The Return of Someone Familiar (Ayumu/Closed)

Chinatsu... Yes, This was her name while slowly moving forwards to this house, She knew the scent of these fools while moving forwards.
Grumbling softly and swearing in a silent tone... No, It was the pure silence that brought everything out so much more than people expected.
She was a rampaging beast most of the time with her arms slamming into every surface and breaking into every wall, groaning and burping, sometimes even smashing against the ground.
Yet here she was, moving extremely silently while her axe was split in two, directly from the top, a thin sliver of the original axe left on her back, tied in a bundle with its toughness, appearance, everything was ruined.
The armour she once wore... her cloak that is visible... everything was tattered.

"Fuck..."

She spoke, with the outmost silence while a wooden tap started to become audible as she walked up to the path of the area that was known as their house.
The stones slowly tapping against the wooden replacement of one of the legs, a single wooden stake jammed into the flesh and brought there to make certain she could move while her left arm, once mighty and strong, now just a stump of its previous greatness.

"Hey..."

Before suddenly hearing a noise... A scent... A person, it was a vicious glare first, one unbefit of her powerlevel at such a low standard compared to yours, yet the bloodlust was tangible, it honestly made everything start to bleak out as her sloppily bandaged old wounds were visible everywhere, the starts of regeneration around her limbs already showing at her unnatural origin.

"It has been a while, little shit... It has been a while hasn't it?"

Before taking a quick good look around and just giving out a soft smile, to make everything certainly capable of understanding quite correctly.

    While you fixed the bandages, you could see them in being reasonable state, a carefull attitude shown as a large scar was visible... Multiple lacerations over her entire skin of her torso.
Slowly covering her entire body, bringing forwards a strange sense of damage to this once immortal like woman.
Constantly facing you with a unnerving kind of attitude, bringing forwards blow after blow, yet here she was... Listening to you calmly.
Moving honestly towards a chair and sitting down, the stick itself was disgusting to look at, infected flesh long having gone into necrosis and being rapidly healed at the same time.
Blood covering most of the stick and causing a small stench to escape when the bandages were loosened, slowly shoving out as the pain could only be said to be filled with agony, a piece of her bone being ripped outwards, slowly moving out and making popping sounds while she spoke.
Almost as if she felt nothing of the sort like this falling apart of her body.

"I know you want to get your ass handed to you, even when you have your own power rise to your head... But things were darker than we could have imagined..."

    Slowly starting to smile, taking away her eyes from the two while grasping her shoulder that was wounded.
Clutching it tightly as blood slowly dripped down onto your picture perfect house, her eyes showing a certain kind of disgust before uttering softly.

"We have done our best to keep the kids safe that reside in you... Ayumu has been able to sense them with a leyline... They are powerfull..."

    Droplets starting to form in her eyes as she slowly opened a cloth on her stomach, a large scar becoming visible as a dent would be visible.
A strange inverted dent in the body of this cow while she looked up at Phae, almost with a strange kind of compassion while smiling akwardly.

"We had a choice, its either we suffer... or you guys suffer... They had torn out my womb and i will never know the wonders that you are going through... Mica has suffered being unable to fight back her own cruel fate... Yet here i am... Giving you guys information in the hopes you guys can even get there soon enough..."

    Slowly opening her hand, causing a small program chip to activate as a globe was visible with a small dot visible... A dot within a strange location, ontop of a frosty mountain...

"Hana is fighting right this moment against something she cannot beat... She will die and so will Ayumu...
Will you guys give up on them or will you guys simply move forwards and give us a single chance at the cost of throwing away the perfect freedom?
Having tasted it for a month... a entire month while we went through hell..."

    Moving away her eyes, she then spoke softly.

"I am sorry... i will leave now... We are asking too much of you..."

    The soft taps of her wooden leg hitting the floor while walking past Celmaru and dropping the chip with the map in it on the ground and hitting his shoulder... it wasn't a hard hit in the power sense.
No, it was a emotional blow that would be given within the reaches of something going as high as a sky scraper.
The sacrifices given were always something Ayumu never liked to talk about, yet here you are, in your little house, with everything going perfectly your way, your power starting to slow down in its growth.
The sense of danger completely fading away as every fight only ends up being less and less dangering.
Tsch... Why does this keep happening...

