Chapter 7
The battle with Syphon/ Kirin meets his parents
Kirin, holding the glowing Soul Edge up and over his head with both his paws grasped tightly around the hilt of the giant fleshly blade, stepped forward to face the mighty entity Syphon, who released a roar from his mouth and raised his giant blade, the Soul Edge hummed in Kirin's paws with a great brave spirit dwelling within it, he didn't fear Syphon with the help of the weapon, all he had to do was simply defeat him and everything would be okay again on Saurai, but how to do it? Syphon let out a battle roar as he swung his blades at Kirin, their humongous weight and colossal size would have crushed his small body beneath their alloy steel, but, amazingly impossible to believe without seeing, Kirin held them above him, using the Soul Edge to keep them away from striking him down.
"Trust me Syphon, I'm small no doubt, but I'm tough, brave, and care for my home, and that's enough to beat you!" Kirin snarled and gripped the soul edge tightly.
Kirin pushed the Soul Edge forward, knocking the blades away from him, Syphon looked at Kirin with surprise, how could this be? Syphon was considered a sealed god and Kirin was only a child, fated with many destinies to come, how could he hold back such a monstrocity?
"Impossible, you are weak, how can you be as strong as me? It's just not possible!" Syphon snarled as he regained balance and gripped the hilts of his two giant blades.
"Not as strong, Syphon…Stronger is the word your looking for, look it up!" Kirin barked at the beast as he charged again.
Syphon began to grit his teeth through frustration and anger, then a smirk came across his scalish face, he then swung his blades, not down at the young vulpine, but from each side, knowing that Kirin will only be able to block one attack and not the other. Kirin looked left to right in panick, he didn't which sword to block, knowing that even if he did block one, the other would strike and, no doubt, kill him, then he looked closely at the angle of the two swords coming at them, they were the same size and going at the same speed with the same force, a small grin came across the vulpine's face, he knew how to block both attacks now. Syphon laughed as the two blades darted to Kirin's sides, knowing that he would live without another key to stop him, he wouldn't have to wait another 1000 years to be awoken, he would be free of all of the descendents, he would destroy the cursed blade that had sealed him, but when he looked down to witness his glory, he thought his eyes would explode in shock as he gazed down at the young vulpine's blocking stance: Kirin stuck the Soul Edge into the concrete as firmly as he could, using it like a thick pole to have both sides of the Soul Edge block both blades, it had worked perfectly, Kirin remained unharmed.
"You are full of idea's, aren't you, you little pest?" Syphon whispered as his eye twitched and his fangs grit in great frustration
"Oh and much more, Syphon, so much more." Kirin smirked and pulled the blade out of the ground.
Kirin grasped the Soul Edge tightly in his paws, ready to block any attack that Syphon threw at him, he was ready more then ever now, Syphon's slashes and swings were too slow, making blocking strategies easy for the young vulpine to conduct and play out, but then Syphon started to laugh, oddly, he was laughing like he had forgotten something, something deep in his head.
"Why is he laughing?" Kirin thought as he kept his soul edge readied, his eyes fixed upon the mighty beast, why was this beast laughing, why?
"Foolish boy, I thought I could beat you at this current energy level, how could I be so foolish to forget!?" Syphon laughed again, his voice so terrifyingly insane that it made Kirin shiver in fear. "So I'll increase my power some more with the unawoken energy laying within me, let's see you defeat me then, young soul edge descendent!"
Syphon started to gather energy out of his stomach, his head, and the energy in the air, his eyes shot open and his pupils widened, turning a eerie blue, his scales went from brown to blood red, his swords started to electrify a red lightning; Kirin started to slowly back away from the new Syphon, what had he done to himself? What could Kirin do?
"Oh man, this is not good, definatly not good!" Kirin thought in terror, watching Syphon as he changed.
Syphon became even more powerful than ever, his body pulsed with auras of himself, disappearing and reappearing, like a set of timed heartbeats, but Kirin still held a sturdy grip on his Soul Edge, ready for battle even though his chances of winning slimmed a bit.
"You still are eager to die, aren't you?" Syphon smirked and chuckled, a bolt of red lightning sparked by Kirin's head.
"I'm not the one going to die!" The young vulpine cried as he raised the sword and charged again.
