Climax Crisis Chapter 7: The Dark Truth
Jin swinged his sword upwards, sending a icy chill of rocketing towards Tsubaki. Who back flipped backwards, slamming her shield down in front of her as she landed, blocking Jin's attack.
Tsubaki then lifted her shield and ran forward, when she was a mere meter away she performed a spin kick, aiming for Jin's head. Only for him to immediately bring his sheathed sword out in front of him to block her advance.
Jin then proceeded to hit Tsubaki with the hilt and then freeze her in a case of ice. Tsubaki then shaked a bit, slowly shattering the ice cage as she broke from is icy numbness. Tsubaki then back handed Jin in the face, unable to faze his blank expression. Until she dropped to the ground, spin kicking Jin's feet, which caused him to fall down onto his bum.
Jin then, almost immediately, stood back onto his two feet. The both them then pull out their swords, clashing the sharp blades into each other. Emitting an ear piercing ringing noise, each time the swords collided.
"Tsubaki stop this madness, you're being foolish!" Jin demanded as the two kept slamming their swords into each other's, struggling to push back their opposition.
"I'm being foolish!?" Tsubaki muttered with astonishment at Jin's statement, "Jin, you're the one who's gravely injured!" Tsubaki pointed out, "You can barely put up a fight with me in your condition and yet you are referring me as the foolish one?!" She then twirled around as her dagger formed into a long spear, before she attempted to stab Jin. Who dodged to the right, avoiding it's strike.
She then thrusted her shield forward, that sprouted out a bright wing of light. Although before it could take a swipe at Jin, he blocked in by freezing it.
"For your information I can handle myself, Tsubaki!" Jin snarled as he then sent a chilly ray of ice towards Tsubaki, who blocked it but hiding behind her shield.
Jin then ran forward, slapping Tsubaki several times then jabbing her in the gut with the hilt of Yukianesa. Causing her to let out a yelp of pain as she fell to the ground. "Truly pathetic!" Jin muttered as he turned around and was about to being walking away. Until...
"You are truly the fool here, Jin..." Jin heard Tsubaki chuckle from behind him. As she slowly raised from the ground. "...To think that I would give up that easily!" Tsubaki smirked as she got into her fighting stance. "Now... PREPARE YOURSELF!" She yelled as she charged forward.
Meanwhile as the two childhood friends quarreled, the Imperator telaported back to her underground base after her failed attempt to recruit Amane. She walked in a fast phase towards the door located to the left of the sleeping beast. Once she went to reach for the old door handle she heard a voice call out from behind her. She slowly turned around towards the speaker with a disgruntled look on her face.
"Imperator.." She turned around to see Azreal walking up to her with his arms crossed and a slightly angered expression on his face.
"What... do you want, foolish puppy?" The Imperator inquired in a irritated tone. "I do not have any purpose to failure's."
"Give me one more chance to hunt down those Duodecim bastards!" Azreal demanded with a tone full of depravity. The need to kill was coiling in the pit of his gut, while his teeth yearned for flesh to consume.
The Imperator kept quiet as she stared blankly at Azreal, a look of amusement crept onto her face as she took a moment to contemplate weather or not as to letting the mad dog off its leash once more.
After a few moments of consideration the Imperator came to her conclusion of Azreal's hunt and with a motionless tone, the Imperator responded. "No."
Azreal then responded in rage, smashing a near by rock as he yelled. "GOD DAMN IT, IMPERATOR!" He then growled, "I assure you that I WILL kill them and show no mercy this time!"
"This isn't a game we're playing here, Mad Dog." The Imperator proclaimed in a serious tone. "We can't afford any more... 'accidents'."
"The only accidents that will happen are going to be the demise of those Duodecim brats! I know that I can-"
"Imperator!" Bullet called out as she entered the room, interrupting Azreal mid-sentence. "Imperator, I've- what the?! Why on earth is this vicious beast doing here?" Bullet asked while starring at Azreal in shock.
"Well it's nice to see you too!" Azreal grumbled as he kicked some dirt towards her.
