Chapter 23: Fool (Zig vs. Ura)

Two blurs were flying across the streets of the city. One of them stopped and it was Ura. The other one was Zig.

The two had a stare down with each other. Zig made the first move and took off, making large cracks into the ground. Ura instantly blocked his kick and shoved him away before he decided to attack.

Zig ducked under a punch and sent an uppercut, only for it to get blocked. The clone hopped up and roundhouse kicked Ura's stomach before teleporting away.

Zig plucked a hair from his tail and summoned Ruyi. He got in an offensive stance as he stared at Ura.

"It's a shame that your only power is being fast," Zig said as he appeared in front of Ura and began striking with Ruyi, but Ura was either dodging or blocking the attacks.

"You know, I'm not only fast," Ura said as he ducked under a swing and backflip kicked Zig's chin. The clone flew back before backflipping and sliding across the ground. He didn't have time to recover as he dodged a kick.

Zig was forced to go on the defensive as Ura kept on attacking him. The beast teleported in different directions, either sending out punches or kicks and Zig couldn't track his movements.

Zig put Ruyi in front of him as Ura sent a powerful kick, making him fly back. Zig looked behind him and could see parts of concrete levitating in his path.

Shit. Zig thought as he crashed through the concrete, then was instantly sent into the ground. Ura appeared a little bit away from the clone.

Zig slowly got up as he shook his head. He looked at Ura and slightly glared.

"You're able to move rocks?" Zig guessed.

"Psh. No. Anything I touch, I can change the mass of that object any way I like," Ura answered.

"How were you able to get the concrete out of the ground?"

"I made a cut out and simply lifted it up."

"I didn't see you do that at all…" Zig said.

"I created hyperrealistic afterimages that were able to pick up the concrete while I was fighting you," Ura told with a smirk. Zig narrowed his eyes and spun Ruyi around before taking off without warning. Ura moved his head to the left as Ruyi appeared next to him. The beast then ducked under a punch that was aimed for his head and jumped back.

"Your stupid 'Chaoguo' isn't gonna work against me! It's just inferior!" Ura told as he began dodging Zig's strikes with ease.

As the clone missed a jab, Ura ducked under it and quickly grabbed its neck. He began squeezing the clones neck hard, but he smirked as he pointed the staff downwards and it grew longer, making the clone higher up in the air.

Ura looked at it in confusion before he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. His eyes widened as he looked down and saw another staff stabbed right through him.

His eyes traveled down the staff and saw another clone holding it. He looked at the clone he was choking and it disappeared. Ura was even more shocked.

"You may have hyoerrealistic afterimages, but I have clones that are better," Zig said with a smirk. "Ruyi, Lightning Rod Shellshock!"

The staff began producing electricity around itself before it disappeared, then suddenly it began shocking Ura severely.

The beast screamed in pain before the rod was done and Ura went limp. Smoke could be seen rising from the body and Zig pulled the staff out, dropping Ura's body to the ground. He was getting ready to stab Ura again, but then pieces of two buildings from both his right and left came out of the wall and raced towards Zig's sides.

Zig's eyes widened, but then he set Ruyi horizontally. "Ruyi!" The staff grew bigger and stopped the two building pieces, but the staff seemed to have trouble keeping the rocks in place. Zig went under the staff and held it up.

"Ruyi!" The staff shrunk and the two pieces collided against each other, exploding into a million pieces. Zig jumped back and looked at Ura's burnt body to see it getting up.

"You think… that I only cut out one piece of concrete…? No, this whole place is cut out," Ura revealed as he cracked his bones. "That hurt, ya know… I'll pay you back so you know how it felt."

Zig got in a defensive stance as Ura began visibly shaking and the burn marks were gone. Zig's eyes widened as he quickly turned around, but got hit by his fist.

Zig flew forward and suddenly, a piece of concrete shot out from the ground and struck Zig's stomach, making him blurt out saliva.

As the piece of concrete fell down, Ura appeared above Zig and slammed his foot down on the clone's back, sending him straight down faster than the concrete was falling.

The piece of concrete slowed down a little, then it began falling fast, but Zig slammed into it and made the concrete fall faster.

As the concrete reached the ground, it exploded, sending the body of Zig into a nearby building. The clone smashed through many walls before crashing through a bed and slammed the wall. He peeled off of it and fell on his knees, coughing up a fit.

He plucked a hair off of his tail and it turned into another Ruyi as he planted the staff. "... Lightning Trap…"

The staff created some electricity before it traveled down and spread across the floor. The electricity expanded and covered the entirety of the rooms he passed through.

