Intro Song: https://youtu.be/IdFRt_7lv0A / Specialist by Interpol
Closed eye lids...
A journey to the abyss...
Unspeakable horrors... Leveled houses...
Those are our orders...
For the glory of the The Great Empire...
We...
Every single one of us...
This is our dream?
To destroy...?
To remind them...?
Of our ancient and rustic history?
Of killing? Of wars? Of violence?
Of our... so-called glory?
I...
Us...
Both me and him...
We can't do this anymore... Surely...
We...
It's time...
For us... to open the gates of hell...
And surely...
We did...
The final war...
Is inevitable...
We didn't stop it...
We only halted it...
The years are all a blur, defected spirits and domestic life bliss
All for it to blow over...
You can't outlive your past...
Suzu-nii...
See you...
Never...
R-right?
I-inari...
I'm sorry-
For everything...
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The haze is thick, laiden with the mist of the forgotten, a figure wanders around the open place
Conserving the most amount of aura...
He knows...
That this might be the hardest fight of his life...
He has to stand his ground...
But really...
Why did he come here?
His orders?
Bleh!
He knows deep down why he came here...
Willingly...
Alone...
It's unfinished business...
All his life...
He's been running away from...
Them...
But now...
He has to face them...
What's left of them...
Suzu-nii...
You did everything by yourself...
You sacrificed yourself...
Just so I could taste what it could be like...
True happiness...
A real life...
But that doesn't absolve anything...
My hands... Are still covered in it...
Covered... by all of t-them...
He shudders... by this coldness...
He lights... another cigarette...
And in blowing it...
This thick fog...
Might be it...
He suddenly blocks attacks from every direction, right in his position, sparks of light emit as his body moves on its own
His hearing is muffled, his vision is smeared like a windshield that's been smudged
He can't truly perceive anything...
Yet his body relies... On instinct...
On what's there!
He raises his right arm, his arm collecting so many objects, Mikoto's speciality!
Though...
It's all just random household objects...
A clothes hanger... A coffee mug... An extension cord... A rug...
And yet...
It's all attached to his aura...
W-WAIT!
SHIT!
ALL OF THEM EXPLODE ALL AT ONCE AS ALL 3 THEM RUSH AT ATSUSHI
The mist still covering their tracks, and yet...
All their blows are still perfectly pin pointed at Atsushi, who manages to dodge every single one and or deflect it with his thick aura...
His specialty...
Which is aura enhancement...
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Since his abilities involve... trickery...
Deceiving the perception of reality...
Something not so easy to inflict...
With this much mist!
"Tch! I totally keep forgetting Mikoto's ability and how he can keep transforming objects with the tip of his finger... as long as he writes it-"
Multiple ribbons suddenly restrict his form, hundreds upon hundreds of the "forgotten" rush at him, chomping and ripping his flesh...
All sides of his position are raided by massive walls of concrete, crushing and smothering whatever was there before, all of the zombies are smushed into red paste, being spilled onto the rocky grounds of the Fukushima crater
Like a garbage compactor, his whole position is absolutely demolished from existence...
And yet...
Faint areas of Atsushi's aura is still found right beneath the monolithic cube now before...
"Yeah... we thought that was his real body... but it wasn't..." the figure stated
His fingernails get longer... his teeth...
His fangs...
Get longer...
He hisses...
"He's just around here somewhere!" he shouted
"If we let him play with us! We might as well be here forever!" the other two leaders constantly start to search for the real body of Atsushi...
Who's gone missing...
Multiple zombies roaming and searching around the area, through the craters...
Below and above...
A hand is felt, moving all across the area, his fingertips swaying and moving...
Writing...
Pebbles rise from the ground up, as they spread all over the area into multiple even smaller pieces...
Searching for any sign of Atsushi...
Yukki... uses his eyes to search for Atsushi's heat signature...
His eyes gleaming...
His heat signature is found!
But...
Its...
They're...
Everywhere!
And no matter how many and no matter how hard they hit any of his clones...
None of them seem to be the real deal...
"We're fucked now..." Yukki cursed, clicking his tongue...
"He knows... we can obliterate him... the second we find his real form..."
"So now... he's hiding..."
"He's-!"
"Buying time..."
"He's coming... isn't he?" Mikoto came closer to Yukki's position... his rage indescribable... uncontrollable...
