It's what you have been waiting the next chapter of FFW. Sorry for not getting back but writers block can really hit a person hard. Anyway as you can see the chapter is up and you guys can read more of the story you all enjoy. Now as with before on with the announcements.

Announcements:

As all of you may know the administrators of this site have begun cracking down on stories containing lemons or what they see as excessive violence. They are starting to take down stories and authors now for these as I like to say "stupid" reasons. I have seen this sight since at least 2006 and they haven't done anything like this before; let's just hope this all blows over.

Now to some story related messages, I have some ideas for parings that I am going to list out now. These are just staring ideas just to put down for all to see.

Shadow/Illu

Shadow/Ravena

Shadow/Rose

Key/Future character

Key/OC

Cast/Leon

DB/OC

Rose/OC

Like I said these are some ideas with what I already thinking about I have not made any decisions yet. Put in your reviews or PM me what you have to say because it's going to be awhile before anything like fluff will appear.

Also with the wiki, while I encourage all of you to look and help build the site with just me and six others it will still be awhile until its near complete but I will promise that at least all the character pages will be complete as soon as possible.

Now it's times for reviews!

Reviews:

Mister Grim: Our fight would be the best way to start the new chapter, besides it gave you time to discover more things for your character too so it's a win win situation.

Illusionist Owl: I'm glad you enjoyed reading and I hope you continued to read.

Ravena Felidae: To you Felis, considering the last time you fought and the fact I needed Rose intact for the last battle you to accept a draw is a draw. And to you Felidae you may want to tighten your bell.

Generalhyna: I'll try better the next time and thanks for the extra information.

Now that all the usual things are taken care of, ON WITH THE SHOW!

"FFW"-Speech

'FFW'-Thought

'FFW'-Flashback

"FFW"-Attacks

Disclaimer: I do not own any reference to any anime/game/show/book, etc. that appears in this story. I own the original plot (at least I hope its original) and my own characters and OC's. All other characters and references belong to their original creators.

"I wouldn't say I'm the strongest guy in the world, but if there is one thing I can do its turn a battle around!"-Shadowlight0982

Ch. 11: The Reunion Battle, Memories of the wilted rose.

(Recap)

"Enough small talk, let's give the people what they want." Shadow got into a Juken stance.

"With pleasure" Grim got into a stance of his own. Doppelman was eagerly moving along the ground, eager for the battle to start.

"Match 4, Shadow vs. Grim…ready…FIGHT!"

(Play Break by Three Days Grace)

The sound of metal hitting metal began the battle. A scythe blade was locked in the teeth of a chainsaw. The two fighters continued their struggle for dominance until they both jumped back. Shadow continued to back up to avoid the clay birds that Grim had just thrown his way, after a minute of avoiding them Shadow slashed them all to piece and jumped to avoid their explosions.

"Nice, but you do know in the air you're an open target!" Grim made handseals and this time created a much larger bird sculpture.

In the air Shadow already began to charge his counter attack, as soon as Grim let his creation loose Shadow swung his scythe full force, the Witch Hunter had appeared on his blade.

Witch Hunter!

The slash cut through the air and the bird and continued towards Grim, Grim leaped away to avoid the attack. Grim than looked and saw Shadow had vanished.

"Huh, he can't turn invisible can he?" Grim asked.

Grim was then surprised when Doppelman rose from the ground and caught Shadow's scythe between his hands. Grim then created some distance as Doppelman pushed the boy back.

"Amazing this battle is going into an amazing start, both are throwing everything they got at each other, both are trying to outsmart the other, this everyone is a battle for the ages!" Plugman yelled excitedly.

Shadow looked to Grim, his Byakugan activated. "I forgot about your shadow, so tis sentient, this just became harder."

"I owe you one Doppelman." Grim said.

The shadow then made a gesture that created a frown on Grim's face. "No I'm going to take you to a brothel after this is over!"

"Maybe you should stop flirting!" A burst of air collided with the two and they were sent across the ground.

Shadow got out of juken and watched as the two rises off the ground. "Did that remind you we're in the middle of a fight?"

"Yeah thanks for that" Grim then went into partial transformation. "However you're going to wish you had finished us off."

Grim used the chainsaw teeth to glide along the ground, the grinding teeth leaving trenches in the ground. Shadow decided he was done waiting and decided to close the gap.

Dark energy began to form in his left hand as he punched forward, the attack quickly launching him across the stage.

The two fighters met and the next clash began.

Hell's Fang!

After the clash of darkness and steel the two warriors continued their closed corner battle. Grim got on his hands and began spinning, Shadow channeled chakra and began to rotate.

Rotation!

Saw Foot First Gear: Vortex of Carnage!

The saw blades grinded against the vortex of chakra, the two attacks struggled for dominance until a shockwave pushed the two away from each other. The fight continued to be close ranged between blades.

(Kurotsubasa)

"This guy is one of the strongest bounty hunters in the world, most people have heard of the targets taken out by the Grim Reaper." Key said.

"Then what are Shadow's chances nya?" Ravena asked.

