SailorStar9: Chapter 17 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 18: Battle To The Death! Until Life Is Extinguished...
At the commentary table...
"The monster flames have collided!" Tatsuko declared. "Is Kurei's Flame stronger or will it be Hanabishi's? Who will win this battle of wills?"
In the ring....
As the ring crumbled under the powerful energy wave, Recca was blown back the the shockwave as Kurei jumped to avoid getting hit by an incoming rock.
Releasing Kurenai, Kurei used the fames to burn off the rocks flying at him.
Behind him, Recca fired his flames on Kurei's back as Kurenai moved in front of Kurei, taking the attack for him. Recca flames broke through, Kurei's mask cracking under the powerful energy wave before he was engulfed in Recca's flames and was sent crushing onto the side of the demolished ring.
On the ring side...
"He can do it!" Mikagami remarked.
"Recca!" Fuuko exclaimed.
In the ring...
"Don't underestimate me!" Kurei growled, Kurenai's form turning into a flaming phoenix.
"What?" Recca gasped, the two fire beasts decking it out.
On the ring side...
"Kurei's flame has transformed..." Mikagami noted.
"Isn't that..." Kagerō gasped. "It can't be!"
"Ho-oh..." Holy Mercury realized.
In the ring...
"The Holy Flame, Ho-oh." Resshin remarked.
In the end, Kurei's phoenix won out as it dispelled Recca's flames. Spiraling towards the fire wielder, Kurei's fire knocked Recca back to the ground.
On the ring side...
"Hanabishi!" Domon shouted.
At the commentary table...
"What an unbelievable flame!" Tatsuko declared. "It's indescribable! But it seems to have overwhelmed Hanabishi."
In the ring....
Recca was starting to get up before collapsing onto the ground.
On the ring side...
"Recca-kun!" Yanagi exclaimed.
Kagerō looked up at Resshin.
"Oh no!" she realized.
"What's wrong?" Yanagi asked.
"Because he controls the Holy Flame, Resshin will chose Kurei as the real Flame Master." Kagerō replied in resignation.
In the ring....
"Such a sad fate must have forged Kurei's tremendous will." Resshin remarked.
On the ring side,,,
"Kurei..." Kagerō echoed. "Reina-sama..."
Flashback
"Which part of Kurei isn't fii to be leader?" Reina demanded. "Why do you think he'll cause trouble?"
"Since he was born, I felt it somehow." the elder replied. "His mind has been as evil as his cursed flame."
"The superior thought Kurei was evil." Resshin added. "But he was really scared bu Kurei's potential. He never realized that was the Holy Flame, Ho-oh. And Kurei's adversity gave him he power to control it. Recca has no chance to win."
"Dear?" Kagerō's eyes widened when her husband's image appeared in Resshin.
In the ring...
"Hold it!" Recca growled. "Resshin, you can shut your damn mouth!"
On the ring side...
"Recca-kun?" Yanagi gasped as Recca stood back up, his aura flaring again. "That's enough! Please stop!"
In the ring....
"Hime..." Recca muttered, his blood dripping on the ground.
On the ring side...
"Please... stop..." Yanagi pleaded.
In the ring...
"Nope.." Recca replied. "I can't.... hime, forgive me... I can run away from this. I am ninja, I know there's no chance to win but I'm still gonna fight to protect my master. It is the fate I've chosen!"
On the ring side...
"Idiot, Hanabishi!" Domon hollered as Recca powered up again.
In the ring....
"As you wish." Kurei grinned, sending his flame to attack Recca and knocking Recca back to the ground with a powerful fireball.
Running towards his fallen half-brother, Kurei stomped his head.
"You are pathetic, Recca." Kurei scoffed. "All you're capable of is killing the ones you love. Your mother shall mourn you eternally. Your lover shall end up in small pieces and you are about to die! Taste the bitter fruit of hopelessness! And suffer as I kill you!"
Recca grabbed his foot before Kurei stomped him again. Glaring at him, Kurei kicked Recca aside.
"Kurei, you really hate me, don't you?" Recca asked as he got up. "Let's go."
