Kuki Corporation Lobby

Momoyo had rushed towards the Kuki Corporation building at breath-taking speeds when Antonio had texted her his location. As she walked into the lobby from letting the front doors slide open for her, she looked left and right trying to find where Antonio might be. When she couldn't find him, she walked up to a nearby receptionist.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for a Kanzaki, Antonio." Said Momoyo.

" -san is in a meeting right now." Replied the receptionist, causing Momoyo to frown a bit. "If you want I could…" The receptionist lady had stopped and moved her head towards the right at the sight of a hall that led to multiple elevators. "Ahh there he is now." When she had said this, Momoyo had immediately turned her head in the direction the receptionist lady was looking and had seen Antonio, his Sekirei and family walking into the lobby.

"Antonio! Chiho!" At the sound of their names being called, Antonio and Chiho turned their heads at the sight of Momoyo coming towards them, then she had almost launched herself towards her him. "Are you two alright asked Momoyo.

"Yes, I believe we are quite alright." Replied Chiho, causing Momoyo to sigh out in relief

"Thank goodness…" Said Momoyo softly. "By the way…" She had then looked towards Antonio with a bit of concern in her eyes. "Why were you called up here for anyways?" Asked Momoyo, at that point, Chiho had seen Antonio's eyes lower themselves as he remembered what had happened before they all met. Haihane had then turned her head to see Benitsubasa had her arms folded in which she proceeded to snicker to herself which caused Benitsubasa to look towards her comrade.

"What Haihane?" Asked Benitsubasa. The pink haired Sekirei had then seen Haihane messing with her hair.

"Are you still upset?" Asked Haihane.

"About what that obnoxious bitch said about Antonio?" Asked Benitsubasa. "Of course I am! I would've beat her goddamn face in the…"

"Not about that." Interrupted Haihane.

"Then what?" Asked Benitsubasa curiously.

"I was wondering if you were still upset about Momoyo's boobs being way bigger than yours." Said Haihane as she had observed Benitsubasa's breasts through her white combat outfit.

"Shut the hell up about that Haihane!" Replied a flustered Benitsubasa.

*I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE MENTIONED ANIME NOR ITS CHARACTERS*

Speech: "Home is where the heart is."

Thoughts: 'Can i really go through with this?'

Whispering: "I will do anything and everything I can do to help."


Chapter 17: Formation! Stop The Thirteenth Pillar


Earlier

"You are going to have to go through me first." Said Akitsu in a cold tone of voice, so cold that it could send shivers down your back of fear as her hair started to gently flow within the air that was flowing in the meeting room.

"Is that a threat?" Asked Queen Lisha as she had a look of not caring about Akitsu's speech but didn't take to her threat very kindly at all. She had then noticed Benitsubasa walking towards her until she stopped next to Akitsu.

"Oh trust us, that wasn't a threat." Chimed in Benitsubasa softly. Queen Lisha had the seen Benitsubasa cracking her knuckles."That was a promise! Just who the hell do you think you are just waltzing in here, blaming Antonio for the situation that's going on when you didn't even know yourselves?!"

"We knew." Chimed in Krulcifer."We knew to get a image of this man, we knew to come here after our computers had notified us of the amount of Abyss before it started to spread to the whole world, and the great thing about technology is that whenever something is worthy of being posted for anyone to see, you can get a lot of information, including pictures of someone who looks similar to the one we seen."

"Well I'm sorry that your technology can't do anything for your flat chest." Replied Benitsubasa as she had seen Krulcifer's abnormally small chest, which almost made her cry on the inside on seeing how much she had grown out of the 'Itty bitty titty committee'.

"Nice comeback, but don't forget you were like her not too long ago." Chimed in Haihane softly. Krulcifer had just smirked as she had closed her eyes and fixed some dangling hair by placing it behind her ear.

"Well same goes for you, I do apologize that our technology can't do anything to fix that flat personality of yours, truly sorry because it can usually fix anything, but not for someone who's personality is best fit for that of a brothel." Krulcifer shot back.

