Chapter 41 – Revenge is sweet, if you don't die as well

'I'm going to take your life and be on my way in no time at all,' taunted Raven.

'Don't make me laugh you can barely kill a fly,' retorted Plata.

'Shut it you bastard, you've insulted me enough just by interrupting my match from before.'

'Interrupted? Ha, more like saved you, if I let Circe continue beating the shit out of you, then you wouldn't be standing before me today. Just so you know, I only did it so I can have the pleasure of killing you a second time,' sneered Plata.

'So it's true then. That's what this disgusting feeling I have had every time I look into your sick face. You killed my parents didn't you, you were the murderer that night who killed everyone that was dear to me,' shouted Raven with an accusing voice.

Plata gave out a evil laugh, 'Oh and how much I enjoyed it. The screams of your parents, the shrieks, the pain I inflicted, it was enjoyable. I especially enjoyed butchering up that cute sister of yours.' Raven immediately strikes his sword at him, which was blocked effortlessly by Plata.

'You fucking bastard, don't you dare talk about my sister. You're sick, and it's a good thing I'm going to put an end to you,' shouted Raven menacingly into Plata's face. 'I'm going to give you a taste of your own medicine, the pain I felt that day, the horror. I will inflict them all to you, and you will get what you deserve.'

'I'm shaking, why don't you just give it up. You've got no chance against me, you're just a little brat chasing after a revenge that's never going to happen. But if you really must insist, I'll make sure that when I destroy you this time, there is no chance for you to come back alive in any other form. I'm going to reduce you to cinders.' Plata pushed Raven away using his sheer sword strength.

'You're going to feel my years of hatred and anger, and that's going to annihilate you today.' Raven moved and strikes down onto Plata who blocked just as easily again.

'Come on, you talk of revenge, but in the end you're just a weak little kid who can't do anything right. These weak attacks will do nothing to me, I'm going to end all your misery right here then.' Plata pushed raven back again and slashed sideway at him. Raven moved up, flipped and slashed down using the force of the spin. Plata raised his sword to block but was pushed down into the ground as Raven shot down with force behind the sword. 'You're pathetic, this is barely a fight,' shouted Plata as he wastes no time in blasting a cero up at Raven. Raven flash steps to the side and charged again at him. 'So predictable,' said Plata as he instantly redirects his cero and it slammed into Raven.

'Shit,' he thought as he was unable to dodge, the cero smashed him into wall and blood splattered onto the floor as he coughed it up.

'You're pathetic, just like everyone else who I've killed. No challenge at all. You talk big, but just as I predicted you could never back it up.' All the time whilst Plata was talking, a blue spiky ball of energy was gathering up in his hand.

'You bastard,' said Raven under his breath just managing to stand up.

'Die. Gran rey cero,' shouted Plata as he released the most powerful cero and rammed it into where Raven was standing. Plata smirked, 'Is that all you have?' he taunted. 'Tch, nothing but talk.' He turned to leave.

'Didn't anyone ever tell you, never to turn your back to an opponent? Kurotsuki Yaibahana,' said Raven as a black bladed kido attack flew out of the smoke from the cero.

'I though as much,' Plata turned around and raised his sword just in time to block an attack from Raven's scythe. 'I wouldn't be very happy if I won and you hadn't even releases your sword now would I? it's just too easy otherwise.'

'Shut it,' shouted Raven as he shot another kido attack at point blank range. The explosion caused both sides to fly back and gained some distance between them.

"Now the real fun begins, I'm going to enjoy this," shouted Plata as he moved at Raven. Raven stood there, looking ready. Plata slashed with his sword. Raven blocked and again we have another deadlock.

'Feel the pain of death,' Raven raised his hand, 'Clinging to your every breath. Demons rise from below. Black smoke and toxic fumes. The sun is covered by a black cloud. Night falls, as will all who rest below the purity. Hado number 78, Creeping Plague.' A huge black cloud appeared all around Plata and started choking him.

'What the fuck is this?' screamed Plata.

'Just a little something that'll kill you.' The black cloud started rising around Plata's face.

'Damn you,' Plata jumped back and escaped the black cloud.

'Coward.' Raven flash stepped behind and slashed him down his back. Plata screamed in pain and launched another cero as he jumped away into the sky. 'Foolish,' said Raven, he flash stepped again in front of Plata and kicked him into the wall opposite, and sent another kido blade flying in his direction.

The kido attack hit causing an explosion on the wall. Plata looked really shaken up trickles of blood dripped down from his cuts. 'You'll pay for that, making me bleed.' He limped his way towards Raven. 'Now I'm going to show you true strength. Paralyze, Intoxicaras.' He plunges the sword into his stomach, it melts and envelops him. He gained armour around his body and face with a skeletal appearance but doesn't cover his hollow hole on his chest.

'This is your ressurrecion I'm guessing?' asked Raven looking unimpressed.

'Why of course, come and get me then,' taunted Plata.

'I don't need you to invite me.' Raven attacked, but the blade of his scythe was stopped just by Plata's hand. 'What the?'

'My ressurrecion makes my body metallic, in other words my entire body is armour that you cannot penetrate. This is the end of the line for you Raven. DIE.' He stabbed at him with his sword. Raven moves back to avoid the blade. 'You can run but you can't hide.' His sword suddenly changed to a liquid and he shot after Raven.

'What's this suppose to be?' He slashed the liquid with his scythe, but it just went through it and nothing happened.

Plata laughed, 'You idiot, you can't break a liquid. But it can break you.' Plata raised his hand and pointed at Raven.

The liquid changed back to a blade in the blink of an eye, 'crap,' thought Raven as the blade strikes him through his chest. He stared with shock at his hands 'my hands, they're starting to feel numb.'

