Not So Important Missions
Chapter 6
By Li Katsuya
"There's the town." Kilik stated, standing on a cliff, overlooking a bustling port.
The warrior's around him nodded, taking in the sights of the town as well as the clear blue sea.
"Finally, some civilazation!" Seung Mina cried.
"So this is where we're supposed to find Astaroth?" Misturugi asked, scratching his chin.
"Apparently, let's go!" Xianghua yelled enthusiasticly.
"Right!" Kilik said, thrusting his staff into the ground. "Let's hurry, guys."
Nodding the group began making their way down the mountain path, taking one last look at the town below him, the young Kali-Yuga bearer, followed his compatriot's, yet no sooner had he taken his first step, a rather loud crack was heard and the ground began to shake beneath his feet. The other's noticing the warrior was not following them, retraced their step's and made it back to the cliff in time to see it and Kilik plumet from view, quickly scrambling to what was left of the cliff's foundation, their eyes scanned the area in which the cliff fell.
"Yo, Kilik!!" called out Hwang, hoping to hear his friend's voice.
"Are you okay?!" exclaimed a rather frantic Xianghua.
The only answer they recieved was silence.
"You don't think...?" Taki began, unwilling to finish her thought.
"Don't you dare even thi-"
Out of nowhere a rather pain groan resounded in the air, interupting the young chinese woman, who quickly darted her eyes from place to place, hoping to find some sign of the thought to be dead Kilik. Suddenly spotted red, taking a closer look she recognized it as a jacket and there was only one person she knew that wore a red jacket, putting two and two together, she called out to the group.
"Guys, four is hanging from the side of the cliff!"
"What?" asked a clearly confused Seung Mina.
"I mean, Kilik is hanging from the side of the cliff!"
"I can't see him." Mitsurugi pointed out.
"Look harder." Taki ordered, herself at a loss where Kilik was.
Misturugi leaned farther on the edge of the former cliff, hoping that it would be enough to help him see Kilik, finally spoting him. The samurai called out to his friend's, or at least that's what he would have down, had the ground beneath him not decided to give away at that exact moment. The team could only watch a he quickly began sliding down the side of the cliff in a rather painful manner, wincing every time he hit a rock.
"Guys, was that Mitsurugi?" asked Kilik, hanging from the root of a tree.
"Yup, are you okay?" Xiangua replied.
"I'm still alive, but the root I'm holding on too doesn't look like it can hold much longer."
"Don't worry, honey, we'll help as soon as we can, nothing bad is going t-"
The sound of wood breaking and the scream of an eight year old girl suddenly interupted her.
Pain, that was all Mitsurugi felt at this point, pain, coursing through every vein in his body, slowly consuming him from the inside, pain eminating from the small of his back, where a rock was currenty lodged in, and let me tell you, landing on a rock back first after a hundred foot drop is not exactly a comfortable experience. Biting back the pain of having to readjust his spine in seven different places the hardened Japanese warrior shakingly got to his feet, only to have a rather large piece of wood smash into his head, clutching his cracked cranium, Misturugi looked up in an attempt to find the source of the wood, only to see Kilik barreling at him.
"...Crap."
The moment the swear word escaped his lips, Kilik collided with once again making him fall on the rock, only this time his chest took the shear force of it. Quickly pushing off the unconscious Kilik, he stood up, only to be struck in the forehead by a falling Kali-Yuga, which sent him backward's into a tree, causing him to hit the back of his head, leading to him falling foreward, which in turn made his face impact the rock again, mind you it's the same rock from the previous two times. Clutching his head, Mitsurgi fought back the urge to cry his eyes out, once again forcing himself to stand up, and leaning against a tree for support; the sound of foot step's caught his attention, he looked up to see Hwang running toward him.
"You okay?" The Korean soldier asked, looking over at the still unconscious.
"Define 'okay'?" The samurai hissed.
"That bad, huh?"
"Ya think?"
Hwang was about to comment when an acorn hit his head, shaking it off, he once again tryed to say something only to have another acorn hit his head, ignoring it he once again began talking, yet once again he was interupted by an acorn. Picking up a fallen acorn he chucked over his shoulder, smirking slightly when he heard it hit flesh and a high pitched squeak, yet the smirk was short lived as he was pelted by acorn after acorn, finally using up all his patience, Hwang quickly turned around, only to collided face first with a branch, sending him to the ground, while in the tree two squirrel's gave each other secret hand shakes, and if this is a lesson of anything it is that little woodland creatures are pure evil.
