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Chapter 199 - Baki's Story - Isolated Island II: That Fluctuation!

It is very quiet in the Island now. No tremors, no fires, no, nothing. Absolute tranquility.

Far inside, at a small open space; a giant rock stands. Abel gets in front, (from the right) and holds his back against it. He pants lightly and carefully observes. He sees nothing off the ordinary.

He faces front; panting not.

Two tremendous blasts land behind the rock and blow. His eyes open wide, as particles fly with no restraint.

"Incredible! Imagine losing to my fake counterparts? That would be a disgrace to the name of the Kotetsu." He says.

Larry chuckles. He looks up, with his mouth open.

Larry and Richard levitate down with their arms folded a little far before Abel. (Richard's by Larry's left) They stop mid-air.

"You bastards, can't you let my head relax?" - Abel.

"I don't recall being so evil so as to let your head hang. You can. Sleep even. It's just that when you wake up, you won't be waking up in this World." Richard says while Larry smirks.

"I won't be waking up in this World, eh? Where's the animosity in that?" - Abel.

"Why are you searching for something that is not there?" - Richard.

They let themselves land. Abel stands tall.

"Ohhh? You're quite tall." Larry says with a smug grin.

"Failed ragebait." - Abel.

Larry's right brow goes up. He suppresses anger, still holding the grin.

"You look like you're constipated." - Abel.

"Should I use your mouth as a laxative?" - Larry.

"First for everything?" - Abel.

"Don't worry. I ate some first-rate shit. You will get to experience it, second-hand." - Larry.

Abel looks straight, with a little smile.

"Is this another filler?" - Mecca.

"Yeah. This didn't happen." - Ferdinand.

Abel launches at them. They launch at him. He unleashes aura. They unleash too. They reach clashing distance. Abel quickly swerves to the right, corners them, comes behind, pushes his hands and fires countless blasts.

They cover their backs with SH. They collide and blow like mad. Abel shouts and intensifies; pushing and pulling his hands (left and right).

The explosions turn super. A bigger one comes and overwhelms the vicinity with force. A great one to be exact, but intact.

Abel watches with terrifying eyes, popped out the sockets. The light dies, leaving smoke. The smoke too, clears away.

The men, show; trembling with the SHS oozing from their backs.

Larry grunts and calls while looking behind from his right...

"Fucking Kotetsu!"

"Yeah, that's right! I am Kotetsu Abel! Retainer to Kotetsu Baki, the Prince! A proud Member of the Kotetsu House, and The Great 5!" Abel declares with pride.

"Huh? Great 5?" Larry asks, staring; fully turned, as Richard turns from the left to do the same.

"What the fuck is that?" - Richard.

"Behind the times?" - Abel.

""Behind the times?" There is no time!" Larry says as they both face him.

Abel comes stern.

"What now, hit a spot?" - Richard.

Abel's eyes shake. He calms himself and says, placing a big-ass blade over his shoulders with his right hand...

"Let's do this thing."

They jam their SHS engulfed fists and release as Larry says with a wild grin...

"Yes, Sir!"

Two shockwaves spread and slice every tree head their way.

Abel brings his sword down, puts it to the front, and puts out a thick aura stream; drawing the blade before him to the left. It shoots in the form of a crescent blast after the men.

It reaches. Larry takes to the sky. Richard flashes down. He appears before the giant rock; on guard. Abel switches positions with it, standing at the back of his foe's right. Richard notices.

He sends the sword's side now in his left hand towards his back. It collides and sends him flying up with a quick blast. He screams and reaches a high trunk part with his face. Abel Happens by his right, right immediately; with his sword raised high in two hands.

A surging force comes towards his left. He shifts his eyes in its direction and blocks his side with his blade. Larry arrives; delivering a deathly right punch to it, then carries on with him.

He screams wildly, applying tremendous force. Abel's right catches fire.

He groans and unleashes the sacred flames from his blade to him. Then calls...

"Streams of Divinity."

"It can't be...!" Larry says and gets covered. He flashes to his right and stops, running across the dense forest in high speed.

The Streams follow, ignoring everything in their way. He feels it, grits and increases speed. He gets another feeling and looks back from the right. He sees Abel gaining with the sword in his left hand; stretched and spitting SOD.

"If I get faster, he will get faster." He says in his heart and observes Abel's focused eyes.

"Tsk." He goes in his mind, letting a grit and carries on; shutting his mouth...

"I need help."

A blast shoots from above the trees, towards Abel. It reaches, he jumps and spins to his left upside down (still facing his foe). It collides with the ground and leaves a huge crater.

"Chase him!" Abel commands in his heart. The Streams leave his blade and carry on pursuit.

Larry breaks the ground with a right step and flashes forth. The Streams flash too, right as he does.

A figure dashes towards Abel from that direction. Abel dashes after it. They reach themselves and clash their right forearms.

It turns out to be Richard. Shockwaves spread and decimate the section. The evening light shines.

They groan, struggle and jump back, far, curving their legs behind. They bring their arms, wrists jammed to the side. Abel: right. Richard: left. They fire a tremendous blast at one another.

They clash, shake the vicinity and lower the ground level. It (the clash) comes undone. They glare at each other and vanish in a light flash.

