Big climactic battle! Big climactic battle! Big climactic battle!! The moment has finally come for Kori to face her father, Just warning you that I suck at battle scenes so….it might not be that good. But the last chapter is going to be awesome.
Disclaimer: I do not own crescent moon.
"Hello Kori…dear daughter." Takoro Itikashi sneered at his daughter. Kori stared up at her father in a mix of fear and anger. There was no turning back, she would have to defeat him or be on the run for the rest of her life.
Takoro smirked and walked a few steps closer to his child, "Are you finally ready to stop this foolishness and return? We could always use a back up if we run out of these." He gestured to racks and racks of bottled phoenix tears, all labeled with the name of the phoenix they were taken from. Kori felt the pit of her stomach burn with anger as she turned back at him.
"No, I'll never return to you or help you with this un human act ever again. I am here, though, to tell you that I won't allow you to ever harm another creature again in this world."
Takoro chuckled, "And how do you propose to do that? Kill me? Stupid girl, if you had the stomach to do that you would have done it long before I did away with your grandmother." He sneered, making Kori's heart lurch with guilt.
He smirked then reached over and pressed a button.
"What are you doing?" She said, her face wary and prepared.
"Just calling a few friends down to keep your friends preoccupied while we 'discuss' over this little issue." Takoro answered with a sneer, seconds later, at least 200 soldiers were lined up at every door on the other side of the room.
"No! They have nothing to do with this! Leave them alone!!" Kori screamed as the soldiers attacked.
"Get going kori!" Mitsuru shouted back at her, for the first time speaking in a while, "We can handle these goons , you handle this bastard!"
Takoro frowned at being called a bastard, "I don't see why you fight back, you are out numbered by many."
All four demon boys smirked at each other then transformed. Takoro stumbled backwards at their appearance.
"Didn't expect that didja bud?" Akira asked grinning.
"DEMONS! Of course my monster of a daughter would make friends with demons!"
Kori's face twisted into a scowl as she rushed at him, her fire balls burning almost uncontrollably with anger.
"Monster! Father, look around you, look what you've done! Then tell me who's the monster!!" She cried as she threw whatever she had at him, punches, kicks, fire balls, but he managed to dodge all of them, though some barely.
"Me? A monster? Dear Kori I give humans a second chance at life using these dangerous yet useful powers your kind can give. I'm merely a healer of humans."
"YOU'RE A MURDERER!" Kori screamed as she hurtled a fireball at her father. He jumped and rolled out of the way.
Takoro laughed cruelly, "I suppose if disposing unwanted trash and beasts…then yes…I am a murderer."
Kori flew up so she was hovering around her father, "These innocent people you killed, your own mother and my grandmother was one of them! You weren't even fazed when she screamed for you to stop this! YOU HAD NO MERCY FOR THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT YOU INTO THIS WORLD?!!"
"Mercy is for weaklings my dear" Takoro replied, reaching out and grabbing hold of her leg, he slammed her to the ground then kicked her in the ribs before she could get up.
"Now I'll give you one more chance, serve my organization and I shall let you live."
Kori coughed and spat blood out of her mouth she kneeled over, clutching her rib cage and her bangs covered her eyes. For a moment Takoro thought he had won, but gasped as his daughter slowly turned her head up to him,
"I…will never….help you…again." She said as she struggled to stand up. He backed away, her eyes were glowing bright red instead of the usual amber.
Meanwhile with the others, Nozomu had just finished taking out the last guy, as he threw him with the other unconscious heaps on the floor he looked to watch the battle.
"Come on kori you can do it.." Mahiru encouraged watching her 'little sister'. Takimu narrowed his eyes and nodded, I know you can…He thought.
Misoka watched as the young phoenix fought for a moment then turned to the others, "everyone, get into positions, this is Kori's fight but we still have part of the job to do."
"Right!" Everyone replied as they rushed off into the rest of the storage room.
Kori, was at that point was raging mad, flames rose all around her and ignited each step she took.
"For years you tortured me, made me fell like I was nothing so I couldn't fight back. All that time I thought it was because I was nothing but really…you were afraid of me, that's why you treated me so badly at such a young age."
"I FEAR NONE OF YOU CREATURES!!" Takoro shouted in protest but kori was unfazed.
"Grandmother wasn't normal…I wasn't normal, so you decided to use us as pawns in this idiotic war game! I wasn't strong enough to save her or the others….but things are different now."
Takoro backed away from his furious daughter, he was starting to panic as he reached behind him for anything, he finally found a glass shard from a broken tear container, he smirked maniacally and charged at kori with all his might. He slashed across her mid section with the glass and she cried out, while she was taken off guard, he kicked, punched and threw every ounce of strength he had at her, sending her flying into a pile of rubble.
"Kori!" Takimu shouted as he watched her fall. Her eyes were closed and her midsection bled badly.
Takoro sneered as he walked over and picked her up by the front of her shirt, "Give up girl…" he growled.
Kori's head lay backwards for a second, then shot back up which surprised her father,
"I'M NOT…AFRAID OF YOU…ANYMORE!!!!!" She screamed and Takoro was blasted backwards into a wall.
Smoke engulfed the room for a moment but then cleared enough to see kori, transformed with giant fiery wings on her back. Her hair tie had been burned so now her hair hung around her head and seemed to float with the demonic energy she was submitting. Her jacket and shirt had been replaced by a black shirt with the shoulder parts of the sleeves cut off, flames were imprinted on the bottom part of them. The shirt stopped so it showed just a little of her midsection. Her long pants had changed to knee length shorts, with a fishnet covering her middle, which was healing all by itself by some unknown force. Her eyes glowed white with heat.
