Family Ties

Chapter 14: Infiltrating the compound

"Is this the place?" Ichi asked

"Yeah, this is the Faye Ling compound." Shiisaa answered

Ichi's POV

So this is where my mother comes from, in there lies the person who's been trying to kill me for years. The person who's even tried to use my own cousin to kill me, that person... is my grandfather. I can't forgive for what he's done, Po asked "So how do we get in?"

"Leave that to me." I answered

I walked to the door which was gaurded by two warriors with spears, I could tell that everyone was confused. I could hear Xiaomu asking "What is he doing?"

"I bet he's gonna use one of his new moves." Po said, excited

"Hey kid, what do you want?"

"Why are you here?"

"Don't worry, it'll be over soon enough: Devils Blink!" I exclaimed, as my eyes glowed blue I said "You guys look tired, why don't you take a nap for a couple of hours?"

"Yes my lord." They obeyed

They instantly fell asleep after I asked them to, when everyone came over Po asked "Wasn't that your power to control people?"

"Yeah, you see a friend of a certain someone gave him the name." I explained "I liked the name, so I asked him if I could use it, and he said sure."

(A/N: I'd like to thank Azure millenium for giving me the name 'Devil's blink' I hope you can help me make more attacks.)

"Alright let's go!" Shiisaa exclaimed

"Wait, there might be more gaurds waiting for us inside." Shifu explained

"Who cares, I'll bust a cap in all of their asses!" Xiaomu said, grabbing her guns

"Yeah, let's bust some caps!" Fu agreed

"Wait a minute, those gaurds look weird." I said "I can see a dark forboding coming from them."

It's weird, my right eye could see what those gaurds looked like on the inside; they looked menacing and murderous. Crane asked "So if their not normal, than what are they?"

"... Their demons." I answered

"What, so Hong has been using demon gaurds?" Shiisaa asked "I always thought they were distant relatives I never knew about, I guess we have to fight through them."

"No, I'll take care of this." I assured him

"No way, I'm helping!" Po exclaimed

"So are we!" Mantis agreed

"Don't worry, their weak lesser demons." I assured them "Besides, Kageichi has been dying for some blood. And to tell the truth... so have I."

When I opened the door, over a hundred gaurds stared at us with swords and spears in their hands; I could feel the bloodlust coming from my blade, and I could also feel it coming from me.

"It's him, it's the dark one!"

"Kill him, kill him!"

Shiisaa's POV

"Quickdraw!" Ichi exclaimed

Ichi attacked with one slash, but it looked like a dozen when he killed over ten gaurds; he kept decapitating and slicing them in half. The look on his face was horrifying, his smile was demonic and it looked like he was enjoying it. "Black Devourer!"

He stabbed the sword into the ground and their shadows grew hands and grabbed the gaurds bodies; as they pulled them in large teeth devoured them all leaving blood everywhere. Ichi turned around to show his face covered with blood and showing a demonic smile. "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! I am so high on life right now, or maybe I'm losing my mind... probably both, hahahahaha!"

"Ichi, what you did was... Totally brutal!" Xiaomu exclaimed "That was so awesome, do it again!"

"Next time, right now I need to calm down before I go insanely murderous." He explained "There's more coming!"

He was right, more and more gaurds came in and tried to attack but Po and the five attacked them. Shifu exclaimed "Go, we'll take care of this!"

"But."

"This is something both you and Shiisaa have to do." He explained "No matter what happens, you have to make sure you win."

"Suiren Ni no Kata!" Xiaomu exclaimed, attacking more gaurds with her sword "Hurry up, we can finish them off!"

"Right, Ichi let's go!" I shouted

"Right!"

We went further into the compound until we made it into the last door. This felt weird, like we were at the final boss of some game. "You feel it to right?"

"Yeah, you think that we can do this by ourselves?" I asked "Hong's the leader of the Faye Ling clan, meaning that's he's the strongest warrior here."

"But were the descendant of the black beast and one of the six heroes." Ichi explained "Even though titles don't mean much to me, I think we can win with that."