He used the staff to help himself up as Ura could be seen at the other end of the holes. The beast smirked as he took a step inside the ruined building, but then got electrocuted.

Zig spun the staff and let go of it. "Static Railgun!" Zig kicked the staff and it boomed through the holes, collecting the electricity that was surrounding the area.

Ruyi now looked like a stick of electricity as it made its way to Ura. The beast couldn't move and it was far too late as the staff went through his chest, making Ura fly back. He coughed up blood as he fell and his insides were being electrocuted too.

Zig ran out of the holes and jumped out of the building. He looked down and could see Ura almost reaching the ground.

Zig stretched his arms out. "Shu's Great Lion Wind!" He then threw his arms forward as fierce gusts of wind shot out in front of him.

The winds slammed into Ura and made him crash into the concrete. The winds kept him down as he heard a roar and looked up to see a giant lion made of wind with glowing green eyes. The lion then rushed towards Ura and opened its mouth. Once it reached Ura, it clamped down on him and exploded into more vigorous gusts, forcing the beast even farther into the ground. He couldn't scream as the wind was taken out of his lungs.

Zig landed on the ground and stabbed his chest with Ruyi. "Zhu Yaolanqu…" Zig began healing himself and felt better as he stared at the hole Ura was in.

Zig stopped and jumped back, but as he did that, he could feel something behind him. Without having enough time to turn around, Zig was sent flying forward and crashed into the ground. He quickly got up and rolled out of the way as a piece of a building crashed where he was.

Zig got up quickly and saw that Ura healed himself a little bit. He didn't have time to think of anything else as Ura rushed towards Zig. The clone also rushed towards Ura and they began throwing punches and kicks.

"Flaming Punch!" Zig shouted as he threw a punch coated in fire at Ura. The beast blocked it, but the fire went around his arms before exploding in his face.

Zig quickly did a backflip and avoided a low sweep from Ura. As soon as Zig landed, Ura pushed off the ground and tried to knee him, but he hit Ruyi instead. Zig grabbed the floating and shoved Ura's knee away before he began jabbing Ura's chest a countless number of times.

"Monkey Song, Tanglang Dan Mu!" Zig began jabbing the beast's chest again before spinning Ruyi and quickly striking the middle of it.

Ura's body was paralyzed and could only watch as Zig plucked a hair from his tail. "Ruyi, Conversion: Fu Tao." The staff began glowing a bright yellow before it changed its form and another glow appeared in Zig's other hand. The glow disappeared to show two golden hook swords with red handles.

Zig ran up to Ura and stabbed him in the chest with the swords. Ura coughed up blood as he stared at the clone.

Zig tried to move the swords outwards and hopefully open his chests up. With little difficulty, he was making progress.

Ura grit his teeth as a light blue aura surrounded him and soon, an explosion of air was let out around him. Zig flew back with his swords and rolled across the ground. Ura vomited a little bit before wiping his mouth and two light blue orbs formed in his hands.

Zig used the hook swords to get up, but jolted as he saw something appear in front of him. He could only look up as Ura was in front of him, one of his arms cocked back, and launched forward. The orb was sent straight into Zig's face and exploded, launching him away from the beast.

Zig flew and skipped across the ground a couple times before he rolled and soon crashed through a building. The clone hit a wall and fell on his stomach. He felt a familiar sense of deja vu, but ignored it and tried to get up, only to realize he was rubbing out of strength.

If I keep getting hit like this, I'll disappear… Zig thought as he tried to get up. I need to get more energy to keep myself stable… but where?

Zig didn't have time to think about that as he rolled out of the way, a light blue orb whizzing by him and exploding the wall behind him.

Zig closed his eyes as he thought hard about what to do. He felt like he was getting close to his limit. If he tried to heal himself, he'd activate the headband.

Stupid headband! If only I could… Zig's eyes widened as he realized something. It turned into a mischievous smirk as he stood up. He turned Ruyi into its normal form as he stood in the hole of the building.

Zig noticed that Ura got closer, but it didn't matter after what he was going to do. The clone took a deep breath.

I hope this works… he thought as he glared at Ura.

"It's over, clone, you're done for!" Ura shouted as the orbs in his hands got bigger. He disappeared and a large crash could be heard.

Ura ran into something invisible before he could reach Zig and his orbs disappeared. Zig smirked as what he planned worked.

I need to try this out before I kill him, Zim needs to know about this. Zig thought as he put Ruyi on his back. He cocked his fist back as it flowed a bright red.

