Ark 17 Episode 33: True Darkness

Participants

 * Leon Ryoji
 * Setsu Hikage

A Dark Night, Strange Hunger
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJq_fCK5YE&index=13&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkbiSVlrNHnbXbgZBIdU3Pl ) Antoher night in the city lit streets of Kasaihana. It never slept here, no matter who or what was in it. In this case, Leon had managed to keep his bloodlust under control for the most part. He’d only killed 20 people today, some big shots in a Kenpo dojo, who were supposedly masters of the art of Chi. Leon recalled the days where chi was something he could get into, but no more…since   he’d Taken the Y-Serum blood from Damon Yun, he was a monster with a heart. He’d emerge from the dojo a monster, his purple hair glistening in the moonlight, and his dark greyish brown skin covered in blood. The wings in the shape of hands would slowly recede into his back muscles, and his hair would shorten, turning back into it’s natural raven black complexion. His eyes went from the their black with red iris, to his natural emerald colored gaze, as he’d zip his hoodie back up, exposing his chest ever so slightly   as he made his way back down the streets of D2. Inside the dojo were mangled bodies with bite marks, and a couple severed bodies at the waist. Leon didn’t care much if he left a mess, the Serum had untraceable finger prints. He’d fade back, taking the appearance of his usual self, and make his way into the square. No matter the time of night there was always a band playing, some stand open, and right now leon was craving an energy drink. Not that he was remotely tired but,   it was just something to crave. He hadn’t been home in weeks, and had only called his father one just to let him know he was alive. Leon was growing even colder and more distant than he’d ever been in his entire life. . .and he loved it.

: ((https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RSN7Ml6IRg)) This night was like any other night, thugs running around in District One, at least the part where Setsu lived, the wealthy and happy walking around District Two going about plans they happened to have that evening or going on a simple walk like life was perfect and there wasn’t a care in the world. There was a person who seemed off from the usual looking crowd around the streets of District Two, a boy with shoulder length black hair that covered the right half of his face, wearing a black beanie, a black jacket over a black shirt, black jeans, and a black pair of Getta. This teenager glanced around with his piercing red violet eyes that seemed to look past people, as if they weren’t even there. It was the guy who went by the name of Hikage, his last name. A bandage rested on his visible left cheek, covering a gash that had opened up in the last fight he had been in. It seemed strange that a delinquent like teenager was walking around a popular spot in District Two, a boy who looked as if he’d cause trouble the second he got a chance. Couples and single people alike walked around him, making sure to give the kid space as he walked with his hands jammed down into his pants pockets. The square of District Two was just before him where a local band was playing music that they had invested their hearts and souls into, just another band trying to make it big in KasaiHana city and the world. A few stalls were open, selling various kinds of food and drinks which was good for Setsu, because he felt the need for an energy drink, wanting to keep himself up and moving. He walked up to the stall, noticing a guy who looked around his age, maybe a little older with black hair seeming to do the same thing he was doing. A scream sounded Setsu and upon glancing over his left shoulder, he saw a couple getting mugged at gunpoint, in the middle of the square in District Two, how stupid could a thug be to pull some shit like that off? It was foolish to attempt, KPD or at least security guards were usually around this area and he’d be caught quickly, so why even bother? Setsu went about his business even though it seemed like the guy behind the stall was too caught up in what was going on to even realize he had a customer. How stupid… This whole city is stupid…

