"Kuso!" Ranma growled as he forced his mind to ignore the pain. He looked carefully at the demon casually advancing toward him.
"Mmm," The demon went, bobbing it's head appreciatively as it looked at Ranma. "One leg broken, arm dislocated, three ribs shattered, and your still fighting? I will enjoy devouring your soul."
Ranma didn't say anything in response, just gathered heavy chi, feeling the ShiShiHokodan coming with ease.
Suddenly a large form appeared out of nowhere. The demon turned, spinning it's tail at the figure, but the gi clad figure ducked under the tail and struck the demons legs with a foot sweep. As the demon was falling he rose, Kicking hard to knock the demon away. The Bandanna clad figure glanced at Ranma, then leaped after the monster.
"POP!" Ranma yelled, starting after him, then hopping a moment to keep from falling as his broken leg refused to support his weight.
As it flew, the demon shifted it's orientation, and looked around itself. Seeing Genma's hidden form hurtling at it, it waited, then lashed out with a claw, tearing at his left shoulder. "I was taken by surprise the first time, the demon commented smugly.
'What the hell am I doing!' Genma thought. Pushing the thought aside he leaped in, lashing out again and again with blows that the demon easily blocked.
Suddenly a claw grasped his throat as the demons tail lengthened and pinned both arms to his side.
"Heh, not a bad effort, but futile. But for that, your soul will be my first morsel." With it's now glowing free hand the demon reached forward into Genma's chest.
Genma's eyes rolled back in their sockets as he passed out.
"Heh. . . What?" the demon asked as felt the Martial Artist's soul. By every sense it had the soul had seemed unremarkable, but on touch it felt. . . false. Suddenly there was a sense of tearing, like tightly stretched piece of fabric suddenly ripping in half. The demons' eyes widened in fear.
Genma's eyes snapped open, light blazing forth as the hellfire in his true soul erupted through his being. With a slight grunt he lifted his arms forcing the tail off them, then one hand settled on the demon's arm. Which buckled then snapped under his grip.
"H-HOW?? It's not possible!" The demon cried as it tried to pull free from it's former captive.
"What better disguise?" Genma responded. He raised his free hand, allowing a mixture of black and red hellfire to engulf the extremity as he extended it toward the demon's throat.
"W-WAIT! PLEASE! I CAN SERVE YOU! I. . ."
Genma's blazing hand plunged into the demon's throat, his hellfire pouring into the creature's body. "It was too late to plead the moment you unsealed my disguise."
Genma pulled his hand from the demon's throat, letting the Hellfire fade as the demon's body crumbled into dust. The fearsome light faded from his eyes, then he blinked and looked around in confusion.
"Wha? Did. . . someone save me?" he commented as he looked around.
Deep within his demonic self thought. The Genma Saotome persona was one of the key parts of the disguise that had hidden him for the past twenty years. But with the breach, the disguise was now flawed, little traces of his being would start to escape, start to draw enemies from both the demon realm and the earth realm. 'My plans were so close to readiness! Now their in jeopardy! No, there may still be time. I will have to think, have to plan, and hope I can act through the Genma persona and not have to emerge again.'
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(Posted Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:54)
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