Chapter 13 - Terror In Terraxia - Part 1

"Oh great, who invited them?" - Ryo

"They must have been called by the signal of the city too." - Dr. Brown

"This is going to be something, alright guys. We don't have other option but to deal with them." - Kyo

"Doc Brown, you and Siruu need to return to the palace, hide there in a safe spot. We will take care of them." - Jeanne

"Sure thing, come on Siruu." - Says Dr. Brown taking Siruu who can't help but be concerned for the group, especially for Moriya

Kyo and co decide to separate in groups as the inevitable fight approaches

"K', Seirah, Marco, Rosa and Haohmaru, come with me." - Says Kyo moving to the east

"Krizalid, Moriya, Kaede, Akari, Maxima and Leona, come with me to the west!" - Rera

"Terry and the rest, we need to advance straight." - Athena

"Right behind you!" - Terry and the rest of the fighters advance following Athena as they see a group being lead by Shermie and Mr. Big

"Well, what do we have here, the little idol herself, you enjoy always being the center of attention, don't ya?" - Says Shermie approaching Athena

"You could say that, is something wrong about that?" - Athena

"Yes, you always enjoy stealing the attention of everyone else, grrr... You're as annoying as that Yagami bastard, always making our group be the second place, always stealing our spotlight." - Shermie

"Shermie, you and your band had been dead for ages." - Athena

"That might be true, but it won't be the case once we return as champions... And our first success will be the... Your death!" - Shermie makes a ray fall in front of her, Athena jumps back dodging said ray with her covering her fists in Psycho Power as she and Shermie run towards each other

Meanwhile the rest of the members from Athena's group start challenging their opponents

"Well is nice to see you again, little girl." - Says a voice calling Akari as she turns to see a big wave of fire coming towards her,

"ah!" - Akari barely manages to dodge the flame with her looking back at Chris

"Grr.. You again! Don't think this will be like the last time." - Akari

"You're telling me like how that damn blondie interrupted me from burning you to a crisp? I hope so, he seems to be busy to be able to interrupt now." - Chris looks at Kaede who is confronting Setsuna very far

"I don't need Kaede's help to pulverize you, annoying coconut head!" - Akari

"Hmph! Then come foward or it is that you're scared?" - Chris

Kyo is seen advancing searching for Rugal

"(I know that man must be somewhere in this chaos. But where?)" - Kyo moves as unaware of it, a small string is seems approaching him

"Huh!" - Kyo reacts managing to barely dodge the string approaching him

"(That string...)" - Kyo sees how the string retreats as he turns to see a shadow approaching

"Hehehehe... Not bad, Kusanagi, you might not be an easy prey to catch after all... Unlike Kagura." - Says a female voice as Kyo sees this woman of dark hair walking towards him with her arms crossed

"You! The coward who once got ahold of Chizuru's mind and tried to do the same with Athena." - Kyo

"She only managed to escape by pure luck, you on the other hand, you won't survive this." - Botan

"We will see about that." - Kyo

"Finally a shot at the big guy!" - Botan

"Careful what you wish for." - Kyo

"Just a chance to kick your ass!" - Botan

Botan and Kyo interchange looks

"(Start at the head... Cut off the head of the team. Yes! That's exactly the plan.)" - Botan

"Die!" - Botan jumps disappearing in mid air as Kyo stops running, he can't help but wonder where she went

"ARGH!" - Kyo turns back with a punch, punch that is stopped by Botan who grits her teeth unable to believe Kusanagi managed to detect her

"Your tricks won't work!" - Kyo follows up the blockstring with his 114 Shiki: Aragami, then 128 Shiki: Konokizu ending the attack with 125 Shiki: Nanase breaking Botan's defense

"ARH!" - Botan is sended back with her defense broken, she throws a knife at Kyo jumping throwing more of her strings at the Kusanagi with the intention to hold him

"Chew on this!" - Kyo uses his Orochinagi burning part of the strings making blood come out of Botan's finger tips with her reacting in mid air as her camouflage is interrupted

"Argh! You damn bastard!" - Botan lands grabing her hands, especially the tips of her fingers feeling this pain

"Stop playing around! Get serious, what's wrong? Weren't you saying you were going to get ahold of me?" - Kyo

"Don't get cocky, you little bastard! In a few more minutes you will be begging me for mercy!" - Botan gets up making aside the pain of her hands

Kyo runs towards Botan with both interchanging some hits, for Kyo's surprise. Botan is pretty acrobatic managing to jump back dodging his fists covered in flames, she counters with a high kick sending Kyo to the air

Jumping, Botan realizes this spinning kick sending Kyo to the ground

"ARGH!" - Kyo falls but he recovers again cleaning the blood from his chin

Kyo throws two fireballs with Botan running towards him, for Kyo's surprise Botan lands behind him with the puppeter attacking with this devastating combo of punches and kicks hitting Kyo

Botan rises her hand as a string comes out of her palm with her wanting said string to connect with Kyo's face

But barely reacting, kusanagi manages to move back, avoiding the string with him rolling backwards

"You will have to do better than that if you want this." - Says Kyo pointing at his forehead making Botan smile

Meanwhile

Athena and Shermie are seen clashing again

"Say goodnight, Shermie!" - Athena

"Goodnight, Shermie!" - Says Shermie with a mocking tone as she and Athena clash with Athena about to strike her but Shermie jumps using her Ankoku Raikouken

"I'm gonna fry you, girl!" - Shermie

"Ah. Ah. Hehehehe, you seem so sure. But haven't you hear the old saying? The fish dies by its mouth." - Athena

