Great Strike Exia - chapter 21-2

Author's note : there is a particular orchestral theme made for this whole chapter, feel free to have a listen while having a read, Youtube link here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xaCcPA4IU

Chapter <ⅩⅪ> - 2

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" Does that horn mean the Prime will meet us ?" Tenmei asked as the drums beat vigorously and the horns moaned in ominous foreboding, while Sven's expression was calm and solemn, darkened before the storm.

" It means the clan will meet us first, in Combat." Sven replied sadly, readying his lance

" Miss Nina, Griffon ! Tenmei and I will be enacting plan B ! We are counting on you two !"

Sven cried as the Plateau gates creaked open in earth-shaking motion.

" Roger that !" Nina and Griffon nodded as they readied their battle stance.

Then Sven turned to Tenmei with a grin

" Now's time to review some Parusefor stride you learned with Mirai and Youki, Tenmei."

The Master of lance and Tenmei our man exchanged nods in agreement

" Follow me, in three…."

The Plateau gates are nearly full open now, with Parusefor warriors and soldiers emerging from the shadows within the plateau.

" …Two..."

Masters with bows and crossbows and cannons and gatling guns appeared at the plateau walls and aimed down at them as the Parusefor warriors began dashing forth.

"........ONE !!!!!!"

Passing through seas of valiant warriors and deadly Masters, bursting forth into the rocky maze-like fortress zigzagging by parusefor clans folk that were taken by their sudden striding surprise as Tenmei followed Sven's dimension piercing lance that broke through all the defenses and shields the tribe masters' strong attempts to stop the two, to no avail !!

But before the Parusefor warriors could give chase, Griffon and Nina rose up to stall the Parusefor masters, fighting back all the soldiers and warriors that swarmed in with ferocious tactics, but Nina and Griffon, together like a cyclone fury of combat, pushing back the Parusefors fighters to a standstill with just the two of them !!

" Impossible !!" some Parusefor Warriors uttered in disbelief

" That is Griffon the clan dropout !! He can't possibly best us !!"

Lo !! Griffon the Parusefor dropout, after leaving the clan and traveling with Tenmei and crew, roaming all over Kingdeniom and engaging in all sorts of battles, has reached a level that no Parusefor can estimate!

But that is not all, for Nina too was more so the reason that Griffon could reach new heights, for the two seasoned fighters battling side by side like an unbreakable array, Nina with her glaive and Griffon with his twin halberds, both young heroes looking after each others' backs, honing their skills and improving their game to catch up to their partners' prowess that they were stronger now than they were when they started this voyage.

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Asuka Line Zeta Hikaru rode his limo with Yukari as fast as the vehicle could take him to arrive at the scene, at one end of the Tron Central bridge, where press-hired helicopters were already hovering around the long wide bridge, camera flashes over the two figures standing close at the middle of the bridge.

Lo, Asuka Line Zeta Hikaru with his telescope virtual eyes glass, saw princess Isabel,

in the hands of dark armored personnel in a thick jacket wearing a face covering helmet of top caliber!!

Holding a gun at the Princess' head !!

Hmm ?? Asuka Hikaru fell into a deep brood of doubt at the scene

What is this fugitive Tenmei doing ??

Is He not on the same side as the notorious Keiken King ??

Is he not the one that snatched the princess from him ??

Why is he threatening to murder the Princess ??

Is he trying to negotiate his way out of this ?? For me to spare his life ??

One life for a life ??

What are his motives ??

What does he want ????

" Asuka…. sorry, Prime Minister."

Kool Leovis the minister of construction spoke to Asuka in a stern whisper

" Minister of defense Akahanon Zabinus Prime is here."

" I am here." Zabinus prime showed himself without waiting for Asuka's rambling

" Asuka! Don't mess this up !! Call upon the Ark'arios !!"

" Not in front of the press and the eyes of the people, Zabi !!!!"

Asuka Hikaru hissed angrily, forgetting to address the minister of defense as Zabinus Prime as per his positional name

" The people still believe I am the protector of the Keiken regime, that can't be changed !"

Asuka bit his lips impatiently in quick thought of a way to remedy this plight

" I must get hold of the princess without harming her in public, and then stage her murder by accident later on !! But she is now in the hands of that fugitive !"

" Rest assured, I have stationed the League snipers…" Akahanon Zabinus prime chuckled.

" NO SNIPERS !!!!" Asuka roared at the sharp Akahanon nose

" Call them down, NOW !! If any of them hurt the princess, even a scratch, I'll lose the people's trust !!"

Akahanon Zabi face-palmed in regret for being the minister of defense of this wishy-washy prime minister.

" Still aim at the target." Akahanon Zabi whispered to his snipers through the microphone, who all stationed on top floors of skyscrapers surrounding the central bridge area, aiming all at the armored figure's head.

" ASUKA HIKARU !!!!"

Asuka Hikaru froze and turned around to the loud altered undiscernible undetectable untraceable voice coming out of the threatening figure with the gun at princess Isabel's head

" I ASK ONLY FOR ASUKA HIKARU AND NO ONE ELSE.

