(WARNING: Those with a weak stomach might not
want to read this part of the story. Trust me... This
part will make your stomach twist and turn and go
inside out)
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Chapter 12. Corruption....
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In the middle of all of the darkness... a pink rose, giving off a dim light, floats freely in the air. The Pink rose slowly transforms into a beautiful young woman with long, pink curly hair. She's curled up in a ball sort of, like a rose bud. And just like a rose bud, she slowly uncurls and comes free, beautiful and elegent. She slowly opens her eyes, pink rose petals flying softly around her. 'How beautiful...' She slowly stands up right, in mid air and looks around dazied. 'What is this place...?'
Another rose appears floating in front of her, exsept this rose has more of a gold/red tint to it. Like a mixed flower.
The young woman blinks wonderingly as she looks at the two-toned rose. 'A rose...?'
The rose slowly transforms into a small little fairy like creature, exsept, with no wings. She has straight, medium-lenthed pink hair and she's wearing a princess dress. 'Utena...'
The young woman's eyes widen to see this minature little girl talk.
She smiles softly. 'It's time Utena...'
The young woman shakes her head softly. 'What do you mean...? Time for what....?'
She floats up a bit out of the young woman's hand. 'It's time for you... to save yourself... and to save everyone...'
The young woman looks up at her, not understanding. 'What do you mean 'save myself and everyone'?'
The little girl creature giggles and points towards a pinpoint of light. 'You are the warrior who will save our world. The world that hangs in Limbo...'
The young woman blinks. 'The world that hangs in Limbo...? What is that...?'
The little girl's smile fades. 'It's the world where me, the Queen, the King, the Knights and the Priestesses have been forced to stay in. We made a break for it and that's when everything wierd started happening in your own world.'
Utena comprehends all of this and starts to understand why everything happened the way it did.
She closes her eyes. 'I, as Shu-ko, your incarnated form, came back to you after everything was slowly being revealed. Then my mother, Faia, filled Rei who was perfectly fine with Ruka, her new love in your world.'
Utena steps back. 'Wait a sec! I thought Akio was Ruka!'
She shakes her head. 'No... Akio slowly possessed Ruka... didn't you notice his growing aggression towards Rei and personality change?'
Utena thinks about this and relieases it makes perfect sense. 'What about the others then?'
She opens her eyes. 'The Knights and Priestesses slowly possessed their reincarnated forms.'
Utena nods her head. 'But... one last question...'
She looks at her. 'Yes?'
Utena get's a determined look. 'Who is my Mother's King? Who was he reincarnated into?'
Shu-ko closes her eyes. 'I... can't really say...'
Utena's eyes widen. 'What do you mean you can't say!? Why not!?'
Shu-ko looks to her side. 'When he broke out, he got very lost and as far as we know... he might be forever lost in limbo.'
Utena's face goes pale then sighs. 'I see...'
Shu-ko looks up at her. 'But... once you defeat Lucifer, I'm 100% sure the King will finally appear.'
Utena nods her head and smiles. 'I understand then.'
Shu-ko then slowly feels herself start to fade. 'Utena-sama... please... save my mother... I wish you the best of luck...' She completely fades and the pinpoint of light in the darkness becomes brighter.
Utena then get's a determined look and starts to float towards the pinpoint of light. Once she get's there, she disappears.
"Do you know? Do you know? Did you hear the news?" Girl A
"A battle of love and death is about to begin!" Girl B
"A battle of death and love?" Girl A
"A battle of death!" Girl B
"A battle of love!" Girl A
"But what is the meaning of the battle if all the might come out of it is death?" Girl B
"True are those words, where a battle is made only out of blood lust and greed..." Girl A
"Yes, yes but can't we all get along?" Girl B
"Not in this life..." Girl A
"Do you know? Do you know? Do you know?" Girl B
Utena flies through all the light, seeming like she's going through time... she travels for what seems to her like an eternity before she finally stops and looks up at the gates that look creeply familar to the ones she once went through to get to the dueling arena. She begins to walk through the big black gates as she walks up the stairs of the place very similar to the Dueling arena exsept a dark arua fills it. Her eyes shine in determination.She begins to get close to the middle when she feels the coldness start to surround her. 'I must face my destiny... I must rid this world of what my mother, my father and the knights could not.' She then begins to walk faster as she goes into all out running. Slowly her dueling outfit appears upon herself as she knows this is the same battle that her mother faced. The battle... of revolution...
