At a point we may as well rename this place to r/ShinobuvsTengen
To further this, if we complete this, ill donate £20 to a charity of whatever the top comment is on my post in 5 days time
Obanai, probably my favourite male anime character (with the sole exception of Satoru Gojo of course) I love his writing and the idea of him not feeling pure or worthy to marry someone pure like Mitsuri, I also love Kabumaru and snakes in general, he is also just incredibly cool, my only gripe is that unfortunately mitsuri was sidelined for him
Giyuu, survivors guilt is my favourite trait a character can have and something i feel passionately about and Giyuu is an incredible example of it, not to mention he turned what could have been a boring breathing style into something incredible, dead calm is cool, his design is cool, and is character arc is one of my favourites
Rengoku, I feel I don't have to say much, incredible speech, incredible dude to look up to.
Shinobu, probably the 2nd best written woman in KNY, she's really bad ass especially in doumas death scene
Sanemi, I have warmed up to him a lot recently, im pretty much totally indifferent to him now.
Muichiro, he did start as my favourite hashira but fell off over time, mist breathing cool but he wasnt the best example of a prodigy.
Mitsuri, Hoed by the author, could've been one of the best written women in anime, ended up annoying fanservice if she continued on her path of growth from ssva shed be higher.
Gyomei, genuinely one of the worst examples of the strongest, the fact there is debate at all proves it, he is so bland compared to everyone else, the equivalent of having plain rice as your favourite food, and despite the fact he is the strongest, he is so silent in his feats and moments other than the koku blitz attempt, genuinely a snoozefest of a strongest character
Tengen, incest man, kidnapping man, his database statements fuck up so much of scaling as a whole, all hype, all statements no feats
In the depths of the infinity castle... the most powerful of all the Upper Ranks has been defeated...
What once was a endless maze of glowing structures has become nothing but a desolate graveyard filled with trapped souls.
A hollow open space of stretching nearly double length of New York city, dust filling the air as the shadows cover the plain... a reminder of the destruction caused in the battle with Ryukendo...
The eerily serene but horrifying dwelling of upper 2 Wise-Weeb, scattered seemingly endlessly with bodies, all bound to be trapped in this hell forever... as 2 good friends lay, their bodies mutilated, yet at peace....
And the Large pearlescent room, a once prosperous Samurais domain, violently shredded through as rubble lays like ruins, covering up the bodies of people who shouldn't have died.
And after it all... it isnt done yet, there is one demon, one monster, who still needs to fall....
Bitzan, King of Demons.
He lays.. like a snake, hiding in his cacoon, his regeneration nearly complete...
"WHATS WRONG LADY SCHOLARSTEIN, IS THE PAIN TOO MUCH, ITS A SHAME REALLY, I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO MAKE YOU WARCH ALL YOUR FRIENDS DIE!!!"
A tear runs down her face, Bitzan smirks before rupturing her head.....
*meanwhile*
Accross the castle, Cold and Pkmpdi begins running, they begin heading to Bitzans location.
"KAAW... KAAW.... UPPER RANK 1 HAS BEEN DEFEATED" Colds crow yells out..
"Wow.. we killed another one, upper rank 1, incredible!!!" Cold exclaims excitedly
"Wait..." Pkmpdi lowers his head
"KAAW KAAWWW.. LEVY AND ECOLOGICA HAVE BEEN DEFEATED IN THE UPPER RANK 1 BATTLE" The Crow echoes.
The message slams into Cold like a ton of bricks... the image of the 2 youngest Hashira, smiling joyfully last time he met them, his misson to the Freakytown with Levy so long ago, such a precious human being, dead.... gone forever.
Then Eco, they met very few times, but always had a pleasure talking, just hours prior they had been getting their final inspections from her and now she will never take another breath..
The message echoes accross the Castle, the prison falling silent.. tears shed from Mizunoto to Hashira..
However the message of Ecos death is felt far harder in one place...
As accross the castle. Yogurt and SilverAd are still battling it out with the replacement upper moon 4....
As they are being toyed with by the demon... the news hits...
SilverAds demeanor changes... her legs feel weak, her face pales, she feels her neck tighten as if she is choking...
The reaction is enough for even Yogurt to take the hint...
Silver drops to the floor.. her heart pounding in rage...
"Why.... why.... why did it have to be you" she mumbles under her breath....
Yogurt looks down at her... her eyes are cold and white, her face distorted as she twitches and huffs..
"You we're special... " she rages...
*Biwa Strike*
The demon strikes its Biwa and a huge structure begins toppling down, ready to land on SilverAd..
Yogurt jumps into action, plucking some small pellets between his fingers he throws them into the air and swings his giant cleaver, generating a huge explosion, sending debris into the air...
"HEY ASSHOLE... DONT YOU INTERRUPT SOMEONE GRIEVING!!!" Yogurt yells...
SilverAd stands up, a large amount of wooden debris still hanging in the air...
*bzzt*
As Silver slowly cocks her head behind. The floating debris gets cut to pieces in a burning lightning fast strike..
"You're right... I am grieving... so let's cut this one to pieces so we can finish this" she says... a shadow covering her face...