'Ouch.' Haihane thought to herself as Benitsubasa tightened her fists even tighter.

'I'll kill her!' Benitsubasa thought to herself.

"I believe that I am the Queen of my kingdom! And as such, I will do what I can to eradicate the problems that disturb its peace." Said Queen Lisha. That's when the Black Sekirei finally decided it was time for some of her own 'peace talk'.

"You want to know what I think?" Asked Karasuba. "I think you, and everybody else who came here falsely putting blame on him, making him a scapegoat for 'that guy's' problem, is just sad to me." Said Karasuba. "That just shows that you, their queen, couldn't do your duty which was to protect everyone in your kingdom, so instead of saying it was my fault you come here to put the blame on him? Isn't it a Queen's responsibility to own up to their mistakes or faults instead of trying to screw someone else over? Hehe, you call yourself a Queen, It's almost laughable." Said Karasuba, almost striking a nerve in Queen Lisha as she chuckled to herself. "Well almost laughable… I think it's a shame…"

"You weren't there so you have no right to judge." Replied Queen Lisha as she had already pulled out her Sword Device a bit out of it's sheathe.

"Same as you. You don't have the right to blame other people for problems when they didn't have anything to do with it!" Said Yashima. As tensions were rising to the point where the cool air flowing in the room suddenly started to rise, little by little in temperature and if the wrong words were said that could cut deep a huge fight could suddenly break out, Antonio was emerged in unwanted memories while Lux tried to calm down the girls on his side.

'Mistake….Mistake….Unwanted….Unwanted….Hassle….Hassle… Your whole existence is a mistake..' As the deep cutted words echoed over and over in his head causing a slight ringing sound every time he would hear one of the repeated words. Then suddenly the visage of his father's face appeared in his mind.

'Tsk. Pathetic, having women fight your battles for you? Just like your mother, you are a sad case.' Said the visage of Antonio's father, making a sinister grin appear on his face before it evolved into the new look he had. Clenching onto his head tighter, Antonio just wanted to make all the painful memories fade away, to just make all the bad experiences he had go away. Then suddenly…

"Antonio…." Said Chiho softly to herself. She wondered if there was anything she could do to at least ease his pain, even if it's by a small percentage. She had then noticed a certain pink combat gloves Sekirei with her numbers on them walking over to Antonio.

'You're just a mistake…' As the words echoed in his mind over and over, he had suddenly heard the echoing start to dwindle down into nothing as he could feel a certain 'warmth' approaching him. She had then reached out her right arm, extending it to where her hands had reached her intended destination. He felt a soft, gentle presence in the form of a hand being placed upon his and that moment, all the voices in his head dispersed and all he could see was Musubi looking into his hazel eyes through his glasses.

"Antonio-sama, are you ok?" Asked Musubi with a clear tone of concern in her voice as she used her right thumb to gently wipe a forming tear in his left eye.

'That's right, when I met Musubi and the others… Nothing else mattered. It was as if the issues with my father, were nonexistent.' Antonio thought to himself before he became enveloped in the warmth and joy he had felt when he met all of his Sekirei, and Chiho. 'I… I have plenty to be happy for.' Musubi had then felt Antonio's hands move to where his hands held onto her's. "I am now Musubi. Arigato." As Musubi tilted her head and smiled, Antonio had felt Chiho slightly tug on his glove. 'That's right I have plenty to be happy for, I…'

"Ara that's a cute sword you have." Said Yoruka as she had fully unsheathed her sword device, 'God Of The Night Sword' and posed with it as her different colored eyes laid upon Karasuba, cutting off Antonio from his thoughts.

"It get's the job done." Replied Karasuba as she had fully unsheathed her weapon. "And trust me when I say, I'm very good at doing my job." Chiho had then seen Antonio nodding towards her and Musubi and gently patted Kuu on her head before taking his steps forward.

"Onii-chan…" Said Kuu softly.

