Saga 1 Episode 55: A Knight, A Titan & A Monk

## **Participants**

**Daniel HandlerOG Trevor LockhartThe VaporThe Time Walker**
## **I**

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht7mxF9XZiA )

Sitting at the bar, Daniel the most active drinker since this bar has been around throws back another shot of Russian style vodka. He slams the glass down on the ground next to a set of twenty other shot glasses that are empty of the alcohol that had previously filled them. Around this time of year Daniel had always become somewhat the same. This hits the anniversary of an incident that occurred in his military days that only Richie knows about at the bar. He doesn’t talk about his military days much because of the things he had to do and the things that happened to him, Richie had been the source of his grieving as the long standing friend in his life.

“You gotta stop doin this to ya self, Danny. I hate having to see you try and get yourself wasted…It’s not healthy…” Richie speaks with a concerned tone as if he were talking to his own son.

Daniel looks up to him with a blank expression, “Just keep pouring them, Richie…Not like I can get anywhere with this weak alcohol anyways…”

Richie sighs a bit while shaking his head but he continues to pour the drinks because he knows how stubborn Daniel can be when it comes to this kind of situation. For years Daniel had been coming into the bar, even when he was an underage military serviceman. Richie had been the only family he looked to growing up and that is why he continues to come to this bar and ONLY this bar for his nights. Inside of his mind now Daniel begins to remember what happened to him out there. He never talks about it, never even gives off the feeling of a veteran who has any form of the war they lived. Most veterans seek counseling or go to the VA for meetings to talk about their issues. Not Daniel.

See this kind of thing only hits him at certain times. He is like a time bomb waiting to explode. And every now and then he has these moments where he NEEDS to be in this bar. Because without it, he loses his stable catalyst that keeps him home. While waiting to take the next shot it is clear that his mind is miles away with the blood and sand of the wars he fought in. His blank gaze is coated by the dark hazel-green color eyes he has. His stare looks lost to the point that the bar doesn’t even seem to exist around him.

There is a packed house tonight with all the tables taken and people at the pool table playing, enjoying their time there. This place had been known to house many criminals and villains throughout history. Cops never came through these doors. Daniel had been the first to even test those waters. But being so close to Richie, no one ever dared try to get Daniel out. The Super Soldier wouldn’t even know that the place is full because his mind is so smacked onto the topic of his friends who never made it back.

After a few seconds pass, Richie returns with five shot glasses filled to the brim with more vodka.

“Good man, Rich…” Is all Daniel says, not even lifting his eyes to see Richie.

“Sure thing, Kid…Just uh…Call me if you need anything okay? You know I am always here for ya, Son.”

Daniel gives Richie a nod before knocking back the shots in front of him.

\*It was in this same bar, not very far off from the bar table itself would’ve been a round table in the lone corner of the tavern. He music was going , people here and there drowning their sorrows to their own hearts content. However there would’ve been two individuals in this corner both of them waring what looked like long drapes or black sheets over their heads in a hooded like fashion. Their faces hidden for the most part except their chins. One of them had a noticeable purple streak going down from it looked like where his eye was to the base of his chin his mouth would’ve been moving. Weather he could be heard was a mystery…but he would speak.\*

“You’ve heard of Dragon Kang I’m certain. The Towers of the Ancient Dragons is ranged around a City known as ' Dragon Kang city ' Based off the Legend of a man who defeated the Dragon Known as Kang, and obtained the powers of said Dragons. This mystical city lies in Tai-Wang Mountains  via an interdimensional portal only accessible through…certain transportational means. Dragon Kang City is the stronghold of a colony of humanoids, place of origin unknown, whose means of getting here crash-landed upon a small, extra-dimensional world, approximately a million years ago. The ship's warp-drive engines somehow created a permanent, oscillating rift between the pocket world and Earth's dimension, causing the settlement to shift into Earthly space every 10 years on a site in the Himalayas in Tibet. Due to this, it has been black Zoned By The Dark Zone, and even they lack a Portal to this place, the World of Portals. The people built a city around their inverted spaceship, cannibalizing materials from its interior and using its basic design as their architectural style. No citizens alive today are aware that the Central Hall of Ancestors was once the spaceship that bore them to their world. Now that the mystical emerald orb that regulated the dimensional matrices had been broken the duration of this period of Dragon Kang City interface with Earth is not known. Apocryphal stories about Dragon Kang City told by travelers gave rise to the Chinese legend of the same name. However. I can get us there. And I know of a weapon of untold power and ability…with it, we can eliminate our Red Knight issue in a heartbeat. They cannot be allowed to prosper…”

\*The hooded man waited for the one in front of him to respond to the information he’d just be given. Weather he did or didn’t was on his terms, but the question is weather someone heard this conversation. If not, the two of them would’ve walked out of the bar, one behind the other as if nothing happened, unless they were perused or confronted otherwise.\*

As Daniel sits at the bar, a conversation that begins between two men comes to perk up his ears. He looks to his left slightly to see two men in the corner of the bar with hoods over their heads to block their identities from being seen. One of the men has a very discernable chin and the other’s chin is covered by what looks like a mask. The mask is a mixture of black and yellow but it doesn’t give any defining features of whoever is underneath the cloak. This observation only takes less than a second to get before he looks back down at the shot glasses of alcohol at the table. Even if his gaze got made, the amount of alcohol that surrounds him would make anyone in the bar believe him to be a drunk and way passed the point of conscious thought.

With his Super Soldier physiology, his enhanced senses make it easy for him to focus in on their conversation to hear the one with the discernible chin talk to the one with the mask. The conversation was anything but common, with talks of realms and portals being the main discussion. His expression remains the same as it was before, making sure he doesn’t give any sign of him listening in to them.

Daniel begins to think to himself, “The Dark Zone? The Dragon Kang? What the hell are these guys even talking about?”

It seemed like something out of a fairytale but nothing is really beyond reality in Kasaihana City. Daniel has had to fight many weird ‘things’ in his short life and he leaves no door closed to possibility anymore. The conversation seems more like a history lesson until he hears the man bring up The Red Knights. A weapon with enough power to take out the entire Red Knights team? Now this conversation went from a hoax to a real issue. The Red Knights had only seemed to have picked a real fight with some group known as The Titan Force. Could these men be from that group? If they are, Daniel is smart to not make a scene about it right here. Not only does he not want to just outright get himself caught in their path, but he really just doesn’t want to ruin Richie’s bar.

Before any action can even be taken, Daniel begins to hear the man with the mask speak. His voice comes off as very ominous and deep with an Asian dialect. His tone is also very aged, as if being spoken by a much older man than the one who previously spoke.

“You speak of divine weaponry obtained from another realm…I personally do not agree in using outside force such as this to win our battles. We as warriors should win with our own personal strength, rather than seeing an easy victory take place of honor…But if this is the path you wish to take, we are partners in this endeavor. I have gathered many divine weapons through my time in history but never from another realm like the Dragon Kang…I would like one to add to my collection. It is agreed upon then. We may embark on this journey when you see it ready to be taken. This weapon you speak of shall be a true test of these Knights of Red. If they are worthy of surviving this weapon you seek, then they shall surely be the challenge I have longed for with the coming ages.”

After speaking, the two of them would begin to make their ways out of the bar.

“Some weirdos there aye, Danny?” Richie asks as he watches the men begin to leave the bar. “Danny?” He asks out before turning to see that Daniel had left a hundred dollar bill on the bar and completely disappeared from sight. “Be safe, Kid…” Richie looks down with a little bit of worry on his face for Daniel.

Once the men make their exit, Daniel appears standing on the rooftop of the building observing the two from afar. He had been trained in the art of stealth just as much as everything else of his arsenal. As the men make their way down the street to wherever it is they want to go, Daniel keeps a close eye on them and wondering if he should call in the other Red Knights. Before jumping to any further conclusions on who these men are, Daniel is sure to tail them as best he can to remain unnoticed until he sees something worth making his presence known for.

\*The glowing hooded man lead the two of them down the street for a couple of blocks. The people of Kasaihana know by now to stay off of the streets at a late night. They know better and as such there was rearely anyone out at this time of night. If you were, you were either one of the brave and the bold, or the incredibly stupid. As they arrived wat what looked like a large fountain in the middle of a small park they’d stop. The fountain was a giant memeorial statue to The Red Dawn as he stood holding his shield up in the air. The park here had brick ground and benches on the edge of it. It was more for the sights of the beautiful water and the clear view of the statue of liberty. The hooded man looked around…before taking off his cloak and revealing his body as a whole\*

\*His body looked like the physical embodiment of space, as he began to hover over the ground.\*

“This is the hallowed ground we need. For the time being I need you to be my eyes and ears on the situation. Opening this gateway will require a bit of patience. If I am interrupted then it will all be for naught. What’s funny is that I didn’t discover the ability to do this until about a year ago. The team that made he had no clue….what you gain when you’re a spirit as a whole.” A strange oozing purple energy would’ve begun to leave the hands of this man as it started forming a giant oval of black and purple infront of he and the time walker. He needed complete concentration to pull this off, and it was going to take some time before it was done.

Meanwhile

(http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=c4H4F6OZczc#Travis\_Scott\_-\_Antidote\_%28Lyrics\_on\_screen%29 ) the room filled with a foggy like apperence. It was getting thicker the more the male inhaled and exhaled the THC subnstance in his hand. Trevor lay on his bed, letting his head hang off of it with his blonde licks falling upwards as well. In his hands, was a vapor pipe, but rather than using it for Tabaco he just stuffed some green inside of it, and rigged it up for the same thing. Trevor hated the stink of it, but found a way to have his cake, and eat it to. Hell hot boxing himself in the room with the vapor itself only added to the high he was feeling. Laying there in a pair of orange sweat pants, looking at the lava lamp infront of him. “Mmmmm” a feminine voice could’ve been heard as she threw her head on Trevor’s stomach. “That was….ngh let’s go again.” “Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” Trevor put a finger over her lip while starring at the lamp. “This is the best part….” The balls in the lava lamp began to collide and form into one ball. “Yeeeeeessssssss------“ Trevor whispered. The blonde female reached for his vapor stick but he snatched away from her. “Let me have some!” “Bitch, you aint put in on this? Fuck you th-“ Trevor’s eyes winded for a moment. He sat up, suddenly moving fast now. Thinking to himself. “This feeling…this energy….it’s sinister…but it’s the same energy signature given off when realms are intertwining.” Trevor looked away for a moment. “Who the hell would open a portal in this city?!?” he spoke aloud. The woman looked at him. “What are you talking about?” Trevor hopped up onto his feet. He was still a bit high but he closed his eyes, focusing his mental chi and overidding the effects of the drugs on his brain to become his normal self.  “Let yourself out sweetie, I gotta go.” Trevor went to go to the living room of his apartment before stepping back in the room. “You said you’d let me do anal again right?” “Wha? Yeah of cou-“ Trevor would’ve chopped the woman in the back of her neck knocking her out. “I’ll need you later.”

He stepped out of onto his window seal, fully dressed up in his Dragon Monk vigilante outfit. Looking left and right, putting two fingers to his temple. “I need to focus…the energy signature is trying to be sneaky…but I’ll find it. Just need a feeeeeew minutes….”

II
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[3:59:09 PM] 61 Million Views: After tailing these men all the way to the memorial park, it seemed obvious that this is where they plan to do their business. And it is only further proven when the first man takes off his robes to reveal the astral looking appearance of his body. Daniel’s eyes squint from a nearby rooftop, kneeled down to get a more clear view of everything that is taking place. Once the plan begins to take place, Daniel begins to stand up with a concerned expression on his face now. He would have liked to avoid a two on one confrontation, but with one of them occupied trying to get a portal open he might be able to take the other one out and make this fair. This is the only plan that he can come up with fast enough that will not allow these men to complete their goals. With the Red Knights scattered across the city probably doing other things, Daniel knows that they might not even get here in time if he does call for their backup.

“One of them might just even call for more ‘BACK UP.’” He says in reference to Trevor and his excuse of always leaving the scene to find backup.

Taking matters into his hands, he leaps high into the air with the super soldier legs launching him like a rocket towards the memorial of The Red Dawn. Even with how quiet his approach was, the second men begins to turn around instantly noticing the change in the air around them. Even in the air, Daniel looks down at this second man and can feel the difference between him and the one building the portal.

“It seems an obstacle has created itself in your plan this night.” The mystery man says before slowly making out a few feet to give himself some distance between him and Vapor. “Make haste of your portal. Commotion and chaos will not see your goals met with success.”

Daniel’s body crashes down into the ground at that very moment. His left leg slides against the smooth surface of the park ground while his right leg bends to take the brunt of the landing impact. His left palm slams into the ground as well, making a few cracks beneath the hand, and his head facing the floor. His right hand is clenched into a fist as he takes a moment to get himself landed properly on the ground without any bounce.

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“Whatever you two are doing…end it now and this doesn’t have to go any further…” Daniel speaks to them while slowly lifting up his head to face them in his sprawled out pose.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_3z\_VRTW1nI )

That is when the mystery man lifts his shoulders slightly and the cloak garbs begin to fall from his body. Once the cloak falls it reveals the strong and muscular build of The Time Walker. A mystery man who holds the ability of eternal life. The hood had never been part of the cloak, as it remains over his head. But bright white eyes glow towards Daniel now as the Super Soldier takes in a full gaze at how large this man is. He wears older looking clothes that look like armor from an ancient Chinese culture. On his forearms look like very similar devices to the forearm weapons that Daniel wears himself. If the super soldier didn’t know any better those weapons would look like the older original versions of the weapons he wears today!

“No, young warrior. We are unable to end this endeavor we are conducting currently because this is far from its completion. And you are in no situation to make such threats to a warrior such as myself. But by all means, please come and attempt to thwart our plans.”

The two warriors are almost fifteen feet apart from each other when Daniel stands up to actually come to stand toe to toe with The Time Walker. As he stands, the leather jacket that Daniel wears opens up at the chest area and reveals his symbol of being The Blood Knight. As the white eyes takes note of who he is facig off against, The Time Walker slowly nods his head in approval.

“Yes…The Knight of Blood comes to meet me personally in the art of battle. This I will embark with nothing but pure enjoyment and curiosity to see how talented you are as a fighter.”

Daniel takes a deep breath, feeling the tremendous power coming from the man in front of him, “And I will take great enjoyment in knocking you the fuck out.”

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The two stand with pride and confidence after both extending their verbal challenges to one another. Daniel is not one to stray away from a fight or hold back as well. And with this guy giving Daniel the feeling he has in his stomach he knows there isn’t even a need to try and pull any of his punches. Underneath his mask, Dante smirks in anticipation to see how Daniel fights.

