Wow it's been a while since I started this little tale. I never thought I'd get any reviews actually, never thought any one would like the fact that Polly would fall in love with some one else. Oh well, I'm very grateful for my fans. This is it the final chapter. I may start another fic, but I'm not sure. well, later well meet again.
Disclaimer: DON'T OWN PIZZA CATS OK!
"All right." he sighed, looking around, his preternatural ability taking affect giving him the ability to see in the dark. All around him the cave was ribbed like a throat.
He walked in deeper and found himself in another section of the cave the carving outside said 1st death. He walked into the room and a wall slid down behind him, it spooked him slightly. He looked around the room seeing nothing but empty armors lying around. He picked one up thinking to himself.
This looks like ninja crow armor......
He heard a metal against metal noise from behind him. He turned and saw something that horrified him. The legs of one armor were standing on their own. The chest plate jumped into place, then the arms jammed into place and the finally the helmet rolled on. Two blue balls of fire appear in the helmet were the eyes would be. Tanaka looked around and all the armor began to assemble.
"DAMN IT!" he drew his sword just as the army began to overwhelm him, drawing swords of their own. He could hear a demonic crowing coming from all around.
One jumped into the air. Tanaka sliced it in half vertically. The other tried to stab at him. Tanaka took care of it with a well placed kick. He was kicking slashing and punching his way out but there were too many.
"THAT'S IT!" He got into the stance for the attack. Holding the sword like a dagger pointing it out to his right. "NOVA NUKE SHOCK WAVE!" He spun unleashing the wave of energy, cutting the army down by quite a bit. The others just stood there as if waiting for something.
The ground suddenly began to shake. Then it stopped. It happened again then stopped. He looked to his right and saw a gigantic empty armor step thought the crowd and into the circle they had made. A look of horror came upon Tanaka's face, but he quickly contained it.
Show no fear. I have more power if I show no fear.
Then he got into a right leg back fighting stance. "lets go!" he mocked, he leaned his sword back and concentrated. Listening to the thing draw its weapon. Tanaka leaned his sword down to his right and it began to glow.
I'm going to stick with my own attack on this one.
" SUPERNOVA STARLIGHT SLASH!" He fired off the wave of energy straight at the armor slicing its weapon, and it in half.
All time around him stopped, or it seemed to, and the armors around him began to dissolve like sand in a light breeze. The cave was empty again and quiet. The wall furthest from him and right across from were he entered opened to reveal a passage and a carving appeared in the wall next to it. 2nd death is what it stated.
Outside Guido stood trying to get up the nerve to go in.
"Man, what do I do? If I go in there I might die. But I cant let him face D on his own. HEY YOU GUYS GET OVER HERE AND HELP ME FIGURE THIS OUT!" Guido yelled.
Speedy fell over. He had no idea Guido had known they were there. Polly got up.
"Were going in Guido! we have to help him. The Samurai Pizza Cats have yet to let down any one and their not going to start now and if not for Tanaka then for the world. If D lives on he'll kill us all." She started to walk into the cave.
"Hey wait for me!" Speedy ran to catch up.
Tanaka had know what had happened. He was afraid of the dead, and empty armors coming to life by themselves was the scariest thing he'd ever seen, but he'd concord it with out receiving too much damage or loosing too much energy. "Ok." he sighed. " one down, four more to go." He walked into the next level, the wall closing behind him.
He walked in and stopped dead in his tracks. He was in little Nagasaki and it was in ruins as it was when he left it, and he remembered why he was afraid of the dead. Because rising from the ashes were his friends and family.
"Tanaka!" they all moaned. "Tanaka!" they were chanting it. "Why Tanaka? why did you kill us?" they got closer. All rotting corpses, burned, and oozing with rot, and blood. "You killed us Tanaka. You killed us all."
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" he fell to his knees, covering his ears. he started to cry. "IT WASN'T MY FAULT! D IS TO BLAME FOR ALL THIS!"
"Why Tanaka?" Tanaka knew that voice
He forced himself to look up.
"Nyoko?" He questioned.
"why did you kill us? We wanted to live. We had our lives ahead of us."
