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Previously on Phantasy Star Universe – The Untold Legacy

Kuro reveals his final skill to manipulate photons and unleashes a new attack which has healed all his wounds and restored some of his strength. Well Jiro remembers the first time he meet vlad and reveals he was the one who originally trained him. Cain used the last of his energy to use his spirit shot and Ethan along with Karren are faced with Magashi using the first level of his SUV limit.

Episode 25 – Shadows of the Past Part 6 – Reinforcement's

(With Kuro)

"It's time for you to die"

The moment Kuro finishes his sentence he moves forward at inhuman speed slashing at Mordakai, the beast just barely moves out of the way just getting a small wounds across his chest. The beast slashes with his claw but kuro uses his sword to parry the attack and slash again across Mordakai's right arm this time. Mordakai whispers "seal release level 3 confirmed"

before he can continue Kuro appears behind him slashing downwards. Luckily the beast is able to use his quick reflexes and move out of the way before continuing to say "release achieved".

As he finishes a second claw appears on his free hand and charges in slashing Kuro across the chest, the guardian answers back with another slash hitting mordakai again, but this time releasing a small version of the photon wave that pushes the beast back. Kuro breaths heavily thinking 'I have 20 seconds left I can't waste them, with 2 seconds left I have to release everything in a photon wave' Kuro charges again slashing at mordakai who blocks with one claw and using the other to attack. Kuro just barely dodges out of the way and uses his sword to cut into the claw and through Mordakai's hand. The beast lets out an unearthly roar of pain as Kuro slashes at the beast again this time across his face. The beast is able to move back slightly escaping the full hit but still getting a cut across his nose. Kuro counting down the seconds gets to 5 before lifting his sword into the air and shouting "PHOTON WAVE"

The wave hits it's target but mordakai attempts to block it, the beast is pushed back several metres before he smirks as the energy wave disperses. Leaving just a few cuts on his arms and chest. Kuro drops to his knees completely out of energy before collapsing face first into the floor. Kuro breathing heavily says to himself "I needed more time"

Mordakai walks up to his opponent and kicks him over looking down at Kuro. The beast gunts before saying "you are not on my level you fool. But that doesn't matter as I will now put you out of your misery."

Mordakai brings his claw up to attack. Before the beast can lower his claw into Kuro he is hit in the chest by a photon bullet that sends him back several feet to the floor. Mordakai sits up immediately to see a guy with holding a rifle checking Kuro, before turning round to reveal Kura. Before Mordakai can get to his feet a fireball hits hits chest as Maya emerges from the trees. She kneels down by kuro and uses her staff to start healing before Kura says "leave this guy to me".

Mordakai jumps to his feet to face the older Nosawa before saying "stay out of this Guardian, this does not concern you".

Kura smirks before saying "I think it does concern me since this guy you have been beating up is my little brother".

The beast doesn't act like he cares at all before charging in at the ranger. Kura just aims with a smirk on his face as a photon launcher materializes in his hands before saying in a calm tone "DIVINE SHOT"

The beam from the launcher fires out engulfing the beast with little trouble. As the beam disperses Kura smirks as Mordakai is still standing but is missing his left shoulder and arm. the beast screams out in pain before shouting "you bastard, you will pay for this… just you wait,"

The beast takes an item from his belt before throwing it on the floor creating a smoke screen, the moment it disperses Kura notices Mordakai has disappeared.

Kura returns his photon launcher to his storage compartment before checking on Kuro. The swordman breaths heavily still been healed when he sees his brother, Kura asks "where are the others?"

Kuro shakes his head and says "I don't know, I got jumped by that guy. I told Ethan to continue after Magashi"

Kura lets a look of worry come over his face for a few seconds before asking "can you move?"

Kuro nods his head and sits up, Maya not happy about this says "Kuro stay down, Kura don't encourage him to move about until he is back to atleast acceptable health."

Kura looks away and says "your right, I'm going to find Jiro he headed out before I could. With his help we can take down Magashi"

Maya nods before Kura runs off into the woods. The newman woman turns back to Kuro and returns to her healing before saying "you'll be fine Kuro, Dawn will be here with some healers soon.".

Kuro can't help to smile before saying "well I hope rich girl hurries up. Just wake me when she does." Kuro closes his eyes and falls almost instantly to sleep.

(with Rogue)

The young newman watches cains attack in awe, until she sees the archer collapse. Before the casts can regroup rogue focuses her power and re-enforces her ice wall before running out to retrieve the archer. She picks him up and starts to drag him behind the ice wall. When they are both behind it she props him up and says mostly to herself "damn it, If I was stronger I could prevent crap like this from happening."

