Twenty-One: Dancing Blades
This side of the Capital is dark, abandoned, a place that was once uninhabited has two dueling visitors, Akame dashes towards Razentas with inhumane speed, Razentas smirks as one of his bladed appendages reaches towards her, she deflects the first one, but the second appendages swipes behind her, she was able to react by blocking with her sword, but she was sent tumbling over the ground. Razentas leaps into the air and dives down, all of his blades ready to impale at Akame, Akame rolls away, as his blades impales the ground in her place. Razentas grunts as he continuously tries to pull his appendages-like spikes off the ground, Akame darts towards him, about to slash at his arm, as Razentas turn and sees Akame about to slash him, he grins wide.
"Gotcha…" Razentas gloated.
One of his appendages were free and strikes at Akame, sending her down to the ground once more. With one more heave coming from him, he breaks free from the ground and lunges at Akame as she regains her steps, she dodges from Razentas' insane assault he's giving to her. Akame and Razentas strike their blades with incredible speed and reaction, Razentas' abomination of a teigu attack simultaneously, however, Akame was able to deflect every lightning-fast attacks Razentas can deliver unto her. Akame attempts to make a multitude of slashes at swings of attacks right at Razentas, but his teigu deflects back in return. Akame notices his nightmarish weapon as she deflects the unison attack of his blades.
"Is this a teigu?" Akame asked.
"Good eyes, better knowledge…" Razentas mocks her.
His teigu shoves Akame several feet away. Akame stands back up, Razentas starts to walk, pacing back and forth, not taking his sights of Akame. Akame didn't remove her sights of him either, cluthing onto Daeva tightly, she waits for his next move, Razentas starts to crawl with his footsteps, acting like extra limbs for the madman.
"Limbs of Nightmare's Dreams: Endergate" Razentas comments, lecturing Akame of the nightmare of a weapon literally bolted behind his back.
"An assault-type teigu in a form of an exoskeletal-spine with six spider-appendages-like spikes each possessing 4 joints in each limb and all tipped with a sharp blade for an end…."
He charges at Akame, two of his appendages-spike darts towards her, she makes a big left turn, dodging the limbs and running across the top of the appendages, running towards Razentas, about to slash him up, but as she goes closer, two other appendages reaches after her and shoves her away, but not before she was able to deliver a strong kick directly to Razentas' chest. Razentas simply laughs as his reaction. He continues to discuss about his teigu.
"The wielder can control this 'limbs' like they were his own, it takes a whole lot of effort to even make one limb move…"
Two of his appendages stomps onto the ground, lifting him off his feet, two more supports him, raising him high, he laughs as his 4 limbs act as long 'legs', he crawls at Akame, Akame runs as Razentas tails on her, his remaining 2 limbs tries to strike down at her like tailes from scorpions, but Akame was able to dodge it all, she sees a nearby wall, she run towards it, kicks onto the wall, using physics, she used the recoil that pushes herself directly at Razentas, she swipes of of his appendages of the ground, making Razentas role over the floor, but all of his spikes stabs the ground, keeping him from rolling, they lift him up and gently places him down, Razentas smirks as he could see Akames struggling to take him down, Akame focuses onto the vulnerable user, trying to find an opening, but with six bladed appendages for extra limbs, she's forced into the corner. Akame and Razentas charge at each other once again, clashing their ominous teigus onto one another, spakrs starts flying over the empty ghost town, Razentas sees an opening, he kicks Akame right at her belly, catching her attention, as she reacts from the sudden pain, Razentas scissor-kicks Akame, and flips her over the ground, Akame quickly stand back up.
"Seeing you still standing after all of this, the rumors of slaying Esdeath do you justice…" Razentas taunts her, "It's a shame she chose the wrong side as well…"
She makes one more charge, Razentas smiles as he is about to leap onto Akame and rip her apart, the sound of air breaking caught Razentas' ears, he punches Akame as they both back off from one another, from the skies, Wave, donning his teigu, Grand Chariot and Mastema, comes crashing down directly towards Razentas, striking him with his signature move, 'Grand Fall Flugel'. He sends Razentas rolling over the ground, far away. He walks towards Akame, Akame nodded at his presence. They both make their stand, ready for Razentas to leap onto them. Razentas' teigu stabs the ground one limb at a time, slowly lifting him all the way up, just looking at such a scene is nightmarish, even making Wave have goosebumps. It is as if you were right in the horror movie.
"This is getting way out of hand…" Wave commented.