"That's not true!" memories began flashing into his mind. Memories of how he and Nyoko once were happy and in love. "You know that! didn't our relation ship mean anything! And all of you! I remember what happened like it was yesterday, the martial arts tournament and all! It was so long ago....... I had entered to test my strength and had beaten everyone. Then I had to fight D." his mind went back to that day.
"So Tanaka?" D laughed. "Are you ready to lose? I am much more powerful than you can imagine."
"That so?" Tanaka wiped his hair away from his sweat soaked head. "lets see shall we."
The round started. D rushed at him attempting to skewer him. Tanaka dodged effortlessly and struck D in the back of the head with the dull end of the sword. D struck back with a fist to Tanaka's stomach. Tanaka struck his elbow and a sickening cracking noise was herd. D dropped his sword. Tanaka struck him in the temple knocking him unconscious. the announcer counted.
"1....2....3....4...5...6...7...8...9...10 and the winner is Tanaka." She raised his hand into the air.
"I DEMAND A REMATCH!" D screamed getting to his feet.
"No D. You've lost, go down with dignity and leave it at that." Tanaka glanced at him in time to catch the sword D threw.
"I'll get my rematch Tanaka! If I have to kill to do it then so be it!" he was dragged out of the ring. Tanaka had thought he'd heard the last of him....
Guido came up to Tanaka. "you did great Tanaka. Took them all down with no problem."
"As the winner you receive a prize of 20 thousand to spend how you wish." she handed him the trophy full of money.
"Good, then I'll give it to those who need it." He stated throwing the trophy to the masked woman he'd fought earlier. "Here you told me that you needed the money to help someone." with that he got off stage and went with Guido to celebrate his victory.
Later that night. He came with Guido to his home. On the door was a note written in blood in all capitals.
TANAKA IF YOU WISH TO SEE YOUR GIRLFRIEND AGAIN! YOU WILL COME TO THE WAREHOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN, AND GIVE ME THE REMATCH I DESERVE!
"That bastard!" Tanaka crushed the letter. "come on Guido. we've got to stop him."
They soon arrived at the warehouse. D stood inside Nyoko tied up and at his feet.
"Didn't think you'd show. Now fight me!" He leaned his sword down and to his right. It began to emit a darkness. "I've found the full potential of the armor and it has a few tricks up it's sleeves. BLACK HOLE SLASH!" He fired off a wave of darkness and it sucked in the box it slammed into. "now lets go."
The battle lasted for hours. Tanaka was loosing, but then something happened.
"aaarg what's going on?!" crescent moons appeared on his back and blades shot from them. Then feathered wings formed. His entire body was glowing. D stepped back.
"Impossible! you've reached your peek! but how?!" D ran toward him, but was knocked down by a wave of energy. "Fine I've got one last thing I can do then." he looked to Nyoko. "DIE BITCH!" he yelled bringing down the sword and slitting her throat. She fell limp.
Tanaka's wings disappeared and electricity shot about the blades. "NYOKO NO!" he ran to her side and held her in his arms crying.
D laughed. "Now she's gone and it's all your fault!" he laughed more.
"YOU BASTARD!" Tanaka got up and turned around. "you will die for this!" he slammed D against the wall. "Guido, get out of here!" a whining noise started up and there was a bright flash of light moments later.
Tanaka awoke, and found himself in the town amidst the rubble the next morning. Only thinking. They were dead and it was his fault.
Tanaka now opened his eyes. "That's what happened it...it wasn't my fault." he looked up and cried. They were upon him now, bearing their teeth. They were going to kill him.
"STOP!" Tanaka said getting up. "this isn't true!" electricity began to flail about his body. "I have suffered for what I've done! I know I killed you, but it wasn't my fault and it's taken me this long to figure that out. I will put you all to rest and my troubled heart will rest as well. I've now realized, I've been blaming myself for something that wasn't my fault." He drew his sword and began slicing them down, until he got to Nyoko. "Nyoko we loved each other dearly, but I have to let you go. Up to this point I've been unable to so. Now rest in peace." He sliced her in half and just as the other nightmare did. This one disappeared. He walked to the wall furthest from the entrance and it opened. The wall displaying 3rd death.
