We stood down the road from each other, once friends, now mortal enemies. I was dead serious while Saros wore his confident smirk. "Come, now, Sai, we both now how this will end. Why waste each other's time?" He asked.
"Because I just want the chance to hurt you." I told him darkly.
"Very well, let's go." He said, rushing in.
"I was just waiting on you." I said, rushing in as well.
Background music: "Deception" From The Liong King 2
He never changes his battle strategy, so I knew what was coming: a flying kick, so I countered with a baseball slide, going right under him (pause), causing him to miss and now I was right behind him and threw a fireball into his back, sending him face-down to the ground. "You little bastard!" He growled, jumping up and turning to face me. "You got lucky." He growled, but looked like he was struggling not to cry, the reason of which will be explained later.
"No, I just know how stupid you are." I said.
"Clearly, you picked a fight with us!" Erika said, about to fire a Galick Gun, but she was hit in the face by a blast of darkness, sending her skidding across the ground for a few feet.
"And you're stupid to think he'd come alone." A female voice rang out. We all looked to see a girl with waist-length in a black short skirt, black socks and shoes a black jacket with a white shirt under it with a gold cross around her neck.
"Vixen." Erika growled.
"Aww, I'm so pleased you remember me, Saiyan girl. We only met once and I forgot your name right after our little encounter." Vixen said confidently.
"I'd say you'd remember it after this, but you'll be dead by the time this is over." Erika said, jumping up.
Saeko prepared to step in and help, but then zombies started coming from down the road behind us. "Damn," She said, before looking at us, "You guys get the meat, I'll have the potatoes." She said.
Erika rushed in at Vixen and threw a right haymaker, but the smaller girl easily caught her wrist. Erika threw left straight, but Vixen also caught her by the wrist with that attack. Erika growled a bit, before smirking, opening her hands, ki forming in her palms. "Surprise." She said, firing both blasts into Vixen's face, causing her to give out a blood-curdling scream before she jumped back.
"Oh, don't be a baby, that was one of my weaker blasts. My little sister could handle that." She smirked.
"Meh. The Spear clan are total bitches when it comes to pain. That's why they just stopped the enemies from getting away and letting the Blades deal with it. That's why they only beat the Shield clan with their numbers and abilities," I said, before drooping down a bit, "I miss the Shield clan. They were the toughest guys you'd ever meet. You could stomp a guy from the Shield clan in the balls until they exploded and he'd never show any sign of pain. These guys, it's sad, really. They could stub their toe and they'd start crying." I finished.
"Well, let's see how much pain you can take, you bladed bitch!" Saros said angrily, rushing in at me.
"When this is over you'll be my bitch!" I said, rushing in. We both shouted fiercely as we wound back and threw a right haymaker.
At Saya's mansion... (you should stop the music at this point)
"They should've been here by now." Damion said.
"Meh. Sai's got 2 women with him. They're probably stopping and looking at every single shop they pass by on the way here." Aisu said.
"Dude, that is SO sexist." Damion said.
"Guilty." Aisu replied.
Suddenly, the two were approached by an interesting pair. The first was a guy as tall as Damion, wearing black pants and an open black shirt with nothing underneath, revealing a muscular body with a strange tattoo on his chest, as well as small blue flames near his wrists, the shirt also had a hood that the guy wore up, but that didn't hide his face, what DID hide his face (or at least his eyes) was his gray hair with long bangs in the front. Lastly and most dangerously, he had claws similar to Vega from Street Fighter on his hands.
The other person was a short girl wearing a coat a lot like Vergil's in Devil May Cry 3, except black with gold lining rather than blue with various colored linings. She had a similar shirt just long enough to cover her waist beneath that and thigh-high black boots again with gold lining. As for her hair, picture a red, spikier version of Weiss Schnee's hair.
"Are you Damion Castro and Aisu, right? Sai's friend?" The guy asked.
"Yeah, want an autograph of something?" Aisu asked.
The other 3 members of the conversation rolled their eyes before the guy turned back to Damion. " My name is Arren. I have a message from Sai. He wanted me to tell you... He's dead!" He said, quickly grabbing Damion by the neck, sweeping his legs out from under him and throwing him to the ground hard, landing on his neck.
