Chapter 07
Grey's is lying motionless in a sitting position with his head hanging downwards and his eyes shadowed.
Delmin is holding his gun pointed upwards with an evil grin on his face. He then begins to move it facing towards Grey aiming carefully at his head while taking two steps forward.
"I can't describe the joy I feel to be able to finish you off after all you did.." Delmin mutters with a great excitement.
Just when he was about to pull the trigger Grey lets out a snort and begins to smirk. This gains the attention of the two admins behind Delmin who raises there guard further.
While Delmin only tilts his head in confusion and loosens his finger from the trigger. Then Grey begins to chuckle which seems to annoy him greatly.
"Hey! What are you laughing at?! Do you even know what kind of situation you are in?" Delmin points his gun towards the ground.
"Hey! Don't point your weapon away from him Delmin!" Charlestone Shouts at him making Delmin turn back towards him.
"Oh come on. What could he possibly do know his aura is gone there is literally nothing he can do?!" He shouts as he points at Grey with his right hand's finger.
This caused Grey chuckling to get pit louder really annoying Delmin who turns back towards him.
"Hey will you stop laughing, People shouldn't laugh when there about be killed!" He screams at him.
Grey stops chuckling and raises his head little that only his left eye can be seen. Delmin takes step back after seeing the dangerous looking glint in his eye.
"What I'm laughing at you ask? I just can't help to laugh when I'm in such perfect situation to take out all three of you at the same time..." Grey answers
This made Citrine and Charlestone make eye contact briefly without letting down their guard.
While Delmin started to grind his teeth so furiously you could see sparks forming. "Huh!? What was that!? How in Remnant are you in a great position here exactly?!"
Delmins shouts swinging his left fist around. Grey only closes his eyes. " Well first off now instead of you three having me surrounded you all are in a single area."
Delmin only snorts. "Oh yeah!? Do tell how are you going to accomplish this attack." He asks while crossing his arms front of his chest and trying to move his legs only notice that they refuse to move.
"You know its kinda convenient to have this big dust cloud around you never know what one could use it to hide something..." Grey says calmly.
Charlestone then widens his eyes as he quickly turns his attention towards there feet that were covered by the dust. He tries to move them but they won't budge.
"Wha..! What is this!" He shouts as all three Admins turns towards there feet and trying to move them only to find them to being stuck.
"What's happening!? I can't move!" Citrine shouts as she struggles to try to move her feet.
Delmin was just grunting as he tried to move his legs. Dust cloud begins to settle to reveal their leg have sunk into Darkness that has spread around them.
Grey begins to stand from the ground while leaning to the wall raises his head completely revealing his face."Black hole..." He says lowly.
Charlestone head was going through his head. "Darnit all he used the dust that was scatter around as a cover in order to get that black mist down on our feet."
He begins to sweat as his face then turns away from his feet and wonder towards Grey who has begun to move his right hand in which he is still holding Shusui.
He then continues thinking. "But how can he still be using his semblance his aura is supposed to be at zero right now!?"
This intruder that has attacked their base out of nowhere has shown such terrifying power and abilities that seem to defy common sense has managed to bring out a feeling that Charlestone hadn't felt for a long time.
Now trembling Charlestone observes his fellow admins. Citrine has been overwhelmed by fear even more than him.
Delmin, on the other hand, was still trying to get his feet out of the darkness and he seems to be more furious than afraid.
Grey begins positions himself and places Shusui over his head over his left shoulder.
Then Delmin starts to yell at him. "Hey! What is this! How are you using your semblance?! Wasn't your aura reached zero already!?"
Grey only makes an evil smirk. "Who know's maybe my aura is at zero or maybe it isn't." He says provokingly.
This made Delmin extremely angry to which he responds by pointing both of his guns at him. "Ittoryu Sanjuroku..."
Charlestone and Citrine were completely paralyzed. Delmin fires his guns at the same time. " Pound Ho!" Grey swings his blade.
In that instant powerful air, projectile blow's away from everything that it makes contact with creating another dust cloud this time even larger one than before.
Back at the Flora who was observing the situation from the far. "What just happened? At first, everything was going fine. But then all of a sudden others started acting weird, the intruder then stood up, after that he swung his blade and a huge explosion erupted."
She hurriedly scans the dust cloud with his snipe-scope. "Soru." Is heard from the dust and something shots out of it.
Shadow appears above Flora her eyes move upward. Above her is Grey upside down getting ready to swing his right leg.
