TB: Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! I'm excited!
KKD: For the final battle? Heck yea! So am I!
TB: Save the excitement for later, KKD.
KKD: Says the guy who just said he was excited.
TB: I'm excited that it's coming. Anyway, true believers, here we are on the final chapter of Senryu.
KKD: Which also means, Dazel will be coming to a close, too.
TB: Not really no. I think Dazel is still continuing.
KKD: Huh? But what about the whole double feature thing?
TB: Oh it's still a thing until this story comes to an end. Dazel will probably be a chapter longer than this one before we move on to others.
KKD: Right. So... Disclaimers?
TB: You bet your ass, Disclaimers. Roll them! *Disclaimers literally roll in, squishing TB* Oomph!
DISCLAIMERS: No one from Team Toku Riders owns anything in this fanfiction except for the original concepts within. The rest are owned by Marvel Comics, Disney, Marvel Studios, Stan Lee, and their respective owners.
TB: *muffled* This worked out so much better on paper.
"So you're saying that your dragon form and the dragon that attacked the cities around the world are ancient rivals?" Bruce asked Tai, the latter having explained what he went through in order to control his dragon, Draco.
"Pretty much. Yea," Tai nodded, "That large dragon, Malcor, is attacking cities after sleeping for thousands of years, and Draco, the dragon who granted me powers and his dragon form, was his counterpoint who wanted peace only to be driven insane by Malcor's thirst for destruction and violence."
"This is starting to sound like something from an 80s cartoon."
"Right… But regardless, it turns out that Draco needed a host in order to return to his normal self. Luckily, that host was me."
"That doesn't explain why you still rampaged before getting him under control."
"Keep in mind, Draco was still insane as he was chasing Malcor before he landed, so while he did calm down a bit, it wasn't enough to stop him. He just needed to be reminded of who he is," Tai pointed out, "Guess I was lucky enough to have such a clear memory to help him."
"Lucky would be an understatement," Bruce pointed out, "So are you gonna go after Malcor, or are you gonna wait for him?"
"Well… I'd have to do it eventually so…"
Before Tai could answer, they heard another news report blurt out a nearby TV.
"We have just received word that the beast that has attacked India and Moscow has made its way to Berlin and once again left a path of death and destruction in its wake. With an estimation of 2,000 dead, over 6,000 injured, and even 700 people missing, this has been the worst attack yet. However, an eyewitness managed to capture a picture of the beast as the military put up an impressive defense," the anchorman informed before a picture of the same dragon that attacked the cities, the one known as Malcor, appeared on-screen, "This confirms that the beast is, in fact, a dragon according to locals, attack victims, and the military, though scientists are somehow still debating over whether it's real or fake. Regardless, this begs the question, when and where will it strike next? Well, after the military's failed, yet very impressive defense against the dragon, as stated before, they began to determine the answer to this question by calculating the distance between each major attack site, and its flight pattern. After much deliberation, they confirmed that the dragon is headed for New York next and have already contacted the forces over here to warn them, we will be on high alert until the crisis is averted, so to all our viewers, we will keep you up to date involving when it will arrive, but until then, prepare yourselves."
"Looks like I'm gonna be waiting for him," Tai figured with a sigh.
"Do you need the other guy's help in this?" Bruce asked.
"Don't worry, Bruce. I can handle it. Just make sure to help as many people as you can find a safe place, because once Malcor arrives, no one will be safe."
"The easiest thing to do will be to direct him away from the city, there will be less casualties that way."
"Right... But it won't be easy," Tai answered before he walked off, possibly to go mentally and physically prepare himself for battle.
That night, it began to rain hard, with Tai standing on a lone rooftop, hat off, looking to the horizon. With a sigh, he looked down into a puddle to see, instead of his own reflection, Draco looking back at him.
"...How long has your rivalry with Malcor lasted?" Tai asked, understanding what was going on
'Dragons tend to live longer than most creatures, so I'd have to say when we were alive, he lasted about 6 millennia before we were sealed,' Draco answered.
"Well then, your 6 millenia of Hell will be put to rest… for good."
'I believe that you can do this. …For the sake of humanity and those whom you hold dear, I believe in you… Good luck… Senryu.' Draco told Tai before his image in the puddle rippled, fading away into Tai's reflection, the teen looking back to the horizon to see the silhouetted figure of the massive dragon Malcor coming through the clouds.
