[Location: UNKNOWN; Time: UNKNOWN]
In the ruins of a devastated fortress in a hell-lashed wasteland stands the same individual that visited Honno-ji some time ago, only this time she was also seen wielding a massive black scythe with a bird-like motif to it. In front of the figure stood three seemingly familiar figures all in their adulthoods, preparing to attack: Two women and a gentleman.
"You'll pay for what you have done to and at Destiny Island, Monster! You and your Master both will atone for what you did to Riku and Kairi!" The male shouted. He was of impressive build and has familiarly spiky hair
"They may have not have agreed with my methods of approach, but they still were Sora's friends and I'll be damned if I let their deaths amount to nothing!" One of the women shouted. She was slender yet well-endowed with a head full of ink black hair, sans an equally familiar red streak
"Although at this rate Ryuko, we're probably as close to damned as humanly possible considering how Honno-ji is all but the last known free inhabited world." The other Woman retorted. This one was a bit more developed than the other woman but had kept her hair to shoulder length at the longest.
"Even if that's the case Satsuki, we won't give up your birth land and my second home…Not without a fight!" That's right everyone! The three figures before this still unknown assailant with an obvious thirst for blood is none other than The Heroes of Honno-ji themselves: Sora and the Kiryuin Sisters and the battlefield was a ruined fortress constructed by Satsuki and her Elite Four to wage war on an evil far beyond anything they would ever imagine – even greater than Ragyo Kiryuin!
Without even uttering a single word, all the Masked Woman did was raise her left hand and wave it in the traditional 'Come get some' motion, and that's exactly what they have done… The first two to try and attack were the lovers who charged their foe, Keyblades in hand and Kamuis at the ready, and unleashed a fierce maelstrom of swings and strikes that would leave most dazed and/or diced. Yet despite their movements and mentalities being in synch, they were unable to so much as graze their enemy. Sora got hooked onto the scythe by his left shoulder and was thrown in Ryuko's direction. Satsuki attempted to retort with a combination of wind and light magic she picked up from Ventus in past years in an effort to exorcise the demon, but the dark force of the intended target proved far too powerful. As an answer, the Masked Woman then fired a bright red energy blast from her left hand that sent Satsuki sky bound for about 80 yards while smoke emitted from the left palm of the Masked Woman. Sora and Ryuko got their bearings back quick to react to what was happen next: The Masked Woman was flying towards Satsuki at a rapid pace ready to finish Satsuki off. Ryuko flew in to stop the execution itself while Sora swooped up to catch his sister-in-law from hitting her head too hard. Ryuko them slammed her Keyblade, Way of the Fist, into the sides of the figure's torso and followed up with a devastating uppercut into the chin guard of the helmet…an attack that will prove to be their very undoing… The scythe wielder dropped to the ground and laid in suspenseful silence.
"Did we get her?" Ryuko pondered
"…No, not even close." Satsuki replied as she felt shivers trickle down her spine
"You didn't…"
A telepathic message was sent to all involved parties. All Ryuko did as an answer was gulp in fear of what she is anticipating. As she stood there, the black clad woman levitated and rose front the ground stiff as a board, practically unfazed, physically speaking at least.
"You did NOT…just strike! My! Helmet!"
"Everyone…" Said Ryuko in a frightened tone
"Yes, Ryuko?" Sora and Satsuki said in unison, sharing the same tone as Ryuko did
"I think she's pissed off now." Ryuko replied, and she was right.
"You all die! Right here! Right now! By my scythe!"
The Masked Woman was then emitting a deadly and powerful black and red energy from her body and suddenly vanished from sight for a brief second; only to reappear in front of Ryuko in not even the blink of an eye. She delivered a fierce open palm slam that sent Ryuko hurdling into the destroyed defenses of their main base. Sora and Satsuki were the next to feel the wrath of the Masked Woman. Sora intercepted their foe, used his long time trusted Keyblade, Threads of Fate, to parry the incoming scythe strikes which weren't all that easy to stop given the speed of each attack as well the base size and weight of the weapon. The scythe looks like it'll require the likes of Ira to so much as even lift, let alone get in some basic swinging motion, yet this slender woman is able to fling it around with little to no effort; each swing from said woman fueled with the full intention of erasing the existence of Sora and the Sisters.
