Sorry this took so friggen long. For some reason this one just wasn't flowing so nicely as the others have when I type them up, here it is! And this is where all that action starts~ ;)
Reviews will be in the next update! :)
I apologize for the way (again) and the fact this chapter is so ridiculously small, but I'll make up for it, promise! :)
Next chapter is where Nagare and Mikoto have it out, so be prepared. I had a lot of fun typing up the fighting scene, but I still have a lot left to do! ;)
BREAKING POINT – 10
Temptation – Part II
As the airship neared its landing point (or rather, crashing zone), it picked up immense speed and pierced through the Gray King's fog with ease. Said King, who had been facing against the Blue King, watched in shock as the Silver King's vessel crashed several yards away from the opening to the Green clan's underground base.
Tenkei smirked as he looked back at Munakata, "It's unlike you to be a decoy, Reisi."
"You misunderstand," Munakata smiled, "That had nothing to do with me. Perhaps it was the other Kings who are behind it, but as it stands I am still your opponent," His azure eyes shifted to the man standing off to the side, "Be ready."
"Sir," Zenjo nodded, "I suspect the others will be arrive shortly."
Munakata nodded, "Knowing Miss Awashima, you're right."
Tenkei shot forward with the butt end of his gun held high and aimed for Munakata, "Don't take your focus off me, Reisi!"
Munakata barely managed to dodge the attack, as he readied his sword to make his own move.
. . .
"Is everyone alright?" Shiro asked as he watched all of the Red clan jumping out the crushed compartment after the crash landing.
As everyone nodded, his eyes traveled over to Neko and Blake, who were watching as Kuroh helped Kaori down from a spot she'd gotten stuck in.
"Alright, now that we're all good, let's go in and get into place," Shiro smiled, following closely as everyone jumped into action.
One by one, all of HOMRA split up and cleared their assigned floors. Kusanagi and Yata went a head of the others to better clear where they needed to be in order to set the pace for the three Kings and Kaori as they made their way to the bottom of the base.
After hearing from all of the boys, Kusanagi looked back at Shiro and Blake as they approached, "I just heard from everyone. We're all in position aside from Yata."
"I gave him a special mission," Blake looked at him.
Kaori stood off to the side as Mikoto kept her in his sight, "Let's get this over with."
Kaori eyed the Red King momentarily before following him and the other Kings down a long, narrow corridor towards the lowest level of the base. When they arrived at the bottom of the stairs after defeating a horde of enemy U-rank players that were positioned in the halls to stop them, they reached a large set of double doors.
"This is where we split up," Shiro looked back at everyone, "Blake, you're still going with Kaori?"
Mikoto was the one who answered, "I'll be going with her."
Kaori narrowed her eyes slightly but didn't complain, however Blake had a lot to say.
"The hell, Suoh!" Blake glared, "We had a deal!"
Mikoto narrowed his eyes at her, "I don't give a damn. She has her reasons for why she wants to ring Nagare's neck, and so do I."
"You're not going in there."
Mikoto stepped forward, his aura flaring and his eyes ablaze, "You're going to stop me?'
Kuroh bravely stepped between the two, "Enough, we're not here to fight amongst ourselves. We are here for the retrieval of the slates and to defeat the Green King."
Mikoto and Blake stared each other down until finally, she scoffed and crossed her arms, "Fine, but I'm coming with you. I need to silence the slates before their Weissman level reaches its peak."
"Whatever," Mikoto brushed her off and held a blazing fist up, "Just don't get in my way."
With that, Mikoto hauled his fist back before slamming it into the middle of the double doors with enough force to send them flying into the bright expanse of the room waiting for them on the other side. Much to annoyance, more of the U-ranks had been waiting and aimed their high powered weapons at them all.
Mikoto smirked, activating his sanctum as his body was consumed by fire. With a harsh kick off the ground, he shot forward and ran straight for the men as they fired their weapons at him. Cries of outrage to the fact none of the bullets could penetrate the Kings personal shield of the flames made them all holler loudly and fire erratically. With every twist and turn he made, Mikoto made sure to hit each and every one of the fifteen men in his way with the brunt of his rage.
"Damn," Blake frowned, "He's letting his flames take control. How the fuck are we going to handle him if he loses it?"
"He won't," Kaori said as she stepped forward, "If it comes to that, I will temporarily disarm his sanctum in the only way I can with this body."
The Gold King frowned, "That's right, you're still connected to him."
"That's right," She smiled before walking forward to follow Mikoto through the trail of ash left from the bodies Mikoto had incinerated, "Shall we, Gold King?"
