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The following is a non-profit fan-written story. Demon King Daimao and its characters are not owned by me, it's owned by Shotaro Mizuki, Artland, and Sentai Filmworks. I also don't own Loups=Garous, nor their characters, as they're owned by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Production I.G., Trans Arts, Dentsu, Bandai Visual and Sentai Filmworks. Support both official releases.
Radars around the world are tracking down the nuke that is now only 1000 miles away from Japan. Many news reporters are questioned on how this happened and why it's happening. Turns out they also all know exactly it's headed to and why.
[Opening theme]
Ain't that the way it always starts
A simple round of conversation
Became a shameful equation
I flipped from station to station
Hey, don't go and turn the other way
Don't say there's nothing more to say
Come on, hear me out
Hush, hush, settle down
Button up, don't make a sound
Shame, shame, go away
Come again some other day
You used to say I couldn't save you enough
So I've been saving it up, I started saving it up
And when you said I couldn't give you enough
I started giving you up, I started giving you up
You are not me
Arlandria, Arlandria
You and what army?
Arlandria, Arlandria
Oh, God you gotta make it stop!
Oh, God you gotta make it stop!
Episode 14: "Redemption"
Keena and Eiko look at each other with intensity. Eiko decides to no longer show her usual evil smirk, now actually looking seriously at Keena. Keena takes a deep breath.
They both then lunge to each other as Eiko starts with a kick, countered by Keena by grabbing it, then attempting a low kick on her other leg, causing Eiko to fall, but then rolls back up as Keena then goes with a barrage of punches, in which Eiko is able to block all of them. Eiko then grabs Keena's shoulders and leaps above her by front flipping, then using both her back feet to kick the back of Keena's head, causing her to land on the floor.
"See any trees around here? Your tree analogy won't really work that well this time." said Eiko.
"Don't need no trees…it's actually more fair this way!" yelled Keena back.
She then quickly gets up with a barrage of quick kicks this time. Eiko avoids some of the kicks at first, but then gets hit at her stomach at one point, causing her to lose balance for a bit, then gets kicked in the face. Eiko growls angrily a bit softly before then lunging at Keena as then then exchange punches, sometimes dodging each fist, even catching each punch. Then both step away from each other as Eiko then finds a shuriken.
"Thought you'd cheat already…" said Keena.
"Actually, I only want to see if you could catch this!" said Eiko.
Eiko throws the shuriken at Keena as she catches it literally between the middle and index fingers.
"A+ for effort, but look again." said Eiko
"What the—" said Keena before being interrupted by the shuriken suddenly blasting into smoke.
She coughs and can barely see through the smoke, suddenly, Eiko slowly sneaks in and punches her face twice, then a powerful kick enough to launch her to the wall.
"My, my, my. Did I mention that's just one of the simplest tricks in the book?" said Eiko.
Keena gets up, as a bit of blood runs down below her nose and has a bruise on one of her cheeks.
"That just means that I won't get fooled again. Pull any trick and I flip it right up." said Keena.
Keena lunges forward with a punch. Eiko avoids quite casually, but Keena quickly improvises, "I got this from Gavin-gins!" said Keena as she goes for a soccer bicycle kick and connects to the top of Eiko's head. Keena then quickly stands up and knees her in the face, causing her to cover her face.
"Gah! Hah…name-dropping your boyfriend, I see…" said Eiko.
"Stop covering your face, Eiko. Ever heard the phrase "Beauty is never tarnished"? Well, we're not following that rule now, are we?" said Keena.
"Yeah, you're right…" said Eiko as she uncovers her face, already with a notable bruise.
She lunges forward again, as then the both of then exchange punches and kicks, countering with blocking again. As a result, Keena gets pushed to a wall. Eiko attempts a kick, but Keena catches it and uses her strength to lift her leg, using her body to hit the wall on the front and back sides as Eiko yelps. Keena then drops her.
"That was…something…" said Eiko, sounding with a small struggle in her voice, but then gets up.
"I admit, so…but anything goes, right?" said Keena, sounding really confident, then taunting Eiko by having a "bring it" hand gesture.
Keena and Eiko lunge at each other again. Keena attempts an arm drag, but Eiko counters with an arm drag of her own and punches her arm a couple of times. Keena then elbows at Eiko's face twice to get out of the hold, but as they get up again, Eiko grabs both her shoulders from behind in a nelson hold. Keena would then run ahead to a wall to attempt to lose the hold by landing her two feet in it and attempting a backflip, but it backfires as Eiko still has her shoulders on tightly and Eiko connects a vertebreaker move, causing to grunt loudly.