"I can see why they call you a legend, old friend. Normal people wouldn't stay up after absorbing so much recoil. Your bones should be broken by now."
"Damnit all. It's like I'm getting struck by an enormous bladed battering ram!" Sora thought to himself
After Sora got the rhythm of the scythe blows padded down, he managed to get a hold of the weapon to cease the onslaught. "Gotcha now… Satsuki, your turn!"
The Masked Woman then looked to face the other sister and saw that Satsuki was charging up her new, improved, and more blood-efficient Clap of Thunder Mode. To make sure that she doesn't get away, Sora impaled their foe with his Keyblade in a harpoon-like mode and had the barbs extended for extra leverage. The Masked Woman was leaking a dark purple substance, perhaps it's the color of her blood once it's exposed to oxygen. Yet to Sora's surprise, the figure hardly flinched by the impalement and seems unfazed by the impending attack from the Kiryuin Heiress…"Cannons Firing!" Satsuki exclaimed
"In Three…! Two…! One…!" Junketsu counted down as the onboard weapon was charging.
"Okay. That's just dirty fighting right there…and a bit suggestive too…"
"IGNITE!" The eldest Kamui exclaimed as the weapon eventually fired off.
Sora kept his grip on her Keyblade for a little longer to guarantee a direct hit before relinquishing her grip on her Keyblade at just the last millisecond and flying off to a safe area to watch the damage. Sora then re-summoned his Keyblade for extra measure. A massive explosion resulted upon impact that really hindered vision with all the smoke that followed. The two of them decided to wait for it to clear out first and once it did… it was to no avail. The moment Sora left the Masked Woman behind, she was able to conjure an Electro Barrier that not only negated the attack, but added more power to her own inevitable retaliatory strike. A large puncture wound is still visible from where she was stabbed at, but was being healed at a rather impressive rate.
"A- for effort though."
All of a sudden, the Masked Woman vanished into thin air again without a sound or anything. Sora looked around to find where the figure went and went she turn to face his sister-in-law, he was greeted to a true horror show if there ever was one. Satsuki was seen coughing up a great fountain of blood and was levitating against her will. The cause of the blood fountain and levitation was clear as day: the Masked Woman was right behind the now once great Satsuki Kiryuin, scythe in hand and impaling her heart.
"SATSUKI!" Sora and the Kamuis exclaimed in revulsion
A few seconds later, she pulled the scythe out of Satsuki's chest and then decided to decapitate the dying Satsuki for additional measure, perhaps well-informed that the heiress has been well-prepared for virtually every outcome and sought to make sure no loose ends were left here; not like it'll make a difference.
"No sleight of hand this time…"
They all then watched as Satsuki slumped to her knees and eventually was flat on the ground bleeding profusely from wounds that has no chance of mending. In a fit of rage, Sora charged at the murderer of his lover's sister.
"Sora. Ryuketsu. Avenge my wearer…" those were his last few words before he expired.
In a flash, Sora and Ryuketsu engaged in the sub-form "Nikku Pondo" and resumed the attack to exact revenge on Satsuki's murderer. He delivered a fierce punch with the giant Life Fiber fist to where he impaled the Masked Woman earlier in hopes to aggravate the wound before it's completely healed. Much to Sora's luck, the attack that he had in mind had just the results he was looking for: the gashed reopened and the figure was heard assumingly coughing up blood. He continued his righteously vindictive assault on the Masked Woman for a few blows more until he made one miscalculated attack too many…as his next attack was heading straight for, you guessed it, the helmet.
"Nobody…Strike… The helmet…"
She sent her message as she caught Sora's giant Life Fiber Gauntlet mid-combo despite the injuries that she sustained and the size of said sub weapon used. She kneed Sora in the elbow, causing it to bend outwards and forcing Sora's weapon to drag him down to the dirt and howl in sheer agony in response. The Masked Woman then placed her left hand onto Sora's chest… and fired a red energy blast at point blank, a force that combined her already formidable powers and the energy she absorbed from Satsuki's laser attack. The results: Sora's organic heart, which was infused with Life Fibers through a last minute blood transfer courtesy of Ryuko Kiryuin, has gone AWOL. Sora dropped to the ground like a sack of potatoes landing back first.
"It was a good war, don't get me wrong…"
"NOOO! SORAAAAA!" Ryuketsu exclaimed in sheer horror.