In one quick motion, Daniel swings his left arm forward as if he were a gunslinger that moves with near inhuman speeds to the point that his arm seems like a blur. While doing this, he clicks forward the rope dart that resides underneath the forearm protector and that launches the vibranium-titanium blade out like a bullet from a gun.

[3:59:11 PM] 61 Million Views: Just as Daniel sends out his hidden blade, so does Dante! With an almost perfect match of speed and reaction rime, Dante flexes his left arm forward and actually fires out a blade that was hidden underneath his forearm device. His weapon is a little different than Daniels because he uses an actual chain for the rope length instead of something like Daniel’s tephlon rope fiber. Both blades fire out and make contact with each other with a loud and sparking clank sound. The metal rings through the entire park as sparks fly about ten feet around.

The hidden blade quickly retracts back into Daniel’s forearm device while Dante recalls his own. The chain length wraps around his forearm and he actually catches the blade in his left hand with the blade facing outwards towards Daniel.

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Daniel’s eyes widen at the sight and realization that they both use the same forearm devices. He had never seen someone else use the hidden blade/rope dart weapon system before other than the men who trained him in that ancient weaponry style.

“You were trained by the assassins!?” He asks with a very surprised tone of voice.

Dante laughs softly to himself while standing straight up. “Actually…I trained them.”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kq0WCLCrIQ )

Daniel’s eyes widen even more now before  the expression of seriousness and determination comes back into control. Taking a forward movement on the fight, Dante actually begins to charge at Daniel and the super soldier instantly does the same.

The two come to meet each other in the middle and begin to just unload on each other with complete and utter master technique in hand to hand combat. For anyone who is standing by or able to actually see these two go at it would feel the sense of artwork being displayed by the two strong warriors. Arms fire with strength to be met with a slip or a slide to avoid contact while other attacks are met head on with an impact of a limb blocking another.

The two move so well that it would almost seem like the two are actually moving in a rhythm. Their motions are blurred after getting into this rhythm which only causes the strong impact of limb on limb contact to be heard from the loud pounding noise of their muscles and bones meeting each other. Daniel is somewhat surprised to see that his Vibranium armor isn’t even hurtin Dante physically as a stoppage. Most people hit the armor and have their hands broken but Dante had been completely different.

The first hit comes from Dante, landing a strong blow on Daniel’s inner left thigh that it causes his left leg to slide out a few feet. This is just enough for Dante to capitalize on and actually judo flip Daniel’s body over and launches him five feet forward to land on the ground with a loud clank from the metal.

Daniel being the talented fighter that he is uses this throw and with his forward momentum he spins around and thrusts his arms forward back towards Dante. While doing this, he throws out two explosive spheres from his utility belt. They move as fast as a bullet would because of his Super Soldier strength and Dante quickly raises his arms to take the brunt of the explosion. Because of his many years of chi mastery, he is able to take the brunt of the explosion while placing his chi into his arms so that he may not sustain massive injury from the blasts. His body is quickly covered in the explosive residue that allows Daniel to stand back up to his feet.

After the smoke clears, Dante’s body is revealed with his arms making an X in front of his face. His arms release some strands of smoke before lowering them back down. The two come to a standoff once more now as this had just been a small glimpse of their fighting talents.

“You have a plethora of raw talent that has been attempting to mold into the perfect fighter…But you lack the conviction to mold yourself into what needs to be done to become that perfect fighter.” Dante says, sounding more like a trainer than an enemy.

Daniel scoffs at the comment, “You haven’t put me down…So I don’t see how you can comment on what I need to FIX…”

Dante slowly shakes head towards Daniel. “Because I have not given a full effort…Come…Attempt to take me down again.”

Daniel feels a sudden change in Dante’s power. What he felt before seems so small in comparison to the tension and the feeling of the air thickening around him. Who is this guy? Daniel prepares himself for the fight of his life but is no way backing down because of this guys power either. Now things will get interesting.

The Vapor would’ve turned his head, hearing the notion of a clever quiver being made only to see one of the men he’d see on once upon a time in the records of the titan force. “The red headed one. He must’ve overheard my conversation…how. My senses are of the astral sense, I should’ve seen him coming. “ he turned back to the portal. “Even more of a reason to get rid of these pest.” The Vapor pulled his hands back before pushing them  forward again seemingly pushing more power into the portal and expanding its size! As the fight between Daniel and the time walker ensued, the portal would’ve began to form an image in it’s middle! The image would’ve showed what looked like a giant golden city! The city had tall towers, lingering buildings, skies as clear as they could be and….dragons? there were DRAGONS over head!

“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! It’s almost complete!”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxEacYE3hVg&index=6&list=PLYNBny7IRlVmskxt3PdZrxLE7GsiblKNG ) Vapor’s eyes widened as he looked to his left for a second. A shadow would’ve been forming in the distance of view. A body walking towards the scene. When it came more into light, the bright green and gold color scheme came into view. “You..who are you? You’re spiritual presence is…astounding.” Trevor would’ve flicked his nose with his thumb. “Who am I you ask? Why that’s an easy question to answer. I am the soul protector of the realms, the defender of lose spirits and the destroyer of evil. I am judge, jury, and executioner of the afterlife. I am the DRAGON MONK!” Trevor would’ve taken a fighting stance and as he did his body would’ve enveloped itself in a golden chi aura, fuming off of body, before it formed itself into a slim dragon hovering over his body like a silhouette.

“Here I come!” Trevor ran towards Vapor full speed, and leapt up at him, spinning his body in the air, and launching a flying roundhouse kick! The Vapor broke his concentration, the portal being completed enough to sustain on it’s own. Vapor took a few steps back only to begin levitating again holding his hands up into the air pointed outwards a bit  as they began go glow a deep purple glow. “This doesn’t concern you Dragon Monk!” Trevor’s glowing yellow fist and Vapor’s purple glowing fist met in the center and a white flash came of it! Trevor would’ve started throwing a machine gun chain of punches at Vapor only for him to throw up a black energy based wall! Each of Trevor’s fist impacting the wall as Vapor took a few steps back before thrusting his palm forward emitting a giant black energy wall in the shape of his hand! It hit Trevor dead on, sending him flying in a beeline before he trusted his upper body back and begun flipping off of his hands in repeated backflips!

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Trevor landed on the ground, before clapping his hands together and narrowing his eyes! A bright glowing orb emitting in the palm of his hands, before he shouted. “DRAGON WAVE!!!!” The Dragon Wave is a more wide spread and multi-tasking variation of the usual destructive dragon fist. Applying the principles of the archaic Push Blast the user can expel the dangerous energy off of his fist as a wave of multi chi based air pressure which host a yellow colored tint to it. While not as concentrated as its original and reducing its force to that of concussive, it does make for a great distance maker. Still applying to the one post charge and usage counter, it is good for clearing out large waves of demons, demonic spirits or human beings for that matter. It disperses as a solid wave and as a set radius of 8 feet from the user.

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The Vapor would’ve spread his hands and waved one arm clock wise and the other arm counter clock wise, forming a black vortex in front of him and absorbing Trevor’s energy inside of it! The golden wave as gone as quick as it came! Vapor then smiled before Trevor blinked for a moment. The black portal opened above his head, and looking up to see it, he’d have seen his own energy wave coming straight for him! Trevor whistled for a second only to leap to his right side, landing in a roll as his energy cracked the ground below! Making  a solid hole in the ground at least ten feet deep and as wide as an SUV! “Not bad, but I know what you’re doing pal! You can’t just go around her opening portals to worlds you have no business! Especially ones I care about!” Vapor floated in the air, 12 feet above the ground, a black smog emitting from his feet. “Time Walker come! The portal will cease to exist in less than two minutes!” Trevor darted towards Vapor! “Then I’ll stall you till then!” Trevor’s fist glowed yellow, as he leapt into the air taking swing after swing at Vapor, aiming to try and land a solid hit, but Vapor was playing the evasive flyer, and using his ectoplasm manipulation for pure defensive advantages! That’s when he made five clones begin to surround Trevor as he landed back down on to the ground! “Huh. Okay on second thought we don’t necessarily HAVE to uh. Stall. For time.” Trevor had a lame look on his face, simply looking at the scenario!  However the clones playing their parts as Decoy’s…allowed a cloaked Vapor to fade through the portal, waiting for his companion to come and do the same.

\*Time was against them! The void created a portal that would disappear in only two minutes! If Daniel was going to make a move to put down his foe he might want to do it soon. Trevor dealing with five clones of an already powerful enemy he had little knowledge on, was making the situation as bleak as it could get!\*

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Daniel quickly charges towards Dante and begins to try and give a strong offensive push after getting judo thrown. But what Daniel meets is not the same person he had been fighting before. Dante begins to slowly stand up with his right arm placed behind his back and only reacting to Daniel’s motions with his left hand. The Super Soldier uses all of his training and strength to try and make contact but every motion is stopped by Dante’s arm as if he were moving as slow as a snail. Each punch and kick thrown is blocked with such ease that it actually begins to piss Daniel off to no end.

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“You fight with rage behind each punch. This is why you are met with such a wasted offensive opportunity.”

Daniel’s eyes burn with fury from the time of the year and now being told that his years of training still render him useless in the eyes of someone like the man he is currently fighting. Daniel throws a strong right cross to only have it caught in the left hand of Dante with a tight squeeze. Daniel grits his teeth as both arms shake slightly from the amount of pressure that is built up between the two of them. Dante’s eyes stare at Daniel’s mask and Daniel can see the contempt behind those white eyes; he isn’t even trying.

“What the hell are you!?” Daniel asks.

Before a response is even heard, Daniel takes a strong kick to the chest that actually sends him flying back almost twenty feet! Daniel slides on the ground before flipping back up to his feet with his right hand on his chest. He can actually FEEL the pain in his chest from the kick to the point that he breathes a little heavier than normal.

“Jayleen…How the hell did he kick me AND HURT ME!? The Vibranium is supposed to be the Absolute Defense!?” His voice a little more concerned now as he looks out to see Dante still with his leg up as if he knew his kick would hit.

“I don’t know, Daniel!? The armor integrity says it is still up and completely normal!...I…I actually don’t know! AND I ALWAYS KNOW!” Jayleen actually freaks out a bit.

Dante begins to slowly walks forward while flexing out his fingers of his gloves. “I bet you are curious as to how your armor failed you, young warrior…Perhaps if you can best me in battle I will show you how to do the same.”

With the anger still flowing through him, Daniel goes back to trying to use his hand to hand combat to defeat Dante. But just like before, his fists and kicks are deflected with ease. At this point in the fight, The Dragon Monk makes his way onto the scene and this actually makes Daniel more impatient than he already is. This shows that there is more commotion that others are now coming to try and help stop the situation. His pride would hate to see someone come save him from losing this fight and that puts Daniel in a very dangerous spot. This is also why he continues to use hand to hand instead of other weapons. When losing, he will be stubborn and continue using what he already had been using just because he will not win by trying to gain advantage by use of weapon.

As Daniel thrusts a left straight punch, Dante slides to the right and clamps his left hand around Daniel’s forearm. “Pride. Ego. Rage. These are all traits that make you a sloppy fighter…You may seem talented in your time, but many warriors have come before you with such better talent because they not only used emotion but had CONTROL of them.”

At this point now, The Dragon Monk and Vapor were well going into their own fight with a much more destructive pattern with use of powers. This makes Dante scoff a bit at seeing powers being used in combat like that. Even though he has chi mastery and can utilize it in hundreds of different ways, he prefers the fights like the one he is having with Daniel. But as Vapor’s portal comes to be created, Dante understands that he must bring this fight to a close.

Just as he releases his hold of Daniel’s arm, Dante strikes with a flurry of blurring punches that hit Daniel hard! His right hand hits up into Daniel’s gut that sends all the air out of his lungs with such a powerful force that it lifts Daniel a few inches off of the ground. And with just as fast of a flurry, Dante’s left arm smashes against Daniel’s face to send the super soldier crashing into the ground. The vibranium metal plows into the concrete floor as he hits the ground with such an amazing force. Inside of the helmet, Daniel’s facial expression is anything but happy about being manhandled like this.

With his chest on the ground, Dante looks down to see his quick work of Daniel. The portal now open and Vapor making his way up calls for Dante to follow him. With a slow walk, Dante places his hands behind his back and makes his way towards the portal.

“You remind me of Achilles…He too was a stubborn fighter before I got to him…”

Daniel slowly begins to rise up to his feet with the feeling of broken ribs rubbing against the side of his lung. Blood drips from his mouth and Jayleen begins to try and get Daniel to focus.

“Danny! Danny! You have to get back into the fight! You can do this! They can’t escape into the portal!”

The prideful Super Soldier slowly makes his way over to the portal before looking to see The Dragon Monk. The HUD quickly analyzes the Chi signature and a pop up appears that the signature had already been analyzed before. Daniel’s eyes widen a bit as he wonders where the signature had been scanned before.

Jayleen reports back to him, “The Energy Signature matches the same Chi Signature you scanned when The Titan Force first attacked The Red Knights with the transport bus.”

He squints his eyes and begins to wonder how these energy signatures fit together in one big mystery puzzle. Hopefully by this time The Dragon Monk would have taken care of the five clones or at least done something to buy them some time to get some traction going.

With a strong yet blood filled voice he yells out to Dragon Monk, “You know we have to follow them into that portal right!?” And if he responded, they would probably both have the same idea about the portal.

## III

“WaCHAAAA!” Trevor threw a bullet side kick at the face of one of the Vapor cones, snapping his neck backwards! Clone had a feint yellow glow under it’s chin after this! One of them came from behind Trevor and put him in a sleeper hold! Trevor gritted his teeth for a second, realizing he could only really beat these spirits with Dragon Monk chi. As such he held his two hands out, bright yellow aura surrounding them before he channeled the energy to his elbows, and began rapid fire elbowing the vapor clone in the gut! “TATATATATATATA!” noises echoed as it finally let go, Trevor turning around with a burning yellow knife hand chop! Decapitating the clone and watching it disperse! Trevor turned his attention to the other two, running at them, before leaping up to grab one of them in a headlock, and while still in min air, lunging his legs out to grapple the other vapor clone with his legs, crossing and choking it with his calf’s around its neck! Trevor spun his body to the left, and as he did both of their heads would’ve flown off of their bodies, while their physical forms began to disperse! Trevor stood up, only to cross his arms! One of the vapor clones coming from behind would’ve been met with a FIERCE backhand from Trevor without even so much as turning around to look at it. The Vapor clone dispersed and disappeared. “Then there was one.” Trevor began to roll his shoulder a bit, as he walked towards it. “You’re to late!” Vapor made notion of Time Walker going through the portal. “We’ll have what we want and you can’t stop us! This has nothing to do with you Dragon Monk BEGONE! BEFORE I AM FORCED TO TAKE YOUR PITIFUL LI-“ Trevor would’ve suddenly darted from his spot! His body glowing a bright yellow before he reappeared behind Vapor, holding his weed vaporizer in his hand, taking a hit before exhaling. “Take a hike.” Trevor lashed his hand out, covered in Chi, slashing the clone in half and watching it disappear as he took one more hit.

