Dreamlike Reality [Tag: Hazama]

The stars were shining bright in Traverse Town, as they always did. In the middle of one of the most populated areas of the world (the plaza down the stairs opposite Cid's shop), Ragna stood against a wall, watching the world go by. He had been stood there for a good while, as despite how it had been back in his world, he now had... pretty much nothing to do. He planned to leave for other worlds, but he wanted to spend another afternoon of his time here, in the ridiculous hope that Jin or anyone that he cared about would make it here.

Even the few days he had spent here had been quite full of action. He had encountered the shadowy creatures known as the Heartless numerous times, and had been forced to consider what it could all mean. They had appeared back when he had last been in his world, after all - had they truly found his world and chosen to end it at that time, or had they been brought on by something? Perhaps Mu-12's assault had opened a breach and allowed them in? It was possible. It was also plausible that they had reacted to the energy of him and Hazama both activating their Grimoires and it had drawn them to the world. It could have even been the latter person's plan.

...Whatever, he didn't know how those shadows properly worked. Who could? They were mindless, they didn't have answers.

"What a drag..." Ragna sighed, looking out over the town square. There were not many people around, despite this being one of the few areas not immensely populated by harmful creatures. The people that were around seemed rather peaceful, nonetheless. Anyone like Kokonoe suddenly appearing would seem incredibly out of place. Hell, he felt out of place in this serene of environments. It felt not dissimilar to the Kaka Village - such a peaceful place where the kittens just grew up rarely experiencing trouble (there WAS Arakune, but that was an infrequent event). Such places just felt out-of-place to Ragna, who was used to the toil and tension of the human-populated areas in Hierarchical Cities.

Traverse Town had a very, very different tone. Amongst all the people that clearly were also out of place and had learned that their home was destroyed, there were tensions but they weren't political - it was the feeling of uncertainty hanging over the heads of everyone.

...There had been a lot of information to take in recently. Ragna kept his back to the wall, just watching the plaza quietly.

“Well…how quaint”

This was all that serpent could really say at this point as he gazed around the scenery that he had appeared in. Staring around upon a rooftop, Hazama could only say that he was a bit disappointed in what he saw all around. While it was true that he had no clue what to expect when he accepted the invitation into the darkness, he still couldn’t help but feel disappointment upon entering such a quiet world. Of course he did not necessarily mean he desired it to be busy, he already got damn enough of that in the numerous hierarchical cities. Hazama was one who disliked noise, but there were big exceptions to that. Nothing was more beautiful to his ears than the loud screams of despair, oh how it brought him to ecstasy.

“Now now Hazama, there is plenty of time for all that” Hazama said to himself with a chuckle as he places on hand on his waist and begun to adjust his fedora on his head. “But really, such an interesting phenomenon...a land beyond the dream of the Master Unit…hundred, no thousands of worlds out there that none of us even had a damn clue about! Is this even beyond your eyes Amaterasu? HAH YOU KNOW SHIT!” Hazama said laughing as he opened his golden eyes and looked upwards at the starry sky, a wide and sinister grin forming upon his face “Don’t you worry Master Unit, I’ll make sure you get rewarded for your ignorance!” Hazama said before looking downwards at the streets “And hey! It’d be quite rude to exclude the other worlds out there” Hazama said with a wild chuckle before he began to walk of, leaping onto different rooftops trying to find something of interest.

Hazama traversed numerous places looking around only to find crap. He searched and searched until he found the biggest piece of crap he had ever found in his entire life. His footsteps came to a halt upon the rooftop as he stared down at the spikey mass of silver that somebody would call hair. Oh how Terumi truly desired to laugh out loudly, the odds were so incredibly low that it was so goddamn amusing that he’d be able to see this bastard. He still didn’t get over how that bitch Izanami stopped him from ripping apart this bastard into tiny pieces. Even though everything worked out for him in an amazing way, it still pissed him off that the son of a bitch before him managed beat him, but now…now that bitch wasn’t around to stop him.

Hazama gracefully jumped off the rooftop he stood upon and gracefully he landed on the top of the wall that Ragna the Bloodedge was leaning upon. Landing without a sound, Hazama smiled as he crouched and placed his left arm across his knee while his right hand rested ontop the hat on his head. “I’ve gotta say Rags I totally agree with you, it’s a reaaaal drag out here, but hey! We can totally change that! A few screams here and there and we’ll have a total blast!” Hazama said with glee as he looked downwards at the criminal with a big grin, his eyes still closed in their usual closed state.

