Downtown Rumble

Mirai's doorbell rings,

"Oh Luke," says Mirai answering it, "Is...something wrong?"

He has an oddly somber expression as he peeks inside the house, Nikkie is there in her Nekojin form playing with Toby, its an odd sight but Nikkie once told him its no different than a human playing with a monkey.

  After a brief pause and spying MewMew lying on the couch taking a nap, "Mirai...yesterday...did you see a red orb...and a magic viewing screen?"

  Mirai is confused, "Uh...no..."

  Luke lets a deep sigh of relief, "I though so...Albia was just messing with me."

  "Can I come in?" asks Luke looking around, "this is kind...Dark Tournament..ish..."

  "Sure," Mirai lets him in.

  Once inside he sits down and looks at MewMew and starts to silently laugh, "Oh thank God," he says, "This would be all kinds of awkward."

   Nikkie just gives him a weird look as does Mirai.

  "Oh right," says Luke, "well...I thought I was getting into the new Dark Tournament like last time..but I got mixed into this whole other thing...don't worry about it...just something a champion of justice has to deal with...but this...woman or whatever talking over the screens...just like the Dark Tournament was announcing who are the participants are...she goes and addresses me as the son of something called Lucetaria...and Rhulan Rokonaka...like two fathers...and carried by my mother...weirdest thing...Albia goes and tells me..."

  Mirai exchanges looks with Nikkie, "Uh..." says Mirai, "I thought I told you....too...oh right your mom jumped you then, guess you didn't hear me..."

  "What?" asks Luke looking between them.

  MewMew jumps off the couch and walks to the open space between the living room and the bar-kitchen. I blue flames and shadows MewMew transforms into a woman with dark red hair, black clothing, and a cape that is black on the back, red inside.

  "I am Rhulan Rokonaka." she says, before transforming further, her cape changes into shadow wings then into dragon wings, her body and clothes morph into black dragon scales, a pair of horns adorn her crown, as her hair extends and becomes darker and a long whip like tail extends from the base of her spine. Her eyes glow like blue flames. She stretches out her clawed hand and says, "Luke...I am your father."

   "No..." says Luke looking at this demonic overlord, "That's not....wait...."

  Rhulan is holding her gut laughing.

  Mirai and Nikkie think about it a moment and start laughing. Luke gives a deadpan stare.

  Rhulan *sighs*, "Kid....you are the reincarnation of Lucetaria's avatar that was infused with a mana stone made from my essence. It caused the avatar to gain a soul of its own, which was then turned into a fetus and carried by Shahara...magic in other words, and this was all....locally...an insane length of time ago. I can only guess time travel or one hell of a stasis was used for you to only be this old now."

   She spirals into the air transforming into shadow and then back into MewMew and landing in Mirai's arms.

  Any further discussion is interrupted as Nikkie gets a call on her cell telling her they need to turn on the news.

   ******

   [Once again this is Channel 17 local news, everyone is being advised to evacuate and avoid the downtown area as a previously unknown Kaiju has been spotted. As we can see this one is on the smaller side of what has been seen thus far.]

   The news shows a hideous monster rampaging down town, about the size of two pick-up trucks its built like a scorpion with fleshy brown skin instead of a normal exoskeleton, a deformed and leathery lion like head with quills for a mane. and although not easy to see from the helicopter camera it has a pair of deformed human like arms under its chest. The monster tosses a car with one of its pincers at a police cruiser and fires a yellow beam from its tail that causes trees to die and the officer hit by it to dissolve in agony.

  [local law enforcement has been unable to subdue the monster, the army is being called in we are told and will attempt to lure the creature out of the city if able before firing on it.]

  *****

  "Shit," exclaims Luke watching the scene, "sorry.."

  His eyes narrow, "that's not a Kaiju...its one of the demon Overlords!"

  Without another word he rushes from the house and in broad daylight leaps across rooftops towards the downtown area. Not seeing that on the news something else has beaten him to the scene.