Leon purchased his energy drink. Sliding the money on the counter, hisears perked up as he took notice of someone else walking up to the stall. Ignoring it, he’d pop the top on his can, and begin to sip it faithfully, stepping to the side so the other kid as he appeared to be could get his own. Leon leaned over the counter of the vender’s stand, his bangs falling heavily over his green eyes which pierced the night. Staring down at the counter his ears couldn’t help but pick up sings of a struggle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deUa4u00beU&index=171&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkbiSVlrNHnbXbgZBIdU3Pl ) He’d glance back over his shoulder..there was a couple getting mugged at gun point. The gunman asked and demanded their money. The husband took a stand, handing the man his money, his wallet as a whole. “that’s all we’ve got…get outta here!” the gunman shook the gun in the husbands face. “Nah, I’m the one calling the shots here! Tell your wife to give me the diamond! NOW!” The Husband would push his wife back, signaling her to run. “Honey get outta here no-BANG” The gunman shot the man in the head, his head snapping back and the blood splattering on to his wife. She was about to scream her petite little lungs out, but the gunman shoved the pistol in her mouth. Silent gagging noises were all she could afford to make. Leon didn’t to much care…people died every day in this city. It made no difference to him…that’s when the image of Aiko made it’s way into his head. Thinking about her smile. Her laugh…that night he risked life and limb to protect her. The husband died doing the same. Leon’s eyes unintentionally turned red for a moment, as he’d stand straight up, drinking the rest of the drink calmly, before tossing the can in the trash. “Excuse me…” He’d turn walking towards the scene of the crime, his arms by his sides, and his good old reverse blade at his left hip. “You….” The gunman heard Leon’s voice and replaced the gun in the woman’s mouth with his hand, gripping her tongue so she couldn’t utter a word. “Listen kid, get the hell outta here or I’ll murder you to!” Leon would keep his blank expression as he looked over at the woman. A mixture of tears and her husbands blood streamed down her face. “that does it!!!!” The man would shoot Leon point blank in the forehead! The 9mm bullet hit leon’s head dead on rearing his head back. However Leon would slowly lean his head forward again, a dark greyish brown spot appeared on his forehead where the bullet would’ve pierced the skin, but instead the bullet sat in the thickness of it, only having done enough to leave terribly small dent in leon’s forehead. The skin soothed itself back into place. Leon has/can generate an innate armor as a part of their body, which is resistant to attacks, harm or pain and temperature extremes. The armor varies from obvious, physical defenses, such as scales, thick skin/fur, natural shield, armor or shell, in-organic skin, etc, to bone-nodules below skin, particularly wide/sturdy rib-cake, blubber, or simply dense muscle. The gunman’s eyes widened, as he’d motion to shoot the woman in her forehead until leon unzipped his jacket, and giant snake would form from the skin of his chest, zipping outwards, and biting the man’s head clean off of it’s shoulders! The headless body of the man would fall to it’s knees, before falling limp on the ground. Leon tried to keep his actions at an angle that wouldn’t be so easily seen, but someone who looked at just the right angle would know what they saw. The woman would feint falling to the ground and passing out. Leaving Leon to zip his jacket back up, and begin to look left and right. He’d thankfully be in front of an old abounded hotel, and make his way inside the glass doors, tyring to escape sight for the time being. He didn’t know why he felt compelled to do what he did. Maybe because if he was in that position, he’d know exactly what that man died for…

SetsuKuragari: Setsu had passed over his money and taken a hold of his drink, glancing at the teen who had stepped to the side for him, catching what he thought to be the sight of the boy’s eyes turning from green to a deep red color and back again. Setsu slowly shook his head from right to left, popping open his drink, taking a long hard gulp from the liquid while the chaos behind him escalated, the sounds of the man trying to bravely protect his wife seemed to irritate Setsu slightly. BANG, the sound of the thug’s gun went off yet Setsu continued to ignore it, knowing the coldness of this city that seemed to have been damned and cursed from the very beginning. “Excuse me…” The boy had tossed his now empty can and had begun to move in the direction of the chaos, calmly and quietly as if he were going to do something about it. But the change in his eyes, the green to red and back again, definitely wasn’t something Setsu had mistakenly seen, he wasn’t tripping on some drug, nor was he mentally unstable. Setsu slowly turned around, watching the sight in front of him, watching the thug trying to keep the woman quiet as the boy walked up to him. The thug tried to assert his dominance that he felt by holding a gun over the boy and when things didn’t go his way… BANG another gun shot rang out, this time the bullet was for the boy. What should have been an instant death, wasn’t. The boy stayed standing and the light clinking of the bullet hitting the ground in front of him was heard. One second the thug had a confused and scared look on his face, the next second, there was no facial expression to be seen. The thug’s head was no longer on his shoulders and blood was pouring from the space where his neck used to sit. The body fell like a rag doll while the boy made his escape into an abandoned hotel. Setsu’s eyes had caught the sight of something… Something like a snake take the man’s head, a snake that had been produced from the boy’s body. Setsu’s curiosity suddenly peaked, but it wasn’t any of his damn business what had taken place before him yet for some reason he wasn’t able to let it go. He started walking, walking casually past the woman who was still standing there in pure shock, tears and blood dripping down her skin which was as white as a ghost. Setsu kicked out some of the glass around one of the windows, heading inside the abandoned hotel, glancing around for the boy who was hiding here. “Oi…” Setsu glanced around at the run down cluttered hotel, covered in dust. In this place, the boy could have been hiding anywhere and Setsu wasn’t quite sure if he really wanted to search. He glanced over his left shoulder towards the window he had just entered through; the woman was now on her knees, hugging the dead body of her husband, crying her eyes out. Setsu proceeded to walk further into the run down hotel, looking for a sign of the boy’s location, for what reason, he honestly didn’t know himself, but it was something to do, and curiosity was getting the best of him.

