Outcasts and Outlaws

Volume 3, Chapter 28

Reborn Old Enemy

A nice short one for today. More soon.

Opening Music: https/youtu.be/KSLG_oeD1yw [Attention Question- Tohka]

! Means a beat in the music

Music Starts

(Shows Daryl standing in Dust Valley, holding a gun. He raises his arm and points the gun whilst flashbacks of his team and his past appear behind him)

Music stops for about a split second then starts again

(Shows Connor standing in Dust Valley, looking at the ground with hair covering his eyes. He looks up as flashbacks of Team Kalos and the rest of his friends appear behind him)

(Connor runs at Daryl and aims a punch)

(Daryl fires his gun)

OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS!

Are kore kakaekonde omoeba iranai mono made

(Shows Connor sitting with his head between his legs)

Umaku naru iiwake to myou

(Shows Ruby sitting inside of Connor's head with her legs drawn up to her chest)

na PURIADO!

(Shows Kalos sitting on top of the stone wall)

Jibun wo tana ni agete (Shows Jim, Yang, Kane, Irileth, Mars, and Stephane standing in Dust Valley, their hair and clothesflapping in the wind)

hito no koto aadakouda!

(Shows Murlough standing on the naval platform amongst the dead bodies of the generals)

Iu tsumori mo nai kedo!

(Zooms in on Murlough's face as he punches his hand and grins evilly)

Mukishitsuni

(Shows Daryl towards someone) Mawaru Tic and Tac!

(Shows Damien walking towards Daryl)

Ganbaru tte

(Connor and Kane approach Daryl from either side)

nandarou!

(Connor and Kane charge at Daryl) Attention! Question! Nantonaku nagasateru socchi no mizu wa (Shows Connor and Kane fighting Daryl with their semblances)

amai desuka!

(They hit Daryl's air current barrier with their golden light and black clouds)

YES/NO!

(Shows Isabella in tattered clothes with purple energy around her) YES/NO!

(Shows Mars with green energy around him)

Atari mimawashita totan ni!

(They shoot their energy blasts at each other)

Koko dake

(Connor goes into Dragon State and launches himself off a rock face)

toki ga tomaru

(He flies out and hits Daryl) COLOUR!

(Shows a massive light in Dust Valley)

(Shows Connor on the naval platform)

(Shows Murlough on the naval platform)

(Shows Murlough and Connor looking at each other from afar, Murlough with black clouds trailing from him, Connor with golden light trailing from one hand and black clouds trailing from the other) (They charge at each other)

END

"You?!" Connor exclaimed in terrified shock, the others silent in their surprise. "You're dead, I killed you!"

"Yeah, that's right! You killed me!" Murlough snarled with a frightening grin, taking a few steps closer to the group as he realised what he was saying and started to fill up with dark anger. "You...killed...me. You killed me! You killed me! You killed me!" He shouted furiously, seeming crazier than ever in his apparently perfectly alive state.

Stopping in his fury driven stomps, Murlough then noticed Kane amongst the group and started to chuckle madly to himself, looking straight at his younger brother with an unsettling expression. "Hey there, brother...how ya doing?" He greeted creepily.

"You should be dead, I saw it with my own eyes. Connor crushed your skull like an egg." Kane nervously replied, not sure what to think now that he was being reunited with his thought deceased brother. It was the first time any of the group had seen him truly scared of something, although he was looking at his brothers reanimated corpse, so he was justified.

"Yeah, I remember that, hurt like hell. Did you cry after that Connor, after killing your first? Did you wade in self pity like a pathetic little wretch?" Murlough taunted, making everyone think even more so that he was crazier than the last time they had seen them, those who had seen him before at least. After getting no response from Connor but a silent look of discomfort, Murlough began to explain, "After you brutally murdered me, I woke up in a big test tube, lots of wires and pipes attached to me. I was in this body too, this unbreakable hunk of steel that I am in now, screw my old body."

"What do you mean? How did you come to just wake up in a brand new body, a metal one no less?" Mars inquired, speaking to Murlough for the first time ever.

"Well, that's what I wondered at first as well of course!" Murlough enigmatically answered, moving over to where Daryl was standing and clamping his hands down on his shoulders from behind. "You see, crazy man over here had his top scientists transfer my mind into this body. He said something to me about the mind living on dormant even after the body dies, waiting to be repurposed."

"Don't call me crazy man." Daryl scolded sternly, shooting an intimidating glance at Murlough until he lifted his hands away and backed off.

"I can't call you crazy man? How about big D? Seems appropriate, don't you think?" Murlough responded with near creepy enthusiasm, sporting the malicious grin that everyone remembered him for.

