410 Limitless Blood Firmament - Reborn!
It was a vast world, with no perceivable end.
Stretched to the distant horizon, there was a layer of blood, like a red ocean without waves; soulless and dead. The sky was unimpressive as well; gray, cloudless, and dull.
This world was a painting, colored with immense sadness, pain, and anger.
Yet, it was the silence that suffocated the living, the dead, and those who wandered in between the realms. This silence had a chill about it, a weight that pressed upon the chests like the blow of powerful waves.
This silence was indeed the life of this world. And this world, this picture, was Kai's Inner World.
- I… am… the… blood… in… my… bones… LIMITLESS BLOOD FIRMAMENT! Kekekekekeke!!! -
The words rang throughout the world like the most primal chant. But no sound reverberated, and no one heard them. Nor could anyone hear the demonic cackle that had followed those words, the sinister mockery.
These words had come like a wind's sigh, the gentlest gale sweeping the dome of skies.
These words had also come like a serpent's slither. A hiss!
These words… had been spoken in Parseltongue.
The moment this chant ended, a fathomless ripple originated from Kai's broken figure and the entire world around him disappeared, taken over by blood.
Shadow Lord and Cersei, grasped in his right hand, appeared in the sky, hovering several hundred meters above the blood ocean.
Red Sun was there, too, fighting off his dwindling senses, his appearance fluctuating between that of a blond man in a red trenchcoat and a short, red-haired man in a white t-shirt and blue shorts.
Moraine, Contestant Blue Wind, was sprawled over the blood layer, wearing the Helmet of Fate and wielding her Claymore. Underneath, the red ocean showed no sign of ripples, as if her existence couldn't make it stir; unworthy.
And then there were Shadow Creatures, who were strong enough to survive the onslaught of Kai's demonic bloodlust; the Color of Supreme. Those shadows were Red Sun's colossal copy and RizeGreymon's two copies, all shaking like a rope tied across a gusty valley.
All of them, living and non-living, were trapped, unwillingly brought under the silent sky. Even their vast strength felt useless and an illusion.
In this world, there was a gray pillar near these trapped beings.
Dementor-Kai was hovering at the top of this pillar, looking at the sky in a daze and remembrance. Tears poured down from the corner of his eyes, tracing a rough path over his scabbed face and dead heart.
A teardrop fell off his chin and dropped into the blood ocean like a single instance of rain.
Drip!
The sound tore through the silence, and ripples originated where the tear fell, undulating as if they were alive.
"… home…" Kai's words came out, choking.
This was the sky of his original world. This was the only sky he knew, the sky under which he had played, cried, killed, and died.
This… was his home.
-Cry not for what is lost, Kai Stormborn. This sky lies in your heart, not in your memories, and we still have people to kill. Keke!-
Kai brought his dazed eyes down and looked at the being hovering in front of him. More tears welled up in his eyes, but they weren't because of remembrance. The moment he looked at this being, it was like countless swords were stabbing into his eyes, into his body, slashing every single thread of his muscles.
It was a very lean figure, over 6 ft tall, and black. Its hands were taller than the supposed proportions, and its fingers were long as well, with claws at their ends. There was no face, either. No mouth. No nose and eyes. Just plain blackness, ancient and alone. The only color it had other than black was yellow, and that too belonged to the figure's knee-length hair.
There was no wind in this Inner World. Yet, those long, yellow hair were swaying left and right, giving an impression of a banner amid a storm.
The tall black figure had no eyes, but Kai could feel it was looking at him, its gaze gentle. It had no mouth either, but he knew it was smiling.
Though its presence was cutting into him, Kai felt an immense sense of familiarity echoing from this being into his heart. A connection, deeper than ever and beyond.
Kai looked over his shoulder and eyed the hole in the sky, through which a waterfall of blood was falling into the blood ocean, creating no sound and ripples. The moment his eyes fell on the hole, he instinctively touched his chest, feeling something viler and eviler than the vilest and evilest creatures known across the Multiverse churning inside him. Alive.
-Who are you?- Dementor-Kai hissed, looking back at the black figure, his breath escaping his mouth like a freezing gasp. -Where am I?-
-Keke!- the black figure cackled and hovered to a stop at Kai's left on the pillar. -First, let me take care of these nuisances.-
It was then Kai's gaze fell upon Shadow Lord, Cersei, and the other Shadow Creatures. Pirate Lord Henry Morgan's old eyes were trembling as he continued to back up, his gaze moving up from the hole in the sky to the yellow-haired being. There was such a fear on his face that not even the prospect of impending death could have made him show. This was a dread, far surpassing any conceivable thought.
As Shadow Lord backed up, he hurled his hands and ordered the vastly powerful three Shadow Creatures to attack the two beings standing on the gray pillar. Immediately, Red Sun's copy and the two RizeGreymons' copies, all with a strength equivalent to 8th-floor Contestants, charged toward the over 100 ft tall gray pillar.
Roar! Grrr!!!
-Watch closely,- the yellow-haired being hissed for Kai, lifting its long and lean right arm toward the world in front of them. -This is the power of your Inner World. This is the power that… you must make yours.-
The being to Kai's left unfurled its clawed hand as if he was holding a ball in his hand. No. It was as if he was beckoning someone or something.
And then he slowly raised his entire arm.
-That which is devoured, will be reborn!- the hiss roared, shaking the entire silent world. -Rise… Koffing!-
Hummmmm!
A resounding hum reverberated throughout the blood world. The sheet of blood ocean between the gray pillar and the incoming shadows ripple, before protruding up as if something was rising.
Yet this simple rising of the blood layer caused furious ripples in Kai's heart.
The size of the blood layer was just too big. So big, in fact, that even the gigantic RizeGreymons' copies felt tiny compared to it.
KOFFFINGGGG!!!!
A voice boomed throughout the blood world, and this voice was followed by a Pokemon, lunging out of the blood ocean.
This was an enormous Koffing, over 30 ft in diameter. Streams of blood fell back from its smoking protrusions like rivers through ravines. There was no hint of life in it, only bloodlust.
It was a creature reborn to kill, massacre, and slaughter.
The yellow-haired being wasn't finished, though. Its arm was still rising as if it wanted to lift the entire sky over its palm.
-Rise… Golduck!-
Boom!
A humongous blue-skinned lizard-like creature's head protruded out of the blood ocean, followed by its even bigger body. It was over 100 ft tall, and the will to slaughter in its dead eyes was no less than that of Koffing.
The moment it came out, it let out a heart-wrenching roar toward the Shadow Creatures. The giant mind jewel on its forehead shone bloody, and all three creatures stopped midair as if time itself had been frozen.
Kai was looking at this scene with his dazed and dumbfounded gaze. His heart was already expecting… expecting to hear the next words.
Sure enough, the black arm lifted once more, before curling the clawed fingers into a fist in a show of absolute might and power.
-Rise… Dementor!-
An icy breath took over everything and everyone, their hope abandoning them forever. Then, a mummified, scabbed hand crawled out of the blood ocean. This hand followed another hand, and then it used the vast blood waves as a platform, pulling out the rest of its body.
Calling it gigantic was doing it an injustice.
A sinister and hideous presence engulfed the distant corners of the world as over 300 ft tall Dementor hovered 3 inches over the blood ocean, it's even longer tattered black cloak billowing behind it like vaster waves.
When it breathed, souls shuddered, despair taking over the senses; absolute despair.
-Keke! This is your Inner World, Kai,- the yellow-haired being cackled, its hisses murderous. -This is Limitless Blood Firmament…
-... your Reality Marble!-