DROP ALL YOUR WEAPONS AND APPROACH ME ALONE IN FIVE MINUTES,

OR ELSE THE PRINCESS DIES.

IF ANYONE INSTEAD OF ASUKA HIKARU MAKES A MOVE FORWARD,

THE PRINCESS DIES.

IF THE SOLDIERS AND SNIPERS MAKE A MOVE,

THE PRINCESS DIES."

And this figure ripped open the jacket it wore and revealed tons of explosives strapped around its armored chest and belly.

All of Tron gasped at the announcement as they watched everything happening through live broadcast on their U-phones, and TV screens either on business buildings or their own homes, mortified by the dastardly act of ransom.

Yukari looked at Asuka, whose face was buried under the shadow of dark brooding.

" Everyone,"

Asuka Hikaru spoke after a long brooding pause, taking off his robes and belt and the guns and swords strapped to his side

" At the end of this bridge, one shall stand, one shall fall. Tell me, WHO SHALL STAND ???"

" KINGDENIOM STANDS FOREVER !!!!!!"

shouted all of the Prime Minister's loyal soldiers,

as if in choir to cheer him on,

pushing Asuka Hikaru forth,

Approaching the mysterious armored entity and the crying princess in its hands !!!!!

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Dashing up and up the spiral passage inside the plateau, with his lance straight piercing it way forth, Sven sped in superhuman speed like a purple missile pushing away dozens of Master Strikers out of his path, while Tenmei Akiro, in the Parusefor Master Striker armor lent to him dashed forward following close along Sven's tracks in the Parusefor stride.

With the winds of the Parusefors running past him, things and objects flew over the air above, bringing Tenmei back to the times when he and Mirai were racing in practice alongside each other back in the days of his Parusefor training years.

It's as if Mirai and Youki were there, accompanying him in his stride, dashing towards his goals of fortifying an alliance to protect this home, and striving for those he wants to protect.

" We are almost there !!!!" Sven shouted back to Tenmei as he penetrated a shield held by a Parusefor master of shield and threw the Parusefor Master out of the way

" Sorry, Josh !! No hard feelings !"

Josh, Parusefor of shield gave Sven a thumbs up on the ground as the two sped forth,

as the thick tall doors to Nirvariel Nero Prime's chambers,

finally, emerge in sight.

And with one swipe instead of a thrust of his lance, Sven swerved in a circle at the last minute, turning into a cyclone that swept all the assailing Parusefors away as Sven made way for Tenmei Akiro to give the thick chamber doors one good punch,

a fist imbued with the power of an Exia Rune, the Blue Exia Rune that lit up ablaze,

bursting the metal doors out of existence like a blue atom bomb,

blowing all the guarding Parusefor Masters out of the way in one fell swoop.

" What in Yuidis' name was that ?!"

Josh, Parusefor Master of shield cried as he shielded himself on the ground near where Sven stood.

" That,"

Sven replied in admiration

" Is an Exian Lord's resolve."

And finally,

Tenmei and Sven stepped into the Prime's chambers, after fighting their way and showing their stride to all,

entering the wide room only to see it was cleared and empty.

Not even a piece of furniture or stone bed remained.

" What the…."

And Before Sven could ask where the stone bed went,

three planets crashed down on Sven and Tenmei from above, erupting into supernovas that imploded within the whole stone-walled chamber, blowing up where Sven and Tenmei stood.

But as the dust and smoke cleared with a sudden powerful whoosh,

it revealed Tenmei Akiro, with his Blue Exia Rune activated as an energy shield barrier, and Sven deflecting with his lance blocked the planet's explosions and escaped instant death.

The one that released the planet bombs bent down from above the ceiling and emerged out of the corner like a true shadow come to life and leapt down to the floor, landing gracefully like a ballerina with a humongous sword of wild proportions, its blade glistening with the million stars and planets enveloped in an electric cloud of stardust,

the cosmos greatsword,

and its wielder, Riella, Leading Master Striker of Sword.

" I see."

Riella whispered in a life-threatening voice

" Why you wouldn't let me in your house last night."

" ....No hard feelings, Riella."

Sven the lancer tried to explain to the furious young lady with a huge killing sword

" But surely you want to know what caused the disturbance too, do you not ?!?!"

" If our Prime tells us not to, then surely there is nothing to doubt about it !!!!"

Riella shouted and swung her greatsword full swing, shooting out planets at them which Tenmei and Sven dodged narrowly among the gaps of the immense supernova explosions.

Tenmei Akiro pulled out a Parusefor curved sword and with Sven dashing forth, Star lance raised high in a plunge attack, the two ready to engage in fierce combat against the head of all the Master Strikers of the clan,

when suddenly,

sound was sucked inward,

the air stopped flowing,

time went nonexistent,

as between Tenmei, Sven, and Riella,

a large stone slab crashed down right before their clash,

emitting a mountain-moving strength that threw all three young combatants back to the stone wall,

as the shadow beneath the deeply struck stone slabbed sword rose up inch by inch until it reached its true height,

a cloaked, armored, burning entity, clenching the stone slab sword close with its two sharp metallic hands,

The flaming head danced before their eyes as the red eyes within the everlasting flame stared back at them,

in a death defining stare.

