Chosen 4: Shadow Games
An 19th Angel Production
Disclaimer: Same as before, yadda, yadda, yadda...
Authors Comments: Wahoo! 10 reviews at last! You love me! You really love me! The next chapter features Ramna going head to head with Kuletues, a Chaos Space Marine! If you don't know what a space marine is, go to www.gamesworkshop.com and navigate from there, OK? Look, it just means Ramna's in a world of trouble...
And on with the show...
Chosen 4: Shadow Games
Chapter 4: Kuletues Strikes! (Note the reference in the title!)
Ramna looked up at what he had just ran into... and up... and up... The guy was huge, at least two and a half metres tall, which counted a lot for a Ramna knocked down on the floor, he wore a mass of red armour, which judging by the height and width of the guy, was as thick as a brick wall! And, judging by the large gun pointed at Ramna's head, wasn't very friendly at all... On the other hand, the guy, if the last sentence was anything to go by, couldn't speak Japanese, so maybe this would be one big cultural misunderstanding and the guy would put the gun away soon, please... "Err, hey, how you doing, welcome to Japan, if you'll just put the gun away, I'll be walkin' in the opposite direction you're going and we'll never meet again, Ok?" said Ramna, as he started to try and walk past the behemoth that stood in the way. Fighting Ryoga was one thing, but fighting a guy with a gun, let alone a gun that size, was not high on Ramna's 'to do' list
Kuletues watched in wonderment as Target Number One spouted gibberish at him, and then tried to walk past! Clearly Target Number One couldn't speak Imperial Gothic at all! Kuletues had had this problem with the host of mighty Slaanesh, so much so that Slaanesh Himself had had to negotiate with Kuletues. No matter, a more practical demonstration of Kuletues's intentions would have to do... He watched as Target Number One tried to sidle his way past, then planted his fist through the wall of the alley nearest to Target Number One. That should do...
Ramna couldn't believe his eyes, he could not have just seen the guy plant his fist through a wall in front of him, nosiree! Looks like this wasn't a cultural misunderstanding after all. Ramna realised that he would have to make the first attack, because someone with a gun and inhuman strength would not give Ramna much of a chance if they attacked first. Trying to put the guy down quickly, Ramna, without even the usual battle cry, went straight for the Chestnut Fist...
Kuletues noticed that Target Number One had somehow obtained a punching rate of over 300 a second and was trying to knock him down. However, Kuletues's power armour, forged from ceramite and adamantium over 10,000 years ago by the Techmarines of Colchis, would not even dent under such a bombardment. Instead Kuletues estimated using enhanced senses where the next punch was going to fall and caught it perfectly. "You'll have to do better than that, False Warrior..."
Ramna gasped in surprise as the giant caught his fist, surprise turning into agony as the guy squeezed down hard on it! Picking Ramna up by his arm, the guy brought Ramna level to his face, allowing Ramna to notice a small Star of Chaos tattooed on the guy's forehead, the guy smirked as he began to raise his gun to aim at Ramna's head... Ramna took the only chance he had left, drawing back his free hand, and delivering a two-fingered spear to the eyes of the behemoth! The guy dropped him on the floor hard, his hands going straight to his eyes, dropping the gun as he did. Ramna then took the opportunity to effect one of the Saotome School of Martial Arts final attacks. He ran like a whipped dog past the giant...
Kuletues roared in agony, the whelp had gouged his eyes! Although one seemed to be working at full efficiency after a few seconds, the other was gushing blood from its socket, and that probably meant that he was now blind in that eye. "I'll make your death more painful than you can possibly imagine for this, runt!" Kuletues than ran in the direction that Target Number... no, the dead boy running, had gone, towards the tournament board in Domino City Hall, abandoning the bolter, all thoughts of just shooting the boy gone now. Kuletues just wanted to rip the runt apart, piece by piece...
