Horse Race with Death Time!
"Neppe, look out!" Homura shouted.
Neppe turns around seeing what appears to be a giant hoof and he quickly jumps back to dodge the sudden stomp attack; he does a few backflips and jump to close to Homura and the girls.
"Are you girls okay?" Neppe asked.
"We're fine, just tied up really hard." Homura answered as she struggles to break free.
"Wow, that is one big horse!" Mirai scared.
"From what it says on the tag of that cart it's pulling, that thing is a Geryon." Hikage informed.
This demonic being known as a Geryon resembles an enormous, dark hued horse with a mane and tail of blue flame, it's hooves, mouth and eyes also possessing a blue glow. Geryon pulls a large hearse made of black steel, with wheels featuring sharp spikes along the rims.
"Oh dear, we might end up being roadkill by a big horsy like that." Yomi worried.
"Don't worry, I'm going to get you girls out of there." Neppe promised and look to the older woman with them.
"I don't think we met before." Neppe moved to Suzune.
"My name is Suzune, I'm a Shinobi Teacher in the Hebjio Evil Shinobi Academy." Suzune introduced herself.
"She used to be a Good Shinobi named Rin, but she failed big on a mission and abandoned being a Good Shinobi onto the path of evil." Haruka bragged.
"Ouch, that must have hurt you quite a lot in your pride." Neppe said feeling sorry for Suzune.
"Quite and I was a fool for thinking Evil was the true path to ultimate power until I realize that power is what how the people use it to live out their own life." Suzune stated.
"Did you ever thought about wanting to leave the Evil life because being in that kind of life isn't very exciting." Neppe said.
"It's not like there's anything for me left in the Good Shinobi, might as well live out the rest of my days as an Evil Shinobi teaching the students." Suzune proclaimed, then got flick on the forehead by Neppe.
"What was that for?" Suzune asked.
"Just realizing how much of an idiot you are." Neppe said.
"From what Asuka told me about you and those Hebijo girls, you all don't seem like bad girls as you all claim to be and perhaps, you're just misguided on what path you really want to follow." Neppe mentioned.
"That sounds like her alright." Homura chuckled.
"So, maybe after this whole Shinobi Masters and dealing with my sister. How about I take you somewhere you might feel more comfortable in." Neppe winked.
"You're certainly a unique boy." Suzune chuckled.
Then the giant demonic horse screams stomping its hooves onto the ground getting their attention and it sneers at them.
"Oh, almost forgot about him." Neppe exclaimed.
"It looks like you're already making friends with the uninvited guests." Fubuki said with her face appearing on a big screen.
"Isn't this a little much? I didn't think you go for another hostage plan when you already had the other ones." Neppe glared at Fubuki.
"Those fools brought this upon themselves for coming in without permission, and now they must pay the price… That is if you can save them." Fubuki smirked.
"I think I already got what's going on here, but it's only right that I let you do the explanation." Neppe shrugged.
"Not much to say except in order to save those girls, you will have defeat the Geryon which I have to warn that it's quite a powerful demon, more so than a Youma." Fubuki explained as the Geryon roars loudly.
"And don't even think about freeing those girls right now because those ropes have been enchanted for a special sealing technique which is connected to the Geryon, meaning you'll have to kill it in order to free them." Fubuki mentioned.
Neppe decided to see this for himself as he pulls out his gun firing at the rope only for a red Japanese sealing symbol to appear stopping the bullets.
"Hey, are you trying to kill us!" Mirai yelled.
"Just wanted to be sure." Neppe said.
"Well, now that you've seen this for yourself. Better survive as everyone is watching trying to save them." Fubuki mentioned.
(Hebijo Girls)
"Suzune, and Homura's team! I can't believe this is happening." Imu worried for their teacher and former comrades.
"Damn it, that Fubuki is just doing this to amuse herself." Miyabi cursed.
"Don't worry, girls, Master Neppe is going to save them and pound that horsy demon into dust!" Ryona cheered.
"Let's hope you're right otherwise I'm going to kill that guy myself." Ryobi said.
"He'll win, I just know it." Murasaki believed in Neppe hugging her stuffy.
(With Asuka)
Asuka is freaking out right now upon seeing Homura and her team have been captured and are now being tied up as a prize for Neppe to save from that huge demonic horse.
"Damn it, this was not how it was supposed to go!" Asuka worried extremely.
"We had thought that everyone would be distracted during the tournament and Neppe for the Crimson Squad to go rescue my friends, but now they got captured along with Suzune." Asuka recapped on what's happening right now.
"Fuck! We should have thought this more!" Asuka cursed as she slams her fists on the arms of the chair.
"All we can do now is have faith in Neppe beating that demon and save them." Asuka said believing strongly of Neppe.
