SailorStar9: Chapter 13 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 14: Fear! Reanimated Zombie!
That night, in the hotel restaurant....
"The reason we have gotten this far is all thanks to me!" Domon boasted. "I was the one who wrapped up the semis, ya' know."
"The Magensha you fought was already beat from fighting us." Recca reminded him as he stood up.
"I shouldn't have praised him..." Mikagami added, following Recca's example. "Guess Kimura's was smart enough to leave."
Anhara had long exited the restaurant, saying something about not being able to stand Domon's idiotic babbling.
"In the finals tomorrow, I'll finish off the entire team my myself." Domon boasted.
:You can eat alone." Fuuko retorted as she followed Recca and Mikagami out.
"C'mon, Fuuko..." Domon whined. "What about the other food?"
Then, he flushed when he felt someone caressing his arm.
"What's their prob?" he fumed.
"What big arms you have." Kokū told him. "I can see why you advanced to the final."
"You think so?" Domon beamed. "Go ahead, old man. Eat as much has you want."
"Thanks. At least you can tell." he added, as Kokū dug in on the buns he passed to the seventh Flame Dragon.
"But you're going to get beat tomorrow." Kokū added.
Domon nodded, before exclaiming, "What did you say, you senile old man?" when he realized what Kokū had said.
"This might help." Kokū tossed the Tetsugan madōgu orb to him before walking off.
"What's this?" Domon looked at the black ball in puzzlement.
"A madōgu." Kokū told him.
"What?" Domon exclaimed.
"Oi!" he shouted, running out of the restaurant. "What the? He's gone? What the hell do I do with it?"
Outside of the hotel....
Koganei was practicing with his Kōgan Anki.
"Break time, break time." he remarked, resting his weapon on a bench as he rested.
"The Kōgan Anki, huh?" Kokū inquired. "That takes me back.
"Keep yer grubby mitts off!" Koganei rebuked as Kokū played with his weapon.
"No big deal." Kokū assured him, sidestepping the teen's grasp. "I won't wreck it or nothin'."
"I assume you've mastered at least five of it's forms?" he asked.
"But!" he added, tossing the weapon back to Koganei. "It's unbelievably cool legendary sixth form maybe necessary tomorrow."
"Sixth form?" Koganei echoed.
"Anyway you best sleep tonight." Kokū advised. "And brush your teeth."
"Who's that old guy?" Koganei blinked as Kokū walked off.
In the hot springs' changing room...
"I can't believe that idiot." Fuuko complained. "He thinks he's the reason we've got this far."
"But truthfully he's come a long way." Kagerō pointed out.
"First of all, he's such a..." Fuuko protested.
"Fuuko-san, you're worried about Domon-kun, right?" Yanagi cut her protest short.
"Spare me!" Fuuko objected.
"Poor Fuuko-chan." Kokū noted. "I pity such juicy breasts that swell for that gorilla."
"Kyaa! Molester!" Ganko panicked.
"What are you talkin' about, you old pervert!" Fuuko fumed.
"I came here to advise you to use those Kodama gems sparingly." Kokū replied, jumping off Fuuko's back before the wind wielder grabbed him.
"You came to tell me that?" Fuuko retorted.
"Really I did!" Kokū answered before taking off.
"Wait, you freakin' pervert!" Fuuko chased after him.
"You can't chase him wearing that." Yanagi stopped her.
"That old man..." Kagerō mused.
"You know him?" Ganko asked.
"No." Kagerō replied.
But he seems familiar. Kagerō thought.
In Mikiagami's room...
"Most people knock before they enter." a brooding Mikagami remarked.
"You seem very angry." Kokū noted. "I can see how hungry you are for blood. It's because your sister hasn't been avenged, correct?"
Mikagami swung his ice blade at Kokū who jumped onto the side table.
"Don't be in such a hurry." Kokū advised. "Tomorrow, you will have your answer. The one who killed your sister will be there."
"One of the opponents will be my sister's killer?" Mikagami echoed.
"I was wondering when you'll show up." Anhara noted, as she rested on her back on the fishing line she hung in the room.
"Ah, Adel..." Kokū looked at the reincarnated Mercurian Queen who had jumped off her makeshift bed.