Kirin leapt at Syphon with a high jump, swinging his blade down into Syphon's leg as hard as he could, cutting into his flesh and veins; Syphon reeled back in pain slightly, then started to laugh as his leg started to rejuvenate the wound, Kirin barely harmed him at all.
"Awww it seems that you can still hurt me, perhaps, just maybe that I need to become even more powerful!" Syphon cackled as he drew upon his unawoken energy again.
Syphon started to glow again with a fiery, eerie aura, his red scales turned into black scales, his swords extended, becoming uneven and misshapen, giving the upper advantage to Syphon, obliterating any way Kirin has of blocking both attacks at the same time. Syphon swung one blade after another swing with flashes of red lightning bolting and jolting the soul edge, swinging his blades like a mad man released from his leash, Kirin tried to manage at blocking each of the godly assaults, but was having a hard time of keeping his balance and was slowly forced to back up slightly, as he looked back, he realized Syphon's plan, he didn't need to cut or slash Kirin because Kirin getting close to a ledge, Syphon was going to knock him off to join General scales's fate.
"I'm coming Kirin!" A weak voice barked out, it was Kang, weakened by the power of soul edge drawing upon his blood.
Kang swung his scythe downward at Syphon's foot, but when it touched his scales, like a hammer smashing an acorn, it snapped like a twig against him, Kang's jaw dropped as his favorite weapon fell to pieces.
"Away from me you puny pest!" Syphon snarled down at Kang.
Syphon swung his giant tail at Kang, striking him across the temple top, smashing him into a hard concrete wall, cracking and smashing some parts of it, the young sharpclaw fell to the floor.
"Kang!" Kirin cried out in worry.
Kang was knocked out on the floor of the temple roof, unable to hear Kirin's woeful cries; Kirin looked forward slowly and roared with a berserkers blind fury, with hidden strength felt awoken by the soul edge, he slammed the blade down along with Syphon's and took the giant Red Eyes by the blades and threw him, launching Syphon off the ceiling and onto the bottom temple floors where the two first arrived.
"I'LL KILL YOU…YOU…BASTARD!" Kirin screamed in pure malice, gripping the soul edge tightly in his paws.
Kirin jumped off the roof and dived towards the floors below, landing on ground hard but with no broken bones, cracking and making a crater within it like he was a comet; he started to radiate the same Aura when he was an infant, but this time it was spreading into the air, like a engulfing fog of red death.
"How…did you…do that?" Syphon's voice was shivering with awe and terror.
"It doesn't...matter...Syphon...all that matters...is that now...you...die!" Kirin snarled loudly and slammed the soul edge down onto the ground, his bared fangs then turned into a shocked face; Kirin had stopped radiating the aura, and was normal again, leaving Kirin in a shocked position, the red fog had vanished. "Uh oh…I guess I don't know how to stay in that form for a long time...eh heh."
"Ha…good for me…bad for you!" Syphon laughed as rose to his feet and cracked his back, he was perfectly fine, his rejuvination ability was now equal to a gods.
Kirin held his blade close, his final moments were about to come, he waited for his demise to come and end his young life; Syphon swung his two blades down, they flew towards the young vulpine to end the peace of Sauria once and for all.
"I didn't get to meet those two in my dream, I know they are real, I remember them, now I won't see them...never." Kirin thought in fear and shut his eyes, tears streamed down his face as he dropped his head, his fangs bit his lip as hard as he could, then all was silent, all was calm.
Kirin looked up in confusion and was amazed at the environment, everything was frozen in time, all a bright white and grey, the rain stopped in air like floating sapphires, Syphon's blades just above his head that cut the tip of a hair in half. Then Kirin looked up into the sky slowly as he heard a soft sound like a rod smacking around in a wooden cup, he could hear spirits talking above him, speaking only to him, then, like a miracle, they appeared to him like guardian angels to protect their soul in need.
"Are you…the Krazoa spirits?" Kirin spoke in a soft tone as he wiped the tears from his eyes as he stared up at the spirits in awe.
The spirits floated down in a circle and floated around him, circling him with their gaze, filling him with a soothing trust towards them, Kirin dropped to his knees and bowed his head.
