Rebirth of the Guardians – the long awaited sequel to chapter – 12
Chapter 13 – death of a human
Um the last chapter title wasn't that relevant was it? Oh well.
Oh and "Quotes and bold and Italics" mean Tom talking mentally to kokuhso, kokuhso responds in simple bold. "Quotes and bold" means that a spirit is talking by means of some physical form.
It also has come to my attention that I forgot the Chezneckia was named Chezneckia Dorell. So I started assuming her first name was Lisa her last Chezneckia. Thus that has become her Zi name, and the name she prefers to be called by. So um that's how I retroactively fix my mistakes. (Since I'm to lazy to go find and re-type her name every time I see it, or even move this to another chapter)
-Begin-
Tom had seen the white glow and had made, or rather he had put everyone down into the ground. He himself had taken up shelter closest to Lisa armed with a gun made to try and nullify her power. Every now and then he would come out from the edge and blast her with two or three dozen shots. Then shelter would be taken once more because not even every single charge Tom had could come close to fully depleting her power.
So, as in many other times of crisis Tom started talking to the super powerful spirit stuck in his mind, mentally only this time though.
"HOW THE FUCK IS SHE AT FULL POWER!?"Tom made the… whatever it was sound something like a mental equivalent to ten or twelve suns asking the question to kokuhso. His own mind hurt from the sound it had made. (Or something like that)
I guess Zenebas found a zoidian that gave her the right to fight at full power.
"What zoidian would do that?"
Well I never specified how much zoidian blood was needed for the right to invoke a Kami's full power. Sure I made sure only a full blooded zoidian could unlock the full power on a religious site but part blooded Zoidians could unlock part of the power.
"How much?"
Judging by Lisa's power levels. On cue a massive fire blast came by, much more powerful than the rest. I was going to say 50-60 but now I think it's closer to 80-85 of her power.
"Grand."Tom said with sarcasm. Then he ran out and blasted her with the power draining gun and his massive rapid fire rocket launcher. "DIE BITCH!!" The combined fire of the two as well as the sudden temporary power drop was enough to give her some temporary damage. The fact that Tom was firing two guns that were meant to be used with two hands and landing every shot caused more. With a flash the silver guns returned and made explosions galore, every one on target. The Gatling gun came out and landed a large percentage of hits. Then the two handheld guns with blades on their front came out and Tom fully unloaded those. Finally Tom produced his sword and went in for close range. Jumping up above the smoke and flaming rock where he assumed Lisa was, hoped Lisa has been and prayed that Lisa really wasn't he struck down. Not a one of his hopes were close. His fears were pretty accurate though.
A white dragon came out of the cloud and caught the sword. "Now I thought you and I were closer than that." Lisa said. Her voice carried very much a temptress tone of seduction. Her eyes had a glare that would make it obvious that she was lying. And her body was too surrounded by white flames to give anything away.
"If you thought that then you should have known I would have killed you if you became evil." Tom shouted as the energy wings appeared on his back and he began to try and push down.
"EVIL! You think I'm EVIL! What a crackpot!" Lisa glared at Tom, Tom glared right back. "So you're serious." Lisa said, regret in her voice.
"Damn straight." Tom said right back little emotion in his just focus.
"I had hoped to keep you alive. No matter what either of our moral compass said about each of us I'm sure you will not like killing me because we are both the last pure humans on the planet."
"I never liked killing anybody. But your death… Your death… Your death will be most saddening."
"It was the same when Sylvia died. I never liked her all that much but still her death did touch me. You on the other hand I liked."
"I'd be touched save for the fact that you were always manipulating. Back on earth I had found you shortly after you had been apprehended for trying to start a rebellion. One I had a part in putting down. Damn I was an idiot my gut told me to avoid you but you were to good looking to pass up. Back when you were Chezneckia Dorell and your face still looked good because it hadn't been tainted by the darkness of your soul."
"Are you calling me ugly?" Lisa asked a playful whim on her voice.
Tom responded with all seriousness in his voice, "Not really. I'm just saying why deprive the world of the true beauty because of the darkness in your soul."
"Interesting answer. I'll make sure your death is quick and painless. Either that or you'll live and join me at some point."
"Death is the more likely of the two. Although it is rather improbable."
