A/N: Hi there folks, here's another chapter the continuation to the Prue versus Akumu battle, Thanks for those who appreciateand read the story. I hope you'll like it, Enjoy Reading!!!!
ACT 11IT'S DO OR DIE
Prue stood still, eying a very angry look towards Akumu, she gaze at her fallen sisters and felt an intense rage, vowing to kill her opponent no matter the cause just to save her three beloved siblings. Akumu feeling so confident on what he just did, taking down three witches to his own advantage, but still figuring out Prue and he knows this lady had some similarities as him in terms of Ninja skills.
The first witch broke her silence "Now it's just you and me, let's decide this fight's outcome"
Akumu made a little laugh "This fight has been decided since you're just the one I'm about to tackle with"
"It's not over till it's over, that's what the 5th Hokage told me and I believe in her"
"hmm… still caught up with Konohas' weakened teachings, I wont be surprise" Akumu replied with mockery
Prue retorted "You're just the same as the heartless and crazy shinobis who left and betrayed our village just to satisfy their greed"
The bad Ninja countered "You're Village??? As far as I know you're still an outsider than me, you know nothing and I mean nothing about the Village you're talking about"
"Maybe you're right, but I cherished those people that I regard as Family and friends, and I'm thankful for what I earned during those times, unlike some people who knew nothing but inflict harm and chaos to those who wants to live in peace"
"Enough of the moral teachings, I don't need it, we're here to finish what must be done in the first place, you better think again about my offer"
"Unlikely and I won't, I just want you dead" Prue in a vigorous tone
"Very well, Die as you should have been" Akumu said
Both of them standing at about fourteen meters from each other, carefully staring, anticipating each others' attack, both eyes of theirs squinted, from their stand point, Prue and Akumu vanishes in a flash, raging towards each other. The first witch drew her kunai from her right hand as Akumu did the same both their blades clash, slicing it again several times but neither got a hit, only their kunai meet, deflecting and clashing.
Prue jumps back and threw two shurikens, Akumu dodge it, and moves quick, aiming a kick on the witch, but Prue turned right and avoided the attack, she counters by delivering a left kick on her opponents nape, Akumu dodge it as well, both jumps back landing their balance on the ground.
Akumu in no time runs and slides down, Prue runs forward and did a spin kick on Akumu, hitting him right into his jaw, only to find out it was a bunshin (clone) and vanishes in a puff of smoke. Suddenly the first witch felt a blow in her middle back; it was a fierce kick from Akumu. The first witch thrown afar to the woods, hitting a huge trunk, as Akumu runs forward in a quick manner, trying to caught his foe off guard, as Prue crashes into the trunk, a puff of smoke appeared, Akumu also hit a bunshin (clone)
The male ninja was startled, as he hold his ground, sensing the next attack, as he felt a strong force coming to his left side, he turns in that direction and saw an assaulting Prue from nowhere, slicing her kunai at him, Akumu avoided it and quickly grab the witch's' right arm bending it as he grip her tight then threw her in judo like style, Prue hurled violently on the ground, but she manage to rollout and release three more shuriken at Akumu, her enemy deflected them quickly with his kunai.
"Not much as I expect in your performance, but you're just an academy student compared to me" said the rogue Ninja
"And you haven't try this yet" replied Prue
The eldest Halliwell waves her right hand in her traditional Prue TK attack, sending Akumu flying away, as she move in a flash right thereafter, leaping in the air as she drew out kunais in both hands outcome from her red sleeves. Akumu materializes just in front of her with his own kunai.
"I knew you would do that" Akumu told the witch
She replied "That's why I'm here"
They both exchange slashes and kicks. Fighting using only Taijutsu (Physical/Hand combat) Akumu manage to execute a twice kick on Prue's abdomen, but the witch spins to her right as she followed it with a right spin kick hitting Akumu's chest. The two of them fell on the ground in a crouching position.