Then... out of no where... the voices of the priestesses are heard.
"Mizu!" Shizuku's eyes widen as she screams loudly.
"Kadorui!" Chi's eyes widen as she also screams loudly.
"Kaze!" Hokufuu's eyes widen too as she screams loudly.
Utena hears the screams of the priestesses echo through out the dark forest and becomes even more determined. All of a sudden a golden light shines out from her golden rose seal and she once again becomes a goddess. Golden wings come out of her back as she literally begins to fly up to get to the very very top of the long rows of stairs. She finally stops at the top. Everything looks the same, exsept for there is no floating castle above... but something that is sickening to see. Utena's face loses all color as she sees 3 priestesses hovering high above her.
Their wrist & ankles tied together with ropes. But, they are stripped down to nothing and the bodies covered with deep slashes, obviously made by a sword. They are pale and lifeless, but a look of deep sadness is on their faces.
Utena feels her stomach twist and turn, feeling deathly sick at the fight of this.
A soft, but dead evil laughter is heard from the shadows. " How very beautiful... is it not Princess?"
Utena looks up and glares. "Who's there?!"
A man with shortened light-purple hair and a white and red dueling outfit walks from the shadows, that evil smirk upon his face.
Utena's eyes widen, she could never forget that smirk. "You... You're... Lucifer..."
He closes his eyes, that smirk still there. "Well, at least you know my name." He reopens his eyes.
Utena glares harder. "What have you done to Kimu, Shalon & Yoru!?"
He looks up at the life-less priestesses. "Why.... It's more like what they did to themselves. I must admit though... I was rather impressed that they got as far as they did."
Utena's eyes waver, and just as she's about to say something he turns to her.
"Don't you mean Shizuku, Chi & Hokufuu? Shizuku fought long and hard against the dark waters and everything those waters had to offer." He sighs pitifully. "It was a pity though... she got a bitten up by those sharks and basicly drown. I basicly had to slice her up to put the poor thing out of her misery."
Utena's throat closes up tightly.
"And Chi also fought quite well in the jungles. But got runned down and eaten quite a bit by that black panther. Well, it's not really black anymore. It's more crimson red. I also had to slice her up too."
Utena's stomach twist, turns and goes inside out hearing all of this.
"And poor Hokufuu. She didn't fight that well at all, not like the other two. Once she was put into the air, razor sharp winds cut through her body so much that I didn't even have to slice her to put her out of her misery." He shrugs and smirks evily. "I bet your wondering where the 4th priestess is, right?"
Utena almost says something again but then tapping of high-heeled shoes are heard as a figure appears out of the darkness, wearing a dress deathly-similar to Utena's Princess dress. Exsept, it's red. She finally appears beside Lucifer, her eyes blank and empty. Utena steps back. "M... m-mother?!"
She doesn't reply, but just stands there.
Lucifer smirks deeply, as he holds her closely to his side. "Yes.... the Priestess of Fire... Faia."
Utena's eyes widen more. "Then... then...."
"Yes..." Rei smiles softly and rests her head on Lucifer's chest. "I am Touga's Priestess... but... my dear... I belong to my master Lucifer now... and I have no regrets. Poor priestesses as they where, they where just little pawns." Her eyes show pure evilness, but, they are not her own. They are Akio's in a way.
Utena glares hard. "Stop talking through my mother Lucifer!" A golden arua surrounds her. "This is the end!"