Aisu tried to attack him, but the girl side-kicked him out a window, hearts in his eyes because... "Cute panties..." He said in dreamy tone.
The girl let out a small shriek and pulled her shirt down in the front a bit, before glaring at him. "I'm gonna kill him for that!" She snapped, jumping out after him.
Damion glared at Arren. "You think I'd believe that load of bullshit? Sai is as tough as they come. Nothing in this dying world could ever hope to take him out." He said, getting to his feet.
"Two of my most powerful siblings are after him. Sorry to say, but there's no way he lasted this long. Tell you what: Why not join us? You could have anything you want: money, power, women. Just help us show these people we're in charge. And I know Sai annoys you. If he's still alive, I'll let you snap his puny, worthless neck." He said.
Damion glared at him. "Me? Join you? Money, I've got plenty of it. Power, more than anyone can imagine. And women, I have loyal women and I don't want to betray them. Sai may annoy me, but he's a good friend of mine." He says, but then smirks evilly. "But the thought of more of everything is tempting. I'll join you. Only to watch him suffer." He said (TRAITOR!).
"That's more like it. Glad to have you on board, my friend." Arren said, holding out his hand.
"Yeah." Damion said, shaking it.
"Excellent. Now then-" Arren started, before looking out the destroyed window at Aisu and his sister. "What the?! Kara, what are you doing?!" He demanded, glaring at her.
"Boom, para para! Boom, pa pa! Raise the king! Respect the beat!" Aisu said, doing his Parapara dance, mesmerizing her into following him in the dance.
"Boom, para para! Boom, pa pa! Raise the king! Respect the beat!" She copied, repeating the moves Aisu was doing
He ended before her due to starting sooner and she was left wide open. "Shoryuken!" He shouted, delivering a powerful uppercut, sending her into the air, then powering up blue ki in his palms. "DIE! DIE! TILL YOUR DEAD!" He said, firing the Die Die Missile Barrage at her, landing every shot and literally causing her to pass out from the pain. She landed on the ground, then Aisu landed beside and got a devious smirk on his face. "I'll take these!" He said, stealing her panties, putting them away in the non-existent anime pocket everyone in fictional history seems to have (you know, when they clearly don't have pockets, but put something away like they DO have a pocket). He turned back towards the house, only for Arren's foot to collide with his face, knocking him out.
"Now you die." He said, raising one of his claws to strike down the Icegen, but Damion put his hand on his shoulder to stop him.
"No. Not yet. We'll wait until we find Sai, break his spirit and watch him suffer by taking one of his friends away." He said.
"That's my kind of cruel right there. I'll send her home, then we'll go." Arren smirked, sending a wave of energy at his sister, causing her to disappear, then Damion grabbed Aisu by the back of the neck and the two came for us.
All while this was happening...
background music: "Eternal Empire" By Q-factory
We both shouted fiercely as we wound back and threw a right haymaker. However, I also though ahead to block, raising my left arm up and ducking a bit, hitting the bottom of his fist with my left forearm and sending it over my head before pushing it outwards with my arm, which was now raised above my head. I connected my haymaker, sending dozens of cracks the whole left side of his skull and made Saros spin backwards once, then I brought my other arm down on the top of his head, caving in the top of his skull and making him stagger back even more, allowing me to kick him in the face with a front kick, pushing the front of his skull inwards (there's my x-ray, Mortal Kombat XI!). He staggered back a bit and turned his back to me, but then kicked me in the chest with a rear kick, turning back to me, still holding his face. "You stupid fucker, stop hitting me!" He screamed.
"Don't do something if you're afraid of the consequences, bitch. You brought this ass-whooping on yourself." I told him.
"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!" He screamed, holding his arms way out, making a shit-ton of spears out of a combination of water and darkness, sending them all flying at me at once.
"That's trouble!" I said, pulling out my quarter-staff, backing up and like an x in front of me, breaking some of them flying at me, before I just started spinning it in front of me and stopping the others.
