Chapter 11
Darkness covered the entire area. What little light the red bulbs had once produced, were no longer on. But the sounds of the creature that made its new home in the main level of the base, was starting to make a nest for the comfort of a long life. Onmyō couldn't see anything, even when he knew that his eyes had adjusted to the darkness, he was still blinded.
Onmyō slowly walked down the dark and long tunnel that he and everyone else had walked down and ran up just a few minutes ago. The adrenaline was practically rising inside Onmyō's body, it felt like he could do anything, even though he hadn't fought the beast yet, he knew he would be on top.
He knew the treatment that he would get once he forces opens the steel doors and walks outside again, with possibly nothing but a shred of Ammy's suit in his hands. He knew that Ammy wasn't alive once Stella let go, her death had been already sealed and awaited its execution, which had already been done by now.
But he did not come here to save Ammy, he didn't do it just for revenge, but he was doing this so that monster could never harm Stella or Nana if it decided to.
Onmyō stepped on something with his foot, he picked it up and ran his finger across the invisible object, feeling it slightly curved and a string on one side. "Ammy's compound bow." Onmyō thought, slinging it over his shoulder and kept it there in case he had to use it. Even without the arrows, he could still find something of use as a substitute.
He followed the gnarls and short screeches of the monster, like a blind bat would use its voice to find its way around a cave or the woods at midnight. Onmyō felt no fear in his heart or regret of the things he had done, he wasn't going to get on his knees and pray for help; instead he felt like he was the one listening to the prayers and did or didn't get involved in their conflicts, he felt like an immortal.
Both the black and white flames danced on their appropriate eyes that Onmyō had, he felt both kinds of powers that he had summoned for battle, awaiting their masters use of them. Onmyō could feel everything around him by now. Onmyō blinked and when he reopened them, he stopped at what he could see.
The entire tunnel was lit white, with a slight haze around its object. He was at the end of the long tunnel and was at the pile of rubble that Ammy created to try and stall the creature, yet Stella and Onmyō's argument was the only thing that made some progression while the beast broke down the wall of rocks.
Onmyō walked past the rocks and saw a different colored object sticking out of the ground. He walked over to it and picked it up, the color instantly changed to its original color and showed that it was Ammy's glaive. Onmyō knew that he wasn't seeing things that weren't really there, but he was seeing the auras of living beings, or once living since he was looking at a dead woman's weapon. The ironic thing was that his own body did not produce an aura when he looked at himself.
Onmyō felt the breath of something moist and steamy on his neck. He turned around and saw the aura of the beast that he was looking for. It let out a terrifying screech and Onmyō pulled out his pistols, knowing that both were the real deal this time. He aimed them both at the creatures head before he opened fired, starting the battle between the two.
The creature roared in anger and showed several razor sharp teeth before it went to peck Onmyō, like a chicken would for food. Something told Onmyō to dodge out of the way and his reactions took over and rolled out of the way just in time. He could feel the rush of something inside him; either it was fear, adrenaline or even both but he didn't care as he enjoyed this feeling more than anything he felt so far. He actually kinda chuckled at this feeling.
He started running around the large area of the cave, shooting away. It seemed to have been working as the monster gave several shouts of pain as it was getting shot, but a tentacle from its back grabbed Onmyō and threw him across the room and hit the wall with his back against the cave wall, knocking the air out of him as he slid down to the ground again.
"That hurt…" Onmyō thought as he stood back up and felt the air rush back into his lungs forcefully. He gripped his hands and felt nothing in his hands; he looked down and saw his hands holding nothing. "Aww… crap…" Onmyō thought as he lost his primary choice of weapons in this fight.
He looked up and barely managed to jump out of the way as a tentacle almost impaled him against the stone wall. He pulled out his broadsword and chopped the tentacle as it was stuck in the wall. He was surprised that his sword didn't break in half; he was rather pleased that he had brought both swords even though he thought he wouldn't need them.
