Chapter 6 : Katana Katana

The waves of water were going berserk intensely, the piles of boulders and rocks on it were being tossed around like tickets in a drawing bowl.

Akane was riding on a 10 foot boulder, and she pointed her black sword at Marshy, who was riding on a 5 foot boulder sprinting in the water.

Out of Akane's sword, these red humanoid figures with long red hair, yellow eyes, long sharp tongues and sharp teeth, sharp fingers, and black tattoos all over them, started to jump from the eyes on Akane's sword.

Akane laughed, "These are my babies, the Shinzu. These pretty things are slaves to the black Katana, a weapon wielded by a realm king, he used these babies to conjure true law and order. Pretty similar to the Excalibur, am I right?"

"And...you killed him and stole the Katana? Thief."

"No! It was given to me! He was my father! I was the successor of the Banshee realm, a realm of darkness. Me and Conan were harrassed immensely for being weak, we were beaten in front of everyone constantly and we couldn't do a damn thing about it."

"I'm...sorry?"

"No more sorries, we-."

"It was a sarcastic type of sorry, I don't really give a damn about your backstory, honestly. It's sad, but you killed people to gain all the power you have now. Therefore...fuck you."

"Damn you! WE HAD NO POWER LEVEL AS WEAK CHILDREN! WE WERE OUTCASTS IN OUR OWN REALM! A PLACE WE USED TO CALL HOME! Now, me and Conan have a combined power level of 400,000. And with the Excalibur, our power levels will rise 

"Pfft. I had that same level when I was born. Literally. I'm not joking."

"I'm sick of you high and mighty fighters, you think because you were chosen as a tournament host by the Titans, that you are better than everyone. I bet you grew up loved, grew up being adored. You never experienced real hatred, never experienced real pain or being looked down upon for being weak!"

"What can I say? I was always strong. I forced myself to believe I'm the best. I can't look down on myself, that shit is backwards."

The Shinzu's raced over to Marshy, and from their bodies, 8 foot red vine-like thorns came out of them, shooting over at Marshy.

Marshy dodged most of them, spinning and flipping onto another boulder piece, avoiding falling into the water.

Marshy jumped up, and she rammed her fist through the chest of one of the Shinzu's, splattering blood everywhere.

Marshy opened her fist up, which was still inside the Shinzu, and when she did, the Shinzu exploded, and another loud and explosive shockwave expanded from her hand, splitting four lines of the water near her, crushing some of the canyon blocks, and making the water more aggressive, knocking Akane and her Shinzu into the air.

Akane thinks, 'That shit is annoying. But I can tell there are intervals between using that move. She can use them at least every 3 and a half minutes. And it also seems she figured out the power of my katana. She can hurt me, but my Shinzu's are immortal…it's all working out.'

The Shinzu's attacked Marshy again, Marshy was moving around fast, it almost looked like she was teleporting around the battle area. 

And each time she appeared somewhere, Marshy would use a power punch to launch a Shinzu into a canyon wall, completely decimating the canyon into blocks and smoke with her strength.

Marshy appeared above Akane, and said, "I'm not going all out. This is like a warm up."

Akane moved downward, she turned around with her sword, and threw it at Marshy. 

Marshy evaded it, but the sword came swooping back around, with the sharp tip racing over to kill Marshy.

'It's following me?' Marshy thinks.

The katana sword almost cut her again, Marshy leaned to the right, spun around, and disappeared in quick speed. She reappeared under Akane, and punched her in the stomach, sending her flying 100 feet in the air, and Marshy pushed hard off the air to follow her up there.

Akane coughed up blood, and she stuck her hand up, saying, "Power level : 250,000.."

All over the sky, black and red spinning rings appeared, and coming out of the rings, were 7 giant 80 foot Shinzu's. They all had four heads, four long red and black tails, and their tattoos were glowing a bright red color.

All seven of them had red 20 foot  tall and 30 foot wide powerballs on their hands, with red electricity circuiting around the orbs.

The Shinzu's screeched, and they started to throw the red power orbs at Marshy.

Marshy smirked, "Yawn."

Marshy stuck her hand out, and the red power orbs were still coming straight to her.

They hit her hand, Marshy didn't budge, the pressure of the orbs was no match for her.

She stopped two of the orbs with her hands, and she destroyed them by squeezing them with only a little hit.

Behind her, a giant boulder piece was incoming. Without looking, stuck her hand out behind her, and stopped the boulder with her finger, and the boulder shattered into a hundred pieces.

"YAWN," She said.

Conan was standing off to the side, standing on top of a boulder piece on top of the raging waters along with the smaller Shinzu's.

Appearing in front of Conan was Marshy. Conan clapped his fists together, and a large wind immersed from it. 

Marshy jumped backwards, she kneeled down, put the palm of her hand in the water, and said, "Control.."

From the waters, large hands came out, but they were in a water fashion and appearance.

Conan yelled, "Impossible!"

Four giant water hands came out, and they started smashing their fists near Conan and the Shinzu's.

They were jumping from block to block, avoiding them, and Conan blasted his way quickly over Marshy.