Nadare, Saiha, Homura, Setsuna, Madoka, Rui, and Kokū. He prayed to his Flame Dragons, his hand resting his his arm protector.
"It's been fun." Kokū told him as Recca unclasped his arm guard.
"What are you doing?" Rui asked.
"What are you thinking?" Saiha inquired. "No matter what, we're going to fight till the end."
"You don't need to worry about me!" Nadare assured him.
"I'm not worried." Recca corrected as he tossed his arm guard aside. "You guys can't match his Flame my only shot is to endure his Flame and live. I am also a Flame Master. I'm not gonna burn out so easily!"
Ion the ring side...
"The eight Dragons are..." Mikagami gasped.
"Recca!" Fuuko called out.
In the ring....
"Hate..." Kurei growled as Resshin looked on. "I hate you, hate you, hate you!"
"I fucking hate you!" he hollered, his top burning off and released his fireball at Recca.
On the ring side...
Yanagi sank to her knees when the light died down. Recca having seemingly incinerated by the flames.
"Yanagi-san!" Mikagami gasped.
"Recca!" Kagerō screamed.
In the ring....
Kurei chuckled before bursting into laughter as his seeming victory.
His laughter was cut short when he noticed smoke emerging from behind him. Turning, Kurei looked at a blood-red Recca, engulfed in flames.
"What?" Resshin was stunned.
On the ring side...
"Is that Hanabishi?" Domon blinked.
"Recca?" Fuuko gaped.
In the ring....
Kurei growled as he fired fireball after fireball at the flaming Recca.
"You can really handle that?" Resshin asked sa Recca remained unfazed by the attacks. "Even against his flame?"
"Can't you just lay there and burn?" Kurei demanded, continuing his relentless attack. "Give up!"
Mother... he recalled. Kurenai...
"Why?" he was confused, his flame burning out. "I couldn't save you, even though I wanted to. So... so why should he... how can he make the impossible possible?"
On the ring side...
"Recca-kun..." Yanagi sobbed.
In the ring....
Unable to summon their flames now, the two half-brothers charged at each other, decking it out with a plan old fist fight.
At the commentary table...
"This is the hottest battle we've seen!" Tatsuko declared, as the fist-fight continued,the rest of the referees crowding beside her. "Their flames seem useless against each other. Now they've started beating each other the old fashioned way!"
In the ring....
"Why? Why won't you die?" Kurei growled as he walked towards Recca, after knocking the younger fire wielder back to the ground with an uppercut. "I'm using all of my energy now, so why..."
"Won't you fall down and DIE!" he hollered, picking Recca up by his hair and punching him across the face.
"I have my friends!" Recca shot back. "Our feelings are together!" and knocked Kurei off with a punch.
"I'm not a hateful bastard like you." he added. "If I'm in trouble, I ain't gonna run!"
"That's bullshit!" Kurei snapped, retaliating with a punch of his own. "That's only self gratification! What the hell do you know? My strength is what defines me. I don't need any friends!"
"I don't really want to hear that!" Recca retorted as Kurei pushed him back in a chokehold. "All those stuff you just babbled! I don't really give a shit!"
"Trying to blame me for your problems is pointless!" he shouted, the two brothers meeting each other in a connected punch across the face each.
On the ring side...
"Kurei-sama!" Neon gasped as the two men fell to the ground simultaneously.
Recca-kun... Yanagi prayed as Koran grinned.
"Raiha, what are we really?" Neon asked. " No matter what we do to help Kurei-sama, he keeps rejecting us. He's alone."
"I think not." Raiha objected as Kurei stood up, Recca following suit after a while. "Someday, Kurei-sama will need us. Like Recca-san needs his friends."
"Hanabishi, get up!" Domon hollered.
"Recca!" Fuuko shouted.
"Hanabishi!" Domon shouted.
Unknownst to them, Koran had appeared behind the Hokage along with Kurei's clone.
"How...?" Fuuko turned to see the clone and looking back at the ring to see Kurei.
"Party's over." Koran declared. "That's all I can stand."
In the ring....
"Hime!" Recca gasped.
