Dee dee groaned as she struggled to stand, she could feel a light trickle of blood coming from her temple. It wasn't enough to worry about, but it was an annoyance. She was more worried about the still body of Lee lee, who was only a few feet away.
But there was one other being on the field, standing on the crest of the hill. Standing there smugly, silhouetted by the moonlight. Dee dee recognized the figure, she didn't believe that this person was actually Usagiko!
"Seig-sama?" Dee dee said.
"Pity," Usagiko said. "She would have been a fun little girl," she nodded towards Lee lee. "But I guess once a tool has out lived it's usefulness it must be discarded."
"You bastard! If Lilang's dead than I'll flay every square inch of your body off your bone!" Dee dee said as she pose herself to use her sword.
"How amusing," Usagiko said. "You still carry a torch for her? But what else do you keep locked away in your little psyche?"
"Wh... Why?"
Both set of eyes fell upon a trembling form of Lee lee, she was trying to move but her efforts failed.
"You're still alive?" Usagiko looked down at the trembling girl, looking puzzled. "Well, I was hoping you would have been killed without knowing the truth."
"What are you talking about?" Dee dee asked, looking puzzled herself. She retrieve her answer as Usagiko's skin turn black and very detail was lost before her body slither beneath the skin, within moments after sickening sounds of muscle taking on new forms and bones shifting. Where Usagiko was stood a new creature, one that was at least 7 feet tall with strange armor that was reminiscent of a samurai's but more mechanical in a way. Her half face was silhouetted by the now wickedly wild black hair, but what Dee dee can see although it was the same it had a hint of insanity within.
"Kumo jyubaku!" Seven ropes of spider webs shot out of her body and encapture Lee lee. "Remember, Detrix?" The creature spoke in a unearthly tone. "Remember how I used this on Choisong?"
"What?" Lee lee said.
"You're Lee lee's friend, aren't you," Choisong, Lee lee's mother, said. She was a kind person, you can see it in her eyes.
"Yeah."
"What are you doing here in Japan? You are awfully long way from home."
"I know, I came here with my brother and now I'm just waiting for him."
"Do you want to stay with me until he comes back?" She asked.
"Sure," Dee dee said than she noticed the clothed item under her arm. "What that?"
"This is a special item," Choisong said. "I made this for someone, I came out here to hand it to her."
An explosion of dust clouded Dee dee's vision but she could hear a sharp scream ranting the air, when the dust settled down Dee dee could see Choisong in the hold of the seven spider ropes of the creature.
"Protect," Choisong struggle to slice a few stings with the sword. "The Masune, my life is worthless."
"Stop it," Dee dee said while the blade came closer and closer to her jugular and freeing the sword. "STOP IT!"
"She killed herself to free the sword," the creature said. "The sword I requested to over throw the Hakke from Katsujyu landed in the hands of you, Detrix. Even though I try to get it you manage to escape."
Dee dee stood there, she remember that. That's how she got her "X" scar.
"You are wondering why didn't I just kill you when we met later? Simple, you've become more skilled than me, it would have been a waste to kill you."
Dee dee was seething at this point. "You used us for your own gain, I'll make you pay for this."
"Go ahead," the creature said. "Just be warn that Lee lee would be placed in danger, would you able to handle that?"
Dee dee was silent as Lee lee was maneuvered in front of the creature, she lower her head as the sword was swung in a high arc. Lee lee screamed as the webs were sliced, Dee dee caught her before falling to the ground. Gentle placing her on the ground Dee dee raised the Masune, she placed a finger at the hilt than slowly slid it along the edge. Were she trace the finger a soft glow emitted from the sword. Soon the entire blade was glowing softly.
The creature released thousands of spider strings. "Die, Detrix!"
Dee dee charged forward, bringing down the sword which created a wide wave of light. It slid through the creature and the spider strings slowly disappeared, it was silent between the two.
"How ironic," the creature said. "That you have the Masune, named after the legendary swordsmith and rival to Muramasa, the smith that created your brother's sword. Until we me again."
Dee dee shrugged the sword over one shoulder as she smirked, "Never again."
"What?" A mark began to glow on her chest, it was the symbol for "ten" - heaven. -
"We will never met again."
