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Old 10/22/06, 12:56 AM   #2
Ryoutarou
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Episode 1: Dying a Glorious Death, Hibiki: Prelude to the Future

A massive battle was taking place, all of Japan's oni and Makamou were in this small mountainous area, fighting each other. A battle the likes of which this world has never seen was taking place, a battle that most of Japan, most of the world, had no clue was going on.

"Hibiki-san! Watch out!" Yelled Ibuki as he ran towards Hibiki, who was being attacked by various Makamou. Hibiki was in the middle of his Kurenai transformation, and was, for the moment, paralyzed.

Ibuki jumped in front of Hibiki from a cliff near by. He began firing at the Makamou trying to jump the frozen Hibiki. One after another, they came, Hibiki's body was emitting a very hot crimson gas as parts of his body slowly changed from dark purple to crimson.

"Hurry up, Hibiki-san." Ibuki said, with a tone of urgency in his voice as he continued fending off the attacking Makamou.

"Ha!" Yelled a voice, Ibuki turned to look where it was coming from and saw a figure jump before him.

Todoroki had landed in front of the two, slicing two Makamou with his Ongekigen on his way down.

"Sorry I took so long! I had to help Kiriya!" Todoroki said apologetically as he ran towards an advancing Makamou, with his mighty lightning fist, he punched straight through its stomach, making the beast stop dead in its track for a moment, then wriggle around for a second, right before it blew up.

"Thanks for the help, Todoroki-san." Ibuki said as he fired off a few rounds at a Makamou that was dropping down above Todoroki, making the beast explode in mid air. "We're even now!" Ibuki said slyly.

"Haaaa....AH!" Hibiki yelled as the red flames that had been engulfing his body slowly died down. "Hibiki...Kurenai." He spoke his title and then pulled his Rekka from their holsters. "Sorry about that, the armed saber isn't working right now and we do need all the power we can get." Hibiki said.

"Don't worry about, Hibiki-san." Ibuki said as he jumped down to the base of the area they were in. Todoroki and Hibiki marveled at Ibuki jumping what was easly a thirty foot cliff.

"Guess I'll join him." Hibiki said as he ran towards the cliff, stopping for a moment. "Oh, Todo, make sure Kiriya doesn't get hurt." Hibiki said as he waved at Todoroki and jumped down to the base to join Ibuki and two other oni in fighting the Makamou.

"Ehh...sure." Todoroki said after Hibiki had left, he sulked for a moment about not getting to join his partners in battle and then made his way back to the top to help Kiriya out.

When Todoroki reached summit, he saw a nearly defeated Kiriya trying his best to fend off the Makamou.

"Kiriya-san!" Todoroki yelled as he dashed towards the white oni.

"Todoroki!" Kiriya yelled, it was all he could do to call for help.

"Yah!" Todoroki yelled as he sliced through the Makamou that had grabbed Kiriya.

Kiriya fell to the ground, almost completely out of energy. His will to fight was strong, but had been badly beaten by the Makamou. Todoroki then helped Kiriya to his feet and handed him his fallen Koori, Kiriya's drum sticks.

"Here, I think these are your's." Todoroki said as he held out the white drum sticks, the teal demon heads shined brightly in the sun as Kiriya took his weapon back.

"Thanks..." Kiriya said, upset about the fact that after being an oni for three years, he still couldn't defeat Makamou on his own and Todoroki was able to make quick work of the ones that he was unable to even keep up with.

"Don't worry about it." Todoroki said, he noticed that Kiriya was sulking and thought back to when Zanki first let him fight on his own. "You'll get it, it took me a while too, but you'll be stronger one day, just don't worry about it." Todoroki said brightly.

"Todoroki-san..." Kiriya said in a low voice as he took his Koori. "...I'll do my best! I'll make sure that I become stronger, one day, I'll be the strongest oni ever!" Kiriya said brightly.

Todoroki chuckled for a moment, but was then interrupted by the gigantic echoing footsteps of an approaching giant.

Both oni then came to their guard and searched around, with their back to each other, for any signs of the Makamou. Surely a giant couldn't be that hard to see, and it wasn't.

