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Warning: This chapter is the beginning of the darkest parts of my story. If the idea of reading about graphic violence sickens you, you may wish to not continue. Still here? Ok, you have been warned.

Shogun Muyo -Chapter 14 Armageddon Dancers Part 1

It was another dark night on the planet of Draka. With the defenses of the emperor's castle raised, more guards than usual are patrolling around the perimeter. Two guards are behind what remains of a wall from a building or a home that once stood there. Each light up a cigarette and hide from their commanders eyes to be able to enjoy the smoke.

"Man can you believe all this? They actually think anyone would be stupid enough to try to attack the castle. If anyone does attack, they deserved to get killed."

"I hear ya. We're wasting our time with all this beefed up security. I'd say a couple more days of nothing happening and they'll take us off this alert stage."

"I still don't see why we need the extra security at each station. I heard from the commander that the entire reserved army is on standby alert. So if there is an attack, one sound of the alarm will have thousands of troops coming down onto anyone. There isn't much of a military presence left on Draka to cause us to pull this type of alarm status."

"Yeah, but I guess orders are orders." He replied to his buddy, dropping his cigarette to the ground and smothering it with his foot. "I guess we should get back, before someone notices us taking a break."

(Crack) Hearing a noise behind him, the guard turns around and see's his partner's neck being broken by a man with a blue jewel in his forehead.

* It's the outlaw Daimyo! Oh crap! * He thought to himself.

He was about to cry out for help, but the last sound the guard heard was the sound of his own neck being broken by strong hands from behind. The attackers took cover behind the wall and placed the dead guards bodies against the wall. Mireya and Daimyo signaled to the others that it was safe to advance to the wall. Tenchi, Ayeka, Ryoko, and Mihoshi came to the wall as quietly as they could and exhaled a sigh of relieve as they made it to the wall.

"That's five down." Mireya said looking at Daimyo.

"A few thousand to go. . ." Daimyo replied.

"I. . .I don't like this place, Tenchi. . . . .it's too scary." Mihoshi made he opinion known.

"It's alright Mihoshi. You don't have to go with us any further."

"No. .I'll go with you. I. . .I just wanted to say that I think this place is really, really creepy."

"We're wasting time." Ayeka said, walking toward the edge of the wall.

Daimyo grabs her arm. "What are you doing? Are you nuts? You'll get us all killed if they spot you."

Ayeka slaps him across the face. "Let go."

Daimyo releases his hand from her arm, as Ayeka walks from behind the wall heading toward the main gate.

"She's insane." Daimyo states. "So much for the element of surprise. Common, may as well go for a full frontal assault."

Ayeka walked toward the castle with no care about being spotted by the guards. Her revenge at last was close to hand, and nothing would keep her from getting it. She comes up to the side of the castle and continues to walk toward an entrance.

A guard takes notice of Ayeka walking toward his direction. He was surprised the woman didn't seem afraid to be in an area that soldiers had orders to kill any civilian in.

* Hmm. . .she's kind of cute. Maybe she's looking for a man. * He thought.

He smiled at her when she was walking toward him, he saw that she was looking at him, but couldn't tell from her facial expression what kind of mood she was in. He was about to talk to her, but something just out of his peripheral vision caught his attention. Looking up past the lovely purple haired woman, he saw a small group of people coming up behind her. Instinctively going for his sidearm holster, the guard looks toward the inner wall to shout for reinforcements.

His dagger, which is kept holstered near the top of his boots flies out from its resting place and magically dangles in front of him. Seeing this sight of defiance of gravity, causes him to take pause in his alarm. His concentration is focused on his blade, spinning in the air like a one- fanned windmill. His dagger forcibly plunges itself into his abdomen, like it was suddenly shot out of a gun.

"Uughh. . . . ." Is the guards reaction to the pain that hits him. The knife shifts itself upward, lifting the soldier a couple inches off the ground. The guard clutches the knife in a weakened attempt to pry it out of him, but his head soon falls forward as his body goes limp. Ayeka waves her hand outward from her body and the soldier's body is flung out of her way.

Tenchi was surprised not by this power Ayeka was displaying, but at the fact that she seemed to kill the guard with no remorse. She did not pause in walking as she killed him, but seemed to not even acknowledge the fact that she had taken a life. This was not the princess Ayeka that he had known.