Everything at that instant stopped.
A white light shone down on Utena
A black light shone down on Lucifer
And a red light shone down on Rei
"Slowly the rose petal falls..."
"Slowly it falls to the lake..."
"Falling... falling..."
"Slowly the rose petal lands..."
"Slowly it creates the ripples..."
"Splashing... splashing..."
"Slowly the rose petal moves"
"Slowly it is drawn by the current..."
"Swishing... swishing..."
"Slowly the rose petal stops..."
"Slowly it is concured by a twig..."
"Moving... Stopping..."
"We fall..."
"We land..."
"We move..."
"We stop..."
"We fall...."
"We land..."
"We move..."
"We stop..."
"And so the cycle forever continues...."
"Through out history..."
"A never-ending fall of Murder..."
"A never-ending land of Suicuide..."
"A never-ending move of Holocaust..."
"A never-ending stop of Apocalypse..."
Akio smirks and holds up his sword. "So be it... my dearest Princess..."
Utena let's out a battle cry and charges like the light towards him.
He easily blocks her slashes, with out even a sweat.
Utena's eyes widen and she glare, flipping back as she regains her composture. The glow around her seems to glow brighter as she charges at him again. Fire burning in her eyes.
He jumps up, dodging the heavy sword as he spins kicks the back of Utena's head, sending her flying forward.
"Agghh!" She stummbles forward and lands on the ground hard.
He smirks and looks back at her, but he seems to be floating in mid-air. "Oh... Princes... are you alright...? I hope I didn't hurt you too much..." He laughs evily.
Rei seems to watch this all from a distance from the battle. Her eyes are still empty and cold, like her soul has departed from her physical body.
Utena slowly stands up and glares at Akio. "I won't let you win Lucifer!" She glares Jumps up and golden wings once again come from out of her back as she flies quickly towards him.
Akio get's a calm look, only seeing that she's using the same move again. He holds up his own sword slowly to block it.
Utena smirks, oddly enough, and flies up sharply just as it seemed she was about to slash at him.
Akio looks up shocked.
Utena then like a flash of lightening lets her sword fly down sharply with her.
Akio's eyes widen and quickly dodges, but the sword slashes across his back and he stummbles forward because of it.
Utena lands gracefully. "Just give up Lucifer!!"
Akio looks back at her... stares for moment... then smirks and stands up straight. "Alright... fine... I give up..."
Utena blinks. "You do..?"
Akio nods his head. "Yes.... But... I believe two more people would just love to challenge you..."
Utena get's a determined look. "What are you talking about Lucifer?"
Rei slowly walks forward as a completely black Uniform appears slowly on herself. It has super high black stockings, Nanami like shoes, And a Black uniform look that all the duelist love to wear lined with Silver. "I am one of the challengers."
Utena steps back. "Mother...?"
Akio closes his eyes. "Also someone else who everyone seems to have forgotten. The Sister of Prince Dios... the former me. "
All of a sudden Anshi also appears, standing beside Rei.
Utena steps back even more. "Anshi...? Rei-mama...? What on Earth is going on?!"
Akio laughs evily. "You want to save Rei... Don't you? Well... you'll have to kill her and defeat Anshi to do so..."
Sheer terror comes upon Utena's face. "What?! Kill my mother?! Are you crazy?!"
Akio looks to his side, still smirking. "Well... if you manage to kill her... it won't make a difference...."
Utena blinks in heavy confusion. "What on earth are you talking about Lucifer?!"
Akio laughs and holds up his sword, pointing it at her. "You havn't figured it out? Your mother never died! She's immortal and forever a slave to me!"
Utena's breath get's caught in her throat. "What!?!?"
He laughs more, glaring evily while still smirking. "I'm shocked... you fancied yourself her daughter with out relieasing that she never died. Oh yes... Her body most definate lost it's use, but her soul remains forever confined within the boundaries of the floating castle in the sky!"