“You know we have to follow them into that portal right!?” Trevor looked back. He didn’t much pay notice to the other guy there until he recognized the outfit. “Well damn it’s Daniel. How’d I figure he’d be here.” Trevor cursed under his breathe. “Shit…he just fought one of the guys through the portal. He’ll feel entitled to go. I’m breaking every single rule of my job description by letting a mortal pass through a dimensional barrier….” Trevor paused for a moment to take a hit from his Vaporizer, putting it back in his satchel. “Zero fucks given.” He’d look over to Daniel and point. “You’ve already seen what you weren’t supposed to at this time.” He deepened his voice just a bit, fear of being exposed you could say. “You are a warrior who is truly a cut above the rest. Should you wish to exact vengeance on the man that bested you I will allow you to travel with me. Fair warning. You will experience feelings and pressures beyond your mental comprehension. The only thing you will be able to do is cope with the reality that what you’re about to see is completely real. Are you ready?” Trevor would ask, tilting his head up a bit.

If Daniel agreed which by the anger in his voice he sounded like he would Trevor looked to the portal. “Come then! A new adventure awaits!...Ah jeez. Damn.” Trevor’s voice got normal for a moment. “I totally left that bitch at my apartment…fuck. I hope she don’t find my stash…or my spare costumes…or knives…damn. This is really shitty. You know on second though I might have to make a run back to the um. Crib.” Trevor shook his head. “No, no no no no it’ll be fine come on!” The portal fluxuated a bit before Trevor and Daniel would’ve made the jump!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J\_5XYkZFbec ) \*As their bodies began to fall into the portal itself, they would’ve passed what looked like an incredibly long stretched out tunnel. The color’s surrounding them blended together in a harmonic mesh of warm and cool colors. They’d look so far away but FEEL so close and if Daniel reached out he’d even be able to glide his hand across the warm stream of liquid like material. Had he asked what this was, Trevor would’ve given a simple answer. “This? This is the subspace between worlds. I know you’ve heard of the multiverse theory at least once or twice. We’re in the in-between. The “Limbo” Some humans call it. Every time you dimension hop, this is what you get.” Trevor would’ve straightened up a bit, as they passed through. There was a white light forming at the end. “This portal took hella time to create…so I know for a fact it’s gotta be in a pretty centralized area of Dragon Kang. Don’t worry I’ll tell you more about the place when we get there.” The white light began to get bigger and brighter, and BIGGER and BRIGHTER! “Brace for impact cause this is the best PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRT!!!!!!!!!!!”

The two of them would’ve felt like they’d been sucked down a giant drain! Their images swirling and colliding with one another until they both would’ve seen only a blackness.  That’s when they’d both open there eyes! Trevor on the golden brick ground knealt down with his right knee to the ground and his left knee to his chest and his hands on the ground as well! Trevor would look for Daniel to make sure he was okay “You good bro?!” Daniel was a tough guy so weather he fell on his face or not wouldn’t have been the problem. What WOULD’VE been the problem is that Daniel would’ve been expericing a HUGE physical fluxuation! His senses would’ve been superhuman, each of them going in and out! His vision zooming in and out, his hearing picking up conversations left and right, the ground he lay on would feel even more uncomfortable than regular cement. His sense of smell would’ve guided him to a food stand 10 miles out, and he could litearlly taste every individual spice the food had been labled with. Trevor would’ve stood up with his hand on his hip, and his vaporizer in his hand. “Take a moment to focus on my voice. Take your time and get adjusted to the air here. You’re going to feel better and worse than you’ve ever felt. It’s okay if it takes a few hours. Hits some people harder than others, you know?” Trevor stood there, folding his arms now, with his eyes closed trying to focus his chi sensory…trying to pick up on  Vapor’s energy signature but it was hidden and so was the other one. “Hmmm..”

“You are a warrior who is truly a cut above the rest. Should you wish to exact vengeance on the man that bested you I will allow you to travel with me. Fair warning. You will experience feelings and pressures beyond your mental comprehension. The only thing you will be able to do is cope with the reality that what you’re about to see is completely real. Are you ready?”

As the Dragon Monk talks, Daniel can’t help but wonder why the guy is talking like some 1930’s superhero with the vocabulary and tone. His answer doesn’t come in the form of words but rather his actions. Running towards the portal, pushing his body through the pain, he stumbles on one of his steps when he hears the slip up from Dragon Monk. The sound of his voice, it had been heard and now the pieces come together to build the entire puzzle for him. Daniel couldn’t think about it further at the moment because of their race against the portal clock so they jump in together at the same time.

Once inside of the black void tunnel of realm jumping, Daniel can feel a sensation unlike anything he had ever felt before. He looks around at all of the colors and his thoughts quickly begin to fade, getting lost in the trippy form of the place. Daniel asks what this place is and he is quickly given an answer from The Dragon Monk. After given the brief description of this place called “limbo” Daniel tries to focus back on the fact that he thinks he knows who this Dragon Monk is.

Using his HUD he cross references the two scans that he has of the chi signature and even begins to break down the voice that he is using now. Jayleen works to see if there are any conjunctions between the chi signatures while also toying with the voice to see if there is any match between the deepened voice he uses with a voice the helmet had already heard before. And sure enough, there is a match. Daniel’s eyes widen a bit just before Dragon Kang yells about this being the best part while he comes to realize who this vigilante is.

The two bodies come together like the water through a drain and Daniel quickly appears on the otherside with Dragon Monk. Because he is not used to the atmospheric change, he lands on his right knee with his right hand pressed down on the floor in front of him. His head is practically rolling out of control as his vision is blurred and shaky from the adaptations. Daniel’s helmet retracts with the secondary fashion, folding over like metal legos before folding into the chest portion of his armor. This reveals Daniel’s natural face as he struggles to get some air.

His eyes keep moving in and out like a zooming in and out effect while his ears are pounded with the sounds of hundreds of peoples voices all across the area. His nose sniffs and takes in so much of the area that he can smell things that haven’t even been in the area for a good amount of time. He can smell food that had been made weeks ago that leave small traces of it in the air. His tongue can actually taste the food being cooked now at local food stands miles out just by the aroma it releases.

“Take a moment to focus on my voice. Take your time and get adjusted to the air here. You’re going to feel better and worse than you’ve ever felt. It’s okay if it takes a few hours. Hits some people harder than others, you know?”

He tries to focus in on Dragon Monks voice but it is heavily hidden because of the other voices he is hearing. Similar to training when you get into a combat situation, Daniel actually tries to focus on a moment in history that is like a catalyst for him to return from “the black.” Focusing his breathing as well, Daniel begins to slowly fixate himself to get to an at least bearable level of comfortability.

It takes him a few minutes but he is able to look up at Dragon Monk with his breathing still slightly heavier than normal. His hazel-green eyes stare up at the bright yellow mask that he wears and then takes in the area of where they are at. Daniel rests on his knees now looking at the city as if he is lost in a dream somehow. His strands of white hair flow over his forehead as thousands of questions pass through his mind. But one thing comes clearer than anything else.

Daniel turns to Dragon Monk and points his left index finger at him, “Please…Stop talking like that…” And if Dragon Monk got confused about why Daniel says that, he would realize it soon enough with his next statement. “I know its you…” Daniel slowly struggles to get back up onto his feet while still keeping his eyes on Dragon Monk. “There isn’t any backup to go get now in this realm is there? Aye Trevor?” Daniel gives him a small smirk, still wondering if his prediction is right though he feels pretty confident in it. Now Daniel would wait to see how Trevor responds to being made and where they go from here.

“Please…Stop talking like that…” Trevor opened one eye, taking a hit from the Vaporizer and looking at Daniel in an odd mannor, confused almost. “Hm?” “I know its you…”  Trevor pulls the Vaporizer from his lips and his cheeks puff out as he looks around like a little boy caught masturbating by his parent’s for the first time. “There isn’t any backup to go get now in this realm is there? Aye Trevor?” Trevor stars violently coughing his lungs up! Puffs of odorless smoke leaving his mouth as he leaned over and coughed violently. He beat on his own chest for a second before shaking his head. “Ah. Shit.” Trevor pulled the yellow mask off of his head and shook his hair a loose scratching the top of it and laughing. “Oi fine fine. You’ve got me. Just uh…keep this from the guys yeah? It’ll blow my cover if they figure out I’m. you know. Useful.” Trevor took the bandana, but instead of putting it back around his head he wrapped it around his forehead instead. Trevor blinked for a second. “Whoa. You’re….talking. it hasn’t even been five minutes. Man I  don’t know your background, but you must have some overpowered ass mastery over your mind. That’s good, HA that’s something you need in places like these.” Trevor stood in front of Daniel with an extended handshake. “Guess since the jig is up, I’ll introduce myself. Names Trevor Lockhart. Only child from Dragon Kang, and I’m a Dragon Monk. Protector of blah blah blah, and all that other speech they teach me to say when I tell people this stuff. I use chi and hit hard. And know kung fu.” Trevor did a derpy Karate chop to the air. “Hiya. There. “ Trevor would’ve looked around as they were atop one of the corner platforms at first but upon landing, Trevor would’ve took  a huge whiff of the air around him and exhaled it smiling.

“Feels like it’s been forever since I’ve been here. It’s nostalgic for me. Give me a moment.”

After taking a moment to himself he’d nod. “’Alright.” He claps his hands together and keeps talking. “They’ve hidden their signatures of energy so I can’t out right track them.  We got here because of their portal…why Vapor chose this area to come to kind of bugs me because this is my home town…I feel like that’s not a coincidence. This is eastern Dragon Kang, city of Xhang Hua. Known for the best mushu pork around and steamed teriyaki chicken. It’s also where my….parents. might be.” Trevor rubbed the back of his head a bit furious all be it. “Anyway I came pretty late so I didn’t get to hear the full story of why they’re even here. Before we make a move I need clues as to what they were talking about. What they wanted from this place. It looks peaceful too butt there are aloooot of-“

Trevor’s head turned as he watched an attractive red headed woman walk by casually. He stuck his tongue out a couple of times to lick his lips, as he swallowed hard and panted slightly. “Erm. A lot of areas here have dangerous things that should nooooooot be shared with outsiders for any reason what so ever.” Trevor would’ve started walking and if Daniel tagged along they’d be traversing the city streets by foot. Festive and Asian culture people walking by and being carried in horse carriages. Stands offering food, and martial arts temples abroad. Even further out you could see green pastures and large bodies of water that pass through the town at some points. There was a high tower of a giant phoenix statue standing tall over the city to represent what direction it was in. any questions needed about the area should be asked in the here and the now.

“Don’t worry about it, Bud.” Daniel replies about keeping Trevor’s identity a secret. “Just remember. If I could figure it out, that means someone else could too.” Just a thought Daniel hopes Trevor puts into his mind about the use of a secret identity.

Trevor compliments him on being able to talk but what Trevor can’t see is that it is taking everything Daniel has just to keep himself from toppling over. It is true that he has had years of heavy duty training in all forms of control to the point that they even trained him to block out mental attacks from telepaths, but this had been on a whole different scale. His focus needs to be pinpoint on so much at one time that Daniel can feel his head about to pop from it all. But on the outside it does look like Daniel is managing rather well with the change.

Daniel shakes his hand, coming to actually meet the Real Trevor and not the “im going for backup and disappear Trevor” he and the other knights have been seeing lately. Once he gives his introduction, Daniel smirks a bit and begins to see Trevor as a more easygoing carefree type of guy.

“The names Daniel Handler. My boys back in The Corps used to call me, Red. I guess you can do the same too if ya want. I hit stuff without Chi. But this Super Soldier Serum makes up for whatever magic you guys get from using chi.” Trevor had already seen how Daniel’s arsenal of fighting styles during the time with The Red Knights so there would be no need for Daniel to explain his power set beyond admitting that he is indeed a Super Soldier.

Once the introductions came to pass, the two begin to explore Dragon Kang. Daniel focuses his mind on merely walking straight and listening to Trevor talk a little about the men they are chasing and then a little bit about himself as well. The conversation comes to a slow halt when Trevor sees a red head walking by looking like a drop dead gorgeous model. Daniel raises his eyebrow while getting a cocky smirk on his face.

“I could definitely get used to this place for a bit if you guys have girls who look like that walking around.” Daniel says in a cocky manwhore kind of tone.

Their walking continues and Daniel begins to take advantage of that time to explain what the men were talking about in the bar.

“Well the guy you fought, Starfox looking guy, he spoke to the guy I fought about using his portals to jump into the Dragon Kang and steal a weapon that would be strong enough to wipe out all of The Red Knights. This conversation about realities, dimensions and realm hopping was really all new to me so I couldn’t really make much sense of it all. You know how I do things, I pull a trigger behind a high tech gun and call it a day most nights. So having these guys talk about playing with the multiverse really was above my paygrade. I might not have even followed or took them seriously if they hadn’t mentioned our team. And now I am glad I did. So far that portal hopper has been right with his plan. There is a weapon in Dragon Kang that those two are looking for and if they get their hands on it…It doesn’t look to good for you or me. If we are being honest here…I wasn’t going to win my fight.” That takes a lot of pride for him to say. “So if they can already do what we saw…The last thing we need is for them to get a weapon that is strong enough to take us ALL out at ONCE.” Daniel makes sure to look around and take in the appearance of the place, enjoying the view for what it’s worth; even if he isn’t even supposed to be here. “So I guess this is where you would really come in as the subject matter expert here, Trev. Are there any weapons in Dragon Kang that could have this type of effect? Or do you know anyone who could give us a clue as to what weapon they might be talking about?”

Daniel is a talented detective just as much as he is a fighter, but it is clear as water that he is beyond out of his realm here in Dragon Kang. With all of the culture shock going along with the senses shock, he is clueless to what this place is about historically. Trevor would have to come up in the clutch here with some form of knowledge for them to use.

