The Union of Justice! Book 1: The Rise Of Daemonus. [EPILOGUE UP!]

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

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Plot: The Union of Justice are a gathering of children with special powers or creatures to command that protects the Earth from danger. But when an evil Demon named Daemonus rises from the pits of Hell itself, they will have to be stronger than ever to stand up to this new threat! What could possibly happen?!

 

Fan Fic Theme Song:

Gackt - Redemption[/align]

 

[spoiler=Prolouge: The Evil Awakens...][align=center]Prolouge: The Evil Awakens...

 

Kishido was walking in an abandoned ruin. He had received an anonymus message the other day that he was supposed to meet someone here, and he was kinda eager to meet this unknown person. Although, the thought of that he didn´t know who it was scared him, he ignored it, as he stopped in front of an entrance to a dungeon. He pulled something out of his pocket. A small device. He pressed some buttons, and the screen began to glow. A light erupted from it, and streams of data code emerged from it. It formed into a humanoid creature, although it resembled a vampire with a black cloak, blue suit with golden trims, and a small, purple mask.

 

"Is this it, Kishido?" The creature asked. Kishido shrugged his shoulders.

 

"Dunno..." He replied. "But I feel that it´s no longer safe here. Something is coming this way, Myotismon. I can feel it."

 

"Damn right it is!" A voice behind them replied. Kishido and Myotismon turned around. Behind them was a boy, roughly Kishido´s age, with blond, slick hair and blue eyes. He was dressed in a black cloak with green trims, and on his chest was a green and silver badge with a snake on it, and under it stood "Slytherin". He smirked at them.

 

"Who the hell are you?" Kishido asked. The boy continued to smirk.

 

"Someone that is about to teach you two a few things!" He replied. "You should know that vampires are not too good to hang out with!" He pulled a wooden stick from his sleeve. Myotismon cackled.

 

"You really think we´re scared of that puny stick?" He chuckled, as he pulled his hand back. "Take this! Blazing Inferno!" He formed a red fire whip, and lashed it at the boy.

 

"EXPELLIARMUS!" He shouted, as he whipped his stick and created a red blast that was send towards the fire whip that neutralised it. He chuckled. "You should really know better than to attack a Full-Blood wizard! GLACIUS!" He whipped the stick again, and a frosty wind emerged from it´s tip. As it charged at Kishido and Myotismon, it froze all in it´s path. When it was about to hit, a sand wall came in it´s way, as it froze solid.

 

"Huh?" Kishido looked at the frozen wall of sand. "What´s this?"

 

"That´s my work!" Another voice said. The sand wall broke free from the ice and dissolved, as another boy appeared. He had red hair, green eyes, and a red tatoo mark over his left eye. He was dressed in a dark brown suit with a white rag across the chest, and he also had a gourd on his back, from which it poured sand. "I am Gaara, The Sand Demon!"

 

"Sand Demon?" Kishido was intrigued. "But demons do not exist!"

 

"Pfff!" Gaara crossed his arms. "What kinda stories have YOU heard?! Demons ARE real, and I am living proof!"

 

"ENOUGH!" The other boy shouted, as he pointed his stick at Gaara. "How dare you ignore Draco Malfoy, the son of the World-Renowned Lucius Malfoy?!" Gaara just laughed.

 

"A stick? You threaten me with a STICK?!" The sand around his feet began to slither like a snake. "You should know your place!" Suddenly, the sand grabbed hold of Draco, as it lifted him into the air and held him upside-down. Kishido couldn´t help but to snicker. "Don´t laugh...you´re next!" Gaara continued, as he looked at Draco.

 

"AAHH!! L-LET ME GO!!" He yelped, as he hanged helpless in the air. Gaara shrugged, as the sand dropped him on the ground. Kishido stepped between them.

 

"Okay! I wanna know what´s going on, and I wanna know it NOW!" He shouted. Suddenly, a dark materia swelled up from the dungeon entrance, and formed itself to a man. He was dressed in a black robe, and had a black suit underneath it. A chain was attatched to his left leg, and he had an eyepatch over his right eye. But instead of a left hand, a big, black pincer erupted, as it glistered in the moonlight.

 

"What is going on, my dear, fellow villains..." He said in a blood-chilling tone,"Is that you have been chosen to fight at my side...and gain surpreme control over the world!!" Kishido, Gaara and Draco were shocked.

 

"Who the hell are you?!" Draco said in a scared tone, as he whipped his stick. "RICTUSEMPRA" A loud bang was heard, and a magic blast erupted from the tip and charged at the man. He just deflected the blast with his hand, as it exploded upon a ruin pillar. Gaara stood still, as the sand around his formed a giant wave that crashed upon the man. The man escaped unharmed, as he was surrounded by a purple aura.

 

"Hmpf! Pathetic!" He scoffed. "Anyone else who wanna try?"

 

The three of them backed away, and the man smirked.

 

"I didn´t think so..." He muttered. "Now then, shall we discuss this like civilized beings?"

 

"Wait!" Kishido impiled. "Before I am into this, I wanna know your name!"

 

"My name......is Daemonus...

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 1: Meeting The Union.][align=center]Chapter 1: Meeting The Union.

 

Rock Lee was lying on his bed in his room, as he stared into the roof. He sighed deeply. He was dressed in his usual, green training suit, and with bandaids strapped around his hands. His black hair laid perfectly flat, and his thick eyebrows moved a bit each time he thought of something. This was something he usually did, since there have been no big threats for mankind lately. In his bookshelves were scrolls, kunais, shurikens, all that a ninja like him would need. On the wall was a big poster of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, his biggest idols, since he himself was a warrior. He was a ninja from the Konoha Village, and a very prideful one. He had been trained in Taijutsu by Might Guy, who he idolized so much he actually copied his clothing style! He then sat up and cracked his fingers.

 

"Man, I can´t just sit here and do nothing!" He said to himself, as he stood up. In the same time, someone knocked at the door. "Come in!" He replied happily, as he strapped on a pair of orange leg-weights on his ankles. The door opened, and Lee saw a boy standing outside.

He was dressed in a white and black-trimmed T-Shirt and green pants, had brown, ruffled-up hair, and green eyes. On his wrist was a device attatched. It was slightly black with green buttons here and there, and with a big, green button in the middle, which could also be turned clockwise and counter-clockwise. He smiled as he saw Lee.

 

"Hiya Lee!" He said. "You ready for breakfast?"

 

"Boy, I sure am Ben!" Lee replied, as he walked up to Ben and rubbed him gently on the head. "Man, you´ve grown!"

 

"Yup!" Ben said confidently. "One day, I´ll be as big as you, and without the aid of this!" He pointed at the device, as Lee chuckled.

 

"You sure will Ben! You sure will..." He said, as he and Ben walked down the stairs. As they were about to enter the kitchen, Ben sneak-peeked inside, and quickly hided behind a wall. Lee raised one of his eyebrows a bit. "What´s wrong?"

 

"I-I-It´s h-her!" Ben stuttered nervously, and pointed towards the kitchen entrance. Lee looked inside. At the table sat a girl. She was dressed in a white T-Shirt with light-blue sleeves, blue jeans with a brown belt across the waist, where a small card-package was attatched, red wristbands, and a yellow scarf around the neck. Her hair was red and strapped up in a spikey pony-tail, and her eyes were blue. She looked towards the entrance, and noticed Lee. She blushed a bit, and waved at him.

 

"Hi, Lee!" She giggled a bit. "You´re fine?"

 

"Oh, hi Rika!" Lee replied. "Never felt better in my entire life!" He walked into the kitchen, and over to the fridge. He opened it, an grabbed a small Powerbar, which he opened and chewed on, as he sat down next to Rika.

 

"Is that all you´re going to eat?" Rika said, as she looked at the Powerbar. "You´re going to starve, you know." Lee just smiled.

 

"Not a chance!" He replied with a big grin. "The meal of a Warrior must not be too big, nor too small, but just..."

 

"...Big enough for his appetite, I know." Rika followed up and sighed. "But, really, shouldn´t you at least try some bread? I baked it yesterday!" She passed a bread basket to Lee. It was filled with slices of white, aromatic bread. Lee sniffed a bit, and sighed in delight. He took a slice, and scraped some butter on it. He hesitatingly looked at Rika, but then took a large bite of the bread slice.

 

"Mmmm, Mmmm! This is delishious!" He said, as he swallowed the bite. "Thanks, Rika!"

 

"What won´t you do for a buddy?" She chuckled, as she took her slice and chewed on it. Ben hesitatingly looked into the kitchen. Rika didn´t notice him. Now, if Lee was safe maybe he was too? Although, he DID play a nasty prank on her yesterday, Ben was pretty sure he was in her firing line. Although...

 

"Hiya, Ben!" A loud voice said to him. Ben was about to jump ten feet straight into the air, but instead tripped into the kitchen, landing face-first. Behind him was two, even-aged boys. One of them had red, almost flaming hair and blue eyes, and the other one had black, ruffled-up hair, green eyes, glasses, and a strange, lightning-bolt formed scar on his forehead. Both of them were dressed in black cloaks with red trims, and had red and golden badges on their chests with a golden lion in the middle. It stood "Gryffindor" beneath. The red-haired one looked embarrased. "Sorry..." He mumbled.

 

"Hi Harry! Hi Ron!" Rika said happily. Both of them waved at her.

 

"Morning Rika." Harry replied, as he sat down next to her. "Is there any toast?"

 

"Um, yea I think so." Rika said, and pointed at the countertop beside the fridge. "Wait, I´ll get it for..."

 

"No need to!" Harry calmed her, as he pulled out his wand, and made a smooth turn up and twisted it down while saying, "Wingardium Leviosa!" The toast slices began to levitate in the air, as they landed on the table. One in front of Harry, and the other one in front of an empty seat, where Ron sat down and took it from the air.

 

"Thanks, mate!" He said with a happy grin.

 

"Actually, it was for HER..." Harry noted and pointed beside Ron.

 

"Her?" Ron looked beside him, and fell out of his chair in sudden fear. "WAAH!" Beside him was something that might have resembled a human fox. She had yellow fur all over her body, exept a part of her chest and her lower legs, where her fur was white as snow. She had purple gloves that stretched up over half her arms, and each of them had a Yin-Yang symbol at the hands. She sighed a bit, as she sat down and grabbed the toast slice.

 

"Thanks, Harry..." She said, and eyed Ron a bit. "Why are you still afraid of me?"

 

"I-I´m not afraid, exactly..." Ron stuttered, as he recovered from the shock. "I´m just not use to people that pop up right beside me! It freaks me out!"

 

"I can see that." Harry snickered. "Oh, you´re welcome, Renamon." He hastily filled in, as he scraped some butter on his slice.

 

"Had a nice sleep?" Rika asked her partner. Renamon just shrugged.

 

"Don´t know." She replied, as she took a bite out of her toast. "Didn´t sleep at all, I think." Lee was about to choke on a bread piece, Harry looked shocked, and Rika was worried sick.

 

"No sleep?!" She said, as she rushed over to her and put her hand on Renamon´s forehead. "You´re sure that you´re feeling fine?"

 

"I AM fine!" Renamon muttered, as Rika took her hand away. "I just sat on the roof for awhile, and looked at the stars. There were a lot of them tonight. It was very beautiful." Rika sighed in relief.

 

"Thank God!" She said, as she sat down in Renamon´s lap. "I´m just worried about you, you know?" Renamon smiled, and hugged Rika.

 

"I know, Rika." She replied. "I won´t make you worried again then!" Rika nodded, and then stood up and helped Ben up.

 

"Finally!" He moaned, as he shook his head. "You know, lying on the floor isn´t so nice as some people sa..." He noticed Rika staring at him, and he got nervous. "U-U-Ummm......h-hi, Rika!" He stuttered.

 

"Hi, Tennyson!" Rika replied coldly. "You know, that wasn´t very nice of you yesterday..."

 

"W-What?" Ben tried to play innocent. "I-I don´t have a clue..." Suddenly, he was whacked in the head by Rika. She held a frying pan in her hand.

 

"Don´t you try and sneak away!!" She yelled. "You drenched me while I was working on my tan, remember?!!" She swinged the frying pan at him again, but missed, as Ben rushed behind Lee. Lee just laughed, as did all of them, exept Rika.

 

"What´s so funny?" A voice said from the entrance. There stood another girl. She had a red skirt that ended in white feather darts, red gloves up to her shoulderblades, and red, long hair. She blushed when she saw Harry. "O-Oh...h-hi Harry." She stuttered.

 

"Hello Mileena!" Harry replied, as he pointed his wand at a chair. "Depulso!" The chair moved out a bit, and Mileena sat down. "Everything alright?"

 

"Y-Yeah...I´m fine." She stuttered, as she took a bread slice. She held it in the air, as a small fire erupted from her fingertip, and she slightly toasted the slice. Ben was jealous.

 

"Man, I wish I could do that without turning to Heatblast." He said, as he observed Mileena. Suddenly, a large crash was heard from the entrance, and sand poured into the house!

 

"AAH!!" Ron got scared, as he ducked a sand wave intended for him. Mileena hastily stood up and threw a fireball at her sand wave, and it turned into glass.

 

"EVERYONE, GET OUT!!" Harry shouted, as they went up the stairs. The sand just followed them, as it stopped behind them. The others looked around, as the sand heap began to grow, and alter shape. Soon enough, Gaara stood and stared at them.

 

"Gaara!!" Lee roared, as he stepped forward. "What are you doing here?!!" Gaara cackled sadistically.

 

"To see you DIE!!" He replied. "Draco! Kishido! ATTACK!!!"

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 2: Fighting Old Adversaries.][align=center]Chapter 2: Fighting Old Adversaries.

 

Suddenly, the sand around Gaara formed into two other figures, as Draco and Kishido emerged. They smirked at Mileena and the others.

 

"Well, well, look who´s here......" Draco snickered. "Potty and Weasel! I should´ve known that this...pathetic excuse of a house was something to find Half-Bloods like you in!"

 

"Draco Malfoy..." Harry replied coldly, as he and Ron pulled their wands. "I see you found some new friends..."

 

"Not that you really had any!" Ron sarcastically filled in. Draco´s smile turned into a frown.

 

"You will regret that, Weasley!" He sneered, and whipped his wand. "Incendio!" Blue-purple flames sprouted from it, straight at Harry and Ron.

 

"GLACIUS!" They shouted in unison, as both of their wands sprouted out a blizzard storm. The corridor froze to ice, and Draco felt chills through his spine.

 

"Let´s go while they´re distracted!" Mileena implied. Everyone nodded and went past Harry and Ron, as they focused the blizzard at Draco and the others, so the others could run back down the stairs. Gaara noticed that, as he turned into a sand cloud and disappeared. The others were in the living room.

 

"I think we shook them off!" Lee was panting. Until they looked in front of them, where Gaara stood!

 

"You really think so?" He replied coldly, as sand bursted out of the floor tiles and formed a giant wave that crashed upon them. Renamon grabbed Rika and jumped out of the way, Ben quickly rolled behind a sofa, and Lee bashed through the sand wall and charged at Gaara.

 

"Konoha Senpuu!" He shouted, as he kicked Gaara, but his a sand barrier instead. He landed on both feet, and tried to punch him, but another barrier blocked his attack. For every fist or kick Lee tried to land, another sand wall briefly formed and dissolved. Gaaga smirked, as he lunged his palm forward. A hand made of sand grabbed Lee and pummeled him into a wall. The hand held him in a tight grasp, refusing to let go, no matter how hard Lee struggled. Gaara laughed sadistically, as he clutched his hand slowly. The hand was now squeezing Lee slowly, and he screamed in pain. Soon, he would die of the pressure, and if not of that, the lack of air. Gaara was about to finish him off, until he felt a sharp blow in his gut.

 

"Agh!!" Gaara staggered, and the sand-hand dissolved, releasing Lee. As Gaara looked up, he saw something that resembled a Hi-Tech Velociraptor, with sleek, light-blue skin, a thin black and white armor, a light-blue and black-striped tail, and with black wheels instead of feets. "Who the hell are you?!" Gaara yelled.

 

"Call me......XLR8!" The creature said, as a windshield covered his face, and he disappeared. Gaara looked wildly around. Suddenly, a sand barrier was created and dissolved in the blink of an eye! He looked in that direction, but then, another barrier created and dissolved itself. Gaara was confused, as he suddenly lost control of the sand, and it fell lifeless down on the floor. Then, XLR8 appeared in front of him, and pummeled him at blinding speed, and finished it off by slapping his massive tail into Gaara´s chest and sended him crashing into a wide-screen TV. "Oh no! Not the TV!" XLR8 yelped.

 

"Well, it´s your own fault!" Rika replied coldly, as she and Renamon got up. "You should THINK a bit before you act, Ben!" XLR8 was in fact Ben, only transformed with the aid of his device, The Omnitrix.

 

"Hey, knock it off, Rika!" He snapped back at her. "If I hadn´t done something, Lee would have been pushing up daisies by now!" At that moment, Lee got up on his feet, a bit dizzy, as he recovered from the sudden impact.

 

"Thanks, Ben!" He said, as he straightened himself. Suddenly, they heard a crash above. "Harry and Ron are in trouble! Let´s go!"

 

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Meanwhile, Harry and Ron swinged and lashed their wands, as they repelled Draco´s attacks.

 

"Is that all you got?" Draco cackled, as he swinged his wand. "Rictusempra!" A magic blast hitted Harry, as he flew backwards and crashed through the door to his room. It was pretty regular, exept that the bookshelves were filled with spell books and ink bottles. Harry quickly got up, as Draco prepared another spell.

 

"DEPULSO!!" Harry yelled, as Draco was pushed backwards, and dropped his wand. Harry then aimed his wand at the roofpart on top of Draco. "BOMBARDA!!" A massive, magic force blew the roof to bits, as the debree crashed upon Draco. Harry was panting, and he got up and ran over to Ron, who lied on the ground.

 

"H-Harry!" Ron stuttered, as Harry helped him up. "You Ok?"

 

"Yeah, I´m fine." Harry replied, as they looked at the pile of wood.

 

"Ha! He won´t get out of there in the first place!" Ron chuckled, as Lee, Rika & Renamon, Ben and Mileena got back up.

 

"You guys Ok?" Lee asked, and noticed a pile of debree.

 

"Yeah, we´re fine!" Harry replied. "But who was that guy that attacked you?"

 

"It was Gaara." Lee instructed. "A dangerous Sand Ninja that has tried to kill me and my friends many times over! He is extremely dangerous."

 

"Well, that would give Draco a reason to join him!" Ron filled in, as he looked around. "But, hey......wasn´t there another guy?"

 

"You mean me?" They looked around to the stairs, and saw Kishido. Rika´s face turned red with anger.

 

"Kishido!!" She yelled. "What are YOU doing here?!"

 

"To see you......Rika." Kishido replied. "You´ve grown a bit, but you´re still too tempered."

 

"TEMPERED?!!" Rika boiled with anger. "WHY YOU..."

 

"Rika!" Renamon eyed Kishido. "You just shut up!"

 

"Why should I?" Kishido asked, and walked up to Rika. "After all...I am right, am I not?" He fondled Rika´s cheek, and Renamon looked away with disgust. Rika backed away and slapped Kishido across the face.

 

"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" She shouted, as a small tear ran down her cheek. Kishido muttered something, and stared furiously at Rika.

 

"Have it your way!" He roared. "Myotismon, Attack!" Suddenly, thousands of bats flied into the house, and formed into a vampire hidden in his cloak. It was Myotismon. He chuckled sadistically, as he flung the cloak open and stretched out his hands.

 

"Grisly Wing!" He called out, as a bat swarm emerged from thin air and charged at Rika and the others. The bats surrounded them, and Myotismon smirked.

 

"AAH!! GET THEM AWAY!!" Ron cried, as he whipped his wand and arms to get them off himself. Harry calmly whipped his wand.

 

"Lumos Maxima!" He called out, as the tip of the wand bursted out an illuminating light and blinded the bats. The light starled Kishido and Myotismon, and suddenly, Lee was in front of Myotismon, as he kicked him into the air and followed up with several kicks on his chin. Then, Lee disappeared, as several bandaids flinged around Myotismon, and strapped themselves around him.

 

"W-What?!!" Myotismon stuttered, as he saw Lee behind him. He grabbed Myotismon, turned himself upside-down, and spinned around.

 

"Take this! OMOTE RENGE!"(Translation: Primary Lotus) Lee yelled, as both of them was spinning towards the bottom floor. As they crashed upon the floor, Lee jumped out of harms way, and landed three feet away from Myotismon. Myotismon stood up and stared at Lee.

 

"You will pay!" He shouted, as he stretched out his arms.

 

"No!" Kishido stopped him, and glanced at Rika. Let´s leave them for now. The master wants us to return."

 

"Already?" Gaara had appeared next to him, and looked down at Lee. "I wanted to play a little longer!"

 

"Well..." Draco managed to crawl out of the rubble, as he dusted off his cloak and looked at Gaara. "You know what they say. Time flies away when you have fun!" And at that moment, he, Gaara, Kishido and Myotismon disappeared in black clouds.

 

"What?" Ron looked dumbstruck. "What happened?"

 

"They were teleported away." Mileena replied. "Now, let´s see if we can repair the damages..."

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 3: A Dancing Clown...][align=center]Chapter 3: A Dancing Clown...

 

"YOU PATHETIC, INCOMPETENT, AND USELESS LOT OF FOOLS!!!"

 

Daemonus was furious, as he launched purple magic spheres at Gaara, Draco and Kishido. They did their best to dodge them, and soon enough, Daemonus tired and sat down on a spiked obsidian throne in the middle of the room. It was like a medieval throne room. The pillars were decorated with purple and dark-blue banners, the chandeliers had black candles that burned with purple and blue flames, and across the room was a black carpet that stretched to the throne where Daemonus sat.

 

"B-But...S-Sir!" Draco started, but Daemonus didn´t listen.

 

"ENOUGH!" He roared. He sighed, and held his forehead. "You...may leave me." All three of them nodded, and left the throne room. "You may come out now..."

 

Suddenly, something began to flimmer in the shadows, as it got closer and closer to Daemonus. Suddenly, a purple explosion erupted in front of him with a cartoonish "Poof", and there stood a man. He was dressed like a jester, with multi-coloured clothes, brown hair with white feathers on the back, and a pale-white face with red marking at the eyes. He cackled in a creepy tone, and smiled as he saw Daemonus.

 

"Aaaahhh, Daemonus!" He said in a childish tone, and bowed deeply before him. "It is a pleasure to serve you, oh Great Lord!"

 

"Kefka......" Daemonus smirked. "I am glad that you were able to join me in my quest to destroy The Union of Justice. With your aid, they will not stand a chance!"

 

"Don´t forget us!" A voice replied, and a purple vortex was created. Out stepped a woman and a man. The woman was dressed in a red silk dress, which seemed to have merged with her purple hands, a black feather boa which ended in two wings on her back, and white hair with pink tips that ended like demon horns. The man was dressed in dark-brown leather armor on his shoulders and legs, white silk clothing on his arms and around his waist, and long, white hair. He had several light spheres hovering around him, and he floated about one feet above the ground.

 

"Aaaahh, of course not......" Daemonus chuckled. "Ultimecia......Kuja...You too are to be congratulated, as you now stand in front of the, soon to be, world´s supreme ruler!!" Ultimecia and Kuja bowed before him.

 

"You already ARE the world´s ruler..." Ultimecia soothed in a charismatic tone.

 

"...To have such powerful allies as US!" Kuja filled in. "And even if this...relatively SMALL group of oppressors have caused you trouble before, they will no more! I will go there and see to it...PERSONALLY!"

 

"No, Kuja..." Daemonus raised his hand. "You don´t need to worry yourself over them......yet. Kefka..." He turned to Kefka. "I want you to......pay a little visit to our beloved friends. Just to warn them." Kefka cackled in a childish, but also sadistic tone.

 

"It will be a pleasure! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA........."

 

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Meanwhile, the Union had managed to clean up the mess that Gaara, Draco and Kishido had caused during the attack. Ben just sat in front of the broken TV and sighed.

 

"Aaw, maan!" He moaned. "How am I supposed to watch cartoons now?!" Harry went over to him and took out his wand.

 

"I can help!" He said comforting, and aimed the wand at the TV. "Reparo!" The TV suddenly started to re-build itself, and levitated up to it´s place again.

 

"Wow!" Ben was awed, and in the same time overjoyed. "Thanks, Harry!"

 

"No problem!" He replied, and saw Mileena trying to lift a heavy bookshelf. "Let me help! Wingardium Leviosa!" The bookshelf floated upwards, and straightened itself.

 

"T-Thanks..." Mileena stuttered, and blushed a bit. "You´re a real gentleman!" Harry also blushed, and quickly went to help Lee with some books that needed sorting. "Isn´t he handsome?" She whispered to Rika as she went by.

 

"Well...kinda!" Rika giggled, and looked at Lee. "But I´d prefer him! He´s handsome, a gentleman AND strong! Just what a woman these days need!" She sighed deeply and stared at Lee. When he and Harry were finished, he went over to Rika and Mileena. Rika blushed violently, and tried to hide her face.

 

"What´s wrong? Are you alright?" Lee asked. Rika looked at him and giggled.

 

"No, I´m fine! Thanks for asking..." She started to get nervous. "I...I...Ineedtobealone!" She said hastily, as she ran up the stairs and into her room. The walls were coloured marine-blue, and her bed was blue and white. In the many bookshelves were I-pod´s, MP3´s and headphones, along with some fashion magazines and sketchbooks. She laid on her bed and stared into the roof.

 

"What is wrong?" Renamon suddenly appeared next to her, and sat down in the bed.

 

"Nothing...really." Rika sighed. "It´s just that......do you think that...that Lee likes me?" Renamon didn´t know what to answer. She wasn´t really the expert on human relationships, since she was a Digimon. But she just smiled and fondled Rika´s head.

 

"I´m sure he is." she replied, and then stood up. "Just give it some time, and I´m sure he will notice that you love him..." Rika rushed up and hugged Renamon.

 

"T-Thank you." She stuttered, and smiled a bit. Renamon smiled too, and hugged her back.

 

"You´re welcome." She said. "Now, let´s go down to the others, ok?"

 

"Ok..." Rika replied, as she and Renamon went out of her room and down the stairs. Suddenly, they heard a cackling laugh and a scream. "That was Mileena!" Rika said worringly, as she and Renamon rushed out of the house and into the garden. It was really beautiful, with several, colourful flowers growing everywhere, and with a fountain shaped like a phoenix in the middle. Rika and Renamon looked everywhere, but didn´t see the one who screamed.

 

"Up here!!" A familiar voice yelled, and Rika looked up. There was Harry, Ron, Ben and Lee, hanging upside-down in the air with some kind of magical shackles around their hands and feet.

 

"Lee!" Rika shouted. "What happened to you?!"

 

"Some wacko clown appeared and strapped us up here!" Ron replied worringly. "And we can´t get down! He went after Mileena, and she may be in danger!" Ron shrugged his head in the direction that Mileena had run. Rika nodded as she and Renamon ran in that direction.

 

"If she has run this way, they must be at the maze now!" Renamon implied. "We must hurry if we are supposed to find her!"

 

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After a while, Rika and Renamon reached the maze. It was actually a hedge maze, that Harry had made as a gift to Mileena. Rika and Renamon went inside, as they ran left and right to find Mileena. After a few minutes, they had reached the center, and there was Mileena. She was overjoyed to see them.

 

"Rika! Renamon!" She shouted, as she ran up to Rika and hugged her. "I was so worried!! I thought you were dead!" Rika pushed her away a bit.

 

"I´m fine, Mileena!" She replied. Now, where´s that "clown" that Ron told me about?! When I find him, I´m gonna......"

 

"Tell me a joke?!" A voice replied happily behind her. "I just LOOOOVE new jokes!!" Rika shivered and turned around. Behind her was Kefka, soothing upside-down in front of her, and grinned as he saw her.

 

"AAAHHH!!!!" Rika fell backwards, and stumbled up again. "W-Who the hell are you, freak?!!" Kefka walked down from his levitating state, and put his feet on the ground.

 

"Your death!" He said in a childish tone. "Cause do you know what I hate MORE than pesky little kids?! I hate pesky little GIRLS!!! They are just......SOOOO ICKY!! I HATE THEM!! That´s why I hate YOU! AND YOU, AND YOU TOO!!" He pointed at Rika, Renamon and Mileena.

 

"What do you have against us?!" Mileena shouted. "We have done nothing to you!" Kefka´s smile turned into a frown.

 

"I´m sorry, but my master have other plans for you!!" He said, as he charged at Rika. "DIE!!!!" Renamon went in his way and punched him in the face. His face just went in further in his head, as if it was made of rubber.

 

"W-What?!" Renamon was frightened, as her fist was rikocheted out of Kefka´s face. Kefka then tried to punch Renamon, but she ducked the attack. Suddenly, Kefka´s fist stretched out and strangled Renamon´s body like a snake. "AAH!" Renamon tried to struggle free, but Kefka just smirked and strangled her harder.

 

"Renamon! Hold out!" Mileena shouted, and charged up a fireball in her hands, and then launched it at Kefka. He held his other hand at the fireball.

 

"Don´t you disturb us with your pesky tricks, witch!" He cackled, as he launched an iceball at Mileena´s fireball. The attacks neutralised eachother, but in the confusion, Renamon managed to struggle free and attack Kefka. But Kefka dodged the attacks, one after the other, as he bended and stretched his body like rubber. And when Renamon tried to kick him in the stomach, he literally teared himself in two from the head to the waist, as the two halves of his face stared at Renamon.

 

"What´s the matter?" The two halves cackled. "Can´t hit me?! Too bad!" The two halves then merged together, locking Renamon´s foot in place. Kefka smirked sadistically, as he punched Renamon in the gut. She lost her breath, and held her stomach in pain. Kefka then released her foot, and kicked her through several of the hedge maze´s walls. He turned to Rika and Mileena, and cackled in his childish, sadistic tone.

 

"One down..." He snickered, as flames erupted in his hands. "TWO TO GO!!!!"

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 4: Kefka's Defeat...][align=center]Chapter 4: Kefka's Defeat...

 

Kefka lunged his hand forward, and a fireball was created. It splitted into three and charged at Rika and Mileena. They dodged, and the fireballs exploded like fireworks into the hedges. Kefka laughed sadistically.

 

"Ahahahahahahaha!! Little kids shouldn't play with fire, you know!" He cackled, and launched several more fireballs at them. Suddenly, Harry stood in front of Mileena and Rika!

 

"PROTEGO!" He yelled, and lashed his wand. The fireballs bounced off a seemingly invisible barrier, as they flew in different directions. Kefka was furious.

 

"WHAT?! How did you filthy kids escape?!" He yelled at them. Suddenly, Lee bursted out of a hedge next to Kefka.

 

"KONOHA SENPUU!!" He slammed his leg into Kefka´s face, and he was starled. Lee followed up by kicking and punching Kefka all over his body, and then kicked him in the chin and sended him flying. "NOW, BEN!!" He yelled, as a giant, red, and four-armed creature jumped into the air, grabbed Kefka by his legs and pile-drived him into the ground. It was Ben, transformed into Fourarms.

 

"Heh, a fitting end for that clown!" He chuckled, as he walked over to Rika and Mileena. "You ok?"

 

"Hmpf! We're fine." Rika shrugged. "You could have been a little faster, you know!"

 

"Hey, stop complaining!" Ben replied. "You would have been dead if we hadn't got loose!"

 

"ENOUGH!!" Kefka bursted out of the ground and soared above them. "I've had enough of you! DIE!!!" He lashed his arm forward and created several lightning bolts that charged at them in a row. All of them dodged as fast as they could, and Harry made a quick counter-attack.

 

"BOMBARDA!!" He called out, as Kefka was blasted in the face by a magic concussion blast. Kefka just shrugged and fired off three fireballs at him, which splitted into nine. "PROTEGO!!" Harry called again, as an invisible barrier deflected the fireballs back at Kefka. He dodged them with ease, and flied towards Ben. Ben picked up a big rock and hurled it at him, but he kicked it to splinters with his heel, and then followed up by kicking Ben in the chin. He staggered, but then grabbed Kefka's foot and dragged him near, punched him in the chest, and pummeled his face into the ground. Kefka chuckled, as he kicked Ben in the chest, causing him to fly backwards.

 

"Heheheheeeee!" Kefka cackled in a sadistic tone. "Time to go bye-bye!" He raised his hand, and created a lightning spear in it, which seemed to be capable of piercing anything. He smirked and aimed it at Ben.

 

"Die, fool!" He yelled, and threw the spear at him. Suddenly, a voice yelled, "RICTUSCEMPRA!!" and a magic blast collided with the spear and detonated it. Ben was starled, but quickly got up on his feet. "WHAT?! WHO DID THAT!!!" Kefka roared, and looked at the direction from where the spell had been cast. There was Ron, shivering like crazy, and with his wand stretched out.

 

"Ron!" Ben yelled at him. "Get outta there!" Suddenly, a device on his shoulder started to blink red, and in a red flash, he was normal again. "Oh no!" Kefka looked at him again, and smirked.

 

"Heheeee! Seems like your big, red friend has gone away!" He cackled, and his hands flamed with fire. "Too bad, little kid! Cause now, I'm gonna make you PAY!!!" He raised his hand and prepared to finish Ben off. But then, something grabbed hold of his wrist, and the fire stopped. "WHAT NOW?!" Kefka turned around, and saw Harry holding his wand at his wrist. From it, a magic rope was holding him in place. Suddenly, Ron stood at his side, and held out his wand.

 

"CARPE RETRACTUM!!" He called out, as another magical rope bursted out of his wand and tied Kefka's other wrist. "CARPE RETRACTUM!!" Both of them yelled, and another rope bursted out of each their wands, tying up Kefka's ankles. He was immobile for a moment, and Lee took his shot. He charged at Kefka, and landed a hard kick in his chest, which should have sended him flying. But with the ropes restricting him, he had nowhere to run, as Lee continued to deliver one bone-splintering kick or punch after the other. After a while, Kefka was barely standing up, as the ropes forced him to stay up.

 

"Y-Y-YOU FOOLS!!" He stuttered, and when Lee was about to deliver the last kick into his chest, he disappeared in a cartoonish "Poof", and dissolved into a deck of cards. A cackling laugh was heard, and Lee inspected the cards. They were all Joker cards, and with Kefka's face on them.

 

"Damn! He slipped away!" Harry was panting, as the ropes from his and Ron's wand dissolved.

 

"Maybe..." Mileena got up, and walked over to Harry. "Maybe I can find out who he was! I can look into my Arcana Book, and if he is real, maybe I can find him!" Harry nodded.

 

"That´s true!" He added. "The Arcana Book contains all the information of all creatures and persons that have live, is still alive, and WILL live in this world!" Everyone agreeded, and rushed back into the house...

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 5: The Unknown Warriors.][align=center]Chapter 5: The Unknown Warriors.

 

Mileena and the others were inside her room. It was filled with magic scrolls and books, potions of all colours and sizes, big and small cauldrons, and a glass sphere hovering on a pedestal in the middle. Mileena was searching through her giant bookshelf until she found a giant, thick book trimmed with gold and jewels.

 

"Here it is!" she explained, and dusted it off. "The Arcana Book! We should find our new adversary here somewhere..." she flipped numerous pages, as several, familiar faces were seen by the Union´s members. Suddenly, she stopped at a hideous clown-face, which made Ben and Ron jump away from the book.

 

"There he is!" Harry implied, as he looked at the name written under the picture. "Kefka Palazzo!" Mileena was intrigued, as she read about him.

 

"Kefka Palazzo is known as a psychotic womanhater, and he is quite powerful! He was experimented on a long time ago, in an attempt of allowing him to use "Magi-Tech"! But after the experiment, he became mentally unstable, which soon led to paranoia, and then, to what he is today!" Rika was creeped out.

 

"Man! No wonder he had such a killing sense of humour!" she said, as she suddenly noticed another man on the other page. "Hey, look! Who´s that?" Mileena read loud:

 

"Daemonus. A powerful Demon of ages past, and enemy of all Good!" she read. Suddenly, red markings formed on the lower end of the page, and a new sentence was written. "Has recently been awakened and formed the Evil Rebellion?!" she read, as more markings appeared. "Newly recruited are following: Gaara of The Sand, Draco Malfoy, Kishido Akurame, Kefka Palazzo, Kuja and Ultimecia!?!!!!" everyone was shocked.