*meanwhile*
Squadrons of Demon slayer approach the hanging fleshy cacoon, they creep closer, the hoards of them begin to surround the hanging fleshy cacoon... however
A message hits headquarters, Young BouldyTheRock looks panicked, his a crows voice Echoes out...
"KAAW.... KAAW... BITZAN HAS REJUVENATED... KAAW KAAW" The crows voice echos around the building...
Bouldy's eyes widen in fear and horror...
"Hey let's cut it from here..." one Mizunoto yells
"Amazing idea..." one replies...
Back in the headquarters... panic arises...
"NO NO.. WHAT ARE YOU DOING RUN AWAY... ITS NOT SAFE" Bouldy screams and cries....
But nobody can hear him. . . .
*inside the castle*
"Quick you go down there.. and you, cut off that tentacle... do everything we can.. we need to help the H-"
As the young boy turns his head..... a gigantic claw is reaching out... for his face...
*CRUSH*
before he can even form his final thought, his head is gone, crushed to liquid...
Bitzan is back....
"LOOK O-"
"ITS B-"
"R-"
People try to scream, but Bitzan simply tears through them with his flesh, Limbs, heads and organs scattering the Bitfinity castle, blood pouring and flooding the floor...
"INCREDIBLE, JUST INCREDIBLE... YOU KILLED MY SUBORDINATES AND YET IVE JUST KILLED AROUND 100 OF YOURS!!!" Bitzan yells "ILL SLAUGHTER ALL YOU DEMON HUNTERS MYSELF.... WATCH THE MASSACRE YOU CREATED MEDICALPOEM"
The situation is dire now, hundreds of lives have been lost and now Bitzan is revived..
He stands proud.. licking the blood off his hands, ready for the Final Battle.
The End.
Apologies if this felt like an awkward place to end, but the rest is gonna be in the SCA prologue
This is part 1 of 3 Small Gaidens following Ecologica cause I apparently botched her scaling and she deserves more content anyway
7 days before the Cryptic Train Arc
After the Hashira Meeting, in which the Hashira first encounter Cold, Eco is ready to leave... she steps out the door, until a voice Echoes behind her...
"Eco..."
Eco turns and sees Acro towering over her.
"Hi, Good Morning Acro" She smiles "How can I help you?" She asks.
"It has been a while since I last spoke to you... sit with me" Acro says...
The pair sit on a small ledge facing into the courtyard of the headquarters...
"Congratulations on becoming a hashira, im sorry I couldn't be there for your official promotion" Acro says in a calm wellspoken manner.
Eco smiles "Oh you weren't? It feels like a lifetime ago"
Acro slowly nods... "Would you do me the honour of sparring with me... i want to see how far you've come"
Ecos eyes widen, looking up at the behemoth stood infront of her, she sweats slightly, the huge man looking down at her... but she nods
"Well... I suppose training is good, although im not much of one for sparring" She hesitantly accepts the offer...
The two step out on the courtyard... OG, Levy, Pkmpdi and Choice are still lingering from after the meeting, OG alerts the other 3 to the battlefeild...
The scene is almost hilarious, a 30 year old mountain of a man staring accross from a Tiny 13 year old girl...
They both grab their respective weapons, Acro grabs a huge rope with 2 carved blocks of wood. Meanwhile Eco grabs a small carved out sword resembling her own blade...
She stares accross at Acro as the Stone Hashira begins slowly twirling his huge rope and wooden block... the speed increasing as he begins pulling in air...
Suddenly and with incredible power Acro launches one of the huge wooden blocks at Eco...
Eco reacts jumping into the air out of the way, the force kicking up dust and scattering small stones everywhere, leaving a huge crater in the floor...
Eco covers her face as debris scatters... she opens her eyes and another huge wooden block is flying at her head...
She glides out of the way and attempts a counter...
"Butterfly Dance, Caprice"
Eco shoots her body forward at Acro, thrusting through the air with speed a trail of beautiful glowing butterflies trailing her...
"Stone Breathing, 1st form, Serpentine Bipolar"
With speed and crushing force Acro swings his arms and slams the two wooden blocks together with force in a crushin motion...
Eco sneaks through the attack... her blade continues to dart towards Acro...
Acro reacts and leaps backwards as Eco lands on the floor close to him... she thrusts her sword upwards and Acro jumps back again...
He swings the rope and twist it, enclosing Ecos body, the rope wrapping around her body, but before it traps her she leaps out of the way...
The spectators watch on...
"Wha- Where did she go!!!" Levy exclaims..
"Up" Choice and OG reply in sync
Eco is high in the air, she leaped out of the way with incredible speed...
"Insect Breathing, Dance of the Horsefly, Enticing Slash"
"Stone Breathing, 3rd form, Stone Skin"
The hashira clash as Eco moves swiftly with incredible agility, attacking from all angles... Acro reacts expertly powerfully swinging the wooden blocks in every direction protecting himself from harm...
But then he feels it, a small poke on his rear thigh... He turns his head and looks behind him... Eco tagged him... not hard.. but she doesnt need to tag hard, Acro ramps it up...
"Stone breathing, 2nd form, Celestial Surfice Smash"
Acro stands on his rope, Causing one of the huge wooden blocks to come smashing down towards Eco...
