Trope Pantheon: Date Masamune, God of Eye-patches
Path A: Chapter 1
Both Masamune and Yukimura charged at each other. Masamune brought out his 6 blades; 3 in each hand, while Yukimura whipped out his dual spears. Both charged at each other and traded blows, followed by their weapons colliding with each other, with Masamune getting the upper hand. Yukimura then steps back and then charges at Masamune again, but then runs to left 25 feet from him as an attempt to throw the latter off his guard. The Takeda apprentice then stabbed one of his spears on the ground to prepare a kick towards Masamune. Unfortunately for him, Masamune blocks it, but unbeknownst to the latter, he followed up with a strike from his spear. Surprisingly, Masamune reacts fast enough to block that with his 3 blades on his right hand.
"I see you've gotten more strategic." Smirking and complimenting on Yukimura's slight change of fighting style, Masamune then prepares to push the latter away. "However, it's not enough to do me in."
'If that's the case, then I'll have to give it my all!' Yukimura then charges stabs his spears to the ground to launch himself up in the air. However, Masamune doesn't follow suit. '…Why is he standing there…?' Yukimura, catching in on this, lands back on the ground, suspecting that Masamune is planning something. However, Masamune, without warning, charges at Yukimura and performs a cross slash, managing to damage Yukimura, knocking him into the ground. 'Kh! It's not over yet…' As he swings his blades, Yukimura, out of desperation, then decides to charge at Masamune with a barrage of strikes from his spear. The One-eyed Dragon of Oshuu then dodges and blocks some of the attacks. However, besides damaging the latter's armor, Yukimura only managed to land a few small cuts from his spears. He then follows up his barrages with stabs. Masamune only manages to catch a few stabs with his blades, and then, at the 5 stab, sidesteps to the left. Yukimura, in response, then manages to kick Masamune, thus sending knocking him to the ground. Barely recovering from the ground using his spears, Yukimura then gets back up. After clashing a few blows with their weapons colliding against the other, the two unleashed one final blow towards each other.
3 minutes later, Yukimura's body started collapsing on the ground, uttering his last thoughts 'I'll defeat you someday… Date… Masamune…' As the body of the Takeda pupil fully collapses, Masamune departs. Before he takes his leave, Masamune departs, thinking to himself: 'Good fight as always… Yukimura… now… time to head back home.' After the fight with Yukimura, Masamune heads back to the House of Personal Appearance to get some rest.
An hour and a quarter later, Masamune arrives at the House of Personal Appearance. Before he decides to go to sleep in his temple, someone visits him: A man with a beard in a green uniform approaches him. "You in the blue uniform… You must be Date Masamune, yes?" The man asked to make sure he got his name correctly.
"…And you are…?" Masamune asks the man his name. 'Tch. So many weirdoes here…' Sighing, The One-eyed Dragon of Oshuu isn't too fond of the deities in this house. "Make it quick. I'm about to get some shut-eye." He was getting impatient. But then, who isn't when someone wants to sleep?
"The name's Guan Yu, Saint of War and God of… Beards… It's an honor to meet your acquaintance." Guan Yu bows his head down to him. He speaks once again. "Let's skip the rest of the introduction later. Rumor has it that there's a god going after you."
Seeing Guan Yu's words as empty, Masamune immediately decides to head to his room to sleep. "I've already got a few of them on my head right now as it is. I don't need another one tailing me."
"Very well… Be careful." Before Guan Yu takes his leave, he offers some advice. "When you see that God… you must resist it's demands." With that, Guan departs Masamune's temple.
'Resist… It's demands?' Masamune had a good idea who fitted description. 'If it's that snake thing again, I'll kill that damned thing for good this time and free my other self from him. Just you wait, vile snake.' After calming down, he thenlooks up at the ceiling to think back his loss to Mitsunari. 'That guy… To think I'd lose to him…" Before Masamune can continue, someone was shouting about bets regarding the Pantheon Wrestling Federation. The One-Eyed Oshuu could care less about wrestlers, let alone bets. Unable to take it anymore, Masamune goes to sleep and call it day.
"Ah! It's time to make my next move!" The next day, Masamune heads for the House of Food for two Fish Miso soups for the day. Before he heads out to his destination, he sees a note on the side. It reads:
If you have free time, please meet me at my temple.
-Flynn
'Who is this? What does this God want with me? It doesn't matter now. I'll find out later.' Putting the note in his pocket, Masamune then decides to go to the House of Food as he plans and then meet this Flynn guy. 'This better not be some lame request from this guy. After I'm done eating this this up, I'm planning my attack on that advisor of that guy.'
50 minutes later, Masamune is already arrived at the House of Food, eating his two Fish Miso Soups. As he's eating, he sees an ugly fat thing eating in a sloppy manner. Just see the filthy bastard almost made Masamune vomit, causing him to focusing back on his food. As he was eating his second Fish Miso Soup, he was approached by a male in a blue coat, white pants, and a samurai ponytail. "What do you want, kid?" The One-Eyed Dragon of Oshuu wondered what this young man's deal was for coming near him. Glaring at him, and then the look on his face, Masamune could tell he was a strong opponent.
The Young man declared, "Skipping the introductions already? I'm Flynn. It's nice to meet your acquaintance." With an elegant smile, Flynn greets Masamune. "I planned for our meeting to be at my house, but I'll make this quick." Flynn, very close to Masamune whispers in a low voice. "I want to fight you."