She steps back. "You're lieing... you have to be..."
He closes his eyes. "We'll see. My Queen, come here for a moment."
Rei slowly walks over to him. "Yes my Prince? Is it time now?"
He nods his head and leans down to her. "Yes..." He smirks. "Show us the grand power of the Golden Rose Key..."
Rei smirks evily as she slowly walks into the middle of the arena.
Utena steps back, just in complete shock of the moment.
Rei holds up her right hand and her ring slowly begins to shimmer.
Everyone watches intently, some in anxiousness, some in terror.
She closes her eyes as the ring slowly floats off her finger and begins to float up more. "By the power bestowed upon my unworthy fingers... I ask of you great powers of Dios... I ask of you great powers of the Golden Rose Seal... I ask of you to break the seal that confines the power..." He eyes flash open and she calls out with all her might. "OF REVOLUTION!"
The area around them become dark like the night itself, as the only sorce of light is the ring that floats up around ring. Two lights shoot out from the sky. One Black... One White. They shot into the ring and it shatters into a million peices. Out of the shell of the broken seal comes a Golden Key, glowing like holy light...
Utena breath get's caught in her throat at this sight.
The key slowly turns in the sky as a bright energy shines down on Rei. The energy is intense and mind-blowing. They key then turns into a sword of pure light and floats down to Rei's hand.
She takes it gracefully, as light glows around her. She smirks and looks at Utena. "Are you ready... dearest daughter..."
Utena takes her stance, very reluctently. "Ready...."
Rei let's out an inhuman cry and charges out Utena like the speed of light.
Utena screams a bit as she barely dodges Rei's quick slashes. She then glares. "You're not my mother! And I won't let you win!" Her own ring shines and those wings appears again as a golden light shines brightly around her.
Rei smirks as black wings appear on herself... Black demon like wings. She let's out another inhuman cry as she flies up after her, with her pure sword of light.
Utena's sword begins to shine as well and she fights her back quite confindently. 'She was never this good the first time I fought her...'
Akio watches on. 'Utena's good... but there's no way she's going to beat Rei...'
Rei slashes forcefully at Utena and wounds her arm.
Utena let's out a cry and slashes at Rei with the same force, wounding her left side.
Rei glares hard, fire now building rapidly in those once cold eyes. She charges at her even more than before. Seemingly like the perfect duelist. "No one's here to save you Utena! No one!'
When all truely seems hopeless... Utena begins to believe her words. 'She's right... everyone's dead... No one's here to save me...'
Then... it happens. A blue, green, and orange light shoot out of the priestesses and shoot into Utena. Even a red light seems to escape Rei with out her consent.
Rei gasps. "What the?!"
Utena blinks and hears the voices of the Priestesses in her head.
'Don't give up Princess... We're all here with you. I'll give you my power of Water.' Shizuku says as Utena starts glowing blue.
'Yes, we are always here to protect you... body or no body... ' Chi says as Utena's glow mixes Blue with Green.
'Don't forget... even if our physical bodies die... are spirits are forever alive!' Hokufuu says as Utena's gllow of Blue and Green mix with Oranage.
'My dear daughter...' Faia says softly. ' We all give you our powers... but you must call upon your own power to defeat this fake me.'
'My own power....?' Uten asks questionly.
'Yes my dear... Call upon Shu-ko... and they both her and Dios will come to give you their powers!' She says, then red mixes with all 3 colors.
'Shu-ko...' Utena thinks hard... then concentrates all her energy. "POWERS OF THE PRIESTESSES! POWER OF SHU-KO AND DIOS! HELP ME! PLEASE!"
Two white and pink lights flies down to her and shoot into her too. It creates a huge blast of energy that sends Rei flying backwards.
"AHHH!!!!!" She goes flying backwards, then regains her composture as she charges once again towards Utena.
