Episode XX: Choujin Pride! (Part 2)
Chapter 4: My Final Goodbye…
For the Nevins Bloodline…
Beth was shocked, as Kagura emerged from in the lava, badly burned and scarred. She snarled, "You little brats… YOU RUINED ME! My skin is back to being silky soft… and the first thing you did is ruin it! YOU RUINED MY BODY!"
Beth gasped, "I don't believe it! Even lava didn't hurt you?"
Kagura snarled, "It does… but that damnable Nevins Blood… IT BURNS INSIDE ME! I want revenge, so badly… AND YOU RUINED IT!"
Beth growled, "No matter… The rabbit in me will escape!"
Kagura shone in a light, and swung upwards.
SLASH!
Beth gasped, as her left arm was slashed off. She gasped, as she saw her arm fly off into the ground. Beth screamed, as she was in constant pain, while Kosuri shrieked in horror. Kagura laughed evilly, as she smirked, "Music to my ears… What a beautiful aria… I so long for your family to scream it, Bethany Nevins…"
Kosuri cried, "How? How are you still alive, Kagura?"
Kagura smiled, "I was burning alive in the lava, and I wanted to protect myself… but as I was burning away, you figured what comes next…"
A piece of her shell dropped, as Kagura explained, "As I was in there, I had time to plan, and to avoid certain dissolving of my body…"
Kosuri examined it and cried, "INORGANIC! Of course!"
Kagura covered herself in a substance, not unlike a crab shell. However, when she was in the hot magma, it wasn't enough, as it was still organic. Facing up to the task, it burned away, melting away into nothing. Luckily for Kagura, she was able to figure out a substitute for her shell, made of an unlikely substance – mere air bubbles. She made a layer of hard skin, between her body and the lethal heat. As the outer layer burned away with each passing second, the bubbles worked their way out to replace them, maintaining a perfect equilibrium. Kagura had the moments she needed to escape.
The Earth gave birth to life… but now, horror of horrors, in 2018… Kagura Sohma, what was once a human, now conquered the planet, herself!
Kosuri was in complete fright, as she sobbed, seeing Beth in agony, "She's a goddess… This tyrant has become a deity… We have no choice… We must submit or perish!"
Kagura kicked down Beth, as she was in pain. Beth groaned, as she was unresponsive to the attacks. Kagura said, "Beautiful… Hear that? I think that Beth's going to try me!"
Beth roared, using her remaining arm, and shouted, "ESP PERK TY KO KY OVERDRIVE!"
She charged at Kagura, as Kagura slammed her fist to her knee. Beth screamed in agony, as Kagura shouted, "YOU SAID OVERDRIVE? HERE'S YOUR OVERDRIVE, PUNK!"
Beth dropped to the ground, and moaned, in complete pain. She crawled back and Kagura went closer.
Kosuri shrieked, "BETH!"
Beth's knee was coated in Hamon, as she cried, "NO! MY KNEE! I'M MELTING!"
Kosuri cried, "MELTING?! As in…"
Kagura laughed, "DENIAL, MY DEAR CHOUJIN! HAMON DID THAT! NO amount of Ty Ko Ky can stop you from this power you have received! I conquered the sun, itself, and yet I have lay waste my worst enemy! Not only is Hamon at my disposal, learning the art of Ty Ko Ky, in a short time, but it seems that mine is hundreds times more potent!"
Kosuri cried, "YOU MEAN, SHE LEARNED TY KO KY?! It's like she brushed her knee at the sun!"
Beth cried, as Kagura smiled, "I wonder… How do you like the taste of your own medicine?"
She walked forward and said, "I suppose that it's now time to put you out of your misery… unless, you want to bring out your father to rescue me…"
Beth growled, "He's… not coming… You should know…"
Kagura laughed, "AGAIN? This again? This whole "Steven Nevins is evil" bullshit? He can't change skin! A tiger never changes its stripes, and your father is pure of heart! And you're, to put the word as context, just a mere helpless rabbit!"
