Hey you all! Its Alito again! College is coming up soon and I just want to go already to get a taste of college life for the first time. I'm both excited, and nervous but I'm sure it'll be fun. Anyway, enough of my personal life.
Anyway, here's chapter 5!
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Chapter five: Batter of Sekirei; That's not Alex Mercer?"
The battle of Sekirei within the Warehouse was beginning to feel too once sided in the battles going on. Kazehana was beginning to exhaust in using her wind abilities, while Yashima was exhausting from swinging her giant hammer around so much. At the point of all the destruction going on between the two Sekirei battles, the warehouse's shelves and supplies were destroyed in the process and only leaving wreckage scattered on the ground. The building itself was also not doing so well, as holes were being smashed in and windows shattered.
"T-This is crazy…!" Minato uttered fearfully while standing behind Mercer, "They'll bring the whole place down at this rate!"
"Don't worry your head." Alex said in his husky normal voice with his arms crossed. "You'll be fine…maybe."
"Maybe?-!" Minato feared even more.
"Calm down, they got this." Alex said with a smirk on his face, "They just don't know it yet."
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Kazehana was having her own troubles with this claw swinging woman. She wasn't sure whether or not she would be able to defeat her. But why? What was holding her back? She was once a member of the first Disciplinary Squad, so what could be the reason for her losing now?
Her thinking was halted as she relied on instinct to swiftly dodge the sharp claws of the blue Sekirei. Haihane certainly wasn't letting up as she was able to slice away with great skill even with one clawed hand. Haihane had Kazehana all figured out; the wind Sekirei was only good at using her wind powers when at a safer distance. Up close, she was a sitting duck.
Kazehana finally back flipped from the one clawed Sekirei, only to see her right back in her personal space the second she stood back on her feet. Kazehana was still open, as Haihane swiped her claws at her side! Kazehana had no choice but to take the full brutal of the attack as she was smacked right into the wall with a heavy impact that cracked the wall itself.
Kazehana could only slide down to the ground and move the black lock of her hair behind her ear and say with a nervous smirk, "Well now…this could be trouble…"
"Ah, done already?" Haihane mocked, claws fully opened to attack. "I thought someone who use to be part of the first Discipline squad would be better than that."
"Well aren't you just cocky..." Kazehana said as she struggled to stand back up. Once she finally stood, she looked back at her, "But I'm far from beaten."
"Heh, good. I thought this would get dull." Haihane said as she charged at Kazehana, claws ready!
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"Getting tired yet, brat?-!" called the red Sekirei with pink hair as she was completely dominating the brown haired, hammer carrying Sekirei. Yashima wasn't doing any better as she tried her best to guard herself with her giant hammer, but that was only making things easier for Benitsubasa as she was punching and kicking her relentlessly. Benitsubasa had Yashima all figured out; that giant hammer was only good for one-hit finishing, but in close corner combat, it was useless. Plus, Yashima seemed rather hesitant and that only made Benitsubasa's fight so much easier.
Finally Benitsubasa grabbed Yashima's hammer in the mist of her punching and held it tightly. Yashima tried to yank it out of her hands but the pink haired Sekirei had to tight of a grip on it, making it quite difficult to even hold it anymore.
"Y'know, I must say, you're pretty weak." Benitsubasa said harshly.
"W-What…?" Yashima said pantingly.
"Look at you; you're nothing but a weakling who's been thrown into this game." Benitsubasa grinned, "I'm surprised someone as actually intimidating as your Ashikabi would pick such a spineless and pathetic excuse of a Sekirei as you. It's laughable actually." Benitsubasa then stared darkly into Yashima's eyes with a grin on her face, "I can only imagine how many battles you've lost in your life here. So fuckin' useless."
Suddenly, Yashima felt her confidence drop completely at that comment. It hurt her deeply and stung physiologically for her as it only reminded her of her past abusive Ashikabi that would scar her physically, verbally, and mentally as well. Such a scaring was enough to subdue her to a simple punching bag. Her head held down in sadness and sorrow, she has been forced to go into an almost unconscious state as a coping mechanism to deal with the past abuse.
"Heh, now you'll be easier to deal with." Benitsubasa ginned as she clenched her fist, and sent it right at the brown haired Sekirei.