"Finally, are you guys...okay?" Taki asked, feeling like an idiot when she saw the condition of the guys, one unconscious, one with a broken nose and the last one trying to remeber third through ninth grade.
The girl's approached the guy's and quickly began helping them in any way they could, and eventually, after getting a gopher to stop gnawing on Kilik's leg and helping Mitsurugi remember why the hell they were doing whatever they were doing, they were off on their way to the port town.
One hour later...
And so they stood in front of the gates to the town, looking tired and beaten, well guys more or less, seeing as Kilik had a bandage over his leg, Misturugi had one wrapped around his head, and Hwang, and god knows how many tissues stuffed up his nose. Slowly they began their trek into the town, expecting at any moment to have the gigantic ax wielding seven year old attack, yet the attack did not come all they found was what they expected to finding in a bustling port town, shops, people and lot's and lot's of fish.
"No sign of Astaroth." Seung Mina commented.
"That's because he's not here right now."
Looking around the group found the source of the voice, Yoshimitsu, but you all figured that out, on top of a building looking down on them with his arm's crossed, jumping on down on to a canopy, he expected to bounce off and land in front of the group, the word of the day being expected, the canopy actually tore under his weight and he land in a barrel of severed fish heads.
"All who saw that coming say 'Aie'." Kilik ordered.
"Aie." everyone else chorused.
Pulling himself out of the mess, Yoshimitsu wobbled over to the six warrior's, pausing only to remove a fish head from his pants, and also tripping over the discraded head, he stood in front of them, reeking of fish, yet trying to keep as much of his dignity as possible.
"Hey, guys." Yoshimitsu greeted, trying to ignore the fish guts seeping into his clothes.
"Hi." The Soul Calibur warriors said in unison.
"Good job on making it here so soon."
"Thanks, but where exactly is Astaroth?" Xianghua asked, looking around as she did.
"He's gone for now."
"What do you mean gone?" Mitsurugi questioned.
"We managed to fight him off."
"'We'?" Hwang inquired.
"Me and another fighter managed to fight him, but we only injured him, he'll be back soon."
"Who's the other fighter?" Taki asked.
"Look guys, I'd love to talk some more, but frankly I don't like the feeling of fish guts against my skin, so let's head to the inn where me and the other fighter are staying."
The group agreed and began following Yoshimitsu to the inn, the walk to the inn gave the group to really look around, the town was rather large, shops of all kind's open, with vendor's screaming at the top of their lung's to attract customer's, as well as make them deaf. Finally, after Kilik accidently walked into brothel, Mitsurugi almost spent all of their traveling money on a yo-yo, and Hwang had his leg pissed on by a dog, the entered the inn. The inn is what they expected a rather large main room with a counter, and several tables strewn about, and stair case leading to the bedrooms.
"You didn't have to be so rough on that poor dog." Seung Mina scolded.
"It pissed on my leg." Hwang retaliated.
"You didn't have to try to castrate it."
"Okay, I gotta get cleaned up, I'll be right back." Yoshimitasu said as he ran up the stair's leading to his room, fell back down because some remaining fish guts got on his shoes and ran up again.
"We might be here a while, Taki why don't you get us signed in."
The kunoichi nodded and headed for the counter while remaing memeber's took a seat at one of the tables, tapping the man behind the counter on the shoulder.
"Excuse me I'd like some rooms for me and my friend's, we don't need anything special, just some comfy bed's and could you please stop staring at my chest?"
"Sorry, so many of you are there?"
"Six, all adults."
"We only have three room's, looks like you'll have to share, sorry."
"Thanks." Taki said taking the keys from the innkeepers hand and heading over to the table her friend's had claimed.
"So, did you get any room's?" Xianghua asked from her position in Kilik's lap.
"Three."
"That mean's we'll have to share...well Xianghua, looks like it's you and me." Kilik stated as the young chinese woman smiled and placed her head on his shoulder.
"Seung Mina's bunkin' with me, I can't trust her, one opening and she'll split." Hwang said, oblivious to the glare of Seung Mina behind him.
