Chapter 4 - Garui the Livid
“Ill hold back a little”
Livid's hair starts to stick up, marks cover his face, his then licks his blade then his lips after saying that and points his sword at me, then he proceeds to count down
“3”
I felt my body pulsate with a surging sensation
“2”
My finger tips feel fuzzy and I look down to see electricity zipping and zapping all over
“1”
I bring out an electric dagger
“GO”
This time I was prepared. He charged directly at me, I moved out of the way and saw his sword slash exactly where I was standing less than a second ago.
He's prepared for it though and pivots, and is coming at me once again.
I couldn't move out of the way in time so I block the shot with my dagger and conjure another in my free hand
His sword clashes onto my dagger but immediately I notice a dagger in his other hand that's leading its way to my stomach
I parry the blocked sword and block the dagger.
His sword swipes down once again but not before I move out of the way, he throws his dagger at me and charges forward once again.
His serrated sword comes down once again and i block it with my dagger, this time however my dagger is caught in the ridges of the sword and with two hands on the sword my dagger goes down with it
he headbutts me and throws me away with a kick to the stomach.
The kick launches me and I almost throw up, I slam into the hard white wall. I see him now armed with the dagger and sword
I cant block the incoming strike and his sword stabs me in the shoulder
He smiles as he brings up his dagger for a finishing blow, I have just enough time to bring up my dagger, to make contact with him.
One hand with the dagger the other he uses to punch my arm out of the way, during this time I moved left slightly and when his dagger finally hits its the wall and not my head
I move the sword out and headbutt him
I swing his sword at him and he backs away touching the roof then he touches the ground and out of a circle a scythe comes out
hes now enveloped in a white glow, and particles almost like snow, his black cloak is now white and he himself is shining
“Well played kid, you have good senses for a half assed excuse of a combatant”
I don't respond just yet, I need to buy some time so my shoulder has enough time to not be too hindered, I can feel it healing.
“You are skilled yourself, what grade are you anyways”
He looks at me dead in the eye
“I don't discuss my personal details with dipshits, be happy you even know my name”
My shoulder feels a lot better the blood for the most part has stopped, its at this point he drops through the floor
“Huh?”
Instead of answering he just sinks into the floor, I feel a presence behind me and turn around in time to block a shot from a scythe just in time before it would have struck my head.
The sheer force from the strike sent me the other way and after parrying the scythes blade I came at his dagger in hand, right before I would have hit him he sidesteps out of the way and slams me to the ground with an elbow.
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The strike leaves me winded as it pummels me into the floor, I roll out of the way before the scythe blade comes down, conjure a dagger and I kick up and strike him in the chin
Standing now I see the scythe of that maniac coming toward me and duck, I toss a dagger at his foot and conjure a new one as I attempt to strike his stomach with the new one.
He jumps over the dagger aimed at his foot and performs a flip then ends with his heel kicking my head before I could slash him, the scythe follows up and strikes my lower back
I cough up a lot of blood almost instantly, he drags the scythe up then once it reaches my chest he removes it, my insides completely sliced as my blood pools out below me.
“Such a waste of potential, like your father, talent wasted on those too stupid to use it”
I'm choking on my blood now I can't do anything but gag as my vision starts to fade to black
Livid raises his scythe now
“What a waste”
It comes down but before it hits me Glee is in the way of him with his own sword repelling the blow
“Oh come on, cant let me do shit around here without you always policing me”
“Even touch him, do it and I will kill you”
I didn't even really know Glee too well and he's standing up for me
“Why do you care? Daishi fucked you over too”
What did he mean? What could my father have possibly done?
“What he did shouldn't affect Kizuno”
“SHUT UP! JUST SHUT IT! I'M TIRED OF YOU THINKING YOU ARE BETTER AND NOW I'LL PROVE IT TO YOU, I WILL HAVE YOU DEAD!”
Glee's hair turns a light pastel yellow and sticks up
“That's not a matter in any of this, do you really want to pick a fight?”
He's glowing kind of like Livid is
“SCREW YOU!”
He charges at Glee now, way faster than he was before and now his scythes blade is completely white and enveloped in a layer of black
Glee blocks with with his scythe and another one is now in his hand, he uses it and almost slices Livid's hand, the sword loops back and it's aiming toward Livid's neck but he ducks, parries the other sword with the scythe, and pulls a dagger from the floor, uses it to parry the sword that was coming for his neck then uses the blunt end of the scythe to strike Glee in the stomach
Glee steps back and slices at Livid's leg but misses as Livid himself also jumps back
Livid now about to land on the ground just sinks right through it throwing a dagger at glees feet before he is all the way down and then Livid comes out the ceiling behind Glee
Glee, aware of Livid's positioning ducks, looks up, moves back, and then strikes.
