Loud footsteps were heard, followed by the sounds of splashing. A young woman was running away, calling for help. Who was she running from? It was unknown, the human brain couldn't process what that creature was. It had a weird anatomy, three arms on each side of its body, a worm like body, with many legs, allowing it to run faster. The woman tripped and fell, however, with her swift quickness, she was able to hurry back up and run once more. Tears fell from her eyes, saliva dripping from her mouth, was she going insane?! Eventually, the creature caught up to her, gripping its large grotesque hand around her right leg. "No…! NO!! Please!! I beg you!!" The woman shouted, pleading for her life. But that didn't mean anything to the 10 foot tall creature, in fact. The creature only smiled at the pleading, showing some type of enjoyment towards this. Seeing others beg and squirm before death, slowly the creature opens its mouth. Lowering the woman down into the direction of its open mouth, ready to eat her alive. The woman's eye turned shallow, it was over… This was the end.
Thud! Thud! SPLAT!!
Suddenly, something had hit the creature in the stomach extremely hard. The force was enough to send a miniature shockwave through the area, blowing away cars and dirt. On the creature's body frame, there were exactly three holes that punctured through it. Blood and guts, it's heart was on the other side of the street. Whatever happened, it happened so fast, not even the creature's body realized it was dead. With determination in its eyes, it clenches its hand to crush the woman. Unfortunately for the creature, the woman vanished, it was as if she was never there. Its eye widened in shock, but was suddenly in anger. "Hey, trash. I'm over here." A voice came from beside the creature, when the creature turned towards the voices direction, it was immediately attacked once more. Crashing into a store, breaking through the wall and sliding towards aisle 2. Food cans dropped around it, the aisle collapsed, the creature tried standing up, but showed major signs of struggling. Behind the creature was a deep sigh, followed up by the flick of a lighter. "You have some nerve, bastard." From the voice, the creature could tell it was a man. Turning its head towards the direction of the voice, it could see the man. Black hair, a business suit, brown business shoes, and he was only in his white shirt. Exposing his muscular body underneath the clothing, the man rolled up his sleeve, revealing his muscular forearm. His hair was messy, and his eyes dull. "When things happen to you, you always get so mad. I wonder, do human lives matter to you or are they just some resource of food?" Wasting no time, the man sped forward, punching the creature in the eye. His fist caved inward, impaling the eye. This was followed by more punches, these punches weren't aimed but random. With the final assault, the man would spin around and kick the creature on its body, sending it out of the store and flying into the middle of another street. The man smashed his knuckles together, racing forward and beating the creature senseless, punching it against a stop sign, then taking it into an alleyway to beat it some more. He raised up his left hand, slamming his palm against the creature's torso, stabbing his fingers within the creature's body. Gripping onto the creature's flesh, like claws and slamming it on the floor. "You can survive even the worst of fatal injuries thanks to your regeneration, the only way to kill you is by two methods. Either, I destroy the soul or destroy the heart. But that depends on your threat level, and so far, you don't strike me as the strong type." The man within a second retrieves the heart, holding it out to the heart of the creature. "But I do know one thing, the more you are beaten the harder it is to regenerate for you lower scumbags." He dropped the heart on the floor and stomps on it, the monster dies on the spot, it was like taking a bullet to the head, instantaneous death.
Sploosh!
The creature's body fell down limp, following behind it was a loud thud, confirming the death. The man watched, showing no emotion behind his actions. His hand slid down into his pockets, he pulled out a phone and called one of his superiors. "Jobs done, the girl is safe. However, there's plenty more of these freaks running around." There was a pause for a second, before he began talking again. "No, not yet… We haven't encountered any of them. But I bet they're hiding, somewhere." Another pause happened, before the man nodded his head and hung up the call. His attention drove back to the body of the creature, which was slowly turning into dust. "Alright… This is gonna be one hell of a night."
