Chapter 7 – The Rose and Two Dragons
Hikari's spiritual pressure exploded, her sword shattered into thousands of pieces. Each piece extended to about twenty centimetres in length, changed to a red colour and flew right above her in perfect layers like a wall of blades. 'Gosai rozehana.'
Ketu again threw his sword up into the air, which disappeared; the dragon appeared once again. Only this time it was much larger and the dragon actually took the shape of a dragon not just the head. The wings flapped heavily sending small shockwaves at the ground and the tailed whipped about. Ketu pointed his hand at Usaitar and the dragon roared ready to get revenge. 'Kazetatsujin.'
Ratiasu's spiritual pressure flashed twice and then she absorbed them. This caused two massive dragon wings to grow from her back but her sword takes on no visible change. 'Doragonkisakisumiyaka.'
'Well, well, looks like I've got two dragons and a rose against me, this shouldn't take too long,' said Usaitar, voice full of confidence. He then looked at Ratiasu, 'By the way, you know, that sword of yours hasn't changed a bit, what kind of crap bankai is that meant to be?' he mocked.
'Crap? Ha, don't underestimate me.' She disappeared and a fraction of a second later appeared behind Usaitar during which time she had slashed him across the back, and then instantly flash stepped back to where she was. She smiled gleefully 'Do you call that crap?'
Usaitar touched his back and felt the cut. 'I see, so you absorbed all that spiritual pressure and condensed it. Thus giving you incredible speed, hmm… You remind me of someone, but I can't quite remember who though. Ah well never mind, I'm going to kill you all anyway.'
'Hey enough chitchat, prepare to die.' Ketu moved his hand in the direction of Usaitar and the dragon above him instinctively followed the hand direction and charged at Usaitar. He quickly drew his sword and attempted to block but the dragon just split in two and carried on charging. The wind was too strong and blew Usaitar off his feet who crashed into a tree behind him.
Usaitar got up and wiped his lips which had a trickle of blood on it, 'Huh, not bad I see you have mastered your bankai pretty well. The wind is a good partner to have,' he said, and flash stepped back to where he was, 'But even the wind will have its limits.' He vanished and went for a sneak attack behind Ketu but was blocked by Ratiasu who appeared instantly behind him.
Hikari turned round and shouted, 'HANAYAIBA,' and many of the blades above her shot with amazing speed at Usaitar who flash stepped out the way.
'Ha ha don't hit your own team mate,' laughed Usaitar seeing that the blades were going to fly into Ratiasu and Ketu.
'I'm not evil,' said Hikari smiling, she raised her hand and moved it in the direction of where Usaitar had flash stepped to. The blades stopped just before they hit Ketu and Ratiasu, redirected and shot at Usaitar once more. Usaitar had no time to dodge, the blades smashed into him with an explosion.
Ratiasu flash stepped in front of the explosion and chanted, 'One thousand years of the world, words that were never spoken, carried away by silver wings. Time will never pass, but the white dragon flies at midnight, the blue eyes will shine and the moon will be silenced. Wave of destruction, number one: white thunder.' A bright wave of lightning that was much larger than pale lightning (hado four) shot out from her hands and fired straight at where the explosion was. Another big crash sounded and a shockwave of spiritual pressure was produced.
'Did we get him?' asked Ketu staring into the dust cloud for any signs of movement.
'Ha ha ha, that? Get me? How foolish of you?' the dust had cleared, Usaitar was still standing but his clothes were a bit torn and there were a few drops of blood by his lips. 'Though I must say, those blades didn't hurt much but that kido attack sure did have some power behind it.' He turned and looked at Ratiasu, 'I've never seen that kido spell before. Where did you learn it?'
'I made it myself, you're lucky you survived that attack. Let me show you another one of my abilities,' she raised her sword and pointed behind her, 'Snap, Tobiume.' The sword turned into Hinamori's shikai form. Red (vermillion obviously) spiritual energy gathered on the blade and Ratiasu swung it at Usaitar. The energy ball rushed towards Usaitar and smashed into him as he was taken completely by surprise.