Ragna's eyes widened immediately. The moment he heard that familiar voice enter his ears, he froze up for a second. Where had it come from? It was behind him... the ex-criminal leapt forwards, his eyes wide. No way. There was no way. This was ridiculous. Of all people - of ALL people, him? Impossible. This was impossible! Yet it was right here in front of him. Ragna grit his teeth, looking up at Terumi. The one person he had never wanted to see, whom he had wanted to definitely die in his world, and he made it here.

Hearing Terumi's line about screams made Ragna see red. Everything got to him at this point. Terumi even existing was enough to piss him off, the sight of this green-haired snake bastard making him want to wreck his shit. "You... how...?!" His jaw was almost hitting the floor, but he pulled it back up. "This is bullshit...! Of all the people to survive, I have to meet you again?" The rage was evident in his words, being audible through the tone of everything. Regardless of the area, it was evident what Ragna was going to do next.

"You made your last mistake here, you son of a bitch. The only one screamin' is gonna be you." Ragna grabbed his wrist, and the world trembled slightly as the world around them changed, turning blue temporarily as it was distorted. "Restriction 666 released! Dimensional interface forcefield deployed! BlazBlue... ACTIVATED!" He felt his power surge, though he remembered Hazama shutting it off before. He didn't know whether it would happen that way in this world.

"You ain't gettin' away, you bastard..." Ragna growled, glaring daggers at Terumi. Ragna hoped he was ready for a beatdown, because if there was any way Ragna could win, he would be doing his all to beat the living shit out of Terumi right here and now. He would much rather get rid of this problem before it got any worse. Otherwise, it would be his driving force here - to dispose of this bastard and get rid of him before things could get any worse.

Bring it, Terumi.

“Oh? You don’t want me to leave? Oh I’m truly touched Rags, I didn’t think you cared so much, but…” Hazama said with an incredibly fake tone of voice that was pure mockery. As he spoke the green haired man chuckled as he gripped the hat upon his head and stood up straight “WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DECIDING WHERE I GO?” Terumi yelled out in glee tossing aside the fedora upon his head, his flat hair now spiking up as his snake like eyes stared down upon Ragna.

Though Terumi’s face was filled with nothing but sadistic glee, his eyes were merely observing something that was amiss. Though Terumi’s personality was childish and carefree, this was merely something that hid behind his immense skill at observation. Of course Terumi’s powers were so amazing to be considered one of the Six Heroes, but that was not his greatest of strengths. His cunning and plans were of top notch and right now he could see that something was missing. The very Idea Engine that screwed him over in their last fight, Ragna was not using it at all. It was as if it wasn’t even there at all, at least Terumi couldn’t sense it at all. Could Ragna have been holding back? No, that was definitely not the Rags he knew. It was almost as if…

Terumi could only close his eyes as he brought his arms to the side and clenched his fists. “I guess it’s time I teach you a little lesson about the difference between the two of us. You’d think I’d get tired of beating it through that thick empty skull of yours but hey! I’m such a generous person that this lesson is on the house! And my first lesson will be teaching you how to use that Blazblue of yours!” Terumi begun to say as the world began to momentarily distort and turn a green color. A smirk formed upon the serpents face as the ground began to shake and crest began to form underneath him “Restriction 666 released! Dimensional Interference Field Deployed! Code S.O.L., BlazBlue, Activate!” Terumi yelled out as a surge of energy flowed into Terumi’s body, turning him far stronger than before. Of course as the creator of the Blazblue he also had another ability he loved to do and that was shutting down dear ol’ Rag’s Blazblue.

“Oh? Whats this?! Your Blazblue has been deactivated already? Gosh Rags, I didn’t think you such a failure already!” Terumi began to say as he began to laugh like a maniac before jumping off the spot he stood and into the air. “LET’S DANCE BOY!” Terumi yelled as a black portal formed in front of him and shot his Oroboros at him while he was still in the air.

Hazama was being Hazama, and Hazama was the worst. Ragna felt nothing but a blistering hatred for this man in front of him, the extent of which was beyond even Ragna's own realisation - but even if he did realise, it is a difficult task, culling the hatred of a man that ruined everything for you. Ragna prepared himself, ready to fight. No matter what happened, he didn't want to let Hazama leave this place alive. The bastard didn't deserve to.

Ragna not even knowing what the Idea Engine was, he had activated his without concern for anything of the sort. The moment Hazama disabled it, he felt it, however... pulling up his wrist, it locked and he found himself unable to use anything of the sort. "What?!" Gritting his teeth, he glared up at Hazama. Hazama leapt down, Ouroboros flying towards Hazama. Muscle memory kicked in and Ragna went to deflect it with his drive, but - his fist locked again, Ouroboros biting into him. "GAH...!" He slid backwards, clutching his chest; Ragna hadn't had much time to heal since his last battle with Terumi, and his prior wounds were still very much a thing of the present in his current state.