Nirvariel Nero has arrived.

" Bring out your sword, Rune hoarder."

Nirvariel Nero demanded in a deep hum vibrating to the deepest depth of the sea

as the Prime Paruseforon held his large stone slab up and crushed it with his two bear hands in a grand resolving grab, and out of the crumbling stones and rust,

within that slab that now is but sand beneath the Prime's feet,

a huge blinding purple blazing Exian Rune Sword bursting up to the heavens, blooming over the whole plateau and enveloping the entire Tron capital under the traces and curves of the one great Exia Rune of purple,

of the overpowering powers exceeding beyond Light Human possibilities,

in the palm of his hand

" Then, we may speak through action."

And seeing the burning purple tip of the Exia Rune Sword pointed at his chest,

Tenmei Akiro had no other choice,

But to show this Prime of the Starchild clan his own Exia Rune Sword of ultramarine blue that he let out of his hands, shooting out like a star to the sky and returning to Tenmei's hand a well bloomed Exia Rune Sword, with the blue bursting Rune of power blazing above in the skies next to the looming purple Exia Rune.

"......Don't mind if I do."

and Tenmei Akiro was ready.

And down a straight slash did the Parusefor Prime hurtle down onto the young blue Exia lord his purple bursting Rune Sword that Tenmei blocked with his own Rune sword, as the two clashed, blow after blow, each shaking the universe one after another.

Far away on the Denteimong battlefield, Edmund and Tricia could feel the clashing too, just as loud as the clashing of the Golden Lord and the Red Exian Lords' never-ending fight to the end of time.

And pulling out the central parts of his purple Rune Nero transposed it into a shield which he slammed Tenmei at ten thousand times the speed he was before, sending Tenmei deep into the stone chamber wall as Nero without skipping a beat pierced forth with his bulging purple Exia Rune as the blade sailed right towards Tenmei's chest and met with the blue Exia Rune that sent it upwards as the two blades slid upon each other, flame igniting through the hard on friction as Tenmei raised his deflecting blade upwards and Nero's pierce struck through the wall right next to Tenmei's ear.

Quickly with a strong will to survive, Tenmei mustered his Exia Rune back to his one arm and with all the energy gathered and transferred from one foot, then forward to his right arm, and finally with his whole body pressing forth sent out a blue Exian punch of sheer force that broke the standstill and pushed the Prime Paruseforon back a few inches as Tenmei Akiro our man leapt from the prime's shoulder and up behind to safe ground, preparing his stance once more with the Blue Exia Rune Sword remerging back out of his hands.

Antics such as this, to the eyes of the Master of all Master Strikers, is but futile struggle and with triple speed Nirvariel Nero bashed forth the wrath of the flow of the whole two thousand years of Parusefor Kung Fu history at Tenmei's face, forcing the young Exian Lord to deflect and react only in defensive ways of combat!

Sven wanted to help Tenmei, but he too knows it is unruly to interfere in a battle of the Exia Lords.

" Sven !!"

Sven turned around to see Riella, raising her cosmos Greatsword high with one hand and pointing its tip at Sven's face

" We still have scores to settle….!!!"

" But I kinda want to see them fight….."

Before Sven could even refuse, Riella has begun smashing her sword onto the lancer with countless blows nonstop.

" You speak of an alliance."

Nero hummed as his speed has just exceeded light and all Tenmei could see was a whooshing black shadow appearing and disappearing all around him in seconds' time

" Yet you don't deserve this Rune.

You use your Rune as a sword,

Yet do not understand its true purpose !!!!"

And out of Tenmei's chest, the purple Exia Rune burst out from behind, as Prime Paruseforon Nirvariel Nero committed one grand assassination under broad daylight in front of all the Parusefor clans folk,

running his Rune blade through Tenmei Akiro's heart.

" Your Exia Rune will be a new addition to my fine collection."

Nirvariel Nero hummed menacingly as he pulled out his purple flaming Rune Sword and let Tenmei Akiro bleed and kneel on the floor as our man gasped for breath.

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Griffon and Nina had stopped a whole pack of Parusefor warriors from reaching Tenmei and Sven, but their advantage was soon broken by a sudden quick strike from behind Nina, breaking her stance and pushing the Isandor warrior maiden to a side of the wide plateau arena.

Griffon was about to regroup to Nina's position but someone was there between him and Nina, hindering Griffon's path.

Someone Griffon knew very well.

"...Marian…..!!"

Griffon uttered in shock, never believing the day he raise arms against his own crush Marian Amatsumina would occur so soon.

" What have you become, Griffon ?" Marian Amatsumina called out coldly to the dumbfounded young Parusefor dropout

" A rogue sellsword that no longer remembers his roots ?! This is not who you are, Griffon !"

Marian Amatsumina leapt forth, landing several strikes of her sets of flying sharp blades she controlled in the air, pushing Griffon back while the Parusefor warriors that were stalled quickly went up to chase Tenmei and Sven up the higher levels of the plateau.

Nina rose up quickly but another Parusefor warrior landed from the skies to block Nina's way to regroup with Griffon.