  ******

   The bullets bounce off the monster's leathery hide, it seems to pay no attention to who is attack it, targeting trees and what ever is in front of it with the toxic rays from its stinger and claws. It is given cause to pause however as a second creature lands on the street not far in front of it. To those in front it would appear to be something with a small body and four large smooth white tentacles with squid whip like tips holding it off the ground like some odd spider, its head a gaping dagger filled mouth with a swaying beard of blue tendrils. To those officers and civilians trying to flee to the sides, behind, and the windows above the body is clearly that of a young woman in the fetal position, although a woman with smooth milky white skin. Her head down and the mouth on the back of her head.

   From the hideous mouth she speaks in a deep horrid voice, "Garg, that is what she called you...did the rules not say we were not to cause undo damage to the planet and its population?"

  The monster known as Garg laughs, a horrific sound that sends chills down the spines of the people, "I am not laying waste cities and commiting genocide...what point is there in becoming a world's devil...if they don't know what awaits them on the other side? They will be hunted by me and my beasts! Now surrender little girl!"

   The white monster's mouth closes, the tendrils turn white as they sway back, the girls assumes a semi-sitting position in the air as she is held aloft by her two lower tentacles with the two higher on her back swaying above her like twin snakes ready to strike. She smiles wide with her shark teeth and glares with eyes of pure red. In an instant she leaps through the air slamming Garg on the head with her two higher tentacles, releasing electric sparks as she does so. Garg strikes with its stinger only for her to dodge, grab the stinger with her tentacles, leap over it, and gripping the street with her lower tentacles throws Garg through the air, smashing it through the seventh floor windows of a nearby building.

   Garg rushes out of the office building roarings as it leaps into the air, firing three corrosive venomous beams at the same time. The girl, leaps into the air dodging them and comes down ontop of a police car. Her smile down at the cop is twisted and makes him turn pale white. She leaps through the air spinning like a wheel and slamming Garg on its back smashing it down into the street. She lands on the side walk and stabs her upper tentacles down into black portals in the street. Garg is thrown into the air as her tentacles come up under it via exit portals. She pulls her tentacles back, and then throws them behind her through a portal in the air, the exit coming out next to Garg mid-air and jab it into another building. This time however it grabs the support beams with its legs and pincers and growls back at her.

   "Ah..." says Garg, "I remember you...the white thing on the list...what was your name? I don't remember...it doesn't matter now! You are calimari!"

  It leaps into the air and with a deep breath spews out a massive blast of red and orange fire.

  As Garg comes down amidst the flames, Albia is spinning, her lower and upper tentacles like spiral drills as white energy waves around and her body sparks. Like a cyclone she dashes at Garg, only the be grabbed and slammed repeatedly into the street. From over the smaller buildings, and above the police Luke is leaping high above the scene sword drawn. It as though time has slowed down, a moment before a voice had told him the contest is not one on one, the rules do not prevent alliances, now the voice returns, its word however *Power from a past life is rightfully yours...save her and know your destiny as the legendary hero*.

   It is though something snaps in Luke's mind. He holds out his hand as a purple sigil appears before it, "Lohln's Web!" he shouts, shooting out a webbing that covers Garg's eyes.

   Albia in her rage unlocks a hidden power, her eyes flash with inner light as twin blood red beams blast Garg in the neck, the monster howls as it releases her. It human like hands grasping at its bleeding throat.

  Luke lands beside Albia, he gestures to her with a thumbs up jabbing his thumb up. Albia nods and standing up, shoots her tentacles into a portal in the ground. This time however instead of her normal tentacles coming up from under Garg, two twisted massive tentacles covered in eyes and fangy mouths shoots up sending Garg flying into the air.

   Luke aims his sword up and shouts, "Sairyu's Frost!" and shoots a blue beam that freezes Garg over.