Eiko then stands up, chuckling, "Your head must feel like your head is split in half!"
Eiko rolls Keena's body as Keena is gritting her teeth in pain. Eiko sits next to her.
"Come on, Keena, you're a big girl, you can get through with it. You at least tried to do something quite daring, but you just could come up with the right one."
Eiko then punches her face, chuckling again,"Just so you know, if you get some sort of brain damage, you just walked right into that one."
"I'm in pain…but you don't see me crying, do you? That's will, Eiko." said Keena.
"There you go with your dumb hero remarks."
"What I'm doing next isn't dumb, though."
"Huh?"
Keena then raises her right foot, hitting Eiko in the back of the head, flinching her a bit as Keena then gets up and grabs her head.
"In fact, it's solid!"
Keena than bashes Eiko's head against a wall three times. Eiko then struggles to get up a bit, her face a bit more bruised now.
"You're taking me seriously, but did I mention that this is how I get serious?" said Keena.
"Not gonna lie…at this rate, you could have killed a simple human being with the way you're fighting. Thing is, you sort of already." said Eiko as she slowly gets up.
"I have already wiped out a guy off the face of the earth indeed, but you might be stretching it a tad by calling him a human being."
"You know, it's funny that you still can think you're a hero when just about at a time last year, you were basically hoping for Akuto to be a good Demon King. You sounded real idiotic, the words coming out of your mouth."
"Yeah, well, there are two words to express on that; Not anymore."
"W-what?"
"See, the whole Law of Identity destiny of mine? I pretty much threw it away if all I do is get captured a lot and barely stand on my own. It's funny, really, because I would hate to have such a pessimistic destiny."
"Pessimistic? So you'd rather be a fighter than to stay safe. I would respect that, but look at yourself for a second. You've killed someone; you're likely to get hurt over and over again, having scars, and I doubt you'll keep your looks in check forever. Face it, Keena Soga, you're going to be a mess for the rest of your life!"
After a small pause, Keena then giggles a bit.
"The hell you giggling at? Saw a deer or something?" said Eiko.
"You got so concerned over me. I couldn't help it. However…I may have scars soon, but that's just the price of doing the right thing. You might get run over, but as long as you did a good deed, the road to recovery isn't all that painful. Me killing Mr. X was one of those good deed that had to be done. I didn't celebrate it at all because it's wrong, but as long as despicable people like him are taken care of, you can say it's a silent victory."
"Stop talking crap!"
Eiko then lunges right at Keena with a kick, but Keena dodges, then saying "This could be a bad idea, but…" as she then headbutts Eiko's head. They both then cover their heads as they're in pain.
"Now you're really begging for brain damage…" said Eiko.
"Think of this as the quarter point of the battle. We're still starting!" said Keena.
Meanwhile, back to where Hazuki is, she notices the figure slowly approaching more, revealing to be Riichiro Ishida.
"Do you know how badly I want to slice you? I don't even care how the hell did you get revived."
Riichiro then chuckles a bit, "Now hold on, child. Before you try to vanquish me of my existence for real, I should probably note that I never really did mean to try to eat you. I just thought you'd like to try vital organs, with me, too."
"You're just trying to find an easy way out, are you? I'm still too pent up on how we're suffering, yet you're basically eating the insides of kids like us, you fucking piece of human filth!"
"Sharp tongue, but are you sharp enough to kill me? I've heard about how you've killed someone, too."
"Know my story, too, then. I'm not just gonna stare dramatically and watch, I'm part of the action, motherfucker, you're dead meat!"
"No need to captivate upon such language—"
Hazuki quickly slices off his neck, interrupting him, similar to how Ayumi did back before.
"Payback, you bastard, now rot."
"Hm. Lucky for me, Eiko pretty much not just reanimated me, but also added me a little surprise."
"Believe it or not…I could already sense that, so…"
Hazuki then quickly slices up his body all over the place with her knife, similar to using a samurai sword as Riichiro gasps Hazuki then finishes the slicing.
"I'm a Loups=Garous…did you think I could let you off transform that easily? I don't think I'll even have to look at you, but it's appropriate. You really are pieces of human filth."
Sounds of wet blood splattering are heard as Hazuki slowly walks away. "Right, my friends!"
