Road got up from where she had crashed into, rubbing her head like a child "Ouch…"
"Give up Noah, we have you outnumbered, and outmatched." Shiro said, pointing his Innocence blades at her.
"Oh, you're the one who touched me back in Black Order, correct?" she smirked her evil smirk.
"Yes, but that's how I know if a rouge Noah is present, now I regret that I didn't kill you all that time ago… But now I can repent for that and kill you." Shiro said, jumping into the air and swinging his Innocence swords at her, four dragons forming.
She sighed and parried them all, a strange aura going around her.
Before she could even try to ensnare Marshal Shiro into her dream realm, Cross pulled the trigger of his Judgment, the bullet piercing through her.
"Damnit, I can't operate my dream realm on them if they keep attacking me as a team…" she thought to herself, her strange aura reappearing yet again.
Lavi joined in the battle, his Tessei now active. "Combined Seal! Fire and Heaven Seal! Strong Dragon of Flames! (Or something like that…)" Lavi called out his next move, and slammed his hammer onto the ground. The fire and heaven seal combined, releasing a dragon of flames, with a lightning aura on it.
Lenalee joined as well, her Dark Boots active, so she moved to the tip of the dragon, using her Dark Boot's speed acceleration to accelerate the combined attack that he dished out. At the last possible second, she spun away from the dragon's tip.
Then, Shiro jumped into the sky and sent out more Innocence energy dragons, his dragons and Lavi's dragon combining together.
Of course, Road just simply parried the attack at the last second, but then, Cross released his other Innocence, Grave of Maria. Maria was now using her Carte Garte, the one ability that rendered the Innocence dragon to Cross' control. He willed it to keep attacking her until she was finally hit.
Road kept parrying each and every movement that dragon had made. It looked impossible for Road to be hit by the combined attack that everyone had worked so hard to come up with.
Lavi then slammed his Tessei onto the ground "Fire Seal! Hell Fire! Hell Fire Cyclone!" he called out his Level Two attack. A dragon of flames rose out from the ground and flew at Road while she wasn't even paying attention.
She noticed the dragon at the last possible second, but it was one second too late, for the dragon of flames had already landed it's hit on her, and wouldn't you know it, the other dragon landed it's hit as well.
Shiro smirked, for he believed that they were all victorious.
The smoke cleared, revealing a completely scorched Road, and her body laughing it's evil laughter.
Cross immediately took action by pulling the trigger of his Judgment a good eight times, all of the bullets landing on a vital organ.
Shiro ran at her, his swords wrapped in light blue Innocence energy, and her sliced her throat, her chest where he beating heart should be, as well as her torso. "I apologize, I usually don't enjoy killing a lady, but this is war, and you're an enemy, now farewell!" he said, slicing her body in an 'x' formation and jumped back, an explosion occurring. Of course, any Noah should be dead from that blow, but the true mystery was, is she truly dead
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Utagai took fight stance and disappeared, using his Noah ability already.
Amber's eye pupils glowed red, and she jumped into the air as if dodging an attack. Wouldn't you know it, wind sickle movements were formed right where she was standing originally. The reason that she dodged like she had known where he was going to attack was because, remember, her ability was that she could see/differentiate between a Noah, Exorcist, Human, and Akuma.
"What the hell? Wait, your ability, you can see me?" Utagai's voice rang out.
"Yes. Yes I can." she said calmly, the Dark Matter around her right arm now spiraling in a slightly violent manner.
"Well, that doesn't matter now, for I will kill you either way!" his voice yelled, the voice getting closer to Amber.
She sighed, and parried all of his movements since she was still able to see him, and then she jumped into the air, the Dark matter on her right arm turning into a bow and arrow. She pulled the arrow as far back as she could, aiming for the body that only she could see. She aimed for his head and released the arrow, the arrow traveling at a high speed, as fast as sound.
A scream of pain could be heard, echoing through the room.
This is all too easy… I know he's stronger than this… A Noah wouldn't be taken out this easily… she thought to herself.
"HA!" a voice rang out from behind her.
Quickly, she spun around to see that it was Utagai, about to slash at her, so quickly, she back flipped and jumped into the air as soon as she was on her hands during the back flip, taking to the air in an upside down look. Quickly, she shot six more arrows, all of them hitting their mark.
"Damnit!" he cursed, his body now rematerializing.