Blake nodded slowly and followed with everyone else, listening to the sounds of walls crumbling and small explosions as Mikoto hastily cleared a path for them. Shiro felt his aura pull to the fact that Mikoto was millimeters away from losing control, knowing he was trying to postpone that very moment for when he was standing in front of the Green King.
"Kuroh," Shiro looked at him, "When the time comes, get out of here. King's orders."
Kuroh frowned and nodded, "Alright."
Neko looked at Shiro worriedly, "Shiro?"
He did his best to give her a calm smile, but he didn't fool her.
"Get them!"
"It's the Red King, watch out!"
"Use the plasma rockets!"
As Mikoto continued running forward, five men waited with enormous weapons at the ready. His lips pulled into a smirk as the tips began to light up and took in power, before launching what he could tell were compressed projections of the Green King's own power. Dodging the first three easily, Mikoto swung his body around with his right fist ablaze and slammed his knuckles right into an on-coming fourth bullet, effectively stopping it in its tracks and causing it to ricochet off his own powers back towards the men. With the fifth bullet, he did the same thing and followed them back to the men.
"Get out of the way!"
Mikoto lurched forward and grabbed two of them by their heads with an iron-like grip, causing them to yell out in pain as they struggled but it was in vain. Faster than the bullets could have destroyed them, Mikoto set them on fire before going after the last three.
"Mikoto, you fool," Blake bit the fleshy part of the tip of her thumb, "He's fucking enjoying this!"
Kaori smiled, "Why rob him of his chance to let out all of the pent up rage? Let him be. He's still in the safe zone."
"How can I know that for sure when you're taking pleasure in watching him annihilated these men?"
An eerie, almost terrifying smile crossed the beautiful Red Queen's face, "You'll see."
. . .
"Damn it," Kusanagi grunted and continued taking down more and more men and women that continued to rush into the base to stop them, "There's no end to you all, is there?"
After hitting several others with the flames produced and amplified from his lighter, Kusanagi continued fending off the assault as they continued to flood through the hall. Above him, he could hear the other HOMRA members engaging their enemies and wondered if they were all doing alright.
Meanwhile, Yata pushed through an entire barrage of JUNGLE U-ranks as he kicked his foot down on the floor to propel his board faster. He was on a personal mission given to him by Blake, and also from the Blue King.
"Damn it, Saru," Yata muttered angrily, "You better not fucking die on me!"
- x -
"They're almost here, Nagare," Yukari turned and looked at his King, noticing the green lightning was now cackling around the younger male, "Shall I go and say hello?"
Nagare nodded, his eyes never leaving the glowing slates, "Yes, please do," Finally, he looked back at Yukari, "Be prepared. The Red King is almost at maximum capacity and is close to releasing, so he may pose a threat should he decide to let loose."
"Don't worry, I'm prepared to take them all on," Yukari smiled and excused himself.
Nagare turned his attention back to the slates and sat back against the plush back of his wheelchair, listening to Kotosaka as he pruned his feathers. On the floor above them, he could hear the commotion of the intruders facing off against the JUNGLE players, not at all concerned for their well-being. If the U-ranks couldn't hold off the Red clan, then he would welcome players that were capable of doing as they were instructed.
To him, they were stepping stones towards his goal. They were merely pawns in his game, or pieces on the chessboard. Nothing really mattered aside from his objective, and now that it was becoming a reality it was all he could focus on. He knew that Yukari and Sukuna were capable of handling themselves, so he wasn't worried that they couldn't return to him with good news. As for the Gray King, Nagare had more confidence in him than he was willing to admit.
Kaori, however, was his wild card.
After having her toss him around like a ragdoll and temporarily strip him of his powers, he had to rethink his plan of action when it came to her. Everything was going according to plan up until Kaen Suoh had been removed from his grasp, so he had to think fast.
Nagare thought he'd run out of options until an answer fell right into his lap.
With a smirk pulling at his lips, he closed his eyes and visualized how everything was playing out at that very moment.
. . .
Tenkei and Munakata continued a harsh exchange of blows as the Gray King continued to push the younger, less experienced King back. It amused him when 'Zenjo the Ogre' didn't come to the Blue King's aid, having repeated twice already that it was not his assignment.
"Reisi, you need to learn to let go," Tenkei smirked as he reloaded the revolving chamber, "What is it exactly that's holding you back? Are you afraid of something?"
Munakata heaved a heavy breath and ignored the blood trickling down the left side of his face, "You misunderstand."
"About what?" He chuckled, "You're young and inexperienced, kid. Take a page from an old man's book and learn to relax," Clicking the gun back together, he took aim and grinned, "Then again, you wouldn't be the Blue King if you weren't all bold propositions that fall only under your kind of way."
