Chapter 49 - Fight Wind with Wind
Emperatriz's spiritual pressure erupted with the force of a volcano even Ketu was nearly blown away. The everywhere seemed to have gone even darker than it was already. The ground around her were cracking up under the force of her spiritual pressure and disintegrating. Her spiritual pressure level kept going up and soon the entire ground of this part of the universe was disintegrated. Ketu was forced to jump up, but as he did his spiritual pressure level rose as well and dragon wings spread out from his back, they flapped effortlessly and he came to a rest in mid-air. The ground below disappeared replaced by nothing but darkness.
Eventually, Emperatriz's spiritual pressure stopped rising and her ressurecion was revealed.
Her face and body didn't change. She was now encased within what looks to be the skeleton of a dragon. Her face was protected by a dragon's skull over her head. She had skeletal dragon wings on her back that had small tears in it. Her body was protected by the rib part of the dragon and a large skeletal tail stretched out from the back of the skeleton.
"That just makes me sick," said Ketu with disgust looking at the skeleton.
"What's the matter? Did the sight of my might make you quiver in fear so much that you're going to throw up?" taunted Emperatriz.
"No. The sight of someone daring to wear the skeleton of a dragon as armour. Dragons are respectable intelligent creatures, wearing one of their skeletons is an insult."
"Well sorry if I've insulted you, but this is just what my true form looks like. I can never change that."
"All you arrancars are the same, scumbags who use skeletons. As I've said before, come up with something original already, you're all boring us to hell."
"Don't blame me, I don't control the arrancar world or how the weird system works."
"Aren't you like the most powerful arrancar here? Shouldn't you know something? Come on, you arrancars need to see more colours, be more creative."
"Why the hell do we need to do that? We don't need to make ourselves look pretty. All those colours just ruin out intimidating look."
"Some colours, mixed properly, can look frightening."
"Yeah, and they're mostly black and white for your information," argued Emperatriz
"Black and white are shit colours. I mean, look at you, a penguin in a tuxedo has more colours than you."
"You need to shut the fuck up. Weren't you the one who kept saying we should just shut up and get on with it? Now look at you, you hypocrite. You're the one who's ranting on about shit all this time."
Ketu laughed. "If I don't get the insults in now, I won't be able to when you're dead. Also, there's a time and place for talking. Now is a good time to talk." He grinned, "But it's also a good time to fight."
Ketu moved swiftly and was upon Emperatriz. He fired a quick hado four. She flew sideways, dodged and fired a cero. Ketu twisted in the air with his wings folded and shot upwards. He came to a halt and fired another hado four. Emperatriz shot up at him and rolled over in mid-air to avoid the attack. She appeared in front of him and slashed with her newly dragon designed sword. He ducked and moved back.
"Look at you, you're so pathetic you don't even have a sword to fight. That's how weak you are," laughed Emperatriz.
Ketu laughed also, "No, no, no. It's more like you are so pathetic that you need a sword to fight against an unarmed person."
"Shut up, shut up, shut up," she shouted angrily with a red face. She stabbed forwards and charged. Ketu flash stepped away. "Come back here, you bastard," she screamed chasing him.
"What's the matter? Can't keep up?" taunted Ketu as his wings beat furiously flying at a extremely fast speed.
"BE QUIET!" she shrieked and blasted a cero at him channelling it with her sword for a more powerful cero.
Ketu turned around and intercepted with a hado four. Then he fired another one straight after it. Emperatriz redirected the attack away from her using her sword. Ketu moved in closer and slashed his hand diagonally in the air sending a wave of spiritual energy in the form of a kido attack at her.
She slashed the attack in two but was sent flying back due to the force of the attack. Ketu moved after her and fired another hado four at her. She deflected it again with her sword.
"Is that measly little hado attack all you know?" she sneered.
"Oh don't you worry. You've seen what I know, well actually, you've only seen a tiny bit of what I know. You'll get to see all that I have soon enough, but for the moment I'm just messing around with you."
"Playing? No wonder your attacks are so pathetically weak."
"Oh don't worry, you haven't seen anything yet," said Ketu with confidence in his voice.
"Just you try it you pathetic excuse for a soul reaper."
Ketu moved fluidly and attack with a huge lightning attack, Emperatriz attempted to deflected it with her sword but failed as it exploded in front of her and blew her backwards. Ketu flash stepped past the veil of dust and appeared just before Emperatriz before she was able to find her footing and blasted the same bolt of lightning at her sending her into the sky. He flash stepped up after her, she was helpless in mid-flight and couldn't do anything as another bolt of lightning hit her and bashed her into the ground. Ketu did a finishing landing a ways away from where she landed.
Emperatriz was still standing, she coughed and blood splattered on the floor. She wiped her mouth and grinned. "Not bad. But, was that all you have?" Suddenly something from behind Ketu fired a cero at him and he was forced to jump on the floor to avoid it.
He looked behind him and saw another Emperatriz. "What the?" he though then turned back and the original Emperatriz had vanished.
"My sonido speed is so fast that a can actually make a fake image of myself when I use sonido. Unfortunately it only lasts two seconds, but that's enough." As she said it something appeared behind Ketu and slashed, Ketu moved but the sword cut his left leg.
"Not bad to you too, but that's not going to be enough to beat me."
