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Showdown
Ryuu stepped through the massive door first and Sasuke followed. The enormous room they were in was dominated by racks of weapons along the walls, plaques with severed heads sporting headbands from every shinobi village in existance, one empty plaque much bigger than the rest and plated in gold rather than wood with Ryuu's name on it, and a massive guilded throne. Before the throne were the four Dragon Scale Swords in a half-circle and seated in the throne, head lowerd and slouched forward, was a man wearing a gold chestplate, a bladed sleeve with the hand exposed, and a golden circle crown with spikes sticking up from the top. The man's greasy black hair fell in front of his face, hiding it.
"Uchiha," the man's voice, the same that had spoken through Aeron, spoke up. "It would seem, that you are determined to make me deal with you personally."
Helios stood slowly, the muscles in his arms rippling as he pushed himself up. He stood nearly seven feet tall with a terrifyingly powerful build. His lack pants were loose but judging by his arms, his legs were likely heavily muscled as well. Helios slowly raised hiz head, his hair falling to the sides, exposing his sunken and extremely gaunt face. He had dark circles below his eyes and his eyes were bloodshot. It looked as though he had not slept in week.
"What's wrong?" Helios asked. "Am I not what you expected? Do I not live up to your expectations?"
"Be careful," Sasuke growled. "Don't fogst, it took two Kage to stop him, and they were unable to kill him."
Ryuu nodded as Helios reached out two two of the swords, pulling them free of the ground and flipping them over to stadard grip. Then, he touched the buttcaps to the buttcaps of the other two swords and the swords connected. He gilts elongated into a pair of staves with sword blades attached. Helios ripped the staves from the ground, spinning them a moment before flipping them both down and trapping them under his arms.
"We may be in over our head here," Ryuu gulped.
"Too late now," Sasuke stated.
"Would you like to know how I forged these if the dragons were dead, and could not beeathe fire onto them?" Helios asked. "It's actually rather simple."
Ryuu drew his tanto and crouched, readying himself as Sasuke reached back for his chokuto. Helios swayed bakward, inhaling.
"Oh shit," Ryuu muttered.
Helios leaned forward in a blur, exhaling a stream of pure white flames. Ryuu and Sasuke scattered, barely getting out of the way of the fire only for their clothes to ignite due to the heat of the flames anyway. Ryuu rolled, extinguishing the flames then healed himself and stood. Helios was gone. Ryuu looked to Sasuke who was struggling to stand, having been burned worse than Ryuu. Just as Ryuu looked back toward the throne, a shadow passed over him. He spun, streaming his Wind chakra along his tanto and used it to block one of Helios's staves. The staff instatly windmilled and the other blade split Ryuu's torso open and Ryuu flew backward, crashing into a weapon rack, tipping it over.
"How disappointing," Helios stated. "I'd expect more from the man who killed my sons."
"That armor of yours is like Aeron's, isn't it?" Ryuu growled.
"It's not," Helios stated. "It simply serves to protect me from blades."
To prove his point, he stabbed a staff into the ground then shed his armor and retrieved his armor, vanishing again. Ryuu grabbed a swor from the fallen rack and spun, blocking a stab from Helios then felt Helios's foot connect with his stomach and sailed across the room, crashing into the wall beside Sasuke. When he landed, he healed both and they stood, looking to Helios, who looked disappointed and bored.
"We are so fucked," Sasuke stated.
Ryuu nodded before realising he couldn't see behind himself. His Byakugan had deactivated at some point. He grinned and activated his Sharingan. Helios raised an eyebrow and raised a staff.
"This might work a bit better," Ryuu growled drawing a pair of standard kunai, not wanting Fu's to be ruined by the Dragon Scale Blades.
He sprinted forward, leaping and slashing at Helios. Helios spun a staff, smashing the flat of a blade into Ryuu's head and hurling him away. Ryuu flipped, landing on his feet beside his tanto and picked it up, putting it away and raising the knives again. Helios snorted and hurled a staff to his throne, raising his now free hand and motioning for Ryuu to attack. Ryuu snorted in amusement, hurling the kunai at him before picking up a steel bo staff and charging. Helios smashed both kunai out of the air before blocking Ryuu's staff. Ryuu spun, swinging at Helios but Helios vanished. A moment later, his foot crashed into Ryuu's back, hurling him away.
Ryuu flipped, landing on his feet as his eyes throbbed painfully, forcing his Sharingan to deactivate. He held a hand to his eyes and took a steadying breath, focusing. His Byakugan activated and Helios smirked.
"You will regret letting go of the ability to track my movements," Helios stated, sprinting forward and slashing at Ryuu.
Ryuu blocked it and Helios sped around to Ryuu's right side the long way. Ryuu spun his staff, swinging at Helios. Helios blocked it and vanished, a foot crashing i to the back of Ryuu's head at almost the exact same time. Less than a second after Ryuu crashed into the wall, Sasuke hit next to him, a footprint on his chest.
"Damn him," Ryuu snarled as he stood. "He's too fast."
He remembered Pein's assault on the Hidden Leaf Village and stood, deactivating his Byakugan and activating his Sharingan again.
"Stay down," Ryuu growled. "I'm not sure how well this will work."
Ryuu opened the first five Inner Gates and appeared beside Helios, punching at him. Helios blocked it with the staff ad the staff snapped in half. Ryuu appeared behind Helios, throwing a kick at him and Helios spun, blocking the kick with his own foot while slashi g Ryuu across the chest, launching him away. Ryuu flipped, landing on his feet, both hands glowing green as his wounds mended themselves. Then, three more Ryuu's appeared around Helios. All four stood and drew a kunai.
"Not clones," Helios mses. "So this is the technique Aeron referred to."