She just avoids in time, the huge crushing blow a hairs lengths away...
He doesn't let up, swinging his huge bludgeon over and over, pushing Eco back...
But Eco uses her intelligence, and lures Acro into a strike...
Acro swings his wooden block upwards at Ecos, chin, which she dodges easily...
"Insect Breathing, Dance of the Bee Sting, True flutter"
Eco counters, she darts forward in a single thrust aimed at Acro's face...
Acro blocks just in time with his other wooden block... the Hashiras faces right next to eachother, the blade nearly reaching acro again....
He pushes eco back accross the gravel...
"Prepare yourself..." Acro says calmly, he begins loading up...
Eco twirls her sword around her hand....
"Stone Breathing... 5th form..."
"Insect Breathing... Dance Of The Centipede"
"ARCS OF JUSTICE!!!"
"HUNDRED LEGGED ZIGZAG"
The two dash towards one another... they tear up the courtyard powerful shockwaves from Ecos powerful Footsteps and Acros crushing attacks...
The Kakushi scream as Master Medicals garden gets torn up.
The hashira watch on...
Levy watches in awe as the garden gets blown more and more to pieces with each blow...
'The speed, i cant see them they're moving so fast...' She remarks to herself 'Im older than Eco, by quite a lot and yet she i pale in comparison to her skill'
Pkmpdi and OG are just happy to see a good fight...
Choice watches closely... analysing Acro and Ecos every move, looking for every opening he sees..
OG grabs his sword, ready to jump in, before Pkmpdi pulls him back...
The powerful exchange ends, dust flies through the air... and after it all...
A sharp bit of wood whips past the group of spectators and lodges itself into the wall...
Eco stands there with her sword broke... but a smile on her face..
Acro wipes a bead of sweat off his face...
"Impressive, you handled me going all out well.." He says proudly, patting the girl on her head.. "You truly are a prodigy"
"I want a shot at Acro next..." Pkmpdi says stepping up to Acro...
Acro smiles.... "Let's go then"
Eco waves goodbye to everyone as she runs into the forest.
The events of rhe Bitfinity Castle Arc took place on the Evening of OGs Birthday.
Levy was secretly planning a party for him, inviting all the other hashira and their Tsugukos..
As a present, Levy bought OG a new Gold Chained Bracelet that cost her a lot.
However, it remained in her pocket as she passed away, OG never finding it.. the bracelet along with her body being forever trapped in the endless maze
Acro- Deceased
Levy- Deceased
Lonely- Deceased
Eco- Deceased
Pkmpdi- Missing Arm, Broken Ribs, Extreme fatigue, Broken Sword
OG- Deep flesh and rib wounds, Extreme fatigue
Sophiyah- Flesh Wounds, Cut Collarbone, Moderate Fatigue, Single Broken blade
Pooninkle- Partial blindness, Minor Lung Damage, Moderate fatigue
Choice- Light flesh wounds, Moderate-Extreme Fatigue
Mounim-Deceased
Cold- Extreme Fatigue, small cuts and bruises
GoW-BOY- Burns and Moderate Fatigue
SilverAd- Light Fatigue
Yogurt- Light Fatigue
Thanks to Pkmpdi for editing the images as usual
Back in the midst of battle, Choice had unlocked the Transparent World and turned his blade a burning buring Red Colour...
Calm begins attacking as Choice and OG begin their press on him again
Eco is watching on from behind a pillar... she sees it
'THEY DID IT... HIS BLADE IS RED'
*Weeks ago*
Choice and OG turn up to Ecologica's house...
"Hello.. good afternoon" Eco says warmly greeting them in the same way she greets everyone.
OG and Choice spend the next few minutes explaining their theory...
"You're absolutely right!!!" She exclaims "incredible find" we must test it...
The 3 spend the next 4 hours squeezing and clashing their sword but nothing happens...
"I see... maybe it takes the power of a marked one to turn their blade red..." she talks "but if when one of you is marked, the other defends whilst one of you is able, you should he able to achieve this... we need to tell the others.."
Back In the fight Eco begins sprinting to the side..
'I need to get inside, slip past his attack'
She observes the fight and catches a glimpse of Choices eyes... they're.. different.
They seem focused, they're moving slowly and precisely... she looks accross to Calm as she sprints, his are doing the same, they are doing something, theyre reading eachother. Eco looks at them clash....
There it is... her eyes narrow, as she focuses, as Choice and Calms bodies become clear and transparent...
She watches, the fight almost appearing in slow motion.
OG looks to the side and sees Eco running in behind...
He whistles and alerts Choice... the two Hashira jump forward...
'They're pressing me? And the whistling... they have a plan...' Calm thinks 'No problem... ill just have to end this right now'
"Moon Breathing......
14th Form.....
Catastrophe- Tenman Crescent Moon!!!!!"
Calm swings his gigantic blade at near top speed, his blade overlapping in a huge scattering swing... sending dozens of giant crescent moon blades, some reaching as wide as 6ft, all scattering hundreds upon hundreds of smaller blades accross fhe battlefeild in a near 360 direction...
'MOVE... MOVE!!!' Choice thinks as he tries to navigate the attack, slithering through....
'WERE SO CLOSE... NEARLY....THERE!!!' OG exclaims to himself...
