Chapter 3: Blood frenzy.
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"Well it sounds as if Ranger is having fun," X said dryly as Airnaruto killed another Narutard with a knife.
"Does anyone else find it creepy that the second in command of the FAF loves killing so much he's practically a villain?" Mistress asked.
"Sort of," Airnaruto admitted.
"Hey at least he's on our side," X replied.
They were slipping in as per Ranger's plan and thanks to Ranger's diversion most of the Narutards had gone off to try and face him. They were closing in now on the altar around which there were around thirty Narutards.
"So how are doing this," Airnaruto asked?
X frowned and drew out the Sparda.
"Hard and fast," he said. "If the enemy realizes we're making off with Nukid this whole things going to go south really quick."
"Lovely," Mistress growled.
They moved up with silent stealth keeping to the shadows cast by the many torches around the Altar.
"Oh mighty Avergol we beseech thee to take this heathen's soul," the Narutard closest to the altar proclaimed.
"Who's Avergol?" Mistress whispered.
"Who cares," X whispered.
A young woman with a katanna on her hip approached the altar.
"Times up," Airnaruto hissed.
"Go loud!" X proclaimed drawing dusk and dawn. He opened up gunning down the Narutards starting with the chick with the Katanna. Mistress charged in behind his screen of fire striking down one of the chanters and then jumping off the chanters back to the altar. With a whirlwind kick she sent the chanter closest to the altar crashing down the steps. Air summoned up a rasenshuriken and sent whole half dozen flying away.
X stormed up the steps, still firing his pistols. Airnaruto and Mistressofdawn pulled Nukid from the altar and slung his semi conscious form over their shoulders.
"Okay lets move!" X shouted over his gun fire.
"I hope Loonies planted the charges," Air growled.
"I'm sure he's already done," Mistress assured him.
-AF-
"Stupid Narutards," Lunatic muttered as he buried another land mine. "Stupid Ranger, giving me a bunch of mines..."
He had planted about half of his charges since being run over by the hoard of Narutards and he wasn't happy with that last detail.
-AF-
Blood sprayed against the crowding Narutards again as two more of their number fell to Ranger's sword play. He had drawn Ddriag s Cual and was wielding it in his left hand while he slaughtered with both blades.
"Eighty-six and eighty-seven," he counted flicking the blood from his blades. "And I haven't even broken a sweat yet."
The Narutard's stood a good ten feet from him rooted to their positions with fear.
"Come on!" He exclaimed mockingly. "Anyone else want to try their luck."
No one moved.
Ranger sighed.
"Well then if you don't mind, I'm going to put on some music for myself to listen to while I kill you," he said planting his swords point first into the dirt.
He pulled out his ipod and began to untangle the earphones.
A Narutard screamed an charged him and ninjato in hand. Ranger swept out his knife and deftly cut his attackers throat.
"People," he said sternly. "I am trying to put some music on for myself."
No one moved.
"Good," Ranger chiped brightly. He threaded the ear phones under his vest and put them into his ears. He clipped his ipod to his belt and began skimming through the songs until he found one he liked. His choice happened to be "The One" by Elena Siegman, from the Call of Duty Zombies sound track.
"Now then," he said picking his swords up again. The Narutards tensed up, bracinng themselves for the incoming attacks. "Shall we?"
He held his position for a moment, letting the song begin. He tapped his foot in time to the opening drum symbals. Then he charged forward and with one strike had slain two more enemies! The Narutards began to scatter screaming but Ranger cut them down as they fled. Heads fell and and bodies collapsed as Ranger swung his blades.
All my life I've been debating
All the crows they sit there waiting
Wondering what I'm going to eat
Until I have it I can't breathe
Another fell to his sword screaming as Rosemont cut her spine in half.
I only see you on the floor
Your hearts not beating anymore
My lust for you it cannot wait
Your skin it tastes like chocolate
He impaled one through the chest and beheaded a second.
Staring blankly at the sun
Waiting for my time to come
Your happy life it makes me sick
All the screaming sounds like music
He cut ones legs out from under them with Rosemont and stabbed them with Ddriag s Cual.
Losing all my holy dreams
Someone tell me what they mean
There's a smell of iron blood in the air
But I can't find it anywhere
He jumped into a large mass of Narutards with his swords sailing amongst limbs and bodies. Blood sprayed into the air and Ranger was surrounded by a thick red mist.
I've been waiting for someone to find me
And become a part of me (A part of...)
I've been waiting for you
To come here
And kill me
And set me free
I've been waiting for the one
He found himself free of foes for a moment but he turned to see others still trying to escape. "You can't run," he whispered.
In a second he was on them blades flashing red with sparks and flying blood.
Blood's flavor is so metallic
It's smell makes me go phrenetic
Textures that I find in you is a thick vicious glue
His blades screamed as they slipped past a defending Kusarigama and pierced the lungs of his victim.
Some nights I become so keen
With all I touch and all I see
There's an iron smell of blood in the air
But now I see it everywhere
He jumped at another bunched group with blood drenching his blades leaving trails in the air. Screams resumed as his blades fell in red arcs.
I've been waiting for someone to find me
And become a part of me (A part of me...)
I've been waiting for you
To come here
And kill me
And set me free (Oh)
I've been waiting for the one
"Ranger!" X called out and Ranger turned, dragging Rosemont through another body. X, Mistress, and Air where approaching with Nukid hanging between Air and Mistress.
He hadn't realized he'd gotten so close to the main camp.
A Narutard came at him from behind but X shot him in the head and swung out the Sparda joining Ranger in the melee. Blood Sprayed from the sword strokes and Narutards fell screaming as the Twilight Warrior and Half Devil Half Hollow cut them apart.
I've been waiting for someone to find me
And become a part of me (A part of me...)
I've been waiting for you to
Come here
And kill me (Oh)
I've been waiting for the one
Almost all of the Narutards lay dead on the ground in an ocean of gore. Ranger stood panting with X beside him covered in blood.
"How's Nukid?" He asked.
X shook his head.
"Still out of it," he replied. "Won't know how bad his injuries are until we get him somewhere safe."
Ranger nodded sheathing Ddriag s Cual.
"Well I guess we won't need my precaution after all," he muttered. "I'll detonate them anyways, don't want someone digging them up or setting them off by accident."
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X nodded.
"Let's get out of..."
"You idiots."
They turned to see the woman X had shot first approaching them, holding her stomach with her Katanna in hand.
"How aren't you dead yet?" X demanded pulling out Dusk and Dawn.
"You've doomed us all and made worthless the sacrifice of all of those before me," she said gritting her teeth in pain.
"What are you talking about?" Ranger asked.
She coughed and spat up a glob of blood.
"Ten years ago our group tried to make a Jinchūriki," she whispered. "We summoned an Greater daemon but it was to powerful. We sealed it but discovered the seal would only last for one year on each person. Also we discovered it took a particularly strong individual to contain it. I am the last person in our group strong enough to hold him in."
"Umm..." Ranger said suddenly looking uncomfortable.
X tugged at his collar.
"I'm going to die now," she said falling to her knees. "Heaven help you... against... Avergol..."
"Might still need those mines," X muttered.
The woman's eyes suddenly turned a burning, screaming crimson! The light burst from he open mouth and grew, and grew, and grew, and grew, until it towered over the two Authors and began to form itself. Great wings spread forty, massive arms held a bleeding sword, hoofed feet crushed the corpses scattered about it, and a great horned head rose above it all with fire a poison being released with ever exhale.
"Aw shit," Ranger and X said at the same time.