Above a hill in a hilly terrain filled with valleys, Alicia stands with aura upon the spear's buty, which holds in place; the corpses of Charles and Daniel. (Daniel above Charles)

"Already!" - Mecca.

"A true Retainer!" Clifford says with an intentful smile.

"Really, I don't deserve her." Baki declares, proud.

"It's the other way around." Alicia confesses across the realm and catches everyone's attention.

Baki grins.

Alicia shifts her eyes everywhere, observing the fight. You can hear but you can't see (they are moving insanely fast). Alicia looks right, left; down (left, right) and up, as the fighters take to the sky.

They fighters reach a high point and separate. It's Christopher and Paddler.

Christopher floats near Alicia. They stare with glowing eyes.

Christopher exhales from his mouth and says...

"This is the worst! Who sent me! Who the hell sent me! You've already taken out Garfield, I'm next. Shiiit! Shit!!"

The Garfield he talks of, lies dead in one of the valleys.

"Glad you know that." - Paddler.

"Shut up, Kotetsu! You don't get to decide!" Christopher says and shakes.

"But you already did." - Paddler.

"Eh? Oh." Christopher goes; stunned.

Sweat runs down the left side of Alicia forehead, as she watches; speechless.

Paddler runs towards him in high speed and vanishes. Christopher comes on guard.

Alicia locks in.

Paddler moves everywhere in ultra speed. So much so, he can't be seen.

Alicia's eyes follow his movements. She folds her arms. Christopher grits heavily in dissatisfaction. Multiple hill peaks shatter.

The valleys crack and separate. (Garfield falls into a gap) The area shakes.

"Trying to make me scared?" Christopher says with suppressed fear.

"You're already scared." - Paddler.

Christopher grunts and shouts, then says with power, adding more tremors...

"HOW DARE YOU!!!"

"Hey! Close your mouth, will you?" Alicia asks. He trembles and faces her from the left. She holds a wicked glare. Fear takes over.

Paddler appears surging with his left hand open; fingers pointed. He flashes off, flashes back and carries on with a shout.

Christopher faces him, completely stunned. Paddler comes in with a grit and sends his hand through his back. Blood drops on the ground before Alicia.

Paddler starts to pull out. Christopher shouts and grips it. He holds a grit while shaking. Paddler watches with no emotion. He shouts again, sets out thunder and covers himself.

Alicia stares with no emotion. Paddler too.

He growls, the thunderstrike heightens. The lights flicker on Paddler's face.

"A photoshoot, huh?" - Mecca.

"Indubitably." - Clifford.

Alicia stares.

Christopher shouts in pain. Paddler chops off his forearm with his left hand; clockwise (6 - 10), and goes back. He stops faraway and watches Christopher suffer. He growls and asks...

"What did you do!"

Paddler glares. Alicia blinks. Christopher's body flickers and explodes. Paddler blinks. Alicia stares. The light dies. Smoke remains.

In a crystal-clear long river, Tempest surges with power, engulfed in aura.

A little far behind, Andrew follows in the same form.

"He is so fast." Andrew says in his heart and grits. Tempest faces him from the left.

His eyes beep and a grand burst erupts before Andrew. He becomes stunned, stops, comes erect, shakes and shouts as the light covers him.

It subsides. He shows; guarding his face, eyes closed with crossed arms. He opens them, and drops his arms, all stunned. He sees everything normal. He checks himself and says in his heart; checking himself...

"Huh? I'm unscathed! I didn't lose a limb or two? I could have sworn I did."

"Did he fix me? There's no way he could have. There's definitely no way!" He continues, facing forward with his head down.

"Did he intend to blind me?" - Him (Within')

He squeezes his clenched fists and says again in his mind, looking straight...

"That's it! It's Manipulation! What a bastard. Has it come to an end!" He asks last and the water flow increases to the max.

"Wh-What the-" - (In his heart)

"What the hell is this!" - (Out loud)

The sun sets. The moon comes. It vanishes. The sun rises. The cycle repeats. The winds blow with excess speed. The seasons change; sunny, rainy, snows and falls.

"What-the-fuh'k?" He asks with shaky eyes.

"You know, you're somewhat of an inferiority." - Tempest.

It gets to Andrew. His eyes open.

"We may share the same power, but you're nothing but a miserable up starter. You cannot compare to an experienced High Head." He says while Andrew stares, shaking.

"I, Kotetsu Tempest-sama!!!" He shouts, puts out enormous wind, reverses the river, and renders to death; his Manipulation.

Andrew opens his eyes while guarding his face with his arms (crossed). He looks up; lettin' 'em down, and gasps. He sees the evening light and the setting Sun. The river no longer exists, only its floor. He stands on it.

"So it wasn't you accelerating time, huh?" He says with a peaceful smile.

"I can't accelerate time, you should know that!" Tempest says while floating down to a noticeable spot behind him, still on the air, and stops.

Andrew faces him from the left. He sees him afloat, with his arms folded.

"Well, aren't you the Aura Man?" - Andrew.

"That's Abel, not me. I only go when necessary." - Tempest.

"I expect nothing less from a Kotetsu. Always prim! Always proper! Y'all could take my girl and it would be an honor." Andrew glazes with a proud smile, fully facing Tempest.

