Disclaimer: Bloody Roar and all related characters are property of Hudson. MARS-01 is property of the author, Person with many aliases

A/N: looks like I'm taking a knack for lying eh? Today MARS shows off his powers I suppose it's easy enough to figure out what he can do. Oh and fight scenes too, yay . . . ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------



Chapter 2:

Uriko smiled cheerfully looking at each of the little peripherals the store showcased through the glass front. It was Wednesday, only a few days till the summer holidays and Yugo's speech that Uriko promised to attend with Alice . . . and be with Kenji as well.

"Hey, riko we should get going, it's only a few minutes before the movie starts" a voice reminded gently

"Well okay . . ." Uriko turned around to meet Kenji, clasped hands and walked down the streets to the movie theatre.

Once a upon a time, little Neptune and her boyfriend-whatever-whatever were merrily hopping down the street to watch some lame-ass action movie by a Arnold Schwarzenegger Wanna-be . . . somehow, the idea of a potential weapon of mass genocide going out on a date doesn't work MARS contemplated on as he switched his eyes back and forth at the couple and with a photo Busuzima was generous enough to give. MARS nodded his head in confirmation of his target while crouching from atop a building on the same street Uriko was on. MARS frowned to himself as he took off his bent, green "wizard's hat" for the fifth time in a row, wiped off the sweat on his short, brown hair before putting it back on.

Humph. "But it's summer outside" I said, "It's only a black, stylish trench coat" lord-ship says, and BOOM here I am roasting myself out in the summer sun in this winter crap . . . bah, it goes well with the hat at least MARS then pushed the thoughts aside as he began to formulate a simple cruel plan that might capture "Neptune" as he called her. Following Uriko& Kenji carefully along the rooftops, MARS centered himself and let his mind slowly probe through the thoughts of Uriko 'till he found her consciousness. Smirking to himself over his victory, he began to play with her mind.



Uriko already could tell something was wrong. She just felt SOMETHING in the back of her head, out of place, twisted . . .

Probably nothing to worry about she told herself, trying to comfort herslf over the matter and tried to push it out of her mind.

"Really? What is nothing? Or something? May what you see as nothing maybe everything, and what is everything is never to have existed" a whispery voice brushed pass her ear. Immediately Uriko jerked her head in the general direction of where the voice emanated. Instead of finding the speaker, she found only empty air.

"Something wrong?" Kenji asked worriedly.

"It's nothing," Uriko answered quickly trying to avoid the matter as soon and hoped that the voice was just a trick of the mind.

"SEE!? You're thinking I'm nothing again!" The voice scolded in her head again.

"Where are you? . . ." Uriko murmured to herself looking through at the crowed of people surrounding her as she and Kenji walked through.

"If you really want to talk to me, you have to think out what you're going to say"

Okay, so WHAT are you

"By all means I am perfectly normal human being"

Then how are you doing this?

"Er . . . excluding the talking in your head part"

Just go away . . .

"Like all properly mannered stalkers, we only leave you during school hours and when you're changing other than that, you'll be hearing plenty of me." The voice for the whole day continued to dominate her mind driving to near insanity. It was evening after the date; Kenji gently kissed Uriko on the forehead before releasing a frustrated sigh.

"I have to go now, Yugo wants me to be at his match tonight I'll come back as soon as possible"

"Promise?" Uriko asked with a smile, she already knew the answer

"I promise"

With a kiss to seal it, Kenji left the Nonomura household. Uriko just smiled before walking towards the door.

"Don't leave me Jack! I'll never leave you Rose! Bah, you remind me of that movie I wasted 20 whole bucks on to watch the friggin' boat sink" The voice mocked as it appeared into existence again.

"Just leave me alone" Uriko murmured out as she struggled into the empty living room. Alice was working late shift and Aunt Mitsuko was out of the country.

"And just tell me why little Neptune? Why?"

"My name is-"

"Neptune, has been, is now, always will be"

"JUST GET OUT OFF MY HEAD!" Uriko screamed through the empty halls, just wishing that the voice would disappear.

"You truly want me gone?"

"Just go away . . ."

"If I gave you instructions to find me, would you take it?"

"Yes, just tell me" From far away, MARS smiled to himself as he sat in the darkness.

