Chapter 3, Page 3

The Legend

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Viktor felt a cold chill run down his spine as he looked towards Joseph, the normally gold eyes he had replaced with red, almost dragon like eyes as he peered in Viktor's direction waiting for an answer, the unending sense of dread he now got from him felt as if he had the entire world weighing down on his shoulders, almost as if he was looking in the presence of pure evil and that's when he realized that Joseph now had a similar air about him as Osiris, the feeling of death continued to crawl up his spine as Asriel was getting ready to step towards him when Viktor held his arm in front of him.

"That's not Joseph anymore...At least not on the outside...Asriel I want you and Chara to stay out of this one, let me handle Nero myself." He took a few steps forward towards Nero as his aura turned red along with his body, a quick tinge of anger went through his body as he knew this time things were about to get serious

"I didn't ask for an insignificant boy to step before me, I asked for my brother, now where is Inviktos? If you are not going to have him come out willingly then I will be forced to pry him out myself." The way Nero even spoke only increased the dread that he was feeling at the time, he wasn't as strong as Osiris was but somehow he felt far more evil than even he could be. He levitated slightly off the ground as Viktor readied himself for battle before taking off into the sky, as he got barely higher than the Colosseum he raised his arm above his head and a black fire consumed his arm. He struggled for a minute as he built his energy up but finally Nero let out a hailstorm of black fireballs all scattering over Rome, explosions rattled the arena to its foundation as the city around them was completely destroyed by Nero,Viktor could see the clouds from the blasts rising higher than the Colosseum itself and he could hear the cries of people dying in what was left of the city, by the time Nero lowered himself back to the ground Viktor was seething with nothing but pure rage, his eyes quickly shifted to the reddish orange that Inviktos gave him as the stone started rippling even more with energy.

"YOU!...YOU SON OF A BITCH!...I'M NOT...I"M NOT GOING TO LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS!" With a yell Viktor's aura exploded as the armor of Inviktos spread around his body, his rage at Nero's merciless slaughter reaching its peak as he allowed Inviktos to come out, he stared at Nero one last time before the mask came over his face, the glare would've been enough to kill any normal man, the smoke from the burning city started to block out the sky as Nero's self made darkness washed over the arena, he held nothing but a sick grin as he looked towards Inviktos with a glee that only a madman should have.

"Ah don't you see brother? Now I can rebuild this worthless city into my New Roman Empire and we can rule the world just as we did centuries ago, and now that I have the body of this Vampyre I'm not only the strongest being on this planet, I'm immortal as well so my rule can last as long as I see fit! We can now rule this world as long as we like!"

"You fool I never fought for you, I fought for those that mattered to me, I didn't care about your Empire I only cared about making sure I was able to feed my family and live a normal life! Had I known you were like...This...I would've long killed you myself, I knew you were a megalomaniac Nero but to burn your own people, to take thousands of innocent lives in your reckless pursuit of power...I would've rather died than continued to serve under you."

"Oh don't play dumb with me Inviktos, you're just as much a killer as I am! How many people didn't get to go home to their families because you took them away? How many people died by your sword because you believed it was the right thing to do?"

"I never killed innocent people brother, I never mercilessly slaughtered my own people just for the fun of it, I fought those who could fight against me because there is no honor in killing the innocent...Something you obviously didn't learn about, there was a reason why the people always looked up to me as the hero, why I was the one that everyone recognized as a true warrior, because I fought with pride, I fought with honor, I fought against those that fought against me and I protected those that needed it."

"Ah but how many wives had to lay down knowing they would never see their husband again because they died by your hands, how many children grew up without a father because you were the one that killed them? You can cover it up as much as you want to Inviktos but you're no better than me!" Briefly Viktor regained control and reached up towards the mask on his face, he grabbed a hold of it and pulled it from his face before throwing it to the ground and looking up towards Nero.