"Why, thank you." Tempest says with a glare.

"Would you glaze me like that, Clifford?" - Mecca.

"Over my dead body!" - Clifford.

Mecca whines, everyone laughs, all while the two feel themselves. Andrew slowly takes to the sky and aligns himself with Tempest. He smiles. Tempest does not.

Eventually, he says...

"Maybe I should smile too." Then he smiles.

"See? That's not so bad." Andrew says and Tempest frowns.

"Bad man." - Andrew.

They stare at each other for a little bit and flash off. They appear, running with intense speed on dry land; facing each other. Tempest bears a sword in his right hand. Andrew, the same. They flash off again.

In a straight line, they clash continuously; shattering the grounds. They reach a spot and come off sight. Suddenly, a burst of light and sound occurs. The lands level and the places tremble. In the midst of it, they float, still holding their swords.

It ends. Andrew raises his sword and strikes. Abel dodges with a back jump and lands. A pop (explosion) sets before him. Richard surges through with his fists prepared.

He shouts and sends his left fist towards Abel's chest. Abel dodges with a curve to the right, grabs Richard's left leg with his right hand and flings him with a turn to his upper back. He surges after him.

He flies with his eyes closed; gritting. He opens them. Abel reaches in a jiffy above him with his fists out, and sends them to his face; shouting. Richard dodges them like his life depends on it.

Abel sends a right. He dodges and sends him back with a deathly right punch to his face. He surges after him while Mecca says...

"That's gotta hurt."

Abel bleeds as he goes.

A shadow comes on him while his eyes are closed, and while he holds a grit. He opens them and exclaims. Above him, Richard stays with his left heel raised.

Mecca makes 5 'nkt' sounds and says...

"Nah!" as Richard gets down.

He strikes his heel on Abel's SHS'd face, and sends him down. He surges after him again. Abel lands on the ground, bounces and goes back. Richard reaches him in an instant, wearing an evil grin; with a flame prepared right fist. Simultaneously, Abel raises his feet; strikes him on the stomach, makes him suffer and throws him over. He goes with him, lands on top (thighs spreads) and slams his back on the ground. Abel raises his fist, assumes force and strikes the left of Richard's face. It goes to the right.

The earth by it shakes and explodes. The ground splits in that direction and sinks everything. Richard with a bleeding mouth faces Abel. Abel's eyes open and shake. Then he sends another. Richard catches it with his left hand. Another force shoots straight from him (Abel), splits the ground and sinks everything.

He groans, shouts and sends his left. Richard catches it with his right. The ground straight ahead splits and the usual takes place. They struggle. Abel growls. Richard glares. Eventually, he lifts, jolts, and sends him flying with a tremendous right kick to the side.

He spin horizontally, tearing down everything with his force. Meanwhile, the Streams chase the hell out of Larry. Larry runs with great speed on a long river.

"Kotetsu Abel! His kind! Even with their power, we cannot compare. SOD; he made it independent! Who does that!" He asks last in his heart and takes to the sky.

They follow and hang, right behind. He flashes to the right. Them, to the left. Simultaneously!

He slides back to a stop, in a desert. He holds a grit as he waits. The Streams surge like never before. He quickly lifts and throws his right hand back. He forms a sword in it, puts aura with a growl on its blade, shouts and fires a great blast at them.

They collide and turn the area chaotic.

Larry stands tall; glaring. The Streams press with enormous power.

Concurrently, far away in the desert; Abel and Richard struggle with glowing eyes in a tug o' war. They growl while at it.

Spaces deform, thunder strikes and particles rise. Richard grins wildly with a 'hmm' sound and asks with an evil smirk...

"Are you exhausted?"

Abel says with an evil grin...

"Princess, I should be asking you."

Richard grinds his grin and throws his head in. Abel throws in his. They clash, blood drops, a force comes and sends them packing in a grand burst.

"This is the greatest saga I've ever seen." - Mecca.

The Streams break through and surge. Larry shakes with an exclamation and dodges with a slight back bend. They curve by his right chest, and take to the sky.

He stands straight and face back from the left. The Streams reach him. He puts the sword in both hands and sends a down slash. They clash through. He sends an up slash; the same occurs. He sends a straight slash; the Streams attack, they clash and Larry pushes them far with a shout. They come, powering towards his left. He looks and flashes off. They pass, the ground shatters and flies away.

Larry appears in a back slide, facing SOD, stops and dashes like mad with his sword, still in his hands. He reaches a point with his sword raised above his left shoulder. He makes a down slash and clashes with the SOD. The sand below blows and flies everywhere. Larry goes down to a new layer; grunting. The Streams follow. He holds a tough grit throughout every experience.

They go on strong; emitting force. Sands fly like crazy, the grounds level even more.

Cracks form on the blade and a little part of the Streams show. Larry's eyes shake as he sees this. The Streams go hard. His hilt sizzles. Cracks form in his hands and the Streams encroach. He panics, slices off his wrists and jumps back; far.

He watches in awe. The Sword and SOD go at it. The cracks come strong. He comes to, shouts and pushes forth; new hands in a pool of blood. Then pants.

"That's gotta hurt like a motherfucker." - Mecca.

