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[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A NEW DESTINY: BOOK 2
Part 7: The Raging Demon
By Robster80

Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the characters, save for Blue Goblin/King Robert.

Notes: Special thanks to MWhaleK and The Happyman for the information on Akuma and his techniques.

Previously: In a duel, Stryker bested Freddie/Carnage Frog and would have killed him, if TK had not tried to regain control over his body. ALF and Blue Goblin in his GM Blue Destiny suit managed to remove the evil symbiote and freeze him with liquid nitrogen before destroying him once and for all. However, before TK could fully regain his strength from the separation, Akuma appeared and challenged him to a fight to the death. Before anyone could protest, TK powered up what strength he had and followed Akuma into the night...



"SHUNGOKUSATSU*!!!"

*Raging Demon

Although Akuma was charging at Ryu at an incredible speed, he could see the look in his prey's eyes. There was fear. Fear of dying, defeat. And yet, there was a brave look of defiance.

The evil martial artist collided his blazing fists at Ryu, hitting him multiple times in a flash of white, blinding light. The impacts were loud and hard, almost deafening. Blood drops stained his face, arms, and black gi. To him, it was like he was being decorated for his fierceness and skill.

Battered from the fight, Ryu was too weak to even move aside. Muttering a silent prayer, he allowed himself to be hit with the onslaught. Somewhere between the blows, his vision went dark, and his breathing stopped.

A frown formed on Akuma's lips as he stopped to watch Ryu's limp body fly backward and fall. The fight had been long, and bloody. It was just how he liked it, except that his opponent was the one who bled and not he.

"RYU!!"

Akuma lifted his eyes to see ALF, Savage Dragon, Blue Goblin, and Chun-Li rush up to their still friend and ally. Like him, they could tell that Ryu was dead.

"No," Chun-Li cried, dropping to her knees. Her tears flowed like a river. "NO!"

Dragon glared at Akuma. "Murderer! I'm gonna enjoy breaking every bone in your body!"

The dark man frowned. "I do not fight with freaks," he said calmly. "Only humans that are worthy of my challenge, as Ryu was. He was honored to die at my hands. I shall leave you now... until the next time a human appears with strength to rival my own."

With that, Akuma leapt into the air, higher and higher until he was gone from sight.

"Farewell, Mega Avengers."


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TK landed on a rooftop and stopped. Akuma was ahead of him, standing on a higher roof of the next building across.

They stared at each other, not saying a word for some time.

"You are much stronger than Ryu," Akuma said over the wind. "However, I have not trained all of these years since his death at my hands for nothing."

TK was still at Super Human level 2. However, he was not at his full strength. "Even though I've trained for six years," he said. "Your training still pales compared to mine! I was trained by the best fighters in the universe: Vegeta, Goku, Piccolo, and Burter to name a few. They could easily blow up this planet, while you could only scratch the surface."

"But I am not here to fight them, young Saotome. It is you I wish to fight with. We both know that, against the likes of the Saiyans, I would be defeated effortlessly. My desire is to face human opponents who seem worthy to face me in combat, and you... you are the first I have sought out since Ryu."

"Why me? Surely there must be someone else-."

Without warning, Akuma laughed. It was a dark laugh, but also one with amusement, humor. "I like you, boy. You are the first to ever make me laugh in such a long time."

"I fail to see the humor."

"You are too humble for your own good. Tell me, young Saotome, can any other human summon so much power from within himself or herself like you? Or is your golden hair and aura just a... how one would say... fashion statement?

"You and I are alike, you know. Both of us have achieved a level so much higher than any other human being. I, when I discovered the Dark Hadou... and you, when you dug into your very being and discovered the same power that gave birth to the Super Saiyans. And yet, you went even further and went beyond your new limitations. Did you not think that your battle with the one called Friezor went unnoticed by me? I could feel your ki from my place of training. It was both terrible... and beautiful.

"Were you satisfied when you finally killed him, Saotome? Answer me that."