'I need to look closer... find the opening... there isn't one... how, how is there no opening..."
Calm swings his blade rapidly, forcing the hashira back..
'They're outlasting it, impressive, however they are soon to fa-'
*hisssssss*
Calm hears a hissing sound from behind his head, he turns his eyes to look and perched on his shoulder is Few-Air....
'What... how did this small snake sneak up on me, was he not on that boys shoulder, when did he move... how did it surpass my guard without me noticing...' Calm thinks to himself....
The tiny snake takes a bite into the demons ear, distracting him just for a split second.
'I see it... an opening!!!! Don't hesitate, dont back down, move forward, you were always going to die young... make it count!!!!' Eco remarks to herself...
"INSECT BREATHING....
FINAL FORM....
DANCE OF THE CENTIPEDE...
HUNDRED LEGGED ZIGZAG!!!!!"
Eco darts towards Calm with all her might, her speed causing craters in the ground...
Calm moves to counter...
"Wind Breathing, 1st form, Dust Whirlwind Cutter"
OG tears forward towards Calm as fast as he can, thrashing and cutting through the wind, forcing Calm to leap out of harms way...
He prepares to swing at OG... but a blade thrusts into him from below.... has Eco rams her blade into Calms body with all her might....
'She evaded my attack?!?! I didnt cut femoral artery, I only cut her leg.... Her eyes????? Could it be, this small girl sees the same world i see....' Calm thinks...
Calm looks down at the tiny girl, he feels the poison about to trickle into his heart....
He turns his blade towards them, but with a powerful hiss, Choice slashes through Calms arm, a bright Red Serpent gnawing through it as his arm comes flying off, leaving his sword to fall...
The Posion injects straight Calms heart, calms body feels weak and light, his face turns dark purple and his eyes begin to melt, his jaw falls off as he coughs and gags blood...
'He has achieved it too, he did midway through the battle, he understands it, the Transparent World, he used feints to throw me off and his teammates as distractions... this is unforseen, but I can still regenerate'
Calms body begins to regenerate at a much faster rate than anyone expected.... his eyes fill back up and his jaw slowly begins to rebuild itself...
OG springs into action, he clashes blades with Eco, as both their blades begin to glow, an incredible heat bleeding accross them both..
The pain turns to excruciation, the bright red burning slowing his regeneration, causing a much vaster amount of posion to spread, the demons body.. begins literally crumbling and melting incredibly slowly... the mixture of heat and posion directly into his heart, turns his whole body a disgusting purple colour....
*THWIP*
Seemingly out of nowhere, Levy whips her sword around Calm and Eco, leaving Eco trapped inside with the monster...
Calm struggles but the Poison is spreading and his regeneration is being slowed...
Choice rams his bending blade into the upper ranks shoulder, the bright red heat searing his flesh...
Levy holds with everything she has left... she squeezes in on the demon... the force in combination with the two other blades, begins to bleed onto her winding whip...
OG swings for Calms neck, its already crumbling, they just need to slice through it now, his blade connects and begins cutting through....
Calm begins to load up... his heartbeat increases rapidly, the poisoned blood expelling from his bloody, Calm lets out a blood curtling roar that echoes for miles....
He prepares to unleash an attack....
OG struggles to pull his blade out..... Levy let's go of her grip and sprints towards OG, pushing him out of the way....
"AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHGGGAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Hundreds of huge crecent sword blades blast from the Upper ranks body with speed and power....
Choice gets his blade to defend in time, but he gets launched into the distance with force, sending him crashing into a pillar head first, knocking him unconscious...
Levy and OG are sent tumbling to the floor, the sheer lack of accuracy and amount of desperation being the only reason they are still breathing....
Eco doesnt get lucky... a blade tears through the young girls body, slicing through both of her lungs and cutting her heart....
The attack took a lot of energy, Calm hunches over and heaves, his body still fighting to out regenerate the posion.
Blood pours out of his mouth, he falls to his knees... his regeneration continues...
"LOVE BREATHING, 1ST FORM, SHIVERS OF FIRST LOVE"
Levy jumps in the air and swings her burning whip rapidly, layer after layer cutting into Calms body...
OGs sword falls to the floor and he runs and picks it up...
"Wind Breathing, 9th form, Idaten Typhoon"
"Love breathing, 5th form, Swaying Love Wildclaw"
The hashira jump in the air in sync, their attacks cutting deeper in a mixture of green and pink swirling slashes...
Calm is furious, a sharp blade erupts from his body, impaling Levy through the stomach...
OG leaps into action and cuts the blade, but every second he spends not actively attacking, is a second Calm is regenerating... and he is regenerating...
Eco grips her sword tighter, the searing pain doing its best to slow Calm down...
More blades shoot, less powerfully but more directed, OG fights against them, they're targeting him, he is incredibly fatigued and makes a mistake, a blade barrels closer to his face as he miss times a block....
He leans backwards, the blade takes a huge chunk of flesh from his cheek...
"Love Breathing, 6th Form, Cat Legged Wings Of Love"
"WHY... WONT.... YOU... DIE" Levy screams as she cuts again and again and again...