  It falls to the ground, parts of it shattering off. The ice breaks around its left pincer which starts to glow yellow. Luke dashes forward and slices the pincer in half, as Albia leaps up and comes down with her upper tentacles in a twin smash so strong that the body explodes. The police and civilians watching this in disbelief shield themselves, however the ice pieces all vanish in red smoke before they hit any of them. In a dark abyss elsewhere in a dead end lifeless cavern the red smoke swirls and Garg emerges whole. Its howl shakes the tunnels for miles causing shuffling disheveled men and women to shake in fear and many hidden things to howl back.

    *****

    Luke re-sheaths his sword, "Hah, take that demon beast!"

   Luke is broken from his moment as Albia points behind him, a cheer and clapping ring up from the people.

  Albia retracts her tentacles and summons a kimono around her and her wig and fan...trying to seem a bit less...terrifying in broad daylight. She whispers to Luke, "your mother is going to be so pissed."

   It dawns on Luke as he looks at the crowd, the news vans approaching and the news copters that all of this was live and recorded, "Oh...crap," he whispers.

  However any officers approaching the couple is short lived as the air is filled with strange music. A small silver flying saucer materializes from a wormhole not far from the news copter, a woman standing on the saucer is holding a microphone and singing, a pop-song about being the cosmo queen, addressing her self as "Yanna the Cosmo Queen" doing a little dancing, as much as one can on such a small stage; which is more than one might think. Swishing about in her plastic looking pink go-go boots, short skirt, and bikini-top. Her darker pink hair a bit short yet splayed out. As the saucer floats just above the street the woman stops her song and leaps off the saucer which vanishes as though being teleported by some old sci-fi special effect. She tosses the microphone into the air where it too vanishes, this time like a hologram.

   "Cute couple," says Yanna, "the weaklings are forming alliances already, took down that weakling Garg...always the first one down, and is never follows proper Demon Lord ettiquete.

  The woman strikes a pose, "I am Yanna the Overlord of the Cosmo Hell, the Cosmo Queen, Mistress of Meteors, Comets, Stars, and....the best stylist this side of everything."

   A giant pair of scissors manifests on her back.

  She smiles, "and I'm your next opponent."

  She looks around, "the audience may want to back up a bit...this is..."

  Albia roars, throwing away her kimono and wig and resuming her battle posture. She takes a deep breath, Luke leaps back out of the way as Albia spews out a purple miasma right at Yanna.

  Yanna *snaps* her fingers and the Miasma vanishes, she smiles and says, "I don't need to breathe..cosmo queen...you on the other hand bitchy..."

  She flies through the air, a little old school jetpack manifesting on her back, grabbing Albia by the upper tentacles and dragging her very quickly into the air. Albia tries to shock her but Yanna doesn't even feel it. Albia jabs her lower tentacles into the black portal she can call up and strikes Yanna in the back. Yanna release her, curls back like a ball and says, "Now you're thinking with portals" before kicks Albia sending her flying back into a blue worm hole.

  Yanna teleports back to the ground.

  "Where is she?" demands Luke, sword drawn.

  Yanna looks up, "Well...I can't cheat and just teleport you guys off the planet...sooo...upper atmosphere, going to get taken out by re-entry. But hey...she's just going to..."

  Luke "roars" and leaps at her, his sword encased in a yellow energy followed by shouting, "Feel the ravages of time!"

  She grabs the blade with one hand, "Ooooh," she says, "tingly, I can feel the centuries passing in my hand...too bad for you kid...I'm eternal."

   She tosses him aside, causing him to roll by the sidewalk before righting himself.

  "Care to join your girl in the Catacomb Hell?" asks Yanna looking up, "Another one bites the dust...heh...not my genre...but..."

  She manifests a comically goofy old school sci-fi ray-gun. As she points it at Luke a roar shakes all the windows, a giant white tiger (as in the twice the size of an elephant) leaps over the buildings and brings its paw down on Yanna. Who with one arm blocks it, although due to the laws of physics her feet are now ankle deep in the road.

   "Ya'know," says Yanna, "that boy there is safe, the magic of the tournament will protect him...his minions however...not so much."

   Yanna manifests a ray-gun, as Luke charges her, she casually shoots him through the chest.