"You... bastard...! I don't care how many times I have to do this, I will kill you..." The venom in his voice at an all-time high, the state he was in was clearly obvious to anyone with ears. No matter what Terumi did, no matter how rough it got with him, Ragna was determined to kill this son of a bitch. "Shit..." Despite this, he knew he was near his limit already. He had fought with this guy and essentially had his ass kicked - especially since he was from a totally separate timeline from this Terumi, a timeline where he never got the Idea Engine. More fighting with the serpent wasn't going to do him any favours.

If Ragna was known for one thing, however, it was his inability to give up during times where he was getting thoroughly trounced. Through heavy breaths he stood up and rushed at Terumi, leaping up and flinging his sword around, riding it down. "BELIAL EDGE!"

It was quite amusing to Terumi how nostalgic this moment truly felt to him. It was quite boggling how one could find so much hatred and pleasure in such a moment. I was going to make sure he enjoyed himself to the fullest in the fight and nobody was going to stop him. Ragna was going to bleed and scream and Terumi was definitely going to find joy in slashing apart the bastards flesh, not even giving him the salvation of death.

Ragna began to dash towards him, like a rabid dog foaming with rabies and Terumi couldn’t help but close his eyes and let out a chuckle as he placed his hands into his pockets. “Oh poor poor Rags, so predictable” Terumi said. Terumi continued to stand with his eyes closed, his sadistic grin never leaving his face. As Ragna leapt into the air and darted downwards with Belial Edge, Terumi finally opened his eyes widely as his grin grew wider and much more crazed. “How about you taste…” Terumi suddenly said as he disappeared and avoided Ragna’s sword and reappeared once more in front of him “SERPENT’S INFERNAL RAPTURE!” Terumi yelled out. In less than a second, Terumi instantly an upward kick into Ragna’s gut, causing a black pillar of energy coated in green burst out from underneath Ragna and blast him skyward.

“How many times have we gone through all this nonsense?” Terumi said calmly as he watched Ragna fly upwards from the blow. Eventually gravity began to take effect and Ragna began to fall downwards, but Terumi was far from done. Pointing his arm towards Ragna, an Ouroboros chain was instantly shot out straight at the Bloodedge. The head of the Ouroboros immediately began to wrap itself around Ragna, ensnaring him as Terumi grabbed the chain and yanked it downwards, causing Ragna to harshly crash into the ground. “Hundreds? Thousands? MILLIONS?!” Terumi yelled out getting more crazed as he spoke. Not even giving Ragna a chance to get up Terumi casually walked up to the man and sent a powerful kick, sending his enemy flying back. “I’VE SEEN ALL THE POSSIBILITIES!” Terumi yelled out as he watched Ragna hit the ground once more, only for Terumi raise his arm upwards and cause green energy to circle around Ragna and ensnare him once more. “And guess what Rags…” Terumi said as he sent another Ouroboros chain at Ragna, causing it to wrap around him once more, yanking the chain back to bring Ragna straight towards him “You never win…not even once” Terumi said as he pulled out his two butterfly knives. The very moment Ragna got close Terumi was relentless and cruel. With great speed Terumi began to slash Ragna multiple times, avoiding key vitals so that Ragna didn’t die just yet. He slashed and slashed until finally Terumi arched his back backwards and began to laugh hard as three giant serpents made out of energy appeared behind him. Leaning forward and waving his arms forward as well, the three serpents thrust themselves forward and made contact with Ragna knocking him back far.

With the attack he liked to call Eternal Coils of the Dragon Serpent now over Terumi laughed happily. Twirling his blade in one hand as he placed the other in his pocket, Terumi slowly began to walk nonchalantly over to Ragna. “Daww whats wrong Rags, you seem a bit…weaker than before…I didn’t even think a weak piece of shit like you could even get weaker” Terumi said laughing crazily as he continued to walk towards him. There were still contradictions Terumi noticed and though Terumi claimed that Ragna never beat him once, that itself was a total lie. Terumi was waiting to see if the Ragna before him would counter his claim. It was possible this was another working of the Continuum Shift and that made things a whole shitload more interesting.

"GAHHH!" Caught in a counter, Ragna was immediately sent flying sky-high, launched insanely high. His ascent stopped slowly, and then the plummet began. As he was on his way down, he felt a chain wrap around him, tugging and smashing him down on the ground. As Ragna moved to get up, he was kicked with extreme force, slamming into the ground even further away and skidding along the hard surface, Terumi's voice reaching his ears but him being unable to retaliate while he was trapped in a combo like this - an Ouroboros bite later, and his senses were clogged with the pain of a multitude of harsh slashes from razor sharp knives. In the split second after the assault, the snakes made of energy smashed Ragna back down to the ground, his bleeding pretty bad as he rolled backwards and got up, nearly falling to one knee in agony for a second.