“There is a weapon in Dragon Kang that those two are looking for and if they get their hands on it…It doesn’t look to good for you or me. If we are being honest here…I wasn’t going to win my fight.” Trevor was about to make a funny retort about just how many weapons were hear but hearing how he wasn’t going to win his fight…he could hear the dispaointment in his voice. It was advent and Trevor knew the feeling all to well. In his two hundered years of living he has faced many tirals, errors, and utter disappointment in things he was not strong enough to handle. Daniel had that air about him though.  A certain air that would probably become the deciding factor between how good he is and how good he could be.  “So I guess this is where you would really come in as the subject matter expert here, Trev. Are there any weapons in Dragon Kang that could have this type of effect? Or do you know anyone who could give us a clue as to what weapon they might be talking about?”

Trevor folded his arms and rubbed his chin as they were walking but he stopped them in the middle of the street. “Hmm. A weapon like that isn’t hard to find in this realm. Not at all. Hell the Xiaofangs around here collect all the treasures in the world I’m sure they wouldn’t have a problem t-THAT’S IT! I know just the guy to go to! For all intents and purposes this motherfucker knows EVERYTHING! Or ya know KNOW’S someone who knows everything. Just don’t look him in the eyes he’s kind of errie.” Trevor would’ve been looking around and started waving down a carridge rider. “hey can you take use to the Xiaofang estate?” “The What?” “The Xiaofang castle.’ “Oh. That’s on the west side kid but I guess I don’t mind if I go fast.”  “Sure let’s do that.” Trevor would’ve hopped inside of the back of the cart, and the two of them would’ve been riding along.

As the ride progressed Trevor would’ve started another conversation. “You know I can’t help but wonder like.  And hear me out. But : are women REALLY stupid OR, are men just the superior race? Cause I mean let’s be honest here, women do some over emotional shit you know what I’m saying? And men we don’t even think like that you know?” Trevor took another hit from his vape and blew smoke from his nose. “I mean REALLY! I don’t care if you’re on your period! Put a towel down and let me dive in with my red wings you feel me??” Trevor shook his head, looking out across the field. “Hm. Memories.” Trevor got lost in the face for a minute as he looked out onto the fields he used to play on as a child in training for the Dragon Monk trials. His parents were against the idea every single step of the way but he never let it get him down. Not even for an instant. After a brief day dream Trevor would’ve peaked out the side and saw it! “Ahhh here we are.” He sniffed the air. “Smells like they’re having a BBQ. They do this kind of thing like every other day.” When the carriage stopped, Trevor would’ve hopped out and paid the man who brought them here. Walking them down the long golden brick walk way to the palace doors which…were big. REALLY fucking big. Big enough to fit a dragon? Big enough to fit a dragon indeed.  Trevor would’ve cracked his fingers and held his hand over the door, getting ready to knock somewhat. That’s when he’d lightly knock on the door. Like a bitch knock, not even a demanding one. “I know it’s quiet but trust me it has purpose. Might be waiting for a while, just gonna be honest. In the mean time, you smell like booze dude. That super stuff your on actually LET you get intoxicated?” Trevor would’ve waited for an answer or a reply.

Daniel listens to Trevor when he brings up the Xiaofang. Even though he had never heard of that family, he can feel something in the back of his mind like that is the correct answer. Out of all the things Trevor could have said, the Xiaofang had a different kind of ring to it. Daniel lets Trevor do what he must to get them a carriage and their ride begins.

While inside of the carriage Trevor brings up women as a conversation and hearing him talk brings Daniel to laugh hysterically. Daniel has similar views about men and women; he does like to think that men are the superior race.

“Women are always going to be overly emotional creatures. Even when they say they just want sex or to ‘have fun’ it always ends up the same. I personally, use women for sex…That’s all I need them for. But it’s usually a struggle in telling these girls that they need to stop getting so damn clingy.”

The conversation comes to a little break after talking about women when Trevor begins to look out towards the fields. Daniel raises a brow, wondering what kind of person Trevor is. This had been a whole new world for him to see and learn about, so he feels kind of intrigued to learn about it himself. Daniel opens his mouth to ask a question but something else grabs his attention. Like a slight whisper in the back of his head, he looks to his own window and feels like he is getting called into the direction that they move in.

“You’re getting closer…” a mysterious voice appearing in his head.

Daniel shakes his head a bit, just thinking it is his sensory system just being out of whack and hearing the conversations of other people. It takes them a little bit of time but Trevor lets Daniel know that they have arrived where they need to be. Daniel smells the BBQ as well and begins to make his way out of the carriage. They walk across the long golden brick way like Wizard of Oz and get to two very large doors. Daniel looks up and wonders about what the hell they could use this door for but his thoughts are quickly stopped when Trevor knocks with such a weak tap that Daniel raises a brow at him with a blank expression. Got these big ass doors and Trevor knocks low enough to where it takes his new hearing to have to hear that kind of knock. Trevor then makes note of the alcohol smell that is coming off of Daniel. Because of his newly appointed senses Daniel takes a sniff and can smell every shot he had taken in the last week from the jacket.

Daniel looks towards the doors, “not exactly no…It’s next to impossible for me to actually get drunk…” Daniel then points to his head and continues speaking. “But when you have the thoughts and memories that I do…It doesn’t hurt to try and drown them out with something…anything really…”

His words very dark but very true in the case of many military veterans who go through things like what he went through. If Trevor had more questions on the subject, Daniel wouldn’t really object to answering them unless they struck a nerve on some of his more sensitive topics. While standing here though, the voice he heard before is still echoing through his mind.

“You’re almost there…”

Daniel looks around a bit, as if he were trying to see if anyone was near them. This might attract Trevor’s attention as well, making it seem like Daniel is confused on something or if something is bothering him. With a question reaction, Daniel looks to Trevor and asks a question.

“You hearing that?” Daniel looks back towards the fields, wondering if someone is messing with him. “Sounds like someone is trying to lead me somewhere…its fucking weird. Is that a side effect to being new here or something?” He asks hoping that Trevor may have some answers for him to make him feel better about voices in his head.

IV
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“Hmmm. The consequences of war. Never easy.” Trevor said aloud waiting for someone to come to the door soon. Trevor heard something else as well to, Daniel asking him if he’d heard some kind of voice or something like that. “Being lead?......wait.” Trevor turned to point to Daniel. “If there’s something calling to you…that means the weapon you might be drawing towards…and the weapon they might be looking for-“ The doors swung open, as a tall red headed man had pulled them open. He looked like Hercules on roids, and had a blank expression on his face. A dull look. He had on golden armor plates on his upper torso, covered by a white toga like clothe, that came down to the tops of his knees. “Arivindr.” Trevor looked up and waved. “Xandu Muafuckin Xiaofang! How the hell have you been!”

Xandu is VERY muscular. Being from foreign realm as a whole, and conditioned from birth to be warrior it shows very much so in his body type. He is quite tall, but wears a lot of loose or rather revealing wears, or will throw caution to the wind and discard shirts by any means. He is very free, meaning his appearance matches this, not one for fancy clothes, and quick to wear rags over stylish duds. He has a stare to him, which when angered, and convert to a glare very quickly. A handsome young red headed male, with a piercing below his lip, and a fierce facial expression at all times. He is lax, seemingly unaware, but non the less lax at all times. “Trevor, it’s been a while. No, my sisters aren’t here and none of them want to do anything with you.“ Trevor. “It’s not about that this time. If anything I’m here for you big guy. I need some help. Looking for that weapon you just mentioned.” “The Arvinder? What about it.” Trevor points. “Well you know that weapon usually calls to it’s user when he’s near? The destined one that it feels need to be wielded by? Yeah that one. I think this guy is the one. I think he’s…” He waved his hands around in the air. “The Chosen One.” Xandu blinked twice. He said nothing as he simply stared at Trevor. Xandu offered his hand out to Daniel completely ignoring Trevor. “It is nice to meet you. What is your name?” If he presented his name Xandu would’ve kept his arms folded. “Daniel it’s nice to meet you. If you are the one the sword calls for then I shall take you there. “ Xandu stepped from the doors. “My father recently discovered the artifact itself at it’s temple located on the outskirt plains fairly far from here. He tried to take it but it wouldn’t budge from it’s position. It’s a predestined selection.”

Trevor would’ve started to follow behind Xanu down an alternate path they would’ve been taking through the forest. “Follow me through this path. It’s about 50 miles out so we’ll kill that time. You jump high and fast right?” waiting for him to answer Xanu would’ve leapt up high to a 50 foot tree and perched on the branch! “Come. If it’s you, then we need to get you there. It usually calls to two people not just one…” this probably would’ve stricken something within Daniel as he’d realize that the other warrior he fought might’ve been destined for the same blade as well. “Well let’s get to it. You’ll get used to the feeling as it goes I’m sure.” Trevor would’ve leapt up in the air as well flipping forward landing on the same branch and proceeding to hop forward! Form branch to branch, if Daniel managed to keep with the crowd the three of them would’ve been hoping through the branches muliplte times, propelling themselves forward and following behind Xandu. More than likely by this point Daniel would’ve questioned just what this blade was and if he did Xandu would’ve given a brief explanation of the blade itself.

“The Arvindr is a mystical blade that originated from The Dragon Kang. The origin of the blade itself if unknown by the Dragoons themselves. Throughout history, the Dragoons have nicknamed the blade “The Dragons Tooth” because of its large beast like appearance. But what they did not know is that the blade had taken the form of what the people around it wanted it to look like. Throughout the many years The Arvindr has been changing its appearance to fit the personality of the people it surrounds.  This is due to one of the traits that the blade actually has. The blade is its own form of “Sentient” being. Almost like a living weapon, it reacts to the wielder’s personality. But because thousands of years have passed without the weapon being wielded, the blade had been forced to adjust solely because of the Dragoons that live around The Dragon Kang City. This blade was very valuable to the family but there’s no way we’ll be able to get it. If you can it will become your greatest strength, there is little might in this realm or the next that you won’t be put on par with.” Trevor back flipped over another branch and laughed aloud a bit. “That shit sounds sexy. I wish I was destined for this kind of stuff. ‘ “You are Trevor, but make no mistake.  You are a Dragon Monk. Not a dragon.” Trevor folded his arms and puffed his cheeks out. “I’ve beat Dragons before…once.”

The Trio would’ve been hoping through the forest, almost at their destination. It wasn’t too far away but they would be a bit behind. By this time…Vapor and Time Walker would’ve been walking in front of the temple currently where the blade is located. “We’re so close……Come. I sense other presences coming this way and this isn’t what we need at the moment. “

When Xandu comes to greet the two of them, even Daniel has to look up in awe at the sheer size that this guy is. Bright red hair covers his head and his physical appearance makes “gods” on Earth seem small. When he reaches his hand out to shake Daniel’s hand, the Super Soldier shakes it with a respectful nod.

“Daniel.” Is his quick response with a confident tone, not seeming to pull back his personality because of this guy’s size.

Once the introductions were made, Daniel follows the other two towards an alternate pathway. Xandu explains that the blade is fifty miles away so they would need to be quick about their movements. He watches the red head and Trevor both jump into these tall trees and Daniel simply looks up at them confused because he is just a Super Soldier. But then he remembers that Trevor mentioned that in this realm, his physiology is much different; stronger even. So Daniel leaps into the air with his sights on one of the branches and he unsteadily lands on it.

“Shit. Shit. Shit” he says to himself as he quickly leaps onto another branch and lands much smoother than the first time.

After being on level with them in height, the two begin to hop their way through the trees like monkeys enjoying their day. The curiosity of the blade fills his mind now, wondering who the other person who attracts to the blade is. He instantly sees the image of The Time Walker and how much of a power difference was already between them. If it is The Time Walker who is seeking out the blade, Daniel can only imagine how much stronger he can become. With the wonder of power on his mind, Daniel looks out to Xandu.

“So what is so special about this blade? Why is it so protected and whatnot?” Daniel asks.

Daniel listens to Xandu’s response to the question and though he likes the idea of being the wielder of a blade like that, his reaction is not as happy as Trevor’s. Daniel had spent his whole life training and becoming a Super Soldier. He already thought he had reached the peak of his own personal power, hearing that he might be able to wield THIS kind of power actually makes him kind of nervous.

As they arrive at the temple, both Vaper and Time Walker are seen making their way towards the entrance of the temple. Daniel’s teeth grind with anger at the sight of Time Walker because of the fight earlier on Earth. Daniel quickly takes off and makes his way to the temple as fast as he could. He blurs passed Xandu and Trevor, letting the anger take control. When he gets to the last branch, he leaps into the air and flips over and over in the air to land on his feet twenty feet behind Time Walker and Vaper.

“Hey! This isn’t your realm…And it is time for you both to go back to Earth!” Daniel yells out to confront them.

Time Walker looks behind him with a raised brow to see Daniel so up and active after taking a beating from him. “Keep them busy…” He says to Vaper and then turns to walk inside of the temple.

At this point, Xandu and Trevor would be able to join in as Vaper begins to make a blockade around the entrance of the temple. It is a three on one situation, but Daniel is more focused on finding a small opening to get himself inside of the temple before The Time Keeper can get the blade.

Trevor and Xandu would’ve been casually tree hoping as the explanation was givien. Trevor couild see that the explanation hit Daniel a certain way. A person who wasn’t used to this kind of lifestyle, would be a bit baffled by it all but he seemed to be handling it well. “I can’t help but wonder what kind of traumatic events he went through to keep focus like that. It’s impressive. Dare I say I wish I had that kind of resolve when-“ Trevor was about to narrate himself through a thought until Daniel shot himself forward! More than likely he saw the presences Trevor would’ve been sensing. “Their here!” “Who?” Xandu questioned. Trevor and Xandu landed on the ground in a squat as they were greeted by the Vapor! The purple stained ghostly figure floated there in the air and as he did, his hands extended as they did last time but this time as they did, the ground would’ve started to rumble beneath the trio’s feet! “You fools! Dragon Monk actually brought along the human soldier. You must’ve not informed him that somewhere like here, my power spans…boundaries above what it could on earth.”

As Vapor said this, 5 energy beams of black and purple lightning would’ve spanned around his body! Each one of them shooting straight into the sky as the amount of ectoplasim became completely visible for all of them to see! As this happened, the beams would’ve then calmed down a bit, forming into orbs before they then started to shape and mold into what would’ve been thought to be a human, but they reshaped themselves into purple four armed gorliias! Each one of these things had four eyes to go along with the set, presented! They had long scruffy black beards and each of them roared with a fierce dominance about them! The vapor stood atop of one of their backs, propping his foot up on the top of it’s head, and leaning forward on it, with a somber look on his face. “As I’ve said before. I’ve completely mastered the aspects of the supernatural.  My body is not of the mortal plane and though you might have the ability to kill me, here I am invincible.”