"Inviktos fought for his family, he didn't kill just for the fun of it like you do, he didn't kill on some mad quest for power and he sure as fuck didn't burn an entire city to the ground for no goddamn reason other than just because he could...Face it Nero you are nothing more than a stain on the fabric of time, a killer that will rot in infamy until the end of time itself and now I'm going to destroy you once and for all." He spoke in his normal voice as he clapped his hands together to create the scythe he used against Osiris, his eyes never leaving Nero as he formed the weapon, he twirled it around before he shot off into the sky against Nero, who had pulled out the sword that Joseph uses to intercept him and the two blades clashed together as both sides tried to outmatch the other in strength, Viktor stared towards Nero with hatred boiling behind his eyes while Nero kept a cold gaze on him, he pulled back as his hate filled stare continued to try and burn a hole in Nero's head before he shot back forward, swinging his scythe in an attempt to hit Nero, the sound of their blades clashing echoed through the Colosseum as Chara and Asriel watched on. Sparks shot out from each impact as the two would clash for a few seconds before teleporting to another spot and continuing, then another spot, finally Viktor drew the first blood as he managed to appear behind Nero and bring the scythe slicing along his back, a deep gash appearing as blood shot out and fell to the ground, Asriel of course had a rather concerned look on his face for Joseph's safety.

"Viktor's not going to kill him...He's just has to weaken this Nero guy enough for Joseph to assume control and considering that Joey's immortal anyway he's got a lot of options to do here." Chara tried to reassure him as Nero fell forward, wincing from the attack actually managing to hurt him.

"I would think that...Being in the body of one of your closest friends you would be more hesitant to attack like that..."

"Ah well, there's where you're wrong...Joseph's immortality allows me to have free reign to do whatever it takes to get you out, so yeah you have immortality but I can guarantee you that you won't be enjoying it."

"Even if you were stronger than me boy, eventually your own body will wear out while mine will continue to fight forever, so this entire battle is nothing more than a test to see how many seconds you last against me."

"I've spent the last year defying everything that was sent my way and you seriously think I can't beat you? Typical sadistic emperor, so deluded from reality that you believe your own hype even when the odds are stacked against you..." Nero said nothing as he swung the sword in Viktor's direction, their blades going back to the usual sound of clashing as Nero slowly put more and more power behind his attacks , he finally broke Viktor's defense and swung the blade across his chest before making it seemingly disappear in place of two smaller daggers, one of which he managed to lunge forward and stab into Viktor's side, piercing through the armor he had on but the energy going through his body forced him to ignore the pain as he grabbed Nero by the collar of his outfit and started punching him in the face, he brought his hands up in an attempt to block the punches but then Viktor just blasted him in the stomach with an energy ball, sending him back until it exploded, the blue color of the attack bathed the ground of the Colosseum, Nero was enraged by this point as he cleared the blue smoke with an explosion of power as he charged at Viktor, no weapons in hand except his fists and started throwing a near endless assault of punches that Viktor had a bit of trouble keeping up with, he could feel the ones that got in pelting against his still sore body from the fight with Osiris, a few hit his chest and knocked the wind out of him but he pressed on trying to defend against what he could, finally he had enough and in a brief explosion of energy, managed to push Nero back as he charged a few blasts in his hands, hurling a small volley of blasts at him that Nero started punching away as he once again charged at Viktor, he brought his hand out as the black fire appeared once again and point blank he fired a wave of it at Viktor, who luckily managed to bring an energy barrier up in time before the attack could do damage.

"Looks like he's finally decided to fight like he means it..."

*Do not be fooled just yet, he still has more power beyond this, keep your guard up* Viktor brought his arms up as he decided it was time to take things up another notch as he activated his times 10 along with the Inviktos form, cracking his neck again as he glared in Nero's direction. The man in question just let out a dark chuckle as he raised his hand up in the air and looked down towards Chara and Asriel, sitting in the stands still watching the fight play out.

*Strange...Why does the goat seem familiar to me? No matter...* He formed another black fireball in his hand and hurled it at them, immediately Viktor took off towards it to try and stop it but Nero grabbed his ankle and hurled him back into the air.

