Author's Notes: Well here is the big boss of the first game (if you ever bothered to play it) and this boss was the big bad guy that kept you as a fiend. It was a pretty cool fight and all but more action was needed, in my fight scene and the shortness of the chapter was not planned. It all just happened to end up that way I guess. Well enjoy the emperor!
Disclaimer: I do not own Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive, Team Ninja, or Tecmo.
Chapter 6: Ruler from the Depths of Hell
Ryu was getting annoyed by all of this by now so he was not in a mood to be generous. He been keeping track of what he had killed thus far, and figured that he was just before the Holy Vigoor Emperor. Sure enough the corridor ended in a door opening to a huge chamber, in which he saw the emperor as the statue. Walking into the room and calling forth his Ninpo magic in his mind ready to use instantly. He felt no fear walking to the statue, then the statue came to life, so he called the magic that would levitate a piece of rock that he stood on. Gripping the Art of Inferno scroll in his hand he felt ready to kill this pain once and for all. The Emperor erupted in lasers and Ryu calmly called forth the magic and hit the emperor with it. This really hit the emperor hard and that was all Ryu needed to know how to lay into this foe, so he readied another spell to throw at this monstrosity. After 4 more Art of Inferno spells that did it for the emperor but not after he smacked Ryu with a laser that knocked Ryu off one boulder onto another. Then Ryu waited because he knew that was not the end of the emperor he would have been disappointed if it had been. The emperor then rose out of the lava looking like a pile of skulls, down on all four skeletal appendages and a big skeletal head. The emperor looked around at him with malice filled eyes, fully wanting to kill him. So Ryu took out his bow and waited for the emperor to start moving, holding the art of inazuma scroll in his hand ready to use.
So the emperor started to walk around the lava area and Ryu started to fire off APDFS cores at the general pile of skulls and saw that some of them exploded. Then he saw that skulls started to attack him by flying off the pile and go towards him. So he dodged as many as he could then when the emperor's head came towards him he activated his Ninpo magic. This saved him against not only the skulls but also the emperor's head lunge. Ryu repeated this pattern until the emperor fell, and when Ryu ran out of APDFS cores he used explosive arrows. Down the next corridor Ryu heard a more human sound and decided he was to face off against either Raidou or Murai. "So be it…" Ryu thought bitterly as he continued on taking a small drink out of one of the elixirs he carried.
Back at the Hayabusa village Ayane awoke and realized that Ryu had to go, but she still hated the idea. But she resolved to be strong and continue building even though Ryu was gone, she wanted to prove to him she was strong as well. That prevented her from crying any longer, she would impress Ryu and that would help him fall for her. "…WHAT! Where did that idea come from?" Ayane pondered this, shocked at her own thoughts. Was she really in love with Ryu? No that could not be it was not possible, how absurd to even think that. She did feel safe and happy around Ryu though, she did know she could love people such as Genra her foster father. How could she reach so high though? Ryu was a super ninja he would not want a bastard child as his lover or his wife. "Enough of this, I need to work hard this is what matters to Ryu so I will build it while he is gone and that is all there is to think about" Ayane said as she resumed working hard to make another solid standing home that someone would live in one day. Maybe her and Ryu….."Damn not again" She thought. Ayane worked all day on the houses all the while thinking about the game her emotions were playing with her.