Good . . . Neptune is now so gripped by my voice she will follow it like a sheep to a slaughter house Clearing his voice, MARS began

"Okay then, follow the yellow brick road" Immediately before her eyes Uriko saw a yellow path appear on the ground. Uriko followed the path visible only to her eyes.



Kenji just stared in silence as his hunch proved right, instead of leaving the ninja hid behind a tree only soon after to see Uriko walk out of the house and walk away as if whe were in a trance.

"What are you doing Uriko?" Kenji Pondered to himself as he carefully followed the young woman.



After what seemed like an eternity of walking, Uriko found that her path disappeared and that she found herself inside an old alleyway.

"So, you did come after all" the voice called from behind.

She immediately swirled around to meet a man dressed in a green hat the made him look like a wizard, he wore a dark trench coat, green shirt and matching pants and army boots.

"Who are you?" Uriko questioned with a growl

"My name is MARS" the owner of the voice bowed courteously "it is a pleasure to meet my successor"

"Successor?" Uriko wondered aloud before snapping back to the situation "What do you want from me?"

"If I told you that, it would take all the fun out of my Hunt"

"Hunt?"

MARS hit himself in the side of the head lightly "Oops, I said too much, how about this? You be a good girl and follow me or I'll have to beat the living daylights out of you and drag your sorry butt to my place"

Uriko immediately readied her stance "No ones taking me anywhere!"

MARS just sighed, "hurting, hurting, hurting. That's all the world knows now" then he readied his own fighting position. There was a few moment of silence as each anticipated each other for a few moments before charging at each other. Uriko launched forward with her foot extended. MARS stopped running but kept his momentum to keep himself sliding forward. Barely dodging the flying kick, MARS retaliated with a punch to the gut as Uriko began to fall from her missed attack. Flying from her opponents attack for a couple of seconds before recovering in mid air, the young hero landed back on her feet and got back into a hasty stance.

MARS gave a cheerful little smile before stancing himself again "You can't win this battle, Neptune"

"MY NAME IS URIKO!" The Kenpo student flew closed the distance immediately while her skin became covered with fur. MARS could only utter two words before meeting the storm of claws.

"Aw, crap"

The cat zoanthrope released her full fury as her claws raked against MARS's arms as he tried to block each blow.

Geez, at this rate my arms are going to be bone in a few minutes, time to cheat . . .

MARS then stepped back and stood his ground, shooting his hands forward with his palms open. "I dare you to hit me again!" Uriko charged forward again, overcome with the bestial rage, expected to crash into his body. Instead, she collided against an invisible obstacle. The cat stumbled back in confusion, enabling MARS to launch a spinning kick into Uriko's side with a force that caused her body to impact the brick wall beside them and leaving a large dent in the wall. As the dazed teen reverted back into her original form, MARS grabbed her by her hair and whispered slyly into her ear.

"Now let's see how many holes in a brick wall will leave a cat girl unconscious!" Uriko struggled against the grip but it was too late.

"ONE" and Uriko's head was pounded against the wall with such force a hole was left there. MARS then proceeded to move to another section of the wall. "TWO. THREE. FOUR" by this time Uriko's vision was blurry with dust and blood.

"AND NOW FOR THE WORLD SHATTERING DEATH BLOW! FI-"

"I'LL KILL YOU!" MARS turned his head in the direction of the threat, only to have a fist burning with rage collide to the side of his head. Staggering back he released his grip on Uriko, letting her fall back unto the floor to catch her breath. MARS then saw Kenji slowly stepping forward with eyes burning with one word: vengeance.

"Krist!, two on one is never good odds!" MARS growled, frustrated with his obvious lose. He then back flipped unto a building while dodging several flying silver blades. Kenji immediately came to his companion's side.

"Uriko! What's going on?"

"I'll tell you later . . . deal with him first" Uriko pointed out MARS atop the building, who was right now pulling out a blade imbedded in his hat.

Kenji glared knives at the man and growled, "Who are you?"

MARS once again cheerfully waved down at the couple "My name is MARS, nice to meet you too"

"I swear, if I find you ever again near my Riko I'll-"

"Riko, eh? That's a cute pet name for Neptune, and don't worry you'll have your fair chance at trying to kill me" with that MARS disappeared. Kenji could only watch only wonder who this new threat could be . . .

A/N: dude, I suck at ending chapters :-( Anyways . . . R&R soon, am I making MARS to strong? REVIEW ALREADY!!!!!!