Change background music: "Catfight" by Katerine Avgoustakis
Meanwhile, Erika had been nice enough to let Vixen recover, then the smaller girl rushed in, throwing punches and kicks at Erika, who managed to match her move for move. She managed to catch her off-guard with a slight feint by sweeping at Erika's left foot, but Erika stepped back, giving Vixen enough time and room to deliver a side kick to Erika's chest, knocking the wind out of her and doubling her over. She then made a katana appear out of thin air and slashed at Erika's neck, but the Saiyan beauty recovered and leaned backwards, Matrix style, the blade just missing the tip of her nose. Now, one of the things Erika likes to do in a fight, especially if she's angry or you came anywhere close to killing her, is humiliate you. So once she popped back upright after dodging the katana, she grabbed the smaller girl by the wrist with her right hand, pulling forward slightly to bring Vixen closer to her. "Mustn't play with dangerous sharp objects, naughty girl." She said in a scolding/motherly tone, giving Vixen a hard smack on the ass, causing her to squeal in surprise and pain, letting go of the katana and covering her ass with both hands. "I'll take that now." Erika said, confiscating the katana.
"Hey!" Vixen said, trying to grab it, but Erika simply put her hand on Vixen's head and keeping her out of attacking distance. She growled a bit, then jumped to a good distance. "Fine. You can have all these, too!" She said, making an onslaught of spears and katanas before sending them all at Erika.
"Is that all they can do is make weapons from thin air?" Saeko asked.
"That and clone themselves as many times as agent Smith. Besides that, they're basically like a DBZ character." I said.
The taller girl simply yawned and looked at her with a smirk. "Sorry, is that going to do something? I don't think so." She said, surrounding herself with an overwhelming aura of ki, looking like golden flames enveloping her up to her chest. All the katanas and spears that hit it instantly dispersed and Erika was perfectly fine. "Wow, how did you guys EVER possibly beat the Shield clan if this is the best you've got?" She asked.
"They were just strong humans, no magic and/or demonic superpowers at all. And both our clans outnumbered the Shield clan 3 to one, that's literally the only reasons they one." I explained while still stopping the spears and our fight music playing near us..
"Stop dissing us!" Vixen demanded rushing in and throwing a right round kick at Erika's head. She simply ducked, causing Vixen to turn and have her back facing Erika, who smirked, flipped the smaller girl's skirt and grabbed her panties.
"WEDGIE!" She cheered, yanking them up to Vixen's neck with one hand, the latter instantly beginning to cry waterfalls of tears.
"Erika, please stop, no more, no more!" She pleaded, flailing her arms desperately while crying, Erika and Saeko sweatdropping.
"All this over a wedgie?" They asked at the same time.
"I told you, they're total pussies that can't handle pain. TOTAL bitches, seriously, it's still sad that they beat the Shield clan." I said.
Erika had charged up a lot of ki in her free hand, but stopped and sighed. "It's really hard to finish off someone bawling like a baby like this." She said, letting her go and giving her another hard smack on the ass. "Just get out of here." She said.
"You'll pay for this, Erika!" She cried, flying off at the speed of sound.
Switch back to Eternal Empire
The whole time those two were fighting, I was still stopping all the spears Saros was hellbent on throwing at me so he wouldn't have to fight close up. But after they finished, he finally realized it wasn't working, so he summoned a couple katanas and rushed in, swinging them both down at me, but I blocked them with the staff and kicked him in the upper thigh, causing him to do a tiny hop back and glare at me. "Come on, I know you're better than this. Show me more." I said, putting the staff away.
"You're a bigger fool than I thought." He said, rushing in. He swung the first sword at my face, but I leaned back to dodge. He then aimed at my legs with the other sword, but I jumped, the arc from leaning back to dodge the first sword causing my legs to curve, catching his chin and staggering him as I completed the back-flip and landed in a crouched position. He screamed in rage and rushed at me, stabbing outwards with both swords, but I did a left outside crescent kick, pushing the swords out of the way, then I jumped off my right foot and did a jumping kick to his face, causing him to roll back across the ground, slamming his fist into the ground to bring himself to a stop. He made a dozen clones of himself, then they all rushed in at me, spreading out as they did so.