" No more of your stalling, fare glaive wielding maiden !"

Laughed a Parusefor dude with three straight swords attached to each side of his knuckles

" Your skills are impressive, but I, Denan Geii, Parusefor Master of the six swordings, alongside my beautiful fiance Marian Amatsumina here will see that you hinder our Prime's path no more !!"

" You…..!!!!" Griffon was taken by such an emotional attack, looking at his crush Marian Amastumina for cues that this douche womanizer Denan Geii is joking.

But Marian's stern cold gaze said the opposite.

Griffon's heart sank, and his twin halberds he lowered down out of combat stance.

" Griffon….!!!" Nina tried to call Griffon back to his senses, but his melancholy was too strong for him to overcome in that instance !!

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Asuka Line Zeta Hikaru, making his way slowly but firmly toward where the fugitive and the Princess were,

as the whole of Kingdeniom watched in horrifying suspense.

" Killing me will bring nothing to you, fugitive Tenmei Akiro !!"

Asuka Line Zeta hollered as he walked forth, heavy steps one after another

" But plunge the society back to turmoil and upheaval, if that is what you want! You may kill me, take my dead body and humiliate me all you want! But The People, They will Not Allow You to snatch away their PEACE !!!!!"

" I have no intentions of taking peace away from the people."

This fugitive covered in thick armor replied still in its altered undetectable robotic voice

" I am bringing it back to them, from your hands."

And Lo,

Asuka finally stopped, as he now stood just an arm's distance away from the armored fugitive, and the sobbing Princess' in the fugitive's arms.

" These hands single-handedly wiped out the former generation that seeks nothing but bloodshed."

Asuka held out his empty hands to explain

" All you do is end the hopes for the people, extinguishing the beacon that trailblazes the future of a New Kingdeniom !!!!"

" You are leading them down a bloody path just like the former generation has without realizing what you have become !!!!"

the fugitive shouted back, though its voice distorted and deranged, a sorrowful strain hidden under that masking helmet

" Perishing others for a cause will never justify the means no matter how noble it sounds. You should know that well more than I…..!!

...….Think, Asuka...think of an alternative answer rather than ending the lives of those that disagree with your vision....I beg of you…..!"

Asuka silently listened, contemplating the touching words that were spoken to him.

The young Prime Minister sighed.

A Long sigh.

" Well. I surely have to reconsider…my ways, indeed…."

Asuka Line Zeta Hikaru nodded slowly in solemn reply

" Towards someone.....who definitely won't pull the Trigger !!!!!"

And before all Tron's witnesses,

Asuka Hikaru grabbed the shining button on his sleeve and pulled out a blade that materialized as it was unleashed, of nano fabric that reconstructed out of thin air, the Hasebe Blade of Asuka Hikaru !!!! Finally being unsheathed and ready for action as the blade formed and stabilized in but an eye blink and before anyone's eyes could catch up with the Prime Minister's actions,

The Hasebe blade had severed the gun in the armored fugitive's hand in half,

also cleaving the helmet the fugitive wore as the two halves of the metal helmet clanked to the cement road,

orange long hair swayed down as the two metal pieces clanked to both sides.

There, holding princess Isabel close,

was Asuka Line Zeta's sister,

Nanali Hikaru.

" You have forced my hand, sister."

Asuka Hikaru spake, coldly,

as his Hasebe blade-clenching hand tightened its grip.

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Nirvariel Nero waited for Tenmei Akiro to die, but before his red eyes within his burning flaming head, the Prime saw that the blood on the floor didn't flow forward,

But backward back to Tenmei Akiro's bleeding orifice as his chest slowly healed itself !!!

" I may be a fool….."

Tenmei Akiro stammered as he stood up once more before the eyes of the shocked Sven and Riella

" I may have lost some memories...But I remembered….the Times when Mirai, Youki, and I trained under your teachings...I remember losing all hope in myself and the world and resorting to killing and nothing else...….

...…and I remember….. How My Father gave me this Rune...!!!

How he in his dying breath, entrusted me that I make the right choice !!!!!

And Here I am !!!!!!

To do what I think is Right !!!!!!

Stop straying away and hiding back in your shadow of silence from your clansfolk!

TELL THEM THE TRUTH ! ! ! ! ! ! !"

Nirvariel Nero looked at this staggering Tenmei like a mountain tall before this young Exian lord, silent and unmovable.

" NO."

Was all Nirvariel Nero spoke, and again raised his purple rune Sword to cut down Tenmei once more.

" No matter how many times you cut me down or throw me out, I will always return !!!!"

Tenmei Akiro shouted before the coming Rune Sword

" But You, Nero, Will Not Last Any LONGER !!!!!!"

And down came the blade onto Tenmei's head,

which struck nothing but solid metal !!!!!

Tenmei Akiro looked up, to see a wide great blade of the cosmos shielding his head from the coming bursting Exia Rune sword of purple flame.

" …..This man is here to help you….Prime….."

Lo, Riella spoke in a stammering but firm voice, holding her cosmos greatsword against her Prime's tantamount Rune weapon

" We know…All of us know that you have been covering this disturbance of the Strike Force that none of us can no longer ignore !!!!!!