    The snowy mountain, was rather unique at this very moment, instead of the usual snow and nothingness in these desolate areas.
Instead you could see a obvious crater, no, seriously, it was a large dent that wasn't natural in the slightest with corpses littering the entire area.
Skulls locating in multiple locations while at the same time multiple bodies of demons, people and other creatures resided.
Multiple flashes were going on as a small set of movements were visibly going on within the depths of this crater, shockwaves of snow cutting in the vacinity as the ranks of thinning monsters closed in on this endless spree.

    A single figure, a humanoid with a body functioning exactly like a humanoid, her name was known as Hana, once a warrior of great virtue while constantly delivering blow after blow.
Jumping over a hound that towered over two humans in height, jumping forwards with its sharp fangs, tearing into the flesh of many victims that would have stood in its way.
Slowly using the momentum it had build up to place her back on his forehead and sliding down its massive body, spinning around and striking the midriff at a blow of massive inertia, cracking it and causing it to throw up blood while her emotionless eyes looked into the distance for more targets.

'You have been given a single choice...'

    The words repeated in her head once again as she slowly grasped upward and attempted to think correctly, unable to fully controll what was happening within her before giving out a simple sigh.

"My choice..."

    Being pressured for a month long, constantly having fights occurring while pressurized with that single choice that was within her head.
Bringing forwards a massive question above her head if these emotions were truely worth the entire charade that she had been building up towards.
Never giving her more than a single chance to stop and take a breather while gritting her teeth and attempting to slash at the approuching beastial behemoth that towered far above her.
A wyvern with its fangs in its mouth ready to slice her apart as a deformed right arm from the hundreds of blows... scars as deep as the arm itself with rapidly regrowing parts attempting to fix itself.
It was a spherical ball that had five spikes attached, once resembling a beautifull maiden hand, now just a crude blunt object bashing into the thick scales of the roaring beast giving away its life while her energy slowly build up.
Constantly refining itself, constantly bringing forwards a new light within her, pushing her beyond her limits as she had been fighting for such a long period of time...

'This choice, why do you not want to pick? we are immortal, we are infinite'

'I know these friends of mine, Ayumu... Chinatsu... Mica... Everybody has brought out miracles to others while suffering themselves!'

    Remembering her own words, the frosty tears that had frozen to her face shattered as another blast of heat surged through her body, pushing her away from death for just another hour, continiously moving mana through her body like some sort of crazy training regime as a large ogre carrying a frozen icicle crashed down his club onto her shoulders.
Cracking the ground and expanding the crater once again, knocking up the snow that had been covering this entire area, it was obvious that everything wasn't as simple as it was.
Her footprints covering this entire crater, making it known to everybody who was approuching that it wasn't just a large crater, somebody had been taking blow after blow, constantly pushing her feet down and taking the hits.
Moving onwards with impeccible willpower.

'What is a miracle... if i cannot even bring out one for myself?'

    Her teeth making a cracking sound as a few cut through the flesh of her gums, blood starting to become apparant in her mouth, a common flavour she had started to enjoy these last two weeks.
A soft reminder of her connection to Ayumu who was somewhere... Within this mass, constantly being kept under torture.
The regenerative properties of the creation of her body giving a quick start as she was soon visibly dressed and fit once again.

'Healed by the enemy again... They just will not let me die...'

'Hana, as long as you struggle... As long as you do not answer our question of die or let him die, we will make you learn our answer with physical action!
Stop being such a fucking bitch and just accept your fate, either of you is going to die!'

    A wave of energy escaping from her body, cracked the two ogres their bodies, the frozen armour that was the liquids on their bodies dented in and pushed into their bodies.
The sudden surge of energy blasting into their bodies as holes appeared, her fists glowing in red hot molten fire, having heaten up past something known as fire into a state as liquid magma, using the ground that sticked to her hands as a basis she delivered a few sharp jabs to the faces of the ogre's.
Causing a bloody mist to appear in the entire dome before slowly lowering her arms.

'Miracles... Emotions...'