Calm keeps getting stronger, OG and Levy keep cutting him down relentlessly, slicing through his legs and body, but they keep grotesquely clinging together... OG collapses from fatigue abain, Levy the only one still standing cuts through the demons body, her blade begins to fade of its Colour....
Calm begins charging up another attack... his body fusing and bending.... he let's out another echoing roar...
Levy reacts instinctively ans whips her sword around him again... blades shoot out in all directions again... one blade shoots straight through Levys thighs, slicing them both off, blood violently pouring out... she tightens her grip on her sword, pulling him in place...
'I *gag* need... flesh...' Calm thinks as he coughs and gags up blood...he stumbles towards Levy, and reaches out...
OG jumps back in, he swings his blade at Calm. Pinning him to the ground by the neck...
'CUT THROUGH!! CUT THROUGHH!!!!!.... HE IS LITERALLY ROTTING AWAY AND I STILL CANT CUT HIS NECK... COME ON, LEVY PUT HER BODY ON THE LINE FOR THIS... DONT LET IT GO TO WASTE'
OG screams as he pushes down on Calms neck with all his might, his muscles screaming as he tries to cut through...
But Calms neck gets tougher... its not enough, all this and he cant cut through...
He feels his blade get jammed, the bright red colour fading... OGs eyes widen...
'No... NO!!!!' He pushes and squeezes harder, forcing the redness to remain.. but its still not enough...
*CLANK*
Choice jumps back in.... his bending blade clashing with OGs The burning spreading back accross both their blades...
Choice, OG and Calm all scream and fight, but the poison and the bright burning is too much....
As both of their burning blades cut through Calms neck... beheading him...
The Upper Ranks head rolls on the floor, a wave of tears washing the left side of his face (Calms backstory is js Kokushibos ngl, cant expand on perfection)
His body begins crumbling, he cant regenerate, he has... been defeated.
OG collapses from fatigue, his body hitting the floor with force...
Choice falls to his knees, he slows his breathing rapidly, trying to regain composure...
'Eco?!... Levy?!'
He scans the battlefield and sees Eco laying there, her eyes lifeless and her body in pieces....
His mind flashes back. Someone who as always been such a happy girl, a young bright mind.. someone always kind to everyone, laying there... her life wasted..
He stumbles his way over to her, he closes her eyes and covers her body with the remnants of her Haori...
Eco's eyes fling open, a bright light surrounding her.. she sits up and she is stood in a large warm garden.. flowers and trees everywhere...
A woman stands in the distance, with long red hair, the woman turns and smiles, her eyes glistening and glowing in the warm light..
"M-Mom..." Eco tears up, she sprints across the open garden, stumbling as she runs into her mothers warm embrace... now totally sobbing..
"Hi Eco.. im so proud of you..my little girl" she squeezes her daughter tightly... "You did it... you and all your friends"
Eco and her Mother fade away into a bright gleaming light...
Choice spends a moment of peace with Eco, but it gets brutally interrupted as OGs eyes slowly open...
"LEVY!!!!" OG screams... he scrambles to his feet and sprints towards her... "LEVY YOU'RE BLEEDING... SHIT SHIT WE NEED TO STOP IT!!!"
Levy stares up at OG... "Y-y-youre alive... i kept my promise..." Levy says stuttering, her voice weak..
"Shit shit this cant be happening... this cant be real... this isn't what was supposed to happen" OG grabs her and pulls her in, covering himself in Levys blood...
"OG... im... im scared... it hurts.." Levy whimpers...
"Its ok... im here... ill do something..." OG panics...
"Im cold..." Levy says
"Shit... ill keep you warm... dont let go... please just hang on..." OG begins looking around...
"OG... I-I-I Love.. Y-You" Levy barely speaks as tears run down her face....
"I LOVE YOU TOO GODDAMMIT..." OG eyes begins welling up "WE WERE SUPPOSED TO RETIRE TOGETHER AND GROW OLD... FUCK!" OG yells. His voice cracking slightly...
"That... sounds nice" Levy uses almost all her strength to smile...
Choice watches on His eyes watering, a lump in his throat, placing his fist over his mouth trying to compose himself...
"IT CAN STILL HAPPEN... JUST HOLD ON PLEASE LEVY" OG begs...
Levy sobs "I.. I cant OG... please don't let go.... please... I dont wanna die... I wanna live... please don't let me die..."
OG pulls her in and cups her head with his hand, he strokes her hair and kisses her head...
"OG.. Youre the best thing... that could've happened to me..." She stutters more "I would a-always choose this... over a life without you...."
OG cant hold back his tears any more, they pour violently down his face... "Levy.... i..." he cant even speak
"OG... Im really scared... I cant... see anything.." Levy barely finishes her sentence...
OG feels Levys pulse burn out as he holds her closely....
"Levy?!?! LEVY!!! NO.... WAKE UP... NO PLEASE DONT DO THIS TO ME.... I LOVE YOU... PLEASE" OG screams his voice breaking as tears pour out of his eyes "PLEASE GOD NO... DONT TAKE HER... WHY WOULD YOU TAKE HER FROM ME...WHAT DID I DO... PLEASE NO... THIS ISNT HAPPENING..."
He pulls in her lifeless body as he sobs...