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"T-This is bad…!" Minato said with utter sadness in his voice. He could only fall to his knees in sorrow at the sight of these poor Sekirei being defeated like this. "This is so wrong…! Why…? Why does it have to be like this?"
"Because this is what the World truly is."
Minato looked up to the hooded man as he simply stood there, watching Yashima being thrown around by the pink haired Sekirei's punches, then to Kazehana who was barely dodging the claws of the white haired Sekirei.
"The world is just that cruel and heartbreaking. There is no justice, no proper freedom, no reasoning. In the end people whether human or Sekirei just enjoy brutal fighting and death.. I, of course, can't be put out of such a category…not after all I've done in the past, and now. Death will always follow us all…till our own end." Alex then looked down a bit as he thought about that sentence, "Heh, I guess…at some point…even I'm gonna get done in at some point. Though I'm beyond "life" or "death", one day my existence will end…"
Minato didn't know whether he was truly feeling such words, or if it was simply a way to describe life, but either way, he did know one thing…Alex was serious on his own life. Minato could almost feel the same pain Alex was going through. But why though? Why would Minato be able to sympathize with something that wasn't even human? Could it be because he's created such a close bond with his own Sekirei that this is happening? He didn't know. All he did know was this;
"I…I don't want to believe that…"Minato said, standing right back up again. "I don't believe that all people who breathe life will be savages like this. This is all because of Minaka and his messed up Sekirei plan! He's the only person to blame, not everyone else!" Minato finally put his hand on his chest and said proudly, "I'm human, and I know that people can change for the better. Whether human or Sekirei, we all can change without massive death! As long as we fight for what we believe in!"
Alex simply looked back at the pathetic young man with a foolish answer…only to smirk and say, "A fuckin' foolish answer, kid…but an answer either way."
Alex finally turned back to the main fight at hand and smirked as he said, "You hear that you two?-!" He called out to his Sekirei, "This Minato kid thinks that the world can change! He thinks that things can be different! What do ya say, girls?-! Let's see if he's right! But first…" Alex then spread his arms out. "…let's finish these bitches off!"
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"What's he talking about?" Benitsubasa questioned, "Has he finally lost it or—?"
Suddenly, Benitsubasa's words were cut off as she felt a horrid pain on her cheek, and her body starting to fly off her feet. Finally, she realized the brutal punch that befallen her and she was then thrown across the warehouse but was able to recover herself to her feet. "W-What…?"
She looked over to see that the one responsible for that punch was none other than the previous unconscious Sekirei from before! She now stood strong and seemed to radiate a more powerful essence within herself as she looked up at the pink haired Sekirei with fiery eyes and a new confidence in herself of which she hasn't felt in years.
"I…I will change…I will change the world…!" Yashima declared, "I will become stronger! For the New World!"
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"Someone's pretty cocky." Haihane noticed. She then looked back at the black haired Sekirei and asked, "You're not going to prattle on with some speech, are you?"
Kazehana simply stood there, seeming to not have heard her right away. She then smiled her cool smile as she felt a strange new power flow within her own body. Without warning, a blast of dark wind surrounded her very body that was strong, that it was practically a mini twister that was circling her! Haihane stood in disbelief at the new found power that was washing over the wind Sekirei, simply from the very words of her Ashikabi.
"w-What the…?-!" Haihane uttered in the mist of such a strong wind.
"No…" Kazehana smirked with a burning confidence in her eyes, "…I'd rather the wind do the talking for me..."
Kazehana quickly summoned a strong ounce of wind into her palm and suddenly, a black ooze-like biomass formed into her hands and seeped into the ball of wind within her hand, making the ball of wind even more powerful as it spun with an ever greater speed!
"…and now, the wind would like to scold you."
Kazehana stood tall as she simply carried the sphere of wind into her right hand and pointed it right at Haihane and without warning, a powerful blast of black wind mixed with biomass fibrosis tissue for the extra punch slammed right at the single clawed Sekirei and without even any effort, blasted her across the entire warehouse and smack dab into the other side's wall with devastating power! The wind blast finally wore off of her palm and the powerful wind that surrounded her had dissipated, as she looked to see that the white haired Sekirei was completely unconscious with heavy blood covering her body from head to toe.
