught his attention and he slowed to get a better view of the blonde. Sure enough a spiky blonde haired teen was cleaning the barrel of one of his guns and an older man repeatedly punching the hell out of a boxing bag. Zalak couldn't believe his bad luck, first being attacked by soldiers, then chased by psycho demons and now thrown into one of his greatest enemy's home world. Never the less he jogged up the fence of the garden casually despite the demons drawing ever closer and he waved at the blonde.
"Hey there Spiky, whassup?"
"……What the… How did you…" As Dav continued to babble about Zalak's sudden appearance Ashura walked into the front garden and pointed toward the dangerously close demons.
"Relatives Zalak? I can see the family resemblance…" He mused grinning at his own wisecrack.
"NO…… they are after me…how do I say this… god damn I'll never live this down… Help?" Zalak said, going strangely quiet with the last word.
"Meh, fine, only because they might threaten the Islands when they kill you…" Dav said while glaring at Zalak.
Zalak noticed as Dav stood up that he was no longer sporting a huge Buster Sword but now had a samurai sword resting in a sheath which was propped up against the house and a broadsword sheathed on his back (slightly larger than a regular one but far smaller than his previous Great Blade). Ashura had his usual Gauntlets and Armguards but resting within his forearm guards were two long blades that revealed themselves at the users discretion.
The demon followed his temporary allies to where the demons were and engaged them. Ashura reached the demons first and tried to land a punch on the stomach's face but its wings wrapped around it to protect the face from harm. They then shot open which sent him flying to the other side of the road.
Dav was having about the same amount of luck as the melee warrior as he tried to attack the larger of his opponent's faces with his broadsword but again was repelled by the wings. Zalak jumped directly over his demon adversary's attack and punched it in the back causing to jerk forward but then turn in mid fall and thrust its sword at him. Moving to the side of the attack he jumped at the demon and kicked it in its smaller undefended head which wailed angrily. Ashura was back on his feet in an instant and two blades sprung from within his armguards and he charged the unusual demon. Following Zalak's method he stabbed for the smaller head but this was blocked by the huge blue sword it was carrying. He repeated the move and the demon blocked the attack again but it was merely a distraction. He sent his other forearm blade through its chest and the face on it. It shrieked as the blade drew black blood from within the demon. It lashed out with its sword desperately which Ashura blocked and then jumped back to avoid another strike.
Dav took a different approach to beating the tough demon by striking for its wings. His opponent charged forward using its wing as a weapon which Dav blocked with his sword's sheath he was carrying. He then clubbed its wings numerous times with the sheath with horizontal strikes, hoping to cause damage. The wings were like tough leather and his attacks did little damage as it attacked again. Drawing itself back it charged full steam at Dav with another wing attack but he jumped clear and the wing missed his head by millimetre. Instantly drawing his Samurai Sword he held the hilt with both hands and with one lightning quick horizontal slash tore a huge gash in its wing and just about tore it in two. It faltered slightly but then swung its blue sword above its head and down at Dav who rolled away. He proceeded to slash its other wing to hell. A last piercing strike from Zantetsuken dropped the demon to the floor and it disappeared in a small flash of light as Ashura's did a few seconds earlier.
Zalak used his enemy's moment of dizziness to his advantage and delivered two swift kicks to its stomach and a fist to its head. It floated high into the air and threw its sword like a javelin at Zalak who avoided with ease. He smirked at the inaccuracy of the shot but the demon cried out angrily and the sword exploded sending Zalak crashing against a mailbox. He growled in frustration at the demon and his eyes flashed black for a second, he extended his left arm and shouted "Shadow Shockwave". A ball of pure black energy swept toward the demon. It pulled its wings in to protect its stomach but the attack passed straight through the wings and collided with the chest. It wailed for the last time and slammed against the floor and disappeared. As he stood up he saw both Ashura and Dav glaring at him, Dav had his left hand on the hilt of his broadsword ready to draw at any moment and Ashura held in his hands a shotgun.
"Umm… Uh ho…" Zalak stated staring down the barrel of the shotgun.
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"Okay, tell me from the top, why you are here?" Dav questioned while putting a cup of coffee down on the table in front Zalak (who stared at it debating to himself if Dav or Ashura had put poison in it).
"Well… I was walking through a forest near the lair looking for something to 'play' with when soldiers attacked me and so I killed 'em!" Zalak explained, taking a sip from the coffee and deciding he liked it.
"Figures" Ashura added quietly
"Anyway, this weird girly guy appeared and said…" Zalak imitated the sinister voice of Rayden "You must be eliminated because you are so good lucking and great and strong…"
"Get to the point" Dav interjected impatiently
"… Forgive me, my name is Philip Rayden and I plan to take over all worlds in time. From my extensive research I have concluded that you my demon friend are biggest threat to my plans and must be disposed of. Nice to have met you though, rest in peace….Mwahahahahahahahaha…" Zalak finished drawing out the laugh to sound evil.
"Interesting, but how did you reach this world?" Ashura asked, still wary of the Akima incarnate drinking HIS special and very expensive brand of coffee.
"These" He said producing the Tiger claws and putting them on his hand for the fighters to see.
"This is one of those Shen-Gong-Who from your world right?" Dav asked looking at the Claws with interest.
"Shen-Gong-Wu" Zalak corrected
"Whatever" Dav said sarcastically "Well, we helped you so you can help yourself and clear off" he added.
"Sorry, can't, they only work on our world or from our world to another but not vice versa"
"Hmm… it appears you are stuck with us" Ashura said while deep in thought. "We cannot take you back in our ship either, Cid is supposed to be coming to fix it next week"
"Can you... help me then?" Zalak asked, nearly gagging at saying that word again.
"Why should we?" Dav asked uninterested. "We now work as mercenaries, not a charity especially when it comes to you"
"This guy wants me dead and then he's gonna take over the world. Don't think of this as helping me but the existence of these Islands!" Zalak responded with a satisfied grin.
"He has a point Dav, you can't deny that"
"Well Ashura, I can't deny you're a smart ass too!"
"It's settled then…" Zalak said, inwardly kicking himself for teaming with spiky and Drag-oon"
"On one condition then Zalak, we go and enlist the help of your brother Zen. He's good in battle and maybe he can keep you in line" Dav said grinning
"WHA?"