"Don't call me that." Anhara stopped him. "I left that name behind when that era fell."
"Of course, Mercury-sama." Kokū bowed before jumping out to the open window.
Tomorrow... Mikagami mused after Kokū left.
"You know him?" he turned to the other ice wielder in the room.
Anhara nodded.
"And I strongly suggest the next time you see him, you don't pull that stunt on him." she added.
"Why?" Mikagami pressed.
"You won't want to kill one of the two creators of the madōgu." Anhara told him.
Kissing his cheek, she quipped playfully, "Do you want to continue with the madōgu history lecture, or should we proceed to something more fun?"
Mikagami smirked, if she was in a playful mood, he would willingly play with her. His hands slipped around her waist, pulling her up for a passionate, lip-locking kiss. He tugged her closer until her body was flashed against his. He heard and felt Anhara moan in the back of her throat as their tongues glided and dueled with each other. He definitely liked this amiable side of hers.
It was not long before instinct guided them to the bed, their clothes tossed in a haphazard pile on the floor, Mikagami's hair-tie being the first to be pulled off.
What happened next is up to the reader's imagination as anything more would pull up the rating of this fic.
In the bathroom....
Recca was strolling to a cubicle when he heard someone singing.
"Close the damn door, old man!" he exclaimed when he saw Kokū's was open.
"You can't beat Kurei." Kokū told him.
"What did you say? Who the hell are you?" Recca demanded.
"If you want to win, come train with me." Kokū advised, standing up from the toilet bowl.
"Come on." he reached out his hand.
"The match is a day away!" Recca snapped, slapping the hand off. "I don't know what kind of training you've got in mind, old man, but I don't have time to come drink tea with you."
"What a fool." Kokū noted.
"What kinda' training." Recca fumed as he stormed off.
Have I met that old man somewhere before? He wondered, turning back after he heard the toilet flush.
The next morning....
Anhara awoke upon sensing someone was looking at her.
Peering open her eyes, she saw her bare-chested lover looking at her with a somewhat... gentle expression.
"Morning." Mikagami greeted her.
"Morning." Anhara returned his greeting. "How long have you been up?"
"Long enough to notice how beautiful you are when you sleep." Mikagami smiled.
"You are... smiling." Anhara blinked in disbelief.
"The rest are really going to hyperventilate once they see this." she sighed. "Guess I have to get used to you acting out-of-character once in a while."
"Can't believe I actually said that." she shook her head, getting out of bed to retrieve her clothes.
Later, in the stadium....
"What the? Why is it so dark?" the audience inquired inside the darkened stadium. "This ain't no movie theatre."
"Ouch! Who stepped on my toe!" one of the audience asked.
"Sorry to keep you in suspense. Welcome to the finals of the third Ura Buto Satsujin." Tatsuko declared. "Entering for the north, welcome, Team Uruha Kurenai!"
"Noroi. Kai. Mikoto. Joker." she introduced the Uruha Kurenai team.
"That's what we came for." Recca noted. "Let's do it, Hokage!"
"And from the south, welcome the Hokage!" Tatsuko announced.
"Hokage!" the crowd cheered.
"Koganei-kun, over here, honey!" one of Koganei's fangirls screamed.
"FUUKO!" the Fuuko fan-club roared.
One of these freaks killed my sister. Mikagami mused.
"Where the hell's Kurei?" Recca growled.
"Come on! Where the hell is your leader?" he demanded.
"Kurei-sama won't be attending." Mikoto chuckled.
"What?" Domon growled.
"What do you mean?" Recca hissed.
"There's really no need for Kurei-sama to join us." Mikoto laughed. "Our team's first fighter Noroi, should send all of you to hell."
"Isn't that... Noroi the Butcherer..." one of the audience stammered.
"One of the Jyushinshu, Noroi." Koganei supplied. "He's a killing machine that wasted all his opponents in the last tournament."
"Correct me if I'm wrong." Recca grinned. "But Kurei's not coming out until you all lose? No problem. Then I'll kick all..."
"Don't underestimate us!" Domon growled, pushing Recca aside. "i'll be the one to handle these foul scum."
