The Leviathan of Fairy Tail

by dragomaster312

Sadness and grief are like water in the ocean. At times, it's calm and other times it crashes violently. All you can do to overcome it, is to swim. A boy named Willy goes through many adventures, while struggling to find out who he is despite his past. Will he swim or drown? I do not own Fairy Tail. Willy by is owned by me. Any comments/reviews appreciated. OC x Canon in later.

76. Chapter 76 A Lowly Ninja vs A Samurai

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The opening begins in the world of Edolas with the camera slowly panning downwards. As it does we see nine Fairy Tail members of Fairy Tail looking towards the distance determined. Natsu, Happy, and Carla in the front, Wendy, Lucy, and Erza in the upper left, and Gray, Willy, and Gajeel on a ledge in the right. We then see transparent up close shots of the Mages. First Happy and Carla, then Gray, Gajeel, and Willy, next, Wendy, Lucy, and Erza, and finally Natsu.

Chotto yogoreta SUUTSUKEESU wo motte
Nani mo shirazu ni sora kara orita
Chizu no mukou, koko ni sanjou

It is revealed that the Fairy Tail members are looking towards the Royal City of Edolas as the camera pans up towards it as the Fairy Tail logo appears. The camera continues panning upwards showing the entire Royal Castle until it stops at the lacrima that is Magnolia revealed to be floating right on top of the city.

Yume ni mita akogare no basho
Yea Yea Yea (Yea Yea Yea)
The Rock City Boy (The Rock City Boy)
Yea Yea Yea (Yea Yea Yea)
The Rock City Boy (The Rock City Boy)

We see Natsu taking on Hughes and his army of Monster Academy monsters using his Fire Dragon Iron Fist to knock down one of the monsters that attacked him. With a wave of his Command Tact, Hughes commands his army of monsters to attack Natsu. We then see Gray and Sugarboy fighting over a large key that Gray has encased with ice due to his magic. Sugarboy seems to be sneering at Gray while Gray is determined to stop Suagrboy from taking the key. We now see a crying Coco who appears to be running away from Byro holding the large key in her hands. She stumbles a little, but she manages to keep running as Byro chases after her. Lucy who is wearing a bikini skirt outfit, turns around and sees that Coco is in trouble. She then unleashes a whip the rope being made of some kind of water making it dance around her as Coco and one of Lucy's spirits' Virgo watch on amazed.

Oh baby JANJAN kabe norikoeyou with my guitar Todoku made oh yeah utaou
Just music sore dake de Kimi ni sasageru yo oh yeah

We see Erza fighting Erza Knightwalker their weapons clashing. Erza quickly requips to her Heaven's Wheel Armor while Knightwalker's spear changes as they collide again. Erza is looking distressed having to be fighting such a tough opponent while Knightwalker is all smiles thrilled that she's fighting Erza. We also see Willy fighting Kuromen their blades clasging until they enter in a sword lock trying to push each other back. As the two gaze grimly at each other, something glints in Willy's eye a little and it turns a slight green color. We then see Gajeel blocking a giant sword that was swung by Pantherlily with Gajeel smiling taking the blow in stride while Pantherlily is distressed having to be surprised that Gajeel blocked him.

MAJI de kyoutsuuten no hou ga ooi nchau no? with my guitar
Sagashinagara yea utaou, just love tada sore dake de

King Faust is screaming with insanity as he is riding inside controlling what appears to a large metal dragon which roars loudly causing some rocks to float from the power as it stands before Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, and Willy. Natsu is a bit intimidated, but he doesn't back down as he along with the other dragon slayers prepare to fight.

Oikake get free?! My perfect dream!

Now we see the entire Edolas Fairy Tail Guild. Then we see Carla, Happy, and an unknown exceed that looks just like Carla. The unknown exceed is female and is wearing royal garb while Happy is looking confused and Carla is looking depressed about something. Then we see Mystogan letting out a cry of victory as he holds up his staff in the air as he stands on top a pile of rubble with the people of Edolas raising their fists with him. We see an up-close shot of Natsu smiling, an up-close shot of Happy with Natsu in the background, Natsu, Gray, and Happy with an up close shot of Gray and Natsu in the background carrying Happy by his backpack, and then an up-close shot of Gajeel scowling while crossing his arms with Gray standing in the background and Natsu and Happy smiling and being silly.