“So you followed me. Tell me. . .was it curiosity. Wonder. Excitement..” Leon’s voice pierced the veil of the dark hotel room lobby. His voice echoed from the acoustics of the hotel lobby, seemingly coming from every direction in the place. However if the kid looked up on the very edge of the other side of the room,   opposite form the way he entered in he could see a pair of red eyes open up from the distance. They were red with a circle around the perimeter of the iris and two tome diagonal on each side. A significant feature of a Yun..but in this case it was Leon’s piercing red stare (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg10/spider-man155/sharingan.gif ) “I’m baffled. You clearly saw what I did. Yet you willingly followed me in here. You have no clue weather I’m a sinner or a saint. An angel or a demon of any sort. You just followed me on what seems like a whim.” Leon’s eye slanted sideways, signifying his head tilted sideways well, more notably   some outlines of his bangs could be seen as well. “I’d like an answer. My patience is thin for the mortal.”

SetsuKuragari: Setsu stood still as the voice of the boy rang out and echoed in the empty hotel, glancing around slightly to find the source before glancing up, catching a glimpse of a pair of strange red eyes before him. The anger that was so easy to ignite was nearing the edge, just from the tone this boy held. Acting like some sort of damned demon that was above him and seemed to have an intent to kill him if he didn’t speak. Setsu’s face remained blank as he stared directly into the eyes before him, his piercing red violet eyes watching for movement, noticing the boy’s head seemed to be tilted due to the way the eyes were slanted. His patience was apparently thin and could be set off if Setsu didn’t answer his question. He slowly pulled his hands from his pockets, where they had been this whole time, letting them hang loosely by his sides. He stood silent, his gaze never moving from the pair of red eyes, the bit of pride he held told him not to give this kid anything that he wanted, and Setsu seemed to be standing by that pride.

