Dargus walks through the streets of Avia Isla. A few days of travel and preparation went into tracking a suspicious Ronin, Jufuku. As Dargus roams around for an extended amount of minutes, he comes across an outside bar. He reads the flashing sign up above, "The Grub Hub Bar..?"
Dargus scoffs before catching a glimpse at the mysterious figure he had been looking for, Jufuku. From within, Dargus sees Jufuku bonding with the pedestrians alike, laughing along with them with drinks in hand. Dargus walks inside the bar, b-lining straight to his target. "Jufuku." His thick accent makes his name sound foreign, it's clear he's not from this continent.
Jufuku turns his head aboutfaced, now donning a more serious look as he knows this visitor may not want to have such a good time like the rest. "Mmm???? And your name is??".
"Dargus." His name causes people to start looking in his direction.
"Speak with me outside." He doesn't even wait for his response before walking towards the door.
"Don't keep me waiting.".
Jufuku sits there for a few seconds. He sighs. "Excuse me you guys," Jufuku says to the people was drinking with, "I'll be with you again shortly. Apparently I have business..". And with that he soon meets up with Dargus. By the time he gets outside Dargus is standing with a scroll in his hand, "Noctis wants to know what your business here is. And they want to know it now." The scroll unravels revealing the letter Dargus received about him.
Jufuku laughs out loud, "And what if I don't tell you, huh?", and he begins stretching, "You know, I haven't fought at all since I've been here…three days, was it? So excuse me if I kill you lazily. That is…if you want to die today.".
Dargus drops the scroll and as it falls to the ground he begins fueling chikara into his legs. "Then so be it."
As the scroll touched the ground Dargus grins under his mask.
FLICKER!!
Dargus appears in front of Jufuku slamming his palm into his sternum, sending Jufuku flying back meters away. Before Dargus could follow up, Jufuku had already recovered, palming his face and throwing him with a large grin.
Dargus uses that momentum to backflip, stopping just before he slams into a wall, "The distance from both sides of the street is roughly 130 feet." His thoughts bark in his head as he starts analyzing the now fleeing people around. "You're fast ya know."
"Heh! Glad you think so!" Jufuku shouts, "Your hits are half bad! Let's see if you're worth it to become a memory of mine, shall we?!!?"
Dargus gets into a karate stance as chikara begins to surround his body, coating him in a thin almost transparent layer of chikara. "We shall."
Dargus dashes towards Jufuku while maintaining a perfect balance. "I still remember some of my techniques from my days in the Dipea-Kicho." He says as he closes in rapidly.
Dargus leaps into the air spinning 3 times before coming down hard with an Ax kick. Jufuku uses his wings and moves backward, he then closes in and begins his attack.
Dargus immediately regains his karate stance trying to anticipate him. Jufuku comes in with a straight chop to the neck but Dargus blocks. A quick elbow strike aims for Dargus' chin but he leans back avoiding it as well as Jufuku's sharp, golden, feathery wings he tries to sneak in.
Dargus spins right avoiding the wing swinging his leg with the same movement. He drops his leg before it hits, front kicking Jufuku's stomach.
However, Jufuku doesn't budge much. He holds the leg and hurls him to the other cloud island nearby with a chase.
As Dargus soars through the air he thinks to himself. "Strong too." His eyes lock onto Jufuku before beginning to shoot a barrage of explosive chikara blasts at him.
Jufuku, utilizing his wings, soars through the air, dipping and flying past the blasts of chi. Some of them, Jufuku catches and throws back at him. About 5 of Dargus's own blast follows him before Jufuku arrives.
Dargus puts his block up allowing his blasts to slam into his own guard. This creates a thick cloud of smoke in the air. Jufuku fans the smoke away, only to find no trace of Dargus there.
Large scaly hands grab Jufuku's legs before slamming him through a large building. Dargus stands at the hole in the ceiling. "I hope that didn't harm you too much. We still have much to discuss, Jufuku." He now says his name perfectly.
The angel chuckles. "We can just talk and fight now, can't we?!!" he says, tackling Dargus up in the air and gut punching him. "So what's so important that we need to talk about?"