"Everyone, please stop." Said Antonio and not a second sooner, at his request had lowered their weapons and somehow calmed the rage within their hearts just by the sound of his soothing voice, except for Benitsubasa who had just dashed towards him.

"Why?!" Replied Benitsubasa as she had more witty flat chested jokes to throw at Krulcifers face, jokes that which made Haihane proud that she graduated from the itty bitty titty academy and entered booby university. "And just when I was about to come up with some new one liners too…" Benitsubasa said softly to herself. Her body had then twitched a bit as she felt Antonio petting the top of her head which caused her to look up towards him.

"Please?" Asked Antonio. Just seeing his gentle face was enough to make Benitsubasa's face feel so hot that a visage of steam was escaping from the top of her head.

"Ok…" Replied Benitsubasa in a gentle tone of voice. Antonio had then looked over to Karasuba who had just simply closed her eyes and begun to sheathe her sword.

"Arigato, Karasu.." Said Antonio, causing Karasuba's facial expression to change to the point where she turned around so he couldn't see her face which was pink as a freshly blossomed rose. He then turned his attention towards Queen Lisha and walked a bit forward. "Queen Lisha, I apologize." Said Antonio as Queen Lisha had just scoffed as she placed Tiamat in its sheathe. "I can understand your frustration, but what has happened isn't my fault."

"Even though you're father is responsible for this chaos?" Replied Queen Lisha.

"Truth is, I hadn't seen my father for quite sometime." Said Antonio, he had then looked upon the video feed to see what is to be his father and remembered the last time he even seen his father's face was when he had rescued the Western Ashikabi from him, and when Musubi three him into the sky, all of which happened on Kamikura Island. "And that man, whoever he is...isn't my father. But…"

"But what?" Said Queen Lisha, waiting to hear what he could possibly have to say.

"I know that who ever this order of the thirteen pillars of evil are, has declared war against the world, sending Abyss to attack my city and home. Threatening the lives of many innocent civilians, including my family…"

"Onii-chan…" Said Kuu Softly as she walked over next to him. He had looked down and gently patted her on top of her head.

"My family is my strength, they drive me to keep going and to stand firm in my beliefs." Said Antonio as he looked back towards Queen Lisha. "Which is why, no matter the threat, I'll protect those precious to me." Queen Lisha then had a flashback to when Lux had revealed to her for the very first time that he was the 'Black Hero' of the Old Empire, just hearing the determination in his words had let her know how serious he was being. With that, the tension had eased its way down until it was completely out of the room.

Present

"So that's what happened." Replied Antonio as he told Momoyo basically everything that had happened from the moment he stepped foot into the Kuki corporation building, until the moment he left the V.I.P meeting room.

"I see…" Replied Momoyo. "Are you ok though Antonio?" She had then seen Antonio nodding his head.

"Yeah, I admit at first, when I seen my dad, it brought back a lot of terrible and painful memories." Said Antonio. "But then I realized that I have plenty to be happy about and that made, everything better."

"Good." Replied Momoyo. "Old man Tesshin was worried about you when everything had happened."

"What does he plan to do about the Academy?" Asked Antonio. He had then noticed that Momoyo had sighed.

"Until the threat is out of the area, he decided to cancel all classes as not to risk the lives of any students." Replied Momoyo.

"I see…" Said Antonio. "What about Issei and the others if you know?" As Antonio and his family left out of the Kuki Corporation building, Kuroka had simply watched the back of Antonio as he left out of the building and for 'unknown reasons' why, her heart wouldn't stop beating, even after hearing the back and forth between his family, including him and Queen Lisha and her group.

"Shiro-kun..." Said Kuroka softly to herself.


Beyond The Wings Of Fate


After going back to the Hotel in Kawakami City, Antonio had met up with Issei, Yumi and everybody else to see what their plans were. Before anybody could have a say, Asia had suddenly felt the floor shake as her and Chiho were having a conversation as everyone else was having their very own talk.

"Hmm? What's wrong Asia?" Asked Chiho.