    Remembering the cries of Chinatsu, hanging from that cross while having her womb removed, she could still remember the tears in her eyes as she shouted to stop them.
To make the agony stop, as everybody just bit their bottom lip from being unable to shatter their bindings.
Being unable to close in... It was my own hands that were forced to do these acts, still feeling the sticky muscus of blood on my hand...
The cries of a woman emotionally being broken down because her one dream of a happy family was being torn away by a body that was of her own ally.
The cries of a woman who had never hated somebody as much as this very moment, just stopping to scream before simply starting to smile.
The smile of a woman who knew that her ally could never do anything to stop this very moment from occuring, a permanent reminder left in her body as she would never be able to give birth.
With these tears that rolled down her cheeks shed out of her natural instinct, she was inside filled with a strange calmth.
Constantly thinking of the future instead of the now had become too painfull, slowly starting to appreciate what she had now, clinging to it painfully while lowering her head with that silly smile of hers out of pure kindness while her consciousness had faded, with a sharp knock back to reality.

"Ack!"

    A large wolf once again having appeared as blood sprayed out of her mouth, causing her to crash into the ground, summersaulting multiple times while feeling her body give in to the agonizing pain.
The fingerless gloves she had on slammed against the tattered broken ground as she was capable of feeling the heat of the friction burn into her hands, even through the gloves, soon causing that ignition she was capable of to burst once again, with her feet catching her upon the safe.

"You mother fucker!"

    She shouted, attempting to run forwards as her body on multiple occasions was slammed into by the wolf calling in its brethren and tackling her, marks on her body slowly being left while she could feel bloody tears running down her cheeks.
Constantly swearing at the sky, swearing at the gods from above, swearing at the people who made her into the monster she was for doing all this.
Never had she given herself as much power as this very moment, constantly pushing forwards at larger steps.
Moving faster and faster to these moving targets that outsped her.
Moving faster and faster to these targets that taunted, hurt and damaged both her body and pride.

"This is not how it will end... This is not how it will end!"

    Slamming her hands down onto the ground, firing a single projectile downwards, barreling herself forwards at speeds she used to be comfortable with, her weakened body had nothing but shame and scars on it.
Scars that were invisible to the eye, yet she could feel them covering her body, her entire heart covered in black sooth, unable to recover, with not a single chance to ever get above this nightmarish disaster.
The hundreds of emotional scars of the feelings that told her she had abandoned everybody by not being able to beat them, by not being able to get above anything that was as simple as defeating these fools.

'Fuck. Fuck! Fuck fuck Fuck fuck!'

    Constantly swearing within her skull, she could not have felt anything as disastriously painfull as these blows by these weaklings.
Every blow smashing into her pride as she could feel her emotional resistances starting to fade, her resistance to these corruptive ways of bringing her down via healing and killing her over and over again.
Having to expierience near death over and over again.
With not a single chance to ever catch a break, slamming her hands downwards while snatching meat of the beast itself, pulling viciously before tearing of its precious head.
Constantly pressurizing these beasts into falling back, with more and more damage appearing on their bodies as she went into a mad frenzy.

'An opening'

    She thought while slipping under one of the wolves, delivering a powerfull kick before seeing her eyes point towards another who jumped with its fangs visible armed and ready to slam into her torso, the brunt was painfull and pushed her farther and farther away.
Thinking of the soft cries of Chinatsu, who touched her stomach in her cell, having lost every single chance, Hana slammed her feet into the ground with scrapnel blasting in every direction.

'Why'

    Black droplets starting to ooze out of her eyes, a fierce energy that she had never tapped into before starting to become apparent.
Sticking to her face, sticking to her body, it was a festering acid that burned into the ground as her breath became black and toxicious.
Eating away at the beast that was infront of her, pushing her backwards further and further before losing its ground.

'I have heard these cries of her so many times... i have heard her call for a thousand gods yet here i am...'

    Tearing the wolf of her body, large slashes visible as they were soon healed by a soft soothing light that came in, attacking her nerves with vicious needle like stabs.
Every single cell of her body that was being healed felt like a thousand years of agonizing pain, yet she managed it, she kept going through it.
The only reason she kept going through it wasn't because of anything like her willpower, it was because she knew she wasn't having the worst.

'I am having it so fucking easy...'

