Zanshin jumped through the air and fired waves of death at the four gods, whom easily deflected the spells toward the other monsters about the room. Raiden fired a lightning bolt where Zanshin stood, Zanshin help his scythe in front of him and formed a deflective barrier.
The four gods spread about the room, crawling up the walls and leaving trails of water and fire. The Earth God ran across the room on a bridge of land being created as he ran. Zanshin began rapid firing spells in all directions, but the Gods were never scratched. Raiden ran behind Zanshin and fired a bolt directly into his head, Zanshin looked at him and laughed. He stood still as the Gods fired spells directly at him but he was never hurt. He jumped behind Raiden and shoved the Scythe down and through his back, Raiden healed almost instantly, and ran a surge of electricity through his body, and conducted by the scythe; Zanshin dropped it. Zanshin jumped down from the upper balcony and landed on the ground below.
He looked up as Raiden made a light bridge down to the floor, sparking with every step. The Goddess of the Sun fired a long stream of fire at Zanshin, but Zanshin put it out with a stream of water from his hands. The God of Earth fired a large boulder at Zanshin, Zanshin smashed through the wall and into the room of spikes.
He pulled the spikes from the walls and threw them at the Gods as quick as Archer was able to throw knives. Raiden shot them one by one, while the Goddess of the Sun shot the needles with bolts of fire, disintegrating most of them.
The God of Earth formed a rock wall in front of himself, but the God of Sea and Storms, couldn't do anything, he was nailed to the wall mercilessly, his body healing itself, his skin forming around the spikes, making them part of his body, he couldn't break away from the wall. Zanshin grabbed more spikes from the wall, but Raiden blasted him, making him drop the spikes. Zanshin quickly retaliated and jumped through the air, with a back leg strike, a spike portrayed from his ankle found its way through Raiden's head.
The Fire Goddess grabbed a metal shaft from the ground, and heated it up, she threw it directly at Zanshin's chest. It bounced pitifully off of his armor, and he began to laugh. Raiden pulled the spike from his forehead and whipped it back at Zanshin, Zanshin dodged it and it went into the God of Sea and Storms' chest.
The Earth God pulled the spikes from the GOSS chest. Zanshin ran into the little hallway where Archer was killed, and ran across the spears sticking from the wall, and into the room where Kain came back from the Monk. Kain's bones sat in the water in the fountain, the monks skin lay in a pile on the floor. The four Gods burst in through the doorway, firing elemental bolts through the air at Zanshin. Zanshin began running around the room, then threw his scythe through the air at the Gods, it boomeranged back to him, and he summoned many spells from the tip of the blade.
The Goddess of Sun ran at him with flaming fists, punching and striking through the air, streaks of fire where her hands flew by, Zanshin's armor was scorched where the Goddess' hands made contact. Zanshin pressed his hands to his chest, she had burned straight through his armor. Zanshin gasped for air, and finally took deep breaths. The other Gods made their moves, firing spells at Zanshin, who was to weak to dodge the attacks.
He began to back up, Raiden ran up and grabbed his neck, and surged electricity into Zanshin's body. Then, the God of Earth pulled a spear from the wall in the hall, and charged Zanshin, stabbing him in the chest, his armor shattering on the floor. Zanshin grabbed him, and shoved him across the room, then pulled the spear out. Raiden charged a bolt of lightning but Zanshin punched him in the face before he finished. GOSS summoned the water from the fountain and blasted it in the direction of Zanshin. Then the Goddess of Sun ran at Zanshin, and burst into flames.
She looked like a speeding fireball, she got closer to Zanshin and slowed down. Zanshin pulled out his scythe and held it horizontally in front of him. She dove through the air directly under the scythe, and wrapped her arms around where his stomach was supposed to be, but instead, she grabbed the Sphere of Power. Zanshin fell to his knees, holding the case that used to hold the Sphere of Power, his spine now exposed.
Raiden grabbed the scythe and picked Zanshin up with it, straightened him up, then roundhouse kicked his spine, breaking in half instantly. Zanshin's upper half smashed into the wall, his lower half stood for a moment, fell to the knees, then onto the ground.
The four gods gathered around in a circle, and began muttering ancient words. A blue swirling mist formed between them, and began flowing through the room, the door, then the rest of the castle. The mist instantly revived any body, re-animating dismembered limbs; more than half of Yamato's citizens stood, and rejoiced. The four gods continued to emit the blue mist, then walked to the base of the mountain. Raiden turned into a blue-white ball of lightning, Susano-oo-no-mikoto turned into a puddle of water, O-Kuni-Nushi turned into a flow of molten lava, and Amaterasu-oo-mikami turned into a flame.
The four elements joined together and made the form of a man, Wizard. Wizard now had the power of the four gods, and the only real survivor of the most recent reign of horrific slaughter by Zanshin.
Wizard lived on, rebuilt the city, and moved into the castle at the top of Shourinzan. Peace, not known by this generation, had finally arrived in the empire, of Yamato.
The End
