The girls were in front of the mysterious person, the tension in the place was very noticeable and the atmosphere was very heavy.
"Villains, their souls are tainted. Tonight, their souls are mine." The girl said as she pointed her katana at the girls.
"Sorry buddy, but I like my soul like that." Kara said with a smile before quickly flying off to attack the girl. The girl's katana began to glow in a spectral tone before launching a slash in the air to launch the Kryptonian girl with a crescent but when that blow touched Kara the girls watched in horror as the Kryptonian girl's soul left. her body and flew towards the girl's katana.
"Supergirl !!." Diana screamed as Kara's body fell to the ground.
"Well at least we know where the souls are now." Barbara said scared.
"Come on girls, let's show him what true magic is like." Zatanna said as she and Jessica attacked the girl. The magical girl's attack would be easily dodged but the Green Lantern girl took the opportunity to trap the strange girl in a butterfly net.
The girls smiled believing that they had captured the girl but at that moment the net would be destroyed by the edge of the strange girl's katana before launching another magic crescent but her attack was divided in two causing Jessica and Zatanna to receive the attack and fell to the ground as their souls joined the katana.
"So, what can we do now?." Karen asked very terrified.
"Run !!." Diana yelled but at that moment the girl launched another attack that would hit Barbara and Karen causing her bodies to fall to the ground while the Amazon warrior watched with horror as the souls of her friends joined the katana.
"You are next." Said the girl but at that moment before she could take a step, the girl backed away due to a shadow that had passed at high speed. The strange girl looked everywhere in search of her origin but at that moment she quickly took cover when a huge blast of fire began to enclose her in a circle as if a dragon was attacking.
"Wonder Woman we have to go !." Diana looked ahead and saw that I was responsible for the attack. Wasting no time, the Amazon warrior quickly caught the rest of the team with the Lasso of Truth and quickly climbed onto my back before I began to fly as fast as possible.
"Maybe they won this battle but remember !!. No matter where they hide, my soul stealing sword will find them !!" She yelled the girl before leaving the place.
Diana and I arrived at Barbara's house, my hood was covering my face as Diana began to lay the girls down on the floor while looking at our team with tears.
"It should have been me .." Diana turned around and saw that I was clenching my fists so hard that they were starting to bleed as tears fell from my eyes.
"It should have been me !!" I screamed in anger before hitting the wall so hard it would make the house shake completely and Diana fell to the ground.
"Benja relax !!." Diana would try to get closer but at that moment she recoiled as my hair caught fire with such an intensity that it made the Amazon warrior recoil.
"Relax!?. You don't understand Diana!?. You are all supposed to be my family, it's supposed to be my responsibility to take care of you and protect you. Now ... the girls are like this because of me !!. I couldn't save them! !. " I screamed as Diana watched as the electricity in the room began to fail, vines with thorns began to grow on the walls and the fire in my hair grew more and more intense.
"Benja, look at me. Look at me !!." Diana quickly approached me and would take my chin to make me look into her eyes.
"Benja, none of this is your fault. I had the idea to lead our sisters into battle and underestimate the enemy. I am also responsible for these events and I plan to solve them. But please, I need you to relax." The Amazon warrior said as she gently caressed my cheek.
"Benja, you are important to us too. I would hate for something to happen to you, maybe there will only be two of us. But together, we can stop that villain and make the souls of our sisters return to their bodies." Diana said with a smile.
The Amazon warrior saw that everything relaxed, however she saw how I caressed her cheek before kissing her. Diana's face slowly turned tomato red as she accepted the kiss. The kiss only lasted a few minutes until I broke away.
"Diana, I love you. But I'm not going to let more people get hurt, especially you. Please forgive me." I said as some vines caught the Amazon warrior from the ground.
"Benja!?. What are you doing!?." Diana asked very surprised as she tried to free herself.
"Protecting my family. Diana, you are a very special person to me. You always helped me and you never abandoned me, you and the rest of the team are my family. I am going to catch that villain on my own and return the souls to all people she caught, I will not break my code as a hero. Blood will never be spilled in my city. " I said before approaching where Diana is.
