Taniwha / Leviathan

~ 20 June 2008~

Kojiro tries to look at the distance, but everywhere he sees water. Kojiro and the others arrive at Kyushu around 5 AM and see that Kyushu is already raining or rather having torrential downpour. The water is so dense that his forcefield registers the water as an attack. Not only that, but the rain also reduces its visibility to only a few meters. He tries to push his magic into his eyes to reinforce his vision, but the 'rain' is not an ordinary rain. The so-called rain is a magical construct that makes their visibility limited. Kojiro also knows that this 'rain' is terrible for the Devil as he can see many Mid-class devils, who get deployed as the support tent guardian, having difficulty breathing as the chaotic energy that gets released by the water affects their breathing. The only people not getting affected is the Exorcist of the Church and Youkai.

They wait for another three hours as the rain becomes stronger every hour. The water is getting heavier, and the chaotic energy released by the raindrop also getting thicker, making their visibility reduced once again.

"TIDAL WAVE INCOMING"

Kojiro snaps from his thought when Susanoo shouts about the Tidal Wave. In a blink of an eye, Susanoo, Dulio, and Serafall immediately appear in front of the Tidal Wave and manipulate the water to prevent it from touching any building behind them. While the Trio are busy stopping the Tidal Wave, Amaterasu and Yasaka fire a miniature sun toward the Tidal Wave, making it evaporate.

Kojiro then looks at the distance and sees Taniwha silhouette through the rain and the spraying water that was the tidal wave's aftermath. T9 meters tall, the majority of him was muscled but not bulky. His hunched shoulders, neck, and upper torso were the exceptions, bearing cords of muscles that stood out like steel cables. It gave him a top-heavy appearance, almost like an inverted teardrop with limbs and a tail. His proportions were wrong – his calves and forearms seemed too long for his height, his clawed fingers, and digitigrade feet doubly so. He moved with a weary sort of grace as he advanced through the spraying water. His arms moved like pendulums, claws sweeping against the water's surface, while his upper body swayed left and right as if to give counterbalance to his great height. Kojiro also sees his tail, around 12 meters to 15 meters long, following the same rhythm of his step.

Gallons of water poured around him in the wake of his movements, roughly the same amount of mass as the body part that had just occupied the space. This 'afterimage' streamed down him and splashed violently against the water he waded through.

When Taniwha appears in Kojiro's field of view, he can see Taniwha 'face'. His face lacks any kind of mouth, nose, or ears, with the only features being four cracks containing glowing green orbs that resemble eyes. These eyes are placed asymmetrically, with three on the left side of the face and one on the right.

"Get Ready!"

Kojiro doesn't know if Taniwha knows what Susanoo is saying, but after the God of Storm says that…

Taniwha Moved.

In a blink of an eye, Taniwha appears in the middle of their formation and then summon a Tidal Wave from the local drainage in the underground. Susanoo and the other water manipulator try to overpower Taniwha's control over the water around them, but they can only hold it for a few seconds. However, their attempt to stop the water coming at the rest of the people is not wasted as Amaterasu fires another miniature sun toward Taniwha. Amaterasu is not the only one that attacks Taniwha. Yasaka also fires her foxfire toward the giant abomination. At the same time, Kojiro takes out his anti-matter cannon and begins to shoot Taniwha with it.

Sensing the incoming attack, Taniwha suddenly disappears from his field of view and only leaves his after-echo. Kojiro searches for his target, but with the heavy rain, he cannot see Taniwha. He looks to his back as he hears a scream. He looks at Taniwha, already destroying the formation of all Devil, church, and youkai army with a single appearance. Luckily for the army, there is a green magic formula that protects them from Taniwha's physical attack.

*THOOM*

Suddenly lightning struck Taniwha from the sky. However, Taniwha once again disappears and only leaves behind his after-echo, who gets hit by Susanoo lightning. Unfortunately for them, Susanoo attacks, resulting in friendly fire as the electricity travels through the water body of Taniwha, who also disappears.

"BROTHER DON'T USE YOUR LIGHTNING IN THIS SITUATION"

"I'M SORRY"

Kojiro can see the army take the people that get struck down by Susanoo's lightning to the healer tent.

He then sees Taniwha move once again, but this time, he charges toward Susanoo and Serafall. He can see every step Taniwha takes, after-echo appears in the place of the original, making the quantity of water in the battlefield increase. Before Taniwha reaches Susanoo and Serafall, he takes a turn and lets his after-echo attack Susanoo and Serafall.

