Author's note: OK, Here's this week update. First of all, a notice, I'm considering changing the location and designation of this story, since I believe having it as a DBZ/TenjhoTenge crossover keeps it too concealed from most viewers on this site. Since my intention is to make this story known to the greatest quantity of people possible, I think a change of section is required.
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Fall of YAMI
Round 3
Part 4
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Kazuya Mishima VS Seitaro Raigo
The ponytailed assasin blocked an overhead kick before jumping away to avoid the following electric uppercut. It seemed Seitaro had wised up over Kazuya's tricks, for he had managed to evade every single of the electric attacks that the new Mishima clan head had tried to catch him with. Kazuya was growing increasingly vexed at his lack of progress, even with his full speed at his disposal he still hadn't managed to cause any kind of critical damaged to his opponent other than the ocassional attack, but those were negligible at best, as Seitaro didn't particularly cared if he had to endure being struck in full by a normal attack if it meant he would be able to dodge the most devastating ones. So far, his tactic seemed to be working, as the exhausted expressions of both combatants could tell, one launching his most aggressive attacks trying to destroy his enemy, the other barely able to evade them by scant millimeters.
Kazuya rushed at his fleeing oppoent once more; he throwed another electrical hook, followed by a string high kick to the face that Seitaro managed to evade by bending his legs backwards.
SLAUGHTER HIGH KICK!
As he backed away, Seitaro slashed at Kazuya with his sword, inflicting a few bloody gashes on his leg. The dark clad assassin simply smiled. "Not so easy now, huh?" he said in mockery.
Kazuya didn't reply, limiting himself to just look down and see the gashes on his leg before letting ouy a contempting tsk.
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Nina Williams VS Alexander Gaidar
The fight had raged on with the same intensity as it had in its beginning, both combatants pulling impressive holds and grabs on each other in sucession, neither willing to submit or back down an inch. Currently, it was Nina who had the innitiative, as she had grabbed one of Alexander's arms with one hand while delivering an elbow to his face with her other arm. Then, she threw him over her shoulder and slammed him in the ground with great force without breaking her hold on his arm. Once he was sprawled on his back on the ground, she fell on top of him, hugging his trapped arm with her whole body before she snapped it.
SEO GYAKU JUJI-GATAME!
Gaidar didn't waste time to retaliate for that move, as he was only held by one arm, he spinned on Nina's direction and pushed her with his other arm, slamming her back suddenly in the ground. He then quickly passed one hand behind her neck as he locked, at the same time, his right leg with her left leg before she pulled Nina forwards in a roll. Doing an entire cartwheel that ended with both combatants with their backs on the ground and Gaidar trapping Nina's left leg with his arms; he then proceeded to snap her limb.
DESERT CROSS HOLD!
Feeling incensed because of the pain, though she didn't show it. Nina violently shoved Gaidar away from her from behind, making him stumble forwards. She quickly stood up in a single move before rushing and leaping at Gaidar from behind while he was still getting up. Falling neatly in a sitting position atop his shoulders, Nina immediately locked her legs around the Russian's neck before slamming him back to the ground with a forward cartwheel, leaving him on his back with his head still trapped between Nina's legs while she ended in a sitting position. She then stretched forward and grabbed one of his legs with both arms before she snapped both his neck and leg at the same time.
LEAPING TRIANGLE HOLD!
Gaidar shoved Nina off him by kicking her in the face with his other leg, Gaidar quickly stood up and turned around to face his enemy, just in time to block a swift left palm strike, followed by a strong right one.
LEFT RIGHT COMBO!
Gaidar easily blocked the first strike and quickly raised his left leg to catch the second stronger one, holding Nina briefly from moving away. He then used his right leg to deliver a devastating knee strike right into Nina's chin.
SICKLE AND HAMMER!
The Russian then grabbed Nina by the front of her catsuit with both hands before he pulled her along in a series of spins as he moved about the field, creating a powerful charge of rotational energy, before he slammed her violently into the ground with a strong shockwave and leaving Nina in a small crater on the ground.
NORTHERN TORNADO SPIN!
"Ugh…" Nina groaned in pain, as that last attack had actually hurt. She extracted her revenge by tripping him with a left sweeping kick, followed by a spinning right kick to his face as she stood up with a hop, and once she was fully on her feet, she delivered an axe kick right on the top of his head.
EASY PREY!
Taking advance of her opponent brief disorientation because of those kicks to the head, she got near to him with a rolling dash and grabbed him with one hand while slapping him hard in the face with the other.
BACKHAND SLAP!
Nina then pulled Gaidar towards her, leaving him hunching forward before she went for his left arm and grabbed it with both hands. Encircling the limb with one of her arms to restrain it and gain some leverage, she then used her other hand to pull it backwards and snap it.
ARM BREAK!
Nina then let one hand go from the limb and used the arm she was encircling it with to keep her hold on it, before she turned around giving her back to his opponent and stretched to grab the other arm with her free hand. She pressed her back on Gaidar's head to keep it down before she pulled both of his arms upwards, snapping them both at the same time.
DOUBLE ARM BREAK!
Gaidar retaliated by jerking and slipping backwards to break Nina's hold, making the blonde assassin to almost stumble and fall on her back, she barely managed to keep herself on her feet. Alexander then grabbed her neck from behind with both arms and snapped it, before starting to spin on the tip of his heels several times, dragging Nina along and managing to keep her entire body on the air due to the strong rotational forces. After several spins, she let the female assassin go by throwing her away with no small measure of violence.