Dargus coughs as Jufuku's fist slams into his gut, then quickly he shoots a chikara blast at his face before kicking off Jufuku and landing on the ground. "I don't sense chikara from you. Just what are you?"
"A being beyond your mortal realm…" Jufuku flashsteps out of Dargus's view and tries to swipe at his torso, appearing behind him to do so.
Fist meets claw repeatedly as the two clash rapidly. "You might be stronger than my last kill." Dargus declares as he leaps into the air, summoning a gigantic ball of chikara at his palm.
At this, Jufuku can't help but crack a smile. "So does that mean I get the pleasure of fighting you at your best??!!", he leaps quickly towards Dargus.
"Beast push!" The ball shoots forward forming into the head of a gigantic wolf, howling as loud as the surrounding environment would let it.
Jufuku couldn't expect this to happen, with widened eyes he meets this attack headon. The jaws of the wolf open then clamp down. As its bottom jaw closes..
BOOM!!
It explodes, creating a small smoke screen and a perpetual heat. "The hunt shall commence." Dargus's red eyes glow as his face begins morphing.
From the smokescreen, Jufuku steps out battered and bloody.. The Beast push was something he had never encountered before, Jufuku's even surprised that he made it past it. But now, the angel has stopped messing around.
Jufuku doesn't waste time, he closes the distance from Dargus but stops to admire what's going on with him curiously.
First, his arms elongate, then grow forming scales that begin to surround his entire body. He then grows, from his previous 5 '8 to a now towering 7 '0. The scales take a beige color and his underbelly is tan. The chimeric hide has taken its full effect.
A wide grin forms on his face as he darts towards Jufuku, running like a wild beast. Jufuku does the same, eventually having both parties meet at a point.
Dargus swings his entire left arm trying to cleave through Jufuku. However, the angel blocks with noticeable strain.
Jufuku then goes in for a hook, in which Dargus weaves, followed by a low sweep and a twin fist. But Dargus's evolution assists him in not getting hit by anything incoming.
A hard overhand right to Jufuku's block still sends him flying back, Dargus then summons a large amount of chikara into his leg causing a noticeable red aura to surround it.
He stomps and the earth beneath them starts splitting heading straight for Jufuku and as it does, Dargus dives into it.
Jufuku just waits, he's preparing.
The cracks continue and so does Dargus. Silence follows as it stops just short of Jufuku.
Jufuku, for the first time during his encounter with Dargus summons a clone from within his body and flings it upward to one of the islands again. Meanwhile, the clone takes the original's place as it continues to fall.
Dargus jumps out of the ground behind the clone and he grabs him by the back of his head as he sniffs. "Two." He opens his jaw wide as he attempts to devour the clone.
Until, out of nowhere, the original Jufuku crashes his foot into the side of Dargus's head, causing him to fall downward to the Earth's surface, but Jufuku stays up for a while before tracking him down with the help of his wings.
As Dargus descends his body slams through the rain cloud falling 2 miles before finally reaching the under-continent, Vura.
His body hits the swamp underneath and by the time Jufuku breaks through the cloud Dargus has disappeared.
"Now where did you go….?" Jufuku summons multiple clones to scurry the surrounding area for the Search of Dargus. Jufuku, in the meantime, sits on a mossy rock and stares at de-peddling flowers.
Dargus sniffs the air, "8 clones," he sniffs again this time getting low. "7 closing in." By the time the last word leaves his mouth he's flickered leaving only an afterimage behind.
He appeared behind one clone, His eyes staring directly at his neck. Dargus walks towards another clone holding the previous one in his mouth, by his neck. He then drops him causing a loud thud that makes birds fly away, and with a bloody smile he says. "Come. The hunt is far from over." Dargus splits the clone in half, blood splattering all over his hide.
"To bask in the hunt," He says as his pupils dilate and he darts towards the nearest clone. "It's thrilling!" One by one clones are slaughtered.
After, Dargus turns towards the last clone, whose signature has grown stronger since the other ones have died.
He walks towards him, dragging the corpse of the last clone. "Thrilling indeed."
