SailorStar9: Chapter 11 goes up and no review. You guys don't love me anymore. *Wails*
Disclaimers: I don't own Sailor Moon and Flame of Recca since if I did own them both, the Planetary Senshi will have equal footing as Sailor Moon and the Domon/Fuuko pairing would be canon. But you don't see that happening do you? However, I do own the pairing, I hope.
Chapter 12: The Fire Dragons United! The Opponent Outside the Ring!
Back in the arena...
"The match has just started and Domon's charging right in!." Tatsuko declared as Domon charged.
With a cry, Domon punched right through Magensha's body.
On the ring side...
"Again..." Mikagami noted. "I thought he connected, but..."
"The same thing happened to Fuuko-san." Kagerō added. "It's like his punches go right through Magensha's body."
In the ring...
"As I've said. I'm an immortal." Magensha replied.
"Shut the hell up!" Domon growled. "I hate your immortality!"
"What?" he gasped when his punch fell right through Magensha's body.
"Not bad..." he got back up. "No one's ever tricked me like that before..."
On the ring side...
"Moron! You just slipped and fell on your ass!" Kondo rebuked.
In the ring....
"SHUDDUP! Are you on my side, or what?" Domon snapped.
"Can you really afford to look away?" Magensha inquired. Teleporting in front of Domon, he gave the teen a punch across the face.
Fast... Domon mused as Magensha rained continuous punches on him.
On the ring side...
"I can't believe he hurt Domon so easily." Ganko exclaimed.
"Treated him like a red-headed stepchild." Kondo added.
At the commentary table...
"Strong... Magensha shows amazing strength." Tatsuko announced. "With only his right hand, he's knocked Ishijima Domon to the ground."
"Domon is still down." Nemi snatched the microphone.
In the ring...
"Strong... he's really strong." Domon mumbled. "How the hell do I beat him?"
"Beat me?" Magensha mocked. "Inconceivable. You're nowhere near my level."
"Damn it!" Domon cursed as he got up. "Don't underestimate me..."
"Magensha..." Koran intervened. "Magensha!"
"Mori-sama?" Magensha looked up at the viewing screen.
"This game ends." Koran told him. "The Hokage is focused on he match and Yanagi, the target is unprotected. Now is your chance."
"If the plan must start now," Magensha noted. "So be it."
With that, he used his madōgu and swapped places with his other self.
In the infirmary...
"Kaoru-kun should be feeling better." Yanagi remarked, as she healed Koganei.
"Yes. All thanks to you, Yanagi-san." Saichō added.
"Oh, please. it's nothing." Yanagi waved his compliments aside. "I just want to be able to help."
"Yanagi-san, what's wrong?" Saichō asked, noting Yanagi's shocked expression.
"Saichō-san, behind you!" Yanagi warned.
"What?" Saichō turned and was knocked off his feet by the newly-arrived Magensha.
"Damn... who are you?" Saichō demanded.
Magensha said nothing and fired his Houmashin at the paper wielder.
"Nuno Zarashi!" Saichō tried to stop the flame ball with his strips of paper, only to have the fireball weave through the gaps between the paper threads.
"Saichō-san!" Yanagi exclaimed, the paper wielder having been hit by Magensha's attack. "Saichō-san!"
"Don't... don't worry about me." Saichō told her. "He's after you. Run... run away... run... run!"
After Saichō's collapse, Yanagi fled as Magensha appeared before her.
Disappearing again, Magensha took off after the healer.
In the forest...
Yanagi tripped over a root of a tree as she fled.
She screamed as Magensha closed in.
"That scream was... it can't be..." Recca stopped in his tracks upon hearing Yanagi's scream. "Hime?"
In the ring....
"Well Ishijima Domon..." Tatsuko declared. "Will you fall without a single punch? And Magensha... all he does is stare coldly at Domon. He's so creepy."
On the ring side...
"He should stay down..." Gashakura advised. "If he doesn't, my brother will kill him."
In the ring...
"I cannot be beaten..." Domon muttered. "Fuuko tried for me... as beat as she was, she face Magensha. To rescue Fuuko from the evil dimension, I can't afford... to lose!"