"Kami-sama, what did I do to deserve this?" Ramna was vaguely running towards the City Hall, he hoped, hoping that the giant behind him had nerves the size of the rest of him, so he'd be in pain long enough for Ramna to make his escape, unfortunately, the large booms he heard were probably a very large, very angry human tank running after him! Ramna noticed the hand that had been grabbed by the behemoth, he may not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer, but weren't hands not supposed to be black and swelling up? With the hand injured, Ramna's chance of an offensive defense looked slim to none. He made it to Domino City Hall and, with the often bizarre senses that people who are about to die get, he noted that he would have been due to face Number 49 in a Duel tomorrow... A bellow of rage pierced the darkening sky. Ramna turned around and prepared for his last stand.
Kuletues ran straight at the runt, arms stretched out to grab the boy's head and tear it from his body. This was it! Slaanesh would reward him with immortality for this act! Rain began to pour down as a thunderstorm began to rage. Kuletues noted with some disinterest that the runt's features changed slightly, as boy became girl. So what? Kuletues believed in equal rights on the grounds that he and Chaos were better than the humanity that Kuletues had once been a member of.
The two combatants faced off on the steps of Domino City Hall, one a martial arts practising aquatranssexual and champion of humanity and good, the other a seven foot tall behemoth who would gladly give humanity to the extradimensional force that threatened to consume it.
Boy/Girl versus Behemoth, if you will.
Kuletues made the first move, as he charged screaming towards Ranko. Ranko jumped out of the way, kicking Kuletues in the side of the head.
Kuletues made a lazy backhand which Ranko could barely duck, the hand taking the top half of a statue with it.
Ranko took the initiative.
"Moko Takabisha!"
Normally, this may have allowed Ranko to take victory at this point, as Kuletues's unprotected skull, unused to such chi attacks in his neighbourhood, would have exploded like a melon. However, how self-confident would you be if you'd had the unholy shit beaten out of you and a busted hand by a two and a half metre tall walking tank?
Didn't think you would be.
Kuletues was knocked back slightly by the blast, but recovered in seconds, although the stream of blood from his eye socket was now joined by blood from all over his skull. He grabbed Ranko, and gave an almost playful punch to her ribs, a power armoured fist feeling at least one crack under it, and then threw her against the tournament board. "This is where it ends, runt..."
Ranko, through the pain, noticed that the giant had raised his fists above his head, ready to pound her skull into mush, but why were his fists descending so slowly? She tried moving through the pain, to try and dodge, and found herself moving at normal speed. She somehow rolled out of the way with the last of her energy, and waited for the end to come...
Kuletues smashed into the glass of the tournament board, his hands ripping wires as they descended into the electronics. How had the runt been able to move so quickly? No matter, he'd kill him/her/whatever now, it was only a momentary reprieve... Kuletues's fists, though, on their descent into electronics, in his lust for carnage, had hit the generator of the board and due to the wet electronics of power armour, the generator gave an electric shock roughly equivalent to a lightning bolt...
Q: What happens to a Chaos Space Marine struck by lightning? A: Same as everything else, except he takes a few seconds longer to die...
Kuletues turned, skin and armour blackened to a crisp, and looked upon the face of defeat. The face was the female side of an aquatranssexual with red hair. "It's not possible..." Kuletues began, before collapsing and expiring there and then.
Ranko, after staring into the eyes of a dead man for 15 minutes, managed to haul herself to her feet, cradling her swollen hand under her other arm, and begin to stagger towards her hotel room, hoping there were some painkillers in there...
The Spirit of the Millennium Ring, after being certain that the intriguing individual had left, went and examined the giant corpse of Kuletues. After rifling through power armour for five minutes, he found the tournament documents that Kuletues carried with him, plus a few unripped, and rare, cards.
"Looks like you were supposed to be my opponent tomorrow," He mentioned to the corpse, "Seems Pegasus didn't want to take any chances with me... Well, since you won't be needing these anymore..." He pocketed the cards and began to walk away...
End of Chapter.
Well, the first eliminator has been stopped before the tournaments even started! Tune in next chapter, when a still injured Ramna takes on his first opponent, a chap by the name of... Now that will be telling! Please read and review!