    Cursing herself, cursing her own existance, she had once accepted it all, knowing that everything would come tumbling down anyway after some points.
Constantly reminding her of the thick failure of a beast that she was, made to consume, made to breed and spread, made to simply devour every single fucking thing in the universe.
To end everything, to start the new life.
To stop these useless struggles they required the ultimate purge, something she had grown uncomfortable with the slowly approuching ticks of time.
An uncomfortable kindness that ate away at her very being, something that was constantly eating away at her very own sentience as she had stopped thinking of everything as mere items of food, sustenance, filling your stomach.
The animals she appreciated, the humans she loved, the masters she worked for, they all shared one connection with her, that was a mere emotional connection she could never seperate.

'Why am i always here, sitting on the fucking side lines...'

"Because you are worth saving and to protect"

    It was a voice within her head, it was not real, yet for her mind that was seeking for straws to hang on, these old words of a old humble man that had far surpassed the age of a mere human and gone into something rather interesting, became something she could hang by.
Something that made her realize what had been going on as she crushed the body of the wolf she had stopped, seeing the other two close in while her emotionless eyes that were giving in to the darkness within her started to show a burning fire within.
The will to survive, the will to live and bring forwards a emotional wrecking house of a beast, a beast she knew all too well by the name of Hana.
Somebody multiple people worried about, multiple people cared about and some even wanted to get in her pants for.
Even when knowing exactly what her history was she was there to bring forwards the answers they always expected, a flat denial, a short rebuttal, a blunt strike or even, as ayumu called it, a stupid choice of words.
Constantly making mistakes...

"Life has always been a bitch hasn't it?

    No, Do not answer Hana, i know what you want to say, please just put down that frying pan, that can hurt you know...
But you can remember when i used to hold you here right? Bringing you forwards on life and letting you take on the world.

    Yet somewhere along the lines you changed, you stopped being you and you let people stick their finger in your face and tell you you were no good.
I am here to represent something hana, i am here to represent a idea that i want to chase, that i want to bring out."

    With soft paces, Hana started to move forwards, weaving between these re-appearing ogres that slammed their clubs towards her with a soft jump causing her to dodge them rather splendidly.
A wave of snow being thrown upwards again from this snowstorm, causing multiple ripples on the ground to form.

"The seperation of talent and skill is a misunderstood concept you know? Talent is what you have naturally... Yet you have skill, you trained your craft so many times, that i do not even know how to get close to you.
It is not about where you are coming from, it is about your heart... The most important thing is to be able to sacrifice what you are for what you are going to become."

    Her body became like a whip, stopping in the middle of the air as she jumped backwards, crashing into the ogres their backs while screaming out loudly, striking into their flesh with multiple punches, constantly beating upon their bodies.

"I have never seen myself as talented, there are others we know who are like that... But we excell on our skill do we not?"

    Slowly sinking her fist into the torso of one of the ogres while a large wyvern collapsed into the hole, running towards her as she stood there, her arms spread while waiting for him to close in.
Refusing ot move from this spot while showing her fangs, showing her willpower, her determination.

"Have we ever stopped honing our craft while they were eating? While they were sleeping? We are not afraid to die on the treadmill just to become better, to constantly hone our craft.
To constantly hone our abilities to keep up with these naturally gifted people who look up to us and think that we are growing too fast.
They are going to see how far our skill can carry us, are they not?"

    A flash of light litting up the dark night sky as the sun slowly started to rise, her fists colliding into the beasts skull as the crater only grew more massive.
The two massive powers starting to cause friction and tearing into the enviroment, multiple tears and waves of energy only widening the crater, deepening it as she kept these eyes of sheer fucking willpower going.

"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be succesfull... We do not have time to waste something like breathing do we?
So why do we waste our success by kinda wanting it, we need to want to grow stronger and fight for every moment of our life, constantly pushing ourselves forwards into the endless mealstorm."

    Being knocked of her feet, she could feel her world collapsing down upon herself as the horned beast his head slammed into her torso and pushed her backwards at a insane speed, crashing into the wall of the crater with a rather easy success, causing her to be planted deeply and with her arms spread while looking downwards.
Slowly speaking the next few words herself.

"There are people who would rather sleep than train, who would rather sleep than spend their time honing their craft..."

    Inch by Inch she pulled one of her arms out of the wall, hanging it downwards, with a fire burning within her eyes starting to intensify.

"Pain is temporary... It may last for a minute, a day or even a year, but eventually it will subside with something else in its place... Yet when i quite, it will last forever.
So i am not going to die from this pain, as i can see with my own eyes what i am investing my time in, what i am going to spend every waking hour on.
The world isn't just ours... the world is from everybody who is willing to spend the time to do what he has to do."

