[F] Bra, Android 17, and Reijin

[Reijin]

In a flash the dark clothed youth was at the roof of the watchtower, finding himself accompanied by the two sisters that he had become acquainted with. A dark brooding sense filled him with foreboding as he looked down to meet Bra?s gaze from the bottom of the tower. The young girl seemed to be caught up in a heavy cluster of emotions, trying to take in everything that had happened in the last twenty four hours. She looked around erratically as tears began to slowly flow upon her cheeks.

?That girl is going to be essential to the outcome of this battle,? the older Dezmon sister observed. He turned his eyes to her curiously and she smiled at him, her looks betraying nothing more than mystery. ?I have given her a gift, as I have you.?

He felt a chuckle emerge from his lips as the feeling of her kiss reverberated so refreshingly through his memory. ?So you made out with a twelve year old?? he questioned cynically. She returned an exasperated sigh and Reijin touched her cheek for a moment. ?Relax, babe, I?m only joking.? His words were an attempt to lighten the mood, and yet he felt a sharp pain to his heart as he spoke them. He turned, allowing his words to trail off as he saw the girl finally take action below.

A short distance from the tower, a large demon with an impossibly mammoth scythe was issuing orders to the denizens of Hell, inciting them into a battle fury very like that of the Saiyan invasion attempts. The Saiyan girl was closing the distance between the two of them with mind blowing speed, nearly blurring even to his trained vision. She was angered, evident from the tears that streamed down her broken visage.

Katel placed a hand upon his shoulder attracting his attention. ?I think that it is time for my sister and I to acknowledge this battle in our own way,? she spoke, giving Akira a nod. Reijin returned the nod and allowed his trademark smirk to implant itself upon his hardened face.

?Good. I don?t want you two in my way when I kill this army on my own,? he replied cockily. Not waiting for a reply, his feet carried him to the edge of the rail and over, hurling himself to the ground below. Almost on impact, a large horned form was upon him.

It gave a guttural roar in a language never meant to be spoken by mortal tongues, and brought down a large fist to the ground. The Saiyan expertly rolled to the side, rising to his feet with a tumbler?s proficiency before his two Ki katana appeared within his fists. Without preamble, he darted in, slamming one of the blades deep into the creature?s chest before wrenching it out the side of its torso, disemboweling it with ease. It looked down and roared once more as its intestines spilled to the ground, and dropped down to its knees weakly. Reijin gave a laugh as his view turned to look for more opponents.

He barely heard the scraping sound over the clash of weaponry on the battlefield. Luckily, his attention spun back to the creature in time to see it rush at him in an attempt to gorge him with its horns. He fell backwards awkwardly, losing his balance and striking his back against the wall of the watchtower. A curse escaped his lips as he rolled over, attempting to pull himself to his feet.

He felt the thunderous footsteps once more and threw his weight blindly to the side, hearing a deafening crack as the creature?s head slammed into the wall where he had been leaning. He climbed back to his feet, reforming his dissipated weaponry with a moment?s thought. The demon howled in fury as it tried to break its head away from the side of the watchtower, broken remains of concrete wall falling all around it while its head remained firmly lodged. Reijin solved its quandary with a deft slice of his blade, leaving the head to adorn the rock wall as an ornament above the remains of its headless body.

Satisfied, the lust for blood ignited within the warrior as he turned to look for more future victims. It tore at him, screaming for an end to the trained calm of the Saiyan?s mind, but he quickly quelled it while scanning the battlefield for important fighters. In the distance, he could see Bra clashing with the large demon through the broken holes within the armies before they once more converged and covered his sight. She seemed to have the demon pretty well covered, from his point of view. He also felt that she had a bit of learning to do. She was too na?ve, and needed to be broken of it.

In the distance, a loud explosion shook the very earth upon which they stood. Reijin?s legs gave way beneath him, and he hit the ground hard, finding that he was not the only one to do so. He quickly righted himself to see large monolithic structures of warfare being introduced to the battlefield. An angel announced it to the world as ?Siege weaponry!? was heard to the few that could take the moment to acknowledge it.

Shaking his head angrily, he darted amongst the warring combatants with a display of agility very few mortals possessed. Angels fought against demons, holding them at bay while fighting with their morals in mind. The hardened warrior stepped between the two warring factions and struck a demon through the chest, creating a gaping cavity in its rib cage with his katanas before turning to the nearby seraphim. ?Remember my training! Those who fight with weakness do not fight alongside me. They will die, by the hellions or my own hand if necessary.? The angel gave him a startled look before drawing his glorious sword, vanquishing a demon with a quick slash to its turned back. Nodding, Reijin turned, seeing another angel waiting calmly for a demon to dispose of his partner before interrupting the fight. He growled with animosity and rushed towards the angel. ?There will be no weakness upon this battlefield!? he screamed, loudly enough for all to hear. The demons even stopped a moment, as Reijin?s sword slammed to the hilt into the angel?s cranium, catching it between wide eyes.