"Actually its looks pretty even to me." Bella said as they watched the two continue their power struggle.

"They both are holding back, you can feel it in the air." DB said.

"And it doesn't help that Shadow has the fight in the next round too." Key reminded them all.

Punnya looked from the fight and saw Mukurowl land back in the booth.

"Punnya!" Punnya called to her animal friend.

"Hey isn't that Muku-Chan?" Ravena asked as she turned to Punnya's shouts.

"An owl without Owl-girl, something must be going on." Bella said.

"Guys!" Illu said as she burst into the booth panting.

"Illu!" The rest of the guild called out.

"Hey where have you…?" DB started.

"There's no time for that but…"

A large explosion caught Kurotsubasa's attention; they looked towards the fight and saw the result of the power struggle.

(Mercenary)

"It appears they are tied in strength." Naenia said as she watched the battle.

"Tch, they're both holding back and you know it." Rose said inside a holy white barrier. The barrier was healing her, preparing for the last battle.

"Have you planned for Shadow losing this battle?" Naenia asked curiously.

"He won't lose" Rose said from inside the dome.

"You still have that much confidence in him?" Naenia asked.

"No, because I am the one that's going to beat him, even so I don't think Grim will be able to beat Shadow even with the small handicap." Rose argued.

"Handicap?"

An explosion took Naenia away from her question and the rest of the team's attention to the stage. The results of the last clash proved what Rose was saying.

"Yes, handicap"

(Tournament Stage)

The last clash of weapons yielded different results than the ties so far. As the two separated Grim sported a new slash on the front of his cloak. Shadow now had the wound on his shoulder reopened from saw blades gracing his shoulder.

"As much as I want to continue this spar, I'm going to have to raise this up a bit." Doppelman rose from the ground with his own version of Saw foot.

Shadow blocked with the pol of his scythe and saw Grim had pulled out more clay sculptures.

"What will you do, you can't move of Doppelman will grind you to bits, but you have to worry about the explosives I'm about to send your way!" Grim then threw five more clay birds that began their flight to their target.

Shadow only smirked as he was soon caught in a huge explosion.

"Shadow!"

Grim looked at the damage as Doppelman returned to him with a nod. "So it's over."

"No quite!"

Grim was shocked to see Shadow standing back to back with him on top of his shadow. Grim moved quickly and avoided decapitation but couldn't avoid Shadow's next move.

Dead Spike!

Evil energy sliced through the ground apart and formed a demonic head that aimed for the cloaked bomber. Grim knew he couldn't dodge the attack but decided to use defense.

Grim then got on his hands and began to spin.

Saw Foot Second Gear: Rotation of Pain

The maw of the Black Beast shattered against the grinding blades on Grim's legs. Grim then performed a flip and righted himself.

"Clever, how did you perform high speed movement without Doppelman knowing?" Grim asked curiously.

"It was Doppelman that was the reason I was able to do that." Shadow admitted. "I can travel from shadow to shadow and Doppelman is a shadow correct?"

"Yeah your right" Grim answered. "Of course you got rid of your trump card by telling me that."

"You really think I'm worried about that?" Shadow began to use range with his kunai.

"I know you barely have ranged attacks but this is insulting." Grim then dodged kunai which planted them along the ground.

Shadow only smirked and continued throwing.

(Kurotsubasa)

"Nya he can do that too?" Ravena said in surprise.

"It's like we know nothing about Shadow." Illu admitted.

"You get used to that feeling." DB said.

"Quite guys Shadow's about to use that move!" Bella said.

"What move?" Illu and Ravena asked.

"Just watch" Key said.

(Tournament Stage)

After the fifth Kunai Grim began to think why he could be doing this.

'Is he drawing out the battle, or is he…?' Grim's thoughts were cut short as Shadow was now in front of him with his scythe raised.

"Like that will win!"

Grim raised a Saw foot to block until Shadow vanished. Grim was shocked and then felt Shadow coming from another direction.

'How did he…' Grim tried to block but Shadow vanished again. Grim then felt a blade slashed through his back.

'Clever bastard.' A barrage of high-speed slashes began to attack Grim from all directions.

(Mercenary)

"How did he, impossible unless…" Rose began thinking.

"He used his kunai as focus for travel and used them for quick changes of direction." Naenia said as she observed the attack.

(Tournament Stage)

Black streaks across the tournament stage began to intersect and form a shape with Grim in the center. The streaks combined and formed a star.

Strike Star!

Shadow then appeared out of nowhere with his scythe placed on his back. He walked away from Grim's injured form.

"Wow an impressive display of speed from Shadow, is the battle over already?" Kyoto asked the audience.

(Break by Three Days Grace end)

(Mercenary)

'Get up Grim; remember your part of the plan.' Rose thought as she thought back to team strategy.

(Flashback)

"Rose you have to think with your head, the chances are that one of us may be fighting Shadow before or you get seriously injured in your own battle before fighting him." Grim brought up.

"Then what is your plan then?" Rose asked.

"What's the move that puts the most strain on Shadow's body?" Grim asked.