Conan yelled, "Now, Akane!"

Suddenly, Akane's katana raced past Conan's eyes, making Marshy accidentally look at it, paralyzing her.

'No way..'

Conan pulled his giant fist back, and threw a punch at Marshy's face. The punch definitely connected, making a loud thud, blasting wind everywhere.

But Marshy still didn't budge. She stood there, with Conan's fist sitting on her face.

Marshy went, "Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. YAWNNNN. BOOORING."

Marshy jumped and grabbed Conan's face, and used her other hand to ram it into Conan's stomach, stabbing him straight through. Marshy spun around like a tornado, and tossed Conan over to the giant Shinzu's.

The red power orbs that the Shinzu's were throwing kept targeting Marshy, and Marshy was dodging them. 

The other small Shinzu's went to attack Marshy, throwing punches and spinning kicks at her. Marshy was blocking them, she slid back and got into a fighting stance.

Marshy punched one of the Shinzu's in the face, hit him in the stomach, grabbed his head, ripped it off, spun around to the other incoming Shinzu's, and slammed the head against them, blasting them away into another canyon wall, destroying the foundation completely.

Landing beside Marshy, Conan and Akane rushed at her with full power, both of them had red and blue electric streaks surrounding them, and their eyes were fully white now.

Marshy spoke, "Damn. Looks like you really want the Excalibur."

The other Shinzu's were running at Marshy too, even the giant ones.

Marshy snapped her finger one time, and the water began to bang and go crazy again.

Everyone was on top of a boulder piece that was floating in the water. They all were moving around fast, chasing after Marshy.

Akane and Conan were jumping around, using multiple punching and kicking attacks, blasting wind everywhere. Marshy was dodging all of them with her hands in her pockets, still standing on a boulder piece.

Akane was controlling her katana with her mind, and she was making it try to stab Marshy over and over.

The other Shinzu's were running on water, shooting thorns at Marshy, and the tall Shinzu's were running after everyone, shooting large 77 foot thorns at Marshy.

As they all raced on the raging and destructive waters, Marshy was evading and dodging all of that commotion.

Marshy looked up and saw a 77 foot thorn headed her way. Marshy blasted up to it, grabbed the front of it, lifted it up, spun in mid air, and threw it back at the giant Shinzu. The thorn went straight through the Shinzu's head, and it began to fall.

Marshy landed feet first on the giant Shinzu as it was falling. 

She saw the other Shinzu's, and the big Shinzu's coming at her, while the small ones, Conan, and Akane were running up the falling Shinzu that Marshy was on top of.

Marshy thought, 'They're persistent. They crave more power because they were outcasts in their own realm, they came to earth to acquire more power, and if they take my Excalibur, then they would try and destroy other realms with it, stealing the power from them as well. If I go full power, I'll level the entire area, possibly killing that brat Duri and my grandfather, Mifu.'

Conan yelled a question to Marshy, "Why lure us here?!"

"Ummm, six obvious reasons."

Conan, Akane, and the dozens of Shinzu's jumped up to Marshy, climbing all over the fallen giant Shinzu.

Conan and Akane shot lightning at Marshy from their fists and kicks, Marshy was dodging all the attacks, sliding down the chest of the Shinzu.

She was sliding backwards, as the other Shinzu's were trying to stab her with their sharp pointed arms.

Marshy punched one of them into the sky, did a 360 flip of the chest, and pointed her foot out in a kick formation.

Gold fire was surrounding her foot, and she kicked a hard punt  and knocked the Shinzu's away from her.

She said, "I lured you here so no civilians would be hurt during this fight. And so Mifu could move into another place, I hate the one he has now. AND, HOLD UP, NEXT REASON...I don't wanna ruin my reputation by allowing civilians to see me kill you both. And since the other man is arriving, Mifu will take care of him while I take care of you guys. And the last reason….we need your girlfriends katana. I saw her with it, I sensed great power from it, but I didn't know what it did. Mifu could use that. There's no time to waste, I didn't care if I had the kid with me, it's now or never. And for my own enjoyment."

Conan and Akane slid down the giant Shinzu chest, sliding after Marshy.

Akane replied to her, "How noble! You're so perfect!"

Conan and Akane held hands, and their entire bodies were glowing with blue and white electric streaks. 

They said together:

"Power Level : 400,000…"

Marshy laughed, "NOW we're getting somewhere!"

Marshy did a huge backflip off the Shinzu and she was in the air once again.

Behind her, the other tall Shinzu's were throwing giant red electric powerballs at her.

Marshy dodged them with her eyes closed, moving swiftly through the air.

She pointed at them, and said, "Boom."

The Shinzu's exploded, splattering all over the place.

Marshy thought, 'Those things will regenerate anyway. The best thing to do is to destroy the katana Akane is wielding. Their power level is intense now, I'm through playing games. But I still can't go full power, not yet.'

A 40 foot long thorn came flying out of the chests of one of the giant Shinzu's, and it was going faster than light, aiming towards Marshy's head.

