Tokyo-to High: Year of the Dragon
What a dramatic turn of events ne? What does this mean since Nova's been masquerading as Akito?! And what's Nova's overall plan?
Guess your just gonna have to read to find out! Cause low and behold, Chapter ten coming your way non-stop, uncensored, and un-edited! Well sort of edited. I mean I have to make sure things are spelled right, and that certain grammatically changes are made. But it's still really neat! .
Hoopla!, Akito Yagami & Nova Yagami © me, Tsunami is © my lovely Tsu-chan, all other characters are © either Capcom, SNK, Sammy, or any other company I have borrowed existing characters
Chapter 10 – Origins
Akito took a few steps back, his mind was telling him to run but his legs were far from listening. Akito stared in utter shock and terror at his own likeness gazing back at him.
"Wh... wh... wh..." No words left Akito's trembling lips. His mind was an utter blank. His mirror image slowly faded back to its original form. And the mix of ebon and ivory was once again apparent with that unsettling emerald gaze.
"Quite convincing eh Akito?" Nova smirked and his fangs flashed for a moment. Akito could not think of anything to say in retaliation, and rather stared dumbfounded at his darker side. "And I'm not that bad of an actor either." Nova added rather matter-of-factly.
"Your little friend Pupa... mmm... how she wailed like a whore... so eager to give 'you' what you wanted... what 'you' needed..." Akito's mind instantly shot back to the night he had that dream about Pupa. Akito backed into the wall and sulked down trying to hold his head as if afraid of being struck.
The fact of the matter was that was no dream he had experienced. He had witnessed his friend loosing her virginity to someone she thought was him. That even looked just like him. Someone that talked like him, felt like him.
"You see Akito... whether I like it or not... we're connected... at times of extreme emotions we can feel each other. Hence when Tsunami hurt you... it gave me the boosted strength I needed to fully overcome Dream and absorb his fighting potential into me. I felt your anger, your rage, your frustration, your hate... it all added fuel to my fire..." Nova's voice took on an eerie tone of sadistic glee. "So you see, with no positive emotions feeding Dream, powering him... he stood a shadow of a chance of resisting me."
Nova knelt down beside dream and spoke in a condescending manner into his ear. "We are connected... a part of each other... that is why when Pupa was getting reamed... you felt the pleasure... in reality it was you who was making love to her..." Akito's voice stuttered and he clung to his knees trying to retort vainly. "N... n... no... Tsunami... I love... I love her... I wouldn't do that... it would hurt Tsunami..."
Nova's voice rose to that of a sharp piercing scream. "Like she gives a good God Damn about you! You are nothing to her! Did she try to stop you from leaving?! Did she even care that you would be away from her?! Your very existence disgusts her!" Akito curled up tighter into a fetal position. Like a child being beaten, he wept into his knees seeking some solace.
"You're so weak! No wonder she cheated on you! Who in their right mind would want you?!" "Stop it!" Akito shouted back. A large wave of energy swept through the patio area. The force was so great it instantly pushed Nova away from him and slammed him into a nearby support beam. Waste baskets flew in every which direction. Hitting violently against the walls doors.
Nova winced in pain and rose to his feet and smirked seeing the immense flow of energy Akito was emitting. Akito rose to his feet clinging to the wall with seemed to wilt like paper being crumpled. His eyes were lost, no longer his own. The Riot of blood had once again swept over his mind, his actions were no longer his own. A soft sapphire aura engulfed him and only seemed to grow with intensity with each passing moment. Akito snarled and growled like blood thirsty beast ready to catch its meal.
He charged at Nova in a blind fury of rage. Nova quickly dodged out of the way ducking as Akito hit the support beam with full force. It snapped in half as simply as if it had been a toothpick. Nova rolled back and rose to his feet taking a fighting stance. His sadistic look of satisfaction quite apparent. "Who should I take for you next Akito? Maybe that little cutie you call Akira ne?"
A roar of anger emitted from Akito's mouth as he collided with Nova head on. His shoulder firmly lodging into his throat while his elbow ribs. Nova released a gasp of pain as his air was removed from his lungs. Akito reached up with his free hand and gripped Nova's head tightly. Nova instantly released a howl of pain as he felt sapphire flame engulfing him searing into his flesh. Akito released a sadistic squeal of delight from the reaction he had received from his victim. Akito held him suspended in the air and flung him like a rag doll into the vending machine.
