Hello Guys, Grills and Others – BzS here
First of all, sorry for the prank last time, I was feeling in a prank-y mood and even Rick Rolled a few friends for no reason. I apologize, it was a bad joke.
Secondly, I wanna make the announcement that I will be putting 'Scars and Love' on hold until I finish Blade of Tempest just because I want to finish this Fanfiction and then focus all my attention to the other.
Lastly. Today's Fanfiction will be split into parts focusing on each of the battles, it will all be in third-person.
Anyways, let's get started. Let the shit hit the fan.
Latre!
Bulat ducked another punch, but felt the force of the wind brushing against his head.
'I'm slowly getting the concept of his Teigu.' He thought to himself.
'It can increase the power of his punches by tenfold by utilizing an increase of gravity as momentum.'
Bulat had reached to this conclusion because the direction of Budo's punches are always angled diagonally downward.
'If that's the case, it limits his potential attacks and options.' Bulat smirked under his mask and dodged another punch, retaliating with his own. It was blocked and Bulat felt like he was trying to break through a 10 feet thick steel wall.
For a man who looked, walked, and talked like a freaking possessed rock he was stupidly agile and quick to defend. Not to mention, his increased gravity prevented him from being knocked back, knocked up, or even moved for that matter.
If it wasn't for Bulat's evolved armor this fight would've been over a while ago. Bulat jumped back and began thinking up a plan.
Bulat jumped back and pulled out his spear.
He burst forwards and stopped next to Budo, swinging the spear, but Budo grabbed the handle of the spear, stopping the edge right in front of his nose.
Bulat smirked and let go of the spear, sending a punch at Budo.
What he didn't expect, was for his body to fall to the ground.
Bulat grit his teeth as he fought against the gravity.
"H-how?" He said faintly.
"The smaller the area of increased gravity I create, the more the gravity increases by." Budo replied.
Bulat understood what was going on. Incursio had evolved to adapt to Budo's gravity, but this gravity field was several times stronger than before.
Given a few minutes, Incursio would be able to adapt to the new gravity.
But…
Budo raised his hand, a small black sphere appeared.
Bulat felt a burning pain in his stomach.
A large hole appeared in his gut as he spat out blood.
Bulat fell to the ground and laid there, face down.
He slowly closed his eyes, trying to resist the urge to drown in darkness, knowing that the moment his eyes closed, he would never open them again.
'Is this how it ends? One stupid mistake.'
An image appeared in his mind.
Tatsumi lying, seemingly dead on the floor.
Rage welled up inside his chest.
His eyes shot open just before they closed.
"INCURSIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Esdeath was dodging smashes from Susanoo left and right, each time returning a slash either cutting off a limb or slicing open a body part, but Susanoo did not bat an eyelash, quickly regenerating and attacking.
Esdeath was getting slightly bored.
"This is disappointing, let's end this here." She said nonchalantly. Dodging another swing and lunging forward, placing a hand on his face.
"Freeze." She pushed him back as he instantly froze.
Najenda's eyes widened as Susanoo's frozen form flew past her.
"Susanoo!" She yelled turning around.
"I respected you as a commander, is this really all you've got?" Esdeath said while waiting.
She was looking for entertainment, defeat was not even a possible outcome in her mind.
Najenda grit her teeth before extending her hand.
"Magatama Manifestation!" She yelled.
Behind her, Susanoo's necklaced glowed a golden yellow. Yellow energy flew from Najenda to Susanoo and the ice trapping Susanoo shattered.
"Susanoo! Defeat Esdeath!" Najenda yelled.
Susanoo nodded and immediately flew towards Esdeath.
His speed and strength had increased significantly, but Esdeath dodged all his attacks smoothly.
"Oh? This is your Trump card huh? Not bad, not bad at all." She said catching a punch.
"But still, this is not nearly enough to defeat me." She jump back and waved her hand, ice stakes flew towards Susanoo.
Susanoo placed his hands in front of him and a mirror appeared.
"Yata no Kagami!" The ice stakes flew right through the glowing mirror, a few moments later it came out and towards Esdeath.