Utena just glares, holds out her sword, charges and stabs her right straight through the heart.
want to read this part of the story. Trust me... This
part will make your stomach twist and turn and go
inside out)
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Chapter 12. Corruption....
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In the middle of all of the darkness... a pink rose, giving off a dim light, floats freely in the air. The Pink rose slowly transforms into a beautiful young woman with long, pink curly hair. She's curled up in a ball sort of, like a rose bud. And just like a rose bud, she slowly uncurls and comes free, beautiful and elegent. She slowly opens her eyes, pink rose petals flying softly around her. 'How beautiful...' She slowly stands up right, in mid air and looks around dazied. 'What is this place...?'
Another rose appears floating in front of her, exsept this rose has more of a gold/red tint to it. Like a mixed flower.
The young woman blinks wonderingly as she looks at the two-toned rose. 'A rose...?'
The rose slowly transforms into a small little fairy like creature, exsept, with no wings. She has straight, medium-lenthed pink hair and she's wearing a princess dress. 'Utena...'
The young woman's eyes widen to see this minature little girl talk.
She smiles softly. 'It's time Utena...'
The young woman shakes her head softly. 'What do you mean...? Time for what....?'
She floats up a bit out of the young woman's hand. 'It's time for you... to save yourself... and to save everyone...'
The young woman looks up at her, not understanding. 'What do you mean 'save myself and everyone'?'
The little girl creature giggles and points towards a pinpoint of light. 'You are the warrior who will save our world. The world that hangs in Limbo...'
The young woman blinks. 'The world that hangs in Limbo...? What is that...?'
The little girl's smile fades. 'It's the world where me, the Queen, the King, the Knights and the Priestesses have been forced to stay in. We made a break for it and that's when everything wierd started happening in your own world.'
Utena comprehends all of this and starts to understand why everything happened the way it did.
She closes her eyes. 'I, as Shu-ko, your incarnated form, came back to you after everything was slowly being revealed. Then my mother, Faia, filled Rei who was perfectly fine with Ruka, her new love in your world.'
Utena steps back. 'Wait a sec! I thought Akio was Ruka!'
She shakes her head. 'No... Akio slowly possessed Ruka... didn't you notice his growing aggression towards Rei and personality change?'
Utena thinks about this and relieases it makes perfect sense. 'What about the others then?'
She opens her eyes. 'The Knights and Priestesses slowly possessed their reincarnated forms.'
Utena nods her head. 'But... one last question...'
She looks at her. 'Yes?'
Utena get's a determined look. 'Who is my Mother's King? Who was he reincarnated into?'
Shu-ko closes her eyes. 'I... can't really say...'
Utena's eyes widen. 'What do you mean you can't say!? Why not!?'
Shu-ko looks to her side. 'When he broke out, he got very lost and as far as we know... he might be forever lost in limbo.'
Utena's face goes pale then sighs. 'I see...'
Shu-ko looks up at her. 'But... once you defeat Lucifer, I'm 100% sure the King will finally appear.'
Utena nods her head and smiles. 'I understand then.'
Shu-ko then slowly feels herself start to fade. 'Utena-sama... please... save my mother... I wish you the best of luck...' She completely fades and the pinpoint of light in the darkness becomes brighter.
Utena then get's a determined look and starts to float towards the pinpoint of light. Once she get's there, she disappears.
"Do you know? Do you know? Did you hear the news?" Girl A
"A battle of love and death is about to begin!" Girl B
"A battle of death and love?" Girl A
"A battle of death!" Girl B
"A battle of love!" Girl A
"But what is the meaning of the battle if all the might come out of it is death?" Girl B
"True are those words, where a battle is made only out of blood lust and greed..." Girl A
"Yes, yes but can't we all get along?" Girl B
"Not in this life..." Girl A
"Do you know? Do you know? Do you know?" Girl B
Utena flies through all the light, seeming like she's going through time... she travels for what seems to her like an eternity before she finally stops and looks up at the gates that look creeply familar to the ones she once went through to get to the dueling arena. She begins to walk through the big black gates as she walks up the stairs of the place very similar to the Dueling arena exsept a dark arua fills it. Her eyes shine in determination.She begins to get close to the middle when she feels the coldness start to surround her. 'I must face my destiny... I must rid this world of what my mother, my father and the knights could not.' She then begins to walk faster as she goes into all out running. Slowly her dueling outfit appears upon herself as she knows this is the same battle that her mother faced. The battle... of revolution...