Marshy instantly turned around to it, sped above it, grabbed the middle with one hand, turned, and threw it at the remaining Shinzu's, and they all exploded, blowing giant holes into the other canyons.

Marshy landed on top of a leaning canyon, and Conan and Akane met her up there.

Conan was gathering and attracting more rocks to him to connect to his body, and they latched onto his fists and started glowing red.

Conan threw some punches, Marshy leaned back, leaned to the right, punched Conan in the stomach, jumped up on Conan's back, spun around, and kicked Akane in the face, almost knocking her off of the cliff.

Conan shunned Marshy, "You're nothing! Excalibur is all we want! Give it to us!"

"Excalibur is mine. I've had it for years, no way I'm giving it away to some buff idiot and a dumb slut."

Conan yelled, grabbed Marshy's leg, and tried to slam her into the ground. Marshy caught herself, did a spin flip, and did a kick flip up Conan's chin, knocking him into the air.

Akane came out of nowhere, spinning her sword around. She threw a few kicks with electricity behind it, Marshy rolled around to avoid it, looking Akane straight in the eyes to avoid looking at the eyes on the Katana.

"Oi! Marshy! I've heard things about you! How you couldn't have kids and all! You're gonna adopt that weak kid in there! Haha So sad! Soooo sa-!"

Marshy chopped Akane in the throat with her hands, and added a shockwave sonic boom with it. Akane's arms came off instantly, and her neck snapped all the way around, and she darted back into a canyon, then fell onto a platform coughing up blood.

Marshy said maliciously, "Now...you've pissed me off."

Conan screamed, "Akane!!"

He jumped over to Akane, and slid beside her. He had a straight face, but he lifted her head up.

Akane said to Conan, "She's…..too strong...she's toying with us...for her own enjoyment...we underestimated her. What if...what if we are too weak? Were they really right? Conan? Conan...answer me. Please talk to me…"

Conan was getting angrier and angrier, and he replied, "How dare you say they were right…Excalibur will be taken from Marshy, with or without you!"

"Conan.."

Conan snatched the katana away from Akane, and rammed it into her back.

"I was there for you...Akane. But if I don't do this...Excalibur will never be ours..forgive me, but you were too weak."

Marshy was floating in front of Conan with a dark aura around her body.

She said, "100 times…100 times I could've killed you two."

Conan yelled, "You were playing with us! Real warriors know a battle from a joke! You were toying with us to feed your own enjoyment by taking us down!"

"You killed Akane...and I'm keeping my power to a minimum.."

"She was already dying. She was too weak."

"Some husband you are.."

"Who said I loved her? I needed her to get to you...I couldn't do it alone."

"You bastard.."

Conan quickly grabbed Akane's body, and swallowed her down in one chomp, eating the sword as well.

Marshy yelled, "No!!"

A great blast of grey colored wind shot out from Conan, and it knocked Marshy back a few feet in the air.

'His power level has reached 850,000. And with that katana in his system, it upped his level even more….who knows what the hell he can do?'

Conan was 19 feet tall now, more buff, his tattoos were now glowing black and red, and he had eyes covering his entire body. 

Marshy was about to run at Conan, but she was paralyzed, nothing on her was moving.

Surrounding her like a dome, were the same red eyes that were on the katana. The eyes were bigger now, and there was no sunlight coming into the dome. Even under Marshy, the large eyes were there.

A few feet away, Conan was walking towards Marshy, saying, "Don't even think about trying to move. If you do, your body will explode. I created this dome with the power of Akane's katana, but it sacrificed the sword all together. Now…I will be killing you and taking the Excalibur that is within your blood."

Inside of the house, Duri was still on the phone, watching the end of a fighting tournament. 

The announcer on it said, "Well that concludes the match!!!"

Duri was tuned in. He heard the bangs and noises outside, but he was so immersed into the live tournament, he ignored it.

Outside, Mifu was fighting a man in an all black suit, and a golden skull head with flames coming out of his eyes and ears. His name was Shank Toma.

They were brawling in a taekwondo style; Mifu had yellow smoke coming from his entire body, and Shank had a green smokey aura coming from his.

Mifu said, "Imagine trying to sell a weapon you're never gonna get."

Mifu spun and kicked Shank in the chest, making him fly back and crash into the ground.

Shank stood up, and replied with, "You and Marshy will give me the Excalibur! Money is the answer for anything and everything! You'd understand if you grew up without anything to eat! This world is built on money, there are ranks to power, money sits in power, and power is what I want, a power exhibition is what I need, and people fearing me is what drives a man to believe in himself. I have a crew to run, money is necessary, I want...everything!"

"We all want something, and some of those things, we're never gonna get. Turn away now, and leave before it's too late."

"LIKE HELL I'D LEAVE! COME ON!"

Back inside the house, Marshy's phone died, and Duri said, "Aww man. What happened? I wanted to watch another video."

Duri was inspecting the phone, trying to find ways to make it work again.

Duri heard more banging, grunting, smashing, explosions, and fighting.

Duri stood up, and asked himself, "...A battle?"