TK lowered his head a little at the question. Yes, he had killed Friezor and saved the earth. However, he was not satisfied. Ranma was still dead. Burter, TK's mentor and friend, had died during the battle. It was a false victory.

"No..."

Akuma grinned. "When the fight is over, the thrill is gone. I regret killing Ryu, and the others I fought in my life. However, they were weak."

The word "weak" was emphasized with bitterness. TK could feel it as Akuma went on.

"I hate the weak! Every opponent I ever fought was supposed to be strong, and yet I killed him without shedding my own blood. My hunger for a worthy opponent grows stronger with each passing moment, robbing me of sweet satisfaction!"

TK glared at Akuma. "You feel that fighting will fill the void in you? You're WRONG! Yes, I felt empty after I killed Friezor, but only because my friend and mentor died afterwards and that my cousin, whom Friezor murdered six years ago, was still dead. My emptiness remained because I failed to protect someone I cared about."

"Is that why you fight? Then why did you agree to face me now?"

"So YOU won't use my family or friends to get to me!"

This angered Akuma greatly. Whom was this young man to think that he, Akuma, would sink so low as to hurt others to get to his foe? "DO YOU TAKE ME FOR A COWARD, BOY?" With that, the dark fighter leapt upward and forward to the next roof, where TK was standing.

The time for talk was over.

TK remained calm, gathering cold ki from around him and hot ki from the now raging Akuma. He'd have to send a letter of thanks to Cologne for teaching him this move, IF he survived. Just as Akuma was close enough, ready to land a punch with his red, flaming fist, TK spin himself around and raised his fist into the air.

"HIRYU SHOTEN HA!!!!"

"What?!"

Akuma realized at that moment that he had fallen into a trap just as he found himself within a cold spiral, pushing him upwards. TK was clever, very clever, to do this to him. However, he was in no mood for games. However, before he could escape, TK appeared in front of him and delivered a spin kick to the face.

<That will cost him,> Akuma thought. Now that he was free of the spiral, he could unleash his power better. He froze for a moment, then swung his left arm behind him.

TK wasn't expecting this. Akuma's arm knocked him back before he could try to avoid it. He was lucky to regain himself before Akuma charged at him with a fury of punches and kicks. The speed of the evil fighter's attacks could easily rival Ranma's Tenshin Amaguriken technique. However, TK had achieved a higher level of speed. Not even uttering a word, he appeared to just nudged one arm forward, and Akuma was sent flying backwards a few feet.

Putting his hand over his mouth, Akuma coughed a little as he landed on his feet. What looked like a little nudge had felt like numerous, heavy blows to his face and chest. His taste buds brought to his attention something bitter in his mouth, and he felt some sort of warm wetness on his palm. He pulled it away to examine the fresh crimson stain his hand wore.

He grinned a little. "I bleed... for the first time since I mastered the Dark Hado..."

TK raised an eyebrow. He had gotten Akuma to bleed, and the guy was happy about it?!

"You have my thanks, boy. For now I can truly unleash my power!"

[Not good,] TK thought. [I can't keep this up for long in my current condition. I need to regain my full strength if I want to survive this match. Damn you, Stryker! You must be laughing at me in Hell right now.]

"SHAKUNETSU HADOUKEN!!!!"

The attack cry snapped TK back to reality, as Akuma fired a reddish-orange ki blast at him. Acting on instinct, he dropped to one knee and raised his right fist above him. "POWER WAVE," he shouted before bringing it down in front with a slam. Quickly, he also shot his left palm forward with a cry of, "BIG BANG ATTACK COMBO!!!"

A burst of blue energy shot up diagonally followed by a big blue fireball from TK's open palm just before the Shakunetsu Hadouken collided with them. The result was an explosion of purplish-blue light. The shockwave of the blast nearly sent Akuma over the edge of the roof. TK was quick enough to fly upward to avoid the wave.

This gave the teen a little break from the fight. Unlike him, Akuma couldn't use his ki to fly. "I hope he doesn't mind if I take a short breather," he whispered between breaths.

