"I'M GONNA ******* KILL YOU!!!"
Was all Dante could hear as he was slammed out of the base and into some empty field which seemed to be what made up the outside of the base as he was relentlessly and violently pummeled by fists that shaved away his skin on impact and burned away his muscles. Kiara was relentless, her crimson eyes flaring up in a violent rage that couldn't be stopped by any manipulation of time, space, or dimensions.
"Haha..." Dante thought to himself, "Hah! This bitch is really pissed off." He thought as Kiara continued to pummel him.
"And he's strong... Unbelievably strong. So strong to the point that she makes King Tiger look like a joke." Dante licked his lips, grabbing Kiara's arms, stopping her in her tracks.
"**** off!" Kiara shouted out as she tore her arms away from Dante, punching him once again, creating a large chasm in the ground which he was launched into.
"HAHA! Your amazing!" Dante said, instantly floating out of the large hole in the ground. "Way more interesting than that ****** with the 6-wings. Actually, you remind me a little bit of my mother... Big bitch, long hair, and... pregnant, it seems...?" Dante said, glancing at Kiara.
"Hey, I don't really wanna fight a pregnant chick..." Dante said, wiping some blood from his mouth as he healed-
BOOM!
"Yah ain't listening, huh!?" Kiara delivered a vicious kick right to Dante's chin, knocking him farther into the air, vaporizing part of his face.
"Pregnant? I could give two ***** if I'm pregnant... My kid is going to be fine." Kiara said as she cracked her knuckles, "Because I'm going to ******* kill you!!"
Dante laughed once more, "Hahaha! Your ******* insane, you know that!?" Dante dashed down towards Kiara as she formed multiple swords made from solid fire, appearing as a red/orange material.
Dante drew the sword that was mounted on his back as he smiled, following with Kiara grabbing two of the blades, attempting to stab him. The sheer force of her swings completely obliterated space and time, allowing her to hit him without any problems. Dante simply smiled at this, gripping his blade as he deflected the swords, shattering them. Kiara didn't falter, the shards simply forming into more blazing swords which stabbed into Dante's back. Dante continued to smile, ripping the blades out of his body and dropkicking Kiara as she blocked the attack with her arms, being sent flying back.
She dug her feet into the ground, slowing herself down, but Dante didn't even think to let up with his assault as he covered his blade in crimson energy, delivering an uncountable number of slashes that moved in nearly every direction towards her, homing in on Kiara. Kiara slammed her feet into the ground to come to a stop, covering her fists in concentrated fire.
She got into a stance, taking a deep breath in and out. She swung her fist downward, creating a large hole in space that swiftly expanded and consumed the blasts, redirecting them away from her and towards Dante. Kiara concentrated the broken space around her fist, releasing it as an enormous beam that would serve to completely erase Dante from existence, Kiara layering it with every power nullification and resistance negating ability she could muster.
"DO IT, DANTE!! ACCEPT THE POWER!"
Suddenly, an enormous flash of light covered Dante's entire body, but Kiara paid no mind to it, simply dashing forward along with the beam she had released to deliver a follow-up attack in case Dante had survived. Dante simply let out one more cackle.
"I won't ever accept your power, Sparda!" Dante shouted out as his arm was swiftly covered in weird scales that contorted into spikes, the arm in which he held his sword, his right arm, seeming to resemble that of a demon's...
The beam that Kiara released clashed against Dante's flesh, deflecting off him, the energy being spread away and shifting into various other beams that hit other parts of the ground, even flying back into the base. "But... This isn't your power, is it? This is the power that I've cultivated on my own through countless battles." Kiara continued to ignore Dante, delivering a vicious punch to his face.
"Demonization. 10%" Dante's voice contorted as his eyes flashed crimson, catching Kiara's punch in his normal hand. Kiara simply increased the power, using her explosions to propel her fist forward, pushing Dante back, but his feet remained in the ground. "Why the hell do you care so much about King Tiger?"
Dante asked before delivering a counter-strike to her face, launching her straight into the air. As soon as his fist connected, he connected some of his energy to her face like it was some sort of elastic putty, pulling her right back down to him before he released another vicious punch right to her face, and another, and another, the barrage only getting stronger and faster with each strike.
"Your damn right that I care about him..."
Kiara didn't even flinch as her face was violently blown to pieces. With each strike, she created a forcefield right above her skin to significantly lessen the damage that she would take, delivering various counter-strikes to every area in Dante's body. The face, the chest, the stomach, the spine, the neck, the groin, it didn't matter as long as she hit him.