* What. . . .what happened to you here Ayeka? This planet seems so desolate, what happened to you in the weeks you were here? * He asked himself.

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"Sir." A guard addressed his superior.

"What is it soldier?"

"I have spotted intruders on the outer western wall sir. Shall I sound the alarm?"

"Show me?"

The soldier took his superior to the ledge of the wall he was assigned to patrol. He pointed to where he saw the intruders. His superior looks the intruders over.

"There are only six people down there soldier, majority of them are women. Do you think we should mobilize the army over four women and two young men?"

The soldier stands at attention. "No sir, I shall round up the guards and dispatch them at once sir!" The soldier runs off to rally some troops to welcome their uninvited guests. His superior shakes his head. "Five women and two teenage boys. Sound the alarm? That soldier isn't going to make it out of private if he acts that dumb."

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Guards stationed at the front gate are in uproar. They have been alerted to several intruders along the outer wall and are taking position in case of a breach of the front gate. Equipped with armor and low grade shotguns the guards stand ready, with gun barrels pointed toward the doors of the gate.

"Keep calm soldiers. If they breach the gate, we take them down." One guard said trying to calm the tension of the atmosphere.

An unnoticed ghostly head slowly pops out of the outer wall to allow the demoness to take a peak at the situation with the gate.

* Hmm. . .it doesn't look like they're wanting to sound the alarm just yet. Seeing as how we're only a group of seven, they wouldn't call for their military. That mistake will cost them. But right now I need to get the gate opened for the others. * She thought.

She looked around the area to find something she could use as a distraction to get all the guards away from the gate. She scans around and she spots a guard tower on the opposite wall. Half a devious grin forms on the right side of her face, as mischief whispers a plan in her ear.

* Perfect. *

She phases out of the wall and looks around the wall to see a tower. She flies up next to it and sticks her head against the wall to listen for any sound a guard inside could make. Hearing footsteps of a guard shuffling his feet, lets her know that there's a prey inside.
The guard inside the lookout tower looks down onto the courtyard at the guards making ready at the gate. From his standpoint he can feel the tension of the moment of waiting for a bang at the front gate. He grips his rifle with excitement, waiting to aid his fellow guards in stopping an assault onto the castle.

Hhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......

The guard turns around from hearing a soft howl come from the room.

* Hmm. . . .it must have been the wind. No one else here but me. * He thought.

Hhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaa......

The sound comes again and the guard knows he heard it come from the wall. Confused as to what is making the noise, he carefully moves to the wall and closely looks around the wall to see if he can identify the noise.

A face of a beautiful woman comes out of the wall, her hands grasp his head. "Surprise." Was all she said before introducing the man's head to the wall.

The guard falls to the ground unconscious and Ryoko comes into the room. "Ok, now to have some fun."

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* Well are they going to attack or leave us standing here like this all night? * One of the guards at the gate thought to himself.

"Uh, Sir!" A shallowed deep voice called out.

The highest ranking soldier turns around to see the guard in the wall tower calling out to him. The soldier takes notice of this guards slumped posture, but writes it off as laziness.

"What is it?!" He yells in reply.

"Uuhh, the intruders are. . .scaling the wall over here. I need some assistance."

"You heard him men, to the eastern wall! You two stay here and guard the gate." He ordered two of the men.

Ryoko covers her mouth and snickers at the way she has tricked the guards. She sets the guards unconscious body down against the wall. She vanishes from the room and reappears at the front gate where the others are waiting.

"All right, let's crash this party."

Seconds later the gate exploded, sending splinters of the wood that formed the door flying. Through the now vacant gap in the door, a cyan haired woman had her arm extended out toward the door. The two guards standing near the door were knocked to the ground in the force of the woman's blast.
Ayeka is the first to enter through the gate. She doesn't run, but seems to merely stick to walking with a quickened pace. The others spread out once inside the outer wall, getting ready for any attacks from any direction.
A small squad of guards comes through the main door in the courtyard. The guards in front kneel down to give the ones in the rear a clear shot. Taking aim the guards fire at their targets. Most of the shots were aimed toward the closest person, who was Ayeka. Their bullets bounced off of the shield her Jurian royal blood allows her to posses.
Energy crackles around Ayeka in a purplish lightning form. A bolt of energy shoots forth and engulfs the guards that shot at her. The guards cry out, as the searing pain maddens them before they are cooked alive. Ayeka ignores the fallen bodies, as she walks by them and enters the castle.