"AZZY MOVE!" Chara practically shoved Asriel out of the way as she and him dodged the attack, barely managing to escape the blast, meanwhile Nero's attempt to attack them didn't sit well with Viktor as he found himself once again blinded by his rage.

"HOW DARE YOU! DON'T YOU EVER TRY TO HURT MY CHARA!" He then shot off like a bullet towards Nero, colliding head first into his chest before quickly catching his wrist.

"IT'S TIME TO SLAP SOME SENSE INTO YOU!" He started slapping Nero back and forth across the face multiple times, each one sounding more like a hammer shot to the face than anything else as he refused to let go of Nero's wrist, he roughly yanked up on his wrist before kicking him in the stomach, sending him crashing into the ground as he pursued with his scythe, he stopped just a few feet above him and started swinging the scythe at Nero's chest, slicing into him as he was completely defenseless, blood and bits of clothing from his chest flew as Viktor kept slicing, trying to bite back the grin that was coming to his face before he turned the scythe over and sent the bottom end plunging into Nero's chest before landing next to him, breathing a bit heavily as he pulled the scythe out of Nero's chest and started walking in the direction of Chara and Asriel, suddenly the ground started to shake as Nero dug himself out of the small crater, obviously more than enraged at this point as his aura exploded again, causing the ground to crack underneath him, he looked in Viktor's direction with fury boiling behind his eyes as he caused Joseph's sword to reappear again, he brought his free hand up and struck the ground, causing what looked like a geyser of pure black fire to start shooting up from the ground in Viktor's direction, with a swing of his scythe the fire was cleared but Nero came flying in with sword in hand, him and Viktor clashed so hard that it actually caused an explosion of energy that even Chara and Asriel were knocked off balance by before they broke off into an almost invisible blur of sword and scythe swings, the sounds of blades hitting seemed to be endless as the sparks started causing small fires in the areas where grass had managed to peek through, their auras kicked up as the two continued putting more and more power behind their attacks, the ground around them starting to crack and rise up as they gave off more energy, they leaped into the air still swinging their weapons with enough force that pure energy started to spark from each collision as if reality itself was breaking from the force, they broke apart and both used their free hands to charge an energy blast, red and black spheres flew through the air and collided as the two kept upping the ante, finally they abandoned their weapons again and Viktor charged a green ball in his hand and charged at Nero, who repeated the move but with a black ball instead, the two clashed and swirls of green and black tried to fight for control, the struggle went nowhere though as the power build up caused a massive explosion that parted Nero's smoke clouds he created. The two crashed down back into the Colosseum, Viktor crashed into the stands not too far from Chara and Asriel while Nero crashed into where the Emperor usually sat, Viktor's right arm was badly damaged from the explosion as was Nero's left, the two powered up again as they charged each other, clashing in the middle as they locked hands and tried to outmuscle the other, but instead the both reared their heads back and started smashing them against each other, splitting both their heads open.

"JESUS CHRIST VIKTOR STOP!" Chara was losing it in the stands as she was watching Viktor essentially destroy himself again to defeat Nero, at some point he slipped into times 20 as the fight continued.

"Come on Inviktos...You better fight me seriously or when I'm done here the first one I'm going to kill is the girl, and trust me I won't be gentle about it" Suddenly Viktor's aura exploded and he grabbed around Nero's neck, shooting off towards the wall and slamming him into it.

Viktor had been distracted by Nero too long to not notice that at a certain point he had made a clone of himself that was sneaking for an attack from behind, he didn't realize it until he felt another power come out of nowhere right behind him and the clone sliced along his back, cutting through the armor and making a similar gash as the one he'd put on Nero. The real one however had created large, sharpened metal poles after Viktor took the attack from behind and shot them at him, two had hit him in the stomach and sent him flying into the wall across the Colosseum, a third one hit his shoulder and made him unable to move his left arm.

"DAMN IT! How...How could I fall for something that easily?..." He could hear Nero chuckling as he walked over towards him,twirling his sword in hand.