Before the Masked Woman was able to settle down, a familiar figure rushed over to the carnage, readied an equally familiar weapon, and managed to cut the Masked Woman's left arm off. This managed to get a vocal response out of her, but not in the way of words. Rather, she grunted in a clear sense of pain but was not ready to go down that easily. She grabbed her scythe with her other hand and try to slam Ryuko dead square in the side of her head with the blunt side of her weapon as blatant payback for earlier, but Ryuko was quick enough to dodge just in the nick of time in the direction of her deceased family Satsuki Kiryuin and Sora. The plan was to absorb the Life Fibers in Junketsu and Ryuketsu in hopes of evening the playing field, in which she succeeded in doing so, resulting in her Kamui taking on the form of "Fashion Week" for the first time in a while. After Ryuko felt the sudden surge of power course throughout her veins, she said "You and the fucked up in the head Cult that you represent…will pay for every single life that you took…! Starting with these two!" Before she went off to seek revenge, she took one last look at Sora and thought "Worst case scenario, I won't be long… Well this is it, the Resistance's last stand!" and she knew it too considering they never thought to forge the "you-know-what" like they did against Ragyo. All that was left at this point was the spirit and willpower of one who have overcome many death ends beforehand and her wits about her as she transformed her Way of the Fist Keyblade into its sub-form, War is the Answer, which made the brass knuckle blade as well as that of the hand guard wrap around her hands while the rest of the weapon divided and done the same with her forearm. The results is that is as though she has rockets for arms and the Fists are the warheads. The Masked Woman then spun the scythe in a rapid speed to defend herself from the impending onslaught that was headed her way. Ryuko tried striking at her enemy valiantly but to no avail. Either her rocket-powered fist assault was parried with ease or just shy of their mark. Ryuko then wound up for one big punch that did seemed to give the Masked Woman pause for a bit. Once she was done, she threw her punch and all of a sudden the air in front of her started to tear itself asunder all while generating a great deal of smoke. Once the dust died down a bit, the Masked Woman was seen bending backwards to avoid the exact trajectory of the shredding whirlwind, and was doing so quite low to boot. She then bent herself forward again and grabbed her scythe from the ground.
"All too easy…"
"We're just getting started!" Ryuko said as she then began to formulate her next strategy. There was one thing that easily came to mind for her; one simple yet harsh challenge that came with fighting this individual "That scythe is way too deadly for close quarters. I had the horror to watch as it took two lives right in front of me and I have high doubts that they were the only ones that blade laid claim to either." Ryuko thought to himself. As she continued to contemplate her next move, she then thought "Yes! I've got it!" as she then morphed her Keyblade into a whip very much similar to that used by Terra's Lingering Will. She then flung said whip Keyblade towards the Masked Woman, particularly in the specific direction of the weapon in her possession. The extended base wrapped its way around the polearm of the scythe and the brass knuckle teeth interlocked with said base to assure that it doesn't slip away. With one mighty heave, she sent both the weapon and wielder alike sky bound.
