Shogun Muyo - Chapter 17: Total Destruction

I do not own any of the Tenchi Muyo characters and I am in no way making money off of writing this. I do it because I like the characters of Tenchi Muyo and write for the fun of it. So in closing, (drops to knees) PLEASE DON'T SUE ME! Thank you and enjoy the read.

Ryoka found herself standing on what appeared to be a barren planet, there were mountains in the surrounding area, there was no grass or trees, nor life for that matter. There was an eerie silence about the place, it was so quiet Ryoka could hear every beat of her heart. She looked around and didn't seen anyone around, she didn't even see Tsunami anywhere and Ryoka was sure that she had stepped into the doorway behind her.

"Hello!" She cried out, getting tired of the silence there was in this place.

She listened as her cry echoed several times before it faded into nothingness. She waited a couple of seconds for any kind of reply, but received nothing back. She signed in frustration.

"This would make a wonderful place for a summer home." She mumbled to herself

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Meanwhile, in a place that was really no place at all, the goddess Tokimi looked into a large orb that showed Ryoka on the barren planet. She and the orb were the only visible objects in this place the surroundings were in darkness. Suddenly her sister Tsunami appears to the right of her.

"Tsunami." Tokimi said acknowledging her presence.

"Tokimi." Tsunami replied.

"It seems our important day has come again, dear sister." Tokimi states.

"Yes, it seems it has." Tsunami replied.

"The victor shall determine which of us will run the universe for the next thousand years."

Tsunami nods her head in agreement with Tokimi's words. However since Tsunami's bonding with Sasami she has experienced more emotions in her being than she was originally created with. Currently she was experiencing concern and worry, she shared her feelings with Sasami and she could tell that the young Sasami was indeed worried about Ryoka. Tsunami was also worried about Ryoka being able to carry out this battle. . . .to the death.

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Ryoka sat down on a rock and was waiting for whoever was going to show up. She began to contemplate that Tsunami may have pulled some really twisted prank on Ryoko and Ayeka to lure them to the middle of nowhere and get a laugh out of it. If it was then Washu would have had to have been in on it, since it was her idea to combine the two together to create the newly formed Ryoka. If it was a prank she was going to make Washu pay for it.

Then suddenly an answer to her prayers, out of nowhere a form appears out of thin air. She was feeling angry about having to wait ten minutes contemplating if anything was going to happen. She was about to give the figure a piece of her mind, but she stopped before saying anything when she saw who it was that had appeared.

"Daimyo?. . . . . . . . .Is that you?" Ryoka asked seeing that the man appeared to be Daimyo, but the hair was blood red and the gem on his forehead was a golden yellow.

"Who are you? How did you know my name?" Daimyo asked confused to his new surroundings and the strange woman in front of him.

"I'm Ryoka. I'm both Ryoko and Ayeka combined."

"What! Ryoko and Ayeka! I thought I was supposed to fight Tenchi."

"Well apparently your supposed to fight the hawk and that is me." She replied.

"That works for me, it'll be a lot easier for me to fight the two of you to the death than it would have been with that boy. Was starting to see some potential in that kid. Killing the two of you. . . .I have no complaints." He said with a sinister grin.

"Before we get started don't you at least want to know what happened on Draka?" She asked.

"Yes, I was a little curious as to what happened, I imagine that you all had to run off when I disappeared."

"Actually the king was killed . . . . . . . .by Mireya." She paused in saying her name. Ayeka's emotions inside of Ryoka caused a tear to trickle down her face.

"Are you crying for Trowa? That man was a monster in every sense of the word, at the news of his death, I'm sure the whole planet started to celebrate."

"No" She replied wiping the tear from her face. "I weep for Mireya."

"Mireya? What happened to her!" He demanded, concern was strong in his voice for his friend.

"I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Mireya is dead."

Daimyo hung his head down at the news of his compatriot's death. "How did she die?" He asked.

