Chapter 13 – The King fallen from grace
These Monsters were clashing right before us. This is a scene that will be spoken of for decades. Everybody knew that in this moment History would be written and that one day this will be remembered as a Legend like the Tale of the fallen hero Kurozai.
-This is the story of the beginning of a new Hero, but will he follow the same path as he did?
5 minutes earlier
- “Flourishing Death”
“Get to a cover to protect yourself”, the captain shouted out loud.
“huh?”
Black Tear grabbed the Hand of the white-haired girl, and they disappeared into nothingness.
I closed my eyes, so I didn´t notice immediately but I felt a weird sensation?
She opened her eyes and the scene she saw before her was breathtakingly beautiful, yet also terrifying.
* The entire Horizon filled with stars, shining brighter than any star she had seen before. The whole sky was glowing in many different colors like purple, pink, blue, orange, yellow and red. This sight was as if I stood in the middle of our universe, looking at countless stars, planets and even larger universes.
Her eyes were reflecting the countless lights, her eyes were looking alive for the first time. She was floating in the air spinning around admiring the sight before her.
But she felt that something was off.
On one side there were stars and on the other side there was…
There he stood.
Looking in the other direction a path filled with darkness, a path where the stars have fallen dead, were not even Light dared to show itself.
“What is he trying to reach?”
“Why is he doing this?”
“Why?”
As I kept looking at his path before him, my heart filled itself with pain again, remembering the past I tried to hide.
I thought I locked this pain up, deep inside my heart where I hid it deep inside me, so why?
Why now?
Why do I feel this enormous pain inside me?
…
He shifted his head towards me and said with a wry smile on his face, my reason huh?
If I have a reason, then it would probably be ………
Her eyes widened and she felt like she could understand him a little better.
“It´s time”, he said.
The whole area collapsed, and we appeared again, where we stood before, in the room just after the attack.
…
“Huh, what happened?”
The was a loud commotion in the back.
“The others survived.”- she shortly reported
Both of them looked at each other’s face and he stated, “I must fight him alone”
She gave him a light nod with her head.
He took the steps towards the fallen angel, as he gets interrupted by her.
“What´s your name?”
…
He stopped walking and stood there in silence for a moment.
“My name? I don´t remember….”
“I think it was Kage”
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To forget one´s name, what did he go through to forget his own name? The Name one gets at his birth holds one´s inner self. A name is something that you are remembered by people, if one doesn´t remember your name then you are forgotten, that is the point where one truly dies, that´s something I often heard in my Life, but to forget one’s own name that is the reason of being alive.
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“What´s your name, beautiful white hair girl”, he asked in a pained voice.
“My name is Yuki.”
“Yuki…. like snow- white like your hair, a nice name, I hope we meet again in the future.”
He started his walk towards the fallen angel.
She had only now realized that he would disappear again after this, he would continue to hide and walk his destinated path. This fact made her heart ache for a moment.
…
“Ohh hoh, you were able to survive this, yet you were the closes to my attack.”
He sat on a pile of rocks, creating a throne for himself.
He looked at him silently.
“So, you are not a very talkative one, are you?”
“That’s good, at least I don´t need to stop your barking.”
His body was still strengthened by his abilities covering him in purple aura.
The fallen Angel didn´t even blink, but something already appeared before him.
It was a fist; Kage was already about to punch him.
His fist was covered in purple flames, charged up with his dark inner Qi energy.
And the Moment his fist reached his face, he smashed him through his throne and multiple piles of rocks behind him.
The pile of rubble stone where he landed suddenly began glowing and exploded.
“Fu that was a great punch, now I know that you are qualified to be my wretch.”
He lifted the limitations he had sat on himself and the entire air around him glowed in gold and white energy.
“Now come at me you little wretch!”
He opened his arms as he was asking him provocatively to come at him.
Kage took a deep breath and mustered his hand signal, Dark Qi application – second stage.
The whole purple aura he had before was a laughing matter compared to this.
Both of their auras were about the same size, clashing against each other in the air before their bodies even moved, determining the power of each other.
“Tchh.. Looks like I need to go all out”, the fallen angel said with a pissed face.
“What´s your name, man covered in dark armor?”
…
“Why would I tell a dead man my name? I don´t see the benefit.”
“What did you say-?”
Before he could finish his sentence, Kage was already on the offensive.
The fallen angel pulled out to with-gold dagger out of his wings, they were long and sharp, and he jumped aggressively towards him.
“What are you planning to do now without a weapon?”
I have a much further reach, he won´t be able to reach me.
Both were flying towards each other in the air with their Fists and swords charged at each other, but then he felt an ominous energy appear out of nowhere.
Kage grabbed towards the air as if he was preparing to make a downward slash, “without a sword in his hand?”
-Abyssal Nexus
Black Metal pieces kept appearing out of the void behind him as a massive sword formed in his hands, that sword was at least 6 meters long, almost reaching the roof of the room.
“huh?”
He looked above at the sword striking towards him, with no seeming way out.
“Hah.”
This being possesses terrifying powers.
He felt as if the whole world slashed down on him.
The moment the Slash reached him, he turned his body and pushed himself away, but it wasn´t enough to escape completely.
That powerful slash smashed into the ground shaking the entire cave.
All that was left was a massive crater left behind by his sword.
White – Gold feathers started falling from the sky and a cut of wing followed.