 

"So THAT is why Gaara hanged around those two?!" Lee said furiously. "When I catch him...I´ll make him regret his wishes to live!!"

 

"Man, I hate that useless, filthy, sneaking little..." Ron was about to curse, but Harry covered his mouth so Ben wouldn´t hear. "Sorry Harry. I just hate that Draco!" Harry nodded, as he turned to Mileena.

 

"Mileena. If Daemonus has such powerful allies, then we should think about recruiting as well!" Mileena nodded, as she flipped the pages, until she found a couple of persons. She continued to flip the pages, as a magical pen came to life and wrote down a few names:

 

Squall Leonheart

Zidane

Warrior of Light

Tidus

Onion Knight

Cloud

 

"There!" she finally sighed, and slammed the book shut. "That will do for now!" she showed the others the note. "These are the people we are going to find, and I know just how! Pack your gears, ladies and gentlemen! We are out on a journey!"

 

=======Meanwhile, In Another Dimension=======

 

"C´mon, Tidus! Focus now!!"

 

Squall was practicing his sword skills along with Tidus and Cloud, as they dueled eachother all at once. Cloud swinged his sword at Tidus, but he did a somersault into the air and dodged, as he was about to land a blow at Squall. But Squall was quick, as he sidestepped and slashed at him. Tidus parried the attack with his sword, as he saw Cloud charge at them. He smirked at Squall, as he jumped out of the way and Squall was forced to block Cloud´s attack. Tidus landed a few metres away, as he stood up and snickered for himself.

 

"Hehe! What´s the matter, eh? Can´t catch me?!" he chuckled, as he didn´t notice something wrap around his ankle. Suddenly, the thing pulled his wrist violently, and Tidus tripped. "Oow!! ZIDANE!!" a boy jumped in front of him, and smirked at him.

 

"Yeeeeesss?" he smiled with an innocent tone.

 

"You tripped me!" Tidus implied, but Zidane just snickered.

 

"Whaaaaat? I haven´t done anything!" he replied, as he quickly jumped into a tree and hanged upside-down in a branch. He was hanging with a yellow-furred tail, as he smiled at Tidus. Tidus gruffed as he got up. Someone helped him up. A small boy dressed like a knight smiled at him.

 

"Hey, thanks Onion!" Tidus chuckled, and Onion smiled.

 

"Well, my name is Onion KNIGHT, but thanks!" he replied, as he went over to a larger, elder knight. "Hey! Warrior of Light! I just did another good act!" the knight smiled and patted Onion Knight´s helmet.

 

"I see. Good job." he walked over to Squall and Cloud, as he separated them. "There will be enough time for training later this day. Now we must press on!"

 

"Hmf. Alright." Squall scoffed, as he whistled for Zidane, who climbed down and rushed up to the others.

 

"Sooo...where are we going now?" he asked Squall. He shrugged and put his Revolver Blade on his shoulder.

 

"We will go where we are needed, I guess..." he replied, as the group wandered off into the roughlands......

 

=======Back To The Union...=======

 

Mileena had gathered all of them in her room again. They had packed things they needed the most, and nothing more. Mileena walked up to the glass sphere on the pedestal in the center of the room.

 

"Now then......" she said, as she placed her hands on the sphere, and it started to glow. "I will locate their Life Force, and hopefully I will find them." Ben shivered a bit.

 

"Hopefully?!" he said worried. "B-But what if you don´t find them?!"

 

"Then I maybe teleport us somewhere else." Mileena replied, as she continued to look into the sphere. Ben gulped a bit, as Mileena suddenly found something. "There! I have them!! Now to open the portal!" the sphere suddenly started to glow, and strings of light emerged from it. They started to form a circle in front of them, and Rika was a bit scared, as she held Lee´s hand. She quickly realised it, and blushed violently. The circle suddenly erupted in a portal, as a world was seen through it. Mileena was panting, since she was exhausted of the spell draining her Magic Power. Harry supported her, and she stood up. "Thank you..." she said quietly.

 

"You´re welcome." Harry replied, as he indicated the portal for the others. They nodded, as one after the other stepped through. Harry and Mileena stepped through last, as they arrived at the spot and the portal closed.

 

"Where are we now?" Mileena said quizzingly.

 

"W-W-Well...h-how about a-asking t-them?!!" they heard Ron stutter behind them, as they turned around, and found six swords aimed at them!

 

"Who are you and what is your buisness here?!!"

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 6: The Master of Puppets! Iron Maiden Vs Hidden Lotus!(Part 1/2)][align=center]Chapter 6: The Master of Puppets! Iron Maiden Vs Hidden Lotus!

 

The Union was now in a tight situation. Six warriors stood in front of them, and aimed their swords at them.

 

"Who are you and what is your business here?!" repeated the one in the front, who looked like a knight in a slight blue armor with yellow horns sticking up from the helmet.

 

"We're not your enemies!" Mileena explained. "I am Mileena Sakuretso, and these are my fellow warriors, The Union of Justice! We mean you no harm, and we're terribly sorry if we have done something wrong!" the others of the Union nodded frequently. The leader of the warriors smiled, and commanded the others to put away their swords.

 

"My apologies, Ma'am. We're not usually this hostile." he replied, and bowed before Mileena. "I am the Warrior of Light! And these are my fellow warriors; Onion Knight, Cloud Strife, Squall Leonheart, Zidane Tribal, and Tidus!" each of them went up to the Union members and introduced themselves.

 

"Hiya! I'm Ben Tennyson!" Ben smiled, as he introduced himself to Onion Knight. "You look kinda like me...exept that armor thingy..."

 

"That's because I AM a knight!" Onion Knight replied happily. "Well, actually a Rookie Knight, but I train hard to be one!" in the meantime, Rock Lee and Tidus were already good pals, and started to chat with eachother.

 

"So, you don't use any weapons when you fight?" asked Tidus. "You must be tough!"

 

"Well, I AM the Taijutsu Master of my village! Along with my Sensei, Might Guy!" replied Lee, with a flashing smile of his teeth. "But I always have my pals to back me up!"

 

"Nice! By the way...you do sports?" asked Tidus, as he picked up a blue-white ball with knobs on it and spinned it on his index finger. "You Blitz?"

 

"Never heard of it? What's Blitz?" asked Lee, his eyes focused on the ball.

 

"Well..." chuckled Tidus, "It's kinda like underwater soccer! You wanna try?" he flung the ball into the air. Lee answered by jumping straight up into the air, several metres up, and then spinned his legs.

 

"Leaf Burning Sky!" he called out, as he was about to land a kick on the ball. "HAIIIIYAH!!" he kicked the ball, and it flew into the distant horizon. Tidus whistled in awe.

 

"Man! You are sure powerful!" he gasped, as Lee landed next to him, a big grin on his face.

 

"Haha! Told ya!" he replied. "Sorry, but I don't think you will see THAT ball for awhile!" he chuckled. Tidus laughed with him.

 

"Well, looks like we're getting along pretty well already!" Harry smiled, as he looked at Squall. "So, who EXACTLY are you?"

 

"Follow us to the camp and we'll tell you on the way..." he replied, as they were once again on the move..."

 

***************

 

Inside the Evil Rebellion's HQ, Daemonus' Castle, the members had gathered in the Main Hall.

 

"Now what?" sighed Draco, as he leaned against a pillar. "Jeez, that Daemonus fella sure is a royal pain in the..."

 

"Shut UP, will ya?!" sneered Gaara. "You're even worse than that Naruto brat from my world! Daemonus is surely planning our next move..."

 

"Heheheeeeeee!!! He will soon release our wrath...and I shall HAVE my revenge!" Kefka snickered, hanging upside-down in the air.

 

"Meh, I dunno..." Kishido shrugged his shoulders, "Our enemies seems to have great powers together. And even if we are more than them..."

 

"NO LONGER!" a voice replied. The others went sharp in attention, as Daemonus, Ultimecia and Kuja appeared in the room. "Ultimecia and Kuja has just informed me that those pesky youngsters have gained new allies!"

 

"Who, great lord?!" Gaara nearly shouted.

 

"Our adversaries!" Kuja replied furiously, "The Final Fighters!"

 

"They are not to be fooled with..." Daemonus filled in. "They are stronger than they appear! But luckily for us...we have a NEW reqruit..."

 

A shadowy figure was seen in the door. A rattling, wooden noise was heard, and the figure stepped up to the others. Gaara smirked at him.

 

"Great to see you...brother!"

 

***************

 

The Final Fighters and Union of Justice were halfway to the camp.

 

"So, are we there yet?!" Ben was getting tired. Zidane smirked at him.

 

"Just a bit longer!" he replied. Suddenly, several bombs exploded around them!

 

"What?! We're being attacked!" Warrior of Light pulled up his sword, as did the other Final Fighters. The Union was ready to battle. From the explosion debree, a boy dressed in a black suit and with purple tattoo lines on the cheeks stepped up. He was carrying something that resembled a bag on his back.

 

"Who the heck are you?!" Ron shouted. The boy smirked, as he pulled off the bag and put it beside him.

 

"That's not of your importance, freak!" he replied. "What IS important, is that I will see you DEAD! However......I think one of you recognize me, no?" he eyed Lee and grinned a wicked grin.

 

"Long time no see, Kankuro!" Lee frowned.

 

"You KNOW that guy?!" Ron gasped.

 

"Sure! He's one of the Sand Ninjas, like Gaara!" Lee replied, as Kankuro continued to grin.

 

"AND his brother, don't forget that!" he added. "Now then......which one of you FOOLS would like to die first!?!" Renamon was provoked by Kankuro's harsh words, and stepped up.

 

"I'll fight you, freak!" she replied, and cracked her knuckles. Kankuro's grin turned to a serious frown.

 

"Have it your way!" he replied. Renamon charged at him, and was about to kick him. But then, something erupted from Kankuro's sack, and Renamon's kick was parried!

 

"W-WHAT?!" as Renamon saw the thing she had struck, she was dumbstruck. A hideous, three-eyed wooden puppet was in the way of her foot! The puppet grabbed her foot with it's four arms and whacked her into the ground.

 

"Renamon!!" Rika cried out in worry, but Renamon stood up and dusted herself off. She looked at Kankuro, and the grim puppet at his side. She suddenly noticed several blue strings attached to Kankuro's fingertips! He was CONTROLLING the puppet!

 

"Like it?" he smirked. "It's my very own! And that's also the reason I'm known as 'The Master of Puppets'! I would warn you if I were you, though......It got a few aces up it's sleeve!" he whipped his fingers, and the puppet charged at Renamon. The hands were suddenly replaced by blades, and the puppet began to spin like a shredder! Renamon quickly dodged, but she was cut on her cheek, not badly though. She regained footing and jumped into the air.

 

"Diamond Storm!" she called out, and from the sky rained several diamond shards at Kankuro. He smirked, as yet another puppet appeared, but out of thin air! It took the hit, as the shards stuck to it's wooden skin. Like the other one, it had three eyes, but instead of wooden hair like the other one, it haid two, red-coloured horns pointing up.

 

"Another of my creations!" Kankuro explained, as he whipped his fingers further, and suddenly, Renamon was whacked in the back! The other pupped had smashed her up into the air, and Kankuro grinned devilishly. "This is where I shine!" he lashed his other hand upwards, and the horned pupped charged upwards. Meanwhile, the haired pupped deattached it's arms, legs and head. The arms grabbed hold of eachother and the head, and used the head as a club, whacking Renamon in the gut and sended her crashing into the other puppet. The arms, legs and head revealed knives in their joints, as they charged down and impaled Renamon onto the horned puppet!

 

"GAAAAHHH!!" Renamon screamed, as she threw up blood.

 

"EAT THIS!" Kankuro lashed his hands downwards, and the horned pupped crashed down, trapping Renamon on it's body. Meanwhile, the head of the haired pupped spiked Renamon's left shoulder, and the eyes on it glimmered. "SECRET BLACK MOVE: IRON MAIDEN!!!" Kankuro roared, and in an eyeblink, Renamon and the puppets were engulfed in a gigantic fire blast!

 

"NOOOO!!!! RENAMON!!!!" Rika was about to rush out on the battlefield, but she was held back by Mileena, who shook her head. Rika felt tears flowing down her cheeks. In that moment, something made the Union quake with fear. Kankuro lashed his hand towards him, and his hideous puppets escaped completely unharmed!! They reattached their limbs, and seemed to smirk along with their puppeteer.

 

"The End..." cackled Kankuro, and the horned puppet disappeared in a smoke cloud. Lee stared at him, fire burning in his eyes. He hated Kankuro before, but now, it was just too much!! He felt the anger inside burst to the surface, and suddenly, a burst of energy exploded from his like a shockwave! The others flied backwards in amazement, and Kankuro stared at Lee, as his skin turned slightly red and his eyes went white. "W-What now?!? What is this...power?!!!"

 

"YOU WONT HURT ANYONE AGAIN!!!!!" Lee shouted. "I'LL MAKE SURE OF THAT!!! 1:ST GATE: GATE OF JOY: OPEN!!"

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 7: The Master of Puppets! Iron Maiden Vs Hidden Lotus! (Part 2/2)][align=center]Chapter 7: The Master of Puppets! Iron Maiden Vs Hidden Lotus!

 

"FIRST GATE: GATE OF JOY: OPEN!!"

 

Lee's body was surrounded by a blue fire-looking aura, and Kankuro backed away.

 

"W-What?! What is this?!?" he shouted. In that moment, Lee stared at him with his whitened eyes, and disappeared. "WHAT?!?!?!!" Kankuro looked wildly around, as did all the others.

 

"Where did he go?" Ron wondered. "He just disappeared!" in that moment, the ground in front of Kankuro cracked and exploded violently! And in a flash of light, Lee was there, and kicked Kankuro straight in the chin, sending him flying upwards!

 

"WHOA! WHAT THE HELL?!?!" Harry and Ron shouted, as Lee followed up by jumping upwards, the ground cracking because of the take-off. He punched Kankuro in the gut, and vanished once more. A stone that was flying in the air next to Kankuro was shattered, and he seemed to be punched again! Another rock crashed, and another blow was delivered. A voice was heard;

 

"SECOND GATE: GATE OF LEAVES: OPEN!!!"

 

In that second, Lee appeared above Kankuro, and kicked him into the ground. He vanished, and reappeared below Kankuro, as he swipe-kicked him in the side and sended him flying. Lee took after him, and punched and kicked him violently in mid-air. The others were stunned!

 

"Whooooaaaah!! What is THAT?!" Ben asked Mileena.

 

"That's.....That's.........The Urai Renge!!" she replied.

 

"Eeeh? English, please!" Ben gruffed.

 

"It's The Hidden Lotus!" Mileena snapped back. "Lee told me about it. It enables oneself to utilize the Eight Inner Gates' raw power to greatly increase your speed, endurance and strenght." she sighed, "But, it comes with a prize. The technique takes a great toll on the body, and if it's used too often, or if the user is forced to open the Eight Gate......then he or she will die of the experience......" Ben gulped.

 

"What's the Eight Gate called?" he asked nervously, knowing which answer he was going to get.

 

"The Death Gate..." replied Mileena short-termed. Shivers were sent down eveyone's spine. As Lee continued to pummel Kankuro, he felt that the pain in his body was too great.

 

"Gaah! This is too much!!!" he thought, as he punched Kankuro upwards and flew after. "I need to wrap things up......NOW!!!" he shouted; "THIRD GATE: GATE OF STRENGHT: OPEN!!!! FOURTH GATE: GATE OF SPEED: OPEN!!!!! FIFTH GATE: GATE OF MIND: OPEN!!!!!!" his power raised beyond it's limits, and he vanished. Kankuro was pummeled blindingly fast by seemingly thin air, and the punches anc kicks rained over him faster and harder. Suddenly, he was wrapped up in bandaids, and Lee appeared a few metres above him, with a bandaid from his hands attached to Kankuro!

 

"THIS IS IT!!!!!!" he roared, as he yanked in the bandaid, pulling both him and Kankuro closer to eachother in blinding speed. He lunged his fist forward, and punched Kankuro hard in the gut. "HYYYYYAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HIDDEN LOTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kankuro crashed into the ground, and it erupted in a great pillar of debree and smoke. Lee fell down on the ground, unconscious, and with tons of bruises. Mileena and Rika were worried.

 

"LEE! ROCK LEE!" they yelled, as they rushed up to him. But then, sand erupted from the ground, and Gaara was in front of them!

 

"Not a chance!" he roared, as he put his hands together. Sand emerged from his gourd, and formed a gigantic wave in front of him.

 

"GET AWAY FROM THERE!!!" shouted Harry, and Rika and Mileena ran away. The others went closer to eachother, and braced for impact.

 

"SAND TSUNAMI!!!" roared Gaara, as the giant sand wave crashed down on them. The crushing force of the sand was too much for the Union and The Final Fighters, and things were not better when the sand suddenly lifted itself. "GIANT SAND BURIAL!" Gaara put his palms on the ground, and the masses of sand gave them a final crush. Gaara stood up and scoffed; "Weaklings......" he went over to Kankuro, who was panting and moaning.

 

"A-Aaah! B-Brother!" he panted. "You came!" Gaara smirked, and helped him up.

 

"Hmpf! I came to get HIM!" he pointed at Lee, who still was unconscious. "Get his up! NOW!" Kankuro nodded and picked Lee up. Gaara snapped his fingers, and they disappeared in a sand cloud.

 

***************

 

"Uuuuuuhhhhhhh............"

 

Mileena moaned as she got up. The one she saw first was not quite what she had expected. "AAAAHHH!" she jumped backwards, and hit a wall. She was lying in a bed!

 

"Don't worry..." said the one in front of her. "You're safe in the Konoha Village." the one in front of her was a man with tilted, grey and spiky hair, a rag which covered his mouth, and a forehead protector similar to Lee's! He had it to cover his left eye, and even though he had the rag, he seemed to smile.

 

"W-Who are you?" stuttered Mileena.

 

"I am Hatake Kakashi!" he replied. "Lee must have told you about me!"

 

"Wait...YES! He have told me about the great Kakashi!" she replied. "You are said to be a Copy Ninja, correct?"

 

"That's 100% correct, young lady!" Kakashi replied. "Your friends are awake, by the way. They're outside, waiting for you..."

 

"Ok...Wait!" Mileena suddenly remembered; The encounter with Kankuro, Lee's Hidden Lotus, and Gaara crushing them beneath a Sand Burial. "How did you..."

 

"Save you?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Well, it was really easy! You lied there, unconscious, and we happened to be in the neighborhood! We got you here, some Medical Ninjas fixed you up and BAM: Here you are, speaking to me! Now, rest. You'll need it..." he walked outside. Mileena smiled, and returned to sleep...

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

[Fallen Hero]

sounds like it's gonna be a good fic but i need to see what the fight scenes are gonna be like before i give my full opinion of it. can't wait for chapter 2 to be posted so i can see.

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

The Character Register!

 

 

[spoiler=The Union of Justice]

 

The Union of Justice's Theme Song

 

[spoiler=[s]Rock Lee[/s]]

Name: Rock Lee

Age: About 14-15

Personality: Prideful, always ready for a fight.

 

 

Rock Lee´s Theme Song

 

Bio: Rock Lee is a Genin Ninja from the Konoha Village, and a member of The Union of Justice. His Taijutsu Skills are unchallenged, and he is able to unleash his hidden powers with the powerful Hidden Lotus Technique. And since he only uses melee combat, he utilizes no Chakra with his fighting style, and is therefore a perfect warrior. After defeating the Shukaku Demon with all his Eight Inner Gates, he died, but who knows what destiny has up it's sleeve...

 

 

[spoiler=Hatake Kakashi]Name: Hatake Kakashi

Age: 32

Personality: Calm, rahter avoids conflicts than fighting.

 

 

Hatake Kakashi's Theme

 

Bio: Hatake Kakashi is a Jounin Ninja from the Konoha Village, the village where Lee comes from. He is a very skilled ninja, able to copy almost any technique he encounters. How he can accomplish such things are unknown, but Kakashi hides his true potential under his forehead protector, and no one has ever seen it...

 

 

[spoiler=Harry Potter]

Name: Harry Potter

Age: 14

Personality: Protective, caring, but also very serious.

 

 

 

Bio: Harry Potter is a member of The Union of Justice, and is a skilled wizard. He is more commonly known as "The Boy Who Lived", since he survived the Avada Kedavra spell that Lord Voldemort intended to kill him with. He is more determined than ever to fight against evil, and with his powerful spells, The Union has a strong, long-ranged back-up.

 

 

[spoiler=Ron Weasley]

Name: Ron (Ronald) Weasley

Age: 14

Personality: Often nervous, easy-scared, but brave when he´s with his friends.(mostly)

 

 

 

Bio: Ron Weasley is a member of The Union of Justice, and Harry Potter´s closest friend. He and Harry are both wizards, although Ron is a bit clumsier with handling his spells, often back-firing them! But he will never stop trying, no matter what. He and Harry holds an eternal grudge against Draco Malfoy, and together they wish to teach him a lesson he won´t soon forget!

 

 

[spoiler=Ben Tennyson]

Name: Ben Tennyson

Age: 10

Personality: Uncaring of his actions, naive, and always rushing into action.

 

 

Ben Tennyson´s Theme Song

 

Bio: Ben Tennyson is the youngest member of The Union of Justice, and is quite impopular with the others. Mostly because of all the pranks he had played on them since the day he joined! Around his wrist is an Alien Device called "The Omnitrix", which he uses to transform into ten different Super Aliens, hence his superhero name; "Ben 10".

 

 

[spoiler=Rika Nonaka]

Name: Rika Nonaka

Age: About 12-13

Personality: Tough, determined, never going down without a fight.

Partner: Renamon

 

 

 

Bio: Rika is a member of The Union of Justice, and is also a DigiDestined. This means she has a Digimon, a Digital Monster, as both a partner and friend. Her Digimon is Renamon, and she is as bold and fearless as Rika, never surrendering without a proper fight. Rika and Renamon has once again united, but now, Rika is troubled of what has happened to her past love; Kishido Akurame, and her feeling reawaken so strongly that not even her kiss with Lee seems to push it away.

 

 

[spoiler=Mileena Sakuretso]

Name: Mileena Sakuretso

Age: 15

Personality: Protective, kind, but has a short fuse.

 

 

Mileena´s Theme Song

 

Bio: She is the leader of The Union of Justice. As a child, she was granted the fire of a dying Phoenix, allowing her to channel the Power of Fire. She has a secret crush on Harry Potter, but has never dared to tell it.

 

 

[spoiler=Tidus]Name: Tidus

Age: 16

Personality: Naive and brave, in a somewhat stupid way.

 

 

Bio: Though it doesn´t seem so, Tidus is a skilled swordfighter, and also a really good Blitzball Player. He was the star of The Zanarkand Abes, and he wants noting more than to teach bad guys a lesson!

 

 

[spoiler=[s]Squall Leonheart[/s]]Name: Squall Leonheart

Age: 17

Personality: Calm, strategic, and protective.

 

 

Bio: Squall is a skilled SeeD Fighter, a fighter for an organization that plans to overwhelm an evil Sorceress named Edea. But when he finds out that Edea has been controlled by her elder sister, Ultimecia, he decides to use his Revolver Blade to finish off The Sorceress of Time.

 

 

[spoiler=Zidane]Name: Zidane

Age: 14

Personality: Ferocious, caring, and somewhat childish.

 

 

Bio: Zidane Tribal, which is his full name, appears as a normal boy exept that he has a monkey tail. He has fought Kuja a lot of times, and hopes that he one day will win against him!

 

 

[spoiler=Onion Knight]Name: Onion Knight

Age: 13-14

Personality: Protective and good-hearted.

 

 

Bio: Onion Knight is, as his name explains, an honorable knight of justice, and he wishes nothing more than to prove his usefullness.

 

 

[spoiler=Warrior of Light]Name: Warrior of Light

Age: Unknown

Personality: Protective, brave, and serious in all cases.

 

 

Bio: Just like the Onion Knight, only older and wiser, The Warrior of Light seems to never have known fear. He is a true Champion of Good, and will do anything to smite Darkness forever.

 

 

[spoiler=Cloud]Name: Cloud

Age: 16-17

Personality: Protective, calm, and serious.

 

 

Bio: Cloud is a skilled ExSolider of Shin-Ra, but he has chosen to turn that path down and fight for good instead. He is a lethal swordfighter, and his sword can separate into six lesser ones.

 

 

[spoiler=Red XIII]Name:Red XIII

Age: Unknown

Personality: Noble, protecting.

 

 

Bio: Red XIII looks like a mix between a dog and a lion, and he's Cloud's best friend. He joins up with him and the others to aid the Union of Justice.

 

 

 

[spoiler=The Evil Rebellion]

 

The Evil Rebellion's Theme Song

 

[spoiler=[s]Gaara[/s]]

Name: Gaara

Age: About 13-14

Personality: Sadistic, cold-hearted and fearless.

 

 

Gaara´s Theme Song

 

Bio: Gaara is a Sand Ninja, and he makes up for the name, as he is able to manipulate sand. He hates Rock Lee, and is determined to take him down at any cost! He hosts a Demon inside of him, a "Jinkurichi", that he rarely has been forced to unleash, but will if the need is dire. After Lee confronted him with his Hidden Lotus, Gaara met his ultimate fate...

 

 

[spoiler=[s]Kankuro[/s]]Name: Kankuro

Age: 15-16

Personality: Artistic(In a rather destructive way), sadistic.

 

 

 

Bio: Kankuro is Gaara's brother, and a Sand Ninja as well. He uses a Puppet Technique, which allows him to control three wooden puppets with Chakra Strings from his fingers. His puppets are called Crow, Black Ant, and Salamander.

 

 

[spoiler=Lord Orochimaru]Name: Lord Orochimaru

Age: Unknown

Personality: Venomous, deceitful and deadly.

 

 

Lord Orochimaru's Theme Song

 

Bio: Lord Orochimaru is one of the Legendary Sanin, but he wandered down the path of evil. He is also known as "The Lord Of Serpents", which explains his abilities to summon snakes, and his reptilish behaviour, slithering his tounge like a snake. He has recently infected Renamon with his Cursed Seal, and now he joins Daemonus to crush the Union of Justice from the inside...

 

 

[spoiler=Draco Malfoy]

Name: Draco Malfoy

Age: 14

Personality: Sneaky, lying and deceitful.

 

 

 

Bio: Draco Malfoy is Harry Potter´s and Ron Weasley´s bitter enemy, and a student from Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry, like Harry and Ron. He is from the Slytherin House, and has a bad habit of telling lies and sneaking on others. He wishes nothing more than to triumph over Harry Potter.

 

 

[spoiler=[s]Kishido Akurame[/s]]

Name: Kishido Akurame

Age: 15

Personality: Carefree, calm in most situations, and pretty smart.

Partner: Myotismon

 

 

 

Kishido´s Theme Song

 

Bio: Kishido is a DigiDestined like Rika. He and his partner Myotismon decided to fight for evil, but that may not be the whole truth. He now turned out to be the Dark Knight Golbez, and the question is; Where is the real Kishido?

 

 

[spoiler=Daemonus]

Name: Daemonus

Age: Unknown

Personality: Evil, that sums it up in one word.

 

 

 

Bio: Daemonus is an ancient Demon from ages past, that has now awakened from his eternal slumber. Along with Gaara, Draco Malfoy and Kishido, he hopes to crush the Union of Justice, and destroy humankind as we know it.

 

 

[spoiler=[s]Kefka Palazzo[/s]]Name: Kefka Palazzo

Age: Unknown

Personality: Psychotic, sadistic, and somewhat childish.

 

 

Bio: Kefka may look like a simple clown, but he's far more powerful and dangerous than what meets the eye.

 

 

[spoiler=[s]Ultimecia[/s]]Name: Ultimecia

Age: Unknown

Personality: Sadistic, manipulative, and fearless.

 

 

Bio: Ultimecia, also known as The Sorceress of Time, is Squall's arch-enemy. Along with ExDeath, she was able to kill him, but both her and ExDeath were slain by the other Final Fighters.

 

 

[spoiler=[s]Kuja[/s]]Name: Kuja

Age: Unknown

Personality: Sadistic, cunning.

 

 

Bio: Kuja is the ruler of Terra, and Daemonus' right hand. He and Zidane are bitter enemies, and both wish nothing more then to finish the other off.

 

 

[Fallen Hero]

ok, like i said can't wait. just out of interest how come there is no enemy of ben with the other bad guys

[fenrir]

Yea, romance involving characters such as Harry, nevah gonna happen. You're basically breaking the time-continuum of Harry Potter, because we all know who he gets married to eventually. On another note, I'll be reading this =D

[Furious Reaper I]

good prolouge and first chapter

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

[spoiler=Chapter 8: 100 Push-Ups In Five Seconds! Lee's Sensei Is On The Go!][align=center]Chapter 8: 100 Push-Ups In Five Seconds! Lee's Sensei Is On The Go!

 

After Mileena had rested up, she stepped outside. She soon found her fellow members worrying about her, but she didn't notice one of them.

 

"Where's Rika?" she asked. In that moment, the others turned their heads down.

 

"She's in the other building..." Harry replied. "And Renamon is......lethally wounded."

 

"What?!" Mileena pushed the others out of the way, and ran to the other building. If there was one of her members that she cared about, it was Rika. After hearing what had happened to her father, she knew that Rika looked up to the others as her family. Especially Lee, for some reason. She quickly found their room, and knocked carefully on the door.

 

"Come in..." a sad voice replied. Mileena opened the door, and found Rika sitting next to a bed, and in it was Renamon. She had bandages all over her chest, legs and the right half of her face. Her left arm had burnmarks on the yellow pelt, and it seemed to be crippled. Rika carefully fondled her cheek, and she sighed in a happy tone.

 

"W-Why...did'nt you just......leave me...there?" she stuttered, "I thought....that you only......liked...strong......Digimon. I...am just a......weakling now..."

 

"Don't say that!!" Rika interrupted. "I don't care if you are strong or not! You're my best friend, Renamon! And I'll never let go of you! You, I, and Mileena and the others...we're family now! And families stick together! No matter what!" Renamon smiled at Rika's comforting words. She reached up her right hand, ignored the pain, and fondled her cheek.

 

"T-Thank you......Rika..." she smiled, and went to sleep. A tear ran across Rika's cheek, but she wiped it out.

 

"Rika......" Mileena sat next to her, and held her arm around her shoulders. "I know what you have gone through, and I fully understand the pain you're in..."

 

"HOW COULD YOU EVER UNDERSTAND?!?!!!" shouted Rika, and threw Mileena's arm off her shoulders, and stood up. "HOW COULD ANY OF YOU UNDERSTAND!!! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE!!!!"

 

"R-Rika..." Mileena started, but then, Rika grabbed her by the collar of her dress.

 

"NO ONE OF YOU KNOWS!!!!!! ANYTHING!!!!!" her tears fell from her eyes, and fire was burning inside them. "YOU MIGHT AS WELL SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!" her voice seemed heart-broken. She sighed deeply, and put Mileena down. She sat down next to Renamon's bed, and began to cry. Her tears flowed from her cheeks and drippled on the floor. Mileena stood up and fondled her shoulder.

 

"Rika......I'm here for you." she soothed, and held her arms around her in a comforting hug. "We all are..." Rika turned around and hugged Mileena back.

 

"T-Thank you......M-Mileena..." she stuttered quietly, and closed her eyes. "Mileena? We will find Lee again......won''t we?"

 

"Sure!" replied Mileena, and she released her from the hug. She looked her in the eyes. "We will find him again! He is one of the team members! A FAMILY memeber!" And we're not going to rest until we find him!" Mileena stood up, and was about to walk outside. "Stay with Renamon......she needs your attention..." she said, and walked outside......

 

==========Meanwhile, In Daemonus' Castle============

 

Kankuro was lying on an altar, covered with black candles which lit in dark-purple flames. He had lethal wounds on his body, and his breathing was quick and irregular. He was on the edge of death. In front of him stood Daemonus, and smirked.

 

"Thanks to your brother, we have that silly Taijutsu kiddo locked inside my dungeon! You have proven yourself......worthy of my appreciation!" he said, and Gaara smirked back.

 

"You're too grateful, Master!" he replied.

 

"But now, onto more pressing matters..." Daemonus extended the pincer on his left arm, until the tip barely touched Kankuro's chest. Pitch-black flames emerged like a string around the pincer, and reached Kankuro. It merged with his body, and he cried in slight pain. "GAAHH!!!!" the flames were now inside his body, spreading like wildfire through a forest. On the outside, one could clearly see the wounds close up, like they were drawn together by an invisible force, and sewn up. The flames died out inside of him, and he breahted like there was no tomorrow. He sat up.

 

"T-Thanks you, Master!" he stuttered in suprise, and Daemonus smirked.

 

"You're welcome..." he replied. "You are now a FULL part of the Evil Rebellion! Do you swear your allegiance to me, and therefore swear to protect me with evey inch of your power?" Kankuro grinned, as he jumped off the altar and bowed before him.

 

"Yes, Lord Daemonus!" he said. "I will serve..." he stood up and looked over at Gaara. "Shall my brother and I go and see the prisoner?"

 

"No..." Daemonus replied. A devilish grin appeared across his face. "Ultimecia shall handle the interrogation..."

 

===============Back To Konoha Village===============

 

Renamon still had to recover from her wounds, so the rest of The Union decided to look around in the village. They met several, strange ninjas. One of them was called Neji Hyuuga, and he was dressed in a traditional Hyuuga training suit, brown shorts, and blue sandals. Another one they met was a quite chubby one called Chouji Akimichi. He was dressed in a white shirt with a green jacket on top, brown shorts, and he had a blue scarf around his thick neck. What was weird about him was that he always had a bag of potato chips which he gobbled on, and, after a small conversation which ended in that Ben got whacked into a house, it seemed that he did not like to be called 'fat'! But the most strangest thing they witnessed was when they entered a Training Arena.

 

"Man! Those ninjas are sure weird!" said Ron, and Harry nodded.

 

"I have never thought that ninjas could be so difficult to understand!" Ben filled in. "I mean...In all the action movies I've seen, they just hide and throw Shurikens!"

 

"Boy, are YOU wrong, Mr!" a voice in front of them chuckled. Ben almost jumped ten feet into the air with fear. All of them looked at the person. He looked like a full-grown version of Rock Lee!

 

"Eeeeh......Who the heck are you?" asked Ron. The man smiled with a blinding light of his teeth.

 

"I'm Might Guy! The greatest Taijutsu Master of Konoha Village!" the man replied, therefore introducing himself as Might Guy. "I am also the Sensei of Rock Lee! Have you guys happened to see him?" the others didn't know what to say, since Lee had been kidnapped by the Evil Rebellion.

 

"Eeeehhh...h-he's resting! From the ambush of Kankuro!" Harry said hastily. Guy sighed.

 

"Yes....I heard of it." he replied. But quick enough, his smile returned. "Well, he's surely a smart one! He needs his rest! Now, anyone wanna exersice with me?"

 

"Nooooo......thanks." replied Ben. "Not in the mood!"

 

"You're NEVER in the mood..." Harry snickered.

 

"Hey!" Ben shouted, but Guy just looked at them and chuckled.

 

"Hehe! I don't think you'd like to join me, anyways! Cause now......It's time for my daily 100 Push-ups!" the others gaped their mouths wide open.

 

"100......P-Pu-Push-Ups?!?!!!" they gasped. Guy nodded.

 

"Yup! 100 Push-Ups in no less than 5 seconds! That's my record!" the other gaped even wider.

 

"5 SECONDS?!?!?!?!?!!!!!?!!!!!" they all shouted.

 

"That's impossible!!!" implied Harry.

 

"Heh! Really?" Guy smirked. "I'm not so sure......" he went down on all four, and prepared for his Push-Ups. "Ready...Set.........GO!" and with incredible speed, he did exactly 100 Push-Ups in exactly 5 seconds! "Victory!" he smiled, as he stood up. "That's how you do it!" the others did not believe their eyes!

 

"H-How t-the h-he-hell did you do that?!?!!!" shouted Ben.

 

"Wel, hehe! Practice!" replied Guy. "Now then......anyone up for some training?"

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 9: Practice Match! Uchiha Sasuke Vs Renamon!][align=center]Chapter 9: Practice Match! Uchiha Sasuke Vs Renamon!