SWING NECK HOLD!
Nina stood up immediately and turned to glare at her enemy. The battle didn't seem to be ending any time soon, both combatants being almost equals on both skill and technique. Nina rushed at her opponent and both combatants were once more grappling for supremacy.
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Doctor Jackal, was staring with his eternal smiling face at his next victim, the young apprentice of the man he just killed, feeling that his bloodlust hadn't been sated yet, the hat wearing man was of the mind of ending a few more lives.
Without further ado, the fearsome Doctor attacked the young man, making his scalpels rain down upon him. The young apprentice immediately tried to get away, jumping backwards while using his broadsword as a shield in front of him, the flying scalpels cutting through the air in pursuit. Mills Lane was about to intervene and try to stop Doctor Jackal from massacrating the young disciple, put Pan appeared in front of him and kept him from getting involved, stating it would be too dangerous for his health if he tried to get in the way of Jackal and his prey .
Knowing it was unlikely he would be able to last long against Doctor Jackal, the young apprentice tried to take refuge inside the building under construction, behind his fellow apprentices' lines. It may have been a sensible option against any other opponent, but against Doctor Jackal it was a vain effort, for his scalpels could not be dodged by mere human beings, even those who had trained their abilites into superhuman levels.
Edeltraft's apprentice fell, his legs riddled by the crimson scalpels, just when he was about to reach the lines of his companions. A barrage of even more bloody scalples crashed upon him with such a savage violence that didn't discriminate between their target and the rest of the apprentices nearby, forcing most of YOMI's armed division to leap the hell away lest they got turned into a pincushion. The young swordsman was simply left, crumbled on the ground in pain, crimson blades sticking through his entire back.
The entire rank of apprentices from the armed division didn't take kindly to almost been skewered by the unrestrained attacks of the disturbing doctor.
"Hey! Watch out were you're throwing those things!" Hyougo Ito exclaimed as he vaulted away to dodge the crimson projectiles. He and his fellow diciples decided to retaliate for that stunt and charged towards Doctor Jackal. A small group composed by not only Hyougo but also; Rin's disciple, Raki's disciple, Andaka, Mildred's disciple and Marmaduke's disciple.
The ever-smiling man just looked at his incoming attackers with a flick of curiosity. "Oh? So you all want to play with me too? Such eagerness… Very well, if that is your wish…" He said, before raining more of his scalpels, breaking the apprentices' charge in cold as he forced them to evade. Only one kept charging forward, Marmaduke's apprentice, who just like his deceased master, fought while wearing a whole suit of armor, but unlike his master, he also carried a shield. Using his shield to cover himself from the bulk of Doctor Jackal's attack whike he charged on, the disciple managed to reach the deranged Doctor and slashed away with his axe, trying to cut him in half.
Doctor Jackal simply leaped away unruffled, he stared at the armored apprentice with a carefree expression. Marmaduke's disciple just raised both ax and shield in preparation for a next attack. Jackal just smiled, before he laid his right hand outwards, showing his palm and the cross shaped scar within it. Suddenly, a big fiery crimson cross appeared in the field and rammed into the armored disciple, cleaving him in 4 symmetrical quarters before the clumps of steel clad body parts simply ploped into the ground in a rain of blood.
BLOODY CROSS!
The remaining disciples simply gaped at the gory display Jackal had just done, all their fighting spirit leaving them after seeing such frightfully supernatural power, not too surprising in hindsight, since is not everyday you see someone cleaving a person to pieces just by pointing his hand at him.
The apprentices did the smart thing and fled away from Doctor Jackal, sadly it was already too late for that to be a viable option as the black suited man was not of the mind of letting them escape. He tilted his head to a side and huffed in amusement. "Ah, ah, ah… I will not let any of you to get away that easily." He said, as he flinged another barrage of endless scalpels at his fleeing victims.
The disciples were not totally helpless as some of them were doing their best to fight back while trying to escape from the abominable man, like Mildred's apprentice who had turned around to launch arrows at their pursuer and cover the retreat of her fellow apprentices. She was promptly brought down by several scalpels sinking on her mid-riff; the young archer was left hunched on the ground, covering her injured abdomen in pain.
Mildred Lawrence did not take kindly to her apprentice being injured, so she jumped in to face Doctor Jackal herself and save the fleeing disciples from him. She began to launch a veritable rain of projectiles towards him, each and every one being blocked by his scalpel's bloody shield, doing nothing to hinder him from his killing spree as he slowly turned on Mildred's direction and put his sights on the archer woman.
Mildred began to walk towards Jackal's as she kept shooting arrows at him to keep his attention focused on her, she began issuing orders to the disciples to grab their wounded and retreat inside the walls of the building under construction in order to find cover from the scalpels. Mildred ordered Hyougo directly to grab her own apprentice and get away.
Doctor Jackal seemed to be in disagreement on that course of action, however. "I'm afraid, I can't let anyone escape alive…" He said, before launching all of his scalpels at Mildred and Hyougo who was standing close to her.