"You're right, let's go!"

When we opened the door we found Hong pointing a sword at my fathers neck. "Dad!"

"Shiisaa, you dare come back with that abomination." Hong snorted "Have you no shame."

"Shut up, if you try to hurt my father... I'll kill you!" I retorted

"Grandfather Hong, before we fight I want to talk to you." Ichi explained "Why would you do all this, why would you do all of this just to kill me?"

Hong looked hesitant at first, but he said "You are the black beast, I tried to stop your mother from marrying that japanese commoner, but she didn't listen. She thought following her heart was better than following orders, what a fool! Her choice gave both to the creature destined to destroy all of humanity, which is why I ordered everyone to kill you. But when we found the house it was burned in a fire along with your parents dead corpses, I could tell you survived but the rest of the clan gave up, they thought even though you were the black beast you should have a chance to live happily. You don't deserve anything but death, you are nothing but an apocalyptic monster! That's why I used the power of demons, so I could find and kill you, but when I heard that my sons child was a descandant of the heroes that killed the black beast I thought it would be perfect, but you brainwashed him and made him your slave! Now I'll finish you off myself, I will be the hero of this world!"

"You're a fool!" Ichi exclaimed

Ichi's body had flames of rage circling him, he said "Why don't you understand, for ten years of my life I've been in isolation, I never asked for anything from anyone. Whatever I did I did with hard work, I lived through storms and other dangerous weather conditions. But all you could think about was trying to kill me, you even gave your soul to demons. As far as I can tell, you're the real monster! You think by killing me you'll become the savior of this world, don't make me laugh. There's only one truth to this. You, my own grandfather... You tried to kill me!"

I never seen him so mad before, he's even more mad than when I told him about Hong being our grandfather. But Hong just laughed and said "So what if I did?"

"YOU BASTARD!"

Before I could react, Ichi had already charged at him with a fist of flames; Hong pushed my father out of the way and blocked it with his sword, but the punch was so strong that he broke it and made a hit to his face. I rushed over to my dad and said "Dad, are you ok?"

"Nothing I can't handle, so is that him?" He asked

He stared at Ichi who was still attacking Hong with rage filled eyes, I answered "Yeah, that's Ichi."

"He's strong, just like his mother." Lao said, smiling

"Dad I want you to get out of here." I explained "Go help Xiaomu and the others."

"Alright, just be careful."

With my dad gone I directed all of my attention to Hong, but he had already grabbed Ichi by the neck. He was about to throw him to a wall but I intercepted it and grabbed him before he hit the wall, I asked "Are you ok Ichi?"

"Yeah, he's got demonic strength now." He groaned "We have to be careful, he's got more power now."

"Right, then let's go!"

The both of us charged with our swords, but he just grabbed them both like they were nothing. We tried to break free so we kicked him in the face and pushed him back. Ichi wasn't kidding, he really is strong. "So what do we do... Ichi?"

Ichi's left eye turned red and demonic like his right, he was using the black beasts power again. Ichi asked "Do you trust me?"

"Of course I do." I answered "What did you have in mind?"

"Just watch: Shadow Chains!" He exclaimed

I didn't know it at first, but then I saw my shadow connected to his with chains; Ichi then went off to attack Hong with his sword covered in black flames, he missed but he was able to hurt him with the flames. But right when Hong was about to punch him, Ichi shouted "Pull the chain!"

I pulled them with all my strength and Ichi automatically came back beside me. Now I know what this move is for. "Ok, so we work together?"

"Oh yeah." Ichi answered "You ready?"

"Definetly!"

Ready to show him what we got we shouted "Iku ze!"

We stormed right at him from different sides, and right when it looked like Ichi was about to attack he pulled the chains and gave me a chaince to land a direct hit with my sword; right when I attacked Ichi summoned his persona and said "Let's go, Thanatos!"

With both of their swords in black flames, they continuously attacked him at full strength. When they finished they exclaimed "Black Plague!"