It didn't take long before the military, who were already set up by the shore, began to fire at the figure when it came close. However, the tank shots and missiles did nothing to the beast as Malcor inhaled, a fiery red and yellow glow appeared in the back of his throat before he roared and launched out a torrent of fire so hot that it made all the military tanks and jeeps explode upon impact, as well as destroy anything else within its vicinity. Tai just looked at it with a determined look on his face before preparing himself, slowly walking at first before he started to pick up the pace, his tattoos beginning to glow before he was now sprinting, his body shifting before his wings burst from his shirt, which ripped off of him as he grew, his horns becoming much a little larger, the tail bursting from his pants, and his shoes as well as the bottom of his pant legs ripped off, and by the time he reached the roof's edge, his hair had faded to nothing as his face had gone full dragon before he took off and flew in front of Malcor, who growled at him in rage.
"Hey! Malcor! You want a fight? Then come and get it!" Senryu shouted at him, Malcor roaring before flying at the humanoid dragon, and tried to blast his opponent with fire, but Senryu dodged all of them as he was flying away from the massive beast.
This allowed Senryu to maneuver through the city while Malcor was above him, still chasing him.
"Gotta get him away from here," he mutter to himself before blasting Malcor with a giant burst of fire on his belly, making him roar in pain before crashing down near Central Park, crushing some buildings along the way as well.
At the same time, the military began evacuating people from the buildings and streets. As Malcor got back up, he stared down Senryu, the latter noticing some people in danger of getting crushed by rubble, giving him a quick flashback to the cave-in.
"No! Not this time!" he shouted, flying over to grab the people just in time as the debris came crumbling down before he put the people back down, "Get to safety! The military will help you."
While frightened, the people in question just nodded before running off, Senryu looking up to see the Hulk carrying people around his arms, jumping across the air as Iron Fist guided them to safety on the streets.
"We'll take care of the people, you handle the dragon!" Hulk shouted, Senryu nodding before he took off after Malcor, giving the dragon a hard punch in the snout, this blow being powerful enough to send Malcor falling backwards into the park, making the ground shake.
While flying, Senryu pelted Malcor with blasts of lightning, ice, earth, and of course fire, but all that did to Malcor was anger him before he took to the air, the winds from his wings causing the trees to bend or snap into pieces.
"Come after me you giant dinosaur!" Senryu shouted, flying into the sky and away from the city, Malcor following him in the air.
As the combatants blasted, swiped and chased each other, the storm raged on, lightning blasting around them, illuminating the sky to show them fighting with each strike. Then, Senryu managed to fly back down below the storm, where the rain was now in a torrential downpour before he flew down to a wasteland plain. Malcor was diving down towards him, Senryu just standing on the ground, waiting until Malcor was 5 feet from the ground before flying off. Being the giant brute he was, Malcor couldn't turn fast enough and crashed headfirst into the ground, sliding across the ground and leaving a trail of destroyed Earth.
After that, the giant beast got up and stared down the humanoid dragon who evaded him. They were at a standoff as the storm raged on and thunder could be faintly heard a distance away. After about 2 minutes, the two dragons roared and charged at each other before they threw their claws at each other, the clash causing a gust of wind to burst out like a shockwave. Malcor then grabbed Senryu in his massive claw before slamming his claw into the ground, creating a crater and causing the humanoid dragon to scream out in pain. Malcor just continued to pound Senryu, delivering blow after blow before finally, Senryu grabbed his right claw and held onto it. He struggled to push back until, with a growl, some of his scales glowed blue before shoving the giant paw off of him and fired a blue colored fire breath on Malcor's belly, making him fall backwards yet again. Senryu got back up and doing a loud roar that lasted about 3 seconds before firing yellow lightning out of his mouth, which made Malcor roar in pain.
'Damn it. I'm hitting this thing with everything I got, and he's still not going down. Does he have any sort of weakness?' Senryu thought to himself, blasting Malcor with his ice breath to stall for time, a huge block of ice forming on the back of his neck.
Then, Senryu punched the back of Malcor's neck so hard that the block of ice encasing it exploded into tiny little particles, angering the mighty beast even further. Malcor then slammed his right claw onto Senryu, pining him into the ground before he inhaled with the yellow and red glow in preparation to attack. However, Senryu fired a cannonball-like burst of fire into Malcor's mouth, causing a miniature explosion inside of his mouth as he roared in pain, loudly and back off, letting Senryu take to the skies once again.