"What does that has to do with this!" - Shermie

"You will see, but now shall we continue our dance?" - Athena

"Hello, beautiful! May I get this dance!" - Says Shion attacking Mai

"(What a freak! How can he follow my moves so easily?)" - Ponders Mai barely dodging the attacks from Shion

"Ah!" - Mai is hit by the spear with a small part of her skirt teared up, she looks back at Shion who looks amused by this reaction

"What are you looking at?" - Mai gets back to her fighting stance

"Mhmm, I like what I see." - Shion

"Don't tell me you're tired already, put more into this, will you? It would be a shame if our dance were to end so quickly, pretty face." - Shion

"You succeded in pissing me off, you weirdo! I will make you pay for this!" - Mai

"That's it! Get angry, I love my woman angry and savage. This might not be so boring after all!" - Shion

"(Kagura.)" - Iori manages to see Chizuru now nothing more than an empty husk and the hostess of Mizuki Rashoujin in the distance smiling to him as he approaches running towards her

*Crack* - But for his surprise a pillar of earth covers his path stopping him as Yagami frowns already knowing who was behind this

"Where do you think you're going, red? Have you forgotten we have pending business to resolve." - Says Yashiro crackling his knuckles approaching the silent Yagami

"Mmph! You're nothing but a minor annoyance, disappear from my sight!" - Iori

Leona is seen fighting alongside Marco against Allen O'neil when suddenly

"..." - Leona sees a shadow jumping directing towards her, Leona manages to dodge the attack as she sees this strange woman of dark purple hair and blue and dark outfit landing in front of her with two swords

"..." - The silent Shiki stares at Leona with this empty look as she crosses her arms with both of her swords at hand

"Hmph!" - A sinister smile draws in Shiki's face

"(This woman's chi, what is wrong with her? This chi feels dark and heavy, almost similar to-No! It can't be, she feels so familiar! She reminds me of-of...myself!)" - Thought Leona paying attention to this strange woman, her chi was so different yet at the same time, Leona couldn't help herself but see herself reflected in this woman's eyes

"(Just who is she?)" - Leona sees how Shiki can't take her eyes away from her either, wondering what is she thinking about it too

"You talk too much." - Says Shiki as she starts running towards Leona

Leona goes into her battle stance with her jumping behind Shiki dodging her slashes, Shiki turns immediately as both start interchanging strikes with Shiki trying to pierce Leona

*Slash* - Both women clash attacks as Leona does her moon slasher clashing against Shiki's Shuzuku Gari with both being pushed back

"ARGH!" - Botan tries to attack Kyo creating this barrier of strings to trap him with her doing on spinning a knife tied to one of her strings trying to kill Kyo

"Grugh!" - Kyo's shoulder is hit by this forcing him to retreat some meters

"Hehehe! Give up, Kusanagi. This is where you die!" - Botan launches the knife tied to Kyo but Kyo jumps high enough to approach Botan with a R.E.D. Kick hitting her

"ARGH, YOU DAMN!" - Botan drops as Kyo follows up with a punch to the ground where Botan was, Botan can only roll dodging his punch as she sees how a big flame appears from the ground as if it had tried to track her

Botan throws some more knifes at Kyo, Kyo rolls foward dodging them as he runs to where Botan is seeing her vanish in thin air

"Think fast!" - Botan rips a piece of rock from the ground with one of her strings, she throws it quickly at Kyo who jumps charging two flames in his hands

"What's wrong, I though you were going to make me yours?" - Kyo throws two flames towards where the rock came from

Hearing the sound of something impulsing itself upwards makes Kyo smile

"Here it goes!" - Kyo uses his 101 Shiki: Oboro Guruma catching Botan hitting her with his second kick as the series of kicks continue with Botan being sended to the ground

"ARGH!" - Botan's camouflage is deactivated as she falls to the ground spitting blood

"Damn you!" - Botan gets up rising one of her hands as many strings are seen coming towards Kyo

"I don't think so!" - Kyo quickly charges his Orochinagi with him running rolling dodging the strings for the surprise of Botan

"NO!" - Botan now having Kyo almost in front of her tries to make her strings get back to her but is too late

"BURN!" - Kyo uses his Orochinagi on Botan burning the member of Those From the Past

"ARGHHH!" - Botan is sended rolling in flames

"ARH!" - Botan pants, now sporting this closed eye and burns on her skin

"Sorry, but I'm not an easy prey." - Kyo approaches Botan

"Ah. Ah." - Botan

"Now I see it, Athena was right. You're nothing if you don't have a puppet to make the dirty work for you, isn't it?" - Kyo

"Grrr!" - Botan

"Without anyone at your service close, you're not that big of a threat. In fact you're pathetically predictable!" - Kyo

"SHUT UP!" - Botan

"You think you know me? If I defeated Chizuru Kagura once, I can do the same with you!" - Botan

"You only had luck to get a hold of Chizuru's mind, but your luck has run out. You will come with me." - Kyo turns his flames with the intention of finishing Botan

"..." - Botan is nervous as she grits her teeth

"ARGH!" - But for her surprise a shadow appears tackling Kyo away with both Kyo and this shadow rolling

Kyo manages to free from this shadow rolling until her recovers crouching to see who was this shadow

"YOU!" - Kyo is baffled as he sees who had arrived to protect Botan... His twisted reflection created by the Yata mirror named Kusanagi

"Nobody is going to hurt her, you damn fake!" - Kusanagi smiles showing his sinister grin as he creates this two flames in his hand

"(This has to be a joke!)" - Kyo gets up as he and Kusanagi interchange stares

To Be Continued...