CHAPTER LII: BOUND FOR NIGHTMARES
WARNING: This chapter includes derogatory terms and cruel word usage from "certain" characters. M RATING ABOUND for this chapter is what that means! BEWARE with all seriousness; only you can control what you read.
DISCLAIMER: I claim NO OWNERSHIP to ANY of the characters in this story except (for in this chapter) Tojiro "Neo" Ankoku and Orion Novanight. They are my original characters and thus owned by me. All other characters and/or places belong to their respective creators/owners.
The "Last Days" Arc! Finally! It shall be a quick yet meaningful short arc as Tojiro prepares his journey through the realm that is Hell's Nine Circles! Excellent! With so much riding on his one man war against the Blind World, do you still find it curious if Tojiro will do the "right thing?" Is there even a right thing at all? Is it all wrong?! WELL? Sound off and enjoy the chapter. All reviews and feedback are most welcome.
Daten City, Daten Beach, 11:30 am
The spinning disc of black and red opened within a blue sky, shooting down through a wall of clouds. Tojiro was ensnared in a fireball of red and orange. On the beach, a numerous large crowd was gathering for a volleyball game, but it wasn't as simple as it would be assumed to be. Two Angels. Two Demons. Unfailing, correct? The flaming ball that was Tojiro slammed directly in-between the two and their epic duel, exploding a dome of sand in every direction. The people were sent tossing and smacking into some serious yet painful objects.
Such as a young child falling in a trash can and an elderly woman smashing into a steel pole. All in all, there was a lot of pain to a lot of people in a number of creative ways. In a summit of sand, the heads of the two Angels rose. Anarchy Panty…with her sister…Anarchy Stocking. As quaint as their situation just was, the arrival of such a demon would most likely worsen their apprehensive volleyball match. Tojiro popped into the air, landing on a mound of sand. Cleaning his cloak of the sand grains, he suddenly lifted his head up.
"How dare such an un-formal freak ruin our show-off. Right Kneesocks-san?" said the voice of the Demon Sister known as Scanty.
A wave of sand exploded, revealing the red skinned demon with lightish blue hair.
"Indeed. This ignorant demon nearly ruined our swimsuits too." noted the Demon Sister, Kneesocks.
Tojiro confusedly looked from the twin Demon Sisters over to the Angel Sisters. "Stockin'! Damn it! You bitchy little emo! Where the hell are you?!" shrieked the Angel Sister, Panty, giving off a good load of her personality.
Tojiro cracked his knuckles, then grabbed the grip of his Blade of Darkness. Stocking pushed her way out of the sand, spotting Panty and Tojiro.
"Panty, once again you prove yourself to be an idiot. You're probably yelling for no reason. So shut your damn ass up." voiced the calm Stocking.
"What the hell did you just say? You really wanna' go right now you sl-"
The sudden blast of Scanty with her devil gun made Panty dodge the other way. Tojiro remained standing still, vocally refusing to voice his opinion. "Stockin', you already know where this is going right?" ranted Panty, preparing her weapon Backlace.
"You already know! Let's ruin their ass!" exclaimed her determined sister, preparing Stripe I.
"Appears I have to get even with one side. And I know the perfect way to start out." Kneesocks prepared a pair strange vials behind her back. Tojiro's ears twitched at the sound of the caps flipping off.
"NOW!" she yelled, throwing the two vials off to the ocean.
Scanty fired both her guns at Panty. Tojiro took a step forward, preparing a sphere of unstable Chaos energy in his right hand. He held his right arm back, pointing towards the ocean. In his slow motion stance, he moved his head directly in the path of the two bullets. Both bullets hit Tojiro in the forehead, seeping in.
"What the hell?!" exclaimed the two Demon Sisters.
A massive octopus Ghost jumped out of the ocean. Tojiro lifted his right leg forward, turning around to the ocean in the process. With the manic power of the Chaos Sphere increasing, Tojiro put it in his mouth. Breathing in a whole heap of smoke, Tojiro fired a gigantic inferno of red Chaos Fire out from his mouth. The Ghost octopus collided with the blast, resulting in it's devastating explosion that blew the Ghost into a thousand pieces. Tojiro leaped towards Scanty, slashing away a scar of red Chaos energy with his unsheathed Blade of Darkness.
Scanty was blasted away, onto a city street, bowling through five cars in a row, throwing debris of flames and steel amongst the street. Landing back on his feet, Tojiro was impaled in the back by Kneesocks with one of her scythe like blades. Tojiro ran forward five steps, forcing his way out of the blade. He turned around to kick Kneesocks across her left hip. He threw the Blade of Darkness like a spear. Kneesocks was adamant to swing both her weapons to deflect it into the air. Tojiro clapped his hands together, enwrapping Kneesocks in a mound of sand. He removed his hands from one another, causing the sand to harden like stone.
