First time writing anything let alone a fan fiction so criticism is welcomed. Hopefully nothing looks too bad and that I'll get better at writing with each chapter.
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With an agonizing screech the lesser horrors charged right for Max and Yuugi. Max took to the air with his sword drawn while Yuugi stayed on the ground with her fists ready. None of the horrors went for her, instead focusing on Max.
"What the hell? I'm your opponent to!" Yuugi yelled as she took to the air in anger. She was quickly sent back to the ground after Max let out a rippling shockwave, grunting when she hit the ground. "Hey Max!" She said as she got back up on her feet. "You forget I'm here or somethin?" She clenched her teeth as she noticed that none of the horrors seemed to have been affected by Max's shockwave. "Damn things are making me look weak. I better step things up."
Max let out another shockwave, the blast just barely knocking the horrors back as they began to swarm him. "Oh what the flying fuck is this horse shit? Weak shits are barely fazed by that attack." He said as he grew frustrated. "Fuck it. I'll just slash each one of you individually." He began to swipe at the horrors with his sword, flinching every time he sliced one. The strange creatures made no attempts to dodge his strikes even as their numbers began to quickly dwindle.
Yuugi jumped into the fray with her fists out in front of her. She punched one of the horrors that tried to strike Max from behind, seemingly knocking it out of the sky, but it quickly vanished in midair then reappeared behind Max, making another attempt to strike him. "What the god damn hell are these things?" Yuugi said as she grew more frustrated. She grabbed a hold of one of the horrors appendages and tore it off, causing the horror to let out a grisly shriek. Yuugi and Max clasped their hands over their ears as they yelled out in pain. Max was then slashed across the chest by one of the horrors the moment he let his guard down. He then cut the horror in two in retaliation.
"Damn it! If you are going to kill them then kill them! Don't make them scream anymore then you have to!" Max yelled out furiously.
"Shit. My bad." Yuugi said. She then pulled out a spell card. "I'm done being made a fool of. Max, you might want to take cover…"
"Just use the damn thing. They will continue to follow me no matter what." Max said as he kicked one horror and cleaved another.
"Why are they only attacking you?"
"It's my power. It draws these kinds of creatures to me. Now fire that damn thing off and kill as many of these mother fuckers as you can!"
"Gladly." Yuugi said with a smirk. "Feat of Strength: Wind Blowing Down from Mt. Ooe!" Suddenly, blue, human sized danmaku came flying from all sides, crashing into the horrors with a deadly impact. Every time one of the horrors was hit, Yuugi felt a sharp pain in her chest. She began to spit up blood after about ten horrors were taken out, ending her spell card. "Guh! Err… Why am I in so much pain? Not one of them ever touched me…" She said as she held onto her chest.
"These things," Max began to say as blood dripped from his nose. "They're so damn easy to kill, but every time you cause them pain, you feel it too." Max sliced the last two remaining horrors as they tried to approach him then he and Yuugi slowly descended back to the ground. "This is yet another reason why we can't have too many of these cocksuckers hatching. Fuck… I feel like my balls were stomped on a few dozen times in rapid session."
"I hope that doesn't mean you can't fight anymore." A girl said. Max and Yuugi turned around in surprise to see two girls standing near the gate of the city.
"Oh what now?" Max said with irritation present in his voice.
One of the girls had dark red eyes and long blue hair. She wore a blue dress and blue shoes while caring an apron on her dress. On her head was a black hat that was decorated with peaches. "Hah! Who would have thought we would find the guy we were looking for while checking out those tremors? This is great!" The girl said excitedly.
"Yes, Elder Daughter. We were quite lucky this time around." The other girl said. She had red eyes and short violet blue hair. She wore a white and red shirt with a long black skirt and a hat with a red bow and two long ribbons extending out of it. She had a white and red shawl entwined along her arms and blouse. "But I advise you to be careful with this young man. Someone who can scare the Youkai of Boundaries must be met with caution."