Yea Yea Yea The Rock City Boy

Carla and Happy falling after jumping off from Extalia. They then spread their Aera Wings and Happy smiles while looking at Carla and Carla smiles back at Happy.

Ne teru toki mo Oki teru toki mo
Yume wo mikata ni shiyo yo Yea!

Now there's a montage small clips of every event in Edolas. Natsu is strapped in Hughes' Hell Coaster sick as a dog with Lucy holding on for dear life. Pantherlily readying his large sword, Lucy and Virgo looking up at Byro who is now a giant octopus-like creature, Lucy bringing her whip back to strike her opponent, Wendy and Carla being pelted by stones thrown by the Exceeds with Wendy shielding Carla, Natsu, Gray, and Willy standing in front of Erza who is holding King Faust hostage while being surrounded by Royal Soldiers, a large pillar of red light erupting from the top of the palace with King Faust throwing up his arms laughing with triumph, the lacrima above the palace is now glowing red as its hurling straight towards Extalia with two Exceed watching looking worried, and there are numerous Exceeds taking off into the air with Pantherlily watching in amazement.

Finally, we see all four dragon slayers standing on a rock. The camera zooms out revealing Erza, Gray, Carla, Happy, And Lucy standing at the bottom of the rock. The camera zooms out making everyone in the lower right corner as the music ends.

I wanna believe the singing on beat Most recently is like recess for me
Pretty pretty please, no birds and the bees But ecstasy with extra cheese
Rhyming rhino sounding like bono All smacked up with a black jack bottle
When I say "ho" you say "hey" Nani itteru ka wakaranai yo ne?!

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Chapter 76

Ninja vs Samurai

I was feeling a bit nervous facing off against this Kuromen guy. He wasn't like any opponent I've faced before. His stance left no openings and the aura around him was heavy and intimidating. There were only two other people who have this kind of stance. Finn and Tu-Chi. Only this guy's intent to kill was a lot more prominent than they put together. I instinctively gulped feeling somewhat frightened, but I stood my ground and was ready to fight.

Then after a moment that seemed to pass like forever, Kuromen pounced straight towards me bringing his sword over his head and slicing it sword with a great force. I quickly brought my swords into an X and blocked the blow. When our swords collided and I felt a shock through mine making my arms a bit numb. The force was also so strong, that it pushed me back making me skid back a few feet. I looked up in time to see Kuromen shoot straight towards me again. This time I dashed straight toward him swinging my blades at his side. Kuromen immediately brought up his sword to block and our swords clashed once again. Both of us swung our blades at each other making them clash, again and again. The sounds of metal clanging rang in the air.

The two of us then swung our swords with a great amount of force making them collide making a concussive blast of air explode around us. The force from our collision sent us both back flying backward. I leaned back and did a flip landing in a crouch while Kuromen landed on his feet standing his ground. I then took a deep breath and unleashed a powerful blast of water from my mouth.

"WATER DRAGON ROAR!"

The blast of water shot right towards Kuromen, but he raised up his sword and with a mighty swing unleashed a shockwave of his sword slicing my breath attack in half like butter making my eyes widen a little in surprise. Kuromen then straightened up and then brought his sword above his head.

"BLACK BLADE CUT!"

He then swung his sword down as a black crescent energy wave projectile as it came straight at me.

"WATER DRAGON GEYSER WALL!"

I punched the ground in front of me making a geyser shoot forth from the ground making a wall. The attack Kuromen launched slammed directly into it making me grunt a little from the force and huge explosion shake the area.

"How interesting," he said. "You can use water-based magic without having to use a lacrima or a magic item just as the rumors said. How... strange and yet very unique."

"You know, I would say thanks, but I can't tell if you're complimenting me or insulting me," I said. "Anyway, I am a Water Dragon Slayer as well a trained ninja, so I guess you could call me unique."

"A trained ninja you say? How sad," said Kuromen. "A ninja is nothing more, but a common assassin. A mere mercenary for hire. Something like that won't come close to defeating a warrior like me."

"What do you mean?" I asked feeling a bit confused.

"I'm saying that I'm one of the king's most elite warriors," said Kuromen. "A warrior of the highest nobility, one of honor and one of dignity. A samurai."

"So you're a samurai. Big whoop," I scoffed. "What does that have to do with our fight?"