"Bastard! You think we need help, huh? I'll kick your ass just like I would have against those two demon sluts!" yelled the vengeful Angel.
She fired Backlace, hitting Tojiro several times in the chest, head and legs. He growled with anger, charging forward. Stocking took defense of Panty by thrusting both Stripes I & II forward. Tojiro absorbed the blows, knocking Stocking out of his way with a manic punch to the side of her head. Tojiro raised his right hand back, creating a Giant Rasengan.
Panty fired Backlace over ten times, not stopping Tojiro for a moment. Panty awaited a grim fate, something she never thought she would ever feel. However, the Rasengan vanished, and Tojiro shoved Panty with a vicious push. A gigantic crab claw slammed down, yet the dreadful demigod caught the claw, holding it up. Both Panty and Stocking recuperated, gasping at Tojiro's feat. The massive crab Ghost stood half way out of the water.
"Man…what the hell is up with this barf sniffer? Why did he save me?" said the annoyed Panty, getting up.
Tojiro dropped to his right knee in loss. A demented black mist surrounded him, giving him the form of his malevolent Werehog. Tojiro's eyes shined with red, his pupils vanished. His mouth opened up wide, roaring in a fit of rage. He snapped the entire crab's claw off, spewing out a gracious yellow liquid. Tojiro crossed his arms over one another, creating a Chaos Rasengan in both. Tojiro lunged up towards the beast, cramming the two whirling spheres of Chaos and chakra that blew the crab Ghost into nothing but crab meat.
The Cloakmaster of Darkness dropped onto the ground. Mist of red riveted off from the palms of his hands. Only by clenching them did they cease to simmer. Tojiro turned back to Panty and Stocking, who appeared right in front of him, their angelic weapons in his face. Snarling was Tojiro's best answer. He didn't want to harm the Angel sisters, but he may have had the sensation to snap one of them in half. Tojiro put the knuckles of his fists on the ground, pressing his head against the barrel of Panty's gun. His eyes were wide and sharpened into a glaring visage that spelled anger a thousand times over.
Panty clicked the safety back, firing a single shot through Tojiro's forehead and out the back of his head. Tojiro continued to stand…un-phased! Panty pulled back Backless, but Tojiro flinched at her movement. Stocking was eager and ready, preparing a sudden strike to skewer Tojiro in the stomach. However, the two Angels found themselves surprised once the Cloakmaster of Darkness grabbed them with his large arms, and performed a massive leap backwards through the air. A humongous whale Ghost smashed into the beach, letting out a monstrous moan. Tojiro landed on the ruptured street that Scanty was thrown across. He dropped the two Angels like bags of trash and charged back to the beach on all fours.
"You smartass! Get back here you rotten crap mongrel!" cursed Panty in offense, randomly firing shots at Tojiro's back.
Leaping over a flaming bus, Tojiro landed on the beach in front of the stranded whale Ghost. Tojiro stretched both his arms out, one onto the upper jaw and the other to the lower jaw. Sinking his feet into the sand then using his Earthbending talents to harden it, Tojiro began pulling opposite ways. The whale groaned and screamed in pain. Tojiro encompassed his heinously stretched out arms in red Chaos energy, than gave it one final try. A single pair of cracks echoed out. Tojiro retracted his arms back with caution.
Furiously did he charge forward and use both his fists to impact the whale in it's large throat, vivaciously launching it into the air. Grabbing onto the dial on the shoulder side, he turned it several degrees. A large flash of orange light exploded out. Panty and Stocking looked up, watching the humongous shadow encompass pass them and a couple miles over the city. Standing at over one-hundred and fifty feet tall, Tojiro's Mecha form reigned supreme and sublime with fear to everyone that saw him.
Tojiro bent down, summoning a ridiculous latter of orange Chaos energy in his mouth. Lifting his head back up, a wide beam of orange with a longer silver beam within it was released from his mouth. The beam hit the whale Ghost dead in a climatic explosion that shimmered flaming meteors and chunks of the dead Ghost among the ocean. Tojiro was encompassed by the orange flash once more, reverting him back to his human form. Thankfully, he dropped down in, keeping his left foot on the ground. Dropping in front of him were three coins with an H and a pair of wings coming off the left and right sides. Tojiro precariously stood up, but a stray bullet from the left halted him. A glare to the left, he saw the two swimsuit wearing Angel sisters. Tojiro turned away from the 'Heaven Coins', making his way away from the scene, flipping his hood over his head.
