Author's note: This is the real chapter 2. Enjoy
Trope Pantheon: Date Masamune, God of Eye-Patches
Path B: Chapter 2
Previously: After a fight into a draw with his rival Sanada Yukimura, Masamune enters the house of Food. As he eats his food, he spots Ishida Mitsunari and follows the latter to his temple to fight him. After a bloody fight, Masamune came out as the victor. With Mitsunari defeated, what path will await the one-eyed Dragon...?
The next day, Masamune, energetic, is in front of his temple in the House of Personal Appearance. 'Let's see if Zoro guy's available. I'll hope to have a friendly match with him some time soon.' Getting on his horse, Masamune departs his temple.
45 minutes later, Masamune arrives in the House of Weapons. 'He should be around here somewhere.' On his horse, Masamune looks at the construction. "Oh…? They're expanding the House…?" Although he was surprised, he moved on to find Zoro. What he saw was a spiky blonde-haired God in a red coat, a god in a hakama, and red-headed goddess with a midriff. In front of him was a god with a long nose, and another God with green hair with a scar on his left eye and chest. The latter greeted
"Yo!" Smiling, the Green haired god calls The One Eyed Dragon. "It's been some time since we've meet." Looking forward to Masamune's visit, the God shakes his hand.
"Zoro… It's indeed been a while." Smiling at Zoro, Masamune then lets out his request. "You want to train with me?" Enthusiastic, Masamune awaits a response from Zoro.
"If you need me, I'll be visiting Luffy in the House of Friendship." The long-nosed Gods leaves the two swordsmen to themselves.
"Of course… I may be getting sloppy recently, so a warm-up is fine by me." Both swordsmen set themselves up a distance from each other. "I hope you're ready for this…" As he draws out two of his swords, Zoro runs up to Masamune.
"I'm always ready to party. Shot me what you've got!" Following suit with Zoro, Masamune draws two swords and blocks an attack from his opponent. "Jet X!" The one eyed dragon follows up with multiple cross slashes, all of which were blocked by Zoro.
"Impressive as always…" Zoro then unleashes multiple attacks against Masamune, all of which were blocked by the latter. The two collided with their weapons with a series of blows ending in a brief blade lock.
"Your skills haven't gotten sloppy… You're still in league." Complimenting the pirate swordsmen, Masamune then trips him out of the lock and proceeds to go on the offensive. As Zoro recovers, he parries his opponent's attacks, following up with an upwards slash. As the One eyed Dragon evades the attack, his helmet gets damaged in the process. The two swordsmen began to parry each other's attacks multiple times. "Crazy Storm…!" Drawing out two more swords, Masamune then proceeds to unleash a wave of strikes against Zoro, who slightly struggles blocking them, forcing him to jump back, creating some distance from his opponent. "Why don't you bring out your third sword…?" Smirking, the Azure Dragon forces the pirate swordsman to take out his third and last sword.
"I've been through worse, but very well… I hope you won't regret it." As he draws out his last sword, Zoro puts it in his teeth. He rushes at Masamune to land an attack, but follows up with another one, this time from his teeth. He manages to land a few hits on Masamune, who then retaliates with another wave of strikes against Zoro, who, as he defends himself from those attacks, gets hit by a few of them. "You're always a good training partner… Date Masamune…" Zoro smiled as he blocks the attacks.
"The same could be said to you… Rorona Zoro…" As he continues with his attacks, Masamune gives his opponent respect. The two swordsman deities clashed with their weapons once more, inflicting a few more injuries towards each other in the process. The two stepped away from each other. "Let's call this a draw." Having enough of the battle, Masamune decides to cut the match short.
"I agree. The rest of the Straw Hats are waiting for me…" Zoro agrees with his ally's truce, "It's been a nice warm-up. Come back any time…!" And with that, he quits fighting and departs for the House of Friendship.
"Do not worry! I'll return here any time!" Masamune replied as he smiles. 'Until we meet again… Rorona… Zoro…' After a good fight, the One Eyed Dragon then decides to head for his temple.
Back in the House of Personal Appearance, Masamune takes a walk around the House. He sees a goddess in a navy-blue school uniform exposing her midriff, a Goddess in long stockings, a skirt and a red shirt, a God with a cap on his head, a bald goddess, and a god in a teal green uniform. 'The mirrors on the floor and ceiling… They're so unnecessary. I don't even walk around in this House often because.' Finished with his tour, Masamune decides to head for his temple.
Later at his temple, Masamune decides to relax. 'I've depowered that Mitsunari guy. I'd best drive out Toyotomi while I still can…' Knowing full well that Hideyoshi will hunt for head, Masamune decides to take the Dragon Fang sword set and replace it with the Uroboros set. 'This will do… Until then, I'm saving Tiamat for him… I'll finally get to fight the tyrant of Japan in the mortal realm. Then-' All of a sudden, someone knocks on the door. '…I wonder who's the visitor…?' Opening the door to his temple, Masamune sees a slender God.
"It's been some time… Date Masamune…" Greeting the One Eyed Dragon with his cool voice, the God smiled and spoke more. "Are you ok…?"
"…Usuegi Kenshin… It's nice meeting you here... And yes, I'm ok." Smiling for seeing another familiar face in pantheon, Masamune asks another question "So... How's Lady Killer…?