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A guard looked down onto the courtyard at the sight of these intruders successfully fighting off the guards that are there to challenge them. Knowing they would be in trouble if they weren't able to stop the intruders, but knowing they would be in even more trouble if they don't sound the alarm. He walks over to the wall where a small box with a button covered by a plastic covering was. He opens the covering and hits the button, the end result is a siren filling the air outside of the castle.

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"Damn, the alarm. We cannot fight off the army, we must make a retreat." Daimyo says to the others.

"But Ayeka has already gone inside." Tenchi replies.

"Then that was her mistake. I hate to sound so cold hearted, but we have to leave now, otherwise we all die."

"No, I will not leave Ae." Mireya tells Daimyo, as she runs toward the doors Ayeka entered.

"Doesn't anyone here listen to reason!" He shouted toward Mireya as she disappears through the doors to retrieve the wayward princess.

"We stay as long as we can." Tenchi told him reassuringly.

"Your all nuts. We can't take on an entire army and come out alive. Even I know my limits boy, as great of a fighter that I am, the greats even have their limits."

The conversation between Tenchi and Daimyo seems to fade to nothingness as Ryoko walks toward the gate. She sees some dust rustling in the short distance, as tanks come into her sight she tightens her fists and closes her eyes. She begins to try to stir up old memories of what she had done under Kagato's control, trying to get her mentality into that bloodthirsty state.

"Tenchi!" She yells.

Her cry breaks the conversation between the two as they both look to Ryoko. Her back was too them, like she was looking at something more important than them.

"I'll take care of the army! You three go on ahead!"

"It's official, you're the craziest one of them all!" Daimyo answered.

"I SAID GO!" She turned to reply to him, her face filled with anger and a rage he hadn't seen in her before.

Tenchi had seen that look on her face before, the time Ayeka had accessed his grandfather's space tree's memory. During the battle between her and his grandfather 700 years before, that was the same look about her.

Tenchi grabs Daimyo's shoulder. "Don't worry, she knows what she's doing."

"Uh. .excuse me. . .Ryoko. Did you want me to. . .help?" Mihoshi asked unsure of what she should do.

"Go on Mihoshi. I'll handle them myself."

"Oh. . .well, ok. Um. . .good luck. Hey you guys wait up!!" Mihoshi yelled to Tenchi and Daimyo as they entered the doors.

Ryoko phased to the top of the front gate looking out at the landscape. She could see troops keeping pace with dozens of tanks making haste towards the castle. She felt relieved that Tenchi would not be able to witness what she knew she now had to commit.

* I know what I have to do. . . .I must become what Kagato wanted me to be. I am thankful that you aren't going to see this Tenchi. For if I wasn't a demon in your eyes before. . . .I will certainly become one today. I must. If I don't then they will kill me. . .and worse they would kill Tenchi. And I will. .Not. . .Let. . .That. . .Happen! *

She flew out away from the castle's wall to greet the coming army. She stopped when a couple of soldiers shot their guns at her from below. Their bullets bounced off of her energy shield that she generated from the gems power. She hovered there to let their shots deflect from her, to show them how futile their attempts at killing her were.

"Hello! Let me introduce myself! My name is Ryoko, it means Devil Caller!" She yelled down to them. A grayish glow highlights Ryoko's figure, adding to making her look more demonic. "Allow me to show you why they call me Ryoko!!"

As she finishes her introduction, small gray spirits rise out of the ground in the surrounding area.

* Wow, I didn't realize I could get this many spirits, there must have been a lot of death on this world. Oh well, there's going to be much more today. * Ryoko thought in surprise to the growing number of spirits.

She stretches both arms out to her sides, both gems shine in her wrists. The spirits in the air scramble into different locations to both of her sides. The merging spirits begin to take form and Ryoko laughs loudly at the soldier's uneasy reactions to her summoning of evil spirits.

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There was a maddening silence in the air. The only sound being made is the beeping of Washu's holo-computer as she presses the keys to work on her data. Sasami sat in Washu's lab after the others had used Washu's machine to transport back to Daimyo's homeworld. They had only been gone for a couple of hours, but it was beginning to feel like several lifetimes to the youngest princess of Jurai.