The dust cleared once again, 'What was that? You can change your sword into others?'
'Now you're catching on,' smiled Ratiasu, her sword was back to normal now.
'Hmm… even so, that didn't have much power behind it, but sti-.' He didn't get to finish as a massive gust of air blew at him, he jumped and flash stepped upwards to dodge.
'Don't leave us two out of the fight, I promised I'd kill you so DON'T IGNORE ME,' Ketu moved his hand up and the dragon of wind followed.
'Hmph, I can dodge that stupid wind of yours pretty easily,' said Usaitar.
'But you can't dodge me,' whispered Ratiasu appearing behind him (she had just rode the wind which increased her speed) and slashed him in the back again, the wind then engulfed him and made him crash back down to earth. Hikari took this opportunity and shot her blades at Usaitar again. Another explosion at where it hit. But before the blades finished hitting there was a booming roar and an extremely large spiritual pressure expanded from where Usaitar was, blasting the dust away.
'What the,' started Hikari but she didn't get to finish because Usaitar was already on top of her and he instantly stabbed down with his voulge (it turned when he was getting hit). Ratiasu flash stepped as soon as she saw what was happening and pushed Hikari out the way. The voulge missed Hikari but slashed Ratiasu on her arm.
'TERRI' shouted Ketu who flash stepped in front of Ratiasu and directed his dragon straight in Usaitar's face. He raised his voulge in defense. The dragon didn't do any damage but was able to push back Usaitar quite far.
'Terri, are you alright?' asked Ketu turning round to see Ratiasu.
'I'm fine, it's just a flesh wound, and on my left arm as well, I can still fight,' said Ratiasu, breathing heavily. She grabbed her sword and carried on. 'I'm fine,' she said once more.
'Awww, you poor little girl,' Usaitar smirked and didn't stay in one place for too long as a shower of blades came raining down on him.
'Shut up you moron,' shouted Hikari. Usaitar flash stepped to a distance only to just block an attack by Ketu as he had attacked him.
He jumped back and Ratiasu saw an opening, she said, 'Scatter, Senbonzakura.' Her blade shattered and all of the pieces shot at Usaitar who spun his voulge and deflected the attack. Ratiasu's sword was now back to normal again. She flash stepped and hit him again fraction of a second later. Usaitar was too slow and didn't manage to block and was cut across his chest. Usaitar jumped backwards and kneeling down blood was splattering on the floor from where he was cut.
'You're fast, I'll give you that. 'Dragon Queen of Speed' I can see where that name came from,' said Usaitar slightly panting. 'Well no more mister nice guy, I'll need to go all out.' He yelled out a horrible cry and his spiritual pressure rose up by five times. 'Now the real battle begins.' He vanished and went for Ratiasu who blocked but didn't have enough strength to hold the deadlock until a huge gust of wind from behind her gave her enough momentum to hold it. 'So, you two work well together,' he jumped backwards, 'fine.' He vanished once again this time going after Hikari. She didn't have anything to block the attack with and was stabbed through the stomach. Usaitar flash stepped away as Hikari screamed in pain.
'KARI' shouted Ratiasu, and she instantly flash stepped next to her.
'Looks like I wasn't that useful after all,' Kari whispered barely able to speak. She closed her eyes.
'No, don't go,' cried Ratiasu still holding her.
'Let's break up this heartbreaking moment shall we?' shouted Usaitar who charged at them laughing. Ratiasu looked at him in shock and was unable to move.
'TERRI! MOVE!' shouted Ketu who was running as fast as he can but knew he couldn't get there on time.
Hikari immediately opened her eyes, 'sorry Terri,' she said and pushed Ratiasu away from her. Ratiasu landed next to Ketu. Hikari moved her hand at Usaitar this triggered all her blades to shoot at Usaitar. He just laughed like a maniac and carried on charging, the blades had no affect what so ever again Usaitar's massive spiritual energy. The next moment a spray of blood came out of Hikari's back where she had just been punctured by the voulge. Blood dripped from her mouth and she shut her eyes.
