KelesK eyed Veji wearily.
"Ban Sabres...what next?"
KelesK lengthened his blade arm and then formed his left arm into a shorter blade.
"I'll need a short one if he gets close..."
Without any further statements, Kel rushed at his fellow demon. Holding his right arm beneath his torso and his left at a 90 degree angle to his body, he lowered into his dash, hoping to use his powers to make momentum worth something. He leapt up, disturbing the sand at his feet, and held both blades above his head, ready for a powerful downward blow.
"Didn't you learn the first time?"
Vejimaru caught Kel's attack with the end of one of his Ban Sabres, holding both of the lethal ice blades away from himself. Veji drew the other ban sabre back, and then thrust it at KelesK's abdomen. Kel, seeing what was about to happen, flipped forward, using the Ban Sabre holding him up as a pivot, and thrust both of his feet into the white tiger's face. Veji fell backward, his nose obviously broken. Kel took advantage of the slowing effects of water and got below the white dragon. He quickly reformed his left arm and slammed the back of his hand into Veji's throat. Had Vejimaru not taken a special pill that allowed him to breath underwater, this would have killed him. The seemingly useless breathing device floated slowly out of his mouth.
"Why have a breathing device if you can breath anyway?" Kel asked the choking Veji. Then he found out the hard way. The moment he detected Veji's energy was somewhere else, Kel knew something was about to happen. He brought his arms up in front of his face as the breathing device blew up ferociously.
Veji appeared on top of one of the nearby temples, looking into the cloud of bubbles and smoke that now resided where Kel was. When the smoke cleared, Kel floated there, both of his arms blown off at the elbow down.
"Damn...that won't do much good..." Veji said as he watched Kel reform his arms, "Looks like I'll have to take it up a notch."
As he spoke those words, his eyes changed. The 3 pronged star that was his pupil grew, and 3 more prongs appeared. His aura flared brightly, a scarlet outline in this seemingly endless green.
"SUMMONING NO JUTSU" the white demon roared as he slammed his palm into the roof of the temple.
Kel saw this coming, and made ample preparation. His eyes began to glow orange, and his aura tripled in size and power.
"CHAOS CONTROL!" the ice demon roared as he pointed to the roof top where Veji stood. It exploded in a magnicent slow motion explosion of rocks, moss, and sand. "Damnit...he's still alive..."
A loud rumble made Kel stop. He turned and leapt backward just in time to avoid a gigantic stone foot. KelesK looked up at the monster and realized that it was one of the many statues that littered the surrounding area. Veji appeared on top of the granite beast.
"Heh. Bet you didn't expect this, eh Kel?"
The pieces came together in Kel's mind. Veji, instead on using the powers of earth to animate them, summoned something, probably a spirit, to possess it. But that meant...
Kel had no more time to think as the creature opened its mouth and charged up a gargantun energy blast.
"Must..."
The beast drew its head back.
"Tap into the..."
It flung its head forward and opened its maw wide.
"The chaos control once again!"
A huge beam of pure energy tore through the water and sand where Kel stood only milliseconds before. Veji knew what Kel was about to do and leapt from his spot on the beast. Not a second too late. The stone beast exploded in a hail of rocks and ice, all of which homed in on Veji.
"BAN WAVE!!!" The white tiger yelled, bringing a Ban Sabre down in a powerful vertical slash that sent fourth a shockwave of red energy before him. Veji turned, only to see the other statues exploding in similar fashion, one by one, all sending rain of lethal properties at Veji. Both Ban Sabres hummed into life, and Veji crossed them in front of his chest.
"SUPER BAN WAVE!!!"
He swung both swords diagnolally in front of him, forming a red x that hung in the air for a moment, then turned into a super-heated shockwave of energy.
Steam filled Veji's vision as the super-hot attack clashed with the frigid water. When the steam cleared, a horrifying sight met Veji's eyes.
The shockwave had done nothing to stop the lethal hail of ice and stone.
"I'm such a friggin genius..."
Veji vanished using the powerful after-image technique and appeared below the onslaught of the former statues. The shower of rock and ice continued for a distance before correcting and homing in on Veji once again.
"Enough..."
They were drawing nearer.
"Is..."
Veji could see his own reflection on the surface of the ice shards.
"ENOUGH!!!"
Vejimaru's aura exploded into life once again, only this time with more power than Veji had ever shown. Anger from previous defeats, the loss in the Royal Rumble...it all came up in one tremendous shockwave of raw, unadulterated strength. The rain of ice and rock disintegrated immediatly.
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"Vejimaru is the first to be eliminated from the Royal Rumble!"
Mephit74's words echoed in Veji's head as he walked away from the stadium that was host to the Royal Rumble.
"Well, that should certainly kill off his ego!"
Optimus's words seemed to continue forever...
When Veji stepped outside, it was pouring with rain. Typical. He was making his way down the long, winding staircase when Magnus and Xam appeared behind him.
"Quite an asskicking you recieved, yes?" Xam asked.
Veji didn't answer. He continued walking.
"Hey, don't ignore us," Magnus said, something evident in his voice, "We know a place where you can train...and become stronger than any of the fools here."
Vejimaru turned at this. Become stronger than Hwo? That seemed nearly impossible to Veji. Despite this, he followed them to lands in the east. It was there that he became the warrior he is today, where he lost his arrogance, and his pride.
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KelesK appeared in front of Veji, right arm once again in the form of an ice blade.
"..no.."
"Stop mumbling and TAKE YOUR FATE!!!"
"NO!!!"
Veji moved faster then he ever had before. Ducking under Kel's blade, he slammed a clenched fist into the ice demon's stomach. Rage blinding him, Veji immediatly landed a rocket kick on Kel's chin, sending him up through the water, leaving a trail of bubbles behind. In an unending assult, the demon prodigy warped up next to KelesK and drove his left foot hard into the ice demon's chest. Disappearing mere moments after he landed the blow, he reappeared a distance behind Kel, and some distance above. As Veji fell, Kel drew closer, and the white tiger brought his hands up above his head. When the two met, Veji slammed his clasped hands ferociously down on Kel's chin, sending him down to the ocean floor at speeds that seemed unnatural in water. The sand that covered the stone tiles was thrown up in a thick cloud as Kel plunged into it, the tiles themselves giving way to the body of the frozen one.
When the sand rested one the tiles of old once again, a large crater lay in the center of the sunken city. Kel, however, was not about to give up.
"He's stronger...much stronger...but I SHALL NOT LOSE!!!"
His eyes glowed orange with new found ferocity, and he shot up out of the crater, pulling sand up in his wake.
"KelesK, there is a time in every man's life where he should give up...give in.
"I am no man, I am a demon!!!"
"So be it..." Veji said, his eyes starting to rotate.
Kel's eyes glowed orange with untold power, but he had done this move one time too many. As Veji's eyes were rotating, they took in every single little detail about Kel, his eyes, what they signified, his arms...everything about him. Veji's eyes flared into an orange light, and he sped down at Kel, determined to finish what should have never started.
"CHAOS CONTROL!!!" Both warriors yelled as their fists collided.
The resulting shockwave was felt world over. Off Topic was the victim of a giant tsunami, and the Newbie Central was entirely flooded, amidst yells of "OMG WTF HAPPEN!?!?!?!?!!!!11?"
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Veji looked down at the form that was KelesK. He was lying on the ocean floor, having been knocked out by the shockwave.
"You are a valiant warrior, but you have much to learn..." Veji told KelesK, although in vain.
"As are you." A voice said.
Vejimaru turned to see a swarm of small demons manifesting themselves some monstrosity...