Esdeath brought up an ice wall that blocked all the stakes.
"Ame no Murakumo!" A large sword appeared in Susanoo's hands as he ran at Esdeath, slicing through her ice wall with ease. Esdeath used an ice block to propel her into the sky.
"Interesting, but can you take this?" She said with a smile before snapping.
An enormous meteor made of ice appeared in the sky behind her. It flew past her as she twisted around its perimeters.
"Hagel Sprung!"
Susanoo brought up his sword and jumped towards the meteor.
The sound of the blade slicing through the air and the meteor could be heard, moments later, the meteor broke apart, falling down now as large ice chunks.
The ice chunks that fell created craters and pierced the ground, it was on the verge of cracking but still held itself together.
That is, until Susanoo landed on the ground.
Najenda nearly lost her balance as the ground shook and the floor cracked.
The floor around them fell in as debris surrounded them.
Susanoo had covered Najenda, preventing her from being pulverized by the falling concrete while Esdeath simply landed after the debris.
Susanoo pushed themselves out and stood once again facing Esdeath who wore a confident smile on her face.
"That was entertaining, but it's time we ended this."
She was about to run forward but stopped when the earth began shaking.
"What is going on?!" Najenda yelled.
Overhead a yell could be heard.
"INCURSIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Leone was trading punches with Wave.
In terms of speed, strength and defenses, Wave was ahead for sure.
'So why is it that I'm losing?!' Wave yelled in his mind.
Bit by bit, Wave was being pushed back, for every 3 punches he lands on Leone, he gets 4 punches back.
Wave ducked under an elbow and went for an uppercut, but Leone's knee came up to block it.
Leone used the force from his punch to do a backflip, kicking Wave up in the process.
As Wave was still in the air, Leone landed on her knees and punched him in the stomach, sending him flying back.
Leone stood up with a smirk.
Holes appeared in her stomach.
She spat up a bit of blood and turned around angrily.
Run stood in midair with his wings extended, she hurriedly dodged another barrage of feathers that created craters in the ground.
He stopped and flew back, dodging a laser before sending a barrage at Mein, who stood in the stands.
Mein shot another laser destroying the feathers, the laser continued on and shot through one of Run's wings.
His altitude decreased as he fell but his wings regenerated. He had an angry look in his eyes before swooping down near the ground and flying at Mein.
Wave had already recovered and dropped kicked Leone.
She grit her teeth upon receiving the impact with her arms, but it broke through her defenses and landed right in her gut.
She spat up more blood as she felt her back impact the ground, creating a large crater before punching Wave off of her and back flipping to a safe distance.
"That hurt!" She yelled. The holes in her stomach were not fully regenerated yet so the kick had hurt much more than normal.
Her eyes narrowed, Grand Chariot was extremely similar to Incursio, and even more so now that Incursio had evolved. They had similar speed and strength, and as someone who often trained with Bulat, she could read his movements, but still.
The power is nothing to laugh at.
Overhead, Run was dodging laser after laser while Mein was shooting down feathers, occasionally forced to jump down a few steps and ledges to avoid damage.
Leone brought her concentration back onto Wave, jumping back to avoid a punch.
Their fists clashed once more before they stopped and turned their attention to another source.
A yell that resonated through the arena.
"INCURSIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Akame swung her sword at Kurome's feet, but she dodged by flipping over her and attempting a reverse stab at Akame's back. It failed as years of fighting and built up sense of danger had saved Akame once again.
They were seemingly at a standstill, but to them it was clear who was going to win.
Akame was older making her physically stronger, not to mention Murasame gave her an obvious advantage.
Which is why.
"Onee-chan, have you ever heard of the 4 Rakshasa Demons?" Kurome said as she smiled at Akame from 10 feet away.
"…Yeah." Akame heard that recently, the Revolutionary Army had employed them in order to assassinate Bolic of the Path of Peace. It was originally supposed to be Night Raid's job, but it happened around the time that Hayami appeared and they were assigned to that instead.
