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Demon Duelist Legacy-World Tour Arc
Chapter 20: The real Genocide King
Ryu spun around just in time to catch a blast of black energy right into his chest. He stumbled backwards, his eyes wide in surprise and pain. "You must be kidding me...."
"Don't you wish you were that lucky?" The smoke drifted apart and revealed a black and silver robed form. The tall figure stroked at his bone and flesh robes, a dark smile on his black bearded face.
"Garlin...." Ryu fell to one knee, the hole in his chest too painful to bear.
"Wrong...Giovan Garlin died long ago." The figure stepped out into the cold air of the night. "The King of Torture, Kilomet Sestros......walks the night again." His blood-red eyes glowed in the darkness. "And the world will soon know that, first-hand...."
Ryu gritted his teeth against the pain of the wound in his chest. "Why can't you just stay dead!?"
Kilomet's laughter echoed across the mountainside. "Don't you get it, fool? All of this time, you have been killing me. Over and over again. Yet what you fail to understand is just how many of me there are."
"How...many of you..." Ryu's mind flashed back to something in his past, a ritual he had seen once. "How!? You couldn't perform that ritual!!!"
"Yet I did. Thanks to it, pieces of my soul were sprayed across the earth long ago. During the five thousand years that they dwelled on the earth, each piece regenerated itself until it was another me. Each new soul found a dwelling, or in the case of Seren, they waited until the right opportunity presented itself to get within a body." The demon stretched his arms and listened to them pop satisfactorily. "Ah, it's so good to finally be free of that whining little brat. I must thank you for letting me out by killing his soul."
Ryu tried to summon up the energy to transform back into his dragon shape, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it. The wound hurt too much. "What makes you any different from Giovan Garlin!?"
"It's because I am not him. He was nothing but one of my millions of masks..." Kilomet threw back his human skin cloak popped his neck.
"Millions..." Ryu felt his face grow pale at the prospect of millions of Kilomet Sestros. It seemed unfathomable. "I will at least kill this one of you, then!" He lifted his hand, a glowing ball of fire forming in his palm.
"How funny...you think you can beat me in my real form?" Lifting his arm, Kilomet threw up a shield of black energy that almost casually caught and shattered the ball of flame.
Ryu threw another blast, which also slammed harmlessly into the barrier. "Damn it....then I challenge you to a darkness game!"
Kilomet threw back his head and laughed, the sound mocking the dragon demon's challenge. "I decline your challenge. Sorry, but I've got to get ready for my duel with Rikuo." Waving his hand, a chess board appeared in the air in front of him.
On the white side, all of the pawns stood, as well as all of the other pieces, excluding a Bishop, which had fallen on its side. "That represents the loss of Rikuo's little half-demon pet."
Lifting his hand, the demon pointed at one of the Knights, which was starting to fall, though it still somehow held itself in the air. "That is you, my dear Jourgen. You're the Knight I am about to take from the opposing king."
While Kilomet had been talking, Ryu had been preparing to try and take his enemy with him. In his hand rested one ball of fire that was much bigger than the last one. In fact, it was almost bigger than the dragon demon was. "I never liked chess!" Throwing the ball of fire, he placed every bit of his remaining strength into the attack. ("Please work!")
Sestros snorted and waved his hand, the black energy that surrounded him responding to the command by slapping the attack away. "Stupid fool." The energy shot forward, piercing straight through Ryu's throat as well as a spear would have.
The dragon demon was dead before he ever hit the ground.
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Clutching his chest, Deondre felt like someone had just cut a line within his soul. ("Second time today...maybe I'm having a heart attack?")
CJ and Siegfried didn't look much better than he did at the moment.
Esmin knew what it meant, but thought it best not to say anything yet. ("No point in pissing them off if they can't do anything about it yet.")
Within Jasmine's head, Jennie still had yet to stop crying at the sting of the first loss.
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Sestros stepped past Ryu's corpse and looked out at the form of the approaching flame. ("If I wished it...") He looked back at the chess board, where the knight that represented Ryu had fallen. ("...I could clear the board of everything but Rikuo in one blast. Yet what would be the fun with that? I'd prefer to have a bit of fun with the Mutt before I kill him and the rest of the human race.")
Ever since Seren's loss of his parents, this aspect of Sestros had decided that it would break off from its other parts and follow a new aspect. ("Torture...it's so beautiful. Yet, I feel like I am missing something in my existence.") He knew what that something was. It was something that the original Kilomet Sestros had never thought to do. ("Destroy not mere thousands, but entire species...")
And the Purge was the perfect tool for it. Thanks to Seren's almost fanatical devotion about revenge, the crane demon had done all of the necessary research for Sestros.
The Purge was a special ritual that would activate when a darkness game was declared. It would push the level of the game to something that had never been achieved before. And that something was a level 10 darkness game. ("The two who do battle in that game are actually playing with the fate of the world.") No one knows who came up with the Purge, but once before had the Dark Demon Knights tried to use it, only to fail.
("I will not fail, for I know the perfect opponent to exploit. He has the strength to survive entering the game, and I know every way to crack him like an egg, psychologically.") "Rikuo Amero...you're going to help me kill off the human race, and then no demon will ever dare to question my power, as you did."
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After barely managing to land without crashing, things didn't get any easier for the group. First they needed to get the plane off the slope it had landed on, and then they had to make sure that everything was ready on it in case they needed to make a quick escape.
Now they were finally making some progress, though they still had a long distance to trek.
But every single one of them felt up to it...and they knew that their help was going to be needed.
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Sestros smiled as the last necessary preparations were done. Now, all that was left was to bring the guest of honor to the battlefield. Extending his dark will, Sestros pulled the proverbial plug on the spells that sealed Rikuo off from the outside. ("Now come to me, my little weapon.")
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Rikuo opened his eyes sleepily and glanced at the clock on the wall. ("Eleven thirty at night? Bleah...why did I wake up?")
The sleep cleared from his senses and he knew why. Shooting up out of his chair, the wolf demon felt a cold finger touch his heart. ("Who's been summoning magic like it's going out of style? And how did I not sense it before?")
A knock came at the door and then a muffled voice said, "Mister Amero? It's time."
Rikuo looked down at his new duel disk, and frowned as he cleared his thoughts of everything except his upcoming duel. ("Here we go. I will win this battle first, and then ask questions later.")
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Rikuo was escorted out of the building on the island and was brought to the mountain that rested nearby. The driver had explained that the arena was down there.
Minutes later, Rikuo stepped out of the car door, his face stern. ("I am ready for you, Seren.") In front of him stood a cave, at the end of which rested his opponent in this duel. ("Now, I will defeat you.") Taking a deep breath, Rikuo stepped into the cave.
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Sitting in darkness on a throne made up of bone, Sestros smiled and watched as Rikuo stepped into the cave entrance. ("And so it begins...now, let's see how you deal with what I am about to show you...")
Taking a sip of the fresh blood in his cup, he smiled and tilted his head back to let it flow down his throat. ("I forgot how good dragon demon blood tasted.")
To be continued...
Next Chapter: Sestros' Fun House
Author's Notes:
To thegymrat: Full swing time for the story. As for Bahamut and all of Ryu's other fusion dragons, keep in mind that you can only summon each of these creatures by using the monster cards. Fusion summon only.