Through The Infernal Gate

By the Evil Cadet

Okay, I am very sorry that I took so long to update my story, but life happens, ya?

Well, just a reminder, this story is going into the Dark Tournament part of the anime, but with my own modifications.   Well, lets get this story rolling, and just a reminder, watch out for those weapons of mass destruction in the back!

KA-BLOOOMMY!!!!!!!

Character thoughts

[[Diablo talking]]

((Mephisto talking))

Baal talking

On with the story!!

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Kyra was feeling annoyed as the boat taking them got underway. 

First off, they were surrounded by low class demons that were just plain pathetic, and were looking to kill her and her team mates.  Especially since the ship had just become a free-for all zone for the preliminary elimination. 

Second, that lazy goof Yusuke was sleeping through it all.  How was he able to do that?

Kyra turned her attention back to the swarm of attacking demons.  It was dumb and pathetic really.

She grabbed the first fool in her reach by the neck and used him as a weapon, swinging the fool into a crowd of demons.

SNAP!

She didn't even wince as his neck snapped like a dry twig.  She tossed him casually aside and grabbed her next two weapons, or victims, swinging the blue one so that his horns gutted his own former team mates, and tossing him aside on the gore covered deck, grabbing an fresh one, and discarding it with the same carelessness.

She noticed out of the corner of her that Yusuke seemed to have woken up because he was raining punches on his foes with, in her opinion, a rather decent speed.  Then she saw she was mistaken, because Yusuke then slumped back down muttering.  He was only fighting in his sleep. 

It didn't take long for Yusuke's team to lay waste to all the other teams.  She and the team casually walked off the gory ship when it pulled into dock and went to their rooms at a very fancy hotel.

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AN: just like the anime skipped all of Yusuke's training with Genkai, so am I just going to skip to the final match against team Toguro.  It will be just after Kurama loses the first round.  During the skipped time, Kyra was training with her new sword, Azure Wrath, and learning to control some of its powers.

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Kyra was feeling quite outraged as she watched Yusuke assist Kurama, a broken, battered, bloody, and defeated Kurama out of the ring.  This was it, now, they would have to face her.  And she was going to make sure no one else could get hurt.

The huge, armored man, Bui, step forward to fight.  Kyra grinned, now, it was her turn!

Before any of her team members could do a thing, she leapt to the arena.  Kyra then purposely stumbled and fell over, several times to give the impression that she was clumsy.

When she "regained" her balance, she approached the fishy referee girl and boldly put out her challenge.

"If you don't mind, I would like to be allowed to keep fighting until an opponent can kill me.  I say kill, not just defeat.  I have been the alternate for the entire tournament and I want a chance to catch up, or is that asking too much?"

"What!?  You actually want to keep fighting until your dead?!  I don't-"

The rest of what the fish girl ref said was completely lost in the blood-thirsty roar from the stands.  The audience certainly approved.  They wanted death, and she was offering it freely.

The Toguro brothers looked at each other, and the Elder Toguro gave their response.

"If the girl is so desperate to fight, who are we to deny her one last wish before she dies?  We accept her proposal, and the crowd certainly does too, so let's get on with it!"

It was all Kyra could do to hide her grin.

((Am I hearing this girl right?  She must be loosing it!  No… Wait… Baal, have you been keeping track of the days?  Please tell me its not that time again!!))

I hate to say it, Brother, but it is.  Groan.  I hate human female's monthly cycle, especially this part, when they are at their meanest and grumpiest!

[[I almost feel sorry for those demons.  Kyra is really bad at this time.  Remember in 1994?  Northridge in that Southern California when she got rather grumpy and some poor shmuck got her ticked off?  That was some earthquake she caused!]]

I can think of a time she was worse.  That volcano people called Mount Saint Helens?  When she made it blow its top?  That one was actually rather entertaining.  That was quite a display she made, especially the way she ruined the whole area!

Kyra growled and decided to ignore the buffoons that shared her skull.

With that she and Bui began their fight at the ref's call.  The huge man was wielding an ax with a blade about as big as she was.  There was intimidation, yes, if she had been anyone else. 

She ran to the side, ducking under the swing of the goliath's ax, and watched as he brought up a block from the arena floor on the ax, and flung it at her.  With a yelp, she threw herself into a roll, strait at Bui.

Smart idea?  Maybe not, but it worked, and she came up, Azure Wrath in hand, and slashed the handle of the ax.  She the turned and dealt a round-house kick to Bui's armored head, making the helm ring. 

Backing off, she then called up Diablo's powers and threw a huge bolt of molten lava at Bui which was swatted away by yet another, even larger ax!