 

The others nodded, and Ben gruffed a bit. They started their practice. Harry and Ron were training with two other ninjas. One of them was called Uzumaki Naruto, and he was dressed in an orange overall with white trims, had yellow, spiked hair, and three scratchmarks on each cheek. The other one, Uchiha Sasuke, was dresses in a blue T-shirt, beige shorts, and had blue hair. Both of them had forehead protectors like Lee. They were tasked to throw Shurikens and Kunais at Harry and Ron, as they deflected them with Protego, thus enhancing their reflexes. Ben was happy about that he was allowed to transform to Fourarms, and made one Push-Up after the other. After awhile, he was asked to transform to Heatblast, as he threw fireballs at Harry and Ron. They in turn freezed them with Glacius.

 

"Hehe! Never knew that P.E could be THIS fun!" chuckled Ben, as he threw ten fireballs at once.

 

"GLACIUS!" shouted Harry and Ron simultaneously, as the fireballs froze to ice spheres and shattered upon a wall.

 

"Wow! Those are pretty cool!" said Naruto, as he and Sasuke leaned against a wall.

 

"Hmpf...I've seen better..." replied Sasuke. "They may be...'odder' than us, but that does not make them stronger than us!"

 

"Hmmmmmm...I'm not so sure!" Naruto grinned. "They may even be stronger than the Sanin!"

 

"Idiot! NO one is stronger than the Legendary Sanin! They are the strongest!" snapped Sasuke.

 

"Whateva..." Naruto shrugged, as he went over to Ben, who reverted to his Human Form. "Hiya! Wanna see something cool?"

 

"Sure!" Ben replied, and wiped some sweat from his forehead. "Man! I'm tired!"

 

"Okay!" chuckled Naruto. "Say a number!"

 

"Eeeh?"

 

"C'mon! Pick any number! From 1 to 100!"

 

"O-Okay? Ehhhhhhh......64!"

 

"Alright!" Naruto made a sign wih his hands. "Kage Bushin No Jutsu!(Translation: Shadow Clone Jutsu!)" several smoke clouds erupted, and exactly sixty-three copies of Naruto appeared from nowhere!

 

"Whoa! Awesome!" Ben exclaimed, and looked at his Omnitrix, the device around his wrist. "If I was able to use that, I would not need to turn into Ditto!" Ditto was the name of one of Ben's aliens, which had the power to make multiple copies of himself.

 

"Heh, it's easy!" replied Naruto, as his clones vanished. "Well, maybe for me, but..." he was interrupted.

 

"Missed me?" a voice said from the entrance. Everyone looked around. There stood Rika, and Renamon stood beside her!

 

"Rika! Renamon should stay in bed!" said Harry, a bit worried. Rika just smiled.

 

"No need to! Kakashi sended some 'Medical Ninjas' to our room, and they used some kind of technique that made Renamon better!" she replied, and indicated. Renamon's burnwounds on her left arm were gone, she was able to stand straight up, and she looked like she had never felt better.

 

"Hi guys!" she smiled. "Missed me?"

 

"We sure have, Renamon!" Ben replied, as he, Harry and Ron stepped up to them. Mileena appeared next to Rika.

 

"I'm glad that Renamon is better!" she said. Rika smiled and hugged her.

 

"So am I!" she sighed. In that moment, Might Guy returned.

 

"So? Any of you had some training?" he asked, smiling as always.

 

"Yes, Guy Sensei!" all of them replied. Guy noticed Rika and Renamon.

 

"Heeello there, I don't think we have met!" he shook hands with Rika. "The name's Might Guy!"

 

"Hi! I'm Rika Nonaka! And this is Renamon!" she replied. "We are friends of your student, Rock Lee!"

 

"So I've heard! Glad to meet you then!" Guy smiled again. "Well then! Now that you all had some practice, we will arrange some training battles! First up is, let's see.........Uchiha Sasuke!" Sasuke shrugged, as he stepped up to Might Guy. "Aaaaaannndd.........how 'bout you?" he indicated Renamon, and she was shocked.

 

"M-Me?! But I just recovered! I can't put myself in danger again!" she said hastily.

 

"Nonsense! You're looking top-shaped for a fight! So, wanna go for it?"

 

Renamon hesitated a bit, but then she said, "A-Alright! I'll do it!"

 

"That's the spirit!!" Guy made a thumbs up. "Now, to the Arena!"

 

===============Meanwhile, In Daemonus' Castle===============

 

Rock Lee woke up. He felt pain in all pf his limbs, mostly because of the Hidden Lotus. He managed to sit up straight. He sat on a bed. Around his was a dark room. Almost so dark that he could not see a hand in front of him!

 

"Ugh......W-Where am I?" he mumbled, and staggered up on his legs. Suddenly, a woman appeared from the darkness.

 

"You are in the dungeons of Lord Daemonus..." she smirked. "...And I am Ultimecia: The Sorceress of Time! You should feel honored, being in our lord's household..."

 

"YOU! KONOHA SENPUU!" Lee charged at Ultimecia, but in an instant, she vanished and reappeared behind him, and slashed him on the back. "GAH!" three scratchmarks were formed, and blood dripped on the grey, cold stone floor.

 

"You are too hasty...young one..." soothed Ultimecia, and grabbed Lee's hair. She forced him up, and threw him back into his bed. "Now, I will make it pretty simple! Where is your teammates?!"

 

"E-Even...if I...k-knew...I STILL......WOULDN'T...TELL............YOU!!" Lee shouted. Ultimecia frowned. She lashed her hand, and a purple dart of magic appeared and stabbed Lee's shoulder! "GAAAH!!! I'LL...STILL NOT TELL YOU!!!" she gave up, and walked away.

 

"Fine!" she gruffed. "Have it your way! My master will make sure that you stay here and ROT!!" she disappeared into the darkness. Lee put his head in his hands...and cried. He knew that escaping this would be folly, and his friends would surely not know that he was here. It all seemed so......hopeless............

 

===============Back To Konoha Village===============

 

At a giant, circular stadium, all the Konoha Village's ninjas, along with the Union, had gathered for the battle. Mileena and her Union had the honors to sit on first row.

 

"Hope Renamon will be fine..." worried Rika.

 

"Don't worry so much!" replied Harry, and patted her shoulder. "If anyone can take care of herself, it's Renamon!"

 

"Yeah! She's one tough chick!" Ben filled in. "She'll beat that Sasuke to a pulp!"

 

In that moment, Renamon entered the arena, with Sasuke on her left side. They eyed eachother, and went in different directions. As they reached the opposite directions of the arena, they turned around and faced eachother.

 

"Hope you're ready to lose!" smirked Sasuke, as he cracked his knuckles loudly. Renamon replied by cracking her neck and putting her fists up.

 

"I'm ready..."

 

In that moment, a bell rang, and as on command, Renamon and Sasuke rushed at eachother. Renamon started by kicking at Sasuke, but he managed to dodge. He counterattacked with an uppercut in Renamon's shin, and she flied into the air. However, she recovered by performing a back-flip in the air, and put her palms forward.

 

"Diamond Storm!" thousands of diamond shards appeared and rained down on Sasuke. Sasuke pulled a Kunai and parried the shards he needed, and used his extreme agility and acrobatics to dodge the rest. As Renamon landed, Sasuke made a few hand signs and put his index finger and long finger in front of his lips.

 

"Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!(Translation: Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Jutsu!)" Sasuke blew between his fingers, and several fireballs formed and charged at Renamon! She jumped to the side, and managed to dodge the attack in the last minute. But then, she felt a blow in her side. Sasuke had run up to her and punched her in the side! She flew a few metres away, but recovered before she hit the wall, jumped up on it, and bounced off it into the air. She suddenly made the same signs as Sasuke, and put her fingers in front of her lips!

 

"W-What?! How can she have...!" Kakashi was suprised, as Renamon finished the attack.

 

"Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!" she spat out several fireballs, and Sasuke did his best to dodge, but one of the fireballs hit him dead-on, and exploded.

 

"GAH!!" Sasuke flew into a wall. Renamon landed in the other end of the arena, and smirked at Sasuke. "H-How did you copy my Jutsu?!" he roared at Renamon.

 

"Easy..." she smirked. "Your friend Lee was kind enough to borrow me a few of his Jutsu Scrolls! I memorized the signs, and was able to use the Jutsus with my own Arcane Energy inside!" the Arcane Energy she referred to was the energy that she harnesses when digivolving to her more powerful forms; Taomon and Sakuyamon.

 

"I-IMPOSSIBLE!!!" shouted Sasuke. But then, he started to grin, and made more signs. "Try to copy THIS AND LIVE TO TELL IT!!" he stretched down his left hand, and electricity started to crackle in it. A ball of lightning formed in it. Renamon quickly made the same signs as Sasuke had done, and stretched down her right hand. A crackling lightnig ball formed quickly.

 

"What the hell?!?" Ben was suprised and awed at the same time. "What's THAT?!?"

 

"The Chidori..." Kakashi replied. The Union members turned to him.

 

"The WHAT?!?!" they all said.

 

"Chidori..." Kakashi repeated. "A Lightning Jutsu that enables the user to transform his Chakra into lightning and form it into a ball. It is able to pierce any kind of armor and skin, and is lethal if used right." Rika's worry grew bigger and bigger.

 

"Oh no! Renamon will be sliced in half!!!" she thought. They could do nothing more than to watch as Sasuke and Renamon charged their attacks. Suddenly, Sasuke sprinted up!

 

"THIS IS THE END!" he shouted, as he dragged his Chidori along the ground, tearing it up as he ran. Renamon sprang up too, dragging her Chidori in the dirt and sending clouds of dirt and stone into the air. Both of them were now about one-two feet away from eachother, and they lunged their hands forward.

 

"CHIDORI!!!"

 

The two lightning balls collided, and a loud, sizzling noise was heard, like one hundred birds chippering at the same time. Renamon and Sasuke struggled to overpower their attacks, but Sasuke seemed to have the advantage.

 

"D-Damn it!! He's tough!!" thought Renamon. "I don't think I will...beat him! N-NO!! I...can't think...like that! I...MUST.........WIN!!!!!" she pressed on, and for a moment, Sasuke's Chidori seemed to flimmer. "THIS IS MY CHANCE!!!" she pushed up her palm further, and after a few seconds, which made Sasuke, Kakashi and the entire crowd gasp, her Chidori breaked through Sasuke's!!

 

"CHIDORI!!!!!"

 

Another sizzling noise, and blood splattered acrosss the arena. Sasuke fell down, grasping his chest in pain. Renamon stood on the other side, her hand stopped to crackle with electricity. She smirked. She had WON!

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 10: Lord Orochimaru's Plan.][align=center]Chapter 10: Lord Orochimaru's Plan.

 

All of the ninjas in the audience stood up and cheered at Renamon. They whistled and clapped their hands. The Union also cheered on Renamon, whistling like crazy.

 

"THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT, RENAMON!!!" shouted Rika, happy that her partner had won. Renamon smiled a bit, and watched as the ninjas cheered at her. Then, her attention turned to Sasuke. He was halfway up, and as he stepped up, he stared at Renamon, smirking.

 

"Heh...never saw that one coming..." he panted, as he pressed his right hand to his chest, where his wound was. Parts of his shirt was ripped up, and blood flowed from a wound on the left side of his chest.

 

"Hehehe......guess you didn't..." Renamon snickered, as she supported Sasuke. "Let me help you...clean that wound, ok?"

 

Sasuke nodded, and she helped him inside. As they entered the locker room, she sat Sasuke down on a bench, and ripped off a part of his shirt.

 

"Now, take your shirt off..." she said gently. Sasuke gave her a quizzing look. "To clean your wound, smartface!" she giggled.

 

"O-Oh!" Sasuke took off his shirt. The wound was visible now. A gash into his chest. Renamon tied the cloth piece she had around Sasuke's chest and strapped it up hard.

 

"There! That should stop the blood!" she smiled, and looked at Sasuke. "You fought well...Sasuke..."

 

"T-Thanks..." Sasuke blushed a bit. "So did you...eeeh......what was your name again?"

 

"Renamon..." she giggled, and fondled Sasuke's cheek, which instantly turned red. "Oooh...you're quite the shy guy..."

 

"N-No, it's just that..." Sasuke stuttered, "Nevermind..."

 

"What? Don't tell me that you never been close to a girl before?"

 

"W-What?!?" Y-You're a g-g-girl?!"

 

"Of course! Did...you think I was a guy?"

 

"W-Well, yeah, kinda...you acted like one, anyways..."

 

Renamon giggled a bit, as she bent down in front of Sasuke, and let her fingers run across his chest, up to the shoulders, and around his neck.

 

"It's ok..." she smiled, and then, she pressed her lips up against Sasuke's. Sasuke kissed Renamon back, and fondled her back with his hands. Renamon hugged him tightly, and slipped through his hair with her fingers. Their tounges playfully caressed eachother, and both felt like fireworks went off in their heads. It was no doubt about it. They were in love. As they stopped, they moaned in passion and looked at eachother.

 

"You kiss pretty good..." Renamon sighed.

 

"You too, Renamon." replied Sasuke. "Now then, the others are probably waiting..." Renamon nodded, and they stepped outside......

 

==========Meanwhile, Outside Of Town==========

 

Three ninjas walked along a dirt road. One of them was dressed in a white satin dress from the waist below, bare-chested, and had white hair. His clothing was knot togehter by a thick, purple rope on his back. His eyes were green, and he had red tattoo markings above them and across the cheeks. The second one was dressed in a light-brown suit with black sleeves and leggings, and he aslo had a purple rope around his back. His skin was pale, his eyes glimmered in a golden tune, and he had thin, black hair that reached to his shoulders. The third one was dressed in a grey ninja suit, had grey hair strapped up in a pony-tail, and weared glasses.

 

"Lord Orochimaru..." said the bare-chested one, "When do we reach the Konoha Village?"

 

"Ssssoon, my prodigy..." the brown-dressed one slithered, almost like a snake, "Make sure you are ready for combat! I sense powerful enemies ahead of us..."

 

"But Master..." the grey-haired one replied, "All we really need to do is to plant the Five-Pronged Seal on the strongest one!"

 

"And how do we know who is the strongest one then, Kabuto?" the bare-chested one asked. "We need to test their combat abilities! And I, unlike 'some others', is eager to do so!" in that moment, a bone sprang out of his chest, and he dragged it out. It was formed as a primitive dagger.

 

"Don't worry, Kimimaro. You will have your fight, sssssoon enough..." replied Orochimaru, smirking devilishly. "Kabuto! Let us be off!"

 

"Right, Lord Orochimaru!" replied Kabuto, as he, Orochimaru and Kimimaro leaped into the forest and went straight towards Konoha Village......

 

==========Back To The Village==========

 

Renamon had reunited with her partner and the rest of the Union. They were quite impressed of what she had accomplished.

 

"And then, you just spat fireballs! That was so cool!" Ben was jumping up and down with exitement.

 

"Well, calm down!" Renamon chuckled, and Ben calmed down. "Now, as I said, I've studies Lee's Jutsu Scrolls for a very long time, and since he's not able to perform any Ninjutsus or Genjutsus, he literally gave them to me! He also said that my Arcane Energy could replace the Chakra needed to perform them, and even taught me some Jutsus!"

 

"Like what?" asked Ron.

 

"Like this!" Renamon put her index and middle fingers on each hand together, and put one of the pairs to her other hand. "Kage Bushin No Jutsu!" smoke clouds erupted, and 3 Shadow Clones of Renamon appeared!

 

"Wow! Just like Naruto!" Rika gasped. "You're really something, Renamon!"

 

"Thanks, Rika!" replied Renamon, as her Shadow Clones disappeared.

 

"Now then, what should we......"

 

"BRACKEN DANCE!" a voice shouted, and suddenly, white, sharp pillars erupted from the ground around them!

 

"PROTEGO!" shouted Ron and Harry, and a shield protected all of them from the pillars. "That was a close one!"

 

"Yeah, but...what are these pillars?" asked Mileena, as the shield dropped, and they went over to check it out.

 

"This is not pillars..." said Harry after examining them. "It's bones!"

 

"B-Bo-Bones?!?" stuttered Ben. In that moment, all the bones turned into dust with a bang, and three ninjas appeared in front of them. It was Kimimaro, Orochimaru, and Kabuto.

 

"Well, well, weeeeell! Seems as we have some powerful targets, after all!" smirked Orochimaru.

 

"Who the hell are you guys?!?" shouted Ben, as he prepared to slam his Omnitrix.

 

"We're the ninjas of the Sound Village! And I am Kimimaro!" replied Kimimaro. "And this is my master, Lord Orochimaru! You do best in respecting him!"

 

"And I am Kabuto, the right hand of Lord Orochimaru!" replied Kabuto.

 

"Well, whoever you THINK you are, you will not beat us!" said Harry, as he and Ron pulled their wands. Mileena, Rika, Renamon and Ben prepared to fight as well.

 

"Heheheheeeeeee......as you wish!" smirked Orochimaru. "Kimimaro! ATTACK!"

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 11: A Bone-Hard Opponent! The Five-Pronged Seal Is Planted!][align=center]Chapter 11: A Bone-Hard Opponent! The Five-Pronged Seal Is Planted!

 

Kimimaro obeyed his master's command, and charged at Renamon. She flipped backwards, but soon felt a pain in her back.

 

"AGH!" she cried out, and landed a few metres away from Kimimaro. She felt something warm flow on her back. It was her blood. Kimimaro smirked, as he held a bone dagger in his left hand, and blood dripped from the edge. "Man, he's fast..." Renamon thought, but then she charged at him. "Power...PAW!" her hands and feet glowed in a ghostly blue color, and she delivered a powerful kick into Kimimaro's chest. He was thrown several feet away, his feet dragging along the ground. Then he stopped, and cackled.

 

"Hehahahahahaha! Is that all?" he said, as he revealed his protection. Several, sharp bones had erupted from his chest, forming a 'second' rib cage, and used it as a shield to protect himself from Renamon's attack. The bones pulled themselves back in, and Ben was about to throw up.

 

"GOOOOD!! That's nasty!" he shouted. "What the hell is wrong with him?!"

 

"Nothing is 'wrong' with me, stupid child..." snarled Kimimaro. "I have the innate ability to alter my calcium, making me able to alter my bones, enchance them, or even replace them..." he split his fingers, and small bumps began to grow on the tips. "Now..." he suddenly whipped his hands over and over like crazy, and sended small bone bullets towards them. Renamon dodged them, Harry and Ron made shields around Rika and Mileena, and Ben transformed to Diamondhead, as the bone bullets simply bounced off him.

 

"Heh. That didn't hurt." he chuckled, as he lashed his hand forward, and diamond shards fired at Kimimaro. He stood still, as the shards pierced his body. He simply shrugged, and then, some of his ribs forced the shards out again.

 

"Hmpf. Time to finish this..." he charged at Ben. "Karamatsu no Mai![Translation: Dance of The Pines!)" spiked bones emerged all over his body, and he spinned around in a pirouette like a shredder. Ben was able to barely dodge the attack, and one of the bone spikes cut through his diamond skin.

 

"Whoa! That was close..." Ben muttered, as his skin regenerated. "Now what happened?" Kimimaro stopped to spin, and his bones went back into his body.

 

"Now...I'd like to fight 1 on 1 with any of you..." he said. "Anyone!"

 

Renamon hesitated. "I could easily beat this guy. But then again, I am weakened after my battle with Sasuke, so I shouldn't strain my body too much. But since Lee isn't here, guess I have to step in!" she made up her mind, and stepped up. "I'll fight you, bone freak." she said coldly. Kimimaro turned to her.

 

"Ah. An opponent." he smirked. "This will be...entertaining." he pulled out a bone from his shoulder, formed it as a blade, and attacked. Renamon dodged his attacks over and over again, until she swipe-kicked him and fell him to the ground. She jumped up, made some hand signs, and took a deep breath.

 

"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!(Translation: Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!)" she released a gigantic fireball from her mouth, and it charged down at Kimimaro. It exploded violently on impact, and engulfed him in fire. As the explosion settled, Renamon landed. She knew that the fight was far from over. And she was right, as she saw Kimimaro emerge from the smoke. But this time, he was different. His skin was slight brown, his hair grey, and six, thick bones sprang out of his back. He had also grown a tail with spiky bones emerging, and he looked at Renamon with ferocious eyes.

 

"My transformation spells your end!" he roared, as he put his palms to the ground. "Bracken Dance!" bone spikes once again erupted from the ground, but Renamon was prepared.

 

"Doton: Doruki Gaeshi!(Translation: Earth Style: Earth Wall Land Flip!)" she put her palms to the ground, and a plate of earth flipped up. It fell over, and Renamon jumped up on top of it, as the bone spikes that came up under it were destroyed. But Kimimaro charged at her, and used his tail to uppercut her. She flew up, and Kimimaro jumped up after her. Bones began to spiral around his left arm, and suddenly 20-30 bone spines spiraled around it, and formed a giant spike.

 

"Clematis Dance: Flower!" he shouted, as he pierced Renamon with the spike. She winced in pain, but then, she dispersed in a smoke cloud! "What?! A Shadow Clone!" Kimimaro landed, and saw the real Renamon land outside the Bracken Dance area. She smirked at him, but didn't notice someone sneak up on her. Suddenly, a sharp pain was felt in her neck.

 

"Agh! What the...!" she looked at her left shoulder, and saw Orochimaru biting her. He released his fangs, and chuckled creepily.

 

"Hmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmmmmmm............Now it won't be long until you are as powerful as my prodigy..." he explained, as Kimimaro landed next to him, still in his hideous form. "Farewell......for now..." they disappeared in a smoke cloud, and the others ran up to Renamon.

 

"Renamon! You ok?" asked Rika. Renamon did not quite understand the whole part of Orochimaru biting her, so she just shrugged her shoulders.

 

"Don't know, Rika." she replied. "But now, let's get back to HQ..." all of them nodded, and decided to ask Kakashi for aid...

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 12: Troubled Mind Of The Fox.][align=center]Chapter 12: Troubled Mind Of The Fox.

 

"Please, say that there's a way home for us?!" Ben was getting impatient, as all Kakashi did was looking in the opposite direction, buried in his thoughts.

 

"Well..." he sighed, and turned to Ben and the rest of the Union. "There is ONE way..."

 

"Well, what is it? I wanna go home!"

 

"That way would also result in you dead if it's done incorrectly!" Ben gulped, and stepped back. "Unless...any of you are skilled in magics..."

 

"Well, it's your lucky day, Kakashi!" replied Ron, and dragged Harry up to him. "We're wizards, you know!"

 

"Good! Then you will have to come with me..." Ron and Harry nodded, and followed Kakashi. He looked back at the others. "You should get some rest, all of you. There are rooms upstairs..." and with that, Kakashi, Ron and Harry went out of the building. Rika quickly turned her attention to Renamon.

 

"You sure you are ok?" she asked nervously.

 

"I'm fine, Rika...Really, I'm fine!" she replied. She scratched her left shoulder a bit. All since she was bitten by Orochimaru, she had felt a terrible itching on her shoulder, that would not simply get lost! She glanced at it, and found a strange, tattoo-looking mark on it. It was circular, black, and had three, pointy black dots inside, that seemed to spin counter-clockwise inside the circle. "Damn that Orochimaru guy..." she muttered.

 

"What?" Rika looked at her again. "What did you say?" Renamon muttered something about 'Damn snake-face', and walked upstairs. Rika grabbed her hand. "Renamon, what's wrong?" she repeated softly. Renamon glanced at her, and squirmed her hand out of Rika's grip.

 

"Leave me alone!" she almost shouted, and went upstairs, into one of the rooms, and slammed the door shut. Rika just stood there, paralysed with both fear and concern. Renamon has never acter THIS strange before. She used to be cheery, but in the same time, a bit serious. Now she acted all serious, and not to mention, a bit cold-hearted.

 

"What's wrong with Renamon?" she said to herself, and sat down on the stairs. "What?" Mileena walked up to her.

 

"Maybe she's just tired, you know." she comforted her. "Remember that she had to fight both Sasuke and Kimimaro today!"

 

"Yeah. I guess you're pretty tired after that." replied Rika. She looked at Mileena and smiled. "You're right! She's just tired, that's all!" she stood up and decided to not worry about her partner.

 

***************

 

Meanwhile, Renamon was walking back and forward in her room, trying to figure out what was wrong with her. And the origin of the mysterious mark on her shoulder.

 

"What's going on with me?" she nervously thought, her mind flickering from one thing to another. "When Rika held my hand like that, I felt like I wanted to rip her apart! I was about to attack her, even KILL her! What's wrong with me? Am I going insane? No......no, stop thinking that way, Rennie! All you need...is some good sleep..." she sighed, and sat down in her bed. Her gaze couldn't stop but to flicker back and forward to her marking. The dots seemed to move of some weird reason, as did her vision. It spinned, blurred, and she felt sick. "Uuuuggghhhh......my heeeaad..." she moaned, and stood up, staggering from right to left. "What's...happening to...m-me....UAAAGH!" she threw up on the floor, and stood on her knees with her hands as support. Her mouth tasted her own vomit, and her head spinned even more. She forced herself up, and suddenly, she fell on the bed and passed out......

 

===============Inside Renamon's Mind===============

 

Background Music: The Order That Must Be Protected

 

Renamon woke up. She was lying on a flowery field, filled with yellow, blue and pink flowers. She looked up, and the sun immidiently made her cover her eyes a bit. Her body felt warm, and she smiled.

 

"Man...this must be a dream." she said, and stood up. She was immidiently hugged by someone. She looked down, and saw Rika holding her arms around her.

 

"Renamon..." she giggled, and hugged her tighter. "I love you..." Renamon smiled, and hugged Rika back.

 

"I love you too, Rika..." she replied. "And I will always be here for you, as long as you remember me..." she poked Rika playfully on her nose, and she giggled even more.

 

"Hehehe! Of course I will remember you!" she smiled. "Will you...remember me?"

 

"Yes, of course! You're my best friend, Rika!"

 

"And you're my best friend...Renamon." both of them now sat down, Rika sat in Renamon's lap, as they gazed upon the seemingly endless flowerfield.

 

"Rika..." Renamon said, stroking her on the head, "Remember...those days...we just used to be...at the swings? I used to swing you so high that you cheered like crazy. You...really liked that, didn't you?"

 

"Yeah, I did..." repled Rika, and cuddled up to Renamon. "Ever since I was a kid...my dad used to take me to the swings in the park. He and I had so fun together, and I really loved him. Not just as my father...but as a person. He was...kind...and gentle..." Rika held around Renamon. "I miss him..."

 

"I know you do..." Renamon replied, and hugged Rika. "But I'm sure he looks down on you right now, and thinks; "There's my little Rika!". And I will always be here for you, remember!"

 

"Thanks...Renamon..."

 

"No problem..."

 

 

Suddenly, a piercing sound was heard, and blood splattered on Renamon's fur. She was scared, and looked down. Rika was staring at her, lifelessly, and she had a thin, silver blade through her throat! The blade slipped out as easily as it had pierced her, and she fell to the ground.

 

"RIKA!!! NO, RIKA!" Renamon was terrified, and looked up. A few metres away, a pale, black-haired man was swallowing a thin blade, and then smirked at Renamon. "YOU! OROCHIMARU!!"

 

"Yessssssss, my dear little sssssssslave..." replied Orochimaru, his tounge slithering like a serpent. "I have been...obssssssserving you, you sssssssssee. And I found your insssssssignificant little friend......usssssssselessssssss......" Renamon was furious, and charged at Orochimaru.

 

"SHUT THE HELL UP, DAMN SNAKE-FREAK!!!!" she punched at him, but he dodged quickly, and in an eyeblink, a snake emerged from his sleeve, and bit Renamon's arm! "GAAAAHHH!!!" the pain was unbearable, as the snake pumped venom into her veins. More and more by the second. And all that time, which felt like a torturing, unbearable eternity, Orochimaru just stood there, grinning a devilish grin at her.

 

"You will be my ssssssssservant, jussssssst you wait and ssssssssssee......" he smirked at her a last, long time, and then, Renamon blacked out......

 

===============Back To Konoha Village===============

 

"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME, YOU SON OF A B!TCH!!!!!!!"

 

Renamon flew straight up, and punched wildly around herself. The thing she didn't count on was that she hit someone.

 

"Ooooowowowowowow!!!! Hey, that hurts!" a familiar voice groaned. Renamon looked around, and saw Ben, rubbing his face in pain. The others looked at her, shocked to death.

 

"Renamon!! Why did you do that?" shouted Rika. Renamon looked at her hand. It was clutched into a fist, and some blood was on her knuckles. She soon found out that she had caused Ben's nose to bleed.

 

"I-I......I-I don't...k-know..." she stuttered. "S-Sorry...Ben..."

 

"Nah, It's ok..." he replied, and stuffed some paper up his nose, to stop the bleeding. "But why did you scream?"

 

"Scream?"

 

"Hell yea! It sounded like you were raped or something. What happened?"

 

"N-Nothing...I...had a nightmare, that's all." in that moment, Kakashi, Ron and Harry stepped inside. Kakashi smiled at them.

 

"You're free to go home now!"

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 13: Finally Home! Lee Finds His Escape!][align=center]Chapter 13: Finally Home! Lee Finds His Escape!

 

The Union followed Kakashi the way he took Harry and Ron earlier. As they went through the hallways, Renamon seemed troubled.

 

"What is it, Renamon?" asked Rika. "I know you acted angry before, but you shall know that I am here for you. You can tell me anything!"

 

"Well, eehh..." Renamon shrugged, and held her arms around Rika. "I'll tell you when we return home, ok?"

 

"Ok..." replied Rika. "I'm just worried about you..."

 

"I know..." Renamon whispered for herself. At that moment, they all stepped into a blue, illuminated room. Inside was a portal.

 

"Huh? What's this?" asked Ben.

 

"It's a portal that I, Ron and Kakashi summoned!" explained Harry. "It will allow us to travel to our HQ again!" the others smiled, and Mileena turned to Kakashi.

 

"Thank you!" she said.

 

"Hey, no prob..." replied Kakashi calmly. "I'm just here to help. You're free to leave, but...make sure to drop by now and then!"

 

"We will!" replied Rika, and the others nodded. One after the other, they went inside, until only Renamon was left. She walked up to Kakashi.

 

"Hmm? What now, young lady?"

 

"Well, eeh...it's this..." she showed Kakashi her mark, and he gasped in a worried tone. "What?! Is it a disease?!?"

 

"No, far worse..." Kakashi replied. "That's the Curse Mark Seal! It's the mark of Orochimaru, and if you have it, you could put your friends in grave danger."

 

"W-Why?!"

 

"Because, if you're not able to control your feelings, the Chakra, or Arcane Energy inside you will be forced to the surface, and you will lose your mind in power."

 

"What, that's just rubbish! I can handle myself, and my friends will surely help me!" she gruffed, and walked through the portal, which disappeared...

 

===============Meanwhile, In Daemonus' Castle===============

 

Orochimaru, Kabuto and Kimimaro appeared in front of Daemonus, Gaara and the others. They bowed deeply and smirked at him.

 

"Aaaah...Lord Orochimaru..." said Daemonus. "So you do us the honours of visiting us?"

 

"Not only that, my great Daemonussssss..." replied Orochimaru, as he stood up. "I alsssssso have great newssssss..."

 

"Then tell me..."

 

"Lord Daemonussssss...It issssss with great pride can inform you that Renamon hasssss recccceived my Curssssse Mark, and will sssssssoon be consssssumed by it'ssssss power. Which meanssssss..."

 

"That we will soon have a new recruit." smirked Daemonus. "You have done very well, Lord Orochimaru."

 

"Thank you, my Lord..." replied Orochimaru, and he commanded Kabuto and Kimimaro to stand up. "We sssshall sssssssssee to it that we'll not fail you..."

 

"Good. Dismissed!" Daemonus commanded. The three of them nodded, and leaped into the air, disappearing.

 

"My Lord, are you sure about this?" asked Kuja, hovering next to Daemonus with his spheres orbiting around him. "I mean...he seems as powerful as you..."

 

"Blaspmesy!" replied Daemonus. "That slithering fool is just a maggot compared to me! But...I got to admit...he will be useful to us, seeing that he has now been able to infect Renamon with his Cursed Seal. All we need to do now...is to wait..."

 

===============Meanwhile===============

 

Lee was marching back and forward in his cell, trying to find a weak spot somewhere, but it felt like it was all in vain. He was weakened of his time here, and because of the Hidden Lotus side-effects. He felt like all his powers were drained.

 

"D-Dammit..." he complained, and sat down on his bed. "There's GOT to be a way outta here! There MUST be! I just...got to keep looking..." he stood up again, and double-checked the walls for the fourth time. "Man! There MUST be a......" he suddenly noticed a small crack in the wall next to him. "Bingo! Now, let's see..." he backed away, and put his right leg behind his left. He focused, and then leaped forward with his right foot. "Konoha Senpuu!(Translation: Leaf Hurricane!)" he smacked his foot at the wall, and the bricks shattered open. A hole was created in the cell, and Lee didn't hesitate. He ran out from the cell, and ran along the hallways. He frequently looked left and right, trying to find an exit. He soon found one, and rushed out of it. He ended up outside the castle, the cold, gentle breeze fondling his skin and hair. He sighed in relief, and breathed deeply. He was free!

 

===============Back To The Rest Of The Union===============

 

As Renamon appeared on the other side of the portal, they had arrived to their HQ.

 

"Yea! This is what I'm talking about!" Ben said happily and jumped up on the couch. "Man! I've missed this place!"

 

"Me too!" replied Ron. "This is great! Well, exept that Lee isn't here..."

 

"Yeah, that's too bad..." said Rika. "But we must rescue him! He's one of us, remember?!"

 

"Yeah! We can't just sit here doing nothing!" replied Harry.

 

"Well, let's get to planning then..." announced Mileena, and she gathered the others in the kitchen. "Now then, Lee has probably been locked deep down in the dungeons, so if we would be able to get down there fast enough, we should be able to rescue him without the Evil Rebellion noticing us!"

 

"Well, what if they have guards?" asked Ron, a bit concerned.

 

"Then I'll go Fourarms on them!" replied Ben, showing his Omnitrix with a grin. "There will be nothing left of them but a bloody mess on the floor!"

 

"Hehe, I guess so!" chuckled Harry. "But we still need to be careful! We don't know how many tricks they have up their sleeves..."

 

"Of course!" replied Rika, but then, she looked around. "Hey? Where's Renamon?"

 

===============Meanwhile===============

 

Renamon was far away from the Union's base. She sat on a rock above a small lake, and looked down on the glistering reflection. She saw her mark on the left shoulder, and sighed.

 

"What if that ol' geezer was right?" she thought, and scratched a bit on her mark. "Maybe I AM a danger to my teammates. If that's so...then I don't want to risk them getting hurt. I better...leave them..." suddenly, she heard a rattle from one of the bushes. She stood up and took a fighting pose. "Who's there?! Come out!" she shouted. In that moment, Lee stumbled out of the bushes.

 

"Renamon?" he asked. "What are you doing here?" Renamon put her fists down.

 

"Lee! You escaped! But how?"

 

"Well, I busted the wall open and ran!" he replied. "But why aren't you with Rika?" Renamon looked away at that question.

 

"I just...wanted to feel the air a bit! That's all!"

 

"You act strange. Is there something wrong?"

 

"N-No! Nothing's wrong!" Lee didn't trust her, and he walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder.

 

"Trust me. You can tell me what's wrong!" he said, comforting her.

 

"Well..." Renamon showed Lee her mark, and told him everything.

 

"Whoah!" Lee exclaimed, as Renamon finished. "We must get you help now!"

 

"No! I can't! I...am a danger to you all! I must leave..."

 

"No, wait! Renamon! There may be another way, if you just let us..."

 

"NO! Listen to me! Rika would be terrified if she found out about this, and I don't wanna trouble her! We made a promise to eachother, that we would never trouble the other one! So please...let me go now..." Lee hesitated, but nodded.

 

"Alright. I will try to keep my mouth shut about this. But Rika will probably look for you..."

 

"I don't blame her. It's her nature to be worried about me." with those words, she leaped into the air, and vanished in the dakr forest. Lee looked after her, a bit troubled, but then he returned to the Union's HQ, to show the others that he had escaped...

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 14: The Curse Is Released! Rematch Renamon Vs Kimimaro!][align=center]Chapter 14: The Curse Is Released! Rematch Renamon Vs Kimimaro!