Behind her stood a giant phoenix, it rose its wings high up and crowed loudly, so it echoed through the entire building.
Kori blinked then looked up at the bird, it was the same one as before, "you…" she said in recognition.
The phoenix bowed it's head so it's giant eye was level with Kori's, "Hello Kori.."
Kori gasped, that voice….It was her grandmothers…
"G-Grandmother?!" She asked shocked.
The phoenix nodded, "Yes darling, it's me."
"Y-you're the one who helped me know about this place…you're the one who helped me transform like this."
"Yes."
Kori stared up at the phoenix...her grandmother…was standing right in front of her.
"How…"
"After I died, my spirit could not rest until Takoro was stopped, Kori my dear, I knew that you would be the one who could do it." She ended.
Kori blushed, "b-but…what if I…" she stared at the ground
The phoenix lifted her face to meet it's own, "You've grown so much and so beautifully kori….I know that you can do this, you're a strong one you can win!" The phoenix stated confidently.
Kori stared up at the phoenix then nodded, Takoro struggled to stand up, "what are you mumbling about over there monster!!" He screamed, not knowing the phoenix before him was his mother.
Kori closed her eyes and took a deep breath, this was it.
"NOW GUYS!" She screamed.
Without warning, Misoka threw one of his fire wards into the feather pit and they instantly erupted into flames, the others had taken position behind all of the tear cabinets and slammed their shoulders to make them tip over. Glass shattered everywhere and phoenix tears spilled over the ground until they started glowing.
Thousands of phoenix spirits zoomed around the room, finally free of the prison they were forced in, finally their spirits could move on. They flew around Kori and the others happily then poofed out of existence.
"no…NO!!!" Takoro screamed as he watched this and the feathers burn to ash. "All of my work! Gone!!"
"And it's just as well!" Kori screamed back.
Takoro glared at her, his face twisted in a mixture of rage and insanity, then all of a sudden, his face turned into a maniacal grin.
"I'm not beaten yet!" He screamed as he rushed over to a curtain, he pulled it open to reveal a giant tank of phoenix tears.
"If I absorb all of this, I'll be invincible! I'm sure of it!!" He screamed as he started to pull a lever to pour the tank on himself.
Kori gasped, that would do the exact opposite, you were only supposed to use a few tears at a time, if you absorbed more than that your flesh all the way through your bone would burn away. (a/n again, just a minor detail that i'm not sure is true, don't take my word for it.)
"No Stop!" Kori screamed trying to warn him.
"Takoro you mustn't!!" The phoenix shouted as her son's eyes were lost to insanity.
"I"LL FINISH YOU OFF ONCE AND FOR ALL AFTER THIS!!!" He screamed and poured the tank all over himself.
Immediately his skin started to burn away and he screeched in pain. The phoenix turned away quickly and spread her wings out to block the view of everyone else.
"close your eyes Kori, look away!" Kori didn't need to witness more death, especially not one so gruesome as this.
After Takoro's screams died down the phoenix turned her head, she sighed, all that was left of the man was a small pile of ash and bone.
"I think I'm gonna barf…" Akira said covering his mouth.
Kori stared wide eye at what used to be her father, then she frowned sadly, "H-he was a mad man right until the very end…"
"Unfortunately so young one…" the phoenix agreed. Kori turned up to face her grandmother.
"G-grandma…about all those years ago, w-when my father, I-I'm sorry-"
"shhhh." the phoenix wiped away a few stray tears off of Kori's face, "It's not your fault Kori, none of this was your fault, an old woman made a mistake…and now it has been corrected, thanks to you kori…"
Kori sniffed and smiled.
The phoenix looked up as if something was calling her, "It's time for me to go young one…"
"grandma…I'll miss you, good luck." kori said hugging her grandmother one last time.
"I'll miss you too my love, but we'll see each other again."
"W-we will?" Kori asked threw tears.
"Yes, I'll be waiting for you…good bye my darling."
The phoenix tipped her head back and crowed one last time before her body disintegrated into dozens of shining particles.
Kori smiled, "thank you…"
Once all of the particles disappeared Seishiru took off his hat and sighed, "it's over."
As if that was their que, everyone exploded into cheers of happiness and triumph. Akira and Mahiru jumped up and down hugging each other, Nozomu grinned and Mitsuru smirked and Misoka just smiled and cleaned his glasses.
Takimu grinned and ran with all his speed next to the young girl he had come to love, "Kori!"
Kori turned and gasped when she was tackled in a Takimu bear hug, "You did it! I knew you could!"
He picked her up and swung her around, she laughed as he did. He put her down, "You really did it kori! Your free!" He shouted smiling from ear to ear.
"I-I'm free…" kori started looking dazed, then she smiled and happy tears started to pour from her eyes, "I-I can't believe it…I'm free!" She jumped up and hugged Takimu around the neck and he swung her around hugging back.
The others watched and smiled at the two.Seishiru smiled tiredly at his younger brother.
"It's over." He said once more.
She did it! She did it! How was that for a climactic battle scene? It didn't suck too much did it? I hope not, it took me forever to write. Wahhh! The last chapter is next! I can't believe it's almost over!! (Sobs)
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