Coughing and continuing to glare at Hazama, Ragna replied. "Terumi... I'm not gonna give up, no matter what you say, you bastard..." Glaring daggers at Terumi, he pulled himself together and darted at the serpent, his fist imbued with dark power. "Hell's...!" His Azure locked again immediately afterward as he went for the follow-up, and he leapt backwards as a result, just out of physical range for his opponent. The moment he felt even slightly safe, he dashed forwards a slight amount, his foot coming out in Ragna's feared godlike 5B kick, followed by him bringing Blood-Scythe around to swing at Terumi as well. "I'm gonna make sure you don't get to hurt anyone else, you piece of shit...!" Ragna yelled as he attacked.

The ex-criminal, whether his attacks were successful or not, attempted to move backwards out of range again, flashing a barrier ars for a second before putting it away as it drained his defensive vitality. He couldn't let Terumi escape. He couldn't... the horrors this man was capable of inflicting were not anything he wanted to keep happening no matter what, and that was even without considering the overarching need to make him pay for what had happened in the past. And wow, Ragna definitely felt that overarching need.

It was conflicting, however... because he was getting his ass kicked. It wasn't even the first time... Ragna didn't know how he was going to defeat Terumi, but he knew he would. He wanted to, so he would do everything he could to make it happen - even though he was losing and had lost by quite an amazingly large margin every time he had gone up against Hazama. He didn't know at all about any of the business with the IDEA Engine, and this was apparent as ever as he didn't directly challenge Hazama's assertion of him having won in every possibility. If he couldn't win in any of Hazama's possibilities, he would make his own. Not that he was sure how one went about doing that, but that was the power of the Azure for you.

He was sure he'd think of something.

This was what Terumi desired to see, to see the bastard bleed out and weep, but it sort of brought a fowl taste in his mouth to witness the brat still resist. Sure Terumi was expecting Ragna to resist, but the man was just so goddamn predictable to him it was starting to get dull. He kept his eye on the white haired man as he slowly continued to walk towards him, walking as if there wasn’t a care in the world.

Stopping not too far from Ragna, Terumi stood with his hands in his pockets and watched with a smile upon his face. “So that confirms it…a remnant from the continuum shift…” Terumi said silently to himself as he grinned the moment Ragna yelled out his determination not to give up. “Just keep oooooon barking you damn little puppy!” Terumi yelled the moment Ragna dashed towards him, preforming his Hell’s Fang attack.

Terumi’s grin grew wider as Ragna closed in and immediate the green haired man simply leaped backwards, dodging the dashing punch by leaping slightly out of the attack’s range. Normally there was a follow to the attack involving shooting out a blast of darkness, but Terumi knew that follow up was not coming at all due to Ragna’s Azure Grimmoire being totally useless. With this opening, Terumi immediately pulled out his right hand from his pocket. “Venom Sword!” Terumi yelled out as he waved his arm upwards causing a blade of green energy to straight towards Ragna.

The blade’s rage wasn’t huge, but it did surprise him a tad to see that Ragna was able to not only effectively recover from his azure grimoire shutting down his move, but also move back in a way that he was able to gain some space and dodge the incoming attack. It was only a moment, but Ragna once again proceeded to close the gap between the two of them. With a roundhouse kick being sent towards Terumi, the serpent quickly raised his arms in defence, covering his chest as he blocked the blow. Utilizing the blow, Terumi skid back a tad and instantly jumped backward, avoiding Ragna’s blade while he tossed three knives straight at Ragna. As Ragna brought up his barrier the knives were quickly deflected and Terumi gracefully landed on his feet once more, a fair distance now between them due to the two of them having backed away from each other.

It was all dandy and fine that Terumi was able to figure out that this Ragna was from another timeline, but this only brought up something that was bugging him and that was what caused such a scenario. For Terumi who had witnessed far past thousands of scenarios, it was practically impossible for him to pinpoint one exact timeline, but Terumi just loved to shatter the impossible. Of all the timelines, there was only one particular phenomenon that occurred that Terumi could not explain. After activating Kusanagi, he was ready to wreck Amaterasu’s shit, but then beings made completely out of darkness suddenly began to appear. Ragna fled and eventually a surge of darkness began to erupt from the cauldron used to smelt Kusanagi, spreading out far and wide into the world. Chaos instantly began to ensue, but before Terumi could even take advantage of it Takamagahara immediately stepped in and used Phenomenon Intervention to reset the timeline once more.