The European woman reacted immediately, loading her recurved bow with dozens of arrows in a single load. "GO!" She ordered to Hyougo without looking at him as she kept moving forwards and launched all of her arrows in a single volley. The entire space between both ranged fighters was soon filled with flying projectiles, the arrows and scalpels crashing with each other while airborne, before falling harmlessly into the ground. With several volleys of arrows launched at the same time, Mildred effectively managed to shot all of Jackal's scalpels out of the sky.
Jackal was not deterred from having all of his scalpels blocked, as he sprinted towards to archer woman at terrifying speeds, even when she was still shooting all of his projectiles off from the air. Only for him to be suddenly intercepted by a spinning knife strike thrusting at him like a drill, Jackal was barely able to avoid the attack by leaping backwards. The destructive strike brushed close to him with powerful spiraling winds and he was able to see his attacker Akira Hongo fly past him, he managed to take notice how the sunglasses wearing martial artist had empowered his thrust by pushing a strong knee drive into his elbow.
GOD HAND LEG WAVE TWIST THRUST!
Hongo then stopped his motion in cold and spoke face to face with Doctor Jackal, a hard edge on his voice. "I will not allow you to hurt the disciples…" He said with stone-cold stoicism, before rising his KI as he constricted his muscles and delivered a devastating straight punch into Doctor Jackal's chest with the entire strength of his body, blowing the hat covered man several yards away.
SEIKENTSUKI!
Hongo then leaped away from the battlefield with a single great jumped, he addressed Mildred Lawrence while he was still in the air. "Mildred! Take him down! Now!"
The blonde archer didn't need any further prompt, as she already had her bow drawn with dozens of arrows. "Acknowledged!" She said, before shooting volley after volley of arrows on the entire field as she decided to leave nothing to chance if she were to put an end to such a deadly opponent as Doctor Jackal. The arrows rained on the entire battlefield, almost hitting the fighters that were still focused on their own battles. Thankfully, such high level fighters were able to avoid the storm of projectiles, as they were able to doge the arrows, getting away or blocking them just in time instead of being nailed. The downside was that everyone was left greatly hindered, for the entire battlefield was now covered in a carpet of arrows sticking up from the ground, difficulting the mobility for all the remaining combatants.
ARROW FIELD!
Despite such impressive attack, Doctor Jackal was relatively unharmed, as his bloody shield made of scalpels had reappeared hovering above him and had protected him from every single projectile that had tried to ram him through.
"Now you're mine!" Mildred declared, as she loaded her bow with dozens of arrows once more before shooting all of them at once at Jackal. The terrifying Doctor didn't seem preoccupied whatsoever as his little shield simply floated in front of him to protect him from harm, ignoring that Mildred had loaded her bow with special piercing arrows, the blonde woman simply smirked to her insides confident in her belief that her arrows will easily break through Jackal's shield.
DOUBLE PUPIL BOW, WRITHING HEDGEHOG!
Sadly for her, Mildred was unaware how different from any normal shield was Jackal's shield, its strength could practically stop every single thing known to man. It could also react fast enough to block and counter even light. So it was not a surprise that every single of Mildred's arrows shattered like all the rest against the supernatural strength of Jackal's scalpel shield. The blonde archer woman was simply left there gaping, unable to believe all of her piercing projectiles had failed. It was a great blow to her morale; for this was the first time she was unable to fell an enemy with her archery skills. This was the first time her bow, her most prized and loved possession, had completely failed her.
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Sai Kagero VS Rin Tachibana
The tall black clad man gazed around the arrow covered battefield with his usual blank expression, both he and his opponent Rin Tachibana had been the first combatants who took notice of the volatile situation brewing with Doctor Jackal. Not surprising really, since their own battle was being carried right next to were Doctor Jackal was, so they both had been ready for when arrows had begun to rain down from the sky. The two swordmaster had easily protected themselves by spinning their weapons at supersonic speeds in front of them as makeshift shields, blocking any projectile that threatened to nail them from above.
Even after dealing with the sudden threat, neither of them was able to resume their combat, not with so many arrows stuck around their feet and impeding any kind of free movement. Sai decided to take care of the matter himself.
"This will not do… Can't fight with so many obstacles in the way; luckily, I know a way to deal with this…" He raised his hoe close to his face and adressed the gardening tool. "Let us do a good work!"
Sai then began to slice the entire ground around him at supersonic speeds, creating a massive spiraling shockwave as he plowed his way through the ground, running the length of the entire field, destroying everything in his path. Surprised by the massive range of the attack, all the other combatants in the field had stood there, watching how Sai swept aside all the obstacles in the battlefield. The entire field turned into a giant earth vortex, that wrecked the entire ground and plowed most of the arrows that moments before were carpeting the ground. When the violent shifting of the earth had ended, almost all of the field had been upturned, a massive spiral mark carved throughout all his length, but at least now it was arrow free, allowing all the combatants to resume their battles withouth a hindrance.
HIDDEN SWORD TECHNIQUE: OTOGOE NO TENCHI GAESHI!
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Pan let out a whistle after witnessing the massive technique, despite the fact she and the rest of her crew had to briefly take to the air in order to avoid it, she was pleasantly surprise by it. "Now, that was impressive. Ha! I knew it there was a reason why I wanted Sai to join my ranks." She declared with a cocky smile, most of the rest of her followers agreeing with that assesement. It truly had been an impressive technique after all.