'Wait a minute… that's it. He might be fireproof on the outside, but not so much on the inside. All I need to do is wait for him to open his mouth and blast him from within. This could get messy, but it'll be worth a shot. The only question… how do I get him to open his mouth?' Senryu pondered to himself, as Malcor got back up and growled.
Senryu then got an idea as he charged at Malcor, the giant dragon anticipating him to do something, but instead, the humanoid dragon flew around behind Malcor and grabbed his tail.
"Gotcha!" Senryu growled, picking the dragon up by the tail before spinning him around, starting slow but slowly began to pick up speed, "Hrrgh! RRRRAAAAGGGGHHHH!"
Eventually, Senryu went so fast, he tossed Malcor a solid 5 miles away, destroying much of the forest nearby before he flew up into the air. The storm began to increase in intensity, the thunder getting louder as lightning crashed everywhere around the two dragons as Senryu continued up into the clouds, with Malcor flying up after him. After reaching 65,000 feet in the air, Malcor stopped, looking around for Senryu, having a tough time doing so due to the lack of light and grey clouds. Senryu, meanwhile, flew through the clouds, using them as cover, to get around and past Malcor, before firing a powerful fireball at his back, surprising him. Malcor tried to fire at Senryu, but completely missed, due to the cover of clouds. Senryu blasted Malcor again, this time in the back of the head, before Malcor roared in frustration and blew out his wave of fire all around him to try and hit his foe, but Senryu flew around all the blasts, easily avoiding them all. Senryu then flew under the clouds, across an ocean hoping for Malcor to follow him before seeing the giant flying reptile indeed follow him before taking off into the skies once more.
He continued to ascend past the clouds, the rain and the lightning clashing around him as he flew higher before finally reaching above the clouds to see the clear night sky, the full moon brightening the area above him. The clouds seemed to part and tear as Malcor appeared, the two blasting each other with fire while Senryu pelted Malcor with balls of fire, lightning, ice and earth (in the form of molten boulders).
"Malcor… this ends now!" Senryu shouted as he dived down from above as Malcor followed him, try to blast Senryu, who dodged every blast as they dived back through the fury of the storm. As soon as the ocean was in view, Malcor decided that enough was enough and stretched his neck out before grabbing Senryu by the tail with his mouth and tossing him upward, causing him to fall right into Malcor's gaping maw.
However, before Malcor could chow down, Senryu struggled, pushing against Malcor's jaws to push it open and break free. Suddenly, lightning struck Senryu's spines, causing him to give off the blue glow again before Malcor inhaled again, causing his yellowy red glow to appear right in front of Senryu.
"That's it. ...Now!" Senryu shouted before powering up an electrically charged fire blast and then firing the wave right down Malcor's throat, causing the yellow glow to be pushed back and for Malcor to roar in excruciating agony.
As Malcor's pain increased, Senryu continued to fire off the wave of electrical fire down the giant's throat, causing Malcor to glow red and yellow until he finally exploded into a big ball of fire and dragon guts, with Senryu plummeting to the ocean below. As soon as he hit the water, the debris from what was left of Malcor plopped after him like boulders off a cliff, pushing him deeper and deeper into the ocean.
The next day, the sun rose on the New York shoreline, the morning light showing Tai, in human form, exhausted, drenched, and just all around tired, crawled out of the water onto the sand of the beach before collapsing on his back, panting.
"...Ya… Yatta ze… (...I… I did it…)" Tai panted as he tried to recover from his epic, yet draining, battle with the dragon that gave Draco hell for millions of years, "With Malcor gone… you can finally be free of that curse, Draco… right?"
Then, a blue glowing ethereal version of Draco appeared above Tai, giving a smile at him.
'Thank you, Taiki. I am eternally indebted to you. And you should be thankful too… for I'm not the only one that is free.' Draco informed, Tai smiling as he chuckled in response.
"Yeah… obviously from your wrath, but also… from my own inner demons and fears that stemmed from Tou-san's death. *sighing pant* ...Thank you, Draco. It is pleasing to know that I no longer have anything to fear with you in my body."
'Unfortunately, thanks to you freeing me, I cannot leave your body or this realm until you pass on.'
"...*chuckle* I don't care. We agreed we'd work together as Senryu… and I'm not going back on that promise," Tai weakly stated with a smile, managing to sit up, "If you still want to spread peace across the world in one way or another… then I'm the best host that you got."
Draco was just awed by Tai's acceptance of him before he smiled, hovering down to him.
'In that case… once you're all rested, let's go save the world and its people... Partner,' Draco said as his ethereal state phased into and merged with Tai's body before the latter managed to slowly stand up and look off into the rising sun with a triumphant smile.
