A Disciples Fate

“Hurricane Palm!”

A hurricane starts to generate at the palm of Sky's hand.

“You’re done for Raffles.”

“Is that so? What about if I do this?”

Raffles takes something out his pocket. It's a remote with one big red button. He presses it. A carriage train starts to go away from the Circus. Everyone can hear the screams of people inside the carriages.

“No!”

“That's not all. Some of my soldiers are going to that pathetic town to destroy it and kill all the people there. Including that Shadow Disciple kid.”

Sky grinds his teeth. The hurricane is still generating in his hand. He lifts his arm up and releases the hurricane causing the whole Circus destroyed and most of Raffles men down.

“Damn you. You think you can beat me? You haven't seen half of my strength!”

Raffles flies towards Sky and goes for a punch. Sky blocks and punches back. They both go on to give each other consecutive attacks. They seem to be fighting evenly.

Kuragami notices the train.

“This is wrong. Somebody had to save them people! That somebody,”

Kuragami runs and jumps off the cliff.

“will be me!”

“Kuragami what the hell are you doing?!”

Kuragami lands on top of the train. He uses his ice to stick on.

The train starts gaining more speed.

“This idiot! Alright. New plan. Hey you three, go back to the town! It's in danger!”

“We need to help Yua and the rest.”

Sasaki, Cherry and Homura start running to the town and a bunch of Raffles soldiers chase after them.

“Hurricane Palm.”

Sky uses his air move to stop all the soldiers for coming after the three Shorai.

Kuragami tries to stand up on the operating train.

“I need to find a way to stop this train from moving.”

Sky and Raffles fight is affecting the weather of the place around them. The waves of the sea starts to crash in on the cliff.

Raffles gives off a cheeky smirk.

Sasaki, Homura and Cherry are running to the town.

“Wha-what happened here?!”

They are all shocked at what they're seeing. A countless amount of Raffles Soldiers are dead on the floor. A eerie aura can be sensed lingering around the dead bodies. Sasaki decides to take charge of the other two.

“Guys we need to hurry and see if the town is in danger. Sooner or later we are gonna have to fight who killed all these people.”

“Yeah. But look at Cherry.”

Sasaki takes a look at Cherry. She looks traumatised. Sasaki walks up to her and gives her a intimidating look.

“Hey. Stop being so useless. Let's go.”

The trauma filled look her face gets replaced with hatred. Sasaki can tell she's angry at what he said but pays not attention. All three of them go to the Town.

They see Yua on her knees, she’s crying. The team runs up to Yua.

“Yua, what's wrong?”

“Yuu-. Go to the train. You can intercept west from here. Stop the train!”

“What are you talking about. And wait, how do you know that the train-”

“Just go!”

As they’re about to run, they hear the shouts and chants of Raffles Soldiers nearby. From where they came from, they see hundreds of soldiers coming.

“This can't be happening. How many soldiers do Raffles got?”

“What should we do?”

“Homura, Cherry. We have to trust in Kuragami. We need to stay here and protect everyone.”

“Okay. If that's what we have to do.”

“Then we will do it.”

The three of them get prepared to take on a wave of Raffles soldiers.

Kuragami is still on the train. He hears people under him groaning. He hears cries too.

“Don't worry guys, I'll save you.”

“Help us. Please.”

“We don't want to go there.”

“Mother, where are you?”

“Somebody, help!”

Kuragami crouches and puts his right hand on the floor. He raises his aura.

The wheels on the train start to get covered with ice. Cold air starts coming up and the people in the carriage start to get chilly.

The train starts to slow down.

“There we go.”

Kuragami thaws out the ice from his feet. He can now move freely.

“Who is that?”

There's a person standing on the train tracks, distant from the train.

“Hey you, move out of the way! You'll get killed!”

A large scale of a dark eerie aura releases from the person. It covers the whole area around making everything look dark.

“What is this insane aura?! Wait, It's him.”

The person points his hand towards the train.

“Shadow Devastation.”

A large shadow attack is being aimed at the train. There's no way for the train to avoid it.

“They sound injured. If that hits the train directly, they'll die! I need to take that attack head on. Ice Wall!"

As the train is about to hit the shadow attack, Kuragami creates an ice wall.

“Wait, that was a bad idea. No!”

The train breaks through the ice wall. The front of the train is dented heavily. Smoke starts to come out of it.

“Dammit. No!”

The shadow attack is right in front of the train.

“I won't let you hurt these people anymore!”

Kuragami raises his aura drastically. He slaps both his hands on the train. He releases his aura, causing the whole train to stay frozen in place.