Beth moaned, as she accepted her demise, calmly. Even after she pleaded about Steven Nevins and his betrayal, Kagura brushed it off, saying that it's a lie. Beth felt no fear, no pain, no regret… "I did all I could…" She told herself. As the epitome of evil loomed over the fallen Choujin, in triumph, she watched herself in perfect clarity. Unable to move, Kosuri Onigashira knew what snake prey felt like, as it stares into oblivion's maw.
"The power is in the breath…" Kagura chuckled, as her aura shined, "To think I can crack a practitioner of the Choujin Dynasty, with her own powers…"
She glowed in a dark aura, "SURELY you can appreciate the IRONY IN THAT!"
Beth moaned, as she was losing strength.
"Wait… Hamon!" She thought, as she was losing her sight.
Beth was pinned down, as Kagura launched the final attack on Beth.
"You, Bethany Nevins, shall falter in my hand! And soon, your father will die next! GOODBYE!"
Beth raised her right arm up, as Kagura smirked, landing the final blow at her palm. But…
"WHAT THE-?"
She halted, lightly, nearing the red gem that Beth procured. Her fingertips touched the gem, and shot out a beam of light towards the volcano.
The Red Gem of Fuji! But why would Beth brandish it, at the last moment? Even she had no idea! As if by instinct, she lunged the power core, towards the approaching dark energy, to which it gravitated.
Now, in a moment devoid of hope, Beth's past started to come back, and her body did the one thing that could save her life. Having survived Kagura Sohma's coup de grace, Beth's will to live sprang into action.
"YES!" Beth shrieked, "The power core… It amplifies Hamon!"
Kagura gasped in horror, only to feel a seismic shake from the volcano surface. Fueled by the beam of energy that Kagura shot below, the volcano's fury reaches the breaking point.
PSHOOOOOO!
IT ERUPTS! A huge chuck of rock flew off, with Kagura and Beth on it, as Kosuri stumbled down, avoiding the magma. Kosuri came to, as Kagura and Beth blasted off, straight into the blue sky, from the blast of lava that erupted from the volcano.
"WHAT?" Kosuri cried, "They blasted off into the sky!"
The huge rock continued to fly off, as Kagura and Beth were holding on, in such velocity.
"The force is strong!" Kagura groaned, "…like nothing I've ever known!"
Kagura smiled evilly, and carefully escaped, "Did you really think that this will conquer the likes of me? I'll just fly off into safety! You lose, Nevins! And soon, your father is next!"
She grew wings and flew upward, as she cackled, "Give my regards to your dead family tree, as you experience the follies of failure, Beth Nevins! Young age, as you die in space! DIE IN THE BLACKNESS! HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA-!"
STAB!
As Kagura cackles in victory, Beth's severed left arm impales into Kagura's neck, fingers first, into her Adam's Apple. Kagura was floating, choking, as Beth called out, "HAH! WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, KAGURA?"
Kagura was unable to control herself, as she and Beth resumed heading upwards. Beth, with a cheerful little grin, said to the wounded undead fighter, "Lemme guess! You're going to say "Did you plan this TOO, Nevins? TELL ME!"!"
Kagura croaked, trying to break free, "How… does she… always know?"
Kagura broke free of the grip of Beth's severed arm. For a moment, Kagura was about to counter Beth's witty retort, but was distracted by Beth's arm and cocky attitude. Before Kagura would say anything back, it sealed her fate!
BLAST!
Scalding rocks from the volcano, landed right on her back, in which she didn't even know, launched her even higher, right into the stratosphere.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Kagura hollered, as she went higher, "DID YOU PLAN THIS TOO, NEVINS? TELL ME!"
Beth replied, calling back, "WHAT DO YOU THINK, YOU STUPID IDIOT? I SET THE TRAP AND YOU WALTZ RIGHT INTO IT! AND IT WORKED LIKE CLOCKWORK!"