"I'm telling you she's finally gone senile." The girl with the peach hat said with a cocky smirk. She held out her hand to her side, letting a sword of yellow and orange color form in it. She sat the sword over her shoulder and began to stride boldly towards Max and Yuugi. "So you're Max?" She said as she looked Max over. "Heh. They said the guy we were looking for was a handsome man. But you're more like a pretty boy if you ask me." She stopped half a meter away from Max, sticking her sword into the ground beside her then folding her arms. "I'm Tenshi Hinanai of the Heavens and I'm here to challenge you." She said with a strong aura of confidence surrounding her.
Max stared out the girl with a dumbfounded look. He turned to Yuugi then spoke. "Hey Yuug, you know this bitch by any chance?"
"I've heard of her." Yuugi said as she rubbed her forehead. "She's just some stuck up celestial. No one we should waste our time on."
"A what now?" Max said.
"Are you deaf or something, kid? She said celestial." Tenshi said. Max turned to face her while gritting his teeth.
The other woman sighed in disappointment. "Please don't antagonize him needlessly, Elder Daughter."
"Oh please, Iku. I bet his balls haven't even dropped yet." Tenshi said before bursting out into a laugh. Yuugi face palmed as Max grew infuriated.
Max inhaled then exhaled as he tried to calm himself. "You know what. I have something important to take care of. So if you don't mind-"
"What? Too scared to fight a girl? Or maybe you are just shy from lack of experience?" Tenshi said.
Max's furious expression quickly returned. He went to speak, but Yuugi quickly interrupted him. "How about you and mean fight? I haven't fought someone from the Heavens in a long time and I could really relieve some stress." Yuugi said as she cracked her knuckles.
"No. I want to fight the boy who's got the gap hag pissing her bed at night." Tenshi said as she picked up her sword and pointed it at Max.
"If you want to fight him then you are going to have to get through me first."
"Ha! Figures. The boy needs a woman to keep him safe. Truly pathetic." Tenshi said as she shook her head in disappointment.
"Bitch I will fuck you in till you bleed." Max said as he pointed at Tenshi menacingly.
Tenshi turned around, lifted her skirt and revealing her panties, and then started slapping her behind. "Then come and get it you limp dick!" She said as she continued to taunt Max.
"Dead. You're so fucking dead." Max said as he through his sword to the side, letting it dematerialize. He then made a furious charge towards Tenshi.
"Damn it Max let me take care of this and you go get the… err… never mind." Yuugi said as she tried to stop Max, but quickly gave up.
Max reached out to grab a hold of Tenshi's neck, but she swiftly dodged then used her leg to swipe his feet from under him, nearly sending him to the ground before he caught himself. Max slammed his fist into the ground, letting out a shockwave along the ground. Tenshi jumped into the air then retaliated with a barrage of red lasers she fired from some kind of stone. Max let the lasers bounce off his invisible shield then threw some red globs at her before jumping into the air to engage her in close combat. Tenshi used her sword while Max stuck with his fists as they fought one another, their energies swirling all around them.
Yuugi quickly ran over to Iku and grabbed her by her shirt, staring menacingly into her eyes. "Hey! Stop your friend right now. We don't have time for this shit."
"I'm sorry, but she has a legitimate reason to attack him. Plus it's not easy to stop her once she has found a worthy opponent to fight." Iku said, not showing any signs of fear to Yuugi.
"Guess I'm just gonna need to make yuh." Yuugi said as she pulled one of her fists back, preparing to punch Iku. She stopped as a sudden current of electricity ran through her body, stunning her and forcing her to let Iku go. "Guh! Damn it."
"I wish to witness the boy's power. So if you may," Iku said as she pulled out a spell card. "Please step aside."
"Nah. Sorry. There's nothing for you to see here." Yuugi said as she got into her battle stance in preparation for the incoming fight with Iku.
