Chapter type: ~~~~~~~[]=¤ԅ(ˊᗜˋ* )੭ COMBAT
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As Ark threw Granberia over his shoulder, he heard a gasp and a sword unsheath behind him. He turned around slowly and saw what he didn't expect. A young man with purple hair holding a rather grotesque sword. He saw a woman with pale purple hair and pale skin behind him. They both were looking at him and his captive with anger.
"Put her down!" The purple haired boy yelled at him with determination. He would raise an eyebrow if he had the ability to. He jammed his thumb at Granberia as if asking if he was talking about her.
"Yes, her!" The man yelled again. Ark resisted the urge to sigh. This boy was hard headed if he couldn't put two and two together.
"Look around you boy. She did all of this. Go home before you end up in your own crater." He said to the boy as he moved to turn around. The boy looked around but the girl looked to Ark with increased vigor.
"That doesn't matter! You're the one who's holding the beaten person." Ark rolled his eyes deciding what he was going to do. He threw Granberia high in the air and got down on all fours. The girl got in a defencive stance.
"I'm also the one who doesn't have time for you, monster. You'd better hope we don't meet again for your sake. LIVING METEOR BARUFARUKU FORM!" He said leaving a very clear threat for the boy and girl. Suddenly a torrent of flame shot forth from the ground surrounding Ark. The boy held his hand in front of his face to protect it while the girl stood resolute albeit with a scowl on her face.
When the torrent cleared a black dragon with large wings was in his place. The dragon looked up and caught Granberia in one claw. It crouched down and jumped shooting into the sky with it's wings. The boy could feel the shockwave from the ground as flame jets on it's wings opened and began spewing highly concentrated flame shooting it forward faster than anything could fly.
Luka shook his fist in anger. He just started his journey and people are already walking over coexistence! Who the hell was that guy? He must've been strong to beat one of the four heavenly knights and come out the way he did. That is to say, completely unscathed.
He looked to Alice and saw she was practically seething. She looked to him and grabbed his hands and began dragging him away. Right as they were leaving Luka saw people slam their windows and run outside.
"The spirit defeated the monster!" A woman called out happily. Alice's grip on Luka's hand grew tighter. He could hear her grit her teeth in anger at them. She clearly didn't like the insults to her species and was holding back from lashing out at the people as they cheered for the other monster's defeat at the hands of the so called 'Guardian Spirit'.
She moved toward the world renowned hotel with Luka trailing behind her. As they reached the door a man with blonde hair was literally kicked out of the building by a slightly overweight woman.
"Ye call yerself a hero but can't kill a simple monster!" She yelled at the man as she slammed the door. Luka looked warily at Alice as they walked through the door. The woman was behind the front desk cleaning a glass with a napkin.
"Oy I heard of you two. You been travelling the roads keeping em clear of monsters! What can I do for ya?" Alice calmed herself and walked up to the front desk.
"We'd like a room and some information." She said as she sat down at the desk.
"I'll charge the church for your room bill. What do you want to know about?" The woman leaned over the desk as she said this.
"We would like to know about the man who defeated the monster terrorizing the square." She said in a low whisper seeing that it was a topic of importance. The bar woman looked around to make sure no one was listening.
"You mean the anti-monster? I only the know the basics myself, He's supposed to be the church's trump card. You want more you gotta ask the town researcher Clementine. She's over there in the booth." The woman said pointing to the back of the room. They looked back and saw a woman with long black hair, glasses, extremely noticeable bust, and a white kimono. Alice stalked over to her slowly with Luka trailing behind her. The researcher looked up from her beer and looked at the two of them as they approached.
"I heard what you want know. Sit down, It'll take a while." The researcher told them. Luka and Alice took a seat across from her as she got ready to tell them. "While I don't know much I do know more than others. After all I raised the boy." Alice and Luka's eyes widened at this revelation.
"But he looked to be at least 26! You look no older than thirty!" Alice said surprised. The researcher raised an eyebrow.
"Did you see what was under the armor? Or are we making assumptions based on an outer shell?" The researcher said to her. She looked ready to protest but held her tongue in favor of listening for any weakness that come up. Clementine took a sip of her drink and started talking again.