"Because I admire the hell out of that guy for his bravery..."
Veins had begun to bulge on Kiara's forehead as she valiantly charged forward, shoving her fist straight into Dante's stomach, launching him into the air. As soon as her fist had made contact, she replicated Dante's little trick somewhat, wrapping her flames around his waist and instantly pulling him back down, slamming her fist right back into his stomach.
"Even so, if he lost to you..."
Dante was once again sent flying into the air, but she pulled him back and continued punching him. Even as her fist was turned into nothing but a stump due to his durability, she regenerated from it and continued to strike him without end, not even confined by any manipulation of space her time, the hero's fist reached Dante and continued to punch him.
"If he lost to you, then there's absolutely no ******* way I'm going to lose!"
Dante slammed his fist into Kiara's head, knocking her to the ground. She skillfully slid across the ground, moving backward to avoid his next attack as red energy began to radiate off his body. All he did was laugh, a psychotic grin plastered across his face as his hair stood up.
"WOW! What a ******* riot! Your ******* amazing, Kiara! I can see it in your eyes, yknow!?"
Two large desert eagles floated out from Dante's back pocket, floating next to him as his sword, which was previously a shiny silver, turned completely blood red. Dante's arm grew larger, more monstrous than ever before, as he continued to smile at Kiara, his aura melting everything around him like nothing.
"Within your eyes, I see countless struggles. Countless years of fighting experience. Countless years of pain and suffering. Countless screams and cries for help, countless cries to be helped by your loved ones. That was a little girl..."
Dante got into a running start position, the crimson aura that was previously chaotic and undefined swirling around Dante and forming a sphere that continuously grew as he concentrated the energy. Black lightning and thunder sprouted off of his person, his voice continuing to become more contorted.
"But you know what I see now? I see eyes that were hardened from countless years of fighting experience. Muscles that are honed to the perfection of your weight class, technique polished to the pinnacle of martial arts. I see another person within you... And that person and you are completely one and the same."
Kiara walked towards Dante without fear or hesitation. She clenched her fists, also getting into a running start position as blue fire covered her hands and feet, forming into large blue boots and gloves that had tiny wings on them. "Hermes."
"And I bet once you've got that kid outta you, you'll be even stronger! Aha! Just thinking about it gets me going even more than that six-winged twink..."
Kiara concentrated all of her explosive power into her hands and feet, the gloves and boots compressing around her hands and feet, signifying that she was preparing to release all of her stored up power in a gigantic explosion.
"But whatever! Now, I can't go beyond this level of Demonization lest I do something I'd rather not do! But! I'll be pushing myself to the absolute limits of my power with 10%! Try to keep up!"
"Shut your mouth and come at me!!" Kiara shouted out, tired of all of Dante's blabbering. "You talk SO MUCH! This is a fight not a ******* opera! Close your mouth and JUST FIGHT!!" She shouted out.
"Gladly."
Dante jumped forward, his sheer speed completely erasing everything around him from existence. He stepped forward once, and then twice, and with that, black lightning swirled around him as he ran in a circle around Kiara, swirling around her only to follow up with a punch directly to her stomach. He didn't care if she was pregnant or not. Now wasn't the time to care. For him, now was the time to fight.
Kiara was sent flying, as simple as that, a beam of chaotic energy following her that caused destruction wherever it went. What lay inside the chaotic force was the souls of trillions, chaotic screams filling the area, a grotesque requiem of energy and that would serve to turn Kiara into nothing to save her the pain. But...
She defended. As soon as she was hit with Dante's monstrous power, she created barriers, countless barriers, various symbols forming around each and every one of them that would serve to even further absorb the damage, the pattern that formed seeming to resemble something like... A mandala?
"Shield formation." Kiara formed an inescapable dome around herself and Dante to contain the damage that they would cause. Immediately, she formed countless swords made from the solid flame which she immediately pelted towards Dante, creating explosions at the edge of them which served to further propel them through space and time.
Dante's guns returned to him, firing countless bullets that clashed with Kiara's weapons while he held his sword tightly, various red slashes of energy shooting themselves off of it without Dante even seeming to move, instantly homing in on Kiara. From those red slashes, more formed, and more formed from those, and even more formed along with his bullets which he was releasing a constant stream of.
Kiara snapped her fingers, countless small strings forming off of her right hand and arm as Dante's projectiles came flying towards her. These strings were made of fire, the strings forming into a web that spanned the entire dome she had created, each and every projectile violently exploding upon contact with the strings.