"Then I'm with..." Taki began as she turned to Mitsurugi, who at this point was biting his nails nervously.
The sound of someone tumbling down the stairs caught everyones attention, turning to the stair case, they caught sight of Yoshimitsu, on the ground in a rather painful position, after a few second's he slowly got to his feet, and walked over to the group, rubbing his shoulder. Standing in front of the group he was about to speak when the sound of an opening door silenced him, smiling beneath his mask, he walked over to the door, out of the sight of the other warrior's, and began conversing with person who just walked in a hushed voice. The sound of footstep's approaching was heard as Yoshimitsu appeared once again this time ushering someone into the open, at the sight of the young man Kilik and Xianghua gasped.
"Oh my god." Xianghua gasped, covering her mouth as she did.
"He's alive!" exclaimed Kilik.
"Who, Elvis Presley?" Mitsurugi asked, his only answer being Kilik and Xianghua falling over.
"Not Elvis, his name's Maxi!" Kilik yelled.
"How do you now my name?"
Silence enveloped the room as all eyes turned to the young man known as Maxi, a confused look on his face.
"What the hell do you mean, it's us Kilik and Xianghua."
"Am I supposed to know you?"
"We're friends, Maxi!" Xianghua cried.
"I'm sorry, but I...don't remeber you guys..."
"What do you mean 'don't remeber'?!" bellowed a disbelieving Kilik. "You mean you don't remember how we fought against, evil, darkness and that one angry chipmunk?"
Maxi shook his head.
"You don't remeber how you got drunk one time, pinched the butt of a noble's daughter and almost got executed, until we jumped in and saved you?" Xianghua inquired.
Onced again he shook his head.
"You don't remember the time Xianghua caved your face in because you stole her panties?" Kilik asked, trying to stir any memories in the young pirate.
"I'm sorry."
"Do you remember Astaroth?"
"You mean that Golem?" Maxi asked, his voice suddenly filled with venom. "Of course, that bastard killed my crew, sunk my ship and made me miss four year's worth of sex, I want that asshole dead!!!"
"Same old, Maxi." Xianghua commented.
"Right, now that we've gotten everything order, we need to figure out what to do about Astaroth."
"Did your walnut-sized brain ricochet a few too many times off the sides of your skull when you took that fall?" asked a bewildered Hwang. "We attack the bastard and take him out, permanently."
"He's a lot stronger then he looks, he gave Maxi and me a hard time."
"Yeah, but there were only two of us, now there's eight, we'll take him dowmn easily." Maxi stated.
"He's right, the odd's are in our favor." Mitsurugi agreed.
"So where is this Astaroth?" Seung Mina questioned.
"...we...don't know." Yoshimitsu answered sheepishly.
"Figures." Taki mumbled.
"Guess we're going have to wait." Hwang said.
"All right then, let's take this opportunity to rest up a bit." Kilik suggested, getting nods of approval in response.
So they all took this opportunity to relax, Mitsurugi ordered them a round of drink's, and they all began happily conversing amongst themselves, while Taki dissapeared upstairs, Maxi began talking to his forgotten friend, Kilik.
"I'm sorry, Kilik."
"Don't worry about it, let me introduce you to everyone."
Kilik pointed to everybody pausing to tell Maxi a little about the person he was pointing at, then happily went back to his drink.
"So Kilik?"
"Yeah, Maxi."
"What chance do you think I have with Seung Mina?"
Kilik chuckled a bit before answering.
"You'll have to get past Hwang."
Maxi turned to the Korean soldier, trying to asses him, meanwhile Hwang had his eyes fixated on a bee flying back and forth in front of his face, annoying the hell out of him, finally the bee flew of and hover right above a lit candle, the Korean soldier wasted no time and swatted the bee crushing it between his handand the candle. Maxi stared as Hwang removed his hand from the candle that was suprisingly still burning, and looked at his palm, blowing on it slightly, the body of the charred bee flew off leaving only red and blistered skin, but Hwang mearly went back to his drink as if his hand was fine.
"Okay then, what about...Taki?"
"You wanna get castrated?"
"No."
"Then keep your distance."
"Xianghua?"
"Sorry, she's spoken for."