"Looks like you've lost, give it up." she said.
"Hell no… I won't give up to a traitorous bitch such as yourself…" he said, getting up and coughing blood.
"Learn to use your terminology correctly… Bitch is a female dog. Also, a dog has a loud bark, and bark is on trees. Trees are a part of nature, and nature is awesome. So basically, calling me a bitch means I'm awesome…" she said in a calm tone, just to piss him off.
"OH SCREW YOU!" he yelled.
"Sorry, I already have a boyfriend." she giggled and shot more arrows at him.
"Oh hell no!" Utagai swung his arm at the arrows, flicking batting them away almost as if they were nothing.
"How the hell did they not pierce your flesh?" she asked.
"Oh, that's just an ability of mine. I can manipulate my body's chemical structure and any other chemical structures as long as I touch them. Meaning, you won't be able to defeat me too easily if your move is just that pathetic." he said with a smirk.
"Hmm, the ability to change chemical structures… He could make things as hard as a diamond, or as delicate as pencil lead… Looks like I may have to use my true powers on him…" she thought carefully.
"Ready for your death?" Utagai smirked, and jumped into the air, landing on a wall with his feet and jumped off there at a high speed, heading for Amber.
She reacted by dodge rolling away from his touch, and shot more of her Dark Matter arrows at him, then afterward somehow disappeared and reappeared behind him and shot five more arrows, then disappeared again, appearing above him and heavily concentrating one of the arrows. She released it and suddenly, a giant burst of Dark Matter occurred, blasting itself at Utagai.
He thought: "Aw crap, I can't change these things structures, time to manipulate my own even though it's a bit of a risk." and changed his body to a polycarbonate hardening, none of the arrows piercing him, but the blast of Dark Matter severely burned his body, leaving what looked like 5th degree burns.
Before he knew it, Amber appeared in front of him, her left arm now a sword and she drove her arm/sword right into Utagai's torso deeply.
He coughed blood "Damn you… How did you figure it out…" he growled.
"Oh, because you seemed to have been blocking your stomach and chest areas oh so much. I just had to see what would happen to you." she smirked.
"Bitch… I won't… Allow you… And your friends… To kill Master Earl!" but it was too late after he stated that, she blasted a point blank ranged Dark Matter burst, sending him flying backwards. "Damn… You…" his head let loose, as well as his muscles, blood coming out from all his severe wounds.
"Farewell, my brother." she said, walking away from the site of Utagai's death.
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"Allen, you take the fat ass Earl, I'll take this bastard here." Kesenai said, taking fight stance.
"Yes, and try to win, or I'll kill you myself." Allen smirked.
"Yeah, don't worry, I won't lose to him." he nodded his head and ran in James' direction.
"Oh no, no, no, this won't do." the Earl chuckled, snapping his fingers. Allen, Kesenai, James, and the Earl had disappeared out of nowhere, leaving everyone else behind.
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Kesenai opened his eyes and looked around, seeing that they were in some strangely large room, a room that seemed to have statues of the Millennium Earl everywhere. He sweat dropped "Gee, he's this self-centered…" he thought.
"Welcome, gentlemen to where we shall be holding our final battle!" the Earl chuckled, appearing almost out of nowhere.
Allen was standing next to Kesenai, his Crown Clown now in it's other form, the Sword of Exorcism, the sword that the Earl seemed to hate.
"Where the hell are we?" James said, looking at the Earl.
"We're in a room that I created, far off from those other nuisances." he answered with a chuckle, holding Lero in his hands as Lero turned into his sword. He snapped his fingers as if waiting for something else to happen. Next thing everyone knew, James fell down to his knees yelling in pain.
"What the hell?" Kesenai thought.
"Damn you… Earl… What the hell… Did you… Do to me?!" James asked, now pissed off.
"Oh not much, I'm just making you fight on my side." he said in his evil chuckle.
"Stop it… You bastard!" he yelled.
"Too bad, you're now mine to control, James, the Noah of Darkness." he chuckled.
James stood up, struggling to keep control over himself, and in a monotone voice, he said "Yes sire…"
"Good, good, now attack Kesenai, and kill him!" he chuckled.
James looked at Kesenai and jumped at him, katana ready to kill him.
Kesenai blocked with his sword, their swords grinding against each other, sparks appearing.