 

Renamon was leaping through the forest. It was pitch-black, but her senses allowed her to keep track, and she used her exellent sight to keep an eye out for branches and tree trunks. If there was one thing that disturbed her though, it was a vision in her head that she couldn't keep inside. A pale, almost white face, with a long, pink, slithering tounge, and fangs that looked like serpent fangs. Orochimaru. She stopped for awhile, as she felt a sharp pain in her shoulder, and looked to her left. There it was. Her Curse Mark. For some reason, the black strings seemed to have grown, and now covered her entire shoulder, and parts of her left arm, with black, wave-shaped strings.

 

"What's happening to me?" she thought, and examined her markings. "These were not here the last time I looked! It's all so...strange. This mark seems to slowly take over my body, and there's no way for me to stop it. Maybe...if I find this...'Orochimaru' again...then maybe HE can help me..." she nodded quietly for herself, and continued to leap between the trees. "I'm so sorry, Rika......" was the last thing she thought, before she disappeared into the darkness...

 

===============Meanwhile, At The Union's HQ===============

 

Everyone was reliefed that Lee had managed to escape from the Rebellion's HQ, and they all stood around him.

 

"It's great to have you back, Hot Shot!" smirked Ben, and High Fived Lee. "Things were boring without you!"

 

"Hehehe, I can tell!" chuckled Lee in reply. "Now then, how's things been?"

 

"Well, Renamon beated the hell out of both Sasuke and another ninja called 'Kimimaro'!" replied Mileena.

 

"Sasuke?! THE Uchiha Sasuke?!" Lee was shocked, and awed. "And Kaguya Kimimaro too?! He beated the daylight out of both me and Gaara!"

 

"Well, she beat the crap outta him! Oh, sorry for my language..." replied Ron, blushing a bit.

 

"It's ok!" replied Lee. "I'm kinda amazed at your Digimon, Rika! They sure sound powerful, those creatures!"

 

"Well, you have no idea, Lee!" Rika smiled. "But, if you just got here, have you happened to see Renamon?" Lee gulped nervously. He remembered that he had promised not to tell Rika about her whereabouts, but if he didn't, who would dare to guess what Rika would do to him?! He hesitated, a bead of sweat running from the back of his head, and stuttered;

 

"S-She j-just went o-outs-side for a-awhile!"

 

"Oh......ok then!" Rika replied, obviously not knowing that Renamon was half-way to Daemonus' Castle. Lee sighed in relief.

 

"Pwew! That was a close shave!" he thought. "Now then, is there any food? I'm starving!"

 

===============Meanwhile===============

 

Renamon stopped at the bottom of a high mountain. She looked up, and found that it was no mountain. It was a castle of gigantic proportions, with spiked, pitch-black Obsidian pillars all over it, and fire goblets that flamed with dark-purple flames. This was the Evil Rebellion's HQ; Daemonus' Black Castle. She shrugged, and jumped upwards, landing on one of the pillars. But then, a hand made of sand emerged from the wall and was about to hit her! She quickly dodged it, and landed on one of the other pillars. She saw Gaara standing perfectly still on the wall. He had Chakra around his feet, allowing him to walk that way.

 

"Intruder! Die!" he roared, as more sand came from his gourd and bombarded Renamon. She dodged one sand mass after the other, but Gaara kept sending more sand after her. She jumped and dodged, until one of the sand masses grabbed her right ankle, and Gaara was quick to act. He put up his hand and clutched it, as he called out; "Sand Burial!", and in the same moment, the sand crushed Renamon's right foot.

 

"Gaah!" she groaned in pain, landed on her left foot, and carefully put down her right one. "Damn it! His sand is too fast!" she muttered. "I need to distract him......I know!" she jumped back down on the ground, and looked at the grass. The moisture drippled from the morning fresh grass, and she smirked. She made a hand sign, and called out;

 

"Mizu bunshin no jutsu!(Translation: Water Clone Jutsu!)"

 

The water gathered around her, and formed three exact clones of her, made out of water. They smirked at Gaara, and ran along with Renamon up the wall. Gaara destroyed the clones with sand, but the real Renamon managed to get close to him, grab his neck, and pound him through the wall. Conveniently enough, that wall was behind the throne room, and they barged inside, as Renamon threw Gaara into a pillar. He fell unconscious to the floor. Renamon glared at the throne, and there was Daemonus, Orochimaru, and Kimimaro. Her eyes bursted into flames as she saw Orochimaru.

 

"OROCHIMARU!!!" she roared. "YOU TELL ME THIS INSTANT WHAT THESE MARKS ARE, OR I'M GONNA RIP OUT THAT TOUNGE OF YOURS!!!"

 

"Hmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmmmmmmmmmmm......" chuckled Orochimaru. "Well......ssssssseemssssss asssssss the child of my mark issssssss impatient to embrace her fate......" he made a gargling noise, and out of his mouth emerged a thin, steel blade, that he grabbed by the handle and pulled out, aiming it at Renamon.

 

"YOU......YOU SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!!!" Renamon replied furiously, and charged at Orochimaru. But then, Kimimaro jumped forward, dragged out a bone dagger from his shoulder, and attacked. Renamon dodged Kimimaro's attacks with blinding speed, and kicked him in the chest. Out of the chest emerged sharp ribs, that closed up Kimimaro's chest, crushing Renamon's other foot. "GAAAAHHH!!!" Renamon screamed in pain, as the ribs pierced her ankle and crushed her foot, locked in place.

 

"Hmpf! If you can't beat me, there's no way you will beat Lord Orochimaru!" smirked Kimimaro, and prepared to stab Renamon's chest. But then, something happened, that not even Kimimaro would think was possible. Renamon broke free of Kimimaro's solid ribs, jumped up in mid-air, and kicked him in the side of the head, which made him fly straight into a pillar and destroy it, collapsing on top of him.

 

"TAKE THAT YOU SON OF A B!TCH!!!!" roared Renamon. The mark on her shoulder began to glow in a flaming colour, and the markings spread across her body, until it covered her entire chest, stomach, her left leg and left arm, and the left half of her face. She had ascended to the First Level. Orochimaru smirked at her.

 

"Heheheeeeeee......thisssssss issssss going jusssssst asssssssssss planned!" he slithered, as Kimimaro stepped out of the rubble.

 

"YOU!! YOU...WILL......PAY!!!! GRAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" his skin turned light-brown, his hair grey, and six thick bones sprang out of his back. He grew a tail with needle-like bones on it, and he had green lines in his face. He had ascended to the Second Level. "BRACKEN DANCE!!!!" he roared, and put his palms to the ground. Bone spikes erupted from the ground and charged at Renamon, but she just glared at Kimimaro, and jumped straight into the erupting bone-spikes! She dodged them, jumped off them, bounced between them, all as they emerged one after the other, and reached Kimimaro, and delivered a hard kick straight in his face. "GAAAAAHHHH!" roared Kimimaro, as he staggered backwards.

 

"Hmpf! What's the matter? Can't keep up!" shouted Renamon, as she followed up with several punched in his chest, and then kicked him into the air. She jumped up and smashed her heel into his back. Kimimaro threw up blood, and crashed into the floor with a bang. Renamon landed a few metres away, and Orochimaru grinned widely.

 

"Look at her! She's truly a monument of my power!" he thought, as Kimimaro snarled, got up and charged Renamon. As they were fighting, Orochimaru studied Renamon's fighting style. "Such......speed! Such......Flexibility! Such......STRENGHT! That is TRULY a fighter to be reckoned with!" as he stopped thinking, he saw his prodigy, Kimimaro, being brutaly pounded and slammed by Renamon. But he didn't care. His new target was now Renamon. Kimimaro suddenly lunged at Renamon, as bones swirled around his left arm and formed a giant spike.

 

"CLEMATIS DANCE: FLOWER!" he roared, and stabbed at Renamon. Renamon, however, was now more powerful, and she grabbed the spike with her right hand! Then, she pulled Kimimaro up to her, and gave him a punch with all she got with the left hand. A ripping, splattering noise was heard, as the bone-spike was ripped off Kimimaro's arm, and he flew backwards and crashed into a wall, his arm dripping with blood. Renamon charged at him, and drove the spike into his chest. "GRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! AAAHHHH! AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! L-LORD OROCHIMARU!!! H-HELP.......m-me........" the blood flowed from his chest in gallons, and then, his pleading hand turned weak, then, it fell down beside him, lifeless. Kimimaro was dead. Renamon smirked sadistically, as she pulled out the giant spike and threw it beside him. A clapping noise was heard, and Renamon spinned around. Orochimaru was applauding at her.

 

"I must admit..." he said, no longer slithering his tounge. "You are the prodigy I've been looking for!"

 

"Who said I'd join you, freak!" replied Renamon.

 

"Because I know your desires! You seem to hunger and strive for power that none of those Union fools can give you! You seek the power that only I can bring you! And that WILL be yours...if you aid me..."

 

"Aid YOU?! Heh! I've heard worse offers..."

 

"I see. But you will still aid me, correct?"

 

"Correct. Cause only you know about this...mark, that now seems to have spread around my whole body."

 

"I see. Well then......welcome, my disciple, to the Evil Rebellion!"

 

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[Fallen Hero]

i'm guessing it will be vilgax (i think thats how you spell it) that appears.

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

EDIT: More Chapters Here!

 

[spoiler=Chapter 15: Partners Separated, Alliances Shattered...][align=center]Chapter 15: Partners Separated, Alliances Shattered...

 

Renamon was walking beside Orochimaru, as they were on their way to her new living quarters.

 

"So...you knew this all along?" asked Renamon, her voice reduced to a quiet growling.

 

"Of course, my dear..." replied Orochimaru. "Your Curse Mark has led you to me, in knowledge that it would become stronger if you exposed it to anger and rage. Therefore, the Curse Mark is my ultimate weapon. Sharper than any blade, yet softer than any comforting word or sound, it pierces the minds of the weak, as well as the strong, and lead them to me, where they receive their just reward."

 

"Which is?"

 

"A choice, my dear little Renamon; To accept their fate, and pledge themselves to my orders, humbling at my feet like the pathetic things they are......or a quick death by the blade, putting them out of their misery and uselessness."

 

"I see..."

 

"What's with the short 'tounge'?" Orochimaru snickered at his joke.

 

"Nothing. Just a memory I got...or a dream. I feel like I...belonged to someone...someone that...loved me. But now...it's all gone..."

 

"Like a leaf in a wind...or a ship out to sea...things disappear into nothingness...but some things are destined to endure. Like us. We...are proof of Destiny...of Fate. Beings like us, Renamon, are never dying...never tiring of the burden of our minds. We endure...while the weak and impure perish...in foolishness and despair. They are the weak, Renamon...and we...are the strong. Never forget this, my child..."

 

"Of course not, my massster..." Renamon held a hand around her mouth, gasping into it. She slithered! Like Orochimaru! Orochimaru noticed it on her voice, and grinned behind her back.

 

"See? Our bonds are stronger now...and soon...you shall be my new prodigy."

 

"I can't wait..." Renamon grinned wickedly, revealing her fanged teeth. "But when, Master? When?!"

 

"In due time, my child...in due time..." he opened a door, and Renamon stepped inside. The room was pretty simple. A bed with a grey quilt on top, perfectly made, a small desk with a simple, wooden chair in front of it, a bathroom, and one, small window, where the beams of the moonlight faintly glimmered in. "Now...get some rest, my love...you'll need it..." Orochimaru closed the door, and left Renamon in her loneliness. She looked upon her body. The marks, once as clear as fire, was now gone, and the only mark she had, was on her shoulder, gleaming as black as darkness itself. She sat down on her bed, and looked at the mirror in front of her. It was then she realised what she had done.

 

"I...am no longer Renamon..." she sighed for herself, and walked up to her desk. She looked in the drawers, and found a small knife. She took it in a firm grasp, and held it against her palm. She squeezed her fingers around the blade, and made a quick pull. The knife's edge stained with blood, and she winced at the pain, but didn't cry out. Blood flowed from her palm, down her arm. She raised it, as the blood trinkled all the way down, to her shoulder. A small tear formed in her eye, and she whispered into the cold, dark air; "I am no longer myself......I am Orochimaru's Chosen........."

 

*

 

Rika stood in front of her window, looking into the distant skies. The night came, and stars lit up the skies, one after the other, until the skies were like a sea of light. She sighed deeply, and fingered in the back of her spiked pony-tail. As she pulled her hands away, a small hairband was pulled along, and her hair loosened up into waving, red strings, which soothed in the air, stroking her face as she shook it. She put the hairband on her desk, and walked over to her bed. As she was about to lie down, Lee entered the room, and noticed her hair.

 

"Whoa......" he gasped, completely speechless. "R-Rika......"

 

"I know..." she replied with a sigh, and put her hands on her heart. "It's just that...I prefer my hair to be short, that's all..."

 

"N-No, it's not that!" Lee was fast to add, "It's just that......y-you look...beautiful..."

 

"T-Thanks..."

 

"You're welcome..."

 

"S-So..." Rika sat down on the bed, and Lee sat next to her. "You think that...Renamon will come back?"

 

"I'm sure of it! She knows that you miss her, and she will probably be back by tomorrow!"

 

"You sure?"

 

"Double sure! I mean, it's not like she has abandoned you!"

 

"I...guess so..." a small, pearl-glimmering tear fell from Rika's eye, and down on her blue jeans, forming a small, dark spot.

 

"Why are you crying, Rika?" Lee asked cautiously, and smoothly fondled her cheek with his hand.

 

Rika's Theme: Reflection

 

"It's just that...I miss her..." she replied, and her voice, once clear and almost childish, drooped into a saddened tone. "She has never done like this before...and I am worried. That...mark she had...I never saw it until...until we walked through the portal. I tried to speak to her...but...but the words...would not come..." more tears fell from her blue, glimmering eyes, and she desperately hugged Lee tight, sobbing into his shoulder. "And now......it's...it's too late!!" her voice was now replaced with crying, as it pierced the silence that once was.

 

"N-No...Rika! Please...don't cry!" Lee tried to comfort her. "I...I didn't mean to...to bring up the subject! I-I'm sorry..." Lee hugged Rika back, and his fingers slipped through her crimson hair. He had a gentle touch, and Rika looked at his face.

 

"T-Thanks..." her hands now smoothly fondled his back, up to his neck. She moved closer to Lee, and sat up in his lap. They looked at eachother, and every second felt like an eternity. Both of them knew what the other one was going to do next, as their heads got absently closer, and then, they pressed up their lips against eachother. A warm feeling bursted up in both Rika and Lee, and fireworks went off in their heads. Their tounges playfully caressed eachother, and they fondled eachothers bodies, smootly and slowly. In the sky outside Rika's window, a starfall was litting up the sky with a single line of light, before fading into nothingness. Lee and Rika slowly let go of eachother, and with a last, long breath, they sighed and looked at eachother.

 

"Wow......" was all Lee could utter, his lips still wet and warm. "What was that for?"

 

"Nothing..." Rika replied. "I just...felt like doing it..."

 

"So did I. You know...it wasn't half-bad!"

 

"Hehe...yeah, I guess so..."

 

"Are you feeling better?"

 

"A little."

 

"Ok. I'm gonna let you be alone a bit then..." Lee stood up, and as he went to Rika's door, he looked back and smiled at her. "Don't worry, Rika. She'll be fine..." and with that, he closed the door quietly. Rika sighed and laid down on her bed, her head sinked slowly into the pillow.

 

"I hope she really is okay..." she thought, and then, she slowly closed her eyes with a last, glimmering tear, and went to sleep...

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 16:The Assault Is Commenced.][align=center]Chapter 16:The Assault Is Commenced.

 

Gaara and Kankuro were walking towards Renamon's living quarters. They had been ordered to wake her up, since the morning had arrived, and she was late for her ceremonial invitation.

 

"I don't trust her, brother..." said Kankuro, a tone of fear in his voice. "She's one of the Union members, after all! Who knows why she's here! She may be..."

 

"She's not spying, idiot..." Gaara snapped at his brother, interrupting him. "If she was, Orochimaru should have seen it the moment she arrived. Daemonus should have seen it as well, and killed her in an instant. Besides...she's a fine addition to our forces..."

 

"Well, hehe, I got to agree with you there! But she's far too suspicious-looking to me. If I find her betraying us, I'll make her regret it!"

 

"That's what Daemonus wants us to do. As you said; She's still from the Union of Justice, therefore, she cannot be trusted."

 

"I agree..." as Kankuro said that, Gaara opened the door to Renamon's room. The reply he got was a dagger thrown at him, but he reflected it with a quick sand barrier.

 

"Get...the Hell...outta...my room!!" she snarled from her bed, her quilt dragged over herself. The sun shined brightly through the window, revealing small, red spots on the floor. Gaara smirked a bit.

 

"You must get up..." he replied, his cold eyes fixed on her bed. "Orochimaru wants you to..." at the mention of Orochimaru, Renamon sighed deeply and got up.

 

"Fine...just...give me some time to fix up..."

 

"Of course..." Gaara nodded at his brother, and both of them went out of her room. Renamon went into the bathroom, stepped into the shower, and turned the wheel. Cold, but not too cold, water drizzled down from the shower, and her fur was quickly soaked. She grabbed some soap and rubbed it in all over her body. First her legs, then her waist, her chest, and then her arms. She stroke her charismatic body gently and fast, covering each inch of it, before she stepped into the drizzling water once again. Her fur was once again soaked, and the soap was washed away. Her mark still endured, but she had now embraced her fate. She had turned her back on the Union...all her friends...and she never wanted to return......ever. She turned off the water, grabbed a towel and wiped herself dry, then put it on a hanger. She stepped out of her room, where Gaara still waited for her, and with a couple of clothes in his hands.

 

"Lord Orochimaru's behalf..." he explained before Renamon had a chance to open her mouth. She obediently put the clothes on, until she was dressed in a brown-tannish suit with a brown shirt beneath, black leather gauntlets and boots, and with a white/red mask, covering her face behind a false identity. "Exellent...now follow me!" Gaara snapped his fingers, and sand engulfed them, as they disappeared...

 

*

 

Rika woke up and rubbed her eyes, a bit sensitive of the sunlight that gleamed through her window. She yawned, sat up on her bed, and stretched her arms, a loud, but harmless crack emitted from her back. She cringed a bit, but stood up, and dressed herself in her usual clothes. She took the hairband from her desk and strapped up her hair into her usual spiky pony-tail. She walked over to her mirror, examined herself, and sighed loudly.

 

"She's still not here, huh?" she said to her mirror image. "Thought so..." she walked over to her door, opened it, and went down the stairs, into the kitchen. The others were already up, and Harry, Ben and Mileena walked up to her, worried about her condition.

 

"Are you ok?" asked Harry with a gentle voice. "You don't look so well..."

 

"You're sick?" Ben filled in, a stroke of worry in his voice. Rika just shook her head and mumbled something, as she sat down next to Lee.

 

"You sure you are ok?" he asked, even more worried than Ben. Rika shrugged her shoulders.

 

"Dunno..." she replied quietly, and grabbed herself a slice of bread. She ate it, and didn't take her eyes off it, until she had eaten all of it. She stared emptily in front of her, and sighed occationally.

 

"Hey, Rika..." Lee put his hand on her shoulder. "She'll be back...soon enough! I promised you, remember?"

 

"Y-yeah...but it seems so...hopeless..."

 

"Nothing is hopeless! As long as you trust in your friends!" replied Harry. "That's what I've learned from Ron and Hermione!"

 

"Yeah! And even if she's stupid, my cousin Gwen taught me that if you're in trouble, your family shows up to help you!" Ben was quick to add. "And we're a family! So, it's that simple! If Renamon doesn't come back on her own, we'll go help her home! And that's all!" Rika was flattered of all the support her team members were willing to give, and blushed a bit.

 

"T-Thanks..." she stuttered. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Mileena went out in the hall and opened the door. She gasped a bit, and called for the others.

 

"Guys! Come quick!"

 

The others rushed up and went out to the hall. Inside were the Final Fighters! Cloud, Squall, Zidane, Tidus, Onion Knight and Warrior of Light. He looked at Mileena and smiled.

 

"We are here to help you." he said. "We heard that the Evil Rebellion is on the move, and with some of our nemesises in the lead. We will aid you to our fullest!"

 

"Thank you!" exclaimed Mileena. She suddenly noticed a creature next to Cloud. It looked like a lion, it's pelt coloured red and orange, and the mane slightly brown. The tip of it's tail blazed with fire, and a scar was seen over it's right eye. Mileena patted the creature. "Hey, cutie! What's your name?"

 

"My name is Red XIII..." the creature suddenly spoke up, it's voice a raspy growl. Mileena was a bit shocked, as were the other Union Members. "And I have teamed up with my old friend Cloud here to help you..." Cloud smirked a bit.

 

"Well, ok! Please, come inside and we'll tell you what we know about the Rebellion..."

 

*

 

Gaara and Renamon reappeared in front of Daemonus' throne, with him sitting in it. Around him were the rest of the Rebellion. Kankuro, Orochimaru, Kabuto, Draco Malfoy, Kishido & Myotismon, Kefka, Ultimecia and Kuja. She looked at each of them through the eye sockets of her mask, her only window to reality, and then returned her sight to Daemonus.

 

"Renamon..." he said loudly, and chills ran down her spine at his mighty voice. "You know why I have asked you to come here?"

 

"N-No...G-Great Lord..." she stuttered.

 

"Because...you are about to join me. Look around you. Tell me what you see..."

 

"A bunch of evil villains?"

 

"Aah, correct. But what do you see more? Tell me...your inner thoughts...tell me...what you see with your mind..."

 

"I see..." Renamon peeked her eyes in the mask. "A young wizard...haunted by memories of humiliation and terrorizing..." she looked at Draco. "And...a young child...abandoned by his mother at birth...and cursed with the ever shifting abilities of the Sand..."

 

"There...you got it..." Daemonus interrupted her.

 

"Got what? There's so much to see!"

 

"No. That will be enough. I now see that you have the potential of becoming one of us. Bow down..."

 

Renamon did as commanded, and bowed down on her left knee. Daemonus walked up to her, his pincer erupting from his left hand socket. Renamon closed her eyes, and prepared for the pain. But instead of pain, she felt something fondle her shoulders, as smooth as silk. Daemonus fondled her with she flat of his pincer, and once he had moved it across her soulders, in went back into the socket.

 

"Arise...Renamon. New member of the Evil Rebellion!" announced Daemonus, and the others applauded and roared in celebration. Renamon stood up, and looked at the others. This...was her new family. She had to accept it. This was her way.

 

"Thank you, Lord Daemonus..." she took his hand, lifted her mask a bit, and kissed it. She put the mask back on and stood up. "What shall I do?"

 

"Wait...and train! The others will arrive soon..."

 

"The...others?"

 

"Yes, heheeeee!" Kefka snickered. "I have sensed them for a long time now! The Union! They are soon here!"

 

"The...Union?! Here?!?"

 

"Yes! Very soon..." Daemonus replied. "You shall have your just revenge at them, soon enough..."

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 17: Death of A Warrior. Death Gate: Open!][align=center]Chapter 17: Death of A Warrior. Death Gate: Open!

 

The Union was rushing through the forests, with the Final Fighters beside them. They had been prepared for this battle for seemingly ages now, and still...they felt unprepared. Especially Rika, who was carried by Lee, as he leaped from tree to tree.

 

"What's wrong, Rika?" he asked as he jumped.

 

"O-Oh...nothing..." replied Rika, clutching tighter to Lee. "It's just that...I fear that something might happen...when we get there...you know?"

 

"Yea, I've kinda felt that too..."

 

"What if...someone will die? What will we do then?"

 

"No one will die! I'll se to that!"

 

"L-Lee..."

 

"Trust me! I'll protect all of you with everything I got!"

 

"Thanks..." Rika closed her eyes, sighed a bit, and wished that no one would be hurt, less killed, during this battle. Little did she know, that her worst fears would come true...

 

*

 

Daemonus stood at the top floor of his castle, viewing the gigantic forest. He knew that the Union was close, but he didn't mind.

 

"They are soon here..." said Kuja behind him. "Shall we attack?"

 

No, Kuja..." replied Daemonus. "We shall wait here, until they come to us. And once they do...their minds will be crushed, their hearts broken...and they will beg for me to kill them, to put them out of their misery!"

 

"As you wish..." Kuja grinned, and leaved Daemonus alone. He sighed deeply, and went from the balcony.

 

"This will be my moment of triumph...yet I can't celebrate it..." he groaned. "I will crush my pitiful enemies, yet they seem...powerful to me. Somehow...they are hiding their true potention to me...hidden and concealed...until they unleash it! Well, I won't be the one to be catch off-guard! GAARA!" in an eyeblink, Gaara formed in front of him, sand floating off his robe.

 

"What are your orders?" he asked.

 

"Simple. I want you to......"greet" our little guests!"

 

"You got that!" Gaara grinned, and sank into the floor, as he dispersed into sand. Daemonus smirked wider.

 

"Now......you shall see the power of the Evil Rebellion!

 

*

 

The Union and Final Fighters stood in front of the giant doors, pitch-black, even in clear daylight.

 

"Well...should we knock?" asked Ben ironically. He was instantly whacked in the head by Rika and her frying pan.

 

"Dumba$$!" she shouted. "They'll probably kill us if we knock on the door! We need to sneak in..." as she said that, two pitfalls opened in the floor outside the gate, and the Union fell down in one of them, while the Final Fighters fell into another one. As they stopped falling, they looked around, and saw that they had appeared in a gigantic sand-box.

 

"Wha? What's this, some kinda game?!" shouted Ron, a bit insulted. He didn't expect to be answered, but...

 

"Yes, Ronald Weasley...MY GAME!" from the sand, Gaara emerged, and stared coldly at the Union. "Welcome...to Daemonus' Game of Death!"

 

"W-What?!" Rika exclaimed. "Game of...Death?!?"

 

"Correct! You will either accept the games that appear...or die! Of course, the games are a little tricky, so you might end up dying anyways! HEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Now......the first Game is...to defeat me!"

 

"I'll do it, Gaara!" Lee stepped up, and held his hand straightened at Gaara. "I will defeat you!"

 

"No! Lee!! I don't want you to get hurt!" Rika held around Lee, but he just shrugged her off.

 

"Rika...stay back. I don't want you to get hurt..."

 

"But Lee! He will kill you!!"

 

"Might be so......but then...you shall know...that I always loved you..."

 

"L-Lee..."

 

"And even if I die...I will forever have a place in your heart...right?"

 

"Y-Yeah...you will...always..."

 

"Good! Then I don't have anything to lose!"

 

"Heheheheeeee......you really expect to win...affter all this...you still don't get it!" Gaara snickered. "YOU WILL DIE BY THOSE WORDS!"

 

Gaara's Theme: Blood Red Sandman

 

And with that, the sand began to move wildly, shifting and drifting. Suddenly, several sand hands emerged and crashed down on Lee! He dodged them with ease by flipping backwards, but as he landed, the sand grabbed hin ankles and held him in place, and the sand hands crashed down again, this time hitting its target.

 

"Gaah!" Lee was almost crushed by the force of the impact, but managed to get up and charge at Gaara. "KONOHA SENPUU!" he slammed his food towards Gaara, but a sand barrier blocked the attack. Lee desperately punched and kicked, but sand barriers emerged from all directions, blocking his attacks. Gaara grew tired of Lee's puny attempts of attacking, and stretched his hand forward. Sand grabbed hold of Lee and pummeled him into a wall, and Gaara clutched his hand. "Desert Coffin!" he roared, and the sand crushed Lee where he was held. Gaara smirked, but as the sand disappeared from the wall, he saw an opened scroll with a blood line in it, and tree splinters, nothing more. "A Substitution Scroll!" he exclaimed, and in that moment, he was kicked in the chin repeatetly into the air, and suddenly, bandages wrapped around him. Lee appeared behind him, grabbed hold of him, and turned him upside-down, as they began to spin.

 

"Take this!" Lee shouted, as they began to fall down. "Omote Renge!" they crashed into the sand, and a dust cloud spiraled upwards. Lee emerged from the cloud and landed a few feet away, smirking at his effort. But then, he saw the sands rise, and Gaara emerged. He had a few cracks around his face, falling off his body like shattered pottery. "Damn it! He used a Sand Armor Technique! My Primary Lotus is useless!" he gasped. Gaara kept grinning at him through his shattered face, and sand suddenly grabbed Lee's ankles! Gaara was quicker now, and called out; "Desert Coffin!", and thee sand crushed Lee's ankles. "GAAAHH!!!" he cried out in pain, and was forced down on his kneepads.

 

"Heheheheeeeeee......I'm gonna enjoy this!" Gaara chuckled creepily, as the sand around him shivered, as if it was eager to torture Lee beyond recognition. Gaara lashed his hand, and the sand charged at Lee like slithering snakes, and attacked without mercy. Mileena turned away Rika's head, but she could still hear the sounds. The sound of bones being crushed, piercing and slashing, blood-curling screams, and that spine-chilling, cold, sadistic, almost menial laughter. As Gaara commanded away the sand, Lee was standing on his knees, but he was merely able to keep himself up. Blood gushed from several wounds on his body, his legs were completely crushed, and his vision dimmed and blurred. He was on the edge of dying, and he knew that there was no other way out. He forced himself up, the pain in his legs burning like thousand fires, and crossed his arms. Something was stirring inside him, as sand suddenly started to swirl around him, and Gaara was shocked. "W-What?! What is this?!? How can this be?!" a blue fire emitted from Lee's body, his skin turned slightly red, and his eyes went white. He was in his Eight Gates Mode.

 

Rock Lee's Theme: No Giving Up

 

"FIRST GATE: GATE OF POWER: OPEN!"

 

He seemingly vanished into this air, and suddenly, a sand barrier stretched up behind Gaara and was destroyed! "W-WHAT?!?!" Gaara looked around, but then, another sand wave rose and demolished. Several times, over and over again, sand walls bursted up and was destroyed. Suddenly, Lee appeared right in front of Gaara!

 

"EAT THIS!!!" he roared, and punched Gaara in the face, flinging his several metres backwards into a wall. Lee began to rush at him. "SECOND GATE: GATE OF SPEED: OPEN!" he vanished, and reappeared in front of Gaara, and pummeled him trough the wall, as they appeared in an empty room with no floor. Lee vanished, and suddenly, Gaara heard voices:

 

"THIRD GATE: GATE OF LEAVES: OPEN!" he was pummeled several times in the stomach, still no sign of his attacker. "FOURTH GATE: GATE OF JOY: OPEN!" in a blinding flash, Gaara was punched all over his body exactly one-hundred times. "FIFT GATE: GATE OF MIND: OPEN!" this time, Lee appeared above him, and pummeled Gaara in the chest, as he flied down towards the bottom of the endless darkness. Lee landed on a pillar that stuck out of the wall, exhausted. He was still in his Eight Gates Mode. Suddenly, he thought that he saw something down there. A blood-red eye. Staring straight at him! Suddenly, a giant hand of sand emerged from the dephts, and Lee had to jump high to avoid it. But there was something odd about it. It had blood veins! Blue, pulsating blood veins that ran across the arm! Lee looked down, and discovered something horrible. It was Gaara, but in his Shukaku Form. A gigantic sand fox demon, and he towered above Lee.

 

"YOU WILL DIE!!! FEEL MY WRATH!!!!" he roared loudly, and smacked Lee with his arm. Lee was sent crashing into a wall, but he quickly jumped away as Gaara tried to smack him again.

 

"Gaah! He's too powerful! I...I-I..." Lee started to concentrate, and thought; "Sorry, Rika! But I must do this! For my village...for my friends......for you..." he noticed that his friends had run to the edge of the hole that he tore up when punding Gaara through the wall, and he looked at Rika for a moment, before his eyes fixed on the Shukaku again. He was rushing towards it's face, and as he got closer and closer, he shouted: "SIXTH GATE: GATE OF HEAVEN: OPEN!SEVENT GATE: GATE OF THE HEART: OPEN!!EIGTH GATE: DEATH GATE: OPEN!!!!!! he was now face-to-face with the hideous Shukaku, and he lunged his fist at him.

 

"HIDDEN LOTUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

And as fist met sand, the Shukaku stood perfectly still. And then, it came. An ear-splintering, deformed, blood-curling scream of agony. The Shukaku's face was torn up, and soon enough, it's entire body evaporated in a mix of sand and blood and gore, spreading throughout the insides of the castle. Lee flew through the air, and landed in the sand-box room. He reverted to his original form, and the others rushed up to him. "LEE! ROCK LEE! ARE YOU OK?!?" Rika shouted worringly, and held her hand on Lee's forehead. "He's burning! We must get him some aid! We must..." she was interrupted by Lee holding her hand.

 

"R-Rika......" he muttered, coughing up blood. "I'm...s-sorry...for doing this...b-but it was...the only way to...t-to do it..." his hand shook like crazy. "Rika......f-farewell...for now......" and with a last, long breath, his hand went cold and lifeless in Rika's. He closed his eyes. He was dead.

 

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 18: Damn Right I'm Evil!][align=center]Chapter 18: Damn Right I'm Evil!

 

Renamon sat in her room, and she could hear Rika's desperate cry all the was down from the first challenge room. She starled at the familiar voice, and stood up.

 

"W-What was that?" she stuttered. Her ears perked up, but she didn't hear it a second time. "Bah...it was probably nothing..." she looked over to her desk, and saw her white, red-marked mask. She went over to it, and was about to put it on, when Orochimaru stepped inside. "Master!"

 

"My sweet prodigy..." he replied, a bit of hidden sweetness in his voice. "Lord Daemonus sended me to inform you that you will be up next..."

 

"Next for what, Master?"

 

"To fight, of course......C'mon...I'll follow you." Renamon nodded quietly, put on her mask, and followed Orochimaru. "You seem tense...my child?"

 

"What? O-Oh it's...nothing, Master..."

 

"I can see that you are lying...tell me, my child...what's on your mind?" Orochimaru fondled Renamon's chin at those words.

 

"W-Well...it's just that...it feels like...these 'Union' guys...are familiar somehow..."

 

"Well, that's because they're trying to trick you, my child! Don't let them deceive you!"

 

"I shall not, Master. I won't fail you..."

 

"Good...then you know what your objective is?"

 

"Yes, Master. To protect the Evil Rebellion from the fools that supress us, and to spread greater glory to evil acts..."

 

"And how will you do this?"

 

"Kill those foolish enough to disturb our perfect Order, slay the Impure that defile us, and slaughter the weak that stand in our way!"

 

"Then WHAT must you do with The Union of Justice?!"

 

"I...MUST......KILL THEM!!"

 

*

 

"NO! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!! HE'S NOT DEAD! HE CAN'T BE!!!"

 

Rika refused to let go of Lee's dead body, her fingers desperately grasping his arms. Mileena and Harry were pulling her with all their might, but she didn't let go.

 

"Rika! Please, understand! He did it for you!" said Mileena, pulling her back with Harry helping her.

 

"NO! HE CAN'T BE DEAD!!" Rika shouted. "LET GO OF ME!" as he was watching, Ben decided that she had went too far. He slammed down the button on his Omnitrix, transformed into Fourarms, and grabbed Rika's arm, pulling her away.

 

"Face it, Rika! He's dead!" he said in a sharp tone. Rika squirmed out of Ben's tight grip and stared at him, fire burning in her eyes.

 

"SHUT UP!!!" she shouted, and punched Ben with all her might. It was all in vain, as Rika's punch wasn't more than a mosquito bite for Ben's Fourarms form. She broke down, and leaned towards Ben, crying. "Why did he...h-have to do this?!" she said with a sob.

 

"It was...his way of protecting you, I guess..." Mileena sighed.

 

"He...really cared about you, ya know?" Ron filled in, his head bent down in sorrow.

 

"And he was...a good friend..." replied Harry.

 

"Let's never forget him, Rika..." Ben hugged her with all his four arms. "It's the least we can do to honor the memory of him..."

 

"You're right..." Rika hugged him back, as he reverted to a ten-year old boy again. "We must press on now." she looked over at Mileena, Harry and Ron, and they all nodded sadly. Suddenly, they heard a door open behind them, and a string of light fell into the room. They carefully stepped inside......

 

*

 

"What is this place?" was the first thing that Ben said, as they entered the room. It was completely empty, darkness were all around them. The door slammed shut, and dissolved into darkness.