"Oh well, there are plenty of other fish in the sea, and I'm sure..."
Maxi's hopeful talk was interupted by a scream coming from the outside the inn, scrambling to their feet the warrior's ran to the door, along the way Yoshimitsu tripped and was trampled, upon exiting the building they saw people running away from the direction of the port, suddenly a loud battle cry was heard, and all of their eyes widen in realization.
"Astaroth!" they screamed in unison.
"Misturugi go get Taki!" Kilik yelled as he ran in the direction of the yell, flanked by Xianghua and Maxi.
The samurai nodded and ran back inside, stepping on Yoshimitsu's head as he ran into the Inn, bolting up the stair's looking for the right room, hearing the sound of a women's humming and instantly recognizing the voice, Mitsurugi ran to the room and quickly opened the door.
"TAKI-I-I-i-i-i-iiii..."
Taki was in the room, yet she just came out of the bath and only succeded in covering the lower part of her body before the smaurai ran in, giving him an excellent view of her chest, without a moment's more of hestitation, Taki kicked Mitsurugi in the head, sending him flying and embedded his face into the wall. Slamming the door shut Taki left Misturugi with his head in the wall, waking seconds later, the Japanese warrior removed his head from the wall and stood up, combing dry wall out of his head with his hands, no sooner had the last piece been removed Taki emerged from the room, fully clothed.
"What the hell--!?" She began only to be interupted by Mitsurugi.
"Astaroth's here!!"
Immediatly forgetting Mitsurugi's prior transgression, Taki followed him down the stairs and out the door.
"Oh my god, it's more hideous then last time I saw it." Maxi spat.
"That face is a crime against nature." Hwang commented.
"How could they let this thing be?" asked a bewildered Kilik.
A cat flying past them tore the groups attention away from the Micheal Jackson poster, and made it focus of the creature before them, Astaroth, swinging his gigantic ax back and forth, leaving only destroyed property in his wake, and back then they didn't hae insurance, so it's gonna be a bitch to pay for. Looking at each and nodding, the group charged forward to do battle with the the golem know only as Astaroth.
"So they have engaged Astaroth in battle, excellent, it's all going accourding to plan, so very soon I'll be able--"
"Uh, who are you taking to?"
The shadowed figure stopped in his speech and turned to his subordinates, the two berserker's from before.
"No one...why the hell are you looking at me that way for?!"
"No reason." the chorused in unison.
Suddenly another berserker burst through the door, panting heavily.
"Sir, you need to hear this!" walking up to the shadowed figure, who stays miracously shadowed despite the fact everyone else is in plain sight, and whispers something in his, the figure eyes narrow and he stands up.
The shadows choose that time to disperse revealing the visage of a young boy, no older the sixteen, medium height, a red bandanna vainly trying to stop parted long blond bangs from covering his green eyes, glasses perched on his nose and small patch of facial hair beneath it. A blue jean jacket cover his upper body, open in the middle revealing a black shirt, stuffed into blue jeans seemingly a few sizes to big for the teenager, because the belt keeping them up as well the bagginess, finally ending the attire by having the jean bottom's stuffed into a pair of black combat boots.
"Mr. Katsuya?" asked the berserker on the left.
"Look, either you're gonna call me Li, Katsuya or Sir, none of that mister shit, makes me feel old, now if you don't mind, I got something to take care of." Li answered, cracking his knuckles as he did.
Li left the room, leaving the occupant's alone.
"So what's going on?" asked the berserker on the right, which from now one I'm going to refer as Berserker 1, because his presvious name is too long.
"Well...Berserker 172 took his pen without permission..." Berserker 2 answered.
"God damn..." Berserker 1 said.
"How's that bad?" Berserker 247 asked.
An explosion was heard along with a scream of agnozing pain.
"Let's just say he's very protective of good drawing ink."
A/N: Now tell me how many of you were expecting an update so soon? None of you!! After waiting two months for the last one it's not like I can blame ya, heh heh. Well, Maxi and Astaroth have finally appeared, along with me, with a new pen name, so expect a lot of plot developments, that is if this story has an actual plot, doesn't make any sense to me, and I'm the author! Sorry to leave you with a cliffhanger, it's the first in a series of many or few, I haven't decided yet, well, that's about it, remember to review, until next time.