"It has everything to do with it," said Kuromen. "You see, a samurai like myself is far beyond to what a ninja is capable of. I've been trained by the some of the most powerful of swordsman and have been taught the ways of the sword. Meanwhile, you've been trained to hide in the shadows and use unorthodox styles of fighting using whatever means necessary to win a fight. Including ambushing, espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination. How gutless."

Now I felt insulted. "How is that gutless?" I demanded.

"A real warrior should face their opponent and fight until the bitter end," he said. "Those who run are worse than scum. And ninjas like you seem to masters of running."

I squeezed the handles on my swords tightly slightly trembling in anger. "And what could you possibly know about ninja?" I asked hotly. "My master Tu-Chi taught me all about honor and the ways of the ninja! She's not only a great master, but she's just as honorable as any other warrior!"

Kuromen stared. Then he let out a throaty chuckle. "What ludicrous. No ninja could possibly have any honor," he said. "Your master is either a fool or has pretty strange standards of honor."

Feeling a flash of anger surge through me, I immediately shot forward and swung my blades. Kuromen brought up his blade and blocked them with ease.

"Don't you dare talk about my master like that," I said coldly. "If you say one more thing about her, I swear I'll make you regret it."

"You think your threats can intimidate me?" scoffed Kuromen. "I've defeated countless enemies for my king, Faust. Those who fought against me have either perished or have fled in fear. In fact, you should feel honored. It's not every day that a low-class ninja like yourself gets to lock swords with an elite samurai like myself."

"You know what? I think I've had it up to here with your talking," I said using my swords to push Kuromen back. "Besides, like I said before, you should never underestimate your opponent. Even a 'low-class ninja' can surpass a samurai if he works hard enough. And apparently, if he has enough emotion and something to fight for!"

I pushed back leaping backward until I landed on the ground. I then dispersed my swords cloaking my hands with water while jumping into the air.

"WATER DRAGON WING ATTACK!"

I released a powerful shockwave of water that collided with Kuromen with a mighty splash sending him reeling. As I landed back on the ground and not letting up on my assault, I conjured a pair of large shurikens which hovered from my hands.

"WATER DRAGON DOUBLE STAR!"

I threw my water stars making them fly straight towards him at a great speed. Kuromen brought up his sword and sliced through the shuriken making them nothing more, but harmless water. Seeing that as an opening, I quickly closed in on him bringing back my fist clenching it and cloaking it with water.

"WATER DRAGON IRON FIST!"

I swung with all of my strength connecting right in the sternum of Kuromen's chest sending him flying into a stall nearby. He flew until he crashed into the stall causing it to crumble and fall apart. I felt a bit satisfied seeing that I sent Kuromen flying, but I knew that that punch alone wasn't enough to take him out. Sure enough, Kuromen burst out from the rubble and was back on his feet.

"Impressive," he said as he brushed the dust off his armor. "I never expected that. It seems that you're more powerful than I thought. If I wasn't wearing this armor, you would have given me quite a bruise."

"Enough with the flattery," I said. "I know you're pulling your punches. I mean even I know that those attacks alone weren't enough to deal some damage to you. You've been holding back on me."

"Is that so?" asked Kuromen in a coolly tone. "And how do you know this?"

"I can tell. You could have blocked my attacks, but you didn't. Besides, I'm holding back a little myself," I said. "So, why don't you stop fooling around and show me your true strength Kuromen, so I can beat you to the ground and call it a day."

Kuromen straightened up and let out an even louder laugh. "I see. You're quite the interesting boy," he said. "Out of all the people I've fought in my countless battles, never once did someone ask me to show my power. Well... other than Erza Knightwalker that is. Very well then. If you wish to see the true power of Kuromen the Demon Swordsman, I'll be more than happy to show you..."

He paused impressively and the took a stance holding his sword with two hands taking a Chūdan stance. A tense few seconds passed then he spoke in a low voice that made him sound threatening.

"TWICE CRITICAL."

At that moment, he began to glow in a strange gray light. A strange pressure began to emanate from his body making his silver hair dance in the wind from the force. His sword also began to glow a bit in a strange black light. At that moment, I immediately summoned my swords preparing for whatever he had for me, but I would be in for a surprise. One minute, Kuromen was a few feet away from me. The next minute, he suddenly appeared in front of me his sword at his side about to slice upwards. At the last moment, I leaped back barely managing to dodge just as the blade narrowly missed my cheek. I backflipped trying to get away, but Kuromen was right on my heels as he went on the attack.