Ryoka was a little hesitant to respond. ". . . . . . . .after she killed Trowa. . . .she. . . .she tried to kill Tenchi. Ayeka. . . .she. . . . .she had no intention of hurting Mireya, it was an accident."

"YOU KILLED HER! YOU ANIMAL!" He yelled in rage, his energy spiked and his form was engulfed in a blood red energy. His sudden outburst caused Ryoka to gasp in surprise.

He rushed forward and threw a punch at Ryoka, expecting an attack from his outburst at her she quickly took flight and avoided the punch. Daimyo was launching an energy attack against her, the energy shot from his fist and created a crater into the side of the mountain that was behind Ryoka.

"I told you it was an accident! But have it your way!" Ryoka yelled at him.

Seeing the fight was now on, she charged at Daimyo with her energy sword and swiped at him, but to her surprise, he blocked her energy sword with his own.

"What!" Ryoka gasped when she noticed his sword.

"Seems I've picked up a couple of tricks since we last sparred." He retorted.

Before she could do anything else, Daimyo shoots a blast of energy at her with his free hand and Ryoka barely blocks it in time with her free hand. The absorption of the blast sends her sliding back several feet leaving an imprint of her feet sliding along the ground. As she regains her posture she notices movement just above her field of vision and looks to see that he is in the air coming down on her with his sword above his head. She dive rolls out of the way as he comes down and creates a crater as he impacts the ground. As she rolls back to her feet, she turns to prepare for another attack. Surprisingly a blur jets out of the crater and smacks Ryoka in the face, sending her flying back.

"He's a lot faster now too, didn't expect that." Ryoka thought to herself when she was flying back.

She charges a ball of energy in her right hand and uses her left hand to catch the ground to recover from the hit. When she's vertical in the flip over, she spots Daimyo coming at her again, she throws the energy ball at the ground where Daimyo was running toward. She flips herself back over just in time for the balls explosion. The blast causes her hair to flap straight out in front of her and plants Daimyo onto his back as the blast knocked him off his feet.

She turns back around to face him, he flips himself back onto his feet and glares at her. They both stand on opposite ends of the crater caused by Ryoka's attack. Daimyo lunges at her, flying like a missile at Ryoka, she pushes off of her feet and matches Daimyo's speed as they exchange punches and kicks in different directions. Each moves quickly, faster than most people could see, but the damage caused to the surrounding objects could be seen. Rocks and parts of hills and mountains would explode or have a crater put into them from the force of the two combatants blows.

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Back on Earth, the rest of the family hung around the living room area, seemingly waiting for hours, when Ryoka has been gone for about thirty-six minutes. Sasami was in the kitchen washing some dishes that was left from lunch. Though it was not the dishes being dirty as the main reason she was tending to them. She was washing the dishes to hide the fact that she was beginning to cry. With the assimilation with Tsunami occurring she was understanding Tsunami more, she knew what was happening. She knew that both Ryoka and Daimyo were fighting; she also knew that one of them wouldn't return from this fight. Tears were streaming down her face; her young teenage body shook as she tried to keep from crying aloud. She felt as though her stomach was being twisted into knots and found it felt hard to breathe.

"Sasami?" Mihoshi said entering the kitchen.

Sasami broke her train of thought as Mihoshi broke the silence in the room. She quickly wiped her cheeks to clear the tears away and turned to the detective.

"Oh, hey Mihoshi. Sorry seemed to have gotten more of the dishwater on my face than on the plates." She faked a laugh at the end to try to play off the tears that were plainly visible on her face.

"Hey, don't worry Sasami." Mihoshi spoke obviously knowing that the young girl was crying. She hugs Sasami tightly. "I'm sure your sister and Ryoko are doing just fine. I bet they'll be back before you know it." She reassured Sasami. Sasami put her face onto the detectives shoulder and let herself cry more. Mihoshi patted her head in response to her crying. "There, There, I'm sure they'll be fine."

In Washu's lab, Tenchi was getting examined by Washu for any possible injuries that she may have missed from Mireya's attack on him. So far she could tell that his back wasn't broken, just going to be bruised for a couple of days.