Polly was nervous. She'd read of this place and new what it could do. The things that happened here were taken from the mind, but they were all to real. Many had gone into this cave and never come back. She looked over at the others. Their faces just as nervous as hers. Suddenly, they disappeared!
"Guys where'd you go?" the cave wall behind her slammed shut and holes opened in the wall. Water beginning to fill the small area she was in.
Oh no.....
Guido walked on.
"Alright guys. How you holding up?" but they were gone. "What's going on here?" He heard something squeak. He turned and saw that the floor was moving, upon further examination, he realized the floor was covered in. "RATS AAAHHHH RATS! THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF RATS!" He climbed up a column. He could see their teeth gnashing at him. They were trying to eat him.
Speedy walked forward. He had long discovered his friends were gone and he was starting to feel panic set in. He didn't like being alone, he hated it, in fact he was afraid of it.
"Oh man, were is everyone? It's really dark in here. I can't even see my hand in front of my face." he could hear noises. "I hate being alone." it reminded him of a time when he was very young, he'd gotten lost in a house of mirrors at the circus. The power had gone out. The park owners had found him huddled in a corner crying for his mother. Speedy remembered it well, and ever since then was deathly afraid of being alone in the dark. He walked around in the darkness and heard a hissing laugh.
"What's the matter Speedy? Scared?" a voice hissed.
"Who...who are you?" he whimpered.
"I'm your worst nightmare. Darkness come to life and I'm going to kill you like I should have so long ago! You were lucky last time, but this time they wont even find a body." it laughed. Speedy felt something strike his shoulder and then his thigh. He looked around and was surrounded by mirrors. He could see his enemy now barely but see it none the less. It stood on four legs and looked much like wolf on fire, but the fire emit no light and the flames were black.
"No, no way! It's happening all over again."
"But this time I'm going to kill you!" Speedy was hit in the opposite shoulder, and then his stomach.
"No, you're wrong!" Speedy lunged and stabbed the creature in the stomach. "got ya!"
It laughed and drew the sword from it stomach using it's paw. Then calmly handed it to Speedy. "you can't harm me in such a way!" Speedy sliced the creatures arm off, but it melded back together. "still no dice." he disappeared and Speedy felt something strike his back.
How am I supposed to fight this?
Polly was already swimming and her head almost touching the roof. She was beginning to panic. She couldn't get out.
"No, not again." she remembered the time when the boat ride she went on had capsized and when everyone got on top of the boat and Polly was still underneath. She nearly drowned. She looked all around for a way out, but found none. The water was almost touching the roof and she was nearly out of time.
Guido hung onto the pillar, but the rats were beginning to climb up after him. He could see the exit far from him and the rats were all around. He thought about making a run for it and had gotten up enough courage to do so. He jumped down and ran, but as he got closer, the door slid shut. He ran back to the pillar and the door opened. He listened and realized the rats were laughing at him.
"Run Guido! Run!" they Mocked
"YOU GONNA JUST KEEP RUNNING AWAY!?!?" another laughed.
Guido hopped down. "It's time." He stated. "It's time to face my fear." He walked through the rats. Treading lightly they were crawling all around his legs and ankles, but he showed no fear and he realized the door wasn't closing. He walked for what seemed to him an eternity and once he reached to door, the rats disappeared and he was allowed to go on.
Polly was running out of time. She was panicking but she stopped.
"No, I'm not going out like this." she said, she looked harder and saw something at the bottom of cave. It was a switch! She had to try. She got up all her courage and dove under, swimming as fast as she could, she reached the lever and pulled it. The water vanished and she fell to the floor. A door opened in front of her and she moved inside.
Speedy stood in the dark. The mirrors playing tricks on him. He was badly bumped bruised and cut. He was hit in the chest and fell back cracking one of the mirrors. The creature stopped and a cut formed on it. It let out a cry of pain. Speedy got to his feet and looked at the creature. It was bleeding. He looked at the mirror. He lightly slammed his elbow into it and another crack formed. The creature squealed and another cut formed.
"SO THAT'S IT! YOU DRAW YOUR POWER FROM MY FEAR AND THESE MIRRORS ARE WHAT'S DRAWING IT!" he slammed the handle of his sword into the mirror and it broke causing a huge gash to form in the creature's chest.