"Crap! He's even faster than before!" I thought to myself.

Our sword fight once again resumed our swords clanging and clashing. However, every time I parried Kuromen's attacks, I could feel some slight pain from parts of my body as if Kuromen was getting to me even if I was blocking.

"You're fighting very well, boy! But compared to what I am right now, you're nothing but an amateur swordsman!" yelled Kuromen as he attacked. "Your skills as a ninja are mediocre compared to a trained samurai!"

"Wanna bet?!" I yelled as I sliced with both swords horizontally.

Kuromen immediately ducked having to have seen the attack coming. He swept my legs with a low sweep kick causing me to stumble, then he lunged forward thrusting with the hilt of his sword connecting it smack on my cheek. As I felt the impact, he quickly spun around and then hit me in the back of my head with a back turning kick.

"BLACK LOTUS STRIKE!" I heard him say.

I let out a cry of pain as I was sent flying and tumbling on the ground. I was able to jump up and land to my feet in a crouch as I skidded to a stop, but my cheek, as well as the back of my head, were now throbbing in agony. I looked back in time to see Kuromen poising his sword as it glowed in a black color.

"DARK BLADE FORCE!" he yelled.

He swung his blade unleashing a powerful wave of black as it ripped the ground heading straight for me. Seeing the attack coming I placed my hands on the ground and used my Geyser Wall to protect myself. The attack slammed directly into my shield this time with a lot more force. I grunted as the overwhelming attack barreled into my wall. Then to my shock, the attack began to break through my wall. Having no other choice, I quickly jumped out of the way just as the wave destroyed the wall and shot right by me continuing on its path until it obliterated a building reducing it to nothing more, but rubble. Dust flew everywhere making a huge cloud as I landed on the ground.

"That was way too close!" I thought to myself. "If I didn't dodge that, I would have ended up like that building!"

I then looked around in the cloud of smoke I was in trying to see where Kuromen was. Thankfully, I couldn't see anything, so taking this opportunity I quickly ran out of the dust and hid behind a hotel building. I straightened up and wiped my cheek. I felt something warm and wet on it causing me to look at it. On the back of my hand, I saw that it had blood on it. I also took notice of a couple of cuts and scrapes all over my arms and my legs bleeding slightly along with bruises. My cheek, in particular, had a big bruise on it thanks to Kuromen hitting me with the hilt of his sword.

"Damn it... this guy's tougher than I thought," I thought. "If I had to make a guess as to how strong he is, I'd say he's almost as strong as Erza when it comes to swordsmanship. One thing's for sure, I'm in a bit of a pickle. If I don't find a way to take this guy out and soon, I'll be taking a long dirt nap. There's got to be a way for me to get him."

I looked out from the corner trying to see where Kuromen was. I also remembered when we clashed carefully taking note of his style of fighting, his armor, and anything else that was notable. So far, I didn't see any openings and I couldn't think of anything as far as a plan of attack. I racked my brain trying to come up with some kind of plan. Then I had an idea. From what I can gather based on from what I've seen, when he said Twice Critical, his power and speed seemed to increase. His sword even began to glow whenever he used his attacks, so therefore, the sword he wields must have been some kind of magic item.

"If I could knock his sword away from him," I thought. "If I can at least do that much, I should gain some kind of advantage. He may be a samurai, but even the strongest samurai is useless without his sword. And if I'm gonna do that, I'm gonna need water. And lots of it."

Then I heard Kuromen as he slowly walked out of the cloud of dust.

"I'm impressed that you were able to last through all of that," Kuromen said. "Not to mention that you tried to block my Dark Blade Force. Most people would have died after that attack. You're not an ordinary opponent. However, if you plan to defeat me by hiding like a coward, you might want to try a little harder."

Sensing danger again, I immediately jumped up in time to see another wave unleashed by Kuromen destroy the building. As I landed on the ground, I looked up in time to see Kuromen coming straight for me with his sword poised. But rather than take it head on, I immediately ducked dodging the blow making the sword just barely cut a few hairs off of my head. I immediately turned around and then with a spring of my legs, took off running as fast as I can.