"Well now." Kazehana said as she put her hand down, and grabbed a new bottle of Sake from the only shelf that still stood. "She's tougher then I thought." She took a big gulp of the Sake and sighed in satisfaction. Then she then stared darkly towards the unconscious Haihane from afar with a smirk on her face. "An attack like that should have ripped her to pieces."
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H-Haihane!" Benitsubasa called out to.
"You were right."
Benitsubasa looked back at the brown haired Sekirei with the fire in her eyes and the tightening grip on her hammer. Benitsubasa then noticed something odd about the hammer itself; it began to gather strange black-ooze around it and it seemed to have covered the whole hammer as a whole.
"Yes, I am still weak…I am surprised Mercer-sama chose me…but…" She then looked up at Benitsubasa as she whirled her giant hammer over her head and ready to swing. "…I AM NOT USELESS!-!"
Yashima then ran at full force at Benitsubasa as she started to gather a strange ooze-like substance around her very hands! Benitsubasa was about to take the strike head on as she held her fist in perpetration for the strike! Yashima then leaped into the air and with all her might, slammed the giant hammer right into the ground where Benitsubasa stood! However, Benitsubasa dodged the hammer strike at the right time as it slammed heavily into the ground with a powerful rumbling!
"Ha! Looks like you missed!" Benitsubasa said arrogantly as she was still in the air.
"No…" Yashima said as she confidently smirked and looked up at the pink haired Sekirei. "…I didn't."
Suddenly, the black ooze on Yashima's hammer quickly seeped into the ground like it was made of water and the ground seemed to ripple like a pond under Benitsubasa! Though she tried her best to try and dodge while in the air still, it was useless. Because all of a sudden, giant black spikes shot right out of the ground and relentlessly stabbed the red Sekirei; her blood painting the blades themselves.
Finally the seemingly endless blades receded back into the ground as the ground itself calmed back to its ruble ground. There, lying on the ground was a fatally injured Benitsubasa, unable to stand, and struggling to try and get back up.
"Please…don't get back up…"
The pink haired Sekirei looked back up at the brown haired woman, not to see a demon in a girl's body, but another expression on her face…sadness; tears falling down her eyes as she seemed sad to do such an act to the Disciplinary red Sekirei. But then Yashima's expression changed as she wiped the tears from her eyes and had a more threatening look in her cute eyes.
"I refuse to do anymore…as long as you stay down."
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"A-Amazing…!" Minato said in true amazement.
"See? Told ya they got this." Alex said with a smirk on his face. He then called out to them, "Good work! Bring them here!"
"Right!" Both said happily. Kazehana quickly appeared before an unconscious Haihane in a small blast of wind and picked her up, bridal style, while Yashima attempted to pick up Benitsubasa.
"Don't you touch me!-!" The pink haired Sekirei yelled as she suddenly jumped to her feet despite her terrible injuries and ran at Kazehana! She then, somehow grabbed Haihane from the wind Sekirei's own hands and leaped to the upper window of the warehouse!
Benitsubasa left with Haihane and the two were gone.
"Well now, she sure is stubborn." Kazehana sighed, taking another gulp of her sake.
"Let her go." Alex said as he and Minato walked to them. "She'll bleed out and die soon enough; less competition the better."
"Besides that, Ashikabi-kun, are you okay?" Kazehana asked.
"O-Oh yeah, I'm okay." Minato nodded.
"That's good…okay, let's get this over with." Alex said as he suddenly lifted Minato by the collar and turned one of his arms into a claw. "Since you're an Ashikabi, I guess you're my next victim."
"W-Wait, Mercer-sama!" Yashima pleaded. "Please don't consume him! I can obviously tell he's not evil!"
"True, but I do need more Sekirei to complete my rebellion against Minaka." Alex reminded them, "So hey; anything helps to—huh?"
Suddenly, Alex felt a strange burning of his hand once again, as he felt it intense to the point that it was almost unbearable. Finally, Alex singed at the pain and released Minato as quickly as possible to stop the burning in his palm! He looked back at his other arm to find that it was completely normal again without him giving it the command to.
"What the hell?" Mercer muttered.
"What happened?" Yashima asked, "Why did your hand suddenly burn when you touched Minato-san?"
"I don't know." Alex wondered that himself as he shook his hand from the burn, "It's the same as last time. When I touched his shoulder, it suddenly burned me." He looked back at Minato, "Kid, I don't know what's up with you, but I know it's not good if I'm affected by it."
