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Destiny

Chapter 17

"Men! Get into your positions!" A captain yelled as his army as the Oniwanbanshu along side with Kenshin-gumi stood there waiting to see what was going to happen next.

Aoshi in his usually attire, stood patiently besides Himura. Men ran every which way to get into position as Aoshi and Kenshin and the rest just stood there like statues.

"Men! Prepare!" The commander yelled as he saw something creped closer.

Suddenly a gush of wind blew most of the men off their feet and grinded them on the rocks behind. Even with the strong gush of wind, the Oniwanbanshu and Kenshin-gumi were able to stand still and waited for what they called the invincible army.

"Who are you and stand in our way?" A tall muscular man spoke as he saw that something that blocked their way.

"Who are you?" Kenshin in a serious tone spoke out.

"We are the army that will rule over his world, we are the army that can defeat any other army, we are the army of chaos!" The man screamed as he charged at Kenshin.

Kenshin laid his hand upon his sword ready to fling him back, but Hyottoko breathe fire and burned the man to a crisp.

"How dare you!" Another man said as he slung out his sword. He held it tighter as he was conjuring up a plan to kill them.

"You're no match of the Oniwanbanshu" Hannya spoke with his arms crossed his chest.

"Oniwanbanshu" A deep and croaking voice spoke.

Aoshi looked up to see who it was.

"I heard a lot about the Oniwanbanshu, the strongest in Japan; it will be an honor for me and my group to terminate you!" The man pointed and out of no where fire surrounded them.

"What kind of trick is this?" Aoshi said calmly.

"This is no trick" The man said as he walked through the fire to see that he had indeed caught every single one of them in the circle of fire.

"Who are you?" Kenshin stepped up.

"Who is this little man?" He asked curiously as he looked at Kenshin.

"This is just an illusion!" Shikijou with his full speed tried to lay his fist on him. But there wasn't just luck from him, as he didn't move from his spot as he raised his right hand and slammed it to the ground. Even when Shikijou was still pretty far from him, he also slammed into the ground.

"Shikijou? What happen?" Beshimi asked as he went to help his comrades.

"It felt like gravity pulled me down" Shikijou started to bleed from his mouth.

"Is that all you can take? I would have expected more from the group the call the strongest" He said as he walked to the place when he fell.

"Stay away from him!" Beshimi attempted to fling some spiral darts towards him, but those failed as well. The strong wind has appeared again, causing the darts to fly the other way and penetrating Beshimi's body instead of his.

"Beshimi!" Hyottoko blew out his fiery breathe only to find it was cancels out by the man's fire. Not only was it cancel it out but his knocked him off his feet, he was forced to his back which caused his unbearable pain throughout his whole body. Blood dripped his lips as he fell on his knees and lay there unconscious.

"Stop! You will not take any more of my comrades!" Hannya spoke up as he put his fist up ready to fight.

"You think you can stop me?" The powerful man asked in laughter.

"Stop Hannya" Aoshi stretched his arm stopping Hannya from going any further.

"Commander" Hannya put his hands down.

Aoshi revealed his two Kodachi.

"You think you can win against me with two miserly daggers?" The man laugh with all his might as the circle of fire died around them. It revealed of how really small the army was as they only saw a few men standing there with smiled wiped across their face and their arms across their chest.

"Kyo" Aoshi eyes filled with hatred and sense of readiness to kill.

"As you wish" As the man raised his hand up to the sky as a ball of dust appeared in his palm.

"Wait" Kenshin stopped the two.

"What now?" The man complained.

"Why do you want to rule Japan?" Kenshin asked before everyone dies for the sake of nothing.

"Because I can" The man smiled. And the man behind him flipped his risk which caused Kenshin and Hannya to fly backwards and greatly impacted the mountains behind them.

"Now it's your turn" The ball of dust soon formed into a rock, but soon burst into flames causing it to be a ball of fire. He looked at it pleasing and threw it like a baseball headed right towards for Aoshi.
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