Naze's head darted up as more of the dark mist came to him, it expanded from all nearby states, taking darkness. It was a slow process though rewarding. Naught a creature would stir in distrubence by the mist, they died quickly and silently. A wave of darkness shot from his body, it was wide and large, toppelling all buildings and liveing things in it's path. It spred past America, to Europe, then Asia. It even reached the depth of hell and heaven. The world was flatened, even something like the Seven were toppled over, though unharmed. His growing was nearly done, now all he needed to do was wait. Naze began floating in his spot in the middle of a pile of rumble with a dark shpere around his body.

White had walked a distance, all the while looking left and right. She every now and again had to push her blond hair back, to get it out of her eyes. She felt a sharp jolt in her spine as she fell forward, the wave past by her. She felt the gigantic wieght press against her body and push her several feet on the ground. Her eyes were tightly closed and her fists in a tight ball. She looked up seeing the toppled buildings and her eyes widened.
"What carnage!" She exclaimed with tears forming in her eyes.

R.D. watched and winced as he saw Matt bounce off the cab of the truck, landing on the ground and rolling a meter away from the momentum from the serpent's spitting. The beam, however, smashed the hood of the truck and rended it apart. The massive explosion occured mere inches away from the serpent's face, and the shockwave sent both R.D. flying into the water and Matt flying past the rest of their companions, landing safely on sandbags that had been piled up in case of a flood.

"DAMN IT!" Matt shouted. "NOW I'M MAD!"

He leapt forth from the sandbags, and landed on the pavement with force so great that tremendous cracks appeared underneath.

"Heh heh heh..." Hugo pushed himself back onto his feet. "It's about time."

"Why?" Hsien-Ko asked, standing back up. "What is it?"

"You'll see."

Edited by The Helldragon on October 4, 2006 at 20:04:11.

OOC: I changed mine. Gonna do something drastic since Juno's godmodding a WEEE bit.

OOC: Okay, that was weird. Where'd my post go? And I sent Matt into sandbags, not water.

"It won't happin this time brother,I have incresed in power that is 2000 times sronger.I've learned from Kuro himself.You really think you can serpass me?HA you won't even get close" Kagai said then suddenly thrusting for him with amazing speed ready to strike!

OOC: Hell, I thought it was a generic minion. Still, let us get in a few shots. <_<

"DRAGON DRIVE!"

A blazing aura of energy burst around Matt's form. Burning like blue fire, the aura became pointed around Matt's hands, resembling claws, and the aura extended behind the boy, forming wings of energy that seemed to span forever.

Matt launched foward and slammed his hands into the serpent's head, stopping the attack. His mouth opened, bellowing a powerful unearthly roar.

Hsien-Ko, momentarily shocked by this violent display of power, could only stare. "What in the..."

"Come on!" Hugo snapped, running back into battle.

Naze shook his head.
"That was a thrill....." He said horsely and emotionously. In him the poison was being eaten away, the darkness had focused on it and devoured it's form then destroyed it from his body. Naze fell back down onto the ground and straightened his left glove. "Now....what to do to with this world? I must take care of those who oppose me first, though I do wish I hadn't sent out that signal. I would have enjoyed to watch those fools kill eachother then jump in." He shrugged as he stood, still in the rumble with the aura around him still.

White had just gotten up fully with her tears staining the ground. She was shakeing as she looked behind her self to see Naze, looking out, away from her.
"Blazen?" She asked the open air. She could feel a vibe of him, within Naze, though it was dieing...fast. "Blazen!" She yelled running to him with her tears being taken to the wind.