Trevor stared at him wide eyed for a second, before reaching behind him and pulling out his weed vaporizer. Trevor would’ve squinted his eyes a bit taking  a hit before blowing out the odorless smoke from his lips. “Bad guys like you are the ones I hate. You don’t think outside the xbox.” Trevor put his pipe back in his sash. “Let me do the math for you. Number one. “ Trevor held up one finger and as he did Xandu would’ve folded his arms, turning around and walking towards a tree , sitting down infront of it to watch the spectacle. “I’m a dragon monk.” Trevor continued. “I traverse the realms, and fight things a lot more intimidating than four armed primates. I mean look at this shit. Daniel bro.” Trevor would’ve waltzed over to him, putting an arm over his shoulders and pointing at them. “Look at this unoriginality right here. All he did was re-create his ugly ass family. You got mama, daddy, aunti AND uncle.” Trevor laughed a bit as Vapor kept a stale face as he squinted his eyes.

Xandu spoke. “That was funny.” His face handn’t changed since the moment he opened that door.

“Two” Trevor held up two fingers. “The Only Dragon Monk stronger than me is the one before me. Xiao Lee. Do you know why?” Trevor would’ve unzipped the upper part of his outfit, letting it hang from the waist down like a jacket. As he did this, he put the bandanna back around his whole head this time. “On earth, in Kasaihana City, the atmosphere for as clean as it was, had a third world war. During that world war radiation condensed in the area, to give birth to what’s known as an Omega Gene.” Vapor stood up straight now, his hands by his sides, balling into fist. “I’m…not following you.” He replied. “Well let me finish. Years ago, a group of warrirors came here from Kasaihana City and discovered the “Omega Effect.” When your body inhibits this gene, it allows people like me and you to have the abilities we do in that world. Heh heh. The kicker is. You’re not the only one who gains a strength boots.” The air around Trevor began to get thick and heavy. “I’ve spent  years on earth, meditating every day, making sure my body’s omega gene was fully metabolized into my being. That way whenever I come back here I can CUT THE HELL LOOSE BABYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!” As Trevor yelled out a bright golden aura with streaks of red began to engulf his being as a whole! The pillar shot up into the sky  and Trevor’s body would’ve only shown an outline as if his entire body had been colored yellow itself! “You thought I was powerful before?!? Get a load of what the hell you’ve got coming emo boy!!!!” Trevor would’ve folded his arms only to unfold them and with a flash of gold his chi would’ve streamed off of his body into 20 separate copies of himself! Each one of them with a golden shilouette of Dragon Chi around their bodies! “Daniel! I’m gonna make an opening! Stop him from getting that sword and I’ll be in there to join you!” Trevor and his clones would’ve all squatted down like oplympic runners. “I’m not even sweating Monk.” Vapor held his hands out and the gorillas got down like football players at the start of a play!

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!” Trevor yelled out as his voice had echoed through the area and the clones disappeared into small golden streaks! Himself included they moved like bullets towards the four gorillas, and with 5 to each Gorillia they all would’ve landed simultaneous punches to their bodies! The gorilla’s howled in pain and it became an all out brawl! The Trevor clones, dodging, punching, kicking, and begin swatted away by the beast themselves! Vapor’s masterful control over ectoplasm giving him the ability to multitask these fights with a relevant ease! One of the clones would’ve been knocked in Daniel’s direction, but with a quick backflip, it would’ve landed on the ground beside him instead, squatting on the ground on all fours like a predator! “Cut through now! Match my speed and run behind me!” Trevor’s fingers would’ve begun to glow gold, as he’d run like an animal towards one of the Gorilla’s manhandling one of the trevor clones and as he did, his body blurred for a moment before he spun aound, letting out 8 slashes towards the gorilla’s torso! Each finger literally dug through the fleshy meat of it’s energy based opponent! The Gorilla howled violently before one of the Trevor’s yelled “FUCK UP BITCH!!” and uppercutted it in the chin! Daniel would’ve had the perfect hole to travel through at this point unless he waited to do so at some other time!

\*Daniel would be best to make haste as by this time, the Time Walker would’ve been in the final hallway to the prize at the center of a stone ballroom. In the center there was a pedestal that was illuminated by a single light. The Blade that called to the two warriors. Which one of them would be the chosen recipient?????\*

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Vaper tries to dis play his dominance over the three of them but it is clear as day that Xandu and Trevor are just not having any of it. When Trevor begins to talk, Daniel looks over to Xandu in wonder as to why he just sits down instead of giving aid. But then it all adds up when Trevor begins to power up. Daniel’s eyes widen in shock to see the bright golden aura appear around him and the twenty copies that soon come after. The explanation of the Omega Gene makes him wonder what it is he could do as well. He knows he has no powers but does this makes him wonder how much his Super Soldier traits have increased.

Following Trevor’s lead, Daniel begins to make a run for the temple door with all of the fighting going on around him. The gorillas strike the golden copies and Trevor gives it his all to unleash dragon hell on Vaper. Daniel slides to his left and right like a wide receiver trying to juke through the defense to get into the endzone. Pretty soon, one of the copies comes flying towards him in the form of a backflip to let him know that there will be a hole opening up for him to run through. And just like the receiver running behind his blocker, Daniel goes off into a sprint to keep himself behind Trevor.

It takes everything he has to keep control of his senses as he pushes his body to keep up with the golden blur that Trevor is. He isn’t like the Dragon Monk with years of training in mastering his Omega Gene like this. Best believe now that he knows that there are things like this, he would do further research on the subject just because he hates not being knowledgeable in subjects. With his eyes surveying the area he sees the copy make the perfect opening and Daniel takes off like a bullet from a gun. Dirt and sand lift into the air when his feet come off of the ground as he makes his way into the entry point of the temple.

Once inside of the temple The Time Walker barely has time to turn around to see Daniel charging in and landing a huge shoulder smash into the older male! The Time Walker flies back into the wall of the temple with a loud crash before coming down to the ground on one knee. The Arvindr Blade glows and floats in the middle of the temple for one of them to receive.

“I showed mercy before in granting you a second chance at life to better yourself to one day attempt to defeat me in battle.” Dante slowly begins to stand back up on his feet with his white eyes glowing bright in this realm. “And yet here you are wasting my gift by trying to fight me again without so much as an attempt at betting yourself.”

Daniel slowly shakes his head while pointing towards the blade in the center of the room. “I didn’t come here for you…I came for my blade…”

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The two once again change at each other and the limbs begin to fire out masterfully placed attacks. This time though, Daniel begins to show a slight upper hand over The Time Walker. Using his brain he understands that his physiology is different. And he is channeling the increase to come to his fighting here in this moment. Daniel is able to actually land a hit on The Time Walker with a strong left hook. His hand smashes into the yellow mask hard enough that it knocked him off balance for a moment.

Daniel tries to strike twice with a strong right kick to the face but Dante lifts his left arm up to take the force of the blow. Getting some licks in of his own, Dante thrusts his right hand forward to smash his fist into the center of The Super Soldiers mask. The two of them begin to just trade blows one after the other on each other. With a thrust of his left leg to Dante’s chest, the Time Walker simply catches the military boot with ease. Quick thinking allows Daniel to leap up into the air in the form of a backflip that allows his right leg to smash into the chin of Dante and sends them both flying back. Dante lands on his back while Daniel backflips onto his feet.

Dante flips back up to his feet and fires out his left hidden blade chain from his left forearm protector. The chain comes to reach Daniel just as his feet land on the ground. It takes the increased speed that Daniel moves at for him to just reach up in time with his right hand to grab hold of the chain.

With a smirk on his face, “You didn’t think I wouldn’t adapt did you?” Daniel asks as he pulls on the chain.

Dante laughs a bit while giving his reply. “I was counting on it.”

And with a strong tug of the chain, Daniel is pulled forward and Dante extends his right hand behind his head. While Daniel begins to fly towards Dante, a bright red and yellow fireball appears in Dante’s right hand. With a single thrust, Dante releases a hell fireball that smashes right into Daniel’s chest! The Super Soldiers body is lit on fire and is slammed onto the ground from the pain of the flames beginning to cover his body. With his super human durability in the realm he is in, he barely is able to withstand the heat as his jacket instantly burns away.

With the chain retracted back around his forearm, Dante now begins to fire out two hands of flames like dual flamethrowers onto Daniel! The Super Soldier is on one knee with his hands up trying to block as much of the flames with the vibranium armor as he can.

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Dante laughs as Daniel’s body becomes covered in the flames. “You shouldn’t have come here…Now you will die by the flames of hell!”

Daniel is forced to activate his helmet once more to keep from being burnt alive at the head and it looks very bleak for the hero. He can barely breathe and he begins to lose focus on his senses to keep himself from losing control of everything. His eyes begin to twitch as sweat drips from his forehead. As all hope begins to seem lost, Daniel hears the voice of the blade in his head.

“Reach for the power…” Is all the blade says.

With that, Daniel extends his left hand out with the hand open for something to happen. In the center of the room, the blade begins to shake and then…..Post

“HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!” Trevor yelled at the top of his lungs drawing his right hand all the way back! It was clenched in a tight fist, as it burned with a yellow glow as bright as the sun itself! He pulled his fist forward and slammed it into the back side of the Gorilla he was mounted on! Trevor’s left hand gripping a fist full of the purple monkey fur to himself up held as he removed his hand from it’s backside, ripping out it’s ectoplasm spine before pushing off of it with his feet and back flipping onto the ground once again! All of his clones were gone, and it took a lot more energy to fight those things than even he would’ve anticipated to to. He squatted there on the ground, looking straight at Vapor. Neither one of them showing any sign of fatigue. Vapor landing on the ground, and spreading his legs apart a little bit before he narrowed his eyes at Trevor. “I’m growing tired of this. I’m not stupid in the slightest. We’re polar opposites to the core. My fighting style completely contradicts your own. It’s a permanent game of rock, paper, scissors, but we keep picking the same combinations!” Vapor stood straight up. “I know of your past Dragon Monk. I know what your looking for on earth…during our battle you were so…focused on fighting I was able to penetrate your mind. See your deepest thoughts and your most inner desires. “ Trevor scoffed. “Son of a- that’s low and you know it!” Vapor began to levitate off of the ground again as he hovered above it a bit flying to his right side. “You are no Dragon Monk. You were supposed to relquinish your tittle eons ago but you ran!” “SHUT UP! You know why I ran if you probed so deep! If I don’t change what’s coming the world! No the UNIVERSE is going to come to an end! I can’t reliuqnish this tittle yet! I need this power! It’s the only way to save the fabric of not just this realm, or earth realm, but EVERY realm!”

Vapor tilted his head up a bit to look at Dragon Monk. “You and I want the same thing. I do not wish to see this beautiful world perish. Believe it or not at one point I was human. Much like your friends. I valued life but I valued to become something more. Humans are so fragile..” He looked at his hand. “You’re not human Trevor. You’re a Dragoon. Why do you pretend to blend with them? Fornicate and mate with them. You could rule their world and change it how you see fit. Prepare them for the coming threat the right way. You alone cannot do this.” Trevor would’ve stood straight up. “That’s where you’re wrong. In the years  to come there will be two Dragon Monks to aid me in my journey. Weather I’m around for that or not is up for debate…but if I can do this myself then you can be damn sure I will.”  Vapor shook his head. “So damned idealistic. You hero types are the most naieve of the bunch. You could have it all but you choose to have nothing. Instead you settle with the life you’re given not what you could take. Look at me? I chose to take power and now I am perfection. Living ghostly perfection. I a m all powerful, all knowing, and-“ “Lonely.” Trevor stepped forward a bit. “You’re a sad lonely little ghost boy who traded companionship for power. Sounds familiar.” Trevor referenced himself. “ I couldn’t give up the power either. But I know what I’m doing with it. What do you do? What is your purpose?” Trevor removed his mask as a whole and through it to the ground. “People will always remember the Dragon Monk! They’ll always remember OG Trevor Lockhart! What will they remember you by? Nothing. Cause you ceased to exist the moment you let your name die.” Vapor actually showed an emotion for once!

Anger. His brow furrowed and the purple start looking energies would’ve begun to envelop his hands this time around as he’d grunt. “You know NOTHING ABOUT WHAT I WANT!” The vapor shot a giant purple beam at Trevor! Trevor manipulated the Dragon Chi, putting his hands out in front of him to block it! The blast began to push him backwards as his feet skidded along the ground! Trevor’s blue hues transforming into a roaring gold, as streaks of gold streamed form his eyes! He grunted and panted heavily before he finally stopped his own movement! Vapor drew his arms back and pushed them forward, sending a pulse through the blast to increase its size! It looked like Trevor was holding back a giant freight train of energy! “Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!” Trevor placed his hands towards the base of the blast as if he was lifting it from below! “rrrrrrAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!” Trevor thrusted BOTH of his hands into the air sending the blast rocketing sky high!  It shot straight towards the atmosphere and busted into a purple explosion that illuminated the area in a strobe light flash effect! Trevor looked forward a bit only to see Vapor coming from in front of him but also sensing him behind! Trevor didn’t know which one was the actual real one but he didn’t have time to thin about that as the one from behind shoved his hand straight into Trevor’s gut! The hand pierced him as a whole right through his intestines! Trevor’s eyes winded and shook in fear as he wasn’t quite sure what to do with himself! He felt a warm sensation rushing down his abdomen as blood trickled down his pants! Trying to grab the hand his hand were severely shaking! The Vapor looked Trevor in his eyes stretching apart from his limb only to look him in his eyes one last time as the lighting returned to normal. “How does it feel…to have the very memory of  you fade away right here and now!” “it’s!...it’s not over yet!!!” Trevor attempted to backhand Vapor but he slide himself back to a starting point!

“I’m growing tired of this. I’m not stupid in the slightest. We’re polar opposites to the core. My fighting style completely contradicts your own. It’s a permanent game of rock, paper, scissors, but we keep picking the same combinations!” Vapor stood straight up. “I know of your past Dragon Monk. I know what your looking for on earth…during our battle you were so…focused on fighting I was able to penetrate your mind. See your deepest thoughts and your most inner….” Vapor paused for a second…finally finishing his sentence. “desires. “ Trevor scoffed. “Son of a- that’s low and you know it!” Vapor began to levitate off of the ground again as he hovered above it a bit flying to his right side. “You are no Dragon Monk. You were supposed to relquinish your tittle eons ago but you ran!” “SHUT UP! You know why I ran if you probed so deep! If I don’t change what’s coming the world! No the UNIVERSE is going to come to an end! I can’t relinquish this tittle yet! I need this power! It’s the only way to save the fabric of not just this realm, or earth realm, but EVERY realm!”