"What?" Kurei turned to see his adopted father.
On the ring side...
"I want you two to stop disgracing my Ura Buto Satsujin with your brawl." Koran told them.
In the ring....
"Another Kurei?" Recca was confused.
"Koran, what are you doing?" Kurei demanded. "What are you going to do with that doll?"
On the ring side...
"Doll?" Koran echoed. "Yeah, this doll as you call it isn't as stupid a the person it reflects I have no interest in you anymore. I'll take the healer myself"
"Bullshit Koran!" Koganei hissed, readying to fight.
"No one can have Yanagi-san!" Mikagami agreed, readying his weapon.
"Who the hell is the strongest?" Domon barked.
"You'll be sorry." Fuuko snapped.
"That's right. You can't have her." Ganko agreed, placing herself before Yanagi.
"Fools." Koran scoffed. "Kill them all in one fell swoop."
The Kurei clone smiled and charged.
In the ring...
"Hime!" Recca shouted.
On the ring side...
"What?" Koran hissed when a bright light forced the Kurei clone back.
"Koran, you have lost." Queen Adeline declared, stepping forward as the Crystal Rose shone between her palms. "Do you still not see the error of your ways?"
"Your actions are unbefitting of you." she added. "Therefore, you have no right to call yourself God."
Until you realize your own shortcomings." she raised the crystal in her palms, she unleashed its power, forcing Koran back. "Even if you are a God, having nothing but evil within your heart, you'll never win against us."
"Awaken to your senses, Koran." She declared. "You have completely lost."
Glaring at the Kurei clone, she ordered, "Leave."
The Kurei clone merely smiled and blasted a fiery ball at her, knocking the newly-revealed reincarnated Mercurian Queen to the ground and forcing her out of her transformation. Mikagami caught her before she hit the ground.
With Queen Adeline out of the way, the Kurei clone easily dispatched off the Hokage.
"Ganko-chan! Kagerō-san!" Yanagi gasped as the two females were knocked o ff.
Koran laughed he claimed his prize.
In the ring....
"No mercy..." Recca growled. "No mercy!"
On the ring side...
"Can you still summon Flames?" Koran mocked as Recca's aura flared. "Interesting."
the Kurei clone raised his hand and removed the bracelets.
In the ring...
"What? Releasing the sealed power?" Resshin remarked.
On the ring side...
"No..." Anhara looked up.
In the ring....
"What an idiot!" Kurei scolded. "Released the sealed! Releasing it is suicide."
On the ring side...
"I'll make another one if it dies." Koran grinned. "That's all there to it." as the Kurei clone released his sealed power.
With his power going berserk, the stadium started crumbling under the powerful energy.
At the commentary table...
"The other Kurei's flame is destroying the arena! we're in trouble here!" Tatsuko declared. "This match will have to be postponed..." before screaming as the debris was about to collapse on her and her friends, forcing the referees to flee.
On the ring side...
"This is my true power." Koran boasted. "The healer is mine now. I'll have my eternal life!"
In the ring....
"What a dirty bastard." Kurei growled at the laughing Koran.
"Koran..." Recca hissed.
On the ring side...
"Erase them!" Koran ordered.
At his command, the Kurei clone charged at the two flame wielders.
In the ring....
Both Recca and Kurei were blown back by the shockwave.
"Recca." Kurei started after the younger fire caster skidded to a stop.
"Put on your Tekkou." he told his half-brother, tossing Recca's arm guard to him. "Unless you have a death wish."
"Kurei?" Recca blinked.
"You're right." Kurei told him. "I'll decide my fate for myself."
"It's coming!" he added after Recca clasped his armband back.
"Yeah." Recca replied. "Appear, Flame!"
"You guys get one more left in you?" he told his Flame Dragons.
"Just say the word." Nadare replied.
"I admit they are both Flame Masters." Kokū noted before joining in the battle.
"Recca... Kurei..." Resshin looked on as his two sons worked together for the first time.
"Kurenai!" Kurei summoned his fire phoenix.
"What?" Recca growled as the Kurei clone's power went haywire.
