[D][U] The final battle at Monte Christo

[Reijin]

Akane was nowhere within sight, but Reijin felt the need to watch over her as long as she was involved with this tournament. She had a strict dotrine of trying to hold onto peace, and regardless of knowing the frailty of such emotions, she had still made it this far into the tournament, naive or not. Reijin had to commend the young girl for it.

Once more the sky above them eclipsed into darkness as the catapults behind him fired. His eyes scanned the distance for movement but United seemed as if they were unprepared for the encounter and were scrambling frantically for their defenses to be set up. The sky was encumbered with the whistles of large flaming boulders hurtling through the air like missles, as if it were nothing more than an eerie premonition of things to come cast down by a fleeing flock of ravens from a nearby predator.

Reijin raised a fist tall into the air with his closed palm high. A sniper's bullet struck the ground three feet before him, and his eyes casually glanced down at the spot before a smirk crossed his lips. "Yes, we did our measurements right," he chuckled, speaking as if they could hear him. As if entering the eye of the storm, the sun began to reemerge from the hail of boulders and light once more began to trickle through as the boulders continued their path towards the United fortress.

"Annihilate them!" Reijin yelled before his men, hearing a fury of battlecries from the background as his men ignited another volley in preperation. The first volley began to strike their targets in a thunderous symphony of death, their explosions echoing out the drums of war.

The raven haired Lieutenent lowered his fist, signaling another launch of destruction through the sky, once more bathing them all in darkness. It was now that United's counteract fired, a brilliant flash of light sparking in the distance before the large beams rushed them, tearing through their numbers easily.

The men, having been prepared before hand, tried to maneuver their siege weapons to the sides of the incoming artillery fire as best as they could while shorter ranged units collected their powers along the front in hopes of deflecting the strongest of the beams from causing their damange.

Soldiers fell to all sides, but forcing himself to keep an objective view of the situation, things could have gone a hell of a lot worse. One of the soldiers nearby even turned to shove a nearby warrior to the ground before attempting to shield himself with his only arm. Reijin's eyes watched as the man's flesh was smoldered on the spot before his body was floored. The saiyan exhaled slowly before turning back to the enemy, ignoring the cries of the medics for help.

"Akane!" Reijin called out. No emotion was attached, just a simple call with an expected answer during the moment between deaths. He recieved no answer. His eyes hardened a moment and he simply took one more step forward, to recieve another sniper shot just before his feet.

"Hehe... Yes, I know you are just aching to fight me, but this time you'll have to leave your comfortable fortress to do so," the saiyan taunted under his breath. "If not..." he began, slowly rising in volume. "We'll tear your fortress down around you!" His voice had grown to another battle cry, echoed by the twangs and clacks of the ropes being cut and wood clashing with metal as even more debris was launched into the sky.