"Well, the Jaegers were assigned to eliminate them and protect Bolic, but he was a moron. He ran away from us and got himself killed. But that doesn't matter, look who I've got here." She said as she raised her sword and 2 bolts of black lightning arced to the ground.
The ground cracked and 4 shadows crawled up.
The first was a tall and bulky man, he had a large black beard and bald head except behind his ears. His shirt was ripped and showed his chest.
The second was a dark skinned girl, she was scantily clad with bikini's around her chest and her shirt hanging from her arms. Her hair was blonde and tied in a ponytail.
The third was a tall and skinny looking man, he had blue hair that split like a curtain showing his forehead. He has multiple markings on his body and face that resembles stitches.
The fourth and last was a girl with black hair. She wore a loose shrine maiden outfit, showing parts of her cleavage and being held closed by a breast guard.
Akame's eyes widened as she had seen their pictures.
The infamous Mercenary group, the 4 Rakshasa demons.
"Here we go Onee-chan."
A yell echoed through the air yet fell deaf to Akame's ears.
Power pulsed through Bulat's veins as he pushed himself up and stabbed Incursio into the ground.
The huge blast of energy was enough to push Budo back, leaving a trail in the ground.
Behind Bulat, an image of the Tyrant appeared, its eyes glowed red and its jaws opened wider releasing a piercing roar.
It brought its hands around Bulat as he yelled out his wish.
"GIVE ME POWER TO DESTROY THIS UNJUST EMPIRE!"
The light, image, energy all disappeared in that instant leaving only dust.
Akame ducked under a barrage of nails, jumped over a wave of gooey liquid, side-stepped a charge and blocked a series of punches with her sword.
She grit her teeth. She knew she was stronger than any one of them, she may be able to take on 2 or 3 of them at once, but 4 of them at the same time with Kurome on the side-lines ready to attack anytime…
She stopped her thought, side stepping another charge from the Sten. She swung her sword as he charged past but he gained a large cut down his side, but the curse didn't activate.
She immediately leaned back to dodge a punch from Mez, feeling the air pressure. Using that motion she did a back flip, kicking Ibara under the chin as he appeared in front of her.
Ibara flew up, his head bent at an unnatural 90 degree's angle looking upwards. Akame landed on her knees and sliced at Ibara's knees, but Suzuka appeared and blocked her sword with her left hand, punching with her right.
Akame brought up her arm to block and flew backwards, skidding to a stop before jumping up to avoid Sten again.
Akame was slightly sweating now.
'I need a plan.' She thought when her eyes widened. She turned around and barely blocked a slash from Kurome.
"You're wide open, Onee-chan." Mez appeared next to Akame.
Years of battling once again saved Akame.
She tilted her sword in that instant, her knee's bend and she leaned back. Kurome's blade slid up and right over Akame's head as she fell on her upper-back with her knees still under her. Mez's fist flew right past and Kurome lost her footing. Akame twisted her body, ignoring the pain in her knee's as she bent them in a way they shouldn't be bent and slashed at Kurome.
Kurome was falling on top of Akame and had no way of dodging.
"Eliminate." Akame whispered with sad eyes.
Her blade inched towards Kurome's body.
She disappeared.
Instead, her blade sliced right through Ibara's neck.
Her eyes widened and she quickly pushed herself up and sliced off Ibara's limbs. She flipping over Sten, and blocked a punch from Suzuka which sent her flying back but she easily landed.
'What happened?' She looked around and saw Kurome standing a bit away, dust all over her.
Kurome smiled.
"Too bad."
Akame realized what had happened.
"You made Ibara punch you away from me." Kurome giggled.
"As expected of my sister! You figured it out rather quickly, but are you sure you have the time to be thinking about this." Akame felt a presence behind her and leaned forward, at the same time, she loosened her grip on the sword and let it fall into a reverse grip.
A punch flew overhead from Mez.
Akame's sword pierced her stomach.
She fell onto Akame's back and then onto the ground. She then proceeded to lose her limbs.
"You underestimated me." Akame said in her monotone voice.
'2 more to go.' She thought, Sten came barreling towards her again.