"It can't control it's own energy." Kurei concluded.
On the ring side...
"What the hell are you doing?" Koran demanded. "Burn them up!"
In the ring....
"Go!" Recca released his flames at the charging clone, Kurei following suit a second later. The two half brothers' flames entwined together to attack the charging clone's power when Resshin intervened, lending his power to his sons and burning the clone to dust.
On the ring side...
"My strongest clone has fallen..." Koran was shocked. "How? How could this happen? They became stronger than before!"
"A Master's Flame reflects his thoughts. Their minds become one." Anhara told him.
"Shockwave!" she blasted Koran off Yanagi with an energy spell.
"Anhara-san!" Yanagi gasped.
"Damn!" Koran got to his feet and fled.
In the ring....
"Wait, Koran!" Kurei went after his adoptive father.
"Hime!" Recca screamed, the clone's burning corpse having fallen into the abyss and invoking a large explosion to rocket through the stadium.
On the ring side...
"Recca-kun!" Yanagi shouted.
"Get down!" Kagerō woke up in time to shield the healer form the incoming debris.
"Recca-kun!" Yanagi screamed, the fire wielder having calling forth Madoka;s shield.
Outside...
Koran looked back at the crumbling stadium in his getaway car.
"Mori-sama!" his driver gasped when Kurei jump onto the road in front of the car.
"Who cares! Kill him!" Koran demanded.
Kurei grinned as he was ran over, the car exploding in a ball of flames a second later.
At the makeshift commentary table...
"These are..." Tatsuko gasped. "It seems Hanabishi's Kekkai En has saved everyone. However, the arena is still clouded in dust."
"You okay down there, Recca-san?" she asked, Madoka's barrier disappearing.
On the ring side...
"Hanabishi..." Domon choked.
"Recca...." Fuuko muttered.
"Hanabishi..." Mikagami mumbled.
"Recca-nii-chan..." Koganei choked.
"Recca-kun..." Yanagi blinked.
At the makeshift commentary table...
"Hanabishi Recca has survived." Tatsuko declared after the smoke cleared, revealing an unharmed Recca. "Now he's holding his arm up!
On the ring side...
"Resshin has acknowledged him." Anhara remarked, Resshin returning to Recca's arm.
"Yeah." Kagerō nodded.
At the makeshift commentary table...
"Nemi!" Tatsuko beamed, Nemi having pulled herself out of the rubble.
In the ring....
"Decision." Nemi and Tatsuko chorused. "This match's winner is Hanabishi Recca! And the tournament's winner is Team Hokage!"
On the ring side...
"Recca-kun!" Yanagi glomped the fire wielder.
Hime..." Recca smiled at the healer in his arms.
"Hanabishi!" Domon hollered.
"Recca!" Fuuko called out.
"No! don't come!" Recca protested as Koganei jumped on him, followed by Fuuko and Domon.
"Ah, sibling love. A wonderful sound." Anhara joked, causing Mikagami to chuckle.
After the tournament...
"Then, Recca was successful in defeating the bad guys." Yanagi concluded, showing the group her drawing. "And, I became Number 1."
"But, it's not over yet." Mikagami pointed out.
"We still haven't figured out Kagerō-san's time curse." Fuuko added.
"Recca-nii-chan didn't finish his fight against Kurei." Koganei remarked.
"And someone else might come after Sakoshita's power again." Domon noted.
"Yeah, I know." Recca agreed. "But no matter what, I'll protect my Hime."
"Recca-kun..." Yanagi blushed.
"C'mon Recca! Get your butt over here and help me!" Shigeo scolded his adopted son as the group watched the fireworks shoot into the sky.
"By the way." Anhara broke the silence.
"What?" Mikagami looked at the girl resting on his shoulder.
"Mid-terms is in two weeks time." she reminded the group, grinning. "I don't suppose you guys prepared for it."
"Way to spoil the mood, Anhara." Fuuko chided as Domon and Recca paled.
"Oh crap!" the two teens exclaimed.
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Anhara noted amusedly.
"Because it shouldn't." Fuuko grinned as Mikagami smirked.
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