"Yessirrrrr!" - Clifford.

The blade and the hand turns to ash. The Streams vanish from sight. Larry becomes down.

"Not againnnnn!" He whines.

Abel runs with glorious speed. He says in his heart...

"I wonder what's going on with Larry."

The depressed Larry comes in sight. He smiles big.

"God, kill me." Larry says, eyes closed. Unbeknownst, Abel approaches behind him. He extends his right hand, reaches, smacks his left booty, and goes ahead.

Larry shakes, looks right, looks up, looks down...

Abel laughs and says...

"Over here!"

He faces front and sees Abel running with his left side. Richard bolts past his back.

He puts his right index on the flesh under his eye; stretches it, throws his tongue out and makes a mocking sound, all at the same time. He turns into lightning, jumps, and zaps in Richard's direction.

Larry watches in a confused state. The Streams appear by his left, facing his shoulder. He looks, shouts, they strike, and a burst rises.

He breaks free from the back; scathed. His garment to the left; ripped. His chest, stomach and arm; covered in SOD cracks. He is displeased (His chest bears the mark of the Seal). He hangs his left wrist on the air and forces a rip. He screams, takes out the infested, and goes back.

"What the fuck?" - Mecca.

Blood splatters and he spins. He reaches a free spot and lands, facing where it happened. He pants, shouts, coats himself in aura, shakes the vicinity and erupts a new set. The mark is no longer there.

He pants in relief, realizes, and looks down. He sees the mark no longer and shouts...

"It's gone! How come!"

He remembers...

"Don't you dare lose where the mark is. It's not coming back." Anarchy says with a grin.

He cuts the flashback.

"Oh, no." He says. Blood pours down his whole body and he falls. On the ground, he lays dead on his face; pale to the limit.

"Just like that." Mecca says while the Streams watch. They turn back from their right and flash.

Richard and Abel run extremely fast, side-by-side; a little far apart. (Abel, by Richard's right)

Richard feels it, holds a bit, and says...

"So he's gone? Larry's gone?"

"He is?" - Abel.

"Yeah." Richard says as Abel forms his sword in his left hand. The flames fly in and assimilate with the blade. Richard looks and smiles with a tiny pinch of fear.

"Are you afraid?" Abel asks with a smile.

"Yes or No?" - Richard.

"Yes or Yes." - Abel.

He takes the fire in and promises...

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna use it."

Richard comes upright, placing his right hand on his chest and breathes a sigh of relief, with his eyes shut. He opens them and faces Abel with a smile.

Abel grins and shifts his hand briefly; attempting to fire something. Larry shouts. His grin becomes wild and he fires a shot of SOD with a horizontal slash to the left.

It reaches Richard, whose eyes are open. He side flips on the spot, from the right and lets them pass. Spins from the left, faces back, throws his right arm and fires a wind scythe at Abel.

Abel panics and vanishes. The scythe goes through.

"Coward." - Richard.

Tempest and Andrew stand; pointing Revolvers at one another, in a Mountainous Area. Tempest points with his left. Andrew with his right.

The wind blows them by. It stops. Andrew pulls the trigger and nothing pops.

"Huh!" He goes.

"What!" He goes again, looking at the barrel.

"No waaay!" He says last in awe and Tempest fires.

"Oh, it worked." He says in shock.

The bullet Hardens and Sparks erupt.

Andrew looks into the barrel; depressed. The bullet hits his head, throws it back and sinks inside. He collapses on his face.

Tempest stares, blinks, and walks to his right; unbothered. He tosses the gun with his right hand back. It lands and spins to a stop while he carries on.

"I'm sick of this place." He says in heart; glaring ahead.

In a forest, Gastiny walks on a straight path. By his left, something flows. He walks for awhile and comes across two trees by his left and right. Jason (Left) and Jeffrey (Right) are impaled at the throats on them. He becomes shocked. In his mind, he asks...

"Is that not!"

He comes in their midst and observes their terrible states. He faces front with his hands in his pockets and says in his heart...

"I have been here before. Don't tell me-"

He hears the flow and looks left. He sees the river and becomes mad.

"So that's it! That is it!! Right from where I started, eh! I've been lost all this while!!" He says in his heart; holding a grit.

He forcefully turns back from the left and walks with power, saying...

"Fucking life, I hate it!"

The trees collapse and crush the two. The area vibrates. Gastiny engulfs in aura, takes to the sky and carries on in the same direction.

Richard and Abel go on a ferocious hand-to-hand on the sand; delivering punches and knee kicks to their body parts. Richard pushes him back a bit with the touch of his right hand on his chest. Abel stops. Richard comes in with his left fist set. Abel watches. He sends it towards his face. Abel flashes backward with lightning and appears in a backflip of bolts behind Richard.

Richard notices. Abel goes down, preparing for something; while Richard, with his body down as well goes for a turn to the right. Eyes-set-on-foe. He goes 180° and sends his left leg high. Abel sends the same. They clash causing an impact. The sand reduces again.

They struggle, calling out thunder strikes from their limbs. They separate, jump far back and land. A light burst erupts.

They shield their eyes.

"Another!" - Richard.

"This time, it's hella stronger!" - Abel.