"You dare to run and turn your back on your opponent?!" Kuromen called. "Come back and face me you, filthy ninja!"

I ignored him and continued to run. Kuromen then swung his sword and with a mighty yell, unleashed another shockwave of power. I jumped into the air dodging the blow and then summoned forth my water wings. With a mighty flap, I took off flying into the air and flew high. I happened to glance down and I saw Kuromen keeping up with me. At first, I thought that I was safe and thinking that Kuromen couldn't reach me up here, but I was wrong. He was right on my heels hopping from building to building in the park jumping into the air.

"BLACK BLADE CUT!" he yelled.

Hearing him say those words made me immediately bank to the right just as the projectile of his Black Blade Cut shot right past me. As the wind of the attack buffeted at me, Kuromen unleashed another attack forcing me to bank to the left. I kept on dodging and banking and Kuromen kept attacking and slicing. As I flew, I quickly scanned towards the ground below searching for something.

"Come on... Come on..." I thought. "There's gotta be some around here somewhere..."

Then Kuromen jumped up with his sword raised ready to slice me down. I immediately banked downwards dodging again, but then Kuromen did a flip in the air and then hit me on my back with a downward kick.

I grunted in pain as I was sent flying downwards towards the ground, but I quickly was able to right myself using my wings. Then a familiar scent wafted into my nose.

"There it is!" I thought.

I swooped downwards flying close to the floor until I saw what I was smelling. There in front of me was a large body of water. It seemed to be some kind of attraction for a ride or something, but it was just what I needed. I dove straight down and hoping to dive into the water, but Kuromen suddenly reappeared his sword pointing down at me.

"Now you're mine!" he yelled.

Having no chance of dodging, I quickly summoned forth a sword and brought it up horizontally to block. Our swords collided with a mighty clang, but Kuromen's sword slashed right through mine and sent me flying downwards splashing down into the water below. I let out a cry of pain as I hit the water. I was expecting it to be deep, but instead, it was rather shallow. As I stood up, I winced as I felt some slight pain on my chest. I looked down and I saw that my shirt was ripped with a gash oozing with blood underneath. I placed my hand on my chest and began using my healing spell.

"The wound isn't serious, but I didn't want Kuromen to use it as an advantage," I thought. "I have to make this quick, otherwise this guy'll see it as an opening."

"It seems that you decided to stop running away," said Kuromen. "And I'm starting to understand why. Since you're a water mage, you were hoping that this pool would give you some sort of advantage, right? Sorry to say, that won't work. This pool is as shallow as a small pond, so you won't be able to swim in it. You might be able to increase your power, but it would be minuscule at best."

"Don't be so smug," I said. "You may think you've figured out something about me, but I've figured out something too. Your sword... It can cancel out magic can't it?"

"What made you come to that conclusion?" asked Kuromen.

"Based on from what I've seen, you... no. I'm pretty sure all of you commanders have magic items," I said. "Since we Earth Landers have eternal magic power, I would have to assume that you of Edolas don't and use magic items instead. Sugarboy, Hughes, and even your version of Erza. All of you rely on magic items and your sword is no exception. Your sword can absorb magic and I'm guessing it somehow makes your techniques stronger. Am I right?"

Kuromen chuckled. "Well... I'll grant you this, you're pretty sharp," he said as he showed off his sword. "This sword was forged by one of the king's finest blacksmiths. As you say, it has the ability to absorb magic and store it, converting into power solely for my techniques."

"I guess that also explains how you were able to get through my Geyser Wall," I said. "You not only were able to get through it with power, but you were also able to use the magic you absorbed in it as well. I gotta admit, you may not have eternal magic power within you, but you got quite the weapon. I can see how you were able to take down the wizard guilds."

"Now who's the one complementing?" spoke Kuromen as he readied his sword. "If you're trying to sweet talk your way out of this, then don't because I intend to make this place your grave."

I looked down at my hand where it was covering the wound and saw that my wound was now completely healed. I looked back at Kuromen and flashed a smirk.

"I hate to be the one to tell you this," I said. "But I'm not gonna die! At least not today!"

I then took a deep breath and the water rippled around me as ropes shot into the air. The ropes danced until they shot into my mouth as I was now drinking the water.