"LadyKiller…?" Confused, Kenshin wondered who Masamune referred. A few seconds later, he figures it out. "Ah… You must be talking about Keiji... He says he's doing fine as always." Smiling, Kenshin then prepares to take his leave. "I'm merely here to visit you. As I return to my temple I wish you good luck on your trials..." After letting out his final words, Kenshin departs the House of Personal Appearance.
'Thank you… Usuegi… Along with that, Shogun, I'll take down both those tyrants and their allies and will assist to create a pantheon where everyone will prosper in peace.' With Hideyoshi and Nobunaga in the pantheon, he must work extra hard to defeat them. He heads for the house of Combat to train.
In the House of Combat, Masamune arrives at the Training Room. "Simulation On!" Under Masamune's command, the training room transformed into that of a Castle infested with demons. 'I'll get to the top of that castle.' Serious, Masamune rushes into the castle. '…The castle must be six stories tall. Let's not waste any ti-' Out of nowhere, demons started lashing towards Masamune. Quickly drawing his sword, Masamune proceeds to cut down 3 of the demons. 'W-What the hell…? These demons completely caught me by surprise.' Remaining calm, he then proceeds to take down the other demons who rushed at him. As he draws out all of his swords, Masamune treads the castle with caution.
One hour and thirty five minutes have passed, Masamune arrives on the second floor of the castle unscathed. 'Sigh… Looks like I've made it through here without any problems…' Seeking out a challenge,The One eyed Dragon decides to wake the demons up. "Demons! Your meal is right here!" As he yells, the demons immediately woke up and tried to attack Masamune, who jumps up in the air. "Phantom Dive…!" Descending to the floor, he slams it, creating a shockwave, knocking some of the demons to a wall. The other demons went close to Masamune, giving him a few wounds. "Shit… You demons asked for it… Crazy Stream…!" In retaliation, he slashes most of the demons, cutting them in numerous pieces. After he was finished attacking, the demons disappeared. With no more demons left, he goes up into the third floor through a stairway door. As he opens it up, it was filled with bats. Ignoring the creatures, Masamune storms his way up the stairs, finally reaching the third floor. It heavily guarded by demons. The first thing the One Eyed Dragon does was stomp the floor causing the demons to approach him.
"War Dance!" Unleashing a wave of attacks, Masamune takes out a good number of demons on the third floor. 'This castle needs to be rid of demonic filth.' The remaining demons attack the Azure samurai head on. "Jet X!" As he takes out the rest of the demons, Masamune decides to head for the fourth floor through a teleporter. Upon reaching the fourth floor, the demons were everywhere. 'Shit…! Looks I'll have ti-' Interrupting him, one of the demons woke up on sight of Masamune, causing all of the demons to attack him. "Crazy Stream…!" As Masamune takes out as much demons as possible, he receives a few more wounds in the middle of attacking 'This isn't panning out too well.' He leaps into the air to use Phantom Dive knock some of the remaining demons away from him. After he gets a distance from the demons, he takes out the one on his left. As he does so, the other demons charged at him. 'Damn! I got too careless…!' Now at a disadvantage due to his blind spot, The One eyed Dragon tries to think of a plan to evade the demon's attack. Unfortunately, the demons managed to injure him before he made a plan. 'Kh…! I cannot lose here…!' As he'sslowly recovering from the wound, he forms an idea. He starts to spin around to the left with his swords in hand. As he does so, the demon charged at him to attack once more. However, when Masamune stopped spinning, he spotted the demons and cuts them apart. Limping slightly, an injured Masamune decides to reach the fifth floor.
Upon reaching the fifth floor, there was a big beast-like demon, ready to kill him. Sheathing his five other swords, Masamune decides to focus his energy on his single sword. 'I may not make it here, but this is worth the effort…' While heruns up to the demon, it, as a means to strike back tries to knock Masamune. He releases the energy in his sword and nearly kills it with Testament, severely weakening it. Exhausted after using it, The One Eyed Dragon tries to catch his breath. Next, he forms his sword into an energy ball. "This is it…! Hell Dragon!" He successfully kills the demon with the energy ball and proceeds to the sixth floor through the stairs, making it at the top of the castle. As he reaches there, the Azure Samurai decides to end the simulation, making it revert to the training room. He heads for the House of Food.
Forty five minutes later in the House of Food, Masamune gets at bowl of Eel stew with vegetables, along with five rice balls. As he sits downs and eat, Masamune looks around to see if Hideyoshi is around. 'Hm… Looks like he's not here yet…' He then proceeds to eat his stew. To his surprise, it tasted good, much better than all of Japan. 'I'll invite Kojuro here if he ever ascends here. The Food's much superior to everything in the mortal realm…' As he lets out smile, Masamune continues to happily eat the rest of his eel stew. Although he's nearly finished with the stew, he abandons whatever he had left. As he leaves the House of Food, He puts the rice balls in his pouch to take home.
Twenty minutes later, Masamune arrives at the House of Personal Appearance. To the surprise of The One Eyed Dragon, there was a god in a Japanese-like ponytail. "Ah, it's you… The creator of that tournament…" He knew who the god was the minute he spotted them. T
"Good eye, Date Masamune. I was worried you didn't remember." As he smirks, the god then asks him a question. You want to face me…?" Curious, the God waits for the Azure Samurai's response.
"Not right now; too tired. When I wake up the next day, then I'll fight you." Masamune Promises that the God that he'll have their match tomorrow.
"Very well then... See you at the House of Combat." As the God leaves the House of Personal Appearance, Masamune goes inside his temple.
To be continued