Back outside, the good guys continue to fight mightily as much as they can. Lily continues attempting to punch Yumi, but continues dodging as Yumi then makes 5 clones of herself by messing with Lily's brain as Lily swings her arms through all of them, but they only fade away as Yumi then makes a cheap shot by kneeing the back of her head. Lily is also seen bleeding.
"Not a scratch on me. You, on the other hand…" said Yumi.
"I don't think I ever told this to an opponent, but…you're an opportunist bitch…" said Lily.
"The Ultimate Opportunist…thanks for the nickname. Now for my latest act, my brain shall try to deactivate yours, even if it'll take a while.
"Try as you'll might! It's not gonna happen!"
"Oh, really now?"
She then focuses hard, using her brain to attempt causing Lily to be brain-dead, as Lily continues to attempt punching and smashing her, but to no avail as Yumi continues to avoid them in quick succession.
Michie, meanwhile continues to avoid Icy Hail's stalagmite gun attack, however, she notices Lily in danger and quickly has an idea.
"Hey, Icy, here's a riddle: what's blunt, but it also shrieks?" said Michie.
"Yeah, not gonna fall for that." said Icy Hail.
Michie then gives off an annoyed look, "Well, screw you, then." she said as she summons a couple of bats to distract her.
"Oh, that's actually kinda cleer—ow! Get the hell away from me, you fanged freaks!" said Icy Hail as she tries to swat them off.
Michie then heads straight at Yumi and screams out a loud screech, causing Yumi to yell loudly in pain as her brain hasn't been developed enough to resist high-frequency sounds.
"W-what?! Am I…somehow still in the early stages of my powers?!" said Yumi.
"Go, Lily! Beat her up!" yelled Michie.
"My lovely pleasure!" said Lily.
Lily grows her hands and attempts a punch at Yumi.
"WAIT, WAIT, NO!" yelled Yumi as Lily then stops the punch about an inch away.
"What, you can't take a small punch or something?"
"I'm…rather fragile. One punch and I could be in a coma, that's it!"
"Oh, then maybe close your eyes."
Yumi closes her eyes, "O-okay…as long as I don't get—"
Lily punches her anyways, punching her so hard blood spurts out of her nose and mouth, knocking her out instantly to the ground.
"You sort of brain-raped me not too long ago, why the fuck would you think I wouldn't punch you?" said Lily.
"Not gonna lie, you'd think she would read your mind, at least." said Michie.
"You caused it, you know." Lily joked, then pecking Michie on the lips.
"I take full blame." joked Michie, giggling a bit.
Icy Hail slowly approaches them, "I hear you joking. It isn't funny, and furthermore, I'm still here." said Icy Hail as she launches an ice beam at them.
"Rematch time, then!" said Lily.
"With the both of us!" said Michie.
Icy Hail uses her ice powers to make up 10 fists as she punches wildly at them. Michie dodges them easily, while Lily struggles a bit due to being beaten up by Yumi and then eventually gets punched in the stomach and face.
"Should probably thank Yumi later. She softened you up for me." said Icy Hail, floating up on the air.
"Well, you could thank me for a small distraction!" said Lily as she sticks out her tongue and blows a raspberry noise. Michie sneaks up behind Icy, creating the dark energy static ball from earlier to attempt at a surprise attack.
"Well, that was surprisingly childish…wait, what?" said Icy Hail as Michie then quickly throws the energy ball at Icy's direction.
"No way you're gonna attempt to reflect that! It can penetrate through any defense ever!" yelled Michie.
Icy, however, quickly dodges, as the ball is now heading towards Lily's direction.
"Oh, SHIT, LILY, NOOOO!" yelled Michie in panic.
Lily gasps, but then improvises quickly as she uses her stretchy large hands to spike the energy ball upwards, now heading towards Icy's direction, who looks in shock.
"T-that can't be! I'm not gonna…!"
Icy then attempts to protect herself with a shield of ice, even if Michie mentioned that it's unblockable as it then blasts Icy with a big explosion, but the explosion also approaches Michie's range and gets thrown hard to the ground. Icy's unconscious body also lands on the ground hard.
"Michie! Michie!" Lily yells as she runs heavily hurt. Michie then gets up slowly.
"Ugh…damn blast radius…" said Michie.
"We somehow got her…all I had to do was spike it." said Lily, hugging Michie.
"A little unorthodox, but got the job done. Thankfully, too."
"We got the upper advantage…hopefully the others do, too…"
"And I think they can totally take them on without a problem."
"Hey…we sure reek of blood, huh?"