Kagura screamed, as she was sent farther into the blue sky, as Beth was grinning. However, all Beth thought was…
"I just got lucky. But thinking I outsmarted Kagura will drive her nuts. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"
Kagura continued to fly in the Earth's stratosphere, in searing pain, and trying to maintain control. But at that moment, the rocks launched by the volcano's eruption reached escaped velocity. Kagura Sohma was the Perfect Fighter! No one can best her! She is the undead perfect warrior, and no man or woman could ever beat her! But… just then… she blasted right through the Earth's atmosphere, and was suddenly back to where her pure evil all began: the blackness of space!
"NO!" Kagura shrieked, "DAMN YOU, NEVINS! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!"
Kagura disappeared into the vacuum of space, as Beth smiled, relived and exhausted, knowing that it was finally over. Beth had won.
She passed out and thought, "It's over… Daddy… I did it… Your revenge… is achieved… June… Emily… Auntie Michelle… Midoriya… Miss Speedwagon… Stroheim… Mandy… and you, Mother…
Everyone… Thank you…"
The rock suddenly plummeted, as Kosuri watched on, viewing the rock fall. She seethed, sprouting tears from her eyes. She hollered, as she was shocked, "No… …gtch!
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSSS!"
Kosuri would inform the others, eight hours later, whereupon she told the sad news…
[Bethany Esmeralda Nevins (Age: 8) – dies in an accident, on January 19th, 2018, on the shore of Isola di Vulcano, Mediterranean Sea]
Meanwhile, up in space, Kagura was floating in space, as she was hollering, "NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! NNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
She regained control, as she was floating in space, "That little…" she seethed, "Don't panic! I have to find to Earth!"
She started to float downward, as she said, "I'll use my powers of the gem of Mt. Fuji to drift back down to Earth! Once I land on solid ground, again, The Nevins Family will DIE IN MY HANDS! And the first on the list is to tear that brat asunder!"
As she started to float down, dark purple energy engulfed her body, as her evil aura dissipated. She cried out, "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! NO! WHAT IS THIS? My powers… They're fading! Wait… That brat's sister! SHE SHATTERED MY GEM! DAMN THEM ALL!"
Her hands and legs started to stiffen, as she cried out, "I'm… freezing! NO! The air is freezing around me! The moment my dark energy emits from my pores, it turns to ice! My mistress, save me! I want to live, and kill EVERYONE, IN TOHRU HONDA'S NAME!"
Her wings sprouted, but they, too, were iced in the cold emptiness of space. Her body was completely iced, as she was floating away from the Earth. She growled, "I can't… change my path! I can't move! Mistress! SAVE ME! Why? WHY? WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME? It's not fair! IT'S NOT FAIR! I HATE YOU, STEVEN NEVINS! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Her screams roared loudly in the dead of space, as her body was completely turned to stone. Her screams faded away, with her lifeless undead body floating away.
So ended Kagura Sohma, last and greatest of Tohru Honda's generals in the Moji Mikisa. Her body turned hard as rock, and she floated through space, for the rest of time. She then disappeared into the blackness of space, never to return. She wished for death, but there was no one out there to kill. She wished for misery, pain, and depression, but there was nothing to hear cries of sadness and agony. She wished for guidance, but there was no one to reach out to her. Her spark of thought within her regained, but went dimmed, and then… silent…
The undead tool of evil and despair was finally bested, once and for all. Kagura Sohma, Inoshishi… the woman that was once Steven Nevins's greatest foe… and one of most evil scourges in the Moji Mikisa… was gone… this time, for good…
New York Suburb – Weeks later…
Weeks later, at a cemetery in New York, everyone paid their final respects to the deceased Beth Nevins. Midoriya placed the bouquet of flowers to her grave, as he spoke, "Beth… I know we met a short time… but you were the greatest friend I have ever met… Goodbye, my friend…"
He, along with Amanda, Michelle, June, Emily, Hotaru, and Kaname, all dressed in black, were by the gravestone of Beth Nevins. A red car drove in, as a figure walked out of the car. Hotaru approached June, who was saddened. Michelle said, "Come, June… It won't do you to catch a cold…"
June sobbed, "I know… I can't believe she's gone…"
Michelle said to Hotaru, "Bad news, Speedwagon… Agent Dunn heard of it, herself… and was livid… She said that it cannot be true, and is coming over, right away."