Please....Prime…..

Don't shun us away like this...Your love towards all of us is incomparable to even the evergrowing universe and outshines all the stars combine... but that doesn't mean our love towards you shines no brighter than yours, PRIME !!!!!!

Please....Let us help you…..LET US SHARE YOUR BURDENS, PRIME !!!!!!!!!"

And before the weeping head Master Striker of the clan,

Nirvariel Nero was still silent.

" Say it, Tenmei."

Lo,

out of the shadows, walked out our Master Striker of the Star bow, Master Hassan Hellsing of Shambala !!!!!

Lifting Riella's cosmos greatsword with the Lead Master Striker as they placed Nero's Exian Rune Sword away from Tenmei's head

" Say it loud and say it clear, for we are all ears."

And indeed, the whole Parusefor warriors and masters and soldiers all ceased their chase and stood outside their Prime's chambers,

listening to what Tenmei Akiro has to say.

Even Marian and Denan Geii paused to listen from below on the first floor of the plateau, while Nia went to help the emotionally damaged Griffon stand.

Tenmei looked around the crowded chamber outside and took a deep breath.

" ....Nero Prime is dying...…and his Exia Rune is breaking apart."

A sea of disbelieved gasps swept across the whole plateau.

" It may be hard to explain, and it is yet my assumption, but…..According to the mechanisms of the Exia Rune, the Lord Bearer shares all the injuries, physical and mental with all his Clansmen.

Which means…..Nero Prime has been bearing all the damage of his Clans folk, ever since the first day of becoming a Lord Bearer of the Exia Rune...to this very moment...

….granting each Parusefor that has passed the test as a Clansman, surely…..Nero Prime had been bearing the weight of all the generations he looked over...…

...perhaps…..it is time...for Nero Prime to rest–"

" Silence."

Nirvariel Nero finally spoke once more, in a life-threatening hum of the universe.

" I Will Never Rest."

" But Prime !!!!"

All the Parusefors cried out their worries and incoherent voices immediately filled the whole plateau.

" SILENCE ! ! ! ! !"

Nero Prime boomed and all the Parusefors silenced their voices in seconds' time

" I Will Never Rest."

" Then you have as well doomed your clan, Nero!"

All looked up in surprise,

to an all-new young voice that approached the chamber of Prime from behind all the Parusefor folk as they parted ways for this small newcomer to enter,

for young Princess Isabel to enter the Chamber of Nero.

Nero looked down at the small Princess,

and around this young girl, a new different aura of sheer pure silver glowed around Isabel as her small umbrella octopus Exia Rune floated up and bloomed right above the Princess' head like a new Silver crown made of Exian Rune.

Tenmei looked closely and realized, that not just the aura around the princess have changed,

even the way she spoke and the eyes that gazed at Nero Prime were not the same.

It was as if Old Keiken King was there,

standing in front of Nirvariel Nero Prime,

in a confrontation of the Exian Rune Lords.

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While the Parusefors were gasping at the confrontation of the Exian Lords of Silver and Purple,

the Tron citizens are gasping as to how the fugitive that held Isabel hostage is Asuka Prime minister Hikaru's own sister Nanali ?!?!

And why is Asuka Hikaru raising a nano Hasebe saber at both Nanali and princess Isabel Keiken ?!?!

" Hand over the princess, sister…"

Asuka Line Zeta warned in a menacing whisper,

The Hasebe blade at Nanali's throat

" Do not temper with me here now….!!!"

" ….I know what you plan to do...Asuka." Nanali whispered back without quivering or wavering.

" It is not going to work. Someone else will take your place just like how you took father's–!!"

" I DID IT FOR THE PEOPLE !!!!! WHY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ?!?!?!?"

Asuka Hikaru hollered in utter grief and ferociousness, losing his cool entirely

" I wish for a peaceful Kingdeniom as much as you do, sister !! Yet I am the one that's brave enough to make that change !!! None of you are even close to judging me !!!!

I AM CONSTRUCTING THE PEACE OF OUR GENERATION NOW AND I AM ALREADY BETTER THAN YOU !!!!!!"

" Better than this, Asuka ?"

Nanali calmly asked as she pointed high above her head, her finger at the grey skies as a large virtual screen lit up right above her and Asuka.

All the TV screens on the skyscrapers and homes were redirected too to the same screen that the virtual one above Nanali was showing.

Links to that same footage were sent immediately through twittie to all that owned a U-phone.

And there, the footage showed,

Of Asuka Hikaru, accompanied by an armored Archdemon,

confronting old Keiken King inside the burning Weiwu Mansion.

The Hasebe blade, the same as the one he now wielded at his sister's throat,

raised at the old King's.

Not just Tron, but the whole of Kingdeniom, was struck by a silence of utter shock and disbelief.

" You...…!!!!" Asuka Hikaru too was thunderstruck by what he saw exposed to all the unblind, even the blind were quickly told to by those that have witnessed

" You…You can't do this to me…sister....!!"

Asuka Hikaru stammered to contain his frenzied rage from bursting out of his mortal shell

" ...Nanali...Do you know HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED ?!?!?!?!?!?"

