[Episode 12670] [Episode 12670]Somewhere....Somewhen....
"Am I dead?" Akane asked herself....
"Not yet," answered a voice, "but you will be without my help."
"Where am I?" Akana asked, bewildered.
"Between worlds....Between realms...." pronounced the voice enigmatically with a profound sense of drama and mystery.
"Who are you?"
"That will be revealed all in good time."
"Why am I here?"
"Ultimately I am responsible for that...monster...that has savaged you. It is high time he was taught a lesson in the only terms he understands from a most unlikely source...you."
"How can I do that? All the training I've had didn't even put a scratch on him." elaborated Akane worriedly.
"Behold!" exclaimed the voice suddenly.
Akane started at the sight of a small, glowing white sphere hovering in space before her within arm's reach. Inside the sphere, she saw tiny black bolts dance about like lighting between the inner surface of the sphere and a small, black, marble-sized orb floating within it in the very center of the larger one giving off the bolts. Instinctively, she reached up with both hands to grasp the sphere....
"There is a price....Are you willing to pay it." warned the voice ominously.
Akane's hands stopped just before she touched the sphere. "What do you mean?" she asked suspiciously.
"If you proceed, you will be changed for life. You will constantly be at war with the darkness that has already consumed my pupil. It is my belief that you won't let that darkness consume you. Your only other alternative is defeat...death...and release from your earthly life....Which do you choose?"
No way out....Which is the lesser evil? Akane thought to herself. To die defeated would only cause great pain to those I love and leave behind....To accept this power offered me is to become a pawn in someone else's game....
Akane thought...and thought...and thought....
Finally, she made her decision....
Akane clasped the sphere in her hands....
It disappeared slowly....
She was ready to go back.
"Thank, you...." said Akane simply.
"Goutetsu." replied the voice. "Tell Akuma I said hello. He'll understand."
* * *
Akane stood up, spit out some blood and addressed Akuma in a dead-serious tone: "Shall we continue?..."
(A.N. Akane uses her newly-aquired Ansatsuken skills to give Akuma the rousing, crowd-pleasing, stand-up-and-cheer beatdown of a lifetime--one he so richly deserves!!!)
"The price is too high. So be it." replied Akane gravely, lowering her hands. "I'm sorry, I must refuse...."
"Goutetsu." replied the voice. "Tell Freya I said hello. she'll understand."
* * *
Akane found herself standing in a big room filled with hundreds of noisy warriors from the past to the future....
"Welcome to Sessrumnir, Bushido Valkyrie Akane Tendo." said Freya, a tall flaxen-haired beauty dressed in chainmail. "Your death, though tragic, has brought you great honor!" (AMG/Norse)
At The Crossroads: Something else happens....Something not expected or anticipated....(Anything goes #1...preferably *NO* lemon / lime content)
At The Crossroads:
The future is not yet written.
There exists in this moment,
the possibility of all things....
-- Brian Randall
(Anything goes #2...preferably *NO* lemon / lime content {I *LIKE* Randal's quote!!! :) } )
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