"What is this?" I heard Kuromen say sounding surprised. "He's... drinking the water?"

I gulped down as much water as I could feel my magic power growing and my power restoring. Soon enough, I had my fill and I wiped my mouth feeling satisfied as looked at Kuromen smiling as my body began to glow blue.

"Hope you're ready Kuromen," I said. "Because from here on in, I'm going all out!"

While letting out a loud yell, I extered my magic power making my aura which was my magic grow bigger and causing the water to ripple around us. Kuromen readied his sword looking to be a bit rattled. Not waiting for him to recover, I cloaked my hands with water once again and dashed towards him in an incredible speed and socked him right in the cheek with an Iron Fist.

The attack sent Kuromen backward as he slid in the water trying to regain his balance. He looked at me and then raised his sword as it glowed black.

"BLACK BLADE CUT!" he yelled.

He swung his sword unleashed another black projectile of energy. This time instead of blocking or dodging, I cloaked my leg with water and then gave the attack a powerful kick diverting it away.

"Impossible!" gasped Kuromen. "He deflected my Black Blade Cut with just his kick?!"

I shot straight towards him letting out another yell of battle as my surged with magic. I conjured another pair of shurikens from my hands, took aim, and then threw them towards him.

"It's useless!" called out Kuromen. "You can throw whatever ninja stars and even your breath attack all you like, but I'll just absorb it with my sword with one touch!"

He readied his sword ready to intercept the shurikens, but at the last moment, the shurikens changed their path and Kuromen was forced to dodge making them clip his shoulder and his right side leaving him open for attack. I then clasped my hands together and concentrated for my next spell.

"WATER DRAGON CLONES!"

At my command, four other clones of me appeared from out thin air and then me along with the clones shot straight towards Kuromen. I first jumped up and cloaked my hands with water.

"I told you! You can't use your magic on me!" said Kuromen. "I can use my sword to-"

"WATER DRAGON GEYSER WALL!"

Ignoring Kuromen, I slammed my fists into the water and a huge wall of water gushed forth from it.

"What is this?! Using your shield again?!" I heard Kuromen say. "I told you that it's useless!"

Sensing his attack coming, I ducked out of the way just as Kuromen's blade sliced through my wall like butter. Two of my clones having to have also dodged immediately came down from above attacking both of his sides.

"WATER DRAGON ROAR!"

"WATER DRAGON WING ATTACK!"

Their spells hit Kuromen straight on as he let out a grunt of pain. Then my two other clones came charging at him from the front.

"WATER DRAGON...!"

"IRON FIST!"

"BLADE!"

"TALON!"

"GUSHING ELBOW!"

The two clones then attacked Kuromen using the melee styles of my dragon slayer magic finishing it off with one clone kicking and the other with a punch. I summoned forth my blades and then dashed towards Kuromen ready to deliver the finishing blow. Kuromen staggered recoiling from the beating instinctively putting up his sword, but I immediately kicked upward on his hand and knocked the sword out of his hands.

"No! My sword!" he cried.

"Now I have you!" I yelled. "WATER DRAGON DOUBLE BLADE!"

I crossed my arms and rapidly sliced Kuromen with my swords hitting him with everything I had. I slashed and I sliced about ten times and then finished up with a powerful cross slash hitting Kuromen right in the chest as I reappeared behind him. He screamed in agony he felt my relentless assault as he fell onto his knees. His armor had scratches, the bodysuit was ripped with fresh wounds underneath, and he also had tears on his pants making them lose their puffiness a little. My clones then disappeared as I pointed my sword at his back. Sensing that I had his sword pointed to him, Kuromen didn't move a muscle.

"I see. You drank the water to regain your magic and power yourself up," he said. "Not only that, but you used your water wall technique to smokescreen yourself and the clones. Then you got between me and my sword and knocked it away, so you could attack me in full force. Not bad."

"That's right. You've lost this battle," I said. "You're a strong warrior. I'll give you that, but this is the part where I ask you to surrender. If you give up now and tell me where the king is, I won't hurt you any more than I already have."

There was a long silence.

"Why would you ask such a ridiculous request?" Kuromen asked. "You know as well as I do that someone like me will never tell you where he is. If I was you, I would kill me while I have the chance."

