Trope Pantheon: Date Masamune, God of Eye-patches
Path B: Chapter 1
Yukimura, with his two spears, charges forward at Masamune, who has his swords trying to land a blow on him. Unfortunately for him, Masamune parry it with his six swords, followed by an attempt to land an attack on Yukimura, who, return parries his. The two parried each other's attacks 8 times. "Having a match with you is satisfying as always, Sanada Yukimura." Enjoying another fight with his rival as they fight, Masamune went on the assault against Yukimura, who then went on to perform a fire punch, to which the One-Eyed Dragon evades. As he gets close to Yukimura, he then sweeps Yukimura off his guard with his sword and then jumps up. "Phantom Dive!" Hammering the ground, Masamune sends a shockwave to knock away Yukimura, who gets away from it. The cub of the Tiger of Kai then spins at an increasingly rapid pace as he rushes at Masamune.
"This is it… The training I received from the Noble Lord Takeda in the mortal realm… It pays pays off here!' Materializing a wheel of flame from his spears, Yukimura sends out a series of fiery strikes against Masamune, who parries the attack by having his swords collide with his opponent's dual-wielding spears. As they fought, the two clashed with their weapons for a brief a period of time until both weapons have locked into each other. The two rivals then take a step back, with Yukimura running at Masamune with all of his might, attacking at full speed. "Today… I will defeat you right here, Date Masamune!"
"Ah… Big words coming for a cub… However, you can never beat dragon." In preparation to block Yukimura's attacks, Masamune readies his defenses. As Yukimura charged at him, his rival throws one of his spears as high as possible. 'What is he planning…?' After the spear was thrown, the Cub of Takeda stabbed his other spear to the ground and performs a spinning kick made of flames at his opponent, who evades it simply by taking a step back. Yukimura then spins slightly faster to lift himself in the air, aiming to get the other spear. 'I have to say, that was a very well-thought strategy.' Masamune compliments his foe as the latter reclaims his other spear, Masamune lifts himself up the air as his opponent descend to attempt to land an attack on him. With a heavy blow, their weapons were in a heavy lock to see whoever came out supreme in the clash. "You've improved in more ways than one, kid…" Trying to push away Yukimura with all of his force, Masamune smirked.
"Your Swordsmanship skills have gotten better as usual." Trying to push back Masamune with equal force, Yukimura goes even further than usual, causing Masamune to break out of the lock. The two rivals clashed blows with little damage on both contestants so far. "Let's end it here, Date Masamune!" Breathing heavily, Yukimura changed at his opponent for the final blow.
"You asked for it, Sanada Yukimura!" Following suit, a near Masamune rushed at his rival. They struck the decisive blow into each other once they got close to each other. 1 minute later, Masamune's helmet was damaged, while Yukimura's spears were broken. "Let's call this a draw, kid." When the One-Eyed Dragon looked back, he asks that they should stop fighting and go on about their business.
"Yes. I, Yukimura, will defeat you someday!" As they parted ways, the two rivals both had a smile on their faces.
In the House of Food, Masamune gets two bowls of chicken udon soup along with five pieces of raw salmon, with the addition of a rice bowl, with a dish of Sukiyaki pork to go on top of the rice bowl. 'Hm… It sure is quiet around here.' As he eats his food, he then takes a look around the House food. Amongst them were six goddesses, a shaolin god, a ninja god in an orange sweater and pants aided by an older shinobi god, a blue-haired girl, and a redheaded girl in what seems to be a spy-suit. As he was finished eating the two chikin noodle soups, he proceeds to eat the raw salmon. As he does so, an albino god appears, wearing a black coat with a purple trim, looking very unhappy. Masamune knew who this stranger was. 'That's…!' As he finishes eating his food, Masamune skips the sukiyaki pork and stealthily follows the god to his house. 'Alright… Now, time to follow him without getting caught.' As Masamune follows the god to his house, a humanoid pink god with pink feet has decided to eat up the Sukiyaki pork in Masamune's absence. After doing so, the pink god then heads for an unknown destination.