"Possibly whenever Shadow uses that Blazblue of his." Rose said after a minute of thinking.

"Then that's what we need, all we need to do is force him to use Blazblue during his battle with any one of us." Grim offered.

"And how do we do that, I don't think he's that reckless in a fight." Wolf asked.

"If he is paired up against me I have a plan, let's just hope luck is on our side." Grim said.

(Flashback end)

Shadow turned around to look to Grim. "I know that's not all you have, get up!"

Grim slowly and surely began to rise from the blood he pooled around him.

"I had to say you've gave me a workout, I'm going to have to fight more seriously." Grim took off the tattered Akatsuki cloak and allowed it to sink into his shadow.

(Play Getting Away with Murder by Papa Roach)

"Doppelman"

Without any more words Doppelman rose from the ground. Doppelman made a few gestures and Grim nodded.

"Yeah, it's time."

Shadow just curiously at the actions the two were about to perform. 'Whatever this is probably going to hurt but…what the hell I'm curious.'

Doppelman began to evaporate into vapor and was absorbed into Grim's body Grim than began to take on a new transformation.

Grim began to convulse and dropped to his knees, the skin on his face began to burn away to leave a dark, blood red face with two soulless white voids for eyes and a wide glowing mouth. A long tongue hung out as the transformation continued. Grim's hair grew down to his waist and his hands also became claws.

Shadow looked in shock as he saw the new creature before him.

"I hope you're ready." Grim said in a hollowed voice before vanishing.

'The hell, where is he?' Shadow activated his Byakugan to search for the new demonic reaper.

"You know for having an all-seeing eye you get surprised really easily."

Grim copied Shadow's example and appeared behind him with one of his legs raised. The shining white blades where replaced with dark black blades and the grinding replaced with demonic laughter.

Before Shadow could do anything it was too late to escape.

Death Gear: Black Abyss!

Grim then started to laugh as he began to grind up Shadow. Shadow was so paralyzed from pain that he couldn't escape the vortex of blades that cut through his body. After about five minutes Shadow fell to the ground and Grim just stared at his fallen opponent.

"Holy crap, what a way to turn the battle around, I can't see anyone getting up from that!" Plugman yelled.

(Kurotsubasa)

"Shadow" Illu said in shock with hands over her mouth.

DB and Key looked on as they saw their leader almost shredded to pieces.

"Nya" Ravena said as she and Punnya looked at the fallen boy.

"Come on Shads, get up!" Bella yelled to her friend. "You're stronger than that get up damn it!"

(Tournament Stage)

"Is that all, this is the guy that beat an Admin Guard Captain?" Grim let out. "I guess I was worried for nothing, sorry about your battle Rose."

(Getting Away with Murder by Papa Roach end)

A pulse of energy got Grim's and everyone's attention. Shadow slowly rose to his feet, bloody and battered but still able to stand.

'I got about a few more minutes.' Grim thought. "So how are you going to counterattack now?"

Shadow made no response and only rose his raised his right hand. Shadow's eyes were now glowing red as he looked to Grim.

"I really didn't want to use this but…" The red jewel on Shadow's gauntlet glowed for a second as he placed it in front of him. "You left me no choice."

(Play BlazBlue ost: Shinsou)

Restriction 666 release!

Dimensional Interface field deployed!

Power began to flow from the grimoire and into the air. Everyone present in the stadium can feel the evil energy as it filled the air and shook the earth. Grim just looked as Shadow's power increased.

"Now let me show you what it's like when I get serious!" Shadow yelled.

BlazBlue Activate!

The evil aura then surrounded Shadow's form as he stood and glared to his opponent. Shadow held his scythe as the blade began to glow red.

"Are you ready?"

"Yeah"

The two powered up men then dashed towards each other intent on ending the battle.

Black Abyss!

Black Onslaught!

Black Zagam!

Saw blades and scythe blade collided as the two continued their attacks. The wave of saw met with the onslaught of scythe slashed and created another stalemate.

Grim tried to go for another attack but soon felt he had reached his limit. Grim stood as Shadow's last strike was about to connect.

Darkness shrouded Shadow's form and formed a humanoid figure with a large wing shaped blade.

Nightmare Rage!

Grim watched as most of his soul was drained away by that attack. Shadow then unleashed all his energy into the last slash.

Destruction!

Grim was sent flying across the stage and formed a crater at the edge. Shadow dropped to knees as the technique ended. All the seithr in the air vanished as the Astral Heat ended. Shadow saw that Grim began to return to his original appearance.

Shadow then stood on his feet and placed his scythe on his back. He just watched as Grim also rose back to his feet, Grim almost fell again only to be caught by Doppelman.

(BlazBlue ost: Shinsou end)

"Didn't think it would take this much damage." Grim then raised a hand as a signal to the judges.

"I'm done, I quit!" Grim said.

"Huh?" Shadow said.

"Does it look like I'm in any shape to keep fighting?" Grim rhetorically asked. "Plus you have a more important battle to get ready for, good luck." Grim was then carried off to the medical tenets.

"In an exciting turn of events the winner is Shadow!" Kyoto announced.

