"Big, Big Brother, you really
came back."
"Shun, it's already okay."
Dark Phoenix on top of
the roof shouts, "Traitor Ikki! I have waited for your appearance! By the
order of His Holiness, Pope Ares, you are to be purged. Obediently, start
your tour of the nether world by our hands."
Ikki looked up at Dark
Phoenix, "I remeber who you are. Aren't you Ritahoa?"
Dark Phoenix's face quickly
turned pale. Ikki continues to make sure of Dark Pegasus and their faces.
Astonished to see each of them, one after another, he calls out each of
their names, "You are Kenuma. You are Jido. You are Shinadekuro, no?"
With their names called
out, Dark Pegasus and the others for some reason are ashamed and hid their
faces.
"Ha... When I was organizing
Dark Cloths, Ritahoa, all of you were the discarded of Death Queen Island.
Ridiculous, those were Dark Phoenixes. If you value your lives, disappear
away from me!"
But, Dark Phoenix does
not yield, "Ikki, if you still remeber us as we used to, you are gravely
mistaken! We all recieved training in Greece's Sanctuary, especially to
defeat the Bronze Saints. Furthermore, we received from His Holiness, a
direct order to dispose the traitor, Ikki."
"So what?"
"If all of you are defeated,
Death Queen Island may again be permitted to train Saints. This is the
first and the last chance given to us. We certainly will grasp it. Do it!"
Dark Pegasus and all are
given the order, but once a person's weakness is shown, the person can
no longer be useful in the world of Saints. Dark Pegasus who is called
Kenuma, Dark Swan who is called Jido, and Dark Dragon who is called Shinadekuro,
all can not match Ikki.
"Phoenix Wing Glide!!!!!!",
Ikki's one lavish stroke, the sad three are repelled flying, dead. The
one remaining is Dark Phoenix, Ritohoa, alone.
The two Phoenix confronted
each other.
"Ritahoa! Dark Cloths,
in spite of anything, exists in shadow. In short, light and darkness,
if I am light, you are darkness... regretfully, darkness can never replace
light even if the world is upside down."
"Ikki, we didn't see each
other for a while and you seem to become a good talker. Whoever is darkness
or light, soon we will know. Keiiiiii...", with that sharp cry, Dark Phoenix
charged at Ikki sending out punches, punches that make Pegasus Shooting
Stars Punch inferior, Light Speed punches!
Ikki is dodging desperately,
"This guy, when did he improve his skills to this? If I don't take him
seriously, I would really lose.)
"Die...! Ikki!", Dark Phoenix's
moves connect with one hit.
"Uohhhh!", Ikki is blown
off and crashed into trees that are said to be a few hundred years old
and with that shock, the trees are beaten down.
Something twinkling falls
from Ikki's neck to the ground but no one takes notice of it. Though Ikki
has reieved great damage, he rises up again.
Dark Phoenix completely
flushed by being able to give the first blow, feels he can win, "Well?
Ikki. I am not the old Ritahoa. I am now the Dark Phoenix that His Holiness
recognizes."
"I see that you really
have improved but, to become my opponent, it is 100 years too early!"
"What... According to you
only! Take this!", Dark Phoenix again let out Light Speed punches.
"Can the same skill work
a second time?", after seeing all the Dark Phoenix's light speed punches,
Ikki skillfully dodges and lets out counter attacks.
"Uwahhh...", The roots
of the beaten down trees that the Ikki crashed into are blown off, but,
Dark Phoenix quickly rises up and stood in readiness there.
Right at that moment, Ikki
sees the twinkling object at Dark Phoenix's feet.
"Ah", as Dark Phoenix
rises up, he has the guts to step on the twinkling object.
Ikki's expression changes,
"Your, your dirty feet...! Let you see an illusion, Phoenix Illusion Punch!"
The attack of illusion
is directed at Dark Phoenix's forehead and thrust into his brain!
"Uwahh...!", Dark Phoenix is drowning
in the sea of illusions. He was the ruler of Death Queen Island. With Ikki's
opposition, he sees his own subordinates all get nearly killed, his own
appearance amplified, and his own spirit is destroyed. The fight suddenly
is over.
Ikki reaches out for the
twinkling object.
"Big Brother", Shun ran
up to Ikki, and Ikki presents the object that he picked up. The object
is a small cross.
"I forgot to give this
to you"
"That's..."
"Our Mother's one and only
memento."
"Eh! Our Mother's!"
"Until our Mother's death,
she was wearing it. Just before she gave out her last breath, she gave
it to me and her last words were that we should help each other to live
fully."
Shun recieved the cross
on the palm of his hand. He thinks about the Mother that he doesn't even
know the face of, earnestly with love, he rubs the cross.
The cross is spilling with
Shun's falling tears.
"Big Brother, from now
on, we should be together!"
"Shun, that cross is Mother
and me. No matter how long, we are always together. I will always fight
with you."
"But..."
"I will come and help you
every time."
"But, Big Brother..."
"Shun, do you have anything
else to say to me?"
"Eh...?"
"I hate being in groups.",
with that said, Ikki turns around and disappears into the darkness of the
night.
END