He clenched his fist so tight, it started to injure his own tendon muscles...
"He's... mine..." Mikoto said coldly... how oddly fitting...
"As much as we both want him... me and Shion..." Yukki looks at Mikoto's face with an air of understanding...
A sort of "it can't be helped now... can it?"
"He's yours then..." Yukki licks his lips, cracking all of his fingers one by one...
"Make it good... Mikoto..." Yukki said with almost an air of... sadness...
Like he didn't want any of this happening...
And yet... how ironic...
Coming from the leaders who believed...
In the Great Empire's supremacy... and...
Superiority...
Who did and obeyed... with no questions asked...
Was the means... justifiable for the end?
Yes... yes is the answer...
As he would say...
If it weren't for them two...
The Great Empire would've won...
A long long... time ago...
Shion hides in the shadows... knowing... her resolve...
Her choice...
And later...
Her decision...
"Suzushii... get here... quick..." she muttered, her form blending in and being sucked in by abyss behind her...
Knowing this game of cat and mouse...
Will surely last weeks...
Best save your aura...
Till then...
Till the moment...
He loses every single ounce...
Of aura...
In him...
Why was he here?
He's here...
Because he can't... decide...
To kill the remnants of his past...
Or to be consumed by it fully...
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-Present Day-
Through the city square...
The rubble falls down...
The neon lights flicker and shine the way...
Trails of blood lead to the...
Where the real fight...
Will be...
The speakers all playing one song...
From a certain somewhere...
A certain song is playing...
The vinyl crackles and spins...
The voice wails...
"Come on, come on... you think you'll drive me crazy?"
https://youtu.be/MswujC7pvco / You and Whose Army? By Radiohead
"You and whose army?"
"You and your cronies?"
Suzushii scoffs and raises his hand and arm right across his face...
Right across the city square... stood...
His former comrade...
And yet...
Were they ever really comrades?
Mikoto grits his teeth, hysterically laughing, raising his hands right above the air
Always the one to find humor in anything, despite the more morbid situations as of late...
As of... their nature
As The Great Leaders...
"Mikoto... how???"
Suzushii grips his fists hard, strengthening his aura with a coat blue flame
"HOW DID YOU SURVIVE? YOU FUCKING RAT!!!!" he screamed
"Oh?" Mikoto chuckled chillingly
"I'm the rat?"
"After all this time... you dare... say something like that..." Mikoto's voice is strangely calm...
It's creepy
His fingers all crack and twist in multiple different ways... directions...
It's clear...
It's going to happen...
"Y'know..." Mikoto continues on
"I've been waiting for this... for soooo long... you killed..."
"Aoki..."
"You... betrayed us... you and your little brat!"
"Atsu-chan~~" he says mockingly
"Hell! I'm pretty sure you egged him on!"
"YOU MADE HIM KILL AKARI!" he snaps, his fingers ready...
"Even if he never wanted to..."
Suzushii just stands there... in silence...
Remembering that... fateful day...
The mist gets thicker, the music intensifies...
The clouds... above them...
Pelt them with rain...
The rain is thick... heavy...
Everywhere...
"Come on if you think, come if you think"
"You can take us all on..."
"You can take us all on..."
"You and whose army?"
"You and your cronies?"
The music trancends to a crescendo!
Both of their bodies are sent flying, as the both of the get closer and closer
Their eyes never leaving each other's
Suzushii lands a fist full into Mikoto's entire chest, ripping a hole into him
But he just laughs!
"AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH THIS IS FUN!!!! SO MUCH FUN!!!!!"
He grabs Suzushii's neck and grips hard on it, choking him hard
His fingers emitting a purple light, it crushes it entirely!
Suzushii just clicks his tongue sarcastically, scoffing at his attempts
"Oh we both thought it'd be that easy huh?"
"Let's actually go all out now? YOU FUCKING FREAK!" Suzushii screamed, the force on his neck didn't crush anything, instead... it completely burns Mikoto's hands, he just smirks and grins, leaving his position near him
Jumping from different directions, he uses his fingers, writing rapidly all over the place
From the metro trains, to the stations, to the concrete beneath them, to the buildings
Suzushii spreads his arms and sudden surges of water flood the city square, all of the cars are then moved by the waves, they are sent everwhere, from the ground below all the way to the skyscrapers around them
Sent crashing into Mikoto, who dodges them one by one, the buildings are all being destroyed one by one, explosions of the cars, to debris falling down, and yet...