"How! We're supposed to be nearing our limit now!" - Richard.

"I guess, we're not!" - Abel.

"Tsk!" Richard goes and shouts, releasing DAMN force. Abel does the same. Their forces clash and tear down the light. The space passes through a lot.

They continue to shout. Richard increases, he increases. Abel increases, he elevates. The whole desert suffers. The tug o' war draws to no end.

Richard intensifies his flowing yell and pushes Abel back. Abel gets himself and does the same. He goes back, gets himself and fires. Abel stops and sends it back with a raging yell. Richard stops it in the middle with his. The clash continues. Abel goes crazy with his eyes shut. His force soars, overcomes the other and approaches Richard.

"Hngh!" The sound he makes while holding a grit in fear. The force collides with him and sends him into a world of pain. He screams with his arms spread, eyes shut and face to the sky.

Abel glares at him.

"I see! It wasn't us all along, it was me!" Richard says in his heart and flashes back.

"I guess, we're not." - Abel.

He cuts it, stops shouting and forces his head down with his right eye open; to see Abel. He sees him glaring.

"Shit." He says.

It overcomes him. He goes back to screaming with his face up. His body starts to vanish.

"Oh, a Kotetsu. Never again!" He says in his heart and completely vanishes from existence.

"Poof." - Mecca.

Everything calms. Abel sighs, goes on his knees and collapses on his left.

"I need to get better."

Nearest to a gigantic waterfall, by the right; Roma places his right foot on an elevated rock and glares ahead. His clothes; tattered. Body; finished.

"It is unbecoming that a proud Kotetsu such as myself...is subject to this humiliation! I will not stand for it. I swear I won't fucking stand for it!" He says in his heart.

"The same goes for me." - Baki.

Roma becomes stunned and looks to his upper right. He sees Baki, in the same state, looking ahead with folded arms; standing on the air, feet in line with his shoulder. (Their shirts are missing)

"My Prince." He calls.

"Roma." He calls back.

"We can't take this anymore." - Baki.

Roma waves his face and says...

"No!"

"I have a plan." - Baki.

"What is it, my Lord?" - Roma.

"Roma!" He calls with bulging eyes.

"Yes, my Glorious Prince!" - Baki.

"We will move at the highest of speeds! We will override them! That Fluctuation! We will put an end to it!! Roma, it's time." - Baki says; concentrating his glare, and Roma nods.

"I don't know what you said. But from the look of things, it seems a change is about to be made." Matthew says, they face front, and look up. Matthew calmly levitates down with folded arms; still talking. He finishes with "made" and stops at a spot still on the air.

"For crying out loud!" Ronald says. Baki and Roma face their upper rights. On the summit of the Fall, he stands with aura. Baki and Roma, with their arms folded; bat not an eye. They blink instead.

Ronald holds a smug grin and laughs a little...

"Hehe."

Roma looks straight. Baki looks down in the same direction. Behind the second gigantic elevated rock, the remaining stand: Williams, George, and David.

"Where is Laura? Don't tell me she hasn't recovered yet? That bitch should be tougher than that."

Ronald vanishes like he never existed and stands by his boys' left; hands behind, legs spread. Matthew levitates down and lands on the rock.

"We're all here, I see." He says with a smile, shifting his eyes; left and right. Then finishes with a wild grin, centering them...

"Aside from that bitch, Laura tho."

"So she's a bitch to you, huh!" Baki asks and Mecca laughs.

"Easily. Went over all of us like pudding. She is the worst, utterly disgusting!" - Matthew.

"But she's sweet, won't you agree!" - Baki.

"Very much so, Dear Prince." - Matthew.

They hold. Wind blows them by. Matthew charges and shouts in a high tone...

"Yooooooooooooooossssshhh! (Alriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggttt!)"

Baki and Roma glare.

He then goes with a higher tone...

"Let us goooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

And starts running on the spot.

His mates follow after, chanting...

"Hiha! Hiha! Hiha! Hiha!"

Baki and Roma become agitated.

"This is beyond disgusting, my dear Roma." - Baki (Telepathically)

"Tell me less, Morning Star." - Roma (Telepathically)

"What the fuck!" - Clifford.

"Make sure you massacre that unsightly bastard." Baki says telepathically, shaking in anger.

"As you wish, Sekai no Hikari. (Light of the World.)" - Roma (Telepathically)

"What the fuck!" - Clifford.

"Part II." - Mecca.

"Fightooooooooo! (Fighhhhhhhhht!)" Matthew commands, jumps and surges (runs) towards Baki and Roma. His men follow, shouting.

"Such energy. Ikuze, Roma! (Let us go, Roma!)" Baki orders, unfolding his arms.

"Ha!! (Right!!)" Roma responds and they both bolt; destroying the ground behind.

On the water, both parties run with power towards each other.

Laura's high-pitched shouting voice comes falling down in Baki's direction. He stops and looks to his upper right. He sees Laura coming down with her limbs spread.

He becomes agitated.

"Laura!" He calls.

"Exactly!" She replies.

She lands in his arms and gets held with a strong squeeze.

"Ahhh!" She goes.

"Hngh!" He goes, putting her to his right.

He now says and throws her to his back left; towards an average-heighted tree...