Naze turned, surprised to see White. His aura dissapeared as she approached. He raised an eyebrow, confused. "White? How did she escape?" He thought, then smiled, recalling when he broke his platinum ball and chuckled. "Of course." He said to himself when she stopped in front of him.
"Blazen are you in there?" She asked inoccently to Naze, who just looked at her with an emotionless face. Though his left eyebrow raised oh so slightly. "Please speak to me!" She commanded. Naze let a frown that tugged at the courners of his lips come through.
"White," Naze began and a smile came to White's face. "Blazen is dead." He finished, coldly to her. White's face lost all color and tears returned as he finished.
"Dead?" She repeated.
"Yes." He cofirmed still harsh in tone.
"But I can feel him, in you!" He declared.
"You are wrong, White. Blazen is dead, and there is no bringing him back." Naze stated firmly. "Now, go, before I must remove you." He commanded still cold. He raised his cain and pointed it to her chest. White shrinked down and backed away, timidly. "Now!" Naze roared. White jumped, turned and ran as fast as her sorrowful feet took her. Anger and sadness filled her body, it was like a gun shot her heart, though she continued to live. Her tears fell quicker as she rounded a courner and stopped, sobbing. She fell onto her knees and held her hands to her eyes, covering her face.
"Oh, Blazen..." She sobbed, feeling she had lost a father. In a light she did, Blazen was what created her and Black, he was her father. Though some may think Black and White are siblings, no. White is of different 'blood' than Black. White is pure of heaven's while Black is prue of hell's. That didn't cloud her mind now, it wa the things she thought of. Blazen, Black, both of them gone. Black she didn't know where he could be, dead was the only logical one. While Blazen was killed by Naze it seemed. She couldn't believe it, she was alone in this world now.

Naze had watched her until she rounded the courner. He sighed, feeling slight pitty for her. Though he turned and faced forward again, his frown gone and anger gone as well. His aura returned as he closed his eyes.

(OOC: We weren't expecting easy, but we weren't expecting invincible, either.)

R.D. pulled himself up into a boat floating idly in the water and groaned. His body ached, but it was fading away slowly. Lumiya's doing, he thought distantly.

He stood up and saw that the boat's keys were still in the ignition, and he turned the boat on. Though he didn't know what he was doing, he felt it shouldn't be too much of a problem to learn. He turned the boat and aimed it straight for the beast, at an angle where he could return to the docks. He punched the gas and shot forward, and then leapt out as he drew near the beast. He grabbed onto the side and pulled himself up, reactivating his Phase Blade, as the boat crashed into the monster's side.

Edited by RisingDragon on October 4, 2006 at 17:30:24.

"I ain't FINISHED with you yet!" Matt shouted, drawing back his fist. In a powerful rush he slammed down on the serpent's back and struck the beast's scaly skin hard with a mighty punch. "Thunder Breaker!"

A bolt of lightning burst from the heavens and crashed around Matt, evenly hitting the serpent. Meanwhile, Hsien-Ko reared her sleeves back and tossed them foward, firing large spiked balls at their collective enemy.

Naze's aura began to grow as stray demons, from the number of armies came to investigate the cause of the worldwide chaos. As theys howed themselves, they exploded, Naze hadn't moved, nor even drew breath. Thier darkness shot into his body like a bullet as his power grew. It was now rocketing, afte rit had been done with the poison. At first he was weak, even after that wave, his power was growing, quickly. It only sped up as his aura grew. His teeth began to grind as his body grew used to the power.
"This is more than I expected." He mumbled takeing a deep breath. He dropped his cain, fearing to break it yet again, though made balls with his fists. They went to his sides, becomeing stiff as did the rest of his body. His feet began to slide to the side, giveing him a wider base to feel more comfortable on. He began yelling, letting out his pain that built up as his power was becomeing too much for even his body. Mist leaked from his pours though it went back in as it came out, giveing it a breatheing motion.
"This is too much!" He screamed as the power continued to rise substantionally without slowing down or showing an end. A whirlwind of darkness swirled around his body, sucking up and throwing around rumble like an angery tornado. Though after another moment, it stopped...all together. So suddenly, that it shocked Naze's body enough to stop his 'heart' for a moment, killing him. Though that moment passed and life came back as he clamed. Again he stood, panting, sweating, becomeing what he wanted to be. Still his power grew, but slowly, as most of it was in him now. He was used to it now, and didn't mind the slight riseing that was in him.
"No...there no such thing as too much!" He roared laughing into the sky.

Kagai jumped out of the path of the attack and suddenly thrusted a powerful dark energy beam at virus!" You were allways incompitent brother."

"Shit!" R.D. cursed as he dove under the beam, feeling it blast over him and tear at the side of dock. R.D. rolled out of the way to the side and dashed away from the group, knowing the beast was making its water beam follow him. He was starting to get mad. Power was welling up within him.

===Above the battle===

Ondal floated well above the port, unseen and unheard, watching in silence at the progress of the small band. He was amazed at their strength and ingenuity, to Hsien-Ko and Mei-ling's fusion, to Matt's otherworldly strength, to R.D.'s cunning at turning a truck and a boat into projectile weapons.