"For someone who was chosen by my brother to utilize his power you sure didn't do a very good job of it..." Nero then fired a black fireball into Viktor, who could do nothing but take the blast, he fired another one, then another one, relishing in the fact he was essentially on the verge of killing his brother. He didn't see Chara stand up, preparing to attack.

"Chara wait...There's no way you could do anything at this point, he's too powerful for both of us..." Asriel tried to talk her friend out of what was essentially suicide.

"Someone has to do something..." With that she took off in full speed in Nero's direction, as she went to attack he simply reached his hand out and caught her by the throat, Viktor seeing this started to go into a full blown panic as he desperately tried to pry the bars out of him while Chara struggled to get free.

"Well...Isn't that the cutest thing? You thought you could save him by doing something stupid like this?...Hm...You look familiar as well..." He took a moment to study the girl currently trying to kick her way free and he couldn't help but laugh and look back in Viktor's direction.

"Inviktos, do you remember the girl you told me about? I believe her name was Athena...Have you been wondering what happened to her after you were gone?..." Nero then promptly made Joseph's sword reappear in his hand, Viktor's blood ran cold as he could see Nero lining the blade up to stab her as he ripped one of the bars out of his shoulder.

"You know what they say...Those who don't learn from history, are doomed to repeat it." For Viktor time seemed to come to a complete standstill as he saw Nero plunge the blade through Chara's stomach, he could see her cough up a bit of blood as she reached down towards the blade before her body fell limp, he could see her look in his direction as she started to cry a little, he saw her mouth the words "I love you" before Nero twisted the blade into her a little bit, he saw Nero bring the sword out just a bit before shoving it back inside, forcing more blood to shoot from her back as she coughed up even more, Joseph was in his subconscious screaming at him to stop but Nero's dark side somehow managed to overpower him, Chara's body by this point had gone completely limp and she was just lazily looking in Viktor's direction as she felt herself slipping away, Nero shed her from the sword before practically hurling her into the wall next to Viktor, she bounced off it with a bit of a whimper before she hit the ground, Viktor finally managed to rip the bars out of his stomach as he fell to the ground next to her, he crawled over and rolled her onto her back, he couldn't speak even though he wanted to desperately beg that she still be alive, her head just lulled over towards him as he held her tightly to his chest, silently crying as Nero looked on with a sadistic smile on his face, he looked towards Asriel, who was still sitting in the stands.

"Would you like to join them? Not like it'll matter I'll be killing you all before this is over anyway." He didn't notice Viktor set Chara down, as he stood he looked down at his hands, stained with her blood as Inviktos' armor had long receded, his fingers twitched slightly as he brought his thumb and forefinger together, then suddenly a surge of green lightning shot through his hands as he felt it, a rage boiling in his stomach that was stronger than anything he'd ever felt before, his worst fear came true as he'd seen Chara be killed in front of him and there was nothing he could do to stop it, he faced Nero clutching at his skull as he finally let out an anguished sounding yell, his energy suddenly exploding in a swirl of green and black as he actually blew Nero back a few feet, he stepped towards him as his energy continued to rise, he let out another yell as if he was building up before finally crying out Chara's name in an agonizing scream as the world around them seemed to shift in color, going from dark green, to blue, then to red as his energy kept surging around them. Asriel had managed to sneak down and grab Chara before she ended up getting in even worse shape from Viktor's anger, taking her to where the emperor usually sat. Viktor looked towards the sky before letting out another, even more prolonged scream as his eyes shifted from their normal color to Inviktos' red and yellow except now his pupils had completely vanished, Nero just watched as Viktor's energy continued to grow massively until it formed a large sphere then exploded into the sky, destroying an entire wall of the Colosseum as well as piercing through the smoke of the burning city, Nero could see Viktor rise from the crater of the explosion, once again donning the Inviktos armor however his eyes were glowing a bright red and his hair was spiked up and somehow turned blonde, Nero took a step back as if to fight but even he was having second thoughts about this, he heard Viktor let out another cry as he rose up into the sky and the sky around them changed color once again as Viktor started storing a massive amount of energy around him.