"I don't have your time!"

She spins horizontally on her way there and nears it with her left side. She goes down, lands with her back on the ground and gets attacked immediately by Baki and Roma. They launch down; shouting, with spears in their hands. Baki (spear in the left), by her head. Roma (spear in the right), by her legs. They strike her and cleanse the area with a bust.

Baki and Matthew appear before each other ready in a flash, right above the water; floating.

"Nice display of speed there." Matthew says with a wicked grin.

"Oh! The Prince is just getting ready!" Baki says with a wicked grin of his, rotating his head to the right. He faces him, wording "ready" and fires a heavy force wave at him.

He goes back, grunting; face down, arms crossed before the head. Sounds of clashes, shouts, flashes, and explosions from Roma and the rest come through; behind him.

He faces Baki and gives off an evil chuckle. Baki sends a blast; it nears him. He goes...

"Fuck!" And gets touched. Covered! In a grand burst. Baki bolts past his right and clears the light. Matthew shows, all burnt. He falls to his right and sinks. Whereas Baki runs with all his might towards the flooded area (by the left of the Fall where Matthew first surged), where Roma fights. Roma with a shout near a huge rock by the left, right kicks George on the left side; causing him to completely face his right (where the rock is). All the while, the rest remain pose-stricken on the ground; aura engulfed and ready-to-flash. And so, they do. Simultaneously, Baki reaches the edge of the destroyed flow path and plunges at the kicked man.

He turns and forces his jammed feet towards George's back; facing his right. He collides-with and sends him flying to the rock. He turns from the left; eyes closed, and hits his back; limbs spread on it. It cracks. With a grit, he asks in his heart as the recoil pushes him down...

"They have always been this strong! What happened!" He falls, lands on his face and flushes off to his right; into the power flowing river. Baki lands with his left facing Roma, right before the rock.

"You guys are doing well to hide your presence, but that won't do you any good!" Baki says and shoots a beam from his right hand, to his upper right, towards the land connecting the Fall. An invincible figure, laying on its chest; ready, leaps forward. The beam hits, destroys the edge, and the water surges. Right away, it becomes visible: Ronald! (He wears a sure grin)

The flood reaches the point close to their knees and spreads out. The little forest behind the rock feels it. Roma and Baki take off with speed, fists sets; towards Ronald. As they go, the rock shatters.

Baki approaches the man's right. Roma, his left. They near him, he screams in terror; they knock him up with their heads and vanish. He spins (horizontally), screams, and cries; all at the same time. They appear above him; the same way with joint hands, raised behind. He closes in and they strike him. He forcefully goes down with his head first, screaming, and crying again.

He gets grabbed by the neck and ass. He screams once and looks left. He sees Baki gazing ahead and smiling. He screams like never before. Baki hoists him, saying...

"Okay..."

"Nooooooooo!!!" Ronald shouts, shedding tears like crazy. Baki now shoots, ordering...

"Go!"

He goes with power towards the river, he enters with force and splits it thoroughly to the Fall. He hits the bottom, the place vibrates and the waters shoot; down the long river. The land by the sides break apart. The waters fall and surge into the bushes.

Baki; mid float, laughs in lunacy and asks...

"Do you see that, Roma! It's a storm!"

Roma, by his left chuckles in the same level and replies...

"It certainly is!"

The waters swoop in and take everything!

Baki holds a grin while observing. Roma makes an "ah!" sound and calls in panic...

"My Lord!"

He shakes, a blast comes, and he looks up. He grits in panic, crosses his arms over his face, and gets pushed by the surging beam.

"Baki!" Roma calls looking down from the right.

"Huaagh!" - Baki.

He lands on the flood and holds the blast; looking down. He grunts and growls, letting it come together. As he does, the water spreads into a circle about him.

Roma watches fully facing back, with a grit, and a face of sweat. Williams stands tall, panting with a sweaty face as well. He stops and sets out an evil grin.

Baki growls the most and shakes the area a bit. The beam compresses into a BIG ball and shifts back. He looks up, releases force and sets down his right hand. Roma and Williams feel it.

"What!" - Williams.

Baki screams, stops, opens his eyes and says...

"It's yours. Have it back." Then he knocks it back with the crash of his left arm on the air in front. It goes with great speed and passes Roma's left instantly. Roma makes a turn from the left and faces its direction.

He watches as it approaches Williams. He panics excessively and back flips. The blast goes straight to the sky, stops, and renders into a series of fireworks.

"What's the celebration?" - Mecca.

"Death." - Clifford.

"Edgy." - Mecca.

The three watch. Roma and Williams; in shock. Baki; with no emotion. He stands straight. He feels something with the shift of his to the right, and flashes forward. The thing follows in the same pace.

Baki appears on the water, facing back with spread arms. Laura comes in, in an instant; sending her right arm to his face.

He quickly goes under and speedily moves forward, saying as he scales and faces her with a turn from his left...

"Leave me alone!"

As he does this, she passes through, turns from her left, and faces him.

He sends a left fist underneath her right breast. He knocks it, makes an impact and throws it up. She bears a face of shock.

"What the-!" - Mecca.