"Impressive…Most impressive…"
Since the scythe that this person has been known for is nothing like a Keyblade, it cannot be recalled to the owner's hands at the drop of a hat. It can only either be summoned or withdrawn while it is in her hands. This gave Ryuko the advantage that she was literally dying for. She could slam the two into the dirt right here and now, and that's exactly what she did and what the leather-clad woman saw coming; it was either taste mud or release the weapon. Knowing full well that she can reclaim her weapon by… manual means later, she decided to let the weapon go and proceeded to dive bomb her prey. Ryuko then recalled his whip which then turned his weapon back to normal for the time being and muttered "Just what I was hoping for…" As she then morphed Way of the Fist into a weapon similar to the one Sora used against Ragyo on 'that day'. Her target however got wise really quick, yet did not even think of changing course. She was up to something… "Surely she must see what she's about to get hit by…" Ryuko thought to herself as she was charging up the cannon "Well it's now or never!" She shouted as he pulled the trigger to hopefully vaporize her target who was in mid-descent. At the last second, the masked one nudged just above the projected path of the Ultima Laser blast. Ryuko kept adjusting to try and hit her but was completely unaware of what the Masked Woman was planning. Before long, Ryuko aimed the cannon way too high and lost her balance, falling over and causing the cannon to stop firing as a result. As Ryuko got her bearings back, she looked around and noticed that the Masked Woman had vanished again…along with her severed left arm. Before long the Masked Woman emerged from a 'dark corridor', left arm in tow. As Ryuko was still shaking the cobwebs of not being use to the massive weapon like Sora was, the Masked Woman then took advantage of this stagnation to reattach her left arm back into place. It took some pushing, churning, and twisting, but eventually the arm snapped right back into place and the regeneration powers she have also glued the two body parts back together in perfect harmony; not a nerve out of place either. After a second of recuperation, the Masked Woman then brought her legs together by the heels of her heavy leather boots and raised both her arms, and all of a sudden the ground started to shake. Before long, the defenses that once littered Honno-ji Fortress started to rise up seemingly on their own with the Masked Woman standing atop of one of the once buried cannons, but they were no longer under Kiryuin command this evening as scrap after scrap was spinning around in a nigh uncontrollable fashion doing their absolute best to try and strike at Ryuko herself which ended in a mix of these three fashions: either some got struck down, some missed her entirely, or some managed to nick her here and there. Eventually, the cannons that were still somewhat still intact began to fire at Ryuko, many of the blast coming no more than two centimeters away from a direct hit. Had it not been for Ryuko's innately enhanced reflexes and Fashion Week's movement speed, she'd be dead by now but it all became quite apparent to Ryuko now: the person in front of her was the literal mastermind behind this violent whirlpool of destruction. No longer satiated with being pushed back, she started to parkour off of some the floating scraps to get to the Masked Woman. The individual in question was watching and observing her movements and was adjusting the cannons to keep up with Ryuko, but to no avail much to her surprise.
Ryuko was just within striking distance of his foe as she had her Keyblade now in a mace-like state. Ryuko was prepared to stop this as she made her maddening leap toward her target. The Masked Woman responded by flinging a rather sizable piece of scrap metal into Ryuko from the side but as she did so, her adversary also had vanished. "Hmmm?" This was perhaps the only vocal response that anyone will get out of this person for a very long time. After she looked around to check which angle Ryuko was going to approach from, the Masked Woman then slumped her head down as though she was in deep thought all while still causing this chaos that surrounded her. She was, in truth, trying to sense his presence which wound up being in a strangely familiar pattern. Then it occurred to her: the piece of the ruined defenses she threw earlier! Her best guess: Ryuko latched onto it to wait for this chance. That explains why the Masked Woman can still sense her. The minute she looked in its direction, her suspicions were spot on! She saw Ryuko jumping off it which was not too far away from her location, Keyblade still in its mace configuration. Ryuko had actually managed to get a great grip on the art of power suppression, even if it was far from perfect. With one mighty swing, Ryuko not only sent both herself and the Masked Woman falling, she also got the steel-storm to finally stop and… dug in deep into the right side of the figure's helmet, although it wasn't enough to hit bone or anything of the person's actual head. In the descent, Ryuko could hear a snarled breathing pattern beneath the helmet. She clearly went off the deep end this time.
"Is it the absolute duty of you Keyblade wielders to just piss everyone off, or is it just you Kiryuins!?"
Just as Ryuko was about to pull her Keyblade out, the Masked Woman grabbed hold of the weapon itself with her right hand to deny Ryuko the pleasure of seeing her without a full face helmet. The killer can still feel the pieces of the dark materials rattling inside the helmet and use her psychic powers to locate and slowly have then reassembled as she slowly allowed Ryuko to pull the mace-shaped Keyblade back into her possession. The more Ryuko did so the more she was starting to realize what the Masked Woman was doing. She was slowly piecing her helmet back together. To assure that she didn't get interrupted, the Masked Woman then grabbed Ryuko by the neck with her left hand and tried to choke the life out of her. By the time the mace shaped Keyblade left The Masked Woman's headspace entirely, it looked as though nothing ever happened at all. Not a crack or anything to be found. She then decided to flip positions between her and Ryuko just as they were about to hit the surface and parkour off of Ryuko's face, which only further accelerated Ryuko's descent. The results was a mushroom cloud of dust with Ryuko dead-on at the epicenter…in a crater in the shape of her body while the other woman gently and gracefully floated downward. After observing the carnage, the Masked Woman then walked away from Ryuko a bit, raised her right arm to psychically pull her scythe back…only to have said right arm slashed off by Ryuko this around who dug a burrow from where she landed to just below where the Masked Woman's right arm was extended.
