Chapter Two: Brotherly Brawl
Dusty Desert, a dry piece of land just outside of Soleanna with absolutely nothing but sand, cactus and buried or partially buried ruins. Usually sandstorms would brew in the howling and desolate landmark but not today, just whispers of wind breezed by.
Groaning on the flat but rough surface he laid on, Damien shook his head, his sunglasses off to the side of him. His whole body was aching but it wasn't anything that a good stretch couldn't take care of. Putting on his sunglasses, Damien began to search the surrounding areas to find a hooded figure standing a few feet away from him.
Now I wonder two things. How did I get here and who the hell is that dude standing there?
"Hey you!" Damien exclaimed, the figure catching his call and diverting his attention to the golden hound.
"Yeah you, who are you and how did I get here? I was in Central City last night and then I got shot and... then I blacked out for a second." Damien trailed off from there as the figure met his eyes for the very first time.
"You...were falling from the sky and I had just happened to catch you in the nick of time...as for who I am, you should already know." the hooded figure said, crimson pools meeting pitch black ones.
"Um, sorry but I have no idea who the hell you are but nice try though. Falling from the sky? How could I have reached the sky? Oh my god, I remember now. I was getting jumped by these gangsters and then they shot me and next thing ya know...I turn into this freaking monster that--"
"That what kid?"
"Killed everyone viciously...you gotta help me man." Damien grabbed the figure by the collar, shaking him uncontrollably to emphasize the point he was trying to make. The figure brushed the wrinkles off his hood before smirking a very sinister grin.
"
Oh, I'll help ya kid...by killing the monster who caused all this." the figure took two broadswords out of nowhere, one of black color and the other of white. The figure kicked Damien down to the floor, his swords prepared to strike at any moment. Damien backed up, his face showing shock and anger.
"Tell me who the hell you are now!!"
"Come on, I guess I might as well show you the face of your executioner." the figure concluded as he took off his hood completely, revealing his true identity.
It was a gray dog with crimson eyes, his hair combed forwards but still a bit messy. He had two bangs, each one slightly covering one of his eyes. The male had black chest fur going upwards in the shape of an arrow and a muzzle that showed he didn't have very good personal hygiene. Black stripes ran along his arms also in the shape of an arrow. As for attire, the dog wore gray sneakers, black pants with a light gray shading to them and two spiked bracelet around his wrists. All Damien's expression could show was pure shock.
"D-D-D-DARIUS?!!!"
"In the flesh...my younger brother. How have you been? It's been a long time since you ran away and I've missed you oh so much. The house got lonely without your screams of agony and my sick laughter filling the air inside of it." Darius commented as he dragged his swords along the stony floor, little sparks flying from the tips.
"Well I guess that only makes one of us Darius...I'm going to kill you for what you did to me! I'll make sure you pay with your life, do you hear me Darius?!" Damien asked, his figure arising from the floor for the first time since Darius put him there.
"Aw, my brother, it was all in good sport and besides...it made you stronger, physically and mentally now didn't it?"
"But it broke me down emotionally, I loved you Darius. You were my brother and you did...you made me strong all right and now...I shall kill you and send you to Hell where you belong." Damien screamed making sure Darius knew the agony he had been through but it obviously wasn't working, Darius's face showing disgust.
"Oh you make me sick little one, I shouldn't even call you my brother. I'm still mad that you got it all but now I'll change that and finally prove them wrong...I'll prove them WRONG!!!" Stabbing his swords into a nearby cactus, the swords began to sap the energy inside of the plant. Once he finished doing that, the cactus never changed but the hound's swords began to radiate with energy
"What the hell did you just do?" Damien asked, his tone rising with each moment he talked with his older brother while Darius just chuckled evilly.
"I sapped the positive and negative energies inside of the cactus thus powering my swords. You see, I first take some positive energy thus killing the plant but once I take the negative energy out, it's like it never died. It's like a balance you see? Now are we going to fight or talk?"
Damien smirked going on the attack first, swinging a fist at his brother, the hound jumping away in time. Quickly rebounding off of a slanted pillar, Darius tried a roundhouse kick at his younger brother who rolled out of the way as expected.
Darius used this opportunity to dash at Damien and unleash a slash with his white sword at his brother, the sword hitting its mark. As quickly as the slash came, another one hit, this time the black sword and then both hit him, making a reaction that sent Damien flying backwards a few feet. The golden hound growled in pain, somehow the sword's reaction was way more powerful than the dog expected.
"Okay, now that's gonna hurt in the morning." the dog moaned.
"You see, that was my Posinegi Combo. My swords make that reaction because a positive can't combine with a negative thus resulting with a giant attack. It's like the north and south poles of a magnet. North goes with north, south goes with south. But if you try connecting north with south, what happens? They retract I guess you can say. This is why you won't be able to defeat me." Darius explained but Damien wasn't going to be discouraged by his words.
Damien charged once again, prepared with a Nightshade Claw. This feat didn't impress his brother much to his dismay, the gray hound lazily observing Damien's maneuver. The golden hound swiped at his head which Darius backed up to dodge, his bangs swooshing in the wind of the attack and Damien's face in shock once again.
With Damien's attention on his failure attack, Darius threw his swords up into the air, jumping up to catch them. The Angel didn't know what was to come until Darius began to free fall to the floor. Before he reached the floor, the gray dog smashed his white broadsword into the ground, the black one after, to create a ripping shockwave of gray heading towards his brother. Damien quickly hopped out of the way, beginning to run away from the battle.