"Ehh? You didn't feel that at all?" Asked Asia. She then had seen Chiho shaking her head.

"Are you sure you aren't imagining it?" Replied Chiho.

"I'm sure I'm not." Said Asia. She had then seen Rias, Akeno, Issei, Miyabi, Imh and Antonio approaching them.

"What's going on?" Asked Antonio.

"Asia was talking about she could feel something shake." Replied Chiho.

"Like an earthquake?" Said Miyabi.

"Are you sure you just aren't imagining things Asia?" Said Issei. After a while, what Asia had felt could be felt by the others, only this time kr was stronger, making everything in the room shake, vibrating against whatever it was sat on or sat against. "Woah, what the hell?"

"Asia was right, but was that an earthquake?" Asked Akeno. As everyone was trying to think of a legitimate reason as to why the room everyone was in was shaking, a muffled explosion could be heared that frightened the rest of the resident's of the Kawakami hotel.

"What the hell was that?" Said Stella.

"Whatever it was, it sounded close." Replied Ikki. Then one after another, multiple sounds of muffled explosions could be heard and felt, causing the building to shake and bits of dust mixed with debris to fall from the ceiling. Even the sturdy chandelier started to sway side to side, back and forth imitating as if it was about to fall. Just then, all of them at a single time had felt the presence of a nasty being nearby.

"Did you guys feel that?" Asked Issei.

"Yeah. Somehow, it's making me feel uneasy." Replied Tohka.

"Nasty, evil energy…" Said Murasaki in her usual emotionless tone of voice softly. Antonio then was reminded of the feeling he got when he had seen his father after not seeing him in weeks to months, and it wasn't a good one as he could sense that he was being shrouded in an evil aura.

"We have to go check it out." Said Asuka.

"I have an Idea, Kanzaki-tan." Said Matsu.

"Hmm? What's up Matsu?" Replied Antonio

"We can go check out what's going on and asses the situation without leaving the hotel." When she said this, she caught the attention of everyone.

"How?" Asked Homura. Matsu and Kocho had unfolded a big, white device that had four, rotating blades which came out to be an expensive looking drone that has been modified by both Wisdom Sekirei to travel farther and transmit live video feed.

"With this!" Replied Kocho as she and Matsu held out their customized drone, and with the flick of a switch, the rotors kicked on as the machine started levitating in the air with a solid green light next to a three-hundred and sixty degree camera.

Minutes Later

As Matsu's and Kocho's pricey drone was flying through the air, it was allowing everyone to see what was on the video feed of a small nearby city next to Kawakami City that was just unrecognizable due to it's destruction but what had confused them, was that giant roots that were laid out on the streets and through the nearby buildings.

"Overgrown roots?" Rias said in a confused tone of voice as she had seen Matsu's flying over the small city.

"Not only that…" Said Koneko, catching Rias's attention. "Their spreading." When the Nekomata stopped speaking, she could see the roots slowly grow in length by the second.

"That doesn't look good…" Said Issei. Antonio had then turned his head towards Matsu who was controlling the drone.

"Can you fly in for a closer look?" Asked Antonio.

"Sure thing." Replied Matsu as she controlled the drone to fly in a bit closer to the roots. "Something like this should be impossible, though it's similar to Kuu's ability to manipulate vegetation." Said Matsu as she continued to fly the drone. Suddenly, a arm extended upwards that sent a root whose tip was so sharp that it nearly shined as it raced towards the drone and then struck it, suddenly cutting off the live video feed.

"The hell happened?" Asked Homura.

"The live video feed has been cut off." Replied Kocho. "Someone must've destroyed the drone."

"That might be the nasty, evil presence I felt." Chimed in Murasaki. Issei had then got up and started to stretch, while Ikki began to do the same thing. Antonio had then began to slowly look at his Sekirei Symbol on his gloves and begun to remember back onto Queen Lisha's words about the Thirteen Pillars Of Evil declaring war, and had many questions that needed to be answered, more so about how his father is back, but he looked towards Chiho and knew that his current family is more important. At the present time, they had to deal with the current issue.


