Sing the Song of Deception (Plot Thread 5.2)

[Amadeus DiZagin]

Amadeus bolted towards Yeligar as he zoomed around. "My Ketulunanian blood will defeat you!" He said as brought out a sound bomb, and smashed it. The sound seems to have been absorbed into his glove, when he swung down, the force of the sonic boom, and the punched combined, and hit Yeligar's chest.

[Yeligar Maelstrom]

Yeligar felt the blow to his chest, but his metal chestplate took most of the blow. Yeligar quickly got his leg in behind Amadeus, and delivered a double fist punch at the top and bottom of his sternum. THis made Amadeus fall to the ground, and Yeligar raised his leg, and swung his foot down at Amadeus' chest.

[Amadeus DiZagin]

Amadeus quickly fade into the shadow after he took the foot to his chest. He appeared near the group as he grabbed his chest. "You...You can't beat the lead!" He stuck out his hands, "MAESTRO MODE!" His aura flared up, rivaling that of the Lunar knights, and his right sleeve was torn, showing off a tattoo. A long row appeared in front of him, and he pressed on it. It made music, sending blasts towards the hero. "THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF YOUR REQUIEM, ALLORUMIANS!" He swung down his arms, making the keyboard vanished, and the wires came out. He then swung the wires are very fast speed towards the heroes. When he swung, his wires cut though the buildings near by like butter.

[Kurai Horo]

Kurai was stood on the side of one of the buildings, as if gravity was pulling him towards the wall, he saw the wires approaching due to the glinting light shining off of them and raised an eyebrow before jumping away from the building as it was sliced clean in two. He landed almost casually on the ground before standing up straight and rubbing his eyes as if he was tired, maintaining his Sharingan in these conditions was getting tiresome, but he needed to keep pushing himself, for the sake of all those around him.

Closing his eyes he held his hands together "Mangenkyo Sharingan!" he roared, but he kept his eyes closed "Fifth gate!" suddenly, Kurai's aura flared to match Amadeus' and a vein bulged in his neck and forehead. His hair had swapped from a grey color to a more whitish tint, and as he opened his eyes, his Sharingan was blood red, his normal eye was pure white. "Okay..." he said, with a deep breath, this was the strongest he'd been, ever. "Let's do this..."

[Amadeus DiZagin]

Amadeus looked at him, and told Kurai, "You are the one who dare to impersonate our great race! I will take the pleasure in wiping you out. Now you see my greatest form, combining my mastery of Darkness, Sound, and Chi!" He pulled the wires back, and crossed his arms. "Fus!..." He then brought his arms down, and he finished the sentences, " ... RO DAH!!" A mighty ball of sound was propelled towards Kurai.

[Kurai Horo]

Kurai dissapeared, moving faster than the human eye could track but the blow still grazed him and sent him flying backwards through an entire building before he back flipped and landed on his feet. He made no noise, standing up straight he dissapeared whilst making a flurry of hand signs, before reappearing just above Amadeus "Lunar style: Wind sickle jutsu!" he swing an arm, sending a magic gust of energy down that would ci like a thousand daggers into anything that crossed it's path. Before the move had even reached Amadeus, he was stood below him, the ground cracking from the exertion of his energy.

He could already tell the outcome of the attack, it wouldn't work against Amadeus in his current state, but what more could he do? He was at his strongest currently, he couldn't warp him away with his Mangenkyo because the strength of it would take half the station with it... He would need to have to think on the move during this fight.

[Amadeus DiZagin]

Amadeus just swung his wires to meet with the energy, as they made an explosion away from himself. Amadeus stuck out his hand, and snapped his fingers, this produced a soundwave for Amadeus to use like sonar, and to located Kurai. He then found Kurai, and turned towards him. He punched the ground, and made a shockwave towards hi enemy.

[Kurai Horo]

Kurai disappeared away from the attack but was once again clipped on the side and was sent sprawling to the ground, skidding through the dirt he slammed a hand into the ground and flipped himself up onto his feet with a growl. How was it that even in his current state he couldn't keep up with Amadeus' attacks? He dare not open any more gates to access the locked away power he had stored, to do so would probably drive him insane and leave him useless for the rest of the fight. And yet he did not plan to simply roll over and die. He needed to increase his speed and power even more.

"Remember Kurai!" his father said as he handed him the olive green jacket "You always need to push yourself to your limit, if you can succeed in the hardest fight of your life, others will seem to be much easier." Kurai shrugged the jacket on and grunted slighty in exertion, it weighed a ton! "Once you have mastered fighting in that jacket, fighting without it will make you a ghost, an unseen and unheard visitor to all those whom have wronged" Kurai nodded, and ever since rarely removed the jacket, save to wash himself or the jacket.

Kurai reached to his neck and started to undo the zipper, reaching inside he pulled out a scroll before shrugging the jacket off, which collapsed to the floor with a loud crunch, cracking the concrete beneath his feet. Opening the scroll he threw it to the air before it disappeared in a plume of smoke. In it's place a long katana appeared and fell to the ground, Kurai held up a hand and caught the blade casually before swinging it around and crouching slightly, facing his opponent.