Tenshi elbowed Max in the chest, knocking him back a little. She then pulled out a spell card. "Heaven Sign: Sword of Divine Justice!" She shouted. She charged towards Max with her sword with great power, but he effortlessly caught the sword then countered by kicking her in the chest, sending her to the ground. She landed on her feet, clenching her pained chest. "Wow. Damn he's physically strong. He just blocked all my sword blows. Damn it… For me to not even hurt him after all that… Maybe I underestimated this kid a little bit?"
Max descended back to the ground with his arms crossed. "Here's the deal. You strip right now and I'll forgive you."
"W-What? You think you won, kid?" Tenshi said as she grew flustered.
"Bitch, I won the moment you pissed me off."
Tenshi let out a cocky laugh as she stood straight up, hiding her pain. "I haven't even begun to show you the powers of a celestial."
"If those powers don't involve blowing me then I'm not interested."
"Why you…" Tenshi said as she clenched her fists, trying not to show too much of her anger. She then regained her confident composure. "And what about you? I've heard you have more powers than what you have shown me. Why don't you show more of what you can do? You can drive people insane right? How about driving me insane? Come on now. I wanna see it. I wanna feel it! I don't want to beat you before seeing why you scare the gap youkai so much!"
"Heh. Trust me I would have already if it wasn't for my buddy over there being too close."
"Forget her! Show me now! Show me why you can make that whore of a youkai so scared!" Tenshi yelled out as she grew more frustrated.
Max sighed. "Well if you are going to beg then fine. It's your funeral." Max's dark power started to surge with in him, its maddening presence beginning to sap the sanity and confidence out of Tenshi.
Tenshi wrapped her arms around her as she began to shiver from the sudden chill in the air. "Wow… This is going to be awesome. If I can beat this guy, I'll have the gap youkai groveling at my feet in thanks. But… can I?" She thought as her face turned gloomy. She shook her head then grinned. "Of course I can. I won't let myself be influenced by this kid's creepy power."
"Heh. This chick has a lot of spunk. It's going to be loads of fun breaking her resolve." Max thought.
Tenshi swung her sword multiple times, sending out red, crescent shaped energy attacks towards Max. The attacks smashed across his shield, doing little damage. Tenshi clicked her teeth then rose higher into the air while sending out a continues stream of energy attacks. She then threw one of her keystones that caused Max to flinch when it smashed against his shield. She smirked once she took notice of his flinching then began to hurl more keystones at him. Max growled in frustration as he began to be pushed back with every keystone that hit him. He swiped his hand through the air, sending a shockwave out that shattered the keystones. Tenshi grunted a little when she let the blast hit her. She flew above Max then let out a rain of red lasers down upon him that once again bounced off Max's invisible shield.
"Pfft. In the end the bitch was way over her head." Max said as he watched the lasers bounce harmlessly away from him. "Again my time has been wasted…" His calm demeanor turned into surprise when he noticed a much larger keystone falling above him. "Oh shi-" The keystone smashed through his shield and forced him to catch the stone. "Holy fuck!" He summoned his unnatural strength then threw the stone off to the side, the stone smashing into a nearby building. He quickly began scanning the area around him. "Where she go…?"
"Scarlet Weather Rapture!" Tenshi called out as she appeared behind Max.
Max quickly turned around to punch her, but was blasted away by a large, red beam of concentrated energy that Tenshi fired. The building he was sent flying into went up in a fiery explosion as the powerful beam destroyed it.
Tenshi blew the smoke that emitted from her hands away, crossed her arms then grinned in triumph. "You may be strong in close combat, but your range fighting is lacking." She said as she watched the rest of the building she sent Max into crumble to the ground. "I think I'll make him strip in front of everyone as a punishment for looking down on me. If he lived that is." She burst out into a laugh, but quickly stopped as she felt an arm wrap over her shoulders. "Eh?" A trickle of sweat ran down her face as she slowly turned her head to the side to see Max right next to her. His clothe were torn in places and he had a few cuts and bruises where his skin was exposed.