(Kurotsubasa)

Shadow slowly took steps to the guild's booth for a few minutes to regain his strength. The rest of Kurotsubasa gathered around.

"Nya Shadow don't die!" Ravena yelled.

"Punnya!" Punnya called as well.

"I'm not dying I'm just tired." Shadow said. "I also used a lot of power in that last attack there."

"Way to worry us there man, when you got grinded to bits we thought that was the end!" DB said.

"Nice to know my friends have so much faith in me." Shadow felt pain as Illu tried to heal as much wounds as she can.

"We're just happy you didn't die out there that's all." Illu said.

"Yeah sure" Shadow said.

"Are you sure you can go into another match?" Key said knowing there were more than Shadow's injuries to worry about.

"I know I can" Shadow then stood up again. "Thanks Illu, I owe you one."

"You're still not healed all the way and…" Illu pointed to Shadow's clothes as they were almost rags after the fight.

"Don't worry about that, I got something incase this happened." Shadow then turned to the stage.

"After the fight, we're going to talk about where you went, as well as the message on Mukurowl's leg." Shadow then walked to the stage again.

That statement reminded everyone about Illu's disappearance and waited to talk about. Now was the final match, all they needed to do now was watch.

(Mercenary)

"As fate has told me" Naenia said. "The fight you are waiting for is now."

"So you lost on purpose just so this fight could happen?" Rose suspiciously asked.

"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't, and the point right now is this is what you have been preparing for." Naenia said.

"Cryptic hag" Rose said under her breath. Rose then got out of the dome and started to walk to the stage.

"Since you seem to know everything I'm not going to ask you about the future." Rose said. "I can see the future right now, I will win this battle.

Naenia only sent her an amused smile behind her tessen as Rose walked to the stage. After Rose left did she adopt a more serious look.

"Truth is I never looked to see the outcome of this fight, this is one I must see for myself."

(Tournament Stage)

"Didn't know you enjoy walking in rags!" Rose said. "Don't you know you should dress properly before meeting a lady?"

"Show me a lady and I'll dress more properly." Shadow retorted.

A tick mark formed on Rose's head but she hid her anger. "Of course I should know that tactic would not work, but don't think just because of you current state I'll take it easy on you!"

"Oh don't worry about that…" Shadow then pulled out a star shaped crystal. "Allow me to fix the problem.

Shadow then crushed the crystal and a bright light lit up the field. All the audience had to shield their eyes from the intense light. When the light died down it showed Shadow's outfit has been repaired and all blood on his form had disappeared.

Shadow smirked and spun his scythe around before he settled into his stance. "You ready?"

Rose only glared and pulled out her daggers and adopted her fighting stance. "I've been waiting a long time for a chance like this."

"Ok everyone the final match, Rose versus Shadow…ready…FIGHT!"

_FANFICTION-WORLD_

(Play BlazBlue ost: White Requiem)

After the announcement to start Shadow quickly swapped his scythe for two kunai as the two dashed forward. The two then began what can only be called a dance of daggers. Sparks flew as diamond met with steel as the two tried to injure the other.

"You bastard, stop treating this like it's some old practice fight!" Rose said as they got into a collision.

"What can I say, this brings back memories." Shadow said.

"I'll show you some memories!" The diamond cut through steel as Rose tried to stab into Shadow's heart.

Shadow managed to avoid the strike and pushed Rose away. Shadow then sent out a wave of dark energy.

Dead Spike!

Rose shifted into an airbender stance and bent a current to help her dodged the attack. After landed on the ground she pulled the chain from her waist and began to attack with the chain whip.

Shadow dodged the chain whip and threw some kunai towards Rose. Rose used the sir to knock them to the ground and began to charge her daggers whit sacred energy.

Sacred Slash!

Rose then sent two waves of purifying energy towards her former teacher. Shadow then used rotation to block the attack. Shadow charged Witch Hunter as he spun so the dome gained a shining white hue.

After rotation Shadow then stood with his Witch Hunter ready. Whit a slash he sent the soul resonance technique towards Rose.

Witch Hunter!

Rose saw the attack and held out an arm, her Rinnegan then replaced her brown eyes as they became active. Rose used her Deva Path power to create a sphere of gravity around her.

Almighty Push!

The crescent shaped energy wave collided and was canceled out by the force of gravity. After a while Rose began to think back then, before her teacher was her enemy.

(BlazBlue ost: White Requiem end)

(Really Long Flashback)

A younger Rose was knocked down as three boys stood over her. Rose tried to fight back but the three completely overwhelmed her.

"Like we were trying to tell you noob, there's a toll to get past her now pay up or get lost!" The leader boy said as they looked down on the fresh new player.

"No…w-why can't I just walk through?" Rose said as she struggled to get up.

"This girl just doesn't learn, maybe we should just kill her already." One of the other two boys said.

"Naw, besides its getting fun beating her down every time she gets up!" The other boy laughed. The laugh ended after a kicked to his soft spot.

Rose got on her feet and after showing one of them how she felt about their treatment she then pulled out two ordinary daggers.