Walking through the empty city, there was a small boy with black hair, a black kimono, with a sword on his waist. His facial expression was far from fear, but complete stoic. His name was Rigaki Tadamasu, a very known name and prodigy of his clan. He was nothing but 15 years old, but held an extreme amount of power. The creatures which were attacking people within the city avoided him at all cost, his aura induced fear onto them and even humans. "Hmph… Here we are again. With the same thing, we only get breaks half a week now." He said, there was a hint of annoyance in his voice. "These creatures have been non stop causing trouble, but they're also growing in numbers somehow…" Right then and there, a flying monster attempted to take Rigaki's head clean off. However, it only crashed to the floor. Splitting into pieces and blood behind Rigaki, the pool of purple blood swam towards his feet. He sliced the monster into 5 different pieces within a flash, his body didn't even move. "The Council needs to do something about this, or there won't be anything left of the city to protect." Suddenly a small explosion of dust from a nearby building happened, a shadow emerged from the building, waving the smoke away from his face, he caught sight of Rigaki Tadamasu standing beside the mutilated corpse of a monster. A wide smile was spread across his face, and he bounded over to his friend, his purple hair bouncing with each step. "Hey Rigaki! Looks like you've been busy!" Shiki said, his dark skin glistening with sweat from the battle. Rigaki scowled at his friend's cheerful demeanor, his grip tightening on the hilt of his sword. "Tch... someone's gotta clean up these streets." He grunted, his eyes narrowing as he looked Shiki up and down. "You seem to have survived your own encounter. What was it this time? A pack of rabid dogs or maybe some mutated rats?" Shiki's smile faltered for a moment and he glanced away, his eyes losing focus. "Ah, y-you know, just the usual stuff." He mumbled, his cheerfulness faltering for a moment. "Nothing I couldn't handle." Rigaki snorted, his lips curling into a sneer. "Of course not." he said with a lower tone, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "After all, you're one of the most powerful people in the city. It would be a shame if you had to actually put in any effort to defeat these pathetic creatures." Shiki's face lit up, with a slight tilt, he smirked as a response. "Is that a compliment? Hehe~..."
DOOM
In that split interaction, a bunch of weight fell down on them, they felt ten fold heavier than before. It was so heavy, to the point none of them were able to move, leaving the two confused. "What the-", Rigaki said, trying to force himself to move, but it was a struggle. "Heh… Someone finally caught us", said Shiki, making a playful joke out of this strange phenomenon. Out of nowhere, a strange figure came out of the shadows. A weird man with a skeleton mask, obviously he was human or some kind of undead, no regular skeleton would have meat on their bones. In this moment, the two boys were contemplating on what this person wanted with them, let alone use their ability against them. "Puh… A bunch of kids. The Division is really that desperate, huh?" The man said, seeping a little closer to speak with the young men. "Listen, I'm not here to kill a bunch of kids, but since you're some Division, I kind of have no choice", the man spoke with a loud commanding voice, "so no offense." Rigaki's eyes twitched, anger was only gathering up, "what the hell do you mean no offense?! You're literally planning on killing us, bastard! Hell… You didn't even explain anything, let alone why the frick we're stuck like this!" The man in the mask perked up, scratching the side of his skull mask, "I-Uhhh… Jeez, okay kid. The ability is called [Quantum Star], when a star sucks in its own gravity, it produces a black hole. So if I wanted to, I could do the same. However, it's just controlling the natural phenomenon of gravity! Zero gravity, weighted gravity, all of gravity is mine to control!" The man smirked behind that mask, spreading out his arms, and releasing a massive aura which engulfed 100 meters of the area around them. Cars began crushing, poles bending, people were falling, glass shattering, sinkholes forming. The aura was immense, so potent that Shiki and Rigaki could feel their very essence (souls) being crushed by the man. "In other words, you're fighting the boss battle", the man said with a cheeky grin. "Fascinating…", Shiki muttered, Rigaki turned to him with widened eyes. "Your aura is so advanced, that it even caught me off guard. So… You aimed to attack our souls and body? By weighing down our soul, you also weigh down our body in addition. No wonder you stand where you're at right now." Shiki was suddenly starting to stand up, an aura was developing over him, showering underneath the masked man's aura. Suddenly a blast of aura emitted from Shiki's body, enough to challenge the ability [Quantum Star]. The pressure of the masked man's aura began to falter as Shiki interfered, both standing in place to fend each other off. This