An 19th Angel Production
Disclaimer: Same as before, yadda, yadda, yadda...
Authors Comments: Wahoo! 10 reviews at last! You love me! You really love me! The next chapter features Ramna going head to head with Kuletues, a Chaos Space Marine! If you don't know what a space marine is, go to www.gamesworkshop.com and navigate from there, OK? Look, it just means Ramna's in a world of trouble...
And on with the show...
Chosen 4: Shadow Games
Chapter 4: Kuletues Strikes! (Note the reference in the title!)
Ramna looked up at what he had just ran into... and up... and up... The guy was huge, at least two and a half metres tall, which counted a lot for a Ramna knocked down on the floor, he wore a mass of red armour, which judging by the height and width of the guy, was as thick as a brick wall! And, judging by the large gun pointed at Ramna's head, wasn't very friendly at all... On the other hand, the guy, if the last sentence was anything to go by, couldn't speak Japanese, so maybe this would be one big cultural misunderstanding and the guy would put the gun away soon, please... "Err, hey, how you doing, welcome to Japan, if you'll just put the gun away, I'll be walkin' in the opposite direction you're going and we'll never meet again, Ok?" said Ramna, as he started to try and walk past the behemoth that stood in the way. Fighting Ryoga was one thing, but fighting a guy with a gun, let alone a gun that size, was not high on Ramna's 'to do' list
Kuletues watched in wonderment as Target Number One spouted gibberish at him, and then tried to walk past! Clearly Target Number One couldn't speak Imperial Gothic at all! Kuletues had had this problem with the host of mighty Slaanesh, so much so that Slaanesh Himself had had to negotiate with Kuletues. No matter, a more practical demonstration of Kuletues's intentions would have to do... He watched as Target Number One tried to sidle his way past, then planted his fist through the wall of the alley nearest to Target Number One. That should do...
Ramna couldn't believe his eyes, he could not have just seen the guy plant his fist through a wall in front of him, nosiree! Looks like this wasn't a cultural misunderstanding after all. Ramna realised that he would have to make the first attack, because someone with a gun and inhuman strength would not give Ramna much of a chance if they attacked first. Trying to put the guy down quickly, Ramna, without even the usual battle cry, went straight for the Chestnut Fist...
Kuletues noticed that Target Number One had somehow obtained a punching rate of over 300 a second and was trying to knock him down. However, Kuletues's power armour, forged from ceramite and adamantium over 10,000 years ago by the Techmarines of Colchis, would not even dent under such a bombardment. Instead Kuletues estimated using enhanced senses where the next punch was going to fall and caught it perfectly. "You'll have to do better than that, False Warrior..."
Ramna gasped in surprise as the giant caught his fist, surprise turning into agony as the guy squeezed down hard on it! Picking Ramna up by his arm, the guy brought Ramna level to his face, allowing Ramna to notice a small Star of Chaos tattooed on the guy's forehead, the guy smirked as he began to raise his gun to aim at Ramna's head... Ramna took the only chance he had left, drawing back his free hand, and delivering a two-fingered spear to the eyes of the behemoth! The guy dropped him on the floor hard, his hands going straight to his eyes, dropping the gun as he did. Ramna then took the opportunity to effect one of the Saotome School of Martial Arts final attacks. He ran like a whipped dog past the giant...
Kuletues roared in agony, the whelp had gouged his eyes! Although one seemed to be working at full efficiency after a few seconds, the other was gushing blood from its socket, and that probably meant that he was now blind in that eye. "I'll make your death more painful than you can possibly imagine for this, runt!" Kuletues than ran in the direction that Target Number... no, the dead boy running, had gone, towards the tournament board in Domino City Hall, abandoning the bolter, all thoughts of just shooting the boy gone now. Kuletues just wanted to rip the runt apart, piece by piece...