    Pulling free her other arm, she could feel her body starting to descend to the ground, the wall moving rapidly beneath her feet as she was falling downwards without any resistance as the wyvern was shouting at its victory.

"This skill of mine... Is mine only..."

    Clutching her fists she moved one of her feet into position before doing a singulair hop, causing a circle of snow to blast away, crashing into the wall and spreading outwards with her eyes trained on the beast.

"I am not afraid... To die for what i believe in..."

    Blasting her body forwards, seeing everything flash by in a mere moment, spinning her body around and preparing for a single strike, she could see life flashing away before feeling her own leg shatter.
The beast trying to resist and stop the massive blow that was crashing into its scales, being pushed back further and further as Hana continued to breathe for success, continued to strive to get revenge for those that were hurt.
To get a path towards the future where everybody would be happy was already lost... So why not aim for those you care for?

"I AM GOING TO PROTECT THOSE I CARE FOR"

    Were her last words before facing the sun that was standing high, even at a slow descend... She knew that she had given the future a chance.
Giving herself a last moment of killing her own past self to just move on, to move on and be succesfull... To be who she wanted to be... A true woman capable of standing in this party.

-

    Yet here we are, Hana hearing another fool shouting downwards towards her as she was laying here, powerless and without a single moment of thinking of being able to work against what fate has given her...

    Was safety finally a thing?

    While you were preparing for a fight, you couldn't see much more than a sudden climbing of a body.
Bodies sprawled around everywhere as Hana brought herself to stand on two rapidly regenerating legs, pushing herself onwards further and further before standing straight up, drowned in the colour red with a beautifull smile on her face.

    Chinatsu was slowly squeezing Celmaru's fist, to make certain he knew that nothing would be happening at this moment, there was no fight, there was nothing else...
It was, it was just hana that was there, you were just blaming yourself once again, just getting pissed off...

"Hey! You fart face!"

    Hana spoke in her trademark voice, cut dry by her own lack of water in her system, cut short by a raspy cough that was known to be not much more than a aftereffect of all the chaos she had been going through, nothing went better than the mere moment everything was placed in the right spots to show the true picture.
Keeping her arms crossed she started to wander forwards, causing her posture to slowly slump forwards into a fall before catching herself and looking upwards with two bloodshot eyes.
Her head nearly completely split in two as her right eye had a visible cut in it, yet still functioning as she stood there with pride, only her beginning transformation to assist her.

"Remember when you were aiming to overthrow me? Become stronger than me? That promise of yours?"

    Gritting her teeth softly, she wanted to shout out a ton of verbal attacks, she wanted to show you how fucked you truely were, even when her left arm that was just re-attached just fell off.
Drenching the ground in a red miasma of blood, black fumes starting to spill out of the entire limb before she had to grit her teeth even harder as she lowered herself on one knee, lifted up the arm and used a stick to jam the arm in place and let the roots firmly connect them to each other.
Reminding you of the ancient promise you had made, that promise that you would one day face off against her as she would be at the height of her power, while you would be still on your path of training.
Another match that would be their final duel, atleast untill the roles changed right?
Yet she was diffrent at this moment, she felt... more composed than before almost as if she was wishing for a final duel...

"You are not going to pull back are you? You didn't pull out when you got that wife of yours pregnant... So come on! Get down here!"

    Shouting those words towards you, blood was spat out via her mouth, covering the ground, the snow that was raging around us, cutting into her body as she had frostbite everywhere.
Creating great gashes of festering sludge starting to seep out before Chinatsu spoke softly.

"She is bluffing, she is just trying to get another fight going... She hasn't done anything but fight for the last few weeks... She probably doesn't even know how to handle finally having earned some rest... You know what, just drop me there..."

    Hana continueing to shout challenges towards you as Chinatsu looked rather sad for once, a feeling of pity covering her face as she then hoped you wouldn't do anything rash and put us all in danger.
Especially knowing the past shit you had pulled, involving crashing a space ship nearly into earth, a entire space station.. Sweet mercifull kami, why does this keep happening to you right?