It falls. He goes down a little and knocks the both with excess speed; countless times. She watches him go at it; speechless. He finally knocks the left with greater force. He creates another impact, shakes the path, and lets it fly; leaving his right fist up.

"Baki, you did this?" Akado asks and Baki chuckles as someone trying to explain, the inexplicable.

It falls. He sends his left forearm to her face. She gasps and gets hit. A third impact is made and it sends her flying back into the lane of the devastated forest.

She goes down and falls into the now still water.

In a brawl of endless hand-to-hand, Baki, Williams and Roma scream heavily; as they take to the sky. They reach a very high distance and hold there. (Williams; in their midst) Ball blasts shoot towards Baki and Roma. (Baki, the left one. Roma, the right)

They reach and get thrown off course. David, the one who shoots, shouts as he intensifies the surge. Of course, all meet the same fate. He continues without shouting.

"Tsk. They've coated themselves in aura!" David says in his heart while observing the aura on their bodies. They cut it, the balls hit them, and still get deflected. The battle carries on like nothing's going on.

"They made it invisible, huh?" He says, brings down his hands, and lets the last wave fly.

He flashes up as they all hit and get tossed.

"I have to hit them on their blind spot." He says in heart and appears behind Baki, with an aura engulfed blade in his hands; stretched to his back left. Right leg raised and bent like he's about to throw a ball.

He sends a blast towards Baki. It reaches and Baki vanishes. He gasps as he watches it approach "his brother". He shouts...

"Williams!"

"All of a sudden, I feel light." Williams says in his heart, turns back from the right, and asks while facing David...

"What is it, David!"

The blast comes in and his eyes open. Roma hooks his arms with his.

"What are you doing, bastard!" He asks, the ball blast hits him and drives him crazy; pushing both back a little.

Roma holds himself, struggles and screams; releasing his own force. It collides with Williams and disarms him.

"Die already, you bastarrrrrrrrrrdddd!!!" Roma says, the blast goes into Williams and sets him ablaze. He dies instantly.

Wind blows off the fire to the right and leaves a scorched corpse. It crumbles down into the water. As it does, Roma watches.

"Roma!!!" Baki calls from above and brings Roma back. He looks up and sets himself, saying...

"Right!" Shoots aura, and bolts towards David. He reaches David's left in a jiffy. Same time, Baki Happens before his right.

Baki sends his right fist; Roma, his left. And together, they deliver a devasting blow to his chest. He grunts and coughs out blood. It splatters on our heroes' faces.

His back expands heavily, shakes, and bursts. His organs fly off. The corpse falls to the left and enters with its head into the stagnant flood.

Laura clears her throat with the front side of her right fist before her mouth. She goes excessive with it. Baki and Roma hear and turn their faces in glitches to the left.

They see the woman standing tall, legs spread on the land by the Fall's left (right as was first introduced); with her left hand behind. She clears her throat again with her fist still in front of her mouth, and brings it behind.

"Heyyyyyyy!" She says with love, and lets out a wonderful grin. They face her with utter shock in their eyes.

"Can't believe your eyes?" She asks, tilting her head to the right.

"So she was the durable one, after all?" - Baki.

"Putting me in the category of "was" is surreal, don't you think, Prince? I mean I'm still alive." She asks, letting down her hands.

They stare.

She opens her mouth, attempting to say sum, and chuckles in lunacy. They blink.

Her chuckles intensify, and she laughs out loud. Sweat drips down the sides of their faces.

"I understand." - Mecca.

She cuts and faces them with a wild grin.

"Lollllll!!!" She goes and requests, going back...

"Come on, c'here!"

They budge not.

She continues walking back and requests again, with the continuous pulls of her fingers, and a smile...

"Come on, my loves. Non's gonna happen."

Behind her, stands a few trees and endless dry ground. They eye themselves, look straight, and proceed, with their fronts.

They land at a good distance before her.

She holds a bit and claps excessively with joy, uttering...

"Good! Good, I say! Good!"

They bear a look of disgust.

She calms herself and asks...

"Should I come to you...or you, to me?"

"Both is fair." Baki says and looks to Roma by his right. Roma faces him and they both nod with a lip expression. They face her.

She locks in. They lock in too. The wind blows by them, to the East. It stops. She engulfs herself in aura and surges. They do the same as well.

They reach, power clash, and go back; as if knocked out. They face themselves again (Her; with a wild grin. Them; with grits), rush-in, clash again, hold, and battle with shouts; pushing her back at every fist thrown. The ground shatters; dust erupts!

They hook her arms with theirs, force her to question, and render devasting kicks to her stomach. (Baki:right. Roma: left) She goes on a flight back on the long dry ground, twirls from the left and faces back; upside down.

"Let's go!" Baki orders and they both charge; running at full speed. Baki swings his arms. Roma holds his, squeezed behind. They take out aura, run a bit more, and the ground swallows Roma up to his armpits.

Baki stops a step ahead, looks back, calling...

"Roma!" The ground swallows him completely.

Baki shakes; making an "ah" sound from his throat.

"Face me, Prince!!" Laura orders with an approaching voice.

Baki looks to his left and fully faces her; shaking. She comes in laughing with a sword in both hands stretched to the right.

