Attack on the Castle
Xeno was currently on his way to some spot out in the forest to find Stanley. Xeno had received a report that Stanley had found some strange mask made of stone on a statue. Xeno didnt understand why that was important to him and why he should care, but the report just said that he needed to be there to find out.
So, Xeno took a brake from his research on hamon and decided to come to the middle of nowhere to look at a mask shaped rock. He didnt know why, but he could feel that something was about to happen, he just couldn't figure out what it was or why he felt this way.
He took about ten minutes to arrive at a tent far out in the forest with Stanley standing in front of it. He was leaning in a tree in front of the tent in a strange pose while holding the mask.
"So, is this the mask that you found?" Xeno gets to the point immediately and asks while pointing at the mask in Stanley's hand.
"It is." Stan replies while he walks over to Xeno and shows him the mask.
"What's so special about it? It just seems to be an old rock." Xeno asks skeptically
"that's what I thought at first as well. I had thought that it could have been made by someone of our time and just survived the petrification time without decaying. However, that was until I found what it could really do." Stan said as he showed Xeno a knife.
He then put the knife to his finger and made a small cut. The cut let out a small amount of blood, so Stan put the mask on the ground and held his hand over the mask, letting a single drop of blood fall onto it. The second the blood touched the stone mask, it started to vibrate until it made a popping sound and multiple small stone spikes flew out of the side.
"What the hell?!" Xeno yelled as he smiled and got a little closer to inspect it. "What is this thing? How could a mask of this age open up like that just by being in contact with blood? This kind of technology shouldn't have been able to survive this long."
"I don't know either. I found it on this statue here." Stan says as he points at a very muscular woman. "I was only slightly curious as to its origins for a second, however I didnt know that it would be this intriguing."
"How did you find out about the blood activation?" Xeno asked as he started trying to open the mask up.
"I didnt mean to. I had thought that it was just and old stone mask, until, out of nowhere, a bird came flying past us and straight into a tree." He said as he put his hand up and had his other hand run into it and fall, as if simulating what happened.
"It was even weirder because it just came flying in at almost super speed. It didnt even have its wings out and it was flying at a straight angle, so it wasn't diving. It was almost as if it was thrown at the tree." Xeno said as he threw a rock. "But I didnt find anyone in the area, so I don't think that is the case."
"Anyway, after the bird hit the tree, it exploded. It had hit the tree so hard that its body was forced to explode, leaving a large hole in the tree and blood everywhere." He pointed at the tree in front of them, which had a large dent in it. "The second the blood touched the mask, it opened up. Luckily I had taken it down to inspect it, and dropped it when it started to open, otherwise either that statues head, or my hand would have been destroyed."
"I see, so the bird was thrown into that tree at the exact time that someone was holding a mask that would open up violently. It seems awfully convenient, as if someone wanted you to see that happen. Their purpose in doing so is still unclear though." He says as he puts on a serious expression.
*Snap*
Both Stanley and Xeno turned around at the same time and stared at the bush behind them. When they looked closely, they saw two glowing blue eyes staring at them. Stan brought out his hand gun and aimed it at the eyes with speeds normal humans probably couldn't dream of. What he didnt notice was a tiny golden spark arcing its way around his arm and into his palm as he moved at said speed.
The eyes moved at an even more terrifying speed as they vanished from the bush. Less then a second later, a women appeared in front of him with her face opening. She had very beautiful features and black hair with blue eyes. However these things couldn't bee acknowledged as the main focus was on her face, which was opening up down the middle to reveal a set of sharp teeth made of steel.
Stan fired a bullet as fast as he could into the girls face, however she simply deflected it with a tentacle made of steel. Not knowing how to react, Stanley did the most sane thing and stood there staring at her.
Xeno threw his arms out as he spoke with anime speed and yelled in a deep voice, "Stanley! Dooooooodge!"
But Stan didnt dodge and ended up getting a large cut on the side of his face. Fortunately, he was alive, just not in a good condition.
The girl then turned slowly to look at Xeno, probably to make herself appear creepy. Unfortunately for her, this wasn't the same Xeno as in the canon. She was fighting someone who had practiced the greatest science in the world.
She tried to jump at Xeno, however she found herself sensing something dangerous in the air, and jumped back immediately to retreat. She then looked confused at Xeno, who stood there with his hand in front of his face, only open enough to show his grin and his eyes, and with his chest puffed out and leg up, in a DIO pose.
"Oh? So you noticed the poisonous gas? I didnt think that was possible since it is the same color as air. Oh well, to bad." He said as he started to walk nonchalantly toward her.
The girl growled at him as she crouched down like a cat does before they pounce.
"Don't worry, even if you breath in the fumes, all that will happen is you falling asleep. The death comes later." He said as he grinned.
The girl couldn't take it anymore and decided to rick it, she jumped forward to attack. She shot toward him at insane speed, however was once again interrupted. She had to stop herself again because she felt a different danger emanating form Xeno's body.
"What's the matter? Don't you want to come a little closer? Don't you want to kill me?" He asked as he got closer and closer to her.
If she was still human and still had the ability to talk, she would be questioning why the hell she felt so much danger from the human in front of her, and why she was so scared to get close. She decided that it didnt matter and that her mind was just playing tricks on her, so she ran forward again, ignoring her body that was screaming at her to stop. It seems like mushin instincts and parasytes don't mix well.
When she finally got within a meter of him, she regretted what she had done. Xeno grinned and looked down on her arrogantly. "Ha! You fool! Do you seriously think I would come out into the middle of the forest unprepared when I know your kind exist. When I know that there is magic like power that I had been studying. When I know that you are out here Asami?!"
He then pointed his arm straight at her with a flat palm facing up. His arm then started making clicking noises and opened up, to reveal a gun nozzle that extended out until it ended up in Asami's mouth.
"Eat this you disgusting freak of nature! Have a taste of the worlds greatest science!" He said as clicking noises could be heard from his arm and hundreds of bullets started to be shot out.
Unfortunately, His bullets had no effect on her. Before he could start shooting, she opened up the back of her head, allowing the bullets to shoot straight through her without her being injured. She then created a tentacle and shot it toward his head.
Xeno didnt panic though, as he dodged to the side as his backpack started to make clicking sounds as well. Moments later and large mechanical arm crawled out of the back and attached itself to Xeno's shoulder. It then pointed at her as Xeno started to talk.
"If a mere parasyte like you honestly thinks that she can fight against German science, then you are sorely mistaken." His mechanical arm then started to click again as all of the fingers opened up to reveal more guns.
"NANI?" Asami thought in her head so loudly that Xeno knew that that was what she was thinking.
(I had forgotten about the reference thing I promised, there you go.)
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Meanwhile, back at Xeno's castle. Raijin was walking through a small garden near the forest. He had been bored lately, but he refused to train, so he simply started walking and staring at things for hours without stopping. While walking, he came across a random soldier that doesn't need naming.
"Hey! Where is Xeno right now?" He asked the solder.
"Why do you care? I am not his baby sitter, and I am certainly not yours, so I am not obligated to answer that." Said the ignorant soldier that hadn't met Raijin yet.
"Is that right?" Raijin said slowly as he walked up to the soldier and grabbed him by the neck. "I need to talk to him about hamon and I don't have the time to be listening to idiocy! Now tell me where he is before I break your bones!"
"H-he went into the forest to find Stanley. They went to look at some mask made of stone." He said hurriedly.
"Mask of stone!" Raijin said to himself in alarm.
"God damn it! Shit! Now there is another one. Or is it Liam again? Doesn't matter, I have to find him." He continued to talk to himself while he ran off into the forest.