"Imperator, what is the meaning of this?" Bullet demanded an answer.
"He was of use to me before... but now I'm reconsidering our... little contract."
"Hmph! No wonder, he probably killed all your comrades." Bullet mumbled under her breath.
"I heard that!" Azreal growled as he began to slowly prowl closer to Bullet, towering over her." ...and you better shut that little mouth of your before I shove my cock down your throat!"
Bullet then looked at Azreal in disgust. "You fucking perv! You wanna die?!"
"That's enough!" The Imperator snapped, stepping in between the two before a fight... broke out. "The last thing I need right now is you two tearing this place apart, or my brother!" She said patting the beast's side. "So I shall warm you both... over step your boundaries once more and you both shall fade into the darkness. Do I make myself clear?!" She asked in a annoyed tone.
The two mumbled in response, annoying the Imperator once more.
"I'll ask once more... DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!" She yelled at the two as her dull ruby eyes glowed a blood eerie red.
Both of the fierce warriors gasped in horror before replying, "Yes, Imperator!"
"Good, now back to where we were." The Imperator let out a huff as she turned away from the beast, walking towards the door on the left. Once she reached the splintery door once more, she leaned forward, grabbing the handle and twisting it before pushing forward to enter the room.
The room was rather dark and satanic looking symbols all over the walls and ceiling. The only thing that gave off any sort of light in the room was the small green orb that hovered over a small pool at the end of the room.
The Imperator then walked forward, right up to the small orb as she looked into it green glass. "Show me... thy trouble makers." She said as the orb slowly sunk into the water below, allowing a vision of Jin and Tsubaki fighting in a fierce battle between each other, appearing in the water.
"What is this?" Bullet asked as she lent over the edge.
"This is the pool of reflections, it shows me weather anyone and everyone is in this pathetic world." The Imperator replied, "It even those who can't not usually observe see these visions."
'It even appears to tell us where the are exactly and the possible path their heading.' Azreal thought to himself. 'Hmm, it appears their heading to the oil fields...' Azreal then backed away slowly while the Imperator and Bullet were busy observing. He then exited the room and ran towards the exit of the hidden base, without alerting anyone lucky.
"Ha!" Tsubaki cartwheeled out of the way of Jin's chilly ray of ice, she then dodged some more ice rays before using her shield to deflect the the razor sharp icicles. She then shot some bolts of light out of the Izayoi's shield towards Jin. Each one of them got smacked away from Jin as he swipped his sword's blade at them.
He then once more sent another ray of icy air towards Tsubaki, before she managed to block it with her shield. She then glared at Jin as he returned it.
The two then slowly unsheathed their swords once more as they held their glare. After a few minutes the both of them charged forward, raising their swords in the air. Aiming to cause a fatal strike on their opponent.
"ENOUGH!" Just as the two childhood friends we are mere meter away from each other, Kagura intervened on their fight, getting in between the two, causing them to cease in their advances.
"Kagura?!" Tsubaki gasped, surprised to see him there.
"Move, Kagura. Tsubaki needs to be taught a lesson." Jin growled.
"You BOTH need to be taught a lesson!" Kagura scowled, "What the hell is wrong with the two of you?!" Kagura asked with aggression. "When I last saw the both of you, individually, you both were worried about each other so much. But then I see you guys reuniting by killing the crap out of each other. YOU TWO NEED TO SORT OUT YOUR DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, BECAUSE I'M SICK OF YOU TO ABUSING EACH OTHER OVER MEANINGLESS QUARRELS!" Kagura screamed in a rather out of character attitude. "Now either you two sort out your differences or I'll beat the shit out of you both until this is settled."
Kagura then let out a quiet huff as his face slowly turned from red to his pale white completion. While Tsubaki and Jin both stood there quietly, slightly in shock after that unusual outburst from Kagura.
After a few minutes had gone by the two spoke up at the same time.
"I'm sorry-"
The two childhood friends stopped in their mid sentence as they chuckled a bit, before giving a proper apology to the other.
"I'm sorry, Tsubaki."