Locked eyes on each other, Akumu threw a white cloth hovering mid air and did a rapid hand seal, "Ninpou Senbon ga Furu no Jutsu (Ninja Magic Falling needles technique)"
A seven inch needles in vast amount coming out of the floating white cloth showering at Prue, The witch jumps and jumps as she did stunts and summersaults from trees to the grounds avoiding and dodging those needles which she knew were dip in poison, just tiny scratch from it will mean sure death to her.
Akumu carefully watches as her prey display some impressive stunts and not a hit did he score, as his needles fell worthlessly impaled on the soil and unto the trunks and branches making him a little disappointed but excited in some ways.
"Just keep going" he told himself.
All of a sudden he squint his eyes; he saw an opening, moves in an instant. Prue back flips a couple of times, jumps and went airborne instead of using her kunai she uses her TK sending those needles back to her attacker. Now, it's Akumus' turn to dodge and avoid his own jutsu.
"Very clever, but I've figured out what you're up to" he thought
Prue landed on the ground, while her opponent still midair then lands down to a branch and jumps again to his original place, turning sideways as bunch of needles flying their way missing their target.
In no time Prue runs quickly towards her foe, delivering another simultaneous spin kicks, Akumu crossed his arms blocking her attack as he leaps backward, suddenly Prue squints her eyes, all the fallen needles before that missed to hit her, moves, using her TK she brought them all floating as they spear towards Akumu from left and right and another from behind.
Akumu was already late to notice the attack from behind, and instantly he got hit, several needles pierce into his back.
"Got You" the witch whispered
Her joy was just temporary as she saw Akumu evaporates in a puff of smoke, only to see a piece of log.
"Kawarimi, Just as I thought" Prue moving her eyes in every direction sensing her enemy
She turns to her sisters, first to Piper, then Phoebe and Paige, all three of them still in bad shape.
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Piper sobbing in intense pain, reserving a little strength to set her self free, both her hands feeling the cold steel impaled into her flesh, her legs entwined with barbwires, giving her some more bad time, she saw her eldest sisters' courageous battle earlier, yet she's still worried and thought to herself she needs to assist Prue in some ways she can, but unfortunately it's impossible in her current state.
She tried to exert an aching effort to lift her right hand crucified with a kunai on the ground, traces of blood widely present at the back of her hands. She moves her head forward as she crawl her way up. She turned her head to the kunai handle nailed into her right hand. Still aching, Piper hardly moves her head then bites the kunai handle on her right. She gave all her strength in her jaw, tightly gripping the weapon, as she moves her head upwards trying to pull out the kunai.
She bit the weapon handle more tightly as she felt the intense pain of the blade passing her flesh slicing a little. She tried as she pulls the blade out slowly, then pulls so quick.
"Ahhhhhhrgrgrgrgrggghhhhhrrr" the second witch screamed as she collapsed back into the soil. She can now barely move her right hand, she slowly slides it to her left as she made a tight grip on the kunai nailed into her left hand. Holding the weapon gave her wound another stinging hurt. She took a deep breath, trying to use her remaining physical strength as she pulls the kunai so harsh.
"Ahhhhrrrgg" She moaned again and threw the weapon sideways. Yet she still laid flat stomach on the ground. She looks up to see Paige in a bad shape, then turn her head slowly behind to her left just to see a shock Phoebe tied in a trunk of tree with a claylike object. She looks to her front wanting to see Prue.
But what she saw are quick shadow flashes coming from different angles as she hears a clanging of steels. Piper tried to stand up as if doing some push ups, confuse as in which sister she would run first, is it Phoebe or Paige?
Piper slowly crawling as she tries to stand up, despite of her wounded legs, her jeans were slit, slashed and holed by the spikes from the barbwire that entangled her before, she slowly rises trying to hold her balance, but she fell again, both her hands first met the ground to hold her balance, and it gave another cause of pain to her wound.