 

"Dammit! There's no way out!" gruffed Mileena, as she tried to find a hidden door. "Guess we're stuck!"

 

"But...what IS this?" asked Ben again.

 

"Most likely one of Daemonus' doings..." said Mileena.

 

"Correct..." a voice replied from all directions. The Union was shocked.

 

"Wha?! Who's there?!" shouted Harry, as he and Ron pulled up their wands. Mileena conjured a fireball in her hands, allowing them to see a bit more. Rika felt that the voice was...familiar somehow.

 

"R-Renamon?" she stuttered. Harry gasped at her.

 

"How do you know it's Renamon?!"

 

"It's just that...we known eachoter for so long now, and I'm dead sure that it's her voice!"

 

"That's also correct..." another, more slithering voice replied. Suddenly, out of the darkness, Orochimaru stepped up to them.

 

"YOU!" Mileena threw the fireball at him, but he made a handsign in front of himself.

 

"Kai!(Translation: Release!)" he called quickly. The fireball evaporated into steam before it even hit it's target. "Temper, temper, little girl..."

 

"SHUT UP!! Where are we, and where's Daemonus?! We're sick of his game!"

 

"I'm afraid that cancelling the game is no longer an option, my dear, fragile little flower. Daemonus is in his living quarters, observing your progresses, as we are tasked to slow you down. You will either play by his rules...or die!"

 

"Hmpf, fine! Who's our next enemy?"

 

As she asked that, Orochimaru grinned wickedly, and waved his hand. A dark figure stepped up to him. A female, by the looks of it. She was dressed in a black leather ninja suit with long, black sleeves and leggings, a double pair of Katana's on her back, and a white, red-striped wood mask on her face. Her appearance was strangely anthropomorphic, and she had a long, black-furred tail sticking out of her rear.

 

"Her..." replied Orochimaru. "May I introduce you to my latest prodigy! She prefers to be anonymus, so I shall say no more about that. But she's really deadly...I leave you now......" he backed into the darkness, and the unknown warrior pulled her Katana's and aimed them at the Union.

 

"We're ready!" said Mileena confidently. "Bring it on!"

 

"My pleasure..." the warrior replied, and she charged at them. She lashed her Katana at Mileena, but she summoned a fire shield and parried the attack. The warrior was sent flying, but she recovered in mid-air and threw Shurikens at Harry and Ron. "PROTEGO!" they both shouted, and a magical barried was created around them, as the Shurikens simply bounced off. The warrior landed on her left foot, and suddenly started to spin in a pirouette, with fire swirling around her.

 

"Katon: Hibashiri!(Translation: Fire Style: Racing Fire!)" she shouted, and stopped her spinning, as the string of fire formed a ring that charged at Harry! Mileena got in the was and absorbed the fire into her palms, then immidiently shot it back at the warrior, who simply dodged by jumping into the air. But then, she was punched into the ground by Ben, who had transformed into Stinkfly, and was now buzzing in the air.

 

"Hehehe! Whenever you need a fly; Call STINKfly!" he smirked. But then, he was kicked in the side of his head, as the warrior had jumped up to him. Ben replied by grabbing her foot with one of the 'tentacles' on his head, and punched her in the gut. She gasped a bit, and Ben smacked her down into the floor again. He landed next to Mileena and instantly transformed to Fourarms, pounding his fists.

 

"Now then! Who are you?!" shouted Mileena, a fireball forming in her hand. The warrior grunted a bit, as she stood up and dusted off her suit.

 

"I am no one..." she replied coldly. "Just an empty shell...flickering in the darkness...pretending to be someone..."

 

"I said: WHO...ARE...YOU?!"

 

"I'm but a temporary glitch of my past form...and so shall you all be, in due time. For in the end...nothing may live forever...exept the things already undone..."

 

"ENOUGH RIDDLES!"

 

"Riddles? Riddles are games that humans make...trying to guess a mere object by making up verbal phrases indicated or related to the object. These are no riddles...this is truth..."

 

"SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!!" Mileena's temper snapped, and she fired off her fireball at the warrior. She dodged it, but Mileena kept firing her fireballs at her. One after the other, the warrior dodged the attacks, and suddenly, before Mileena had time to parry, she rushed up to her and punched her in the gut. Mileena gasped and flew backwards, and Ben catched her.

 

"Mileena! You ok boss?" he asked, gently putting her down.

 

"Y-Yeah..." she replied and straightened herself. The warrior shrugged.

 

"Hmpf. Now..." she put her hand on her mask. "...to show you a face worse than death itself..."

 

Everyone was tensed up, as the warrior slowly removed the wooden mask. After a moment, it was entirely gone, and the warrior dropped it to the ground, a wooden clank was heard as it hit the floor. Everyone gasped as they saw the face of their opponent. The warrior had pointy, black-furred ears, red-glowing eyes, and red lines under the eyes, beaming through her black pelt.

 

"R-RENAMON!!" Rika shouted out in happiness, as she rushed up to Renamon and hugged her. "OH, RENAMON! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!" Renamon did not reply. She stood still, staring into the air.

 

"RIKA! GET AWAY FROM HER!" shouted Harry. "SHE'S NOT WHO SHE USED TO BE!" in that moment, Renamon raised her right hand.

 

"W-Wha..." Rika looked up, but then, she was slapped hard across the face, causing her to let go of Renamon and slide across the floor up to the others. "A-AAH! RENAMON!"

 

"I'm NOT...Renamon!" she snarled back at her. "I am the new prodigy of my master, Lord Orochimaru! I have no name, no friends...AND I DON'T NEED ANY!" she made a hand sign, and took a deep breath. "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" she spat out a giant fireball, too big for Mileena to absorb, and it exploded upon them. But as the fire settled, Mileena revealed her ace up the sleeve; A Fire Shield! "Hmpf! Not bad..." Renamon scoffed, but then, she noticed that Ben was nowhere to be seen. She felt a pat on her shoulder, and turned around. There was Ben, transformed to XLR8!

 

"Missed me?!" he shouted, and pummeled her with blinding speed. He finished with a swipe of his tail, sending Renamon crashing into a wall. She fell down on the floor, panting. She glared at the others with her blood-red eyes and growled loudly.

 

"YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" she roared, and suddenly, fire-red markings appeared over half her body. They spread across her whole body, and as they stopped to glow, wer pelt was filled with blood-red, wave-shaped markings. "I'LL SHOW YOU A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH!!!" a purple aura engulfed her, and she began to mutate. Her tail started to lose hair at an incredibly fast rate, and suddenly, it changed into a grey-pale, deformed arm, with claws rather than fingers. The arm looked like it was melting away, with ripped-up skin and infected wounds all over it. Eight similar hands suddenly bursted out of her rear, flailing and twitching around her like crazy. Her original arms seemed to grow in lenght, and turning sharper. Soon they were replaced with obsidian-black, razorsharp spikes of crystal. Her teeth grew into sharp fangs, and another pair of red-glowing eyes pierced out above her original eyes. All over her back, crystal spikes similar to her arms erupted, and her feet evolved giant claws of the same material. She finished her transformation, stood up, and examined herself.

 

"Hehehe..." she chuckled, her voice completely deformed and corrupted. "Sssssso......thisssssss isssssss what my massssssster meant with my mark...becoming ssssssstronger..." her tounge was revealed. It was biforcated like a snake's tounge, and the edges were covered with tiny, sharp barbs. She licked her mouth with it, and sneered at the others. "Too bad you won't live long enough to witnesssssssssss my full powerssssssss......"

 

"My...GOD!!!" Rika was both terrified and sickened of her partner's sudden mutation. "WHAT ARE YOU?!?!"

 

"Easy, my dear Rika......" Renamon slithered in reply. "I am...or usssssssed to be...RENAMON!"

 

"B-But...YOU'RE EVIL!!!"

 

"DAMN RIGHT I'M EVIL!!!! WHO WOULD WANT TO LIVE WITH WEAKLINGSSSSSSSS LIKE YOU?!!"

 

"B-But......"

 

"ENOUGH!!!" Renamon slammed her spike-arms into the ground, and crystal shards erupted around her. "I WILL END YOU! FEEL MY WRATH!!!!" she leaped out of the crystal shards, and attacked.

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 19: A Curse For A Curse...][align=center]Chapter 19: A Curse For A Curse...

 

"CRYSTAL DANCE!"

 

Renamon started to spin rapidly, and the crystal shards on her back shot out in all directions like black, sharp knives. The Union did their best to dodge the attack, but their clothes were ripped up in the process. Renamon stopped spinning, and stood still.

 

"RENAMON!! PLEASE, STOP!" shouted Rika. Renamon glared at her with her four eyes.

 

"You dissssssturb me......DIE!" she roared, and charged at her, preparing to stab Rika with her crystal arms. She closed her eyes and prepared for the worst. But then, Ben stepped in the way, transformed into Fourarms and punched Renamon in the gut, sending her flying.

 

"Don't lay a finger on her!" he shouted. But Renamon smirked, as one of her nine arm suddenly stretched towards Ben and grabbed his shoulder. "What the?!" before he had time to react, the arm pulled in Renamon, and she kicked Ben hard in the head, pummeling him into the ground. "Uuugh...I'm gonna feel that tomorrow..." he groaned.

 

"HEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! What'sssssss the matter?! Not sssssssstrong enough?! HA!" Renamon sneered, and kicked Ben in his chest. He coughed up blood. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Feel it! FEEL THE PAIN!!!" Renamon kicked him again. "GHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!" as she was about to pierce his side with her crytal spike-arm, a voice shouted; "RICTUSEMPRA!" and she was hit dead-on, and crashed into a wall. Harry was holding his wand, and he walked up to Ben, who was reverting, and helped him up.

 

"You ok, Ben?" he asked.

 

"Y-Yeah...I'm fine..." replied Ben.

 

"Good..." in the meantime, Renamon stood up and flailed her tail-arms.

 

"GRRRRRRR!!! DIE!!!!" she roared, and stood on all four, crept down as she was about to leap, and then, all her nine tail-arms stretched out towards the Union. They jumped and dodged, but then, one of them grabbed Rika's legs and pulled her up to Renamon.

 

"AAAH!! AAAH!!! RENAMON, NO!" she cried, but Renamon didn't listen.

 

"Heheheeeeeee........long time no ssssssssssssee......RIKA!" she grinned, and slithered her long tounge up her shirt, licking her body. "Mmmmmmmmm......you tassssssssssste sssssssssssssssssoooooooo good, little child!!"

 

"N-NO!! DON'T EAT ME!"

 

"I wont......jusssssssssst....tasssssssssssssste..." her tounge continued to lick Rika, and reached up her panties. "Ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss..........................thissssssssssssssssssssss tassssssssssssssssssssssssstesssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooo good!!!"

 

"PLEASE!! STOP IT!"

 

"NO!!! I......MUSSSSSSSSSSST...TASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTE...JUSSSSSSSSSSST A LITTLE MORE!!!" Renamon was about to shove her tounge up Rika's...*ahem* private areas *ahem*...when suddenly, a Shuriken passed by, cutting off her tounge. "GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Renamon let go of Rika, and her tounge regenerated and slithered back into her mouth. "WHO WASSSSSSSSSSSS THAT?!?!!?!!!"

 

"Me!" a voice replied, and then, Renamon was punched in the face by a large, grey hand, and she flied into a wall. As Renamon looked up, she found someone in front of her. A creature with grey skin, claws on his hands, long, shabby dark hair, and two hands with skin between the fingers on the back. No one recognized him, exept Renamon.

 

"Sssssssssssasssssssuke......" she slithered. "Ssssssssssso you too are here to ssssssssssstop me?"

 

"No......I'm here to KILL you!" Sasuke roared, as he leaped backwards and stretched one of his hands into an arm that charged at Renamon. Renamon sterched one of her tail-arms at his, and they began to struggle. The fight was even, but then, something began to crackle in Renamon's other eight hands, and soon, eight, black lightning spheres formed in them.

 

"You're not the only one..." she grinned wickedly, and suddenly, one of the tail-hands launched at Sasuke. Sasuke managed to let go of the hand that struggled with Renamon's, and flied out of the way. The hand crashed into a wall, and the lightning ball tore up a hole in it, and light streamed in. Renamon was blinded, and suddenly, all her tail-arms stretched out with the lightning balls in hand. The Union and Sasuke did their best to dodge, as the lightning balls exploded and tore up the walls.

 

"That's enough! Let's finish this off!" roared Sasuke, as he charged up a lightning ball. "Hrrrrrrraaaaaaaggggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!" the ball started to blaze with black energy, and Sasuke charged at Renamon. Renamon charged up a similar ball, it turned black. and she charged at Sasuke.

 

"TAKE COVER!!!" shouted Harry, as all the Union members bent down and covered their heads, as Renamon and Sasuke now were face to face. They lunged their lightning balls at eachother, and both cried out;

 

"CHIDORI!!!!"

 

The two lightning balls met, and a gigantic shockwave formed. An earsplintering, sizzling noise was heard, that sounded like a thousand, maybe TEN thousands birds, chippering at once. The lightning now spread to the walls, tearing them up in their path. And in the center of this calamity, were Sasuke and Renamon, once again struggling to overpower the other one.

 

"YOU CAN'T WIN, SSSSSASSSUKE!!!" roared Renamon, as her Chidori pressed forward. "YOU'RE TOO WEAK!!"

 

"OH YEAH?! WATCH ME!!" Sasuke yelled in reply, as he pressed back her Chidori with his own. A black aura now engulfed them, and formed a sphere, which slowly expanded and disintegrated all in it's path. Sasuke and Renamon were still struggling.

 

"YOU CAN'T WIN!" both of them shouted, as they pressed on. Suddenly, their attack slipped to the side! Renamon's Chidori pierced Sasuke in the arm, and Sasuke's made a gaping hole in Renamon's chest. The black sphere dispersed, and the two of them floated in mid-air. Their Curse Mark Forms reverted to their original forms, and they fell to the ground, both unconscious. This was the calm...before the storm...

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 20: The Evil Intent Release Jutsu][align=center]Chapter 20: The Evil Intent Release Jutsu

 

Renamon and Sasuke were lying on the ground. Blood flowed from Sasuke's arm, while it gushed out of Renamon's chest.

 

"U-Uuugghhh......" Renamon began to move, and she sat up. Her fur was still black, and her piercing red eyes gleamed. "Y-YOU DAMN A$$HOLE!" she roared, and began to strangle Sasuke. "I'LL KILL YOU!" she was about to slit open his throat, when someone embraced her with a hug.

 

"RENAMON! PLEASE...STOP!" someone cried. Renamon halted in suprise, and looked around. She saw Rika hugging her, with tears flowing from her eyes. "PLEASE STOP THIS! I DON'T CARE IF THAT OROCHIMARU GUY CONTROLS YOU, AND I DON'T CARE IF YOU KILL ME HERE AND NOW......BUT PLEASE, STOP NOW!" Renamon halted awhile, and looked at Rika.

 

"W-Who...are you?" she stuttered.

 

"YOUR PARTNER, RIKA NONAKA!"

 

"R-Rika?"

 

"Yea, remember?! The one you swore to protect!"

 

"I-I don't...remember..."

 

"That's because you belong to me!" a voice snarled, and Orochimaru appeared. He had a ferocious look in his eyes. "I see that you've defeated the Uchiha rat! That is exellent......now, FINISH HIM!" Renamon nodded, shrugged off Rika, and catched a Kunai that Orochimaru threw her. She prepared to stab Sasuke, but as the Kunai was about to pierce his flesh, Rika grabbed Renamon's hand.

 

"NO! You don't have to do this! Don't listen to him!"

 

"BLASPMESY! RENAMON, FINISH HIM!"

 

"NO! DON'T DO IT!" Renamon was now confused of all the arguments, and dropped the Kunai on the ground, bent down on her knees...and cried. She cried not because that she was sad, nor because she had it hard to understand which side she should trust...but she cried because she had lost herself. She didn't know who she was, where she would go, or who was her friends. She had lost it all. Orochimaru just snarled, pushed Rika aside, and placed his palm on the Curse Mark.

 

"Ninpou: Rakkshe No Jutsu!(Translation: Ninja Art: Evil Intent Release Jutsu!)"

 

The Curse Mark began to glow purple, and burned Renamon's skin. "AAAAGGGHHH!!!" she cried in pain, but Orochimaru ignored her pleading and screaming, as the Jutsu continued. In her mind, Renamon felt two sides struggling inside her. One side that was herself, and another, more darker side, that wanted to kill and slaughter. The dark side was suddenly enhanced, and pushed out of her mind! The Cursed Seal on her shoulder now evaporated into dark mists, and formed a creature a few feet away from her and the Union. First the legs, then the waist, the chest, arms, hands, neck, and finally, the head. It's shape was familiar...

 

"Somehow I feel that isn't a nice fella..." stuttered Ben.

 

"You don't say..." replied Harry ironically. The creature now formed, and looked at the Union. It was a copy of Renamon, only darker. The real Renamon, however, was now back to normal, and her Curse Mark had disappeared. Instead, the Mark was on Renamon's copy! Orochimaru grinned devilishly, and removed his hand from Renamon's shoulder. Her fur had returned to it's yellow and white color, and her eyes were blue once more. She looked at Rika, and smiled.

 

"Rika...It's me..." she soothed, and held her arms around Rika. Rika looked up at her, and smiled.

 

"It IS you!" she replied, and hugged her tight. Tears of joy fell from her eyes, and Renamon carefully wiped them out while hugging Rika.

 

"Of course it's me..."

 

"I thought you'd never return!"

 

"Why did you think that?! I'm your Partner! And as long as I am, we'll be together, forever and ever!"

 

"Aaaawwww...ain't that cute?" smirked Orochimaru. Rika and Renamon stood up and glared at him and the dark Renamon.

 

"Shut up, Orochimaru!" roared Renamon. The dark Renamon seemed offended, and stood in front of Orochimaru.

 

"Shut your mouth, tramp! Don't talk that way about my master!" it snarled behind clenched teeth. Renamon just shrugged and put up her fists.

 

"You'll regret calling ME a tramp!" she replied, and charged at her dark copy. They got into a cat-fight, and slashed and slapped eachother. Meanwhile, Orochimaru reached his hand down his throat, and pulled out his sword, aiming it at the Union.

 

"Hehehe! No you'll die!" he chuckled, and charged at them. Ben transformed to Diamondhead, and transformed his arm into a spike, parrying Orochimaru's attack and counterattacked. Both of them were now in a duel, as they stabbed and sliced at eachother, mostly missing.

 

"Dammit! He's too fast for me!" muttered Ben. "I need to change!" he disappeared in a green flash, and reappeared as XLR8, disappearing in this air. Orochimaru was suddenly pummeled from all directions, and then whacked over the head by a tail. Ben changed form yet again, this time into Fourarms, and grabbed Orochimaru by the neck, pummeling him into a wall. "Hehaha! Not so cocky now, eh?!" he smirked. He was about to punch him, but suddenly he felt one of his left arms going numb. "Agh! What the?!" he looked around, and saw Kabuto. His hand was burning with Chakra.

 

"Hah! I've paralysed your arm!" he smirked, and in that moment, Orochimaru squirmed free and slithered away from Ben, up to Kabuto. "Shall we kill him now, master?"

 

"No. He can't hurt us now..." smirked Orochimaru, and looked towards the two Renamon. The dark one had the advantage, but Renamon kept fighting.

 

"D-Damn it! I'm too tired!" Renamon complained. She jumped away from the fighthing, and landed next to Rika, panting hard.

 

"It seems as we've wasted our time..." smirked Orochimaru, as he and Kabuto stepped up to the dark Renamon. "We will...meet again..." they disappeared into darkness, leaving the others to regain their strenght.

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 21: The Lord Of The Nothingness And The Sorceress Of Time][align=center]Chapter 21: The Lord Of The Nothingness And The Sorceress Of Time

 

In the long hallways of the underground dungeons in Daemonus' Castle, the Final Fighters were trying to find a way out. They had already passed several of the hallways more than once, and they were beginning to grow a bit annoyed, if not scared.

 

"Aah! We've already passed this cell, like, two-hundred frickin times!" Zidane said in frustration. "When is this dungeon going to end!?!"

 

"I don't know, okay?!" Squall shouted back. "So quit jabbering and continue to walk!"

 

"Sheesh! Alright!" Zidane rolled his eyes and continued to walk. Suddenly, Tidus stopped in front of a wall with weird glyphs glowing on them.

 

"Tidus! What's that?" asked WoL, and looked seriously at the glyphs.

 

"Something I remember...from Spira..." replied Tidus, and touched the glyphs. The wall suddenly glowed, and the corridor began to shake.

 

"Waaah! It's gonna collapse!" Onion Knight wimpered and pulled his helmet over his eyes. He thought that the corridor would fall on top of them. But instead, the wall lit up and disappeared! "W-What happened?"

 

"Apparently, these glyps seems to be locking away the paths we need to take with illusions of obstacles." Red XIII explained, intrigued of the castle's defence mechanisms. "Either way, Tidus has now opened our path, and we should consider moving on." everyone nodded and moved through the path that Tidus had opened.

 

"Hey, Zidane. Sorry I yelled at ya..." Squall muttered.

 

"Nah, it's ok! I knew you were kinda grumpy." replied Zidane, and smiled a bit. "Now let's go and kick some bad guy butt!" Squall smiled at Zidane's request, as they drew their weapons, and walked deeper into the castle.

 

*

 

"GRAAH!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!" roared Daemonus, as Kabuto shivered a bit. Orochimaru and the Dark side of Renamon remained calm. "THEY HAVE DEFEATED GAARA?!"

 

"Killed him, to be correct." replied Orochimaru. "But fear not. We are still alive."

 

"It's not enough!" shouted Daemonus. "We need ALL of our members to be alive and well when they arrive, and that's what they definetly are NOT!"

 

"Well, we can help you..." Ultimecia appeared next to Kabuto, accompanied with another figure. He seemed to tower above the others, and was clad in a teal armor with gold trims, spikey shoulder pads, a strange-patterned skirt, and he held a curved scimitar in his hands. His helmet moved to one side to another to examine the others.

 

"Who is this?" asked Daemonus.

 

"Ex......Death..." muttered the figure. His voice was deep, and muffled of his helmet.

 

"Well then, ExDeath...why are you here?" asked Daemonus. No response. "Answer me!"

 

"I'm sorry, but ExDeath isn't quite the...talkative one..." Ultimecia interrupted. "He's more of the person that you give a target...and he eliminates it!" ExDeath nodded slowly.

 

"I see......so, ExDeath. We have some minor concerns with...'rats' infesting our dungeons. I want you and Ultimecia to scour the dungeons and eliminate them!"

 

"Yes........." replied ExDeath. He and Ultimecia then disappeared in a black vortex. Daemonus smirked.

 

"Now then...say farewell, Final Fighters!"

 

*

 

As the Final Fighters reached the end of the hallway, they ended up in a throne room. It wasn't Daemonus' throne, but another one.

 

"Huh?" Zidane looked around. "This is it? Is this Daemonus' throne room?"

 

"Seems so." replied Squall.

 

"Well, where's Daemonus then?" asked Tidus. "Can't see him around here."

 

"Well, that is because you are in our trap, my dear ones!" a female voice replied. And out of thin air, Ultimecia and ExDeath appeared.

 

"Ultimecia!" Squall went furious and pulled up his Gunblade. "Why are you here!?"

 

"To destroy you, of course......Leonheart!" Ultimecia lashed her hand at Squall and the others, and thousands of lavender-coloured shards were thrown at them. All of the fighters quickly dodged, and WoL summoned a dozen of orange-illuminating blades that charged at ExDeath. ExDeath parried the blades with his scimitar and threw a lightning ball at WoL, who quickly dodged by jumping to a pillar, ran down on it till he reached the floor, and charged at ExDeath.

 

"Waaah!! Owowowowowowow!" both Zidane and Onion Knight complained and wimpered as they had to tap-dance as they ran to dodge Ultimecia's shards homing in on them.

 

"This is no good! If we stop now, we'll be turned into Shish Kebab!" Zidane shouted as they ran.

 

"I agree, but my legs hurt!" replied Onion Knight. "I feel like this is the end!"

 

"Not if I can help it!" Tidus landed next to them, grabbed their hands and jumped forward, as Ultimecia's shards crashed down behind them. Tidus landed a few meters forward and let down Zidane and Onion Knight behind a pile of rubble. "Stay here! We'll fend them off!" he smiled at them, and once again charged into the heat of battle.

 

Things weren't looking good for WoL, as ExDeath used his telekinetic powers to swing his scimitar freely in the air around WoL, forcing him to parry attacks from all directions. But then, a quick sweep of the scimitar cut him in the side, tearing through his dark-blue armor like paper. "G-Gaah!" he gasped in pain, and grabbed his wound. ExDeath made the scimitar hover into his hands, and he grabbed it. "I-I can't...believe it! He's...so strong!" he thought, and attempted to charge him again. This time, however, a black aura emitted from within ExDeath's armor, shaping some kind of materia barrier around him, and then it exploded, sending WoL flying into a wall. Ultimecia quickly noticed it and jumped away from Squall and Cloud who tried to attack her, and bombarded WoL with purple shards of energy. The wall was torn to shreds, but WoL's armor protected him this time, and he fell to the ground, unconscious.

 

"Warrior!" shouted Cloud, as he rushed up to him, dodging Ultimecia's attacks. He picked up WoL as good as he could and carried him out of the way, and put him behind a pillar. "Tidus! Squall! Red! Let's go!" he commanded. The others nodded, and charged simultaneously at Ultimecia and ExDeath. Tidus and Cloud attacked ExDeath, who parried their attacks and swinged his scimitar at them. Tidus managed to dodge the attack, and Cloud rolled under the blade and made an uppercut with his Buster Sword, which made ExDeath stagger backwards. "Heh! Not so tough as you look, eh?" smirked Cloud, and prepared to attack again. Suddenly, darkness evaporated from ExDeath's armor, and formed a materia barrier which exploded in a burst of light. Cloud was sent crashing into a wall, his ribs felt broken. "Dammit!" he groaned, and got up. "I'll beat you!" he shouted, and charged at ExDeath. He swinged his Buster Sword at him, and hit his chest. ExDeath was sent backwards, with his feet scraping in the floor as he still stood upwards, and crashed into a wall.

 

In the meantime, Squall had a tough time with his nemesis Ultimecia, as she bombarded him with purple darts of magic. He reflected them with his Gunblade, and then prepared to attack. "FATED......CIRCLE!" he shouted, as the Gunblade began to vibrate with energy, and a red circle was formed as he swinged it around him. Before the attack was completed, however, Ultimecia called out; "TIME!" and the world suddenly froze around her and turned upside-down. "Pitiful......mortal child..." she smirked devilishly, and went past Squall, and summoned several blood-red energy swords around him. "Time......to DIE!" she waved her hand, and at once, the world returned to normal, and time started again. Squall's Fated Circle missed, as the ring exploded violently, and the blades were sent at him. He quickly jumped to the side, and slashed the energy blades as they missed their target. Squall suddenly turned around and fired the revolver in his Gunblade at Ultimecia, and she was hit in the hand. "Agh! You monster!" she groaned, and fired off more darts at Squall. He just shrugged, as his blade suddenly glowed blue, and changed shape. It had transformed into the Lion's Heart Gunblade. "I will break your power of Time...once and for all!" he shouted, and charged at Ultimecia. "LIMIT BREAK: RENZOKUKEN!" he began to slash Ultimecia over and over again with increasing speed and fury. Finally, he jumped back, as his blade glowed with lightning, and he dashed at Ultimecia. "LION'S HEART!!!!" he sliced through Ultimecia, and a giant fire explosion bursted through her as Squall sliced her. "AAAGGHHH!!!!" Ultimecia screeched in agony as she detonated into several, tiny shards of lavender-colored energy. Squall was panting heavily, and his Lion's Heart Gunblade reverted to his original one. "D-Dammit! I'm so...weak..." he muttered, and fell down exhausted. Zidane and Onion Knight ran up to him.

 

"SQUALL!" Zidane shouted, a bit concerned. "Yoou ok?!" he heard a snore as his reply.

 

"He's tired..." Onion Knight smiled. In that moment, Cloud, WoL, and Red XIII stood beside him.

 

"He's truly a remarkable fighter." said Red XIII.

 

"I agree." replied Cloud. "I think we should..." suddenly, they felt a huge, magical energy fill the room. Something was gathering power. They turned around, and saw ExDeath absorbing purple currents of magic that flowed through the air.

 

"HAHAHAHAHA!! YOU WILL NOT BEAT US! NEVER!" a voice screeched.

 

"N-No! It can't be!" Zidane and Onion Knight gasped.

 

"But it is!" replied WoL. "Ultimecia is still alive...and ExDeath is absorbing her!" in that moment, ExDeath began to mutate and grow bigger. The fight wasn't over.

 

To be Continued!!![/align]

 

[fenrir]

Yea, but to some people it's wrong. =/

 

It's like taking a character from your fic and making them love someone in theirs.

 

It's wrong. But hell, w/e. Good luck man. =D

 

You accepting characters btw?

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

[spoiler=Chapter 22: The Rise Of Neo-Ex-Ultimecia][align=center]Chapter 22: The Rise Of Neo-Ex-Ultimecia

 

As the Union rushed through the endless hallways, the entire castle seemed to shake.

 

"Whoa! What the bloody hell?!" Ron exclaimed.

 

"What was that?!" shouted Rika.

 

"It's a power......growing stronger..." replied Renamon, as her ears perked up. "It's an evil power, stronger than any of us together."

 

"S-St-Stronger than D-Daemonus?" stuttered Ben.

 

"No. Daemonus is still stronger, and that is what worries me..."

 

"What? What's worrying you, Renamon?"

 

"It's the fact that if this...new entity is so powerful that the very foundations of the castle shakes in it's prescence, just imagine how powerful Daemonus may be." replied Renamon. Ben started to shiver by those words. "Anyways, it isn't here, so we should get moving." the others nodded, and raced through the hallways.

 

*

 

"Prepare yourselves!" shouted Cloud, as the others prepared their weapons. In front of them, ExDeath had grown into titanic proportions, his armor was fused with his skin, and his legs grew into a long body which floated in mid-air. The body was boiling like hot wax, as it constantly shifted and mutated, occasionally growing an arm or body that quickly evaporated into shadows. Some of the extra arms and bodies, however, stayed on the hulking figure's body, creating some kind of crude, living vessel that moved with slithering movements and lamented with the endless moans of the living dead. Demonic figurines appeared on the fiend's body. Heads, fangs, claws and horns erupted from the creature's fleshy armor, howling and snarling with ear-splintering cries and promises of death and utter annihilation. A great torso now appeared in the front of this fleshy vessel, and it grew two arms and a head with two long, blood-red horns, and glared at the Final Fighters with piercing, dark-green eyes. Another body grew out at it's side, but it was more feminine that the other, and it looked like a half-human, half-lion creature, with purple fur on it's arms, claws on it's fingers, and a head of a lion. It also had a pair of demonic wings, draped in purple skin.

 

"I......AM......NEO EXDEATH!" the male body roared loudly.

 

"AND I AM ULTIMECIA!" sneered the female one.

 

"WE SHALL MAKE YOU DIE IN DESPAIR AND HOWL IN AGONY AS YOUR FEEBLE LIFES END! ALL SHALL KNEEL BEFORE US, AND DESPAIR! FOR WE ARE FEAR AND DEATH INCARNATE!" as they finished, ten-thousands of purple darts bursted of the monster's back and rained down on the Final Fighters. All of them moved as fast as they could to dodge the massive attack, but then, a tentacle made purely of muscles shot out of the monster's body and lashed at them like a whip. Onion Knight and Cloud were hit and crashed into a wall, with blood dripping from the corner of their mouths. Tidus tried to halt and turn back, but the muscle-tentacle grabbed his ankle and tossed him into the air like a puppet. A ball of lightning erupted from the male torso's arm as it exploded on impact with Tidus, and he crashed into the roof, and fell down. The tentacle grabbed him again to smash him into the floor, but it was cut clean off the body, and both of the torsos screamed in pain. Squall had decapitated the tentacle, that dissolved into maguc that was absorbed by Neo ExDeath and Ultimecia, as he catched Tidus from his fall.

 

"Damn it all! They're too strong for us!" he complained, and looked at the monster. "I wont let you hurt my friends!" he roared, and pulled his Gunblade along the floor, ripping up the brick tile, as he charged at the monster. "ROUGH DIVIDE!" he made an uppercut with his blade, and the floor beneath exploded upon Neo ExDeath and Ultimecia. They yelled in agony, but Ultimecia's body sent thousands of purple shards at Squall as he was in mid-air, and they pierced him all over his body. He gasped in pain, as blood flowed from his mouth, and he fell lifeless to the ground.

 

Background Music: The Truth Revealed(FF-X)

 

"Squall?! Squall! SQUALL!!!!!" Zidane shouted while running up to him. He sat down and shook his body. "SQUALL!! PLEASE...GET UP!! PLEASE GET UP!!!" no respond. Squall was dead. "NOOOOO!!!!!!!" Zidane bursted into tears, and leaned over his body, that now had turned cold and lifeless. His tears mixed with the streams of blood flowing from Squall's wounds. Suddenly, he moved his hand, and gently stroke Zidane's head.

 

"Z-Zidane......" he said slowly, and coughed up blood. "Y-You must......n-not cry. I-I am...here now..."

 

"Squall! Please! Don't die!" Zidane sobbed.

 

"I-I'm sorry...Zidane......b-but you...have to beat that monster...without me..."

 

"W-Wha?! NO! I WON'T LET YOU DIE! NOT NOW! NOT EVER!!! WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH TOGETHER, AND I DON'T WANT IT TO END NOW!!"

 

"Zidane......you have...a g-good heart...but I need you to stay alive...in my place. Zidane...I...I must...go now. But I...I promise you this: W-We will......meet again. I...I promise. Remember, Zidane: I...have the Heart......of a Lion!" and with a final, long breath, Squall's life ended, his hand fell down on the floor with a loud thud. Zidane cried even more, but his sadness turned to rage, as he picked up his daggers and charged at Neo ExDeath and Ultimecia.

 

"YOU DAMN SON OF A B*TCH!!!!!!!!" he was so infuriated that he didn't care if his enemy was bigger and stronger, or that he might get killed. Squall and he had been best friends for as long as they remembered, and now, Zidane's heart cried out for vengeance. "YOU DAMN SON OF A B*TCH, I'LL TEAR YOU APART!!!!" he slashed at the body with his daggers, but it was all in vain. The body shot out another tentacle, pummeling Zidane into a wall, crushing him between the tentacle and the wall. "AAAGGGHHH!!!!" he screamed in pain, sorrow and rage all at once. "I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!!! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID TO SQUALL!!!" he roared, and tried to push the tentacle away. Instead, he felt it drop to the floor, as something cut it off. Neo ExDeath and Ultimecia screeched in agony, and Zidane saw WoL in front of him.

 

"Zidane! We need you now! Let's go!" he commanded. Zidane nodded, as he pulled his daggers and ran after WoL, who charged at the massive monster along with Cloud, Tidus, Onion Knight and Red XIII. "NOW!" shouted WoL, and Cloud jumped upwards. Red XIII ran underneath Cloud, jumped up, and allowed Cloud's foot to push him down, using himself as a speed boost for Cloud's jump. Cloud landed on the beast and started to slash like crazy at all the demon bodies and decaying carcasses. They howled and screamed as they were chopped to bits by the might of the Buster Sword. Onion Knight and Zidane jumped up togehter, and Red XIII repeated the action, giving Zidane and Onion Knight a boost upwards, as they landed beside Cloud. But now, the demonic bodies and rottening corpses began to attack them where they stood. They all slashed and hacked their way through, and reached the torsos of Neo ExDeath and Ultimecia.

 

"THIS IS THE END!" Cloud shouted, and charged Neo ExDeath. He saw Cloud charging at him, and leaned sideways to dodge the attack. He grabbed Cloud's ankle, and threw him forward. Ultimecia prepared to launc another volley, but then, her hand was cut off, and she screamed in agony. "WHO DARES!?!" she roared, and saw Zidane holding his daggers, and they were covered in blood. "YOU!! DIE!" she launched a volley of purple darts with her other hand, but Zidane back-flipped and dodged the attack. In the meantime, WoL and Tidus charged at the monster's gut, and pierced it with their blades. The monster howled in agony with the voices of Neo ExDeath, Ultimecia, and the demon and human corpses screeching and lamenting togehter.