"Rankyaku." He says quietly as he swings his right leg downward. His attack hit's and cuts through the ground all the way from that walkway to the bottom of the cave.
All of the admins are lying on the ground all of their bodies are surrounded by a glowing light. Charlestone's aura is grey. Citrine's yellow, Flora's lime green and Delmins is brown.
Up where Flora used to be Grey is standing there looking down at where Flora was now lying unconscious. He was breathing was quick paced.
He then resheats Shusui and turns around and takes two steps before stopping. Not too far of him is standing a huge group of bandits that have been watching his match with admins with wide eyes.
Groups are staring at him with wide. After a moment of silence, panic hits them and they begin to run away while screaming.
Grey turns towards the running bandits. Suddenly sharp pain hits back of his leg and he falls down. "Gh! Darnit all it seems that my body is at its limit... If I use rokushiki or Ittoryu one more time my body won't most likely be able to handle it."
He holds the back of his right knee with his right hand before standing up. "Guess that I have to rely on my Darkness ability and swordplay without any techniques."
He then hears a shout from his left. "Admin wait for us!" After that, another voice came right after that. "We can't run as fast as you!"
Grey turns his head towards the sound of the voices as the third voice rungs out. "Especially when you're furious!" He sees three bandits who were guarding the village elder and leaders running down from walkway that leads up.
"Aren't they..?" He thinks as he recognizes the bandits. The moment those three sees him two of them only stares at him confusingly while the one who Grey had kicked unconscious stared at him in shock.
"Hey who are you?" One of the two asks as both of them slightly wary of the unknown individual front of them.
One in the middle of them and also the tallest of them who Grey had kicked out cold. Among the three he was only one who managed to see Greys face.
"You are the on that knocked us out!" he shouts as he points his finger at him with shocked reaction from his friend who shouts out in unison. "What!"
Grey only closes his eyes looks in a different direction. Two others have recovered from there shock and taken out their weapons... or at least they tried to take them out.
"Hey, my gun is gone!" One on the right shouts outgaining the middle on attention to turn to him. "Mine too!" Left one shout right afterwards.
Getting both of their attention middle one eyes then widen and quickly he checks if his gun is still on his person.
"Gone..." he then turns to Grey. "What did you do to our gun's?!" Grey only turns to them with a bored look.
"I took them and gave them to those hostages since they were quite worried about running into Grimm out there."
This irritated the two bandits. "What! You can't just take someone else property." One on the right shouts making Grey's and to other bandits to sweatdrop.
"Does this guy even realize what he's saying." Grey thinks before sighing and turning to them fully.
"Okay. I don't know why you are here but I guess I should consider myself lucky." He says before crossing his arms.
"There is something that I would like to ask from you people." He says calmly. "Huh! There is no need to answer any of your questions! Our admin will be coming for you since you really pissed him off."
He says with a smug tone making two others grin. This makes Grey close his eyes and sighs. "You three aren't that bright are you?"
He asks bored. "What did you say bastard!?" Left one shouts while right one glare's at him.
Grey then turns to them and point his left finger there were Charlestone, Delmin, Citrine and Carmine are located.
"Unfortunately your admin is currently taking a dirt nap over there along with three other admin." His finger then moves to the point where Flora is lying.
"Unless your admin is the one napping down there." He adds with a bored tone. Deep silence follows afterwards along with a blank stare from the bandits.
"If you don't believe me then look down there yourself," Grey says as he moves even further away from the edge of the walkway.
Left bandit starts to laugh nervously with a strained smile. "ha ha ha. Nice try intruder but if your going to bluff at least try to say something more believable."
Right bandit also joins the left with a strained smile. "Y... Yeah, there is no way for just a single intruder to take out all five admins idiot." As he talks middle one has started to walks towards the edge where Grey had pointed.
Two bandits started to laugh together with a nervous laughter. "For the love of..." Grey mutters as he shakes his head.
"He... He isn't lying!" Middle bandit says with a clearly shocked tone. Both of the laughing bandits stop and turn towards taller bandit.
"Eh?" is the only sound that comes out of them both. He then continues. "Admin Flora is down there unconscious.."
This caused the bandit's eyes to widen in shock. "What!" They shout as they run to the edges and look down.
They could only stare in shocked just like the bandit who is also still staring down there.
Their attention is gotten when Grey starts to talk again making them sweat greatly. "So do you believe me now? If you want to go and check out another place where I said remaining admins would be. Go right on an ahead."