She gazes her head on Paige, she saw her youngest sister sitting, flat on her back to a tree, looking carefully, she saw a motionless Paige with eyes opened. This started to scare her, as she remembers her sister was stab earlier. She likes to aid her, but she's a little far to get to Paige, she looks behind for Phoebe, nailed by brown clay like object.
Phoebe for sometime still shock, frozen in horror, she was trapped in a Genjutsu (Illusionary Technique) just like her premonitions she's seeing some scenarios, but this time a scenario of violence involving her.
GENJUTSU STATE
(Start) Phoebe standing frozen in a grassy field with a dark cloudy atmosphere, she tried her best to move yet she can't, in front of her were several people, including children, but instead of her expectation to see a picnic vacation thing, she saw some flashy shadows moving so fast and in no time, kunais, shurikens and katanas, thrown and wielded in the air, murdering the people she saw without remorse, the brutality goes on, as she stood helpless, shock and terrified. Suddenly she herself felt a cold steel slicing her skin, a katana appeared stab from her behind, a shower of kunai impaled her chest, she felt the intense pain of the blade as a blood gush out from her body and another one drips out from her lips. A slash followed cutting out her left arm a silent scream emanated from her. She looks straight to her standing point and raging kunai darted into her forehead as she bent her heads backward in a brutal death. (End)
Piper opted to help the nearest sister to her; in that case it's Phoebe. She can't help but cry as a flow of tears leak out from her eyes. She got herself sit up, her legs slowly moving, using her wounded hands she crawled just sliding her legs, pain is all she can feel physically but fear, despair and confusion rules her mentally and emotionally.
She reaches her hands toward the clay that trapped the third witch, gripping them tight as if trying to break it, but she's weakened to do so.
"Phoebe's what the hell is happening to you…?" she sobs
But receive no answer, she observes her still shock sister, she knew it seems like Phoebe is in some kind of frozen state, but she can feel her heavy breathing.
She thought of using her combustion power to set Phoebe free, but in the condition of her hands it unlikely, she clenched her fist as she closed her eyes, a droplet of blood escaped from her fist, she punch the clay thinking it would break or at least crack, but no use.
She looks around and saw the kunai that impaled her which she threw out from her earlier. Just a couple of inches reach she crawled a little and took the kunai then returned to Phoebe.
Like a sculptor Piper slashes, stabbing and slitting the clay trying to break her sister loose. Yet she's not doing any progress as she only scratches out tiny debris and dust from it and she doesn't have enough strength to break it besides her wounded hands causing her further failure.
She was crying hard "Damm it!!!" Sighs "Hold on Phoebes' I'll get you out of there"
She carefully observes her sister, Piper digging down into her mind of something, seeing Phoebes' current condition; she knew she heard something about this before from her eldest sisters' stories about her Ninja battles.
The second witch carefully thinking through, remembering what she heard from Prue during that time, she try to recall strange words she only heard from the first witch.
"Kunai, katana, Shinobi, hand seals, explosive notes, Taijutsu, Ninjutsu….. it's a jutsu… illusion…. Ah….." Piper thinking up the missing word
FLASH BACK
Just a regular Halliwell day at the Manor, it was the time when Prue and Phoebe are doing some martial arts training. After their session the first and the third witch took a rest at the couch at the living room.
Phoebe cuts in "Hey Prue you haven't thought me that (She made a joking hand seal imitating what she saw from Prue) stuffs with fires and something, that's one cool way to toast some demon butts.
Prue and Piper stirred a little laugh on Phoebes' actions.
The eldest winking her eyes on them "Let me see… I think that's my personal style of Ninjutsu. You gotta have to learn the basics first."
"I thought I already have the basics, which is what we did earlier" Phoebe quips
"What you're talking about is Taijutsu, it's a Ninja Tactic # 1, which I think you're doing good"
"Thanks, then what would be Ninja Tactic # 2?" the third witch ask
"That would the one called Genjutsu or an Illusionary Technique"
"You mean like making some sort of hologram or inflicting illusions" A curious Phoebe
"Yep, you're right" Prue affirmed
"How does it work?"