"I-I really don't know, honest!" Minato said fearfully and hastefully. "I-I mean, I do have a bond with my own Sekirei so…maybe they, in return, give me power against evil…N-Not that I'm calling you evil, I mean!"
Alex couldn't keep his mind off it though. Why was this kid, this normal young man hurting him with just a single touch? Was it really from his bond with Sekirei that was doing this, or was it something more? The only thing that really hurt him before, as that detox parasite that got into him from Cross back in NY. Could he have the same traits of that parasite?
"Whatever." Alex said rather coldly, "Even though, you're still pretty weak."
"My, aren't you just so cheery~" Kazehana cooed as she got close to Mercer and her breast pressed onto his arm. He didn't seem to care, or really show any emotion to it. "You should really try to open up a bit and have a little fun every now and then."
"K-Kazehana-san! Now is not the time for such talk!" Minato said with blush on his face.
"Why not? As my Ashikabi, I think it's allowed, right?" the raven haired Sekirei winked.
Minato immediately went white in the face from hearing that word and referring this hooded man as one in the same sentence. Finally he busted out with "EEEEEHHH?-!"
"Is that a Japan thing?" Alex asked.
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AS the orange of the setting sun skies painted the city in its color, water also rained over the city intensely. However this wasn't from the rain or the skies, but instead a controlled portion of rain being thrown all over the city just to catch one person.
Heller was jumping from building to building making sure to not be caught in the tidal wave that was quickly catching up with him! He ran up a building and from there ran up on the side of a radio station broadcast pole, outrunning the incoming wave! From there, Heller flipped himself inside the confines of the pole and leaped with great strength to the top and sliced the "top" of the radio pole with his bladed claw arms. He stood on the top of the remains of the pole, overlooking the city.
"Damnit! I don't got time for this shit!" James yelled at the water Sekirei who stood on a neighboring building pole.
"Surely you jest." Tsukiumi said orderly, arms crossed under her large breast. "I refuse to stand by and allow such intolerable acts to continue. Now return Minato post haste!"
"Look, I don't know who the fuck this Minato guys is!" Heller said with chargin. "I just need to get to this Warehouse place to—!"
"Gotcha!"
Heller suddenly heard a familiar female voice behind him and just side stepped out of the incoming drop punch of the brown fighter Sekirei, but in the process of doing so, something got caught in the slits of her gloves as her fist passed Heller's coat chest pocket, and she soared right past him, landing on the building he was on feet first.
"Whoa, he's good…huh?" Musubi quickly noticed something in the slit of her gloves and plucked it out to take a good look at it. It appeared to be a woman and child in it; the woman had black long braided hair in a ponytail and dark skin just like "Alex's". The child was a little girl with matching black braided hair and dark skin as well. It appeared they were mother and child. "Wait…that means…!" Musubi's eyes went wide as she finally realized what she was holding, and who it belonged to. "…H-He's a dad?-!"
Meanwhile, Heller had jumped from that pole seconds after Musubi had landed and was now running towards Tsukiumi who had flipped off the pole herself and stood with a water formed long blade on her hand! The two clashed bitterly like enemies as Heller swung his claw arms furiously at the blond Sekirei, who was trying to keep up, but saw that she was indeed getting cut up in the process, but seemed to be cutting him as well.
Finally, Tsukiumi backed off and stood a good distance away from James.
"I must admit, thou art truly skilled." Tsukiumi acknowledged. She then made her water blade disappear and formed a large long snake-like body of water around her. "But it will take more than such trivial efforts to defeat me!"
"Well I'd do that, but…uh…well…" Heller didn't know the right words to say or how to say it, so he just said it straight up; "Look! I can't fight when ya panties are flashin' all in my face! That shit gets really distractin'!"
Tsukiumi immediately went red in the face as she clenched her fist in anger. "H-H-How dare ye give in to such vile immortals?-!"
"Don't bust that Shakespeare talk on me!" James argues, "You and that other girl really need to know somethin' called modesty!"
"Hey! I know all about modesty!" Musubi intervened as she landed on the building with Tsukiumi. "Minato-san told me that if all my clothes are ripped off, I should cover my boobs at all times!"