*Just...Just how much power could Viktor possibly have? The power of Inviktos with his own was enough to briefly overpower Osiris but this...What is this?* Joseph from his own mind couldn't believe what he was seeing, he knew things would get ugly once Nero attacked Chara but this was something even he wasn't expecting.

Meanwhile back at the mansion even Noire was capable of feeling the massive power spike that came from Viktor.

"Oh...Oh my..."

"What is it?" Kakarot asked her.

"Viktor he...Chara got...Well...She got hurt and Viktor just exploded...Kakarot I think...I think Viktor just became a Super Saiyan..." Kakarot's eyes went wide with shock when he heard that.

"A Super Saiyan?...Noire that's a big statement to be making, the last Super Saiyan to exist was over 1000 years ago, since then no one has achieved it."

Meanwhile back at the plot.

Nero watched as the green and black sphere in the sky continued to charge with energy, Viktor was just wildly yelling in a mix of sorrow and pure anger as he finally released the energy in the form of pelting everything in the next mile with a firestorm of energy blasts, Asriel freaked out as he brought a barrier up over him and Chara to protect them and Nero attempted to dodge what he could as for him it was like trying to dodge raindrops, the blasts finally ceased as the sphere around Viktor broke apart and Nero could see him clearly, the sun shining down upon him as his energy continued to dance around him before he charged at Nero, he tried to hold him back with a few fireballs but they didn't phase him in the slightest, he made no attempt to dodge them as he continued.

"He's...He's stronger than Nero...He's stronger than Joseph even...He's even stronger than Osiris but what good is that power if he nearly destroys the world using it?!" Asriel was having his own panic attack watching Viktor attack Nero, the battle was essentially won by him at this point but they had no clue what he would do afterwards, if he didn't stop fighting they would have a serious problem. Viktor finally caught Nero by the skull and slammed him into the ground, beating him half to death with a barrage of vicious punches, looking to inflict as much damage as he possibly could on Nero, he could feel the bones cracking and snapping like twigs under the force of his punches and he was loving every moment of it, every single hit felt like he was doing something for Chara and at this point that was the only person he cared about, Inviktos mentally hoped that Asriel wouldn't stand in the way because most likely Viktor would attack him or anyone else who stepped between him and crushing Nero under his foot.

Viktor shot up into the sky as the world turned green and slowly collapsed into his hand in the form of an almost tiny ki ball, he brought his hand up and threw it towards Nero, the ball suddenly turned into an almost enormous one and exploded, Viktor however kept firing more and more shots into the already exploding blast.

"VIKTOR STOP! YOU'LL KILL HIM AT THIS RATE!" Viktor heard Asriel yell out to him and almost in an instant he appeared in front of the goat, who cowered a bit at the massive amount of power Viktor was putting out, his aura slowly swirling around him as he stared daggers at the goat.

"Stay out of my way, or I'll kill you, understand me?" With that he teleported back to where Nero's body was sitting, he grabbed him by the ankle and started to float in the air a bit, when Nero suddenly caught him in the face with a white energy blast to try and open the distance, he released Nero's leg willingly but didn't feel anything from the blast as he could still see the now disgraced Emperor backing away.