falter in the masked man's ability allowed Rigaki to quickly move in after getting up, closing the distance in-between them. However, slipping from underneath the man's underarm, was a small slim figure, about the same height as Rigaki, if not even taller. Something strong hit Rigaki's blade, as if it was deflecting it away. But instead of the blade flying out the boy's hand, Rigaki kept his grip tight, swinging the blade backwards in an attempt to slam it against the figure's body. "HAHA!!" A sadistic laugh came from them, as they deflected the blade once again. This time, shooting their arm forward, aiming to stab Rigaki in the center of his chest. But with his quick speed, Rigaki was able to move away, dodging the lethal blow by seconds. Leaping backwards, Rigaki resumed his defensive stance next to Tezuka who was still struggling to keep up his protection. "Heh… Seems like someone else joined the party too, huh?" Tezuka said, with a slight smirk, raising up his energy levels and disrupting the flow of the masked man's aura, in that moment, the gravity which was in place around the area was now voided, it was as if nothing happened. "Party? This is too trash to be a party, I have been to better ones. Anyway, why the hell are you both bullying Shinji?!" The girl said, pointing at them. She seemed disappointed and angry. Meanwhile Tezuka was confused, Rigaki was on kill mode. But Tezuka took a moment to think about the situation. This girl was able to react and overpower Rigaki's strong and fast slashes, a feat not even some people in the division could do. Rigaki spoke up in response, a vein of anger appearing right on his forehead, "Well, nobody told Shinji to attack us first. What the hell is wrong with you people? Acting like this is so normal or something, you and him and seriously starting to piss me off." This shook the female down to her core, nobody has ever talked to her this way. The only thing she could respond with is anger back, puffing up her chest and looking down at the small boy. "Yeah? Well, you're starting to piss me off too, shortly. How about we settle this, so I can break your jaw!" Rigaki moved inward, closing the distance between them to only a few inches, "Okay. You stupid gorilla." Things were starting to become tense, the atmosphere heating up around them, becoming heavy. Tezuka and Shinji on the other hand watched each other, making sure none of them moved, the both of them were ready to charge in at any time. "RUN!" A voice said in the distance, which nearly triggered the battle, as both teams looked into the direction of the warning, a swarm of creatures were heading their way. "Oh shoot!" Tezuka said he charged forward and snatched Rigaki into his hands, running forward as fast as he could. Shinji swooped and grabbed the female by the back of her shirt, hovering upwards to move away from the swarm. "We will meet again… Purple hair." Shinji said with a silent voice, speeding off into the distance. Tezuka on the other hand was running for his life, breaking the sound barrier, but even then the creatures seemed to catch up a little bit. He leaped forward, through a window and into a store, running on top of the shelfs, knocking them over. The building collapsed right when Tezuka was at the end of it all, but he kept running, Rigaki decided to fire several air slashes towards the creatures who were close. Only a small amount had fallen victim to the slashes, causing them to fall down and get trampled upon by the rest.
"Shit! I think we won't make it!!" Said Rigaki, crouching down into a stance, ready to put in his all. He wasn't going down without a fight, neither would Shiki! They both made their approach, but in the middle of doing so, something landed in front of them. This force provided a massive air shield in front of them, protecting all of them from the creature. In fact, the creature was blown backwards a couple of feet away. Standing in front of Shiki and Rigaki, was a boy with black hair, a white streak in the middle of their hair. The boy seemed to be their age as well, but.. Where did that power come from? From the looks of it, he wasn't a division member at all. But rather, a prisoner of some sort. "Hmmmm…." the boy hummed, as the creature resumed its rush, the boy lifted up his arm, causing it to explode from the inside from the sheer force that was brought. Saving not only Rigaki and Shiki, but many others. The boy turned around, facing the two with a cute little smile. "Phew… You guys are okay?" asked the boy. Shiki immediately leaped onto the boy, impressed by his strength, "DUDE!! THAT WAS AMAZING!!! HOW'D YOU DO IT?! YOUR POWER IS BEYOND ANYTHING I SEEN SO FAR!!". Rigaki on the other hand was cautious, but was thankful for the save, "Yeah, yeah, thanks. Tezuka, we have other people to save c'mon." Rigaki grabbed Shiki behind his shirt, getting him off the boy. The boy only could smile in response, standing up and dusting himself off. Rigaki and Tezuka muttered along the way, however, the prisoner boy stood there, taking in the scene. "Hmph… Those are not bad people. Now, back to what I was doing before."