"Wow, is he really back on his feet?" Tatsuko announced. "Ganbare, Domon!"
On the ring side...
"That didn't work... try something else..." Kondo suggested as Domon charged.
In the ring....
"Magensha counterattacks him." Tatsuko declared.
"Can't you think of something good to say?" Domon barked, giving Magensha a punch.
In the stands...
"Dodged... he dodged it." the crowd gaped as Domon ducked Magensha's punch. "Not only that, he hit that thing."
In the ring...
"YES!" Domon whooped, his fist hitting its mark for the first time. "Did you see that? I hit this freakin' thing!"
On the ring side...
"Dumb-ass! Don't you jump for joy just yet!" Kondo scolded.
"Stay focused!" Ganko agreed.
In the ring...
"You're right..." Domon grinned.
Turning back to his opponent, he caught Magensha's fist with his hand.
On the ring side...
"Now you got him!" Ganko whooped.
"Can't be..." Gashakura muttered.
.
In the ring...
"I guess it's my turn to open a can of whoopass!" Domon grinned as he charged, pummeling Magensha.
"Ishijima must be out for revenge!" Tatsuko declared.
On the ring side...
"Something's wrong with Magensha." Kagerō noted.
"That fierce aura is gone." Mikagami agreed. "He even looks like a different person."
"You're right." Kagerō concurred. "He must have found a way to switch."
"Impossible." Mikagami protested. "Magensha hasn't left the ring. There wasn't time to substitute with someone else."
"But that guy is..." Kagerō pointed out. "That person cannot be Magensha."
"Dimensions..." Anhara frowned.
"Kagerō." she turned to the female ninja. "Is there a madōgu that could allow its owner to travel through dimensions?"
"Now that you mention it, there is." Kagerō nodded. "The Jigenkai Gyoku."
"No wonder I sensed a hint of Lilith's power." Anhara muttered.
At Mikagami's look, she explained, "Kagerō should have told you, all of the madōgu originated from the Celestial madōgu. Lilith was the eleven Celestial Star, with the power of dimension traveling, though her main forte was luck."
"Was?" Mikagami echoed.
"The planet was destroyed by Do-sei." Anhara replied. "All that's left is a string of rocks."
"You know as the Asteroid Belt." she added after a while.
"If that's true, then what's going on?" Mikagami wondered. "And if this Magensha is the fake, where's the real one?"
"Could it be..." Anhara realized Koran's plan.
"Activate!" she wasted no time in activating the wings on her heels.
"Where are you going?" Kagerō asked.
"Don't you two get it?" Anhara snapped. "Koran must've order Magensha to go after Sakoshita-san!"
In the forest...
Yanagi had edged away from Magensha.
"Running would be pointless." Magensha told her.
"Magensha...?" Yanagi gasped. "How can you be here? I thought you were fighting with Recca-kun..."
"No need to worry." Magensha told her. "My other self is fighting in the ring. My shadow that is."
"Another you? Yanagi echoed. "What does that mean?"
"You already know too much about the Ura Uruha." Magensha replied. "There's nowhere to run."
"Help me... Recca-kun..." Yanagi muttered.
"Even if Mister Recca was here," Magensha added. "He couldn't save you by himself. I'd discard his corpse into the sea. Well, won't you come with me? Mori-sama awaits you."
"Recca-kun...!" Yanagi screamed.
At that, Nadare's fireballs blasted from the trees.
"If it deflect Nadare's fireballs, that mask is stronger than it looks, eh?" Recca snapped on a tree branch.
"Recca-kun!" Yanagi beamed.
"You're safe now." Recca told her. "I'll protect you, Hime."
"Don't fool yourself." Magensha chuckled.
"I'm completely serious." Recca shot back. "Magensha, I got lots of questions for ya. But... first of all... you and me are gonna fight!"
"Ryu no En, first dragon, Saiha!" he summoned his fire blade as he jumped down from the branch.
"Gotcha!" he hollered, coming down at Magensha.