"You say you're more powerful than ME!!" Tom was waiting for that, the spirit within Lisa had come out in a fit of rage and would, hopefully make a full transition into offense. Leaving her with no defense what so ever. Tom was right. A mass of white flame came at him to be met with Tom's power negator. A shot right to the eye made a violent impact and her face seemed to explode.
Breathing a rather sigh of relief, despite being covered in blood from the attack, Tom turned around to face his gang. "Kokuhso would you know if any of them have zoidian heritage?"
No, the Kami tried to avoid Zoidians at all costs. But one thing I do know is that Zoidians have a terrible fear of Kami manifesting. So if anyone is terribly deathly pathologically afraid of Lisa then they could be a zoidian. Tom looked at his team, most of there were that afraid. Alright it's not perfect but it does eliminate three people.
Tom walked over to the closest scared person, John, "John I need you to do something."
"What?" John said as he hid behind a computer terminal deathly afraid.
"Give me permission to fight."
"Sure take it go beat her!" Tom faced Lisa and pointed his hand, nothing happened.
"Crap next person." He came to Devon again caught tight in fetal position. "Oh joy." Tom muttered as he shot Lisa with as many shots he could do with is power canceller stopping her for a bit longer. "Devon I need you to give me permission to fight."
"What will that do, she'll kill us all anyway."
"DAMN IT DO IT MAN!" Tom shouted at his face. He was not in the mood to play nice. On a whim he produced several guns with lots of ammo or laser based firing and passed it to the three people not so afraid they wouldn't move, Bekah Perrone and Fred. "You three shoot her, but if she shoots back duck and/or run at your best discretion." Tom focused on Devon, "Look give me permission and I guarantee she'll go I really do."
"Fine then go beat her, do whatever just keep her away from us!"
Tom pointed at Relena, nothing happened. "AGAIN? CRAP!" Tom ran over to the next person as his team mates blasted Lisa with whatever they could. Which, honestly, was all the time. At Oliver, who was less afraid then John and Devon but still wouldn't dare move, Tom asked, "Will you give me the permission to beat her?"
"You don't need my permission kick her ass." Oliver had the guts to actually point his hand at Lisa around his cover.
Tom ran to reddy expecting more nothing and with the point of a finger he wasn't disappointed. "GOD DAMN IT WHERE'S A ZOIDIAN POD WHEN YOU NEED ONE!!" On cue Tom saw reddy hiding in an open one. "That was lucky. True it was just the word not the spirit but I ain't complaining. Reddy do you give me the permission to have no restraints mental physical or otherwise no regrets nothing holding me back to beat her and save us all if not the world from the Zenebas menace that she is helping to create." Tom had truly poured his heart into that request. Reddy was his last hope and for his survival and many others he had to be a zoidian who would grant him the permission.
"No."
"No?" Tom said confused beyond belief. "I'll save you if I do this. If I don't you all die."
"But if I say you can fight then you'll be like her."
"No I won't she is bad she wants, at best, to do things her way. At worst she just wants to destroy to kill. I want to help. We are two opposite forces who are stuck in eternal conflict. I can at least stop her from fighting here now."
"No, all Kami are bad people. I don't like any of them. You I like cause you're not a Kami but kokuhso I hate. Never use him ever dad."
Tom was conflicted he was being hated and loved at the same time. But also he was making a revelation. "All Kami are bad? But you only know one!"
"No all Kami are bad I know that. I lived with you on the hope that you would never use your Kami and I won't let you use him now."
A pathological deathly terrible fear of Kami. Thousands of years of warfare just to make your enemies immortal and stronger. Zenebas taking interest in a boy like him to extremes they wouldn't dare even with me. This boy is an ancient zoidian. Tom stopped stepping back. He felt so conflicted, sure he had resolved to have a better outlook on life but Zoidians had no reason to like him. Inside of him was the spirit of a zoidian foe for all time, Kokuhso the falling star. And he himself was the unknown mass murder of almost all of zoidian society. He had thought to make this kid his adopted son. There was so much wrong with it. He felt like giving reddy a gun and asking him to shoot him in the head until he was dead. But Tom couldn't die now, not until he had saved one more zoidian life. "Damn it this sucks!" Tom shouted as he grabbed reddy activated his energy wings and took off. He needed to get reddy to safety. As he just started a white flame clipped his wing and made Tom drop reddy and made Tom fly onto a small flat point of land.