The people watching around the world through the life feed also thought it so, as many had been left stumped not expecting a mere man to be able to pull such powerful technique. Swordsmen around the world, specifically, female swordsmen; Correction… Young teenage female sword adepts, enthusiasts, aficionados, etc… All of them got stars in their eyes the moment they saw such impressive technique. Oh God…! This will surely be a pain in the ass later.
In Heaven, Lynd was grinning, pleased to see so many powerful techniques being employed. The battles kept making her warrior heart to sing with joy.
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On a nearby, pretty much forgotten by now, rooftop. The quartet of men overseeing the battle from a distance had also felt the need to make their own comments.
The brunette office worker wearing glasses brought a hand to his strong chin in thought as he kept observing the battlefield. "Mmmph… Not bad…" He said, adressing one of his companions. The big, really big and muscled construction worker, whose only reply was a non-commital grunt.
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Back on the battlefield, Rin Tachibana decided to use his opponent distraction to launch a surprise attack against the tall pale man. He lunged with a powerful thrust with his sword at great speeds, hoping to connect his attack before his enemy could react. Too bad for him that Sai's senses and reflexes had been polished to a sharp edge, only someone who possesed a speed that surpassed his own could ever hope to catch the black clad man off guard. For all his impressive skills and training, Rin Tachibana simply didn't have the same obssessive dedication that Sai had about constantly improving his swordmanship at all times.
So it was inevitable that Sai body would react on instinct alone and block Rin's attack with another supersonic slash. The usually clueless swordsman became aware that he was being attacked because the thrusth had been strong enough to push him back a few inches. Both swordsmen broke away from each other after the initial clash of their blades.
"That was not nice Mic-chan's brother…" Said the tall black clad man plainly. Rin simply scowled in return, his frustration increasing, if only he could destroy his weapon he would be able to finally hit Sai without interruption. But his slashes were just too fast for him to use his weapon destroying armor block succesfully. Seems he'll have to settle for the old fashion way and keep testing his defenses until he could find a hole in them. Something he didn't have much hope of success, not after completely assessing Sai's defensive capabilities during the course of this battle.
"I think it's my turn to attack now, Mic-chan brother. You better get ready!" Sai declared, setting his hand on the handle of his hoe, before Rin found himself being attacked from all sides by an overwhelming multitude of distorted swords. The young ninja found himself very hard pressed to evade and block all those attacks, the speed required for such illusions must be tremendous, for although he knew every single one of those slashes were launched by Sai's arm, it seemed as if all of them came at him at the same time.
HIKEN – USUBA KAGERO!
Hoe strikes rained down on Rin Tachibana, the young man being force to leap around like a maniac if he didn't wanted to be struck down, but despite his desperate attempt at survival, it was pretty clear it wasonly a matter of time before Sai became the victor of this match.
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Juri VS Mikumo Kushinada
The two women kept fighting, trying to end each other, ignoring the world around them, focusing solely in their battle. Juri fell upon Kushinada, delivering a barrage of powerful kicks that rattled the place up with their shcokwaves, followed by the Korean woman launching a series of forward cartwheels with her legs stretched. Her upper body remaining iddle in the air as her legs spun in a perfect circular motion, her feet burning with dark energy, leaving a trail of purple flames. Kushinada blocked the attacks, each spin striking with searing force, but in the end, she managed to sucessfully stop the technique; the white sleeves of her Kimono slightly burned by the flames.
SENPUSHA!
Kushinada retaliated with a powerful palm strike right in the center of her opponent's abdomen, sending the purple clad woman skidding for several yards, but Juri managed to correct herself and stop her motion, she then leaped back towards her opponent. Kushinada jumped after her, intending of meeting her in the air. Juri, having expecting such move, suddenly gained a significant increase of speed, enough as to cut through the air, as she swooped down towards the century old grandmaster foot first. Kushinada crossed her arms in front of her as Juri's diving kick crashed upon her, the impact displacing the air around the two as a loud thunderclap resonated throughout the sky. Juri followed up with two consecutives kicks while mid-air, before finalizing with a fourth powerful kick, that even though it was blocked by Kushinada, it blew the century old woman away fro the first time in the battle.
SHIKUSEN!
Kushinada landed on her feet as the strenght of the kick dragged her for several meters through the ground until coming to a stop. A frown began to make its way into the usual stoic face of the eternal beauty, her contempt for Juri reaching new heights.
The Korean woman simply laughed at her. "What's the matter granny!? Is your age finally catching up to you…? Perhaps you should take a time out." Juri said in mockery, doing taunting come-at-me gestures with one hand, as her aura began to evelope her again and her fake eye shone with blinding light.
Kushinada wordlessly shoot at her in a burst of great speed, as she reached the Tae kwon-donist with her great impulse, suddenly the purple clad woman disappeared from her sight in a move that surprised even Kushinada herself. Before she could come to a stop, her senses screamed at her to block up, so she did it so just in time to block a dropping kick from Juri. The force of the impact shocking and breaking the ground around Kushinada's feet as another thunderous shockwave was expelled alongside its accompaning thunderclap.
KASATUSHI!