35 Minutes later, Masamune arrives at the House of Personality, still following the albino god. When the god finally reached his temple, he then stops. Seeing this as an opening Masamune decides to attack the god while he's off guard. Unfortunately, the god parries it, followed by a very fast blow. Masamune barely blocks it, stepping back in the process. "We meet again… Ishida… Mitsunari…" Defending himself with his sword in hand, Masamune rushes at the albino god.
"I've had a feeling I was being watched. You've asked for a death wish! You'll be a warm-up before I take out Ieyasu!" As he draws his sword, Mitsunari, at blinding speed, charges towards Masamune. As he approaches his opponent, he then slices the air from a distance, creating razor wind to throw the One-eyed Dragon off, but the latter barely evades the attack, going in for the kill.
"Crazy Storm!" Unleashing a series of strikes against Mitsunari, Masamune manages to do a fair amount of damage despite the latter. 'I won't lose to some punk like you!' As he goes for the final blow, Mitsunari dodges it by sidestepping to his right side. 'Not good…' With his right eye gouged out at a younger age,Masamune tries tomove away from Mitsunari. However, something occurred to him. '…Heh heh… How could I forget my ears?' Realizing that he still has his sense of hearing, Masamune deliberately lets his opponent hit him at his blind spot. Mitsunari, seeing this as an opportunity, strikes the Head of Oshuu where he stood. Surprisingly thanks to his sense of hearing, Masamune was able to parry the strike, following up with a few strikes from his sword, managing to injure Mitsunari. "Tch, your defeat was just a step up for the Date troops." Looking fiercely at the Toyotomi retainer, Masamune, suspecting a surprise from him, retains his guard.
"You… You're going die!" A gravely enraged Mitsunari charges at Masamune near the speed of sound, making him slightly slip his guard. He manages to land a several hits on Masamune. Due to his opponent's fast speed, Masamune goes on the defensive in an attempt to keep up with his opponent's attacks. With his opponent approached him once more in an attempting to land many more blows as possible, Masamune blocks a few of them, but receives a few more hits in the process.
'…This bastard's speed is impressive… but no compared to that guy.' As he blocks Mitsunari's attacks while pinned by his speed, Masamune continues to parry the attacks, waiting for the right time his opponent slips his guard. Quickly forming an idea, Masamune does an upwards slash as Mitsunari performed his next attack, then jumps in the sky. "Phantom Dive!" Descending from the sky, Masamune smashes the ground, creating an electrical shockwave. However, his enemy is clear from the shockwave, preparing to charge at Masamune once more. The One-eyed Dragon then noticed that Mitsunari was breathing heavily. "Here I come, you sullen retainer!" Moving to attack Mitsunari, Masamune lands a series of blows on his opponent as the latter struggling to block them. Masamune then kicks him 32 feet away from him and sheathes five swords. He concentrates his energy into his sword and charges at Mitsunari, who was too tired to move from the beating he gave him. As he gets closer to his enemy, he unleashes the heavy blow, managing to hit him.
"Kh…! You may have defeated me this time… But I'll the head of both yours and Ieyasu's someday. Until then… Prepare to suffer the wrath… Of Lord Hideyoshi…!" As he was finished with his warning, Mitsunari collapses. The enemy who defeated Date Masamune in the mortal realm, was now depowered.
'Hmph… The Toyotomi warlord… I'll have a good fight with him next.' Standing victorious over Ishida Mitsunari, The One-Dragon then decides to return to the House of Food to heal some of his wounds after a long and hard battle. Somehow, he seemed empty.
Back in the House of Food, Masamune gets 12 pieces of Sushi rolls and a bowl of Beef stew, along with pieces of raw eel. As he eats, only a small amount of deities were inhibited. Paying the other deities no mind, he proceeds to eat the Beef stew. 'First, I'll to go the House of Heroes and see how that Lancelot guy's doing with my original position and head out to train.' As he consumes his cuisine, he already has his plans set.