Swiftly after, he jumps in front of the train and covers himself with his glacial aura. He tries to block the attack.

The shadow attack directly hits Kuragami, causing him to go back and slam his back on the moving train. The train explodes causing smoke to erupt in the air around. The train is now stationary with flames everywhere. Kuragami is on the floor with scratches and bruises covering his whole body. His clothes are ripped.

“Look, Sasaki, Homura. That explosion, it’s west!”

“Kuragami, don't die out there.”

Everyone can see the explosion from the town.

Sasaki, Cherry and Homura are fighting off hundreds of Raffles Soldiers. They are doing well so far but they can't resist forever.

“Cherry watch out behind you!”

One of the soldiers sneak up in Cherry with a sword and swings it at her. She turns around with no time to react.

But unexpectedly, Scorpion comes out of nowhere and poisons the soldier. The poison makes it so that he is unable to move. Scorpion then beheads him with his tail.

“I guess I was right. You kids can really do it.”

Cherry is so confused. Why did the enemy save her life?

“Scorpion?!”

“Don't worry girl. I'm on your side. Your captain Sky told me some things and well, I'm willing to help you guys take down Raffles. After all, he's an evil guy.”

“Then why the hell did you go work for him? It doesn't make sense. Wait, how can we even trust you?”

Cherry points her branch towards Scorpion.

“Rhino and Bear went down the wrong path. They accepted Raffles as their leader and did what he wanted. Although I knew it was wrong, I joined them. I have my reasons, people I need to protect.”

“Like I said, why should we trust you?!”

Scorpion smirks. He turns around.

“Kill me when you feel like it. My death is coming soon anyways. I swore to protect my brothers yet they’re both dead. I’ll pay the price one day.”

“You don’t have any hard feelings towards us? We were the ones who took them off the map.”

“It was for the best. They led down the path of evil. Evil has no place in this world.”

Cherry lowers her branch. She points it behind her.

“Diu.”

Her branch extends, consecutively hitting 3 people behind her. They break through multiple trees, causing destruction in the forest.

“The world just gets more and more complicated the more I breathe.”

“You’ll understand the ways of this world one day, girl.”

“Cherry, my name is Cherry.”

“Cherry.”

“Cherry smiles.”

The four of them now continue to defend the town.

The person walks up to Kuragami on the floor. It appears to be the shadow disciple boy.

The shadow disciple boy has purple eyes, purple hair, and is wearing a purple and black attire.

“Who are you? Why do you care so much about these people you’ve never met in your life?!”

Kuragami struggles to stand up, though he does.

“People aren’t just tools. You can’t just force them to go to a place they don’t want to go to. You can’t force them to do things they don’t want to do!”

Kuragami turns around. He hears cries of people behind him. The train is burning. Some people are making it out, some burnt to death.

“You guys, run! Run far from here! I’ll handle this from now on!”

Kuragami looks back at the shadow disciple.

“And as for my name, it’s Kuragami Nozomi!”

The shadow disciple is shocked.

“You, Kuragami Nozomi? A measly kid my age?”

“You speak as if you know me.”

“That’s not for you to worry about. Cherish this moment, it may be your last.”

Kuragami takes a good look at the shadow disciple.

“It’s obvious now. This is all an act.”

“What are you blabbering about. You know what, I don’t care.”

The shadow disciple raises his aura. His aura surrounds them. The pressure causes the area around them to break.

Kuragami starts to raise is aura too, rivalling his. He has his eyes covered. The shadow disciple dashes towards him and goes for a punch. Kuragami dodges it without looking and gives Drago a kick to the gut. The contact forms ice on the shadow disciples chest, slowing him down. Kuragami then appears above of him and kicks his head, leading the shadow disciple to fall and destroy the ground below him.

He stands back up and Kuragami starts giving him consecutive attacks, the same thing he did to Bear. Drago can't keep up and keeps getting hit. Kuragami then stops.

“The mission assigned to us isn’t important anymore. I need to complete my mission. If I kill you here, I’ve failed.”

The shadow disciple is injured on the floor. He punches the ground out of pure anger.

“Damm it! Why am I even doing all of this?! I can’t even beat a measly Shorai on his first mission! Yet I hold the joint burden of being a shadow disciple!”

“Do you hold it, to protect the ones you love the most? Like Yua?”

The shadow disciple quickly looks up at him. He holds back tears. He still looks angry.

“How dare you! What do you know?!”

“You’re working with Raffles to keep your family untouched. You used to a fire disciple didn’t you, Yuuto.”