Both women ended up being locked, pushing against each other; their little struggle was jarringly broken apart as this was the moment when Mildred Lawrence began to bombard the entire field with her arrows. Kushinada easily sidestepped every single projectile with her speed quite safely; Juri on the other hand, simply flared her dark aura even more and burned to ashes any arrow that got close to her. Nevertheless, both women were left unable to continue their battle since they could not move pretty well with the entire field littered by feathered pointy sticks. Luckily for them that they hadn't to wait long for Kagero Sai to unleash his devastating ground technique and clear the entire place up, of course they had to leap way and take into the skies first, since the technique encompassed a great deal of land, but once both women's feet touched the ground, they were more than ready to resume with their battle.
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Doctor Jackal took advantage of Mildred's shock and launched another barrage of scalpels at her, intending with ending her life. The European archer woman was still too absentminded by the failure of one of her most powerful techniques to react in time. Akira Hongo intervened, and grabbed her before leaping away, trying to use his impressive speed to outrun the flying scalpels rather than to try to dodge the damned things. Hyougo followed after him, dragging Mildred's aprentice with him, because damn if he was going to stay here alone were scalpals are raining when its far more safe to be around a Grandmaster like Hongo who can keep Jackal at bay.
Doctor Jackal smiled in amusement and was about to launch another barrage of crimson projectiles at his fleeing targets, but he was forced to break his offensive because of Sai's technique. The moment he was about to resume his attack, did he had to leap away again, as he suddenly found himself under attack by Ganosuke Yokiou. But even as he tried to dodge the swords of the deadly swordmaster, he soon found it out to be a harder thing to accomplish than what he first thought, as Ganosuke blades seemed to perform sudden sharp turns that kept slashing after him as if they were tracking him.
The terrible doctor was forced to use his shield to defend himself against the swordmaster assault, who tried to push him back with his swords. Jackal didn't have any moment to rest as he then had to deal with Michael Schtilvay's scythe, for the crazed killed decided to attack him from behind while he was focused on Ganosuke, forcing him to leap away to avoid being cleaved to pieces. As he touched the ground once more, he soon found himself vaulting away once more for the blade of the, as of yet, unnamed Yami's Bantou Master had been waiting for him.
The tree men almost cut Jackal to pieces, but the mysterious man managed to avoid the attack using his unnatural speed. Then from whitin his body, crimson scalpels began to shoot out towards his attackers, forcing the three men to break their attack and jump away from him.
Jackal just took the sudden breather to accommodate his suit back and fix his tie. "So, you want to go up close with me? Well then, I guess I'll have to draw my sword out…" He said with a casual demeanor as his attackers kept dodging or running from his scalpels, he let the crimson blades dissipate after a moment, giving his assaulters the chance to resume their offensive.
"Bring whatever weapon you want out! It will do little to save you…" Ganosuke growled as he prepared to press his attack again.
Doctor Jackal just chuckled. "We'll see…" He said, before blood began to pour from his hand into the ground, the crimson ichor began to coalesce inside his palm forming scarlet crystals which then began to expand and elongate before taking the form of a sword. In no time, Jackal was holding a blood dripping, warped looking rapier in his hand before assuming a ready stance.
The three men attacking him paused briefly, taken aback by the bizarre display. It didn't last long however, as Ganosuke's ire and bloodlust quickly broke him out of his surprise. "It does not matter what little tricks you pull!" He crossed his swords in front of him. "Nothing can get in the way of my blades!"
Doctor Jackal just kept smiling as he prepared for his opponent's next assault.
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Pan just glanced at the direction of Doctor Jackal and simply commented. "So they made him pull out his sword… Fuh… They better run away now or they will all die to the last man…"
Whip turned her head to look at her and asked. "What do you mean, Pan?"
"That sword…" Pan began to answer without taking her gaze from Jackal. "It is not normal… Her cutting power is just so ridiculous; in fact, I don't think it exists anything on this world that sword cannot cut." She declared, reminiscing the battle she had with Doctor Jackal when he first met him. It was because of that sword that she decided to stop playing games with him and put him down immediately, for the sword had managed to cut her. Granted, it had been nothing but a barely imperceptible thin line on her cheek, as she had dodged most of his attack. But it had managed to make her bleed and that was enough for her to not risk in allowing their battle to keep dragging on, lest he could land a lucky shot that may actually injure her. She suspected it would be interesting to see what Jackal could do with his sword if given a chance.
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Back to the battle, Ganosuke was already launching his attack, Schtilvay and the Bantou Master following behind. "DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Ganosuke yelled as he swiped with his swords in an X cross patern.
Doctor Jackal simply swinged his rapier outwards and split both of Ganosuke's blades in two, the voilent swordsman leaped back with his great speed just in time to avoid being cut seriously. Nevertheless, his shirt was cut open and a thin diagonal line of blood became visible on his chest. "Impossible…!" Ganosuke muttered in shock, witnessing someone breaking his weapons for the first time on his life.
Jackal didn't stopped there, as he had spun around with his own motion and decapitated the Bantous Master with a flick of his wrist, cutting through his blade as the other swordsman had tried to use his sword to parry Jackal's attack. Michael Schtilvay, reacted in time to cancel his attack and break away from the terrifying black suited man, not giving him a chance to cut his Scythe in two.
BLOODY SWORD!
The two remaining weapon masters backed away from Doctor Jackal warily, knowing they would need a better strategy to bring him down. Jackal was about to charge at them, when he was interrupted by another spinning knife strike from Hongo, forcing him to step back a few steps and face the pointed eared grandmaster.