"I'm sorry too, Jin." Tsubaki replied, before giving Jin a warm hug, which he gladly returned to her.
"Aww, isn't that sweet?" Kagura mumbled to himself, before walking up to the two of them, yelling out loud. "GROUP HUG!" He yelled as he swooped both of them off their feet, giving them a tight embrace.
"Gah!"
"Guh!... Kagura... can't... breathe..." Jin weased out.
"Oops, sorry!" Kagura said as he set them back down on their feet, letting then catch their breathe.
After huffing and a bit, Tsubaki asked, "So Kagura... why are you here?"
"Because Jin snuck out to search for you while he was still fatally wounded. So I decided to keep an eye on him."
"Hmph! I'm fine, they were mere scratches..." Jin replied, returning to his cold attitude.
"Oh? 'Fine' if the Mad Dog would have finished you, by smashing your face into the ground?" Kagura questioned.
"W-what, you fort Azreal too, Jin?!" Tsubaki asked in a panicked tone.
"Yeah and almost got wipped off the planet!" Kagura added in.
Tsubaki gasped in horror as she gave Jin a very saddened look. "Jin.." Tsubaki sobbed slightly as she rammed into Jin, giving him a tight hug that ended up aggrvating his wounds a bit.
"Ow... owow! Tsubaki, I-I'm fine. Just please... let go!" Jin grunted in pain as Tsubaki gasped, letting Jin go immediately.
"I'm so sorry, Jin!" She apologized.
"It's fine, Tsubaki."Jin replied, "Your at least a lot more gentle then Kagura." Jin chuckled meekly.
"H-hay!" Kagura wined, causing the other two to giggle away. "Just like the old times..." Kagura sighed out loud.
"Ow...god... my head hurts so much..." Ragna groaned as he clutched his head in pain. "Why the hell must I see all of this? Why are you showing me all of this?...And what was father talking about before... when Saya was born he called her, 'the third subject', what was he referring too?" Ragna asked, feeling confusion all round him. "Please... tell me something, anything reverently to that!" He asked before once more a vision blurred out in front of him.
*Flash back*
Ragna's father sat in his office looking at some files while talking on the phone to someone. "Hmm... I see... You're experiments are rather magnificent... perfecting a human soul to it's purest, my you've even inspired my own research, Professor Clover." His father said on the phone, unknowing that his wife was hiding behind the wall, listening to what she could of their conversation.
"Ah, I see... we should compare notes to that." He suggested to the man who he was talking to, "I've decided to come up with a... rather 'similar' project of yours." He said, "The only thing I need left is to extract the some of their DNA and combined it with-" Before he could finish his sentence he heard his wife accidentally sneeze from behind the wall.
'Crud' She thought as she quickly walked out, carrying a tray of tea and biscuits that she originally was sent for.
"I've got to go, we'll talk later..." He said in a rush tone before hanging up the phone. He then turned around and spoke in a rather cheerful tone. "I see you've returned my love.."
His wife giggled nervously as she set the tray down on a empty part of his desk. "Who was that honey?" She asked acting all casual as she sat down in a computer chair in front of him.
"It was professor Relius.." He replied as he took a sip of his tea.
"What did he want?" She scowled.
"I was the one to call him, I was informing him about my new research." He replied. "Why must you be so cold, that man is a rather inspiring and incredible man. Most of his research is phenomenal."
"I hate that man, turning his family into dolls just for research is just a disgrace to science." She replied in a noble tone, "You should never experiment on anyone, especially your own blood."
"...Science... has sacrifices we make, if we don't there will be no results to further improve our research. His family merely offered themselves to help him with his research, thus they made that sacrifice."
"I don't care what you think!" She snapped back,"Relius' little boy is now all alone... he's so very young to be on his own. I hate it if that happened to our kids. Fair enough their all most teenagers but-"
"Would you stop panicking over trivial things." He growled back. "Stop having your head in the clouds."
"Ugh!" She grunted in annoyance before leaving the office. Ragna's father then picked up the phone and said, "Relius... she's on to me... we must conduct the experiments at once!"