Nova groaned instantly as a bright daze of lights filled his view. He felt his face burning and bleeding; he had received several shards of glass over his body but little to try to remove them. Nova shifted his attention to the menacing Akito rapidly approaching him. His gaze soon averted upwards to the patio roof as he leapt up with a great ease and landed with a thud. Blood clouded his vision and he quickly wiped his eyes only to see the insane Akito leaping up after him, moving now on all fours, more beast then man.
Nova managed to feet and growled angrily as he quickly tore the shards glass in his face out and took his fighting stance and engulfed his fists with ebon flame. Akito snarled and charged at him once more, Nova released a blast of ebon flame traveling along the roof and quickly engulfing Akito. Nova leapt back as he watched with much delight as Akito recoiled in pain and hit the roof. A loud creaking was heard and Nova laughed manically as the roof Akito laid on caved in on itself.
Nova laughed and wiped the blood that dripped from his cut face and smirked. "Guess someone is going to half to keep little sister company now ne?" Nova turned and proceeded to leave. A soft rumble emitted and Nova's catlike ears perked up instantly. "It... can't... be..." Nova looked back and much to his terror he saw Akito clawing his way back up and snarling in what seemed to be a laughing manner.
"Nnnnn... Ooo... vaaaa..." Akito managed out despite the blood flowing down his face and neck. Nova watched with much fear in his eyes, Akito's blood hit the roof and sparked a soft amethyst as he crawled forward hissing in a what seemed to be laughter. "Noooo... vaaaa..." Akito repeated in what seemed like a child-like taunting manner.
Panic instantly filled Nova's mind and he looked around desperately for an escape. Nova looked up at the sky and smirked. "It's been fun Akito... But I have many more people to screw and leave the blame on you!" Ebon flame engulfed Nova and two black wings sprouted from where his shoulder blades were. Akito leapt at Nova in a blood thirsty only to hit the ground hard. Nova quickly took flight his wings of pure ebon flame carrying him away from the deranged Akito.
Akito released a howl of anger into the air then collapsed onto the roof. His body was exhausted, and had he been in his right frame of mind, searing pain all over his body would have been apparent. The urge to kill had left him; the Riot of Blood had passed. Akito released a sigh of exhaustion and fell limply onto the roof.
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"He's coming around!" Akito's vision was blurred and could see only shadowy figures but recognized the voices. "Pu... pa...?" "He's alright!" another voice said ecstatically and loomed over him. "I... buki...?"
Sensation slowly returned to him and he felt a soft hand on his. "Hibiki... Sis..." she released a soft acknowledgment that was muffled by the sound of her tears ad whimpers. Akito's eyes focused and he found himself surrounded by his friends. They had all come to take care of him. He sat up and sighed pain was searing through his body. He saw that they had wrapped him in many bandages and wrappings. Akito instantly recognized where he was. He was at Pupa's house; how he knew that exactly he didn't want to acknowledge.
"Where are we...?" He asked despite already knowing the answer. "We're at my house!" Pupa said with a mix of exuberance and nervousness. "How did I end up here...?" The three girls that had brought him here looked back and forth between each other nervously. As if silently trying to determine who should be the one to tell him something dire.
Hibiki finally spoke. "Brother... we had to get you out of the school... people were asking a lot of questions... and we didn't want you to get in trouble..." Akito blinked at them in disbelief. "Brother... you went crazy again... like you did... yesterday..." Akito suddenly understood. A Riot of Blood had taken over him. Although while in this temporary state of insanity, he was notably stronger and quicker with his movements, he remembered little of his actions during the time. "What the hell happened out there?" Ibuki started in with a patronizing tone. "The whole patio area was totaled!"
Akito sighed and hung his head; it was time to tell them. "It... was Nova..." Hibiki instantly grew pale, while although she didn't know him personally, she was well aware of what he did to her brother. Pupa and Ibuki looked at each other puzzled. "Look... Nova is... my dark side... it would work better if I went back to the beginning..."