"I didn't know guys like you get kicks out of beating little girls, now get out of my way you pedo's!" Rose said boldly but on the inside was hoping she didn't have to prove her bluff.

"You little bitch!" The boy on the floor yelled.

"That's it; I'm tired of this little shit!" The other boy pulled out a rapier. "Boss can I 'lete her?"

"Do as you wish, she never paid so she's dead meat to us." The leader said.

Before the boy could advance or Rose could make any move to run a new figure appeared in the scene.

A boy in a tattered cloak, baggy black pants, steel-toed shoes, sleeveless dark blue shirt with a crescent moon symbol, a fingerless black glove on his left hand and a large gauntlet on the right with a red gem. The shadows on the hood blocked the boy's face from view.

"Out of my way." The boy spoke.

"Who the hell are you, in case you haven't noticed there's a toll here, now pay up, 5000 munny or get lost!" The one with the sword yelled.

"How about this let me through or I pay in your blood." Lifted a hand and allowing a scythe to appear to prove his point.

The boy on the floor rose up from the ground, still cradling his wounded "pride." "The hell do you think you are some kind of badass?"

"Enma, Justin…get rid of this loser!" The leader ordered.

The wounded Enma brought out a steel staff and ran forward. Justin dashed forward with his rapier aimed to run the cloaked boy through. The boy just watched as the two ran his direction.

"This is waste of time." In a flash the boy appeared past them with his scythe and slashed both through.

The two henchmen were shocked as they were struck down so easily. The two fell to the ground as the boy now looked to their leader. The hood fell to show black slightly spiky hair, and brown and white eyes.

The leader looked in shock as his enforcers were taken care of so easily. Rose looked in awe at her "hero" as he had taken care of the two who harassed her before. Shadow now looked to the leader.

"Since you're the leader I'll be sure to kick your ass more severely before passing." Shadow then made a slow advance to him.

Cartman took a step back in fear as he saw the boy continue his direction. The path blocker then pulled out a knife and pulled Rose in and aimed for her neck.

"Stop right there, or this girl gets it!" Cartman said as he aimed the knife at Rose.

Rose held her breath, even though this was a game, the mind may determine it as real and it would still hurt. Shadow seems to pause before muttering something under his breathes.

Cartman saw him stop and then gained some courage. "Yeah, now I want you to bow, BOW BEFROE ME!"

Tendrils of Darkness!

Thousands of black threads rose from Cartman's shadow and began to restrain the thug. One tendril caught his knife wielding hand and kept it at bay. A large tendril rose from Shadow's shadow and grabbed Rose and brought her out the way.

Shadow them brought a hand down.

Gravity Control!

A seal appeared underneath Cartman and he then felt gravity slam him into the ground. Cartman struggled to lift his head up but looked and saw two glowing red eyes.

"This will teach you not to stand in my way…" Shadow then delivered the final blow.

Gravity Wave!

Gravity then crushed Cartman as he soon became data that was scattered to the wind. Enma and Justin watched and saw their boss was destroyed. A glare from Shadow was enough to get them to quickly leave the area.

Rose was frozen in awe as the boy easily took care of the people who came close to killing her. She watched him leave before an idea came to her head.

"Hey, you wait a minute!" Rose called.

Shadow stopped to raise his hood before looking back. "What do you want?"

Rose hesitated a bit because of the harsh tone but continued with her question. "I wanted to ask…if you could train me?"

(Flashback end)

Lunar Destroyer!

The enhanced version of Witch Hunter slammed into the barrier of gravity. Rose remembered the battle and used her ring to create another layer of barrier underneath the first. After a power struggle Rose was able to block the attack.

Rose let out a few huffs before she steadied into another stance. Shadow then brought his scythe up and rested it on his shoulder.

"What are you doing daydreaming in the middle of a fight?" Shadow asked.

"Shut up; don't pretend to be offering me tips like before!" Rose put her whip away and brought her knives in a cross shape.

"I'm going to win; I'm going to kill you for what you did!" Sacred energy traveled through the daggers and began to form energy blades. Rose used airbending to increase her speed towards Shadow.

Shadow used the pole of his scythe to block the two energy blades. As the two struggled Shadow then began to remember.

(Flashback)

"Dammit why can't I hit you?" Rose complained as she tried to attack Shadow with her knew weapons. It had been a few months since the two had met and in that time she got the stoic boy to cave in and accept her request and train her to become stronger.

The diamond daggers slid of the kunai as they continued to spar. "Stop getting angry, besides you expect me to make training easy for you?"

"Sadistic bastard!" Rose yelled as she went for another strike. Shadow just leaned to the side and tripped the girl and she fell on the ground.

"And don't you forget it, now get up training is over." Shadow said.

"Why is that?" Rose asked.

"We're going after something." Shadow said as he started to pack up their camp.

"And that something is?" Rose asked.

"Something very special, a chaos emerald" Shadow said.

(Flashback end)

'That's right; it was after that when things got shot into hell.' Shadow thought.

A blade slicing through his cheek got shadow full concentration back into the fight. Shadow jumped back away and tried to focus on the fight.