"What is with that guy?" said Panty, lowering Backlace.
"Panty! Look! Three Heavens!" called Stocking, holding up the three precious treasures.
"It's not much though. How bothersome." Stocking added in annoyance.
"Sure. Whatever. That fugly demon that arrived though is what makes me wonder; whose side is he on?" questioned Anarchy Panty in curiousness.
"You can find out after you are silenced!" called the two Demon sisters. They shot down with their weapons ready.
In a flash did the two Angels turn around, facing Tojiro. His back turned to them, his hands gripped around the faces of both Scanty and Kneesocks. Their helpless bodies hung, desperate to free themselves. Electrifying the two demons with a dose of red Chaos Lightning, their bodies were ridiculously burnt to a crisp, leaving them both breathless. Tojiro reeled the two twins back, flinging them across the city.
"WE BID YOU ADIEUUUU!" yelled their vanishing voices, disappearing in a glint of light.
Tojiro lowered his arms, standing in a slouched position to release a restless sigh. "Hey Panty, any idea what kind of Ghost he is?" whispered Stocking, hiding her mouth.
"Dib-shit! He looks nothing like a ghost! He would have to be ten times more crazier even if he was one!" Panty shot back in the same quieting tone.
"That is because he is a demon!" exclaimed a thick voiced man.
"Garter?!" shouted the two Angels. Tojiro was quick to spin around and point Black Death directly at the afro priest's face.
The two Angels turned to the Cloakmaster, but didn't raise their weapons.
"It was as if you were to arrive here. Somehow, your will still lives. What's up with that, eh? Cloakmaster Ankoku?" said the Reverend.
Regrettably, Tojiro managed to lower Black Death, placing it back in the holster.
"You know this loser?" asked Panty to Garterbelt.
"Not really." he responded.
The three were left in a disappointed form, sweat drops forming on the back of their heads.
"So what the hell was the point of even calling him a demon? Shouldn't we just kill him and be done with it?" regarded Anarchy Stocking.
"I'll annihilate all three of you if such an attempt is made." answered the Cloakmaster, lowering his hood. Panty's eyes, for a very obscene but obvious reason, turned into hearts.
Tojiro looked from Panty who appeared completely embellished with his face, to Stocking. Her eyes were a bit widened, but her eyebrows remained strained from glaring towards the Cloakmaster. Tojiro's orange pupils formed into a desperate glare, his eyebrows raising. He noticed a hint of red appearing on both of Stocking's cheeks. Tojiro's eyes turned into round white circles, grumbling to himself.
"Panty! Stocking!" called a sudden voice.
Tojiro looked over his shoulder to face an individual dressed in a green garb and orange hair that covered his eyes.
"Uhhh…Geek Boy again." muttered the annoyed Panty.
Brief froze in front of Tojiro, looking up at him with somewhat of a frightened look.
"W-w-w-w-who…is this?" said Brief in a frozen state. The device on Brief's back suddenly went buzzing.
"The PKE meter readings! It…I-I-it says he's…wait a minute." Brief spoke unconditionally, reaching back to take the PKE meter off and set it on the sand.
"A friend?" asked Tojiro, turning around to the three.
"Yes." answered Garterbelt on attention.
"Ehh? Creepy." said a disgusted Panty.
"I see. So answer me this, what are two Angels doing on human grounds?" the Cloakmaster pointed out in question.
"What does that matter? I rather know about you, there. Have you ever heard of the Immoral Motel?" said the sly conniving Panty, holding Tojiro's right arm and pressing it against her chest.
Stocking suddenly smacked Panty on the head with her Honekoneko, causing Panty's eyes to widen.
"You damn goth! What the hell's your problem?!" barked the Angel to her sisters' face.
As Tojiro watched the two Angels exclaim vivid verbal threats to each other, he turned his attention to Brief. He walked over to his side, glaring down at him working on the PKE meter. A sudden little green creature walked by saying the same word over and over again. It had a large drop of drool hanging from its mouth. Tojiro crouched down, watching it chew on the PKE meter.
"Okay. What in the world is that?" asked the Demon Demigod, pointing at the little beast.
"That's Chuck; Panty and Stockings' pet. By the way, I'm Brief. An unwanted follower of Panty's-"
Tojiro suddenly punched Chuck into the sand, actually creating a deep hole. "Awesome." noted Tojiro, looking down the hole.
Chuck popped his head out of the hole, continuing to say his name. Tojiro stood up and stomped on the beast, somehow firing out Chuck's lungs onto the sand. Brief covered his mouth in disgust, his skin turning green.