"Washu?"

"Hmm?" Was Washu's reply while typing data into her network.

"Do you think the others are ok?"

"I'm sure they're fine Sasami. After all, Ayeka and Ryoko are with them. And those two are more than capable of handling themselves, I'm sure they will all be fine."

"I hope your right." Sasami mumbled to herself.

Sasami wasn't aware of it, but Washu was thinking the same thought.

Sasami exhales. "Well I guess I should cook some food. I'm sure everyone will be hungry when they get bac...."

Washu stopped typing and snapped her head around at the sudden sound of a couple simultaneous thumps coming from behind her. Her eyes widened in shock and panic as she sees Sasami collapsed onto the floor.

"Sasami?!"

She runs to the little girls side, turning her onto her back to check on her. Sasami was like a rag doll, she showed no signs of moving, but thankfully Washu saw that she was still breathing. It was like she was just in a coma or deep sleep.

"I had better get you into a bed young lady." Washu changes into her adult form and collects Sasami's unconscious body. She walks her over to a vacant spot in the floor while a bed seemingly rises out of the floor. She places Sasami on the bed and covers her up. As she set's up her equipment to monitor Sasami's vitals, she talks to the smallest princess.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again Sasami. I thought I was going to die from a heart attack when I saw you on the floor." She softly runs her hand over Sasami's forehead. "If something happens to you Sasami, I couldn't go on living. Especially with Ayeka and Ryoko taking over in the kitchen." Washu laughed at the joke she had just made. "I wonder where you are?" Washu asked in wonder.

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It was strange. She was headed toward the kitchen from Washu's lab, next she finds herself in this shadowed void. There seemed to be blackness everywhere, yet there was a calmness in this place. She wasn't afraid, she had felt this feeling a few times before, she knew who's name to call.

"Tsunami?!"

"I am here Sasami."

Sasami turns around to see Tsunami standing a couple feet from her.

"What's going on?"

"It has begun Sasami."

Her eyes widen. "It's. . . .now?"

"Yes. Are you afraid?"

"No. . .I feel safe with you it's just. ."

"Your concerned that the others will treat you differently when it is finished."

". . . .A little."

Tsunami's face softened and had a calming smile. "Sasami, you should know more than anyone that the others wouldn't treat you differently. Like when your sister first found out about you and I, did she treat you any differently?"

". . . . .no."

"That's right Sasami. Your sister said she loves you for who you are. You will always be the person you are now Sasami, so you have nothing to fear."

"Thank you Tsunami."

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"Aaaaah!" Was the last thing a soldier said as he was blown back from a lone woman in a purple kimono matching her hair.

Ayeka had been making her way through the hallways of this castle. She did not know where Voog would be, but she would tear this place apart to find him if she had too. She didn't know how, but she knew she was going to find him, she had to find him. And make him pay for his crimes against her.
Turning the corner, she stopped in shock and awe as the object of her desire had finally shown itself to her. There in the hallway alone with her was Voog. The man who was responsible for placing these feelings of hatred and torment inside of her was finally standing before her. Her hands clenched tightly together, so tightly it was close to drawing blood from her palms. Her teeth clamped down onto each other, as she was now drawing all her anger and hatred for this man forth.

"Well isn't this a pleasant surprise? My pretty little flower has returned to me. Tell me, how have you blossomed?" He asked with a chilling smile written onto his face.

Ayeka didn't reply to his question, her head was slightly tilted down, so that Voog couldn't make out her eyes. Ayeka gave a slight hiss and twitched, suddenly Voog noticed there was a cut onto his cheek were blood was lightly surfacing out of.

"My it looks like my flower has developed a thorn." He said, wiping the blood from his cheek. "That can be taken care of with a little pruning. I suppose you are one of these intruders in the castle, I'm sure the soldiers will detain your friends, so that gives us time to be alone for a little bit."

Ayeka growls, and two more cuts are created onto Voog's face. Voog looks down at the cuts and snarls. "Your beginning to get on my nerves, it's time we had a little fun." He softly spoke in a strange tongue, casting his spell to immobilize the princess like he had done so before. And like it happened before with his spells, the girl didn't move.

"Now let's head back toward the cell block and we'll find a nice cozy little cell with others who can watch and listen."