"Well it seems you were fortunate that she didn't try to break your spine Tenchi. You got off lucky with just a bruised back." Washu addressed him from her computer.

Tenchi was laying on his stomach as Washu's machine was scanning him. "Yeah, I guess that is lucky. I hope the girls are ok." He said with a slightly worried look on his face.

"I'm sure they're fine Tenchi. If there's one thing I know is that they're both too stubborn to get themselves killed." She reassured him.

"I hope your right."

"I know I am." Suddenly a devious smile appears on Washu's face. She types on her computer and the machine covering Tenchi's lower back lifts up and pulls itself away from the table. She stops typing and walks away from her futon cushion. She walks over to the prone Tenchi on the table and slightly bends down to get face level with him. "You know Tenchi, since your incapacitated here in the lab, I could get that sample you still owe me." She said with a big grin on her face.

"WHAT!" He yells nearly jumping out of his skin.

"Oh come on Tenchi. You know you want me too." She finished the last sentence in the most childish voice she could muster.

"No! I don't! Stop it!" He complained at her.

She merely grinned and giggled a little at him. She had no intension of getting the sample, she was merely aiming at cheering him up a little. Or was it she was trying to cheer herself up and irritate Tenchi. Either way she was having fun.

"Aawwee poor baby got a bruise." She said gently rubbing his lower back. "I'll kiss it make it better."

"Aagghh! No you won't! I said cut it out Washu!"

She merely giggled more and went to kiss his lower back. Seeing her approach, he turns his back away from her, but she begins to lean over the table to get to his back. He turns more and slips from the table and crashes to the floor.

Realizing that Tenchi had just hit the floor, she climbs up on the table and looks over the side Tenchi just fell from. "Tenchi?" She asks, looking over the edge to see him unconscious on the floor.

A sigh escapes from her lips. "Tenchi, when it comes to girls you're hopeless." She mutters to herself

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A large blast narrowly misses Ryoka as she continues to evade Daimyo's attacks. She's flying backwards firing back at Daimyo as each fighter dodges and counters with their energy. Luckily for Ryoka the planet seems to be dead, there are no trees for her to fly into or any innocent life to be extinguished from their fight.

"He's putting up a hell of a fight. This is going to be a little more challenging than I thought." She pondered to herself.

Her face brightens up when an idea comes to mind. It was a risky gamble, but if it worked it could give her the upper hand, perhaps the win. She increased her speed more, still flying backwards facing Daimyo, keeping an eye on him from behind.

"Hey slowpoke! Are you fighting or just wasting time!" She taunted.

She saw him grit his teeth in anger as his reply to her was to launch more energy blasts at her. He fired two blasts from each of his hands. Seeing him being distracted with anger was her chance. She plants her feet into the ground to quickly slide to a halt and pushed off with her feet to reverse direction straight toward Daimyo. Dodging the blasts she closed in, Daimyo wasn't expecting the reversal and was caught by surprise. Ryoka comes in from his left side and flies past his back, but not before grabbing two handfuls of his hair. Having a hold of him she flings him over her back and plants him headfirst into the ground.

"HHAAAAAAAA!" She screams extending both hands and releasing a huge blast of energy point blank into Daimyo's figure on the ground. The blast pushes her back into the air, as the force pushes her away she continues to launch a couple more smaller energy balls into the area. As the force pushing her away subsides, she forms an energy ball the size of a basketball between both of her hands. She raises it above her head and flings it back to where she saw Daimyo last. The blast from the last attack wasn't as strong as her first, but she felt it'll do. . . .maybe.

Out of the smoke Daimyo emerged and delivered an elbow strike to Ryoka's face. The force of his blow knocked her back speeding like a bullet into the side of the mountain that was a few yards away.

"Owe." Was the only thought that came into her mind after she was planted into the mountain. Ok, maybe that wasn't such a hot idea. She thought as she pulled herself out from the rocks.