Then... out of no where... the voices of the priestesses are heard.
"Mizu!" Shizuku's eyes widen as she screams loudly.
"Kadorui!" Chi's eyes widen as she also screams loudly.
"Kaze!" Hokufuu's eyes widen too as she screams loudly.
Utena hears the screams of the priestesses echo through out the dark forest and becomes even more determined. All of a sudden a golden light shines out from her golden rose seal and she once again becomes a goddess. Golden wings come out of her back as she literally begins to fly up to get to the very very top of the long rows of stairs. She finally stops at the top. Everything looks the same, exsept for there is no floating castle above... but something that is sickening to see. Utena's face loses all color as she sees 3 priestesses hovering high above her.
Their wrist & ankles tied together with ropes. But, they are stripped down to nothing and the bodies covered with deep slashes, obviously made by a sword. They are pale and lifeless, but a look of deep sadness is on their faces.
Utena feels her stomach twist and turn, feeling deathly sick at the fight of this.
A soft, but dead evil laughter is heard from the shadows. " How very beautiful... is it not Princess?"
Utena looks up and glares. "Who's there?!"
A man with shortened light-purple hair and a white and red dueling outfit walks from the shadows, that evil smirk upon his face.
Utena's eyes widen, she could never forget that smirk. "You... You're... Lucifer..."
He closes his eyes, that smirk still there. "Well, at least you know my name." He reopens his eyes.
Utena glares harder. "What have you done to Kimu, Shalon & Yoru!?"
He looks up at the life-less priestesses. "Why.... It's more like what they did to themselves. I must admit though... I was rather impressed that they got as far as they did."
Utena's eyes waver, and just as she's about to say something he turns to her.
"Don't you mean Shizuku, Chi & Hokufuu? Shizuku fought long and hard against the dark waters and everything those waters had to offer." He sighs pitifully. "It was a pity though... she got a bitten up by those sharks and basicly drown. I basicly had to slice her up to put the poor thing out of her misery."
Utena's throat closes up tightly.
"And Chi also fought quite well in the jungles. But got runned down and eaten quite a bit by that black panther. Well, it's not really black anymore. It's more crimson red. I also had to slice her up too."
Utena's stomach twist, turns and goes inside out hearing all of this.
"And poor Hokufuu. She didn't fight that well at all, not like the other two. Once she was put into the air, razor sharp winds cut through her body so much that I didn't even have to slice her to put her out of her misery." He shrugs and smirks evily. "I bet your wondering where the 4th priestess is, right?"
Utena almost says something again but then tapping of high-heeled shoes are heard as a figure appears out of the darkness, wearing a dress deathly-similar to Utena's Princess dress. Exsept, it's red. She finally appears beside Lucifer, her eyes blank and empty. Utena steps back. "M... m-mother?!"
She doesn't reply, but just stands there.
Lucifer smirks deeply, as he holds her closely to his side. "Yes.... the Priestess of Fire... Faia."
Utena's eyes widen more. "Then... then...."
"Yes..." Rei smiles softly and rests her head on Lucifer's chest. "I am Touga's Priestess... but... my dear... I belong to my master Lucifer now... and I have no regrets. Poor priestesses as they where, they where just little pawns." Her eyes show pure evilness, but, they are not her own. They are Akio's in a way.
Utena glares hard. "Stop talking through my mother Lucifer!" A golden arua surrounds her. "This is the end!"
