Is It Over?
Vigrid twisted around eager to see the face of his new attacker. To his surprise it was Lord Death. However, he couldn't be surprised for too long. "Death Chop!" Lord Death brought his arm swinging down with a newfound power behind it. Vigrid tried to bring his sword around in time to protect himself, but he couldn't. He was met with a powerful chop to his chest. Vigrid got back up and looked over at Lord Death.
Lord Death was covered in armor now. Vigrid was originally taken back, before noticed a certain special glint in the armor's reflection. It was a weapon! He remembered the young woman he had trapped and locked up at the base. She must've escaped and came here with the rest of the insects! He couldn't believe that such a huge oversight was possible on his part. He should've seen such a twist coming. In the end he didn't expect the kids to be able to handle the Kishins! Why the heck did he enlist those guys in the first place? Good help was very hard to find nowadays.
"You should've finished me off when you had the chance," said Lord Death stepping forward. His armor was bulky and mostly black. He supposed that explained why the Death Chop felt even heavier than before. Vigrid whipped his sword around and aimed it for Lord Death's head. Even if Lord Death's armor provided him with increased defenses, nothing could stand in the way of his powerful swing. Lord Death saw the blade coming and quickly reacted.
Of course, the armor was encumber-some and prevented the normal sways and dodges Lord Death would normally use, but there were other methods to block the incoming sword. A soft block. When he got hit, he rotated with the blow to reduce the momentum and power of the slash to the side. His armor protected himself from the sharp blade's edge and his technique protected him from the brute force behind it.
Vigrid brought his sword back in an instant and backed off for a second. He was a little surprised that despite the rumors of Lord Death being forever imprisoned in this city, his skills had not waned. He still had all of his skills that he had all those many years ago. No, it had definitely changed over these many years, it had become honed. The years away from each other has led to Lord Death becoming wiser and definitely more wide-spread. The school was flooded with different masters of different styles of fighting. The skills were being focused in the school and Lord Death oversaw and studied them all.
Vigrid was amazed at the change Lord Death had underwent. Vigrid would argue that he would've won if he had finished off Lord Death the instant he had the chance, but this attack was started by Vigrid, he caught Lord Death off-guard, he launched ambushes, he forced Lord Death to protect his school with his own body. As far as Vigrid should be concerned they were even. No side had any advantages and no side had any disadvantages.
The fight restarted as Lord Death came hurtling for Vigrid. Vigrid swung his sword in front him and plowed it into the earth. He used the side of his blade as a makeshift shied. Lord Death didn't bother to try to swing out of the way though; he kept coming smashing into the side of the blade. Vigrid felt the momentum and force of Lord Death slamming into, uprooting his sword and forcing both it and Vigrid back. Vigrid skitted back, creating trenches of his feet in the concrete.
Vigrid broke off the instant he felt the force lessen. He swung his sword up, pushing Lord Death off of him. Vigrid leapt into the air and brought his sword back down, redirecting his entire weight and all of his muscles behind the slash. Once more Lord Death created a small death shield out of his Soul Wavelength. When Vigrid brought the sword down, Lord Death tilted his sword slightly to the side to send the sword skidding down the side and away from him.
Lord Death took advantage of this temporary drop in Vigrid's defenses. His hand shot forward, burying itself into Vigrid's chest and throwing him back. Vigrid used the momentum of Lord Death's blow to take some more distance and back away from him. Vigrid lowered his hand and charged up another blast. He fired it as quickly as possible, sending a dangerous red wave of pure energy back at Lord Death. Right off the back Vigrid readied another blast in his other hand and fired it. He repeated this method again and again with each hand, charging a new blast and firing it then charging again.
Lord Death copied Vigrid's rapid fire with his own rapid creation of his shields, one after the other again and again. Each blast was absorbed by one shield. The two were completely equal. Lord Death's shields were not losing out to the immense power of Vigrid's blasts. Suddenly Vigrid was in front of Lord Death, he had used each blast as a cover for him to get in close. And now he was within striking range. His sword came down like a meteor. Lord Death was in a terrible position, he couldn't block from this position and the armor weighed him down to heavily to dodge. He had no methods to nullify the damage at this point. The force behind the blade came crashing into Lord Death's shoulder.
Despite the fact that Lord Death was the one that had been hit, Vigrid immediately backed off. Vigrid stretched out his sword arm. A tricky move on Lord Death's part. Rather than blocking the blade where the most momentum had built up, he moved in and fired a punch for his upper arm. It had cut his sword arm's momentum down as well as dealt heavy damage to his arm. His arm was shaking from the blow. It was a bad hit for him. He would need to weather it for the time being.