And like a goblin in a commanding uniform of honorable rankings, Asuka Hikaru lunged forth in a deranged scream, thrusting his Hasebe blade like it should have been !! The Hasebe swordplay now on real display !!!!

But one shocking turn of events after another,

Nanali too, pulled off the small golden ornament on her orange hair that activated into one nanoparticle blade of its own, materializing as it deflected each blow Asuka punctured towards her, pushing Asuka back to a safe distance as Nanali twisted her fully grown nano Hasebe sword before her in a defensive stance.

Lo, for Asuka might have forgotten,

that the Hasebe swordplay he now possesses is all taught by his sister Nanali at a young age !!!

And though Nanali had not pulled out her blade for years,

The styles and moves of the Hasebe swordplay of hers are still unrivaled to even Asuka's !!

" Don't make me do this, Asuka."

Nanali begged, as she gently ushered the princess to her back.

" Face your Truth! Face your fears, Asuka !! Let me help you !!!"

" YOU ARE DOING EVERYTHING BUT HELP !!!!"

Asuka Hikaru rage shouted and pushed forward his thousand thrusting Hasebe swordplay without sentiment no more, yet the more he exposed his rage, the more his swording slipped, and Nanali with her yet vivid memories of the Hasebe arts, deflected Asuka's blade out of the new prime minister's hand !!

Now Asuka Line Zeta was truly unarmed.

And it was Nanali's turn to point her blade at Asuka's throat.

But Nanali quickly retracted her blade and rested its tip in a safe yet defensive position close to her.

" The People know of the truth, Asuka." Nanali tried to speak reason to the unarmed prime minister.

" Your governing may not be accepted, but that doesn't mean you have failed ! Turn back from dark and resolve this peacefully. Please. It's never too late !"

" ...They will force me to resign…" Asuka murmured in defeat.

" Then resign, Asuka, for your own good. And for Kingdeniom." Nanali pleaded.

" They will purge me like a rabid dog, Nanali !! There is no way out !! And the only way to survive… is to fight back !!!! ZABINUS PRIME !!!!! RELEASE !!!!!!!

THE ARCHDEMON !!!!!!!!!!"

" Rest assured." Akahanon Zabinus prime smiled and bowed at the far end of the bridge as the large iron crate was brought in the next second and lo behold,

The Ark'arios Barmidis custom stormed out onto the bridge.

Austria Van Hilligdale, sitting far away in a safe position, controlled the Archdemon forth remotely.

As all the Tron citizens started to flee in terror,

Nanali too realized it is time to fall back.

But not now !!! Nanali thought to herself determinedly,

for her mission, to grab Asuka back hasn't been accomplished yet !!

Quickly, Nanali raced forth and grabbed the escaping Asuka Hikaru by the arm

but received but a ruthless slap from her brother !!!

" Be gone with thee !!!!"

Asuka Hikaru shrieked in anger as he made his way to the edge of the bridge, ready to jump off and dive into the Tron river !!!

Only to see himself face to face with an iron mobile giant that crawled out of the river right in front of him and came up to the central bridge, blocking Asuka'a path and facing the armored Archdemon rushing its way toward them.

" Get Him, Nanali !!!!" Luka shouted at the top of her lungs as she stood on her zombie mobile giant Thrond's back as she charged forth, going toe to toe against the Archdemon, trading punches and wrestling all over the bridge, rocking the cement establishment right to left as missiles launched and blew up here and there while the two robust powerful mecha giants smashed at each other all over the place, with Luka clinging onto the Thrond Mobile giant's back being thrashed around as the two iron giants rolled over in violent berserking fist fights of technologies, until the Ark'arios finally released a myriad of demonic laser beams out of its arm and burned the Thrond's feet out of existence with that one blast.

But the Ark'arios Barmidis' beams didn't stop there and traveled forth far and wide, burning through even the metal wires that held the grand wide central Tron bridge together were all incinerated in one go, and the bridge started to descend in its own weight.

With only its arms left, the Thrond mustered all its strength and grabbed hold of the Archdemon's feet, hindering the Ark'arios from moving closer to Nanali as she tried to catch up with Asuka.

But Asuka Hikaru was an athletic soldier in build and practice, and seeing one last metal wire swinging in the air above, Asuka Line Zeta made a kick onto the breaking cement and leaped forth to grab the metal wire that swung him out and dropped the prime minister into the river, who swam fast off to safe ground.

Nanali was a second too late,

and the road beneath her started to crumble.

Luka had no choice, but to let go of her zombie mecha Thrond and rushed to save Nanali,

falling down with the rubbles and ruin descending close by,

Luka reached out her hand,

to Nanali, yet one inch too far.

That was when both Nanali and Luka heard a loud deformed mechanic shout from afar, flying straight at them dashing across the falling debris and ruins,

to be cyborg Gelouch Dendrobium swooping in and catching the two girls in his mecha-strengthened arms as they sped off, away from the crumbling Tron Central Bridge and to the skies and beyond.

" Oh no !"

Nanali suddenly realized something in a frantic gasp

" I forgot about Kumabelle !"