He ran towards the beast and saw a tentacle rush him from above, he immediately jumped back and let the tentacle get stuck in the ground before he used it to his advantage and ran up it before landing on the creatures back. He pulled out his katana and stabbed it into the beast at an angle so he could have a firm support if he was going to be shaken off. The beast roared as the pain entered its back, but it didn't stop screaming as Onmyō had stabbed it in the same place with the broadsword.
Onmyō felt something wrap around his neck and he instantly held tighter to the katana out of instinct, but it was pulled out as Onmyō was lifted off his feet and then whip thrown towards a wall. Onmyō was ready for this and adjusted himself so he would land on his feet, yet he landed on an uneven part of the wall and ended up spraining his left ankle which didn't help his landing onto the ground.
"Ok, that was my bad…" Onmyō thought as he got up and shifted most of weight onto his right ankle, still holding the swords tightly. "Wait a minute… what is it…?" Onmyō thought at seeing the beast start to cough up smoke. "Oh don't tell me…" Onmyō thought ready to run if his thought was right.
The beast turned its head to Onmyō and opened its beak before a sudden rush of cold air and white flames came towards Onmyō who started running as fast as he could before the flames gave chase. He didn't know why the flames felt cold, yet he didn't want to learn what would happen if he even touched them, he just wanted to stay away from it.
Onmyō saw little ramp of toppled laboratory stuff to his side running up the wall and looked back in front of him to see the white flames about to collide with him.
"NOPE!" Onmyō thought as he started running towards the ramp and then up onto the wall, where he forced himself up the wall as he ignored the pain in his left ankle and continued up the wall until he hit the caves ceiling where he stabbed his swords into the hanging stalactites and used them to hide while he thought of what he learned from the fight.
"The area isn't big enough for it to fly so its wings are useless; it hasn't really thrashed around or made quick movements, most likely because it doesn't want the cave to collapse, meaning that its partially stupid yet smart and big but it has a mind like that of smart predator… hmmm." He thought as he watched the creature look around before it started to reduce its size slightly. "Great…" He thought.
Onmyō stabbed his swords into the wall next to him before he took a deep breath and broke the stalactite with a strong kick and sent it falling towards the creature that looked up just in time to see the pointy rock just in time for it to make contact with its face.
The stalagmite broke into little pieces, but the beast still stood like it was nothing but a cloud of dust thrown at it. With the smaller size of the beast, it started flapping its wings before Onmyō could try an air attack as tentacles came towards him and held him against the wall, wrapping around his arms and neck; his shoes had no traction on the wall.
The creature flapped up to be eye level with Onmyō who was thinking of anything that he could use or do in his situation. He looked up and noticed that there were still, several stalagmites on the ceiling. Onmyō looked down to see the creature raising another tentacle and seemed to have been aiming it so it could impale him properly while it flapped up and down.
"Nothing ventured…" Onmyō thought as he let go of his swords as they were stuck in the wall and started to move his arms forward, fighting the force of the tentacles with all his might; his arms felt like they could break in half by the two opposing forces, but he kept pushing.
The monster made a little ru sound while it tilted its head in both interest and confusion as to what Onmyō was doing.
"NOTHING GAINED!" Onmyō shouted as his flames burst into a wildfire madness before he clenched his fists and then with all his strength, he sent his arms back and slammed them against the wall for them to shake the inside of the cave.
The stalagmites started to shake and then broke free with a snap before they started to fall down on the creature. But before the creature was completely dragged down with the rubble, it sent the tentacle it had been trying to aim at Onmyō towards him and ran through his side with great pain before he coughed up blood while he screamed in pain. Onmyō felt the tentacle in his side slip away and the ones holding him before he grabbed his swords and limply fell to the ground with them.
Onmyō used the swords as a support as he got up and used it to regain his looked at where the creature landed and saw a large pile of rubble. He didn't know what to do since he was wounded badly but won, he might die if he didn't get medical attention soon.
