Part 5 - True Strength Revealed, The Final Frontier
Chapter 44 – Let loose the dragons
"Hey Hikari, you sure those three will be alright?" asked Haruka running down the tunnel.
"Nope, but they sure as well will be worse if they went down this way," replied Hikari.
"What do you mean?" asked Ratiasu.
"Well, I sensed three powerful arrancars down that entrance, but then I sensed Usaitar's faint presence down this entrance so I had us go down this one," explained Hikari.
"Ah I see. Well then hope we're all ready to face Usaitar," said Haruka.
"Oh yeah, I've been waiting for this," said Hikari.
"Ladies, I think we've chatted enough. We're here," said Ketu as he saw the end of the tunnel quickly approaching them.
"About time, I was getting bored," said Hikari.
The tunnel exit arrived and the four of them jumped out into the light.
"Good afternoon, I've been expecting you," boomed Usaitar's voice from afar. They had arrived at what looked like an Egyptian desert complete with a fully built pyramid in the distance with a massive staircase leading to the top. At the top was a huge orb of light with something floating around in the middle. Usaitar was standing at the foot of the stairs with an arrancar next to him. "I'm glad you could all make it. Because now you'll be able to witness my victorious moment. You see that shiny orb up there? That is the last piece of the puzzle, the last piece of the sword. The piece that will enable me to rule everything. And no one's going to stop me now. That means you lose and I've won, you've arrived way too late I'm afraid, everything has fallen into place for my coronation."
"Not if we stop you here and now," shouted Hikari drawing her sword and pointing at Usaitar. Tough is seemed a long distance once she flash stepped she was within a few hundred metres of him, Ratiasu, Ketu and Haruka followed. Hikari was the only one to charge at Usaitar however.
"Wait, you're being too hasty," shouted Ketu.
"Ha ha ha, didn't I say you're too late? Get them now Carmesi," he ordered and an arrancar suddenly appeared in front of Hikari which wasn't the one that was standing next to him.
"Move it. Bankai," shouted Hikari, her sword shattered into pieces and turns into blades floating around behind her. "Gosai Rozehana." She moved her hands forward, "Hanayaiba." They all shot out at once to the arrancar, he however stayed calm and still.
Just before the blades hit he said, "Reves."
"Reves? How!?" said a shocked Hikari under her breath and failed to move out of the way as her blades came back and pierced straight through her.
"KARI," screamed Ratiasu and caught her just before she fell to the ground which was already stained with gallons of Hikari's blood.
"I'm sorry but you didn't give me time to introduce myself," said the arrancar calmly as if nothing's happened. "I am ranked two in the Wu Jian, I'm called Carmesi Vampiro, a pleasure to meet you."
"To hell with introductions," yelled Ketu drawing his sword.
"No. Stop," panted Hikari using Ratiasu for support.
"Why?"
"Reves. It's a rare arrancar ability that reverses all attacks and abilities. I never thought I'd see the day that another one of these would be seen," said Hikari standing up again after Ratiasu quickly healed her up a bit.
"You can't expect me to just stand here!" complained Ketu. Carmesi just stood there waiting, he didn't attack.
"This is just too funny, I've never heard of someone too afraid to attack before. Ah well, there's always going to be wimps out there. But unfortunately I can't stay and chat, I've got a world to rule," laughed Usaitar as he started climbing the stairs.
"Stop right there," shouted Ketu.
"You're annoying me, I think I'll do you a favour and force you to retreat," said Usaitar drawing his sword. "Be happy that I don't want to kill you just yet, I want to kill you, in my place with my rules." He swung his sword once and a black hole appeared beneath them.
"What the?" said Ketu. The hole shot out a wave of dark energy and instantly they all vanished. A second later they all reappeared back at the beginning, back at where they came out of the tunnel
"That was only a sample of my sword's powers. I will show you the rest once I get the final piece," said Usaitar with that same booming voice. "Come Carmesi, let's move."
"Yes sir."
"Matthew, I believe it's your turn again," called Usaitar.
Matthew Richardson, suddenly appeared in front of them.
"You again? But you died, I saw it!" said Hikari struggling to walk.
"Easy now Kari, you stay back a bit and just relax, you've lost too much blood" said Ratiasu supporting her to the nearest wall.
"Unfortunately I have a bad habit of staying alive, but hey I'm not complaining."
"Don't joke around Usaitar, do you really expect this one weak arrancar can hold us up for long?" shouted Ketu.