She looks back up to see Daimyo upon her again. He throws his left punch at her, she leans to the right to dodge it as his fist is planted into the rocks. She wraps her left arm around his arm to hold him there and begins to punch him in the face repeatedly with her right. After the fourth to fifth hit to the face, he grabs her free arm and headbutts her in the face, causing her grip on his arm to loosen. Pulling his arm out of the rocks, he punches her in the gut. As she bends over from the punch, he gets her in a headlock and falls back sending her headfirst into the ground. He starts choking her, in response Ryoka begins kneeing him in the groin. The third knee causes him to let go of her, she quickly gets up and flies upward shooting energy blasts at him. She hits him several times with the blasts, due to his slowness to get up and dodge the attacks after her counter.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" He roars as his energy spikes and expands from around him, sweeping up dirt and generating a strong wind blowing outward.

Ryoka squints her eyes to keep the dirt from blinding her. Suddenly Daimyo materializes in front of her, he grabs her by the throat with his right hand and begins to squeeze. She knees him in the gut, but it doesn't seem to faze him. She tries to hit his elbow to get his grip to release, she even tries backhanding him in the face, but he doesn't let go. She thought that her throat was going to collapse any minute and she would die. She closed her eyes as her mind wondered back onto everyone in the household who was waiting for her return. Sasami, Mihoshi, Washu, even Noboyuki, and Yosho came into mind, but her thoughts paused on one person.

"Ten. . .chi." She whispered from her lips with what breathe she was able to squeeze out.

Her eyes shoot open with new feeling of strength washing over her body. She felt the energy filling up inside of her, it felt as though her body was going to burst from this overwhelming sensation. Feeling like she couldn't contain it anymore, she opened her mouth and screamed.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" As she screamed, a white energy engulfs and shoots out from Ryoka, knocking Daimyo back off of her. The energy grew to ten feet around her, the white energy highlighted her form making it easier for anyone to see the look of determination on her face.

"No you will not kill me! My power is fueled by my love for Tenchi! That is something that you cannot kill!" She declared to him.

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Tsunami and Tokimi continued to watch the battle unfold. Seeing Ryoka understand where her power is from creates the sensation of relief and hope inside Tsunami. She slightly smiles at Ryoka's declaration of love for Tenchi. Tokimi notices the change of emotion in her sister and smiles as well, though her smile was not caused by Ryoka's love or Tsunami's change in mood.

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"Hah! Love! Love is not a strong of an emotion to fuel your power! Rage fuels mine! And thanks to you and everyone in that house of yours, I have more than enough power to go around!" He replied.

He lowers his head and clenches his fists as he builds upon the rage and anger within him. His energy begins to increase and expand. It quickly evens up with Ryoka's energy and begins to go past it.

Seeing his energy surpassing hers, she begins to let her energy increase more as well. The two energy fields grow until they touch eachother. Daimyo extends his hands to push his field toward Ryoka, she does the same. The two fields begin crackling energy, the bolts of lightning that are expelled from the force of the two fields begins shooting out in all directions. It rips lines into the ground underneath them and across the landscape.

The force of the two energies also creates a force of wind that begins to suck the rock and dirt on the landscape toward the center of the collision of the two powers. Both combatants are doing their best to overpower the other. They both take a large breath and violently exhale their breath in battle cries to increase their force. Both powers explode in every direction, the destructive forces consumes the landscape in a bright flash of light.

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Back on Earth, everything in the house began to lightly tremble, as if the slightest earth quake was happening, dishes fell to the floor, windows rattled, and a cabbit tried to keep from stumbling around into walls during all the shaking. Sasami crouched down onto the kitchen floor and braced herself to watch for anything falling down.

"Ryoko, Ayeka, please be safe." She whispers to herself.

Washu's lab is also experiencing some shaking. Washu types frantically to determine what is causing her lab to shake. Through her check, she sees that the quaking is happening outside of her dimension as well, which to say the least is suppose to be impossible.