"Diana, I love you and Kara as much. But I won't let you hurt, please. You are everything to me, I've lost my family before. I won't lose it again." I said before kissing the Amazon warrior one last time as tears spilled from our eyes. This was a very painful time for both of them.
"Bye, Diana." I said with a smile as some plants came out of the ground and began to expel a navy blue gas as I flew away.
"Benja !!." The Amazon warrior screamed with all of her might as the tears continued to fall, however Diana began to cough before falling to the ground soundly asleep.
The next day. Now I was walking to the library time to look for a book to help me, I didn't want to bother Giovanni, obviously I trust him, but I couldn't allow him to get hurt too.
'If I'm going to defeat that villain, I have to know his sword first.' I said in my mind before reviewing a book related to ancient objects. I had seen that sword before, I just hoped it was what I was looking for.
As I looked at the pages of the book my mind kept showing me memories of my friends but especially of the girls with pale skin, tears fell from my eyes as I fought not to explode in anger. But before anything happens I stopped at a page that showed me the sword of the villain from last night.
"The soul-stealer. Forged during the 14th century, by the legendary samurai Murasama Sengo during a time as a warrior. This sword was greatly feared on the battlefield for not only being effective and powerful, but the sword was said to have The power to steal the souls of those who tried to face the one who will bear this sword."
"Those souls that were trapped can only be released if the one who wields the weapon says the following words..." At that moment I looked at some Japanese letters that were under an image of the soul-stealer, but bad luck for me I had no idea what it meant.
"Shit, it's written in kanji, I can't read it." I said upset. However, at that moment an idea quickly crossed my mind.
"Tatsu, if anyone can read something like this, it's her." I said smiling as I was about to call the girl, but at that moment I had the volume turned up by mistake and suddenly rock music started playing at a very high volume. That made a lot of people angry.
"Benja?" At that moment I turned around only to see Tatsu behind me.
"Oh hi Tatsu, I umm. Tried calling you!" I said while trying to turn off the cell phone but at that moment my arms would be covered in electricity due to my elements and my nervousness, that would make my cell phone go crazy and start calling random numbers and the music would get louder.
Everyone glared at me as the librarian glared at me before pointing a sign at me that said cell phones were off limits.
"Sorry Sorry!!." I screamed because of my nerves, that caused my magic to make my cell phone turn off due to short circuit due to electric shock.
At that moment I turned around and saw that Tatsu was approaching where I was.
"Tatsu, I didn't expect to find you here. What are you doing here?" I ask curiously.
"I'm here because I know that training the mind is just as important as training the body." Tatsu said with a smile.
"Wow, that's amazing. We're the same." I said smiling.
"By the way, why did you call me and where is Diana?" Tatsu asked curiously but she never noticed that I just winced at that question related to the Amazon warrior.
"Diana is at home busy with her homework, and I called you because I need you to help me translate something in Japanese." I said with some embarrassment. At that moment when Tatsu saw the book but especially the image of the soul stealer made Tatsu's eyes widen but at that moment her hair would cover her eyes.
"Why are you interested in the soul-stealer?" Tatsu asked with a cold and serious voice. That made me serious.
"And how do you know about that, Tatsu?" I asked coldly while looking at the girl seriously. An intense silence was present until at that moment I looked at Tatsu with surprise and anger.
"You. You are the girl who attacked my friends last night and the one responsible for those attacks." I said as I tried not to explode with anger due to the pain.
"And you must be the villain who helped that girl escape last night." Tatsu said angrily.
"Because. Why did you do it Tatsu? I thought you were my friend, me. I thought you were part of my family." I said while looking at the girl with tears.
"I thought of that too. And that's why I don't like this!" Tatsu yelled as she tried to kick me but I easily stopped her as my hair covered my eyes.
"There's one thing I also don't like." I said as the electricity in the room failed which caught everyone's attention. Tatsu watched as my eyes glowed amber as I glared at the girl.
"And you dared to hurt my family!!" I yelled before throwing Tatsu away from where I am causing the girl to crash into the wall.
"Shhh.." At that moment Tatsu turned around and saw that there was a sign that said no noisy fights.
"That says!?." Before I could continue the lady would silence me for yelling. "Sorry, that says no rowdy fights?" I asked confused.