"Ohhh. That's my mistake." responded Tojiro in a confused tone.
He grabbed the lungs and Chuck. Looking between the two, he forced the lungs back down Chuck's throat, giving him life again. Brief removed his hands, letting out a sickened gurgle of air. Tojiro dropped Chuck on the ground, watching him scurry off to Panty and Stockings' deathly throw down of verbal debauchery.
"You damn arm pit sniffer! I was only introducing myself!" screamed Panty in offense.
"And I was only trying to make you look less like an idiot! You Grandpa chaser!" cursed back Stocking.
The two Angels smashed their foreheads together, somehow being able to grow sharp teeth in their mouths, and their eyes turning full white.
"This world is screwed." noted Tojiro in absence of reason.
"They help out the city whenever a Ghost starts terrorizing people." replied Brief, standing back up with the PKE meter being held in his right hand.
"What is that you have there?" asked Tojiro, stepping up to Brief.
"This? It's my PKE meter. It detects whenever a Ghost is near. But Panty and Stocking manage to find the Ghost and take care of it on their own." explained the distorted minded kid.
"Hand it over." said the annoyed Cloakmaster. Brief gave the device to Tojiro.
Tojiro injected some of his power into the device so it would work perfectly, thus proving it useful.
The Demigod of Death handed it back to Brief.
"Greetings by the way, Brief. I do believe you'll be able to last until the moon's rise." Tojiro warmly before walking back over to the two Angels.
"W-w-wa-wait! What the-what do you mean?" stuttered the anxious geek in fright. Tojiro stopped by the two Angels, giving them the chance to end their bickering before turning their attention to the Cloakmaster himself.
"See?" Panty exclaimed, throwing Stocking down the beach.
"He came in to save me, right?" she voiced in a slick tone, batting her eyelashes at Tojiro.
"I'd rather watch you two silence yourselves before I intervene. If you refuse to have order…I won't mind silencing you two by tearing your spines straight out of your ears." Tojiro stated with exact honesty.
"Holy…crap." Brief responded, falling onto his back.
Tojiro stepped past Panty and Garterbelt, strolling over to Stocking who remained on the ground. She was already sitting with her legs crossed, wiping off the sand on Honekoneko. As he strafed past the lover of sweets, he kicked the front of his right foot on the ground to cause the sand under Stocking to put her back on her feet.
"That arrogant bastard! How the hell can you just expect to walk away like that! HEY! You damn emo! Get back here!" screamed the malevolent faced Panty, running after Tojiro.
Garterbelt slowly walked up by Stocking's side, whom remained with a stiff glare.
"Panty's being a dumb-ass like always. All she thinks about is getting it on with any man she sees." Stocking brought up without a cumbersome excuse to say otherwise.
"That does seem very lonesome. He somewhat acts like you, Stocking." explained the priest, walking forward. Stocking huffed in ignorance, emptying her hesitance to follow after Garterbelt without any more distracting thoughts.
Three Days Later, Daten High School, 1:20 pm
In their school uniforms, the two Angels casually walked to the school's front doors.
"You were insane if you thought that Ghost liked you Stocking. You do know that right?" Panty observed with impatience.
"You just can't understand because you're a hoe. So I'm not listening." Stocking replied in angst, but her cool head proved more true to keep her emotions in control.
"Heh! Forget it then. We got that coin, and you got that smelly as ring he gave you! Everything should better!" Panty advised with a smirk, resting her hands behind her head.
"Hey Panty, is that who I think it is?" Stocking interrupted, looking off to the right at a tree. Panty reeled her head back, seeing the cloaked demigod sitting with his legs crossed. He was comfortably laying against the tree trunk, his hood over his head, hiding his face.
A face full of love and ecstasy, Panty tip-toed her way over to the Cloakmaster.
"What a freak." Stocking side noted with a disappointed glare.
Panty sat herself on Tojiro's legs, believing she had him pinned.
"Now…his lovely man junk." said Panty, reaching for between Tojiro's legs.
He suddenly vanished in a glob of gold light, dropping Panty on her behind. The glob turned into a concentrated slim stream of light and flew over to the real Tojiro, standing on the tree branch above Panty.
"You should acquiesce to control those feeble thoughts of yours." said his uncaring voice.
Tojiro jumped down on the grass, leading Panty to get up. Panty observed Tojiro for a short moment, noticing he was shorter.
"Hey, what happened? Reverse growth spurt?" Stocking suggested out loud.
"No. Not quite. Size has nothing to do with it. I'm just different." arrogantly spoke the Cloakmaster.