Chapter 6
By Li Katsuya
"There's the town." Kilik stated, standing on a cliff, overlooking a bustling port.
The warrior's around him nodded, taking in the sights of the town as well as the clear blue sea.
"Finally, some civilazation!" Seung Mina cried.
"So this is where we're supposed to find Astaroth?" Misturugi asked, scratching his chin.
"Apparently, let's go!" Xianghua yelled enthusiasticly.
"Right!" Kilik said, thrusting his staff into the ground. "Let's hurry, guys."
Nodding the group began making their way down the mountain path, taking one last look at the town below him, the young Kali-Yuga bearer, followed his compatriot's, yet no sooner had he taken his first step, a rather loud crack was heard and the ground began to shake beneath his feet. The other's noticing the warrior was not following them, retraced their step's and made it back to the cliff in time to see it and Kilik plumet from view, quickly scrambling to what was left of the cliff's foundation, their eyes scanned the area in which the cliff fell.
"Yo, Kilik!!" called out Hwang, hoping to hear his friend's voice.
"Are you okay?!" exclaimed a rather frantic Xianghua.
The only answer they recieved was silence.
"You don't think...?" Taki began, unwilling to finish her thought.
"Don't you dare even thi-"
Out of nowhere a rather pain groan resounded in the air, interupting the young chinese woman, who quickly darted her eyes from place to place, hoping to find some sign of the thought to be dead Kilik. Suddenly spotted red, taking a closer look she recognized it as a jacket and there was only one person she knew that wore a red jacket, putting two and two together, she called out to the group.
"Guys, four is hanging from the side of the cliff!"
"What?" asked a clearly confused Seung Mina.
"I mean, Kilik is hanging from the side of the cliff!"
"I can't see him." Mitsurugi pointed out.
"Look harder." Taki ordered, herself at a loss where Kilik was.
Misturugi leaned farther on the edge of the former cliff, hoping that it would be enough to help him see Kilik, finally spoting him. The samurai called out to his friend's, or at least that's what he would have down, had the ground beneath him not decided to give away at that exact moment. The team could only watch a he quickly began sliding down the side of the cliff in a rather painful manner, wincing every time he hit a rock.
"Guys, was that Mitsurugi?" asked Kilik, hanging from the root of a tree.
"Yup, are you okay?" Xiangua replied.
"I'm still alive, but the root I'm holding on too doesn't look like it can hold much longer."
"Don't worry, honey, we'll help as soon as we can, nothing bad is going t-"
The sound of wood breaking and the scream of an eight year old girl suddenly interupted her.
Pain, that was all Mitsurugi felt at this point, pain, coursing through every vein in his body, slowly consuming him from the inside, pain eminating from the small of his back, where a rock was currenty lodged in, and let me tell you, landing on a rock back first after a hundred foot drop is not exactly a comfortable experience. Biting back the pain of having to readjust his spine in seven different places the hardened Japanese warrior shakingly got to his feet, only to have a rather large piece of wood smash into his head, clutching his cracked cranium, Misturugi looked up in an attempt to find the source of the wood, only to see Kilik barreling at him.
"...Crap."
The moment the swear word escaped his lips, Kilik collided with once again making him fall on the rock, only this time his chest took the shear force of it. Quickly pushing off the unconscious Kilik, he stood up, only to be struck in the forehead by a falling Kali-Yuga, which sent him backward's into a tree, causing him to hit the back of his head, leading to him falling foreward, which in turn made his face impact the rock again, mind you it's the same rock from the previous two times. Clutching his head, Mitsurgi fought back the urge to cry his eyes out, once again forcing himself to stand up, and leaning against a tree for support; the sound of foot step's caught his attention, he looked up to see Hwang running toward him.
"You okay?" The Korean soldier asked, looking over at the still unconscious.
"Define 'okay'?" The samurai hissed.
"That bad, huh?"
"Ya think?"
Hwang was about to comment when an acorn hit his head, shaking it off, he once again tryed to say something only to have another acorn hit his head, ignoring it he once again began talking, yet once again he was interupted by an acorn. Picking up a fallen acorn he chucked over his shoulder, smirking slightly when he heard it hit flesh and a high pitched squeak, yet the smirk was short lived as he was pelted by acorn after acorn, finally using up all his patience, Hwang quickly turned around, only to collided face first with a branch, sending him to the ground, while in the tree two squirrel's gave each other secret hand shakes, and if this is a lesson of anything it is that little woodland creatures are pure evil.