Speedy drew his other sword and began smashing every mirror in sight, until there was one left. He turned to the creature, its body full of gashes and its arm fallen off. He leaped into the air and placed around house into the last mirror and shattered it. The creature formed another gash and was breathing heavily
"It's time to end this! Speedy got into his stance and preformed the cats eye slash. It went through the creature vertically and light shot from the gashes. Finally the creature slid slightly in half and a bright light shot from the cut that Speedy had made and it exploded. Speedy could see now, but best of all even if it was dark he would no longer be afraid. The door opened and he left.
Tanaka entered the next room and door slid shut behind him. The room was completely empty. He walked further forward and heard footsteps.
"Tanaka?" a voice called.
He turned and saw Polly.
"Polly is that you?" he asked.
She ran into his arms. "It's ok Tanaka. D is gone we've been through here. He's already dead."
"Good. But there's still a problem." he said.
"What's that?" she asked. She felt a sting of pain and looked down. Tanaka's sword imbedded in her stomach. He withdrew it. "Tanaka, why?" she said falling to her knees.
"The question you should be asking is how." Tanaka said pointing his sword to her. "This is all wrong. The Locket first and foremost. Where's the jewel? And then there's the fact that I know Polly was following me, but she'd have her own fears to deal with before she could come here. And finally there's the sword." he held it out. "where's the blood?" it was true, it was clean. "So show your self you snake in the grass!"
The fake's legs fused together and it became a literal snake, a cobra.
"I'll kill you Tanaka!" it yelled as it dove for him.
"What is this? I'm not afraid of snakes." he landed on the snakes head and sliced it off. The image disappeared. "That was easy."
The door opened and a carving read prize.
"That was too easy." Tanaka stated raising an eye brow.
Guido Polly and Speedy met in the next room together. The room was empty. They walked into the next room, it was empty as well.
"What's going on?" Speedy asked.
"Well, the cave is focusing all it's energy on Tanaka. It's trying it's hardest to get rid of him, because........ he's going to make it!" Polly replied with joy.
Tanaka entered the room looking for the prize, but was only met with laughter. The door behind him closed.
"Hello Tanaka. I've been waiting six years for an opportunity like this, to finally obtain the last armors. I've already concord the cave and I hold here the heart of the gods. It has made me more powerful than you could ever imagine." D walked up to Tanaka. "And I will now kill you."
He slammed his fist into Tanaka's stomach. Tanaka hadn't even seen the punch coming. Tanaka hit the wall and slid down. D was immediately on top of him. D kicked him in the side of the head sending Tanaka flying into the opposite wall. Tanaka tried to get up but was too injured to even lift a finger. D stood on the opposite side of the room. He lifted his hand and stalagmites formed. holding Tanaka into a standing position.
"This armor gives me control over the earth itself making me invincible. Lets make things fun shall we. I'm not going to kill you yet, instead I'm going to kill your friends." D waved his hand and a screen made of what appeared to be diamond formed out of the cave wall. "Now watch. I have full control. I'm going to increase the gravitational pull over little Tokyo for a spilt second so it will hardly be felt." and so he did the little Tokyo on the big screen shook a little. "But what I'm doing is pulling a nearby comet just like the one that previously threatened little Tokyo, but this time THERE WILL BE NO ONE TO SAVE THEM!" Tanaka could see the comet entering the atmosphere above little Tokyo. "Now, watch Tanaka, as they all die BECAUSE OF YOUR FOOLISHNESS!"
Tanaka did watch on. The comet got closer and closer until finally it struck the town. There was an explosion and when the smoke cleared, the town was a gigantic crater.
"HA! THEIR GONE ALL OF THEM AND ALL BECAUSE OF YOU!" D laughed an insidious laugh. "YOU LET THEM DOWN TANAKA! YOU LET THEM ALL DOWN! SOON YOUR OTHER FRIENDS WILL BE DEAD! THE CAVE OF NIGHTMARES WILL EAT THEM ALIVE!" D kept laughing.
Tanaka didn't know how to feel. He'd let down little Tokyo, Speedy, Guido, but most of all he'd let down Polly. But then something started nagging him in the back of his mind. He couldn't figure out what then Tanaka started laughing.