"Yes, we are young one, we could not let such a beast to sever your fate for what it truly is." One spirit spoke out, obviously the head krazoa among all of them.
The Krazoa spirits slowly started to glow a white aura around the vulpine, filling Kirin with energy and new found strength, slowly lifting him into the air, the vulpine yelped in surprise and looked around at them.
"We have come to aid you in this fight, Kirin of the Soul edge, lending our strength to you, so that you, and only you, may put an end to this entity and his heretic ways, take our strength Kirin, take and bring peace for an infinite line of years to come, and become the new hero of Sauria!" The spirits spoke at once as they began to fuse themselves to his flesh and clothes.
The Six Krazoa spirits entered Kirin's body as they finished fusing, the young vulpine let out a roar as his body began to take in the new energy and strength, his eyes glowed a bright purple, his blue fur became a heavenly arctic white, his Soul Edge extended in his paws and became more of a mouth like sword, the eyes on either side of the blade as it opened from the tip with a screech, he was a true warrior of Sauria, a true hero.
"This is what I wanted to be all along, the one thing I didn't know the answer to…not a warrior, or a thief, or a mage…A hero!" Kirin roared to the heavens as he looked down at Syphon and readied the soul edge.
Kirin felt wings burst out his back, easing out of his back gently with no blood dripping or flesh ripping, they were angel wings of heaven white color, radiating a cool breeze like winter's chilly winds, like an orchestra played from the strings and drums of heaven, but his blade craved for blood and flesh, like demons undying thirst from hell.
"Syphon, this is your final hour! Make note of that!" Kirin snarled as he spun the blade and his wings flexed into opening.
Time then continued, Syphon's blade missed Kirin by a long shot, the entity looked at the new Kirin and shook in fear, knowing that he had the Krazoa helping him, he swung his blades insanely in hopes of striking the vulpine through panick, but Kirin just disappeared into the wind and reappeared as the blades came close to him, dodging each attack that came his way, slashing Syphon across the face and body with relentless blows from the soul edge. The entity then took a defensive stance, afraid now more then ever.
"W-w-w-what...are you!?" Syphon cried in fear, his wounds were unable to rejuvinate, the ability blocked by the infecting power of the Krazoa spirits.
Kirin spun the soul edge in his paw then gazed down upon the weakened Syphon, gripping the sword in his paw.
"I am Kirin, Hero of Sauria, using power of the Krazoa spirits…you, however Syphon, are going to be erased from History! Sauria will remain in peace! Forever!" Kirin exclaimed and the heavens themselves opened through the black clouds with a bright heavenly light.
Kirin flew towards Syphon with a mach 5 speed, shooting right through him like a living blaster shot, bursting out the back of Syphon's stomach and piercing through his spine. Syphon started to vomit blood, his lips, like a waterfall, were dripping blood, he couldn't sustain his strength to push himself up and he couldn't use his rejuvinating ability anymore, this was it, like every other time a key had appeared on Sauria, he was to be defeated.
"You…you're a monster!" Syphon cried in pain, unable to stand and unable to bear the agony.
"Actually Syphon, you have that backwards." Kirin spoke softly but still full of anger, slowly turning to the beast.
Syphon roared at the angel like hero and thrust his blades at Kirin as a final attempt for victory, making a direct hit, but Kirin looked down at the blades with a smirk and a chuckle, they were disintegrating into tiny white orbs, entering the Soul Edge and giving it the entities strength. Kirin lifted his paw with the tattoo slowly into the sky, the heavens shined brighter and then covered the angel vulpine in a white orb of heavenly light, he was going to kill Syphon with his new found strength with the help of the heavens, the krazoa, and the soul edge all in one final blow. Kirin flew like a bolt of lightning, flashing and shocking, in and out of Syphon multiple times like a roller coaster free to make its trail through him, he was starting to die as more blood shot out of him.