"Well I aint dead, but I aint strippin either." Max said as he looked down at the burning remains of the building. He then turned his head and gazed into Tenshi's eyes. "You said you wanted to know why people are scared of me, right?" He asked.
"What did he do? My body won't move!" Tenshi thought as she remained frozen from Max's glare.
Max removed his arm from Tenshi's shoulder then floated in front of her with her eyes following his. He placed his hand over her eyes then formed a dark smirk. "This is why."
Tenshi's vision began to darken while the sounds around her faded. Her vision had nearly vanished when she suddenly heard a crackling sound and Max's painful cries. Her vision quickly returned for her to see Max being electrocuted.
"Ah! Iku! Nice save!" Tenshi exclaimed when she spotted Iku behind Max with her hand pointed towards his back.
Iku sighed in relief as she continued to try and catch her breath. Her clothe were dirty and ragged and she had a black eye and big bruise on one of her cheeks. "That was too close…" She said.
"Shit. Sorry Max! I lost my hold on her! She's one slippery fish!" Yuugi yelled out from below. Smoke emitted from all around her, especially from her puffed up hair.
Max nullified the electric current that was racing throughout his body with his power. He grit his teeth in anger then snapped his fingers, sending out a powerful shockwave all around him and knocking Tenshi and Iku out of the sky. The two girls managed to land on their feet when they hit the ground.
Max descended down next to Yuugi then sighed. "You know… If it wasn't for you being here I could have beat these two already and been on my way." He said to Yuugi.
"How am I in the way?" Yuugi exclaimed.
"I've gotten better at keeping my power from inflicting the wrong people with its influence, but I'm not perfect. If you weren't so close I could have gone off and beat these two's asses into the ground."
"Aw… So you do care?" Yuugi said as she placed her hands on her cheeks, faking a blush as she teased Max.
"I'm about to stop caring here in a minute." Max said.
Tenshi held onto her pained shoulder as she walked up to Iku. "Before you say anything, I'll admit that I underestimated him, but that stops now. I refuse to lose to him. He won't scare me off." Tenshi said. She then noticed that Iku's face was deathly pale and frozen in a state of fright. "What the hell is wrong with you, Iku? Don't tell me you're scared of that kid." She said as she turned to face Max and Yuugi. "It's all mind tricks. There is nothing to be scared of at all… at all…" She looked up behind Max and Yuugi. Her entire face paled as she caught a glimpse of something she was never meant to see. She went to scream, but her air way closed up. She dropped to her knees as she began to suffocate, unable to look away from the impossible thing she was now seeing.
"Heh… What's up with them?" Yuugi asked as she stared at the other two girls.
Max quickly took notice of the girl's terrified faces then sighed. "I knew you would come out, but damn it could you have waited ten more minutes?" He asked.
"Huh? Who you talkin to?" Yuugi asked.
"Yuug, whatever you do, do not turn around. Take those two and keep walking that way. Never turn back."
"What yuh talkin about-" Yuugi quickly turned around as she felt a vile presence. "What… the…" Yuugi began to slowly walk backwards away from the hideous monstrosity that floated in the air behind them. Her eyes watered up as she shook her head in denial. She dropped to her knees then face planted the ground, screaming in mindless terror.
"What the fuck did I just say? Jesus F N Christ! Listen to what I tell you…" Max said. "This is exactly why I don't want your people's help. You can't help me." He slowly began to turn around as his blood began to run cold. Sweat ran down his face as he prepared to gaze upon one of the things that should not be. "Fuck… You bastards are as ugly as ever…" He said the moment he looked at the horror.
The large horror was more impossible to describe than the smaller ones. Best way to describe it would be that it had a resemblance of a distorted spider and octopus like creature. Blood dripped from its six fangs as it relished in the fear everyone was giving off. It stared at Max with its eyes of deep darkness, waiting for him to make the first move.