A gash split open on Helios's back and he staggered forward a step then spun, raising his newly reformed Dragon Scale Staff. Sparks flew off of it and bits and pieces of a kunai landed around him. Then, he spun, blocking the other kunai at the same time as Ryuu's feet crashed down on top of Helios's head, bouncing him off the ground. Helios spun on the ground, tripping Ryuu and sending him crashing into the wall. Ryuu stood, healing himself again and vanished, reappearing beside the throne, Dragon Scale Staff in hand. Ryuu smashed one end off, making a sword and charged at Helios again. Helios began to spin his staff around himself, sparks flying off of it several times a second. Then, he spun, jabbing it forward and forcing Ryuu to duck under it. The moment he did, Helios crashed down on his back. Helios kicked Ryuu to Sasuke and Ryuu stood, healing himself again as Sasuke sprinted forward, forminghis Susanoo and making it slash at Helios.
Helios blocked the sword with his staff then sprinted forward, the staff's blade sitting the Susanoo's arm the entire way until it slashed through the area Sasuke had previously occupied. Sasuke, now in the air over Helios, ignited him with Amaterasu. Helios exhaled white flames through Amaterasu and the Amaterasu was overpowered, going out instantly. Sasuke growled in annoyance, spinning and slashing at him. Helios blocked it with his staff then flipped and kicked Sasuke away. He turned back to Ryuu as Ryuu stood, forming the Seal of Confrontation. He activated his Sharingan again and this time, veins stood out around his yes and his Sharingan bleached white.
"Bakugan and Sharingan at the same time?" Helios blinked. "How?"
"I'm just that good," Ryuu stated, reopenning the first five Inner Gates.
He sped forward, slaahing at Helios. Helios blocked it, spinning around Ryuu and stabbing backward at him. Ryuu blocked the blade, mule kicking Helios andnlaunching him away, blood spraying out of Helios' mouth. Helios landed on his hands, spinning and flipping to his feet and holding his hand out, Ryuu's Dragon Scale Sword flying to him and rejoining with the other half. Helios appeared in front of Ryuu, slashing downward at him as Ryuu formed a pair of Lightning Swords and blocked the blade. Helios snarled in frustration, spinning and swiping at Ryuu from the side. Ryuu blocked it and flipped into the air, spinning and kicking downward at Helios. Helios blocked it with the other staff which shatered and Ryuu flipped, slashing at Helios. Helios caught the Lighting Sword, shaking with rage, then spun, hurling Ryuu into Sasuke, both crashing into the wall. Ryuu began to heal both as Helios began to walk forward, flashing from one side to the other and back again, Dragon Scale Staff reformed already.
"I grow weary of this farce," Helios snarled. "I have humored you as of yet, I have allowed you to think you might win. Now, I have had enough. You will both die here."
He appeared over them, driving one Dragon Scale Staff down through both of Sauke's forearms, pinning his arms to the ground. Ryuu leapt up, grabbing Sasuke's chokuto as he did and slashed at Helios. Helios blocked the sword with his free staff, breaking it down into two swords again and then slashing at Ryuu with the second. Ryuu leapt back but was too slow and the sword tore through his chest. He growled in pain, healing himself and switching to his Mangekyo Sharingan. Helios snorted in amusement just before both of the Dragon Scale Swords he was wielding turned to ash and blew away. Helio rolled his eyes as Ryuu drove the chokuto into the ground, opening the five Inner Gates again and charging. Ryuu threw a punch and Helios caught it, his left fist crashing into Ryuu's abdomen. Ryuu flew into the air then flipped over and rocketted back down, throwing a punch. Helios caught it yet again but this time, wooden spikes errupted out of Helios's hand. Helios shouted in pain and flipped, kicking Ryuu in the side, launching him across the room. Ryuu crashed down, rolling to a stop and slowly pushing himself up. He could feel his muscles and bones starting to fall apart and when he tried to heal himself, he found he lacked the strength.
"You aren't worth me finishing you," Helios snarled, crouching and placing a scroll on the ground.
He unrolled it and Ryuu instinctively knew what Helios had planned. Before he could do anything with the scroll, a snake latched onto each forearm and his neck. He shouted in pain, reaching up and crshing the snake biting his neck just as another snake shot past, grabbig the scroll and taking it to Kabuto. Helios shouted in rage, destroying the two snakes on his arms and turned to Kabuto as Kabuto raised a hand, green chakra reaching out from his hand to Ryuu, healing his wounds. Then, the chakra faded and Kabuto bowed, deconstructing into millions of snakes, all of which Helios incinerated with hi white flames.
"Damn that snake!" Helios seethed before doubling oer, retching and vomiting blood. "Damn him to Hell!"
Ryuu stood, sighing.
"Looks like Kabuto got what he wanted after all," Ryuu grumbled drawing hia tanto. "He has Fu's soul in his possession again, and you will die."
Helios appeared behind Ryuu just as green chakra began to fly off of Ryuu. Ryuu ducked under Helios's punch and spun, tanto carving a deep gash into Helios's stomach before Ryuu stood, slitting his throat as well. Helios staggered backward, clutching his throat as Ryuu put his tanto away. Helios charged forward again and Ryuu lunged toward him, slamming his right palm into his abdomen, wooden spikes erupting all over Helios's body.
Ryuu pulled his arm back, leaving the wooden spikes immobilizing Helios as he had been, legs bent slightly, arms raised, and hands clasped in preparation of flattening Ryuu into the ground. Ryuu walked over to Sasuke, pulling the Dragon Scale Staff out and turning it, too, to dust. Then, he deacivated his Byakugan and Sharingan, and passed out, Sasuke cathing him.
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