Disclaimer-I only own Pànduàn, Kirshun, and the Odigan Rebels. Everything else is owned by Koei. Oh, and but I do own any other OCs here.

Warriors Orochi: Dragon of Judgment

Chapter 26-The Gaze of Death

Pànduàn gave a murderous glare at his family's killer. His eyes showed nothing but fury as he had heard Kirshun's plan from the lips of the Souless One himself.

"You bastard!" he shouted in a greatly angered voice. "I will not let you touch them!"

Kirshun laughed demonically and gazed at the boy below him, "Well then, boy, let see if you are capable of keeping that promise."

Before any of the warriors knew it Kirshun's polearm had struck the blade of Pànduàn's sword. The force of the impact knocked Himiko off her feet and caused the other warriors to lose their balance. Pànduàn forced Kirshun's blade off his own and attempted a low strike at Kirshun's stomach but was blocked by the pole of Juggernaut. They struggled for dominance for a moment before Kirshun forced himself back a few yards. The two warriors gave a long glare at eachother.

Then a cold laughter filled the air.

Kirshun was laughing. He was mocking the young lord. Said lord's eyes narrowed. He knew something wasn't right. Kirshun stopped laughed and smirked at him, "Impressive reflexes, boy."

"Enough chatter and get on with it!" Pànduàn raised his voice angrily.

Kirshun chuckled eerily, "Very well then."

Kirshun spun his polearm around so that the blade was pointed downward. He stuck it into the ground then swiftly moved his hands in front of him in a prayer like manner. He closed his eyes and let his aura slowly appeared around him. It was blood red with a shadow of black around it. Pànduàn got into a fighting stance. A cold sweat ran down his face as a black circle of shadow appear in the ground between them, and slowly the shadow began to rise and take shape. Soon, the shade flew away from the figure like breaking glance. The creature let out a terrible wail and drew its blade; it was ready to kill its opponent.

Kirshun had summoned an Ikiryō.

The young lord of the runied city's eyes narrowed. This wasn't going to end well. He heard the other warriors ready their weapons behind him, but he held up his hand.

"No," he said. "I will handle this."

They gaped, looked eachother, and slowly and reluctantly lowered their weapons. Pànduàn looked back towards his new opponent. The shadowy wraith was slowly hovering about the ground, gliding over the floor toward him. In the blink of an eye, they clashed. Pànduàn parried and bloked a series of lightning fast slashes and stabs. Pànduàn began to slowly move away from the other warriors. He knew that when this shade started using sorcery, they couldn't be anywhere nearby. He used sorcery to boost his jump as he soared to the top of a nearby ruined building. The Ikiryō followed him in a flash. Now that he was away from his friends, Pànduàn didn't need to hold back anymore. The two warriors clashed again and again in at a speed that most of the Warriors had a hard time keeping up with.

Suddenly, the Ikiryō jumped back onto another piece of the ruins. Pànduàn prepared himself for the worst. The wraith-like creature held up its hand, in it was a red, fiery orb with a black aura around it. The Ikiryō threw the orb at Pànduàn, who barely managed to dodge it. The orb landed a few hundred yards away, setting off a explosion that could've taken down the Cheng Du wall with ease. Pànduàn turned his head away from the impact sight just in time to dodge a stab from the Ikiryō.

Seeing his chance, the young lord sliced downward, cutting off the Ikiryō's arms. The shade shrieked in pain and jumped off the ruins into the snow. Black dots fell from the creature's stumps, it melted and steamed the snow the dripped on. Soon, a black essence rose from its stumps. The Ikiryō's arms were regenerating.

"Oh no you don't!" Pànduàn shouted as he jumped down from the top of the ruins and prepare to slash downward. The Ikiryō dodged but was unprepared for the upward slash that came afterward. The creature screamed in pain as the blade slashed threw the middle of its chest. Now he had the creature. Swiftly, Pànduàn brought the tip of his sword and drove it threw the creature's heart. There was an offely long pause. It was as if time had stopped. Suddenly a black spiral energy blast out from the area surrounding the Ikiryō and Pànduàn was knocked off his feet. In that instant, the wraith's arms regenerated instantly. With a gesture, the Ikiryō's sword returned to his hand. Pànduàn was horrified, "What?"

Kirshun laughed at the boy's horror, "You truly are foolish. Did your master tell you nothing about these creatures? You can't kill them by normal means. Only powerful sorcery can do that."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because I want to see truly what you can control."

"That bastard!" Himiko shouted in her mind. Pànduàn slowly rose. He gazed at the creature before him, his eyes and face emotionless, unreadable.

"Very well," he said quietly and slowly drew out his inner power. Then, with a great cry, Pànduàn unleashed his power. A mighty blue aura exploded around him. Zhuge Liang noticed something how ever. The fiery aura was much more active than the last time Pànduàn used it.