Another much more massive flame came at reddy, Tom only thought about saving him as he leapt. Reddy looked to see the flame come and didn't even notice the human blur charging at him with two guns ready to blast at that very, very, very, very powerful pillar of pure white heaven fire that would destroy reddy in a heartbeat. Tom was in the way just the instant reddy said, "Don't let it destroy me Tom, please."
Tom didn't think about right and wrong for a moment, he just wanted to save the kids life, Kokuhso did too. And then he manifested fully, something he could only do with Zoidians permission. A massive black dragon erupted out of Tom's two hands that had been placed forwards to block the oncoming assault of heaven fire. The dragon flew forwards and impacted Lisa into the wall above the birthing pool. "I won't let her touch you." Tom said to reddy, who wasn't daring to look. He had good reason, Kokuhso in his full 100 manifestation was a massive black dragon that partly enwrapped Tom and the rest of him was covered in black flames.
Then Lisa spoke but not with her voice, the voice she spoke with echoed like a grand voice of some supreme spirit. "KOKUHSO YOU TRAITOR!" The voice was very loud and was shouting at a massive flaming black dragon head.
Tom's body stepped back in confusion, he had expected himself to be addressed not the spirit of the being in him. Instead that spirit spoke back. "Oh shut up Yosei. It's been ten thousand years plus plenty. Can't you let go of the past."
"Never. You betrayed our people cast them into these spiritual forms and right when we were starting to enjoy the immortality it gave us, even at the cost of our ability to interfere with the world around us, you made that damn counter seal to make us nothing!"
"Don't you see, this spirituality is a never ending purgatory in which we suffer through? By returning our spirits to the land we can heal the land to what it was like before the impact occurred!" For a moment kokuhso seemed to be done but then Tom coughed. "And there is the matter of sealing nearly all the mana of the earth up with this contract as well."
"YOU WHAT!!" Yosei screamed. Lisa looked confused. She was just a mortal in combat of the gods, much like Tom.
"That is the true and honest reason I made the contract. I was content in living in purgatory for as long as this planet existed. However when I realized I caught all of the planets mana in the seal I knew I needed a way to undo it. Well after all of your damn interference in my attempts to make the scroll 5,000 years ago I was unable to use my first generation power to activate it so I simply hid it here praying for some chance to come along soon. Damn that was dumb of me. Five thousand years and all we get are three people. Fact is we need to return the power to the land soon because the land is slowly dieing. If we don't do it all life on the planet may die!"
"I'm not worried I will finish the seal reverse." Tom kokuhso and everyone who had understood the conversation let out a sigh of relief. "But first I will kill you!" With a white explosion Yosei broke free.
"Don't waste you time Yosei. You aren't at full power and even if you were I'd still be stronger because I sealed all of me away in the initial sealing."
"That's why I will fight to seal it myself because you left some provision for the sealer to remain stronger than the rest."
"So you can't win, unlike you I still can fully truly manifest, more than I have now. If you want to win truly give it your all."
"It's your funeral." Yosei muttered. Then a large white dragon that barely seemed to be real appeared before them above the pool. It seemed to be almost the size of a whale king and probably would have been had it not been curled up to a height where it damaged the roof greatly. Above Yosei's eyes was a human figure that looked like Lisa naked from the waist up.
Then where Tom had been there was a greater and fully real black dragon. It seemed to be almost twice the size of Yosei, much thicker and fully real, every part was clearly visible. "You were saying?" Kokuhso asked. A Tom like figure above his eyes produced guns. The Lisa looking figure did too. Then they charged.
Both humans firing at whatever they could hit the two dragons collided in massive power explosion. Disturbed from his fear by the lights that still got to his eyes despite them being closed, covered with his arms and facing the ground Reddy got up to look because apparently curiosity is a very predictable and strong force for Zoidians as well as humans. He saw a figure he could clearly recognize as Tom merged with a massive black dragon. That figure was pushing around a much weaker looking white dragon in a massive random seeming pattern. "What is going on!?" Reddy asked as he backed up to go away from the fight.
