Chapter 2

Judge of Death

Danzo pressed on a head as he saw two puppets drop down to ambush him. He lunged at them and began hacking and slashing them with his sword as team Crimson rushed to his side as he blasted them back with his hand cannons instantly reducing them to spare parts. Soon they saw more puppets rushing at them with such ferocity that they quickly began hacking, slashing, burning, and blasting them with all the weapons they had in their arsenal.

"This should put them down," said Haruka, throwing vials of oil at them. Danzo fired and the puppets began burning to the ground while several more proceeded to ambush him.

Homura and Yomi hacked and slashed through them as if their whole lives depended on it. At last the puppets were no more and the six friends had to stop and catch their breath and sat down. Haruka however leaned on Danzo's shoulder with seductive eyes. The remainder of team Crimson sat peacefully and managed to heal the scratches and scars on their bodies with Haruka's special healing potions. Their clothes were also unscathed, but had small smudges that they'd have to deal with.

After a good few minutes of rest, they walked towards a strange sight that unnerved the girls a bit. It was a statue of a woman in great pain and agony. A huge sword pierced through her chest that had dragon wings as a crossguard with the blade sticking out of its mouth. Then Danzoo heard a voice.

"I am Alduin. The weak shall give their heart and swear their eternal loyalty to me," it said.

The sculpture vanished as the sword erupted and radiated with lightning, then launched itself out of the wall spinning towards Danzo who was impaled by it and pinned to the ground. Yomi was aghast. She thought Danzo had been killed as the electricity of the sword faded.

Then she saw a startling scene. Danzo's hand twitched once, his eyes opened and willed himself up off the floor as the blood within him started spilling everywhere.

"Stop it Danzo, You'll kill yourself!" cried Yomi.

But Danzo didn't listen as he rose up and emerged completely unscathed. Taking a deep breath, he grabbed the sword by the handle, lifted it upwards and held it above him as electricity arced throughout his body sending lightning crashing into the skylight above, He began practicing some fighting moves with his new sword and holstered it behind him.

"Well what do you know, he got himself a brand new sword to use," smirked Homura as she watched Yomi hug him in relief.

Danzo soon hurried off to find out where Tina was as the Crimson Squad split up and began going on a Youma hunt. Danzo soon managed to find a staff of judgement and dispatched the remaining marionettes that stood in his way with his sword Alduin and his hand cannons, then he took the staff to the carving of the Judge of Death and placed the staff into its hands opening up a new doorway.

A short while later the Crimson squad knew they had to be cautious as they kept the other marionettes from causing them trouble. But their friends from other schools would be fine as long as they had some serious training to get through in case of youma attack. Homura and her friends knew they had to stay with Danzo until he got to his objective.

They had managed to get to the next room when they saw more Youma attempting to stop them from advancing. Quickly, they drew their weapons and cut them down with every ounce of strength in their being. When they found Danzo again, he saw a carving of the Judge of Death on the wall, until he gave it the Staff of Judgement, causing the wall to move and open up for them.

"Time to move," he said. And Team Crimson soon followed him into the next room.