The birth of Zen (2)

Everything was quiet. The couple were now race to face with one of the greatest threats their clan had ever faced.

"How cruel Nomichi. You can't even say hello to an old friend?" said Zetsubo while smiling ominously.

"Zetsubo Entei. The last time we met your head wasn't a torch, if memory serves me well." Said Arasoi.

"Mock me all you want, Nomichi, but my power has reached new heights. Heights you could never hope to attain in your lifetime." said Zetsubo with pride.

"Oh? You must not have heard of my journey to Heaven. Whatever power you possess, it's child's play before me." said Arasoi with even more pride.

"Just fight already you overconfident pricks." said Yume who had gotten protection and hidden the baby away.

"Must be tough being married." said Zetsubo. "I have good news for you though."

Arasoi looked at Zetsubo with dissapointment. "What could it possibly be? Surely you didn't have to destroy my village to tell me, if it was actually good news." he replied back, arms crossed.

"I admit that was unnecessary," said Zetsubo looking down at his destruction. "So I guess I'll just deliver it. Luckily for you...your family will lose it's newest member, and you can have more time to gain power."

Arasoi processed the statement. His hands glowed blue as he entered a fighting stance. "LEAVE NOW!" he shouted, but it was aimed at Zetsubo.

Extending one hand he slapped away the air pressure, a seemingly impossible feat.

"Blast Voice? A low level bomb move like that could never affect me." said Zetsubo, pretending to yawn. "But I guess it's time to get serious....and kill that damn baby."

As soon as he finished these words, Zetsubo's hands began to radiate a red aura and he entered his own fighting stance, one similar to Arasoi's but more disheveled and arrogant.

The fight begun.

Quickly these two demonic fighters rushed towards themselves and began exchanging powerful blows. Each blow was filled with killing intent, a feeling one would not have gotten from their earlier conversation.

The ground reesonated with their momentum. The rocks around them crashed with each miseed punch. The sounds of their battle could be heard across the mountain.

This was trully a battle between warriors!.

Then they both stopped.

"Your physical fitness is still the same..." said Arasoi, expecting Zetsubo to have surpassed him in that aspect.

"Your's is stagnant as well...it seems we've both run out of ways to train our bodies." said Zetsubo. "So we'll use chi to decide this match." he said smiling slyly.

"Obviously...too bad for the mountain range though." said Arasoi as an orb formed on the palm of his hand.

"That's a tad bit too simple to start with." said Zetsubo.

"You might be right." said Arasoi looking at the small orb in his hand. "How about a hundred?" he said as he waved his hand and an array of orbs appeared.

"HA HA HA! EVEN WHEN YOUR FAMILY IS THREATHENED, YOU CAN STILL JOKE AROUND!" shouted Zetsubo. "Your level of ignorance surpasses mine by a margin even the gods cannot reach.

"Well... the margin isn't that wide... I mean you even forgot your objective." said Arasoi chuckling before sending his arm forward.

"Wait, what.?" said Zetsubo in surprise, instantly turning to the rock to see Yume was no longer present. Along with his target.

"You piece of sh-" Zetsubo was saying before he was hit by blue detonating orbs.

Yume was running at full speed towards the shelter. With the baby held tightly in her arms, she used explosions to propell her closer to her goal.

Zetsubo watched in horror as his target escaped his grasp, and he was stuck facing the Slayer of Pints.

"Enough b*llshit!" he exclaimed and proceeded to slice through the balls with his fingers, which were coated in a dark aura.

The balls he touched instantly vanished, but he still got hit by a fairly good amount.

"If you want I can make another one...it doesn't really drain that much chi." said Arasoi as he nonchalantly created another wave of bombs.

Zetsubo's eyes turned feral. He was no longer enjoying the fight. "Dark Screech!" He shouted, and a powerful black beam shot out of his mouth towards Arasoi.

He dodged it, realising that Zetsubo wasn't all talk, as the beam had cleanly eaten through the spot where he stood in previously.

"Impressi-" before Arasoi could finish, Zetsubo had rushed up to him and began hitting him with aura covered fists. "Your Dark chi is impressive. To master it to this extent and use it for something so decrepid." said Arasoi while blocking Zetsubo's attacks.

"Orbital Chaos!" shouted Zetsubo, releasing a powerful gust around him that sent Arasoi flying. He looked in the direction of Yume and pointed out his arm. "True Decay!"

A grey beam shot out of hus hand and went straight toward Yume.

Upon seeing this Arasoi no longer kept his cool. "YUME!!!"" he screamed as he watched the grey beam slowly reach his wife.

Then she did something crazy. She threw the baby downwards with immense speed. "Burst wave!" she shouted as the beam hit her. A small amout of air kept the baby from hitting the ground hard, and while it might be in pain for a while, it would live.

"Heh. They can't say I was a bad mother now." said Yume as her body slowly turned to dust.

Zetsubo looked at that seen in horror. He had used over 80% of two years worth of accumilated chi for that beam. It was supposed to decompose both mother and child. Then he looked behind him. He no longer saw an enemy he could beat.

Arasoi was broken. If he had started the fight seriously, if he hadn't held back from the start...then his wife would still be alive.

He felt regret.

But right now...he felt hate.

He turned his head towatds Zetsubo, losing any resemblance to the man fighting before now. He rushed up to him at terrifying speeds and began to rain down a punishment of chi infused punches!

Each punch would cause an explosion, fracturing bones in Zetsubo's body like toothpicks. He ran forward while he made this feral combo, carving into the mountain side and going serveral meters inwards!

Eventually Zetsubo was punched outwards and back unto the mountains.

His face was covered with bruises. His bones were broken beyond repair. His head of fiery fair had gone out. What was left was a decaying green corpse that looked like a tall goblin

'A monster...' Zetsubo thought to himself. He immediately regretted accepting this task. He only had one option left. If he didnt take it, he would be killed by either Arasoi or...him

He decided on the spot. "SOUL TAKER! I WILL BECOME A DEMON! JUST TAKE THAT CHILD'S SOUL!" shouted Zetsubo.

Arasoi looked at Zen and saw a grotesque hand come out of the ground and grasp around Zen, then quickly retreat back into the ground.

"You....you..."

Arasoi had had enough. He picked up Entei and took him to a part of the mountain range far from the shelter.

"This is where I will deliver the judgement of Heaven." he said as he began to levitate. He slowly rose until he reached into the clouds.

" He ran? Whatever, I can use this opportunity to heal and escape."

Then Zetsubo realised. He couldn't move at all!

"Spiritual pressure! But only moves that are Heaven Rank can exhibit it! Don't tell me he..."

Mustering the strength to look up, he saw it. The once dark night sky had been replaced by the sky blue colour of bomb chi.

It was a bomb orb that covered the sky!

"NO WAIT!!!! FORGIVE ME! I'LL CHANGE! I'LL START AN ORPHANAGE! HELP THE SICK! JUST PLEASE NO!!!!"

"Heaven's Destruction." said Arasoi , and the resulting explosion would make nukes look like toys.

*

Arasoi returned to his son's body and began to weep. The monster had achieved his goal, causing him pain on several levels. He was heartbroken. He swore that he would never take anything for granted again.

"This child still lives sir...he just lacks a soul."

"What? said Arasoi as he looked up to see a short old man in a ragged cloak holding a staff.

"I mean. I can bring him back to life."