"That may be so, but I would rather settle this peacefully," I said. "I don't mind fighting, but I refuse to take a life. Even if that life is my enemy. Besides, there's no point in fighting anymore. I've knocked your sword away and your defenseless. Without it, you can't boost your power or absorb my magic let alone fight back."

A long silence passed once again. Then the sound of laughter could be heard. At first, it was quiet, but then it grew louder and louder. The laughter was coming from Kuromen.

"You know... I take back what I said about you," he said. "You're not a coward or scum..."

At first, I thought that he was planning to give up, but then he turned his head towards me, his faceless mask seeming to ooze with hatred behind it.

"... you're nothing, but a naive fool," he finished.

Before I had a chance to react, I felt something connect in my stomach hard knocking the wind out of me as I splashed down on the water. I coughed and gasped trying to get my breathing in order.

"To think that someone like you would offer an enemy mercy," he said with disgust. "That's the epitome of stupidity and an insult. If you don't have the resolve to finish off your opponent, then you have no right to call yourself a warrior!"

"You... don't have to do this!" I choked standing up. "We can... work this out!"

"Silence! You will not persuade me to betray my king!" yelled Kuromen. "I will protect my king from harm and will destroy every person who dares stand in the way of his vision and his dream! That is the vow I made to my king. I would rather sell my soul to the devil than let anyone take or harm my king! And if someone dares threaten his life or his kingdom, I will have no choice, but to strike them down! And since you've proven to be a major threat, I have no choice but you come at you with full force!

He turned around and then spoke in a tone of voice that took a turn for the demonic.

"FULL POWER CRITICAL!"

His body then exploded with a powerful aura as it flared with magic power.

"I gotta stop him!" I thought as I immediately poising my swords. "I can't let him power up!"

I then dashed straight at him and slashed with my swords, but as I did, something happened that made my eyes widen in shock. My swords instead passed right through him like he was some kind of phantom. Then Kuromen swung his blade and I crossed my swords to block, but then I felt something slice on my back making me grunt in pain. I staggered and immediately jumped back.

"What the heck?! My swords went right through him!" I thought. "Not only that, but he hit me from behind when he was attacking from the front! How was that even possible?!"

With a yell, Kuromen shot straight towards me and swung his blade in an even more incredible speed than before. I crossed my swords immediately blocking. As our swords clashed, my swords began to deteriorate and lose their form leading me to believe that he was absorbing my magic. I immediately jumped back trying to get away, but Kuromen was right on me slashing his blade once again at my left. I tried bringing my sword to the left to block, but suddenly I felt something slash my right hip ripping my shorts and making a gash that oozed blood. I tried slashing again, but once again the attacks seemed to go right through him as he attacked from the front only to have my back struck again making me yell in pain. Sensing that he was on my right, I looked to try and see where he was, only to have my left hip get slashed ripping my shirt making more blood ooze. He then rapidly kicked me in series of kicks each one powerful and quick and finished off with a powerful frontal slash. I crossed my swords to block making a huge metallic clang. Next thing I knew, I was sent flying across until I slammed into a hut of sorts. I groaned as I was in more pain than before.

"Gah! Not again!" I thought as I winced in pain staggering to my feet. "This time from the right when I was trying to block from the left! Every time I tried to attack, I either get attacked from the opposite side or my attacks go right through him! What is this technique?! Did his attack and speed improve that much?!"

Kuromen then took a leaning Ox Guard stance and his sword began to glow in a blacker color than before. His aura grew more powerful as well as his pressure making the water ripple and splash about and the color of his aura made him all the more intimidating. His faceless mask, in particular, was what made my blood cold. His face may have been hidden behind that mask, but even I could feel that there was murderous intent behind it. This sight was enough to make my heart stop. I felt scared, terrified, and most of all, completely helpless.

Then suddenly, Kuromen disappeared. The next thing I knew, Kuromen was standing behind me making me freeze. He took a few steps forward and then he slowly sheathed his sword making about a third of it remain out.

"BLACK BLADE HIDDEN TECHNIQUE," he spoke quietly. "MIDNIGHT ONSLAUGHT."

He then sheathed his blade completely with a clang. Next thing I knew, my entire body was engulfed in pain as several wounds opened up all around my body as I screamed loudly in pain. I stood there motionless trying to comprehend what had just happened and frozen in pain. Then I fell on my back into the water with a splash.

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