"Finally, are you guys...okay?" Taki asked, feeling like an idiot when she saw the condition of the guys, one unconscious, one with a broken nose and the last one trying to remeber third through ninth grade.
The girl's approached the guy's and quickly began helping them in any way they could, and eventually, after getting a gopher to stop gnawing on Kilik's leg and helping Mitsurugi remember why the hell they were doing whatever they were doing, they were off on their way to the port town.
One hour later...
And so they stood in front of the gates to the town, looking tired and beaten, well guys more or less, seeing as Kilik had a bandage over his leg, Misturugi had one wrapped around his head, and Hwang, and god knows how many tissues stuffed up his nose. Slowly they began their trek into the town, expecting at any moment to have the gigantic ax wielding seven year old attack, yet the attack did not come all they found was what they expected to finding in a bustling port town, shops, people and lot's and lot's of fish.
"No sign of Astaroth." Seung Mina commented.
"That's because he's not here right now."
Looking around the group found the source of the voice, Yoshimitsu, but you all figured that out, on top of a building looking down on them with his arm's crossed, jumping on down on to a canopy, he expected to bounce off and land in front of the group, the word of the day being expected, the canopy actually tore under his weight and he land in a barrel of severed fish heads.
"All who saw that coming say 'Aie'." Kilik ordered.
"Aie." everyone else chorused.
Pulling himself out of the mess, Yoshimitsu wobbled over to the six warrior's, pausing only to remove a fish head from his pants, and also tripping over the discraded head, he stood in front of them, reeking of fish, yet trying to keep as much of his dignity as possible.
"Hey, guys." Yoshimitsu greeted, trying to ignore the fish guts seeping into his clothes.
"Hi." The Soul Calibur warriors said in unison.
"Good job on making it here so soon."
"Thanks, but where exactly is Astaroth?" Xianghua asked, looking around as she did.
"He's gone for now."
"What do you mean gone?" Mitsurugi questioned.
"We managed to fight him off."
"'We'?" Hwang inquired.
"Me and another fighter managed to fight him, but we only injured him, he'll be back soon."
"Who's the other fighter?" Taki asked.
"Look guys, I'd love to talk some more, but frankly I don't like the feeling of fish guts against my skin, so let's head to the inn where me and the other fighter are staying."
The group agreed and began following Yoshimitsu to the inn, the walk to the inn gave the group to really look around, the town was rather large, shops of all kind's open, with vendor's screaming at the top of their lung's to attract customer's, as well as make them deaf. Finally, after Kilik accidently walked into brothel, Mitsurugi almost spent all of their traveling money on a yo-yo, and Hwang had his leg pissed on by a dog, the entered the inn. The inn is what they expected a rather large main room with a counter, and several tables strewn about, and stair case leading to the bedrooms.
"You didn't have to be so rough on that poor dog." Seung Mina scolded.
"It pissed on my leg." Hwang retaliated.
"You didn't have to try to castrate it."
"Okay, I gotta get cleaned up, I'll be right back." Yoshimitasu said as he ran up the stair's leading to his room, fell back down because some remaining fish guts got on his shoes and ran up again.
"We might be here a while, Taki why don't you get us signed in."
The kunoichi nodded and headed for the counter while remaing memeber's took a seat at one of the tables, tapping the man behind the counter on the shoulder.
"Excuse me I'd like some rooms for me and my friend's, we don't need anything special, just some comfy bed's and could you please stop staring at my chest?"
"Sorry, so many of you are there?"
"Six, all adults."
"We only have three room's, looks like you'll have to share, sorry."
"Thanks." Taki said taking the keys from the innkeepers hand and heading over to the table her friend's had claimed.
"So, did you get any room's?" Xianghua asked from her position in Kilik's lap.
"Three."
"That mean's we'll have to share...well Xianghua, looks like it's you and me." Kilik stated as the young chinese woman smiled and placed her head on his shoulder.
"Seung Mina's bunkin' with me, I can't trust her, one opening and she'll split." Hwang said, oblivious to the glare of Seung Mina behind him.
