Awaken Book 2: Hell's Rejuvenation

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Hiro sneaks in as he sees Hell's Gate on both his knees in the middle of the sudden ritual. He sends a bolt towards it as it reflects off and strikes the rocks behind him, Hell's Gate continues to bleed off his chest and mouth as he slowly looks up to see who sent the attack, "So....the dragon....The Blue Dragon..kinda outside your habitat...aren't you..?" He slowly says as he coughs up blood each second pause. "I wouldn't be talking for what's in your immediate future." Hiro says as he stands in front of it, takes a deep breath, starts to charge a lot of force into his two palms. His hands give off electric sparks that fly in every direction and he concentrates slowly and slowly. Suddenly, Hell's Gate's body starts to snap and crack multiple times horrifically, "KNONUS....TAKE THIS WORLD...CONQUER YOUR...REALMS. MAKE....IT....Mine." Hell's Gate's final words as he falls over and a huge gust of red winds spin uncontrollably around his body. The artifacts light up around him, forming an orthodox circle, his soul jumps out of his body, and goes into the ground. The ground cracks in the middle of the circle as if it was a gateway to something, it opens as the winds goes inside along with the body and the artifacts one by one fade away. After the last one disappears, a being slowly rises from that opening: his skin is moist, chains of bondage around his limbs, his body is scarred, numerous burns into demon writings all over his body, one eye remains closed as the right one opens and he sees Hiro in front of him. "....Who...Dares..." Knonus' says slowly as he turns around to view Hiro charging his attack.

"One chance and it's here and now." A familiar voice says as Okada lands next to him. "What? Okada...I thought you were....I could've swore." Hiro starts to say as Okada follows Hiro's lead and charges his own attack, looking like a move from BenKei's book. "He is only weak and those chains of the gods are keeping him grounded, that was the last attempt to make SURE that he wouldn't evade so quickly....those chains make him vulnerable to magic so with our combined attack, we can launch him back where he came." He says as the energy around goes sharp and heat illuminates from him. He breathes slowly as Hiro nods at him, initiating that he's ready, Okada nods back as his attack is fully charged himself. "SOLOMON'S...." Okada yells and Hiro matches his feet along with his. "Hmph." Hiro nods as he blasts his huge energy mixed with a gold, blue, and electrical power surges out of his two hands. "CANNON!!!" Okada says as he blasts his beam that rivals the size of Hiro's blast as they clash and make one huge beam that heads straight to Knonus. He does nothing but looks at the blast coming towards him, he stands to brace for impact while maintaining a calm and collected composure. The blast grows closer and closer as he seems to smile, "Ablaze." He says under his breath as a particle of ashes from his skin flies off his fingers and into the blast in front of him to create some type of protective dome. "I shall not be stopped by some blue reptilian filth and a washed up monk..." He says as he marches slowly forward as the beam hits the dome and doesn't seem to push him back. "No..,that's...not possible." Okada says slowly, "Every time I come back...I'm always greeted with the same results...weaklings who think they have an advantage over me.." Knonus says as we walked about to the halfway point between him, the blast, and Hiro accompanied with Okada. "Shit." Okada says as he abruptly stops his blast and flies to hopefully flank him as his vision is limited to only looking forward. He comes from his right and lands a kick to his head, it doesn't phase him, he lands multiple kicks as they all seem to do no damage. "Hehehe..." He laughs as he grabs Okada by the neck and slams him to the ground, lifts him up, and slams him to the rocky wall behind him. Knonus turns the barrier around him to a gray energy ball and blasts it towards Hiro as it cuts through his blast and Hiro just barely dodges it. Hiro lands on the ground, sees how Okada is being man handled by Knonus, "R...run." Okada says as blood comes out of his mouth and nose from being utterly beaten up. "I'd listen to him. His last words were smart ones." Knonus says as Hiro balls his fist. "Funny. Now, I'm gonna be serious." Hiro says as his blue aura is linked with an electric current flowing throughout his body and his blue hair flows as sparks goes left and right. Suddenly in a blink, he goes from one side to shoulder charge Knonus, he flies to the wall and Hiro grabs Okada and leaves him to the side, away from harm. Hiro glares at him as Knonus does the same, "Show me what a dragon can do." Knonus says as Hiro within a blink appears in front of him and blocks his punch with his forearm, he zips around and tries to land a strike on him as he gets the same result. "Tsk." Hiro says as he keeps vanishing and attacking him at light speed with various moves as Knonus keeps blocking the strikes. He bats him off for a moment and Hiro springs back to deliver a huge kick to his stomach and follows up with an elbow to his face. Knonus gives him the impression that those hits hurt him, he immediately looks back at him, and gives him a miniature fireball in his chest. Hiro flies back to the wall as Hiro gets out of the little crater it made around his body, Knonus spawns in front of him with another small fireball as he gives him a menacing smile. Okada pushes him out of the way as Knonus delivers the fireball into the back of Okada, saving Hiro; Hiro hits the deck and he looks back at Okada's body on fire and Knonus stepping on the dead body like it was nothing.  "How unfortunate...well, one body down, one world to conquer next.." Knonus laughs as he walks slowly with Okada dead in his hand, Hiro leaps backwards and the team of Donovan, Kain, Mary, and Ava can't believe their eyes. "I-is t-t-that?" Donovan struggles to say as everyone feels the energy Knonus is giving off and he looks around as he throws Okada's dead body and it lands in front of everyone. "You must be kidding me...What in the Hell happened to my world? Life is all over, no order, no proper need of dominance...it sickens me." Knonus preaches on as Ava shoots a missile towards him. "TAKE THAT!" Ava yells as she shoots multiple missiles out of her cannon and they all land and creates a huge explosion that spreads through the entire cave. Everyone gives a shock expression as it seems the missiles didn't do any damage as Knonus stands there with an annoyed expression and a vein pops almost visually on his head. "This world...its citizens...all life is beneath me...now I'm irritated." Knonus says as a dark aura oozes off his body and he begins to yell and the energy surges high in the sky, striking the clouds. The sky turns dark as if it was night time around the area of land they all stand on as everyone stands in preparation, a symbol on his back starts to glow bright and he feels it. "(Hm...seems like Hell's Gate be an escape seal on me before his departure. Make sure I can heal and come back fully recuperated before I officially return to this world...smart play, smart play).." Knonus thinks to himself as he charges up to possibly unleash an attack onto everyone who watches up. "YOU WILL ALL TASTE MY WRATH AS I AM KNONUS, THE MIGHTY DEMON WHO CAN STAND AMONGST ANY GOD. NOTHING WILL STOP ME AS I AM RISEN!!" Knonus yells as he lifts his hand above his head and a huge, black fiery ball appears over the demolished cave behind him and he smirks as it gets bigger and bigger. A portal opens behind Knonus, a massive power seems to be pulling Knonus in as he tries to fight it, "I have returned.." Knonus says as he flies back into the portal and the gigantic energy ball suddenly disappears and the sky goes back to blue with clouds moving as normal.