Hotaru said, "Even so… Beth Nevins saved the world… and risked her life to end Kagura Sohma… and the Jewel Women…"
The figure appeared and covered June's eyes, with her hands, "Hehehehehehehe~! Guess who?"
Everyone was in shock, as a girl in a pink blouse and white shorts, in auburn hair, appeared. She smiled, "Oh, hey, guys~! What gives? I finally made it back to New York, and nobody came to pick me up! Then, my psychic link told me you're at a funeral. So, I decided to crash it~!"
June gasped, "That's…"
Emily whispered, "It can't be…"
The girl said, "Hey, Amanda, is it? Coolsies seeing you again~! Miss Kaname, long time, no see~! Your arm is okay? Mine's perfect, since Stroheim found my old arm, and reattached it. Nice what they do for bionics, these days. Of course, I should visit Mother, and have Miss Mizuki jazz it up with some handy gadgets in me~!"
Two men in black restrained the girl. One man shouted, "HEY, YOU, KID! GET OUT OF HERE!"
The second man shouted, "THIS IS A PRIVATE WAKE! DO NOT DISTURB THESE MOURNERS! GET LOST, YOU PESKY KID!"
The girl roared, "OH, SO I'M A PEST, AM I? YOU NEED A LESSON IN MANNERS, AND I'M GLAD TO OBLIGE, ASSHOLE!"
Kaname cringed, "But how?"
Midoriya gasped, "No way…"
The girl shoved the two men off and shouted, "LOOK, LOSERS! I'm just trying to catch up with my family and friends!"
It was Beth! Everyone shouted, "IT'S BETH!"
Midoriya shouted, "YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT BETH'S ALIVE?!"
Beth asked, as she was confused, "Uh, hello~! Yes, I am alive! I'm not a ghost or anything. Wait, what's this about?"
June points at the gravestone and said, "Uh, Sis… turn right here…"
Beth turned to the tomb, as she shrieked, seeing that it's her gravestone. She cried, "WAIT! WHAT THE SAM HILL IS THIS? WHY'S MY NAME ON THERE? THIS FUNERAL IS FOR ME?! I AM ALIVE AND WELL!"
A boy called out, "Bethany~! What are you doing, still injured? And why in the rain, you silly girl~?"
Emily blushed, "That boy's so cute…"
Kaname gasped, "Wait… Kevin? But why is he with her?"
June said, "That kid, how did you meet him?"
Emily blushed, "That is a hot boy… But he's definitely not your type…"
Beth yelled, "Don't be stupid, you stupid idiot! Do you realize that Kevin's my boyfriend, whatever that is?"
June and Emily shrieked, "B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B… BOYFRIEND?!"
The others cried, "A BOYFRIEND?! YOU?"
Kevin smiled, "Isn't it silly? And just think! In 5 years, we're going on our first date together~! She's so awesome and cute~!"
He giggled, as Emily was crushed, "I can't believe it… beaten by a child… My life sucks…"
Beth roared, "HOLD EVERYTHING!"
She said to Kevin, "Kevin, something's amiss here, and I wanna know…"
She explained, "The rock I fell on landed straight into the ocean… and me, along with it… A fishing boat picked me up… And you found me… So far, so good… and nursed me back to health in Venice, for two weeks, Von Stroheim kept my arm preserved, and then we started dating! So, why is everyone thinking I'm dead?"
Beth gasped, and yelled at Kevin, "YOU NEVER SENT THAT LETTER TO THEM, LIKE I ASKED, DIDN'T YOU?"