"Domon." Recca protested.
"You job is to beat Kurei, right?" Domon asked. "Until then, we can handle it."
"Okay. Now to unveil the battle stage." Tatsuko declared.
"In the finals," she added, the light revealing an air-borne arena. "A ring out means death. The matches should take place with this handicap."
"What the hell." Kondo stammered.
"Who wants to bet this is another one of Koran's 'wonderful' plans?" Anhara remarked in heavy sarcasm.
"Domon. Don't tell me you're scared?" Fuuko deathpanned.
"No kidding!" Domon replied.
"Come on, Noroi!" he challenged, jumping into the ring. "i defeat you, and Kurei can get some!"
At that, Noroi wordlessly jumped into the ring.
"I, Toraha , will be referee for this match." Toraha declared.
At the commentary table...
"We're about to start the first match of the finals." Tatsuko announced. "Will Domon be victorious? Or Noroi? Who can predict the outcome?"
In the ring....
"Hokage's Domon versus Uruha Kurenai's Noroi. Begin!" Toraha declared.
At the commentary table...
"Noroi rushes!" Tatsuko announced as Noroi charged.
In the ring....
"I don't think so!" Domon met Noroi's fists head-on. "No one is stronger than me. You're a hundred years too early for that!"
With a holler, he knocked Noroi off.
On the ring side...
"Great, Domon!" Recca cheered.
"Well, he's a little better!" Fuuko agreed.
"We shouldn't be overconfident." Kagerō warned. "Noroi hasn't counterattacked yet."
"Sorry to have kept you waiting." Kokū appeared under Kagerō's dress.
"You're that perverted old man!" Fuuko exclaimed, Kagerō having got Kokū out from under her dress.
"Get the hell away from my ka-chan!" Recca fumed.
"Look at the faces of Team Kurenai." Kokū advised. "Noroi appeared to be getting slaughtered, but they aren't worried."
In the ring....
Noroi seemed to be unfazed by Domon's relentless attacks.
Strange... my fists aren't hurting him at all. Domon mused. What's going on here?
On the ring side...
"It's so unfortunate, Domon-san." Joker remarked. "Noroi can't be hurt by our punches."
In the ring....
"What?" Domon growled.
On the ring side...
"He can't be hurt?" Recca echoed.
"What do you think you're doing, Joker?" Mikoto turned to him.
"Relax Mikoto-san." Joker chided. "Even if they know, what can they do? Who will care if I give them some lip service?"
In the ring....
"And I'm supposed to buy this shit?" Domon hollered as he charged, punching Noroi.
"I want..." Noroi droned.
"You say something?" Domon asked before Noroi sent him flying with an uppercut.
On the ring side...
"Domon!" Fuuko exclaimed as Domon flew into the abyss out if the ring.
In the stands...
"Noroi! Did nice!" the audience cheered as Domon stopped his fall with his fingers. "That moron hung on! Dump him!"
In the ring....
"Shit, I'm already in trouble." Domon cursed as Noroi approached him.
On the ring side...
"Domon!" Recca shouted as Noroi picked him up by the wrist and tossed him back into the ring.
In the stands...
"Great, Noroi! That was actually generous!" the audience roared. "Idiot, why didn't you drop him? Kill that kid!"
On the ring side...
"Noroi-san may be nice after all." Yanagi noted.
No, he isn't. Koganei corrected. There's gotta be a reason.
In the ring....
"I don't know what your deal is." Domon replied as he got up. "But time for my counterattack!"
"Jajan! Kuchibashi Oh!" he revealed his 'Beak King' weapon.
On the ring side...
"Noroi doesn't feel pain." Mikoto scoffed. "No matter how strong your weapon may be, it wont' work."
In the ring...
"Maybe his body doesn't." Domon said. "But..."
He released the 'Beak King', sending it flying behind Noroi before using the chain to ram the snapping claw onto Noroi's back of the head.
"How about that?" Domon challenged after Noroi's mask fell off. "Does it hurt at all? Let's see that ugly face of yours." before panicking when he saw a skull on Noroi's revealed face.
In the stands...
"What the hell? It's a monster!" the audience screamed in horror.