"Extravagant Flame Punch!" He launched his fist forward and it connected with Ura's face. A fiery explosion occurred as Ura was launched backwards and rolled across the ground before stopping, his face feeling like it was burning.

The beast slowly got up and looked at Zig in confusion. "B-But how… what did I run into…?"

"Good question," A voice said behind Ura. He whipped his head back and saw Zig standing there casually.

"W-What?!" Ura shouted as he backed up. He bumped into something and looked behind him to see that it was only black. He turned back around and it was only black as well.

Zig looked around him to find that everything was black. "W-Where am I…?"

"Why are you here…?" A raspy voice spoke. Ura whipped his head back and saw a figure in a black cloak there, sitting on a throne with a child standing next to it. She was wearing a small, purple dress over a white long sleeve shirt with black boots. The child had long, wavy, purple hair that faded into magenta. She also had a horn on the right side of her head that was purple and curled back. Her iris-less, magenta eyes were staring at Ura, picking him a part one by one.

Ura realized where he was and looked around. He was inside of the throne room of Gargon. The walls and the floor were grey while there was a red carpet that went down the middle and led to the black and cracked throne of Gargon.

"Answer me, Ura… Why are you here…?" The figure repeated himself.

How did I get here… Ura asked himself as he looked at his hands. He saw that they were his regular light blue instead of his Level Two form. Wait… my arms… they're normal again…?

"I-I don't know…" Ura replied. He flexed his paws and pinched himself, this was real… but where were the others. "Um… excuse me, Master, where are the others?"

"They're training right now…" Gargon replied.

"Oh okay…" Ura said as he breathed out a sigh of relief.

"Are you okay…?" Gargon asked.

"Y-Yeah… sort of… why do you ask?"

"Well… you walked in here and stared at us for a couple of minutes…" Gargon answered.

"I… I did…?" Ura looked at Gargon as he began sweating. Was I sleepwalking…?

"Yes, you did… were you sleepwalking…?"

"M-Maybe…" Ura answered. The man nodded.

"Go train with the others, you need strength to fight Sun Wukong," Gargon ordered. "And take Ena with you."

Ura nodded and the little girl walked up to Ura, still staring at him in a way that creeped him out. "Let's go, Ena."

The two of them walked out of the room and began walking to the training area.

Ura looked at Ena to see that the child was already looking at him. She looked forward.

"You know what you were made for, right?" Ena questioned.

"W-What? What are you talking about…?" Ura asked.

"You were made for one purpose, and one purpose only," Ena spoke. "You were made to be absorbed by me."

"W-WHAT?!" Ura shouted as he looked at the girl in confusion.

"You heard me. You were created to go to different planets, gain as much power as possible, come back, and get killed by me so I can absorb your power," Ena answered.

"But how do you know that's what Gargon wanted?!" Ura questioned.

"Because, when all of you were out doing whatever, me and Daddy went out to another planet and I accidentally absorbed a dead beast's power and soul." Ura looked at her for a minute, trying to process that. "Since you don't believe me, here's an example."

Ena's horn turned black as a black streak appeared in her hair. Her right eye turned black and a white slit appeared. Her right hand turned into a black claw as she pointed it at Ura and a punch of appendages came out, trapping Ura and constructing him of any movement.

Ura looked at her in shock. She looked at him from the corner of her eye.

"I told you," Ena said before the appendages quickly retreated into her arm and her changes went away. Ura couldn't say anything. He had to digest the fact that he and his other beast partners were basically food for Ena.

The two walked in silence. Ena was looking straight ahead while Ura was looking at the floor, deep in thought. They passed by a hallway and something caught Ura's eye at the end of it. He jolted up and went back to see what was there, but once he looked, it wasn't there.

"What's wrong?" Ena asked.

"You go on ahead, I need to check something out really quickly," Ura responded. Without waiting for a response, he used his powers and raced to the end of the hallway.

The hallway led to a cross-section of three other hallways. Ura looked down all of them, not remembering this being a part of the castle.

"You lost?" A voice asked behind Ura. He whipped his head around and saw Zig sitting in a chair in the middle of a room Ura didn't recall being there.

"You! How the hell are you in here?!" Ura grilled as he got ready to fight. Zig smiled as he pulled out a glass of wine from nowhere.

"That's a good question, isn't it?" Zig avoided as he took a sip of the wine. "Man, this is pretty good actually. You know, I didn't plan on actually drinking this. I was only going to swish this around in my hand and act professionally."

"Shut the hell up and answer my question, you damn alien!" Ura shouted.

"Damn, no chill with you at all, huh?" Zig asked as he took another sip. "So, you're afraid of Gargon and Ena, huh? I can understand, they don't seem like people you'd want to mess with."