*Flash Back End*
"H-Huh?! To be honest... I didn't understand much at all from that." Ragna said in a disappointed tone. "Damn it..." Ragna then closed his eyes inhaling some air then slowly breathing it out slowly, before saying out loud. "Restriction 666 released... Dimensional Interference Force field Deployed..." He then opened his eyes revealing that the right one had black ooze ruining out of it as he screamed, "BLAZBLUE ACTIVATE!" He then got enclosed by a flash of a white bright around him that concealed him into it. After a few minutes the light vanished along with Ragna, leaving nothing but Nu left in the pitch black void.
"Ragna... you're so foolish.." Nu said in Noel's sounding voice as she stared off into the void.
"So... any luck locating Ragna, Tsubaki?" Kagura asked as the three Duodecim members walked side by side through the stretch of a lush field of grass.
"Nope, for someone who has become a gigantic beast it is rather difficult to locate him." She replied.
"Hmm, but then why were you out here for?"
"Oh, I was searching for Ragna originally but then I ran into Azreal then found two lost children and was taking them away from the forest and then-"
"Umm, what kids?" Kagura interrupted.
"Oh they're..." Tsubaki stopped mid-sentence, realizing that they had run off with out her. " Oh no!" Tsubaki gasped as she looked frantically, unable to spot Luna nor Sena. "I-I've got to find them!" Tsubaki said out loud as she was about to run off, only until Kagura grabbed her, preventing her from running off.
"Clam down, baby! They'll be fine." Kagura said in a clam, alluring tone. "Just relax~" He said as he quickly made his way behind her, latching his large hands onto Tsubaki's shoulders, giving her a soothing massage.
"K-Kagura what are you- Mmmm.." Tsubaki moaned in relaxation.
"That's right... just relax my little flower~" Kagura whispered into her ear while smirking at Jin, who was off in his own world as he continued past the two.
"Mmm... okay." Tsubaki replied.
While Kagura was taking his advantage on Tsubaki, Jin was still walking off, oblivious to the world around him. 'I wonder where brother is?'
"Oh... ahh~"
Jin looked up, all startled as he looked around. His face then showed disgust as he saw Kagura's advance on Tsubaki.
"You disgusting perv!" Jin growled before shoving Kagura off of Tsubaki, as he gave him a furious glare. "Don't you dare even think of tarnishing her!" Jin snarled as he pulled the now blushing Tsubaki behind him.
"Haha, is that a hint of jealously I see, Jin?" Kagura chuckled as he caused Jin to slightly blush.
"W-What are... that's not what we were talking about here!" Jin growled, "Why are you acting... actually this your usual self, one minute your serious then your being you perverted self." Jin added lamely.
"Aww, that hurts Jinny. But in all seriousness... why did you only pay attention once you heard Tsubaki moan?" Kagura gave Jin a shark like grin.
"Rrrrrr!" Jin growled as he grabbed Tsubaki's wrist, leading her away from Kagura, leaving him behind.
"Ah, Jin!" Tsubaki gasped in slight pain from the tight grip Jin had on her wrist. "Ow!"
While Jin continued to march off with Tsubaki, Kagura stayed behind, chuckling to himself. "Oh... Jin... if only you could see her love for you... that's why I must act perverted to her. Otherwise you never pay attention to her unless she's been taken away from you." Kagura said to himself as he walked off in a different direction.
"U-umm... Jin? Shouldn't we wait for Kagura?" Tsubaki asked as she stumbled after Jin.
"I know you're being nice, but that perv doesn't deserve it." Jin grumbled as he tightened his grip on Tsubaki even more, not looking back as he kept his eyes on the now appearing dirt path.
"Yehow! Jin, can you please.. loosen you grip?! You're hurting me!" Tsubaki grunted as she tried to slip her hand out between his. Although she failed to do so...
Jin and Tsubaki followed the path until they came to creator liked plain with an old abandoned old oil out door oil plant. In the bottom of the oil plant was filled with black, oozy oil, with metal platforms above. In the middle of the plant was a large cylinder that contained what's left of the oil that hadn't fallen below.