Vapor replied….“You and I want the same thing. I do not wish to see this beautiful world perish. Believe it or not at one point I was human. Much like your friends. I… valued life but I valued to become something more. Humans are so fragile..” He looked at his hand…for quite a while. A long while actually. “You’re not human Trevor. You’re a Dragoon. Why do you pretend to blend… with… them? Fornicate and mate with them. You could rule their world and change it how you see fit. Prepare them for the coming threat the right way. You alone cannot…” Vapor trailed off with his words as something started to sound funny to him. “Wait.” He’d spoken softly to himself. “You…you say.”

“That’s where you’re wrong. In the years  to come there will be two Dragon Monks to aid me in my journey. Weather I’m around for that or not is up for debate…but if I can do this myself then you can be damn sure I will.”

Vapor’s eyes winded as he grunted. “No….No! No!” You’re a sad lonely little ghost boy who traded companionship for power. Sounds familiar.” “Shut up! Stop talking! What kind of game is this!?” “People will always remember the Dragon Monk! They’ll always remember OG Trevor Lockhart! What will they remember you by? Nothing. Cause you ceased to exist the moment you let your name die.” “Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!” The vapor had thrown all of his logic and reasoning out of the window and then watched as the giant purple blast left his hands again! He shot it at Trevor!...only to have Trevor struggle momentarily before he’d shoot it away! Uplifting the blast so it shot into the air and caused a strobe lighting effect! Trevor looked forward a bit only to see Vapor coming from infront of him but also sensing him behind! Trevor didn’t know which one was the actual real one but he didn’t have time to thin about that as the one from behind shoved his hand straight into Trevor’s gut! The hand pierced him as a whole right through his intestines! Trevor’s eyes winded and shook in fear as he wasn’t quite sure what to do with himself! He felt a warm sensation rushing down his abomen as blood trickled down his pants! Trying to grab the hand his hand were severly shaking! The Vapor looked Trevor in his eyes stretching apart from his limb only to look him in his eyes one last time as the lighting returned to normal. “DIE! STOP THIS GOD DAMNED TRICK AND DIE!!!” “it’s!...it’s not over yet!!!” Trevor attempted to backhand Vapor but he slide himself back to a starting point!

Vapor tried to find a sign that his suspicion was right! He looked and looked and looked as this scene began to play itself out over and over again! That’s when he saw it! The pool of blood that came from Trevor’s stomach that laid on the ground…there were 6 pools in different spots…all moving forward…”It’s…repeating….he’s….WHAT IS THIS! WHAT IS THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS! TELL MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Xandu would’ve stood up, and walked towards the battle scene where he’d see Trevor standing in front of Vapor. His right hand glowing a bright gold, while a bright gold aura streamed around his head and Vapor’s head. His two fingers were pressed to Vapor’s forehead. Xandu folded his arms. “Dragon Monk Technique # 66: Dragon’s Delima.” Trevor lowered his hand, only to fall flat on his ass. Xandu began to scold. Him. “Was it worth the injury?” Trevor held his hand over the hole in his abdomen as he grunted, keeping his eyes closed. “Best way to deal with cocky powerhouses is to make them think they’ve won…what better way than with a little mind game?”

Dragon Monk Technique: Dragon’s Delima. To begin the technique, after selecting any arbitrary moment, the caster uses their Mental chi to remember the physical sensations both of their body and that of their opponent's during that instant like a photograph (represented as: A). The user must then intentionally replicate the same sensation and in the same way, memorize that instant with their Mental chi (represented as: A'). Dragon’s Delima overlaps and connects these two identical bodily sensations (A and A'), as well as the flow of time between them, creating an infinite loop of events that entraps the opponent's consciousness. The user can also use their mental chi to remember multiple sensations, (represented as B, C and so forth) and those sensations will also be used when DD is activated. The user also doesn't need necessarily to replicate A with A' to initiate D.D. They can also replicate B with B' or C with C' as well. The more sensations they memorize, the better their chances would be to initiate Izanami on a person and the more sensations the victim will experience each time they repeat a loop. Whilst under the effects of the technique, the target stands motionlessly as the loop of events continually replays inside their mind. Each time a loop is repeated, any physical damage incurred is reset as it were before the start of the loop, although the remains of severed appendages do not disappear. The illusion of the user and anyone they were fighting alongside also has any damage reset as well such as the blindness that comes with D.D. Despite being able to become consciously aware of their situation and act differently, the victim is unable to significantly alter or escape from the inevitable progression of these events as the illusions they're fighting will also quickly adapt to their changes in order to force the victim to experience the memorized sensations. However, because this technique was created to reprimand and save the users of D.D, the victim is able to escape the infinite loop if they can acknowledge the real results of their actions and in doing so, accept their fate.

“Besides until he realizes he’s lost he’ll be there for a while. Still that technique is after number fifty. Meaning it’s gonna take a hell of a lot out of me.” Trevor struggled to pull himself up. “You mind giving me a hand?” Xandu went over and put Trevor’s arm over his shoulder. “Let’s go check on Daniel. Make sure he’s okay,

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The blade shakes on its stand as the hellfire blazes down on Daniel’s body. With the pull being brought together and one of the fighters being chosen, the blade begins to fly out from the center of the room and towards Daniel’s left hand. Dante’s eyes look in shock to see the blade spinning through the air to head to his enemy. The flames grow hotter with Dante’s anger just before the blade enters the plume of flames.

The blade spins around until it lands perfectly to where the handle is clenched tightly in his left hand. The individual fingers wrap around the base of the blade and like attaching part of his body to something entirely different, a new Daniel awakens. His hazel-green eyes slowly begin to forge a new color. Around the edges of his eyes a bright golden hue begins to appear to overtake every part of the eye itself. This golden color begins to surround his body, slowly creating a thin layer of energy that protects his body in a shroud of power. The golden energy begins to appear through the hellfire flames and Dante cannot believe his eyes.

Markings begin to appear across Daniel’s skin in the form of tribal tattoos of ancient Aztec style culture. Inside of his body he feels the sudden surge of so much power that Daniel’s mind cannot even fathom to understand it in its current condition. The blade glows brightly in his arm as the two become one with each other. Daniel takes a deep breath in for a moment before letting the power surge throughout his body with no resistance.

Dante begins to look around to see that rocks begin to slowly float up from the foundation of the temple floor. He’d also notice that the air becomes much thicker inside of the temple, as if the gravity had begun to increase. Outside, the winds above the temple would begin to swirl around the base of the building design. Trees outside waft towards the temple, proving the winds are being drawn to the power being created inside.

Still on one knee, Daniel begins to look forward to see Dante’s hands continuing to push the hellfire out but it having no effect on Daniel at this point! With a quick release of his power, Daniel stands up on his feet and releases a powerful roar into the skies with his sword extended up towards the roof! The golden aura begins to grow to the point that the entire temple releases a blinding golden glow! The aura continues to grow until it overpowers the temple completely! Daniel releases the energy inside of him and it causes a large scale shockwave style explosion to erupt the entire temple! Golden energy is shot out from his body that begins to tear every part of the temple into pieces.

By this time, Traver and Xandu would just be making their way into the temple to see the bright golden energy bursting out to the entrance as well. This energy blasts out of the temple and allows the golden aura to reach up into the sky! Dante’s body flies back out of the temple and into the sand with his hellfire completely being put out as if it were normal fire! With his eyes widening at the sight of The Arvindr, he sees what happens next.

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With the sword being held up into the air, massive golden lightning bolts fire from the sky onto the blade as it is finally free. After thousands of years in captivity, waiting patiently for a worthy wielder of its power, The Arvindr Blade is now free! The lightning bolts surge more energy into Daniel as his muscle mass is larger than it had been before. The already muscular Daniel looks more defined and battle hardened with the change in his own personal physiology. His body soaks up the energy like a sponge.

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Dante looks out to see that Vaper had been taken care of and that he had been the last one left now. “Victory is not won by those who choose to fight losing battles…”

Because of his years of experience he knows when a battle can no longer be won and he begins to retreat and wait for a better opportunity to strike now. He must regroup and figure out the next move on the chess board. It would seem now the King on the board has himself a new way to make extra moves in a turn.

Back at the center of the temple, Daniel slowly lowers his arm down to hold the blade in his hand. The golden aura still surrounding his body he looks around in awe at the destruction that was beseeched here. The entire temple had been reduced to rubble and a small crater of sand even being produced around the temple itself. Much of the trees in the forest surrounding them had been warped by the shockwave if not uprooted completely.

If Trevor and Xandu were to walk up to him now, Daniel would look at them with his helmet still covering his confused expression, “So is this what it feels like to have energy flowing through you, Trev?” He asks in a joking manner to the fact that Daniel cannot use Chi.

He’d seem calm and collected but he can feel the sentient energy filling his body now, as if part of him had completely changed. That he is now no longer Daniel Handler but rather Daniel Handler, The Arvindr. His fingers begin to adjust on the handle of the blade in his left hand, examining it with a very close eye. This would be a whole different world for Daniel to have to adjust himself too. And hopefully, Trevor would be making it easier for him to understand as they are a part of the same team together.

Trevor and Xandu making their way up the steps, both of their eyes would’ve begun to widen up! They sensed that there was a massive surge in energy spiking from the temple! Trevor looked worried for a second. “I’M STARTING TO WONDER WHICH ONE OF THEM GOT IT!” The temple began destroying itself from the inside out! The rocks rising beneath them and as they did Xandu would’ve taken action to whisk him and Trevor into the air with Draconic wings! Flying them  upwards, and hanging on to them both as he avoided all of the debris that were coming out of the air and flying around them! “WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!” Trevor shouted as it finally came to and end! The two of them landed on the ground and as they did they’d see him! Daniel standing there with the blade in his hands…”The markings.” Xandu spoke as he let Trevor down. “They’ve appeared on his body. There’s no turning back now…he and the blade are one. Permanently.”

“So is this what it feels like to have energy flowing through you, Trev?” “Pretty much.” Trevor stood there straight up, panting a bit and holding his stomach. “You want his guy at his best right?” Trevor would’ve remarked to time walker. “Give me fiiiiiiive minutes.” Trevor would’ve looked back at Daniel before nodding. “That feeling of over-empowerment. That surge your getting. That is yours and your s only now. But the weapon in your hand, it will call to you! It’s sentient. Meaning it’s alive Daniel. You’ll be able to….”Feel” it, as it will feel you. You are no longer man and sword. You are your weapon and you are your wielder. Similar to kenjutsu. It’s an extension but closer. It can be whatever you want it to be, but you gotta BELIEVE that it is! That’s it! Easy peasy! “Trevor would’ve clapped his hands together and raised his fist! “Now go forth and kick some t-“ Trevor was about to cheer his buddy on when a purple flash of light reappeared behind him and tackled him towards the sky! ‘You escaped that?!?” Trevor spoke, or tried to as he could feel Vapor’s hand grasping around his throat as he was attempting to drive them both high into the sky to parts unknown! “I ONLY NEED REALIZE FOR THAT MOMENT I WAS BEATEN!  THE REST IS NOTHING TO EMULATE YOU RIGHTEIOUS FOOL!!!!!”

The two of them began to disappear from sight as their bodies traveled higher into the sky! Just how high were they going and how as Trevor going to fare with that stomach injury! Not to mention is Daniel going to exert enough mastery over the blade to wiled it as he see’s fit?!?!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjwFe6okyUw )

As Trevor begins to congratulate and help Daniel further understand his blade, Vaper comes and completely ruins the moment by lifting Trevor up into the air! Daniel’s golden eyes stare up to see Trevor being lifted and he prepares to go after them. That is until Time Walker begins to do something himself to try and counter act the power change that just occurred.

“You may have yourself a mighty weapon now, young warrior. But the weapons do not make the man!” He yells out as he begins to extend his arms out as if he were holding a very large staff. “The Germans had the best weaponry of The Second World War…yet they fell. And so shall you.” The Time Walker begins to focus his chi while speaking. “Nak manubui shitak manrama!”

Daniel stares over at Time Walker with a confused face as he watches what is happening. While hearing Dante speak in a different tongue, a bright blue smoke begins to appear around Dante’s hands. The smoke begins to take the form of a staff like object before the smoke actually comes to form the physical weapon itself! Taking a quick grip of the metallic object, Dante looks towards Daniel with a sadistic smile on his face. Once the weapon is held into his hand, Dante’s body erupts with a strong blue aura.

“This is not the first weapon I have been blessed to find! You may have stolen this blade from me, but I will obtain it once your soul leaves this world!” After making this weapon appear, the two come to another stand off before coming to blows with one another!

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Daniel leaps into the air to slash the blade downward only to have the blade meet the center of the large blue glowing bo staff! Dante raised his arms up to meet the blade and the impact causes large gale sized winds to spread passed the two of them! Daniel grits his teeth as both weapon’s auras fight against one another. Dante quickly spins his body with his staff to have the end of the weapon smack into the back of Daniel’s head!

The Super Soldier is shot forward with the blade in hand, feeling really off balance with The Arvindr. He usually would never strike with an over the top slash like that, but he felt like the blade just wanted him to do that action. Daniel tries to control his breathing even more now with the feeling that something else is in his mind.

“You wield that weapon with such disgrace…You do not even understand the power that you now wield...” Dante taunts.

“SHUT UP!” Daniel yells out as he begins to swing the blade wildly towards Dante.

Because of the added physiology to him, he moves must faster than before but his movements are very barbaric and uncontrolled. His swings seem off balance which goes against everything Daniel is like in any fight situation. Dante ducks under a swing and then lifts his bo staff up to hit the bottom of Daniel’s chin to send him flying through the air! The impact causes Daniel to be lifted twenty feet and his back smashing through a nearby tree.

“You are worse of a fighter now than you were back on Earth…I say you have a better chance of fighting me without the blade than you do with it…Someone of your weakness should not be allowed to hold such a powerful weapon.” Dante feels so confident and speaks with hatred towards Daniel holding the blade.

The Super Soldier gets back up to one knee now with the Arvindr in his right hand. His eyes stare out to Dante holding the bo staff and cannot understand where his fighting talent went. Even he sees that his moves are fast but they are obvious and not technical like he usually is. His mind begins to think a thousand things at once and he knows that is not good for combat. He’d really have to dig down now because he is on his own and needs to figure this out if he wants to keep both the blade and his life!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjwFe6okyUw )

As Trevor begins to congratulate and help Daniel further understand his blade, Vaper comes and completely ruins the moment by lifting Trevor up into the air! Daniel’s golden eyes stare up to see Trevor being lifted and he prepares to go after them. That is until Time Walker begins to do something himself to try and counter act the power change that just occurred.