 

"NOW YOU DIE!" shouted both Zidane and Onion Knight, as they pierced Neo ExDeath and Ultimecia's bodies. Everything went dead silent for awhile, as blood began to flow from the wounds. And then, with an ear-splintering screech and howl, Neo ExDeath and Ultimecia exploded and dissolved into thousands of tiny, tiny magic spheres that bombarded all of the room's corners and squares, tearing it up utterly. The Final Fighters made a swift retreat out of the room, with WoL carrying Squall's dead body, and the exit collapsed behind them. They were safe...for now.

 

*

 

The rumblings stopped, and the Union were once again halted in suprise.

 

"Huh? What now?" asked Mileena.

 

"The fighting ceased...and the entity was beaten." Renamon replied.

 

"But...how?" Rika said a bit worried. "Daemonus, perhaps?"

 

"No. That was a good energy that beat it. Maybe the Final Fighters did the unbelievable."

 

"Hope so!" said Ben. "Now let's keep moving!" they continued to run along the hallway, curious about what the heck was going on earlier.

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 23: The True Puppet Master][align=center]Chapter 23: The True Puppet Master

 

As the Union reached yet another room, they were beginning to tire of Daemonus' games. But, as the rules had stated, if they refused, they would die. So they entered the room. Inside, it was some kind of arena with blank floor tiles, empty spectator seats, and with spotlights in the roof.

 

"What is this now?" Ben complained.

 

"Must be some kind of arena..." Renamon said while examining it. "This is strange..."

 

"Hmm?" Harry looked at Renamon. "What is it, Renamon?"

 

"I kinda...remember this place." she replied. "From the time when...you-know-who controlled me through that Curse Mark. This was some kind of practice arena for the Rebellion's members."

 

"Which means that they may be still here!" Mileena prepared a fireball. "Union! Be on your guard!" everybody nodded, and prepared for any possible attack attempt. Suddenly, a wooden, rattling noise was heard, and from the door in the opposite direction of the room, Kankuro and Crow appeared.

 

"Hehehe, missed me?" he smirked at Renamon. She snarled at him and revealed her canine fangs. "Whoah, hehe. Easy there, puppy! I'm not here to fight you, at least..."

 

"What?! Then who will you fight?!" Mileena shouted. Kankuro smirked at Mileena's words.

 

"Lee! Rock Lee is the one I wanna fight! He was the one responsible for my brother's death, and I will have my revenge!" he replied. Mileena seemed to burst into flames with anger.

 

"TOO BAD! THANKS TO YOUR BROTHER, HE'S DEAD!!!" she yelled back. Kankuro looked shocked, but then calmed down and smirked.

 

"Heh, I see..." he thought. "My brother actually forced that Taijutsu idiot to open the Eight Gate...therefore killing himself!" he turned his attention to Rika and Renamon. "You then?! You with the traitor as your partner!"

 

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?!!" Rika shouted. "Renamon is not a traitor! She's not even wanted to be with you in the first place!"

 

"Foolish girl! She was Orochimaru's, and since he was in the Rebellion, your prescious Renamon was ALSO a member!"

 

"LIES! You don't understand a thing about my Renamon!"

 

"O rly?!" Kankuro pulled out two scrolls and bit his thumb, drawing two blood lines across the papers. "Come out; Black Ant! Salamander!" Kankuro's two other puppets entered the field, rattling and shaking.

 

"I'll deal with him..." Renamon said coldly and stepped up, but Kankuro halted her.

 

"No! The likes of you are not allowed to battle against the Rebellion!" he snarled. Renamon gruffed and stood back. "This challenge will be a Puppet Match! Anyone who has a puppet or something like it will be allowed to fight!" the Union looked around, but didn't find anything suitable for a puppet.

 

"We don't have any puppet!" Mileena snarled. Kankuro smirked.

 

"Oh but you do! Don't you have......him?!" he pointed at Lee's dead body, who was carried by Harry and Ron.

 

"W-What?!" Rika gasped. "No! NO! LEE IS NO PUPPET!"

 

"But he IS your only choice!" Kankuro replied. "Or else you will die!"

 

"NO! WE WON'T!" Rika's eyes bursted into tears.

 

"Then you will die..."

 

"WAIT!!" Mileena shouted. "Let us at least think awhile." Kankuro scoffed, but allowed them to have 30 minutes to think.

 

"No, no, and no! I won't let any of you use Lee as a puppet!" Rika strongly refused to use Lee for the challenge.

 

"But he's the only choice! I mean...he's already dead!" Ron replied, and was smacked across the face by Rika.

 

"DON'T...EVER...TALK THAT WAY...ABOUT LEE!!!" she shouted, and Ron cowered in fear. Rika sighed and sat down. "Sorry Ron......I really guess that...that we don't have another choice..."

 

"Sadly, not." Mileena sighed too. "We fight or we die...that's all we can do for now...But Rika..." she held her hand on Rika's shoulder. "If you'd like to...I can bring him back after this!"

 

"R-Really?!" Rika rushed up and stared seriously at Mileena.

 

"Yeah! I have the Phoenix Powers, remember? That means that I can give away my Power of Reincarnation to any other, but only once. Therefore, I can give it to Lee, and he'll be as good as new!" Rika smiled and hugged Mileena.

 

"Thank you..." she whispered into her ear. She turned to Lee's body. "O.K. If this is what will happen...then I will do it!" she looked towards Kankuro, who smirked devilishly.

 

"So you decided to fight, eh?" he asked. Rika just shrugged and walked up to the arena with Lee in her arms. "Good..." suddenly, a dart with a blueish substance in it flew out of the wall and struck Rika, injecting the substance, and fell off.

 

"OW! What the hell was that?!" she roared.

 

"A dose of Chakra, allowing you to use the Puppet Technique! Now then, to use Lee as your puppet, connect him to Chakra Strings from your fingertips!" he wriggled his fingers, and Black Ant moved a bit. Rika nodded cautiously, and tried to force the injected Chakra to her fingers. Suddenly, strings of blue energy flied out and attached themselves to Lee, and he stood up as she moved her fingers. "Good. Feel free to practice around five, ten minutes." she did as Kankuro commanded, and started practicing some basic movements and evasions. She soon realised that there was no limit to what she and Lee's body could accomplish. After five minutes, she stopped practicing and prepared to fight.

 

"I'm ready!" she announced and put up Lee. Kankuro replied by putting up Crow, Black Ant and Salamander.

 

"This will be fun! I mean for me...not for you!" Kankuro whipped his fingers, and Crow and Black Ant charged at Lee's body. Rika was quick to act, and instantly pulled away Lee with a whip of her fingers. She made Lee swing his leg at Crow, and it hit dead-on. Crow was sent tumbling to the ground, but Kankuro straightened his puppet up as it flew back at Lee.

 

"D-Damn it! He's more skilled that I am!" Rika thought, as she whipped her fingers to make sure that Lee's body didn't receive any gashes. She whipped and lashed her fingers like crazy, unlike Kankuro, who calmly directed one attack after the other. Suddenly, Rika had an idea, and pulled Lee away from Kankuro. She seemed to concentrate very hard on something, and she stood perfectly still.

 

"Huh? What's she doing now?" Kankuro stood down with his puppets.

 

"Rika! Are you ok?" Renamon said. She received no response. "Rika! Rika, can you hear me?!"

 

"I don't think she can, Renamon." Harry interrupted as he examined Rika from afar. "She seems to be in a trance."

 

"A trance?" Ben questioned. "But why?"

 

"I think I know why..." a voice suddenly replied. They were shocked by the voice, and turned around to see Kakashi smiling at them.

 

"Kakashi!" Renamon exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"

 

"Well, I'm obviously here to keep an eye on you and your group, Renamon." Kakashi replied. "But now, the reason she's in a trance is because she is transferring Chakra to Lee's body."

 

"WHAT?!?" Mileena shouted out.

 

"Yes, Ms. Sakuretso. She is transferring the Chakra she got from the dart to Rock Lee's dead body, but I'm not sure why she does it..."

 

"Well, as long as it doesn't kill her..." Ben said a bit worried. Suddenly, Rika stopped, and stood up panting, her legs shivering, and Renamon could have sworn that her nose bled a bit.

 

"Hm? What's she up to now?" Kankuro said to himself. Rika just smirked a bit.

 

"Heh...heh...Now...you'll pay for Lee's death!" she groaned. She managed to stand up straight, and wiped away the blood stain under her nose. "Let's go!"

 

"Hehehaha! You're quite a comedian!" Kankuro smirked, and whipped his fingers, sending Crow and Black Ant at her. Salamander stood behind and opened its mouth, revealing a talisman. "Katon, Karyuu Endan!(Translation: Fire Style: Dragon Flame Bombs!)" shouted Kankuro, and the talisman erupted in a fire blast that charged past Crow and Black Ant, towards Rika. She dodged the attack, and was able to send Lee's body away from the blast. Crow's hands erupted into blades as it prepared to attack, but Rika quickly snatched Lee away and made his left leg kick Crow in the head. Black Ant approached from behind, but Rika snatched Lee away again. Over and over again, Kankuro made his puppets attack Lee, but Rika was quick enough to not let them even touch him. Kankuro's patience grew thin. "GRRR! I'VE HAD ENOUGH NOW!" he roared, and lashed his fingertips. Black Ant suddenly opened up like a coffin, and Crow disassembled itself, as blades stuck out from the joints and charged at Lee's body. It was stabbed several times, and locked inside Black Ant's body. "EAT THIS!" Kankuro forced down his puppets, and once again performed the Iron Maiden attack. "SECRET BLACK MOVE: IRON MAIDEN!" the dolls once again erupted in a fire blast, and escaped unharmed from the debree. "The...END!" he smirked.

 

"Oh no!" Ben yelped. "Lee's been blown to bits by now!" everyone were shocked.

 

"Rika! How could you let them do that?!" Renamon shouted. Rika just smirked.

 

"Because that was not Lee..." she replied, and pointed to the explosion site. All that was left of Lee...was a burning log?!

 

"A-ha!" Kakashi exclaimed. "She remotedly activated a Substitution Jutsu through her Chakra in Lee's body! Intriguing!"

 

"H-HUH?!" Kankuro overheard Kakashi. "BUT WHERE THE HELL IS HE!!" in that moment, Lee's body grabbed Kankuro, refusing to let go. "G-GAH! OH NO YOU DON'T!" Kankuro lashed his fingers towards Lee's body, and Crow and Black Ant disassembled, blades protruding from their hands and feet, and they charged towards the two of them. Rika smirked.

 

"Fool..." she whipped her fingers, and Lee flew off Kankuro. Kankuro gasped, andd tried to stop his puppets to attack, but too late. Blood splashed and a piercing noise was heard as the blades of Crow and Black Ant pierced Kankuro in the chest. He gagged a bit, and coughed up blood. Crow, Black Ant and Salamander dissolved into smoke clouds, and Kankuro sat down on his knees, holding his wounds.

 

"G-GAAH! N-Nooo......" he stuttered, and fell down. He died shortly thereafter.

 

"This is...h-horrible..." Ben whimpered. "Why does that Daemonus guy force us to kill them?!"

 

"I don't know, Ben..." Rika replied, as the Chakra strings on her fingers disappeared, and Harry rushed up to carry Lee's dead body. "...But now, we must press on to fint Daemonus...and finish him off!"

 

Everyone nodded, and as the Union rushed deeper into the dungeon, Kakashi followed them.

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 24: Things Aren't What They Seem To Be...][align=center]Chapter 24: Things Aren't What They Seem To Be...

 

The Union now reached a gloomy room, with numerous cells and torture chambers. Subtle echoes of past lamentings and screams were heard in the vast hall, and it sended chills into Ben's and Ron's spine.

 

"T-This p-pl-place i-is s-scary!" Ben shivered with fear.

 

"Pff...I've seen worse places..." Renamon scoffed, not interested in hearing Ben's constant whimpering about. "Besides...if this is the route we need to take towards Daemonus, I don't complain."

 

"Me neither." Rika replied. "He will regret that he tried to possess you, Renamon!"

 

"Well, technically it wasn't Daemonus. It was Orochimaru."

 

"Whatever! No one takes my Renamon away from me!" Renamon was flattered that Rika cared about her. But then, a blowing noise was heard, as if a breeze flowed through. But no wind was felt.

 

"This is...strange..." Renamon said. Suddenly, bats shrieked and flew into the dungeon, almost scaring the life out of Ron and Ben, as they fluttered around in a spiral in front of the Union. The bats seemed to stick themselves to each other, and soon formed two creatures. As the bats scattered, Kishido and Myotismon were visible.

 

"YOU!" Rika shouted at Kishido.

 

"Yes, Rika...it's me." he replied calmly. "Don't you remember me?"

 

"Hmph! The question is if you remember who YOU are!" Rika snarled. "You sold yourself to Daemonus!"

 

"No, Rika. I only met him as I was asked to do. I didn't know you would be so...oversensitive about the subject..."

 

"Oversensitive?! OVERSENSITIVE!!" Rika was absolutely furious.

 

"Rika...I will tell you how I became blessed by my master..."

 

=Flashback=

 

"D-Daemonus?!" Kishido stuttered.

 

"Yes, dear mortal!" Daemonus replied, touching Kishido's chin with his sharp pincer. "And you, Draco and Gaara here will be a PERFECT addition to my growing army!"

 

"Army?! No way! You have to look somewhere else for that!" Kishido was terrified.

 

"There's no escape from my will, Kishido..." Daemonus eyed Gaara, and he raised a sand wall in front of Kishido. Draco then whipped his wand at Myotismon and shouted; "PERTIFICUS TOTALUS!" and Myotismon was frozen in place, his arms and legs locked up, and he fell to the ground.

 

"MYOTISMON!" Kishido shouted, and tried to rush to his partner, but Daemonus grabbed the collar of his jacket with his right hand and pulled him up to his face.

 

"You need to know your place..." he scowled, and slowly revealed the thing under his eye-patch. Kishido was horrified. Under the patch was no eye, but a purple-glimmering hole with blood-red highlights around it. It seemed to stare at Kishido, and he could not get his eyes off of it.

 

"Noshím...Renéa...Shích!"

 

=End of Flashback=

 

"See?! You're but a pawn to Daemonus now!" Rika shouted as Kishido finished. "And you're supposed to be my ex-boyfriend!"

 

"I am...as much as you may try to deny that simple fact...I am..." Kishido replied. "Rika...I know that you will find your loving side again...once your prescious Lee is returned to life..."

 

"Y-YOU!"

 

"But...of course, Daemonus has ordered all of you dead...and therefore...I cannot let this occur. Forgive me...my love..." Kishido stepped back, and Myotismon floats in front of him. "Myotismon! Do not allow them to escape from here, or release the prisoners!" he added, and then disappeared. Myotismon smirked at Rika and Renamon.

 

"Seems like it's our turn..." Rika stepped up along with Renamon. "Let's give it all we got!"

 

"Yeah!" Renamon put up her fists and prepared to fight. Myotismon cackled and charged at Renamon, lashing his hand at her. She just jumped upwards and prepared to kick Myotismon in the face, but he grabbed her ankle and whacked her into the floor. "Gaah! You're fast!" she remarked, and prepared to attack again. "Heh! You're not too shabby yourself!" Myotismon replied, and deflected the attack. Both of them kept struggling, eventually gaining the advantage or disadvantage over their opponent. Renamon once cut Myotismon with a temporary Kunai made of crystal across the chest, but he just shrugged, grabbed her throat and threw her away, and aimed his palms at her. "Grisly Wing!" he shouted, and hundreds of black bats screeched and flied towards her, biting and scratching her.

 

"Renamon!" Rika became slightly worried, seeing her partner trapped in the cloud of bats. But suddenly, her Digivice started to glow brightly, as did herself and Renamon. "Let's do it..." a voice said in her head. Knowing who it was, she smiled. "I'm ready, Renamon." she replied, and suddenly, Renamon and Rika flew towards eachother as their bodies collided in a flash of light. "Renamon! Bio-Merge Digivolve to......"

 

*

 

In the meantime, Kishido reappeared in front of Daemonus, Kuja and Orochimaru. He had a smug smirk on his face, and he seemed...darker, somehow.

 

"Aah...I see you've returned, Kishido..." Daemonus smirked back. "Or should I adress you as...Golbez?"

 

"Please..." Kishido replied, his voice a bit altered. "Let me change to my true face." In an instant, Kishido's form dissolved, and revealed a well-build man dressed in purple-blue armor with golden highlights around the chest, arms, legs and his helmet. His gauntlets were colored golden on their palms, and his shoulder pads had spikes protruding from them. He was cloaked in a broad, deep blue robe that seemed to soothe in the air by some non-existing breeze.

 

"Golbez?!" Kuja was suprised. "But...how?!"

 

"Hmph...easy, Kuja..." Golbez coaxed. "Daemonus had contacted me the very moment he found Kishido, Gaara and Draco. For even if Kishido was under Daemonus' spell, he proved to be of no use for our master here, and therefore asked me to take his physical appearance. His Digimon, however, was easier to convince, and he accepted Daemonus' terms, willingly joining me." no one could see this because of his helmet, but a demonic smirk played along Golbez's lips.

 

"Excellent..." Daemonus finally spoke up, breaking the silence in the throne room. "Now then, we must prepare for the Union's approach. I bet that Myotismon won't be...long-lived."

 

"I second that!" Golbez chuckled under his breath. "That foolish digital vampire really believes that he's powerful...then why not let him prove it? Haha!"

 

"Excellent. Now, we'd best prepare ourselves..."

 

*

 

"Sakuyamon!"

 

The Union and Myotismon gasped as they saw Rika and Renamon fuse into one, and as the light from the fusion faded, a whole new being were in front of them. A feminine creature, dressed in a tight, black leather suit and with a chest armor made of pure gold, gleaming with the strenght of a billion stars. She had two thick shoulder pads made of the same golden material, and each with the Yin-Yang symbol on them. The gloves that Renamon wore had grown bigger and with golden trims, and her legs were half covered with a pair of armor boots, each covered with the same lavender-colored garment of her gloves, and with the same Yin-Yang symbol on the base of her feet, where two metal 'toes' stuck out. Her tail swooshed back and forward in a gallant way, waving the reflections of its golden pelt across the room, and two long, grey-colored pony-tails waved from her head, which was covered by a vixen-shaped helmet. Under the helmet, her mouth was visible, as it gave the Union a cheeky smile.

 

"Wha-Wha-Wha-Wha......" Ben, being the youngest of them, was completely flabbergastered. The feminine creature chuckled quietly.

 

"What's wrong, Ben? Are you not glad to see us?" it replied, and Ben went completely silent. 'Us'?

 

"W-Who......w-what are y-you?" he then stuttered. The creature smiled warmly at him, went over to him and fondled his blushing cheek.

 

"My name is now Sakuyamon." she answered, and gave Ben a small kiss on the forehead before standing up. She looked at Myotismon, in which her smile quickly turned into a frown. "You have to learn your place." she muttered, and lashed her hand sideways, and a staff appeared out of thin air. It was about one meter long, golden like her armor, and with a ring in the other end. The ring had four smaller rings attached to it, and from them hanged several thinner ones, clirring in a charismatic tone as it was lashed forward, aiming at Myotismon.

 

"N-No! Please, I beg of you! Have mercy! He made me to..." Myotismon stuttered, but Sakuyamon pressed her staff at his throat, elicting a gulp from him.

 

"Who?" she said in a blood-chilling tone, which made even Mileena's spine shiver a bit. "Who made you?!"

 

"H-He did..." Myotismon gulped again, and indicated a statue in the centre of the room. It was an obsidian construct of Daemonus himself, and the mere shadow if it made the Union feel shivers in their spines. All...exept Sakuyamon, who pressed her staff tighter to Myotismon's throat.

 

"Thanks for the info, but now we're leaving..." she started, but then, a burning sensation his her face, as Myotismon whipped up a storm of crimson red energy and slapped is across her cheek, making her stagger away a bit. Myotismon flew up and landed on top of a pillar, smirking in a devilish way. "You should never had believed my deceitful ways!" he scoffed, and lashed up his whip. "Bloody Stream!" he lashed it forward, nearly hitting Sakuyamon, but she managed to dodge the attack. She pulled up her staff and quickly made two pink circles around herself, which levitated in the air. "Twin Blades of Beauty and of Truth!" she called out, sending the circles straight at Myotismon. He flew away as the circles blasted upon the pillar and decimating it. "Bloody Stream!" Myotismon once again whipped his energy stream, this time hitting Sakuyamon's side. She growled in pain and held her side. Inside of her, Rika, now merged with her Digimon, felt the same pain upon her side.

 

"AGH! That...was too close! she thought, and prepared herself and Sakuyamon for another attack. "Amethyst Wind!" a mystical fog engulfed the dungeon, and hundreds of purple, crystalline shards flew out of nowhere towards Myotismon, who whipped his Bloody Stream attack around to deflect the oncoming attacks. What he failed to notice was that Sakuyamon had now appeared behind him, and used her staff to smash him in the head, sending him crashing to the floor. As he got up, he suddenly heard a sizzling noise all over the place. He furiously looked around, trying to figure out where the noise came from, but in the same time, his gaze was filled with dread and fear. Suddenly, rapid tappings of footsteps, plus the sound of rocks being torn to pieces approached him from behind, he looked around, but too late. As he had looked around, Kakashi had charged up to him, and what made things worse was that he had some kind of compressed lightning ball in his palm, sizzling like a hundred birds, and he lunged it at Myotismon whilst screaming out;

 

"RAIKIRI!"

 

A slicing noise was heard, and Myotismon cried out in pain, as blood splattered across the floor and on Kakashi's ninja outfit. He smirked a bit under his mask, and pulled his hand out of Myotismon's chest. It was covered with his blood and gore, and Myotismon fell lifeless to the floor, evaporating into a stream of Data.

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 25: A Dark Place In My Mind][align=center]Chapter 25: A Dark Place In My Mind

 

As Myotismon turned into strings of data fragments, Sakuyamon landed next to Kakashi and examined the data codes flowing into the air.

 

"You shouldn't have done that..." she said with a cold glare at Kakashi. "You should have leaved it to me."

 

"Well, what can I say? I hate conflicts, and I rather stop them quickly that drawing them out..." Kakashi replied, examining his blood-stained suit and hand. He wiped the gore off as good as he could, and then looked straight at Sakuyamon. "Besides, we need to focus on our mission, which is to stop this Daemonus guy before he possibly destroys this world." Sakuyamon nodded slowly.

 

"You're right." she replied, and with a blinding, sudden flash of light, Sakuyamon separated back to Renamon and Rika. "By the way, that technique you used...that was the Lightning Blade, right?" Rika continued. Kakashi smiled at the young girl's knowledge.

 

"Indeed. It's my only original technique." he then answered. "But now, onto more pressing matters. Everyone ready?" he looked at the Union. Mileena nodded.

 

"We are ready." she said. Kakashi nodded, and they began to move out of the room. Suddenly, Mileena grabbed her head in pain. "A-AGH!" she cried.

 

"What?!" Harry turned to Mileena, and helped her stand up. "What's wrong, Mileena?!"

 

"N-Nothing..." she replied, and got up. "It's just this...massive power. I think that...that Daemonus is near...yes...very near."

 

"Then we must not hesitate, Mileena." Harry explained. "We must find him, and destroy him. This world must not suffer because we didn't make it."

 

"O.K..." Mileena held Harry's arm, as they ascended the castle.

 

*

 

Daemonus sat in his throne with a glass of red wine in his right hand. He sipped on it occasionally, and beside him hovered Kuja.

 

"Are you not worried about our adversaries' progresses?" he asked. Daemonus chuckled lowly.

 

"No. They are fools who believe that I will be beaten..." he said, and sipped on his wine. "Let them come. I, unlike them, have prepared a little...'gift' for our dearest Mileena." in this moment, Golbez appeared next to Kuja.

 

"Sir. The Final Fighters are in the dungeon stairs, and the Union of Justice are currently moving towards our position." he informed Daemonus short-termed. Daemonus smirked demonically.

 

"Send Kefka after the Union..." he replied. "He will distract the others...while I work my charms on Ms. Sakuretso..." Golbez nodded, as he and Kuja went to inform Kefka.

 

*

 

The Union were now very close to Daemonus' throne room, and Mileena's headaches began to grow worse. She was constantly groaning and holding her head, but the others supported her.

 

"You ok?" Ben asked constantly. "Cause I can carry you if you'd like to." Mileena shook her head.

 

N-No, no. I'll be just...fine." she replied, and stood up proudly. She had to show no weakness, she thought, as this would cause morale damage and leave her Union scared and uncertain. After a few minutes of walking, however, Mileena felt a strange, dark presence amongst them. She stood still, and the others were concerned.

 

"Mileena?" Harry asked, and walked up to her. "Mileena, what's wrong?" she just stood up and rubbed her head.

 

"Nothing, honestly! It's just a headache." she assured him, but then, a magical blast filled the room with purple sparks, and a cackling laughter echoed between the walls. Everyone took a fighting stance, and as the magic sparks settled, the sadistically grinning and intimidating figure of Kefka hovered in front of them, clapping his hands hysterically.

 

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! What a show, eh!" he laughed creepily and landed on the ground, standing on his two feet.

 

"Kefka! Don't think we will be so easily fooled this time!" Harry and Ron pulled up their wands, Renamon prepared to protect Rika, and Mileena stood in front of Ben conjuring a fireball. "We know your tricks!"

 

"Oooohohohohoho! Do you now, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhh?" Kefka grinned wider. "I didn't bring you the FULL show last time we met! But now, I intend to show you the FULL power of my performance!" he threw a volley of blue, magical balls of energy at the Union, forcing them to scatter as they exploded on impact. "Dance, dance, DAAANCE!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!! LET'S START THIS MAD PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he threw another volley, and this time, the balls homed in on their targets.

 

"D-Dammit! Rika, look out!" Renamon cried out, and pushed Rika aside, taking the full impact of the attack. "GAAH!" she crashed into a pillar which collapsed. "You frickin clown! DIAMOND STORM!" Renamon leaped up from the debree and summoned a cloud of diamond shards which rained upon Kefka. He jumped away and summoned several lightning bolts that randomly struck the ground as he spinned around and clapped his hands.

 

"Dance, little rats! DANCE, AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!" Ben switched on the Omnitrix and changed into XLR8, racing between the lightning bolts as they struck the ground. As he managed to run up to Kefka, he just flew away and threw his magical spheres at him, blasting Ben into a wall. Mileena was about to throw a fireball at Kefka, but then, something stopped her. A voice in her head.

 

"My dear, dear Mileena. Don't you see the meaninglessness in all this?" it said in a calm tone. Mileena's fireball extinguished itself in her palm, and she looked around.

 

"Daemonus?! Show yourself!" she demanded.

 

"I'm afraid that I have to say no, Mileena." Daemonus replied. "You are here to finish me, are you not? Then what about the one who ever cared about you? What about the one who never turned you his back or spat your name in disgust? Here......let me show you..." and then, Mileena's vision was blinded by a flash of light.

 

*

 

Mileena regained her vision. She was now standing in a beautiful village by the riverside, the fresh, crystal-clear waters streaming gently and smoothly along the coast. The small huts and houses were decorated with flowers and vines, and they all seemed friendly and welcoming. All over the marketplace, people were bustling through the crowds and selling their goods. Mileena tried to speak to one of them, but gasped in fear as one of the men passed straight through her! She was but a ghost here. This was the past. She remembered now. This was the village she grew up in. And soon enough, she saw a little girl, about nine years old, dressed in a red dress with crimson hair and with a little phoenix-plushie clamped in her arms. It was herself, only younger. She was tumbling around on the streets, trying to find someone amidst all the commotion, but then, someone brutely pushed her aside and made her fall to the ground, dropping her phoenix-plushie. She slowly crawled towards it, but as she was about to pick it up, a foot crushed it under a black leather boot.

 

"Oops! Hehe, my bad!" a male voice grunted with a hint of irony, and moved along. The little girl slowly snatched up the plushie, carefully brushing off the dirt before hugging it tightly, and a small tear, gleaming like a pearl, fell from her eye and hit the ground. Mileena looked sadly at the girl who was herself, and try as she might, she could do nothing. She was here, as a temporary shadow of herself. A ghost. She bended down to look the girl in the eyes. They were colored crimson red with a hinge of golden in the middle. She remembered even clearer now. She had been hated for what she was, or to be exact, what she had become. Because when she was young, she was given the powers of the dying Phoenix King Helios, and since people always referred the Fire to Chaos and Corruption those days, they resented her at young age. Mileena felt her own eyes tear a bit, and slowly stood up. But then, the landscape shifted. The fields that once were green and filled with flowers were now scorched and incinerated, a few crops and tree trunks still burning with orange and crimson flames. The huts were decimated to piles of ash and charcoal, gleaming with fire and death. The streets were filled with blood, and the mutilated bodies were filled with scratchmarks made of talons. In the middle of all this destruction, a young girl, around 12 years old, stood and watched the burning landscape, her eyes filled with dread. This was what happened when Mileena's anger knew no limits, and the Phoenix inside her was released. Suddenly, a dark portal behind her opened, and Daemonus stepped out, fondling her chin with his pincer. She was scared at first, but then, Daemonus leaned forward and whispered something into her ear, and she nodded, and followed Daemonus. The real Daemonus now appeared next to the real Mileena.

 

"See now, Mileena my child?" he said, and watched her eyes tear. "You cannot lead this...'mission' of yours any longer, or else you will drown in your rage again, hurting and killing the things you love the most. You are...a monster." at that word, Mileena turned around sharply and slapped Daemonus across the face.

 

"NO!" she shouted. "I am no monster! This...this may be well true...and I know it's happened a few times, but...but I will not stand here and watch those sins be unpunished! Even if I have to die myself, I will defeat you, Daemonus! You were the one who suggested that the ashes of that blasted Phoenix should be implanted in me in the first place! Although you were a human scientist back then, you were still the cold-blooded demon you are now! And even...even if it means to lose my mind to power again...I WILL DEFEAT YOU!" Daemonus scoffed and stepped away.

 

"Hmph......pitiful creature. You shall know no rest in the life after this..." and with that, he disappeared, and a bright light surrounded Mileena.

 

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[spoiler=Chapter 26: The Clown's True Face; A God Is Born][align=center]Chapter 26: The Clown's True Face; A God Is Born

 

As Mileena regained her senses, she was terrified by the vision she regained. All around her, the Union was barely standing after Kefka's furious attacks. Kefka himself just hovered in mid-air and clapped his hands while chuckling in a sadistic way.

 

"Ohohohohohohahahaha! This is funny!" he cackled and stood down. "Oh my, what now? The prey is finally awake? HA!"

 

"Mileena!" Harry immidiently rushed to Mileena's side. "You O.K?!"

 

"Y-Yeah. I'm fine. In fact...I'm better than ever!" Mileena conjured up a fire aura around her in display of her power. "Too long have I been tossed around in the darkness. Too long have I been deceived and stomped across. But no more! Today, and forever, I will avenge all those that died that day...because of me...BY ME! KEFKA! TELL YOUR MASTER THAT HE WILL HAVE A RUDE AWAKENING! FOR MILEENA SAKURETSO, THE PHOENIX DAUGHTER, IS ON THE WARPATH!" she suddenly made several postures with her hands and palms.

 

"M-Mileena! What the hell are you doing?!" Harry shouted, but Mileena ignored Harry, and continued to make the same signs over and over again.

 

"NOW! FEEL THE WRATH OF HELIOS!" Mileena shouted, and stretched out her palms at Kefka. The fire around her formed into wings and feathers, blazing with flames, and in short time, her aura had changed into a bird-like creature that screeched at Kefka.

 

"Whoohohohohoho! Pretty birdie got her wings!" Kefka sang. "Let's cut them off with a quickie SNAP!" he charged up magical spheres and threw them at Mileena and her Phoenix Aura, but then, the aura creature flapped its magnificent wings, ember sparks flailing from the tips, and carried Mileena upwards as the spheres blasted the floor tiles beneath. She held her hands forward, and a giant fireball charged in her palms. She sended it flying against Kefka, but he hovered upwards and dodged the blast. He snapped his fingers while chuckling menially, and a small spark of magic was created, slowly flying at Mileena. She fired a small spark of fire at it and flew away, and the small magic spark detonated in a huge, multiple blast volley of magic. Kefka flew after her, cackling his crazy laugh, as he fired lightning bolts from his fingertips.

 

"This mad party is just getting started!!" he snarled, as he charged up a magic sphere in his hands, and threw it at Mileena. She quickly, but barely, dodged it, and counteres by flinging arrows of fire at Kefka. He spun around and threw several magical spheres all around the room, detonating the arrows and blasting several areas of the room. The rest of the Union decided to kick into action.

 

"PROTEGO!" exclaimed Harry and Ron, and they encased themselves, Renamon & Rika, and Ben in a magic barrier, deflecting the magic spheres. Renamon signaled Ben to follow her, and he nodded as he rushed after her. Renamon stretched out her hands at Kefka. "DIAMOND STORM!" she shouted, and a hailstorm of shards flew at him, ripping his clothes to shreds. Renamon then cupped her hands, as Ben jumped up, landing his feet in Renamon's paws, and she threw him upwards. He transformed into Cannonbolt, curled up into his ball form, and span around with awesome speed, knocking Kefka into a wall. Ben bounced off of the wall and headed towards another, rikocheting off it as well, and pummeled Kefka as he was about to escape. Ben landed next to Renamon and changed into Diamondhead as he and Renamon aimed at Kefka. Renamon unleashed another Diamond Storm, and Ben shot several rounds of crystal spears along with her. Harry and Ron now stepped up.

 

"INCENDIO!" they shouted and whipped their wands. Purple-blue flames erupted from their wands and blasted Kefka, but Kefka managed to escape before they launched another round. He once again began to laugh insanely and launched a volley of blue spheres that blasted the floor to bits. What he didn't realise was that Mileena charged at him, ramming him head-on into a wall, and then threw several fireballs at him. Kefka jumped upwards and sended several iceballs at Mileena, but they evaporated into steam before they hit her.

 

"Hohohohohohohahahaaaaa! I haven't had this fun for AGES!" Kefka chuckled and danced around in the air. "Now it's time to go bye-bye, cause you're gonna DIE!" he spinned one of his index fingers in the air, creating some kind of spinning vortex of crackling energy. The energy bolts struck randomly around the room, and the Union had to dodge occationally. "PREPARE TO SUFFER!" Kefka launched the vortex into the air, and it hovered around the Union. Suddenly, a ball of white energy dropped from the vortex, and exploded in a pixelized cloud of magic, sparkling white and black before it evaporated, and revealed a crater.

 

"RUN!" Mileena commanded the others, and they acknowledged her orders, spreading into different directions. But what confirmed their fears was that the vortex also split into six more, each one chasing after either Kakashi, Harry & Ron, Ben, Rika & Renamon, or Mileena. Mileena easily flew away from the balls of unstable energy, as they hit the floors instead. But Ben, Harry and Ron had trouble avoiding their vortexes, as they came closer and dropped their bombs at a faster rate. Ben changed into XLR8, and decided to grab Harry and Ron, but a blast made them separate, and Ben was forced to retreat on his own. Harry and Ron threw as many Expelliarmus and Depulso spells they could at the balls that bombarded them, and managed to keep them at bay, until Kefka swooped by and threw iceballs at them.

 

"DANCE, DANCE, DAAAAAANCE!!!!!!!!!" he cackled, and Harry and Ron were forced to tap-dance as the iceballs exploded into razorsharp shards that almost hit them. As they stopped dodging, they saw a ball of energy closing up on them, and realised that it was too late. But then, they felt someone grabbing them, and pulling them away. It was Ben, still transformed to XLR8. "Hang on, buddies!" he exclaimed, and rushed ahead of the vortexes. Kefka frowned. "Naaah! You're not fun anymore!" he groaned, and threw a lightning bolt at Ben, who was paralysed in his leg and fell over. Accidentally, he dropped Harry and Ron, who tumbled into a wall. Ben, on the other hand, crashed into it at full speed. "D'OH! Okay, note to self; do NOT turn your back and run from a psychopatic clown ever again! ESPECIALLY if the clown happens to use magic!" he groaned, and sat up as good as he could. Harry and Ron supported themselves with the wall, but Kefka was now in front of them. "HOHOOOOOOO!!! I hope you and your friends are ready to DIIIIE! Let's DOOOOOO this!" he lashed his hand forward, preparing to unleash a barrage of magic spheres, and Ben, Harry and Ron covered their eyes and prepared for the worst. But then, nothing came. They wondered if they were dead, so they had to peek their eyes open. In front of them was Kefka, but the grin he had on his face was replaced by a shocked, open mouth. And in his chest, he had a spear of fire pierced through his heart!