"What is this place?" Tsubaki asked.
"It must be the old oil plant... well that's what it used to be called back when Ikaruga would need some of this stuff they would come get and get their oil here... Now it's know as the oil fields... Hmm..." Jin then walked over to a near-by pipe that was leaking some oil and collected a bit in a small container he found.
"Umm... Jin, what are you doing?" Tsubaki smiled questionably.
"Well, some of my vintage bikes could use some of this stuff!" He replied, while giving Tsubaki a smirk, which she returned it with a sweet smile as she began to blush slightly.
"One of the things I love about you." She whispered very quietly so that Jin couldn't hear.
"Ah, so you two decided to finally arrived?" The two friends gasped upon hearing that familiar bone chilling voice growl. They then heard the iron gate shut behind them, losing the only way out of the oil plant. They knew all too well that they weren't going to get out of this so easily.
They then looked up to one of the platforms above, seeing Azreal standing there, looking over the edge at them with his blood thirsty eyes as he looked down upon him.
"Azreal?!" The two gasped at the same time.
"Now... finally..." Azreal began, "TIME TO RIP OFF YOUR FLESH AND CONSUME IT!" Azreal then jumped off the platform, landing a couple of meters in front of the two. Creating a dint in the meter platform he landed on. He then, in a crouching position, slowly raised his head, showing off his demon like grin.
Meanwhile Ragna slowly opened his eyes, to see a while long tunnel with moving picture along the sides of the tunnel. Each picture representing one of Ragna's memories. Ragna then slowly walked forward, passing several memories as he looked around for the right memory.
"Hmmm.. where is it?" He asked himself as he continued through the memories. "Haha, I remember that!" Ragna chuckled as he saw a memory of Jin crying out that the moon is falling. He then saw a memory of Saya getting sick and Jin chasing her all over the yard trying to get her, then probably try and bully her.
"Ahh... Oh, there it is!" Ragna exclaimed as he walked over to one of his forgotten memories, he took a deep breath before taking a step into the memory, getting adsorbed as he entered it.
Once Ragna opened his eyes once more, he found himself in the hallway outside of his father's lab. "Mmm, at least I've got a better view on things now." Ragna said to himself, before spotting his father walking towards him, with a clip board in one hand and a cup of tea in the other as he walked straight past Ragna and into his lab.
"He can't... see me?" Ragna mumbled as he looked at himself. "AAAAAHHHH! WHERE'S MY BODY!?" Ragna screamed, "No, clam down, Ragna. You'll be fine!" He said to himself as he continued to watch his father through the door way. Who was laughing madly as he read some of charts and notes that he recorded on.
"Finally, I can start the experiments. Relius has given me the right to conduct my experiments. It's time to see if I can embodied those... 'enhancements' into them." The mad scientist chuckled.
"Enhancements?" Ragna mumbled.
"I've always wanted to create a world with super soldiers. But... re-creating the black beast and god of death are my ultimate goals."
"WHAT THE FUCK!?"
"I can't wait to alter the DNA with in them." He said as he rummaged around in a draw near by, grabbing a very sharp needle with green liquid substance inside of it. "Now... should I start with Ragna... or Saya. I only need two, so I guess I just turn Jin into a super solider, just so... he isn't left out." He snickered, sending a shiver down Ragna's spine.
"Oh, god..."
"W-what?!" Ragna's mother gasped, who was behind Ragna, listening in to his father's mad rants. "What is the meaning of this?!" She demanded an explanation as she barged into the room.
"Oh, so you over heard?" He growled, pushing his glasses up over his dull blue eyes.
"Why would you even consider something like this?! Our children are our only treasures. You can't just experiment on them! Their lives matter more then ours!" Their mother cried out.
"Hmm, I know... their the fruit of my research. Of course their lives means more then our's!" He replied, misinterpreting what she was saying.
