The whole planetary mass collapsed inwards for a fraction of a second.
And then detonated outwards like a newborn super-nova.
Nexyra's glow slowly burns out, his body cools down back to normal.
Nexyra slowly turns towards where Suiryuu and the others are, "I must bring an end to this,... Dear Lord."
But before he could do something Shimura appears right above him and hammers him down with both fists closed, sending Nexyra hurtling through space like a comet, his body carving a glowing scar across space.
* Meanwhile at the asteroid earlier *
Chihiro is sitting on rock and gazing at the deep space above. Damura is strolling around the asteroid.
Suiryuu and Veguro are trying to make a house out of the rubble of Suiryuu's actual house.. which isn't a house exactly.. now...
Suiryuu balances a few stones on top of some broken planks. "MOOM!! Look, our house is ready, we can go rest now."
Chihiro giggles, "Well done Suiryuu, just wait for dad, then we can stay in peace"
Damura standing next to them lets out his laugh, "Where exactly is the 'House' part in this unknown structure".
But Veguro seems to be rather delighted by the sculpture artifact, his eyes shimmer with amaze, "Holy Shit! Architect Suiryuu, please make me a luxurious bungalow too".
Damura continues to stroll around the huge rock, standing at the edge and looking at the stars and galaxies filling the deep space above and around.
"Hey,... what's that..." Suddenly, his eyes fall upon a moving object, like a big comet, coming straight towards them.
Damura's soul leaves his body, but he puts it back into his body and makes a run for it. Nexyra crashes at the edge of the rock, completely slicing off the part and still continues its projectile.
Nexyra's crash shakes the whole asteroid, and Veguro's "luxurious bungalow" a masterpiece consisting of three crooked stones and a heroic plank began shaking violently, almost falling apart. His heart almost shuts down.
Shimura follows behind Nexyra at super-sonic speed, his sonic boom tears through space, forcing debris and dust violently aside.
Veguro's bungalow again faces an earthquake, he tries to support it with his hands and survives. *Sigh* Why does everyone want to wreck my house man.
Nexyra tries to halt his motion by shooting his web at the asteroid, but before it could reach and stick onto the surface Shimura moves ahead of Nexyra and Punches him back to the asteroid.
Nexyra rebounds back, completely shattering the asteroid and their so-called 'house'.
"NOOOO!!" Veguro cries out loud on the sight of the demolition of his lovely house.
Everything is scattered away in space from the collision.
But suddenly.... Everything stops. All of them freeze at their position, like something is holding them in place, trying to crush them, compress them from every direction.
Nexyra spits out blood, his eyes again start to flicker in burning blue, brighter than the stars as the space around them growls in anger.
Shimura's eyes still filled with arrogance and superiority as he grins wide.
Space distorted in layered waves, separating rather than breaking, like oil gliding over water, untouched by its laws.
An invincible force holds everyone in place, and Nexyra sets his foot on the scattered remains of the rocks. His eyes shine deeper than the space itself as he faces Shimura.
HIs deep voice echoes in space, like a thousand organs reverbing in a castle,
"Thy mastery has diminished over the megaannums, Tsugaraki-Sama. Yet you still think future can be altered" His eyes flickers erratically as he speaks.
The space itself starts to bend around Nexyra and the others.
Shimura slowly lowers his stance, getting ready for launching a kick any time.
"You sure are talking big for someone who's gonna los-"
A dead silence eats up the atmosphere, no sense of motion whatsoever..
The drifting dust stopped. The stars stopped twinkling. Even the distant echo of exploding asteroids fell silent.
. . . . . . .
TIME, . . . HAS FROZEN.
Nexyra screeches in silence and slowly moves towards Suiryuu. "So you are, his son. You resemble lord very well... except for his greatness."
Nexyra clicks his sharp pincers and open his Goliath mouth, like a deep dark cave, and from beneath protrudes its grotesque tongue, slowly approaching Suiryuu. Growls of terror echoing from its depths and some kind of green gooey fluid dripping from everywhere.
Suddenly Nexyra's jaw snaps closed almost biting his own tongue, his colossal body began to fold inward, as if invisible hands were crushing his bones..
As he tries to look behind him, Chihiro's hair float in space and her cold face holds her rage within as she continues to slowly crumble Nexyra with her psychic powers, closing her fist.
"Did you really think that you would just one day come out of nowhere and finish, The Tsugarakis? And even that in outer-space? Personally.... I wouldn't recommend that know. Now go talk to my husband!" She swings her hands and throws Nexyra towards Shimura, ready for a nice kick.
The solid impact sends ripples throughout the space. Nexyra is sent flying to a planet nearby. His ability breaks and time starts to move like normal.
Chihiro flies to the planet and Shimura teleports everyone else there.