Fred caught him within all of two seconds. "Reddy, you do realize that Tom summoned his dragon to save you right?"
"You think I care!" He shouted as he tried to run. Fred started using his whole arm to stop him instead of his foot like he did before.
"Tell me, what do you think she would have done if she had killed you and Tom in that one blast when Tom saved you?"
"Um, I don't know."
"Let me give you what is most likely the correct answer, she would kill us all and the Zenebas army would be able to overrun everything in a heartbeat. Hell she might just spare you because you're an ancient zoidian, and let me tell you from experience, I've seen two Zoidians who were captured by Zenebas, they begged me for death and I granted that request to the second one I saw because she was that much worse than the first."
"What!" Reddy said backing away, "I, I'm just an orphan nothing more nothing less."
"Look that's still true, but the fact is your parents abandoned you in a stasis chamber four thousand years ago."
"No, there's no way in hell I can be a zoidian. I'm just a normal human being like all of you. That's who I am."
"Kid only a zoidian can let Kokuhso out in his full power here and he came out when you hinted that you wanted his help. This proves two things, one you're an ancient zoidian. Two; that contract thing that he talks about is apparently based largely on the Kami's personal interpretation of when assistance is needed. True my second observation is rather useless right now, but I think you still should know that anyway."
"I can't be a zoidian. Tom said that he was going to adopt me and he's the leader of the fleet that crashed into the moon and killed the Zoidians!" Fred's eyes opened very wide as did everyone else's who heard. Then on cue a small strand of white fire came at Fred. Reddy turned around and shouted, "STOP NOW YOU KAMI!" Millimeters away from Fred's skull the white flame disappeared as well as both dragons. Instead Tom was in front of reddy with a sword in hand and Lisa was opposite him with a small energy knife in each hand. "Tom I-"
Tom raised an arm to stop reddy. "The fight isn't over yet. I still have to kill her." He and Lisa both were breathing raggedly and had severe wounds on various parts of their persons from fighting. On cue both of their belts fell off. "And with only this versus those things…" On cue Lisa's knives became much longer, "Well I need as much concentration as I can get."
Fred looked at the belt, "What the hell happened to that thing?"
"Just temporarily fired due to the power that was being used there. I can fix it with ease."
"Need help buddy?" Fred asked pulling out his standard issue side arm.
"No I can handle one last go."
"Well it's just that for the percent power advantage you were supposed to have on her you seem beat up and tired."
"Yosei must be stronger than Kokuhso's memory suggests. Maybe she was training or something but as we were we were almost even in power. That means I have to get better."
That's because your emotions were really out of whack. You're too damn conflicted I can't operate anywhere near full power with you like this. Kokuhso said as he popped into Tom's head for a moment.
"One more question." Fred said.
"Speak."
"Do you mean to make Reddy your adopted child?"
"If I live and he'll live with a psycho father like me, yeah."
"I see." Fred said with a grin. "Reddy, I think you should accept your father for who he really is."
"What do you mean?" Reddy said confused.
"Let him summon kokuhso."
"Nah." Tom interjected. "Me and Lisa have something to do finish. And now that Kokuhso and Yosei got out their conflict we need to finish ours." Tom then took up a ready stance. Lisa gripped both of her knives in a way that she could strike with the most attacks. Then they charged.
Tom got in a strike deep into Lisa's chest piercing all the way through. Lisa got two cuts in on Tom, one low on his right abdomen cutting a few inches in from the side, the other right below Tom's left shoulder blade. Tom had finished his momentum it seemed but Lisa looked like she had been in stage one of a deadly strike. "You won. You stupid bastard." Lisa irked out as she fell pulling the laser blades out with her.
Tom barely winced as the blades made more gruesome cuts into his body. "I'm not sure who won yet, it may be a tie." He fell down to, with a laser blade stuck in a cut near his shoulder and one big hole in his side. "Damn this hurts." Tom mumbled as he pushed a button on the sword and had the laser blade disappear. "Better…" Tom said and then passed out, perhaps to simply die.
"He beat me." Lisa was mumbling. "I can't believe it he beat me." Then she died.
-End-
Well the evil girl is dead, and perhaps the hero it too, but I doubt it, he's just about immortal. So expect him to live cause there is a sequel, maybe two!