"Good that you catch up…" Akame commented, "I can't find a good opening with those arms around…"
Razentas is slowly risen up high, like a possessed man, he laughs maniacally. His spikes breaks out of the ground in unison and Razentas lands on his feet. He cackles at the sight of Wave and Akame, Razentas places his finger and thumb onto his mouth and makes a whistling sound. Wave charges directly at him like a missile, ready to hit him with a straight, hard punch. Within moments, a large figure charges between Wave and Razentas, he swings its heavy right arm, hammering Wave away like a baseball bat, he is pale white and muscular, covered with scars and burns, he dons an armored greaves, black pants and armored boots, he dons a helmet with a black skull and a mountain ram attached to it, it makes an inhumane wailing, this is Cherno, he goes over towards Wave, he picks him up and tosses him towards one of the buildings. He slowly turns around and walks away, with Razentas about to follow him, he turns and makes a wide smile towards Akame, who stares back at him, his appendages-like spikes swipes through the ground, creating a smokescreen that covers the surrounding area, as Akame covers herself from the smoke, Wave leaps out of the building and beats Mastema, blowing the smoke away. As he turns and tries to look around, the two disappeared, he curses as he lands back to the ground. Akame approaches him, Wave looks at Akame.
"He got away…" Akame said blankly.
"I could see that…" Wave laughed, "What damages has he done this time?"
"A very massive one…" Akame sighed.
Within the Palace walls a mass of people hold a riot, angered, wildered, tempted by the words of a madman they see as an honest prophet who brings them the truth. They scream, they shout, they curse at whoever can hear them from the opposite side of the wall. The guards assembles at the wall opposing to the other side, ready to protect whatever's left of the Palace. The masses scream with anger and distraught from the other side.
"You people are no different with that fat bastard after all!" several cries came from the masses.
"You're just trying to take over all for yourselves!" another shouted as well.
"If you Rebels have enough balls to take over, let yourselves out here and face us!" several more cries joins in.
Some of them attempt to crawl up to the walls, but they're not spiders, they keep sliding back down. But their blinding anger keeps them from calming down. They continue to hold their mad riot from outside the walls, the guards cannot do anything with the mob outside the opposite side of the wall, Tatsumi quickly rushes in.
"What's happening here?" Tatsumi asked one of the guards.
"Some lunatic has turned the citizens against us…" one of them reported to him.
"Which one?" Tatsumi asked.
"All of them…" the second guar stuttered.
"We can't lay a finger on them…" the first guard added, "If we do that, they would surely become more hostile…"
"But maybe we can scare them a little…" The voice of Incursio told Tatsumi.
Tatsumi's face turns pale. He waves to both guards to take cover and tell the other guards to fall back, many of them do so, Tatsumi looks at the wall, he inhales softly.
"Here goes nothing…"
As loud as he can, he lets out a loud and powerful roar up to the skies. Scaring both the guards from inside the Palace, as well as the masses from the opposite side of the wall. The masses panic at the sound of a monster roaring, since Tatsumi's roar is heading upwards, they can't tell where is it coming from, panicking, afraid, and convinced, the masses dispersed and run for their lives. The roar echoes from miles, along the way, Akame and Wave heard the powerful roar, shocking Wave the most.
"Was that a Danger-Beast?" he gasped.
Akame shook her head and chuckles.
"It is, but not the one you should be worrying about…" Akame commented.
Wave looks at her with confusion.
After roaring for what it felt like 30 whole seconds, Tatsumi falls to his knees, breathing heavily, using every ounce of energy he has to let it out.
"A magnificent roar, if I do say so myself" Incursio gloated.
"Ohh shut up…" Tatsumi chuckled weakly.
Hours has passed since they started, Mugen throws several right cross punches towards Leone, as she ducks every single one of his attacks, he drive a right uppercut towards her belly, as she is surprised by the attack, Mugen grabs hold of her and lifts her up, about to slam her to the ground, but Leone hits his face with a right knee, she grabs hold of Mugen and throws him to the ground, Mugen was about to stand up, until Leone pins him down, she smiles as she slowly gets up, she offers him a hand, to which he holds on to, she pulls him back to his feet, As Mugen rubs his left wrist, Leone pats him on the back.
"Just a few more spars…" she thought to herself.
"And if he manages to keep this up, he may actually have a teigu of his own…" the last thought made her laugha little.
"What's so funny…" Mugen asked.
"Nothing…" Leone replies, "Alright…another sparring match…"
Mugen smirks with delight, he punches his two fists together, both Leone and Mugen bow to each other, and then they charge towards each other, their bodies ready to let out another fiery fight.
What would happen next? Now that the Capital is literally against the very faction that were on their side, and now that Mugen finally gets to be part of the big fight, will he even get a teigu? or will he end up being a meat-bag? Stay tuned for the next chapter of Leone's Roar: Kill the Sins, please post reviews and like the story, *rawr*