'Starting to feel a bit numb there?' smirked Plata. 'That's the effect of my blade, once it pierces your skin it'll slowly paralyze you until you are completely unable to move.'

Raven ignored the numbness inside his body and shot another kido attack at Plata, who just raised a hand and crushed it. 'Grrr… damn you.'

'Your attacks are getting weak. It looks like my poison is taking effect. Poor poor Raven. You came all the way out here to avenge your parents, but it looks like you'll just die a second time.'

'Shut it,' panted Raven barely able to stand up. 'Screw you. I came here to kill you, and that's just what I'm going to do.' He tried raising his scythe again, but he just couldn't. his left arm had lost complete feeling, it was just limping at his side.

'Kill me? Train another million years then come back and try, even then you still probably won't,' taunted Plata.

'Shut up shut up shut up.' Raven lifted his scythe with just his right hand.

'How do you plan on fighting with just one hand? You may as well throw in the towel, face facts, you've lost.'

'Bankai,' shouted Raven.

'Bankai? Fool,' laughed Plata.

Just as Raven reached his bankai form everything in front of him seem to be a blur. 'What the hell.' He could barely feel any part of his body, he dropped to his knees and breathed heavily. 'Why does my body feel so heavy? Why do I feel so tired?'

'My poison doesn't just paralyse your body. It also slows down your internal systems. This means you are unable to withstand the force of your own bankai because it's absorbing your spirit energy faster than you can create them. Like I said before, you're finished.' Plata slowly walked towards him gathering what looks like another gran rey cero in his right hand.

Raven smirks, 'I'd never thought I'd have to use it here. Fine, I guess i'm going to do what I've never done before.'

'Quite talking like you're gonna win, cos you ain't. Gran rey cero,' the cero attack hit Raven and crumbled the ground around him.

'I came here to kill you. And no matter what it takes I'll do what I came here to do,' said Raven now with a deeper more evil voice. The dust cleared to reveal a completely different person.

'What… what are you?' asked Plata in a shocked voice.

'This is my demonic form, this is the form I was in when I was the gatekeeper of hell years ago.' His appearance completely changed, he had skeletal armour all around him like an external skeleton. And bony spikes stuck out of his back and shoulders, his hands were bigger and had claws. He even had a tail.

'And this is suppose to scare me? You look like an oversized dog, why don't you run away with your tail between your legs?' laughed Plata.

Raven stayed looking emotionless at him. 'The time is not to talk. It's time for you to die.' He vanished instantly and appeared behind Plata placing a feather on him.

'That's fast,' thought Plata as he jumped away. 'What did you just put on me? Get it off now.'

'Don't worry, it's just a feather. And as soon as all five feather are on you, you will be permanently deleted.'

'Five? Ha, then I'll just have to kill you before you put the five on then.' Plata made his moved, liquefied his armour and shot out blades at Raven.

'Too slow,' said Raven and he completely vanished.

'What the? I can't even sense his spiritual pressure anymore,' thought Plata as he looked around the room. It was completely quiet, not a soul in site.

'Behind you,' whispered Raven into Plata's ears before slashing him across the back and placing a second feather on him.

'Damn you,' screamed Plata. He went on a rampage randomly slashing around in the air just as Raven vanished again. 'Where are you, come out and fight like a man.'

Raven appeared above him and carefully placed a feather on the top of his head. It was too late before he realised because Raven had vanished again. 'What's the matter? I thought you were the stronger one here?'

'You're starting to piss me off. Show your face you cowardly swine,' shouted Plata waving his sword around.

'You're an idiot, waving your sword like a headless chicken. Fine I'll show you my face.' Raven appeared to the side of Plata and landed his fourth feather on him and disappeared again.

'Bastard, guess I've got no choice. You're going down where ever you are, I'll show you my ultimate technique." Plata screamed out and his flesh all turned to metal.

'That is truly sickening,' thought Raven as he watched Plata turn completely into a ball of metal.

'This is my final move Spike Cannonball. So get ready to die, no matter where you are I'll find you,' screamed Plata and he rolled around the room at lightning speed.

Raven felt a heavy heart beat that made his appearance known for just a split second. 'Crap, my time's running out. In a few more seconds my form will disappear and I'll probably die. Alright, just one more feather, I can do this.' Raven moved around swiftly avoiding the spikes that kept popping out of the cannonball.

'You can't hide from this.' Plata kept rolling around the place uncaring what he slams in to.

Raven hid and timed a perfect jump right above Plata. He landed perfectly and was just about to place another feather on him when his body suddenly stopped moving for a split second.

'How'd you get there?' Plata wasted no time and immediately shot out a spike at point blank range into Raven.

'Not now. I'm so close.' The spike pierced through his stomach, he could just about reach Plata. He made a lasting choice to rather die now and take Plata down, he grabbed onto the spike and forced it deeper into himself gaining just enough distance and placed the last fifth feather onto Plata.

Plata instantly stopped moving and Raven dropped to the floor with blood pouring from his wounds and his demonic form fading. Plata screams as he slowly vanishes.

'Just making you vanish is too good for you,' said Raven barely able to breath sitting in a pool of blood. He waved his hands and a large gate appeared decorated demonically. 'That is the gate to hell.' Random black hands started coming from the gate and dragged Plata in.

'Let go of me. Stop this now.' His pleas were unanswered and he disappeared behind the gates. 'I will get you for this Raven. I will kill you,' he screams as only his foot was still outside.

Raven laughs. 'As you know, time goes slower in Hell, as they want you to be tortured slower and the pain to last forever. So now you'll be deleted at a slow pace and be tortured at the same time.'

The door shuts. Plata disappears. Raven lay there. Bleeding. Dying.