Pain blazed through the creature as her body split open allowing a strange fluid out, she vaporized before hitting the ground. Dee dee walked over to Lee lee was laying, she sheathed the sword and kneeled down.
"It hurts," Lee lee said. "It hurts so bad, to be used."
"Don't worry about it," Dee dee said as she scooped up the Asian girl. "We were all fooled."
"I don't want to live," Lee lee said as she wrapped her arms around Dee dee. "I'm sorry."
"Don't worry, everything will be alright."
Fuuma lean against the railing, he was staring up at the sky waiting for the strange kid that had saved him earlier. He took in a deep breath, he kind of thought he was cute in a way.
"Hello," Kaiohte said. Fuuma shifted his attention from the sky to the pink haired boy, "sorry to bother you."
"I don't mind," Fuuma shrugged. "I got no plans."
"No girlfriend?"
Fuuma blushed and stammer, "no.. Let's not go there please."
"Sorry," Kaiohte joined him next to the railing. "I just need to tell you something about the enemies you are about to face."
"Thanks," Fuuma said. I would rather speak about you, he thought. "So what's up?"
"Nothing except one of the twelve has fallen," Kaiohte said.
"Okay, I must ask this but who or what are the twelve angels?"
"They are a group that is out to destroy the universe, there was thirteen members but there's now twelve," Kaiohte said. "Each of them are genetically enhanced, using cells from a creature called daimons."
"And that guy that almost killed me?" Fuuma asked.
"Is just another power hungry psycho," Kaiohte said. "But the twelve angels, they are out for destruction."
"I see."
"Can I ask you a question?" Kaiohte turn to Fuuma.
"Yeah."
"You doing anything tonight?"
Fuuma couldn't help but facevault.
"I'm going to go check on what happening," Ginharu said after the explosions. Her parents were about to reach for her when she stopped dead in her tracks, there was someone in her way.
"Who the hell are you?"
"My, the youth have no respect for anyone anymore," the man said. He was about the same age as Ginharu, give or take a year. He wore a traveler's cloak and strange sunglasses, it took a second for Ginharu to realize that this kid was blind.
"Why should I show an enemy respect?"
"Such western thinking," he sneered. "Luckily I will slay you where you stand, Sakura Jigoku!" With those words the entire area faded away, replaced by a field of sakura trees in full bloom. While it was a breathless sight something was very wrong. She couldn't hear anything, not even herself. Or feel anything, even taste and feel were abstracted.
"Welcome to my cherry blossom corridor," the blind kid said. "A living hell where all five senses goes mad."
"Sounds interesting," Ginharu said. "But I will beat you. And sense I don't want to make this quick tell me your name."
"I cast aside my name," the kid said. "To you, I'm just another enemy."
Ginharu felt a aura behind her, she quickly turn to deliver a fast kick only to hit a huge pile of sakura peddles. She was confused than turn to fire eye beams to have a repeat of peddles scatters all over.
She whipped around to punch another but more peddles, soon there were peddles everywhere. She was encased in a tornado of peddles, all there was is whitish pink peddles. She didn't see the silhouette coming up from behind her, she was sliced into piece.
The blind kendo master was shocked to realized that the girl turn into sakura peddles. "What?"
"I told you, I will beat you," Ginharu said. She was holding a reiken. "I'll tell you why. I can see through your illusion, as I am part heaven and blood fox. Two, there's nothing I can cut and three, I'm a lot of cooler than you."
"You're all talk!" The blind kids said.
Ginharu smiled as she became a red silhouette of red peddles, they burst apart. She reappeared behind him, the sakura trees disappeared. Behind her a creature with long bat ears and a furry collar, he quivered before bursting into nothingness.
"That was interesting," Ginharu said as she disband the reiken.
"Ginharu!" Blossom shouted as she rushed over to take her daughter in a rib crushing hug. "If you ever do something that dumb I will kill you!"
"It's not my fault, it choose me," Ginharu said.
"Very entertaining."
Ginharu and Blossom heard the voice and looked up at the source; a woman floating in mid air dressed in a black kimono with silver trim. The strange thing is she looked like an albino only with sharp blue eyes.
"You are certainly going to be a challenge," she said. "But I doubt you can stop me." And with that, she was gone.
"Good gods," Blossom said. "It can't be her."
Bubbles?