"My little Satsujin was dropped off ten years ago being called the 'Anti-Monster' by the church's messenger. He was called this because he was a dragon monster but was male and didn't require male fluids to live." She said laying back. Alice's eyes widened as she had never heard of him before. Luka already knew of him and once met the boy. The meeting was short but he still got a general idea of Satsujins personality. He was perverted, kinda nice, and you can't actually seem to make him mad, but all around nice if you got to know him.
"Once I accepted the parenting position along with the town blacksmith Borus, we were told of his guardian spirit. That's who fought Granberia." She said to the two. Alice began paying extreme attention to this.
"I did some research on the spirit and found out some very important information." She looked at them will all seriousness in her voice. She slowly got closer and closer to them over the table. The two grew closer out of interest. Suddenly Clementine backed away and put her hands under her chin as she shook in pure excitement with stars in her eyes as she shouted the information.
"HE HAS A HUGE COCK!" She squealed at the top of her lungs. Luka jumped back from surprise while Alice sweatdropped. They looked at the woman as she vibrated and panted with her tongue hanging out of her mouth with saliva dripping from her mouth.
"Is that all?" Alice asked warily fearful of another one of the woman's outbursts. She looked at Alice as if she was insane.
"Isn't that all that matters? I suppose there might be a bit more but are you sure you want to hear it?" She said to them after calming down. Alice nodded sure of herself. Clementine sighed and got ready to tell them the history of the spirit.
"What I've discovered about the spirit from ancient texts is that he was once the most powerful thing in existence. Including Ilias and Alipheese. The thing is however, he did not exist in our land. He lived in a land of his own creation with his people who are coincidentally known as monsters as well. He ruled over them giving them prosperity and peace. Until one day he simply disappeared into thin air. Where he ended up was a battle in the great war. He saw how the word monster had become synonymous with rape and murder and became filled with rage. That battle was ended by one man killing everyone on both sides. The only goddess to notice was the first monster lord who confronted him. He almost killed her, but was sealed away at the last second by the goddess tricking him. She left to rest thinking him gone. However this information is fallible as the only recounting of it is written by monsters. I don't know any more than that."
Alice and Luka both tried to process this information. The most powerful being in existence was hell-bent on monster genocide. Alice knew she would have to get ready to fight him if he really did want genocide, and Luka understood he would have to stop him in the name of coexistence. Both of them thought that his story was kind of sad though.
He cared for his people then was ripped away from them seeing what people assumed his people were. Either way they would have to stop him.
"Thank you for your time Ms. But we need to get going." Luka said as he got ready to leave with Alice. They got up and walked away as Clementine waved them off. The two began moving up the stairs as Alice looked at Luka.
"You understand that we'll have to fight him right?" She asked the boy. He looked at her with sad yet determined eyes.
"If we can't convince him otherwise he'll have to go. I said I'd only fight enemies of coexistence." Alice shook her head and walked into the room they had with Luka behind her.
Flying away from Iliasburg was Ark who had a limp Granberia in his talons. He looked across the landscape and gave her a shake. She woke up screaming because of the highness she was at but shut up when she received another shake from Ark. She saw him transform and lost consciousness soon after. She looked up and saw him gazing at her. Of course she was facing the town giving him a full view of her butt which he had the decency to look forward again.
"Tell me where the nearest cave is." She thought about this. She might be able to get free if she led him to Tamamo but runs the risk of getting her captured as well. Who is she kidding. Tamamo can beat anyone! This guy's no exception!
"There's one near the port town." Dang it hurt to talk. But nonetheless she powered through and told him where the cave was. He flew toward the cave and dropped her gently on the dirt. The flame enveloped him once more as he landed on the ground back in humanoid form. He walked over and slung her over his shoulder again as he walked into the cave.
The cave's entrance was rather ordinary leaving Ark without suspicion. He walked through the cave unimpeded for a while until he saw something that really did not bother him. A kitsune was trapped in a very large spider girls web. He contemplated his options. He could either free her and kill her himself, or he could let the spider kill her and then kill it.
However as he was thinking he did not notice the very spider that made the web sneaking up behind him. Granberia did not notice the spider as she was facing the same direction as him. He suddenly felt weighed to the ground as the spider covered him in webbing.
He looked much calmer than anyone else would as he simply looked at the spider girl.