Though the force that brought him to this world was not as severe as the one in that timeline, it still made things a crap load more sense. This Ragna was from that timeline and Terumi was going to have a a bit of fun dealing with Ragna’s ignorance. “You’re going to stop me from hurting anybody? Hah you’ve already done a bang up job in that regard” Terumi said closing his eyes with his sly smile. “I assume you’d want a little recap after you pussied out of our last fight right? Well listen up Rags it’s time for story time with Uncle Terumi!” Terumi yelled dramatically spreading out his arms. “You see, after I turned that garbage…umm what was her name again? Noel? Something shitty like that….anyways…after I turned her into the magnificent Kusanagi and you ran away…well how should I simply put it…it was chaos!” Terumi said emphasizing the word chaos with glee. “Darkness swam across the world, killing numerous! But I doubt you really care about random mooks...let see, first of all that shitty bitch of a vampire was imprisoned, the phantom made nice work of that damn cat, and Major Kisaragi, oh how he fought valiantly, but he was but a mere flea to my precious god slaying sword. Hakumen was the last line of defense, but even then…the same flea business…honestly it’s like Major Kisaragi and H-Man are related or something…Long story short the world is fucked and we should give you a pat on the back! I’m sure Saya will love to hear how much her precious big brother is suuuuuuuch a total failure” Terumi said laughing his head off after finishing his story. His story was pure bullshit, but held some truth to it as in some timelines this actually occurred…just not Ragna’s. Terumi was baiting him, desiring for Ragna to blindly charge at him.

Ragna gritted his teeth, Hazama giving him some real lip for what had happened. He opened his mouth to interject and shut this bastard up a good few times, but Hazama went off on one - and man, did he go off on one. "Jin...! Noel!" Ragna's eyes opened wide, hearing Hazama's words. Noel, as that "Kusanagi" thing Hazama had smelted her into, had ran off and dealt with Jin and the Masked Freak... even the Rabbit and Master Jubei had been defeated and caught. "You can't be serious...!" Having been transported right after Mu's smelting, Hazama was Ragna's only source of information as to what happened after he was taken. Even then... this was something he had dreaded.

And then he mentioned her. "The hell'd you say?!" His sight was blurred with red, hearing Hazama quip about his sister Saya like that after telling him how he'd failed to save everyone. "I'm gonna tear you to pieces...!" Fuelled by blind rage, Ragna rushed at Hazama. How dare he... how dare he! Mouthing off like that, insulting Ragna's sister and... and bringing up the past like that... Ragna knew he would've saved them if he could. Of course he would have! But this bastard always stood in his way...

After Ragna recovered from his attack, which was hasty and easy to dodge or counter, he fell to one knee. The man coughed up blood, his teeth still gritted - Terumi had blocked his healing properties, after all. "Shit... shit shit shit shit shit!" Jin, Noel, Hakumen, Jubei, Rachel, Saya... they were all dead. They were all dead and they were all gone, and he could have saved them. But what got to him most... out of everything... was that out of all of them, Hazama and Ragna had been allowed to survive. "This is bullshit... why me? Why the hell did I survive and not one of you?!" He wasn't anything special. Just some not-villain that had rebelled in a world that ended up being destroyed anyway.

Looking across at his green-haired adversary, Ragna felt nothing but pure, unbridled hatred. "I'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch, if it's the last thing I do...!" He ran for Terumi, swinging his blade through the air at him.

It was all he had left at this point.

And so Terumi laughed loudly as he pointed his face upwards and held his face. Without taking the time to even breathe all Terumi could even do was laugh, but that stopped the moment he heard dear ol Rags yelling out swears as he started to open one eye and peek at Ragna as he charged towards him. The very moment Ragna fell to his knee Terumi’s laughter continued even harder than before. This was what Terumi wanted to see! The hopelessness! The sorrow! The Despair! He wanted to see it all from Ragna, but this was not enough!

Ragna eventually managed to get back on his feet and rush towards him, but this time the laughter subsided from Terumi as he lowered his hands and grinned. While Ragna rushed towards him a green circle of magic began to form on the ground that Terumi stood upon and a green energy began to form around his right hand. Anticipating Ragna’s mad charge, Terumi preformed his serpent’s benediction move in preparation for his next move. The very moment Ragna reached up close to Terumi, the mad serpent immediately dashed towards Ragna and shoved his hands against Ragna’s shoulders. Upon contact his Ouroboros chain started to surround Ragna, forming a green barrier of magic that bound Ragna and slowly began to drift upwards. Watching as the barrier carried Ragna upward a bit, Terumi laughed happily as he jumped above the barrier and swung his leg downward, causing his leg to smash through the barrier and make contact with Ragna’s back. With the force of gravity, Terumi slammed Ragna into the ground with his foot and grinned as he rested his foot on Ragna’s head.