"What's going on?" She ponders.

She types some more on her computer to figure out what is causing the shaking. Her equipment shows that the source of the vibration was located at the part of the universe Ryoka and Tsunami went to. Apparently the energy being dispersed there was sending a shock wave throughout the universe.

Washu's features lit up with glee. "Unbelievable." She spoke in awe.

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On the planet of Draka, soldiers were re-securing the castle and taking into count the damage and the dead. Their duty was interrupted with a quake that seemed to be shaking the whole planet. One of the new recruits of the soldiers braced himself against the great doors that lead into the throne room. A couple of his colleagues took shelter underneath the doorway with him.

"Hard to believe a quake is happening after everything that's happened here. We must truly be a cursed people." One of the soldiers spoke.

"I heard the attack on the emperor was the warrior Daimyo, isn't he supposed to be one of the prophesized brothers?"

Overhearing his comrades speaking of the legend, the new recruit looked at the door where the insignia of a Dragon and a Hawk were entwined. Looking at the art on the door he read the scripture that was below the picture aloud.

"And the universe shook at the might of the brothers."

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The landscape was scorched and smoking from the heat of the energies of the two combatants powers. If it wasn't a dead planet before, it was quickly becoming one now. The two fighters were battling in the air above the charred landscape, both exchanging punches and kicks evenly amongst each other. Both combatants seemed to be evenly matched for the other. Ryoka kicks him and pushes him a small distance away from her.

"Wow Daimyo, I think your actually getting weaker, so much for your power!" Ryoka taunts.

"Don't be so quick to judge! I've only been warming up! I think it's time I stopped playing around and showed you the extent of my rage!" He replied.

Daimyo began to recall from his memories the anger and frustration that they had caused him. They had caused him to doubt himself and his abilities. They also had treated him like dirt and with disrespect. He felt the burning of his rage course through his veins like fire. He began to lose himself within the rage and anger taking over his very being and was enjoying every second of the feeling.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" He yells at the top of his lungs.

Daimyo's energy grows exponentially in size his energy shoots out in every direction over the landscape. Ryoka shields herself from his energy, which was seemingly covering everything. From a distance in space, his energy could be seen covering half the planet. His energy swirled around the planet, causing nearby asteroids to begin orbiting around his energy around the planet.

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Tokimi's facial expression slightly changes. "This. . .This was unforeseen. His power is greater than I had expected it to be. If he were to use this amount of energy at me. . . .he could actually be capable of hurting me. I will have to deal with him after this battle is over, he cannot be allowed to possess such power." Tokimi contemplated.

Tsunami noticed the change in her sister's expression. She could tell that Daimyo was exceptionally powerful, perhaps more powerful than Tokimi wanted him to be. Tsunami began to realize that win or lose, Daimyo's existence may become short lived.

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Sasami sat in the living room area, she and Mihoshi were looking at some of the romance comics that Noboyuki had a library of. Which had entertained Sasami in the past when Ryoko and Ayeka tried to win Tenchi over with by using them as guides to get their true love. Mihoshi suggested they read them to take her mind off of worrying about her sister and Ryoko.

However as the blonde detective laughed at how goofy one of the characters in the novel she was reading Sasami was still sharing thoughts with Tsunami, she held her book and was looking down in the direction of the book, but reading was the furthest thing in her mind.

"Help them Tsunami." She pleaded to the goddess in her thoughts.

She waited for any reply from Tsunami in her head, after a small silence she received a reply. Alright. I can help them Sasami, but I will require your help in doing so.

"I'd do anything for them Tsunami." She replied.

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On the barren planet, Ryoka help her energy around her to block his from hurting her. She grit her teeth in anger, as far as she could tell she didn't hold power on this scale. Not even her love for Tenchi could even out the balance of power.

"If I am to meet my end on this forsaken planet. I intend to go out fighting." She thought to herself.