"You will not succed in your intentions" Hongo said as he took a stance, ready to fight Jackal head on.
The hat wearing doctor just raised a questioning eyebrow at him. "Such loyalty you have for you comrades, I didn't expect any of you to have that much solidarity for your peers…" He said with his silky voice.
"I'm not doing this for them." Hongo declared, never letting his guard down.
Jackal's other eyebrow went up to make company to its twin. "Oh, really! That is interesting; then what reason would you have…?" Akabane trailed off, looking behind Hongo, at the distance he could see Hyougo taking care over both Master and apprentice archer women. Jackal's smile beamed even more s he figured out Hongo's motivations. "Ah… I see… So, you have a soft spot in your heart for the children under your care." He said, with a hint of jeer.
An almost imperceptible frown began to form on the Karate Grandmaster brow; he didn't deny Jackal's observations however. "Yes, it is true… The only reason why I am facing you is to keep the apprentices safe. I don't care wether I or my fellow masters die in battle or not, for this is the path we have taken. But the disciples dosen't deserve to die for our battles, they still have a long way to go before they can reach their full potential and as their masters, it is our duty to make sure they reach that potential…"
Jackal just chuckled at that explanation. "So, the reason why you saved your fellow masters is because they are the only thing standing between me and the apprentices. My, my, you surely are quite the devious fellow…" Akabane seemed pretty amused by that reasoning and, for the first time in the entire battle, he opened his eyes and looked straight at Hongo. "Sadly, I'm afraid all of your efforts to stop me were doomed from the beginning." Doctor Jackal declared ominously before raising his hand… And that is when the screaming began.
Hongo turned to look behind in alarm only to find a sight worthy of the worst of nightmares, for the shadows inside the building under construction had come alive and were massacring the disciples that had taken refuge inside. Amorphous swirls of shadows gathered in colossal masses of darkness that spewed black lances and speared the defenseless disciples like pincushions. Others were blobs of darkness that moved and behaved as if alive, acting like wild animals that lunged at the surprised apprentices and began to devour them, ripping their bodies with teeth made of shadows. Some were simply eclipsing walls of thick blackness that latched long thin appendices around the terrified disciples before dragging them, kicking and screaming, into the black void. All that could be heard were the screams and horrible sounds of flesh being rendered. It was a sight that disturbed anyone who laid their eyes on it.
Akira Hongo just stared in horrified disbelief, Doctor Jackal just smiled as he lunged at the shocked martial artist and began to attack him, intending of taking advantage of his distraction.
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Juri Vs Mikumo Kushinada
Kushinada found her attention drawn away by the cacophony of soul rending screams that broke through her concentration. She took her gaze away from Juri to look for the source of the screams, normally that would have been a stupid move since you should never take your eyes away from your enemy no matter what, but Juri too was distracted by the sudden noise and turned towards its source alongside Kushinada.
When she discovered the reason for all that racket, even Kushinada couldn't help being taken aback by the horror that was ravaging her fellow grandmasters. The century old grandmaster could do nothing but stare in shock as a living mass of shadows lashed savagely from within the interior of the office building under construction and tore apart most or the remaining disciples from YOMI. In front of the massacre, she could see Doctor Jackal laughing like a cruel and deranged psychopath as he attacked Akira Hongo, Ganosuke Yokiou and Michael Schtilvay at the same time; the three men barely able to withstand the onslaught of the terrible Doctor. She didn't had to wonder who was responsible for all this destruction.
From the corner of her eye she could see the rest of the Yami Grandmasters leaping into the fray to give a hand to their beleaguered comrades, but not even the intervention of Cyril Rahman, Ogata Isshinsai and Sogetsu Ma was enough to contain Doctor Jackal, as he effectively kept all his attackers on the defensive through the use of scalpels, shadows and bloody sword.
I t was simply inconceivable. How could it be that the combined remaining divisions of both YAMI and YOMI were being annihilated by just one man!? Kushinada thought genuinely impressed as she witnessed Doctor Jackal surrounded on all sides by the remaining grandmasters and holding them all off without breaking a sweat. The century old beauty now clearly realized who was the most dangerous enemy currently in the field, and knew she had to bring him down immediately. She completely turned away from her opponent and prepared to charge at Jackal.
As she was about to blast off, Kushinada found Juri materializing in front of her and blocking her path. "And where do you think you're going, Granny?" She said with scorn. "I will not allow you to walk away from our fight like that!"
Kushinada refrained from bristling and remained keeping her impassive mask on. She let out only a brief huff. "Step aside child! You're in the way…" She commanded with no small amount of disdain.
Juri snarled and lunged at the eternal beauty in rage and began to attack her once more. Kushinada evaded all the kicks she launched at her with ease, a look of contempt always on her face. Juri performed another Senpusha that Kushinada completely avoided, followed by another barrage of Fuhajins that were too easily evaded.
Juri roared in rage as she began to release all the power stored in her fake eye, increasing the thickness of the dark aura that enveloped her and putting a great strain on her body. She then began to attack Kushinada again with renewed speed, her kicks too fast for the human eye to see. From their exchange, all that could be seen were almost invisible blurs swiping through the entire place as the landscape began to break apart by an unseen force.