"Hhhaaaa!" Ayeka cried, slashing her hand in a near vertical swing. Voog looked down onto his uniform and noticed his clothing was ripped and there as a scratch from his stomach to his chest.

He was astounded, never has anyone resisted his holding spell. She was incapable of resisting it during the first couple of weeks he had seen her.

* What is this? Is this the same woman who I captured and played with? It doesn't make sense. * He thought to himself.

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"Ah great. Now what do we do?" Tenchi asked.

The trio had come across a three way fork inside the castle. They have been fighting off soldiers to get to this point and were now faced with this confusing decision of which direction to take.

"I don't know which way to go. I've never been inside this castle before." Daimyo answered him. "I guess we should split up, we'll cover more ground that way. Tenchi you go that way and Mihoshi can go this way. I'll head over here." He suggested pointing toward each hallway from his far right.

"And if you run into the emperor, do your best to kill him. Good luck." Daimyo hollered back as he ran down the hallway he selected.

"Tenchi. . .can I come with you? I really don't like this place and I don't want to be alone." She asked with pleading eyes.

"Mihoshi. Your always welcomed to stay at our house, so you should know it's alright to come with me. Come on, we should hurry, there should be more soldiers coming."

Both Tenchi and Mihoshi run down the far right corridor, leaving the center corridor unexplored.

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The banging of metal, gunshots, and cries of torment filled the nights sky of Draka. A vicious battle was being waged at the castle of king Trowa, between his loyal army and an army of demons. The fighting was in close combat, so close that if the night was cold, the warriors in the fight would be sweating from the gathered body heat of the armies.
The battle was becoming repetitive, Ryoko was constantly hacking and slashing into the soldiers, but more and more seemed to come. If Ryoko had enough time to get her adrenaline down, she would feel the warmth of the blood that was painted onto her. But in this melee fighting there was not time to reflect onto ones actions, only enough time to act.
The hordes of demons that Ryoko was able to summon from this war-torn world were tearing into the soldiers. A couple of times body parts had fallen out of the corner of her eyes or had been flung onto soldiers she was about to dismember herself. The soldiers were beginning to push forward now, they were about to make their way past Ryoko.

* I cannot let them pass. Tenchi! *

Ryoko swipes a low strike at the soldiers in front of her. Cutting them off at the knees. The newly amputated soldiers fall to the ground crying in agony of their lose of body parts. As the line of men fall to the ground Ryoko sprays the next line with her hair needles. The needles find their homes into the flesh of the men's upper body's and faces. Taking advantage of her newly bought time, the energy contained within the gems flutters as Ryoko summons enough energy for an attack.

Throwing both palms of her hands out toward the mass numbers of soldiers, she unleashes a fierce blast accompanied with a chaotic battle cry. "Aaaaaaaaaa!!"

The blast consumes the soldiers that are unfortunate to get caught in it's path, before it collides into one of the tanks and a large explosion shakes the ground.

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A thunderous boom echo's throughout the castles hallways as the ground shakes, causing dust to trickle down from the ceiling. A young man with a bluish gem in his forehead had just finished dispatching a few soldiers that had to get in his way. He waves his hand in front of his face to bat away the dust falling into his face.

* What's going on out there? Ahh. . .That Ryoko seems to be quiet the handful for the army. Perhaps she's more skilled than I gave her credit for. I need to get back to concentrating on finding the emperor, if we don't get him tonight, this whole attack will be in vain. *

Daimyo continues his path to lead him deeper into the castles depths. He comes upon another corner, he peaks around it to see two soldiers stationed at this connection of hallway.

* Now. . .Time to go to work. *

He turns the corner, charging the two men, he picks up a vase that was placed onto one of the tables in this section of hallway and smashes it onto the head of the soldier that had his back to him. The second soldier saw Daimyo's charge when he came from the corner. Daimyo batted away his gun as the soldier tried to fire it, hitting a picture frame hanging on the wall. Daimyo's right hook connects hard to the soldiers face, causing the man to hit the ground hard and unconscious.

"I was hopping it was you."

Daimyo didn't have to turn to see who was behind him, he hadn't heard this voice for a long while, but he could never forget the voices owner.

"I'm sure you were Botaro." He replied turning to see his brother.