   "Nooooo!" roars the tiger.

  Luke stops, where a bloody gore filled should be, is instead a swirling red mist filled hole. He vanishes in red smoke. Yanna leaps back and aims her gun at the tiger, "Now then...that's three out of the tournament, should I let a debunked Overlord's minion's wander around."

   "Enough!"

   This thunderous woman's voice comes from above as dark clouds fill the sky. A large black dragon scaled woman, black draconic scales on the dorsal sides and over her tits like some mockery of a tiny bikini, with a snake belly form in a lighter shade of black on the abdominal sides and the rest of her breasts. Her horns sleek with a ridged top side and oddly aerodynamic. Her hair a flowing darkness mixed with deep red netherflames. She is wearing a mouth guard for some reason, that covers her mouth and nose. Her brilliant glowing blue eyes apparent even from the ground. Her long tail swishes about, its tip a spear head like blade, her great wings need not flap, yet do...despite slowly descending. As she passes below the height of the news copter she summons red lightning to her outstretched hands causing the copter to flee, the rest of the people below have also fled, the polic trying to maintaine a perimeter.

   "Your problem," says the dragon woman, "Yanna...is that you lack the true atmosphere of an Netherworld Queen."

   She takes her face mask off with one hand and crushes it into black flames and smoke in one hand in a dramatic gesture. She looks up showing her deep red lips, she flicks out a snake tongue and licks her lips, "That...is Shahara...a local goddess...and that boy's mother."

   She looks past Yanna, "Shahara, your child is fine...given the circumstances I'd say he is in the Catacomb Hell...right beside Albia no doubt. Might as well let the kids check out their new realestate...which is apparently their's....or Albia's...unless they eloped."

   "Chaos..." says Shahara, "That is...you...I assume. So this is your true form."

  "Oh this," says Rhulan, "I always get that...I don't have a true form. I am whatever the mood begs of me...or circumstances as the case may be. Now then...Yanna...lets begin."

  Yanna strikes a pose, "your problem oh Queen of Faeries...is from what I heard...you've been spending the last ten milleniums fighting people far below your level...you are horribly out of practice. Now...lets see how you handle this!"

   Multi-colored flashing lights come from three flying saucers that have just appeared as Yanna sings, the other two created multi-colored light hologram clones of Yanna that at the end of the song dash at Rhulan. Rhulan smacks them in opposite direction into nearby buildings where they explode in many colored lights.

   Rhulan dashes forward and punches Yanna in the gut with dark flame enveloped fist. Yanna gasps, but then stops, smiles, grabs Rhulan's arm and then kicks her in the crotch.

  "Want to fight or fuck?" says Rhulan in a snarky tone.

  "Uhhhhh," says Yanna as Rhulan grabs Yanna's top and flies up into the air.

  A few hundred feet up Yanna's top snaps off on its own.

  "Tit tentacles attack!" yells out Yanna as her tits shoot off as tentacles and wrap around Rhulan's arm.

  "What the hell?" says Rhulan as Yanna closes the gap like a grappling hook and kicks Rhulan into the clouds, her tit tentacles extending, stopping her with a whip-smack, and pulling her back.

  As Rhulan is being pulled back she stops short, Yanna now being pulled to her, but now many shadowy serpents made of black fire with eagle like heads manifest from behind Rhulan, spiraling around the tit tentacles and grabbing Yanna with their beaks around her arms, waist, and upper thights. Yanna releases her tit tentacles, her top reforming as they retract. Rhulan pulls Yanna to her regardless, her claws forming into shadow claws and her eyes turning red.

   "Demon Lord's Embrace." says Rhulan as red bolts flash from her claws and dance over Yanna, who screams in agony.

   Through gritted teeth Yanna says, "Two...to...beam...up!"

  A large energy sphere sorrounds them and they re-appear in sub-space.

  Yanna is no longer in Rhulan's grasp and floats a good distance away.

  "Its not like the old days," announces Yanna, "I have expanded beyond my four specials only rule...and I see you have picked up a few tricks as well, calling up little minion projections...well..."