"Not at all."

TK jerked to find Akuma floating right behind him, arms crossed. "How the hell-?!"

"Was not easy," Akuma replied. "Took me a few years to master, but I managed to perfect it."

TK silently cursed. [So much for that advantage.] Then, he got an idea. "Let's take this outside the city, so no one gets hurt besides us."

"Still concerning the welfare of the others? That makes you weak... but very well."

"One man's view of weakness," TK said as they flew off to a clear area just outside the city. "Is another's view of strength."

Once they felt they were far enough away, TK immediately set foot on the grassy land. Akuma, however, had other plans.

As soon as TK heard him shout "TENMA GOU ZANKU," he leapt up just in time. Numerous purple blasts struck the ground where TK last stood.

"Cheater," TK cried out as he launched a Masenko attack.

Akuma dodged before setting both feet on the ground. "Then we would be better off fighting on the ground, ne?"

TK nodded before landing, and then charged forward to fight.

If anyone were watching the fight, it would have been difficult to see what was going on. The two were moving too fast for even the sharpest of eyes to follow. However, the volume of the impacting blows was immense. The fight circled around the area where they landed. Small patches of grass were soon stained with blood as the battle raged on. Bushes were ripped away by the force of Akuma's hurricane kick, the Tatsumaki Zankukyaku. Numerous larger spots of land were blown apart by numerous midlevel ki attacks.

Minutes past. The fight went on. Dawn was beginning to come to the city.

TK could not believe what was going on. Despite his lack of full strength and lack of sleep, he was holding his own against Akuma. The injuries he had received were light.

Akuma was impressed. He was bleeding in numerous places, though mildly. His black gi was torn here and there. TK was proving himself a worthy opponent, despite not being at his fullest. However, Akuma had more tricks up his sleeve. They stopped, and stood a few yards from each other.

"Now," Akuma said. "Let's see you handle this next one."

He then stood very still, looking towards the still night sky. It would have thrown TK off if not for his opponent's aura turning a dark purple color and raising one hand up.

This gave TK a quick realization of what was going to happen. He dropped to his knees again, this time his eyes glowed a light red color, and raised his right fist.

Akuma looked down at the ground just then and shouted, "KONGOUKOKURETSUZAN!!!!" He threw is raised hand down and slammed it into the ground. The result was a gigantic flow of purple energy, almost like a geyser, heading towards his foe.

[I guessed right,] TK thought before slamming his own raised fist down and forward. "POWER GEYSER!!!"

The purple KongouKokuretsuzan collided with the blue Power Geyser, which was a more powerful version of the Power Wave. The collision and resulting explosion was much bigger than the one from the rooftop earlier in the fight. The shock wave blew the two further apart than before, however.

TK didn't know what to expect next, but he readied himself. He stood still, gathering ki from the ground beneath him. [Burter, if you can hear me now... give me strength...]


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"The what?"

Burter looked down at young 11-year-old TK. "It's called the Hadou Sempu Kyaku." He spoke the name a little slower than the first time he said it to his student. "It means Super Hurricane Kick."

"Is it like Ranma's Hiryu Shoten Ha move?"

"Sort of, but not really. You see this move was created as a revision of the Hurricane Punch, Sempuken. Also, Chinese amazons did not create this, but a Japanese school called the Hadokusaken School of Martial Arts. My friend Terry Bogard taught me the move."

TK blinked in confusion.

Burter chuckled. "Sorry, kid. What I mean is, you gather ki, much like the Shoten Ha, but you draw it out from the earth itself. The Shoten Ha, on the other hand, needs a mixture of cold ki from the user and hot ki from another source. Step back, and I'll show you."

After TK had moved away, Burter stood very still and closed his eyes. His body began to glow a small aura of white. Energy rose up from the ground in the form of a light green mist.

All TK could do was watch from the side. He noticed that Burter looked a bit mean, but he was simply concentrating on gathering the energy.