At the commentary table...
"What the hell is going on?" Tatsuko inquired.
On the ring side...
"If the body moves, why is the head dead?" Recca is confused.
"That must be..." Kagerō realized after Noroi replaced his helmet. "The madōgu, Bakuju."
"Bakuju?" Mikagami echoed.
"Bakuju is a madōgu that re-animates the dead." Kagerō explained. "One day, it's master was mortally wounded in battle. That man asked Bakuju to save his life. His body was too damaged to survive but his determination possessed the Bakuju."
This body is no longer viable. Bakuju decided, removing itself from its previous owner's head and flying off to find a new body. Must have a new body. Young... strong one... I want... I want a new body...
"Since that day, it is said Bakuju wanders to find the perfect body." Kagerō continued.
"Great, just what we need right now." Anhara remarked sarcastically. "A parasite madōgu."
"However, all bodies eventually rot." Mikoto chuckled. "Then, he's forced to take a new body."
"The reason he didn't let Domon fall is because he wants Domon's body." Kokū concluded. "And just as what Mercury-sama said, it is a parasite madōgu."
"What?" Recca growled.
"That's correct, old man." Mikoto chuckled.
At the commentary table...
"What a revelation!" Tatsuko declared. "Noroi hosts the malevolent ghost of Bakuju!"
In the ring....
"I want... your body!" Noroi droned as he approached Domon.
On the ring side...
"Use the madōgu I gave you yesterday." Kokū advised. "That's the only way you're going to survive this!"
In the ring....
"The madōgu?" Domon echoed.
"You mean this?" He took out the orb. "But what do it do with it?"
Noroi charged and knocked Domon to the ground, the madōgu orb entering his open mouth.
On the ring side...
"But the madōgu..." Fuuko pointed to Domon.
"He ate it..." Koganei sweatdropped.
"Stupid." Kondo sighed.
In the ring....
"All I want is your body." Noroi droned, readying to punch Domon's head. "I don't need the head."
Just before his fist hit, the sign 'Steel' appeared on Domon's forehead.
On the ring side....
"He's dead." Mikoto noted after Noroi's fist connected.
"That didn't sound good." Ganko noted after hearing the sound wave.
"No way..." Fuuko sank to her knees. "He's not dead. It can't be!"
"DOMON!" she screamed.
In the ring....
"Your body is now mine!" Noroi declared, only to have his mechanical arm implode.
On the ring side....
Mikoto was stunned when Domon stood up.
In the ring...
"You called, Fuuko?" Domon asked, getting to his feet.
On the ring side...
Fuuko blinked off her tears as she let off crying.
At the commentary table...
"Oh my! Noroi's right arm just exploded!" Tatsuko declared. "What's going on here?"
On the ring side...
"Domon!" Fuuko beamed.
"The color of his skin is different." Recca noted.
"The word 'Tetsu' is on his forehead." Kondo reported, using his binoculars.
"You gave him the madōgu, Tetsu Gan?" Kagerō asked Kokū.
"Bingo!" Kokū beamed. "The madōgu, Tetsu Gan. It changes it's master's body to iron, once it has been ingested."
"Thank god he swallowed it." Recca noted.
"He's one lucky bastard." Anhara remarked amusedly, realizing what had happened.
"What a lucky guy." Mikagami agreed.
In the ring....
"I want... I really want it." Noroi droned. Using his right arm to punch Domon, the said arm crumbling under the steel body.
"Doesn't work." Domon mocked. "I don't feel any pain now. Well, how should I finish you?"
"Like this?" he added, sending Noroi flying with a punch.
On the rig side...
"Don't be so confident." Kokū scolded. "Toss him out of the ring!"
In the ring...
"Shut up!" Domon hollered. "He's gonna pay for what he's done to me!"
"Am I right, Noroi-san?" he glared at the fallen Noroi.
"His mask is gone..." he blinked when he saw the skull through the smoke. "It got knocked off?"
"Domon." the flying mask droned behind him before attaching itself onto his head.
On the ring side...
"No!" Kokū gasped, realizing what had happened.
"This is going to be one shitty match." Anhara noted.
In the ring....