He started walking around, looking for his guns before he found them and limped his way towards the exit, where he would have to walk up the steep tunnel before he would have to force open the doors again, before getting yelled out
"…great, looking forward to that…" Onmyō thought, when he really didn't care what kind of reaction he got once he was outside.
His foot hit something as he got to the exit of the tunnel where he found Ammy's sword. He looked down and saw a large glass cylinder container that looked really out of place, even though this place was full of stuff that was far future tech.
Onmyō picked it up and read what was on the side, "Pentaerythritol tetranitrate?" Onmyō read in his mind. "That's used in…" He started before he heard a low growl coming from the rubble pile. The beast was still alive. "Explosives…" Onmyō thought, seeing Ammy's sword where he dropped it before the fight. He kneeled down and started getting to work, ripping parts of his suit as a form of rope for what he was doing.
When the creature got free of the rubble, Onmyō had already finished and was waiting for his opponent.
"You know…" Onmyō started as he reached behind him and grabbed Ammy's compound bow. "I won the first round of this fight…" He continued as he kneeled down and grabbed the Pentaerythritol tetranitrate cylinder tied to Ammy's glaive with a few extra stuff added to it. "That was for the safety of this world…" He said as he put the handle of the glaive against the string of the bow. "But this…" He said as he pulled the string back and aimed at the beast in front of him. "This is for Ammy, my sister." He said before the beast let out a roar and Onmyō fired his shot right before he saw a little bit of the white flames and a blinding white explosion covered his vision that happened inside the monster's throat.
Stella lazily opened eyes, her forehead pounding like a giant drum with pain. Everything was a blur to her at first, though she could feel something tight wrapped around her body, along with inaudible voices that couldn't be heard clearly. The only thing that she could hear clearly was either pounding in her head, or the thumping of her heart.
But after a couple of minutes, her eyes started to clear up to see a heavily thick jungle in front of her. Her ears started to pick up what was being said and heard a voice crying loudly into her ear. Even though that she could hear and see fine, her mind was still foggy and unclear of what was going on.
She turned to her right and saw Nana crying loudly while holding her tightly, almost uncomfortably.
"Nana?" Stella said weakly. Nana instantly stopped crying and quickly pulled back to get a good look at Stella, tears streaming down her face like there was no tomorrow. "STE-LL-A-A-A!" Nana shouted, her breath slightly staccato as she grabbed her sister again, even tighter this time. "What are you crying about?" Stella asked. "I THOUGHT YOU WERE DE-A-A-D!" Nana replied. "D-dead?" Stella asked, trying to process what she meant by that, only to hurt her head even more. "O…O…Onmyō shot you-u-u-u!" Nana said before taking a deep breath and continued to cry.
The sudden memory of Onmyō's enraged face filled Stella's mind, knowing that Onmyō wouldn't kill her. Yet the moment when he pulled the trigger, she had thought she was wrong about Onmyō. But she was still alive, and with intense pain on her forehead. It didn't add up.
Stella placed a few finger to her forehead and felt a large bulge on her forehead. She looked at her finger and saw a red liquid on her leather gloves, yet it was too thick to be blood.
She sniffed it, "Paint?" Stella thought, not understanding how paint could be on her forehead and not blood.
She saw the gun Onmyō had thrown away and picked it up. She looked at it closely, it didn't look like his actual black pistol he had, yet if someone were too busy on focusing on something else from this close up, or someone was looking at it from a distance, it could fool anybody. It looked like it wasn't really a pistol when you actually observed it.
Stella aimed the funny looking pistol at the ground in front of her and pulled the trigger to hear it give a loud bang, like a gunshot, making Nana jump before turning to see what Stella was doing.
In the soft ground laid a little round colored ball. Stella shot again at a tree and a red splash was left on the tree. Stella looked at the weapon, confused at what harm it did other than causing swelling and bruises.
The steel doors behind them slowly opened to reveal Onmyō, his suit tattered and shredded, blood almost all over him, his fedora missing, and that he was coughing up a little bit of blood then and there as he got out of the mountain. Nana stood up and backed away a little while Stella scooted back.