"It's almost as if," he thought. "Something's trying to escape."

Pànduàn then charged forward at lightning speeds. The creature held up its sword. The two collided. Both swords were against eachother; both warriors were struggling to overpower the other. The energy they were unleashed was causing an earthquake around them. A blinding light eminated from the beings. The Warriors held up their hands to block the light.

"If this keeps up, we're going to be blown away!" Zhang Fei shouted over the howling wind whipping around them.

"Yes," Liu Bei answered in a worried tone. "Perhaps we should've stayed behind like he wanted us to."

"No!" Himiko shouted at the Warriors angrily. "Pànduàn needs us here. Now more than ever!"

They looked back at the struggle. Hoping. Just hoping he would make it.

The two warriors were still struggling. Neither seemed ready to back dwon until...

CRACK!

The Ikiryō's eyes widened in dismay. Its sword formed a crack! And it was growing! Soon, the sword broke and the force of Pànduàn's attack sliced the demon in half. It gave a terrible shriek of pain as it exploded in a blast of light. Soon, there was silence and Pànduàn's aura vanished.

"Pànduàn! LOOK OUT!" he heard Himiko's voice shout suddenly and desperately. Pànduàn jolted his head around just in time for Kirshun to grab his face and force him into the ground. Then he reversed his movement and using Pànduàn's head, threw the young lord behind him a few dozen yards behind him into the ruins of his former house. The Warriors gasped and Himiko screamed his name as his motionless form laid in the dust and rubble there.

"Pànduàn!" Himiko shouted. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. Then, in anger she let out a volley of her energy attacks at him. Kirshun suddenly appeared behind her and knocked her away as if she was a little fly. The rest of the Warriors charged, but they were soon all taken out by Kirshun. They laid there in the ash writhing in pain.

"You pathetic little fools," Kirshun mocked. "You are far weaker than I ever expected from your legends. This was hardly even worth my time!"

Kirshun laughed as the Warriors groaned and slowly attempted to get up. Pànduàn raised his head to see his fallen comrades desperately struggling to get to their feet. That was when Himiko suddenly attempted a close range blast from her dogus but Kirshun broke both of them with a swipe of his hand. Swiftly, he used his free hand to grab her by the throat and hold her aloft. She screamed in pain as Kirshun unleashed his dark power as she was electricuted by red lightning.

"HIMIKO!" Pànduàn shouted to his utmost horror. She dropped to the floor, heavily burnt and lifeless. The Warriors stared in shock and disbelief. Kirshun laughed as if he had just seen something cruely funny.

"Well, Pànduàn," Kirshun mocked. "Now I've killed another person you loved. How does it feel to fail protecting your loved ones aga-"

Kirshun stopped dead when his eyes met Pànduàn. A great pressure was eminating from him. Pànduàn face showed nothing but pure rage. Then, with a sudden shout that could shatter the heavens, a beam a white light erupted from his person. The shockwave even knocked Kirshun off his feet. Soon, the whole area was covered in ash. No one could see anything except a white light coming from where Pànduàn was. They slowly arose, trying to get the ash out of their face. Kirshun's eyes narrowed, then widened in shock as dust started to settle. Before them was Pànduàn; his Master aura surrounding him. But his aura was different. It wasn't a fiery blue, it was a calm white that surrounded him like a force field in every direction for three feet, then flew off of him in a wave like fashion. The face Pànduàn had on him was one of silent, pure rage. Kirshun stepped back away from the enraged lord.

"No! It can't be!" Kirshun stated in disbelief. "No! You couldn't have become a fully-fledged Master! You're too young! It's not possible!"

Pànduàn glare stared straight into Kirshun's soul; if looks could kill, he'd be begging for the safety of the ninth ring of hell for peace and security.

"You monster!" Pànduàn's voice was low, deadly, and powerful. The mear vocal expression of Pànduàn's rage made Kirshun look like he had just gotten the mind knocked out of him. "I will never forgive you for this! NEVER!"

Pànduàn's white aura suddenly flared up into the fiery version they all knew. The gap between the aura's edge and Pànduàn's body was still a good three feet and the white flare of the aura blinded Kirshun and the other Warriors of a second.

"NOW DIE, YOU BASTARD!"

Pànduàn charged at Kirshun. He seemed to only be hovering above the ground, but he was moving incredibly fast and the pathway of destruction he made in his charged simply showed what force was coming straight at the Souless One.

Getting close to the end now, guys! Sorry to say but I will not be online from Nov. 17th to Nov. 22nd. I will be away at Boot Camp. Sorry for the inconvenience. Anyway, please review and I will see you all next week!

~Teddypro