'NOOOOO' screamed Ratiasu, crying and kneeing on the floor.
Usaitar pulled the voulge out and another shower of blood came from Hikari's stomach. 'Well that wasn't so hard,' he said with a maniacal grin on his face. He vanished again, this time targeting Ratiasu. But before he hit, he was blocked by a wind shield formed by Ketu.
'Come on, get up Terri, I'm sure you're able to heal Kari later, but first we need to kill this guy,' said Ketu pulling Ratiasu out from danger.
'Kill me? Ha, who do you think you're kidding,' laughed Usaitar.
'You'll pay for what you've done,' shouted Ratiasu. She stood up and moved to a fair distance in front of Usaitar and shouted, 'Wave of Destruction number one, White Thunder. The same shot of lightning was ejected from Ratiasu's hands. They hit Usaitar at an incredible speed.
'That may have hurt back when I was only on a tenth of my powers. But now that I'm now on a half you don't stand a CHANCE,' he screamed the last word as lunged at Ratiasu, the attack hadn't done anything. Ratiasu looked both angry and shocked but for some reason was glued to the spot. Ketu appeared in front of her and waved his hand at Usaitar, the wind dragon once more darted at Usaitar who was again pushed back quite far blocking the attack.
Ratiasu found her senses, jumped above Ketu and chanted quickly 'The red moon will stir once more; the island will see no more daylight. Night will fall and all will be dark. Red eyes will be witnessed and the black dragon will awaken. Wave of destruction, number two: Blaze Hellfire Blast.' A vermillion wire of fire shot at Usaitar who was still being pushed back by the wind and couldn't dodge. The blast hit Usaitar with another big crash.
The dust cleared once again Usaitar was bleeding his body was cut up and he panted, 'Impressive little girl, combining speed with power, that almost hurt.' He panted some more, 'But now you've made me mad, I guess I have no choice but to release more of my POWER.' he screamed out and another bigger wave of spiritual pressure burst out of him. 'DESTRUCTION OF PARADISE,' he screamed spinning his voulge up in the air.
'Watch out,' shouted Ketu putting up his wind shield, but the pressure was too much, the shield couldn't take much more and it shattered. Both Ketu and Ratiasu were blown off their feet. Usaitar took this opening, flash stepped behind Ratiasu and kicked her. She accidently blocked but with her bad arm and screamed out in pain. Usaitar didn't waste any time and sliced straight through her back. Blood sprayed everywhere in the air. Usaitar pulled out the voulge and kicked Ratiasu downwards. She slammed into the ground and was silent, with blood still flowing out of her back and mouth.
'TERRI' screamed Ketu and he flash stepped next to her.
Usaitar took this final opening, 'Emotions are a weakness in a battle. This is the end,' and he swung down his voulge and sliced through Ketu's back. Blood splattered onto Usaitar and the ground from his cut. He flash stepped away to a further distance and Ketu collapsed next to Ratiasu
He used his last bit of strength to stroke Ratiasu's hair. Tears were swimming in his eyes. 'You look beautiful even in your sleep,' he said. Ratiasu opened her eyes a bit, her green and blue eyes glistened in the sunlight. 'I love you, Terri,' whispered Ketu holding Ratiasu's hand. Ratiasu tried to get up.
'I love you too,' she coughed, more drops of blood came out her mouth. 'Don't die Ket, I need you.' And then they both closed their eyes and fainted due to loss of blood. Ratiasu's silver haired sparkled in the light and drifted downwards as she fell down again.
'Hmph, young love, how I missed it,' smiled Usaitar walking towards them. 'Ah well, time to heal up.' He absorbed Hikari, Ketu and Ratiasu's spiritual power and he was back to normal again with no injuries, 'Time to get them to him then.'
He was about to go to pick them up when suddenly, 'Hado number ninety, black coffin.' shouted a voice behind him.
To Be Continued… don't you just love the cliff-hanger? Oh and btw next one should be out next Wednesday I think, cause I'm taking a break over half-term