D stopped his laugh. "What are you laughing about?" D asked.
"Your armor." Tanaka Laughed
"What about it?"
"I CAN'T SENSE IT!" he laughed harder. "This is all an illusion! I'm still in the cave of nightmares! This is my worst nightmare! Loosing to D! Why didn't I see it before?" Tanaka jumped down from the pillar "And the only reason why you could beat me was that you were getting more powerful off of my fear." Tanaka leaped at D and slashed him straight in half. And sure enough the image disappeared. He looked in front of him. There were two huge double doors. "And that is were D is hiding."
Tanaka knocked the doors opened, ready to face the challenge and was faced with an empty room. In the center was the heart of the gods. A diamond shaped like a heart that emitted a light, but that was all that was to be seen. Until he looked behind the diamond. The wall behind was covered in vines and in the center was D, or what was left of him. It was a corps hanging amongst the vines.
"D is dead?" Tanaka questioned.
"No Tanaka, I am not dead." the corps spoke without moving its lips. It reminded him of a mummy without its bandages. "But I might as well be. I lured you here to kill me. I can no longer live. These vines connect me to the earth. Keeping me alive, but no more than that. I want you to kill me, before the god that was created by the gods takes over. Once he does, no one can stop him. I am but a host, his evil essence stored inside. Please Tanaka kill me, kill me now."
Tanaka looked on in horror. The very man he had been cursing only minutes before. Was a suffering sole strung up on a wall. "alright D. I'll do it." Tanaka drew his sword and was just about to deliver the blow. When the armor began to change, mutate. It enveloped D and took the form of a huge black dragon.
"FOOL! IT IS TOO LATE I HYAKUHEI! SHALL DESTROY YOU ALL!"
"NOT IF I CAN HELP IT! STARLIGHT RAIL BLAST!" Tanaka fired a blue blast of light. It went through the gods chest.
Hyakuhei staggered back, but wasn't badly hurt.
"I'm sorry Polly. I couldn't keep my promise and I didn't even kill him." Tanaka had used all of his energy and his life force to kill the god, but Hyakuhei was hardly phased.
Polly couldn't take it anymore and just as she was about to bust the door open. It slid opened. She ran inside Guido and speedy followed. They looked on at the fallen Tanaka and then at the giant dragon.
"I am Hyakuhei and I will destroy you all!" it bellowed.
"Tanaka!" Polly ran to his side. She knew he wasn't coming back this time.
"Bow before your new god!" he stopped and turned to Polly. She was surrounded by a white fire like aura and when she turned to face him. Her eyes glowed blue. "That's it." She stated chocking back tears. "I'VE HAD IT WITH YOUR ANNOYING VOICE!" she leaped into the air and used her claws to slash the dragon. It staggered back and fell into thousands of pieces, the pieces caught fire and were gone. Polly returned to normal.
"How many times did you hit him?" Guido asked.
"About 42 give or take a few." she said her hands still glowing. "I used the heart of the gods. It absorbed into my body and gave me the power to destroy him." She knelt over Tanaka. "here goes nothing....." she placed her hands on his chest. The light melted from her hands into him and disappeared. All time seemed to stop as they watched. And then...... something happened. Tanaka began breathing again and Polly used what was left of the jewel to heal Tanaka back to normal. Tanaka sat up and hugged her.
"I love you Polly." he whispered. "Thank you for saving my life."
"Just repaying the favor." she said starting to cry again
They soon left the cave. Tanaka had found D's armor. No longer having it's power. He wanted to give his brother. A proper burial.
Roughly one year later...........
"Come on Speedy were going to be late!" Guido yelled tapping his foot.
"Wouldn't miss it for the world." Speedy came in straightening his tie.
They ran as fast as they could. They were already late. They burst into the door, but it was in fact, too late. Polly was already down the isle.
"I was wondering were my best man was, come-on Guido get up here." Tanaka motioned him up there.
"Yeah here I come." Guido gave him the ring and Tanaka put it on her.
"I finally pronounce you man and wife. you may kiss the bride." The pastor shut his book
"Good I was getting tired of waiting." Polly stated. and with that they kissed.
THE END!!!!