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Post by Jilak on Sept 15, 2010 22:49:44 GMT -5
Tsuna was out of his element here. He understood nothing the strange creature in front of him was saying. He assumed it was Italian, as Reborn didn't seem to exude any sort of confusion, but... who knew what languages the compact hitman knew? In fact, presumably, as a part of his jobs he'd have to know quite a few. But moving aside from that, Tsuna had no idea what the thing that had come from Thane said. For all he knew it could have been inviting them to go get a batch of muffins.
Tsuna had almost forgotten what a batch of surprises Reborn was. The response he gave seemed to indirectly address whatever it was the creature had stated. Not that Tsuna could deduce such, mind you. He never was the brightest bulb in the box... or is it brightest marker? Whatever.
"I don't think we have much to worry about. Your work's pretty sloppy," Reborn began, indicating the decapitated body, "Not to mention, your Italian could use a bit of work."
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Post by mugenginga on Sept 15, 2010 22:59:41 GMT -5
Hades lifted an eyebrow at Reborn's response and indication of the body. If the infant was human, he'd just seperated himself even more from the realms of norm. He didn't appear to be in the least bit bothered by the head or its former body, enough so that he'd even insulted his work. While he wasn't fond of the teenager, the infant Tsuna had referred to as Reborn had at least put a proper foot in the door.
"I haven't had much chance to use it," Hades continued in Japanese. Hades glanced at the body, at Tsuna with a flat glare, and then back at Reborn, "As for your insult, dead is dead. If I kill the teenager, he'll be dead regardless of how 'pretty' it is."
Hades' voice was serious, but fairly nonaggressive. At least in comparison to before. The threat was present, but the "creature" as Thane was thinking of him seemed to be calmer. His conversation with Reborn was landslides more respectful then how he'd been speaking to Tsuna.
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Post by Jilak on Sept 15, 2010 23:29:54 GMT -5
Reborn's hat noticeably tipped a tad, his smirk widening at Hades' statement. Yes, he supposed the man/boy before him had a point. If he killed Tsuna, Tsuna would be dead. Then again, that was if Hades killed him. If Reborn killed him, the results would be a bit... fuzzy. Arguably Reborn had already killed him hundreds of times, he just hadn't wanted to PERMANENTLY kill him. Though, in Reborn's opinion, even if the person wouldn't stay dead, murder was an art.
"Maybe. But I take utmost pride in my work. For me it's more than a profession or a hobby, it's a lifestyle. As an example," Reborn began, taking his gun from his hat and pointing it in Tsuna's general direction, "I sometimes like to make sure they have something to... regret, first."
Tsuna instantly went into panic mode, of course. It was one of the downsides to Reborn's unpredictability. No matter how many times Tsuna had been 'killed' before, he still never knew when it was intended to be his last time. With a few special occasions, of course, such as when fighting the Varia.
"NO REBORN WAIT WHAT ARE YOU-" Was all Tsuna got out, waving his hands erratically, before a shot was fired. It struck Tsuna right between his eyes.
While dying, Tsuna regretted.
"I'm... going to die... I'm now parting with the world... what waste... if I'd had the dying will, I probably could've..."
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Post by mugenginga on Sept 15, 2010 23:39:59 GMT -5
Hades was on guard as soon as the hat tipped. He saw the edges of a smile on the infant's face. He'd been responsible for a few smirks of that sort in his own lifetime. He'd not had the opportunity for one in thousands of years, but he recognized it. As soon as Hades caught sight of the gun his hands had shot forward and the scythe from before materialized... only for Hades' eyes to widen as Reborn pointed it at Tsuna. He was certain he hadn't been in error on the alliance between the two, but now he found himself wondering if the infant hadn't been using him.
Hades was moving forth regardless of Tsuna's words as soon as the shot fired. His wings had vanished to reduce wind resistance and he was swinging his scythe in a wide arc. His aim wasn't the person who had just been shot, although he would be right beside him when the quite unexpected happened. Hades' aim with his scythe was not the teenager named Tsunayoshi Sawada. It was instead the "infant" known as Reborn...
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Post by Jilak on Sept 15, 2010 23:56:39 GMT -5
Though Tsuna wasn't exactly aware of it, this was truly a monumental moment. This was one of the first times, since Tsuna had met the arcobaleno, that Reborn had looked honestly, truly surprised. He hadn't expected that, he honestly hadn't. No one ever seemed to stop and think 'hey, maybe I should shoot the baby with the gun, instead of the boy he keeps powering up with it'. That being said, Reborn realized too late what was happening. His mind might have been able to keep up with Hades' movements enough to know that he was in danger, but his body wouldn't. He realized that there were no movement, no elaborate dodge he could make that wouldn't end in a near fatal blow, but at the same time, he realized he didn't have to. Sometimes no-good Tsuna came in handy...