"Good bye Syphon." Kirin spoke softly as he readied himself for the final assault
Kirin held up his paws slowly towards the heavens, light started to swirl onto his paws like a twister, then an orb was created within his palms, gentle to touch but so full of energy, Kirin moved his paws down and, with precise aiming, fired a mighty blast similar to the one Kang fired in the ice camp, but only wider, longer, and more dangerous. Syphon screamed in pain as he was torn apart by the light, he started to disappear into the air, leaving his two swords and an orb behind, full or darkness and fiery ambition. Kirin floated down towards the orb and frowned, feeling it's energy, Syphon could still be reborn while this orb was still in contact, he lifted the unholy orb into his paw and sighed as he crushed it in his paw, turning it into diamond like dust, watching it blow away into the cold winds or the horizon. It was over, the Krazoa left Kirin's body and floated in a circle above him, Kang, carried and bandaged by Garin, followed him down onto the temple floor.
He smiled and joined their company, the two tightly hugged the vulpine for his victory, Kirin shouldered the soul edge with a victorious smile and raise his paw up in a fist, he turned to the Krazoa as they spoke to him again, calling upon his immediate attention.
"Kirin, we thank you for saving our world, through your eyes, everyone on this planet has seen your heroic deed, setting them free of terror and bringing a new era of peace, everyone's thoughts flow through us as we can hear them and feel their pride for you, even the new comers." The head Krazoa spoke.
"New comers? I don't understand." Kirin raise a brow as he asked the krazoa's for what the meant by New comers.
"You will, young Kirin, in time, but now we take our leave. Farewell, great hero of Sauria." The spirits spoke all at once as the shot into the sky and into the temple.
Kirin looked at the ground, his eyes became normal, his fur became blue, and his Soul Edge shrunk to normal size, he gripped the soul of transportation and the three were teleported into the Hollow, knowing that all that awaited them was praise and glory.
Thorn tail hollow
Everyone cheered for Kirin, Kang was held up on top of Gomez, the whole Rebellion stood beside them, saluting with joy, dinosaur children yelped with glee as the heroes rode by them.
"So Kirin, we did it, Syphon is no more, General scales is no more…I think everything is as it should be." Kang chuckled and smiled as he laid back on gomez's back.
"Actually, I stole this from General scales before he was thrown off, it's his badge." Kirin said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a gold and black badge, he smiled at his friend and held it out to him. "So I give it to you Kang…I mean, "General" Kang."
Kirin placed the badge in Kang's claws, everyone cheered and the rebellion roared with triumph, Kang became a general instantly, a governor, by his friend's decree. Kirin smiled at him, he saved Sauria from a horrible creature, and was going to keep the Soul Edge, he was a hero among the citizens of Sauria.
Kirin crawled off of Gomez's back and looked forward then paused, he stared at the Arwing and the blue vixen standing, the one from his dreams; Krystal looked at her son and tears began to roll down her cheeks, Fox did as well and his heart finally began to feel again; Kirin took a step forward, Krystal did the same, Kirin then ran to his mothers arms and leapt into her embrace, Krystal held him close and nuzzled his head, Fox then held his son and Krystal within his strong arms, they were a family once again.
"Kirin, my Kirin." Krystal spoke softly as he held her child close to her, the young vulpine snuggled close to both of them.
Krystal's tears rubbed onto Kirin's fur, he finally knew who they were, they were his parents, the ones from his dream that had plagued him for so long had made themselves visible to him, they were his parents no doubt.
"Well let's go, we have to get back to Corneria." Fox smiled at the two as he stood, Kirin dropped down to the floor and was silent like he was struck with grief.
Kirin looked at Kang slowly with a sad look, Kang returned the same look to his heroic friend and slowly walked foward into a confronting distance, gently taking his Kirin's paw and shook it.
"I guess this is goodbye." Kirin said slowly and frowned.
"For now Kirin." Kang said as he shook his paw and returned the frown.
Kirin hugged Kang tightly, Kang didn't strike him, but simply padded Kirin on the back, Kirin looked around and then looked shocked, a piece of the temple was falling towards them from the dying spot that Syphon fell on, the piece hurdled towards them but then exploded into pieces as Fox fired a shot from his blaster then holstered it onto his side.
"What is that? I never seen such a power from something that small!" Kirin asked, completly amuzed with the weapon.
"Wait until you get home, I'll tell you everything about the planet." Fox chuckled and lifted his son into his arms, the soul edge dragging from Kirin's paw.
The three entered the Arwing and took of onto a course for their home planet of Corneria, but Lazlo was right, it was going to be a tight trip, all thanks to the Soul Edge.