    While you waited from a answer from Hana,you could see her body fall to the ground as her eyes turned white before a man started to wander forwards, carrying a set of chains on his arms and neck, it was a very peculiar material as you would see his determined eyes glare towards you.
Continiously moving forwards, even if you were to say anything before litterally attempting to headbut you, It was nothing short of painless, well, he couldn't hurt you even if he tried, but it was something of a emotional blow to see that once bulky man that was always kind suddenly shout at you.

"Who the hell told you to use words like those kid?!, i have taught you better have i not?!"

    Why the hell is he doing this, he knows that he shouldn't shout at all, he shouldn't be shouting at somebody as close as you should he...

"Yet here i am, standing infront of you two gosh darn children infront of my eyes, having grown up so fucking far... If it werent for this rain!"

    This was a sensation that you hadn't had within months, where this old fart was shouting at you with the honesty of a real grandfather that just cared for you all, that had taken the time to spend training you and bring forwards every single honest answer just to make you learn...

"When i used to train you, you were just a wee little bare skinned lad who didn't even know how to talk to a lady... You couldn't even controll your normal ki blast for anything worth a damn.
Yet here you are, Bulky, Made your lass pregnant... For fuck sake, why did you grow up so fast?!"

    Stomping the ground, rattling his chains, you could see the tears running down his cheeks, honest affection was visible in his demeanor while he wanted to embrace you two but was incapable too.
Chinatsu just akwardly sitting on the ground while looking away as he was mumbling to himself before shouting once again.

"You overtrained probably, you cause everything to happen so quickly... You were even pushing your waifu for her laifu werent you? Impregnating her with a twin... Yet... Yet i still havent been able to do jackshit..."

    Gritting his teeth before speaking rather bluntly towards you, his eyes giving a deep stare as he was wondering how to place it into words.
Slowly digging into the ground while moving the ball of his foot while leaning backwards and letting the increased tears try and stop themselves, slowly cutting his own face with the sharp ends attached to the chains as he used his hands to slowly rub them away.
The closer look upon his body showing that it wasn't just all fun and games, that it wasn't anything like a fun little play time that you could spend your time to be amazed about while ayumu then took a deep breath and spoke.

"Your cousin has hired kill squads to take out those close to you, We have escaped but not after they managed to escape."

    While bringing his chains upwards, protecting himself from the blast of snow that raged in the nearby vacinity.
Ayumu had brought his life on the rails that he had chosen himself, pushing further and further.
Bringing himself into situations where he had to learn how to handle the underground, bringing him into situations where he was pushed against the ground in a struggle to survive.

    He could write himself a book of all the expieriences or put it in use, with the options that he had been granting himself on the path that was carved out it was clear.
With not a single doubt in his mind about how he would bring forwards the passionate approuch to his life, he gritted his teeth, feeling his body being lifted upwards.
Slowly being pushed backwards further and further as the halfbreed had attained levels of power that were unreachable towards this simple fool of a man.
It was shocking to most people to see somebody expand this far, yet his eyes that looked upwards didn't show worry, they sparked with passion.
Sparkling softly as he would try to form the words 'wow', only to feel the skin of his mouth being pulled upon from the large forces of air crashing into his body.
Cutting into his shirt, tearing it off his body while these damaged pants of his were shredded into small fragments.

'If i were to put my own beliefs into these hands, i would...'

    Flipping backwards, seeing the world turn around, feeling so powerless yet at the same time so delighted with the change he had caused.
A burning bright flame within his heart that spread outwards with the small flickering of life, warmth.
Incredible and Immense, it was like the tower of korin that laid bare before his eyes itself, gripping the soft snow and performing small taps to nullify the momentum while creating large stripes, cuts of the fast movement were on his body.
Every single slice on his body, the muscles that were developed by his futile attempts to get stronger, only honing what was truely requiring his strenght.
To fix that single weakness, that crippling complex within his body as he hid behind these strong numbers, these strong people.

'Fuck it.'

    Finally slamming his foot down on the ground, sweat starting to make his way down his forehead like a dripping mess.
Every cold droplet of water striking his torso like a steel hammer that beat upon the drum of life, that burning heart that beats faster than he has ever felt.

'If this man has followed me this far, why do i still hide behind plans and elaborate ruses to ascend to higher societies? Where i have a chance to be safe for my life while comfortingly dragging on with my existance as a pussy.'