47 minutes after eating in the House of Food, Masamune arrives in the House of Heroes with the purpose of finding Lancelot. However, the house was crowded, occupied with so many deities and their friends, causing him to leave the House until a voice called out to him.
"Date Masamune! It's an honor meeting you here again… Have you come to visit me?" Grateful of Masamune's visit, a certain God approached him. "This house is perfectly fine, but I have a favor… Can you assist me on something…?" Lancelot requests Masamune for some assistance.
"What is it…? Do you need improvements on the temple…?" Wondering what the noble knight wanted with him, Masamune had his fist placed on his chin.
"No. You see, I'm trying to repent for a certain incident I've done some time involving my liege, and I need to find a way to control the Mad enchantment. I've went to The House of Knowledge for assistance to come with a solution, but that ended with little success. I want to go to the House of Magic, but I'll end up turning into a rabbit or a frog. Perhaps you can give me some advice." Fearing for his transformation to occur again, Lancelot asks Masamune for some tips.
"I'd to help you… As much as I'd love to help you, I'm not very fond of magic, you see... However, you can ask them to make a potion to retain your sanity whenever the mad enchancement go out of control. I'm not very sure myself that it would work. You should at least give it a try... I'll wish you luck, old follower." As he hopes on his horse, the One-Eyed Dragon turns away from the knight. "Keep up the good work." Finished with his departing words, Masamune departs the House of Heroes.
Later in the House of Combat, Masamune goes in the training room for some practice. "Simulation: On!" The training room began to turn into that of a coliseum. "Let's party!" As he whips out his six swords, five elite soldiers ran toward Masamune to take him down. As they got closer, Masamune goes onto the defensive as they attack. One of the elite soldiers ran tries to stab him from behind, but he evades it by simply ducking, following up with a fast sweep kick on one of the soldiers, and slashes him by the chest. To his surprise, the elite soldier regenerated quickly and recovers. 'Are these guys demon soldiers?' As he blocks a few blows from two elite soldiers, The One-eyed Dragon fears his suspicion may be confirmed. As another elite soldier move in on him, he strikes him down in near Iaido-like speed, but regenerates himself. Putting his focus on the speed he swings his sword, Masamune dodges another attack from another elite soldier, followed a quick stab against the soldier, and does it again on another elite soldier. Unfortunately, they've resurrected themselves. One of the soldiers managed to land an attack on Masamune from behind, knocking his swords out of his right hand.
"Time to end this mess. Magnum Strike!" Masamune stabs the four elite soldiers he cut down once, disintegrating for good, leaving only one soldier left. Before he lepted at him, Masamune reached for his three swords, sheathing four of them in the process. However, the soldier throws goo balls out of his hands as an extortion to immobilize The One-Eyed Dragon, but fails doing so.
'So they really are demons…' Charging an energy ball from his sword, Masamune runs circles around the elite demon soldier. With his other sword, he closes in on the demon soldier, who attacks with his claws. To counter this, Masamune parries it and releases the energy ball from the sword. "Hell Dragon!" The demon's face has regenerated from the blow to the head only for The One-Eyed Dragon to decapitate it again, causing it to disintegrate.
Suddenly, an intermediate demon arrives and runs at him as it wants to brutalize him. Drawing away his other sword, Masamune then focused his energy onto his sword. As the demon approaches the One-eyed Dragon, he then unleashes a ferocious attack on the demon, cutting through his whole body. Tired out from using the attack, Masamune decides to terminate the simulation. "End Simulation!" The Coliseum returned back to the training room. Tired, Masamune decides to head back to his temple.
Before going to his destination, he stops by the House of Food to get some water and a rice bowl to take to his temple.
As he returns to his temple, the first thing he does is go to his bed. 'What a good day… Wonder what'll come my way next…?' Exhausted from all the battles he fought, he goes to sleep. It was worth it.
To be continued…