"...Today's a new day… and nothing will change that." Tai stated to himself before…
"That was quite the display there," he heard a voice point out before turning to see an old man with balding white hair, a mustache, a pair of glasses, and was wearing a white button up shirt with a beige jacket above it, matching pants and brown shoes, "I have never seen anything quite like that."
"Uh… thanks."
"Oh, where are my matters, do you need any help?"
"...Well... I guess I could use a new set of clothes," Tai admitted.
Later, Tai walked through the city, wearing his trademark black leather trench coat and white fedora hat, but now wore a black t-shirt with a three fingered claw scratching design in red, blue jeans, and white sneakers.
"I wonder if I can find Bruce and Iron Fist here. I wanna tell them that it's over," Tai pondered as he walked before...
"They're out doing other business, Dragon-Boy," he heard a voice answer before he turned to see a man with short brown hair, wearing sunglasses, a purple t-shirt, black jeans with boots, "But… anything you wanna say to them, you can say to me."
"Who are you?" Tai asked, confused and suspicious.
"The name's Barton; Clint Barton. I'm here on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D.," the man, Clint, answered, "Don't worry, any information we have on you remains classified within its most trusted agents, including me."
"So... why are you even here talking to me?" Tai asked.
"...Because my employer is working on a little project and is gathering youths with talents like yours for a project he has in store. You came in highly recommended by Dr. Banner," Clint told him as he handed a yellow folder, which Tai took, opened and examined the contents within said folder with intrigued eyes.
"Hmm… interesting."
"Does that mean you're in?"
"...If this means I can protect people while possibly meet others who have the same goals... then yes," Tai answered before extending his hand out, which Clint took into his own and they shook hands, "So… when do we start?"
"Once we've recruited enough members, and in a few months time, we will begin," Clint answered as they let go, "Welcome to the Young Avengers."
TB/KKD: ALL OF OUR FAN LOVE!
*crowd applauds in the background*
KKD: Yes, Senryu ended triumphantly, and it'll lead us to into our next BIG project for TB.
TB: We are almost towards that big project, but we will get there soon. Don't worry, I know the anticipation is just killing you, us included.
KKD: Quite literally. *points to a pile of dead bodies that were all of me/himself*
TB: But enough about literal metaphors, how do you think your character's story turned out?
KKD: Much better than I would've thought. Looking back, his story would've been like Hulk mixed with Spidey, but then we got the aspect of the 80s noble hero in there, and it helped balance things out in just the right way. Now I'm no 80s kid (far from it as I was born in the early 90s, but grew up late that same decade and in the early 2000s), but it doesn't mean I can't appreciate those days more after what crap fests we get.
TB: Now, don't get us wrong, there are still shows that can intrigue, interest and amaze us today, but most of them never hit that mark that made them as appealing as the shows before them. Back on the topic of the story, I think it turned out very well with ideas we threw in left and right to make it less solemn and more of a well balanced, dramatic, and action packed superhero story.
KKD: Indeed. And I'll say, that battle… Oh the battle with Malcor… I can easily say that's my favorite scene of the whole story, right behind Senryu's origin and Draco allowing Tai to use his powers as Senryu. Seriously, if anyone turns these stories into a video game, then Malcor would be prime Boss Battle material.
TB: The battle with Malcor was also, hands down, no contest, my favorite part in the whole story. As well as the ending with the Stan Lee cameo.
KKD: Honestly, we nearly forgot it until the end there, but it's cool.
TB: And on the topic of what you said, turning these stories into a video game. Not video game… but what about, original video animations, or OVAs for short?
KKD: *faints with a smile.*
TB: I'll take that as a yes. And readers, I'm not lying, I'm considering getting these Marvel stories adapted into OVAs directly from Japanese animators and dubbed by Marvel Entertainment with an excellent list of top notch voice actors and actresses. Now I know that the road ahead to get to such a goal is gonna be difficult, but I will appreciate any support given from reviewers, fans, and even my co-writers. What do you say to that, KKD?
KKD: *Holds up sign saying 'Cool by me.'*
TB: Alright, time to move on to more Marvel! I'm the Lone Rider, TokuBrony…
KKD: *holds sign saying '...And the Crossover King, KKD…'*
TB: And after a story that's as awesome as this…
KKD: *holds sign saying 'We proudly say…' Before shooting up to his feet*
TB/KKD: EXCELSIOR!