Daimyo retracted his energy back into him to allow the fight to continue. Seeing that she didn't have to concentrate on repelling his energy, she began to fly toward him. Only to pause when she sees that his is already floating in front of her. He effortlessly backhands her, but hits her with enough force to send her flying faster than a bullet. He appears in her current course of direction and bats her away again in another direction. Suddenly Ryoka finds herself getting beaten around like a pinball and not having enough time to recover from one hit before receiving the next hit. Daimyo ends his assault upon her by grabbing her right leg and swinging her around like a child's toy top. He releases her leg and she crashes into the surface of the planet creating a long line through the landscape before she finally comes to a stop.

She is slow to getting up due to her being so light headed and dizzy from Daimyo's assault upon her. She places her arms to both sides of the linear crater she was inside of to pull herself out of the hole. Daimyo takes hold of her right hand, she looks up out of the crater at him still in a daze and confused. Was he trying to help her up? Ryoka quickly got her answer as he pulls on her arm and lifts her out of the hole, over his shoulder and slams her onto the ground. Blood spits from her mouth as the force of the blow to her back with the ground knocks the air out of her body. He throws her over his shoulder again into the ground opposite of where she landed from the first throw. He throws her again and again until he practically completes a circle and a half in this fashion. He finishes by swinging around and planting her back first into a rock, creating an imprint of her body within the rock. Ryoka slides down from the rock and onto the ground.

She has trouble focusing her vision, the world looks blurry and faint through her eyes. Most likely from the beating she's been enduring somehow. She could make Daimyo out as he slowly strolled over to her form on the ground. She felt her brain was wanting to shut down to let her slip into unconsciousness, but she tried to fight the fatigue, knowing what would happen if she passed out now. Daimyo stops before Ryoka's fallen form, she was nearly sitting up, but could tell that she was close to being unconscious. She was slowly able to lift her head up to look up at him, being closer now she was able to see him better. She saw that he looked pleased with himself.

"Well looks like I'm the Dragon of the So once more. I've beaten you proving that I am unbeatable once again."

"Is. .that what matters. . .most to you?" Ryoka is able to speak.

Daimyo is a little surprised at her response. "Yes. Being the strongest is what matters most."

"You. . . . .you're a. . .sad little man."

"You dare call me a little man after I wipe the ground with you?" He yelled angered at her insult.

"Always having to be the best. . . .you act like a selfish child. . ." She spoke still on the ground looking up at him.

He squints his eyes in anger at her. "You're a nuisance to the very end." He spoke in a cold manner to her. He raises his arm at her, a ball of energy forms in his hand, as he prepares to finish her off.

Ryoka closes her eyes, tears stream down her face. "I'm sorry Tenchi. Looks like I won't be coming home." She thinks regretfully to herself.

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Back on Earth, Sasami and Mihoshi are still sitting in the living room looking at the romance books.

"Sasami it's time." Tsunami informs her.

Sasami bolts from her seat and runs into the kitchen, Mihoshi gets concerned and calls after her. As she runs into the kitchen and leaves Mihoshi's line of sight, she dematerializes into small twinkles of light and vanishes. Mihoshi enters the kitchen and is confused.

"Sasami? Where did you go?" She asks bewildered.

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On the barren planet, the newly existing being known as Ryoka was about to meet her end.

"Good riddance." He says to her as he releases the energy building in his hand.

Before the energy hits her, Ryoka vanishes and the side of the mountain is the only thing that gets destroyed by his blast. Seeing that she wasn't hit by his attack, he turns and looks in all directions, trying to locate her before she had a chance to attack. He closed his eyes to try to feel her presence nearby. Sensing a presence behind him he turns to attack, he took one step and froze in place. His fist still in position to throw a punch, but the will to throw it is fading from him.

Instead of seeing Ryoka, he now found himself looking at a young woman, who bore a striking resemblance to Sasami, but was a couple of years older. He looked the girl over and saw that she looked at him with pleading eyes. He felt the rage and anger inside him dissolve into nothingness within him as he looked into her caring eyes.

"S. . . .Sasami? Is that you. . .?" He asked, confused as to what was happening.