The clash lasted for several long minutes, until finally, Juri managed to connect a kick on Kushinada. The century old master managed to block it in time, but the strength of the kick was too great as to lift her completely off the ground and do an entire 180o turn while in the air. Seeing her enemy defenseless, Juri found this the perfect time to unleash her most powerful technique.
Whipping one arm backwards she declared. "This is the end for you!" before she unleashed a barrage of vertical spinning kicks that rose into the heavens on a pillar of purple flames.
KAISEN DANKAIRAKU!
Juri grinned wickedly, believing victory to be hers, but when her technique connected with her opponent, she found her kicks passing through Kushinada's body without doing any harm. "WHAT!? BUNSHIN!?" She realized, much to her shock.
"That is correct, child."
Juri became even more surprised at hearing the voice of her opponent right on her ear, before her body exploded in pain and all breath leaved her body as she suddenly found herself with Kushinada's knee plunged into her gut.
The purpled-clad woman retched in mid-air as the strength of the strike staggered her completely. Kushinada then put both hands on her shoulders, before launching her with extreme violence back into the ground while pushing from behind her as to cushion her own fall and smash Juri into the earth with the strength of her whole body. The following impact connected with the strength of a missile, tearing the ground apart as it unleashed a small earthquake and created a shockwave that spread out throughout the entire field.
KUSHINADA-STYLE UNDERGROUND DOUBLE THROW!
In the end, Juri was left half buried in a massive crater, yet for all the damage she had received the Korean woman still refused to give up. "Blergh…! Not… Not yet… I will not… be… defeated… just yet…" She muttered through great pain, as she coughed blood. She tried to move, fighting to get back on her feet again, but her body failed to respond.
Kushinada just look down at her imperiously. "Stop being such a bother and stay down already." She declared in disdain before bringing her foot down again atop Juri's head, creating another shockwave and cracking the ground even more. Kushinada then went on her way, disappearing in a burst of speed without even sparing a look to her downed opponent. Juri finally remained unmoving and didn't trie to rise back up again.
Juri VS Mikumo Kushinada
Mikumo Kushinada Wins
K.O.
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Sai Kagero VS Rin Tachibana
The battle between the two swordsmen had remained pretty much the same for the last minutes, Rin still hadn't been able to do much against the unstoppable technique of the pale dark clad man, barely able to even evade the armed arms that seemed to be attacking him from all directions. All the while, Sai had yet to move a single inch from his spot.
The tall pale swordsman concentration was suddenly shattered when he felt a presence right behind him. Such was his surprise that his eyes opened wide in shock as time seemed like freezing inside his mind, for someone had managed to be fast enough to break through his defenses and evade his automatic slashes. He looked through the corner of his eyes over his shoulder and saw Kushinada brushing past him at impressive speeds and going straight at Doctor Jackal's direction.
The fedora wearing man was busy fighting against all the remaining YAMI grandmaster's by himself, his shield teleporting on all directions to block every single one of the incoming attacks. Kushinada, having take notice of the shield's impressive supernatural abilities, punched the earth in front of her, creating a shower of debris that shoot towards the deranged doctor, pelleting him all over. Kushinada increased her speed even more as the scalpels' shield was busy blocking all of the impromptu projectiles and managed to bypass it completely, catching Jackal off guard before smashing into him in full with a powerful strike.
The strength of the attack tore Jackal apart as a hole was punched right in the middle of his chest and the rest of his body was ravaged by the powerful kinetic forces released by such a high speed impact. His suit completely been ripped into pieces as his body was rent in a shower of blood. When Kushinada finally came to a stop, Jackal's body touched the ground unmoving.
Sai simply stared, his mind frozen for a moment after witnessing Kushinada's power. He felt a shiver running down his spine as he began to contemplate how that could have been him instead of Doctor Jackal, as Kushinada could have easily killed him if she had been not so focused with the mad doctor. He didn't had further time to keep dwelling in such things as Rin Tachibana was trying of taking advantage of his distracted state by attacking him while his mind was elsewhere, luckily for him Rin was not an enemy who could overcome the speed of his auto-slash.
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The remaining YAMI masters stood frozen in shock staring at Kushinada, their minds needing a moment to catch up with what just had happened. The first one to recover was Akira Hongo. "Thanks for the help Kushinada-dono… If it wasn't for your intervention... I don't think we would have been able to stop him without suffering heavy losses."
The century old grandmaster only reaction to that statement was an almost imperceptible flick on her eyes. "Someone had to keep the name of YAMI from being tarnished. To think a single man almost defeated all of you, and you call yourselves grandmasters… You should all be ashamed." She said in an unforgiving tone.
The gathered grandmasters visibly flinched at her words, but before anyone could say something else, did Kushinada's danger senses flared up. The eternal beauty jumped aside with her great speed, as dozens of crimson scalpels sunk into the spot she had just been standing. Everyone turned in the direction were Jackal's corpse supposedly was, and were taken back by witnessing the horrifying doctor rising from the ground. All his wounds seemingly gone, the only evidence of the injuries he had received being the stains of blood that dirtied his suit.
Kushinada's surprise was so great, that she lost the control over her emotions. "Impossible…" She said in shock. "I killed you! How can you stand up again after I punched a hole through your chest!?"