“daww how sweet! You’ve reunited with your dear buddy Miss.Dirt! C’mon Rags, give her a kiss, show the dirt some love” Terumi said pressing his foot down hard on Ragna’s head. “I know you must be wondering “Hey there Terumi! Dayum you magnificent son of a bitch you’ve gone and destroyed our world so whats next on the agenda!” Well the answer to that my dear Rags is seithr!” Terumi said having done a real poor imitation of Ragna’s voice as he leaned in with his usual grin. “You must have already noticed it before right? When we activate our Blazblues and even when you used that nifty shield ars…all that requires seithr…the seithr…or whatever they call it in this world…there is nothing different about it from where we come from” Terumi said referring to the forced that allowed them to cast magic. “Now think for a moment…what if we were to extend this belief further…what if all these worlds have something similar to the cauldron…cauldrons even stronger than the ones where we come from! What if we can smelt a weapon even stronger than Kusanagi itself! Make you wanna piss your pants in excitement right? Hell we could thrown in a couple of black beasts! Thats always fun!" Hazama said before suddenly slamming his foot on Ragna’s back.

“But alas, you won’t be able to see it now will you? Don’t you worry Rags, I’ll send you right to that precious sister and brother of yours…but it sure as hell is gonna be a looooooong trip, so savour the moment!” Terumi said as he repeatedly began to slam his foot on Ragna’s back. “Suffer! Writhe! Squirm! Bleed! Wail! Show me those faces of despair! Anguish! Misery! Hoplessness! I told myself then next time I saw your face I’d make you cry tears! Whether it legitimate tears or tears of blood I just don’t give a damn!” Terumi yelled as he laughed happily and continued to stomp on Ragna’s back brutally.

this time, i'll protect you!

Would you accept your fate, or fight it?

"Light!"

As the feminine voice yelled, a ball of light came racing towards the green haired assailant from the end of her keyblade, her obvious goal was to knock the jerk off of Ragna, she wasn't sure how effective her magic would be against this guy... he was CLEARLY stronger than the Heartless she usually fought in town. But on the other hand, pure light to the face had to do something right? Ether way Kairi being Kairi proceeded to run straight into the fray amongst the two rivals. Granted this probably wasn't any of her business, and she was likely going getting in over her head. She just couldn't leave Ragna there on the ground though-it remindex her a little to much of how some of her friends sufferd.... well that and that one bully that kept messing with Sora when they were younger-Riku was really good at solving problems like that.

In any case she wasn't just going to let the guy suffer. If she had to she'd fight the snake herself, bad odds or no!

"Hey Ragna, your not just gonna lay their and take it, right?"

Though a bit blunt, Kairi hoped her words would at least stir some kind of reaction in the sword wielder. She just... she had no intentions of letting suffer, she was sick and tired of her friends getting hurt! As she slipped into the loose fighting stance she had been taught, Destiny's Embrace at her side a warm light similar to the ball she fired earlier began to radiate from her body-and onto Ragna himself. Kairi didn't notice this however, the action being fueled purely by her emotions at that very moment.

"And you! I don't know who you are... no, it dosnt matter, what matters is that you back off!"

Notes:Enter the Princess Of Heart! Tell me if y'all have any issue with the post~

♥ thanks tia!

Caught mid-assault, Ragna was forced to the ground with Terumi's cruel power and stomped mercilessly. However, not everything he was saying was to be ignored... he brought up some very important points that Ragna hadn't questioned yet, in his confusion. Seithr. The Ars Armagus and Ars Magus that Terumi and he used should, by all means, not work at all. It wouldn't necessarily change the situation present here, but both Ouroboros and the Azure Grimoire should have been absolutely defunct upon their own emergence from their old world - seithr shouldn't have been here, at least not in good enough quantity to be able to use this stuff. Something else had to have been behind it...

The idea, the mere thought of things worse than Cauldrons that could smelt and create stronger weapons than Noel's smelted form would have been enough to make even Hakumen worry. Such an abomination should definitely not be under the control of someone like this serpentine bastard, that was for sure. Ragna didn't get much chance to exactly ponder it, however. Especially not with Terumi's foot on his body, slamming him into the pavement repeatedly. Hearing what he was saying about Jin and Saya made Ragna even more furious, but he was virtually powerless... "GUAAAARGH!" He cried out, almost trapped in place the more brutally he was beaten by Hazama.

In the next moment, the stomping ceased. Even if only for a second, it was enough - Ragna rolled backwards, standing up. His legs almost buckled under the pressure with how weak he felt, but he immediately looked to the source of what he'd heard before Terumi had stopped. "Magic?!" He looked at Kairi with a shocked expression, listening to what she had to say. Sit there and take it? There wasn't much he could do, but he was trying... it was the last thing on his mind as he surveyed the scene before him, though.