"You insolent bastard...How dare you not submit to my power...I was hoping I wouldn't have to use this but you've left me no choice..." Nero brought his arms in front of him as he started to power up, a red outline appeared next to his body as the sky slowly started to darken from the power of his ever increasing energy, Viktor just looked on unimpressed as red lightning struck down around him as Nero's aura exploded in a flash of blood red, shooting lightning around him as he continued to power up, Viktor could see what looked like his own armor spreading around him as his body enveloped in white and a red pillar of energy shot into the air, he then saw what looked like a single dragon wing come out of the right side of the pillar, then another one come out of the left side as the pillar exploded to show Nero's new form, it was eerily similar to Viktor's in terms of getting armor however Nero's looked more like it belonged to an animal, the large dragon energy wings and the skull for the helmet gave it a distinct "Magic" feel. The two said no words as they stared each other down before disappearing, clashing in the middle of the now destroyed Colosseum with an array of shots being traded back and forth between the two, clashing hard enough that Asriel was thinking reality was going to start distorting at any minute if they didn't get themselves under control soon, the two disappeared then reappeared a short distance from each other, throwing a punch that collided so hard the force of the wind started slicing through the stone of the Colosseum, they both threw a punch with the other hand which also collided, their auras exploded as they literally started screaming at each other before Viktor brought his punch back and into Nero's stomach, sending a shockwave back, Nero responded with one of his own to which Viktor gave it back, the two traded solid shots to the stomach to see which would break first before they both brought their knees up, energy starting to escape as they looked to gain ground on the other, Viktor brought his hand to Nero's face and fired a ki blast at him, sending him back before Viktor started shooting a near endless volley of ki blasts all directly aiming for him, he didn't see Viktor teleport from where he was standing and appear behind him with his hand against Nero's back, he fired another ki blast sending him into the oncoming volley and they all exploded upon contact, Nero exploded with anger again, this time once again pulling out Joseph's sword which immediately filled Viktor with a rage that burned him at the soul, he quickly summoned his scythe as the two charged at the middle of the Colosseum, slicing wildly with no real concern for defending themselves, Viktor laid on several cuts, twirling the scythe and juggling Nero in the air like someone from Mortal Kombat, blood shot out everywhere from the scythe slicing through Nero before he spun a full 360 and brought his heel crashing down onto Nero's skull, he quickly popped back up however and started his own combo of slicing through Inviktos' armor, turning the fight into a game of whose body would give out first, by the end of it both men were bleeding heavily as Viktor struggled to stay to his feet, Nero aimed his sword towards Viktor with a half grin on his face.

"Now die...Just like your precious Chara..." He readied the blade and lunged at Viktor, who was immediately set off by the mention of Chara's name again, he brought his hand up and grabbed the blade as it was a mere inch from his chest, he brought his fist down on the back of Nero's head like a hammer, then the opposite one, before kicking him in the stomach as hard as he could, he took the sword from Nero, turned it around and stabbed him, bring the former Emperor to his knees before Viktor grabbed his right arm, the one he used to stab Chara with and brought the sword up to slice it clean off.

"VIKTOR NO!" He heard Asriel yell but he paid him no mind as he sliced clean through the arm, taking it off as Nero fell to the ground grabbing at his now missing arm, Viktor then threw the sword aside and picked the arm up before starting to savagely beat Nero with his own arm, Nero long lost his form but Viktor wouldn't stop hitting him with his arm, Asriel started to freak out and considered going down to plead with him but then Chara sat herself up with what strength she had left, she weakly made her way to the stone railing and called out to him, immediately his assault on Nero stopped as he looked back to where she was, she was leaning on the railing trying to hold herself up, Viktor looked back towards Nero when he heard him scuffling to get himself up, obviously he was in no condition to fight anymore but he weakly stepped in Viktor's direction, his eyes shifting between his own and Joseph's.

'Welcome...To the top of the food chain..." He said weakly before collapsing against Viktor, the latter of which felt his anger slip away and his hair turn back to normal as he looked towards the sky, the sound of thunder rattled the remains of the Colosseum as he felt a raindrop fall upon his face, a brief flash of lightning appeared before the rain slowly started to fall, for Viktor it felt almost relieving to feel it wash over him, weakly he lifted Joseph's body over his shoulder after he took the Eye of Nero off of him and flew over to where Asriel and Chara were, he set him down and collapsed himself next to Chara, his hand slowly came up and rested on her leg as he felt himself starting to cry again, for him she was alive and that was the only thing that mattered, he felt her hand rest on his head for a second before her fingers started to play with his hair. Asriel grabbed her hand along with Joseph's as the 4 teleported back to their home to figure out what to do next

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