"Passed through..." he gaped when Saiha's blade passed through air. "No way... even Saiha's fire blade couldn't hurt him...? What's wrong with your bo..."
He barely finished his question when Magensha punched him across the face.
"Damn! No good!" Recca cursed.
"Recca-kun!" Yanagi exclaimed as Recca fell over the cliff.
"Recca-kun...' she gasped, looking down at the sea below.
"He was a fool." Magensha remarked.
"Shall we go?" he knelt before Yanagi. "He won't be floating up anytime soon."
Then, he blinked upon seeing a Recca-look alike doll on the water. "Kawarimi no Jutsu."
"Did you really think that would finish me off?" Recca retorted.
"What?" Magensha gasped as Recca jumped back onto the cliff with Saiha's extended blade.
"What's the big deal?" Recca scoffed. "There's two of you. Why can't there be two of me?"
"So what now?" Magensha turned to him. "Your flame cannot penetrate my helmet. And you've already tried attacking my body. Your flame doesn't effect me."
"Not yet. I didn't try my secret technique." Recca corrected, standing up.
"Guess we'll see." he snapped, summoning two of his flames. "Here it comes, you bastard!"
"What? He summoned two dragons a the same time?" Magensha was stunned.
"Recca-kun!" Yanagi gasped as Recca was engulfed in the two dragons' flames.
"I guess those two dragons cannot cooperate." Magensha chuckled at the writhing Recca. "Or is it because their master can't handle their power. If you choose to continue, you may succumb to your own flame."
"What's your problem, Saiha and Homura?" Recca demanded. "Why can't you two get along?"
Finally, burnt out by the two dragons, Recca collapsed.
"Your lack of endurance leads to failure?" Magensha mocked. "Unfortunately, you weren't up for it."
"Amateur." he scoffed, summoning his portal. "You shall share the same fate as Miss Fuuko and Kashamaru."
"Who's... who's the amateur..." Recca growled, getting to his feet and calling his flames again. "You bastard!"
"They didn't... burn him out?" Magensha was stunned when Recca was unfazed by the two dragons' flames.
"What?" he gasped when the two fire dragons merged.
"Take this!" Recca released the combined flames at Magensha, confining him within its restrictions and burning off a horn on his helmet.
"What... a combination of your flame blade and whip..." Magensha wheezed.
"I call it my flame-sickle..." Recca replied, his blood dripping from his right arm.
"Unbelievable..." Magensha muttered. "You tried something that might have led to death... why would you go that far?"
"Someone who'd kill his own people couldn't understand." Recca replied.
"Don't ya think you've shown off enough?" Koganei complained.
"Kaoru-kun... and Saichō-san too." Yanagi beamed. "Are you okay?"
Saichō nodded, "If... I'd used my Nuno Zarashi any later, I might not be here now..."
"You aren't gonna hog all the hero stuff." Koganei scolded as he readied his weapon. "I want to help Yanagi-nee-chan as well."
"Seems you're outta luck." Recca grinned.
"I think not. It may be three on one," Magensha replied. "But I can still destroy you all..."
"How about making it four on one?" Anhara remarked, landing into the clearing, keeping her heeled wings in the process.
"Kimura, what are you doing here?" Recca asked.
"I figured out what Koran's plan was." Anhara replied.
"Chat later." she turned to Magensha. "Let's finish this."
Koganei nodded and charged at Magensha who knocked him off with a hand swipe.
Saichō attacked next, forming his paper strip into a sword, only to be knocked off by Magensha.
Recca ducked the flying Saichō, firing his fireballs at Magensha.
"What?" the oversized warrior gasped when Recca dodged his attack and landed before Yanagi.
"Hime." Recca looked at his Princess as Koganei and Saichō charged, their weapons striking Magensha's mask simultaneously.
"Why...?" Magensha was puzzled. "Why can they dodge my attacks? Why do their weak attacks effect me?"
"It's easy once we know how your madōgu works." Anhara informed him.
"What?" Magensha gasped, his mask cracking. "It can't be... my mask just cracked."