"Say, what?! I mean that they should be free like other children. Not experiments for you delights!" She yelled in anger, "Ever since you and Professor Relius had met you've changed! You're not the man that I once fell in love with! You're now just a heartless bastard!" She accused him, while stomping her foot in anger.
"Hmph! That man merely opened my eyes to what the power of science can really achieve... He also showed me the capabilities of the impossible!" His father ranted on.
"What on earth are you talking about" She asked in a disgusted tone.
"I've been working on it for quiet some time.." He said as he went through the top draw of his desk, grabbing out a file then showing it to his wife. "This file contains the key to reviving the dead. Can you imagine, a world where death and live were reunited! It with be phenomenal! Not to mention that Saya can be a perfect vessel for the goddess of death, isn't this spectacular!" He said, not making any sense what's so ever.
"You're... insane!" She managed to push aside her horror and mutter those words out her dry, tight throat.
"Not to mention that I've come up with a little theory or two about embodying the black beast into human souls. There's Ragna's use, but unfortunately I don't have any openings going for Jin right now, so I guess I'll just give him super strength or some stupid enhancement like that... or I'll maybe just hand him off to Hazama and Relius to dispose of." His father added lamely to the last one, only increasing Ragna's mother's anger to increase more.
"Over my dead body, you deluded asshole!" She yelled with hatred for being betrayed by her lover like this. She then turned towards the exit.. "I'm leaving!"
"Are you going to take the kids away?" He asked in a slightly panicked tone.
"If you want to experiment with their bodies then just made clones of them!" She growled as she began to walk towards the exit, only for Ragna's dad to get from his chair, grabbing the sharpest object that was closes to him.
"YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE THEM AWAY FROM ME!" He screamed out as he charged towards her, pinning her against the wall, knocking off some glass viles as he pinned her. He then raised his hand that held the scalpel in it, he then slammed it down, piercing her heart as he did.
"Guh!" She cried out in pain as she felt her heart get slowly torn apart as the razor sharp blade made a horrific contact to her heart. "Bluah!" She spilled blood out of her, now, bloodied covered lips.
"What the-" Ragna was at a lost of words as he saw the horrific scene unravel in front of his eyes.
His father then pulled out the scalpel, letting her body fall onto the floor as he let out an annoyed grunt. "Great... now I have to clean up." He grumbled as he left her on the floor to go fetch some cleaning supplies in the storage room.
Just as Ragna was about to move in on the scene, he saw a younger version of himself walking towards the room. "Hay mum!" The young Ragna called out as he walked down the hallway, "Jin and Saya are misbehaving- M-mum?!" Ragna gasped in horror as he ran to his mother's side. "MUM!" He screamed in horror as he shook her body.
"Ugh..." His mother groaned in pain as she slightly opened her eyes. "R-Ragna..." She whispered quietly to Ragna.
"Mum!" Ragna sobbed out as he hugged his very weak mother.
"R-Ragna, listen to me... I don't have much time left so listen to me carefully." She coughed up some blood before continuing. "Ragna, please grab Jin and Saya and run. Run away from your father, don't let him catch you."
"What? Why mother?"
"H-H-He'll kill you!" She wheezed out, "...Just like he killed me..." She said before drawing her finally breath, gently placing her hand onto his smooth small cheek. "I love you, Ragna... I love you, Jin and Saya so much. Please go on living... and stay together and please... don't forget me!" She said as her body became limp and lifeless. Ragna caught her hand as it slid off his cheek. A few tears rolled down Ragna's sweet little face as he sobbed out,
"I love you too, mother."
"R-Ragna?" His father came out of the storage room, surprised to see Ragna there. "Ragna, come to dear father!" He said creeping closer to Ragna.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ragna let out a ear piercing scream.
A/N: I'm sorry its been a while since I updated I've been REALLY busy with moving and school coming back in a few days. Anyways, I was going to add the Azreal vs Jin and Tsubaki scene, but I decided to leave that for the next chapter so that I can make it big. Anyways, please leave a review, like/follow. I really appreciate it and I'll see you in what ever I make next. Until then ladies and gentlemen!