"Should I suck you dry before I eat you? What do you think?" She looked at him with lust focusing on one answer no matter what he said. He rolled his eyes as he got ready to stand up.
"How about this." He said in a neutral tone. He stood up to the spider girls complete surprise as the flame he exuded burned away the rest of the spider web his face turned to one of pure fury at the mockery of a true monster.
"NEITHER." He said with pure fury in his voice as a very long katana appeared in his hand. It sparked with electricity as he swung it upward severing the spider girl in two. He dusted his shoulder mockingly as he picked Granberia up again. His katana was suddenly gone with a small rectangular prism replacing it.
"Help me out here!" The trapped kitsune said to him as he began walking past her. He turned back and looked at her condescendingly.
"Give me a reason." He said acknowledging he had full power over the situation. She looked around then looked back at him with a seductive look on her face.
"I can make you feel good." She said seductively licking her lips. He looked side to side in mock consideration. He began to turn around. 'Gotcha.' The kitsune thought as she had no intention of giving him any good feelings. That is until she saw what was on his back. A large red shield with a what looked like a hilt of a sword on it's back. She suddenly realized he had no intention of freeing her from just the webbing. He intended to free her from living.
Granberia was set down as he drew his blade and got ready to swing. He began hacking away at the web to the kitsunes surprise. She did not notice however, the vial on the sword changing to yellow, then to red. When the web was gone she began to form a ball of light energy in her hand behind her back ready to lash out. He stowed the sword in the sheath as the vial ejected out.
"Gotcha perv!" She yelled as her hand charged with light shot forward. He threw his shield in front of himself blocking it and causing the kitsune to get stunned at the sturdiness of his stance. He shoved the sword inside the shield and did something she never expected. The sword somehow triggered a mechanism inside the shield causing the shield to click and lock into a great axe shape.
"Die you filthy excuse of a monster!" He yelled as the axe was swung around his head twice. It hurt her like hell but she tried to stand her ground against him. That is until he brought the great axe behind him and initiated its final morph. It became an absolutely gargantuan great sword with him swinging it as hard as could at her. She braced for the impact as the blade slammed against her. She was sent flying and was barely able to breath as the wind was knocked out of her and a ginormous cut appearing across her lower stomach.
She barely stood until she noticed something. The absolutely sickening smile on Arks face, and the green sparks coming from her stomach wound.
"AAAHHH!" She let a fear and pain filled scream out as the sparks began a major explosion leaving nothing but bloody chunks in the air and a small pair of blood covered fox ears where she previously was pre- implosion.
Granberia and Satsujin were absolutely appalled at the bloody display while Ark gave a disgustingly insane wolffish smile at the remains of the girl. Granberia had killed before, but nothing in such a grisly fashion! She was slightly intrigued on how he did it though.
Ark huffed and brought out a small handkerchief and wiped whatever blood was on him off. The weapon that was in his hands was once again gone without a trace as he walked over and picked Granberia up again. Satsujin while still inside of the armor that was Ark, was still reeling from the shock of the bloody death.
"Once again the lesser species fails to give me a challenge." Ark said as he merely walked over the girl's remains purposely stomping on the bloody fox ears as a sign of disrespect to his opponent. Granberia felt herself disgusted at the act, but was in no position to speak up about it, so she opted to just go back to sleep.
As Ark continued to navigate the cave he was met with no resistance whatsoever. He walked calmly being very careful not to disturb the woman he was carrying. He may hate the monsters around here with a passion, but he would care for his apprentice. She slept fairly soundly seemingly not being plagued by his previous actions. As he walked through the caves he noticed many clues on where to go as to not get lost. To the untrained eye, they would be practically invisible. He walked through the winding paths of the tunnels trying to find any other unsavory individuals inside the cave he was claiming.
He kept walking until he found something he didn't really enjoy seeing. Another kitsune. Only, opposed to the one tailed kitsune he saw earlier, this one had 3. From what he learned in his first battle in this world was more tails equals more power. He hid behind a rock to get the drop on her. He moved his hand in front of himself and whispered to it.
"Chameleos cloak." He whispered to it as he set Granberia down next to him and left the rock. The power of the Chameleos slowly sparked across his body making him completely invisible. He slowly stalked over to get directly behind her with his whirlitorture equipped. As he got behind her he raised his two hands poised to strike. As he did, she turned around in a flash and tried to catch the two weapons. A bad idea.