"I'm taking this body." Bakuju droned as Domon tried to get it off.
On the ring side...
"What the hell is going on?" Fuuko demanded. "Noroi can only inhabit a dead body, right?"
"He trying to destroy Domon's mind first." Kokū explained.
"His mind?" Kagerō echoed.
"Memory, emotion, all that." Kokū added. "If his mind is mush, the bod is just a piece of meat. He would be pretty much a corpse then. At that point, the Bakuju could take over."
"As I said, parasite." Anhara remarked.
"Domon!" Recca shouted.
In the ring....
Domon opened his eyes, finding himself in his mind.
"What the? Where am I?" he blinked, floating in the space of his consciousness.
"Look at all these pretty balls." he looked at the spheres containing his memories."
"Isn't that Mikagami?" he inquired, the orb containing his memory of Mikagami floating past him. "What's this ball?"
"Mikagami's ball just..." he stammered, the crystal ball shattering.
"Mikagami..." he blinked, his memory fragment disappearing. "Who is he again?"
As he wondered, the orbs containing Koganei,'s Anhara's and Fuuko's memories started shattering one by one.
"Anyway, what was I doing?" he pondered, the rest of his memory orbs shattering. "I..."
"Oh man... who the hell am I?" he wondered, the orb containing his own memory scattering.
In the ring....
"Ishijima Domon stands frozen." Tatsuko declared. "What will happen next?"
On the ring side...
"Domon! What the hell are you doing? Move your ass!" Recca hollered.
"Domon!" Fuuko shouted.
In Domon's mind...
"Noroi... Noroi..." Bakuju droned. "That's right. That's our name. Now come into the light."
On the ring side...
"It's over." Kokū noted, as Domon took a step forward.
"Eh? What, old man?" Yanagi asked.
"His mind is scrambled." Kokū explained.
"Domon.... it can't be..." Recca gasped.
"Domon!" Fuuko screamed.
"If he doesn't snap out of it soon, I'll have to go and pull him out myself!" Anhara retorted.
In Domon's mind...
Just as Domon was about to enter the light, an even larger orb floated towards him.
"Another ball?" he blinked.
"Isn't that...?" he exclaimed, seeing Recca in the orb.
"It's Hanabishi?" the then Domon challenged. "Come with me."
"That's right." Domon remarked. "That's when I met you that first time. All the good times we've had..."
"I'll be your ninja if you beat me." Recca told him after their first fight.
"That's right." Domon realized. "That day really gave me purpose. "Why I wanted to beat Hanabishi!"
"I've come so far with that conviction." he added, as the memory orbs returned one by one. "That's why I came to this tournament."
"Tournament?" he echoed.
"I'll be the donation." Yanagi's orb returned next. "I want to help also. I know I can help."
"That's it!" Domon realized. "We're fighting for that Sakoshita girl."
"Am I right, Mikagami? Koganei?" he asked, the two memory orbs returning.
"You too, Kimura." he added, Anhara's orb returning next.
"And, Fuuko!" he added, the wind wielder's orb floating towards him.
On the ring side...
"What's happening?" Recca gasped as Domon regained his consciousness.
In the ring....
"Is this..." Bakuju choked. "You can't... what tremendous mental power... you can't... you can't!"
"With a roar, Domon smashed Bakuju with his fist.
"I am Ishijima Domon!" he hollered. "I am the strongest of the Hokage!"
On the ring side...
"Oh yeah..." Kokū remarked.
In the ring....
"What the..." the scattered Bakuju choked as it fell into the abyss.
"Winner, Hokage Ishijima Domon." Toraha declared.
On the ring side...
"Domon! Did great!" Recca whooped.
At the commentary table...
"Ishijima Domon is the winner of the first match." Tatsuko announced as Domon climbed back the rock everyone was standing on.
On the ring side...
"Hanabishi." Domon started, knocking arms with the fire wielder.
"That was incredible! Nice job, Domon." Recca praised.
"It's the funniest thing. I wouldn't have snapped out of it if you weren't my rival." Domon admitted.
"An impressive performance, Domon-kun." Kurei remarked. "I apologize for my tardiness."
"Kurei..." Recca growled at his half-brother.
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