"It's Metropolis, it's the least we could hope for." The librarian said. That made Tatsu and I break out in an anime-style sweat in disbelief.
Tatsu and I were now facing each other while looking at each other seriously. The wind blew and made our hair move while the leaves of the trees flew around us.
"So, we've come to this…" Tatsu said as she drew the soul-stealing sword before making a quick turn generating a gust of wind that made me close my eyes and when I opened them I saw the girl now dressed as the villain. last night.
"I am... Katana!! My mission is to find villains and punish them for their actions. That's what a hero does." Tatsu said as she pointed her sword at me.
"You're wrong about that..." I said as Tatsu watched as the wind began to blow more strongly, the leaves began to fly around me. The girl saw that the leaves would stop flying and now I would be in my hero outfit.
"We heroes don't punish people, we protect and care for the innocent. Now, hand over your sword so we can free all the souls you trapped." I said seriously while looking at Tatsu seriously.
"You want my sword? Come get it." The girl said as she prepared to fight. At that time we were both staring at each other as if we wanted to guess the other's attack. At that moment a leaf would touch the ground and I would quickly make my fire whips appear.
"You will pay for what you did to my family!!" I yelled as he launched a direct attack. Tatsu dodged my attack but she was surprised to see that the whips when they hit the ground would crack the concrete a bit.
"You call a group of criminals your family?" Tatsu said as she lunged at me but I would quickly make my arms covered in rock and quickly parry her sword with a clap before kicking the girl so she hit one of the statues in the place.
"Don't call my family criminals!!" I yelled in anger before launching a ball of fire. Tatsu dodged the attack causing my fireball to hit one of the Lion statues causing a small explosion.
Tatsu and I glared at each other before starting to fight, I quickly brought out my fire sword causing us to start a sword fight. I had some difficulty dodging and blocking Tatsu's attacks due to her being better at swordsmanship than me, but she also had difficulty due to my sword fire causing her to be careful not to get too close.
At that moment I take the opportunity to kick her hand causing her to drop her sword, I quickly jumped to try to catch the sword but Tatsu smiled before catching my legs before throwing hard to the ground causing me to crash against him ground causing me to make a small crater due to the impact.
"You have a heart full of kindness, Benja. And that's why I'm not going to steal your soul, but you have to give up. You can't beat me, I'm superior to you." The Japanese girl said seriously. However, she saw that I would stand up with some difficulty, but I managed to stand up while I looked at Tatsu seriously.
"If you think I'll give up so easily, you're wrong Tatsu. I won't give up so easily as long as the souls of my family are trapped there. And I intend to keep fighting until you free everyone you trapped!!" I yelled before starting to accumulate magic. Tatsu watched as the wind headed for a small gap in my hands and watched as some fire began to gather with the air.
The girl sees how I began to mold the fireball and saw that the shape was similar to that of a katana, at that moment with a simple movement the fire would disappear and Tatsu would see my new weapon. My sword was similar to hers, but the handle was white.
"I'm not going to give up, Tatsu. I'm going to fight with everything until you free my friends." I said while pointing my sword at the girl.
"Then so be it." Tatsu said before launching himself along with me to resume our Fight.
Diana was slowly waking up, when she opened her eyes she saw that she was still in Barbara's room. When she tried to move she saw that my vines were still holding her, the Amazon warrior at that moment remembered everything and without wasting time she would look for something to remove the vines and saw that in front of her was Barbara and from the redhead's belt there were some batarangs.
Diana began to stretch as best as possible to reach a batarang using her feet, the Amazon warrior would have a lot of difficulty but she would manage to grab the batarang with her feet before taking it with her hands and starting to cut the vines.
"Thanks Barbara, now I have to go look for Benja before something bad happens." Said the Amazon warrior as she left the room, Diana began to slowly go down the stairs to avoid Commissioner Gordon hearing her, but luckily for her, Barbara's father was fast asleep on the couch.
Diana left the house before starting to run through the shadows before reaching the city bridge.
"Benja, I hope you are well." Diana said worried, at that moment the Amazon warrior would try to call me but no matter how hard Diana tried, my cell phone could not receive her call, the eyes of the Amazon warrior filled with tears before starting to run as fast as possible to the city.