"You use some amount of your chakra, to create some sort of illusion as a way of hiding, attacking and even paralyzing your enemies senses, to those who are not aware about it, fall as easy prey, even though it's an Illusion, you could feel it happening because your senses says so and it's hard for them to distinguish which is real or not, that's why you could get caught and suffer in that illusion from your attacker.. but of course that would be a high level genjutsu"
Piper broke her silence "Kinda like a virtual reality, reminds me of the Matrix"
"If that's a high level genjutsu, then there's a low level one, right?" Phoebe ask again
Prue nods and replied "Yes, Low Level Genjutsu are basic types and can be dispelled, dispelling genjutsu is a basic tactic taught in Konoha Academy"
"And how do you do that" Phoebe waiting for an answer
"You use your chakra again to counter it or rebuke it, even if it's just a low level you should have a complete mind control and you really have to know and sense what is genjutsu or not"
"About the High Level Genjutsu that can paralyze your senses, how would you be able to dispel it, I mean your mind is so caught up.. you should have some super mind over matter going on inside you…"
"I had a first hand experience of that, I was in a mission, me and my teammates were fighting off some renegade Ninjas from Otogakure (Hidden Sound Village), it's so tough, and one of them is an expert genjutsu user, that caught me off guard and I was like in Hell, suffering torture and horror, I'm paralyze with fear, unable to dispel it, when all of a sudden I felt a kunai stab in my right arm, it was from Anko, she use pain to awaken my sense of feel in the real world, She too was bleeding, it was only the last resort for us, until back-ups arrive"
"Then why didn't she dispel it instead of wounding yourselves?" Piper ask
"She was also caught and paralyze, wounding her self was the only thing she could do then and she quickly did it to me to save us"
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Piper remembers now, the story she heard from Prue. She looks at Phoebe again, still in a state of shock, she now know that Phoebe fell into a Genjutsu.
"Hang on, Phoebes, I'll get you out of that hell"
The time freezer held the kunai she was holding, she took a deep breath, staring at her young sister. The clay that cloak Phoebe was just above her chest and down to her foot, from her head down to her shoulders lower portion are exposed.
"I'm sorry about this Phoebe but I have to, It's the only way I know, Oh.. God I hope this one works" Piper in a desperate situation with a tiny ounce of hope remaining in her.
She quickly stab the kunai t into Phoebes' right shoulder but aiming for the flesh not her bones and joints, she buried half of the kunai and she twisted it.
"Hrrrrrrahhhhhhhhhhhh" Phoebe cried in pain, she was awakened but weakling as she suddenly fell her head down.
The clay still around her, Piper hearing her sister outburst, she knew she was free and she's glad about it but Phoebe is not entirely conscious the genjutsu really messed her up. She's now panting. Piper puts her hand on one of Phoebes cheek.
"Hey.. Phoebe, Phoebe, look at me, sweetie, hey"
As she moves her sisters' head, Phoebes' sleepy eyes gave her a short glance but she's still weak and panting. Piper now figures out to destroy the clay.
"Piper" an exhausted Phoebe
Upon hearing her name being called, a glimpse of hope rose from the second witch.
She turns around to see Paige, and she's hasting to save her too, she looks up in the space to see Prue still battling Akumu, as the two appears then vanishes then clashes at each other.
Piper concentrating on whatever strength that remains in her, she needs to blow up this object that imprisoned Phoebe. She move slightly backward.
She counts "One, two, three, four, five …this is it…!"
Piper waves her both hands, giving all the firepower left in her. Whoosh!!! Whoosh!!! A sound of bursting clay, tiny bits of it flew away others fell on the soil.
"Arhhhh" A short moan of pain from Piper her wounded hands hurt again as she fell to her knees.