The 9 tons of water suddenly crash into the body of Susanoo and Serafall while Taniwha turns his head toward Amaterasu, who is already charging another miniature sun. However, instead of charging as he does for Susanoo and Serafall, Taniwha thrust his hand just as people try to punch someone; the speed of his punch is the same as his running speed. For every time he moves his hand, an after-echo appears and launches itself toward Amaterasu like a hail of bullets.

Seeing Taniwha focus on Amaterasu, Kojiro charges his cannon once again and then fires it toward Taniwha. Seeing the Kojiro attack, Taniwha whips his head toward him and raises his hand, and suddenly, a geyser of water appears between Taniwha and Kojiro's anti-matter laser. Sadly for Taniwha, his weapons have an anti-magic and penetration effect making the water geyser useless against his attack.

*Boom*

When the explosion settles, they can see the damage Taniwha has. Kojiro, frowning as he sees his attack, is not doing much damage toward Leviathan. He can see that his attack can punch through a few layers of Taniwha's body, but it was not enough to punch through the monster's body.

Kojiro sees Taniwha look at him silently before whipping his tail toward him but stops midway and makes the after-echo launch itself at him at high speed. Taniwha's barrage of attacks stopped when Sirzech and Falbium appeared in front of him and began to launch their barrage of demonic energy. Seeing Sirzech and Falbium coming, Leviathan created another Geyser of water once again, and this time, his Geyser is working as both Sirzech Power of Destruction and Falbium offense position with ease. Kojiro calculates that Taniwha has the same passive skill as Behemoth, who does more damage to the Devil than to the other race and also makes devil attacks significantly reduced against him.

While defending against the onslaught of Amaterasu, Falbium, and Sirzech, Taniwha whipped his tail in a wide swipe toward the Trio and created a double attack. The first attack is Taniwha tail crush Sirzech and also Falbium, who is the closest person to Taniwha, and the second attack is the after-echo of his tail that launched itself toward Amaterasu who was charging another miniature sun.

While Taniwha was busy with Amaterasu, Sirzech, and Falbium, Kojiro, Serafall, and Susanoo begin their attack. Kojiro charges his cannon while Serafall locks Taniwha's movement by creating thick ice around Taniwha's feet and tails.

Seeing his chance, Kojiro immediately fires his cannon while Susanoo appears behind Taniwha with his sword in hand shining with power.

Kojiro's attack hit Taniwha right in the chest while Susanoo's attack hit Taniwha in the neck. When the explosion is finished, Kojiro sees his attack successfully penetrate a few layers of Taniwha's body. Still, it was like before, not deep enough so he can see the Taniwha core. At the same time, Susanoo did not do any damage or at least not enough to separate Taniwha's head from its body.

Seeing their attack is not enough, the frontliner begins to continue their attack against Taniwha. Amaterasu continues to create a miniature sun, and next to her is Yasaka, who also creates a ball of foxfire that can compete with the heat of Amaterasu 'sun'. On the backline, Serafall locks Taniwha's movement using her ice manipulation while Dulio and the army attack Taniwha with many types of spells. Kojiro also uses his weapon to attack Taniwha at one point, Taniwha's chest. While his weapon doesn't have enough firepower to penetrate the Taniwha body in one go, he can try to 'drill' it with a continuous attack.

While attacking Taniwha, Kojiro sees his armband flash a yellow light, and a second later, he hears Ajuka voice inside his head.

"Tidal Wave"

Hearing Ajuka's voice, they release their barrage, and a second later, he can see a giant Tidal Wave coming at their location. Susanoo, Dulio, and Serafall fly in front of the Tidal Wave and try to stop it. On the side, Amaterasu and Yasaka charge another miniature sun out of thin air and fire it toward the Tidal Wave. However, their attack is useless as they cannot evaporate the water quickly enough.

"Sister, can you make a bigger attack?!?"

"I can't! There are many allies near me!"

"Damn it! Ajuka Barrier!"

After Susanoo says that, a green bubble appears surrounding them. Susanoo, Dulio, and Serafall then release their hold on the water as the wave hits the barrier around them. Kojiro sees the water rolling over them, against the nearby buildings, making the ground shudder.

For one brief moment, they were submerged, currents running past the Ajuka barrier bubble. He can see the water in front of them, to either side, behind and above. This continues for a few seconds before the water is gone. Sirzechs, who holds his armbands, says.

"Ajuka casualties!"

"25 people down, ten deceased."

Kojiro ignores the Sirzech and Ajuka conversation and focuses on searching the Taniwha location. He knows that Taniwha is not retreating as the rain is not getting weaker but rather getting stronger and stronger by the minute. A few seconds later, he got his answer as suddenly he heard a voice in their armbands emergency channel.

"HELP! Taniwha appears in our location! We are from the Healer division! Send help immediately!"