Everything at that instant stopped.
A white light shone down on Utena
A black light shone down on Lucifer
And a red light shone down on Rei
"Slowly the rose petal falls..."
"Slowly it falls to the lake..."
"Falling... falling..."
"Slowly the rose petal lands..."
"Slowly it creates the ripples..."
"Splashing... splashing..."
"Slowly the rose petal moves"
"Slowly it is drawn by the current..."
"Swishing... swishing..."
"Slowly the rose petal stops..."
"Slowly it is concured by a twig..."
"Moving... Stopping..."
"We fall..."
"We land..."
"We move..."
"We stop..."
"We fall...."
"We land..."
"We move..."
"We stop..."
"And so the cycle forever continues...."
"Through out history..."
"A never-ending fall of Murder..."
"A never-ending land of Suicuide..."
"A never-ending move of Holocaust..."
"A never-ending stop of Apocalypse..."
Akio smirks and holds up his sword. "So be it... my dearest Princess..."
Utena let's out a battle cry and charges like the light towards him.
He easily blocks her slashes, with out even a sweat.
Utena's eyes widen and she glare, flipping back as she regains her composture. The glow around her seems to glow brighter as she charges at him again. Fire burning in her eyes.
He jumps up, dodging the heavy sword as he spins kicks the back of Utena's head, sending her flying forward.
"Agghh!" She stummbles forward and lands on the ground hard.
He smirks and looks back at her, but he seems to be floating in mid-air. "Oh... Princes... are you alright...? I hope I didn't hurt you too much..." He laughs evily.
Rei seems to watch this all from a distance from the battle. Her eyes are still empty and cold, like her soul has departed from her physical body.
Utena slowly stands up and glares at Akio. "I won't let you win Lucifer!" She glares Jumps up and golden wings once again come from out of her back as she flies quickly towards him.
Akio get's a calm look, only seeing that she's using the same move again. He holds up his own sword slowly to block it.
Utena smirks, oddly enough, and flies up sharply just as it seemed she was about to slash at him.
Akio looks up shocked.
Utena then like a flash of lightening lets her sword fly down sharply with her.
Akio's eyes widen and quickly dodges, but the sword slashes across his back and he stummbles forward because of it.
Utena lands gracefully. "Just give up Lucifer!!"
Akio looks back at her... stares for moment... then smirks and stands up straight. "Alright... fine... I give up..."
Utena blinks. "You do..?"
Akio nods his head. "Yes.... But... I believe two more people would just love to challenge you..."
Utena get's a determined look. "What are you talking about Lucifer?"
Rei slowly walks forward as a completely black Uniform appears slowly on herself. It has super high black stockings, Nanami like shoes, And a Black uniform look that all the duelist love to wear lined with Silver. "I am one of the challengers."
Utena steps back. "Mother...?"
Akio closes his eyes. "Also someone else who everyone seems to have forgotten. The Sister of Prince Dios... the former me. "
All of a sudden Anshi also appears, standing beside Rei.
Utena steps back even more. "Anshi...? Rei-mama...? What on Earth is going on?!"
Akio laughs evily. "You want to save Rei... Don't you? Well... you'll have to kill her and defeat Anshi to do so..."
Sheer terror comes upon Utena's face. "What?! Kill my mother?! Are you crazy?!"
Akio looks to his side, still smirking. "Well... if you manage to kill her... it won't make a difference...."
Utena blinks in heavy confusion. "What on earth are you talking about Lucifer?!"
Akio laughs and holds up his sword, pointing it at her. "You havn't figured it out? Your mother never died! She's immortal and forever a slave to me!"
Utena's breath get's caught in her throat. "What!?!?"
He laughs more, glaring evily while still smirking. "I'm shocked... you fancied yourself her daughter with out relieasing that she never died. Oh yes... Her body most definate lost it's use, but her soul remains forever confined within the boundaries of the floating castle in the sky!"