Akame narrowed her eyes, something feels different somehow. She brought up her sword and concentrated.
Sten stopped running around 10 feet from her and leaped at her, his beard in a point.
'Too bad.'
Akame's sword met his beard and slid right under, his head tilting up exposing his neck.
His head fell to the ground with a thump, quickly followed by his arms and legs.
Akame's perfect parry. No matter how great the force or how sharp the object, they would not be able to touch her.
Suzuka was the last puppet standing.
Akame appeared next to her in blink and sliced off one arm.
That was the one and only mistake Akame made in this entire fight.
Suzuka retaliated with a punch at extremely high speeds and hit Akame in the shoulders.
It was not fatal, nor did it do a lot of damage, but it was enough to matter.
Akame sliced off her limbs and she fell to the ground.
She turned around and stared at Kurome.
"Let's end this." Kurome giggled.
"Sure!"
Kurome appeared in front of Akame and her eyes widened.
'She got faster?!' She thought as she blocked her slash.
'Wait, no, I've gotten slower?'
"Come on Onee-chan, was that enough to make you tired?" Kurome giggled.
It's true that she was tired from the fight, but this usually wouldn't matter. Her body would automatically ignore exhaustion and it would hit her later on when she relaxes.
'Did that last punch do something to me?'
Her arms felt heavier than before, her reaction time was a little slower, her legs couldn't move as fast.
Her abilities have been lowered to Kurome's level, maybe even worse.
Sweat formed on her forehead as she did her best to concentrate.
Once again, their swords clashed and the sparks fell to the ground.
Bulat felt power coursing through his veins.
His armor now was much skinnier and the body and legs were now skinnier and with more breaks in the armor. The once out of place helmet and arms now looked like they finally found their old body.
If one were to describe him it would be.
A humanoid dragon.
Authors Note – So I know that some of you are confused as to what is going on with Bulat's armor so this little section is to clarify.
In Chapter 9 – The Three Beasts, at the very end, due to Tatsumi pretending to die, Bulat evolved his armor out of sheer rage. But instead of the 'second form of Incursio' as depicted in the manga, Bulat's evolution was only his arms and helmet that changed while everything else stayed the same. He gained a speed boost, strength boost, and adaptability boost.
Now in this chapter, he fully evolved into the 'second form of Incursio' as depicted in the manga.
TL;DR – I split the evolution into 2 steps, the first was in Chapter 9 and the second one is right now.
Sorry for the interruption, this has been a public service announcement, we will return to the regularly (not really) scheduled (definitely not) program.
Najenda and Susanoo were distracted for an instant from Bulat's yell.
That instant was more than enough.
"Die." Susanoo reacted just in time to move his body, but the sword of ice pierced his arm.
He felt his arm get incased with ice.
"Oh? Your reactions are impressive."
"Susanoo!" Najenda yelled in worry. Susanoo has regenerative abilities, but his frozen arm isn't damaged.
"You were quite entertaining, but what can you do now that you lost an arm?"
"Hmph, you seem to forget who I am." Susanoo said as he brought up his other fist and shattered his own arm.
Najenda widened her eyes and Esdeath smirked.
"Come!"
Once again they engaged each other, but it was obvious that Susanoo was going to lose.
Before his left arm regenerated, his right arm froze and was shattered.
His trump card time limit is almost up too.
Najenda couldn't join in, she would only get in the way. She grit her teeth, wracking her brain for a way she could win.
But she was too slow.
Esdeath and Susanoo stared each other down.
Susanoo brought up his sword and Esdeath dashed forward.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Susanoo yelled as he swung his sword.
Esdeath made no attempt to block it nor dodge.
But the smirk on her face already gave it away.
Susanoo's sword went right through her.
It disintegrated before it hit her.
Susanoo's eyes closed.
Esdeath's sword stabbed through him and he was quickly encased in ice.
A single kick shattered his body.
"SUSANOO!" Najenda yelled.
His core fell to the ground and broke to pieces.
"NOT YET, SUSANOO!" Najenda yelled as she prepared to sacrifice her life by activating Susanoo's trump again.