"This is going to be a great day for me. You will die by my hands and when I place your dead body before my father, he will see that I am strong enough to rule in his place after his passing."

"That sounds like a nice daydream, to bad it will never come to pass. Now get out of my way Botaro, I do not wish to fight my own brother."

"I have no brother!! You are just some freak of nature! After I kill you I'm going to rip that jewel out of your forehead and make a necklace out of it. It'll remind me of how much you suffered this night, before I finally put you out of my father's misery."

"Alright then. Let's settle this once and for all." Daimyo said taking a fighting position.

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"Wh. . .What are you?!" Voog asked in shock.

He stepped back away from Ayeka when his fingers started snapping back on his hands. The cracking sound his fingers made as they were being broken echoed in the hallway. He knew that this was not the girl that he had captured and tormented to his pleasure, she didn't show this type of power before.

* How is it. . .How is it possible that she has this kind of power now? *

"Well. . .my dear. . .I don't know how your doing that little trick, but now. . ." He paused in talking to Ayeka to pop his fingers back into their sockets. "I will not be gentle with you anymore."

A slight crackle noise is heard within the hallway. Bolts of power run over Voogs body, outlining his form. He clenches his hands tightly, focusing his concentration to the completion of his spell. Focusing, he throws his left hand out toward the princess and a bolt of energy flows from his hand into her.
Expecting the princess to fall to the ground from his short shock to her system, he is surprised to see the princess unfazed from his spell. Not wanting to be taken lightly, especially from a woman that he had taken a couple of times during her short incarceration in their prison hall. His teeth press down onto each other from his frustration at her resistance to his power.
With the energy still coursing over his body, Voog let's the spell loose completely upon her. Electrical energy lights up the darkened parts of the hallway, as it courses into Ayeka's body. The princess's face is illuminated by his attack. Voog can clearly see the burning resolve of anger in her eyes and facial expression. She raises her right arm toward him and purple electrical energy shoots forth from her hand and engulfs Voog. Voog ceases his spell and cries out in agonizing pain, as every cell that composes his entire body seemed to be withering in pain. He falls to his knees as Ayeka continues to pulse the energy into him.
After what seemed like an eternity to Voog, Ayeka stopped channeling her energy into him. Voog catches himself with his hands before he fell face first onto the floor. A little smoke rises off of his clothing from being slightly cooked by Ayeka's attack. Voog gritted his teeth and let out a growl while rising back to his feet.

* How dare she do this to me! ME!! I've had enough playing around with this little bitch, I'm going to kill her!! * He thought to himself in a blinding rage.

"Play time is over! It's time for you to die!!"

A darkish purple light up the hallway as Voog generated his energy over his body. He extends his arms out at waist level with his palms facing up. Purplish flames ignite in his hands, but Voog doesn't show pain on his face. He looks at her, almost as if trying to burn the image of what she looks like into his mind.

"Goodbye!" He swings both his hands forward and slaps them together. The flames in his hands connect together and react as if rocket fuel had been tossed onto the flames. Voog's attack is a raging inferno that engulfs the entire hallway from top to bottom. He feeds the attack with enough power to incinerate mostly anything that it touches. He allows the fire of his rage to burn for a minute to make sure that the princess would be cooked to ash from this attack.
Allowing for the minute to pass, Voog extinguishes his fire attack and looks at the damage it has done. His eyes widen and his mouth opens in amazement. Ayeka stood in the same place she was in when he first used his attack. All the blocks that composed the structure of the halls of the castle were burned black, save for two that the princess had stood on.

* It's. . .It's not possible. Even with her little shield trick, she should have been cooked alive. Has some kind of powerful demon possessed this woman's body? That would have to be the only explanation for this. *

Ayeka began walking toward him. Both awaiting an attack from her and for not knowing what to do, Voog stepped back from her. Ayeka swung her arm out in front of her, as if to strike an invisible enemy in front of her. Voog fell back onto the ground, feeling an unbearable pain in his shins. He drew his legs up to grab his ankles instinctively from the pain, but looked to see that his feet were no longer there. Blood was pouring out of his shins, he looked over and saw that his feet were still in his shoes, flat on the ground where he was standing.
Voog began to panic, in both a mixture of pain and fear of the capabilities of this woman who was beginning to dismember him. At this point, he was desperate to kill her any way he could. Ignoring the pain, he concentrated on a spell. He ignited the purple flame from his left hand and attacked her again. With his other hand he channeled the electrical energy attack toward where she was, he couldn't see where she was due to the flames of his other attack.