Hong was engulfed in black flames, though he was injured he was still able to attack; that's where I realized my chance was right here and now! "Ichi, pull me towards you!"

When he pulled the chains, I formed a seal around me to protect me; and when Hong I attacked it, I countered and exclaimed "Kokuujin: Yukikaze!"

I struck him down and made him fall to his knees. He was hurt, now we just have to finish him off. "Now what?"

"Focus your power." Ichi commanded "We'll combine the power of both light and darkness."

"I don't know what to do, but I'll try!" I said, focusing

I still don't understand but I tried anyway, I focused all of my power into one being; when I did that I also felt the power coming from Ichi, I guess it was from the chain that was binding us together. I actually felt like we were one and the same.

"Let light and dark become one." We chanted

"Let the light shine in the dark." I chanted

"And let the darkness shade the light!" Ichi continued

Our blades along with our entire bodies became embodied and black and white light; power was coursing between us, we dashed straight through him and attacked on every side. We then jumped in the air and exclaimed "Endless Twilight!"

All the light that embodied us went into our swords, and when we swung them together they launched a devestating blast; the blast destroyed the whole area he was on, when the smoke cleared he was on the ground unconcious. "W-We did it!"

"Wahoo, you got knocked the hell out!" Ichi taunted "Boy, am I tired."

"Yeah, let's go meet the others." I said, smiling

Ichi's POV

I guess I was able to avenge my parents, I feel alot better now that it's over. But for some reason I sense this strange dark feeling coming from the room. That's when I heard Kageichi shout in my head "It's not over, he's not done!"

"What?"

When me and Shiisaa turned around we saw Hong changing into something else; he became a large lion, with a goat as it's second head, and a snake as it's tail. "A chimera, is that demon he sold his soul to?"

"Ichi look out!" Shiisaa exclaimed

Shiisaa pushed me out of the way, only to get hit by the snake and hurling towards a wall; I felt afraid, I didn't know what to do next. Am I going to die here?

"Now I will become the savior of this world!" Hong exlaimed

I was so scared that I couldn't move, but I remembered what Jubei told me about using both the power of the azure grimoire and the black beast at the same time. I knew what I had to do, I shouted "Shiisaa, I don't know what'll happen if I do this combo, so hurry up and get out of here!"

"No way, I'm not leaving you!" He argued

"Suit yourself." I agreed, I raised my right hand towards my face and chainted "Restriction 666 released, dimensional interruption imaginary number formed... Azure Grimoire... Activated!"

This felt different than the last few times I used this, the dark energy was dispersin from my hand but it felt like even more was coming out; it was like a giant malestrom was coming out the back of my hand, I actually laughed from the power that was flowing in me. "Now let me show you the power of the black beast and the azure grimoire. Welcome... to your apocalypse!"

Shiisaa's POV

The whole roof was destroyed from the power coming from Ichi's body, the clouds were becoming dark and destructive; black lightning was crashing down Hongs body, and under him was a giant coffin. Then demonic hands came from under the coffin and grabbed both his arms, legs, and tail. They pulled and forcibly ripped them apart, I couldn't believe the brutality that just happened here. When he fell to the ground he wuickly reverted back to his original form. "N-No, I'm supposed to be the worlds savior. I can't lose to you!"

"Do you want to see the black beast?" Ichi asked "Very well, let me show it's true form."

Ichi's body was engulfed in black flames, and when they disappeared he became the same giant monster from before; his teeth were snarling, and water was coming from his mouth. Wait... is Ichi gonna do what think he's gonna do?

"No, No please stop!" Hong shreiked

I was right, Ichi grabbed him in his mouth and started tearing his body with his teeth; he then hurled him towards a wall and smashed his head, he then started to put his body even further into his mouth until he swallowed him whole.

"I can't believe it." I said, stunned "Y-You... ate him."

To be continued

Man this is long, but damn Ichi went fatality on hong. I guess the final chapter will be next time, chapter 15 coming soon.