And indeed, it was the bear zombie doll that was disguised through makeup and shape-shifting magics as the fake Princess Isabel that lured Asuka in the first place.

" She'll be fine."

Luka sighed exhaustedly

" She's a bear, she knows how to swim."

…

...…

.........…

While the fake princess zombie bear doll was swimming in the Tron river,

the Real Princess Isabel, Lord bearer of the Silver Exia Rune now stood face to face with the great Prime Paruseforon of his clan, the Nirvariel Nero in an intense standstill.

" One can never escape the natural flow of decay, Nero Prime."

Princess Isabel spoke in a serious tone unlike her child-like self

" When the time calls for us to return to the flow of light in Blessed Herunia, we must abide."

" You as the Bearer of the Exia Rune that governs Eternity have no place in speaking of returning and decay."

Nero Prime argued in a low humming boom of his omniscient voice.

" And yet even I have to leave my mortal shell behind. "

Isabel replied calmly

" This body may harbor the memories of all the past Keikens, but it is still a new living being of its own. The one Eternal law of Tenka and Herunia is the law of change, Nero Prime.

All things must come and go for the cycle of Light to remain. "

" If it is your governing of change that keeps you Eternal. "

Nero Prime volleyed back in low humming.

" Then it is my duty to surpass the limits of the living and reach beyond natural confinements !"

" Then you have misunderstood the extent of your Exia's purpose, Prime."

Princess Isabel gently spoke, coming closer to the Paruseforon Prime

" It is not to surpass any limit, but to prove that there is an honorable strife to achieve greatness within those limits that show one's worth.

And you, Nero Prime,

have already set a remarkable score in history for all of us to marvel and follow in your honorable steps, and your righteous path to cherish and love the one you dear."

So said the princess as she tenderly placed her soft palm onto the Parusefor Prime's armored knee where her height could reach

" It's alright, Nero."

Isabel Keiken whispered, like comforting an old friend

" You have achieved more than enough."

" No...."

Nero Prime adamantly denied still

" Not yet...These memories….My Light….that can still go on…!!!"

" Go on for what, Prime ?!"

Tenmei Akiro asked, as a Lord of the Blue Exia

" Where is it you want to take these memories to? And who are you going to share it with ?!"

" You won't understand." Nero Prime refused to explain.

" Yeah, but there is one thing I do understand, is that for you to extend a limitless Rune that's breaking apart, all your clans folk are forced to not reach their potential and new heights !!

It is you who is holding on to that Exia Rune, Nero Prime !!! Dimming your clan weaker and weaker for you to go on !!!"

" You….!!!!"

Nero Prime flew to a rage but saw that all the clan, his Parusefor folks were silent to Tenmei Akiro's words,

that hit true even for Nero himself.

" My dear Prime."

Hassan Hellsing the Archer Master came forth to his beloved Prime

" We masters already surmise such a cause of the disturbance, but none of us ever wished of your passing....yet, seeing you carrying the weight of all the Parusefors for us, we are ashamed that we are still relying on our beloved Prime instead of carrying it for you !!"

" I never needed help in bearing this Rune !!"

Nero boomed at Hassan's face.

" Yes, You DO, PRIME !!!"

Riella the lead Master cried out desperately, approaching her prime also with all the Parusefor clan in beseeching light hearts

" It is never a sign of weakness to accept our flaws, but to conceal it !!

Is this not what you taught us, PRIME ?! Please !! We can help you….and look after ourselves…..Prime !"

The Parusefor clans folk all nodded in agreement, sobbing with Riella as they gathered around the Old Nirvariel Prime's presence.

Nirvariel Nero remained silent, but through the wavering of the flame of his head,

they could see their Prime's stubborn will to go on has begun to falter.

" My Prime."

In came the Prime's trusted strategist and shaman King Fenrir of the wolfstar, an old elder among the Parusefors lesser in age only to Nero Prime

" I have kept my kin eyes on the young Masters of the clan, and their exploits and prowess have exceeded even our past glory.

There need not worry for them to fly high to reach limits even we have never thought of achieving on our own. The future of the Parusefor is still as bright as the north star, my Prime."

" …..and you too, Fenrir…?" Nirvariel Nero sighed a long long sigh,

And looked forth onto Tenmei Akiro's blue Exian glow.

" ….If I have to pass down my flame, there is only one way I know of."

Nirvariel Nero spoke as he once again raised up his purple Exia Rune Greatsword up high

" Parusefors, Starchilds, My children...!!!!"

The Parusefor Prime called out to all his clan far and wide across the galaxies

" …..FIGHT WITH ME, ONE LAST TIME."

And Lo, the Purple Great Exia Rune bloomed one more time as the Exia burst out larger than before, extending its arching runes out across the universe as it left each breaking shard onto each standing Parusefor,

letting the whole clans folk inherit each part of his legacy.

And the Parusefors knights, now bursting with brand new lightning purple hue, dashed forth alongside their Prime towards one Tenmei Akiro the blue Exia Lord,

Fulfilling one honorable hunt of the Akiro with his tribe folks,

one last time.