"Is all of this a dream?? If yes then I don't wanna wake up" Veguro whispers in awe, his eyes twinkling with amusement.
"Here, let me check it for you" Damura punches Veguro straight to the face as he speaks.
"Yea, definitely not a dream" Suiryuu cries out as Veguro gives a thumbs up.
Chihiro looks at her body, "We haven't rusted that much have we..". Shimura continues as he walks forward, moving his shoulders "Been quite some time since I exerted this much"
Nexyra slowly crawls out from huge crater formed by his own crash. Blood trickling down from his mouth, and a huge dent in his abdomen due to the last kick he took.
Still shaking, Nexyra tries to stand properly with his wrecked legs, "I must accept..." He coughs out more blood, "My defeat, my death. But... all of this" grunts "won't be much meaningful" groans "The higher ups will hunt you down". He falls to one knee.
A breeze calmly blows above the red sand of the planet, Shimura continues to walk further towards Nexyra though being quite far away.
Shimura gives him a cold stare, "I have no reason to kill you Nexyra, but let me tell you one thing. The cycle will repeat itself, because it has to, not because I fantasize it... but because of the will of this universe itself"
Shimura's expression eases off a bit, he steps forward and offers his hand.[1]
A soft smile appears on his face, "You know I am not like this. So, will you stand with me... Or will you stand against the will? Dear Friend"
Nexyra doesn't give any response, an awkward silence grows. Shimura shrugs his shoulders, "Fine by me" and turns back, walking back to the others.
As soon as he turns his back towards Nexyra, his whole body starts to decompose, his body breaking apart into thousands... no, millions of writhing spiders rushing at them like a huge tsunami.
Suiryuu and the others quickly try to run away and shout at Shimura "DAD!! LOOK BEHIND YOU!!". Shimura still walking the other way.
He continue with his previous sentence, "Just don't get in my way". The huge cluster of spiders surround everyone, erratic and chittering screeches. All of them curl up in fear and drop down on ground
Shimura slightly tilts his head to look back at Nexyra, his eyes glowing red, killer intent again oozing from, He continues from his last statement, "Unless you wanna die... that is."
The cluster of spiders freeze in mid-air, everyone slowly stand up and look at the spiders, unable to move an inch, some kind of dark force crushing them in place, like a black void had formed around their silhouette.
"Wow! No way mom! Your powers really are amazing, Crush and kill these insects right away" Suiryuu exclaims, amazed by the cool psychic powers.
A small giggle escapes out of Chihiro, "Honey, its not me". Suiryuu raises an eyebrow. She gestures with her eyes towards Shimura. The three of them slowly look towards Shimura as he turns around.
He looks at the half destroyed body of Nexyra with his cold-burning red eyes and looks down, slowly closing his eyes, "I can't bring myself to kill you".
Shimura clenches his fists and turns all the small spiders to dust, all the others look around with a sigh of relief. Nexyra's decomposed body turns back to to normal.[2]
Shimura turns back around. "Let's go back home guys, drama here is done"
Shimura pats the kids on the back, "Darling, Form the portal". Chihiro nods her head and does some hand gestures to form a purple swirling portal.
He walks towards the portal will all of them, but the sadness could be seen in his face looking just slightly downwards.
*Sigh* "I won't be able to keep my calm, if anything like this ever happens again" He whispers softly to his wife and puts his arm around her shoulders.
Chihiro gives him her support and places her hand on his chest. "Don't worry honey, we both know you will. Lets just go back and think this through, ok". All of them enter the portal and leave the outer space, back to where they were before.
Nexyra tries to stand up with his broken legs and turn around. He focuses his energy into he abdomen to heal a little bit and teleport somewhere. A bluish ball of energy starts to form inside his stomach, it was shining so it could be seen from outside.
Just as he was about to teleport, he hears a voice from behind. "Don't forget to tell your minions to repair my house, dumbass". Shimura takes his head out of the portal to warn Nexyra.
Nexyra immediately nods to him by instinct, dropping a sweat by the threat. "Y-Yea Sure!!". The portal makes a warping sound and disappears.
Far away, somewhere in space, where this fight happened. Nexyra stays on the ground, slowly panting. Just as he was about to teleport somewhere, suddenly feels a crushing pain in his chest, no flesh... something deeper.
Unable to do anything, Nexyra squirms on the ground.
His eyes drifted upwards, in the deep space.
Not one... Not two... But many.
Scattered across the cluster of stars and galaxies. Yet… not scattered at all. They formed no constellation... followed no pattern.
And yet.... they felt… aligned.
None of them flickered, none of them moved. They simply existed— watching.
Nexyra's limbs trembled, his mind refused to understand.
He could feel it... staring down at him... from afar.
[1] Nexyra is laying around like 500m away from them
[2] still wounded from the previous kick that is