"Die! DIE! DIE! DIIIEEEE!!" He madly yelled.

Voog's attack was literally cut short, when a flying blade of energy emerged from the flames of his attack and sliced through his wrists, severing his hands. Again Voog cried out in unimaginable pain. With his attacks dispelled by Ayeka's retaliatory attack, Ayeka was still walking slowly, pausing between steps for a few seconds, almost to try to savor the moments and prolong his suffering. Voog began trying to crawl away using his right knee and right elbow, while looking at Ayeka's approach in fear. Feeling he wouldn't be able to crawl fast enough to get away from her, Voog decided to use another tactic.

"Guards!! Guards!!!" His cry for reinforcements echoed down the directions of the hallways.

Ayeka swiped at thin air again and a sound of flesh and bone being severed was heard, as Ayeka severed his legs at the knees.

"GGGUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDSSSSSSS!" Voog carried the plea for any of the soldiers to come to his aid as the pain hit him.

He felt a chilling cold wash over his body as Ayeka stood over him. From his point of view, Ayeka's face was shadowed as she stood opposite a light on the wall. He holds what remains of his arms up at her.

"Please. . . . .I beg of you. . . . . .show mercy." He pleaded to her, his voice shaken and trembling. "Forgive me. . . . . .I. . . .I am sorry. . . .for what I did. . . ."

Ayeka gave no response to his plea. She didn't move, she just stood there, burning this moment into her memory, trying to find the satisfying feeling that she was wanting to have from this. But to her disappointment she didn't feel any satisfaction, she didn't feel like justice had been done, her thirst for vengeance still unquenched. Confusion was what she was experiencing, a feeling she didn't think she'd find in this moment. She had thought of this moment since he first violated her, vengeance is what had been driving her on this far. She had played the scenario through her every waking moment for this and now that she has finally reached this moment, it still didn't feel like it was enough.
Voog had turned himself over onto his stomach and attempted to crawl to find some help. He knew he would bleed to death soon if he didn't find someone to help him. He strained with what remained of his arms to pull himself forward and ignored the pain he felt in his arms and the two bludgeoned stumps that were his legs.
He suddenly saw that he was being dragged back towards Ayeka. He was pushed back against the wall in front of Ayeka, he couldn't move, it felt like he was being pressed against the wall by an unseen force. He felt tired and dizzy from the loss of blood that he was experiencing. Ayeka could tell that he was not going to live much longer. If she could not find her satisfaction in his suffering, then she would find it in his death.

"You dare ask me to show you mercy? Did you show me mercy when I begged you to stop?! Or with the other women? Hmm. . .Did you show them any mercy?!!" She screamed at him in anger.

Voog felt an increasing pressure pushing against his body into the wall. It felt like he was about to get squished like a bug under a giant foot. "Please. . . . . . . .Spare. . .me. .. . ."

His plead to her seemed to make her blood boil more. She couldn't stand the fact that this man was the one that had violated her. And during his violation of her body, when she cried for him to stop, when she just wanted to die instead of living after he robbed her of her virginity, he did not show her any mercy.
In a rage of hatred, Ayeka flung her arms forward, as if violently pushing something. She let the hatred rush out of her body by screaming out a cry of frustration, agony, and vengeance at Voog.
Voog felt a crushing push on his body, he contorts his face in pain and tries to cry out, but there didn't seem to be any air left in his lungs. He felt and heard his bones in his body begin to pop and crack from the pressure against it. The last thing Voog sees is Ayeka throwing her arms toward him and screaming a cry of anger at him. Voog's body collapses in onto itself, causing the remainder of blood in his body to splatter outward, smearing the wall, the floor and onto Ayeka. Ayeka breathed heavily. She emptied her lungs yelling at Voog during her fit of rage, but at last she had done what has plagued her mind for so many days.

Ayeka releases a sigh. * It is done. Finally I can. . . *

Ayeka's thoughts trail off as she begins to notice something. There was no change in how she felt, her feelings of despair and agony still lingered in her heart. She had believed that with Voog's death, these feelings would die with him, but now it seemed she would be robbed of her feelings once again.