"Now who's the one day dreaming, whatever happened to focus 100% on any battle?" Rose asked as she wiped the blood of her dagger.

"And who said I wasn't a great teacher?" Shadow rhetorically asked. With a quick draw Shadow then dashed forward with his scythe.

Rose blocked the initial attack but Shadow only needed to get in close. Shadow held the weapon underhand and sent Rose into the air with a burst of dark energy.

Inferno Divider!

A punch in the gut continued after the strike, Shadow then used an axe kick and sent Rose falling back to earth. Rose used air to right herself and jumped back. Rose then sent out a wave of sacred energy as she saw Shadow fall.

Shadow slammed his scythe pole into the ground and used it as a platform to jump out of the way to avoid the attack. Shadow rolled on the ground and ran to Rose, leaving his weapon behind.

'He left his weapon?' Rose then threw up her barrier as juken collided with dome. Shadow continued his barrage as he saw he was slowly breaking the barrier.

(Kurotsubasa)

"They know each other's moves before the other can make it." Key observed.

"They did say they were teacher and student, they must remember some things about each other's style." Illu said.

"Nya, it doesn't matter why isn't Shadow beating Maid Fetish into the ground." Ravena complained.

"Looks like the two are thinking about something to me." Bella said.

"What do you mean nya?" Ravena asked as she held Punnya.

"Look at them, they are zoning out in the middle of the fight, whatever they are remembering must be really important." Bella explained to the neko.

"More than that, has anyone ever noticed Shadow has been fighting a little differently now." DB brought up.

"What do you mean?" Illu asked.

"Shadow has two ways of fighting, quick and effective or slow steady victory." Key clarified. "Only now he's not fighting to end it quick but he's not planning ahead like normal."

'It must be what those guys did to him nya.' Ravena thought.

'It's more than that." Felis said.

'Nya again, stay away, fighting is one thing but just go back to sleep!' Felidae complained.

'And miss this battle, not a chance.' Felis said with a chuckle. 'And about Shadow, it's more than just that.'

'Nya do you know?' Felidae asked.

'I have a suspicion but we can confront him after the fight.' Felis then severed the connection.

"Punnya?" Punnya looked to Ravena. Ravena scratched Punnya behind her ears to reassure her she was alright before watching the battle again.

(Tournament Stage)

"Just die!" Rose's Rinnegan flashed.

Almighty Push!

Shadow decided to fight the technique with his own.

Gravity Wave!

As the two attacks collided once again Shadow's continued its pursuit to Rose. Rose decided to cancel her attack and move out of the way.

"When are you going to stop using that move, a blind monkey can see you copied it after my attack." Shadow said.

"Shut up!" Rose then rushed forward.

Shadow jumped to pull his scythe out of the ground and once again used it to block Rose. As the two looked into the others eyes Shadow saw many things in Rose's…pain, hurt, betrayal.

(Play Center of Existence by DJ Nate)

(Flashback)

A large centipede monster with many bladelike legs stood in the two's path towards the emerald. The insect hissed and sent a blade forward only for Shadow and Rose to dodge.

"Ok remember not to lose focus in battle!" Shadow yelled to Rose.

"I know, I know!" Rose yelled as she sent out sacred energy towards the demonic centipede.

As Rose's attacks collided the beast hissed and set its sights to the girl. A Witch Hunter then landed against its exoskeleton, while it failed to cut through it left a large gash in its armor.

"Damn, its hide is too strong!" Shadow yelled.

"Leave it to me!" Rose then focused chakra to her eyes. 'Come on work, work!'

"Rose I said keep your focus on the battle!" Shadow yelled as he ran towards her.

"I got this!" Rose's eyes then took on a new appearance. The Rinnegan glowed as it was now fully activate.

"It's over…!" Rose prepared her new attack.

Almighty Push!

Gravity slammed down on the creature, the centipede hissed as it felt gravity slowly crushed it into the ground. Rose them calmly walked passed it and pulled out the red emerald from the ground.

"I told you I…" A slash across Rose's torso ended her statement. One of the insect's legs left a mark from her right hip to her left shoulder blade.

"Rose!" Shadow looked in shock as the beast struck Rose. Power exploded from his body as he looked at the centipede with rage and destruction in his eyes.

"I will destroy you!" Shadow said in a new demonic tone. "Dissappear!"

Gravity Wave!

Gravity this time squeezed down until the demon insect in a bug shaped crater. Shadow slammed gravity down again and again until the monster was no more.

Shadow then remembered Rose was injured and ran towards her. Shadow then held Rose's injured body.

"Get up, get up, don't you die on me you idiot!" Shadow yelled.

"I'm getting tired, think I might, t-take a…" Rose began to lose consciousness.

"Dammit" Shadow said out loud. 'What do I do, the nearest town is miles from here.' Shadow then looked at the emerald still clutched in Rose's hand.

'This has to work.' Shadow then raise the gem into the sky.

Chaos Control!

In a clinic in a town far away, the two appeared in the lobby.