(I'll need to calm myself down for this. Slow my breathing...) I said, using a technique my brother Nightshade came up with, where you slow your breathing and your heart-rate as much as possible, both keeping you calm and making it seem as if things around you are going slower than they really are. The first one got to me and threw a punch, but it looked like it was coming in slow motion. I easily raised my left hand above my head, then brought it down just behind his fist deflecting the attack, then I did a spinning backhand, sending him flying into Saeko, who sliced him in half. The next one produced a sword and tried to decapitate me, but this time I jumped above it and drop-kicked him in the face. I fell to the ground, which worked to my advantage, as another clone tried to round kick me in the head in mid-air but was too slow, then when I hit the ground, I brought my legs up as if I was doing the yoga shoulder stand, uppercutting the clone with a kick and sending him into orbit.
"Somebody tell Morpheus I know kung-fu!" I said. The next one came and threw a punch, but I leaned back while bringing my leg up high above his head and ax-kicking him to the ground. I then went on the offensive and rushed in at one getting ready to rush in with a haymaker, throwing my own right haymaker at his face, sending him flying. Another one produced a staff and swung at my head, but I spun and crouched at the same time, sweep kicking his feet from under him before throwing a rear kick with the other foot, sending him flying into another one, crashing them both into a wall. Another one snuck up behind me, but I did that badass thing they always do in movies, cartoons, etc. where they just bring there fist up and punch them while not even looking.
Another one lifted one leg to prepare for a jumping kick, but I threw a round kick just as he got the other leg off the ground, taking him off balance and sending him flying over my head. The next one produced a katana again and swung wildly, but I simply dodge from side to side with relative ease before ducking under one strike and uppercutting him, grabbing the sword as it fell and putting it through another clone's chest. The real Saros and the last clone stood together and rushed in, the clone ahead of him by a few paces. I likewise rushed in and threw a round kick to the clone's head, sending him flying into a building. Finally, I rushed at the real one as he stood there in shock, I shouted to add emphasis like everyone always has to, slamming my fist into his face and sending him flying. He stopped about 50 feet in the air 100 feet away, glaring at me and screaming. "You won for now, Sai! But this isn't over!" He screamed, flying off.
"What a bitch." I said indifferently.
"Impressive as always, Sai." I heard Damion's voice. I turned and was shocked to see Damion standing beside Arren and holding an unconscious Aisu by the back of the neck. He then tossed him forward and Arren made a bunch of spears appear above Aisu's chest, dropping them down on him.
"No!" Erika and I both screamed at the same time, reaching out. The Icegen were tough and could handle things that would easily kill most other races, but that doesn't mean that wasn't a serious injury.
"Damion, what are you doing?! Why are you with Arren? They're behind everything here! They're the reason half of Japan is overrun with zombies!" I told him.
He smirked at this. "He's offering me a lot more than what I have. And did you actually think I was your friend? Give me a break. You're more gullible than I thought." He smirked.
I felt incredible rage inside me. Damion, one of my best friends for years turned against me. "You bastard. You were like a brother to me! I TRUSTED YOU!" I shouted at him
"Can't trust everybody, Sai." He said uncaringly.
Background music: "Traitor" by Daughtry
"Yeah. Especially not an assassin who likes Samurais." I said, disappearing, reappearing in the air behind him and round-kicking him in the head.However, he managed to easily block it, forcing me to jump back.
"You and your tricks. Extremely annoying." He said.
"How's this trick?!" I asked, reaching into my pocket, pulling my hand out and flipping him off. He deadpanned, but then I aimed my finger at him and shot a beam at him, hitting him and sending him 20 feet down the road. He recovered and punched the ground hard enough to cause a massive earthquake. I jumped into the air to avoid it and fired a series of fireballs at him, but he jumped after me, dodging them and delivering an ax kick. I blocked it, but it sent me to the ground. I landed hard in a crouching position before looking back up at him. I shot another barrage of fireballs at him, but he dive-bombed through all of the and threw a strong punch, his fist covered in lightning. I managed to dodge it and because of the position he was now in, I managed to knee him in the stomach and send him flying into a building. I then used my devil trigger and flew up into the air, also going Super Saiyan 3. "This is what happens when you betray a Blade!" I shouted, powering up a devastating attack. "FIRE BLADE STORM!" I shouted, unleashing a giant stream of fire and demon energy at him, with thousands of katanas made of hellfire inside it, blasting him, burning him and cutting him a hundred times a second. The blast ended and I breathed heavily from exhaustion, returning to base form. Suddenly, lightning struck me, knocking me to the ground and striking me repeatedly. Damion emerged from the building, visibly injured and his clothes were ruined.
