Here's part II, in celebration of the end of my exams! Written at least... so, enjoy!
Chapter 7 part II: 裏切者 (Traitor)
Still Narration
"Sorry," Tetsuda whispered, before turning a full 180 degrees and used his sword against the rest of the Shinkenger.
Everyone fought back for their lives, horrified at the silver warrior's betrayal. Never had they thought that this new 'ShinkenSilver' was yet another creature of the Sanzu River.
"TRAITOR!" Chiaki choked out before he got hacked down by said traitor.
Tetsuda didn't so much as falter in his attacks against the samurai, coldly dealing each and every blow over and over at them.
Ryuunosuke fell, then Mako, and Kotoha, and Genta. Takeru and Chiaki were left standing, Chiaki just barely, while the others tried to get onto their feet.
"ShinkenMaru: Raiden. No. Mai."
The air crackled with electricity, slowly expanding towards the two Shinkenger.
With a last burst of energy, Mako, Genta and Kotoha threw themselves in front of their lord and friend, taking the full hundreds of volts for themselves.
"Mako! Kotoha! Genta!" Takeru called out to each of his retainers.
Tetsuda turned his attention from the fallen to him. "Your turn."
He sent out his chains, entrapping a struggling Takeru within their steel hold.
"MUAHAHAHAHA..." the Lord laughed, "That's right... Kill yourselves..."
From the corner of his visor, Chiaki saw Ryuunosuke getting back up to save his Tono.
"ShinkenMaru: Sui...Ryuu...No... MAAAAAIIIIIII!" Ryuunosuke cried out, putting all his energy and mojikara into this one attack. Just as the blue slash left his sword, he crashed forward with no energy left.
"ONEE-SAN! NOOOO!" A foreign female voice screeched, and everyone turned as much as they could to see Shiba Kaoru, head of the Shiba clan, running down from her carriage towards the battle scene.
"Onee-san?" Takeru frowned, then felt the chains release him right before Ryuunosuke's attack reached Tetsuda.
Upon contact, Ryuunosuke's Dance of the Current shattered ShinkenSilver's armor, and a thread of silver energy spilt out, forming the Houou Origami.
Kaoru scrambled to the fallen Tetsuda's side. "Onee-san, hang on! Onee-san!"
The silver phoenix surrounded the lion of a Lord, choking it, and both promptly disappeared into the earth.
Takeru
I cannot believe the sight before me. It was just too much to take in.
In my mother's arms lay a young woman, possibly my age. Many questions swam in my mind. Who is she? Where is Tetsuda? What happened?
The kuroko came and transported all of us back to the Shiba mansion wordlessly (mostly it was because I was the only conscious one).
After a moment, one kuroko came out to the hall to report the other six's conditions to a waiting mother and I.
The report was all well for those under me; they would survive and wake up soon. But for Tetsuda, he wouldn't last very long.
I summoned Jii. "Jii! I want to know everything, now. Tetsuda is dying, and that means you owe me- you owe us- an explanation."
He sighed, and said, "Very well. But I will wait till the others are here-"
"We're here." Chiaki, like always, interrupted Jii.
"Chiaki! Kotoha, Mako, Genta, Ryuunosuke! What are you guys doing? Shouldn't you be resting?"
Genta retorted, "We believe we are well enough to hear this long overdue explanation."
A/N: The next part might be a bit hard to swallow…
"Fine," Jii sat them down and began, "ShinkenSilver, as you all know, is the samurai of metal, who appears every 500 years when the phoenix is reborn. Why it is reborn, is because of the cycle of Kogoyakashi that lasts 500 years.
"ShinkenSilver is the human who is chosen from the same cycle of reincarnation. That means, the first ShinkenSilver died and was reincarnated over and over, living the life of a normal human with metal mojikara that he doesn't even know about, until 500 years later when his reincarnation has to take on the mantle of ShinkenSilver again. He and he alone can defeat the first life of any Kogoyakashi that is not a pawn."
Jii paused for everyone to first take the background in, before he moved on.
"What you had just witnessed was the necessary ending to the battle- it is a sealed fate of ShinkenSilver that he must die for the phoenix to eradicate the Lord and leave earth in 500 more years of peace. But before that he has to defeat the rest of the army."
Everyone's heads were looking down, contemplating what they should feel.
Jii then went on to break the most surprising news of the whole episode, "Hino Tetsuda, the current ShinkenSilver... Is in fact, Shiba Kaoru's sister, Shiba...Hinoko."
Ryuunosuke's head snapped up, his voice trembling as he asked, "Hi- Hinoko?"
Have edited it a little to lessen the shock. Hopefully. And you now have 4 days to read this and re-read it to take it in, before everything is revealed. So, was that surprising? Or does it take some time to swallow? All explanations coming up in the next part coming up on saturday (as usual), so next part is going to be info-heavy. This is the last chapter, by the way. Just one more part till the end... Meanwhile, would love you if you are nice enough to review~ tell me what you think?