  She manifests a small flying saucer in her hand which appears via little squares like some odd hologram, she does a spin and throws it while yelling out, "Space Invasion!"

   The saucer sends out projections similar to how it appeared that form a large wall fleet of them. Rhulan hunches over, her wings become shadow and then split as numerous thorn covered tendrils as she announces, "Roots of Chaos!" the vine like tendrils split like roots, impaling the saucers making them explode. One of them, the original apparently spins about dodging the tendrils and gets through. Rhulan holds up an arm and blocks it, it explodes virtually in her face but does not phase her. She pulls back her tendrils which morph quickly into shadow wings and then back to her dragon wings.

   Yanna's eye twitches, "Well...sometimes the classics are best."

   She summons a huge blue sigil under her feet, from which a massive blue glowing spherical asteroid emerges. She stands on it and yells out, "Super Idol Star Comet!"

   It lights up in blue flames and flies forward.

  Rhulan shakes her head, its not how a comet works, but that's not important. She quickly summons a massive black sigil under her feet from which a massive black spherical asteroid emerges, dark red flames erupt from it as she rides it flying forwards, "Black Star Extinction!"

   They both ride their respective meteors like one would ride skies flying directly at each other, upon impact there is a massive explosion, energy of all sorts flying in every direction rippling through sub-space. Summoners would find their matches ended immediatly as the shockwave reached their grid environments, astral travelers would appear at random points on Earth, and every dreaming person would wake up suddenly from a bright light in their dreams. The sky above the city turns green. The white tiger had vanished shortly after the other two had, the police are at a loss, and the copters can't find any trace of it.

   Inside Shahara's office she is already in contact with a Plane Walker to locate her son. A portal appears in her office, from which Rhulan emerges, and quickly transforms to her sorceress form.

  "You won I take it," says Shahara whose concern is more on contacting a very confused and upset Plane Walker who wants answers to what just happend across sub-space.

   "No," says Rhulan nonchalantly, "She fled, created one hell of a distraction...and fled."

  "So she lost," says Shahara.

  "No," says Rhulan, "a tactical retreat is well within the rules. This is not your Dark Tournament...this is a contest between devils. If not for the rules regarding the planet's civilizations...even beyond the rules of the contest...for an Overlord during and after victory anyway, this contest would end up involving armies. Not that it still can't in other ways..."

   "So...." says Shahara, "When you fought Montigi so long ago...you..."

  "Had amnesia and not even at one percent of my power," says Rhulan, "and I am not the only one here right now that could have killed that thing with one shot."

  "My son," says Shahara, "He is..."

  "Catacomb Hell," says Rhulan rolling her eyes, "we weren't lying about that you know. Oh here..."

  She reaches into her cape, whose inside turns to darkness as she does so, and pulls out a small orb which she tosses to Shahara.

   "This can connect to any hell and open a portal, finding anyone you personally know. However remember, there is a spell in place that will prevent Luke and Albia from returning here till the contest is over. Till only one devil remains."

   Rhulan pauses and *sighs*, "A real shame, I was planning to wait till the end to go after those two. Would have been much gentler about it. There are so many others in this contest that would have been so much more appropriate for that boy to fight than me."

   Rhulan vanishes like a shadow, like a Shadow Vampire as Shahara thinks of it. Shahara holds the orb and contacts her Plane Walker. In a moment the giant woman with swaying hair and four arms appears, an astral avatar.

   In an eerie voice the Plane Walker speaks, "That was...the disturbance...these devils...are dangerous..."

   Shahara sets down the orb, "She said this could send me to my son,"

   "Yes," says the Plane Walker.

   "She also said he can't come back till only one devil remains."

   "Yes," says the Plane Walker, "I can sense...the spell...I found him...the spell is strong...I cannot break it."

   "Chains of Glipnir?" asks Shahara, "I have more than one of you to help."

  "No," says the Plane Walker, "Much stronger...I do not know this spell...no doubt made...for these powerful beings...to hold them away."