"Not as much on me…I'm more concerned about our clothes." Michie joked.
Samantha continues to use the metallic chain to attack Gavin, as Gavin dodges, but he then attempts to grab the chain and pulls it with all his strength, launching her straight as his direction.
"Crap! These chains aren't endless!" said Samantha.
"My turn to put in the hurt!" said Gavin.
Gavin then uppercuts her, knocking her up in the air, casing the chains to retract back to her fist. Gavin then jumps up and grabs her in a suplex position.
"If it makes you feel better, your boy toy got hit by this, too!"
"Well, at least that's something."
Gavin hits Samantha with a high impact brainbuster for impact. Seemingly, this knocks Samantha unconscious as she's on the ground.
Gavin pants a bit, "And another one bites the dust…"
With his back turned, Samantha gets up, then quickly turns her metallic hand into a saw and slashes his back as Gavin yells and kneels to his knees. Blood spills down his back.
"You know, it's funny how I've faced off against your girlfriend twice, and to be fair, we're sort of tied. You on the other hand…"
She then approaches him, closing the saw close to his neck, "So it's only quite appropriate that I make her feel like she lost something more."
"She'll never lose me…we love each other too much for me to just go down and die! WE WON'T BACK DOWN!"
Gavin then launches to do a headbutt from reverse knocking Samantha to the ground as she bleeds from the forehead, as Gavin also attempts successfully a backflip.
"Grr…I'll still slice ya!" said Samantha as she gets up and swings around the saw to Gavin as he continues dodging them. He then lands two punches to Samantha's face, however, she still continues to swing it, in a slightly more crazily matter.
"Stay down, will ya?!" yelled Gavin.
"HA HA HA! Never!" responded back Samantha.
Gavin then trips and falls, as Samantha nears the saw on his face.
"I'm so gonna enjoy ripping your head off!" said Samantha.
"Well, it's not gonna happen!" said Gavin.
"And why shouldn't it?"
"Cause this!"
Gavin then quickly adjusts the Gogoplata submission to Samantha, where the legs are held very high against her upper back. Gavin then slips one foot in front of Samantha's head and under her chin, locks his hands behind her head, and chokes Samantha by pressing his shin against the her trachea. Samantha tries to approach the saw close to Gavin's face, giving him a small cut on the forehead, but Gavin tighten the hold further, causing Samantha to almost not breathe and then faint. Gavin then carefully releases the hold and pants.
"Hopefully…this doesn't make her crazier somehow…" said Gavin. He would then look to the SVC building, "We're winning, Keena! Now it's all up to you!
Meanwhile, with Mio and Yuko's against Xavier, the both of them continue to struggle at him as Mio continues to attempt hitting him on the head with the tonfa repeatedly, but fails as he just continues to block the hits and he pushes her off, then does a big boot right at her face.
"Try, try, try again, but I just continue to be impenetrabl—" said Xavier.
Mio then tries kicking him in the groin. It also doesn't work.
"You know, that actually kind of tickled, but that ain't working, either.
Yuko tries to find a way to shoot his head from a slight distance, however…
"10 bullets left…I also doubt one can just hit him badly…" said Yuko.
"What's the matter over there?! Are you really gonna bide your time?!" yelled Xavier, pointing to Yuko.
"And fight straight against you? PS; you're annoying to try to hit!"
"Guess you're gonna say good-bye to your little friend here, then!"
As Xavier says this, a bit of a figure can be seen from above jumping out of the SVC building. Yuko and Mio both quickly notice that it's Hazuki, as Hazuki adjusts her position like a torpedo aiming straight at Xavier.
"Wait! Care to hear my final words?" said Mio.
"Sure little brat, what are they?" said Xavier.
"DIG THAT SUCKER DEEP, HAZUKI!"
"Well, that was point—"
Hazuki sticks her knife as deep as possible at the top of his head, pulls it out, then yells out to Yuko, "Waste your bullets on this guy, now!"
"You go it!" said Yuko as she shoots her remaining 10 bullets on Xavier's head.
All that is heard is his body tumbling into the ground, basically lifeless.
"I think I just popped his head. Phew…" said Yuko.
"How was it inside there?" said Mio.
"Eiko revived Riichiro…but he didn't live long…I actually left him up there."
"You must feel pretty satisfied, huh?" said Mio
"About 50% of me is satisfied, but now…all that's left is Keena to end it all."