Leon took the boy’s silence a sign of defiance. Leon would close his eyes letting out a deep sigh. He’d drop his body from it’s spot, letting the noise be heard, as he’d emerge from the shadows. His hair a long violet color and his skin a brownish grey. His eyes black and red, and a four pronged marking across his nose. “Your eyes. They show me pain. They show me. . .purpose. Show me. What that purpose is.” Leon would recede the wings into his back, his skin stretching and deforming as he did so, as his back muscles twitched and contorted. “ And give me the pleasure of taking it away.” Leon would place his left arm by his side, bent, and his the back of his fist would be facing the floor, as his right arm would extend forward, an open palm. His legs spread wide apart, as he kept his stance low to the ground. It’d only take a minute before Leon’s body flickered out of view! If his opponents eyes weren’t fast enough,   or even if they were, one would have to admit the impressive aspect of speed as his body darted in strides from right to left, and to right again each direction left a trail of dust spewing upwards in the wake of his footsteps but his body was yet t be seen (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s70/mysticdensukez/Martial%20Arts%20Gifs/Speed%20Gifs/naruto-nine-tail-fox-o_zpsf2e5686a.gif?t=1408953441 ) Leon continued his blitz, rapid foot step sounds echoed across the darkness to confuse his opponent, keep him guessing as to where he was with this attempt as leon’s body cascaded the shadows with daring speed. He’d dart behind the kid’s body and blow a breath, trying to fake him out and make him sweat or even turn around to attack. If the boy did turn to attack, he’d find lone gone again, slithering and speeding so fast his body would appear as if he’d morphed into a flesh colored blob (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s70/mysticdensukez/Martial%20Arts%20Gifs/Speed%20Gifs/tumblr_mbqylkztXw1qlm7qco5_250_zps622ab6e3.gif?t=1408953509 ) Leon scaling the outer walls of the room keeping his distance, before suddenly from the darkness, a desk would fly at the kid! The desk moving at about 70-80 mph flung at the kid, if it connected and wasn’t dealt with properly full connection could spell out trouble, bruising some of the kid’s skin and landing on top of him crushing some ribs, and muscle fibers as if he’d been hit by a car. The kicker was that if this frontal assault missed, specifically if the desk was dealt with or destroyed, Leon would appear one single second after wards, in the face of the boy his right arm cocked back, launching a 3 piece combination! The first hit was a right straight punch, all the power packed behind karate launched into it towards his opponents neck, if connected the airway would temporarily collapse and cause a thickened shortness of breath. The next attack was a left elbow, launched towards the sternum, if this connected it would push the sternum inwards a bit, weakening the parts that hold the rib cage to it’s shape just a bit with a feint cracking noise, and the final attempt would be a sickeningly quick snap kick launched towards the kid’s temple! The speed of this kick so great thanks to the second skin, leon’s foot would distort into a whip like shape it was moving so fast! The speed and power of this kick would not only cause the side of the kid’s head to bust a bit and spurt some blood but it’d also send his body stumbling 10 feet away into the nearest lobby window hitting his head. Each hit would be thrown right after the other in a quick second time frame, weather one hit connected or missed, each hit would follow an attempt right after the other. If this combination failed, Leon would merely prepare for what was to come, feeling mighty confident.

SetsuKuragari: ((https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc7EcuqVhPE)) Setsu’s eyes followed the boy as he landed down on the ground level. The things he said about Setsu’s eyes about pain and purpose and then taking it away caused something inside of Setsu to twitch and snap yet he remained blank, from his expression to the way he stood, despite the now tight clenching of his fists which were still hanging down by his sides. Setsu’s eyes never left the male up until the moment he literally disappeared. Setsu noticed dust being kicked up but he couldn’t see the boy at all. Footsteps echoed around the lobby of the hotel, signifying that there was in fact movement going on around him, he just couldn’t see it. Setsu’s eyes moved around, glancing around the lobby as if attempting to follow this being that he simply couldn’t follow. He heard and felt the breath that was blown right behind him, Setsu turned around yet he didn’t swing. In a fight, Setsu normally would have already swung at least ten times but something about this was like something out of his control and simply swinging wasn’t going to get the job done. Setsu slightly gritted his teeth, moving towards his right in a quick shuffle in an attempt to give himself time to think about what he was possibly going to do at this point. Just as he moved he heard something smash behind him, turning to see a desk smashing into a couch that had already been toppled over. The boy appeared in front of Setsu, causing his reflexes to kick in, throwing his hands up in a sort of boxing stance, noticing the right straight coming towards him. Setsu bobbed towards the left, cocking his left fist back, swinging a heavy left hook, having felt the boy’s fist brush past his right cheek, the force of the boy’s punch was felt even when the contact was a simple brush past. Setsu’s left fist was aimed towards the boy’s right temple, if connected his middle knuckle would slam against the boy’s temple in an attempt to daze or shock him for even just a mere second, just as the left elbow came in his direction. His quick thinking on his feet may have saved his ribs and sternum a lot of pain, the elbow brushing past where he had been. The swift succession between the boy’s two hits was incredibly fast but it wasn’t over. Setsu caught a glimpse of the boy’s right foot coming up in a sort of snap kick though the boy’s leg looked distorted somehow, Setsu wasn’t really able to tell, but it didn’t matter when it hit Setsu, smashing against the side of his head, unable to get his guard up in near enough time. Setsu was sent stumbling backwards, smacking into a window which cracked, being one of the few windows that had still been fully intact. A few pieces of the glass fell on top of Setsu as he hit the ground, blood beginning to leak from the side of his head, running down the left side of his face. Setsu groaned slightly as he lay there, dazed beyond belief from the kick. “What the fuck?..” Setsu mumbled, a hint of frustration and animosity in his voice as he slammed his hands against the floor, slowly pushing himself up. Setsu had always been pretty sturdy, always been able to take more than a lot of people could. He could take a major beating and still get up to at least whoop another ass before going down. “Ugh…” Setsu raised up into a kneeling position, his left knee on the ground while his right foot was firm on the ground. He stood up, raising his hands back up into a boxing like position as he eyed the boy. “Fucking bring it…” Setsu growled, ready for round two.