"If that's the case, then I will fight you, Earl." Allen took fight stance.
"Oh, no, no. Not yet, I want to watch how two best friends make the attempt to kill each other." he chuckled, snapping his fingers. Suddenly, a Dark Matter cage trapped Allen and it caused him to not be able to move.
With Allen unable to move, Kesenai was now going to have to fight alone.
"Are you ready to die..?" he asked, his voice not even normal any longer. His Noah features revealed themselves like a virus.
"Sorry, but I'm not dying yet!" he yelled, pushing James back with a partial of his force.
"Black Moon Slash!" he called out his attack, jumping into the air and slicing his katana at his own best friend.
Kesenai dodge rolled it and activated one of the many circles on his right arm, the red one this time. He snapped his fingers, and an explosion occurred, engulfing James.
The smoke cleared, revealing that James hadn't even taken the slightest of damage.
"Damnit, I didn't think it would come to this…" he thought, taking out his stylus and etching a hexagon into the red circle. He then snapped his fingers, a more effective explosion engulfing James' whole body.
"Are you serious..?" a voice came from behind him. He looked behind him to see James standing there.
"How the hell?!" he thought to himself.
"Die…" James said, moving in to stab him.
He parried the stab, sweep kicked James. Before James could even hit the floor, Kesenai kicked in an upward direction, sending James high up into the air, and jumped at him, punching his back, sending him flying even higher. Then, the green circle on his arm glowed and he disappeared, reappearing in front of James' flying body. "SAY GOODBYE!" he yelled, heel drop hammer kicking him, aiming for his torso.
Suddenly, James had stopped the movement by grabbing Kesenai's leg, and flinging him towards the floor at a high speed. He landed on his feet, Kesenai deep in the ground, leaving a large crater.
The Earl chuckled and clapped as if he were watching a funny television show.
Allen was in horror of how these two former best friends were making the attempt to kill each other, but this fight had only just begun, and these two were already aiming to kill each other.
"Innocence, Level Two! Activate! Arm of the Sinner!" he called out his Level Two Innocence. His right arm became a blank, pure white canvas, and then, on it's own, more circles appeared, the more complex ones that were still too mysterious for Kesenai himself since he only used very few of them. A dark purple, and red glow occurred, and he jumped at James.
James ducked, seeing that Kesenai flew over him, but that was naught, because Kesenai landed on the ground, quickly spun around, and slammed his right hand on James' back, the same Exorcism mark from before (He used it on Tyki and Lulubell if you guys bothered reading the previous chapters…)
"GAAHH!!!" James yelled in pain.
"I'm sorry, but farewell!" he yelled, etching multiple hexagons on the circle that was glowing. A cross appeared on James' back, a snake crawling on it, as well as a pentacle on the background. A circle was around it, and it grew until it was about the same size as James. "Farewell… Crucifixion…" he whispered, a slight bit of sorrow behind his voice. Suddenly, the mark just disappeared off of James and he was still standing.
"You can't kill the Darkness… The Darkness has existed since the beginning of time… The Dark can never be destroyed…" James said in a soft whisper, turning to look at Kesenai… His former best friend.
"So, you're serious about killing me, huh?" Kesenai asked, jumping back to stay away from James.
"Yes, if it is the order of Master Earl, then yes, I won't just stop at attempting to kill you… I will kill you…" he said, Dark Matter forming at the palm of his hands.
"Fine then… I guess I have no choice then." Kesenai said, taking fight stance.
"Didn't I just say that you can't kill me…" he asked.
"Yes, but I don't give a shit. I've found my way to kill an immortal before, so it won't be hard finding out how to eliminate you from this life time." he answered, his Innocence energy beginning to wrap around his sword. Quickly, he pulled it out and ran at James.
James' katana became engulfed with Dark Matter and turned into it's scythe form. Quickly, James blocked the sword attack with the staff of his scythe, and then jumped into the air, making the movement to slash Kesenai while he was in the air.
Luckily, Kesenai managed to duck, drop to the ground, roll away and get back up, his sword still at hand.
"You seem to not give up…" James said, almost sounding like he had just noticed this.
"No shit, I won't give up! I won't give up until my sins have been erased from this damned world!!!" he yelled, running at James.
James and Kesenai kept clashing sword to scythe, trying to slash at each other's openings, but the other just kept on dodging, parrying, or blocking with their own weapon.