She smiles warmly at him. "Hi Daimyo."

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Tokimi looked to her sister. "What are you doing? You've forfeit the fight."

"No, I haven't forfeit the fight." Tsunami replies.

"Your fighter has left and your bond-mate is talking with my fighter. What are you doing?"

"I'm doing what I'm allowed to do."

"It was my idea for the battles to determine who gets to do what with the future of the universe. What makes you think this is allowed?" Tokimi inquired.

"You got to manipulate my fighter, so I'm exercising my right to manipulate yours. After my bond-mate is finished saying what she wants to say the fight will continue if your fighter wishes it so." Tsunami answered.

Tokimi couldn't argue with her sister on that subject, she did manipulate her fighter a little, whatever her bond-mate had to say wouldn't change his nature of wanting to win. She knew the fight would continue, so she was going to allow her sisters action.

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"Sasami, what are you doing here?" Daimyo asked.

"I came to see you and to beg you to stop this." She pleaded to him.

"I. . . . .I can't."

"Why? Why can't you stop fighting and come back to us. . . . . . . .to me."

He turns his back to her. "This. . . .this is all I've ever known Sasami. If I don't have this. . . . . .what purpose do I have?"

"You can make your own purpose in life Daimyo. Please come back. . . . . .stay with me." She said on the verge of crying hoping he would say yes.

Daimyo began to see the life he's lead, he had fought for good and justice for his world. Fighting monsters like Trowa, Voog, and Botaro, but now he saw that he himself had become the very thing that he had once stood against. Had he truly lost everything that he once was?

I cannot go back to Draka. If I go back, they would try to make me emperor with the way I am now, I'd be no better than Trowa. And I cannot return to Earth, they wouldn't welcome me back, not after what I've done. I guess there's only one thing left for me to do.

"Sasami." He spoke.

"Yes." She replies waiting to hear his response.

"I want you to leave."

Sasami felt as though her heart was about to break. "What?" She asked in disbelieve as to what he just said.

"I want you to leave this place. I want you to never come looking for me. I'm never returning to your home on Earth." He spoke, his back still turned to her.

"Daimyo. . . ." She spoke in nearly a whisper to him as she place her hands on his back and laids her head onto her hands to get him to reconsider.

"I want you to live a happy life Sasami. You cannot find happiness with me, your not safe being with me. I want you to find someone who makes you shine and love life. Most of all. . . . .I want you to stay away from me."

She practically bearhugs him as tears begin to flow from her eyes. She buries her face into his back and let the tears come. Her body shakes from the crying as Daimyo allows her to cry onto his back as long as she needed. He felt he at least owed her that.

After a few moments of crying on his back, she tilts her head to the side to enjoy the feeling of hugging him. Taking in the moment, she says the words that are aching in her heart.

"I love you Daimyo."

With those words spoken, Sasami vanishes into light and is gone. Daimyo cups his hands onto his chest where Sasami's hands held a few seconds ago.

"I'm sorry Sasami." He spoke regretfully.

The image of Tokimi appears to the right of him. "Now that Tsunami's bond-mate has finished, the fight can continue." She addressed him.

He looked down at his hands over his chest before answering. "No."

"What do you mean no?" She asked emotion seemingly empty from her question.

"Are you deaf!" He replied looking at her with an irritated look on his face. "I said No! Which means there's going to be no more fighting!"

"A word of caution Daimyo, don't forget to whom you speak. You don't want to incur the wrath of a goddess. The fight will continue. This battle is the only reason you exist, this is the moment that your whole life has lead up to." She spoke with a more stern look on her face.

"Stuff your wrath lady! I don't care about you or your stupid fight! I've become something that I used to hate! You've made me into a monster and as far as I'm concerned you're a monster as well!" He spoke redirecting his anger at the being that's changed him. During a slight pause in his verbal assault upon the goddess he partially turns away from her and begins to think. "You know. . . . .this fight really means a lot to you doesn't it?" He questioned looking back at her. "Since you care so much about this fight, I'm going to make sure you don't win it." He told her with a mock smirk on his face.

