Chapter 44:
The Storm Within
Takehaya and Raimei were in an open field that was covered in sand. The two stood opposite to each other. Raimei sat down while she cracked her knuckles while Takehaya stood there, fidgeting his fingers, too worried about Mary.
"Let's begin..." said Raimei.
Raimei attacked first with her attack being countered by Takehaya as he grabbed her by the leg and slammed her body onto the ground with impactful might, causing the ground to break and create a hole.
Takehaya hastily said, "I win! Give up the secret now-"
Suddenly, Raimei rose up, and she attacked again but Takehaya grabbed her and threw her violently at some trees. Takehaya was becoming growingly annoyed by what Raimei was doing. Raimei rose up, despite her nose bleeding.
"Not bad..." said Raimei as she grunted.
Her hand reshaped itself into a giant scythe and with a big grin on her face, she went in for the attack.
"Hey, that's against the rules!" said Takehaya.
"New rules!" said Raimei as she drew closer with her scythe.
Meanwhile, Luna, Naoya along with the other warriors were instructed by Yu to get the citizens from all the districts to reach down to the bunkers as early as they can. The citizens whisper among themselves as they grew worried to what might be happening while others were growing anxious.
Naoya and Luna heard screaming from afar, and they immediately went to check and as they grew closer, they saw the citizens panicking and trying to push in front. They reached the source where they found a group of hoodlums being captured by Gorilla-Enigma's as they screamed for help.
"HELP US!" said a panicking citizen.
Luna and Naoya immediately attacked the Gorilla-Enigma's and despite their size, they were easily defeated. Suddenly, while their backs were turned, the panicking hoodlums rose up with big grins on their faces and their eyes glowing bright yellow. Luna turned around and saw them change into Chameleon-Enigma's.
They immediately went in for the attack, but Luna said, "Guess again, a-holes!" as she shot her cannon into the Chameleon-Enigma's chest, killing them. Their bodies then melted onto the concrete.
"This is getting out of hands." said Naoya.
"You're right." responded Luna she turned to the citizens and shouted, "This place isn't going to be safe any longer! Get down to the bunkers now!" And immediately saying that, the citizens hastily made their way to the entrance of the bunkers in a chaotic manner.
Suddenly, one of the warriors from the Migugameza district as they landed down and approached Luna and Naoya with dire news as they explained, "Bad news! More Enigmas were seen outside this district and already overrunning them..."
They suddenly heard crumbling from the ground. The citizens ran in reckless numbers as they desperately reached the bunker.
Naoya and Luna looked up and saw the number 424 visible from above before it rose up, reaching 437.
Luna stated, "We're running out of time, we have to hurry!"
Back to Takehaya and Raimei.
Raimei was continously attacking Takehaya with her hand scythe while he dodged her attacks. He managed to grab her and without hesitation, he ripped it out, causing Raimei to scream.
She shouted, "You little cheater!"
"Says you." Said Takehaya as he dropped the ripped off hand but upon doing so, Raimei's screams turned to laugher as she immediately attacked him from behind with her detached arm.
Takehaya dodged but was slow as the blade touched his face, leaving a mark. The detached arm then reunited with Raimei.
Takehaya snapped and said, "I've had enough! I'm out of here!"
And saying that, he lept up into the sky but Raimei didn't let him go that easily as she grabbed him by legs and pinned him down on the ground.
She said "You're not going anywhere!" With an evil grin.
"You're not playing fair Raimei!" Said Takehaya, "The Raimei is once knew would always play fair!"
"Yeah well..." suddenly her voice lowered as she said, "Thats because I... I-"
Suddenly, Mary arrived and immediately slammed Raimei to a giant stone and doing so caused her back to errupt and pop something out.
"Raimei!" Said Takehaya as he ran to her. He picked her and saw that she was okay but her eyes appeared to have black circles around them and her voice sounded very weak.
Takehaya said to her, "Hey its okay... I'm here."
"You must- you must-" said Raimei as she tried to say something to him. She then said, "You must reach the core..." and after saying that, she closed her eyes. Takehaya watched on with shock as to what had happened but was later changed as he saw her still breathing.
Takehaya laid her flat on the floor and stood up.
He looked at the controlled Mary and in a flash, he teleported to her and sent her flying up.
Back to Naoya and Luna.
Everyone had been safely evacuated and now the warriors focused their attention on the Enigma's but as they looked up, they watched as the number reached 444 and after that happened, a dangerous spark of lightning was targeted somewhere.
Takehaya lept up and realised what Raimei meant as he placed his hand on where the Enigma was and with a slight press, the parasite spat Mary out like it had just sneezed viciously.
"Mary!" Said Takehaya as he pushed the spider enigma parasite away and dashed to save her. He grabbed Mary and used himself and sustained the damaged as they reached the ground.
Mary opened her eyes and saw Takehaya in front of her and she whispered, "I knew you'd come." Before she closed her eyes again.
The Enigma parasite then saw the spark and when it came into contact with it, it immediately vaporised and reformed itself into an egg of all things.
It fell at high velocity onto the ground but before it did, it already began cracking and reaching the ground, it bursted opened with a beam of light coming out of it.
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