~Minutes prior Knonus' arrival outside of the cave~

BenKei falls through a couple trees in the nearby forest, being thrown by Ash on his fiery rampage as Rana softens his fall with a green force field he lands on. Ash lands overtop of him and he rolls away from his crash landing, he flies above and blasts his face with an energy ball as Ash powers his way through the force and lands a punch in his stomach. Rana puts a green barrier around him, "You're a monk right?" She asks as Ash slams the walls and they start to crack. "Yeah, what's the plan?" He replies to her question, "He seems to be in some trace, we can get him out of it right now." She says as BenKei shakes his head. "I think I do remember a technique that can do something." He says to himself but loud enough for her to hear it. "Alright! Here he comes." She says as she takes away the barrier and he charges towards BenKei unexpectedly. "WOAH WOAH WAIT I SAID I THINK I CA-!!" He starts to scream in fear as his white aura covers both his and Ash's body and they're both stopped in their tracks. "Do...something?" BenKei says softly as Ash can't move a muscle and stares right at him. "Hey. Whoever you are, you're not thinking straight. Take a second and think about what you're doing here, from the looks of it, you have been going berserk all throughout the towns and cities back on earth....my father is better with words to say to calm any entity down but I see good in you. You came from a good family and they raised you well, knowing well enough what you could become with any wrong missteps..." BenKei says as Ash's eyes lose their blood red glow and goes back to his pearly almost clear colored pupils. "Chime." BenKei says as he puts his hand in the middle of his chest and a bright light shines over them. Ash's body shrinks back to his regularly built skinny body type, his skin releases a lot of steam, and he falls to BenKei's body and he catches him. He puts him on his back, somewhat of a piggyback position, "Guess I did know the move.." BenKei says nervously as Rana laughs. "You screamed like a girl, I felt offended in a way." She laughs even harder as they both walk alongside each other out of the forest to sense an even bigger presence. "The last time I felt this...was..." Rana stutters as Benkei finishes the sentence for her. "Knonus." He says as he and her nod. "Hey, take Ash to Heaven, I'll Rendezvous with the others up ahead." He orders as she nods, takes Ash off his back, and they both go apart from each other. "Good luck." She says faintly as she flies faster towards the sky. "Just hold out guy. I'm coming." BenKei says as he takes off violently off the ground and jets off towards everyone.