"JUST your boobs?" Heller thought in outrage, "Swear if I ever meet this Minato guy, I'm givin' him a lesson on women since he don't know shit…"
In the mist of all this going on, Heller simply looked to the side by chance, expecting to see the sun and the time he was wasting fighting these two Sekirei, but suddenly his gaze was perched on two people who seemed to be jumping from building to building, until finally they dropped to the rooftop and fell on their backs.
"What's goin' on there?" James mumbled. He looked back at the two Sekirei who somehow started arguing with one another in the mist of him not paying attention. "You gotta be shittin' me…" Heller sighed while messaging his temple. It could be so easy for him to just use one of his stronger attacks to end them both, but he had other important matters to attend to.
While they argued, Heller simply darted away from the building he stood on, and ran across the two buildings before reaching the one that had the two people lying down on. He arrived there, only to find that they were bleeding heavily and were breathing hard.
"Hold on…" James noticed as he pulled the photographs of the three Sekirei that were his, only to discover that the two were indeed the pink haired one and the white haired one. "Bingo. So these are the ones. And judging by the injuries, I don't even have to guess who's responsible…" He then put the photos in his pockets and quickly grabbed the two, holding the white haired one over his shoulder, and the pink haired one under his arm. He then leaped off the building and off to Minaka's tower once again.
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"—And that is why thou shouldn't partake in such strange lessons!" Tsukiumi argued with Musubi.
"So…Don't go looking for a fight just to get your clothes off to make your Ashikabi like you?" Musubi asked again.
"Yes!" Tsukiumi exclaimed.
"Okay, got it! Now let's deal with—huh?" Musubi looked back only to find that the one they were fighting had already fled the scene. "He ran away."
"It was because of thou unneeded words!" Tsukiumi blamed on Musubi.
"Well I'm sorry if I just happen to have some modesty, Ms. panty flasher!" Musubi pouted.
"Surely you jest in partaking in immorals as well!" The blond Sekirei questioned in appalle.
"Hmmm maybe you do have a speech im-pede-ment…"
Tsukiumi was about to splash a heavy dose of "Water Celebration" on Musubi, until she heard the call of her name from someone;
"Tsukiumi! Musubi!" Called a woman who was jumping on to the same building as the blond and brown haired Sekirei s stood on, along with three other people; one of which was familiar to both of them as they looked in relief and said; "Minato/Minato-san!"
"H-Hey guys." Minato said sheepishly while scratching the back of his head.
"Thank goodness you're okay!" Musubi said happily, "We were so worried about you!"
"Oh, yeah. I probably would've been in huge trouble if not for Kazehana, Yashima, and their Ashikabi." Minato credited.
"So thou hath been winged, Kazehana?" Tsukiumi said in surprise.
"Yep. I got winged by this hot leathery babe right here." Kazehana smirked as she wrapped her arms around Alex's shoulders. "Isn't he just so dark and mysterious?"
"We really gotta talk about personal space…" Alex said to her, obviously annoyed by her flirtation.
"So what is thou name then?" The blond Sekirei asked.
"It's Alex. Alex Mercer."
"Ah yes. Tis a pleasure to make your acquaintance Alex…Mer…cer…?" Tsukiumi took a while to fathom the name this man had just spoken. She then took a key look at his attire and could honestly say that this man actually fit the bill better than the other man did. And if that other man also had powers that match the description then this actual hooded man has powers too! "W-Wait a minute! Does thou jest, or did ye just refer to thy self as Alex Mercer?-!"
"Yeah, that's me." Alex nodded.
"Th-Then…! Then who the heck did we fight?-!" Musubi exclaimed questionably.
"What do you mean?" Yashima asked the brown haired Sekirei.
"Well we just fought a guy with a hood and black leather coat with biomass powers." Musubi explained. She then showed to all of them the picture of a wife and girl. "This was in his coat pocket and it clinged onto me by mistake."
They all looked at the picture in interest as to which family it was, but the picture was quickly snatched from Musubi's hands and he quickly gave it a look at and couldn't help grunt irritably for some reason or another. He then looked towards Musubi to ask; "Where'd he go?"
""Why does thou feel interest in him?" Tsukiumi asked in questioning.
"Simple; he's just like me. And if he's just like me, then this pic missing from him is going to make him very, VERY pissed off." Alex warned, "And I've seen a pissed off Heller...It ain't pretty."