Tatsu and I are now in a fierce sword battle, both of us were giving all our energy to give each other trouble, but we were very even. The girl and I were now in an alley where only the noises of our swords colliding could be heard.
"Enough already Tatsu, return the souls of my friends!!" I yelled before kicking the girl causing her to back up.
"You don't get it, do you? Returning your friends' souls will also free the souls of all those bloody criminals." Tatsu said as she started attacking me causing me to block all of his attacks however the girl kicked me in my hands causing me to drop my sword.
"I have already met heroes like you, Benja. Their methods are weak and allow criminals to return again and again. Instead, my methods are effective." Tatsu said as she pointed her sword at me, at that moment we both heard something and when we turned around we saw a man with a crowbar trying to open a car.
"Look at that criminal for example, a hit from me. And that man will never steal a car again." Tatsu said as she prepared to attack but I quickly got in front.
"Tatsu, stop." I said while looking at the girl.
"Are you going to beg for the soul of that criminal?" Tatsu asked seriously, what we both never saw was that Diana had arrived at the place.
"Not his soul, I'm talking about your soul. Tatsu, this is not the solution to stop crime. If you continue to act this way, you will only be condemning innocent people to a final fate. We heroes protect people, and What you do is not protect people. You are becoming those villains you punish." I said while looking at the girl with concern.
Tatsu then stared at his sword for a few moments before gripping the hilt of his sword tightly before preparing to attack, a strong gust of wind began to surround Tatsu before attacking with all his power.
"No!!." I would quickly face the attack and suddenly I felt a strong cold hit my entire body, I felt my soul separate from my body as my vision blurred before falling to the ground unconscious.
"Benja!!" Diana and Tatsu yelled at the same time. The girls saw my soul before it turned into a sphere and entered the sword.
"I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, it's that I left the keys inside and I couldn't open the door!" A man yelled as he stared in terror at Tatsu.
"Wait, then. This isn't your car? Aren't you a thief?" The Japanese girl asked very surprised.
"No!! But you can take my car, just don't hurt me please!!" The man yelled as he began to cry in fear.
"Get out of here. Now." Tatsu said as the man ran away in fear.
"Benja…" Tatsu turned around and saw Diana walking over to where my body was.
"Benja...no...no...gods, please don't." The Amazon warrior said before she fell to her knees. Tatsu watched as Diana began to shed tears on me making the Japanese girl look at her sword and remember everything that happened.
"Benja, please. Don't leave me, please!!" The Amazon warrior yelled as she hugged me tightly as she sobbed. Seeing this, Tatsu approached and put a hand on the Amazon warrior's shoulder while she took off her mask.
"I'm so sorry..." Diana turned around and saw Tatsu, the Amazon warrior seeing her friend would get up quickly due to the shock.
"Tatsu, are you responsible for the attacks that have been happening these days?" The Amazon warrior asked in surprise.
"And how do you know my name?" The Japanese girl asked.
"It's me Diana." The Amazon warrior said as she looked at her friend. Tatsu hearing that would be surprised before lowering her head.
"I'm so sorry, Diana. Benja was right, I wasn't a hero all this time like I thought I was. I always thought that my methods besides being effective could bring peace, but I was wrong. I'm sorry." Tatsu said as she shed tears, however she felt a hand on her shoulder and saw Diana in front of her.
"It's not too late to change Tatsu, you can still be a hero." Diana said with a smile. The Japanese girl hearing that looked at her sword with some sadness.
"My sword is the source of my power, without it. How can I take on the responsibility of being a hero?" Tatsu asked as she looked at her reflection on the sword's edge.
"Your sword can be used for good, let's train together so you can better control that power." Diana said with a smile. That made Tatsu show a smile as well.
"Thank you Diana, but there is one more thing to do before you can be a hero." The Japanese girl said as she and Diana looked at my body on the ground.
Diana was now at Tatsu's house, the Japanese girl lighting some incense while the Amazon warrior placed my body on the ground. Tatsu saw that the Amazon warrior kissed me on the forehead before shedding some tears, that made the Japanese feel a strong prick in the heart to see her friend so sad of her to see the state I was in.