She reaches him and sends a slash to his face. He dodges with a back bend and lets her pass. She lands; backing her man with the blade now in her right. Concurrently, he erects himself with speed. He forms a Sword in his left hand and spins in place.

They face each other quickly. Her: a turn from her right. Him: a turn from the left.

They clash with power and send their fighting hands to the side. They take 'em in and send continuous horizontal waving clashes to themselves. They clash through in each one and Laura sends Baki back a step after the other, smiling (wild). She eventually sends him flying with a right forekick to the stomach, and fires countless blasts at him from her left hand; pose-stricken, laughing out menacingly. It damages the trees that way.

"This is terrifying, Baki. How did you survive this?" Mecca asks last while a figure flashes forth from the midst of the burning and blown trees.

"Like this." Baki says as his past self swirls past the blasts with utmost authority. Behind; many trees burn, many trees are out of place, many trees are shattered, many trees are gone. The ground is dead.

He makes a down slash and sends a slice blast with his face down. He looks at it, grunts and shakes a bit while holding a grit. Then shouts, emitting force.

(His eyes been glowing since)

"Your condition at the time?" - Mecca.

"Right! I was getting closer and closer to overcoming it." - Baki.

"Mmmm! Baki, you better accept you're God o." - Mecca.

Baki laughs.

They both say while the force surges towards the blast. Baki (present) laughs, it hits and explands the blast. It comes mighty before Laura.

"Fuck!" She shouts and shoots the Sword with a wave to the right. It flies far and hits the right side of a stray Buck (Male Gazelle) eating leaves near a big rock by its left. It falls forward.

Laura puts her hands before the blasts and holds it. The force come past and tears her clothes.

"It should have torn everything na!" - Mecca.

"Acting like this is a porn show!" - Clifford.

"But it is a porn show!" Mecca says. Clifford becomes dumbfounded.

She grits, suffers, and screams; adding back her own force. The place trembles.

"Don't forget about me!" Roma says and a blast comes at her back. She becomes stunned, then locks in and says in her heart with the shift of her eyes to the left...

"Pincer!"

It collides with her and squishes her.

Baki, while standing, with no sword in hand, smiles a heartful smile. Roma, whilst standing on the air with a sword in his right, a little far away; laughs.

She suffers in the midst. She struggles to break free but then remembers.

"Oh." She says and slips out from the left.

The blasts jam.

"Now she knows." Mecca says, an explosion erupts; she covers herself with an invisible barrier, and lets the fire cover her.

Baki watches; shocked. Roma too.

The fire dies, leaving smoke. The smoke dies too; showing a burnt ground and no one.

Baki comes alert, and widens his eyes more. He and Roma looks around, turn 360° too. Both; from their lefts. Laura applies before him with her right fist ready.

Baki and Roma exclaim.

"Baki!" Roma calls while she connects a big right to his face. He goes back really far and hits back first against the base of a mountain (tallest one in the Island).

He falls with a grunt, lands on his knees, and collapses on his chest; face to the upper right. The glow in his eyes blink, and his body shakes.

"How long...will I able to last?" He asks in his heart.

"I told you! It wasn't cool!" - Baki.

"Why, you!" - Roma.

"Now then." - Laura.

They say together. But she does hers, clapping dirt off her hands. After, they flash simultaneously. She flashes backward.

He appears on the ground far before the edge. She appears in front, smiling (wild) with her left fist ready. She sends it to the right top of his head. He dodges with a slight tilt. She becomes mad; giving him the eye, then starts beating the crap out of him.

Chops, punches, kicks, pokes, butts. He walks back with each shot.

"What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong, Kotetsu Roma!" She asks. On the part of "Kotetsu Roma", he sends a right fist to her face. She dodges with a little crouch; gazing at him. He faces her, stunned. She smiles and elbows him on the jaw with her left.

He staggers to his right.

"What's going on?" - Mecca.

"End game." - Ferdinand.

He now staggers back; panting. A blast comes on the ground before him and throws him. He backflips on the spot, stays horizontal, and gets smashed to the ground with a shooting right kick to the mouth. Laura takes him forward from that point on; destroying the ground on the way. The parts fly like never before. She faces him while they go.

He watches her with fierce eyes; screaming. He bleeds from his mouth.

"That's gotta hurt." - Mecca.

"Yup." - Clifford.

His back scratches against the ground, peels, and spews blood; at each shatter.

"ALOT!" - Mecca.

"Yup!" - Clifford.

"ROMA!!!" Baki shouts; coming in at her upper left, with his right leg stretched. He strikes her neck, and snaps the bone.

"OH!" She growls.

The pressure hits on her skull and cracks it.

"Clean!" - Mecca.

Roma grabs her leg with his arms, and together; they puts the cracks of SOD on her.

She squeals and the flames sip through.

The grip on Roma's mouth loosens and Baki shoot her down the edge. She falls, turns to her back, becomes ash, and enters the water. Her body separates.

"1 is 1!" - Mecca.

Baki pants hard with a blinking glow, and a sweaty face. It intensifies, he holds his forehead with his left hand, and collapses on his back.

"BAKI!" Roma calls, grunts with shaky eyes, and carries himself to the left; after get him. His back bleeds from a hole in his Turtleneck.

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