Phoebe is now free and she fell into Pipers' arm breathing hard. Piper tapping her sisters' cheek "Hey Phoebe, wake up.. wake up, your all right now" Piper wiping some dust out her face.
Phoebe slightly getting to her senses trying to regain her full consciousness, she can hear Piper and can see her as well, although her dizziness blurs a little of her vision adding more is her wounded shoulder. She raises her left hand and clung to Pipers' shoulder.
"How's Prue and Paige?" she ask in a shaking tone
"Prue is still fighting that creep, she's probably buying us sometime and Paige is over there, doing not so good, let's hurry and help her out, can you walk?"
"I think I can, how about you? Your legs seems damage"
"Don't worry about it, they're just minor blitz, I can bear with it a little" Piper took Phoebes' right arm into her back as they both try to stand up.
Meanwhile Phoebe inspecting holding her left aching thigh then runs her left hand through her jacket, when all of a sudden she felt something in her jackets' inner pocket. She quickly pull it out
"What's that?" ask Piper looking at a tiny bag similar to a perfume case
"I almost forgot, these soldier pills, Prue gave it to me before we left the manor, it's a gift from Sakura when they were here" her face draw a little smile
"So what's it for?"
Phoebe replied "It's a luck we need and it came just right, they are some sort of vitamins, a power booster I think, Prue told me their supplement use by Ninjas in battle"
The third witch wasted no time and she took one and ate it, she gave the bag to Piper. The second Halliwell also did the same. Phoebe took the bag again and hid it back into her jacket.
"Do you think this will work" Piper inquired
"Hope so, let's go to Paige"
Phoebe gazing around if ever there's a sign of Prue.. She can hear the sound of clanging steels emanating somewhere else, Piper and Phoebe holding unto each other making their way towards Paige.
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Prue and Akumu still battling each other to death, Akumu still in his composure, while the first born Halliwell already looks worn out, part of her red coat were slashed. There they stood opposite sides in a tree branch.
"If I don't finish him off right now, there'll be no next time for any of us" she thought
Akumu standing straight, he squints and thought to himself "So they've figure out to dispel my genjutsu, All I need is to kill Prue, and the three would just be Childs' play"
The two of them were fighting for several minutes, their nasty battle took them from trees to trees, grounds to grounds, moving a little further from the first witch's sisters. Only Akumu knew that two of them are now loose from his trap. He vanishes in a shadow flash. Prue quickly followed his tracks.
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Piper and Phoebe regaining a little energy from the soldier pill they just took, is now catering Paige, as the two held their youngest sibling. Piper puts a finger on Piage's lower jaw checking her pulse.
"She's alive…" she exasperated
"Thank God.." Phoebe feeling a bit nervous
Carefully observing their sister, Piper thought Paige was also under a genjutsu,.
"Hey… what are we gonna do now?" ask a curious Phoebe
"I heard what that bastard said to Prue, he snap some veins on Paige that suddenly paralyze her movements, she can't even speak"
"(sighs) You'll be fine sweetie, just hold on" Phoebe caressing Paige forehead. She continued "Wait, she can't move right? But I think her healing powers are at work at least,"
"I just hope she can hear us" the third witch wishes.
Phoebe took their youngest sisters' right hand "Paige If you can hear me, just do so"
"What are you going to do?" Piper ask
Just hold still there, trust me and cover your ears, at least I hope this works, we did it before.
Piper knew what Phoebe is trying to point out. She puts her hands and covers her ears.
Phoebe holds Paige as she chanted:
"What's mine is yours, what's yours is mine
Let our Powers cross the Line"
The last two youngest sisters' glows, Phoebe felt that the spell worked. She turned eyes to Piper and nods, Piper uncovers her ears as she put a hand on Phoebes' left shoulder.
Phoebe now with Paiges' ability, tried to use her sisters' whitelighter healing powers. She puts her hand atop Paige wounds, concentrating hard to heal her still numb sister.