They all sat around him in an eerily attentive state. Akito was use to telling people about himself, but not as if he was telling a bed time story to a child. "Long ago there was a Demon God called Orochi, he sought to rule over Asia and much of the known world at the time. However eight warriors defeated him. Three of those members being a Kusanagi, a Kagura, and a Yagami. The names have had since changed, but the history remains the same." Akito sighed and rubbed his forehead sighing rather uncomfortably. "The Kusanagi were naturally adept at wielding their crimson flame, and as such were better warriors. The Yagami grew jealous of this and sought a blood pact with the Demon God Orochi. He granted the Yagami clan their desire. However upon receiving their 'gift' from Orochi, their crimson flames had grown amethyst, and were susceptible to what we of Orochi blood call the Riot of Blood. When you're in this state your more like a blood thirsty animal then a person."
Akito cleared his throat and looked down as he continued to speak. "A few years ago I discovered an ancient text of exorcism. I thought it might help rid me of the tainted Orochi Blood in my body. However, I should have known better then to trust something from an Orochi Priest's spell book. The exorcism worked... to an extent. Rather then having the Orochi presence in my blood. I merely gave it an external form. In other words, I gave birth to Nova. All the Orochi tendencies to kill, hurt, and destroy were gone from my body, and given their own form."
Akito looked up at them still not sure they believed him but continued his story regardless. "My amethyst flame became a sapphire one as a side affect; and Nova gained his own flame. A pure ebon one, probably to reflect the immorality of his nature. The only way to be rid of Nova is to absorb his essence back into me, but doing so would reintroduce constant Orochi taint into me. As it is, I only feel slight Orochi Influence when I'm agitated or angered. But when Nova is present it's as if I'm on the brink of a Riot of Blood constantly. I've spent many years in meditation and mental preparation to control what was left of the Orochi influence in my body. But when Nova is around, all the training in the world goes right out the window."
The three of them gazed at him in shock and amazement. "No wonder you're so strong!" Ibuki cried out. "Nova will fall by my blade..." Hibiki said in a slight undertone. "You're still Cute Akito!!!" Pupa overlapped the other two and glomped Akito. "Ack! Get off me! I'm not done with the story..."
Pupa got up and blinked looking at Akito then took her place. Akito's attention turned to his sister as he spoke. "I simply cannot just destroy Nova, if that is done then I will suffer the same fate as him. We are connected, part of each other whether for better or worse. At times of extreme emotions... I can feel what he's feeling... he can feel what I'm feeling..."
Akito slowly got to his feet and stretched momentarily forgetting his searing flowing through his body. "To end his life is to end my own... at best... I've been able to beat him down to the point where he has leave to recover..." Akito turned to look at Pupa with a gaze of pity in his eyes. "Nova... had the ability... to change his form... to look like anyone he's seen... Last night you said I came over Pupa... but that wasn't me... it was... him..."
Pupa's face instantly flushed with embracement, her eyes averted to the ground. Akito couldn't imagine how bad she felt, knowing that she had been used. "Currently..." Akito sighed trying not to pay attention to Pupa's sudden state of depression. "He is masquerading as me... attempting to get me in more trouble by sullying my reputation..."
Hibiki rose to her feet angrily. "No... he will not get away with this! You have done nothing to deserve what he is putting you through!" Ibuki remained silent and only sat down. Pupa had now slumped down onto the ground; her usually cheerful demeanor was gone from her. Akito looked over at her with a glance of sympathy. Her eyes were now an empty glazed expression.
Akito sighed trying to take his mind off of the burden he had unloaded on his friends. He wished he could have kept it in longer, that he could have carried the weight alone, and not have to trouble the few friends he had.
A loud thumping was heard from the door. Akito's ears perked up instantly and he turned his attention to the thumping. Ibuki rose from her seat and along with Hibiki turned to the door. Pupa was still in her dazed state of melancholy and paid little attention to the noise.
"Someone followed us..." Ibuki said bluntly a slight under tone of anger in her voice. Hibiki moved her hand to the blade and strokes the hilt softly ready to strike the instant the door opened.
The thumping continued, and Akito turned to his friends, and with no words spoken they knew his plan. Ibuki and Hibiki stood on alternating sides of him. They were ready to flank the enemy the moment he entered the room. Akito swallowed hard and reached down to the door knob. His heart was racing. He could feel anxiety rushing through him. His hand shook as he reached for the door knob, the metal cold against his palm as he looked back and forth to Ibuki and his sister who just nodded at him in unison. Akito gulped again and slowly turned the knob.