“You may have yourself a mighty weapon now, young warrior. But the weapons do not make the man!” He yells out as he begins to extend his arms out as if he were holding a very large staff. “The Germans had the best weaponry of The Second World War…yet they fell. And so shall you.” The Time Walker begins to focus his chi while speaking. “Nak manubui shitak manrama!”

Daniel stares over at Time Walker with a confused face as he watches what is happening. While hearing Dante speak in a different tongue, a bright blue smoke begins to appear around Dante’s hands. The smoke begins to take the form of a staff like object before the smoke actually comes to form the physical weapon itself! Taking a quick grip of the metallic object, Dante looks towards Daniel with a sadistic smile on his face. Once the weapon is held into his hand, Dante’s body erupts with a strong blue aura.

“This is not the first weapon I have been blessed to find! You may have stolen this blade from me, but I will obtain it once your soul leaves this world!” After making this weapon appear, the two come to another stand off before coming to blows with one another!

( )

Daniel leaps into the air to slash the blade downward only to have the blade meet the center of the large blue glowing bo staff! Dante raised his arms up to meet the blade and the impact causes large gale sized winds to spread passed the two of them! Daniel grits his teeth as both weapon’s auras fight against one another. Dante quickly spins his body with his staff to have the end of the weapon smack into the back of Daniel’s head!

The Super Soldier is shot forward with the blade in hand, feeling really off balance with The Arvindr. He usually would never strike with an over the top slash like that, but he felt like the blade just wanted him to do that action. Daniel tries to control his breathing even more now with the feeling that something else is in his mind.

“You wield that weapon with such disgrace…You do not even understand the power that you now wield...” Dante taunts.

“SHUT UP!” Daniel yells out as he begins to swing the blade wildly towards Dante.

Because of the added physiology to him, he moves must faster than before but his movements are very barbaric and uncontrolled. His swings seem off balance which goes against everything Daniel is like in any fight situation. Dante ducks under a swing and then lifts his bo staff up to hit the bottom of Daniel’s chin to send him flying through the air! The impact causes Daniel to be lifted twenty feet and his back smashing through a nearby tree.

“You are worse of a fighter now than you were back on Earth…I say you have a better chance of fighting me without the blade than you do with it…Someone of your weakness should not be allowed to hold such a powerful weapon.” Dante feels so confident and speaks with hatred towards Daniel holding the blade.

The Super Soldier gets back up to one knee now with the Arvindr in his right hand. His eyes stare out to Dante holding the bo staff and cannot understand where his fighting talent went. Even he sees that his moves are fast but they are obvious and not technical like he usually is. His mind begins to think a thousand things at once and he knows that is not good for combat. He’d really have to dig down now because he is on his own and needs to figure this out if he wants to keep both the blade and his life!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMviyvci7I&index=3&list=PLYNBny7IRlVm1xHhYq5qHlNSsKkocXSF2 ) Vapor had adopted a new form as he began pushing Trevor towards the atmosphere line! The air was getting a bit thinner, and he’d have to adapt! “Draogon monks still need to breeeeeeeeeathe!!!!” Vapor hissed as his form began to morph! He went from looking like a naked douchebag with purple galaxy paint on his body to now being  a ghostly amror wearing figure! Using his ectoplasim to form a solid body of armor, that had a sinister look to it!

The armor itself had more physical boost to it as in this realm Vapor could manipulate ectoplasim to it’s fullest potential if he’d let it. Trevor however wasn’t about to give up so easily, in fact he’d have rared his right fist back, clenched once again with a bright glowing sunlight colored energy before rearing it into Vapor’s face! The punch made multiple WHAMWHAMWHAM sounds as Trevor punched a him at LEAST 100 times before Vapor finally had his body thrown in the opposite direction soaring back towards the ground! Trevor coated his body in the Dragon Shroud to destroy the gravity around his immediate vicinity and allowing him flight! He popped his neck from side to side and with both hands outstretched, he’d soar towards Vapor at Sonic speeds! A white line surrounding his body as the two were only hundreds of feet from being in space! Vapor extended his finger and began shooting multiple purple colored energy spears towards Trevor! The enrgy pouring out “P-P-P-P-P-P-EW!”

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Trevor saw every blast coming his way and as it did he’d have zig zagged back and forth weaving between the blasts with his hands at his sides and making sure to avoid as many of them as he could! His body disappearing and reappearing from the line of sight that was Vapor’s fire! He finally darted towards him, doing a Barrel roll flight maneuver before striking Vapor with his left hand in a diagonal haymaker! Vapor’s face whipped back as he was pushed backwards across the sky, a white jet like stream being seen as he flew! Trevor didn’t stop there as he’d catch up to Vapor just to punch him again and send him even further away form the scene they were previously at!

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Vapor would’ve went soaring downwards a bit his body curling into a semi circle as he started flying again but this time low to the ground in the forest! Throwing finesse out of the window and simply plowing through the trees with a fiercesome power! His energy irradicating the trees on impact! “I’VE GOT SOME NEW TRICKS I’D LIKE TO SHOW YOU! PROBING YOUR MIND LIKE I DID TAUGHT ME A FEW NEW THINGS!” Trevor would’ve been coming down in a straight dive bomb trying to slam the base of his foot into vapor’s back but this attack missed! The ground erupted and crated twenty feet deep as Vapor would’ve approached Trevor from behind throwing his right elbow into the air before slamming it down on the top of Trevor’s dome! Trevor felt his hit rattle his spine, as Vapor then brought his right knee up to Trevor’s face, sendin the Dragon Monk stumbling a few feet over with blood flying form his mouth! Vapor flipped into the air once more before swinging his left leg back and bashing it into Trevor’s chin!

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Trevor went stumbling along the ground for a moment before cacthing his footing and standing his ground again! Vapor came towards him with a right legged kick aiming to kick him in the face again until Trevor raised his hand up to catch the leg with the palm of his hand before grasping his calf with his fingers!

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“Copying my style doesn’t make you anywhere NEAR better than me!” Connor would’ve dodged an on coming counter punch, only to avoid it by leaping and slamming his foot in the back of Vapor’s neck! He followed this up landing and tossing out a left calf kick, digging it into the back of Vapor’s neck and causing his head to bend forward a little bit! He followed this up by juking around Vapor’s body and throwing a fiercsome elbow into his chest, imbuing it with Dragon Chi and Sending Vapor’s body soaring through and out of the forest, leaving a ten foot wide crater in the ground as he did!

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Vapor would’ve went soaring some feet away past the fight at hand with Daniel and Time Walker and Trevor would’ve flipped up into the air, landing near the both of them only to see Daniel somewhat struggling! He’d stand and cup his hands over his mouth to begin yelling out “HEY! YOU GOT THIS! I REMEMBER WHATEVER IT WAS YOU REMEMBERED THAT HELPED YOU CONTROL YOUR SENSES! IT’S THE SAME THING JUST A SIXTH SENSE! YOU HAVE TO , IT’S THE ONLY WAY!!!!” Trevor was going to continue coaching him but Vapor had come back, with purple ectoplasim wrapped around his hands and feet before the two began exchanging chain punches and kicks with one another! Sounds of rushing air passing and coming from the fighters as Trevor was beginning to notice vapor getting more interesting as this fight progresses!

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VI
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ese\_l6YCmM0 )

“HEY! YOU GOT THIS! I REMEMBER WHATEVER IT WAS YOU REMEMBERED THAT HELPED YOU CONTROL YOUR SENSES! IT’S THE SAME THING JUST A SIXTH SENSE! YOU HAVE TO , IT’S THE ONLY WAY!!!!”

Daniel turns to face Time Walker now before slowly looking down at The Arvindr. The Time Walker laughs manically at the sight of Daniel doubting himself. With the red helmet off, Daniel’s eyes glow with the tribal markings and the golden eyes but something about the power was still missing. Something about the two objects coming together isn’t in the right places yet. And Daniel begins to think he understands it. The reason why the blade called to him hadn’t been because he was chosen through chance.

He slowly begins to raise the blade in front of his face. Both hands clench around the handle and Daniel slowly begins to shut his eyes. Dante looks with confusion, trying to understand what exactly Daniel is doing. Daniel takes a deep breath of air into his lungs while letting the essence of the sword flow through his mind with clear energies. Like a symbiotic relationship, the golden aura of the blade becomes more flowing around Daniel than the wild flame it had been appearing as the entire time. For Xandu watching, even he looks in shock to see the events playing out in front of him.

Daniel begins to laugh a bit as he feels the energy inside of him. “I…I can feel all of you…” He speaks in a soft whisper.

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Dante raises a brow at the statement of “All of you” as if Daniel were speaking about a people rather than a blade. And it may be unknown to everyone else, but the history of the blade is much farther down the line of a prideful and powerful people that came from an ancient past far beyond anything that Daniel can conceive. When Dragon Kang first came into creation, this blade had been there in its origins. Its power is not that of ambient energy or some type of mystical power core, but of a people itself.

Daniel can feel the thousands of souls that power the blade from the spirits that are within the blade! He cannot understand it yet but he can feel the presence of spirits inside of him from an age long before his own. And the welcoming feeling that these spirts give him continue to make him laugh. For Trevor and even Time Walker if they looked down at Daniel it would look like a small clutch of people in the form of spirits stand behind him.

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All five of them looking like they are out of the current time period and it is correct to see that. These are powerful spirits that exist in the blade itself to guide those who wield the power of The Arvindr. Once Daniel feels the essence of their spirits connecting with his, Daniel can finally see the right path that has been laid out for him to walk upon. As he accepts this power, the tribal markings across his body become much stronger now like tattoos of energy on his body.

The Time Walker takes notice that the blade begins to actually melt into a liquid in Daniel’s hands. This liquid begins to form around Daniel’s hands until they reform in the appearance of gauntlets with spikes located where the knuckles are. The Super Soldier flexes his fingers a bit as eyes open back up to see the new form of weaponry that The Arvindr can take shape into.

With golden eyes of pride staring at The Time Walker, Daniel begins to speak in a tongue that he had never spoken before, “Ka whiua koe e ahau i tou ake kēmu .”

And before Dante can even respond, Daniel appears in front of him with his right hand extended out and Daniel’s fist digging straight into the mask on The Time Walkers face! Xandu’s eyes would widen to see that Daniel’s speed had dramatically increased to the point that Dante didn’t even move a muscle before getting hit by Daniel’s punch!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvJ4\_3dHB04 )

After the impact of the punch hits the mask, it begins to crack under the pressure of the spikes piercing into it and shatters into little pieces! The Time Walker staggers back a few feet only for him to open his eyes and see Daniel coming straight towards him. Dante swings his staff around to try and hit Daniel in the ribs as he runs towards him but Daniel swiftly lifts himself into the air with a strong vertical jump to see the bo staff swinging right under him.

While in the air, he twists his body around a few times like a corkscrew before his right leg comes crashing down onto Dante’s chest! The force of the kick causes more gale powered winds to swirl between them now to the point that grass is even being uprooted from its position in the dirt! Dante releases a powerful grunt of pain while the kick sends him crashing to the ground.

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Daniel lands on his feet with his back turned towards Dante. At this point Daniel’s veins begin to show a slight golden glow from the exposure to the energy from the blade. He doesn’t know it yet but his physical body will be the biggest weakness that he gets from having The Arvindr blade at his use.

Daniel slowly turns around to see Dante getting back up to his feet, as this happens he waves his finger to him with distaste. Dante’s face is revealed and a black goatee doesn’t hide the anger that is flowing through his veins.

“You think I will go down to some punk like you!” Dante’s eyes flaring with rage. “You may have broken my mask…But you will NEVER break me!”

Daniel simply places his right index finger in front of his lips and says in a sarcastic tone, “shhhhh. Tou riri te tafifi i te wairua.”

With one final charge Dante begins to run straight towards Daniel with his bo staff pointed outwards to try and stab it into Daniel. But the Super Soldier simply makes a front flip motion off of his left foot and his right foot begins to swing forward like a windmill to smack Dante right in the nose! The impact of the kick creates a loud cracking sound as the power sends Dante flying backwards into the forest! Blood splatters onto the dirt below while Daniel finishes this windmill style front flip kick.

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Once he is firmly on the ground, Daniel gets into his fighting stance with the Arvindr still in the form of gauntlets. His body is covered in that bright golden glow. This is where he also takes advantage and begins to look up to where Trevor is at and to see how he is handling his own fight.

“WHAP! FWOO, FWOO, FW-FWOO THWHAP!!” Trevor and Vapor began exchanging hit after hit! Trevor’s fist wrapped in a thick golden shroud of dragon chi and Vapor’s was surrounded in a thick black aura! He’d mimicked Trevor’s fighting style and ha given himself a bit more even footing with Trevor this time around! Trevor took a few steps back, and Vapor extended his hand and made a basketball sized shadow of his hand to slam atop of Trevor’s head! Trevor folded his arms in an ‘x’ like fashion to block the hand with both of his hands above his head! Trevor’s body sunk into the ground somewhat as the weight of the blow was incredible! Trevor exhaled a breathe as the blow came and he then pushed the giant fist off of him before coming towards Vapor with a right roundhouse kick! Vapor weaved this kick, raising his right hand and forming a giant shcimitar sword made out of ectoplasm and slicking the back of Trevor’s calf! Trevor would’ve fallen to the ground his right knee on the ground and his left leg sitting up. He grunted in pain and Vapor would’ve tried to swing his schimitar  towards Trevor’s head and Trevor had to resort to the most basic of basics! Chi bases! He coated his arms in fortification chi raising both of his forearms up to block the sword only to grab his wrist and begin firing off rapid machine gun punches towards vapor’s gut while advancing and moving forward on his knees! When he finally stood up he grabbed Vapor’s head and slammed it into his knee! Vapor would’ve flicked his opposite wrist and now with two schimitars in his possession he’d have Trevor backing up! Horizantal, vertical, and left to right sweeps all gunning for various parts of Trevor’s body!

Trevor weaved , bobbed and slipped his way through each of the sword strikes, taking a cut across the gut, a slice across his left shoulder, and a shallow lucky cut across his jugular vien! Trevor would’ve waited til he sliced one more time and sliiping in past his formearm, Trevor would’ve wraped Vapor’s arm under his armpit trapping him! “Gaaaah!!” Vapor yelled as he tried to bring his opposite arm to slice Trevor with their new close position, but Trevor shot his left foot up to push vapor’s arm back and deflect his swing! This caused Vapor’s body to bend backwards a bit and give Trevor the opening he needed he’d take the same leg he’d delfected the attack with and slammed it into Vapor’s neck! Black blood spewing from his lips before Trevor kicked Vapor six more times! “TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA” and a follow up kick, spinning his body around and sending his left heel into his Vapors gut, bending his body inwards and causing him to fall face first into the dirt!