"Ahhh, so you have some transformation, eh? Let me take a look." Panty argued in a sex affiliated voice, grabbing Tojiro.
She turned him around, lowering his hood to show him in his hedgehog form. "EHHH?! A fucking rat?!" she screamed, backing away in fear, or disgust.
"Yeah. Not like I was expecting that response." he unsurely stated, throwing his hood back over his head, than reverting to his human form.
"You should just fuck off before you get steamrolled." Stocking intervened carelessly.
"You wanna' say that again you dumb goth?!" spat out Anarchy Panty.
Stocking let Panty's threat go without an empty cause, leaving to head towards the school. Tojiro's eyes shot a glare towards the sky above the school. Tojiro grabbed the Nightmare Scythe, charging towards Stocking from behind.
"Stocking! Behind you!" exclaimed Panty.
"Idiot! Look in front!" called back the Cloakmaster.
A gigantic blue beam hit the center of the school dead on. A glint of light shined for a millisecond and a wild storm of hell and fire exploded in every direction. Tojiro impaled the Nightmare Scythe into the earth with his left hand. Stocking flew past him, but Tojiro immediately caught her by her hand. Panty glued herself to the back of the tree, avoiding the storm of debris and brown storm of smoke that enveloped the entire area.
Tojiro stomped his left foot on the ground, causing a huge blanket of air to dissipate the wandering mahogany cloud. Stocking dropped onto her feet afterwards, Tojiro's hand swiftly leaving hers, making her jolt feverishly. He ran forward, finding the entire school was nothing but piles of rubble and fire.
A screech screamed from above. Through the clouds, an enormous vulture Ghost crashed into the ground in front of the leveled school. Panty and Stocking easily fought through the force of the landing to run up to Tojiro. On the vulture's head, stood none other than the two Demon Sisters.
"Wow. I was actually expecting a challenge too." Tojiro safely admitted, lowering the Nightmare Scythe, standing up straight in the process.
"That arrogant little traitor. Who is such a demon of his stature siding with Pissy and Stupid?" Scanty degenerately spoke.
"You red faced whore! Come down here and say that again!" Panty said in an outrage, readying Backless in her right hand.
"I can bet you wouldn't have the pride of actually facing us with those fucked up names!" cursed Anarchy Stocking, stepping up to Tojiro's left, armed with Stripes I. Tojiro looked between the two Angel Sisters, noticing that their angry faces stood far more prepared than their own weapons.
"We shall see. Our RULES will decimate your ugly asses all the way down into Hell itself!" Kneesocks promoted with greatness, preparing her weapons.
"Perfect words, Kneesocks-san! Perfect!" Scanty cheered, preparing her dual revolver demon weapons.
Placing the Nightmare Scythe on his back and readying the Blade of Darkness, Tojiro stood to transform into his hedgehog form.
"What the fuck?! Not your ugly gerbil form!" Panty degraded without mercy.
"Oh no. Such a thing shouldn't even be mentioned." said an echoing voice from above.
Tojiro immediately raised his head to the sky. Down a thundering silver beam hit the ground, sparkling to explode out of sight. Tojiro kept his blank white eyes opened, ignoring the brightness with his steel hardened stamina. The light vanished to reveal the bounty hunter gone renegade madman; Orion.
NEXT CHAPTER PREVIEW
-Tojiro implants the Blade of Darkness into the ground with authority.- -An angry Anarchy sister aims her blazing pistol to unleash a spraying field of holy bullets upon the Demigod.- "One by one," -The quiet, yet interested half of the Anarchy Sisters looks at Tojiro.- "The pain begins to settle in."
"Tojiro remains locked between what is real and what is myth." -Tojiro lunges forward, smashing a Giant Rasengan into the chest of the blonde haired fallen angel.-
-The Cloakmaster raises his arms to create a dome of earth around the Anarchy Sisters.- "As a warning, a familiar face arrives," -Tojiro looks in a perplexed rage at Kuro Senso standing upon the earth dome.-
"She tells the Demigod of Hell's power," -Tojiro rushes forward.- -Yumi's pulsating red eyes glow hot as she points her hands forward, clapping them together to part a sea of fire released from Tojiro.- "That when he begins one of world's greatest journey ever, Hell shall be prepared in every Circle: That not even Tojiro will be prepared to face such a challenge."
-Kuro moves forward to lightly press her lips around Tojiro's.- "Tojiro's long road to the Nightmare Scythe is over. His epic journey through Hell...is near."
NEXT TIME!
The Nightmare Wars
CHAPTER LIII: BOUND FOR REALITY