"I need a doctor quickly!" Shadow's voice yelled.

"Sir I'm afraid you'll have to…" The nurse was frozen as she saw red voids instead of eyes.

"Get me a doctor now or so help me I will destroy this whole place!" The nurse quickly complied and gathered a few people to give Rose a room. Shadow then noticed what had happened and calmed himself down.

'It happened again, what should I do?" Shadow asked himself as he watched Rose be taken for treatment.

"Young man it looks like you have a problem there." An old man in a brown full body cloak appeared towards Shadow.

"It's nothing, mind your business." Shadow then walked to find a place to wait and her about Rose.

"There is great darkness in your heart."

That statement caused Shadow to freeze. "That darkness threatens to consume you if you don't try to keep in check." The man continued.

"Who the hell are you?" Shadow reached for a kunai.

The man put his hands up to show he met no harm. "I can see many things child, one of those things is the struggle inside your own soul."

A part of Shadow wanted to hear what the man had to say but for the most part he wanted the man to leave.

"If you try to resist its grip you end up weakening yourself, if you don't fight it the darkness will consume you." The man continued. "You must control your darkness and make it your own power."

Shadow's hands clenched on the Kunai handle. The hood kept Shadow's eyes from view but it look as if he was thinking over what the man had to say.

"I get what you're saying old man but…" Shadow looked towards the ground.

"I understand…you need time to think this over." The man reached into his cloak and pulled out a card.

"Whenever you are ready this card will take you to my location." The man offered the card and Shadow accepted.

"The card only last for a week before it expires so chooses wisely." The man then left the clinic leaving Shadow to his thoughts.

(Flashback end)

A shockwave of dark energy and sacred energy sent the two flying across the ground. As the two got up Rose shot him another look of hate.

"You left, a week after you left." Rose said in a low voice.

"I had no choice but to leave, I…" shadow tried to reason.

"Shut up!" Rose yelled her hate seemed to amplify her powers. "You left, all you left were this ring and a note, and you wrote something about trying to protect me but…"

Power exploded from Rose as her Rinnegan began to gain power. "YOU RAN, ALL YOU DID WAS LEAVE!"

Shadow struggled as the raw power itself seemed to push him back as it exploded from Rose.

'It must have been heartbreaking; I was the only attachment she had but…' Shadow raised his grimoire once more.

"I did leave; I left you so that I could better control my own powers but…" Shadow held the gauntlet in front of him.

"What I said was what you needed to hear, you needed to follow your own path now!" Shadow yelled. "And now, instead of leaving a message I'm going to beat that message into you!"

BlazBlue Activated!

The aura of the Black Beast once again shrouded Shadow's form as he called upon the azure. The stress on his body double from once again using the weapon but he didn't care, what mattered was ending the battle now.

"Let's finish this now!" Shadow raised his scythe and poured as much power as he can into the blade. Lunar Destroyer grew in size and began to let out a demonic laugh.

"Shadow!" Rose brought both of her hands together and prepared her technique.

Lunar Destroyer!

The attack slashed through the ground and continued its journey towards Rose. Rose just opened up her arms and allowed the technique to connect; the technique began to be absorbed into Rose's body.

"What?" Shadow yelled.

"Haha, I could never summon enough energy to use this technique, SO THANK YOU FOR SUPPLYING IT FOR ME!" Rose held her hands to the sky and summoned her ultimate technique.

Planetary Devastation!

A black sphere of gravity appeared and began to draw all things around it into it. The barrier kept the audience unharmed but the ground was pulled into the attack. Shadow tried to resist but was slowly being drawn to the sphere.

'What do I do, what do I do?' Shadow kept asking himself as he used his power with gravity to keep himself on the crumbling ground.

A crazy idea soon popped into his mind. "It's now or never!"

Shadow let his gravity die and flew willingly towards the sphere. All of Kurotsubasa cried out as they saw him fly towards the sphere.

"Shadow!"

"You can't lose?"

"Fight back nya!"

"Don't give up Shadow!"

"You crazy idiot, don't you dare die on us again!"

As soon as Shadow was close to Rose he allowed gravity to pull him back to earth. Rose could only watch as Shadow descended with his right arm now a demonic claw of energy.

The end!

As soon as the attack connected, large tendrils of energy erupted from Rose's body and into the sky. The Devoured by Darkness did its job and drained Rose of most of her energy. The sphere of gravity died as the two fell to the ground.

"Wow, amazing, after that explosive finish both of them are down, who will be the one to claim victory?" Plugman announced.

"Hold your horse there my announcing friend it seems they are rising up again!" Kyoto called everyone's attention.

Shadow and Rose both slowly got to their feet. While it was certain that Rose had received the greater amount of damage the two looked as if they could fall any second.

"Why?"

The question Rose kept asking as they stood at least an inch from each other. "Why did you have to leave?"

The question wasn't what shocked Shadow, it was what happened next. Rose then began to silently cry. "Did you really have to leave, to just vanish from my life?"

(Flashback)

Rose slowly began to open her eyes as she got up from her sleeping bag. A week had passed since the incident and they had camped in a forest close to the town. Rose looked down at her new scar for a bit before dressing herself in her clothes.