"That's where you're wrong. I'm not just one weak arrancar this time." said Matthew. Just as he said it the same black hole that teleported Ketu and the others appeared behind Matthew except this time it covered the entire visible plain. "This time I brought along some friends." The dark hole shot out energy and millions upon millions of hollows of all kinds started emerging from the ground.
"Oh crap, this isn't good," cursed Haruka. Minutes later, the entire ground was filled with hollows. There were ordinary weak hollows, menos grande, adjuchas and quite a lot of other arrancars as well. For some reason it was mainly menos grande and arrancars.
"Enjoy yourself," said Usaitar's voice as he carried on climbing the stairs.
"That bastard, I'm gonna rip his head off when I get to him," cursed Ketu.
"Let's just get through this first then we'll go rip his head off," said Ratiasu returning after making sure that Hikari was safe by casting a high level kido force field around her because she had fainted due to the loss of blood.
"I'm gonna enjoy this," shouted Matthew he drew his sword and pointed it towards the sky, "Charge!" The ground shook violently as an entire horde of hollows rushed towards them.
"I guess now's as good time as any to use that new release we've learnt isn't it?" said Ketu over the noise of the incoming horde. Ratiasu and Haruka nodded.
They raised their swords and a strong wind whipped up encircling them stopping any hollow reaching within ten meters of them. They all started to chant in a long incantation.
"The wind blows in the east. The water freezes in the south. The skies brighten in the west. The light shines to the north. The sun rises in the east, the sun sets in the west. The phoenix flies in the south and the dragon rages throughout the north. The fire that ploughs through the waters, and the wind that slices through the earth. All things in the world rise and join us. Let dragons roar!" As all of them chanted the incantation a big lock appeared in front of each of them with a key hole that was the right shape for each of their swords.
"Learnt a new trick? Let's see what you've got then," shouted Matthew all ready to go.
Ratiasu went first and stabbed her sword into the key hole, "Virtue and agility, let's go." she shouted and twists her sword clockwise. "Unlock."
Ketu then stabbed his sword into the lock, "Benevolence and Kiyo, come to me." He twists his sword. "Unlock."
Haruka was last, she stabbed her sword in, "Divinity and light, shine once more." She twists her sword, "Unlock."
The three locks all became unlocked and a bright radiant light surrounded them three a light so bright that Matthew had to raise his hand to shield himself from it.
The light suddenly shatters and Haruka, Ketu and Ratiasu stood there with no visible appearance change.
Ratiasu was holding a folded up old-fashioned Chinese fan, she swiftly unfolded it, "Sokuryokudo." She twirled the fan in her right hand and played around with it as if though she was a kid. "Not bad, I like it," she said happily.
Ketu stood there with nothing in either hand. "Munesanzun," he declared. "Well I can't say much about my dorakai, I've got nothing to comment on."
Haruka stood there with a very well decorated green long sword. "Tenrai," she announced effortlessly swinging her sword around. "Wow, this sword's light, not bad. Looks like all our dorakai's turned out to be nothing special, not yet anyway."
They were interrupted by a sudden outburst of laughter from Matthew. "Oh dear, do you call those weapons? A crappy little fan, you with no weapons and some overly decorated piece of metal. Dear me, I was hoping for more of a challenge or at least some decent weapons to come out from all that chanting. Never mind then, this makes my job much easier. But still, this is just too funny, aren't I right guys?" He shouted and the other hollows joined in his laughter.
"Just keep laughing, because you won't be able to anymore," said Ratiasu raising her fan.
"Oh no save me, I'm going to get killed by a piece of paper," said Matthew sarcastically. Ratiasu then suddenly vanished and less than a second alter reappeared at the same spot. Blood suddenly shot out from a massive cut in Matthew's shoulder and half the hollows standing within a ten metre radius behind him was slayed instantly. "What the hell was that," he asked as he clutched his shoulder.
"Oh nothing, just a little speed for ya. So come on then, where's the laughter now eh?" taunted Ratiasu.
"Is it just me or have you changed a bit, you don't used to taunt people or tease them in any way," said Ketu.
"Well I know, but it's actually quite fun," replied Ratiasu. Ketu just shrugged.
"Damn you," Matthew cursed. "I let my guard down. Slither, Negro Serpiente." His arrancar overcoat completely changed colour, into a black and grey snake scaled pattern. A crossbow manifested on his left arm. He fired off a volley at Ketu, who just raised a finger and the arrows just stopped in mid-air and disintegrated.
"Cool, I like that," said Ketu looking at his finger with surprise.