Beyond The Wings Of Fate


Root Infested City

After destroying the drone that hovered in the air, the creature who caused it's destruction had sighed.

"Well that takes care of that. Didn't need a extra hassle from that thing when I got Xyla on my back about our 'Masters Ambition.' Hehe as fragile as these humans are, I might as well take my time and have some fun." The creature who caused the city to be root infested just simply looked around at what he would call 'a job well done.' and just simply gazed at it. "Hmmph, I might as well and…" Suddenly he heard a slight crunching sound which caused his ears to perk up. He then placed both hands down towards the ground as both of his hands were coated in a greenish light, causing roots to shoot out of the ground and towards where the 'crunching' came from and as he suspected, two 'rats' emerged onto the street who were none other than Issei and Antonio. "Oh, who are you two?"

"Nevermind who we are!" Replied Issei. "Who the hell are you, destroying this place!" The creature had then smirked manically before taking his stance.

"My name is Salazar, and I'm the thirteenth member of the order of the Thirteen Pillars Of Evil." Replied the lizard-like creature with blades on his arms that blended in with his skin and a tail that resembled Mega-Sceptile's. "As you can see I'm responsible for this work of beauty here."

"Work of beauty?" Asked Antonio. "You call this meaningless destruction beauty?!"

"Meaningless?" Replied Salazar. "These meaningless humans who have caused non-stop destruction throughout time? Though I don't expect humans such as yourself to understand such 'beauty." Said Salazar. "But don't expect me to just let you waltz on out of here alive."

"Ddraig." Said Issei softly.

"Yeah, I got your back partner!" Replied Ddraig. As Issei closed his eyes and took in a deep breathe as he crossed his arms.

"Welsh Dragon: Balance Break!" As Issei threw his arms to the side he was then enveloped in a white and red light as a green circular jewel that was on the gauntlet could be seen on his chest.

"Welsh Dragon: Overbooster!" Issei's body then became covered in the Red Dragon Emperor's scale mail armor while Antonio who simply stood next to him slowly removed his glasses, allowing Salazar to get a good look at his face as he placed his glasses in his pocket. The moment Antonio closed his eyes and reopened them, he then became enveloped in his white aura as his eyes became all golden.

"Hooo? You two aren't ordinary humans." Said Salazar as he slowly wiped his mouth with his right arm. "That'll make killing you all the sweeter!" Issei and Antonio had launched themselves at Salazar with their arms extended, but to their surprise, Salazar caught their fists and started to squeeze down on them. Antonio had then lowered his arm, which in turn caused Salazar to lower his arm and when that happened Antonio had jumped and spun around until he kicked Salazar in the face. The force of The kick made Salazar skid back away from they as he then released both Issei and Antonio.

"Nice Antonio!" Said Issei. He then charged towards Salazar as with enough force to crack the ground beneath him, Salazar then swiped his right arm upwards, causing multiple roots to shoot up from the ground, causing Issei to dodge them until he jumped up high in the sky.

"Dragon Shot!" Issei had let magic gather in his left hand as his magic began to materialize in the form of a 'small' red circle. He then brought his arm back and when he slammed his fist into the small red circle, it became a beam of pure energy which raced towards Salazar who had summoned a multitude of thick roots to form a wall. As the beam collided with the wall of roots, it resulted in a big cloud of smoke that had low visibility. "Did I get him?" Issei asked himself out loud.

"Think again." Replied Salazar as he appeared behind Issei and before he could do anything, he felt Salazar's tail slam into him, causing Issei to drop down to the ground at a fast rate of speed until impact which caused a crater to form. Issei had then coughed up blood from the impact he had with the ground.

"D-Damn that kind of hurt…" Issei said softly as he was slow to get up.

"Come on don't tell me you are finished already! Weak, just weak!" Taunted Salazar as he motioned a root with a sharp point to race down towards Issei.