    Spitting at the ground, he could see the mark of mortality, the known reminder for everything he had been doing had a big timer.
That red mark of blood that spread on the snow, slowly sinking in...
Like a sudden thump on his scalp, going all the way into his brains, he could hear his oath to grow stronger again, to avoid conflict.
Nothing was more of a blow to his mental capacity than the moment he saw everything vanish and swore to keep everybody safe.

"Celmaru... I like how this..."

    Softly speaking to himself in hushed tones, the sprites of fire that were visible to the users of mana gathering in the sky, they were not filled in rage, with a towering behemoth of fire visible in the eyes of ayumu protecting this man.
His words not heard far in the sky, it was inmpossible was it not for somebody their normal voice?
Throw reason against the curb, to teach warriors of this magnitude... Who was to say...

'Wait, is that?'

    Grasping at a small leather bound plain wood object, he felt the words of multitudes people speaking into his ears.
To end the struggle of two families, to end the conflict of the burning passion and the cold and collected steel...

"Phae, Do not attempt to stop me, believe in celmaru.... no, believe in the celmaru who believes in the you believing in him!"

    Pulling the blade out of the ground while the blue sapphire shone brightly, a surge of energy starting to be etmitted, thinking back to the cores left behind from the zodiac in their first fight.
Using it as a medium, using it as a method to pull in the spirits around, the weapon started to etmit a brilliant light to say the least.

'A...ayumu?'

    It was a mental answer from hana who had collapsed just moments before, having had her body thrown away by the surge of energy and his blasting upwards.
Truely no small feat with the amount of pain she was expressing in her swears.

'Hana, i am doing it...'

    Her answer was just a emotional pulse, it was fear, shock, confusion, yet at the same time acceptance.
Accepting the fact that if there was even a sliver of disturbance... Who cares anyway about the finer details.
We have never given ourselves in to sheer reckless abandon, never have we given in ourselves to truely uncalculated solutions that come from this life of random chance have we?

    Lifting herself up to her feet, Hana could feel her body collapsing, stripping away at her human appearance, slowly becoming a festering mass of horror and disgust as she used a small manipulated ki projectile to hide her appearance.
Speaking a soft prayer towards the dead, speaking a soft prayer towards the deceased, praying towards their beings to lend their strenght.
The spheres that were gathering around this... Blade, This sword that was infused with worries from a mother, protective worries, heartfelt emotions.
Something that burned brightly and had been keeping him safe as the spheres that were cracked slowly were being recovered.
Hana her hands having been firmly placed on the ground while gritting her teeth, coughing up more and more red liquids as she smiled brightly.
Roots growing from where she had placed down her hands towards the blade that was levitating in the air, constantly creating small spheres of energy moving upwards.
Imbueing the weapon with their energy.

"Our mark ayumu."

"This mark of ours Hana"

    Looking at each other, it was a soul piercing stare that they aimed at each other before suddenly shouting upwards in perfect unison.

""HEY, CELMARU""

    Crashing their voices into the sky, blasting them upwards while infusing them with Mana, it was just a creative use of telepathy to spread the effective use that the words carried their meaning without losing volume.
Turning to each other, Hana and Ayumu nodded, Blasting the roots upwards and throwing the body of Ayumu who had jumped in the way along with the blade straight upwards, causing the chains to shatter as he felt his hands be free once again.

"GO AYUMU, LET US DO THIS"

    Hana shouted, her body collapsing as she became a single sphere of defenceless mana, a green sphere of moss.
Using that last moment of stabality to give a single thumbs up at these two idiots in the sky, looking at the back of the old man ascending into the sky.
Cutting past the friction of air, It was Ayumu his turn to shine.

"Was this... Was this how you were trained in the past Celmaru!? Giving in to anger so easily?!"

    Grabbing the blade flying upwards alongside him before spinning his body and kicking of the bottom of the hilt, causing the entire weapon to shatter as from the light of this explosion.
They had always brought forwards agonizing pain towards this man, this man that was ascending to ranks that ayumu had only seen once in his life.

"Learn from the master of how to destroy yourself by giving in to painfull emotions! These emotions that rage within you... Learn to master them instead of giving in!"