Smirking at these words, The One-eyed Dragon accepted. 'Heh! At this will pass the time.' "The name's Date Masamune, and the challenge is accepted, kid." Burning with excitement, Masamune couldn't wait for a battle.
"Ah! Date Masamune…? The One-eyed Dragon of the Sengoku era? I'm feeling very honored right now." Smirking, Flynn decides where the battle takes. "You and Me… Let's Battle at the House of Personal Appearance." And with that, Flynn takes his leave.
Retaining his smirk as he's almost done eating his second Fish Miso soup, Masamune decides to go to his next destination, riding his horse. 'I can feel that the kid has skill. I'm looking forward to this.' With his heart beating every beat second, Masamune decides to head to the House of Personal Appearance for a match with Flynn.
The One-Eyed Dragon returns back at the House of Personal Appearance with Flynn waiting for him. Stopping his horse at his own temple, Masamune approaches the young lad with a smile on his face. Bringing out their weapons, they approach each other with no words. The two swordsmen parried attacks from the other, evenly matched. Masamune attempts to strike Flynn with his sword. However, Flynn dodges it without difficulty, followed by a cross-slash shock. Reacting in time, Masamune blocks the blow in time, knocking him down. Quickly, he break-falls on the ground. "Now I'm pumped. Some amazing skills you have there." Slightly surprised at Flynn's skills, Masamune then decides to go on the defensive.
"I guess I could say the same can be said of yours." After complimenting on the One-eyed Dragon, Flynn charges towards Masamune, attempting to slash him on his chest, followed by a stab to the chest, and ending it with by a sweep kick to throw his opponent off. However, Masamune manages to block of the two sword attacks and dodges the sweep kick. The young samurai then leaps at the One-Eyed Dragon, hoping to land an attack on Masamune. As the young samurai was getting closer, Masamune charges his sword to form an energy ball. Noticing the electrical surges on Masamune's sword, Flynn then readies a spell.
"Hell Dragon!" As his opponent was approaching him closer, Masamune then unleashes the energy from his sword forward.
"Bufu!" Flynn countered Hell Dragon with an Electric spell, resulting in colliding both of the energy attacks into a smokescreen. Flynn, using this to his advantage, summons his sword and tries to land a few attacks on Masamune, who resorts to going on the defensive. Due to the smoke Masamune tries to block the strikes from Flynn's Sword, but gets his helmet and one of his shoulder-plates damaged.
'This kid… He's stronger than I thought… Looks like I won't hold back!' Slightly struggling against the blows received from Flynn, Masamune leaps 50 feet away from him. Unleashing all 6 of his swords, 3 on each hand, electric energy was surrounding Masamune's body, powering him up. After summoning all six of his swords, a grin came out on his face. "Looks like these little claws want some action!" Both running in headfirst towards each other, both swordsmen do battle once more.
As they've battled, spectators viewed the fight from afar. Amongst them was Guan Yu. He looks at Masamune with anticipation of what he echoed to the latter earlier. 'Keep up the good work, One-eyed Dragon. Surely, you'll drive that God out this time.' In the middle of admiring his skills in anticipation, someone else spoke.
"I hear that kid's a greater god. If that's true, Masamune's has no chance of winning this one." A God in a fedora lowers his hat down holds his cigar. "You want one?" The man asked.
"No thank you. I'd prefer wine." Declining the offer from the man, he focuses his eyes more onto the fight, with the two swordsmen in a blade lock.
Letting out a big sigh, the man spoke once more. "I'm leaving. Lupin better not do anything crazy when I meet him again. As short as it was, it was nice talking with you." As he departs, the man leaves a small smile on his face.
As the Saint of War watches the men leave the fight to take care of a man by the name of Lupin. To Guan Yu, he is of no importance to him. As he returns to observe the battlefield, he notes that the two are evenly matched. 'Hm… I hear that the boy is a Champion for Tokyo. It seems he lives up to his reputation…' Before he spoke any further, another god sits next him, enthusiastic about the match.
"Hm… with the One-Eyed Dragon bringing out his six swords, I'm surprised the boy's still on even footing with him… Quite the spectacle indeed." Smiling, the other God whips out a sword, much different from the two in battle. He then lets out a sigh. "I could get a good match out of him." The God then looks at the sky, an then takes a deep breath. "Looking at this reminds me of fighting that one god in the House of Leadership…" The God then pause, and then says something different. "Ah… Looks like I'll have to set up that Katana tournament now. Don't want to waste time here." The God then takes his leave. Guan Yu was still focused on the match, with Masamune and Flynn standing still.
Masamune and Flynn were both breathing heavily, with one staring intensely at the other. "You're an amazing opponent." Complimenting, Flynn's face became fiercer.
'This kid… He's strong for a samurai… Where the hell did he train from?' Masamune then decides to put his blades back into their scabbards… "As much as I hate to do this, but… I quit… You win." Masamune then turns away from Flynn. "Besides, I've got other stuff to do." As Flynn sheathes his sword, Masamune then takes his leave. "In the meantime, never lose that resolve of yours, okay?" Smiling, Masamune then decides to head for his temple. 'Now…. To form a plan against that damned pretty-boy…'
To be continued...