Vapor got himself up, and this time made one long Samurai Sword of average length, and a roman style shield to complement it. You could tell he didn’t know anything about sword play and the combination of weapon’s he’d used. Trevor stepped in only to lean back and avoid being hit by a shield swipe in the face again. When Vapor came in with the straight stab, Trevor with his hand coated in fortification chi would’ve blocked the blade, only to palm it with his opposite hand and using destruction chi to break the blade and disperse it! Vapor would’ve then bashed Trevor into his stomach bringing him to bend over but then putting his empty palm in front of his face he’d blast trevor with a ghost wave of energy! Trevor’s body would’ve went skidding backwards, streaks of open flesh staining his back side as he finally rolled over onto his stomach holding himself up off of the ground with his hands. He panted aloud but smiled as his mask revealed some of his blonde locks and one of his blue eyes. “Ha! You’re losing power! You can’t win! I’m going to out last you!” Vapor spread his hands, before instead of dark colored ectoplasm it would’ve been light blue ectoplasm surrounding his hands! “SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!!!!!!!” Vapor thrusted his hands forward unleashing a devastating wave of ice! With every foot the icy wave traveled towards Trevor giant ice spikes emerged from the ground beside it! Trevor’s eyes widened as he’d gritt his teeth and thrust his right hand forward! Using the Dragon Shroud again the icy blast would’ve been going past his form! The dragon shroud protecting him from the ice effects of the blast as his yellow glow shined in the blue tundera!

However Trevor could start to feel the effects of the cold pouring on his hand! He gripped his right wrist with his left hand and started walking towards Vapor instead refusing to stay on the offensive this entire time! His body was aching, and he’d lost at least 2 and a half pints of blood. It was time to start making hits on this guy! Trevor made his way closer, and closer to Vapor until the both of them were now almost close to locking fingers! Each one of their energies clashing with the other as they were both struggling to overcome the other! Vapor’s armor started to crack as pieces began to fall off showing he was losing a lot of power! Eventually their energies exploded off of each other! Their energies turning into mere colored sparkles around them, falling from the sky as both Trevor and Vapor fell to their knees! Trevor heavily panted and so did Vapor…he was tired and Vapor was tired. Vapor spit some more blood from his mouth before holding his hand out, and attempting to create a sword in his hand but all he could muster was a dagger. He tried to rear his left arm back and stab Trevor in the throat, but Trevor managed to move his body so he’d only impale his shoulder! Trevor hollered a bit before grabbing Vapor’s head and headbutting him! Slamming his forehead to Vapor’s nose and on impact he twisted his head back and forth to really make sure his nose was broken and by the time Vapor’s head fell back strands of blood would’ve been connected to Trevor’s hand as he fell backwards onto his back! Trevor stood up, wiping the blood off of his forehead and sighing. “Stay down Vapor! You’re not a fighter at heart I can see that now!” Vapor would’ve started crawling backwards before thrusting his and forward and trying to shoot another ectoplasm wave at Trevor but Trevor would’ve spread his legs and ducked to his right side before tucking his right hand by his right side and throwing his fist into Vapor’s face! Teeth flying from his mouth as Trevor watched him fall before him again. “I don’t know who you were before you became what you are. But you weren’t trained. You’re a power fighter…your not a combatant.” Vapor would’ve tried to sit up again but Trevor shut him down! Punting him in the chin like kicking a football only to then full mount Vapor and start wailing on him! Haymaker after haymaker after HEYMAKER! His fist shattering the rest of Vapor’s helmet! And watching him as the blood leaked from his lip. Trevor panted and shook his head a few times.  “Stay down…” Trevor got up and watched as Vapor laid there his eyes fluttering between consciousness and uncionciousness. He stood, only to fall over on his ass panting. He let himself fall on the ground his stomach moving up and down as he turned his head over to look at Daniel’s fight with Time Walker. “Just HURRY UP AND WIN! Shit!....tired as fuck…” Trevor would’ve waited to watch the outcome of Daniel’s fight! Meanwhile Vapor would’ve struggled to even move his body let alone form words. His jaw was broken as he lay in defeat realizing that Trevor was right….

He was no fighter.

## VII

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvndoDgD0WU )

Time Walker slowly gets up to all fours after being hit with such a powerful combination. Pieces of his mask lay on the ground scattered while the man spits out some bright red blood onto the sand below. The situation had taken a drastic turn for the worse in the case of Vaper and Time Walker. Dante’s eyes lift up to see Vaper getting beat down by Trevor and now it really hits him more than anything else. He is alone now in this situation. Even with Trevor being tired, Daniel and his newly found weapon would make this an even more impossible battle to win. This is where Dante has to really think about what is important here. He can be prideful, stay and fight the good fight to either die or be taken prisoner. Or. He can be smart about the situation and live to fight another day.

After thousands of years, he understands what the obvious right choice is. Getting up to his right knee with his left hand digging around on his hip, Daniel turns around to see the Time Walker doing something.

“Just noho iho ... Kahore he mea e taea e koutou ki te hinga i te rua o matou .” Daniel says to Time Walker as he watches him fumble around for something in his armor.

Time Walker pays no attention to what Daniel said, only instead he pulls out a small Kunai with ancient Japanese text written across the base of it. Daniel’s eyes squint towards the blade but he fears nothing from it. With one quick swing of his arm, Time Walker thrusts the kunai as hard as he can towards Daniel. The kunai rips through the air like a blur before Daniel simply sways his body to the right so the kunai could continue passed him. An expression of confusion appears over daniel’s face, wondering what exactly did Dante think was going to come from throwing the kunai.

“That wasn’t for you…” Dante speaks with a weak tone and a small smirk appearing on his face.

The Kunai flies across the battlefield and pierces into the soft sand directly to the left of Vaper’s body. Daniel turns to see the kunai and his eyes widen in curiosity to see what exactly Time Walker has planned. The sound of electricity or lightning striking the ground is then heard as smoke erupts over Vaper’s body. Within the flash of light, Dante’s body appears perched over Vaper’s body with his left hand gripping the kunai! Daniel shakes his head to make sure he is understanding what he is seeing because it would seem like he had just teleported!

Dante looks down at a physically destroyed Vaper while saying, “Come on, Kid…I will not leave you behind…” Dante grabs the Kunai and launches it into the forest only to have the device disappear from sight.

Once the kunai disappears, the two bodies of Vaper and Time Walker disappear with it. Daniel physically sees them disappearing in a plume of smoke and electricity. It had been nothing that Daniel had ever seen before and this entire day just seems to be more weird things topping other weird things. Daniel looks to Trevor in his condition and wonders if they should even try chasing after the two of them. He can feel the spirits in the blade telling him to let this go for now and that there will most certainly be another opportunity to finish what started here today.

With that, Daniel begins to make his way over to Trevor. The veins on his body glowing a little brighter now with the gauntlets still being worn while walking over to his Red Knight Teammate. He comically stands over Trevor, looking down at him with a smirk on his face.

“You don’t look so good Trev…Maybe I should go get BACK UP to help ya out.” He then laughs a little bit while extending his right hand out for Trevor to take so he can help him back onto his feet.

Trevor laid there for a moment panting heavily to himself by himself. He was tired as fuck. For all that Vapor guys flaws he had potential. Just not enough potential to deal with a battle hardened Dragon Monk like trevor. In the end Trevor could tell when they invaded each others minds he wa…just a kid. Not much older than your average `17 year old one earth. What in the world happened to him to make him so…dark? Who would willingly give themselves away like that . to something so dark and conceited such as becoming the embodiment of misery and woe…like who would’ve done something like that. Trevor had a million thoughts racing through his head but the one constant remains. He felt sorry for that kid…really sorry for him. When Daniel came over of course he’d had something smart to say, he was the type to  always do that.

“You don’t look so good Trev…Maybe I should go get BACK UP to help ya out.” Trevor gave him a lame look. “You know I can tell if the rest of you guys found out, you’d never let me live this down until I hit the grave. “ Trevor took his hand and allowed Daniel to help him up and off of his feet. ‘Then again I’ll probably out live all you muafucka’s so it won’t even matter down the road.” Trevor laughed aloud at this notion and stood up only to hold his stomach. “Gah ghost boy put a hurting on me…but I see the sword has taken a liking to you. I can feel you to resonating as one being. In time you’ll master it I know.” “If he hasn’t already.” Xanud would’ve made his way over to the two of them. Rasing his hands into the air and patting them both on the back while a blue flame engulfed their bodies momentarily before dispersing into nothing. However during that quick instant they’d be healed. Instantly. All their injuries gone in the blink of an eye thanks to the Xiaofang blue healing flame. Master’s of this can heal waves of men in only seconds ,and Xandu being the strongest I the Xaiofang line only next to his own FATHER had mastered every flame in existence. “This is not a weapon you train with Daniel. You cant just practice to get better with it. It grows as you do. Your experience is it’s teacher and the other way around. It will find strength in what you find strength in.” Xandu would’ve clapped his hands together a few times. “Now then I advise you return to earth very soon. The Dragon’s rain festival is coming soon and since neither of you can withstand the heat of the sun just yet I suggest you both go and leave before it starts.” Trevor gritted his teeth. “Yikes. We don’t need that. I’ve been to one of those things and trust me that almost put an end to my ever loving life cycle. Oh before we go Daniel. “ Trevor would’ve pulled out another vaporizer but this one was gold. “Hit this shit before we go through the portal. Now look!” Trevor stood infront of Daniel gesturing with his hands.

“I know you might not smoke weed.  You probably can’t even get high. BUT….imma get you high today.” Trevor paused and started counting reasons on his fingers. ‘Cause it’s Friday. You ain’t at yo job. And you aint got shit to do!” Trevor held the vaporizer out. “Plus the color trip back to earth WAAAAAAAAAAAAY better when your lit the fuck up.” If Daniel had hit the vaporizer his super soldier senses would’ve legit went out the god damn window, as he’d start feeling a massive sense of euphoria and happiness. “This shit right here? Is called Dragon’s Beard. This is the stuff of the GODS my dude.” Trevor would’ve taken a hit himself stuffing it back in his sash. He coughed a bit while talking. “you can’t \*cough cough\* hit that mothafucka to many times or you’ll go into a sex coma for a week on earth. Wake up with ya nuts covered in dry semen.” Trevor weaved and waved his hands back and forth before shooting them forward and a portal being crated opening up to the exact same color’s they’d seen when then first got here. “Let’s a goooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!” Trevor would’ve leapt inside with Daniel behind him and as they went down the color’s never would’ve looked so vibrant more so than they had before. Heading home after a job well the fuck done, to probably get high again and fuck massive amounts of bitches.

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After helping Trevor up to his feet, Daniel laughs at the joke he makes about never letting the ‘back up’ joke die down. “Don’t worry.” He says once Trever gets up to his feet. “You’ll just be Dragon Monk to me when we are back on Earth.”

From that point, Xandu had come and used a blue flame to heal them all their injuries and talked about the sword. Daniel looks down at his hands to see them take the forms of gauntlets with spikes over the knuckles. To test out the theory of it being able to take any form it wants, Daniel uses his imagination to forge the blade into a small dagger. The golden metal begins to turn into a golden liquid around the hands before all of it joins together around the right hand. The liquid moves with a swift speed as it takes the form of a dagger, similar to the appearance of an old pirate knife. His fingers tighten around the handle as the metal hardens and a bright smile appears over Daniel’s lips.

“I can definitely get used to having this in the arsenal from now on. Thank you guys for making this possible.” Daniel rarely ever shows gratitude but he knows when to do it, and this occasion is a good time to show it.

Xandu gives some very good words of advice for Daniel with the blade before also advising the two of them to head back to Earth before a festival begins. The Super Soldier happily nods to that before placing the dagger inside of his utility belt on the opposite side of his Plasma Knife.

Once he prepared to leave, Trevor stops them and tells Daniel to take a hit off of his vaporizer. A long well placed speech about getting high soon followed and it only brings the large super soldier to laugh. He reaches out to take the vaporizer with his right hand, eyes observing the object up and down. Using the vaporizer properly Daniel takes a big hit of the weed inside and instantly begins to cough up a lung. COUGH COUGH COUGH Daniel has smoke coming out of his nose and mouth as the weed instantly hits him.

“This shit right here? Is called Dragon’s Beard. This is the stuff of the GODS my dude.” Trevor would’ve taken a hit himself stuffing it back in his sash. He coughed a bit while talking. “you can’t cough cough hit that mothafucka to many times or you’ll go into a sex coma for a week on earth. Wake up with ya nuts covered in dry semen.”

His senses go off the charts with Daniel literally being able to smell the colors within the portal! He can see the sounds he hears! After getting through the portal, Daniel comes to land on his feet once they get back to Earth. His feet hit the ground and the weed still hits him pretty hard. Daniel shakes his head slightly before turning to his right to see Trevor. It would seem their adventure comes to an end with the moon still lighting up the skies. If he allowed him, Daniel would place a right hand on Trevor’s left shoulder.

“I’d say that was a terrible night, but I would be lying.” Daniel laughs a bit before continuing. “You aren’t as much of a dumbass as you make yourself out to be in The Red Knights.” The Blood Knight of the team begins to walk forward to get back to his normal night and as he walks away he waves his hand up to Trevor as a farewell while saying, “It’s your secret, man. But we can’t be a team that trusts each other if we hide things like this from each other…I’ve seen it break brothers before. Just remember that for the next time we need back up.” And just like that, the super soldier would disappear into the shadows of Kasaihana City to do only God knows what.

“I’d say that was a terrible night, but I would be lying.” "HAHA I know how to kick it bruh." Treovr would've laughed along a bit, hearing Daniel's next sentence. “You aren’t as much of a dumbass as you make yourself out to be in The Red Knights. It’s your secret, man. But we can’t be a team that trusts each other if we hide things like this from each other…I’ve seen it break brothers before. Just remember that for the next time we need back up.” Trevor waved as he watched Daniel walk off. thinking bout it all...he has a point. He should be able to trust his team mates at least somewhat to be able to keep his secret. To be honest Trevor had no family here, no ties. Nothing. He could tell the whole word who he was and it woudln't effect him in the slightest. "You're right man." Trevor said to himself. He then looked down at the palm of his hand, closing his eyes for a moment and remembering the future he knew was coming. The Return of the Spectre and all of the chaos he'll bring. Trevor being one of the only soul's on the planet to know about this forthcoming and knowing if the wrong people found out he'd be hunted down. "There are some risk I'm not ready to take yet. One person at a time." Trevor felt a new surge of power since his return to the real world. He'd look around. "Hm...Dragon Monk Technique #32: Tree Sided Staff. Wonder if i can pulll that off here."