"Haaaa!" Antonio had launched a pressurized air shot from his fist, letting it collide with the attacking root, keeping Issei safe. He then helped Issei up off the ground by placing his left arm around his neck.

"Sorry about that." Said Issei. "Just give me a minute."

"Oh I'm afraid that you two won't even have a minute." Said Salazar as he finally descended to the ground. "After I'm done killing you two, I'm going to go onto the next city and the city after that and do exactly the same thing i did here, but on a much larger scale, purging the humans from this world." As Salazar carried a maniacal smirk on his face, Issei slowly felt the strength coming back to his body.

"Hey dude, I'm ready to go again." Said Issei softly to Antonio who was standing next to him. "This time, I won't go down that easy!"

"What are you two mumbling about." Said Salazar. He then proceeded to scoff and shrug his shoulders. "No matter, at least I'll be able to go back to having fun after I murder you two." Antonio had then slowly lifted his left hand and just gazed upon the Sekirei Symbol that was etched into it. He then remembered a promise he made to not only his Sekirei, but also to his family, that he would try his best to protect them, and that's exactly what he plans to do as he lowered his arm back down and walked in front of Issei. "Ohh have you come forward to admit defeat and accept your death?" Taunted Salazar. He had then seen Antonio bending his knees as he crossed his arms in front of his face.

[Play Song: Braveheart Instrumental - Ayumi Miyazaki]

Outside, Chiho and Momoyo had looked up into the sky and seen in the distance a circle of white light appear in the sky.

"A-Antonio…" Chiho said softly to herself.

"My family is my strength, they drive me to keep going and to stand firm in my beliefs." Said Antonio as he looked back towards Queen Lisha. "Which is why, no matter the threat, I'll protect those precious to me." As Chiho remembered his own words, she had slowly clasped her hands together and closed her eyes tightly to say a prayer for Antonio's safety. Next, the circle of light had became a pillar, shining down upon Antonio, causing his aura to disperse in a orb behind him as he donned his 'Sekirei King' attire.

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"Master look." Said Xyla as the Fallen Angel approached her master as he rested in a throne like chair that had the colors that would described it as 'evil and ominous'. As she snapped her fingers, a cloud of purple and black appeared before them in a circle formation, showing them video feed of Salazar and what seems to be one of the people he is fighting about to transform. When Xyla's master seen Antonio's transformation, he had just simply smirked.

"So the infamous hero cladded in white returns ehh?" Replied Xyla's master as the two watched on.

Root Infested City

The moment Antonio separated his arms, Salazar had seen Antonio's hair grew in length and it turned white, facial tattoo, white and black line top, black bottoms and shoes and most importantly, his Sekiei combat gloves as the orb of aura behind him became a Sekirei Symbol that placed itself between his shoulders in a black color.

[Song END]

"Hooo?" Said Salazar in a slightly impressed tone of voice. "Now if you two are done, let's get back to it!"

[Play Song: Ash-Greninja Theme]

The Red Dragon Emperor and the 'Sekirei King' charged towards the thirteenth member who had flexed his arm blades.

"Dragon Shot!" Yelled Issei as she shot an energy beam of magic towards Salazar who responded by letting three roots collide with it, causing smoke to kick up as being a result to the two colliding. All of a sudden when Salazar looked up, he had seen a hole open up in the smoke that was up in the air which was Antonio who twirled around before launching a pressurized shot of air towards him before he landed to the ground.

"Useless!" Salazar highlighted his blades in a green light and sliced through the attack with his arm blades, causing Antonio's attack to split into two and exploded. He then clamped his hands together and slammed then down onto the ground, causing roots to break up from the ground and race towards Issei and Antonio and seemingly jumped away from each other as not to accidentally bump into each other while dodging the roots. Jumping from abandoned building to another, wherever Antonio and Issei would land, that's when a root would strike, hard.

"Haaa!" Just as Issei thought he found an opening from dodging a sharp pointed root, he dashed towards Salazar who had already built a thick wall of roots to defend him.

