Chapter 12
Wheel of Destiny
They were now outside of the caverns when a vicious new Youma attacked them. Quickly Danzo raced to the device with the emblem shield upon it. Danzo quickly used it as Team Crimson fought the youma off with a ferocious determination flowing through them. It was defeated in seconds as Danzo raced through the doorway. After waiting for Team Crimson to show up, Danzo led them down the stairs to more corridors that were filled with torches to light their way. He led them through another door that took them into a booby trapped area with youma. Danzo and Team Crimson had to run and fight their way through them with ferocious daring to reach safety. They landed in a pit, but quickly pulled themselves out of it until they saw a strange item on the pedestal.
"The Coliseum entrusts the conqueror with the lance. The time has come to open the door," Danzo read, then picked up the pair of lances.
Quickly he had to act fast, and dragged Team Crimson to safety. They raced back up to the courtyard where Team Crimson fought off the Youma, but they saw several more waiting for them. Danzo knew there was little time to relax, as he and Team Crimson fought them to the death with a more dangerous streak about them. Danzo then used the emblem shield on the other door, and hurried inside with Team Crimson close behind him.
"This is getting intense!" Yomi said, panting furiously.
She stopped to lean on Danzo, who gently placed his arm around her. Then they continued onwards through another trap riddled corridor, and managed to reach safety. Then Danzo picked up a brand new weapon for him to use called the Nightmare-beta. Then he and team Crimson managed to find another entryway to reach the coliseum, back at the courtyard. There was an inscription upon the door with two samurai upon it.
"The Shields that glow with light and a pair of lances shall lead to the battleground," Homura read aloud.
Danzo placed the lances in the hands of the samurai, which opened the pathway into the coliseum. When they arrived they went to the center of the circle where they heard someone speaking to them in their minds.
"Offer a sacrifice to the coliseum. It shall connect the path to the Wheel of Destiny," the voice said to them.
Suddenly, red lightning erupted from the sky, and Danzo looked to see the winged creature they fought twice emerge before them. This time, it would be the last time they;d fight. Team Crimson quickly sprang into action with their weapons held at the ready, as Danzo powered up for the battle. Danzo sent burning fireballs at the winged-beast severely burning it, as Yomi fired her wrist-cannons and sent grenades at it. Homura leaped forward with her six-bladed dance to wound it even further. Hikage sent deadly poisoned daggers, courtesy of Haruka, directly at the creature. Mirai fired her grenade launcher at the giant bird with a maniacal grin on her face. But the bird like Youma had other ideas as it tried to counter attack, but Haruka's manikins managed to hurt it enough for Danzo to unleash a few combos from his swordplay. Soon the birdlike creature began to flee, but a well placed Grenade launched from Danzo sent it plummeting down with a loud crash. It got up as it was still unwilling to give up without a fight. Danzo turned to his friends and together they attacked furiously which made it stagger and collapse to the ground. As it tried to rise again, a large slab of debris landed on top of it and left it there unable to move again. Danzo and Team Crimson looked at it trying to fight with it's remaining strength.
"Yours are definitely the powers of Sato. No, even more so. But I cannot let you live, for I serve my master, Madara," The bird said.
"No! You won't fight with that wound!" Danzo countered.
"Yeah, just give it up already!" added Homura, and the other members agreed.
"Mighty is the power of Madara!" The bird cried out.
The remaining members of Team Crimson still stood ready to strike again.
"MASTER! Please grant me one last surge of power… the power to him and his friends!" the giant bird called to the sky above.
Everyone looked up to see three red lights in the sky.
"Master… Madara…" The winged-beast said.
"Hippogriff, you have failed me. You are no longer worthy," Madara said coldly, his voice echoing everywhere.
Then Danzo and his friends saw a terrible sight. Madara blasted Hippogriff into atoms with dark lightning, making everyone shocked that the youma would do this to each other. Danzo clasped the amulet around his neck in his hand.
"That three-eyed…" Danzo said furiously.
Tina emerged from behind them in a flash of golden lightning, and stood next to them.
"You beat him. Maybe it was too easy for you," she said.
"Madara… His heinous ways make me sick! Killin even his own! Like they were nothing!" Danzo growled angrily.
Yomi gently placed her hand upon his shoulder.
"What are you saying Danzo?" she asked.
"He's the one that took the life of my mother… my brother. I'm sure of it!" he said to her.
Mirai nodded in agreement, still shaken at what just happened.
"My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and a righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Madara!" Danzo declared, as Tina vanished in a bolt of lightning.
Then Danzo and his charges took the lift down to another chamber. With a strange item in the hands of a statue.
"The King of Avalon shall turn the Wheel of Destiny and take the story to the beginning land," Haruka read aloud.
Danzo took the Wheel of Destiny and pocketed it into his coat. This time he would enact his own vengeance against all youma by slaying Madara in single combat.