Takamoto lowered his hand and began to run towards the large area in the distance. He sensed a magical presence as he ran, and heard the gentle chime of a bell. "You! Horror of Death!" I remember you!" Takamoto turned and kept running backwards, finding a tall knight in large blue armor with a golden emotionless face staring down on him.
"I know not of you. Explain yourself." The stoic horror replied, only to be swung at with great malice, an effort the Horror instantly nullified with his palm. He knew the magical energy, and he was with it recently. "Interesting... You claim I am the Horror of Death, but I am the Horror of Narcissism." Takamoto stated, dodging attack with his arms crossed, occasionally kicking a fist away.
"You are Death! There is no other perfect copy such as death to the human man! Your Sin is Death!" Takamoto's memory surged back at the mention of his sin, and rage flowed with it smoothly. The knight was suddenly sent sprawling through the air despite his size with a uppercut before he could see the attack and even feel the impact until seconds later. "How..." After about half a minute an earth column appeared out of nowhere and slammed the already falling knight into the ground. That Horror who had done that was priming for another strike when he was kicked across the face by a familiar boot. Instead of his captain which he was expecting he saw the knight, and went spiraling through the air into a group of trees. He stood and cracked his neck to now see the two knights, large and small fighting. He noticed the princess and pig with a boy and man, and noticed the boy holding a staff with a small bell. Takamoto raised a fist and pounded the ground and it rippled to make everything tumble. He heard the bell chime and saw Meliodas and Diane fighting pause, and the Horror knew the source.
Elizabeth managed to recover and check on the shell-shocked boy, and as she was about to comfort him the boy was punched into a tree, and the staff was floating. "Who's there?"
"Death." The voice answered, before revealing itself to be Takamoto. The Horror lost the staff when the girl ran over to the boy and returned the staff, and when he was about to break both girl and boy, Meliodas grabbed his wrist.
"Wait." He said sternly, and Takamoto obeyed.
"That was very foolish, giving me back this staff..." The boy said, surprised at the silver haired princess.
"I'm not afraid of Sir Takamoto... As long as Sir Meliodas is there, I know he can't harm us." Elizibeth said happily, only to have a swarm of bugs flow down upon the guardian. She screamed and the boy laughed.
"What a great princess... So naïve, but in a good way. Is is too bad that you are of royal blood." The boy said, transforming in that very same knight that assaulted Takamoto, who winced. "Now then, Meliodas, are you going to release that beast upon me and let her die? Those bugs will sting her and fill her will dangerous toxins if you dare lay..." The bugs dropped dead in an instant, and Meliodas released his grip on Taka.
"Go." The knight was sent flying by a punch across the jaw, and then a barrage of blows in succession. A tanned fist dented the armor in a thousand ways, the earth being scarred by the shapeshifter. The metal crippled beneath the extreme pressure, and the last blow was a kick to the face that impaled the Holy Knight in the walls of Baste Prison. Just as the knight stood Takamoto impaled him through the chest with a hand, the knight dying once half of it was scooped out. Takamoto threw it away and sat down, waiting for his ensemble. He would flick away the occasional apprentice that came to challenge him.
Ban heard it. He felt it. He sensed it! "It is time!" Ban declared proudly as he snapped his chains, and breaking down the door in a flick of his wrist. "TAKAMOTO!" He called, stretching and knocking out both guards in a swing of his chains. The Horror at the base of the prison heard his name called, and looked up at the prison. The voice rung a familiar tone, but the Horror could not match it to a memory.
As Ban was about to yell again, he was rushed by someone. He dodged every single of the attacks to a certain point, until his hair was cut down short and even. "Whew, thank you! I needed a trim anyway, so I guess I owe you one." Just as the girl was about to respond, the floor ruptured to reveal a freed Takamoto. Ban dodged all the rubble caused by the rupture, but the girl was knocked into the resulting hole by debris. "If it isn't you, you brilliant bastard!" Takamoto tilted his head to the side, confused. "Here, watch this." Ban chopped off his own hand, and by the time the hand hit the floor a new one had popped up. "Remember that?" Takamoto shook his head. "There's gotta be something... I got it!" Ban pointed out the scar on his neck, and Takamoto remembered the night. Rage, blind rage and aggression along with a sense of protection of his blade from Meliodas. So much so that Takamoto could not forget the night that his Captain snapped and used Enchant Hellblaze to permanently scar the horror of greed.
"Ban?" Takamoto asked, and was hugged at the speed of sound.
"You do remember me! Hooray!" Ban dropped the happy horror, who now had a broad stupid grin on his face and tapped his chin. "Wait, if you did just remember me now, how did you remember who I was enough to get here... Wait, the pinkette mentioned you being with Diane... Diane wouldn't care enough so..."
"Geez Taka, I know I said get up to who called you as fast as possible, but..." The short blonde man was tackled by Ban as well, right into a wall. Takamoto copied his actions, picking up both of his fellow horrors. "Ban!" Meliodas slapped both away in a happy fit of strength, Ban being sent into a wall and Takamoto bounced off the wall in a flash with ease. He still shattered it but recovered just as Diane and Hawk arrived. Ban tackled Takamoto again, only to be grabbed and thrown to Diane, who raised a happy fist to beat Ban over to Meliodas, who uppercutted Ban right to awaiting drop kick from Taka. Ban recovered off a pushup as Takamoto landed, a punch aimed for the Horror's head.
"Okay! It is time my friends!" Ban said, clapping. Takamoto watched as the two got ready to arm wrestle, assuming their same position. Takamoto took up both of their rights by morphing his left hand into a right one. "Okay, Taka, half strength. No fourth. You've always been a bit crazy at one-hundred percent while doing this."
"Yeah, I agree." Meliodas said. "We destroyed that mountain when trying to stop you from destroying the outer layer of the crust."
Takamoto nodded and mentally shut down his overall strength. The three began and the floor rumbled. "Diane, what the heck are they doing?!" Hawk said, knowing they had precious cargo in Diane's bag and that the floor was shattering from the three way struggle. Diane was lot in admiration, mumbling to herself. Hawk ran to try and stop the three titanic forces from testing their strengths, only to be kicked away and sent around wildly by a kick from a distracted Takamoto. He hit Ban over the head which made his grip slacken just enough that Takamoto could force him through the ground itself, throwing him down to the bottom floor. He turned all his focus to Meliodas, who he quickly threw down as well. In amongst the chaos he realized the magical aura around the prison had begun to shatter, but not fully. In turn he screamed as loud as possible as to expand the bailer, causing everyone to cry out in agony and cover their ears. The people outside the barrier noticed the expanding purple bubble of protection growing and cracking, sending them all off running. Golgius carrying the incapacitated Jericho turned invisible and scrambled off as fast as he could from the source.
The barrier shattered and Takamoto rushed to catch all of his victims, running through rubble whilst dragging Diane. They arrived back in town in a matter of minutes, Takamoto dropping them all off. He crouched and waited for them to regain their composure as he thought of his past and abilities as hard as he could. "Nothing..."
'Hey! Taka!" By the time the Horror regained reality it was dark and his allies were celebrating. Ban held out a mug of booze, which Takamoto took silently. "A toast, to the reuniting of the Eight Honored Horrors!" Ban declared, and everyone echoed while Taka did weakly. He took a sip of his drink, waiting for his friends and allies to vanish into their presences before he vanished himself.
Sorry.