"Oh really?" sneered Emperatriz, as her fake image stayed and her real body was already behind Ketu and stabbed straight through him. But nothing happened, Ketu's body just suddenly melted into sand and was blown away as a gale force wind with the sharpness of a blade slashed cuts her arm and legs. She jumped away from the wind immediately and avoided any more damage.
"How was that?" taunted Ketu with both of his arms raised in front of him.
"So, you use wind?" asked Emperatriz with an intrigued look.
"So what if I do?"
"Well then, that's good. Because," she vanished and appeared behind him. "I'm also a wind user."
Ketu moved instantly and a second later another gale force wind blew at him. He raised his arm. "Spirits of wind, god of wind. I call force thee, and I command thee. Blades of wind." He chanted quickly in his hand and matched Emperatriz's wind with his. There was a big explosion and both of them vanished.
Random explosions occurred in the minute everywhere and anywhere as the two wind users blasted blades of wind at each other. It was always an even match but neither side was about to let down.
"Looks like we could be here for a while," joked Ketu.
"You're stronger than I thought. It has been a very long time since I faced a skilled wind kido user."
"I've actually never faced any wind based people up until today. So I'm glad that I met you. But this isn't over yet." He sent blades of wind at her, she sent her's back and they collided. They moved at the same time and dodged the explosion appearing on the ground locked in close combat.
Ketu shot a burst of wind at her head. She moved her head back and dodged, then she span round and fired an arrow of wind at his chest. He fired his own arrow and both collided with an explosion which injured both fighters. He then flipped over her constantly shooting wind at her in his flight arc. She intercepted each one and jumped back firing a bigger blast of wind. Ketu jumped up into the sky and another wave of wind rained down on her.
She disappeared appearing in the air as well opposite him. Both reacted immediately and a huge explosion occurred as their winds met once more.
"Dammit, at this rate it really is going to last forever," thought Ketu.
He flash stepped and fired a barrage of sharp torpedoes of wind at Emperatriz. She had just appeared so she wasn't able to dodge, but she was able to minimize the damage by ramming her own wind into the attack. The explosion blown her into the ground but she still flipped back up easily and fired her own wind torpedoes back at him.
"You know what? This is getting rather tiresome and tedious," said Emperatriz.
"Bored? Don't you mean you surrender?" laughed Ketu.
"Don't be ridiculous. I'm just sampling saying that we should kick this fight up a notch." As she said that her spiritual pressure went up again.
"How can your spiritual strength go up so high?" asked a bewildered Ketu.
"This is why I am the top Wu Jian. My powers are LIMITLESS!!" she shouted and in less than a fraction of a second a huge gash appeared on Ketu's shoulder and blood sprayed out like a fountain.
"Shit, that was too fast," cursed Ketu and flash stepped out of range.
"What's the matter? Had too much that you're going to run away?" taunted Emperatriz.
"Not at all, in fact, I've just begun getting serious." Ketu increased his speed also and blasted his wind at Emperatriz. She did not attempt to dodge, instead she blocked with one hand then flung the wind upwards. "Oh shit!"
A second later during Ketu's flight another gash appeared on his other shoulder and he fell down crashing into the ground with blood pouring from his shoulders.
"Poor you, looks like you couldn't handle it when I got even a bit serious," sneered Emperatriz, her spiritual energy rising again.
Ketu smirked, got up and charged straight for her.
"Don't make me laugh, with those kinds of wounds you can't even flash step so what are you going to try now?" she laughed firing huge amounts of energy infused with the wind at him.
"Let's end this here and now," shouted Ketu as his spiritual energy rose.
"It's too late now, my power is far greater than yours." She blasted more wind which was more powerful and faster than the other ones.
"Feng. Di. Liang. Hei. Hou. Shui. Dian. Bin. Shi jei de li liang. Di Qiu de hei. Liang shi feng kai de. Ba ta men fang zai yi qi." Ketu waved his hand in front of him. "Wave of destruction number four. Dragon's Radiance." A flash, then a bright light and there was an explosion as the light and the wind smashed into each other.
Emperatriz backed off immediately covering her eyes. The light vanished and she saw that Ketu was still there getting loser. She made her spiritual pressure rise once again and fired off thousands of wind arrows at Ketu.
"This could be interesting," thought Ketu as Emperatriz powered up again. "Now's my chance."
He moved his hands in front of him. "Hado eighty-nine, burning darkness." A snaky black flame crawled out from his palm and forced a wall in front and all the wind arrows smashed into the wall and exploded into a humongous outburst of flames. Ketu carried on and flew through the flames.
"What? He's using the explosion to accelerate? Shit," cursed Emperatriz as she saw Ketu's immediate approach. "Dammit, I can't attack."
A second later Ketu's fist smashed into Emperatriz's stomach and he forced her into the ground. "Exactly, you can't attack for a while after you charge. Aren't I right?"
"You-," coughed Emperatriz as she tried to get Ketu's fist off but coughed up blood instead.
Ketu jumped up and chanted out loud quickly "Feng zai tian shang, di bu zai feng shang. Wo de feng hu lai, wo de tian bu lai. Di. Feng. Shui. Hou. Tu. Wave of Destruction number five. Entity of Wind." The wind pressure in that part of the universe suddenly shot up a thousand fold and all that pressure came smashing down onto Emperatriz. She shrieked and within a second she was squashed into nothing more than a sea of blood.
Ketu landed and gasping for air, he may have been the one controlling that wind but he still took some damage. "Let's not do that again," he laughed weakly as the universe started to fluctuate and everything went to darkness again.