Oh great!  A bigger one?  Wait, this guy is holding back, and a lot!  That armor of his must be restraining is power.  Interesting.  Well, lets see if I can convince him to go all out!

Kyra dropped her fighting stance and put Azure Wrath away in its scabbard.  She then turned to Bui.

"Hey, its Bui, right?  I can tell you are holding out on me.  I see a lot of demons who paid good money for a good fight.  Shall we give it all we got?  I mean, what's the point if we don't go to our limits?  What do you say, got to it, no holding back, and see who really is the strongest?"

Bui nodded his agreement and explained as he removed his armor just what its true purpose had been.  Not protection, but as Kyra had guessed, containment!  Kyra watched, inwardly amused, outwardly appearing alarmed as Bui powered up.  He unleashed a storm of power.

She couldn't help herself, and grinned.  She then unleashed not quite all, but only a fraction of only Diablo's power, so it seemed equal.  Blue maelstrom of power versus blood crimson.  And then….

Wha..?  Where … am… I..?  What happened?  Wait… am I... in…

A new voice suddenly came from nowhere in Kyra's head.  It was groggy and at first weak, but it quickly became stronger, clearer, and sharper.  Diablo yelped in surprise and recognition.

[[What!  No, it cant be?!  How, in the Name of the Void did that meddling Archangel get here?! That's Tyrael!]]

Diablo's startled curses were quickly joined by his brothers.  Tyrael was just as surprised, if not more so.

What are you Three doing here?!  Wait, why am I in the body of a girl?!!!  What in Heaven is going on here?!

What do you mean what are we doing here?!  What are you doing in here?!

All the yelling and arguing going on inside Kyra's head had made her completely forget about the fight she was in and was yelling,  "Would you all just qui- Aaahhhh!"

With his opponent clearly distracted, Bui had taken the opportunity to blast her into the wall off the stadium.  She was down and completely covered in debris. 

Her teammates groaned and were yelling for her, they could not afford to lose the match. 

"Well folks!  Kyra has been completely blasted from the ring and now for the count!  One!... Two…Thr-"  the fishy ref never got the chance to finish saying 'three' because a red glow came erupting from the debris pile. 

With a roar that sent everyone in the stadium either shivering in terror, for the stronger ones, to collapsing and falling to their knees, or even fainting in pure, out right, terror.  No one knew why they where suddenly so terrified, but they were.

The crimson, blood red glow from the pile ended and something, a huge, dark crimson, something erupted from it an landed in the arena ring. 

It was a demon that had not been seen for many thousands of years, Diablo, the Lord of Terror was once again in physical form. 

He stood perhaps 12 to 14 feet tall, was maybe 15 to 18 feet in length from head to tail tip.  He had long spikes, some maybe 4 feet in length sticking out from his back.  The upper spikes went out more to the sides than the ones that ran down the length of his tail did.

His legs were as if he were a human standing on its toes, with spikes sticking forward from his knees, another pair of spikes going back at the heels, which were off the ground.  His feet were like those of a t-rex, except he had five toes with very big claws.

Is arms were human-like as well, but like his knees, the elbows were spiked.  He had huge hands, each one had palms bigger than a dinner plate, and long clawed fingers. 

His face was intimidating, with a mouth of fang-like teeth, the blood red glow in his eyes.  His chin had three smaller spikes, the middle one went just down, and the others spread in the directions away from it.  He had two, large bull-like horns coming out from the sides of his head.

There was no question from his very appearance why he was the Lord of Terror.  Once everyone in the stadium had recovered enough from the wave of terror they had been hit with, the new demon move strait for the ref, who just about fainted when he took his first, earth shaking step towards her.  He temporarily purloined her microphone, at which point she slumped in relief that she was alive.  He the growled into the mike,

"Ah, fellow demons, it has been to long!  I see you have all grown soft and weak in the absence of me and my brothers.  For those who don't know who I am, allow me to remedy that.  I am the youngest of the Three Brother Demon Lords,   Diablo, the Lord of Terror.  No more weakness!  I have returned in full physical form!"

With that, Diablo threw back his head and let at a roaring laugh, one that sent another, even stronger wave of pure, apoplectic Terror out at everyone.

The Three great demon Lords of Evil, had indeed returned!

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Muwahahahaa!!

The Tree are BACK!!!  But what about Kyra?  What happened to her?  And where the heck did the Archangel Tyrael come from?  Find out in the next chapter! 

Oh, and I promise to update A LOT sooner this time!

READ AND REVIEW, OR I WILL SICK DIABLO ON YOU!!

Till next time, the Evil Cadet, Checking Out