"Onmyō!" Stella shouted, catching him as he just fell off his feet, luckily Stella was still sitting down so Onmyō wouldn't be in too much pain when he was caught.
He coughed a little, before smiling, "Got em." He said before chuckling, turning into a cough before Stella helped him sit upright next to her, lessening the number of coughs.
"Y-you idiots!" Nana shouted, slapping Onmyō in the face. "You had me worried, both of you!" Nana shouted. Onmyō just gave a huff as if a chuckle and tried to slow down his breathing to prevent coughing.
"I guess I deserved that, but I never had an intention of killing Stella mind you, I just couldn't, I only wanted to kill that thing that killed Ammy." Onmyō said. "You mean you're not angry with me?" Stella asked, surprised. "I am incredibly enraged, but I wasn't angry enough to kill you and be alone with Nana, who would never forgive me for killing her sister, even if she is a gray, she would always remember when she doesn't see you. I don't know your reasons, but I'm sorry if I was involved in any of them." Onmyō said.
"But why did you have to risk your life by killing that thing? It was trapped in there!" Nana said angry. "It wasn't trapped in there if those tentacles were capable of breaking through solid rock while it was chasing us. It could've broken out anytime it wanted to; it just wanted a… meal and a home first." Onmyō replied. "But what was that gun you used on me?" Stella asked. "I modified what people called a paint ball gun into the appearance of an actual gun, along with some capability tweaks. I did this because of the events that happened in Afghanistan, in case we had a similar situation to what happened a while ago." He replied, looking at the fake gun.
"Afghanistan?" Nana asked, confused at what he meant by the desolated desert. "Stella, you can tell her, I'm going to take… a nap…" Onmyō said before passing out, with a tired yet triumphant smile on his face. "This man…" Nana said quietly. "He's so serious all the time; I don't think I've seen him actually crack a smile like this before. He looks so peaceful." Nana finished inside her head.
After walking a few yards away from the doors, they looked back to see two stone doors with designs on them fade into existence. They slowly opened, to reveal a man in a complete silver suit and fedora on the other side. Stella gently set Onmyō down, before quickly pulling out her Rock Cannon, while Nana pulled out a seven-shot and they both aimed at the man.
"Who are you!?" Stella shouted, only to receive the sound of silence from the man.
He walked through the door way and the doors closed behind him before fading out of existence, Stella had a bad feeling about him and started charging her Rock Cannon, slowly.
The man turned around to face the Steel doors and from the back, Stella noticed the man was the same one from Afghanistan, as it produced the same silver trench coat made of flames resting on his shoulders.
"Just who are you?!" Nana asked her hands slightly shaking from seeing silver flames appear out of nowhere. The man just looked at them, then back to the steel doors, his expression like when Stella remembered, cold and stone like.
The steel doors suddenly gave a loud banging sound, as dents were put into the doors. Stella redirected her cannon to the door and was just in time to see the same beast that was chasing them bust down the steel doors with cuts and gashes all over it.
Before Stella had a chance to even fire, the man jumped into the air and kicked the beast right in the side of the face after doing a 360 spin in midair. The kick was powerful enough to send the beast off its feet and get slammed into the wall knocked out.
The man landed on both feet, hands in pockets and completely calm looking from Stella and Nana's view of things.
The man held out an arm to the side and in a flash of light, he was holding the same katana Onmyō had. He walked up to the beast and dragged him back deep into the mine by one of its feet before a screeched was heard and a wall of black and white flames came rushing out of the tunnel and towards the group, where they were engulfed by the flames.
Hello everyone! I know what you're thinking, what happened to them this time? Well... I'm currently debating if I should add the chapter that happens right after these events as either as a bounus chapter or a regular chapter (I've been lazy and haven't worked on it at all). But, we'll see if I get on my butt and start typing away or not later.
I hope you've enjoyed this chapter as the fight scene was originally not put into the chapter, but I knew you would all want it. Don't forget to place a review, Fav, and Follow me or the story. I will see you later!