He smiled, "Oh, no… I don't remember something like that…"
She barked, "TO ME, THAT SOUNDS LIKE NO!"
He shivered, as he said, "Well… that is to say… I was being careful… and… … …"
Kevin gulped, and ran away. He shrieked, "I FORGOT TO SEND IT! FORGIVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Beth hollered, "AAAAAAAAAAAGH! WHAT THE HELL? YOU HAD ONE JOB, KEVIN! ONE JOB!"
She chased after him, and roared out. Midoriya cried out, "WAAAAAAAAAAH! BETH NEVINS CAME BACK TO US ALL!"
Amanda sniffled, and said, "Bethany…"
Kevin cried out, as he was on the car, "Beth, I said I was sorry!"
Beth yelled out, "SORRY?! EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS DEAD, AND YOU'RE SORRY?"
A voice cried out, "WHERE IS SHE? WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BABY?"
It was Heather, she arrived from a taxi and cried out, "JUNIOR! BETH! WHERE ARE YOU GIRLS?"
June asked, "Mom? What is she-?"
Hotaru asked, "So, she's their mother?"
Michelle said, "Yep. My sister-in-law, and a fellow agent from America… When I called her about Beth's death, she went ballistic."
Amanda saw Heather, from a view, as she whispered, "Heather… my child…"
Heather bawled, "BETH! JUNIOR! YOU'RE SAFE!"
They hugged each other, as Heather cried, "I'm so glad… I'm glad you're okay! I thought I lost you two, forever!"
Michelle said, "Yeah… They did… But these girls are heroes…"
Heather gasped, "Michelle? You're alive? Oh, my god…"
Michelle said, "I'll explain everything, after we leave… You can't believe what this little tyke did…"
Beth ran off, chasing after Kevin, in anger, as Heather cried, "OH, BETH! What are you doing? BETHANY ESMERELDA NEVINS, I'M TALKING TO YOU!"
Kevin cried, "WAIT! I THINK I HEAR YOUR MOTHER CALLING!"
Beth yelled, "AFTER I CLOBBER YOU, YOU IDIOT!"
Heather asked, "WHAT DID YOU DO?"
She broke up the fight, as Beth barked, "Explain it to this stupid idiot! They all thought I was dead!"
Kevin explained everything to Heather, as Hotaru said, "All's right in the world…"
Heather chuckled, as she petted Beth's head. She smiled, "Come on, little lady. Let's go home…"
She called out, "You, too, Junior! And bring Michelle with…"
Amanda asked, "Wait! Agent Dunn, is it? Can I come, too? I would like a favor from you."
Heather said, "Okay… What's your story, ma'am?"
She extended her hand, as Heather blushed, "Uh, Miss… Why do I feel-?"
Amanda explained, "Maybe it's best I tell you who I am, first…"
After that, Amanda Dunn finally told the story about her lineage to June and Beth. She was their grandmother and Heather's long lost mother. After learning her daughter is now a World Government agent, Heather pardoned her mother, for the crime she committed, thirty years ago, and returned her to the United States. From there, she remarried a man in New York.
Michelle Nevins returned to Feral Beauty, and apologized for being MIA, thinking she actually died. She returned as an honorary hero, for her role in the Jewel Women Incident, and the leading agent in all Paranormal Cases, assigned by Neptuneman and Percival Gaynes.
Kaname Chidori went back to Tokyo, and with help from the Speedwagon Foundation, her high school, Jindai High, was revitalized back to its academic glory, no longer a place of disaster that Chris McLean caused. With every past shred of Tohru Honda now gone forever, Chidori chose to rebuild her past. She would continue to wrestle in Mexico, weeks later, continuing her career, where she left off, honoring the memories of her fallen friends, Kyo Sohma, Subaru Mikage, and Haruna Hiyashi.