Jackal didn't reply immediately and took his time to dust his tattered suit off. "Kill me…? I have never been able to imagine myself dying, so it's unlikely I ever will." He said with his usual smiling face as he put his hat back on his head again, before he turned towards all the gathered grandmasters. "Now then… Allow me to repay you for that last move." He said, as his sword reappeared back in his grasp. All the YAMI remaining Grandmasters, the people of the world, could do nothing but stare helplessly as how Doctor Jackal had managed to return back from the dead.
The terrifying black suited man was about to charge back at his defenseless victims, when a voice called from behind him. "That is enough Jackal, you have caused enough damage already." Everybody turned to find Pan standing nonchalantly behind the deranged doctor.
"May I ask the reason as to why you've decided to stop me at this particular moment, Pan?" The hat wearing man said calmly, his sword still posed to attack.
"I can't allow you to kill Kushinada, much to my dislike, since she managed to defeat Juri. And as I had stated before, those who managed to defeat any of my followers would be given the choice of walking from here alive or facing me in combat… I'm yet to be let known what her choice will be, but regardless of her decision, either way I can't allow you to kill her…" Pan stated plainly in a neutral tone.
"I am still not defeated…" Said a voice from behind them all.
Pan turned around to find a fucked up Juri, limping towards them. She practically looked like a living dead, the way her entire face and clothes were covered in her own blood, a wound on her head still open and dripping blood while some of her limbs had been bent to the wrong side. All in all, she looked like hell. "I can still fight."
Pan just looked at her with a frown. "Juri… That is enough… You're clearly in no condition to keep fighting. Don't be stubborn and accept your defeat."
"I… will not accept defeat… while I can still stand…" The Korean woman replied obstinately as she struggled to make her way towards Kushinada. Her body failed her and she fell forwards against her will. Pan appeared right at her side and caught her just in time.
"Seriously Juri, in the condition you find yourself now, you will not achieve anything except getting yourself killed. I admire your courage, but I have no need for dead minions. So just accept your loss, there's no shame in admitting your defeat if you have given your all in battle, it does not change my opinion of you." Pan said, looking at her minion in the eyes with outmost seriousness.
In the end the stubborn horn-styled haired woman finally relented. "Tsk… fine…" she said, before passing out.
"Well then, that takes care of it." Pan turned to address Doctor Jackal once more. "As I was saying, you can't kill Kushinada, so lay down your weapons and let's get back to the group." She ordered.
"What about the rest of YAMI…?" Jackal inquired.
Pan just bristled at that question. "You have spilled more than enough blood already by killing all those disciples from YOMI. Don't be so greedy; leave some for the rest of your companions. We Saiyans don't look with nice eyes those who hoard all the battles for themselves, you know…"
Doctor Jackal pondered on what Pan had told him for a moment. "I understand…" He stated, making his sword fade away from his hand. He then turned towards the Grandmasters who were still gaping at him like a deer caught in the headlights. "Well then, seems you all are quite lucky today. I'll spare your lives and take my leave for now… Have a pleasant day…" He said as he brought a hand to his hat and made a salute before turning to follow his short master.
The grandmasters simply stood there aghast as they saw, master and follower walking serenely back towards their own lines.
And this is where I'm going to cut it. Just one more chapter before the 4th round and my special cliffhanger, then I'm off to update my other stories since it's been too long since I last updated those, before I came back to this story. I wanted to have round 3 finished completely in this chapter, but things began to stretch too far and I ran out of time to make sure I could have this chapter ready for today. I also lost an entire day because of matters at work. It really it's hard for me to write a chapter of at least 10 pages long every week and have it ready to upload by the weekend. But hey, I wanted to write this story and make it as great as I could make it so that takes effort. Sorry for the misspellings you no doubt have found on the latest chapters, sometimes I skip letters or entire words or have a little slip when trying to press the right word. I'm always a little rushed when I'm writing, so excuse me if you find it a little rough around the edges; I don't have time to make orthographic corrections. It's the price for having a new chapter ready every week.
A few last things before finishing; some of the techniques that I've been having Gaidar use during his battle are actually from Bayman of DOA. Since his battle with Nina I had it visualized from the beginning to be a grappling match, I needed some extra grappling techniques for him since Nina's own are just too many. So I chose Bayman because his fighting style is also SAMBO, as to not make it that unbelievable for Gaidar to know those extra moves.
And Doctor Jackal, he is actually that overpower. Read the Get Backers Manga if you want confirmation of this, in there he is all but immortal since he can come back from the dead when he feels like it. Once he was utterly destroyed and the only thing that was left of him was a single drop of blood and he restored himself with just that as if it was nothing. He also can manipulate reality with just a thought, so when he doesn't believe in something then that thing simply doesn't exist; he can negate powers this way. This also affects the effectiveness of his attacks, as he believes there's nothing his sword cannot cut, that is how he was able to cut Masaki Kurusu's daggers of light with only his scalpels. He's also able to cut time and space with his sword.
Also about the names of both Michael Schtilvay and Kagero Sai, since I've just checked the latest news with the manga, I've discovered whoever was making the translation of the series messed up with the names and ended up translating them wrongly. The real names are supposedly to be Mihai Stirbey and Kagero Kii, since it's too late for me to change the names on previous chapters by these point. I'm just simply going to leave them like that and tell you all people to acknowledge this names in your minds instead as the correct ones, and from now on I'm goign to be using these names to refer to this characters on future chapters.
Anyway, that's it for this week, as always leave a review and tell me what you think of this chapter. Read you all next week.