They all turn slowly around towards Grey who is staring at them blankly with his arms crossed. "And while you be doing that would you be so friendly to tell me where your leader is so I can take him out too while you people are doing that?"
After moment tallest bandit groans in frustration with his eyes close before opening them again looking to the ground.
"Okay... I tell you where the leader is..." He says in an angry tone. His answer makes Grey give a smirk.
After a while inside of the admins building.
Cobalt is sitting around the table with six chairs around it. He is leaning to the table with his left elbow and his left cheeks are leaning on his left fist and his eyes are closed. He also seems to have rolled up his sleeves past his elbows.
Just then doors located in front of the table opens up and Grey walks in. Cobalt opens his right eye to see who has arrived.
After he sees Grey he opens his other eye also, and he then stands up from the chair and begins to walk around the table.
"I'm gonna guess that you are the intruder." He says calmly. "And you are the sixth admin and leader of this entire bandit group?" Grey response.
Cobalt stops right in front of him and looks him directly in the eyes. "I have to say that I'm really surprised. Even though I always repair myself for any possible outcome I have to admit I still thought that those five wouldn't lose."
He then closes his eyes and looks down. "But I guess that is just testament for your strength." He then opens them looks at Grey again.
"Now then Next your goal is to defeat me presume. But tell me something why are you doing this? Did one of the village hire you? I doubt that since they don't have enough guts to do that otherwise they had done it long ago."
Grey only closes his eyes and smirks before opening them keeping the smirk on his. "Why huh... Well, that is quite simple. I'm looking for a worthy fight."
Grey then moves his left-hand front of him and squeezes into a fist. "After I had made one villager to tell me what was going on I got excited and of course I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to fight."
Cobalt then narrows his eyes. "Fight then if that's is the case. Then why did you help the hostages escape?" After hearing leaders question he only tilts his head scratches back of his head.
"That's simple. If something would have happened to those hostages those villagers would have most definitely started to bear a grudge towards me and if I ever happened to pass by, here again, it would have been really annoying if someone would try something."
This made Cobalt laugh. "I see. I could see how that would be annoying to have those villagers trying to make your stay there living hell or having one of them to avenge their leaders."
He then stops laughing and looks Grey. "Alright. Before we start I would be honoured to know your name so I can remember you."
Grey then moves his left hand to Shusuis scabbard and his right on its hilt. He then pulls Shusui out and holds it towards the ground. "Grey Alvey."
Cobalt responds by moving his hands forward. All of a suddenly beneath his skin comes out a set of blades that curve slightly past his elbows.
His skin breaks apart revealing mechanical hands beneath it from over his elbows. This made Greys eyes widen in surprise. "Well, then Grey Alvey. I shall remember it. My name is Cobalt Gordon."
He then moves into a fighting stance. His left arm is horizontally front of his chest with the Blade facing Grey.
His right hand was placed next to his head with the blade facing away from him. Grey then quickly recovers from the surprise of Cobalt mechanical arms and quickly takes his own stans.
"Mechanical arms huh... That's interesting." Grey says with a small grin which Cobalt responds with a smile of his own.
"I wonder how long can you last I'm sure that fight with the others tired you out." He says calmly making Grey's smirk disappeared into a small scowl.
"That may be but whatever energy I have left is more than enough to take you out," Grey claims calmly.
Without responding Cobalts smile only grew a bit bigger as he raises his right hand a bit higher.
Then without warning, he spins himself to the left attempting to cut Grey with his left blade horizontally.
Grey retaliates by blocking the blow with Shusui but the spin of the attack sends him spinning since he didn't have the energy to hold his ground.
Cobalt takes a step forward attempt to cut him with his right blade but Grey places his left hand to the ground and uses it to jump outside of the building.
As he is in the air he spins his body so when he lands he is facing towards Cobalt who then jump outside following him.
Grey raises his left hand. "I don't have enough energy left to guard myself it seems I have to keep avoiding his attack." His arms begin to turn into darkness before pointing it towards Cobalt.
"Kurozu." Cobalts eyes widen as he while in the air his body is suddenly get pulled towards Grey. "What is a...?"
He says to ask himself with a shocked tone. When he is right in front of Grey who then delivers a kick with his right leg right on Cobalts side sending him flying.
But Cobalt simply stops his flight only meter away from Grey by hitting his feet on the ground. He then turns to him with a serious look. "Too shallow I'm afraid."