He re-ignites his power as his energy covers his form again and lets the energy build up.

"What are you going to do Daimyo? Kill me? I'm a goddess remember." She calmly reminded him.

He begins to laugh as his energy visibly begins to grow further out from him. "Hahahahahaa. . . . .who said. .hehehehe. . . .who said anything about killing you? I thought gods and goddesses were supposed to know everything."

"You'd throw away everything you have, you're a fool Daimyo."

"Everything I have! HA! I don't have anything because of you! Now because of me, you have nothing!"

He concentrates more on expanding his energy.

"Very well, if you wish to die by your own hand. Far be it for me to stop you." Tokimi tells him.

She fades out and Daimyo is left alone. He continues to expand his energy as large as he can. To work his energy to the maximum level and to make it overload, he uses all his concentration to rush his powers acceleration. Lightning begins coursing over his body as his power continues to rise past his limit. Sending wave after wave of unbearable pain through Daimyo's body. He could sense that it was going to happen soon, every fiber of his being wanted for him to stop, to survive, like he had always done before. But he knew that it was best that he continue this through to the end. He had accepted the fact that he was a danger to everyone, including himself.

He closes his eyes to await seeing his existence beyond this one. I'm sorry. . . .for everything that I've done as a monster. I may not have been able to see this if it wasn't for you, Sasami. I wish you good fortune in your life, never change who you are.

After saying his final farewell to the youngest princess, he channels the rest of his energy to detonate himself. Suddenly, he opens his eyes, as if it was a command to do so whispered softly into his ear. Through his eyes, it appears as if time itself had slowed to nearly a halt. He was able to see a figure walking toward him through the cloud of his energy. He couldn't tell who it was, but he knew it wasn't Tokimi, he would have noticed her style of hair, but this figure was something he couldn't make out. He felt a tranquil feeling wash over him, followed by a warmth that he couldn't begin to try to explain. It felt like overwhelming joy, happiness, and love rolled into one tremendous feeling. He felt tears come down his face from this feeling bursting out of him. The figure being black when he first saw it was now a glowing light. The light was an intense shine, but it didn't hurt his eyes to look at it, it was like no other light he had ever seen before. He smiled at the figure and reached his hand out toward the light.

The massive energy that Daimyo had built up ignited, resulting in the destruction of the barren world and the asteroids that encircled the planet. The blast sends a shockwave through the small system the planet was a part of causing damage to the rest of the planets in the system. The bright light of the explosion shone into the blackness of space letting any habitable world to one day see the spectacle of the planets destruction and the one day forming of a new star in the galaxy.

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Tokimi watched the explosion of the world with displeasure, her fighter was no more and Tsunami's still lived. She knew what her sister was going to say, causing her to ball her fist in anger at Daimyo's betrayal. Tsunami looks at her sister, she doesn't say anything to her to get her attention. Tokimi senses Tsunami looking at her and she looks at her as well. The two don't say anything for a moment. Tsunami breaks the silence.

"Well is there anything that needs to be said?"

"For future reference, there will be no manipulation of any of the fighters after the battle starts. Agreed?" She asks looking back at Tsunami.

"Agreed." She nods her head in compliance.

"By the way, don't think that I didn't see what you did." Tokimi added.

"I would never think that we could slip anything by the other Tokimi." Tsunami replied. "Since the rules were maintained and my fighter still lives, I shall direct the development of the universe for the next thousand years. I suppose I'll see you again in a thousand years Tokimi."

With that Tsunami disappears from the location the sisters were to watch the battle. Tokimi clinches her fists in anger for a couple of seconds, then she relaxes her hands again and smiles.

"One thousand years? Ha, what is time to an immortal? I've been patient before. . . .I can be patient again." She spoke to herself.

That's it for this chapter I hope you liked this chapter, but don't think the story is over I'll have one last chapter to write.