"Then I'm with..." Taki began as she turned to Mitsurugi, who at this point was biting his nails nervously.
The sound of someone tumbling down the stairs caught everyones attention, turning to the stair case, they caught sight of Yoshimitsu, on the ground in a rather painful position, after a few second's he slowly got to his feet, and walked over to the group, rubbing his shoulder. Standing in front of the group he was about to speak when the sound of an opening door silenced him, smiling beneath his mask, he walked over to the door, out of the sight of the other warrior's, and began conversing with person who just walked in a hushed voice. The sound of footstep's approaching was heard as Yoshimitsu appeared once again this time ushering someone into the open, at the sight of the young man Kilik and Xianghua gasped.
"Oh my god." Xianghua gasped, covering her mouth as she did.
"He's alive!" exclaimed Kilik.
"Who, Elvis Presley?" Mitsurugi asked, his only answer being Kilik and Xianghua falling over.
"Not Elvis, his name's Maxi!" Kilik yelled.
"How do you now my name?"
Silence enveloped the room as all eyes turned to the young man known as Maxi, a confused look on his face.
"What the hell do you mean, it's us Kilik and Xianghua."
"Am I supposed to know you?"
"We're friends, Maxi!" Xianghua cried.
"I'm sorry, but I...don't remeber you guys..."
"What do you mean 'don't remeber'?!" bellowed a disbelieving Kilik. "You mean you don't remember how we fought against, evil, darkness and that one angry chipmunk?"
Maxi shook his head.
"You don't remeber how you got drunk one time, pinched the butt of a noble's daughter and almost got executed, until we jumped in and saved you?" Xianghua inquired.
Onced again he shook his head.
"You don't remember the time Xianghua caved your face in because you stole her panties?" Kilik asked, trying to stir any memories in the young pirate.
"I'm sorry."
"Do you remember Astaroth?"
"You mean that Golem?" Maxi asked, his voice suddenly filled with venom. "Of course, that bastard killed my crew, sunk my ship and made me miss four year's worth of sex, I want that asshole dead!!!"
"Same old, Maxi." Xianghua commented.
"Right, now that we've gotten everything order, we need to figure out what to do about Astaroth."
"Did your walnut-sized brain ricochet a few too many times off the sides of your skull when you took that fall?" asked a bewildered Hwang. "We attack the bastard and take him out, permanently."
"He's a lot stronger then he looks, he gave Maxi and me a hard time."
"Yeah, but there were only two of us, now there's eight, we'll take him dowmn easily." Maxi stated.
"He's right, the odd's are in our favor." Mitsurugi agreed.
"So where is this Astaroth?" Seung Mina questioned.
"...we...don't know." Yoshimitsu answered sheepishly.
"Figures." Taki mumbled.
"Guess we're going have to wait." Hwang said.
"All right then, let's take this opportunity to rest up a bit." Kilik suggested, getting nods of approval in response.
So they all took this opportunity to relax, Mitsurugi ordered them a round of drink's, and they all began happily conversing amongst themselves, while Taki dissapeared upstairs, Maxi began talking to his forgotten friend, Kilik.
"I'm sorry, Kilik."
"Don't worry about it, let me introduce you to everyone."
Kilik pointed to everybody pausing to tell Maxi a little about the person he was pointing at, then happily went back to his drink.
"So Kilik?"
"Yeah, Maxi."
"What chance do you think I have with Seung Mina?"
Kilik chuckled a bit before answering.
"You'll have to get past Hwang."
Maxi turned to the Korean soldier, trying to asses him, meanwhile Hwang had his eyes fixated on a bee flying back and forth in front of his face, annoying the hell out of him, finally the bee flew of and hover right above a lit candle, the Korean soldier wasted no time and swatted the bee crushing it between his handand the candle. Maxi stared as Hwang removed his hand from the candle that was suprisingly still burning, and looked at his palm, blowing on it slightly, the body of the charred bee flew off leaving only red and blistered skin, but Hwang mearly went back to his drink as if his hand was fine.
"Okay then, what about...Taki?"
"You wanna get castrated?"
"No."
"Then keep your distance."
"Xianghua?"
"Sorry, she's spoken for."