Grey only glares slightly annoyed as he growls. "Darnit all." Just then Cobalt raises his right hand and attempts to slash him with his right blade while spinning his body to the right.
Grey quickly moves his head backwards avoiding the blade only to have few strands of his hair cut instead.
Cobalt then attempts to hit Grey stomach with his left knee. "Gh!" But Grey blocks it with his left palm which is coated in haki.
Force of the blow caused Grey to be pushed back quite a bit. Despite him protecting his hand with haki the attack still hurt.
"Uuuugh!" Grey pushed his hand forward pushing Cobalt back. He then takes a step forward and attempts to stab his opponent.
However, Cobalt simply moves towards his left avoiding the attack and following up with a powerful kick with his right leg.
Kick connects to Grey's gut sending him flying. "Uuuugh!" Grey land on his back on the ground.
"It seems that you are quite weakened. I'm going to guess that your fight with the admins was quite a close one. Quite a shame I would have loved to have a fight with you while you were at your best oh well."
Grey only growls angrily as the darkness starts coming out of his back and left hand. "You shouldn't underestimate me even if I'm not at one hundred per cent!"
Cobalt turns serious. "Oh believe me I wouldn't dream of it." He takes his stance as Grey stand up wobbling.
He then raises his face and glares at Cobalt while still in pain from the last attack.
He then turns to the ground and slams his left hand on it causing the darkness to spread on the ground heading towards Cobalt. "Black Hole..."
"hmm!?" He avoids it by jumping up into the air. He then spins his body to the left causing his body to spin horizontally as he flies towards Grey.
Once he was right on front of him he swung his right blade downward trying to cut Grey from the middle. Grey, however, moves his left hand from the ground and side-steps the strike causing darkness that's currently on the ground to disappear.
"Don' think you have won yet!" He shouts as he grabs Cobalt's throat with his left hand that had still darkness coming out of it. The moment his hand touches Cobalt, darkness starts to swirl from the palm of his hand.
At that moment Grey felt a strange sensation like something was being pulled from Cobalt into his hand.
Cobalts body is surrounded by a grey light before it disappears. " What... What is this!? My aura...!?" Grey decided to ignore the strange sensation.
"He rams Cobalt into the ground with all the strength he could muster. Causing a small crack in the ground on the point where Cobalts head collided.
"Gah!" Cobalt yells out in pain as he hits the ground. Grey then raises him from the ground, spins his body in a whole circle and then tosses him towards the stone building where they were a moment ago.
While Cobalt was flying towards the building that grey light from before reappears on him for a brief instant before turning invisible.
He then collides with the right wall next to the door and flies through it. Grey is breathing heavily as he then turns his attention to his left arm.
He turns his hand into a fist and opens it again. "What was that?" His eyes then move towards the place he had hit Cobalt into. There is a little bit of blood staining the ground.
Most likely from the back of Cobalts head. This caused Grey to raise an eyebrow in confusion.
"Blood? Shouldn't aura prevent something like that happening?" He then hears the sound of stones moving in front of him. He turns towards the hole on the wall.
Cobalt had risen up from the other side of the room where he had been thrown. He wobbles for a moment and then places his left palm behind his head slightly above his neck.
"Guhh" He moves his hand front of him with the hand tightens into a fist. He then opens it to reveal a small amount of blood on his fingers.
"Blood! Just what did he do just now?!" He then turns towards Grey's direction. "Moment he grabbed me my aura suddenly went to ze... No that isn't quite right. It didn't drop to zero. It's more like it just vanished completely."
He then narrows his eyes as a drop of sweat falls off his face. "Does he possess a power to negate aura!? Is something like that even possible?!"
He then begins to walk forward with a scowl as he continues thinking. "Be as it may. This guy is even more dangerous than I initially thought."
Outside Grey is keeping a close eye on the approaching footsteps but he was still wondering the strange sensation.
Cobalts comes out of the hole. Two only stare at each other for a while before he opens his mouth to speak.
"What the hell did you just do to my aura?" That question makes Grey even more confused. "I did what now...?"
He mutters confused before starting to think. "His aura? Did I do something to it just now." His pupils then move towards his left palm for the second before turning back towards Cobalt.
"From the looks of confusion on his face, it seems he isn't sure what he did himself..." Cobalts thinks as he analyzes the look on Grey's face.
He then moves his left-hand front of him as he moves his right feet behind his left leg and he then takes one step forward with his right leg.