"Oh, not again!"
The Masked Woman 'said' to Ryuko as she saw her right arm fall off. The very weapon she was trying to collect earlier also landed short of its destination as a result of the interruption.
"You just don't know when to quit and surrender, do you…? You really DO remind me of 'them'…"
Just after she vented once more, armor plating then surrounded her leather boots and only left glove on account of her right one being a little…absent-minded. Ryuko then charged at the Masked Woman who simply stood there waiting for the final charge of this last stand. Despite Ryuko's best efforts to overpower her by combining her Keyblade's sub-form and her Kamui that was resized and upgraded over the years, the Masked Woman knocked away every single strike that ever came her way with either her left gauntlet or her greaves. Every opening she had she got in a few hit to further dazed Ryuko, which only added to the overwhelming advantage that she had from the beginning. After she delivered a roundhouse kick that sent Ryuko spinning, The Masked Woman then rushed over and grabbed her right arm and repeated the same process she did with the left arm; with the exact same results as before except that now that she has her arm attached, she can now use its gauntlet as well. She looked at Ryuko who was only getting her bearings back and 'said'.
"This is finally the end of the Kiryuin Lineage as well as the Keyblade's existence."
"You wouldn't be the first one to try and take my life, and there is that chance." Ryuko retorted, recalling the numerous attempts on her life that were made by many a corporate villain. In the heat of things, Ryuko also asked "By the way, who is it that you are referring to? Old friends of yours or something?"
"I promise: you'll never know…"
The wind gusted a bit as they stood and stared each other down for about fifteen seconds. In a flash, Ryuko seemingly vanished once again while the Masked Woman stood idling by. As though she was waiting on the next move. A microsecond later, Ryuko reappeared with her 'War is the Answer' configuration. And was resuming the attack which prove to be futile as the Masked Woman combined both her Hand to Hand skills to parried the brutal melee attacks and thrashing her target with stray pieces of scrap in the same manner as she pull off the tornado but less violent. The Masked Woman was then caught off guard by yet another dismembering attack to her left arm. The Masked Woman however, was quick to retort as she then booted Ryuko, grabbed her scythe, gave chase and was seen impaling Ryuko once again. This time, the Masked Woman decided to land for a bit and proceeded to slam her to the ground over and over and over again without remorse or regret. After about a minute of doing so, the Masked Woman then pulled her scythe out from Ryuko's body, returned to where her dismembered arm went, and managed to put it back into place (again). After getting her left arm's bearings back, she then grabbed her scythe once again, returned to where Ryuko was laying down at, jammed her scythe into Ryuko's body one last time, revealing the Life Fiber infused heart within her, and prepared to deliver the death blow to her foe. As the Masked Woman stood in victory, she conjured her dark purple Ethereal Blades, knelt down to where Ryuko's exposed heart was at, and then formed her blades in an 'X' pattern once more. She then thinks to herself "I'll see you in the next timeline, Ryuko Kiryuin…", and then…snipped.
As one final vindictive, Ryuko swore out "Fuck you, Nexv-!" was all she was able to get out before her Life Fiber heart was split in half, preventing any form of regeneration of revival comebacks. Before long, Ryuko's body began to disintegrate into the air itself. The victor then withdrew her ethereal blades, sat her scythe down, formed a throne out of the molten steel that remained after the deed was done and proceeded to lounge in it.
The year is 32 A.D.E. (After the Death of Eraqus). A dark force unlike any has seen before has awoken approximately 20 years ago; a scant few months following the defeat of Ragyo Kiryuin. This dark force and its demented following, The CoS, has fought against the Keyblade led resistance for the last 15 years. In an effort to preemptively snuff out the Kiryuins before they even get a chance to create and lead the steadfast interstellar military force that laid waste to so many of their devotees, the cult sent an assassin, a once undead and now one of their top inquisitors, to kill Sora and the Kiryuin Sisters before The Grand Opening even happens. Thankfully Sora saw such a plan coming a mile away and dispatched his own sentinel to protect the younger versions of themselves. Now it was only a matter of which one of the two will get to all three of the teenagers first to deal the decisive blow against destiny itself.