"Alrighty then. You fuckers had me running when I ended up in your fucked up reality, but I have home field advantage this time. Not only that," Max said as he formed a sword in his hand. "But I also have some new tricks up my sleeve and I've been dying to test them on one of you unreal things." Blood spheres formed around him then fired at the horror, causing it to let out an unholy scream. Its dreaded wail made Yuugi, Tenshi and Iku scream in pain as their minds were being torn apart. "Sorry Yuug, but I can't hold back for your sake. Maybe now you'll understand that this is my fight and mine alone."
The horror dove for Max, not stopping its horrible shriek. It relentlessly clawed at Max as he dodged and weaved around its appendages. Max slashed at the spider legs and tentacles only for them to quickly grow back. More blood spheres formed around him then fired, pushing the horror back. Blood dripped from Max's mouth as he continued to damage the thing.
"Damn these things. I really can't hold back." Max thought.
Max channeled more of his dark power, letting it flow out of him. It seeped out across the Ancient City, driving the weak minded mad. Max jumped into the air then held his arm back as the dark red energy ran down it and into his hand. The horror collected itself then flew towards him. Max then swung his arm, lobbing a formless, chaotic sphere of dark red energy that emitted black sparks. The chaotic attack left a red line trail and black sparks. The attack hit the horror, letting out a huge explosion that rocked the city. The horror's death wail could still be heard over the sound of the explosion in the minds of all who were near. Max vomited a large amount of blood soon after the hit.
Max wiped his face as he waited for the smoke from the explosion to fade away. "Well that wasn't too hard. Those girls probably got caught in the explosion, but I couldn't afford to be careful. Oh well, they will thank me for ending their nights of endless nightmares if they survived the-" Max's train of thought was interrupted as he was suddenly impaled through the stomach by a tentacle that came through the smoke. He spurted out blood as he grabbed a hold of the tentacle. "What the fuck? It should be dead! I felt it die for fuck sake!" He thought as his vision began to waver. The smoke slowly started to disappear, revealing the horror in front of him, but the horror had a slightly noticeable difference to its shape and color than before. Max eye's widened in fear. "T-Two? There were two of them?" The horror charged towards him, swinging one of its spider legs at him. He caught the leg with one of his arms while he used the other to slowly pull out the tentacle. "Damn this hurts. Doesn't help that it's eating away at my life energy…" He shoved the spider leg away from him then went to throw another chaotic energy ball at it, but was impaled by a spider leg from behind. "Gaaaaah!" He yelled out in pain. He struggled to turn his head to see a third horror behind him. "This aint fair…" He said. "Damn it. I let my guard down for one second and now I'm paying for it." His vision began to fade from all the blood loss. "Fuck… Fuck… I need to heal before I black out. I need to get away… or it's all over…" Being unable to remove the horror's appendage from his body and to allow his power to heal him, his eye lids betrayed him and began to close. "Damn it all…"
"Divine Spear: Spear the Gungnir!" A girlish voice echoed around Max, forcing his eyes open.
A large and great red spear of power pierced through the horror that had pierced Max in the back, forcing it to remove its spider leg from him. Max quickly took the opportunity to move away from the two horrors to buy his power time to heal the gap in his chest. The other horror quickly followed him, but was knocked back after being hit by another red spear. Max turned his head and spotted Remilia who looked exhausted and had blood dripping from her nose.
"You! Are you truly that fucking stupid?" Max yelled out to Remilia as she flew to his side.
"You're welcome, Max." Remilia said as she clenched her chest. "I feel like my very own spear pierced my heart… Is it because of what those things are?"
"Yeah. I'm surprised you can even handle looking at them."
"I can barely see them. Black smudges in my vision keep obstructing my view every time I look at whatever those are."
"That either means your mind is too stupid to figure out what it's looking at or it's smart enough to not figure it out. Either way it's not a bad thing."
"It is safe to assume that it is the latter."