"I am beginning to see why he was chosen to implant Lumiya within this one," he murmured.

But then he felt it. "My gods... it's happening!" he whispered in amazement as he felt power flood into the young man. "The first cipher! It's been unlocked!"

===The battle===

R.D.'s thought process suddenly blanked, and light broke in his reeling mind. The pupils of his eyes contracted to tiny points. His running speed up, his fatigue bled away until he felt like a new man.

With a burst of speed, R.D. shot forward and turned, and deactivated his sword. After slipping it in his pocket, energy formed around his hands.

"SUCK ON THIS, YOU OVERGROWN BOOT!" he screamed at the serpent. With a swing of his right hand, R.D. flung a large orb of azure energy at the face of the beast, and followed up by swinging his left hand, causing a second orb with two smaller, red fireballs spinning around it to shoot out. The energy blasts ripped through the air, straight for the serpent's eyes as Matt and Hsien-Ko's attacks made their mark.

"HELL YEAH!" Hugo shouted, waving his pickaxe.

"YEAH!" Matt swooped through the air, Dragon Drive still active, and made a solid landing next to Hugo, where the aura was dismissed with no effort.

Hsien-Ko sighed in relief and smiled. That was close. The paper glew briefly and reformed back into her sister, who also smiled at their victory.

R.D. breathed heavily and chuckled slightly at their victory. His exhausted jubiliation was cut short, however, when every single muscle in body spasmed painfully. Pain wracked his body as Lumiya's trickle of power drained from him, and he fell forward, catching himself with his arms and knees as he screamed in pain before blacking out.

"R.D!" Alasea shrieked and rushed over to him.

The others ran to R.D.'s side as well. Matt quickly kneeled. "Looks like R.D.'s big show took its toll..."

After several minutes, R.D.'s tired eyes fluttered open, causing looks of relief to show on the others' faces. "Fucking... ow..." he mumbled, trying to sit up. Matt and Alasea helped him up into a sitting position, and he rested there for several more minutes as the pain slowly bled out of him.

He put a hand against his forehead. "Ugh," he groaned, "Remind me to never do that again."

He looked up at his friends and grinned. "Looks like we won, huh?"

"Looks like it." Matt glanced out toward the ocean, where the mighty serpent's body had been laid to a chaotic rest. "But who the hell sent that thing?"

"We can worry about that later," Hugo said. "We need to get moving. I don't want to attract anyone else's attention."

"Good point," Matt agreed. "Can you stand, R.D.?"

R.D. nodded and slowly stood up. He staggered slightly, but Alasea slid her arm around him and helped him stay up.

"Yeah, good thing you stopped his first attack," R.D. said to Matt, "Or else we wouldn't have a boat to use. I'd help finish setting up, but I don't think I can do much right now."

Alasea nodded. "Don't worry, we'll get it done. You just rest for now."

After half an hour of working, they had finished supplying the yacht and headed out to sea.

===Above the port===

Ondal watched as the six of them left port, hovering over the corpse of Hydro's minion.

"Well played, Rising Dragon," he murmured in satisfaction, "The first step has been made. May the gods have mercy on you enough to let you finish your journey."

With these parting words, Ondal disappeared.

"Man, I totally need to buy a yacht," Matt said, leaning on the rail and looking out to the boundless sea.

Alasea was currently steering their yacht to directions that R.D. had given, directions that had just come out of his mouth spontaneously. He wrote it off as another latent memory resurfacing.

R.D. looked over at Matt and sighed. "Was it really necessary to plant a flag into that monster's jaw before we left?" he asked.

"It wasn't my idea," Matt said. "Hugo just HAD to mark the victory."

"Hugo, huh?" R.D. said, a bit surprised, "It looked like something you'd do."

"Well, things are not always as they seem," Matt replied, in a rare moment of wisdom. "This is certainly true for both of us."

"Yeah," R.D. sighed, looking at the tiny symbols that had appeared on the back of his hands near the knuckles. "I'm guessing you want to know what the hell it was I did back there, huh?"

"Let me take a wild shot," Matt said, gesturing with spreaded fingers. "Calling upon ancient, mysterious power within, you somehow managed to pull the ultimate 53-hit combo that was neccessary to defeat this otherwise seemingly undefeatable foe. Because you...are the Chosen One."

He leaned on the rail. "Or some s*** like that."