He let the winged corpse drop to the ground with a lifeless thud as he turned to them. ?If you are going to wait for the demons to kill your friends, rather than help them save this world, then I will be giving you something to do while you wait? Do you understand?? he yelled loudly. A few of them, encouraged into motion, broke away from the group and began to double team the demons.

Above him he saw a large chorus of angels diving down upon the denizens like raptors, throwing down large lances into the army and raining upon them penetrating death. Demons found themselves pinned to the ground at their full height with dozens of lances throughout their bodies, and the Saiyan smiled. Returning for a second sweep of the area, the angel?s stopped for a moment, each liberating his lance before taking to the skies again.

Mid-flight, a large cluster of them scattered and fell as a large flaming rock took to the sky, slamming into the force and throwing them from the air. ?Regroup!? he heard them scream, and he spat. Spinning, he found a large toothy grin directly above him. His eyes narrowed as his energy laden blades shimmered to life, but the grin suddenly erupted into a massive blade from behind. The creature turned in pain as the blade pulled out, severing its neck with the second stroke. Seraph, the large monstrosity of an angel that he had trained before, was standing before him, wiping the blood from his blade on the foe?s corpse. He looked to the humanoid before him and smiled sadly. ?Are you a demon?? he asked quietly.

?I am far worse,? was the Saiyan?s reply.

The battle closed between them, and the youth took advantage of the moment to turn, gathering a large pool of energy quickly between his hands. He slammed his palms together, firing out the Final Flash with the desire to rid himself of the claustrophobic nightmare that seemed to engulf him. Dozens of forms were thrown to the ground, and Reijin saw in the distance a large creature walking between the battle, deep red skin seething with the colors of dried blood and pulsing with a hellfire not of this world.

Every step from the great horned beast set the ground aflame, and it casually would reach out and clasp a nearby angel, rending its head from the body with a slight tug. All around it lay the bodies of fallen angels and demons alike, and from Reijin?s viewpoint, this creature had been the executioner of both. The large archdemon was obviously a higher being than most of the scum that they were fighting.

With a renewed interest in the battle, the dark haired youth took to stride to reach the mammoth creature. It towered over the battle at a height of over 9 feet, and looked easily down amongst the lower creatures before it. Fire bubbled up from its eyes, and great horns extended bloodily to the sky. Multiple large spikes grew from its back, extending like an unnatural form of exoskeleton armor upon the greater demon?s shoulders and elbows. Its gaze turned to see the Saiyan a moment before he slammed into the creature?s chest with his swords.

They immediately shattered into broken energy shards on contact, and Reijin slammed into a feeling that sent hard coils of agony throughout his entire cortex. He found himself lying on the ground moments later, trying to pull himself up amidst his ragged breaths before two large hands surrounded his midsection. Instantly flame surrounded his body, but it was not of his doing. This flame burned with an eternal torment acquired only in the darkest nether regions of Hell itself. He screamed in fury, and the creature wrapped its clawed hand around his neck, turning him to face it.

?Have you nothing to say, mortal?? Its voice had a deep booming thunder to it, while somehow echoing with the cries of millions of anguished souls that lay forgotten within its realm. Every word spoken by the creature was voiced by the screams of the damned, and every syllable was a chorus of pain. ?This world is mine.?

He struggled as his very flesh was beginning to sear, turning a deep reddish color and causing every nerve to reach an unbearable level. He tried to black out the greatest pain that he had ever felt, but he could not. All he could do was feel the overwhelming sense of insignificance that passed through him as his skin charred. ?Very well then. You will join me at the core.? Its hands tightened their grips unceremoniously, and a renewed agony coursed throughout every nerve of the forsaken mortal?s broken body.

?Satan! Release him!?

A large booming voice echoed over the entire field, filled with nobility and light that nearly canceled out the suffering that was blackening the Saiyan?s dying body. Reijin?s view was beginning to fade, but something told him that the demon did not wish for him to die yet. He tried to scream through cracked and parched lips, but his moisture ridden breath would not come to him, no matter how painfully he tried. He never felt himself strike the earth with a resounding thunder, nor did he realize that he was no longer in the demon?s grasp.

All he felt was the cool touch that surrounded his body, the loving light that sought to sooth his infernal being. His eyes began to flutter weakly open, and he saw Akira and Katel standing over him, both of them pouring their energy into him frantically, attempting to revitalize him. ?We can only stave off the pain! We cannot heal wounds such as this. Reijin, you must hear us! Only you can heal these wounds upon your body. Gabriel is fighting Satan right now.? Who was speaking to him? He could not see a thing, as they had once more faded to shadow. He could only feel a tiny spark within himself growing dim. Like tendrils of agony, the darkness slowly closed in upon the spark and forced it into the tiniest corner.

?Remember? Your father would fight for you.?