"Shadow, what are we going to do today?" Rose asked as she got out of her tent. Rose looked and saw that the fire was going and there were a few rabbits that she assumed was their breakfast but Shadow's tent and supplies were gone.

"Shadow?" Rose began to look and saw on the side of her tent was a note. She tore it off and began to read.

Dear Rose,

After what had happened I taught something that I didn't want to admit. I'm not strong enough, not nearly as strong as I want to be. I left to get stronger and to control a power deep inside of me.

I'm sorry that I had to go and leave but after all the training we've done I have one thing left to tell you. Find your own path, no one can fully teach you your own powers so go on and get stronger.

Shadow

Tears fell down on the note before it was crumpled in Rose's hands. 'Why why didn't you at least say goodbye?'

In a separate area Shadow had his hood down but his bangs shadowed his eyes. The old man stood as he saw Shadow walk towards him.

"When do we start?"

(Flashback end)

(Center of Existence by DJ Nate end)

"That's one of the reasons I left." Shadow said that got Rose's attention. "I always seem to hurt all those around me, either physically or emotionally."

"But now, I can do more than just hurt others." An image of Kurotsubasa and all its members appeared in his mind. "Several people convinced me that I can help as well as destroy."

"What I did I don't think I can apologize for but," Shadow paused to try and find the right words. "I can at least say this, you did well getting this far, you really did find your own path well."

The tears stopped as Rose heard what he had said. After a while Rose closed her eyes and raised a hand in defeat.

"I…I forfeit the…" Rose suddenly fell unconscious.

Shadow moved to catch her and saw that she had used all her energy.

"The battle is over, the battle is over, and the winner of the final match is Shadow!" Kyoto announced. "The winner of this round is Kurotsubasa!"

Naenia then walked to the stage towards Shadow. "I'll see she gets to the infirmary, she can be such a handful.

Shadow handed Rose to Naenia and watched her carry the girl to medical care. "Can I ask you a question?

"Go ahead" Naenia said.

"Did you know this was going to happen?" Shadow asked.

"No" Naenia simply answered. "Like Rose I needed to see the outcome for myself."

"You take care and win this tournament." Naenia continued to walk.

"What did you enter the tournament for if I may ask?" Shadow said.

"The money of course" Naenia answered.

"That's not what I'm asking." Shadow said.

"Fine then, I'll tell you his as clearly as I can." Naenia started. "Revenge"

"Don't lose that item on your wrist, if it comes down to it I will be the one to take it from you." Naenia then left the field.

Before Shadow can even think about that warning the rest of Kurotsubasa came to get him to the tents.

"You're alive, you're alive!" Ravena yelled as she gave the injured teen a squeezing hug.

"Rave your sort of crushing my spine!" Shadow yelled with a blush as Ravena's was pressed against him.

After Ravena let him go Shadow slumped along the ground, a chibi ghost Shadow tried to escape from Shadow's mouth before he regains consciousness.

"While all this is fun and all we need to get mister winner patch up." DB said.

"We also have things to talk about too." Key reminded them.

Shadow rose to his feet. "IT's ok I can walk on my…" Shadow finally passed out and was caught by Key and DB.

"Always wanting to carry the burden Shads, you need to learn what friends are for!" Bella called as they walked to the tents.

Illu laughed as they walked seeing that even while unconscious Shadow could acknowledge Bella with a quiet "Shut up."

_FANFICTION-WORLD_

"It seems like the wheel will keep turning after all." RoM said as he saw the results of the battle. "Let's just hope there will be a happy ending when this is all over."

RoM then closed a book before leaving to find a drink before the next match.

(Destiny)

"Wow, now I know Kage-Kun is really strong!" Aka let out a laugh as he began to envision their rematch.

"Patience Aka, we have to win this battle first." Sen said.

"It should be easy, most of the other team seems to mostly full of power drunken fools." The metallic giant said.

The team walked to the stage and noticed that Darkblade was missing its leader.

(Scene Change)

"So how does this work again?" Amaterasuice asked as Chaos made sure the machine was operation.

"Think of it as a miniature version of the barrier over the castle." Chaos began his explanation. "When this machine is activated during the finals, the whole stadium will be under a wave of madness."

"You plan on starting here; does the machine have enough power for that?" Amaterasuice asked.

"This is just a test drive; we are going to wait for a specific battle in the finals." Chaos started. "We shall see how much madness Shadow keeps locked away."

Chaos let out a maniacal laugh as he began to think of the destruction. Amaterasuice looked on as he too was curious about how much darkness and madness Shadow can hide.

TBC…

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Next time on FFW, Kurotsubasa began to talk about the new information about Chaos but even they do not know about what may have happened to Illu. At the same time the two opposing teams Darkblade and Destiny begins their battle on the tournament stage. Whichever team wins will spell out a new powerful team Kurotsubasa has to defeat and who is the man who appears to know about the Wings of Creation.

Next time: Chaotic Destiny, The Darkness within my heart?

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