 

"G-Gaah...a-acck...u-uggh..." he was gagging, and soon, he fell down on the ground. The fire spear evaporated into ash clouds, and Mileena landed next to Ben, Harry and Ron, as her aura diminished.

 

"T-Thanks!" Ben said, and straightened himself as he stood up, stretching his tail and legs.

 

"No...problem." Mileena said coldly, but also friendly. "You are my friends, and I wouldn't throw you away for anything in the world. Now, let's go." the others nodded, and followed Mileena, as they approached the entrance to Daemonus' throne room. But then, the room they were in started to shake. "Woah! Earthquake!" Ron shouted. "No! It's worse!" Mileena exclaimed, and saw sparks of magic crackling at Kefka's body. "He's...CHANGING!" and with that, a bright light erupted around them.

 

*

 

After the light fainted, the Union slowly opened their eyes. To their surprise, they were now hovering in mid-air, surrounded by a golden vortex. They all got use to their new sense of gravity, and decided to find out what was going on.

 

"Well...any ideas?" Mileena asked. The others shook their heads. "Either we're dead, or we're not." Harry said simply. "W-WHAT?! D-DEAD?!?!?!" Ron became nervous and scared. "Relax, red-head! We're surely not dead! I mean...how can we still be here?!" Rika snarled, and Ron instantly calmed down. "Now, we need to..." Mileena started, but turned silent as she started to stare behind them. The others turned around too, and were as shocked as Mileena. In front of them was Kefka, but he had changed immensely. His skin was purple, and his beady eyes glowed yellow. His hair was golden and long, and he had a pair of angel wings, and a pair of demon wings on his back. He was now in his God Form.

 

"I am Kefka...The God..." he said in a deep, but still cackling tone. "And I......I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING!"

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 27: Death Of A God; Confronting Daemonus][align=center]Chapter 27: Death Of A God; Confronting Daemonus

 

All of the Union's members were now starled and intimidated by the God Kefka's statement, and shivers went down their spines. Together, the Union of Justice had managed to overcome many powerful villains, such as Ben's archenemy Vilgax and Harry's nemesis Lord Voldemort, but they had never fought a god before, and highly doubted they would win against such a manifestation of power and pride. The God now raised his right hand, blue energy sparkling and crackling in his palm, as it formed a blue sphere.

 

"DIE!!!" he roared in a sadistically pleasured way, as he threw the sphere at them. The Union prepared to deflect it, but then, it splitted into hundreds of small ones that circled around them, and then went up in the air. "UP, UP AND AWAY! AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!"" Kefka chuckled gleefully, and then lashed his hand down, and the hundreds of spheres crashed down on them, sending them in all directions. They all hit invisible barriers, and fell down on an equally invisible 'floor'.

 

"Ack! D-Damn it! He's too strong!" Renamon groaned and helped Rika up. Harry and Ron muttered 'We're doomed' as they stood up, their legs slightly shivering. Ben confidently stood up and faced Kefka. "No! We haven't lost yet!" he shouted. Mileena, Rika, Renamon, all of them looked at the ten-year old boy with disbelief. Was this really Benjamin Tennyson that stood in front of them and said that? "B-Ben?! How can you possibly believe that?! He's a frickin bloody GOD!!" Ron yelped. Ben just looked him in the eyes.

 

"I know I can't lose, because I made a promise to Grandpa Max!" Ben replied firmly, and turned his sharp gaze at Kefka, who was hovering above them with a huge grin on his face. "I promised him; 'Grandpa! When I join the Union, I'll stop acting like a little brat, promise! I'll grow up.' And I intend on keeping that promise! I won't back down now! Not ever! It's time I grow up!" he slammed down the button on his Omnitrix, and he transformed into Heatblast. "Now; Who's with me?!"

 

"You know something? For being a ten-year old brat, you're very persuative!" Rika said sarcastically, and stood up along with Renamon. "We'll help you." Renamon explained. Harry and Ron stood up next to him as well. "We're not gonna let you down!" Harry said and pointed his wand at Kefka's laughing face. "Oooh...how the bloody hell did I get stuck with this..." Ron mumbled and pulled out his wand.

 

Kakashi stood next to Ron and Harry. "Sheesh...I wonder the same..." he sighed, and pulled out a kunai which he spinned on his index finger. "Whatever, I'll help you out...again..." Mileena was now the last one to join up with Ben. "Benjamin...remind me that when we're out of here...you're getting promoted to an Elite Member!" she said and summoned fire in her hands. Kefka stared at the lot of them, and laughed.

 

"OHOHOHOHOHOHO! You really think you will have a chance against MEEEE?!" he cackled, and summoned several blue spheres. "I AM A GOD!" he threw the balls at the Union, and they scattered into thousand smaller, and the Union fled in all directions. The spheres were tiny, but as they hit the 'floor', they detonated with a great explosion of purple and blue blasts, and sended shockwaves across the area. Ben soared on his flames and shot fireballs at Kefka, but with a lash of his hand, Kefka deflected the fireballs straight back at Ben. He, however, absorbed the fire, but wasn't paying attention to Kefka, and he was smacked down by his arm, and crashed into the floor. Kakashi rolled up and leaped backwards, making a few, quick hand signs. "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" he exhaled a giant fireball that charged at Kefka, but as it hit him, he didn't even flinch. "HEHEHEHEHEHE! THAT'S AN ATTACK?! TAKE THESE!!!" Kefka cackled and lashed his hand. Several ice shards formed and flied against Kakashi, and pierced all over his body. But then, it dispersed in a cloud of smoke. It was a Shadow Clone. "RIKA! MILEENA! NOW!" Kakashi cried out as he reappeared a few meters behind Kefka.

 

"O.K! Renamon, let's go!" Rika commanded. Renamon nodded, and they both began to glow. "Renamon! Bio-Merge Digivolve to.........Sakuyamon!" Rika and Renamon once again merges, and Sakuyamon appears. "You will be a God no more, Kefka!" she snarled, and pulled up four containers from the belt on her waist. "Dragon Helix!" she smashes the containers open, and at once, four fox spirits emerges and circles around her. "Feel the wrath of the TRUE Gods!" she lashed her staff, and the fox spirits charged at Kefka. He chuckled and fired off magic spheres, but they went straight through the spectral foxes. One of them started to burn with red flames, and blasted Kefka with a stream of fire. Another of them turns into liquid and drenches him in a tidal wave, the third turns invisible and strikes him with fists made of thin air, and the last turns into a bolt of lightning and tackles Kefka, zapping him in the progress. But as the spirits returns to their containers, which had regenerated and reattached themselves to Sakuyamon's belt, Kefka was still standing.

 

"No way!" Mileena was awestruck at Kefka's power, but also frightened. "We HAVE to beat him, guys!" Harry and Ron acknowledged her orders, and moved up to her. "INCENDIO!" called Harry, and a blast of purple flames shot from his wand. "CARPE RETRACTUM!" Ron yelled, and magical ropes tied up Kefka. Kefka just snarled and pulled the ropes, and pulled Ron along with them! "AAAAGGGHH!! HEEEEEELP!" he cried, as Kefka placed him between himself and the Incendio flames that came closer. But as the flames were about to hit him, an orange fireball detonated the spell. "Mileena!" Ron was sure it was her, and he was right. Mileena stood with her palms aimed at Kefka, and they were burning a slight bit. "Don't you dare to harm my team!" she ordered, but Kefka just chuckled.

 

"OHOHOHOHOHOHO! IF YOU DO CARE ABOUT THEM, COME AND GET THEM!!" he taunted, and waved with Ron in the air. But then, Ron pulled up his wand and aimed it at Kefka. "RICTUSCEMPRA!" he shouted, and a magic blast hit Kefka in the face, and he lost his grip. "GRAAAHH!! YOU LITTLE PESTS!" Kefka whipped his hand after Ron, but he missed his grip, and Ron fled back to the others. "NOW YOU WILL DIE BY MY SUPER SPECIAL ATTACK!!!" he raises one of his index fingers to the sky, and it starts to gather energy. A golden sphere of energy is formed, and it grows larger and larger. The Union could do nothing at the moment but to stare with dread as the sphere grew.

 

"What is he doing?!" Ron said worringly. "He's going to destroy the planet with that attack!" Harry exclaimed. "No! We must stop him!" Ron said again, more worried than before. "But how!? He's a frickin GOD! We can't do anything! We're powerless!" Harry retorted. As the two young wizards were argueing, Mileena suddenly felt something, and she looked around. The golden vortex that had once surrounded them was not fainting slowly, and she could dimly see where they were. She noticed several...strange rocks float by. Wait a minute?! FLOAT by?! She concentrated more, and soon saw that the rocks were not rocks at all. They were asteroids!

 

"HEY, GUYS! We're no longer in the castle! Daemonus used some spell to transport us into space, and we're in the middle of an asteroid belt!" she shouted, and soon enough, all of the golden aura was diminished, and they all saw the asteroids. "Daemonus was trying to trick us not to fight at our fullest, to not destroy the Earth! But since we're not anymore on Earth, TAKE HIM ON WITH ALL YOU GOT!" everyone nodded, and got into action. Ben transformed into Heatblast again, and bombarded Kefka with fireballs, which Kefka just shrugged off. Kakashi charged up a Raikiri, and Harry, Ron and Sakuyamon covered him. Sakuyamon used her Amethyst Wind to send hundreds of crystalline shards at Kefka, while Harry and Ron used the Bombarda spell over and over again. Kefka brutely swooped them aside, but then, Kakashi rushed at him, shouting, "RAIKIRI!" and plunged the lightning ball in his palm into Kefka's chest. Kefka just cackled. "HOHOHOHOHOHO! IS THAT SUPPOSED TO KILL ME?! PLEEEEEEASE! IT JUST TICKLES RATHER ANNOYINGLY!" he smashed away Kakashi, and he landed unconscious. Kefka turned to the others, and blasted them all away with a powerful magic sphere. Sakuyamon separated into Rika and Renamon again, and fell unconscious with the others. Suddenly, Kefka's eyes turned to Mileena, and she seemed to be in a trance.

 

"HOAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! WHAT'S UP NOW?! TO SCARED TO MOVE, EH!!" Kefka mocked her, but she stood still, with her eyes closed, chanting in an unknown language. "HUUH?! HOW DARE YOU IGNORE ME?!?! I AM A GOD!" Kefka bombarded Mileena with blue spheres, but she stood still as the explosions hit her, a barrier of fire protecting her. Now, she looked at Kefka, and her eyes seemed to be on fire. Kefka was for the first time suprised, and then, he looked upwards. Several of the asteroids around the one they were on had been set ablaze, and were now charging straight for Kefka! Mileena smirked.

 

"TELL ME?! CAN A GOD SURVIVE IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE?!" she roared, and suddenly, she lashed her hands at Kefka, and a fire blast was conjured straight in his face, which made him stagger a bit. He recovered as fast as possible, but too late. The meteors had now hit the asteroid with Kefka on it. Mileena quickly grabbed her friends, and then, in a blink of fire, she teleported away.

 

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CURSE YOU, PHOENIX CHILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kefka shouted in agony, as the meteors detonated upon him, and sending his remains into space.

 

*

 

 

Mileena and the others appeared in a dark room. They were back on Earth, she knew as much. She was panting and, for a strange reason, crying. She had once again been forced to use the power of the Phoenix, and she didn't like it one bit. If felt as for every time she unleashed it, it was taking over her body, and she frightened that if she used it too much, the Phoenix would take over. Her pearl-gleaming tears fell to the cold floor, and she clutched her fists in desperation and sorrow.

 

"W-Why..." she stuttered, and sobbed. "Why does these things have to happen?! Why can't things be...as they used to be?!" she had several flashbacks from when the Union started. The time that Rika and Renamon joined, which also was the first time when Rika and Renamon became partners, all those birthdays they spent together, their funtimes at the beach, and also...hers and Harry's first Valentines Day together. Her tears were streaming down her face now, and she sat on her knees, staring down on the floor. "Why can't life go on as usual......without all this madness and sorrow?"

 

"That's what I was going to ask you, my dear Mileena..." a voice called out. From the shadows, Daemonus stepped forward. His pincer emerged, and he gingerly fondled Mileena's chin with it. "What is wrong, my child? You seem...lost. Trapped...like a caged bird, seeking for the sunlight of truth, the fresh winds of freedom, but who never seems to find it. Trapped in your own mind, you are caged and blinded from the true world, and its cruelties. You would be safe with me, but you rejected my offer at the last minute, resembling yourself as one of them." he pointed his pincer at Harry, Ron, and Rika. "They are not like you, Mileena. You are......unique. Don't let frail mortals cloud your judgement, Mileena Sakuretso. Join me, again, and we will be able to raise the mortal life to a higher purpose. Together, we will show the frail mortals the payment of their ignorance and so-called hope. We will..." but then, he was interrupted as he saw Mileena's flames grow larger and more intenser.

 

"No, Daemonus..." she muttered angrily. "I won't...be your pawn again! It may be true that, when I served you, I tasted freedom, and believe me, that taste......I'll never forget it. But still...it felt...horrible! I felt like I was a hearless monster, forever trapping someone inside it. MYSELF! But that will never happen again! Cause with or without my friends' aid, I will beat you!" she glanced at her friends; The Union of Justice, then, looked back at Daemonus, her eyes still burning. "My friends...I know they believe in me! And I won't disappoint them! Cause even if...if I know they're just mortals...they are my friends! And that makes them so much more than just human! They're......THEY'RE EVERYTHING FOR ME!!!" she summoned up a fireball and threw it straight into Daemonus' face, and he flew back several meters before crashing into a wall behind him. He got up, and dusted off his robe, while scoffing.

 

"Hmph. Pitiful mortal-lover..." he said, and started to glow purple. "YOUR HOPE ENDS HERE!" he grew a bit larger, becoming twice his normal size. His pincer split apart, and became five claw-fingers, coated in some purple substance. His face split into a large, fanged grin, and his eyes glowed with purple fire. Hir hair grew to the lenght that it reached his kneecaps, and it wriggled around, as if it was alive. "AND YOUR MEANINGLESS EXCISTANCE WITH IT!"

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

[fenrir]

Damn you.

 

I was gonna put in a character from an upcoming fic of mine. Damn you to hell.

[Fallen Hero]

Sweet, may i suggest Shaoran from Tsubasa Chronicles

[fenrir]

Chapter was sexeh.

 

I loved the fight scene, damn reminds me of my Ben 10 fanboy days.

[Soul Legacy]

Nice, i might suggest a character later...

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

[spoiler=Chapter 28: The Release Technique][align=center]Chapter 28: The Release Technique

 

Mileena stood unafraidly un her place, but inside, she was scared to death.

 

Background Music:

Those Chosen By the Planet

 

"What is this for some...gruesome form he has taken?!" she thought, and watched Daemonus' new form. His transformation was now complete. Besides the long hair, pointy claw-fingers and demonic grin on his face, his eyes had stopped burning, and revealed their hideously purple, horizontally slitted pupiles. His body was also changed. He was more muscular now, and the blood veins were thick and pumping with the pace of his heart around his chest area. His hair had changed to a whiter color, and the end of each hairstraw was as sharp as a needle. His right arm, which didn't have any pincer, was still pulsating with black energy, and the skin was colored pitch-black. "And why is his arm still inactive? I can't make any hastened decitions now, or I'll be finished in an instant. Maybe if I..." she still stared at Daemonus. "Daemonus! What is your plan, really?! Thinking you can stop The Union of Justice?!" Daemonus stared blankly at Mileena, and grinned wider than his mouth allowed.

 

"Aaaah...So you are interested of hearing me out, Traitor?" he said in a deep voice, which seemed to echo in the deep, endless halls. He chuckled in the same, low tone. "As you wish. It will be your dying wish! You see...as a human, I was frail, and weak. But I had the intellectual mind of the kind that many envy. I was a top scientist, that specialised in the fields of surgery and artificial inplants. I have made several, successful inplants of artificial jaws, lungs, even hearts. I was known world-wide for my abilities......but that didn't sate my hunger. My hunger for fame......and mostly, I have to admit, power. So, when I heard a little girl had fallen ill under a lethal disease, I decided to act wisely and quickly. Therefore, as that day was ironically enough the day that the Phoenix King Helios was to die and reincarnate in his endless cycle of death and rebirth, I went to the Phoenix Mountain, and stole his ashes, and mixed them with my alchemic liquids, transforming it into an elixir strong enough to cure the girl's disease. She was cured, but, as an act of vengeance and divine retribution, the Phoenix reincarnated inside of the girl, turning her into his vessel..." his arm suddenly changed shape, and started to twist and turn unnaturally. He used it to point at Mileena, who was kinda shocked, but didn't show it. "You know of whom I speak, do you not? Yeeeesssss......it's you, my dear Mileena. You were the most prized of my successful operations. You were my......prodigy." Mileena gasped, and stared at Daemonus.

 

"N-No! I didn't want to be that! Ever! You're a...a-a...MONSTER!" she stuttered and shouted. "I WILL NEVER TURN OUT THE WAY YOU DID!!!" this made Daemonus chuckle a little.

 

"You will, or you will die. But fate, it seems, has that odd way of twisting against you. Something that I experienced..." Daemonus brought down his arm. "After my operation was successfull, the townspeople weren't so glad to hear that the girl had turned into the Phoenix's vessel, and they decided to kill the one who had that idea. Ironically, it was me. I tried to flee as quick as I could, but a man such as me cannot allow my delicate instruments to be left behind, so there was quite some packing for me. But, as faith would have it, they barged into my house, before I even finished the packings, and killed me without regrets or mercy. I was a dead man, and was about to face the consequenses of my heinous actions. But Hell, it seemed, deemed me so evil...so impure...THAT IT SPAT ME RIGHT BACK OUT!" as he roared, a purple aura literally erupted from him, and Mileena was forced back by the shockwave. She fell to the floor, and bruised her arm. She yelped a bit, and stood back up, holding her injured arm. "But it didn't leave me completely unharmed...as you can see. I was transformed into a Demon, and on top of that, an Immortal Demon too. Now, I was doomed to forever wander the world, and even when all life on this cursed, rottening planet would be dead......I would wander...alone. Do you understand such pain?! DO YOU?! How it feels to forever live, to not be able to rest?! To forever walk as an empty shell on the rotten remains of a ball of dirt?! Well, if you don't......I will MAKE you feel it! YOU SHALL DIE BY MY HANDS, AND BE SERVED THE EXACT SAME FATE AS ME!!!!!" as he roared again, his arm once again changed shape, but this time, the form was permanent. It changed his arm into a chain, estimated over five meters, and the hand on the arm started to grow into a more ball-shaped form, and it seemed to be inflating itself. Soon enough, a pitch-black wrecking ball was in the end of the chain, and it dropped to the floor with a loud 'BANG!'. His chest began to boil like hot wax in six areas, and then, in a splatter of blood and purple liquid, arms protruded from the areas, wielding maces, scimitars, and axes. The muscles around Daemonus' pincer-fingered arm grew even more, and it now looked like his arm was twice the size of himself.

 

"W-What are you..." Mileena stuttered. She had never seen such power before, and the power she FELT was on an entirely different level! Daemonus seemed to have grown almost a hundred times stronger than before, and his muscles weren't the only proof of it.

 

"WHO AM I?" Daemonus' eyes once again lit up in their purple-hued flames, and he raised his wrecking-balled chain-arm. "I AM DAEMONUS; POWER FORM!" he smashed down the wrecking ball into the floor, and the mere shockwave sended Mileena flying, but she was soon hovering in mid-air, with her flaming wings spread across her back. "HMPH! YOU'RE NOT BAD, PHOENIX CHILD!" Daemonus coaxed, and raised his pincer-fingered arm. The pincers suddenly grew longer and longer, and homed in on Mileena! But, with her speed and flight grace, she dodged the oncoming assault, but the pincers kept following her, so she was forced to flee through the air. They were dripping with the purple liquid, and Mileena only needed a split-second to figure out that it was in fact poison.

 

"I need to keep my distance from his attacks, or else a slight scratch would be fatal!" she consoled herself, and flied right and left to dodge the pincers that were charging at her. She was suddenly faced with three of the five pincers that had moved in front of her, and were now trapping her. "Oh no! I need to..." without even thinking, she dissolved into an ash cloud, making the pincers crash with each other. She reappeared outside the spiky trap, and sighed in relief.

 

"HMPH, YOU'RE BETTER THAN YOU LOOK, INDEED..." Daemonus scoffed. He was slightly impressed on Mileena's ability to make quick descitions. But that didn't stop him from being slightly worried; "Hmmmm, she's improved since we first met. This will be a wrench in my cogs, unless I find a way to bring her back." but now, he focused at Mileena, who bombarded him with fireballs. He started retracting the chain on his right arm, and pulled up the wrecking ball to shield himself from the blast. He was forced back abit, dragging his feet in the floor, ripping up the exquisitive marble tiles. He pulled out the chain again, and forced the wrecking ball into the air, sending it flying at Mileena. She dodged it, and it made a large hole in the wall, but Daemonus cared less. All he focused on was Mileena. He teared out the ball from the wall, and whacked after Mileena like a game of Whack-A-Mole, but missed continously. Eventually, Mileena figured out his attack patterns, and turned her defense to offense, as she suddenly grabbed Daemonus' chain-arm! "W-WHAT THE?!?" was all he managed to gasp, until Mileena yanked the chains her way, and Daemonus was dragged along, flying helplessly towards Mileena, as her fist was coated in flames. She gave it all she got, and with a mighty punch, she blasted Daemonus back down into the floor with a mighty explosion. Mileena landed a few meters away from the blast, a bit roughed up.

 

"Hah...hah...that's...IT!" she panted. "I...did...did it..." she was about to collapse of the lack of oxygen, when she gasped in terror as she saw Daemonus rise up, unharmed!

 

"DID WHAT, EXACTLY?!?"

 

*

 

As the Final Fighters rushed up the stairs, Warrior of Light felt a strong surge of magic just disappear from the vincinity, and skid to a halt. The Onion Knight, suprised by their leaders sudden halt, bumped into him.

 

"Outchie! Hey, Warrior! What's the big idea?" he complained, and pulled up his helmet, which had fallen over his eyes as he bumped into the warrior.

 

"Something's wrong, guys." he replied, and halted the other fighters. "That magic surge that just dispersed was the magic of no one else than Kefka Palazzo!"

 

"Kefka?! The psycho clown?" Tidus exclaimed. "But I thought that he was a g-"

 

"A God, true, Tidus..." Warrior interrupted, and looked up the endless stairs. "Which fears me more of what powerful horrors might have destroyed him..."

 

"Wait a minute!" Zidane shouted, carrying Squall's dead body. "Remember that the Union is still in this castle! They might just have beaten Kefka! Think about it; they are equally strong as us, and some of them even have abilities to make themselves stronger! That might have given them the power to beat Kefka!"

 

"But it's still impossible!" Warrior retorted. "Even if they were able to amass such powers, they would still not be able to beat Kefka! He is a God!"

 

"Enough!" roared Red XIII, his tail-fire blazed up in size, showing annoyance. "Can't you all see that this is what the Rebellion wants us to do?! They want us to fight amongst ourselves! To overpower EACH OTHER, instead of themselves! We need to stay focused, everyone! Let's not continue this argue, and go on with the mission!" everyone groaned, but Warrior nodded.

 

"Yes. Sorry, Red. I let my feelings cloud my better judgement about The Union." Warrior sighed. "Now, let's continue to find them!"

 

"Right! Let's go!" Tidus exclaimed, and they all rushed onward. Zidane was still a bit sad about Squall's death, but held his tears in, as they pressed on.

 

*

 

Mileena was truly terrified as she saw Daemonus stand up again, despite the powerful blow he received. "N-No!! It's...not true!" she gasped, almost out of air.

 

"OH, BUT IT IS TRUE!!!" Daemonus shouted. His voice was altered, and sounded almost like a bird shriek, but it was human language. "YOU ARE JUST PATHETIC!! DID YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT YOU AND YOUR SILLY FIRE SPELLS COULD BEAT ME?!?!" as he spoke, his body altered once again, changing into a tall, but slim version of himself. The pincer now became a staff with spines around it and a purple orb pulsating in the other end, and his normal hand turned into fire. His legs were liquified, and merged with his body, which was solid ice. Daemonus' face was a cloud of electric shocks, and he laughed as menially as Kefka. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! YOU WILL DIE NOW, AT THE HANDS OF DAEMONUS: MAGIC FORM!" as he finished, he lashed his staff, and several fireballs, big as meteors, launched at Mileena, and exploded violently. "GAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!! SHE'S DEAD! THE B!TCH IS DEAD!!! SHE'S......WHAAAAAAAAAATT?!?!?!?!" he noticed Mileena standing up, shaking, but alive.

 

"DAEMONUS! Don't you dare to try and hurt my friends!" she shouted. She had realised that if the fireballs were allowed to pass, it would have hit the other Union members, who were still unconscious. "You won't lay a finger on them! I swear to you, as long as I live and breathe, I WILL PROTECT THEM!"

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 29: Manifestations Of Magic][align=center]Chapter 29: Manifestations Of Magic

 

Magic Daemonus just glared at Mileena with his electric-filled eyes. SHE, of all people?! The one he literally MADE with his own two hands?! He cackled a menial laughter.

 

"GAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! YOU CAN'T BEAT ME, YOU KNOW THAT!!!" he screeched with almost a computerized voice, thanks to the electricity his head was made of. "AFTER ALL, MILEENA, WHO WAS IT, THAT GAVE YOU YOUR LIFE BACK, HHMMMMMMM??!!" Mileena remained defensive. "YOU LITTLE BRAT!! YOU MUST LEARN YOUR PLACE!!!" Magic Daemonus smashed his staff into the ground. "TAKE THIS!!!" several lightning orbs now flied from the ground, and began to fly towards Mileena. She jumped backwards, but the orbs kept homing in on her, and she had to flee. She flied upwards, back and forward, and in circles to avoid the spheres, but they just kept homing in on her, and she had to dodge more. She had enough by now, and forced herself to offense, as she threw a volley of fireballs at the lightning orbs, and they exploded on impact, neutralizing the orbs. M. Daemonus coaxed, and smashed again with his staff. This time, the floor was torn asunder, and giant icicles formed from the ground, charging up at Mileena, one after the other. She flied sideways to dodge them rising upwards, but it wasn't over. The ice pillars now cracked, and exploded into shards that hovered in the air. M. Daemonus laughed insanely, and waved his hand towards Mileena. The shards replied by flying towards Mileena in blinding speed, but Mileena just raised the temperature around herself to an unbearable level, and the shards melted before they had time to hit her. Mileena now looked at Daemonus.

 

"Never underestimate me!!" she snarled, and formed a spear of fire in her hands. She charged at Daemonus, who brandished his staff, blocking Mileena's attack, as the two weapons clashed. Mileena struggled to overpower Daemonus, but it was a hopeless case, as Mileena's fire weapon was neutralized by Daemonus, who channeled water through his staff, which then turned to ice, freezing the spear and Mileena's hand along with it, locking her in Daemonus's staff. He smirked, and grabbed her, squeezing her in his hand of flames. The fire didn't bother Mileena, but being squeezed was another thing. "AAAAGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" she screamed in pain, as her bones began to break. But then, something inside her, possibly the Phoenix Powers, made her find inhuman strenght, and she began to force Daemonus's hand open. He was stunned as Mileena forced his hand open, and then, she kicked his palm with all her might, which made him scream in pain, and back away into the wall. Mileena summoned several miniature meteors, and sended her wrath upon Daemonus, as the meteors exploded on impact. "I did it!" she announced, and landed on the ripped-up floor, watching Daemonus being engulfed in a haze of flame and smoke.

 

"What was that for a titanic power?" thought Mileena, as the battlefield silenced. "I felt like...like nothing could stop me for a second there. But...what? It wasn't the Phoenix Powers, that's for sure. But what? Maybe......" she looked towards her unconscious friends. "It was the strenght of my friends! Yes! That must be it! I...I fought in their place, and that gave me the strenght I needed! I see now...I see it now! As long as I have friends...I am nobody's pawn! I am strong enough to make my own choices!" but as she talked to herself in her mind, she didn't notice. A black silouette of Daemonus, in his normal form, brandishing his pincer, sneaking up to her, and then......

 

There was silence. And then, a piercing noise.

 

=Meanwhile=

 

The Final Fighters now reached a throne room. Unlike the one they were in before, this one had black chandelers with purple-glowing candles, burning with blue-purple flames, and a black, spined, obsidian throne. They stopped to inspect, and Warrior said firmly and assured;

 

"They are here."

 

And with that, the Final Fighters drew their weapons, and looked behind them. There stood the dark-armored, blue-caped Golbez and the silk-clothed, levitating Kuja, smirking at them.

 

"Oooh, what, oh what, have we here?" Kuja chuckled, and brandished his silver spheres, which flew around him in a circle.

 

"Mere insects, as usual..." Golbez sighed of pure boredom of not having proper enemies. "Let's get this over with..."

 

"Indeed!" Kuja smirked. Zidane stood ahead of his fellow fighters.

 

"Kuja! Have your loneliness taught you nothing?!" he shouted, and Kuja halted. "You don't have to be alone all the time. You can have fr-!" he dodged, as Kuja hurled a silver sphere at him, which exploded in flames.

 

"DON'T...finish that sentence!" Kuja warned. "Bah! Why do I need friends! They're disgusting, and slow you down! You should be the one to have such a pity on you..."

 

"You don't understand now, Kuja......and you never will!" Zidane shouted, and red energy began to circle around him. "Friends can give you the encouragement and strenght you need when in battle! And they can even help you if you need to! And sometimes...it's just good to be around them, 'cause you know that they are your friends! That's what friends are for, Kuja, and you never understood it! Now...you took one of my BEST friends from me......PREPARE TO DIE!!!" he exploded in red energy, and his clothes ripped off. He had crimson fur on his feet, ankles, arms, chest, shoulders, and head, and his two daggers glowed blue and silver, crackling with electricity. He was now in his Trance Form, and was Trance Zidane.

 

"Hmph. Such childish arguments...from such a childish perspective......very well...it will be your requiem!" Kuja also exploded in red light. He now brandished the same, crimson-red fur around the same areas as Zidane, and his sliver spheres grew in size, and became blueish in color. He was now Trance Kuja.

 

"Everyone! Let's show them!" T. Zidane announced, and the others nodded, and charged at T. Kuja and Golbez. They leaped backwards, and Kuja lashed his hand, as several more blue spheres appeared, and were covered in electricity, as they rained down on the Final Fighters. They dodged barely as the spheres exploded on impact with the floor, and Onion Knight didn't notice it, when Golbez made his move, and swiped his robe with one arm, creating a line of electric shockfields in front of him, and the knight was hit, and sent towards the Dark Knight, who caught him in an electric storm, and almost deep-fried him, before sending him into a wall. Onion Knight crashed into it, and slided down, and Warrior of Light took over, as he pulled his blade, and clashed with Golbez's armored hand. Golbez chuckled.

 

"You really think such a pitiful attack can get to me?" he said, and as he spoke, his hands formed two, Dark Magic spheres, and pushed Warrior away with a shockwave of dark materia as they exploded in Golbez's hands. "You need to know your place, young man..." he held out his hands, and suddenly, the floors cracked, and boulders of the floor were forced up into the air, levitating around Golbez. "Take these!" he shouted, and threw the boulders at Warrior and the others. Warrior dodged by jumping to the side, while the others leaped through the barrage of stone and rubble. Tidus, with his extreme agility and reflexes, jumped onward like a salmon swimming upstreams, and brandished his Brotherhood sword, aiming it at Golbez.

 

"This is it!" he exclaimed, but then, and explosion jetted him away, as Kuja had smashed a sphere into him, and he crashed into a wall. "Or maybe not..." he said embarrassively, and stood up, only to see Kuja aiming several spheres at him. "Aw, C'mon! Gimme a break!" he exclaimed, but Kuja threw the spheres at him. "Whoah!" Tidus once again used all of his wits and skills to dodge the attacks, and this time, he had time to counter-attack, and slashed Kuja's arm, his aqua-marine blade stained red with blood. "Hah!"

 

"Y-Y-YOOOOUUUUU......" Kuja growled like a wounded animal, both his arm and pride harmed. "YOU DAMN PIG!!!! I WILL END YOU!!!" he roared, and flew upwards, preparing his ultimate attack. "TAKE THIS!!!!" he threw several spheres at Tidus, and even if he dodged as good as he could, he was caught in the blast area, bombarded with several of the spheres.

 

"TIDUS!!!" T. Zidane shouted, and looked at Kuja. "CLOUD! RED! LIFT ME UP!!" Cloud and Red XIII nodded, and rushed to T. Zidane, who jumped up, landing on the flat side of Cloud's sword, as he threw him upwards. T. Zidane flew towards T. Kuja with great velocity, but as he began to lose speed, Red XIII jumped up and grabbed his hand by his jaws, tossing him further, regaining momentum. As T. Kuja was about to finish Tidus, he was surprise-attacked by T. Zidane, who pounded him with his dagger-blades, and bounced off him. He landed on a wall, charged at T. Kuja, and attacked again, only to hop off of him, landing on another wall, and resuming the movements over and over again. He then threw himself at T. Kuja to finish him off;

 

"REVERSE GAIA!!!"

 

He spun around T. Kuja like a maelstrom of shredding blades, tearing up his skin and clothes in the progress in a blur of crimson haze. As he broke through, a great, blinding explosion occured, and T. Kuja screamed in agony and pain.

 

"GGG-GGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

As Kuja and Zidane landed, both of them were in their original forms, and Zidane slowly went up to Kuja, sitting next to him on his knees. In the meantime, Warrior and Onion Knight struggled with the Dark Knight Golbez. Warrior summoned a dozen of orange-glowing blades that charged at him, and Onion Knight turned into his Sage Mode, his knightly armour changing to a red robe with a white cloak, and a white hat. He held a golden mini-staff, and he threw at Golbez three fireballs in a grenade-looking way, which exploded violently. Golbez dodged the sword attacks, but were hit by the fire bombs, at which Onion Knight froze him with a Blizzard spell. Golbez was instantly surrounded by a Holy spell, which almost crushed him as it exploded violently.

 

"Let's finish this! NOW!" Onion Knight commanded all his higher Sage powers, and his golden staff burned with flames, as he rose it to the air. A black hole opened next to Golbez, and a huge meteor flew out of it, bombarding the Dark Knight. He was thrown to the ground, and was beaten. Onion Knight reverted to his Knight Form, and landed next to Warrior of Light, who held his blade at Golbez's throat.

 

"It's over..." he said simply.

 

"Kuja..." Zidane sighed, as he and Kuja glared at each other with the gaze of the enemies. "If only you had learned..."

 

"LEARNED WHAT??!! G-Gagh!" Kuja shouted, but gagged up blood. "FRIENDS......ARE USELESS! EVEN YOU WILL......learn this.........in the end...u-uuuggghhhhhhh............." with a last breat, Kuja's life was snuffed out, and Zidane silently prayed for Kuja a better afterlife.

 

"Let's just hope he......finds friends in the life after this..." he sighed, and stood up, picking up his crimson dagger-blades. HE turned to the others. "Fighters......I-I just wanted to say that...that, even if Kuja was...a 'bad guy'...he never deserved this to end liks this..."

 

"WHAT?!" Tidus shouted. "You gotta be kiddin-OW!" he was elbowed by Cloud, and remained silent.

 

"Even if Kuja was evil in this life...doesn't mean that he won't have time to redeem himself, you know? I just wanted...to help him. You don't need a reason to help people...but for some reason, you do. And that reason, is love. I...I always wanted to love Kuja, as a friend. But his dark mind possessed him with the thought that friends are useless. Well, this day, we proved him wrong! And......And I pity Kuja, really. He...never got to know what it's like...to have friends among him. He just thought, that power was all. But what is power...if you can't share it with someone else? That's what friends are for. They give you strenght when you need it, they are there for you when you need them the most, and they love you, because you're their friend too. That's what I tried to tell Kuja, but in the end...he had to be struck down. Well...there's not really much more for me to say, so let's go, and let the Power of Friendship guide us..." everyone nodded, and leaved the room. Zidane looked back at Kuja's and Golbez's bodies, and sighed.