The next thing that happened was Burter opening his eyes and began to spin himself into a small tornado of white and blue.

"HADOU SEMPU KYAKU!!"

The tornado rushed forward, heading straight for several straw dummies the two had set up earlier. Once it reached them, the dummies practically flew apart from both the wind and the blows. Once all of them were destroyed, Burter stooped and returned to normal.

Immediately, TK rushed up with wide eyes. "Holy cow! That was... I dunno if I can describe it! Do you feel dizzy?"

Burter smiled. "Nope. Doesn't affect me like that. If that's what happens, then you know you got it right."

TK nodded, and then tried to pull off the technique. Unlike Burter, her didn't bother to concentrate for long before going into a spin.

"HADOU SEMPU KYAKU!!!"

However, all TK ended up doing was making himself dizzy. "What happened," he asked what appeared to be four Burters.

"The trick is to FEEL the earth's ki, TK. That's how it's done. Also, you need to clear your mind of all emotions. You see, TK, my friend Terry was chosen by his master to learn the Sempukan technique over his brother Andy for a good reason. Andy had strength and power, but he also let his emotions get the better of him. Terry wasn't like that. His emotions were bottle dup silently."

Burter kneeled so that he was low enough to meet TK's eyes. "I know you're still angry about Ranma's death, and that Kari's moved away. However, I know you can do this if you try your best. I'm not asking you to forget your pain, but to bury it down for this part of the training."

"Why... do you have so much faith in me?"

"Because... I want to help a friend in need." [And you remind me... of my son...]


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"Play time is over, boy," Akuma growled slightly. "Allow me to show you exactly how I killed Ryu."

TK didn't watch, but Akuma was now standing on one leg, the raised one pointing right at him. All he did was feel the earth's energy flowing into him. When he knew he was ready, he opened his eyes just before Akuma was ready to charge at him.

"SHUNGOKUSATSU!!!!"

"HAODUSEMPUKYAKU!!!!!"

And so, TK's white whirlwind form collided with Akuma's blurry, purplish silhouette. However, Akuma was unable to take hold of TK this way. The Hadou Sempu Kyaku prevented anything from touching its user. As of this, Akuma was besieged by numerous assaults to his upper body and face. He felt one or more of his teeth broken off by several strikes to his jaw.

Burning with anger, he raised both hands up before they came crashing down and released multiple waves of black ki from around his body. "RAGING DARK STORM!!!"

TK's Hadou Sempu Kyaku was broken up by this new attack, and sent him flying backwards after a loud cracking noise. He landed on his feet, but a sharp pain drew his attention to his left arm. It was covered in blood, a lot of blood. His own blood. The attack had broken the arm badly. [Oh shit!]

Akuma dusted himself off, looking a little worse than TK. He glared at the teen, but smiled. "That was a good strategy, young Saotome. No one has ever countered my Shungokusatsu like that before."

TK tried to hide his broken arm by turning it away from Akuma. "What the hell did you do? Where'd you learn that trick?"

"Someone who called himself the King of Southtown. Geese Howard, I believe his name was. The fool thought he could recruit me into his empire as his servant. What I used on you just now was my own revision of his Raging Storm attack, which he thought would stop my Shungokusatsu. Killing him brought me no joy, but removed his annoyance from this world."

Just then, Akuma brought his hands forward and appeared to cup them together. "You are the first to ever cause me so much trouble. As gratitude, I shall now give you a swift and painless death. Sayonara, Takeru Saotome... and arigato."

This was it. After facing Friezor and his men, Davis Hibiki, and the Stryker symbiote, this was how it would end for TK. This man, Akuma, would kill him. Had he listened to the others and healed first, this would not be happening. However, he did not regret his decision. He wanted to be fair.

TK saw that Akuma was powering up his strongest ki attack. And with his left arm broken, he would be unable to counter with a Kamehameha Wave. He closed his eyes, awaiting his death.

"Kari," he whispered to himself. "I never told you... did I? Never told you... that I... I..."

[WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, YOU STUPID KID?!]

TK's eyes flew open in alarm. He could have sworn that Burter just yelled at him now. But, wasn't he dead?

[You still have one arm left, and that's all you need! USE IT, YOU FOOL!]

Mentally scolding himself, TK began to concentrate the energy into his right arm, pulling it back for his trump card. "KA... ME... HA... ME..."

[There's still some fight left in him,] Akuma thought. His grin widened. [That is good. A warrior like him deserved to die fighting rather than just simply rolling over and die.] He pulled his hands to his right side, gathering the remaining energy he needed. It had been so long since he first mastered this technique, and no opponent had ever forced him to use it.

TK felt no hatred for Akuma. He instead felt just a touch of anger at his ambitions. [This may kill me... but at least I'll give him something to remember this fight by.]

Suddenly, as if moving as one, both fighters threw their arms forward and shouted their attacks, releasing their energies into ki blasts.

"MESSATSU GOU HADO!!!!!!!!!"

"HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

If there were any high leveled martial artists in Japan at the time, they would have felt the greatest amounts of powerful ki in their lives up to that point. Both attacks collided, but they didn't explode. Instead, it was like a sumo-wrestling match: the blue and purple attacks pushing at each other to gain more ground for themselves.

Surprisingly, TK was holding back some energy. Despite this, the two were in a deadlock. Neither beam gained, or lost ground.

Akuma was shocked, though he hid this. He was giving his all, and TK was still matching his strength. With only one hand, at that. [Is he... is he even human anymore?]

[He's giving his all. GIVE HIM ALL YOU GOT NOW!!]

With those last words, TK pushed himself to the limit. His beam shown brighter with the increased strength. He began to slowly walk towards Akuma and the beams between them. It was as if he was pushing his attack to gain more ground.

The Kamehameha was now gaining the upper hand. Akuma's Hado was slowly, but quickly, diminishing with each step TK took towards him. "Im... impossible! IMPOSSIBLE!!!!"

Those were his last words before his Messatsu Gou Hado was wiped out and the Kamehameha hit him head on. He tried to brace himself at the bulk of the attack so he could push back. [I can beat him yet! If I can hold out for just a moment longer-.]

"KAIZER WAVE!!!!"

The shout made Akuma glance behind him. A large blast of orange ki was heading towards him. There was no way he would be able to react in time. He screamed out just before he was hit in the back. After that, his hold broke, and the Kamehameha joined in with the other attack to tear him apart.

[I have... no... regrets...]

TK watched as Akuma's body was literally ripped to shreds by the two ki blasts. He would have wondered who had fired the shot, but his eyelids were starting to get really heavy. He was blacking out. The last thing he saw was the dispersing beams and what seemed to be the ashes of Akuma's body.

His last thoughts were [Kari... I love you... always...]


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[Thanks heaven I was in time,] Krauser thought to himself before rushing over to the fallen TK. He had felt the energy from both attacks and rushed to get to them before it was too late. It was a surprise to see that TK was holding his own against Akuma with just one arm.

At first, Krauser thought the boy was showing off. When he saw the broken arm, however, his earlier thoughts washed away.

Upon reaching TK, the man removed his black and cape and proceeded to gently wrapped the unconscious teen into it before picking him up.

"That was quite a battle you put on," he said. It didn't matter that TK was out cold. Krauser was indeed impressed. "Burter taught you well. But... I think it is way past your bedtime, yes? Let us get you home now, and have Dinobot see to your injuries as well."

Looking ahead, Krauser smiled. A hover car had pulled up with Rose and ALF inside, and Cell was just flying in with them. It would be a short walk to them, and then a quick drive back to the Mega Mansion for them all.



To be continued...


No, it's not quite over just yet! In keeping with the spirit of the coming holidays, the last installment of this book will be a Xmas chapter, set three months from the events of the last book and up to this chapter. Again, I want to thank MWhaleK and The Happyman for helping me on this one. See you all soon, and please review.