Back to the top of the SVC building, both Keena and Eiko look like total messes, with bruises and blood all in their faces. Keena kicks Eiko across the stomach, then gives a roundhouse to her face, causing her body to land on the ground.
Keena pants a bit, "At this rate, this fight isn't gonna end…but I won't mind that!"
"Actually…I'm getting kinda dead tired…let's even it up!" said Eiko as she throws 5 shuriken at Keena, as she dodges them, however the shuriken then quickly turn to Keena's direction and 5 of them hit and dig deep on the top of her chest, one on each arm and one on each leg and she yelps in pain.
"Ah, heat seeking types. Doesn't help that we're quite in a warm area, as well, so that's why they got faster."
Keena struggles hard to stay up to her feet.
"T-these...pointy things…won't stop me…if I can just…" thought Keena as she then carefully takes out the shuriken on top of her chest slowly, not even wincing of pain when she removes it, as blood slowly curdles down.
"You fool…even if you remove them, you'll just bleed to death faster!"
"You're showing unusual concern…"
"Not true, just wondering if you're really willing to perish soon."
"Well I say thanks for the support!"
Keena then continues to remove the remaining shuriken, dropping them to the floor. Keena takes a couple of breaths in and is then able to stand up straight.
"Im…possible…" said Eiko with legit shock.
"I still…can go on! I WON'T DROP DOWN AND DIE!" yelled Keena.
She then quickly punches Eiko on the face, causing her to cover her face in pain. Keena then grabs Eiko's shoulders and leaps over her front flipping, mimicking on how the fight started, complete with Keena successfully kicking her in the back, causing Eiko to approach the wall, then Keena quickly attempts to punch her, but Eiko quickly throws another shuriken, but instead of catching it, Keena kicks it straight to her direction, as it blows smoke. When the smoke clears, Keena's suddenly gone. Eiko looks on in frustration.
"Where'd you go?! C'mon! That's pretty hypocritical for you to suddenly go off like this!" yelled Eiko.
"Actually, I'm still here."
Eiko then looks behind her. Turns out Keena was flying up aside the wall.
"Sorry, Eiko, but now it's time for my own little tricks!"
Eiko quickly throws a shuriken at the wall as Keena dodges it and lands behind Eiko.
"Goddamn it, you! Stop being heroic! Honestly, I still don't believe—"
Keena then grabs her head and uses her head to smash the wall hard three times.
"Well, I just believed your face met the wall hard."
Eiko seemed unconscious, but somehow still gets up.
"Fine then…cause I admit I can be sort of a bad loser…" said Eiko, able to let out a soft chuckle, as she then summons the button that supposedly causes the big explosion.
Keena then steps back, "You're somehow gonna blows us up still, huh?"
"No…with this, we're just gonna leave you here. If you're dead, we celebrate, if you stop the missile…well, I'm just gonna keep doubting you, cause you're still not really hero material."
"It's getting kinda laughable, now…seems to be an excuse, huh? Guess next time I try to defeat you, your excuse to even meet you will be that."
Eiko growls a bit, "Enough talk, see you…if possible!"
Eiko presses the button and disappears, alongside her allies.
Keena then falls on the floor, panting.
"I bled…that much…what a rush…c'mon, Keena, get up...ah…!"
She then slowly gets up and notices a window, runs towards it and leaps outside as she then slowly flies down.
"KEENA!" yelled Gavin as the rest of the group then notice her flying down.
Keena then slowly lands on the ground. The rest of group then approach her as they react in shock from her appearance.
Gavin immediately hugs her, "Oh my God, Keena, you okay?!"
Keena giggles softly a bit, then coughs a bit of blood, "Eiko was no pushover…neither was I…" she said as Gavin carries her by the shoulder.
"We dealt with the rest of her group. Turns out we all got them unconscious, especially that one big guy." said Hazuki.
"So, I'm guessing the whole fight is over?" said Yuko.
"Actually…" Keena said as she looks up, as well as the rest of the group as then then notice a small spark on the sky.
"…there's that missile…and it's not that far away anymore."
[Ending theme]
I can still remember
The words and what they meant
As we etched them with our fingers
In years of wet cement
The days blurred into each other
Though everything seemed clear
We cruised along at half speed
But then we shifted gears
We ran like vampires from a thousand burning sons
But even then we should have stayed
But we ran away
Now all my friends gone
Maybe we've outgrown all the things that we once loved
Runaway
But what are we running from?
A show of hands from those in this audience of one
Where have they gone?
END OF EPISODE