"Don't test me, Sai." He said.
I breathed heavily, getting up. I was burnt and scarred a bit, but I could still keep going. I sure as hell didn't want to, though. He may have betrayed me and was even now trying to kill me, but he was still one of the best friends I ever had and a pillar of support of which I don't have very many (you'll see what I mean near the end of the story). "Don't make me do this, Damion... Please. I'll let you walk away... Just stop." I said.
He got that normal dark look of his with a slight smirk on his face. "No. I'm gonna enjoy watching you die." He said, taking his stance.
"I didn't want to do this, but you leave me no choice." I said, taking my own stance. We both then rushed in at each other (go to the chorus of the song, preferably the first time it plays), He threw the first punch and I blocked it with both arms, but then he kicked me in the chest, knocking me down. I rolled backwards and got to my feet. He ran in again and threw a left haymaker, but I ducked and weaved to the right and jumped, delivering a right haymaker to his face. I threw a left hook, but he managed to catch it with his left hand, so I threw a couple right straights to his torso, but then he threw a right hook, catching me in the face and staggering me slightly. He then grabbed my left wrist and elbow, trying to bend and break it, but I backflipped and spun with it as he tried to bend it, then threw a right hook at his throat. He staggered and spun to the left, I prepared to throw a right haymaker, but he finished his spin and threw his own right haymaker first, staggering me before he slammed his left fist into my chest knocking me down. I rolled back again into a crouching position.
We stared each other down for a moment before I rushed in again. He threw a destructo-disc with his right arm, but I spun to the left on my back leg to avoid it (~I got the moves like Jagger~!), cotinuing to run at him, then he pulled a knife out of his back pocket, spinning it stylishly in his right hand, wielding it backhanded before wheeling his right and in front of him and swinging at me, but I dodged it. This continued for a while, dodging and deflecting until he tried to stab me in the head, which I leaned back to dodge, then he threw a left haymaker, but I again ducked and weaved to the left, jumping and throwing a right haymaker to his face, staggering him, but then he chopped me in the throat with his left hand and side kicked me in the chest, causing me to do a small jump back. I coughed and tried to get air again, leaving me open, so he came up, stomped on the back of my left calf, bringing down on my left knee, he then tossed the knife to his left hand before winding back and backhanding me to the ground with his right hand, face-down.
End music
I pushed myself up off the ground and looked at him, breathing heavily as him and Arren, who, while we were fighting, knocked out Erika and Saeko to prevent them from helping me, walked up on Damion's right side. "They will die right after you do. I just want you to know there's nothing you can do to help them. You failed them, you failed Japan, you failed everyone." Arren taunted arrogantly.
"Give me a sword so I can finish him off." Damion demanded.
"Of course." Arren said, producing a pitch black katana so dark even the light of the sun wouldn't reflect of the blade.
"Perfect." He said, grabbing it in his right hand and winding back.
"Damion... Why?" I asked weakly.
"This is what happens when someone makes a deal with me involving someone I care about." He said, swinging the sword. However, he didn't swing it downward at me, he swung it outward and behind him as far back as his arm reached, chopping halfway into Arren's neck.
He screamed in pain and fell to the ground, holding the giant wound in his neck, looking up at Damion. "Why?! I offered you so much?! This whole world could've been yours!" He pleaded.
"I would NEVER turn on my friends." Damion said, shooting dark fire out of his hand and slowly roasting our wounded enemy into a pile of ash.
"That was... unexpected." I said.
"Don't worry, man. I have your back no matter what." He said.
"Alright. We need to help Aisu." I said, quickly getting up and we tended to our wounded comrades.
"You know, it worked out for us in the end, but I'm not gonna lie: dick move, Damion... Dick move..." Aisu said, earning him a bunch in the face from the vampire.
"Glad to see you're still on our side, but I'm sure as hell not trusting you for a while. And if you EVER hurt Sai like that again, I will do everything within my power to destroy you." Erika warned.
"Well, that question of who the dominant one is has definitely been cleared up." He said.
"Well, as long as there aren't any more delays, let's hurry up and get back to Saya's house." Saeko said.
"Right." We all agreed.