He heard the words echo faintly as if distant to him. My words? His thoughts seemed to grow firm as the spark within him suddenly flashed. I am a Saiyan? He would not die this day. No? I am far worse. The creature that attempted to bring about his end would know suffering. I will not die this day! The spark began to fight back, growing as the darkness fought against it wildly, attempting to stifle it back into inexistence. He would not allow it any more ground to quell him, and the spark grew with an empowered vigor, furious that such a creature so low to him would bring him this close to death. A mere greater demon?

Akira and Katel looked to each other as the Saiyan?s body was overcome with a blue radiance, emanating a glow that bathed over them coolly. Nodding to one another, they released their grasp upon his dismantled form and arose, looking to the catastrophic engagement between Gabriel and Satan. Gabriel was filled with a cold and righteous anger, every blow of his great broadsword emitting a golden explosion upon Satan?s own abyssal blade. With every golden explosion, darkness quickly moved to quell it, acting upon its master?s wishes without a moment?s hesitation.

?Should we interrupt?? Katel asked her sister. The leaf clad girl seemed to have a light amount of blood covering various parts of her vine clothing, and a small amount of stains upon her beautiful face. Akira, on the other hand, seemed completely flawless with a matchless aura shining about her.

An explosion of Ki ignited from behind them, and their spun around to see Reijin standing behind them, completely healed of all wounds with a brilliant golden aura radiating from him as electricity seemed to crackle about his immediate presence. Akira gave a sigh of relief as a smile began to form on her face. ?I?m so glad that you are-? The smile froze as she Reijin suddenly ignited with flame, searing fire coursing throughout his entire form.

His eyes were icy and cold, reflecting nothing more than a desire to kill. They seemed to be focusing intently upon Satan, and nothing more. She gasped for a moment, and took a step back. ?What happened to you?? she whispered.

He stepped forward towards the battle just as Bra arrived, panting. She saw Reijin walking slowly towards the struggling titans and screamed after him. ?He?s MINE to kill!? she yelled passionately. She gave the sisters a quick look of desperation. ?Just what the hell does he think he?s doing?? she pleaded.

Katel could do nothing more than shrug as the words refused to come to her. Bra groaned and turned towards the battle as her own aura embraced her. ?That?s it!? she yelled, and ran after the group of them.

As soon as Reijin reached the two, he found Satan to have a massive claw wrapped tightly around the archangel?s jugular. He looked to the Saiyan and a large toothy grin enveloped him. ?How nice of you to show up? Just as I was about to dispose of this filth!? he chortled. Gabriel struggled beneath his grasp to no avail, and the greater demon looked down at him, spitting into his face. ?You know? I?m surprised that you are not here to do the job yourself, Reijin.?

Reijin stood calmly watching them as his fire burned wildly around him with an illustrious passion, while his visage betrayed no emotion, just stern cold anger. Satan, seeing that the Saiyan would not respond, continued. ?You know that in your soul, you are nothing more than a demon yourself. You may have been born as a Saiyan, but your spirit belongs to me,? he taunted. He still received no form of reaction, and his eyes narrowed a bit. ?You are pathetic!? he spat. ?Always trying to play the good guy when you know what your heart is. That black burned heart of yours.? The words still did not seem to affect Reijin as he focused intently upon the creature at hand.

The demon looked down to see Gabriel?s struggling form attempting to reach a nearby fallen blade, and he laughed at the futility of the struggle. ?Tell them, Gabriel, why I am invading this world. Tell them how I plan to use this useless rock full of death and decay as my gateway to spread further into this world, impregnating it with my own insidious desires. Tell them what the angels have done to help me accomplish my goal?? The archangel?s eyes widened a moment and he screamed in fury. Satan?s hand released enough to allow the angel to angrily refute his claims before he tightened once more, choking the air from his celestial lungs. ?Of course you didn?t,? he spoke, his voice claiming otherwise. That penetrating voice filled with the millions of screams of those from the abyss. He turned to the Saiyan and glowered. ?You should really do the job yourself, mortal. I think that it would finally help you know where you stand-?

?Silence, fool!? Reijin suddenly snapped at him, somehow stunning the diabolic creature before him with his unwavering stance. ?You do not dare speak to me until I have given you permission, you pathetic excuse for a forgotten life form!? Bra was suddenly at his side, her mouth having touched the ground from Reijin?s fortitude. The demon seemed to narrow his eyes at Reijin, and contemplated a response. Reijin?s was immediate. ?When I am finished with you, every being in Hell will know of you as an example of the pain that I can inflict upon you. You may be considered a form of God in the blood boiling mires from which you were spawned, but compared to me, you are still nothing more than filth, a pox that I will cleanse from my path. You do not share the right to even walk before me.?

Taking advantage of the moment, Gabriel?s eyes suddenly flashed golden as his blade leapt to his hand, coming around to strike the demon across the head with its hard hilt. The demon howled as it was thrown to the side and Gabriel, giving it no mercy as Reijin had taught, was instantly upon Satan. He had yet to begin to fight.