She steps back. "You're lieing... you have to be..."
He closes his eyes. "We'll see. My Queen, come here for a moment."
Rei slowly walks over to him. "Yes my Prince? Is it time now?"
He nods his head and leans down to her. "Yes..." He smirks. "Show us the grand power of the Golden Rose Key..."
Rei smirks evily as she slowly walks into the middle of the arena.
Utena steps back, just in complete shock of the moment.
Rei holds up her right hand and her ring slowly begins to shimmer.
Everyone watches intently, some in anxiousness, some in terror.
She closes her eyes as the ring slowly floats off her finger and begins to float up more. "By the power bestowed upon my unworthy fingers... I ask of you great powers of Dios... I ask of you great powers of the Golden Rose Seal... I ask of you to break the seal that confines the power..." He eyes flash open and she calls out with all her might. "OF REVOLUTION!"
The area around them become dark like the night itself, as the only sorce of light is the ring that floats up around ring. Two lights shoot out from the sky. One Black... One White. They shot into the ring and it shatters into a million peices. Out of the shell of the broken seal comes a Golden Key, glowing like holy light...
Utena breath get's caught in her throat at this sight.
The key slowly turns in the sky as a bright energy shines down on Rei. The energy is intense and mind-blowing. They key then turns into a sword of pure light and floats down to Rei's hand.
She takes it gracefully, as light glows around her. She smirks and looks at Utena. "Are you ready... dearest daughter..."
Utena takes her stance, very reluctently. "Ready...."
Rei let's out an inhuman cry and charges out Utena like the speed of light.
Utena screams a bit as she barely dodges Rei's quick slashes. She then glares. "You're not my mother! And I won't let you win!" Her own ring shines and those wings appears again as a golden light shines brightly around her.
Rei smirks as black wings appear on herself... Black demon like wings. She let's out another inhuman cry as she flies up after her, with her pure sword of light.
Utena's sword begins to shine as well and she fights her back quite confindently. 'She was never this good the first time I fought her...'
Akio watches on. 'Utena's good... but there's no way she's going to beat Rei...'
Rei slashes forcefully at Utena and wounds her arm.
Utena let's out a cry and slashes at Rei with the same force, wounding her left side.
Rei glares hard, fire now building rapidly in those once cold eyes. She charges at her even more than before. Seemingly like the perfect duelist. "No one's here to save you Utena! No one!'
When all truely seems hopeless... Utena begins to believe her words. 'She's right... everyone's dead... No one's here to save me...'
Then... it happens. A blue, green, and orange light shoot out of the priestesses and shoot into Utena. Even a red light seems to escape Rei with out her consent.
Rei gasps. "What the?!"
Utena blinks and hears the voices of the Priestesses in her head.
'Don't give up Princess... We're all here with you. I'll give you my power of Water.' Shizuku says as Utena starts glowing blue.
'Yes, we are always here to protect you... body or no body... ' Chi says as Utena's glow mixes Blue with Green.
'Don't forget... even if our physical bodies die... are spirits are forever alive!' Hokufuu says as Utena's gllow of Blue and Green mix with Oranage.
'My dear daughter...' Faia says softly. ' We all give you our powers... but you must call upon your own power to defeat this fake me.'
'My own power....?' Uten asks questionly.
'Yes my dear... Call upon Shu-ko... and they both her and Dios will come to give you their powers!' She says, then red mixes with all 3 colors.
'Shu-ko...' Utena thinks hard... then concentrates all her energy. "POWERS OF THE PRIESTESSES! POWER OF SHU-KO AND DIOS! HELP ME! PLEASE!"
Two white and pink lights flies down to her and shoot into her too. It creates a huge blast of energy that sends Rei flying backwards.
"AHHH!!!!!" She goes flying backwards, then regains her composture as she charges once again towards Utena.
Utena just glares, holds out her sword, charges and stabs her right straight through the heart.