Livid then also strikes with his scythe and their blades clash, however the dagger he threw prior hit glee in the ankle, this distracted him just enough to where Livid was able to stab his side with another dagger
Glee took advantage of the strength difference, his two hands vs Livid's one, he knocks the scythe out of Livid's hand
Livid then knocks the sword from Glee who lets go of it and punches Livid square in the face
He stumbles back and drops his dagger, Glee also jumps back holding his side where he was stabbed
“Nice, that was a lovely warm up, don't you think so Inomori?”
“You know what Garui, yes it was”
“Stop pulling your punches and I'll do the same”
“You make it sound like I have a choice in the matter”
“That's right, you don't. Oh Inomari, THIS WILL BE FUN!! AHAHAHA”
Instantly Glee's entire outfit changes into a shredded yellow crop top and a pair of light blue pants, his face is now tattooed with pink markings and he emits a light pastel pink glow
he now smiles a gentle smile and his hair is now rising above him, he looks like the unfiltered expression of joy
Livid's entire outfit changes to to black, his hair, his cloak, his pants, his belt, his scythe, and he's covered in even more markings, hes emitting a veil of black all around him
then his hair, scythe blade, and cloak all change to red, a burning crimson of rage
They eye each other
Livid speaks first
“I've been waiting for this for so damn long, I no longer care about the boy, but if you hold back a bit I will kill him. GIVE ME A GOOD FIGHT INOMARI”
He drops the scythe and then falls back, he appears out of thin air in front of Glee and swings at him with his fist, glee put his hands up, bit is too slow and Livid hits him in the face
Glee ducks down and punches Livid's stomach then uppercuts his jaw with his elbow, then he gets a shot at him in the face
Livid takes a step backwards to avoid an incoming kick from Glee
He grabs Glees leg and pulls him, he lands a punch to the face slamming Glee to the ground
Livid mid air now rotates and lands and elbow on Glee's chest and uses that to roll on his side and he sinks in the ground once again appearing above Glee from the ceiling
Glee rolls out of the way as Livid tries to punch him, using this as a chance to get up, Glee now punches Livid who needs to orientate himself and then gets him in the face with a punch again, a kick to Livid's leg and then an uppercut on Livid's chin then Glee proceeds to kick him up
Then he punches him in the chest so hard that Livid flies toward the wall and creates a massive crater roughly a meter or so deep
Glee is jumping at Livid now with a kick, Livid sinks into the crater and Glee kicks the wall, Livid now behind Glee kicks him
Glee falls through the wall and comes out of the ceiling where then Livid sinks through the floor and comes out above Glee who gets a heel kick to the head
Glee attempts to retaliate but he slams to the floor
“GRAVITY SWITCH”
Both me and Glee fall to the ceiling, the ceiling was now the floor likely because of what Livid just did
Livid uppercuts the airborne Glee who gets hit to the now ceiling and sinks right through and onto the floor where he gets up and avoids a stomp from livid
Livid isn't done however and appears behind Glee now and gets punched in the chest as Glee seemed to have expected it
Livid steps back and a scythe protrudes from the floor
“GRAVITY SWITCH”
I fall back to the ground now and Livid uses this as an opportunity to strike Glee while hes still in the air, it hits and Glee pulls away now bleeding from his side, where he was struck before.
Hes pooling blood now
My injury is slightly better now, theres a lot of bleeding but most important things are healed now
I would go in to help Glee but I know id surely die, they are both incredibly powerful and if I were to get involved there's no way there's any other result than me being cut into ribbons
Glee now pulls out a pair of sickles attached to a chain and I see a few chains with bladed tips coming from his fingers
He comes at Livid now, He strikes with one of the sickles and throws the other
Livid pulls out a book from a circle on the ground
“Disperse”
The bladed chains coming at him from underneath blow roughly three meters away
But Glee pulls on the sickle in his hand and the sickle behind Livid gets him in the back
Livid comes forward slightly and now strikes his scythe up just enough to get Glee in the face before he backs away
Both now bleeding they stand there
Still
Its Glee who makes the first movement, arms start protruding from his sides each now having bladed chains attached to each finger on every hand and swords now also in all hands
Livid smiles and he grows a pair of horns from his forehead as his skin becomes a dark red color, he tosses his book to the side and grabs another from a circle on the ground
his scythe now grows a point at the tip of the staff part and a second smaller blade erects below the bigger Blade
“So Inomari, even driving me to this point… It hurts ya know”
“I can't say this is an enjoyable feeling either”
“Well for a good fight it's well worth it”
Livid charges at Glee now who sends all chains flying at him