Behind the fallen wing there stood a fallen angel, that had lost its prideful wings and truly fell to ground. This fact was the worst humiliation he could have suffered. He was boiling with anger.
“Now you truly are a fallen Angel!”
- “You will regret angering me!
I´m the king of the fallen angels, my soul may have been sealed into multiple places all over the world, but this small fragment of my power shall show you the meaning of true power!”
The entire Dungeon began shaking to its core, the king’s hair continued growing longer and longer as did the power he emitted. One of the many tattoos on his body disappeared, releasing a small portion of his power.
* These tattoos all over his body were sealing his powers and with only one of the seals disappearing he gained this much strength.
There he stood on top of the piles of broken stone, as he kept looking down on me from the top, as he deemed himself the superior one.
Both of us took our fighting stances, lowering and strengthening our hips.
I slashed my sword to the back and lowered my upper body to the ground and dashed towards him with exploding speed.
I kept on jumping up the rocks on my way to reach my destination at the top. There he stood calmly looking right into his eyes and he too began his attack. I kneeled down and strengthened his whole lower body, preparing to jump into the sky. As he jumped, the rocks beneath him shattered and he kept on reaching a new height. He slowly started to turn his body around in the air.
He stretched his arms forward, with his open palms, as if he was preparing to welcome me into hell. He soon reached the roof of the room and landed on it upside down, with his feet on the ceiling, strengthening his legs again and he jumped off the wall, dashing towards me in the sky.
Both of our swords were filled with the utmost intent to kill, the fallen angel directed his daggers towards me.
The entire Holy Knights Squad and the adventurers were breath taken by this clash before them.
As White and Black were about to reach each other, Kage filled his nodachi with his Dark Qi. Now they had reached each other a massive blast originated from them.
Two completely different powers were clashing against each other. White and Black were the colors one could see at this moment.
They kept on pushing back each other, with everything on the line-
-Their Life, their Honor and finally their goals and dreams.
Both kept on jumping around in the room, jumping off the ground, walls and roof. After each jump a meeting of their sword followed. Slash after slash, hit after hit, blood after blood.
Their bodies were covered all over in Cuts. Both were grasping for air, after fighting nonstop in the air.
They both landed on the ground in front of each other.
“Looks like that black flaming armor of yours is about to break.”
Many small pieces of his armor were missing all over. Some revealing his skin to his enemy. A small piece had broken down of the left half of his mask, revealing his closed eyes.
As he opened his eyes they began glowing in purple intensively, he was concentrating on his Dark inner Qi.
Normal people wouldn´t have seen his skin, nor his eyes. But there were two other people that had the ability to perceive it and see behind his mask for that short time, discovering a purple eye behind it.
“So, he really is human”, Yuki reported to herself quietly.
“It seems those reports from the 10th rank Holy Knight were all bullshit, he is human, no Monster. Even if his appearance tells you otherwise”, the Captain of the Knights mentioned.
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His aura kept on getting stronger by each second, Kage was charging up, but so did the fallen Angel prepare for their final showdown. Both of them felt a thrill of joy, as they battled for their lives.
A small broken stone fell from the ceiling, it felt as if time had slowed down. The moment it hits the ground they would both rush towards each other.
They cleaved their swords, and the rock fell to the ground.
At an enormous speed they reached for their enemy. As they slashed down on their foe simultaneously only the stronger one would survive.
Both stopped moving after there sword clashed.
Blood.
Blood began to drop down to the ground, as one of their knees gave in and fell to the ground.
As the winner turned his body to his opponent, he calmly stated:
* The King of fallen Angel? Is this all that you amount to?
Kage stood before the kneeling king, as he gets near him as he whispers in his ear.
* Now who is looking down on who?
He grasped for air as his heart kept on beating faster by each moment he heard this monster talk.
“What…. What are you?”
He straightened his back and as he looked down on the fallen king he stated:
“I am just a dead soul wandering around on this land, because death feared to accept me into hell.”
As those words left the entire atmosphere in the room change, he continued to say:
“Did you miss lunchtime or why are you grasping for air so eagerly?
“Let me help you!”
As the fallen king was overwhelmed by fear and noticed this monster creating something in his hand, a small energy ball, made from his dark Qi.
“Let me quell your hunger!”
His eyes widened in shock.
“Eat this!”
He stuffed the energy ball in his mouth and mentioned shortly:
* Don´t forget to chew!
Tears began forming in his eyes, but it was too late.
As Kage looked at the fallen angel’s face, his flaming black armor started to repair itself.
Then he activated his dark qi application, as he looked fearsomely at him.
He only said one word but that out fear deep inside his foe and that word was:
-Booom
The ball he had stuffed in his mouth exploded.
…
“Ahhh, please spare me”, the fallen angel somehow managed to say with his left side of his face blown off.
Cough- cough
He kept on coughing up blood nonstop.
“What did I do to get in your way and deserve this?”
As he coldly stares down at him, he continues to say:
* You were born that’s why!
His eyes were filled with darkness even darker than death itself.
Cough-
“When my main Body gets released, I am going to hunt you down and torture you until you beg for death”, he shouted out loud at him.
- “I will be waiting for you, fallen King.”
He proceeds to gather his energy in his sword and slashed downwards.
And a Headless King was born.
End of chapter 13--------------------------------------------------------------------To be continued