Kairi was standing between Hazama and himself. "You idiot...!" Ragna called out to Kairi. "Get the hell out of here! I... god damn it!" Sheathing his sword, Ragna took a deep breath, steadying himself and making dead certain he was stable enough for the next action he was going to commit to. This was going to be the only way out of this, because he didn't want to drag Kairi into his own battle, and because he didn't want to watch her get killed on account of trying to save his sorry ass.



Running forward, he reached out and grabbed Kairi's arm. "Come on!" He shot one last, desperate glare at Terumi, utterly dismayed at the sight of his lifelong adversary having nary a scratch on him. From there, he turned and dashed up the steps, Kairi in tow, and just... ran. He hated it. He hated running from Terumi, but there was no way he was going to watch Kairi get injured, or worse, right in front of him.

He rounded corner after corner, just intending to put as much distance between them and Terumi as he could. The most aggravating part was the potential pleasure Ragna knew Terumi could get from watching it play out this way.

Did he break any bones? Oh did Terumi truly hope he didn’t just yet. He wanted to hear those bones crack; the satisfying snap would definitely be beautiful in his ears. If they cracked without him hearing them it would truly be a shame. “C’mon little Rags! Beg! Beg like the little bitch you are!” Terumi yelled with glee as he continued to stomp, but that stopped in an instant he heard a feminine voice yell out the word “Light”. “Ehh?” Terumi questioned in a bored manner as he looked over at the sudden attack heading straight towards him. Letting out a tsk, Terumi immediately jumped backwards away from Ragna. While still in mid jump Terumi immediately swung his leg horizontally as a green energy began to coat his leg. As if using a blade, Terumi swung the leg and cut through the ball of light before he landed back on the ground once more, his hands in the pockets of his pants.

He looked over in a bored manner at the newcomer, a red female that seemed to know Ragna. Realizing this face the bored look upon his face turned into a more delighted one as he grinned and closed his eyes. “Oh my? Ragna’s made a lady friend? Daaaaaaaaaaw how sweet I didn’t know you had it in you Rags! Say little missy, wanna meet Ragna’s sister, I bet she is dying to meet you!” Terumi said as he began to laugh as his Ouroboros chain began to coil around him, ready to strike the two before him, but to his surprise it seemed that Ragna was doing the exact same thing he did in the timeline they shared. Ragna was running away, quite possibly due to that girl’s safety.

“Running off without a goodbye? Oh you breaking my heart here Rags!” Terumi said with an obviously fake sorrowful tone as he sent his Ouroboros at them. The head of Ouroboros sped forward, but luckily for the pair it managed to miss as they headed up the stairs and ran off. “Run Run Run!” Terumi said playfully as he retracted his Ouroboros back to him and sent it upwards in a diagonal direction.

The snake like metallic head of the Ouroboros chain soared upwards as it was shot up and bit into the empty air, as if grabbing on to a ledge of a building. Grabbing the chain, the chain immediately pulled him towards the area that the head had stopped. Utilizing the force of the pull, Hazama soared forward in the air and gracefully landed on top of a rooftop. At such a height Terumi was able to easily gain a good view of just where his prey were heading. Immediately Terumi rushed forward, running on top of the rooftops in order to get ahead of the two that were running below. Once he did get close to them, Terumi sent his Ouroboros forward, having him pull him forward and a bit ahead of Kairi and Ragna. Now that Terumi was ahead of them the serpentine man immediately jumped off the rooftop and landing in front of the duo.

“HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERES TERUMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!” Terumi yelled out with sheer glee as the ground around him began to shake and as a green aura begun to spiral around him. “Its been fun, but…. time to die” Terumi said, his voice cold and grim. He wasn’t going to let them run off, he was going to kill them here and now. He rose his arms and crossed them, the aura spiralling around him growing stronger. “HUNGRY DARKNESS-” Terumi began to yell but instantly stopped the moment something jumped onto his back “W-what the?!” Terumi yelled as he looked over at his shoulder to see a creature climbing on his shoulder. A creature of darkness, a shadow heartless climbed on his shoulder trying to pierce through him and claim the power that his Azure Grimoire was producing. Gritting his teeth in annoyance, Terumi looked down at his legs as numerous other shadow heartless began to crawl up his leg while he felt more jump onto his back. Terumi closed his eyes clearly pissed off ignoring the two before him for only a moment. “Oi! JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU’RE SCREWING WITH!? YOU PIECES OF SHIT! OUROBOROS!” Terumi yelled as his Ouroboros began to move. Utilizing the chain telepathically, Terumi used the head of the Ouroboros and had it slash through all the heartless that dared to even touch him. Opening his eyes, Terumi narrowed his eyes and let out a tsk as suddenly more heartless began to form from the ground around them.