From Tenmei Akiro's perspective, it was a sea of buffed deadly ninja assassin Parusefor Masters all swarming down at him as Tenmei our man sighed with a grin as he accepted the fight, clashing and slashing his way out of the chamber, parrying and deflecting a thousand coming blows that could kill him in but instances.

Griffon and Nina quickly joined alongside Tenmei as the three fought side by side against the sea of Masters, soldiers, and knights of the proud Parusefor elites, throwing at them all they've got against each other in a grand dance of battle and strife.

Nero Prime was there also, hunting the Akiro alongside his beloved clans children,

his Starchilds.

Like the first days when he was young and with sticks and sharp poles,

hunt bears and deer alongside his tribe folk,

bringing back their splendid catch while the girls would cook the meat and tend their wounds.

While Neliya would tell him of what she saw in her short travels to mark the lands, over the mountains and scenery across the valley,

Nero would tell her how he killed the bear,

sharing their stories together,

passing down their legacy,

their Epic.

Ahh, Neliya...….

Sorry for keeping you waiting...…..

And slowly, gradually,

The fighting stopped,

as Tenmei and all the Parusefors stood their ground,

witnessing in the middle of the plateau,

tears streaming down their hot wet cheeks,

as the purple flames of the Paruseforon Prime slowly bloom out like a bright purple flower of embers,

before scattering its flame out into stardust that fall slowly like ash, like snow, into all the present Parusefors' light hearts.

" WELL DONE, MY CHILDREN...."

There,

all have witnessed the ultimate assassination of the Grand Assassinator Nirvariel Nero,

The finishing of Nirvariel Nero himself.

Completing the natural cycle of Light life once and for all.

As the Purple Exia Rune shone in full bloom immensely greater than before,

combined through the tiny shards that shone bright in each Parusefors' heart.

…..

.......

.........…

Far away, before the scorched battlefields of Denteimong tower,

Mystic Grand Disciple Kaburagi Shisei watched on sentmentlessly as the Golden Exia Lord Toshiumi Al Seraphim was trapped in an eternal battle against Varche Scrirocco the Red Exia Lord and King of Terminas, fighting for two episodes now nonstop.

But Kaburagi Shisei is waiting.

Waiting for—

Suddenly,

Kaburagi Shisei tilted his head to the left just in time to dodge of a death beam that shot through where his head was before, and before the League Disciple could turn around to see who shot the death beam at his head, the assailant was already upon him, sinking a mountain crashing punch down at Shisei's rib cage, which the League master narrowly escaped the punch through his mystic arts.

" Ayo…is this not Varis lin Evangleon….first daughter of my Master and Director?

Crown Princess of the Illuminatus League ?"

Kaburagi Shisei crooned with much interest

" Your father is looking for you."

But Varis, suited in her unbreakable armor, refused to talk with this Disciple of her maker and dashed forth with flurries of lightning-speed punches that Kaburagi Shisei all deflected with much effort.

" Then it is great news to you, that your Father…my Master has left a gift for you in me."

Kaburagi Shisei went on talking as he opened a huge magic rune of transparent colors and Lo !!!!

Runes, like bands curled and tied around Varis' body, trapping her as Kaburagi Shisei lunged forth and grabbed hold of the armored young woman's head like vice.

" HAAAAAHHH !!!!!" Out of nowhere, Nison Char the bastard, the vagabond, the ruffian, the Demon puncher, the hardened, the betrayed, the noble slayer, the nightmare of Arcadia, leapt out and was about to strike Kaburagi Shisei down with his orange swords when the League Grand Disciple turned a menacing stare at our flying vagabond and with just that stare emitted a force push so strong that threw Nison Char out of this chapter once and for all.

" I have the codes from your father, My Master here !!!"

Kaburagi Shisei cried triumphantly

" Now !!! You Obey The League !!!!!!"

And Kaburagi let go and let the deranged runes and codes run their course down Varis' mind engines, and soon enough,

Varis stopped attacking, and knelt before Kaburagi Shisei like a servant in no time !!!!!

" Varis…..at..your….service....."

Varis, controlled once more like the homunculus she was, spoke in a robotic voice before her Maker's disciple.

" Good. Now go. Take the Blue, Silver, Purple, and all the remaining Runes for me…..While I finish my plans here...…."

" Haru ?? What's wrong ??"

Mio asked as Haru's pen fell to the floor from the girl's hand.

Haru too was surprised, and frightened all of a sudden for no reason at all,

her heart beating fast, her insides running cold,

and her hands trembling slightly.

" We….we have to go…." Haru mumbled weakly and tried to stand up from her seat, but fell into Mio's arms.

" Haru ?!"

Mio gasped as she carried Haru close, she too felt a strong disturbance in the flow around this island.

" Lady Mio !! Miss Haru !!!!"

In came military genius Rang the strategist of the Golden Company

" Hurry, something's happening. Follow Me !!!"

And Surely, under the Aurora island fortress of the Golden Company,

from an illusive basement area, a hole in the wall was dug open,

and out of that hole, crept out Arashi the Golden Traitor,

ready to snatch Mio and Haru for his new master the League.

[......To be continued]