Hotaru B.O. Speedwagon became the new CEO of the Speedwagon Foundation, continuing where her father left off. She remains single, with no apparent heirs, but promises one day to continue the further studies of science and history, with a possible successor.
Izuku Midoriya continued to work his way to become a superhero, like his mentor, All Might. He returned to U.A. High School, and resumed his duties as Deku, pushing to become the strongest hero there is.
Kosuri Onigashira never saw Beth Nevins again. She returned home to Germany. Weeks later, died in battle, where she honored her best research and skills; Kosuri would remember everything, including her long forgotten past with the late Ayame Kajou, and the science and technology that she has championed.
(Kosuri): GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST SCIENCE EVER!
Months passed, as the New Year was beginning…
And as for June & Beth…
Beth was at the dojo, doing her homework. June was sitting by her side, and asked, "Hey, about Kevin, your boyfriend…"
Beth said, "We Skype, if not busy. Mommy said I can use the computer to chat. Just not in AAW's computers. I know it's not a toy…"
June said, "Well, I'm curious about… I know much about the friends we met, and later lost… but… Who's Kevin? It seems strange, bothering me, with his happy smile. And, yes! He made a boo-boo about that letter! But we all saw it, back in January! We all thought you were dead!"
Beth huffed, "Get over it, Junior… I'm still kicking, and I'm about to be 10, soon…"
June asked, "Did… uh… How old is he?"
Beth replied, "I asked Granny Amanda… He's 8…"
June gasped, as she cried, "NO WAY! HE'S AT YOUR AGE, AND YOU TOLD ME THAT HE WAS ONCE POSSESSED?!"
Beth blushed, as she grumbled, "Where's Emily and her teeth?"
June said, "Oh, that… Apparently, she's not speaking to you, until her teeth are fixed. And literally, since she's full of gauze. She shouted at me about her tooth being removed. What did you do, exactly?"
Beth sighed, as she said nothing. June said, "Right… Best to leave it as Personal Business… I got to go. You be alright?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Okay, but don't make a mess in the dojo."
Beth sighed, as she was finished. She said, "Grant that I happen to have great friends… I do miss home… But…"
She barked, "What happened back here, I have a complete distaste for the Japanese! THEY caused the Mount Fuji Power Cores! Until the day I die, I will hate ALL Japanese, except for Mizuki, Asahi, and all my friends! They are the lovely sort, and I respect them! Everyone else, I hate them! And this is a just, since those damned gems started it! I will never forgive them!"
She then turned to a huge HD television and turned on a PlayStation 4. She smiled, as she held the controller, "But then again, I do enjoy their nifty gadgets."
She began playing her game, playing by herself, in bliss. Beth Nevins's adventure was finally over. Her father was avenged of Kagura Sohma, his sworn enemy, but it didn't bring him back… at least, not yet…
The Gang IN-ACTION: Act II – The End
Meanwhile, far away in the Atlantic Ocean, on the Canary Islands, three boys were on a boat, fishing out a huge item inside. One boy in spiky hair called, "This is it! We found it!"
A boy in a big nose and glasses laughed, "This is great! We are proven that the E-Class are losers, for we have find a discovery, deep in the ocean~!"
They laughed evilly, as the huge crate was lifted from the waters. They hauled it in, as the first boy called, "What do you think is in it?"
The second boy laughed, "For a 100-year old crate? It could be anything!"
But what they didn't know it that the huge chest has a golden lock with a purple gem on it. The imprinting on the golden lock shows a marking on it. It said… "M-I-O".
The crate that is padlocked shut contains something that spells "MIO". But what is it?
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At the same time, an ominous dark feeling flowed in the halls of a city jail. In one of the cells was a boy in spiky hair and a black coat. He was sitting in his jail cell, with a very dark aura surrounding him. Who is he? Is friend or foe?
And so, we end the second arc of our story… Who is this guy, and why the dark aura? And what of the crate that says "MIO"?
Stay tuned for Act III of…
The Gang IN-ACTION!
To be continued…