"No. . . . .This cannot be. These feelings. . .they must stop, why. Why aren't these feelings gone? I. . .I feel no difference. Why?" She looks at the remains of Voog's body. "He is dead. I killed him. And yet I feel nothing! I will not be robbed of this!!"

Ayeka violently throws her left arm from the inside out, Voog's remains plastered on the wall combusts and begins to burn violently. Black smoke soon begins to fill the air, carrying with it the unbearable scent of burning flesh. Ayeka glares at the burning flames, trying to find the feeling of resolve that she sought. But to her raging disappointment she found none. She only felt more anger and frustration building within her. She clenched her fists and walked off, no longer wanting to smell the burning flesh that was filling the area. Voog's flaming torso became unstuck to the wall and fell face down onto the floor as it continued to be consumed by Ayeka's fiery hatred.

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Mihoshi and Tenchi continued running down the hallway that they were in. They had fought off a few guards that were running around the castle in an unorganized haste. They didn't have any clue where they were headed, but hoped they would eventually run into Ayeka or cross paths with Daimyo, but haven't seen either of the two. Both stop when they run into an open room that seemed to lead to the throne room. Tenchi took notice of pictures depicting stories onto the walls in this room. Then something else caught his eye. His vision had fallen onto the huge door that was on the wall to their left. A picture of a dragon encircling a hawk was carved onto the door. He ran his hand over the pictures hawk in wonder, he looked at the carved words beneath the picture.

"And the world shook,
under the might
of
The Brothers"

"Tenchi? Where are we supposed to go now?" Mihoshi asked.

"I think. . .we go through this door."

"Oh, alright, if you think that's where we should go."

Both Tenchi and Mihoshi push open the doors and find themselves standing outside of the throne room. The room was vast in length, the floor was surprisingly reflective, with a thin carpet that lead straight forward to the throne. On the throne was a young looking man, possibly looking to be in his early twenties. He was clad in black royal armor, which matched his hair color. He bore a golden crown that wrapped around his forehead, which seemed to keep his hair from blocking his face. Beside his throne was a sword that was in it's sheath, judging from the sheath's size it was a long sword.

"So I finally get to meet the great hawk of legend." The emperor spoke, rising from his throne. His right eyebrow cocked up. "Although I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed, I was expecting a warrior of great stature, not. . . .you. No matter though, I know enough about what your capable of, enough to know that fighting you would be useless, since your prophesized to overthrow me." He spoke, beginning to pace left to right of his throne. "That has gotten me thinking, if I cannot defeat you physically, then how to beat my foe? I thought about this for a while, then it just suddenly dawned upon me. If I can't beat you physically, then I'll beat you mentally."

Tenchi stood with his Tenchi-ken by his side, ready to activate it when he would need it. Mihoshi stood next to Tenchi, with her gun unholstered in her right hand, she held it up toward the ceiling, ready to bring it down upon the emperor if he flinched funny.

"Wh. .what do you mean mentally?" Tenchi asked, trying not to sound nervous about this new turn of events.

"Let me show you." He replied, he walked behind his throne, Mihoshi aimed her gun toward the throne, waiting for a sneaky attack. The Emperor walks around from the back of the throne with a small table in his arms, on the table was a chess board. "I will defeat you in a game of chess."

Tenchi and Mihoshi both face-vault onto the floor. Quickly recovering from the face-vault Tenchi replies. "Chess?"

"Yes, surely you've played chess before, I know you have brawn, but do you have brains with it?"

"Alright, I accept your challenge." Tenchi spotted a little chair that was near the throne. He grabs the chair, Mihoshi keeps her eyes focused onto the emperor, not wanting to underestimate him just yet.

"Now if you'll excuse us my dear, it would be fair if it was just me and him in here." The emperor addressed Mihoshi.

"It's alright Mihoshi, I can take care of this myself. Go try to find Ayeka." He asked her.

"Alright Tenchi, be careful. I'm rutting for you!" Mihoshi wished him luck then ran off to find the wayward princess.

"Alright then, Tenchi is it?" The emperor asked.

Tenchi nods in reply to his question.

"Very well then Tenchi. You may make the first move."

Sorry it has taken so long for an update, life has a tendency of getting in the way of writing. I will try to get the next chapter finished whenever I can. Thank you for enjoying my story.