"Just get on with telling them what you want to, then we can get to finishing this." Daryl uncaringly ordered, taking a small device out of coat pocket and pressing a button on it before putting it back. "This charade has gone on for long enough, they need to be dealt with before they can cause any more trouble for me."

"Yeah, I guess I can agree with that. I've been itching to kill every last one of them anyway." Murlough obeyed, cracking his knuckles as he stepped in front of Damien, blocking their path to him. "Now that I've explained how I came to be in this wondrously powerful body, via a little bit of mind transfer, let's get down to business. Which one of you should I slaughter first, I wonder."

"You think you can take all of us?" Jim doubtfully asked, all of the group grabbing hold of their weapons and getting ready for battle.

"Oh, I don't think, I know." Murlough menacingly answered, black clouds beginning to swirl around his steel body like an asteroid belt.

As all this was happening, an airship rapidly descended down behind Daryl, who turned and began to walk towards it without hesitation as the rotors blew a forceful gust over the platform. Regrettably, the group could do very little to stop him escaping with Murlough in the way, but decided to try regardless of the chances. Connor charged at Murlough with his fist ahead of him, the others following behind him in the same way. Before they could reach their metallic enemy however, Murlough stuck a hand out in front of him and grinned creepily, just before unleashing a torrent of black clouds from his palm. The black clouds crashed into the group with the force a bull, blowing past them at the speed of sound like they were in the centre of a dark, agony inducing hurricane. They were of course knocked back onto the ground by the attack, wincing in pain as Murlough admired his newfound level of power.

By this time, Daryl was in the airship, holding onto the outer railing as it rose higher and higher into the air. He looked down on the group as it carried him away, staring at them with utter contempt as they scowled back up at him. Before long the airship with him onboard was already flying away, heading back towards the mainland. Connor was the first to rise again, determined to at least do something about the enemy in front of them, but was too stunned at Murlough's next move.

Music: https/youtu.be/c0XBTkC15DM [Sword Art Online OST- We Have To Defeat It]

While they had been down on the ground, Murlough's dark clouds had been forming a terrible creature. They all remembered how he was able to create Grimm from the clouds, but they had never imagined something on such a scale.

The new Grimm was as tall as a four storey building, and also big and muscly to boot. It's entire body was covered in a thick black fur, including its four fearsome arms and it's demonic looking wings, even it's two chunky legs. Parts of its body were also covered in bone, making it look like it was wearing a shoddy set of armour made from its own skeleton. It's face was covered by a skull which was graffitied with red markings, each of his arms had a line of spiky bones trailing down them, and it's chest was lined with thick rib bones. As for Murlough, he was in the creatures chest, it's skin and fur wrapped around him to hold him in place up there as he glared down at the group.

Then it's defeating roar sounded across the platform, rippling waves in the ocean and announcing the start of the deadly battle.

Ending Music: http/youtu.be/YRLW-llroVw [Fuyugyaku Replace]

! Means a beat in the music

Wake in loneliness! Loneliness!

(Shows Connor standing on the naval platform)

Falling inside your story!

(Shows Murlough standing opposite him)

Walking after you! After you! (Zooms in Connor's face)

I will share my time!

(Shows naval platform)

(Shows Connor in Dragon State) OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS Maykoinda sekai de!

(Shows young Connor in front of his parents bodies)

Boku no kage to kasanatte

(Shows Murlough in Connor's hometown)

Ima! I can't go back!

(Shows Connor losing control of the dark clouds in his hometown) Ketteiteki no boku shoumei wa! (Shows Connor in his original outfit) Jidai wo ima koete monogataru! (Shows Ruby reach out in front of her)

I will be the brand new age!

(Shows Team Kalos and Allies) Yeah! From this day!

(Shows young Connor and Murlough walking)

I will save myself!

(Shows Connor with Kane's shadow behind him)

And the time is now!

(Connor opens his eyes, one is black, one is gold)

Kill my weakness!

(Shows Connor in his original outfit running towards volume 2 Murlough)

Weakness!

(They change to their volume 3 versions)

Kanarazu koete naite satte!

(Shows a flashback of the Murlough VS Connor fight from volume 2)

And I stay alive!

(Their semblances hit each other) Alive!

(Shows the naval base in a fiery explosion)

Saigo wo shinjitaku wa nakute! (Shows Connor's village being destroyed by black clouds)

Kill my weakness! Weakness! (Shows Murlough summoning dark clouds all around him)

Itsuka kidsuita to shita mo!

(Shows Connor going into Dragon State)

I will prove myself that I have lived today!

(Shows Connor and Murlough fighting in their most powerful states)

Starting now!

(They both hit each other's fists and let off their semblances)

END