"Oh well, there are plenty of other fish in the sea, and I'm sure..."
Maxi's hopeful talk was interupted by a scream coming from the outside the inn, scrambling to their feet the warrior's ran to the door, along the way Yoshimitsu tripped and was trampled, upon exiting the building they saw people running away from the direction of the port, suddenly a loud battle cry was heard, and all of their eyes widen in realization.
"Astaroth!" they screamed in unison.
"Misturugi go get Taki!" Kilik yelled as he ran in the direction of the yell, flanked by Xianghua and Maxi.
The samurai nodded and ran back inside, stepping on Yoshimitsu's head as he ran into the Inn, bolting up the stair's looking for the right room, hearing the sound of a women's humming and instantly recognizing the voice, Mitsurugi ran to the room and quickly opened the door.
"TAKI-I-I-i-i-i-iiii..."
Taki was in the room, yet she just came out of the bath and only succeded in covering the lower part of her body before the smaurai ran in, giving him an excellent view of her chest, without a moment's more of hestitation, Taki kicked Mitsurugi in the head, sending him flying and embedded his face into the wall. Slamming the door shut Taki left Misturugi with his head in the wall, waking seconds later, the Japanese warrior removed his head from the wall and stood up, combing dry wall out of his head with his hands, no sooner had the last piece been removed Taki emerged from the room, fully clothed.
"What the hell--!?" She began only to be interupted by Mitsurugi.
"Astaroth's here!!"
Immediatly forgetting Mitsurugi's prior transgression, Taki followed him down the stairs and out the door.
"Oh my god, it's more hideous then last time I saw it." Maxi spat.
"That face is a crime against nature." Hwang commented.
"How could they let this thing be?" asked a bewildered Kilik.
A cat flying past them tore the groups attention away from the Micheal Jackson poster, and made it focus of the creature before them, Astaroth, swinging his gigantic ax back and forth, leaving only destroyed property in his wake, and back then they didn't hae insurance, so it's gonna be a bitch to pay for. Looking at each and nodding, the group charged forward to do battle with the the golem know only as Astaroth.
"So they have engaged Astaroth in battle, excellent, it's all going accourding to plan, so very soon I'll be able--"
"Uh, who are you taking to?"
The shadowed figure stopped in his speech and turned to his subordinates, the two berserker's from before.
"No one...why the hell are you looking at me that way for?!"
"No reason." the chorused in unison.
Suddenly another berserker burst through the door, panting heavily.
"Sir, you need to hear this!" walking up to the shadowed figure, who stays miracously shadowed despite the fact everyone else is in plain sight, and whispers something in his, the figure eyes narrow and he stands up.
The shadows choose that time to disperse revealing the visage of a young boy, no older the sixteen, medium height, a red bandanna vainly trying to stop parted long blond bangs from covering his green eyes, glasses perched on his nose and small patch of facial hair beneath it. A blue jean jacket cover his upper body, open in the middle revealing a black shirt, stuffed into blue jeans seemingly a few sizes to big for the teenager, because the belt keeping them up as well the bagginess, finally ending the attire by having the jean bottom's stuffed into a pair of black combat boots.
"Mr. Katsuya?" asked the berserker on the left.
"Look, either you're gonna call me Li, Katsuya or Sir, none of that mister shit, makes me feel old, now if you don't mind, I got something to take care of." Li answered, cracking his knuckles as he did.
Li left the room, leaving the occupant's alone.
"So what's going on?" asked the berserker on the right, which from now one I'm going to refer as Berserker 1, because his presvious name is too long.
"Well...Berserker 172 took his pen without permission..." Berserker 2 answered.
"God damn..." Berserker 1 said.
"How's that bad?" Berserker 247 asked.
An explosion was heard along with a scream of agnozing pain.
"Let's just say he's very protective of good drawing ink."
A/N: Now tell me how many of you were expecting an update so soon? None of you!! After waiting two months for the last one it's not like I can blame ya, heh heh. Well, Maxi and Astaroth have finally appeared, along with me, with a new pen name, so expect a lot of plot developments, that is if this story has an actual plot, doesn't make any sense to me, and I'm the author! Sorry to leave you with a cliffhanger, it's the first in a series of many or few, I haven't decided yet, well, that's about it, remember to review, until next time.