Kesenai jumped back, not even tired.
James wasn't tired neither, they were both in perfect condition, looking like they could keep on going forever if needed.
The Earl just kept on chuckling and clapping his hands.
Kesenai looked at the Earl's stupidity and calm said "Shut… The hell up… You fuzz bag." he sweat dropped.
"Don't you dare speak to him like that." James said, slashing his scythe's blade down on him.
He dodge rolled and sweep kicked James again, this time, punching James in the rib before he even looked like he was lying down in mid air using his right hand.
He went flying towards the other side of the room, leaving a huge crater in the wall. "That's it…" James said as he began standing up.
Kesenai noticed that James had a bunch of scratches all over him, this was because he was away from any nearby shadows. "I guess that's the only way possible to defeat him, I have to somehow make all shadows in this room go away… But… That's just the problem… Shadows are everywhere, no matter what's done…" he thought to himself, planning out how he would make James die. "Then again, he is a Noah, so maybe he has the same weakness as all the other ones… Innocence… I'll test it myself." he thought again, running towards James.
James' body began being completely wrapped in Dark Matter, just like when he was fighting Antony. "Darkness cover this damned world… Darkness destroy the current world and rebuild it until it's perfect… Dark Angel!" James called out his next move, black angel wings made of Dark Matter bursting out from his back, his left hand now turned into a claw made of Dark Matter, a tail made of solidified, dense Dark Matter. James' eye balls (Where the white is usually) turned black, and his once green eye pupils, turned light yellow.
"Damn, looks like this may be his true form, so I may need to watch it." he thought, still running at him.
"Dark Feathers!" he smirked, his wings flapping at rapid yet harsh speeds, releasing a huge group of black feathers that were thrown like throwing knives for weapons trainings.
Kesenai's eyes widened and he jumped high into the air to escape the attack of the killer feathers, sighing in relief that he jumped in time.
James took to the sky and flew towards Kesenai, his Dark Matter claws extended forward, as well as his katana, both dangerous weapons ready to stab Kesenai.
Kesenai blocked with his sword, being pushed back by the sheer force that James was using. The claw and katana were grinding against the flat side of his blade, sparks flying yet again. Taking advantage the sparks were flying, he snapped his fingers on his right hand quickly, the sparks turning into multiple explosives that all engulfed James.
James fell down from the bottom of the smoke, his wings loosely not even moving, but then, his falling stopped, now levitating. His eyes opened and he smirked "I hope you weren't thinking that you won…" he said in an evil, cold, sarcastic tone.
"Damnit, looks like I may have to use that while I'm here…" he thought, placing the flat side of his sword on the blue circle he once used previously. The circle glowed bright sky blue, the blade now bubbling as if changing shape. It wasn't changing shape, it was splitting up into two, equal halves. Both the newly formed swords fell to the ground and Kesenai picked them both up, both of them being covered in white energy.
"Interesting, I've never seen you get so serious." James said with a smirk across his face, talking like he wasn't even being controlled by the Earl. "Maybe you'll be one of the most respected Exorcists I've ever killed." he said, taking fight stance.
"I don't care…" Kesenai replied with a cold tone in his voice, almost like something else was now taking over in his mind.
"So, can I kill him?" a thought ran through his mind.
"Go ahead… I don't care now…" Kesenai's true thoughts sighed.
"YAY! I CAN FINALLY MAKE AN APPEARANCE!" the other voice in his mind yelled in excitement.
A black circle began to glow brightly. Suddenly, half of the circle was formed on each blade, etched deeply into the steel. Suddenly, one of the blades changed to the color black, meanwhile the other blades' steel changed to the color white. "Darkness and Light… Balancing Forces…" he had whispered, his left arm, holding the black blade, turned to the color black, meanwhile on the other hand, which held the white blade, dimmed it's brightness to be a normal white skin. The circles on his right arm Innocence had then disappeared.
"Don't disappoint me." James said with a smirk.
"I will disappoint you in an either way situation… You won't live any longer…" he said in a low whisper.
Allen was surprised, for he had never seen Kesenai's Innocence do something like that, nor had he ever seen an Exorcist's Innocence be able to do that.
The Earl watched and chuckled at the current situation. He was loving this… He was loving the fact that these two former best friends were now pulling out all of their stops just to kill one another, and that he thought was what would be the fine wine to the art of battle.