"I see..." he realized that it had been Recca 's attack which had cracked his mask. "It was then... oh my god... I can't fight them in this condition..."
"Let's end this, boys." Anhara smirked, summoning the Mercury Dragon Sword.
"Here we go!" Recca hollered,
At his call, a fire blade, the Kōgan Anki, a paper sword and the Mercury Dragon Sword clashed onto Magensha's mask.
"Took four of us to finally beat him." Recca remarked. "He was pretty strong for someone so ugly. Let 's see what's behind the mask." and took the mask off.
"No way...." Yanagi remarked, upon seeing the person behind the mask.
"This little bastard is,,, Magensha?" Saichō remarked.
"It can't be possible!" Recca exclaimed. "That's the freak who let us in here. I shouldna kicked his ass then."
"What about that Magensha we fought?" Yanagi inquired. "Where's the real Magensha?"
"It's obvious." Anhara replied. "He must've swapped back at the last minute."
Back in the arena...
"This is quite a surprise." Tatsuko declared after Domon appeared victorious. "Magensha is unconscious from Domon's attack. I don't think he'll stand up again. Ah! And now referee Umi will call the official decision."
"Uruha Ma's Magensha-san can't continue fighting." Umi announced. "This match's winner is the Hokage's Ishijima-san..."
"No." Magensha interrupted. "This is far from over."
On the ring side...
"That battle aura is..." Mikagami remarked as Magensha's aura flared.
"The real Magensha." Kagerō finished his sentence.
"What?" Koran demanded. "Explain yourself, Magensha! You've come back empty-handed... that means you have failed in capturing the healer!"
In the ring...
"I'm afraid..." Magensha mused. "His eyes tell me he'll kill me. I ask for one more chance... I'll defeat the Hokage and take the healer."
"That decided, he attacked.
On the ring side...
"Domon, watch out! This guy is..." Mikagami warned.
At the commentary table....
"It's unbelievable." Tatsuko announced. "Magensha has revived. The immortal Magensha!"
On the ring side...
"I've never seen my brother fight so seriously before..." Gashakura noted as Magensha continued pummeling Domon. "Ever since he entered the ring, he hasn't been himself."
At the commentary table...
"Now Ishijima has taken another fall." Tatsuko declared.
On the ring side...
"Amazing power..." Mikagami muttered. "But when could he have switched? it's like he warped in..."
"Warp?" Kagerō echoed, before she realized what Anhara did. "What if... the way he does it... that evil dimension."
"Evil dimension?" Mikagami frowned.
"Anhara-san must have realized it too, that's why she went after Yanagi-san." Kagerō replied.
In Magensha's dimension...
How big is this evil dimension place...? Fuuko wondered as she floated about. It's like a graveyard in space...
"Who's there?" her Kaze no Tsume activating, alerting her of an enemy.
"Kashamaru... Tsukishiro?" she blinked at the two Uruha Ma's members.
"Kirisawa Fuuko..." Tsukishiro started. "You've been trapped in the evil dimension as well?"
"We thought you were Magensha..." Kashamaru whined, before panicking as an evil laughter sounded, a skull floating past his head.
"We muse find him quickly." he urged. "Otherwise we're gonna end up like skeletons."
"What are you talking about?" Fuuko asked. "How do we find Magensha? We're in his evil dimension. How the hell are we gonna find Magensha when he's back in the Satsujin dome?"
"Calm down." Tsukishiro told her. "Your question is just. But this dimension has a secret and trick to it."
"Secret and a trick?" Fuuko echoed.
"Magensha hides in here." Tsukishiro replied.
In the arena...
"You're finally up?" Magensha mocked.
"Of course..." Domon growled, getting to his feet.
"Still, I don't plan to toy with you anymore." Magensha replied. "I have reason to end this now."
"I'm not going to lose either!" Domon promised.
On the ring side...
"Look! Domon's Saturn Ring is shining!" Ganko beamed, as Domon's nose-ring glowed brightly.
"Alright! Go!" Kondo cheered.
In the ring....
Domon let out a way cry as the two opponents charged.
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