Choice cant hold back the tears.. 2 of the sweetest people he has ever met have been taken from this world... Levy never hurt a soul... and now she's gone...
OG slams the ground as the weight of losing the person he loved more than anyone tears him from the inside...
Choice speaks...
"OG... we need to go... we still have one more fight left..." Choice says softly but firmly...
OG raises his head... his eyes looks different... the life looks drained, like he isnt even human...
"Yes... thats right... Bitzan..." he says robotically "then let's go..."
End Part 18
The bloodshed continues, far far away from the Upper Moon 1 battle, Sound Hinoe, Yogurt and Thunder Hinoe, SilverAd are fighting the replacement Upper 4.
Yogurt has been quietly sneaking around the castle, trying to land a sneak attack on the Upper Rank... he finally sees a chance and leaps...
His huge Cleavers swing powerfully towards the demon... but with the strike of a biwa a huge stone wall is summoned blocking the demon....
The force of the blades colliding with the wall causes the wall to crank and burst into small rocks tearing through the wooden structures.
SilverAd sees an opening and she tries to attack...
"Thunder Breathing, 1st form, Thunderclap and Flash"
SilverAd draws her sword and zaps forward... but gets shoulder barged out of the way by Yogurt, who leaps at the demon again.
"Sound Breathing, 1st form, Roar"
He swings his blade again but gets swallowed into a door and spat out the other side, getting saved by Silver again.
"Use your fucking head..." Silver yells...
"Thunder Breathing, 1st form, Thunderclap and Flash, Sixfold"
Silver bounces from structure to structure, and leaps at the biwa demon, but with another strike of the biwa, Silver gets teleported. Her sword heading straight towards Yogurts nexk.... Yogurt reads the redirected attack and blocks it just in time...
'This demon is strange, it had little lethality but an incredible control over the castle, it reads us and redirects us, its tricky' Silver thinks to herself...
Meanwhile, back in the Calm fight, Calm his now welding a huge blade, stretching over 8× the length of his previous blade. Levy has been taken out of the fight, Eco lost her eye as well as her hand from previously, OG has lost 2 of his fingers and a large portion of hair and Choice has taken some flesh damage...
'This... monster, he already moves at such at such incredible speeds and that range.... if it wasnt for Choice I would've lost my head not just an eye... what are we supposed to do against this.... thing" Eco thinks to herself, Calm winds up another attack....
"Moon Breathing.... 7th Form.....
Mirror of Misfortune, Moonlit"
Calm his swings his extended blade and in an instant, Huge Crecent blades tear through the floor, leaving huge trails of sliced marble behind their path... the huge blades scatter into hundreds of small ones as the Hashira struggle to react.. OG manages to defend himself barely as Choice helps Eco defend herself.
"Moon Breathing, 8th form, Dragon Ringtail"
In a huge incredibly wide horizontal, Calms blade sweeps accross the battlefield with blinding speed launching blades everywhere...
OG cant fully defend himself. He gets cuts all down his legs and thighs as he stumbles... Choice loses focus and Eco nearly gets caught, the blades slashing her face instead of her neck....
'Fuck Fuck Fuck.... He is too fast, I can barely defend as its taking my all just to block, my instinct is keeping me alive right now' OG panics...
Choice makes a move to get to OG but before he can...
"Moon Breathing.... 9th Form.... Waning Moonswaths"
Seemingly without even swinging his blade. Calm generates a barrage of incredible huge random scattering slashes that tear through the air....
"Serpent Breathing... 5th form" Choice is immediately forced on the defensive, as he works overtime to block the blades from hitting himself, but he cant protect Eco and OG totally, both of the Hashira sustaining injuries as Blades tear through OGs back....
Eco gets some damage to her body and tumbles...
"Moon Breathing.... 10th Form, Drilling Slashes- Moon through Bamboo Leaves"
Calm unleashes an attack launching a rotating wave of slashes that rotate and tear through the air like a circular saw aimed at the Hashira....
Choice moves at top speed and snatches Eco from the attack just in time... but OG is exposed and helpless... the tearing blades descending on him...
But something grabs him... again
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOT!!!" Levy screams as she snatches OG out of the way of certain death, the blades tearing and cutting half of one of her feet off...
"GO!!!!!" She screams as OG gets back into the fight... his eyes welling up slightly as he stomachs the lingering pain in his throat.
A wave of eerie silence fills the castle, the whole corps waiting on news, nobody daring to speak...
Choice sees OG running in again...
"Serpent Breathing, 5th Fo-"
"Moon Breathing.....
16th form....
Moonbow- Half Moon"
Calm swings his blade downwards, summoning 6 gigantic slashing arches raining down on the Hashira.
The Hashira scramble, as the raining blades slam down to the floor with speed and prowess...
Eco manages to dodge them but is forced behind a wall in the room leaving OG and Choice to defend alone....
'He is stronger, not faster, but he knows my intent before I can move... there is something those eyes are hiding' Choice thinks to himself... 'What is he doing, he is a swordsman, he has the breathing, the mark, his blood demon art is the flesh, so.... it must be something we can do too...'
Choice watches as he feints his body to the left and sees how Calm reacts...
"Moon Breathing, 15th form, Ghostly Echoing Full Moon..."