Tatsu began to take a breath before drawing his sword, Diana at that moment heard her friend begin to say a few words in Japanese and suddenly the sword began to shine.
"In the name of Murasama the creator, I ordered everyone to get out of the sword and come back to life." Tatsu said as she raised her sword. Suddenly all the souls would begin to come out of the sword causing all the citizens of Metropolis to look in disbelief and amazement at what was happening.
In the hospitals, everyone watched in disbelief as some spheres reached the patient rooms and when the spheres entered the bodies of those people, suddenly everyone began to wake up.
In Barbara's house, some spheres entered the redhead's room where the rest of the team was, and suddenly the girls began to wake up when their souls returned to their bodies.
Tatsu and Diana saw that a sphere would enter me and suddenly the girls saw that my hair began to be covered with fire and when I opened my eyes the colors began to change showing red, blue, amber, mint green, but what caught the Diana's attention was that my eyes also flashed electric blue and ice blue before returning to magenta.
"I am alive?." I said very surprised, however at that moment I was knocked down by Diana.
"Diana?." I asked surprised but at that moment I was silenced when the amazon warrior slapped me, Diana had teary eyes before hugging me and starting to cry due to joy.
"Benjamín Escudero. Never do this to me again, I was so scared. I thought I lost you forever, never do this to me again!!" Diana shouted while I saw this and hugged the Amazon warrior.
"I'm so sorry Diana, I promise I'll never leave you again." I said with a smile. At that moment I looked ahead and saw Tatsu.
"Tatsu, you freed all the souls. Why?" I asked surprised.
"You were right Benja, heroes don't punish. What you did for that man made me see my mistake and the words you said to me inspired me." Tatsu said with a smile.
"Now what are you gonna do?." Diana asked as she looked at her friend.
"Well, I just freed a lot of criminal souls. Someone has to catch them again." Tatsu said as she walked over to a small altar and placed her sword on it.
"This time, I'll do it right. Not as an executioner, but as a hero." The Japanese girl said seriously as Diana and I got closer.
"I know it will be a long road, but we promise that we will always be with you to help you Tatsu." I said with a smile just like Diana, that caught Tatsu's attention.
"Are you really going to help me? After what I did to you and your friends?" asked the surprised Japanese girl.
"Tatsu, giving me back my soul shows that you want to change. I forgive you, and I promise that I will help you to be a true hero." I said with a smile as I put my hands on the girl's shoulder.
"Thank you very much Benja." Said the Japanese girl with a smile.
"Hey, Benjamin." At that moment Tatsu and I turned around and saw that the Amazon warrior had a smile.
"You left me and that wasn't very nice of you, that means you'll get a punishment." Said the Amazon warrior. That made me turn pale while the Japanese girl looked a bit confused.
"Umm, Diana, what are you talking about?" The girl asked curiously.
"My sisters and I have a tradition, if Benja does something we don't like, we punish him by making him dress up. Here are some pictures of him as a servant." Diana said as she showed the photos of me dressed up to her friend, Tatsu seeing this she laughed a little while I was red with embarrassment.
"Diana!!." I yelled very embarrassed.
"Hahahaha, Benja I have to admit that costume makes you look very adorable." Tatsu said with a smile but with some blush, when I heard that I started to get redder.
"Ugh, my head. Magic sucks." Kara said as she and the rest of the team got up, however that statement made Zatanna angry.
"Umm, excuse me? I'm here." Said the magical girl. However, suddenly the girls would see that Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Giganta, Livewire, Poison ivy and Carol had woken up making the atmosphere uncomfortable.
"And..." Kara would try to find a word but it was hard to say anything due to the environment.
"Never. We'll talk about this again, understood?" Catwoman asked seriously. That statement will get a lot of nods from everyone. Surely no one would speak of this again, ever.
"Oh I love it!!." Carol said with a huge smile as she saw the hairstyle that the Kryptonian girl did for her, however that made Catwoman have an anime-style drop of sweat on the back of her neck.
So far today's chapter. I am very sorry for the delay, it is that I was somewhat aware of the other story that I am doing but I will not leave this story like this. I hope you liked today's chapter and I also hope you are enjoying the story so far. I hope everyone has a good day, a good afternoon or evening. Goodbye dattebayo.