She closes her eyes as a tear escapes from her eyes, she feels a finger on her cheek wipe away the tear before hearing a voice say "don't cry, you look better when you smile"

Rogue opens her eyes and sees Cain looking very tired now trying to stand up. She quickly stops him and says "hey don't stand, you used a lot of power using that reckless move of yours."

Cain sits back down before saying "your right, I can barely move, but this fight is not over just yet."

Rogue shakes her head before saying "that doesn't matter, right now you are to weak to continue this fight, I will continue and finish it."

Before Cain can stop he Rogue stands and walks out the side of the wall before letting a smirk come over her face. Rogue takes out her knifes and gets into a fighting stance. Before she can attack a number of missiles fly over her head into the casts causing a lot of explosions, before Rogue can react to the first attack a photon beam sweeps through the casts destroying countless more Casts. Rogue looks up on the top of the ice wall and sees Carnage standing by the side of Lou both with there SUV limits active. The two unleash another volley of attacks destroying what is left of the casts. Carnage says to Lou "no more casts in the target area."

Lou scans over the battleground before saying "confirmed, hostile's neutralised."

Both guardian casts jump down from the ice wall landing either side of rogue before carnage says "Miss Newman we are here to retrieve you and Mr Hiro, please accompany us"

Rogue shakes her head before saying "get the archer, he is behind that wall I will follow shortly."

Carnage nods and goes to check on Cain. Rogue walks into the mass on destroyed Casts and rips a CPU core from one the casts before heading over to where Carnage and Lou are waiting. Carnage has Cain supported on his back.

(With Ethan and Karren)

Ethan pushes Karren out of the way of a laser from one of Magashi's SUV weapons, before charging in, unluckily not getting very far before a number of missiles force him to dodge about forcing him back where he started. Ethan curses heavily under his breath as he just barely dodges another shot from Magashi, this one missing his head by just a few inches. Ethan gets back into his ready stance and stares at Magashi who is now laughing maniacally at him. Karen steps up beside Ethan with her daggers ready says "he is too strong, if he keeps this up were not going to last long, his aim keeps getting better."

Ethan ignores the pessimistic view and charge in again against Magashi who instantly stops laughing and attempts to shoot Ethan. Ethan rolls under a laser shot and into a position to attack close range, Magashi seeing this de-equips his long range SUV and almost instantly close range weapons appear on his arms in the form of long wrist blades. Magashi cuts downwards in an arc but ethan manages to dodge out of the way in time. But that doesn't stop Magashi as he slashes down with his second blade, Ethan again only just escapes the attack. Karren seeing Ethan in trouble casts a foie which hits Magashi in the chest, forcing the cast back a few steps and halts the assault on Ethan. Ethan rolls back to his feet breathing extremely heavily but happy that once again he and Magashi are on close range terms. Ethan grips his beam saber tightly knowing he had no chance against the seemingly invincible cast but knew that he had to do something. Karren on the other hand was nearing her limit, she hadn't done much in the fight but the shot she had taken from Magashi when he had abducted her was still taking effect. She knew it had done some sort of internal damage to her but didn't know how much. She watches as Ethan Charges the casts, Magashi using the blade on his Left hand to parry the attack and his right arm to slash trying to take Ethans head off. The guardian just manages to duck up the blade and takes a second beam saber from his photon storage bringing it round just managing to strike the armour on the Casts side before Magashi moves back regrouping for the first time. Ethan just stands read to continue fighting even though he is nearly completely exhausted. Both Magashi and Ethan start circling each other looking for a weakness in the other, the cast trying to taunt Ethan says "if that is the best you can do kid then this is not going to be a lot of fun for me. Maybe I should of just ordered my army of Casts back at the church to kill you all instead of telling them to keep as many of you there as possible. I wanted my Revenge on you boy, you who despite my obviously superior skills and abilities was able to destroy one of my bodies, then even more surprisingly were able to shut down the FALZ project I launched upon my previous bodies destruction."

Magashi adjusts his stance into a more aggressive one before continuing "could it be all these years you have be slacking, not working to becoming more powerful, could it be that you are as weak as all humans are, you the one I saw as my only real threat. I real have no more time for you if this is the best you have."