As she caught the fist rocketing forward her she was forcefully spun around and as she let go landed on the ground. She quickly leaped away from the attack he sent toward her barely dodging the mini crater creating punch. She created a blue ball of energy in her hand and threw it forward intent on vaporizing the offender. He dodged to the side doing a flip as his arm became that of a large brown gorilla. It's fur turned gold as he let out a yell of defiance shooting forward a beam of pure golden energy toward the three tailed kitsune.
Her eyes widened as she dodged to the side barely dodging the beam of which caused heat that was akin to being right next to an enraged salamander. She looked at the man as his hand morphed back. He cracked his neck as his gauntlets turned purple with pulsing green veins.
"While I would enjoy humoring your dreams of defeating me, I would prefer to get this over with as quick as possible." She glared in defiance and determination as her hands were engulfed in blue fire. She could tell pleasure attacks wouldn't work on Ark. His armor was too tightly grouped together for that.
"Give up and die already!" She screamed as she ran forward furiously throwing fireballs. He easily swerved around her attacks and ran forward himself. They clashed and frankly, it was a slaughter. She couldn't even touch Ark, as he was using Kirins speed to dodge everything she threw at him, while he also used that speed to claw her with his Fledderklaun.
Ark threw her arms to the side and dropped kicked her away. She shakily stood up after hitting the opposite wall. Her breathing was labored from the cuts littering her body. She looked up through her low hanging hair in fury. How dare this THING, harm her! She was a servant of one of the four heavenly knights! Shaking in anger she engulfed her hands in a white flame and ran forward yelling in defiance.
"Let's get this over with." Ark said calmly as he bared his claws ready to intercept her. She charged forward screaming throwing a wild punch at him. He easily dodged and got ready to finish her. With his hands extended his helmet opened up revealing a charging blue beam. His arms were cloaked in white and black electricity which increased in power incredibly fast.
"FEEL THE FURY OF THE KIRIN!" He screamed as he threw his fists forward at the exhausted kitsune firing three beams of lightning that unified becoming a large beam of white blue and black. The beam shot forward and began painfully killing the kitsune.
"AAAHDHAHANAHAHA" She screamrd from the pain of the electricity burning her skin and shutting her organs down. She died within a second of the lightning reaching her. Didn't stop Ark though. He sat there for a minute just electrifying the body and watching the insult to his species burn in agony.
He stopped the torture after the body was black and crispy and walked back over to where he left Granberia. He kicked the body aside as he walked toward the stone.
He picked her up and fireman carried her toward the large stone door. It was obviously enchanted to only open when a certain phrase was said. Ark looked around the cave trying to decipher what the phrase was. He snapped his fingers and walked up to the door.
"Roses are red, violets are blue, open the fuck up." He said has spartan kicked the doors sending them flying across the very big, very empty room.
"Hmm, pretty roomy. I suppose I could make this a training hall… what's this?" He said to himself as he walked toward something sparkling in the dirt. He walked over and dug it up revealing a bronze bell with a red ribbon attached.
"I can feel some kind of magic resonating from this… whatever. It's useless anyway." He said to himself as he tossed the bell behind him. The thing has no value to him and would only get his way. He turned around when he heard something strange though.
"Nya~!" A feminine voice cried out as the bell clanged behind him. He turned around and saw something he's only seen once before. A nine tailed kitsune stood behind him. She looked as if she was as old as Satsujin. She held her nose as the bell clanged on the stone beneath her. She looked up and began scrutinizing him.
"Hmmm broad shoulders, impressive build, radiates power…" She began whispering to herself. Ark would have interrupted her if he had no sense of honor. He also thought she was semi adorable. Not that he would ever admit it though. That is until she snapped her fingers and asked him something he would never forget.
"Be my lover." She demanded with a straight face. Ark actually thought she was joking when he heard her and stifled a chuckle. She looked at him completely straight faced as he realized she wasn't joking.
"Listen little girl. I will give you one chance to vacate this place. Leave before I change my mind." He said as he began to turn around. Granberia was still out cold though. Suddenly the kitsune's eyes widened as she screamed remembering where she knew his armor and voice from.
"YOU!"
Chapter two end.