    ******

   -shortly after Luke vanished-

    Luke finds himself in a subway tunnel with flickering light, something is moaning down the track. He senses...evil, intense evil. The moaning figure is a shuffling man in torn clothes, he looks directly at Luke and moans, "Sin...Sinner...I...want..."

   He starts to shuffle into the light and creepy smile comes over his face, "Found a tender boy...come here tender boy...come to papa!"

  The man charges at Luke, who swings his sword on reflex through the man's gut. Luke's sword was still glowing yellow, the energy fades. The man holds his gut as the skin quickly wrinkles and turns to dust, this spreads as the man looks at Luke in wide eyed horror. His body ages and crumbles to dust. The sense of evil fades, but in a moment Luke can feel it again, the exact same feeling, he is sensing the exact same person...only...he estimates about a hundred feet or so away in some direction. His focus snaps in another direction as he leaps back from the wall as it explodes, thanks to Albia jumping through it. She hugs Luke in a tight embrace.

   "Al..Albia," chokes Luke.

  She lets him go, "Luke...so glad...wait...you lost too huh?"

  "Damn," he says, "That lady was...insanely strong...I...where are we?"

  He looks around, "Its some weird subway, but I've patrolled so many...definetly not in our city..also I think...there is something down here...it felt human and evil...but..."

  Albia sees the dusty remains on the ground, "You killed it and it came back some distance away."

  "Yeah," says Luke.

  "Well," says Albia, "if you die in Hell where do you think you go?"

  "Oh..." says Luke, "Wait...we're in Hell?!"

  Albia points the way she came, "There is a maseleum catacomb through there. We are in the Catacombs Hell...my aunt gave it to me. Guess since you helped me...and don't have your own...you ended up here too."

  She gets a wicked smile, "Here we are...all alone till the tournament is over, our own private playground."

  Her tentacles, half as thick as her arms snake out from her back like normal tentacles and start to wrap around Luke, "sooo....we rule this place lover...wanna make it offic..."

  "Luke!" the voice is Shahara appearing via a portal.

  "Seriously," says Albia.

  "Hey....mom..." stammers Luke.

   Shahara looks between them and smiles, "Oh....ooooh, don't let me stop you kids...go on,"

  Albia smiles and starts to kiss Luke cheek and neck.

  "If you need pointers," starts Shahara.

  "Mom," says Luke, "Seriously, I'd rather not...Albia."

  "So shy," whispers Albia as she strokes his chest.

  "Can you get us out of here?" asks Luke

  "No," says Shahara, "the spell for this insane contest is too strong."

  Albia's hand is traveling south, Luke holds her hand blushing. Albia looks at Shahara who smiles back.

  "Well," says Shahara, "I can find you anytime boy, you are in good hands." With that she vanishes.

  Luke lets go of Albia's hand which finds its way into his pants, rubbing the mound above his genitals. She guides his other hand to her crotch, dripping wet as she whispers, "I am seriously pent up after this,"

    She nods towards a subway car just sitting there with its lights flickering on inside. She leads him, the mouth on the back of her head actually seems to be smiling too. With little ceremony she practically rips his pants open and pulls them pushing him onto some seats in a row. She lowers herself onto his erect cock. Shimmies a little getting comfortable and bounces on him, shaking the entire car about. The noise attracts some attention, various zombie like creatures. They moan even as the two in the car moan. However their trudging towards the car stops short as they see Albia, the only one they can see through the window bouncing on Luke. She smiles wickedly at them, her hair tendrils shoot up and her second mouth opens wide and roars in orgasmic delight as she does as well. The zombie like souls of perdition flee as fast they can, as Albia's tentacles expand out and smash through the windows and roof of the car.

   Albia still sitting on Luke's semi-hard cock leans down and kisses him passionatly and whispers, "Up for hunting a few voyuers?"

   Nothing like a little frustation sex followed by chasing down the damned, that night they would find another spot to rest, someplace they could gather mattresses and other odd debris and make a little love nest.