Then her mind went to the time he kissed her on the lips causing Asuka's face to turn extremely red.
"Well, maybe I could give him a little reward when he gets here." Asuka whispered to herself.
(Back with Neppe)
"Okay, guess we're gonna have ourselves dangerous rodeo." Neppe stated as he brought out his sword.
"Be careful, that one appears to be more than speed." Suzune warned.
"You got it." Neppe responded with a thumb up without looking back.
Neppe walks away from the captive girls while glaring at the Geryon as it glares back at him stomping its hoof on the ground a few times, the Geryon walks to one side while Neppe walk to the other way.
"This part isn't big enough for the both of us." Neppe talked in a cowboy like tone.
(Music: Geryon Battle Song, Devil May Cry 3 OST)
"Let see how you like running from me!" Neppe charged at the Geryon.
Geryon roars charging at the boy to squash him under its hooves, Neppe leaps high to slash at the neck to cut its head off but the giant horse monster blitz past him before the red blade could make contact with the neck.
"Whoa, that was something!" Neppe shocked.
The Geryon roars as it runs along the wall with the hearse its pulling starts to glow from the back and suddenly blue flame spears pop out from the hearse, they flew high into the sky and went down at Neppe who saw them coming and quickly move away to dodge them.
"Huh, so that's why it has that cart thing." Neppe realized.
"It's actually called a hearse." Haruka informed.
"Whatever." Neppe shrugged and jump forward.
Just when Neppe was about to pull out his guns to shoot the giant horse monster from a distance, the Geryon suddenly appeared right in front of him.
"What the…?!" Neppe gasped was the only reaction time he could do before being smacked away by its head.
Neppe crashes onto a wall making a big dent as he gasps in pain while wondering how that giant monster was able to come at him like that.
"Whoa, did you see that?!" Homura shocked.
"It was like it teleported or something." Yomi guessed.
"Damn it, guess that score one for the horse." Neppe groaned as he pulled himself out of the hole.
"Better hope you have the better "time" than the horse." Jester said before vanishing elsewhere.
The Geryon fires some more flaming spears to impale the boy though he quickly held his guns at the blue flaming spears, waiting for the right moment to shoot and then fire his bullets to knock those spears off their course though two still came at him.
Neppe decided to do a little return to sender as he jumps at the spears first parry the first one with his sword then dropkick the second one to make it flip, Neppe quickly grab the two blue flaming spears while still in midair.
"I think you drop these. Et me return them to you!" Neppe threw the two spears at the Geryon.
Geryon ran out of the way before the spears could and ran faster trying to run over Neppe as he is about to land on the ground, but the young Youma hunter jump out of the way and pull out his guns shooting at the legs as they got the two left legs making the Geryon groan in pain.
Neppe kept firing at the Geryon to force it down on its knees which would leave him a wide opening for a killing blow to end the battle.
However, the Geryon is proven to be stubborn as it refuses to go down and kept running between the hostages started into his line of fire, but Neppe was prepared for this as he kept shooting with such extreme precision that the bullets flew past the girls. Plus, that is that seal on the ropes meaning it can be use as extra protection for the hostage girls from getting hurt too.
"Hey, do you enjoy trying to shoot at us?!" Mirai shouted angry.
"Don't worry, he knows what he is doing." Suzune stated.
"Maybe I'll be convince once he stop shooting at us!" Mirai shouted again.
Then suddenly the Geryon appeared just a short several feet away from Neppe who is shocked though managed to react on time to dodge a double hoof stomp attack.
But this time Neppe sprint right back at the Geryon shooting at the body and then slashing it fiercely with his Akai Fubuki leaving a large cut mark on the right shoulder, then he hopes from its back to the back of the head for a strong roundhouse kick that knocked the Geryon down.
"Awesome! He got it down!" Homura amazed.
"Now he just needs to finish it off before it could do anything else." Suzune said while impressed with his power.
"Nighty night, stead!" Neppe smirked and falls down to slice the head of the horse monster off.
Suddenly the Geryon vanished from the spot just before Neppe was gonna swing his sword down as it only hits the ground, this left him, and the tied-up girls shocked of what just happened to the horse monster and now are wondering where did it go.
Neppe felt a sudden alert from his instinct and jump back to avoid what maybe the Geryon about to attack him again, but somehow the Geryon tackled him with its head and toss him to the ground making him bounce though he recovered fast.
"Okay, there's no way that was speed." Neppe noticed and saw the blue flaming spears coming at him again.
Neppe runs fast to dodge them and jumps onto one of them to send several flying red slash attacks, the Geryon charges forward moving left and right to dodge the slashes and even making the hearse dodge them.