Calm thrusts his sword into the ground as tornados of large crecent slashes come bursting out...
OG stops himself in time to just about avoid the attack...
Choice feints the other way...
"Moon Breathing..."
But as Choice watches it.... he sees it....
The World Calm Sees.....
The Transperent World....
He watches Calms muscles move, how they squeeze and contract before he attacks... and as Calm's next attack comes... he dodges it... better yet, he shields OG.
Choice whistles, a signal... OG understands it...
Choice begins squeezing his blade with every ounce of strength his body has, his nose explodes with blood, his eyes pool red, every muscles and tendon in his body operating at 200% and it happens...
Choices blade begins burning, seeping in and bleeding into a bright red colour...
Calm sees this, his mind flashes back....
Choice vision begins to fade to black... OG does what he was trained to do...
"WIND BREATHING.... 10TH FORM.....
FUJIN'S WRATH!!!"
OG unleashes his most powerful attack get again... His blade tearing up the air literally cutting atoms as a small hurricane tears through the battlefield....
*Weeks Ago*
After a sparring session, Choice and OG sit for a meal...
"Choice, I gotta tell you something" OG says
Choice raises an eyebrow
"I know the secret to defeating an Upper Rank" OG says "I was sparring with PKMPDI last week and when our blades collided, they generated enough heat, where just for a moment, before they shattered, they set Ablaze... so what would happen if two Nichirin blades collided, blades that absorb heat... they would burn, they would burn demons flesh, like the sun, stopping them from regenerating... if we can get our blades hot enough.... Even Upper Ranks wont be able to regenerate against us.
Calm defends for the first time since his blade extended...
Dust clears and Choice is stood panting and heaving, his head lowered as his blade burns bright
'It worked!' Choice exclaims to himself...
Calm looks... unnerved
Something catastrophic is coming...
End part 17.
I mean Kokushibo got beaten by 4 dudes ages before the sun came up, it took a whole 8 to defeat Gyutaro, who was a mastermind cooking everyone who came his way It took tengen (top 5 btw) wirh one hand + a bunch of others and barely before the sun came up, and made THE tengen uzui (top 5 btw) retire
Did you know, The Wind Hashira, OGN, is illiterate.
Due to his upbringing, the Hashira was never taught how to read or write...
OG however, does send letters and his method for spelling is by writing words exactly how they sound, or as OG would say
"Riting werds ecsactly how they sownd" leaving the hashira to decipher a code every time they receive a letter
He often writes letters to Choice, who's name he frequently misspells as 'Chocie'
However, Ecologica and Sophiyah often try and help him improve is Literary skills, both of which remark on OGs willingness and desire to learn
The War in the Bitfinity Castle rages as the stakes increase, Choice and OG are fighting Upper 1, CalmLengthiness together, they have managed to hold out thus far, but they need to work faster and harder to behead him...
OG leaps in first...
"Wind Breathing, 6th form, Black Wind Mountain Mist"
OG glides accross the floor, swinging his blade upwards at the demon, a powerful gale trailing his blade.... Calm leans back, Choice slithers behind him and attacks from the back.
Calm flings his sword over his head, defending his flank whilst dodging the gust...
"Wind Breathing, 1st form, Dust Whirlwind Cutter"
OG tears through the air, decimating structures as he blasts forward at the demon..
His sword clashes with Calms, Calm begins a counter..
*hissss*
'Beneath me?!' He exclaims to himself
A powerful White Serpent shoots upwards as Choice powerfully thrusts his blade upwards at the Upper Rank.
Choice slams his blade through the Demons ear, cutting it off as the demon evades...
More blows are exchanged, but OG and Choice are pushing Calm back...
Moon blades scatter the battlefield, Tearing structures to pieces, but more often Choice tears the blades to pieces first before they can harm OG...
Choice then decides to pounce....
"Serpent Breathing, 1st Form, Winding Serpent Slash"
A Snake hisses as Choice swings at full speed for Calm...
Calm blocks the blow...
'What speed, its only ever been matched by one other swordsman.. but this one is physically weak I can outmuscl-'
But before Calm can finish his thought, Choice in an incredibly quick move, slithers and climbs his way up the demons arm, he locks his legs around his arm and neck, and is about to ram his blade through Calm's neck.....
'My neck.....' Calm thinks to himself, feeling the Nichirin steel touch his neck for only the second time in his life....
The Demon rages, grabbing Choices blade, throwing the Hashira through the air, the force of the throw dislocating Choice's shoulder as he barrels upwards into the distance with a violent spin....
OG tries to continue the press but gets a powerful slash to the side of his head, cutting through his ear, grazing his skull.
OG slips and misses his attack completely, leaving himself totally unprotected, Choice is far too high in the air to redirect himself, OG is a sitting duck, a lamb less than a second away from being slaughtered....
The blade decends.... OG doesnt even feel it as it effortlessly glides into his skin, his spinal chord going first, then his arteries and windpipe, before the blade slides out of the other side....
*bzzzz*
OG snaps back to reality... What happened?!?!
He looks behind him, someone... grabbed him...
"OG!!! ARE YOU OK??" A female voice yells...