"Not going for that again!" Said Issei as he jumped over Salazar's wall and when he landed behind him he spun around with his right fist balled up but Salazar caught his fist but the impact was enough to cause a shockwave.

"Hmmph not bad." Said Salazar "But…"

"But what!?" Said Issei as he didn't notice that a root was slowly wrapping around his ankle.

"It simply won't be good enough." Replied Salazar. As the root tightened itself against Issei's ankle, Issei had immediately looked down to see the root.

'Shit!' Issei thought to himself as he felt himself being launched up in the air by the root and was spun in a spiral while still being attached at the ankle by the root until he was violently slammed against a building, creating a medium sized hole.

"Issei!" Said Antonio as he looked towards the medium sized hole in the wall on his right. He balled up his fist as he launched himself towards Salazar who had used his right arm and swept towards Antonio and had just ducked and positioned himself by placing his hands on the ground and moved his feet upwards. With enough force he launched himself upwards, slamming the bottom of his feet against Salazar's chin, then began to twirl around until he slammed his heel onto his head, obviously causing great pain to Salazar.

"Urahhhh!" Salazar had spun around to where his tail was aimed at Antonio. Suddenly the tail had turned into a sort of projectile, slamming into Antonio's stomach while lifting him upwards into the sky until it exploded in a black smoke. Out of it, Antonio descended to the ground, reeling back from the sudden attack. "Haaa!" Salazar had then suddenly slammed his hands onto the ground once more, causing two roots to race towards Antonio fast. He had then noticed Antonio had stuck out his arm, covering himself in his golden barrier so when the roots struck his barrier, he was perfectly safe.

'I'm going to have to end this soon.' Antonio had thought to himself as his eyes were towards Issei who was looking down upon he and Salazar. As Antonio landed on a roof of a nearby building, he and Salazar locked eyes.

"How about we end things? I'm a very busy person you know? Buildings to destroy, people to murder." Said Salazar, causing Antonio to clench his left fist.

[Transition into the Song: XYZ - Rika Matsumoto]

When Antonio heard this, the golden 'V' appeared on his back and had started to gather energy in it. At the hotel, Matsu's Ipad started to go off signaling Antonio's power was rising, the same as when Yume builds up power before unleashing her devastating Photon Beam.

"Die!" Yelled Salazar as he extended both of his arms towards Antonio, causing multiple roots to race towards Antonio. Salazar had only seen smoke caused by the destruction of the building Antonio was standing on. 'Did I get him?' Salazar asked himself. He had then gasped as he looked up to see that Antonio had jumped out of the way of the attack and when he had stored enough energy, he had simply crossed his arms against his chest and pulled them to his side, allowing his rainbow, translucent, elegant wings of light that emerged from the golden 'V' on his back. "N-No way…" Said Salazar in disbelief at the sight of Antonio pulling his right arm back, coating his fist in a white energy fist that grew with the amount of energy put into it.

'This will end it!' Antonio thought to himself and he descended towards Salazar who seemingly had a look of anger in his eyes.

"Just die already!" Yelled Salazar as he motioned roots one by one to shoot up towards the sky towards Antonio, hoping to impale him before he got to close. Antonio had simply dodged them all by tilted his body left and right, letting the roots pass by his body as he got closer and closer to Salazar and when he was at a close enough distance, Salazar seen an 'opening'. "Hah! You're dead!" Said Salazar as he coated his left arm

blade in a green light and pulled it back before slashing horizontally towards Antonio before his right fist could connect to his body. He smirked at the thought of his attack connecting, but his eyes widen at Antonio had seemingly vanished. "No way, that was an afterimage!" Salazar said softly to himself. "Where could he have…"

"Haaaaa!" As Antonio reappeared behind Salazar, he had let his left arm fly towards Salazar who was slowly turning around and when his left fist connected with Salazar's right cheek, the ground beneath them became a crater as Salazar was launched away from Antonio at mind boggling speeds and with enough force to go through and destroy three buildings.