But…
Esdeath stared at Susanoo's core expectantly, but nothing happened.
Najenda fell to her knees.
"Why?" She whispered.
"Susanoo…"
Esdeath began walking to her.
"That was anti-climactic, why didn't you activate your trump again? Or is it that you couldn't?" She said stepping in front of her.
"Either way, it wouldn't have mattered." She raised her sword but stopped.
Her eyes narrowed and looked up.
Najenda followed her gaze.
A huge black sphere floated in midair.
Budo stared into the smoke cloud with an unwavering gaze, sure that Bulat was dead or still unable to move from his attack.
That is, until he was smacked to the left like a 12 year old kid.
Budo landed on his back and pushed himself up with great effort, in the place where he was previously standing, 2 eyes stared into his soul.
Both his eyes had a plus in them, Budo felt himself shiver, as those were not the eyes of a human.
Those were the eyes of the Tyrant.
Bulat disappeared.
Budo quickly set up his gravity barrier.
"I don't know what you did, but you still won't be able to withstand my – "
He was forcefully stopped when spear went through his stomach.
He violently coughed up blood and grit his teeth, trying to ignore the pain.
"You are no match for me right now." Bulat said as he stared into Budo's eyes.
Budo's eyes widened in anger.
"… I WON'T LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS!" A large shockwave of power pulsed from Budo and something unexpected happened.
Budo flew.
It wasn't as much flying as just levitating above the ground and slowly ascending.
After a few moments, he was a hundred feet about ground and overlooking the entire arena.
His hands were above his head.
"YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He yelled as a black sphere appeared above his head and steadily grew in size.
Mein, Run, Wave, Leone, Esdeath and Najenda all stopped and looked.
"He reversed gravity to allow himself to fly huh?" Bulat said. He picked up his spear and spun it a few times before throwing it at Budo.
It went straight through him with no resistance, yet he kept yelling as if nothing had happened.
Bulat's eyes widened, unable to believe anyone could remain concentrated after getting 2 spears through the stomach.
Mein clicked her tongue and pointed pumpkin at Budo.
"LIKE HELL I'M DYING HERE!" She yelled and a huge amount of energy began gathering inside pumpkin.
"DISSAPEAR!" Budo's voice thundered as the black hole shot down.
"NEVER!" A huge energy beam shot out of Pumpkin that push Mein back but she held firm.
The beam of spiritual energy met the black hole.
A huge shockwave pulsed from them and kicked up dust that covered the entire arena.
In the midst of the dust, Bulat caught a single blur and his eyes widened.
He kicked off in the direction of Mein.
The energy disappeared into the endless darkness.
The darkness cracked.
The beam slowly thinned and disappeared.
The black hole shattered.
Mein collapsed on her knees and panted. She looked at pumpkin.
It was cracked and smoking.
"Thank you…" She whispered.
Blood spurt into the air and her arm fell to the ground.
She screamed in pain and fell face first onto the ground.
"MEIN!" Bulat yelled, appearing in front of her and blocking the rest of the feathers.
Run narrowed his eyes but backed off, flying back into the air.
Bulat looked at his new armor, with his claws he couldn't give her first aid. If he took off his armor for even a moment, he might die. He grit his teeth as he thought about what to do.
His eyes widened when he felt energy behind his back and he looked up again.
A large black sphere.
"SHIT!" He yelled.
"Are you serious?!" Leone yelled.
Najenda looked up hopelessly, her eyes filled with despair.
"DISSAPEAR!" Budo thundered.
His arms came down in a motion to throw the black hole at the arena.
A blur shot past his body.
His body split in half and the black hole dissipated.
The blur continued falling downward.
Esdeath narrowed her eyes as the blur, her eyes widened when she realized who it was.
She quickly swung down at Najenda.
But it was too late.
A green arc forced her to jump back as the green blur impacted to ground right in front of Najenda.
Esdeath smiled with a rare, soft expression.
"I wanted to see you again…"
A pair of piercing green eyes stared back.
"Tatsumi."