"Piper you could coach me in" she requested
"Just focus and feel… and focus…" Piper said
With all that a tiny bluish glow shined out from Phoebes' hand, she kept her focus on healing Paige. Focusing mostly on her wound, as she uses all the stamina she just regained earlier.
"Get your hands on her nape, that's where I saw her got hit, it must be the cause of her paralysis, you could reverse it back to normal" Piper commands
Phoebe did as she was told, she concentrates to return her sisters veins and blood function to the way it was.
In couple of moments passed. Paige coughs hard and again. Piper and Phoebe were overwhelmed; Paige got a warm hug from her eldest sisters.
"That was a hell ride, I thought I'm done" the words she let out after her temporary paralysis "It's so horrible!!!" she sighs slightly panting.
Phoebe gave her a soldier pill "Here have some, it'll help you gain back some stamina"
"Thanks" Paige nods and took in the soldier pill in her mouth
Phoebe turns to Pipers' hand to heal them.
"I'm sorry that's gross" exclaimed a worried Paige when she saw the second witch hand.
"A female version of Jesus Christ, I was crucified" said Piper
Soon After, Pipers' wounds were healed. But still they feel a little drained out, still regaining enough strength to send them back in action again in order to help Prue.
"OK, Piper cover your ears again, let's get our powers back again Paige" Phoebe sighs
Piper covers her ears again; Phoebe chanted the power exchange spell. She and Paige glows and felt a certain magic flow within them.
"Test Drive" Piper told Paige
"ROCK!!!" the fourth witch called, a rock materializes to her hands from bluish orbs. Paige quickly healed Phoebes' right shoulder.
Phoebe stands up, and then assisted Paige to stand with her, the two tugs Piper up, but she's still hurting on her legs.
"Oh I almost forgot" Paige quips as she bent down to in front of Piper, puts her hands atop her sisters' wounded legs and heals them. "That'll do it"
Now the three of them standing together, feeling recharge at least partially.
"We gotta help Prue eradicate that bastard" Piper emphasize
They move forward to look for Prue, but then the answer to their question will be served in sometime to follow.
A telekinetic force fan just few meters in front of them, there after, Piper, Phoebe and Paige saw large number of kunais and shurikens impaled on the trees and unto the ground. Hadn't it been redirected earlier they will surely end up as holed dartboards again.
A flash came 45 degrees from them and materializes to Akumu
"You have special talents after all, to be able to break my Jutsus, that's unusual of you witches"
"And we wont fall for the same mistake again" Phoebe with vigor
From no where Prue materializes in front of her three sisters, standing still but silently panting.
Phoebe with her empathic abilities can sense Prues' tiredness and she knew, she took another soldier pill and gave it to Prue.
"Thanks" Prue then took the pill to boost up her stamina.
"Are you all alright now?" ask Prue
"Doing good and we can't wait to slice this piece of crap part by part" Phoebe said so hard
"Okay, honestly, this guy is too much for me, I'm still unsure if I can beat him totally but it'll take a lot of effort, so fight as a team, but be cautious, you've seen what this guy is capable of and he could be pulling another tricks as well" Prue stated
"So we strike all together…" the third witch inquiring
"Not like that, I will handle him face to face and you Phoebe back me up when I say so and if you got a clear shot take advantage of it, Piper wait for my sign, if I signal my right hand "freeze" if I signal my left hand "burst" got it?"
Piper nods, as Prue continues "And Paige, don't let your self get caught again, hold your ground, I will send you a hint and once you got it. Use the weapons I deflected earlier and create a distraction"
Paige replied "Ok.. I got it"
Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Paige stood together with the eldest on the front row, facing Akumu.
The first born boosting her sisters hope "Let's show this creep the Charmed Ones Style, and be careful all of you"
A/N: That's it, Feel free to review or comment. Next update is the FINAL CHAPTER!!!! The conclusion! Thanks. Cheers!