Munakata's eyes shifted several times as he tried to pinpoint Tenkei through the thick fog, "Hisui Nagare cannot be allowed to release the slates and bestow all humans with powers. That will cause chaos and the destruction of the civilization that we know of."
"Change is what we need in this world," Tenkei argued, "Without change we cannot evolve as a species."
"This world needs order," Munakata narrowed his eyes, "The late Gold King spent his entire existence trying to maintain the order and power he'd brought to Japan when he turned this into one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world."
Tenkei laughed, "That old coot had his time, and now it's Nagare's turn."
"He will plunge this world into oblivion," Munakata blocked several bullets shot at him before rushing forward with Sirius poised, "I will not allow that to happen!"
"It's out of your hands, kid!" Tenkei smirked and aimed an aura-powered bullet at him.
Suddenly, there were a series of explosions coming from way down beneath them underground that brought a smirk to Munakata's face, "Perhaps not."
. . .
"There's no fucking end to these people!" Blake growled as she aimed her palm towards several approaching U-ranks and shot a wave of golden aura at them, "By the time we've finally made a fucking dent, we'll be exhausted."
Shiro nodded, "That's probably Nagare's goal."
Blake frowned, noticing another battalion of Green's went up in flames as Mikoto continued to push forward, "I don't know what's worse, Shiro. All of these pricks, or the Red King smiling because he's having fun."
"Agreed," He sighed.
. . .
Mikoto smirked as he watched another man fall to his knees as the flames consumed his body. The Red King felt weightless and as if he could destroy anything with a single touch of his finger. The power coursing through him was extraordinary, and it continued to crash against his sanctum in waves. With each life he took, it seemed to intensify the sensations all over his body and drive his desire for more. Not only could feel his own power flaring, but he could also sense the bolster his lover gave him magnifying the effects of this all tenfold. She wasn't stopping him, nor was she activating the cap only she could produce.
Whatever it was that was in there seemed as though they agreed with letting the Red King rampage, only making his smirk widen.
Unfortunately for those around him, the flames had slowly begun to take control of his mind. The control he worked on for years was diminishing and the wall he'd built was foundering. Mikoto Suoh was ever so steadily being driven to madness within his flames that promised an inspiring oblivion after an amazing release of all his rage. It was these signs that so apparent but so invisible to him, bringing him closer to becoming another Kagutsu incident.
However, that didn't matter to him. He was drunk off the power flowing through him, and all he could see was the flames bowing to his very whim as he killed all who crossed his path.
Kaori could feel it within her own body, how dangerously close he was getting to losing himself. She'd tried pleading with the one currently in control of her body to try and stop him, but to no avail.
Mikoto...
"It's almost time."
Kaori's brows furrowed, "So it is."
It was at the final gate that all eyes were on Mikoto, who was staring up towards the roof at a figure perched close to the ceiling.
Yukari smiled, "Well, well, well. How nice of you all to pay us a visit, however it was completely unnecessary."
"So you're the last one I need to get through in order to get to Nagare?" Mikoto smirked and cracked his knuckles, "Good enough."
"Wait!" Shiro stepped forward, "Kuroh is the one who will take Yukari. The rest of us will push forward to the slates."
Mikoto looked at Shiro and then to Kuroh, who was already walking forward as Yukari leapt from his perch and landed across from them. With no objections, Mikoto watched as Kuroh walked forward with Kotowari drawn and poised in front of him. Yukari smirked and unsheathed Ayamachi, he too taking a stance as he commented on how much change he could already see in such a short amount of time.
Briefly, the elder swordsman's eyes drifted to the brunette standing off to the side behind the group, earning a narrow-eyed look from the Red King.
"Get your eyes off my wife," Mikoto said in a low, dangerous voice.
Yukari smiled, "My apologies. It's been such a long time since I've seen her, I just wanted a moment to admire her before everything happens."
Both Kaori and the manifested black aura controlling her narrowed their eyes at Yukari's words, "Before what happens?"
"You'll see," Yukari said softly before looking back to Kuroh, "Now then. Unless you can defeat me, you won't be able to stop me from going after all of the Kings to take them down before they reach Nagare."
Kuroh watched him closely, "I will be your one and only opponent, Yukari. Don't take your eyes off me."
"As you wish."
Again, SO SORRY this is so short. :(
Hopefully I don't suffer from premature writers block for the last few chapters, or else this is going to be a LONGGGGGG few days ahead of me. LOOL
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas Eve and morning, and are enjoying all your dinners and prezzies! :)
I love you all so much and hope you all have a wonderful rest of the evening (it's supper time here where I am) and I shall see you all shortly! Next chapter should be up within the next couple of days!
~ Kayori, out!