"Hmm… guess these dorakai's aren't so bad after all. Let's see what mine can do," said Haruka and moved forwards swiftly with her sword. She tried slashing air but nothing happened. "Hmm…" Out of nowhere a cero shot was fired at her, she quickly flicked her sword and the cero just bounced off the sword. She flash stepped and went to slash at the menos that fired it but it moved backwards and she missed but instead the sword hit the ground with such a ferocity that it made a huge crater and killed anything in it. "Not bad," she thought as a few random arrancars moved in on her.
"Hado four, white lightning," came Ketu's voice as the hado easily wiped out the arrancars.
"Nice. First time I saw such power from a simple hado four," complimented Haruka.
"Coming from you that must mean it's good," said Ketu with a smile on his face.
"Get them now you idiots," they heard Matthew shout the order. All the hollows around them started to slowly move in. Ketu moved his hand ready and Haruka raised her sword. But before anything happened all the hollows disintegrated.
Ratiasu stood before them, "Hey guys, don't forget me."
"If you want something done right, do it yourself," cursed Matthew as he appeared above all the hollows and shot out a volley of arrows. Ratiasu moved and shot out dense sharp kido attacks from her fan, the attacks collided and exploded.
"Don't waste time, finish them off now," ordered Matthew and now every single hollow and arrancar that was there all moved in to attack, some had already fired off either cero or bala attacks at them.
"Boring," said Ketu. "Let's end this now, come Terri, we'll finish them off with one kido attack. Ratiasu stepped up next to Ketu. All three jumped into the air as the hollows filled the same they were standing at.
At the same time all three of them attacked with a single powerful kido move. Haruka ran her fingers down her blade which then turned a light green colour and swung it once aimed at the ground shooting out some very dense spiritual pressure into the floor. Ratiasu raised a hand and shouted, "Wave of destruction number three, eternity of light." She thrusted her finger downwards and sent a huge shockwave of a white light into the ground.
"Let's end this." Ketu raised both hands into the sky and it darkened even more, "Skies darken and dragons roar. The land has fallen and the mighty will rise once more. Hado ninty eight, dragon meteor!" He then moved his hands downwards as if throwing something down. The skies filled with rock of all sizes and rained down onto the hollows. All three kido attacks collided and crated a huge shockwave in the centre wiping out anything that was there.
For the next minutes the area was just covered with dust and the sound of huge rocks crashing into the ground and smashed in to pieces by waves of energy.
Eventually everything started to settle down and the dust cleared slowly. The ground was unrecognisable, there were nothing there apart from massive craters scattered everywhere. All but one thing still remain standing. Matthew Richardson was clinging on to his sword trying not to fall over.
Matthew let out a burst of laughter. "Not bad, not bad at all."
"I'm impressed, to be able to laugh like a maniac even after we blasted you with powerful kido attacks needs a lot of skill. So I should be saying not bad to you," said Ketu.
"Don't patronise me," he said through gritted teeth. He eventually couldn't with stand the weight of his own body and collapsed onto the floor laughing like a crazy person. "Just because I lost now doesn't mean it'll be the last time you see me. I'll be back, just you wait, and next time I'll get you. Just you wait." He broke out into another burst of laughter again as he disintegrated.
"That is one freaky arrancar," said Haruka.
"Well done my friends. I expected nothing less from you lot," said Usaitar's voice. They all turned to him and saw that he has reached the top of the pyramid and is attaching the last piece of his sword on. "And now, you can witness my finest moment. For hundreds of years I've waited to regain my sword, and now I have." He placed the last piece in place and his sword let out a huge amount of dark spirit energy all around him. He shot out one bolt of dark kido at Ketu, but he flash stepped out of the way and avoided it.
"Good, good. I didn't want you to go down that early, you three will be defeated in my dimension by my rules." He raised his sword in front of him, "Warp, Jigen Shukun." Energy from all around his gathered into the sword and turned from a sword into a dark energy blade. He moved his sword in a circular motion above him and a dark hole appeared. "If you want to defeat me then I invite you to my dimension. Yes that is my sword, dimension master's ability. It can create and warp dimensions. So if you dare, come and I will crush you all once and for all." He and the two arrancars next two him floated up slowly and entered the dimension hole.
"Looks like the final battle is about to take place. Shall we then?" asked Haruka.
"Yeah, let's take him down together," said Ratiasu.
"As friends there's nothing that can stop us, let's go," said Ketu inspiringly and all three of them flash stepped next to the hole and entered, into the final place to end Usaitar.