There were still other techniques left in Vigrid's repertoire. Vigrid tossed his bulky sword to the side. He appreciated the devastating power it held, but sometimes he found it unnecessarily hefty. He had fought for eons without it and now he would prove once more that the weapon didn't make the man. Vigrid flew forward, ordinarily the weight of his sword would slow him down due to its unnatural bulk, but now without it, he was moving at speeds that surpassed his old. He was immediately upon Lord Death firing a series of quick, but still very powerful jabs. Lord Death brought up another one of his little shields much to Vigrid's chagrin.
However, each of Vigrid's punches still wore heavily on the shield, breaking it further apart with every hammering blow Vigrid released. The continuous gatling gun of punches was pushing both Lord Death and his shield to their limits. Lord Death quickly stepped in throwing his shield away in order to engage with the monstrous Vigrid. Once in close enough range he fired his own punch, burying his bulky hands in the wall of muscles that stood before him. Of course, the attack didn't end there a strong bolt of Soul Wavelength exploded from Lord Death's hand and into Vigrid's musculature. Vigrid's face twisted in pain for a second, he quickly threw out a powerful punch forcing Lord Death to separate.
"It's amazing, isn't it?" said Saul as he stretched out on the ground, his body finally giving out on him. "That monster still has the strength to fight. We've forced him to the ground time and time again. He fought me, Quill, Lord Death once as well as you kids…but look at him. He's still going, his punches are still strong enough to send shivers down anyone's spine. If only he wasn't so twisted, he could've become an invaluable ally."
"Yeah, but now…now he's the worst enemy," pointed out Ash as he looked up at the fight. He agreed with Saul. Vigrid contained not only an amazing amount of power, but his sheer stamina was to be praised as well.
Vigrid fired a random kick at Lord Death. The Shinigami knew better than to take a blow from the monster, however random it was, and brought his guard down to block. The kick shuddered into Lord Death's guard, the armor doing little to nothing in the way of absorbing the blow. Lord Death was about to bring his arm out to fire his own punch, but another medley of punches from Vigrid forced Lord Death to think only about blocking.
Their teacher was forced into a ball with his guard up as he weathered through the continuous heavy blows of Vigrid, the monster who just moments earlier had forced them all into a corner. Lord Death felt his guard grow close to shattering. The heavy power behind it was all too much. Even iron would break if it was hit like this. In this continuous volley fashion, especially if the one behind it had this much power to his blows. Each blow was enough to force him back in its own right, but Lord Death had to make it through them all.
He felt each blow hammer into his arm. He was starting to grow weary again. He didn't know how much longer he could keep this up for, was he really about to lose? He wouldn't be surprised. If there was any monster on this planet capable of beating him…it was Vigrid, he knew he couldn't take Kishin's lightly, but Vigrid was just so much stronger than any Kishins he had ever fought. And that may have been it. Lord Death may have had to just admit defeat right then and there…if it wasn't for what he was fighting for. The kids.
Lord Death lashed out. Landing a single awe-inspiring blow to the monster's gut. The blow was good, better than anything else before it. It caused a rupture in Vigrid's smooth movements, his previous heavy attacks halted in an instant. Lord Death drove in closer, lashing out again and again. A series of powerful blows to Vigrid's body. The advantage had been switched. It was no longer Vigrid in charge, but Lord Death.
The tide of the battle had been completely reversed in a matter of seconds. Lord Death's lithe body and speed were lending themselves to the sudden upset. A body blow to the side, a hook to the face, a chop after a chop after a chop! Each blow resonated into Vigrid's body with more force than the last. Even if Vigrid was still at full-power it would be doubtful that he could survive this hurricane of attacks. Each blow hammered into him with renewed energy as Lord Death remembered his resolve.
Lord Death closed in unleashing a melee of attacks upon Vigrid. Vigrid weathered through them all. His thick muscles forming an almost shell-like existence around him. Lord Death continued with the heavy-handed chain of attacks. Vigrid was just taking them all, waiting. He hadn't given up, yet, he was just biding his time. He was waiting for the perfect time to send his own fist flying. When Lord Death swung too wide or he made too big of an opening then he would finish Lord Death off.
The attacks kept coming, kept burying themselves into his thick muscles. The punches were flying and destroying the man's muscles again and again. Vigrid was slowly being pushed back. Despite Lord Death's fiery rush, he wasn't revealing a single opening. His attacks were flying and hitting harder than ever, but his guard never dropped. There was never a moment when it just opened up, not even for a second. Vigrid's only hope was that he could weather through these blows long enough to see the light. And he did.
A brief moment opened up. His arms flew a second wide, perhaps in an effort to deal more damage and finish him off, but regardless of the intention it was open. Vigrid's muscles pulsed as he fired a quick, yet powerful punch straight through the flurry.
I guess its not over yet. But it will be! The next chapter promises to bring an end!