"So, is this your Critical Point Breaker?" James asked with a smirk.
"No, this is nowhere close to one…" he answered in response, his swords glowing slightly more brighter. Dark Matter engulfed the black blade, while white Innocence energy engulfed the white blade.
James breathed in and breathed out deeply, dense levels of Dark Matter forming around his sword, taking the shape of a dragon, while it's wings greatly spread out, connecting with his body's wings. His eye pupils changed from yellow to blood red, symbolizing that anyone facing that attack would end up dead. The wings seemed to have been stringed together by a thick ring of Dark Matter. "Prepare to die, Kesenai Tsumi… Noah of Sins… Dark Dragon!" James said in a low whisper, the dragon-shaped Dark Matter appeared to have roared loud enough for an entire castle to break down, but surprisingly, the room didn't break down either way.
Dark Matter and Innocence energy wrapped around Kesenai like how he did previously in his battle with Kanda during the time he was being chased by the entire Black Order. Kesenai crossed his black blade and white blade together by their flat sides, the both of them shining and combining together to form a black and white steeled katana leaked Dark Matter and Innocence energy, taking the form of long, mighty dragon wings, the head of the dragon forming on the hilt of the katana. "I hope your soul doesn't find salvation, you traitorous bastard…" he said, his cold tone of voice remaining there.
"Same goes for you, former best friend." James smirked as he swung his sword, the Dark Matter dragon flying at Kesenai at an alarming level of speed.
Kesenai ran at the Dark Matter dragon, not caring what would happen next, but in his mind, both the different thoughts stated: "I MUST WIN!!!" The dragon, and Kesenai's attack had clashed, Dark Matter being released, but no signs of Innocence energy being leaked out. Both the different Dark Matter had disappeared, causing a giant smoke screen.
James laughed, thinking that he was the victorious one. Suddenly, he got stabbed by a bright white blade, and a dark black blade, white Innocence energy being injected into his body. His eyes widened as soon as he saw his situation and looked forward to see a alive, and kicking Kesenai.
"You thought you won? Well now, too bad, here comes your kingdom come you bastard!" he yelled, slicing his white sword upward, coming out of James' right shoulder, and his black sword slicing downward, exiting from James' left waist, a burst of Dark Matter and Innocence energy occurring, pushing James all the towards another wall.
Allen's eyes widened, for he had thought that Kesenai won.
The Earl was now silent… (Finally the fat ass bastard is quiet!)
James' body was now truly lifeless, or so it seemed because his body twitched slightly. But then, it stopped moving, showing he was now truly dead…
Kesenai looked at the Earl, a hateful look in his eyes "That's just one down… Now you're the only one left you bastard…" he said in a soft tone. He slashed at the general direction of Allen's prison, destroying it with a White Moon Slash.
Allen ran up next to Kesenai, the both of them looking at the Earl. This was going to be their final battle. If they won, they'd be victorious, but if they lost… Then they'd have lost the war, but their eyes showed that they'd keep fighting on, even if the ultimate price had to be their lives…
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Disclaimer: I do not own -Man, but if I did, I would make this fan fic a true part of the freaking anime!
Author's Note: I wrote a hell of a lot of words today… Phew, tomorrow I might be able to end it, or it'll be posted on Tuesday. Sorry my fellow readers.
-Talk-Show:
Kira: We're back for another episode!
Kesenai: Yeah…
Kanda: I give up, I can't do anything about being here or not!
Kira: Yeah you guys better, because there's questions for you two.
Kanda: Oh really?
Kira: Yup. These are questions from Isis Rainbow: Question for Kanda: what kind of girls you're interested in?Question for Kesenai: Who do you think will work well with you on missions?
Kanda: Wow, for once, someone decided to ask me a question. Anyway, the answer would be that I'm interested in those who are strong willed, and are like me.
Kesenai: -Mutter: I don't think so….-
Kanda: -Pull out Mugen.- WHAT THE -Censor- WAS THAT?!
Kesenai: It was nothing… -Sweat drop.-
Kanda: -Put sword away.- Better be…
Kesenai: I wouldn't know. They always hated me at the end and I hate them too -Laugh.-
Kira: Trust me, the end will be most surprising -Evil laugh.-
Kira: There went all our time guys! See you next chapter!