"You don't know what I'm afraid of," Ura denied as he furthered his glare.

Zig stopped drinking his wine with a grin that creeped him out. "Oh? Okay then, let's see about that, Ura."

The wine in the glass began swirling around before it shot up out of the glass and splashed Ura in his face. He shouted in pain as he rubbed his stinging eyes.

Ura rubbed them until he thought they were fine and opened them to find that he was back in the throne room.

"Ura, you good?" A voice that sounded like Moragov asked.

"Huh?" He asked as he looked at the beast. He saw that Moragov was different. His right side was black with a white eye while his right side was white with a black eye. His tail was a grey rainbow. He was in his True Form…? But why…? Did he already master his True Forms?

"Oh, y-yeah, I'm fine…" Ura responded. He looked at his beast companions and saw that they were in their True Forms as well besides Krynlea. Did we all master them…?

He looked forward and saw Gargon stand up. He walked down the small set of stairs with Ena right next to him. Ura's mind instantly went to when Ena told him that they were only made to be absorbed by her. He shook his head at the thoughts and paid attention to his Master and his child.

"You've all done really well. You've grown really strong and even killed Wukong's little brother. I'm proud of all of you and here is your reward," Gargon praised the beasts. They all grinned and were curious as to what they're gift would be.

Ura's expression turned to surprise once he saw Ena transform into that state he saw before. He tried to move, but it was too late, he was trapped to the floor. The other beasts looked at the floor.

"Uh… what's all of this about, Master?" Jelial asked as he looked at his feet.

"Your reward… is to be absorbed by Ena," Gargon revealed as they could see a glowing pupil near his face.

"W-What?! This wasn't part of the deal, tipo!" Pepito shouted as he tried to break free of the constraints.

"We'll start with the new addition to the team," Gargon said as he turned his head at Ena. "Do it."

Ena nodded as she put her hand up and aimed it at Pepito's heart. Many black needles crawled off of her black arm and shot forward. The needles traced Pepito's heart.

Before anyone could say anything, an explosion was heard and the beasts looked at Pepito in shock and horror.

A part of Pepito's chest was blown off, showing his beating heart hanging in the air. Pepito looked at it and he began hyperventilating.

He let out a scream of horror and pain, but was quickly silenced when another needle stabbed his heart and began sucking everything out of him.

The other beasts watched as Pepito lost the color in his eyes and skin. After Ena was done, his constraints were released and he fell forward. Ena did Krynlea next, then Leivy, Moragov, Boetan, Jelial, and Khisa.

Ura looked at the ground in horror as his dead partners laid there in front of him, and he was unable to do anything. He looked up at Ena and she pointed her hand at his head.

"I told you, didn't I? I told you you were only made to be absorbed," She said before something black shot out of her hand and covered Ura's eyesight.

He felt pain reverberate throughout his body and he screamed out.

"Open your eyes, dumbass," Zig's voice told. Ura's eyes opened and he was back on the street. Zig was sitting down in front of him with closed eyes, not even paying attention to him.

Ura tried to catch his breath, but out of fear, he got up and dashed towards Zig. The clone was caught off guard and couldn't react as Ura stabbed him.

The clone's eyes widened as blood spilled from his mouth. Ura looked at him with crazed eyes and a crazed smile.

"You got cocky! Thinking that you could deceive me with your illusions! You should've paid more attention, clone!" Ura shouted. The beast lost his smile as Zig grew one of his own. The clone lowered his head and began chuckling, then it turned into laughter, then he threw his head back and laughed hysterically.

"W-Why are you laughing…?" Ura asked as he leaned back.

Zig's head rolled to the right before it stopped. Ura gasped as he saw Zig's eyes were pitch black.

"You might wanna get your hand out of my chest…" Zig suggested with a sinister grin. Ura pulled his arm out and jumped back as Zig melted into a black sludge. Ura took many steps back, but he stopped. He looked behind himself and could see endless darkness. As he looked down, he saw many eyes of different shapes and colors string back at him. He backed up, but hit something else and it was just black. He looked back at the darkness and the wall began pushing him towards the darkness.

Ura began trying to frantically save himself from the fall, but he couldn't. He soon fell and screamed as loud as his lungs could let him. As soon as he hit the darkness, it changed.

Ura blinked and he was back where he was, sitting on the concrete in the city. Zig was still in the building, sitting there and waiting. Ura took rapid breaths as he looked around, trying to see if anything else was an illusion.