"Die." Her voice seemed to be overlapped with someone else's...
She clenched her fists, causing the web to contract and swarm around Dante, hoping to crush him with sheer mass and heat. Dante was instantly covered in an enormous fireball as the strings violently crashed against him.
Dante said nothing. He didn't laugh, nor did he scream out in rage. He simply smiled and broke free from Kiara's trap, releasing a burst of energy that completely obliterated her strings and violently cracked her dome. With that, he dashed towards the hero, grabbing her by the arms. With that, he pulled her towards himself, delivering a violent headbutt which Kiara met hed on.
They both screamed with passion, the dome that surrounded them exploded as both of their powers rapidly increased. Kiara propelled herself forward with a large explosion, violently increasing her power as she shattered Dante's skull, knocking him away from her. But as soon as he was knocked away, he twisted his body and grabbed one of his guns, firing a bullet which violently swirled around Kiara, hitting her in the back and exploding on contact, burning away the skin and muscles on her back.
Despite that, Dante was still knocked away as he prepared to fire more bullets at her, expecting such an assault to have at least slowed Kiara down, but even so, she stood there, simply holding her arm which she surrounded with fire, forming a blade.
"Hah..." He smiled, and then grabbed his sword as tight as he could, a beam of red energy coming off the blade.
"Rebellion Breaker."
And thus, they clashed with all of their remaining might, both of them getting stronger in the process. Various mandalas formed behind Kiara, her physical strength and speed being pushed far behind what her body should've been able to handle.
And the result...
"This is the best day of my life, Kiara." Both of them were dealt severe damage, Dante's upper half falling down from his lower half as blood shot into the air, causing it to rain down from the sky. A large scar appeared on Kiara's chest and ran down her stomach as she groaned in frustration. Not because of the injury itself, but because of the possible effects it could have on the baby.
"Don't worry, I purposely didn't apply any regeneration negation taking into account that kid you've got growing inside you. That wound should heal within a few hours. As for me..." Crimson tendrils sprouted from Dante's lower half which forcefully connected his upper half back, the wound instantly closing.
"You cut me in half... I'm enamored at your sheer power." He said, "To think that a human would be capable of achieving such heights through effort alone is astounding on it's own. And yet... Why am I alive? Were you not going for the kill?" Dante asked.
"....There isn't anything good about this strength," Kiara said, her voice returning to normal.
"I can protect my friends and family... my loved ones... But the things that I went through to attain it..." Kiara began to shiver, blood staining her hair and clothes as it continued to rain down.
"I still remember every moment. I couldn't possibly forget it. And I don't know if this strength was worth all the pain." Kiara said.
"Hah! That's the talk of a weakling, Kiara." Dante shouted out, mocking his opponent.
"People like you and me are different! We've pushed the limit and transcended bullshit like all of that. As a human, you could stand among them all as a god among gods! And you still despise your strength?" Dante asked.
"I don't want... My kid... To grow up in a world that's dictated by strength and fighting ability." Kiara said, her trembling ceasing.
"...What...?" Dante said.
"I want Rio to live a normal life. I don't want him to have to worry about the next enemy to come or to have to worry about being the strongest. I don't want him to have to fight in wars, like Rory or David... Or to have him dictate kingdoms, like Yharon." Kiara said, causing Dante to clench his fists.
"I just want him... To live a normal life. That's why I need to be strong enough to give that to him. Strong enough to make him happy when he gets here." She said.
"Foolishness, Kiara!!" Dante shouted, "UTTER FOOLISHNESS!" He shouted once more.
"The world is dictated through STRENGTH! People move forward through strength! You gain respect and status with strength! People dictate the world with strength! I will dictate the world through my strength! Without power, you'll utterly end up with this foolish weakness!" Dante said, pointing at Kiara.
"You seemed stronger than most, but I guess you were just a weakling after all." Dante kicked a hole in space, creating a crimson portal.
"I am going to drown this entire multiverse in chaos, Kiara. Such chaos that nobody, no warrior, no mage, no god, will be able to stop it. But I want you and your group to be able to." Dante said.
"Gain power, Dante..."
"...I want you to let go of that foolish ideology of yours and fully embrace the true meaning of absolute, unrivaled power!" Dante walked through the portal, it swiftly closing behind him.
"My precious little weapon... Gain power..."
Kiara walked back to the base, the walk taking her over half an hour, or however long given she transcended time. Her eyes were blank, displaying her sheer exhaustion. She soon walked back into the base, falling to her knees.
"Shit..." She said, groaning in discomfort.
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