Neppe decided to go big by channeling more of his demonic power into the red katana to send a bigger and stronger slash attack, but the Geryon somehow vanished from the spot it was running on, and it charges at Neppe to ram him with its head again.
"Not this time!" Neppe said as he is prepared for that attack.
Neppe move his body fast holding out one foot onto the head running to the top and through the blue flaming mane, he held his katana to perform a slashing rolling attack down the back of the neck making the Geryon roars in pain and jumping around a little.
"Let see if you had your shots!" Neppe smirked.
"I think there was something in my ear because I thought I heard him said about having your shots." Hikage informed.
"Shots? As in he's going to shoot it again?" Homura asked.
"No, as a fellow gun slinger myself, I know how gun phrases work and that didn't sound like he was talking about guns." Mirai stated.
"But what else could he meant by that?" Yomi wondered.
Neppe jumps off the back and pointed his sword down then did the most dangerous and craziest thing imaginable.
He stabbed his sword right onto the butt of the Geryon and going in deep too causing the Geryon to roar louder in pain with its eyes widen of shock from the pain.
"Oh, so that what he meant." Homura groaned, suddenly feeling her butt is hurt from just watching this.
The Crimson Squad were feeling this two along with the others who are watching the fight demon fight as they quickly clench onto their butt cheeks for unknown reasons, most are pouting thinking Neppe may have gone a bit too far even though he is fighting a dangerous monster that is trying to kill him.
"I saw you definitely got yourself a nice infection there." Neppe chuckled.
Neppe jumps off before the Geryon could start jumping around in an insane wild manner with its stomping power causing the ground to shake like an earthquake, the shaking is also making the pole the Crimson Squad and Suzune shaken up as it is almost becoming loose.
"Hey, I think the pole is losing its ground." Haruka noticed.
"Sweet! Maybe we can use that to get out!" Mirai smiled.
"Even if we get out from this spot, we're still trap in these sealed ropes until that Geryon is dead." Suzune reminded.
"Then we better hope Neppe finish it off soon." Homura said.
Neppe jumps high and aim one of his red guns at the Geryon waiting for the right moment to get that perfect shot, when the Geryon turn its head with one of its eyes facing him that is when he made the shot and let the bullet fly into that one eye destroying it. The Geryon roars in pain with one of its eyes shot causing it blindness from the right side, it runs around trying to power through the intense pain.
"Let see if he can evade this attack." Neppe prepared himself to unleash one last attack that is going to kill that horse monster.
The Geryon is still roaring in pain but was able to see Neppe using its remaining good eye and decided to use its power again, it roars causing everyone around it to slow down to a near halt as this demonic creature as the power over time like this.
The Geryon moves toward Neppe and around to the left and let time flow normally again as its about to stomp on Neppe.
But that never came as he unleashes his attack which is a superfast, blitzing move that is moving even faster than the Geryon could react and for a moment nothing seem to happen, until the Geryon gasp can blood suddenly burst out from its body and the wounds are very deep too.
The hearse it pulls has also been destroyed onto pieces as the Geryon fell onto its side for the mighty horse demon has been defeated, and Neppe had won.
(Music End)
"If I have emotions, I would be overjoyed that Neppe has won." Hikage said and then the red seal on the ropes vanishes and the ropes fell.
"We're free!" Mirai cheered.
The Geryon lifted its head one last time staring at Neppe who stare back at the monster, the Geryon softly moans before falling over to accept its death and its soul enter Neppe's body.
"Hey Neppe, what was that?" Homura asked about that weird light entering his body.
Suddenly a large debris is breaking off from the ceiling because of all the shaking the Geryon was making and it's falling toward the group, the girls and Suzune ran to get away, but Neppe remain staring up at that giant piece of rock.
"Neppe, what are you doing?!" Homura shouted.
Then the giant stone piece strangely stop as it was reaching toward his face about one inch away from crushing him, and he poke it making it float away as he looks around to see that everything has slow down.
"Slowing down time. So, this is how you did it." Neppe impressed with the new power he got from the Geryon.
Neppe walks away from the spot while pushing away from other falling rocks making his way to the girls, then he let time flows normally again.
"Talk about having time on your side." Neppe smirked.
"What the…? How did you…?" Suzune shocked as the others are.
"Come on, don't want to keep my big sister waiting." Neppe walked away heading to the next level to the top.
The Crimson Squad and Suzune are still shocked of Neppe being able to suddenly move like that almost like he can teleport like the Geryon, but they decided to ask him about that later and carry on with their mission.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
I decided to make this chapter a little interesting like how Dante defeated the Geryon in the Devil May Cry 3 game, and now Neppe has gain a new ability allowing him to have the same power as the Geryon and he will march forward to face his twin sister.
KO comment, favorite, and follow through of how this story will go!