Ura looked at Zig and grit his teeth. He got up and was preparing two orbs to attack. Zig opened his eyes at Ura and looked at the beast boredly.

He lifted his hand up and made a 'come here' gesture which pissed Ura off. He threw his orbs at the clone and Zig set Ruyi up horizontally before it expanded, covering the entrance of the building.

The orbs hit the staff and didn't do anything to it.

Ura disappeared and reappeared behind Zig. He went to kick him, but Zig ducked and pushed off of the floor. Zig planted his feet on Ruyi before using the staff to launch himself at Ura.

The beast covered himself, but he then got hit in the legs and he fell over. He looked up to see Zig holding Ruyi, ready to stab him.

"Goodbye, Ura!" Zig yelled as he brought the staff down.

"True Form!" Ura screamed. An explosion occurred around him and transformed the area into a place in space. Ura's eyes were completely white while he was a mixture of colors. From blue to purple, to pink, all swirled around his body and made it look like a multicolored universe.

Ura looked ahead and saw Zig slowly getting up. He raised his hand as Pluto was being formed in it.

"Take this!" Ura shouted as he threw the orb-sized dwarf planet at Zig. The clone could only watch as the orb flew into him.

The dwarf planet was fusing into him, and before he knew it, he was instantly covered in ice. Ura teleported over to him and punched through the clone's chest. He pulled his fist back and kept on breaking more of Zig until there was nothing left of him.

Ura stepped back before laughing. His laugh echoed throughout the universal space as he covered his eyes.

"Why… was I so worried…?" He asked himself as he calmed down.

"Maybe because you're afraid of me too," A voice answered behind him. His eyes widened as he looked back and saw Zig there, stretching.

"W-What…"

"You're a fool, Ura," Zig said with a grin. Ura backed up, then grit his teeth.

"No!" He denied as he raised both of his hands in the air. A large sun began forming above him and he threw it at Zig.

The clone simply pointed Ruyi at the sun and it extended, stabbing through the orb and making it stop.

Ura closed his hands and the sun exploded, shooting fire everywhere. The beast controlled the fire and made it so that it all went to where Zig was. He made the flames more intense, hoping to burn Zig into nothing.

But, that didn't happen as he felt a tap on his shoulder. He whipped his head around, only to have it whip back where it was because of something hard hitting him.

Ura grabbed his left cheek as he stumbled forward. He grit his teeth and turned around, but nothing was there. He had a confused expression on his face, but he then felt something hit his stomach hard.

Ura coughed up some saliva as he covered his stomach. He looked around only to see that his space was empty. He quickly put his fingers together.

"Jupiter Smoke Ring." His body began producing a ton of smoke and it started covering up the entire space. He quietly got up and limped to somewhere else, hoping he wouldn't get hit.

"This smoke doesn't help you at all, you know," Zig's voice rang out, making Ura stop. "This only helps me more."

Ura felt the right side of his body hurt as he began flying. Something hit him and made him stop as he could feel his bones breaking. He fell to his knees as he tried to get up.

"Monkey Song, Lightning Circus!" Ura looked around, but couldn't find where Zig was, until he felt a pole hit his back.

He let out a shout of pain as he got electrocuted and sent forward. Zig appeared before him and smacked him upwards, sending him flying right before he got smacked down while being electrocuted by each hit.

Zig planted Ruyi down and used the staff to spin himself around before kicking Ura's face. The beast flew back and hit the ground, tumbling.

Ura stopped and tried to get up. He quickly cleared the smoke out before looking around, trying to find Zig.

He felt a presence behind him as his eyes widened.

"Earth Pillar," Ura said as he threw his arm back. A small pillar of earth shot up from the ground and audibly stabbed whoever was behind the beast. He turned around and saw Zig with Ruyi held above his head, the pillar through his chest.

Ura turned back around and quickly got up, his joints hurting like hell. He turned around to Zig and smirked.

"You were just about to finish me off too…" He said as he walked up to the clone. Zig smiled as he made a finger gun and, with some difficulty, pointed it at Ura. He looked at the clone confusingly as Zig flicked his wrist up.

Ura's eyes widened as he suddenly felt like a bullet went through his head. He fell back and as soon as he hit the ground, everything changed.

He blinked and he was back on the streets once again.

"W-" He was cut short by something stabbing straight through his chest. Blood leaked out of his mouth as he turned his head around to find Zim, holding Ruyi from a distance.

"See ya," he said before the staff expanded even more, splitting Ura in half.

Ruyi shrunk back to normal size as the two halves fell to the ground. Zig sighed as he looked towards Zim's direction and smirked.

"This'll be interesting."