As the hit connected with Leon’s temple, the kid in front of him would probably note the incredible thickness of Leon’s skin. Leon’s head was moved by the force of the punch alone, but he took little to any damage form kids attempts, though he did admit this kid wasn’t just “some” kid. He had skill, which was something to be noted. Leon watched him as he stood up in from a kneel to a boxing stance again. as he growled for Leon to bring it, leon’s dead set strait continued on the boy as he’d simply utter a “Hmph” Before mobilizing again! Leon’s approach this time was completely frontal! Darting towards the kid with insane enhanced speed, and his right leg reared back, as once he came within a foot of the kid he’d attempt to bring his right leg up and kick the kid directly in his left side hip. This kick alone would have the strength to micro fracture the side of his pelvis instantly, and cause a terrible limp on his left leg, his hip now having a slight trouble supporting his upper body. However the same time leon threw this attempted kick, it wouldn’t be but a fifth of a second before his body would turn towards his left, and his right leg would come shooting up from behind, in a reverse axe kick, but instead of a downwards, heel, leon would attempt to drive his heel into the kid’s chin! If this connected, the boys teeth would slam together and cause some gutting and bleeding in the gums, and a few chipped teeth to go along with it. the hell would also bruise the blatant shit out of his chin and send his body flying to the ceiling of the hotel lobby, hitting his back against the hard surface and rattling some dust off of it. If this launch was successful, Leon would then stand on the ground, pivoting off of the ball of his right foot and spinning his body around 6 times, charging nothing but pure momentum, before timing his opponents fall! After he’d hit the ceiling it’d only take him a short while to fall back, in that time frame when he’d be one foot above leon’s head, leon would stop his spin, using the charged up momentum to lash his right foot out and upwards in a vertical roundhouse kick aimed the very connecting point of the jawline. If this kick connected, not only would leon’s monstrous strength compensate and send the boy flying across the room into a curio cabinet, possibly giving him cuts and glass bruises, but the kick would snap the jaw. Not off of it’s hinges, but he’d be talking like rocky balboa for a while and have a sharp stabbing sensation in his jaw, if his durability didn’t compensate. As the attack went through, Leon would walk over to the boy...for some reason he could sense something off of him. an ambient enegy....it was chi. "I thought...i couldn't sense chi anymore after the bio experiment." Leon looked at his hands. "Could it be...my Koikonjitto cells..." Leon didn't question it as he walked over to setsu, creating a snake to emerge from his hand, and bite into setsu's neck. Literally he began draning the dark chi from the boy's body. Being the son of Ginsei Yanazuka, tough Leon knew not of this, he'd get a healthy dose of dark energy added to his body, which made him feel full. Draining him utterly, Leon would nom down upon his body, causing the snake to grow in size and beginning to swallow the boy whole. As this happned in a few moments, Leon would walk out from the building, cracking his neck from side to side, and walking down the street, looking for more life to feed upon.