"Todoroki-san!" Kiriya yelled as he pointed towards an approaching Tsuchigumo, a gigantic spider.

It slowly came towards the two, dripping what seemed to be spit from its mouth. It's dark red body completely blocked out the sun as it finally arrived in front of the two oni.

"Kiriya!" Todoroki yelled as he ran towards the monster.

"Right!" Kiriya yelled, as if almost affirming an unspoken order.

The two oni ran towards the monster with their weapons poised for an attack.

Kiriya ran up ahead of Todoroki and yelled as he attacked on the beast's eight legs. His Koori demon head shone for a moment as he attacked, Kiriya then stopped in his tracks, turned around and attacked once more.

The leg of the beast was now frozen by Kiriya's attack, it struggled to move, almost falling as it tried to break the ice by spitting, but the spit was unable to reach its leg as the leg was at the end of its body.

"Great job!" Todoroki yelled as he ran at the frozen leg and stabbed his Ongekigen into its leg. "Raiden Gekishin!" Todoroki yelled as he began strumming the cords of his guitar. The guitar emitted the ear splitting noise as Todoroki continued to strum his guitar in a forceful manner.

Finally, Todoroki paused as if to finish the attack, but then gave one more strum. The monster then yelled in pain as the leg cracked, causing the monster to trip and fall on its stomach.

"Kiriya! Now! Do it!" Todoroki yelled.

"Uh...right!" Kiriya said nervously as he grabbed his Kaentsudumi from his belt and gave a quick glance at it. The white and blue design on it seemed as if it called out to Kiriya to use it. "Okay, here I go!" Kiriya yelled as he jumped on the back of the beast.

He placed the belt buckle on the beast's back, it then grew to an enormous size, nearly covering all of the monster's back. "Okay..." Kiriya said slowly as he poised his drum sticks in the air.

"Shiroi! Koori no Kata!" Kiriya yelled as he began to beat on the monster's back. It yelled in pain as Kiriya continued to beat in rhythm to one of many beats that Hibiki taught him. The monster continued yelling as Kiriya continued beating its back, soon Kiriya became tired the monster took advantage of this by trying to shack him off its back.

"Kiriya!" Todoroki yelled as the beast almost succeeded in removing Kiriya from its back.

Todoroki grabbed his Ongekigen and stabbed it into the side of the monster's stomach. He took a deep breath and then yelled his attack. "Zanki! Raiden Gekishin!" He yelled as he began playing on his guitar.

Kiriya paused after hearing Todoroki name an attack after his former master. Sending himself into a day dream.

"Kiriya! Keep going!" Todoroki yelled, snapping Kiriya out of his day dream.

Kiriya then came back to his sense and began beating on the monster once more. The sound of the two instruments created an ironic harmonious beat to the monster's demise.

Both warriors then stopped their attacks at the exact same time. The monster was now gasping for air, after a few moments, it stopped as its body inflated and it blew up.

Once the smoke had cleared, Todoroki and Kiriya were standing side by side, trying to catch their breath.

"Good job, Kiriya..." Todoroki said, almost gasping for air.

"Thanks..." Said Kiriya, feeling undeserving of the praise.

"Shakunetsu Shinku no Kata!" Yelled Hibiki's voice, echoing from the base of the mountain.

"Come on, Kiriya! We've got to go help!" Todoroki said as he grabbed his guitar and ran back into battle.

The two jumped from cliff to cliff and were soon at the final cliff, the thirty foot drop.

"Kiriya, think you can do this?" Todoroki asked, getting himself ready to jump.

"I...I...yeah, I can do it." Kiriya said, still unsure whether he could make the jump or not. He took one look over the cliff and took in a deep breath.

"Alright, here we go!" Todoroki said as he took a few steps back from the edge and jumped.

Kiriya then took one last look over the edge, took a very deep breath in and then ran towards the cliff.

"Ahh!" Kiriya yelled as he dropped to the base in mid air.

He landed on his feet, it was a hard landing, but Kiriya sighed, just happy that he hadn't killed himself in the jump.
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