Kurai inhaled, enjoying the freedom of no longer wearing his jacket before glaring across at Amadeus "Let's do this." He said bluntly, showing some contempt for his opponent, a rare feat for the calm silver-haired warrior.

[Amadeus DiZagin]

Amadeus looked over at Kurai, as he sported a new look. Amadeus cracked his knuckle, and shouted, "You still think you are better than me?! You are just a mere poser!" He jumped into a shadow, and came out, already swinging at Kurai side.

[Kurai Horo]

Kurai had already disappeared and Amadeus' attack hit nothing but air, Kurai was already reappearing silently in the air behind his opponent. As his father had promised he had effectively become a ghost to his opponent, he had no doubt now that they were matched in speed but all that meant was that it would now come down to who could hit the hardest, and right now it was still Amadeus that had that advantage... He supposed he had one last move that he could try, but he didn't have the time to charge it with his opponent pushing the offensive like he was.

Like he had already thought, he matched him for speed right now and he would just have to keep using that to force Amadeus onto the offensive and he'd need to keep his trap shut. He had a feeling that not saying anything would only enrage someone like Amadeus who wanted to make this as dramatic a battle as possible. He probably wanted him to shout something inspiring so that he could make songs about the fight later, he wouldn't grant him the honor, history would remember on it's own accord.

[Amadeus DiZagin]

Amadeus swung his fist down, as it made a crater where Kurai was suppose to be, then he growled. He then landed, and turned around, swinging his wires make the area around him to turn into small chunks. He then shouted, sending the rocks towards Kurai and everyone else who was near by.

[Kurai Horo]

Kurai raised an eyebrow at the rocks sent forth by his opponent, he faded away before reappearing in front of a rock and slicing it in two, before once again disappearing and reappearing in front of another, he repeated the process a few more times before landing on the ground silently with his sword in hand, surrounded by a pile of rubble. He look up at Amadeus and charged forwards, constantly fading and reappearing from one side to the other, never standing still, when he approached his opponent he once again disappeared as if he had never been there before reappearing behind him, further away.

He was trying to draw Amadeus away from the others, he wanted this now to be between the two of them, he just needed the Ketulunian to give him the chance to charge up his energy and unleash one final barrage of energy, if all failed then, they were no doubt doomed...

[Amadeus DiZagin]

Amadeus glared at Kurai, and he he shouted, "FUS RO DAH!", sending a ball of force towards Kurai, and he kept repeating it over and over at Kurai as he gave chase towards him. The tattoo on his right arm started to be consumed with his aura, as it flared to reflect the pattern.

[Kurai Horo]

Now, this was his chance, it was now or never! Kurai faded away from the walls of force that seemed to be chasing after him, after the last one he disappeared onto the roof of a nearby building and brought his hands together in a hand sign. Taking a deep breath he closed both of his eyes before charging up his aura, a white glow that seemed to pulsate and grow larger as he charged up to his limit, and it was not long before he hit said limit. His aura froze and Kurai had to dig his feet further into the concrete of the roof, now audibly growling he tightened his grip on his hands.

"Tenth gate!" he roared, opening the final gate, accessing all of the power that he had, he had decided that if it would leave him brain dead he would at least have rid the world of the threat of one Amadeus DiZagin. His aura flared to a massive proportion before contracting and condensing until it fit snugly around Kurai's body, leaving him with a pure snow white outline. Still growing he opened his eyes, his Sharingan no longer had any black in it, nor did he have an iris, the entire eye was red whilst his good right eye was still pure white, the lunar birth mark on the back of his neck was burning white, visible even underneath the mask that covered his neck and the metal plates on his gloves burned white hot.

The wind howled around him as he stepped off the roof but did not fall, he had complete and utter control of his bodies energy, diverting all of it to cling to the oxygen particles in the air, effectively flying. Swooping down to the ground he collided feet first with a huge crash, sending up dust and debris, but when the smoke cleared, there stood Kurai, hovering slightly above the ground and surrounded by a crater, he pointed his sword (also glowing with his aura) at Amadeus.

"You have wronged Amadeus" he said in a reverberating voice that held two tones "This is not what the moons want, and for that you shall pay." his mismatched eyes locked onto DiZagin, his piercing eye tracking every tiny movement, from his breathing, to the beating of his heart, the blood moving through his veins, the tiniest movements of the eye, he was the perfect assassin at this moment in time, seeing all of his weak spots and all of his strong ones. If anything he was above equal of his opponent but he still didn't have the strength to kill him outright, he knew that, he would need to use it, it seemed.

[Vash, the Angel's Moon]

I watched from where one of the stray blows from the fight had sent me flying into a wall, watched as Kurai unleashed awesome, but terrible, power. A power I had only seen three or four times in history - a Lunar Knight at his absolute peak efficiency, channeling his own power and the power received from his Moon simultaneously, at maximum strength.

I didn't dare interfere in this fight - and Kurai didn't seem like he'd be needing my help anytime soon. Likely, without full mastery over my power, or much practice in battle for the last few centuries - something I decided I'd be working on in the next few - I would only get in the way.

I smiled.

"Brother," I said quietly to myself, "I suppose... it's up to you, now."