"I wonder…"
Remilia covered her ears with her hands when the two large horrors let out their unholy cry. They made their way towards Max in a desperate attempt to devour him. Max quickly shoved Remilia away from him then began to channel his dark power into both of his hands. Remilia had to back away further from Max as his surging power seemed to burn and freeze her skin at the same time.
"Suck it down!" Max yelled out as he lobbed two chaotic spheres at the horrors.
The horrors made no effort to dodge the attack and so were consumed in a large destructive explosion. Remilia covered her face with her arms to shield herself from the powerful gusts of wind, losing her cap in the process. Max, weakened from the pain that had accumulated over the course of the fight with the horrors, was knocked out of the sky from the blast. He nearly crashed into the stone ground before being caught by Remilia.
"You know…? I could totally fall asleep right about now…" Max said as he lay in Remilia's arms.
"You know it is usually the woman that is in the arms of the man. Not the other way around."
"You're no woman so it's alright…" Max said. He was then quickly dropped, grunting the moment he hit the hard ground. "Ow…"
"You really need some work on your manners. You should be grateful that I came to help you myself." Remilia said as she looked down at Max.
"I never asked for your help." Max said as she got back up onto his feet.
"You are going to get it whether you want it or not." Remilia said before sighing. "I'm glad those three underground youkai found me. I didn't expect that you would find yourself down here. You've gotten quite elusive even with that power of yours trailing around you."
"And you came to find me why? You aint here for a rematch are you?"
"Of course not. I won that fight. Well more like my little sister won that fight… but anyways…" Remilia said as she walked over to pick up her cap, brushing off the dirt before placing it back on her head. "We need to quickly leave this place. After you let out that much of your power I am sure someone above ground felt it and may be heading here right now."
"And I should care why?"
"I will tell you why once we get away from here. Me and you need to have a nice quiet chat together anyways. Now let's go."
Max sighed as he was too tired to argue with Remilia. "Alright fine. Lead the way. I suck with directions." He said.
"I shall, but you might want to shake that girl off of you first." Remilia said as she pointed at a girl that was suddenly holding onto Max's shirt.
"The fuck…?" Max said as he finally noticed the girl.
The girl had dark green eyes and flowing, light green hair. She wore a black hat with a yellow ribbon around it, an orange shirt with a green collar and a green skirt. She had a closed, dark blue third eye that was positioned over her heart with cords wrapped around her torso and attached to each of her ankles.
"Hi Max. I was wondering where you were." The girl said in a cheerful voice. "Sister wouldn't tell me so I had to go and find you myself."
"Do I know you?" Max said.
The girl puffed out her cheeks as she grew upset. "You're so mean. I'm Satori's little sister. Koishi. You tried to undress me last night remember?" She said as she smirked.
"Wait what?" Max quickly said as he grew flustered.
"Max…" Remilia said as she grew angry.
Max quickly turned to face Remilia. "The little bitch is lying! I did no such thing… Wait… Oh I remember now!" He said then looked back at Koishi. "I didn't try to undress you. It was your sister who I tried to undress." Max said then covered his mouth with his hand, realizing his poor choice of words. He quickly turned back around to face Remilia who was shaking her head at him in disappointment. "I was drunk and she and the oni dared me to do it, damn it!" He said as he pointed at Koishi who had her tongue stuck out.
"I believe we have more important things to worry about than what you did during your drunken night." Remilia said.
"Yeah. Right." Max said before turning to Koishi. "Well Koishi it was nice seeing you again, but we gotta split."
"But I just found you!" Koishi said as she grew upset, puffing out her cheeks again.
"Well I'm sorry, but I got shit to do."
"Yeah I know. Sister told me all about it." Koishi said with her cheerful smile quickly returning to her face. "But once you are done you need to come back and play with me again."
"Maybe… No promises." Max said as he turned around to leave with Remilia. "Oh, almost forgot. Do me a favor and find Yuug. She might have lived through those explosions."
"Roger!" Koishi said happily.
Max and Remilia both took to the air as they left the Ancient City, leaving Koishi behind who waved them off.