OG sees Eco hovering over him, rescuing him just in time from certain death... but they dont avoid the attack entirely.
Blood squirts out of both the Hashira, the remnants of the attack covering their bodies....
Eco turns around as OG looks over her shoulder...
Calm is approaching...
He grabs his sword, he wanted to save this attack for Bitzan, but its too late for that now, he might not even get to fight Bitzan if he doesn't use it now....
He jumps infront of Eco....
"WIND BREATHING.... 10TH FORM..... FUJIN'S WRATH!!!!"
He swings his sword with violent intent, his swinging so fast he hits the path of his own attack, the air pressure drops massively to much a normal humans lungs would explode.....
An incredible glowing green typhoon engulfs the battlefield, destroying everything in its path. A huge swirling vortex enveloping anything and everything, tearing it down and sending it rapidly zooming around the hurricane like sharp shrapnel....
As the wind fades, floating debris falls, OG looks up, but Calm isn't there
*SQUIRT*
Blood erupts from OGs chest.... his ribs slashed through completely, his organs barely untouched
He hears a scream from behind....
His heart drops as he turns behind. Calm is grabbing Eco by the hair, the Upper Moon is totally unharmed....
OG feels sick to his stomach 'What.... how?!?! He.... ate my strongest attack, it didnt even make him break a sweat... this... monster'
He holds a blade to Ecos neck...
"Talk Girl... or your friends will be cleaning you off the floor with a cloth."
Eco struggles, but she is incredibly outmatched in all physical departments...
OG scrambles to stand up, but the blood pours from his chest and his body is overwhelmed with fatigue....
Its hopeless... he cant move a muscle and where is Choice, he is nowhere to be seen...
The blade presses closer to Ecos neck as she barely holds back a scream, the sharp edge touching her windpipe.
His face closes in on hers. His bright red glowing eyes overwhelming her completely. He pulls harder on her hair, her neck stretching, the pressure on her spine is excruciating, as if her head is going to pop off....
But then... Calm notices a tingling sensation in his hand.... he looks down and to his surprise, Eco's blade is loged into his elbow from behind...
He turns his head and sees Levy, a look of rage on her face, her body bandaged up to her neck...
(Earlier)
"I have an idea.." Eco says "I need to get to my sword, a small non penetrative dose was enough to turn his fingers purple, I suspect if I inject some directly into his Brain, Heart or Spinal Cord, it will slow his regeneration drastically, however its almost certainly not going to kill him, we still need to behead him..."
Levy looks nervy "how are we going to get your sword back though, he wants you dead..."
"That's where you not being a top threat comes in, he knows you're injured, possibly dead, so if Choice, OG and I keep him distracted, you grab my sword..." Eco replies
"And then what...? Im no good with your sword, and you're no good without!" Levy replies..
"That's where you're wrong, you aren't no good with it, whenever you get a chance, even less than a second, sneak him, catch him through the elbow, humans have no nerves there and since humans share the same nervous system model as humanoid demons, you are able to shut off part of his body, just long enough for me to get my sword back and then its a 4 against 1" Eco rambles...
Levy ponders, but she trusts Eco on this more than anyone........
Calm lifts his had to draw his sword, but it falls limp, the poison melting it as he regenerates...
He swings his sword at Levy's neck but OG throws his sword at the Demons sword, redirecting it just enough to miss as Levy leans back...
Calm swings his sword again, faster this time....
*HISSSS*
Choice intercepts, slicing through the Upper Ranks blade...
Eco takes the opportunity to grab her sword from out of the melting arm of the Upper Rank.... and on her face, behind her eyes, fluttering down her cheek, burns a bright Red Mark, a Kelaidoscope of Butterflies...
Choice kicks OGs sword in the air and OG catches it...
"SERPENT BREATHING, 3RD FORM"
"WIND BREATHING, 2ND FORM"
"INSECT BREATHING, DANCE OF THE BEE STING"
The three blades collide with Calm's neck in unison
*CLANK*
But they dont move, not even an inch, Eco's blade nearly snaps, Choice's blade bounces right of and OGs blade collides with so much force it nearly breaks his other hand....
Calm dissapears before the Hashira....
"Oh? You didn't think just because you harmed my body... you could take my head did you...." Calm's voice Echoes across the room..
The Hashira turn around in shock, Levy climbs to her feet, the Hashira begin to press, Choice ahead of the pack as the others follow behind.....
But with a wistle, blood violently bursts out of all of their bodies....
'What was that attack.... i didn't even see it... and from such range, WHAT HAPPENED....' OG thinks in a panic...
Levys left arm gets lobbed off sending her tumbling leaving only the marked ones still standing....
OG loses 2 fingers and his hair goes flying...
Eco's Haori is almost completely torn and her left eye gets sliced out...
Choice barely brunts the attack and takes some moderate flesh damage....
"You want my head.... take it, i beg of you" Calm says with a creepy coldness in his voice...
As he turns, he reveals a disgusting blade, nearly 8 times as long, with blades sticking out of it.... his Eyes awakened and robotic.. he stares down the Hashira through The Transparent World
End Part 16.
OG after cutting a non stw non serious Calms fingers (he got perception blitzed twice immediately after)
OG after letting his baddie get minced so he could aura farm
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