TheDArkestShinobi: My fight scenes are never as long as I want them! Anyway, enjoy this little blurb. Now a question, for future stories (I have a couple in this catagory) Would you want me to finish them, then update a chapter every two weeks or post as I finish?
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"Receiveā¦"
"Receive the curse"
The queen advanced slowly, savoring this moment, he wasn't under her control but he couldn't move with intent to harm her and so he could only look, could only hear that mantra over and over. She curled her massive hand around his face caressing his cheek. He wanted to strike her, but his body stayed still, his will no match for her ultimate control. "Such a shame, Ryu." She said before she pulled her arm back. It was a shame; this is the end of what could have been a powerful team, a team strong enough to rule the world. She opened her eyes wide in shock as the kick hit her stomach; reacting she blocked the second but then a double kick to the chest knocked her back a few feet. She looked to her, glaring as she regained her composure.
"How dare you strike me!"
She flew in to hit her but the girl jumped up in a flash, she then felt the impact against her back. She turned as she continued flying so that she would not fall to the floor and then she landed with her arms out wide.
"This battle doesn't concern you." She spat. "but if you wish to die," she continued with a grin while Kasumi drew her tanto holding it out in front of her "I will be more than happy to help." Kasumi lowered her stance and narrowed her eyes and the queen charged.
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Hayate looked up from the tree he was on to see a small flash of lightning in the direction of the other village. He felt his heart sink in his chest. Why couldn't he have seen through the deception? He shook his head knowing that wasn't his true question. His true question haunted him so much it kept him up at night. Kasumi was brave enough to leave to avenge him; Ayane was brave enough to leave to save her, why did he stay? Why wasn't he brave enough to leave as well?
He marched into the council's room with his head high and eyes narrowed. They were of better use out there than in here, but Hayate had a different type of power here and he would make sure to use it to the full extent, when not if, Kasumi, Ryu and Ayane come back he would make sure they were ALL welcomed back and anyone who was against that, wouldn't see the morning light.
He could do this, this would be his part, now he only hoped the others could do theirs.
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Kasumi spat out a mouthful of blood as she gripped her sword tighter. The queen tilted her head in mockery but Kasumi knew better than to fall for that. The queen was just as tired as she was. She closed her eyes and the Queen was ready to celebrate her victory when all of a sudden she noticed the power coming from the other. She decided to strike now before whatever she was planning could happen.
Kasumi jumped, with her eyes still closed, over the queen's first strike, and rolled away from the second. Her hands never leaving their position and her eyes staying closed. She could feel the others frustration and knew this move would determine her victory of her defeat.
She had done it only once before the way she was planning it now. She had teleported during a fight many times before but never with the frequency she was planning now. The queen charged once more and Kasumi opened her eyes and drew her tanto once more, hopefully for the last time today.
She jumped up and landed on the queens back and stabbed her with the tanto, the queen screamed out and Kasumi vanished. She appeared above her in the air and brought the blade down, with the momentum of her fall the blade went in to deep for Kasumi to pull it out, good thing she didn't need to. Kasumi then appeared again on the other side still falling with the blade. She heard the scream as the blade dragged across skin. She jumped up off of her appearing under her and stabbing up, before appearing on top and falling again. She felt the drops of blood on her face and let out a yell as she stabbed her again. She jumped, appearing under her and stabbed her again. Her body was starting to resemble chewed flesh but Kasumi went on. Another flash and she was on top of her, she stomped on her sending her tumbling towards the ground, Kasumi then appeared where she was going to fall and stabbed her in the chest where her heart was, but it didn't go deep enough.
The Queen was moaning in pain but Kasumi couldn't stop because she was not dead yet, and like Raidou, she had to kill them, there could be no mercy, it didn't matter how tired she was either, she had to keep fighting. Kasumi grunted and grabbed her arm spinning her sending her tumbling again, before appearing again and kicking the blade so far in the only thing you could see was the very end of the tilt. Kasumi felt the queen collapse.
"No!" she wailed in a broken voice feeling the life she was once again so close to slip away. She knew her blood was on Kasumi but Kasumi couldn't carry it again, she was done for. There was no second chance this time.
"This wasn't supposed to happen." She cried as her body started to melt painfully, again. The Hayabusa ninja had watched her with the same eyes this girl was watching her with. They were so cold, so righteous, as if their way was the only one. She screamed again, not in frustration so much as pain. Was it over? Really over? It didn't seem like it could really be true. She felt her limbs disappearing one by one as the fire consumed her like it did the town.
And the girl still watched!
She thrashed but as a torso did nothing as her wings slowly melted before evaporating. No, No! NO! She was better than the other demons, than any other fiend. She was supposed to rule them! She moaned out again. The girl shook, but not from the sight in front of her, it was the battle taking its toll. It should have been her being consumed by fire, that weak little human, but no, it was her who was ceasing to exist.
The colors of her world turned into shades, then they turned into blurs until the only thing she saw was blue and orange blobs. The rest of the world faded. The sounds left as well as the burning feeling and the ground against her back. The sour mint taste of her blood was no longer present. She fought to stay alive, stay here and present. The orange faded to gray and the black and she could only see blue, that dammed dark blur of the ninja that ended her.
Then there was nothing.
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Kasumi swayed as she watched the queen evaporate into nothing. She continued to watch, she had to make sure. Her cheek burned and when she felt it the wetness of the blood was no longer there. She nodded knowing this battle was over and turned back to the village.
Only there wasn't one anymore.
Her mission had been a success.
She really wished she hadn't.