"Don't run brother, fight me like a true warrior instead of cowering in fear." Darius demanded but it was all a trap for him.
He gave chase to his brother who was heading for one of the pillars in the desert. The golden dog had a grip firm on it and spun around 180 degrees, flying towards Darius who didn't have the time to block. With a sickening crack, Darius' jaw completely flew out of place but that wasn't the end of Damien's combo.
Kicking the dog upwards, Damien began to step on his torso like his brother was a flight of stairs. Clasping his hands into a hammer like shape, he smacked Darius in the chin and then on the temple, Darius crashing into the floor and his brother falling with him.
To end off his little feat, Damien began to spin in air, leg extended. At the moment of impact, Damien landed a gut wrenching kick into Darius' rib cage, crimson liquid shooting from his mouth. The golden one flipped backwards immediately after contact, breathing with ragged breaths and wiping a brow of sweat from his forehead.
"That's what I call my Angelic Combo...a bit of kicking and punching did you good now didn't it?" Damien mocked, spiting out bits of sand that had entered his mouth.
Some noise had come from the mini crater that Darius had formed so Damien slowly made his way towards it. His brother had survived the attack but that wasn't too much of a surprise to him.
There's no way he's got enough strength to kill me now, I got him on the ropes and he knows it too.
"I liked that move, I could use it sometime when I fight someone else but you're gonna get whooped twice as bad now." Darius then did something unbelievably disgusting, he grabbed his jaw and swiftly shifted it back into place, loud cracking noises coming from his mouth. "Ah, much better now."
"You truly are a monster!!" Damien exclaimed, his hand covering his mouth and his eyes bulging from the shocking thing his brother had done.
"I'll make sure to let my master know that you were taken care of once and for all." Darius screamed as he stabbed his brother in his shoulder blade, an agonizing scream escaping his brother's mouth and blood pouring from the giant wound, his fur stained with the red liquid.
Darius quickly took the sword out as he thought that he would end the battle in a knock-out or Damien dying from the blood loss. All of a sudden, Damien's body was being cloaked by the black and purple aura that he summoned the night before to take care of the G.U.N soldiers and gangsters. Darius was puzzled at this action so he decided to pay attention to his brother's state. When the aura faded, all that stood there was the same black and purple wolf who had rampaged through Central City.
Nightshade...
"You have so many tricks up your sleeve brother but it won't stop me from killing you like I said I would. I hope that you take your last few breaths and enjoy them because I'm not going to just let you get out of this alive." Darius stated raising his sword once again at Nightshade.
"I'm going to show you why Nightshade is the better half of the group." the black and purple wolf said, his claw once again being shadowed over with a purple aura.
"Not this same trick again, didn't I dodge it before?" Darius asked but received no answer as Nightshade had vanished from his sight. Where had he gone to now?
He knows teleportation, what a weak being he is to resort to fancy tricks.
"Behind you..."
Darius turned to find no one behind, his eyes looking down to see a giant shadow looming over head. Nightshade slashed at Darius with the Nightshade Claw, the sharp purple attack slicing through the hound's flesh like a butter knife as a large gash appeared on his chest.
Surprise wasn't one thing that Darius showed a lot but he was surely showing it now. The black beast unleashed a spinning kick, Darius trying to block with his blades but the force was too strong, his grip of the swords loosening until Nightshade smashed his foot in his face.
Blood began to leak from his nose but it was minor compared to the gash he had recently gotten. Grabbing the hound by the arm, the demented Damien began to rotate on the spot before flinging his brother into a pillar, the architecture easily breaking from old age.
Nightshade easily came from behind the mid-air hound, wrapping his hands around the dog's leg. He began to spin him again, throwing him diagonally downwards into two more pillars before Darius finally ended up in the ground, rocks littering him like a temporary tomb.
"I'm going to end this right now brother...with this." Nightshade motioned to his brother another Nightshade Claw. "This is going right through your heart and I'll be happy to drink your blood too."
Dashing forward, Nightshade shot his Nightshade Claw forwards to a slowly recovering Darius and it seemed like it was all over for the gray hound but suddenly the claw dissipated in thin air. Nightshade was in utter shock as he tried to summon another Nightshade Claw but to no avail.
Darius was going to take this opportunity wisely. Stabbing his swords into the ground in the shape of a cross, Darius released all of the positive and negative energy inside his blades, the result being a giant blast of gray that spread 80 meters in each direction. Nightshade was overtaken in the blast having no time to dodge. When it ended, Darius stood over the black and purple hound in victory with swords in hand, the blades lost their shiny luster after the attack.
"I win brother...if you survived that attack then I'll come back for you and make sure you die painfully. Farewell...Nightshade or should I say Damien." Darius began to walk away, Nightshade's violet eyes scanning the scene before him as his brother walked away.
He blinked once, this time his brother wasn't in sight at all before darkness overtook his vision.
To be continued...
A/N: Now that was an awesome battle right there now don't ya think? Darius was an OC I planned to use in my old series but he even fits better in this one. People have been asking me why I scrapped the old series. It's because there were a few plot holes that I couldn't fill so I decided to start fresh with this series which I've already planned most of. So anyway, please review so I can hear some honest feedback guys, it'll help me a lot as a writer. Thanks guys and have a Happy New Years!!!