Magashi runs in at Ethan and Ethan runs to met him, Ethan using his beam sabers to parry the first strike but unable to block a second and Magashi drives his second blade into the stomach of Ethan. The Cast pulls the blade out and leaves Ethan falling to the floor blood rushing from his mouth. Magashi walks over to Karen who fires multiple different tecs at Magashi none of them been able to halt his advance. Karen backs away from the approaching Cast trying to make some distance but not having much luck. Magashi starts laughing maniacally as he gets in striking range of Karen but before he can bring his blade down to strike two beasts jump from the trees, one using a claymore the other using a yellow beam saber. Both of them crash down hard with there attacks on Magashi forcing him back. Karen looks at the two in front of her and instantly recognises them as Leo and Tyler. Magashi doesn't have long to regain his footing as a third beast jumps through the trees using Leo and Tyler as a jumping pad and launching himself at Magashi his claw weapon driving into the chest plate of Magashi. The Cast again backs away as the small beast lands back with Leo and Tyler, the small beast been Tonnio. All 3 get ready to fight as magashi laughs loudly and says "very good, but your to late to save your precious group leader Ethan."

The casts throws an object on the floor which causes a portal to open. The 3 beasts charge forward to try and stop him but he ports out to quickly and the gate closes behind him. Karen quickly pushes passed the beasts and runs to Ethan who is still coughing up blood but is still alive. She quickly takes out her staff and starts healing him as the beasts walk over to them all with a worried look on there faces.

(with Jiro and Vlad)

Vlad only just been able to keep up with Jiro at seal release level 3, and Jiro's use of 2 double sabers wasn't helping Vlad in his attempt counter. Vlad stops his movement standing on a large branch of a tree catching his breath, looking down at the floor below he sees the result of the fight so far, more than 50 craters in the ground from where the force of there combined tech power had collided. There fight had been taken into the trees for a game of one ups man ships where the loser would end up dead. So far Jiro was winning and he had been able to damage one of Vlads beam sabers and been able to render his right hand useless. But Vlad knew he only had to keep this up for another hour and a half before the effects from the seal would become irreversible for Jiro. The problem was that Vlad knew he had no chance of keeping this game up for that long. Even going release level 3 himself he could keep it going for no more than 30 minutes before they would have to face each other. Vlad jumps from the branch he is on just in time as Jiro comes through cutting the branch from the tree in the process. Jiro disappears back into the tree biding his time until he can make his next strike. Vlad lands on the floor and immediately jumps into a different tree breathing heavily, he had only just heard Jiro before the strike had come and had only just escaped before been hit. Vlad shouts into the tree's "so are we just going to be playing games Jiro or are we going to fight."

Jiro listens trying to find where Vlad is but Vlad had projected his voice making it sound like it could be from anywhere. Jiro doesn't say anything knowing that vlad is just using this to try and locate where he is. Jiro kneels down on the branch he is on spying out where Vlad is. Jiro remembers back to one of the last times he had fought Vlad before he had joined the darkness, they had played this very game in training. Vlad had won then, and he was winning now, Jiro knew the risks of the seal but had to use it to match Vlads power. Jiro closes his eyes before thinking 'like this there is no way I can win.' He opens his eyes before jumping out of the tree he is in and lands on the floor the moment he does Vlad smashes through the tree and continuing down in a slashing motion towards the master of the 4 swords. Jiro smirks as he stretches his arms out to the sides of him and starts spinning the double swords in his hands rapidly until it is impossible to see anything of them apart from a green glow. As this happens Vlad continues to get close no bothered by the actions of his former teacher just intent on killing him. Jiro continuing to spin the swords smiles up towards Vlad and says "Forbidden Photon Arts – Twin Saber Style – Photon Shield"

As Jiro finishes the green glow surrounds him entirely. Vlad not been able to stop hits the glow and is thrown backwards, flying more than 10 foot before landing on his back. Jiro continues spinning his swords before saying to Vlad "every time we have ever thought I have always held back. No one has ever seen my maximum. But I am going to give you the pleasure of been the first on last to see everything I have."

Jiro watches as Vlad starts to get to his feet before throwing both spinning swords towards him. Vlad sees the blades coming but is not able to move as the first one hits him straight in the shoulder and continuing on. the second sword slashes across the side of the face of Vlad again continuing on. Vlad almost instantly gets back to his feet and charges forward his beam saber active towards the defenceless Jiro. Just before Vlad stabs Jiro both sabers come boomeranging back, the first one cutting off Vlads left arm leaving him weaponless and the second piercing through his back. Jiro catches the first double saber continuing to keep it spinning before saying to his ex-student "I'm sorry this has to happen".

Jiro brings the spinning doubles sword down but before it makes contract Vlad stabs Jiro in the stomach with a new beam saber.

Episode End

Next time on Phantasy Star Universe – the untold legacy

Jiro and Vlad continue there fight with Jiro going all out even thought he knows it will kill him.

Next time in Episode 26 – Seal Release level 4 revealed

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