[Song END]

As Salazar's body, heavily damaged from Antonio's attack stopped tumbling, he coughed up greenish blood and it had started to leak through the side of his mouth.

"D-Damn, h-h-he actually got me pretty good." Said Salazar as he was beginning to run out of oxygen. In his body, a small, pillar like crystal had begun to crack slowly before shattering, and when that happened, he slowly started to disappear in a black and purplish smoke as he stopped moving completely.

'T-That attack is pretty powerful.' Issei thought to himself.

"Yeah, thought I don't want to know what it would be like if he became an enemy." Said Ddraig. Before Issei could reply to Ddraig, he had seen Antonio slowly sway from side to side before falling to his knees and falling over.

"Antonio!" Said Issei as his devil wings emerged from his back as he flew down to Antonio whose transformation dispersed, allowing his hair to return to it's natural black color and his clothes he had on before his transformation appeared back on his body. Through a video feed, Xyla and her master were looking at Issei helping Antonio up off the ground.

"Seems as if that idiot has failed, and failed to do the simplest task at that." Said Xyla

"No matter." Replied Xyla's master. "We have more than enough capable members, other than Salazar. Proceed as planned." Xyla had just simply bowed in respect to him.

"Yes my master." Replied Xyla before she had left her master's presence. He just kept looking at Antonio's face and couldn't keep from smirking manically.

'Matsuro Kirigaya. No, I should've said, my son….'

And that's the end of Chapter 17. As of a few days ago, Wings Of Fate has officially reached 100 favorites! You guys are seriously awesome and when I noticed that, it had put a huge smile on my face. Since the first chapter of that story and the latest of this and my other stories, you guys have been really helpful and I thank you guys. Hopefully the fights, drama and action I have ready for you guys will excite you! I'm so pumped to share the chapters in the future with you guys so much!

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Kamikura Island

"Please go away!" Said Musubi as she spun around for a few seconds that finally let Anthony go, sending him flying off the Island. After being tossed in the air and descending from the sky, he made contact with the ocean as he began to sink deeper and deeper in the water.

'So, this is how it ends huh?' Anthony thought to himself as he seen the reflection of the sunlight get darker and darker as he squinted his eyes. 'Done in my by that bastard…' Anthony had then had images flash into his head of the time he tried to get his son to come to the United States to 'live' with him. "It just pisses me off, that I didn't think of doing him in sooner…" At that point, Anthony had a feeling that his death was 'certain' so he fully closed his eyes as his 'black heart' kept beating slowly until the pace slowed down even further due to the lack of oxygen.

[Play Song: Senya - Naruto Shippuden OST]

'Do you want to live?' Asked an eerie and ominous voice that could give someone the chills that ranged in Anthony's head.

'W-What the hell… I-I should be dead.' Anthony thought to himself. He was literally at death's door but somehow, the voice in his head kept him from knocking.

'Do you want to live?' Asked the eerie and ominous voice once more, making it visible in Anthony's mind as a purplish flame with a black outline. 'Do you want to live, If you allow it, I can bring you from the brink of death.'

'Bring me… from death.' Anthony thought to himself. He thought it was too good to be true but honestly, he was in a situation that he would take anything just to live and hopefully settle the score with that bastard child of his. 'Y-Yes. I wish to live.'

'Good.' Replied the eerie voice in his head. 'You've made a smart decision, but it doesn't come easily.' Suddenly,the purplish flame had covered Anthony's body in his mind, almost as if he was going through a form change. 'By me saving your life, you have to give me access to your body. Luckily I could only do so because your heart is black and full of hate and anger.' He was then enveloped in a purplish, black orb that gave him the oxygen he needed as his hair grew in length, facial tattoos and tattoos on his arm started to appear. He had just started to close his fist and opening them while trying to contain his maniacal smirk. 'Surely you won't mind. I'll put your body to good use!'

Next Chapter: Venturing Forth!