Awaken Book 2: Hell's Rejuvenation

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BenKei stands still as Hell' Gate smiles when Arc rushes through the building next to them and BenKei blocks his punch without even looking at him. "You seem different from Okada..." He says as Benkei delivers a palm to his chest that flies him back a couple feet. BenKei doesn't say a word as Arc stares back at him in utter excitement, he dashes towards him and misses him completely and BenKei flips to a kick that drives straight to his spine. He hits the ground, pushes off, and one of the five orbs turn bright to blind BenKei before he lands another attack. He closes his eyes as Arc drives his fist to the left cheek of Benkei's face and through the momentum of it, BenKei glares and three bone breaking shots land on his face, chest, and stomach. He spits out blood as his ribs bend inwards, cutting his organs a little as they heal in a matter of seconds. Benkei's aura is slowly but surely decaying as his hair is the same as before; "So that's it huh?" He whispers to himself as BenKei takes one step and immediately goes down to the ground, he grabs his chest as if his heart is moving way too fast he can't control breathing. Arc dashes to him and kicks him while he's down and Benkei flies to a wall and Arc meets his head with his knee and BenKei rolls out of his foot that cracks the ground when it lands next to his face. "BenKei...whatever that form you were in seems to have brought a major toll on your body and your energy. I can help..." Salo says as he sees a green haired girl walks in his chambers and he smirks. "I'd think you'd show up sooner, the world is in peril and you just show up here, Rana?" He says as she stops and crosses her arms. "Now that I'm here, where do I go? Arc stops as Rana grabs his fist and BenKei looks up and sees her and can't even believe his eyes. "Rana. We never met but I'm the last person you'll meet." She says as he swings and she dodges it easily and he almost falls over with a little trip. "You has all these fight beating up on the weak, how about you try me?" She says as he engulfs her with a huge blast that appears her point blank and she giggles as she taps his shoulder and she stops him just before he delivers another large blast. He is just frozen in time as she smiles, "All it takes is time." She says as he slowly looks up to her and recognizes her. "You....are her, aren't you?" He says as she has his body twist in multiple directions and he starts to scream in pain, "You and that monster killed my mother so don't act cute while that's your last breath." She says as BenKei slowly leans up as he struggles to get back on his feet functionally. "S....stop. That's...,enough." He says as her eyes stop lighting bright green and she realizes what she's doing and drops him to the ground. "Oh my god. I'm sorry." She turns to him and helps him up. "W..who...." he utters as he's in and out of consciousness. "Hush. Rest now." She says as he dozes off as Arc slowly gets up and regenerates from his wicked wounds. "I had fun...killing your mom and having you watch." He says as he creates a ball in his hand that seems to completely unstable as soon as it leaves his palm. "Now. You and the rest of this world SHALL JOIN-!" He yells as BenKei delivers a fist covered in a fire type aura through his heart and his heart flies out his back and beats slowly on the ground. "Y-you....talk too...much." He grins as he falls and the ball immediately goes away.

Xester catches up with Allen and shoulder tackles him in the back and flips to his feet on the side of the building. The thrusters quickly push him off the wall and he dodges his kicks and they both run closer and closer to the stadium. "Is it ready?" He says as Xester grabs him by the back of his head and drags it along the wall and delivers elbows to his ribs. "Come on, at least fight back, make this FUN for me." He says as his arm grows big and decks him through the wall of the stadium and he struggles to get up. Xester runs towards him and drives his hand in his suit's chest, "This suit of yours makes you YOU don't it? Let me help you with that." He says as he presses the chest piece inward and almost reaching Allen's actual body. "Error. Error. You must think of something quick." The suit says as red liguys flash around his face, "T. Commence Flash." Allen says as T responds, "But your plate is broken, you'd be risking your safety along with his." It says as Allen yells, "DO IT." The suit powers up and beams a blast that covers Xester's top half of his body. He screams as he steps back and his eyes turn white as in he is completely blind, "General power is depleted..." the suit says as Allen falls to his back. "T. Put all the reserved energy to my sound limiters..." Allen says as T stops. "I shall not! That would KILL YOU, don't think that boost would only be at a beneficial price. It's suicide!" He says as Allen manually overrides the system and small cords jab into his arms, chest, and legs. "Seems like I can't stop you. Take care of this." T says as the suit opens up and Allen jets forward and decks Xester in the face. The skin on his arms, legs, and other places start to tear off as the power within his body is unstable; Xester is defenseless as he is repeatedly punched in the face left and right. He spins in a corkscrew like fashion and delivers a kick that flies him high the sky, he flies to the same level where all the speakers and lights are faced inward and a blue light goes on. They all in unison blast a sharply concentrated shot of sound that keeps his body in a prism, he screams as the sound utterly tears his body apart. Allen lays on his back, can't move a muscle as he gave it all he had, Parrish and Hope see the blast from the distance and meet up there. "Oh my god, ALLEN!" Hope says as she runs to him and halfway there, Xester's dead body falls face first on the ground, remains motionless. "Where did he..." Hope says to herself as she sees Parrish run through the same entrance. "Woah..." Parrish says as she sees the scenery and puts her sword away. "Who are you?" Hope says as she remains on her guard, "I'm not a threat to you, name's Parrish. Benkei's daughter." She replies as Hope's eyes light up. "Oh thanks the stars, we're on the same side." She says as they nod. "Help me out here, yeah?" She asks as Parrish instinctively puts one of his arms over her shoulders and aids him up along with Hope.