Jufuku's clones all dissipate into dust and the original arises from the wet rock and picks up a one-petal flower. "The hunt is thrilling you say? Well let me ask you this…" the flower he held finally let loose of its last pedal, "Is the hunt really thrilling when you, the hunter, are being hunted instead!?!!". Jufuku crushes the flower in his palm and dashes to Dargus in a zig-zag pattern. Dargu's eyes widen as he's too slow to react initially. Jufuku takes this moment to fully damage Dargus as much as he can. Jufuku lands a swift but heavy jab, an uppercut to the ribs, a hook to the kidney, and then a cross to the jaw that sends Dargus back stumbling a bit. Afterward, Jufuku sweeps Dargus, and mid-air, he catches Dargus by the neck, arms, and leg, with the help of his clones and drags him through the swamp's trees for some time.
Dargus slams his fist into the ground, completely halting the momentum. His other hand wraps around Jufuku's arm. He uses the arm in the ground to fling himself into the air "Prey fighting back, I knew this hunt was worth it!" He pries Jufuku's hand from around his throat, swinging him around and throwing him farther into the air.
A barrier summons under Dargus' feet as he grins. "You'll be my next meal!"
FLICKER!!
Dargus fist slams into Jufukus face as he appears, A hook follows, then he palms his entire head as he leaps through the air eventually dragging Jufuku through the clouds.
Jufuku punches Dagus's face to lessen his grip, but his attempts fail. That is until Jufuku forms a lower-body out of his own and kicks Dargus down. Though Dargus doesn't falter, dragging the angel down with him.
BOOM!!
Causing an explosive crater to form, both Dargus and Jufuku circle the hole casually at a rapid pace. Both bloody. Both enjoying the thrill.
Dargus stops, bolting straight towards Jufuku as a blur of red. Jufuku, who halts as well, summons a clone and hurls it at Dargus, running behind it, then past it all in a golden blur.
The ground rumbles as Dargus slows down slightly enough for…
BEHEMOTH HIT!!
A warthog made out of chikara forms around Dargus, its color a bright orange, its eyes a bright red.
Though on Jufuku's end…as Dargus charged his Behemoth Hit, Jufuku responds.
His fist shimmers gold, conjuring up energy through his heavenly soul..
The two hits clashed creating a gold and orange shockwave. The force of this shockwave clears the clouds above, finally letting some light come down to the underbelly of Vura.
"Magnificent." Dargus says as he slowly pulls his hand back.
"Marvelous!" Jufuku smiles, pulling his and back as well.
Dargus' face begins to morph into that of a Hyena, grinning like the devil himself.
He drops quickly, sweeping Jufuku off his feet. Once he hits the ground Dargus lifts his foot up slamming it down but he's interrupted by the clone Jufuku threw beforehand.
It tackles him attempting to punch Dargus but he bites his arm off completely before kicking it into the air.
He spits the arm out and leaps towards the real Jufuku.
Jufuku charges in, focusing deeply. He throws a right before attempting a flying knee with a clone.
Dargus leans forward getting hit with the knee, but also hitting the clone with an overhand so hard it explodes. He slams the back of his hand into Jufuku sending his head snapping heft.
A hard punch to Jufuku's body sends him curing forward. "A taste of your own,"
CRACK!!
Dargus' knee slams into Jufukus face sending him flying into the air and crashing into the ground several feet back.
Slowly Dargus walks towards Jufuku, his chikara leaking from his body gives him a dangerous presence, akin to a predator.
"The hunt is about to end my friend." Dargus' words are cold and detached as he stares directly at him.
Jufuku coughs up blood, practically vomiting a bit as he chuckles. "Maybe for me…but them? Not so much."
Dargus holds his hand out towards Jufuku, "Any last words prey?"
"Yeah actually.' Jufuku can't help but smile, "I'll wave to you on your way to Hell, you bastard.."
"Devour." As Dargus says this his hand begins to open like a mouth.
"Devour this insect." Within seconds Dargus' hand begins to consume the lifeforce of Jufuku. And within a few seconds he's nothing but a pile of bones.
He walks towards the bone and plucks a rib from the ribcage on the ground. "At the end of the day, he made for a nice toothpick." He starts to walk towards the swamp he slaughtered the other clones in. "Hopefully you're remembered."