 

"I pity you, really......" he whispered for himself, before catching up with the others.

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Chapter 30: The Final Battle][align=center]Chapter 30: The Final Battle

 

Mileena was dead still. She looked down at her chest, and saw the black pincer, pierced through her chest cavity. She gagged up blood, and held around her bleeding chest. Behind her, Daemonus stood weakily upwards, holding the pincer through her. He had......won?

 

"H-Hehehehehe......hehahahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! YES!!! AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, MY FAILED PRODIGY IS DEAD!! NOW, YOU WILL SUFFER AS I DID, A LONG TIME AGO!!!!" he shouted menially and triumphantly. Mileena was now on the verge of death. She had never, ever, thought it would ned like this. Not now! They were so close!

 

"Why..." she thought, coughing up blood. "Why does everything I do......fail?" she looked down, and darkness covered her eyes. "No......not now......everyone...we were......so close...w-we can't fail now!! Everyone......p-please...d-don't...give up......" she felt her mind fade away, and her breathing stopped. She fell into darkness, but then, light shined in her mind, and she was transported somewhere......between space and time...

 

=Flashback=

 

Mileena was standing outside a pretty large house. She was dressed in her usual dress with red feathers on the trims, its crimson, dark-red colors shimmering in the sun. Her long, red hair was waving in the breezes, and she had crimson lipstick on her lips. This was a special day indeed, as today was the day that the elections of heroes were underway. On her other side was something that looked like an anthropomorphic jackal with blue and black fur, except its chest area, where it was créme-colored and ruffled. It had two iron spikes on its hands, and one protruding from its chest. Its pointy ears and black dreads laid a bit back, and its red eyes were concerned.

 

"What's the matter, Lucario? Gonna chicken out?" Mileena teased the creature, named Lucario. Lucario looked at Mileena, and had a sly grin on his face.

 

"I was about to ask you the same, Mileena!" he chuckled. His voice seemed to be telepathical, and he didn't move his lips as he spoke. He was using an ability called Aura Speech, letting him communicate with something called his 'Aura', which was a people's thoughts and emotions.

 

"Hehe! You're always such a joker, Lucario!" Mileena punched him playfully, and Lucario sniggered a bit, pushing Mileena back.

 

"Hahaha, I sure am! Now, good luck on forming The Union of Justice!" he said, and held out his paw. Mileena smiled, and took his paw, shaking it.

 

"And good luck to you forming the Heroic Legion!" she replied. The heroes were many, and it was tough decitions for both of the Team Leaders, but finally, they had decided. Lucario's team consisted of a man with an orange training suit with a blue shirt underneath, blue boots and black, spiky hair, called Goku. Another man had blond hair, black clothings and leather torso, black jeans and leather boots, and a gargantuan claymore-looking blade, called Cloud Strife. Two ninjas were with him too, one with an orange overall, yellow hair and whisker-looking marks on his cheeks, and the other with a blue T-shirt, white tube-clothings on his wrists, and beige shorts, who were called Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto. The strangest members, though, were two anthropomorphic hedgehogs and a two-tailed fox. The hedgehogs looked very similar in body shape, except that one was blue, and the other black with red hairstripes. The fox was orange with white chest fur. They were called Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehogs, and Miles 'Tails' Prower. And next to the team now known as 'The Heroic Legion', stood The Union of Justice; Rika Nonaka & Renamon, Harry Potter, Ronald 'Ron' Weasley, Benjamin 'Ben 10' Tennyson, and Rock Lee.

 

"W-Wha?! No one said that I were supposed to join!!" Ron stuttered, coward as he was. Rock Lee just smiled at him.

 

"You just have to raise your head high and be proud to be in a group of heroes!" he said proudly.

 

"Hmph...look at him...so welled up with pride..." Renamon muttered, but was bobbed in the head by Rika.

 

"Don't say that, Renamon! I think he looks cute..." Rika said firmly first, but was reduced to giggling as she stared at Lee.

 

"Ugh......girls..." Ben groaned.

 

"Let's just hope we can do this world good." Harry stated, seeming to be the only normal one. And with that, the two hero groups separated, as The Heroic Legion, and Union of Justice...

 

=End Flashback=

 

The darkness around Mileena's eyes shattered, revealing a bright fire in her eyes. This one wasn't fueled by rage and destruction, though...but of passion...friendship...and all warm feelings she had. She felt the fire surround Daemonus's pincer, and he shouted in agony as he ripped it out of her, feeling the fire burn and scar it.

 

"D-Damn it!!! W-What's happening with her?!?!" he shouted. "T-This is n-WHAT?!?!" he now saw Mileena. Her body was beginning to burn, and her dress was easily incinerated and turned to ashes. Her body was licked by flames, though they didn't hurt her, and she was in trance once again.

 

"Daemonus!" a male voice suddenly spoke up, and Daemonus was intimidated. That voice...he remembered it as it was yesterday! But...it was not possible! The voice spoke again; "Your wretched scheme is over, Daemonus, for this girl has unlocked my TRUE potential! Not as a heartless, abominal monster, but as a good-hearted, protective spirit that roams the lands of men, protecting and comforting humans! You have abused my powers long enough, twisted demon, and now, you will suffer the price of such foolish ignorance!"

 

"N-NO!! IT CAN'T BE!! YOU CAN'T BE RELEASED!!" Daemonus roared in rage. "CURSE YOU! HELIOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

"Mileena, listen to me..." Helios's voice was heard in Mileena's heart, and she went out of her trance, nodding slowly. "Your good heart and spirit...and the will to protect your friends to the bitter end......I thank you for those abilities...for it was that which was able to cure my corroded spirit, and let me free. I cannot thank you enough, Mileena Sakuretso...and to show you my appreciation...I will grant you one wish...no matter what it may be..." Mileena's gaze shined up in gladness. One wish! And it was anything she wanted! She knew exactly what to do with it, but she wanted to save it for later. She turned to Daemonus.

 

"Daemonus! Now, with Helios; The Phoenix King on my side, I am no longer afraid of you! You may have created me, but I am your pawn no longer! I will stand my ground and be strong on this day! No more pain! No more sorrow......caused by me. My friends......my friends have shown me another path, Daemonus! They...are the true heroes. They helped me understand the errors of your actions, and I listened to them, with all my heart. I thank you all, from the deep of my heart, which has been locked away for so many years...yes...by your darkness, Daemonus! But I won't linger in darkness anymore, for my friends have shined the light on my true path! I...I-I can't...thank you all...enough as it is..." she stood there, and smiled a bit. She thought about her friends;

 

"Hehe......Rock Lee...I thank you, for your pride and greatness in battle. You always had faith in me, not only as your leader, but as a friend and protector. You never let your guard down if any of our members were in peril, and always fought with your best to defend them. So for that......I thank you.........and Harry...I know that...you knew that there were something special between us, didn't you? I mean, I know that...when we had a girl's night out...you slipped some Veritaserum in my drink before we left...so, I must probably have told the other girls about my affection for you....well...now, I may not be able to...but sometime...I will tell you...how much I love you......Ronald...you, hehe, always said you were the most cowardly person to walk the face of the planet...I don't think so! You were always standing up for your friends, may it have been a dangerous beast, or just a regular problem like a kite stuck in a tree...you were always there to help, and that...is true courage...to stand up to your friends, and help them. I thank you for your courage......Ben...you may be young, but your words against Kefka...they were true and just...and that means you're actually growing up, you know! I don't think you're so young anymore...you just don't know how much you're capable of yet, besides the Omnitrix! And...Rika, Renamon......you two are the most pure-hearted persons I've ever met...for even if you argued with each other back and forth...you were always forgiving each other in the end...and that's also a sign of true friendship!" She opened her eyes, and the fire-wings on her back flared up.

 

"Everyone! I thank you for all this, and so much more! Cause now...I may face my foe, with no darkness or doubt in my heart!" she now watched at Daemonus, who was suddenly just glaring into the floor, and suddenly, laughed!

 

"Hmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmmmmmmm.........Hehahahahahahahahahahaha! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Foolish...girl! You have any IDEA of how much I've waited for this moment?! HUH?! For ten-thousands of years...I've been in slumber in my grave...plotting...scheming...and waiting...for your return..." he pointed at her wings. "Helios! You, who cursed me with eternal life, and gave me the punishment of an act that even the GODS could not do! I...I should be a God...but no...they denied me my satisfaction...and I shall forever live in their shadows. Choking...corroding of their gluttonish powers and greedish acts. Ther are an many humans that had wanted to be gods......some of them may have deserved it...some not. But I...I was the ONLY one that FULLY deserved it!!! I WAS THE ONE TO BE WORSHIPPED, BUT THE HEATHEN GODS THREW THEIR ANGER AT MY REBELLISH ACTS, AND BANISHED ME INTO THE EARTH! Heheheheheeeeeee...............but today...they will be shown their grave mistake......OF BANISHING...GARGA-DAEMONUS!!!"

 

"G-Garga-Daemonus?!" Mileena gasped. Suddenly, the entire castle shook violently, and far away from her position, Orochimaru, Kabuto, D. Renamon, and Malfoy were warped out of the castle, back to their respective dimensions. The walls, the floors, everything began to twist and turn, and Daemonus just stood still, grinning into thin air.

 

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! FOOLISH MORTAL GIRL!!! HAVE YOU NOT REALISED MY DISGUISE, DURING ALL THESE YEARS?!?!?!" a loud, corrupted voice roared and laughed. "I AM THE TRUE FACE OF EVIL INCARNATE, THE ONE, AND ONLY, TO HAVE EVER SEEN THE FACE OF DEATH AND LIVED TO FOREVER TELL THE TALE, THE ONE THAT WALKED THE BORDERS OF DEATH AND LIFE ALONE FOR ALL ETERNITY, AND SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE, TO OBLITERATE THAT BORDER!!!!!!"

 

"B-But...WHAT...are you?!" stuttered Mileena, her fire seemingly fading because of fear of the unknown. The loud voice cackled at this.

 

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! FOOL! YOU CAN'T TRULY UNDERSTAND THE MAGNIFICENCE THAT IS.........GARGA-DAEMONUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" it roared, and the walls began to crumble. "YOU AND YOUR 'FRIENDS' WILL DIE BY MY HAND, AND BE BANISHED INTO THE ETERNAL PUNISHMENT OF IMMORTALITY AND DESPAIR, FOREVER WANDERING THE DECAYING EARTH AND DEAD COSMOS, AND FOREVER LINGER IN IT, UNTIL YOUR FRAIL, FEEBLE, AND INSIGNIFICANT MINDS SUCCUMB TO THE MADNESS OF YOURSELF, AND KILLS YOU IN THE PROCESS!!! YOU WILL ALL DIE!!!!"

 

"But...WHERE ARE YOU?! Show yourself, Garga-Daemonus!"

 

"HEHEHEHEHEHEEEEEEEE.........BUT HAVEN'T YOU REALISED YET? BAH! FOOLISH WOMAN! ALL THIS TIME...YOU WALKED INSIDE MY VEINS...BATTLED INSIDE MY ORGANS...SMASHING AND DAMAGING MY TISSUE FROM THE INSIDE...BREAKING MY BONES......." Garga mused. Mileena was pale as a ghost. "YES......DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW?!? THIS VERY CASTLE...EVERY WINDOW, EVERY PILLAR, EVERY ROCK, EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF GRAVEL AND FLOOR TILES......ARE ME!!!!!"

 

"B-But...no! It can't be! You were not this great!!"

 

"AAH, BUT YOU SEE, IMMORTALITY HAD ITS BENEFITS FOR A DEMON LIKE ME......" Garga explained. "A DEMON NEVER CEASES TO GROW IN NEITHER SIZE, NOR POWER. AS I REMAINED IMMORTAL, MY BODY AND POWER GREW, TO THE POINT THAT I WOULD ACTUALLY FEAR THAT I WOULD BURST. BUT THEN, I USED A SPELL THAT ALTERED MY APPEARANCE, AND FORMED ME INTO THIS MASSIVE FORTRESS! ANOTHER SPELL I CAST WAS TO HARMLESSLY REMOVE THE CORE OF MY BODY, FORMING IT TO THE MAN YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW!!!"

 

Suddenly, it his Mileena like a ton of bricks; Daemonus was actually Garga's CORE! For all this time, the source of Garga's power has roamed as free as Garga did, and because of his demonhood, Daemonus had grown more powerful too, but not in size, apparently. But still, how was it possible?!

 

"G-Garga! Y-You just can't! You defy the logics, even of your own race!!"

 

"BUT I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN...UNIQUE!! NO ONE OF THE DEMONS EVER BELIEVED ME, BUT I SHOWED THEM!! I AM NOW THE MOST POWERFUL DEMON TO EVER WALK THE EARTH!!! AND NOW, I WILL USE MY SUPREME POWERS...TO OBLITERATE THIS PESKY BALL OF MUD!!!!!" the castle shook even more violent, and Daemonus's body deformed into premature ooze of purple energy, and melted into the floor. Mileena, who knew that it was better to flee in this moment, took flight and flew to the exit with her Phoenix Wings. In the same moment, The Final Fighters entered the room.

 

"MILEENA!! WE GOTTA BUST OUTTA HERE!!" Tidus shouted, and indicated the walls. "THIS WHOLE PLACE IS FALLING APART!!"

 

"I hear you!!" Mileena said, and grabbed hold of the fighters, her unconscious friends, and flied out...

 

=Later=

 

As all of them were outside, they saw the castle crumble and deform into ooze, changing form. The towers and pillars became bony outgrowths and horns, protruding all over the massive blob of dark materia, and became razorsharp. Two massive lumps of ooze smashed out in a splatter of dark materia and blood, and became arms, and a long blob on the rear shaped into a tail. The being opened up not only two, but almost one-hundred eyes all over the front of its massive body, which now estimated a height on three-hundred feet and a lenght of two-hundred feet, all of them gleaming purple and black. A giant mouth, about one-hundred feet wide, opened up, revealing up to ten-thousand double rows of razorsharp teeth inside, and a purple, slimy tongue, filled with sharp barbs. The entire creature was made of ooze and flesh, and radiated a purple glow. Its giant mouth grinned at Mileena and the Final Fighters.

 

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!! AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, MY TRUE FORM IS SHOWN AGAIN!!! IT HAS BEEN TEN THOUSAND YEARS SICE I USED THIS FORM, BUT I AM STILL IN FULL CONTROL OF IT!!!!!!!" it laughed so loud, that the entire world shook at its words. "NOW, YOU WILL FEEL THE WRATH......OF GARGA-DAEMONUS!!!!"

 

"Guys! I think you should get the hell outta here!!" Mileena shouted to Warrior and the others, and blazed up her Phoenix Wings, flying upwards the great demon's body, until she reached its grotesque face. She fired off a giant fireball, and hit about twelve of its eyes at once. Garga growled furiously, and its giant tail whipped around, slapping Mileena into the ground. She recovered in an instant before hitting the ground, hovering above it. She glared back at the Final Fighters. "GO!" she roared.

 

"Ok, ok! I'm fine with it! That thing's a monster!" Tidus said hastily, as the Fighters turned around, and ran away. Garga noticed this however, and from its mouth emerged thousands of slime tentacles, trashing and stretching after the warriors. Mileena came to the rescue, and with a blade made of fire, she slashed one tentacle after the other, until all of them fell to the ground, wriggling like dying serpents, until they stopped, and vaporized into steam, which flowed into Garga's body. Mileena fired multiple fireballs in a rapid stream, bombarding Garga's massive body. He didn't even flinch, as the fire hit his body, and a tentacle emerged from his forehead, ensnaring Mileena in its slime, and smashed her to the ground. She felt the tentacle almost crush her, but a fire aura emerged from her body, frying the part of the tentacle that held her down, and she once again raced towards Garga.

 

"Garga! I won't be beaten by you!" Mileena stated. She charged up a massive fireball in her palms, and raced upwards. Garga saw her ascend, and roared loudly. His skin began to boil like hot wax, and the bubbles grew bigger every time they popped. Suddenly, some of the bubbles were huge, and took longer time to burst. As one of them did so, a beam of dark energy emerged, and landed on the ground. The beam sliced across the country, tearing up trees with the roots, disintegrating rocks and mountains, and finally disappeared, after having sliced up half of the landscape. "Oh no..." Mileena managed to gasp, before even more bubbles of the same size erupted on Garga's hide, and about twenty beams emerged, landed, and sliced the earth. Mileena had to fly left and right to dodge the attacks, but then, one of the beams sliced her fire wing, and she crashed into the ground. Mileena stood up, seeing the sliced-up Earth, before the entire Earth began to quake and shake. Suddenly, a large portion of it tore right off the Earth and began to slowly levitate into the sky, as a purple forcefield was seen. Mileena looked up, shocked to death as she saw Garga charge some kind of spell around him, forming it into a vortex-looking forcefield of energy. She knew what he was doing; Garga was planning to charge all his magical energy into one single attack, making it large enough to detonate the entire Solar System. She stood up, feeling her locks of red-crimson hair flutter slightly by the centrifugal power surge, but her confidence was made up. She had to stop him. Nodding, her entire body blazed up in flames, forming the Phoenix again as she took off, leaving a burning trail of flames behind her. As she reached the outer barrier, she felt the force almost tearing her apart. "A-AAAHHH!!! T-The force...so powerful magics!"

 

"BWAHAHAHAHA!!! OF COURSE!! THIS MAGICAL RITUAL IS BUT THE SECOND STEP IN RUINING THE EARTH!! THE FIRST WAS TO DISLOCATE ALL THE CONTINENTAL PLATFORMS IN THE EARTH'S MANTLE, RIPPING IT APART FROM WITHIN, AND THE SECOND IS TO REMOVE THE PLATES WITH THIS SPELL OF MINE!! THEN, THE THIRD AND FINAL STEP...IS FOR ME TO FIRE A LASER BEAM STRAIGHT INTO THIS PLANET'S CORE, UTTERLY DESTROYING IT IN A EXPLOSION OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE!" at this last uttering, a huge piece of the planet was torn off, and the molten inners of the earth was visible, boiling and smoldering magma running like blood in veins. "NOW FOR THIS PLANET TO DIE!!!" Mileena knew this was now or never. The final power measure. Winner takes all.

 

"GARGA! I WON'T ALLOW YOU TO DESTROY THIS PLANET!" she shouted, and her flames went high into the air in anger and pride. She roared off through the rippling force of magic, her clothes being torn to shreds and her body burning with not only flames, but pain as well. She did her best to ignore this, and pressed on until she was below Garga, who had been floating upwards this whole time, and was now in the atmosphere of the Earth, as the skies darkened and thunder rolled across the clouds.

 

 

"THIS IS IT!!! NOW THIS WHOLE PLANET WILL DIE, AND MY REQUIEM WILL BE COMPLETE!!!" Garga roared triumphantly, and a large sphere formed underneath him. Mileena flew right under the sphere, and took her palms forward, charging a fire blast to repel the attack. She didn't know if it would be enough...but it had to do for now. She would find a better way to repel this massive attack, but now, she didn't know. Fear was pulsing through her body for each rumble of lightning, and for each pulse of magic that ripped her muscles to their limits as they forced her to stand firm. But then, she saw the sphere shrink, and knew the Hell was about to start. "DIE, PHOENIX!! DIE, ALONG WITH THIS USELESS PLANET!!!" then, a gigantic violet-colored beam was unleashed down upon Mileena and the Earth below, but something forced the beam to scatter like an umbrella, missing the planet. It was Mileena. Her fire beam somehow kept the energy blast at bay, but her strenght was vaining slightly. She could not hold out enough, and knew that this was the end, no matter what end it would be. She would fade. And die. Maybe death would be swift for her. But then again, it would be eternal and painful if she miscalculated. As she was about to give up, she heard a voice;

 

"Mileena! Don't give up!" the voice was familiar, and in a moment, a shadow of Harry was near Mileena, shaded in a opal blue.

 

"H-Harry?" Mileena said, thinking she was hallucinating. But he smiled at her, and held her hand, as to support her.

 

"Don't give up, Mileena. This is what you been fighting for; to protect the Earth, right? Well, we won't let you down, even if we're knocked out. We will still aid you." his voice was calming for Mileena, and she smiled at him. Then, the others arrived, also in spirits. Ben, who was in a sapphire green color. Ron, his spirits flaming with fiery orange. Renamon, who was gleaming in a golden hue. Rika, her colours being cyan and pink. Kakashi, his dark blue and red spirit shining dimly. Everyone held Mileena's hand, smiling at her, and cheering her on;

 

"We won't fail you, Mileena!"

 

"We will go with you to the end!"

 

"No matter what, the Union will prevail!"

 

"Go for it, Boss!"

 

"You can do it, Mileena!"

 

After all this cheering, Mileena shed a tear, actually. "Thank you...all of you..." she said yet again. "But, you know...there is somwthing I have to do to defeat him...I-I have to sacrifice my soul. You see...Helios can't stop this by himself. He needs all the powers he can get...even my powers. So, to defeat Garga-Daemonus, I will lend him my soul, and in that way, his powers will be stronger, and he may defeat this ancient Demon. But, that will also lead to......my own death, eventually. Since no one can exist without a soul, I will cease to be..." one of the spirits held her shoulder. It was Harry, yet again.

 

"Don't be afraid, Mileena." he said, smiling. He held his spectral arms around Mileena, who imitated to hold around him in return. "It will be ok, I promise. Even if you die...you will be in our hearts forever. And especially mine...for...I love you..." Mileena's eyes were more watered with tears, and she smiled faintly.

 

"I love you too...Harry Potter..." she whispered back. After one last gaze upon him, he and the others faded, letting Mileena prepare for the final sacrifice. "Everyone......Ben...Rika...Renamon...Ronald...Harry.........Lee...this is my...last farewell. Goodbye...forever..."

 

And with that, her last breath was spent. Her body incinerated into sparks of golden, red, and white, as her spirit was merged with the flaming bird that was emerging from her body. Made purely of flames and spiritual energies, the Phoenix Helios was now fully summoned, and he let out a deafening war screech to signal his rebirth. Garga was of course surprised of this new development, but not more concerned about the situation. He would win, end of discussion. To unleash all he had in a more devastating attack, his core, which was the so-called Daemonus, emerged on the tip of the monstous Garga's chin, his arms stretched out towards the Phoenix and the Earth.

 

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I HAVE SPENT TO MUCH TIME WANDERING THE EARTH TO SEE MY PLAN FAIL JUST NOW!!! I WILL NEVER SURRENDER!!! NEVEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIE, PHOENIX BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!"

 

With those words, the beam was now powered up and increased fifty times in size, which was about twenty times as big as the fireblast Mileena had conjured earlier. Helios was now the one in Mileena's place, and he screeched loudly once again, his fire beam growing up to sixty times its original size. As a result, Garga's blast was held at bay once more, but slowly advancing. Helios nodded to himself, and was in an instant covered in the flames of his own beam, instantly diving straight into it and going into a collision course with Garga.

 

"W-WHAT?!?! WHAT'S THIS?!?!?! WHAT IS HE TRYING TO DO?!?!?!?!" the Phoenix didn't pay heed to Garga's pleadings, but instead, he collided with the massive demon's body, ramming it at full force. A screech was heard, but this one was from Garga, as he lamented and screeched his pain out.

 

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! THIS CAN'T BEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WAS THE SUPREME BEING THAT RULED THIS UNIVERSE! I WAS SUPPOSE TO BE THE IMMORTAL CONQUEROR OF DIMENSIONS, EVEN WORLDS!!!!!! I AM IMMORTAL!!! THIS CAN'T HAPPEN TO MMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

With a final roar, Garga was no more, and the Phoenix let out a screech as it dissolved into ash once more, spreading all over the Earth.

 

~~~~~~~~~~

 

"Now, Mileena...it's time for your wish..."

 

Mileena opened her eyes. She was in a place where everything was white. She was standing up, and in front of her was a Phoenix Egg, its shell colored orange and golden.

 

"W-What is this?" she asked. "A-Am I not dead?"

 

"You are dead, Mileena Sakuretso..." the voice said. It seemed to come from the egg. "But you were promised a wish from me, no matter what it may be. You helped me lift my darkness, and for that, I am forever grateful. However...I do only have the power of one wish at this point. Garga did unluckily drain me of all my strenght, and as such, I cannot grant you more..." Mileena understood, and thought;

 

"One wish? I could have whatever I want with it. Maybe..." she kept thinking, most of her thoughts being about Rock Lee and Rika. Maybe, if she wished him back, Rika would be happy again. But then again, the Earth was torn in pieces, and beyond repair. She kept thinking for awhile, and then, turned to the egg.

 

"Helios..." she said confidently and determined. "I have made my mind up. And...I wish for the Earth...to be restored once again, so my friends can live in peace once again. I want the people on Earth...to know that I still care about them...even if they did not like me, I liked them. And that's all I wish for, Helios; to let people that still live have the ability to live on, and prosper."

 

"There are lot of wisdom in your words, Mileena. Very well, it will be so..."

 

To be continued...[/align]

 

 

[spoiler=Epilogue: Saying Farewell][align=center]Epilogue: Saying Farewell

 

Life.

 

It is a common thing, they say.

 

But for some people, it is a gift.

 

A gift that is rarely granted to some that need it.

 

Why is not life granted to those that need it?

 

Why is life only granted to those that seem 'worthy' enough?

 

They say, that when a person is born, he or she is granted a task in life. A task that, no matter how late the person discovers it, will be fulfilled before he or she dies. This task may be easy for some, but for others, it is the most difficult choice in life to follow his or her task, or do as he or she wish to do. Some persons say that when you strive away from your task, to only search for greater things than your task, you do horrible things.

 

I believe that I never strayed from my task. I believe I followed it as I should have done;

 

My task was simply to bring understanding and knowledge to the people of the Earth. Understanding about life, and the knowledge to take care of those lifes that can still be saved. I feel that one day, my task will finally be done. All it needs is time, care, and love toward others. I may not have been saved as many lives now will be, but I stood strong, and never fell to my sorrow.

 

So, you asked again; "Why is not life granted to those that need it?"

 

Well, I believe that everyone has a life granted.

 

You just need the will and strenght to live it. And a helping hand to guide you through your life.

 

~~~~~~~~~~6 years later~~~~~~~~~~

 

The Union of Justice's HQ was now located somewhere in Berlin, Germany, right on a sunny field of grass and flowers, with one of them classy windmills in the background. Everything was serene silence, and for some reason, there was a smooth breeze in the wind, waving the grass in one direction, then settling to let it stray back to another direction. On one of the balconies of the building, which was disguised as a regular two-stories house, Rika sat on a couch, looking at the sunset. The sun was casting its crimson rays over the field, coloring it in its orange/red light, while the skies were torn in a struggle of yellow and pink. It was surely a breathtaking view, and for some reason, Rika did not want to see it alone.

 

"Rika?"

 

Startled by the voice, she turned around. Behind her, next to the balcony door, a teenage boy was leaning to the doorframe. He was dressed in a green jacket with white trims on the sleeves, bottom, and around the pockets. Under this, he wore a black T-shirt with a typhical 'teenage band'-logo imprinted, with the letters 'Iron Maiden' on the top of the logo. He wore blue jeans, which were kinda worn out, and white sneakers with loose laces. His face was lit up with a warming smile, and under his ruffled, chestnut-brown hair, was a pair of emerald green eyes. Rika was immidiently aware of who it was, and returned a nervous smile.

 

"Don't scare me like that, Ben..." she timidly said. Rika, now being in her late 19s, had changer her dressing style completely;

 

She was now dressed in a pair of white shorts with red rose pictures on each side, and with her Digivice hanging from a chain in her right pocket, along with a small, stuffed Renamon keychain-toy. She only wore a purple linen, letting her slender and beautiful arms be visible. Her hair was not strapped up as it used to be, but was loosely hanging from her scalp, covering those beautiful blue eyes of hers. Ben chuckled nervously, and went up to the balcony fence.

 

"Heh, s'ry..." he apologized rather quickly. "It's just that you haven't been with the others lately. You are just spendin' time up here most of the time. And to be honest......I'm sorta worried...about you." as she heard this come from a guy like Ben, Rika's cheeks instantly flared up in a pink hue. Even if Ben was in his 16s now, that miscievous side of him has not vained a bit. But to hear him be so honest like this. Rika could not believe what she had heard, and in the same time, she was deeply flattered.

 

"W-W-Worried?" she repeated, but her words failed her as she half-stammered them, her throat suddenly feeling incredibly dry. Ben cast a glance towards Rika, nodded, and returned to look at the sunset.

 

"Yeah, sorta." he explained; "During these six years, after that Garga dude was beaten, we just seemed to be...shocked. I mean, we lost our boss and Lee. That was surely a hard blow for us all. But for you...it seemed to be the hardest. I mean, it's not like we didn't know about your affection to him, but still. You were so depressed after that." Rika got up and walked up to Ben, leaning to the fence as well, giving him a confused look. "Well, we sorta realised it. The way you just shrugged at questions sometimes, you barely ate with us in the dining hall and ate on your room instead, and how you looked kinda...sad. You always had your head down, like this!" Ben chuckled, and imitated someone who looked really depressed by hanging his head down as low as he could. Somewhat amused, Rika could not help but to giggle slightly, but sighed shortly after and looked towards the setting sun.

 

"You know, Ben..." she said, and Ben lifted his head up, looking at Rika. "The reason I was kinda depressed...was because of my loss. You know, when Lee died and all...it felt like I lost everything I had. I was all alone...and no one was at my side..." she turned her head towards Ben, and he was in deep shock as he saw her eyes being watered with tears. "It was...awful to experience that, Ben...I never want to go back there..." she pleaded, and shortly after, a tear fell from her eye, and landed on the wooden floor of the balcony. Ben, who was now desperate to try and make Rika feel better, went up to her, and gently held her shoulder with his right hand while lifting her head with his left hand on her chin, feeling her soft skin against his hand. He gave her a confident smile as he gently wiped off the tears around her eyes.

 

"Rika...you are never alone. You got Renamon, remember! She is depending on you! She's your partner, you know? And you got me, Harry, Ron, and now that ol' man Kakashi is with us. There's more than you think, Rika, and I think that you're kinda thinking we don't care about you. Well, that's wrong! There is someone...who care about you...alot..." at these words, even Ben's confident voice faltered, and he looked away from Rika, slightly blushing. Rika looked at Ben, and was now quizzed a bit. Who could it be that cared about her? Then, it suddenly hit her mind, and she used her right hand to make Ben look back at her.

 

"Ben...is it...you that care about me so much?" she asked. Ben nodded, and Rika blushed even more as she received her answer in form of Ben's nodding. "B-Ben, I...I had no idea. All I knew was that you liked to play pranks on me all the time when you were like, ten years old."

 

"Well, that was when I wan TEN, right?" Ben smiled again, chuckling nervously. "Besides...I think I finally fulfilled my promise to Grandpa Max; To grow up, and be more mature. I feel that, with you always yelling and hitting me for making jokes, and when that clown-god almost beat us up...I felt stronger. More grown up. I felt that I could take a beating, and that I had strenght to protect myself and others. So I guess I have to...thank you, Rika." Ben and Rika were both blushing, and then, they slipped their hands off each other.

 

"Ahem...so...what to do now?" asked Rika, completely out of ideas. Ben was about to suggest something, but then, a faint boom was heard downstairs as Harry and Ron were thrown out the windows, their faces all black with ash and smoke, and they coughed like crazy.

 

"Erm, sorry! Just a kitchen mishap!" Ron said nervously, scratching his head. "Dinner will be sorta...delayed..." Ben sighed, and just grabbed his phone.

 

"You wanna go for some take-out?" Ben asked simply, dialing a number on his phone. Rika giggled slightly.

 

"Sure, I don't mind it. Anything than a delayed dinner! I am starving!" she said, and smiled at Ben, as he called a nearby China Restaurant.

 

~~~~~~~~~~

 

After a few hours of Harry and Ron arguing of who's idea it was to use the Incendio spell near a gas oven, and Kakashi trying to beat some sense into the two youngsters, Ben and Rika were in the safety of Rika's bedroom, just sitting on her bed eating some porkchops & noodles. Her room hadn't changed much during these years, more than the fact that it was in a totally new house. But there was a small memorial picture of Rock Lee on her bedside cupboard. She and Ben, however, had too much fun to notice the picture, as they were chatting and laughing about how much fun they had during their time in the Union. And it sure was alot to find out for both of them;

 

Ben had always thought that Rika was a cold, heartless b!tch since he met her, beating people up and asking questions later. But now, it turned out she was quite funny, and loved how she laughed at his funny imitations of the other team members. He was careful not to imitate Lee, seeing that Rika could be upset. And she was so more positive than Ben had expected her to be. In fact, she was almost radiating her happiness, laughing and giggling all at once. She was truly a joyful person.

 

And Rika had always thought that Ben was just some unmannered brat that always made jokes on people and didn't care about how it affected them. Quite the opposite, Ben proved to be a caring person, and he even apologized for the jokes he had pulled on Rika and Renamon during the past years. All of them. And he was always so happy, she thought. Nothing could ever bring him down, whether it was her chasing him with a frying pan, or Kefka's God Form standing in front of his face. He was brave and caring.

 

"So, erm..." Ben cleared his throat a bit, and put his plate on a table near the bed. "Well, I guess this means that we will be alot more bored until a threat shows up, eh? I mean, if Vilgax or someone shows up, not a big deal. We'll beat Squidface to a pulp before he knows what hit him!" he said confidently.

 

"Yeah, I guess we will be...alot more bored..." Rika said, and laid down on her bed, her hair flopping over her eyes. Ben smiled warmly at her, and bent over to her, helping her to slide the hair from her face, and looking into her glittering blue eyes. She smiled as Ben's green eyes sparkled at her face.

 

"I don't want you to hide those beautiful eyes..." Ben said, and laid beside Rika, looking at her. She turned and laid on her side, facing Ben and looking at him with a warm smile.

 

"I won't...as long as you don't hide your eyes, Ben..." she replied. Without them knowing it, both of them were moving closer to each other, and soon, their hands held each others faces, stroking them. Both smiled, and knew what the other was going to do as Rika moved even closer to Ben.

 

"Ben..."

 

"Rika..."

 

Their eyes were locked in a moment of passion and romance, and as Rika moved her head to Ben, they both said the three magical words;

 

"I love you..."

 

And with that, their lips locked, and they shared their first passionate kiss. Ben, a little clumsy from lack of experience, made up for the poor kissing by stroking Rika's cheek and neck softly with his hands. Rika, who had done this before, coiled her tounge around Ben's inside his mouth, showing him what to do as she made her tounge dance around with Ben's. Ben soon understood what he was suppose to do, moaning as he made his tounge dance an intricate dance with Rika's, and both of them were not holding each other by their waists, rubbing and kissing each other. After about what seemed like an hour - but only lasted five minutes - both of them broke the kiss to catch their breath, and a small string of saliva connected them still until it grew thinner and thinner, then snapped. Rika cuddled up to Ben, smiling as she soon fell asleep. Ben just smiled at her innocent face, and had his fingers slip through her red hair, playing with a strand of it between his middle and index finger. He gave her a kiss on the cheek, then fell asleep next to her, holding her tightly.

 

That night, two stars were shining brighter than ever at the skies, indicating the unison of not only the Union's fine members, but two hearts that joined in a never-ending bond of love.[/align]

 

[fenrir]

I put in Ishida from Bleach, and Kankuro from Naruto.

 

=D

[Fallen Hero]

ok then can i have kakashi appear i like him

 

by the way you should see it you might like it

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Ok! I think I will add the old man soon! Kakashi Sensei FTW!

 

UPDATE: Added a Character Suggestion Form in the first post!

 

EDIT: Fenrir, I will research on Ishida, and I WILL add Kankuro!

[fenrir]

Kay'.

 

Kankuro has to be bad guy, to help his bro out =O

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Yup! Sand Ninjas gotta stick together!

[fenrir]

Not just because their Sand Ninjas, they ARE brothers.

 

You have to make him badass with his puppets, he IS my favorite Naruto character.

 

=o

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Added Kakashi and Kankuro to the Char Register.

[fenrir]

Hell yea.

[Silent Omega]

I will suggest a character soon, BTW..the fanfic at the other site again?