"Kami-sama, what did I do to deserve this?" Ramna was vaguely running towards the City Hall, he hoped, hoping that the giant behind him had nerves the size of the rest of him, so he'd be in pain long enough for Ramna to make his escape, unfortunately, the large booms he heard were probably a very large, very angry human tank running after him! Ramna noticed the hand that had been grabbed by the behemoth, he may not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer, but weren't hands not supposed to be black and swelling up? With the hand injured, Ramna's chance of an offensive defense looked slim to none. He made it to Domino City Hall and, with the often bizarre senses that people who are about to die get, he noted that he would have been due to face Number 49 in a Duel tomorrow... A bellow of rage pierced the darkening sky. Ramna turned around and prepared for his last stand.
Kuletues ran straight at the runt, arms stretched out to grab the boy's head and tear it from his body. This was it! Slaanesh would reward him with immortality for this act! Rain began to pour down as a thunderstorm began to rage. Kuletues noted with some disinterest that the runt's features changed slightly, as boy became girl. So what? Kuletues believed in equal rights on the grounds that he and Chaos were better than the humanity that Kuletues had once been a member of.
The two combatants faced off on the steps of Domino City Hall, one a martial arts practising aquatranssexual and champion of humanity and good, the other a seven foot tall behemoth who would gladly give humanity to the extradimensional force that threatened to consume it.
Boy/Girl versus Behemoth, if you will.
Kuletues made the first move, as he charged screaming towards Ranko. Ranko jumped out of the way, kicking Kuletues in the side of the head.
Kuletues made a lazy backhand which Ranko could barely duck, the hand taking the top half of a statue with it.
Ranko took the initiative.
"Moko Takabisha!"
Normally, this may have allowed Ranko to take victory at this point, as Kuletues's unprotected skull, unused to such chi attacks in his neighbourhood, would have exploded like a melon. However, how self-confident would you be if you'd had the unholy shit beaten out of you and a busted hand by a two and a half metre tall walking tank?
Didn't think you would be.
Kuletues was knocked back slightly by the blast, but recovered in seconds, although the stream of blood from his eye socket was now joined by blood from all over his skull. He grabbed Ranko, and gave an almost playful punch to her ribs, a power armoured fist feeling at least one crack under it, and then threw her against the tournament board. "This is where it ends, runt..."
Ranko, through the pain, noticed that the giant had raised his fists above his head, ready to pound her skull into mush, but why were his fists descending so slowly? She tried moving through the pain, to try and dodge, and found herself moving at normal speed. She somehow rolled out of the way with the last of her energy, and waited for the end to come...
Kuletues smashed into the glass of the tournament board, his hands ripping wires as they descended into the electronics. How had the runt been able to move so quickly? No matter, he'd kill him/her/whatever now, it was only a momentary reprieve... Kuletues's fists, though, on their descent into electronics, in his lust for carnage, had hit the generator of the board and due to the wet electronics of power armour, the generator gave an electric shock roughly equivalent to a lightning bolt...
Q: What happens to a Chaos Space Marine struck by lightning? A: Same as everything else, except he takes a few seconds longer to die...
Kuletues turned, skin and armour blackened to a crisp, and looked upon the face of defeat. The face was the female side of an aquatranssexual with red hair. "It's not possible..." Kuletues began, before collapsing and expiring there and then.
Ranko, after staring into the eyes of a dead man for 15 minutes, managed to haul herself to her feet, cradling her swollen hand under her other arm, and begin to stagger towards her hotel room, hoping there were some painkillers in there...
The Spirit of the Millennium Ring, after being certain that the intriguing individual had left, went and examined the giant corpse of Kuletues. After rifling through power armour for five minutes, he found the tournament documents that Kuletues carried with him, plus a few unripped, and rare, cards.
"Looks like you were supposed to be my opponent tomorrow," He mentioned to the corpse, "Seems Pegasus didn't want to take any chances with me... Well, since you won't be needing these anymore..." He pocketed the cards and began to walk away...
End of Chapter.
Well, the first eliminator has been stopped before the tournaments even started! Tune in next chapter, when a still injured Ramna takes on his first opponent, a chap by the name of... Now that will be telling! Please read and review!