And he then places his right hand next to his waist with his fist pointing forward and the blade facing away from him.
He then lungs forward with an attempt to strike with his right-hand swing it in a horizontal arc aiming right at Grey's cheek.
He avoids the attack by ducking down. He then attempts to stab him straight in the face but his attack was dodged by the moving his head to the right.
"Now!" His eyes widen as that single thought running through his head as the darkness coming from his left palm and begin to swirl.
"Kurozu..." Cobalts eyes widen as he sees Grey's left hand approaching him. "Oh no!?" he screams his mind as he grinds his teeth together.
Grey grabs his face with his hand causing Cobalts aura to shut down again. "Not again!" Cobalts mutters loudly with an annoyed tone.
Look into his eyes then change to that of great pain as Grey knees him straight to the stomach with his right knee.
"This sensation... There is no doubt about it." Grey then tosses Cobalt towards his right side. He crashes into the ground on his stomach.
Grey then straightens himself and looks at his right hand then bag to Cobalt who is laying face down while holding his stomach as his aura returned.
"There is no doubt about it. Usually, when I hit people it feels like there is something between me and opponent that cushions the blow but this time I felt nothing. Darkness can nullify aura!?"
He turns back to towards his hand then tightens it to a fist. "But with this, I might be able to win this." As he thinks with a smile Cobalt stood up while still holding his stomach.
"Again?!" He shouts angrily in his mind as he turns around. "It seems that fighting him in close combat would be difficult... Too bad I don't have any long-range weapons with me..." He thinks to himself before taking a stance.
Grey also took his stance ready to fight. He then smirks right before darkness that was flowing from his back erupted from his back causing his opponent to widen his eyes.
"Try this on the side Black hole." Grey raises his left-hand hits it to the ground causing darkness to spread and head towards Cobalt.
"What is he doing now?!" He thinks before quickly jumping to the side and trying to keep his distance from the darkness. "Don't worry it's not you I was aiming with that."
Darkness surrounded all the nearby stone houses along with admins main building that are then begun to get bulled into the darkness.
After all the building were gone darkness pulled back to Grey revealing completely clean stone ground.
Cobalts tares at the empty places where the houses used to be. "What is he up to now?" he mutters to himself before turning towards Grey again who has a devious grin on his face.
He then throws his left hand in the air causing Darkness to flow upward begins to cover the sky. Cobalt looks at the sky. "Now what!?" He shouts with a worried look.
Grey then deepens his smirk as he points his palm towards him. "Now then watch where you are. Dark Rain."
Then a huge barrage of stone pieces along some other things that were inside houses begins to fall from darkness falling towards Cobalt.
"So he can swallow thins with that mist and then spew them out of it." Gots through his head before he turns his focus on Grey and begins to advance towards him while avoiding all the rubble thats falling down on him.
Grey's face turns serious and raises Shusui horizontally to guard. As Cobalt approach huge piece was about to fall on him but he split it in half using his right blade.
He made it all the way front of Grey and attempted to cut him with his left blade. Grey retaliates by quickly uses Shusui to redirect the attack right past right side of his head. head.
Grey then tightens his left hand into a fist and coats it with armament haki. "Try this!" Grey attempts to punch him straight on his right cheek.
But his attack was stopped by Cobalts left hand. He smirked momentarly before it transforms into a look of pain as Grey has kicked him on the stomach with his left foot.
Cobalt flys a few meters away from Grey. He then stops his flight by placing his feet on the ground.
Both of them are getting tired as they breathe heavily. "You know I really can't remember when someone manages to make me lose my breath like this..."
Grey gives a small smile. "Good to know." He then moved Shusui in front of him and took his stance. "Man this guy is strong. His in a league of his own when compared to those other four I fought."
As Grey thinks he straightens him up and his smile disappears. He then takes a deep breath. "My only chance is to defeat him. Is to use my darkness to nullify his aura and land solid hit with haki to finish it..."
He then moves Shusui vertically front of him and darkness flowing from his left hand intensifies.
With Cobalt, he had similar thoughts going through his head. "I never heard of semblance that can turn off someone's aura..."
He then moves his right leg one step forward. "Seriously! My aura might just as well useless one well-placed blow when my aura isn't on and I'm out."
He then tightens his left into a fist. "I need to deplete his aura quickly before that happens."
Both of their eyes widen as both of them begins to rush towards each other for one final exchange of blows.
To Be Continued
