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Chapter 17 - Chapter 17: The Shadow War (Part 3)

As Shadow king Hanaka flies at breakneck speed we are taken back to when the team was making plans for the war.

"Ok Saoichiki you wait at the school closest to the battlefield so you can distract the shadow king long enough for us to come help you."

Says Shirayama sensei

"But sensei how am I meant to handle him on my own."

Says a panicked Saoichiki.

"Don't worry the others will handle the 5 Dark Generals and I will face the Yinying's to dwindle their numbers, but I need you to keep him from interfering with the fights happening."

Says Shirayama sensei whilst reassuring Saoichiki.

We are shown Hanaka bursting through the school's building landing in Saoichiki's location, as the dust settles, we are shown the two of them looking at each other with strong killing intent.

"So, you must be the shadow king Hanaka, well I'm here to stop you from taking over this planet and the universe."

Says Saoichiki starting the conversation.

"Hm, I'll reduce you ants to dust where you belong, I'm only here to cleanse my utopia from such weak and defiant creatures."

Says Hanaka in response whilst leaving Saoichiki to ponder on what he just heard.

The battle between Saoichiki and Hanaka begins as Saoichiki shots off some "Plasma Bombs" and Hanaka uses "Dark Ball", but it would seem even the shadow king's weakest attack is too strong for anyone to handle as he is quickly overwhelmed.

 

Hanaka begins to manipulate Saoichiki's shadow and pins him to a wall, as he says.

"So, this is all your capable of after all your talk about stopping me."

"Did I say that?"

"Anyways, no that's not all I'm made of."

Says Saoichiki whilst smiling as we suddenly see a light piece through the shadow pinning Saoichiki against the wall, as it turns out to be energy from his Plasma gun.

As Saoichiki bursts out of the shadow he bursts through Hanaka's attacks and fires off huge "Plasma Grenade" which completely eviscerates Hanaka's body.

As Saoichiki lets out a sigh of relief and is ready to tell the others of his victory and Dark shadow begins to rise as a deep voice lets out from behind Saoichiki.

"You thought you defeated me that was merely a vessel to house my Godly powers, and thus it also suppressed my powers."

As Hanaka finishes talking we see his original form is a mass of Darkness emitting bloodlust, as he twists his body into a blade ready to strike him down, but as he gets close to Saoichiki's body a silhouette suddenly appears clashing their blade with Hanaka's.

As Hanaka's Dark blade meets the silhouette's he gets pushed back, but in that same motion manages to grab Saoichiki freeing him from danger for now.

As Saoichiki regains his composure he sees that it's Shirayama sensei as he tells Saoichiki.

"Hey, you're going to be ok just leave this to me and heal up."

Says Shirayama sensei as he lunges forward.

Shirayama sensei begins to lose a straight clash with Hanaka and is quickly pushed back, but as he has Shirayama sensei on the ropes he sends a Dark tendril towards Saoichiki.

Wanting to protect his students Shirayama sensei bolts to the front of Saoichiki taking the full brunt of the attack, as he begins to cough up blood Shirayama sensei tell Saoichiki.

"Don't worry kid I'll be alright."

"Since you're so chipper to help me, I'll take it that you have healed, well stay back and give me some support."

As Shirayama sensei says this he uses his katana to cut off the Dark tendril and secretly passes something to Saoichiki.

"Are you done formulating a plan?"

Says Hanaka as he yawns.

"All right then let's do this, one last showdown."

Says Shirayama sensei as he takes a stance ready to anticipate Hanaka's moves.

Hanaka begins with a wide range of Dark tendril's as Shirayama sensei reacts defensively with an "Iai slash-moon faze" attack which sends out multiple slashes at once pushing Hanaka's attacks back. As soon as he does his move, he rushes in dodging all of Hanaka's attacks only some grazing him, while Saoichiki is precisely aiming for the shadow with powerful "Plasma Bombs".

Shirayama sensei manages to get close enough to land a slash on him, but Hanaka grabs on to Shirayama sensei's shadow pulling him back.

As we grit our teeth in anger a small gash opens in Hanak's shadow form showing a core like the Yinying's and 5 Dark Generals had but much bigger and tougher to get through.

As both Saoichiki and Shirayama sensei look at the gash on Hanaka's body he slips through his own shadow at lightning speed, as he appears out of Shirayama's shadow saying.

"You are the most annoying out of the two of you, so I'll eliminate you first."

Says Hanaka as he pierces through Shirayama sensei's abdomen causing a huge hole in the middle of his body.

As he laid on the ground bleeding to death, he tells Saoichiki.

"Make sure to use what I gave you and please look after my daughter for m…"

Says Shirayama sensei as he took his last breath. Saoichiki looking over his dead body with tears pouring down his face wipes it off and looks at Hanaka with pure anger, as he let out a ferocious scream.

As Saoichiki was screaming his body began to glow in accordance with his rage, as he speed blitzed Hanaka getting through his defences exposing his core, as he manages to hit his core, but unfortunately for Saoichiki, It didn't crack Hanaka's core enough to hurt him and he gets his left arm blown off sending him crashing through the walls.

After getting up from the debris that fell on him, he tries to stay conscious from the rapid loss of blood and stay alive as long as possible from the rampaging Hanaka.

Running through the hallway I get my plasma gun ready as the dark shadow raced near behind me. I run into an empty and crushed room and lay low under one of the tables. As I gasp for breath to regain my composure I think aloud "OK I need to charge up my plasma gun". 'Boom' a huge crash rumbles like an earthquake across the building. With riveting anticipation, I begin shaking with my gun in my hand. With sweat dripping down I begin thinking " I better calm down before I accidentally shoot myself when I got so nervous like before".

The shadow king "Hanaka" draws in nearer and reaches the door of the room I'm hiding in, with not only determination in my eyes I grip my blaster and aim. The door bursts open as a beam of dark shadow engulfed the room; I manged to dodge some but I'm no God. I bring out my sensei's bow staff and throw it towards Hanaka and frog leap across left and right walls. Whilst charging my gun I aim at the stick and fire; the bow staff opens to the size of my plasma blast, and there was a loud crashing noise as Muzashi, Sah chan, Tatsue and Saki break into the room distracting me long enough for Hanaka to see and opening and slice off my right feet, as I put everything into one final attack breaking Hanaka's core.

As I begin to lose consciousness from the blood lost, I remember what the Goddess Rakki or what she said through the Catanians that.

"Subaru, Saoichiki you two must destroy the Shadow king's core completely to get raid of him for good or he will come back."

As Saoichiki remembers this he sees Hanaka's core shattered to pieces, but in his current state he is unable to do anything, so he exerts the last of his strength to tell his friends, only being able to whisper out.

"Guys, he isn't done yet."

And as he says these words his eyes completely close, uncertain if he will survive or not.

 

We pan over to Hanaka's core pieces as they begin to glow a violent crimson, but no one seems to be able to see it. As we exit out of the school building the all the Yinying's and the 5 Dark Generals cores begin to glow as well as everything fades into darkness.

 

 

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