Mikoto stands firm... in his conviction...
To finally avenge them...
His comrades...
H-his... family
Everything from construction wide steel cables, to giant dental flosses, to ropes, to laces of sour candy are coming after Suzushii
Who just grips the air with his hand and in crushing it, gigantic tornadoes are willed into existence, along with the ground beneath them being used by Suzushii, who crushes the rock and turns them into even more debris
And with his control...
He completely demolishes the city square, basically...
Self-destructing it...
He flies and shields himself with layer upon layer upon layer of his flaming blue aura...
THE CITY SQUARE IMPLODES INTO ITSELF!!!!
And with the remains...
"BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mikoto jumps Suzushii, who...
Is inside his barrier!
They both struggle as Mikoto writes EXPLOSION into every part of his body, Suzushii's eyes widen, trying to grip free of Mikoto's chokehold
He sends his barrier, and basically them flying all the way to where Suzushii had to go...
"If I can't finish you here!" Suzushii bites his lip...
"THEN I'LL CRUSH YOU BENEATH MY HEEL!!!!"
"WHERE I SHOULD'VE HAD!!! A LONG LONG TIME AGO!!!!!!"
"JUST LIKE YOUR PRECIOUS "AOKI"" he taunts and mocks Mikoto, who snaps, igniting every single one of the writings on Atsushi
He doesn't care if he dies here right now
His rage... his impulses...
Control him now...
And always have...
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
The explosions are all set off at once, their impacts hitting their bodies with the force of an atom bomb
It is ignited onto the sky of the once Fukushima, the skies are all opened wide, the twilight sky right underneath them
The rain however... doesn't stop...
It keeps going...
Regardless...
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Right across the valley of the crater, right in front of it all...
Right above...
The two agents stand there, awaiting...
Suzushii...
And trying to find Atsushi...
The woman in white majestic robes gets closer to them...
"You won't be able to grasp where he is... but he is there..." she said, her voice chilling to the bone
Keiko shudders, freezing due to the mist
Musen turns his head, to see Shion
"That's his ability after all... to deceive..."
"The former leader of surveillance..."
Both of the agents look at her... surprised...
In shock...
"Atsushi was a former leader... of us... the great empire..."
"And so was Suzushii..." her face almost changing... with emotion... nostalgia... longing... loss...
All three of them stand in wait...
The fog around them spreads... of their emotions...
Fear... anger... wallow...
Death...
Their own mortality...
Shion sighs... her eyes as cold and distant than ever...
"I... after what we have done..."
"As leaders... I thought... we were doing the right thing..."
"For the longest time..."
"But the moment, both Suzushii and Atsushi defected..."
"Something in me had snapped..."
"It's like... I knew... deep down..."
"I was just following... enjoying my friends... all of them..."
"M-my family..." she smiled softly, revealing a part of her that no one else had seen, Keiko warms up to her, despite her being the enemy... she gets it..
Maybe they were... just like them...
They're just like us...
People... on the other side...
Keiko thought...
"Whatever happens... now... know that..." she says with a rougher voice
"I'm not following them anymore!" she said with resolve, grabbing both of their shoulders...
"I- I-"
"I'M NOT A LEADER ANYMORE!" she screamed for the first time in her life, showing her true locked up and bottled emotions...
The explosion of Suzushii and Mikoto breaks the silence, just as she had...
The shockwaves are sent all over them, all over the valley, wiping away the mist, and with this...
Atsushi's true position is found... Right above the valley as well...
Near...
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His aura...
Had run out...
"THERE YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" YUKKI SCREAMED, JUMPING AT HIS POSITION, HIS FANGS AND FINGERNAILS HISSING, READY TO STRIKE
Atsushi all vulnerable, is too tired to move...
"Is this it?" he muttered...
He closes his eyes once more...
Not resisting...
But...
Accepting...
"I'm so sorry... Inari... Jisei... Natsuno..."
"For everything..." he sobs...
He didn't come here to do his mission...
He came here to...
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-To Be Continued-
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Ending Song: https://youtu.be/HfXYtnZ-L-E / Song Seven by Interpol