Terumi's taunts didn't make Ragna want to run. They made him want to stay, and to pound Terumi until he was within an inch of his life. Ragna growled, stopping for a second and actively just picking Kairi up. He'd move more quickly this way. He knew it wouldn't be easy, because Terumi loved to torment his "victims". He could hear chains flying behind him; there was no way the serpent wasn't giving chase. He was more slippery than Ragna was known for being, but it didn't mean that he couldn't get away just as effectively as Hazama could - he needed to, in order to save Kairi's life.

Fleeing through the alleys, Ragna was brought to a dead stop the moment Terumi landed. "Terumi you son of a bitch-" He immediately sunk a little, his grip firm on Kairi but his leg almost giving out from the pain. Terumi had wounded him really badly, and his leg wasn't even the only place that he felt aches and pains from; his Azure's healing factor had been kicking in, but it simply hadn't been nearly enough time - he was going to need a while to properly recover and recuperate from this encounter.

For that to happen, however, he had to get away.

Ragna could barely move in the time that Terumi closed the gap. He glowed and Ragna moved his leg backwards, ready to pelt Kairi out of there if Terumi were to use something that would total Ragna. Terumi got halfway through the move... and a little shadow leapt onto his shoulder. Seeing the Heartless start to form and go for Terumi, Ragna saw what was going on and could pretty easily deduce what this was. Since they had interrupted Hazama, he responded in annoyance. This was Ragna's chance. The rebel shot his foot out as hard as he could, kicking Hazama square in the chest in order to knock him to the ground so that the Heartless could have him. As soon as he finished, the rebel winced at the pain of his aching joints.

Turning, Ragna immediately darted for the next nearest alley, running through it and turning corners, attempting to stick to the shadows. He didn't want Terumi following him this time. Sticking to the shadows, he made sure to keep going until he'd put at least some distance between them and the area he'd seen Terumi in. Sliding into a nearly tight spot between two buildings, he put Kairi down and fell to a sitting position, his back to the wall. "God... damn it..." It sucked. This sucked. He couldn't believe that he had let this happen. Terumi... was here.

He definitely had a mission now.

Hazama was royally pissed off at the very moment. In a way one could put it as that Terumi had gotten cockblocked pretty hard and that sure as hell would make anybody pissed off. He was so looking forward to ripping apart the limbs of Ragna and his new girlfriend, but out of all times the mindless beasts chose NOW to attack him. The beings coated with darkness, of course one could say it could be reminiscent of that failed experiment known as the black beast, but comparing these little pieces of shit to that beast was like comparing a pebble to the moon. Hell even that shit covered idiot that had gotten too close to the boundary was leaps above these pieces of shit.

Darkness began to form around his foot, but Terumi was not going to let them stop him at all. The Oroborous chain began fly around, slashing through the beasts, but they just kept on coming at him mindlessly. “You goddamn-!” Terumi began to yell in frustration, but immediately his eyes widened as he stared up ahead once more the sheer moment he heard footsteps rushing at him. “WHAT THE!?” Terumi yelled before the Bloodedge’s foot made contact with his chest. Upon the sheer contact Terumi fell backwards, the bastard’s kick actually hurting somewhat. Terumi continued to fall backwards towards the ground, but the ground was no longer there. In place of the ground was a surge of darkness, something that Terumi fell into. Slowly as if falling into quicksand, Terumi began to sink into the darkness, the serpentine man clawing upwards trying get out. After a fruitless effort however he eventually sunk into the darkness. With Terumi gone into the darkness so too did the darkness that sprawled around the area. Any interference that Terumi’s Blazblue had caused was now gone, proving that the serpentine man was gone.

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As if sinking down into an endless ocean Terumi sunk through the pitch black darkness slowly. His eyes closed shut and his face was calm. “Yes, yes, yes…I see it!” Terumi spoke as a smile began to form. The smile grew and grew until finally the smile grew into a wide grin. “Yes! Perfect! Finally! I’ve got a good view of it! The power of darkness! I finally understand!” Terumi yelled as a fedora formed in his hand. Placing the hand ontop of his head, Hazama opened one eye and smirked, his eye glowing an eerie yellow glow. “Is all thanks to you Rags… I’ll be sure to reward you the next time we meet!” Hazama said as he began to laugh. “The stability of the worlds! That which maintains the balance of life and death! Lets just see how fragile it really is!” Hazama yelled with glee as his body began to glow a bright and shining light. The very power of the azure, with it there were no limits he could not cross. The light shone through the darkness and in a single moment it vanished along with the body.