    Gritting his teeth before a large infusion of energy from the sword itself materialized two figures before you.
One covered in flames, a large demonic upper torso clad in knight armour whilest holding a greatsword, the other was a large metallic samurai with a katana in his hand and a kitsune mask, Both standing on either side of the blade as this was the mark Ayumu had expected.
Knowing that the ground started to approuch from his jump downwards, feeling the snowstorm hurt his body... Knowing that everything was some stupid joke in the main spread of this obviously hilarious world.
Raising his hand softly, Ayumu felt nothing but pride in the man that was flying there, looking at his blade... Aetherius was it called?
I hope he doesn't mind calling it Aetherius Brand for now, i surely hope he doesn't... haha...

    Slowly closing his eyes while spreading his arms, letting the wind cut into him and awaiting that sudden collapse of the ground while still smiling and holding his thumb up, the two elemental spirits above speaking in unison.

"Are you ready to accept the bloodline?"

    Obviously not looking like they were going to answer any questions, but were you truely in the position to deny this gift of his?

    While they spread their arms in mere disgust, dematerializing the blades they were carrying as they were continiously floating infront of you.
Shaking their heads as these powerfull arms of theirs cupped infront of their face, questioning your mere reaction to this blade.

"Has the celmaru family fallen this far? Grizelda...?"

    The samurai spoke, with a grin on his face, his silver energy constantly flowing outwards in random directions, it was a controlled surge of power that was continiously expended in a surge of dominance, a act of trying to be the strongest causing the knight that... That name was female right?
Yet its large metal frame and armour didn't show a least bit of feminity, instead it was a normal knight like appearance that nobody had expected uncovering a rather sublime femine voice shouting... like a man.

"Shut the fuck up, Efil, you can complain about your family all you want but we have to stop the loop of our families killing each other over and over again."

    The knight with its burning aura going upwards, continiously cutting into the nearby air and causing small explosions, materializing a large greatsword to strike the other with as a small moment of explosive clashes happened infront of celmaru before they stopped and simply started coughing lightly.

"Hello, We are your ancestors... "

"Do not do the joke grizelda"

"We come from the..."

"No grizelda, For fuck sake"

"We are the spirits of past, future an-"

"God dammit grizelda! This is why your husband kept drinking in the bar to get away from your terrible jokes, It wasn't even a real joke! That movie is decades old!"

    The samurai spoke, wanting to complain more towards the Knight that was obviously going to shout a long list of profanities towards the samurai, Bringing herself to only shout a few swears while softly muttering that it took years to think of this joke for her, centuries even while trying to get through their heads, causing the samurai to cough lightly.

"So yes, Hello Celmaru, We hope you wont deny our demands instantly, but this gift should make you more easily accessable to our intentions, We wish for you to convert liam back to a ally instead of killing him."

    With the knight quickly following up, Almost as if knowing that you would shout.

"We know that you may hate liam, Well, in the past the waterfield family had the Ekam family burn their farms, while the Waterfield family killed the ancestors of the Ekam family, a vicious loop of us fighting against each other... Yet listen to us.
There is somebody plotting against you, Somebody that you may not have expected in the least."

    Pointing their hands towards Phae, The one that caught Ayumu, they spoke in unison.

"Her mother!"

-

    Simply looking at the sky as a pair of rather formidable airbags had caught him, he was looking perplexed into the air, unable to react at first, shockingly so mostly because of exactly how this catch had been performed.
Knowing that the size of what was on her was more than a mere 'wow' it was something most men who liked a good torso would faint from.
It was the ultimate airbag to capture a falling person with as he softly spoke.

"Phae, Do not say anything about what happened, i... Just wow."

    Slowly raising his body away from Phae, hoping to get off before flopping face first into the snow from a collision of weapons behind him, especially the collapse of a weapon really.
Let us be honest, the impact of that weapon into the ground made him even shove forwards a few feet while spitting up snow in a large amount and frowning backwards, ignoring the conversation that was going on behind there as he had landed next to hana her sphere.

"God dammit! That almost makes it worth it to have touche-"

    Untill he was interrupted by 'that' comment, his teeth starting to grind on each other as it was obvious that the cat was out of the bag, nothing could have prepared them for what kind of information was brought out, he wanted to keep it a secret.
To hide it from everybody, to let the relationship build, not to show how insane and blood thirsty that thousand tailed beast was.
How blood thirsty that mother was and how she had cursed the family from the very moment she was denied love before the split, causing them to war against each other from her mere influence.
The cat was out of the bag huh.