Awaken Book 2: Hell's Rejuvenation

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"Whitmore....BenKei....what's happening down there?!" Solo's faint voice echoes in Whitmore's head as he floats in nothing but darkness. "Ow...my headdd." Whitmore says and Salo hears it and takes a sigh of relief. "You two and that Dragon seems to be engulfed in a ball of darkness, is this Hell's Gate's doing?" He says as Whitmore shakes his head as he's unsure. "I don't know...everything's dark in here." He says as he tries to make some light to see and it doesn't work. "It seems like this is all BenKei..." Salo says as suddenly the darkness fades away and a violet light shines through all directions and the huge dark sphere implodes gently and rains in the sky. The Bone Dragon's body and limbs land all around the city as its head lands in front of Hell's Gate and a violet, black aura covered figure steps on top of it to see him staring back at him. "My god...what is that?" Whitmore says as he floats nearby, seeing them both from afar. BenKei walks slowly to Hell's Gate as he laughs, "No matter what you are, you'll die by my hand." He says as the staff's blade smashes to pieces as soon as it hits his chest and his eyes give impression of a shock. Hell's Gate leaps away from BenKei and he takes out a scroll with strange markings on it; "I'm far from done." He yells as a multitude of knives appear in the sky and start to drop down. BenKei looks up at the flying knives and stands still til one knife is about to lay on his forehead, in a blink he pushes all the knives away and delivers a gut wrenching punch to his stomach. Hell's Gate spits out blood and BenKei kicks him in the face as Hell's Gate takes a sword and swings to only have it blocked by his forearm. "W...what?!" He says as BenKei stares into his eyes and the blade doesn't pierce his skin. He blocks and or dodges every slash from the sword as he slashes again and again with no connection, starting to frustrate him. He punches him right in the heart as it pauses the assault of Hell's Gate, having him cough up blood and BenKei just drills every organ he can punch and delivers a huge blast to his stomach that sends flying through four buildings. He takes a deep breath as the every seems to not surge as much before as if he was utterly exhausted or going on his last stretch soon.

"I see we're approaching some trouble, they may need our help." Andrew says as he partners with Ava, Supa Sound, and Wenda flying around. "Let's go." Everyone says as they all depart and Supa Sound sees Quinn get hopelessly beat by Xester as he has his one of two swords near his face. "As a disciple of a god, I'd think you'd be more of a challenge for me..." he says as Quinn notices Supa Sound coming down and nods to move away just as Supa Sound drops in and Xester blocks him. "Another friend of yours?" He says as Supa Sound smirks at him under the mask. "Something like that." Quinn and Allen says as they both try to attack and Xester dodges both of their attacks and Allen's software begins to read Xester's movements. "Analyzing...." the suit says as Allen dodges a couple jabs and parries with his hits and counters with a jet boot to his chest. "Quirky bastard aren't ya?" Xester says as he gets his feet ready. "Complete." T-Mac says as he moves a similar speed of Xester and throws a beam of sound he pressurized with his suit and cuts his left cheek, his eyes remain wide open. He rushes him and his arm grows abnormally huge and punches him far into the road and Quinn drops above him and he dodges his slashes and cartwheels back to his feet. Allen meets him there and Xester runs around him and punches the ground, making them jump away. "What you know about him?" Supa Sound asks Quinn as he holsters his swords. "Not much, I can't keep up with him, how 'bout you?" Quinn asks as Supa Sound's suit lights up and they both nod. "I'll hold him off. You go, can't risk you getting critically hurt, find Kiano or whatever his name is." He says as Quinn dashes away and Xester lands in front of him. "Fuck you think you're going?!?" He yells as he is kicked by Allen and he lands on his side and rolls up to his feet. "You there. You keep your eyes on me." He says as he gestures his hand to come and Xester smiles and runs full speed to him. Xester throws a punch as Allen counters with a backhand from the tremendous momentum and Xester grabs his arm and throws him far along the road. Allen uses his back thrusters to control himself as Xester delivers a spinning kick to his chest that sends him flying into a car, he dodges out of the way when Xester jumps and punches through the car where his head was resting. "T-Mac....do we still have remote control of the District Stadium?" He says as Xester rips his arm off of the car. "Yes. What is your plan of action?" It asks him as he blasts Xester with a ball of sound and he flies to a building. "Make the speakers turn to their highest velocity and reoccur their frequencies of each one to amplify at their peak volume. We're gonna give this freak a Taste of Sound." He says as Xester looks on his feet, heavily heated and balls his fists. "Now...I never in my life been challenged by a human OUT OF ALL RACES that can keep up with me..." He says as Allen gets his hand up to fight. "All this talking I think that's all you do fast." He smirks as he runs away and Xester grows angry. "YOU ARE NOT RUNNING FROM ME." He says as he chases after him.

The Titan shields himself with both his arms from the combined blast of Hiro's lightning and Paige's flames. He charges through the smoke and grabs both dragons by the necks and Hiro breaks free and claws him in the face. The Titan roars as Paige bites his arm and lifts him high in the sky as Hiro flies up and grabs the other arm. "Now pull!" Paige says as Hiro scolds at her. "Don't tell me what to do." He says as they both fly from each other with a hold of one arm and the Titan starts to rip apart from the force they both provide. The Titan roars in pain as it rips in half and dissolves into thin air and both dragons land on their feet, back to their human forms.