And this was one of those moments. Hades probably hadn't been expecting Tsuna to attack, and who could really blame him? The boy had been shot, right between the eyes, and Reborn had made a point of implying that he was trying to kill Tsuna. Many factors could have been attributed to the following, all of which only Hades/Thane knew.
What followed was Sawada Tsunayoshi tackling Hades, saving Reborn in the process. Unfortunately, he did not manage to save Reborn's hat, which was knocked off, effectively sliced.
"I'LL DEFEAT YOU WITH MY DYING WILL!" Tsuna yelled.
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Post by mugenginga on Sept 16, 2010 0:16:26 GMT -5
Hades only had a chance to turn because he could hear the air movement to his side. It was a turn of the head, and wouldn't have interfered with cutting Reborn in two. What interfered with cutting Reborn in two was the boxers sporting teenager over a fot taller then him tackling him in the upper chest and both of them flying into the wall at the side of the alley. Tsuna's words came just before and during the tackle. It was a good thing, because there was enough force that the demon and Dying Will human went through the brick wall to their side.
They didn't even stop there, as the force was enough to send both of them crashing into a stack of boxes on the other side of the wall. Several of the higher ones collapsed down, and Hades' scythe sliced open a few more. The result was that the two combatants were pretty much caught in the center of a baby powder explosion. The lightly scented white powder effectively created a less than pleasant fog effect with a light scent to it. Reborn wouldn't be able to make out either of them.
Hades had the advantage in the fog of powder. Tsuna (or whatever he had begun) was radiating violence. Hades closed his eyes to prevent the powder getting into them. It would sting a fair bit if that happened and there wasn't much in the way of eyesight to be had in the powder cloud. He also vanished his wings, the ceiling of this building making flight an ineffective ability at the current point. He brought down his scythe and hit another box of baby powder, adding to the waning cloud before waiting for an opening. As it was, he knew he had the advantage, and if he could just get "Tsuna" to get close enough....
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Post by Jilak on Sept 18, 2010 21:47:11 GMT -5
Arguably it would've been a better idea for Tsuna to have fought Hades while in Hyper Dying Will mode. Reborn knew that much, even if his reasoning hadn't yet grasped the full extent of the mistake made. What Reborn was able to work out, however, was that he was now hatless. And he'd liked that hat. It was his hat... oh, and also that Tsuna wouldn't be able to see in the cloud of powder. And that as such, he was now in grave danger. But come on, his FEDORA!
Reborn couldn't even SEE Tsuna or Hades in the cloud produced. He could make a guess, based on how they'd entered the area, as to their location, but he wasn't certain. He couldn't be. The cloud was too thick for that, which put Tsuna in grave danger. If Reborn, an outside observer, a well-trained assassin, was unable to see through the cloud, surely Tsuna, a slacker with poor grades, wouldn't.
Reborn had only a vague idea as to how right he was, and oh was he right. Even in Dying Will mode, Tsuna didn't have night vision. As such he found himself punching at thin air for a bit, trying to dissipate the cloud. But that failed, and he was quickly running out of time, so he delved into running in a circle, widening its radius with every full run. It would be on his fifth attempt when Tsuna grew near Hades...
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Post by mugenginga on Sept 18, 2010 22:23:20 GMT -5
It wasn't just Hades' abilities in regards to the raging ball of... well, rage that Tsuna had flown into after being shot. It was thousands of years of experience that stretched back to before humans had evolved in his home dimension. Even if Hades hadn't been able to sense Tsuna, he would have still had a slight upper hand. At this point, the only way Tsuna really stood a chance was the idiotic bullrushing recklessness his Dying Will Mode was so well known for.
Hades hadn't moved from the spot he'd chosen to wait for Tsuna from. There hadn't been any need. Tsuna hadn't even come close to Hades in his exaggeratted flailing. The central point of anger then began making a wide circle. Hades readied his scythe. While at this point he could rather easily fire energy at the boy, he wanted blood. He was, after all, a demon. When Tsuna was in range, Hades brought down the scythe in a swift movement. His aim was to cut the teenager in half.
What he hadn't planned for was Dying Will Tsuna's recklessness or his heightened senses. He was aware of the increased speed, but the demon had made an error based on how useless Tsuna had seemed to this point. The fact was, the arc in which the weapon sliced would move the powder in a fashion that would give a slight indication as to Hades' location...
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Post by Jilak on Sept 18, 2010 23:42:22 GMT -5
Tsuna wasn't himself right now. Tsuna was more than himself. Tsuna had his dying will, and his dying will form didn't make the same mistakes his bumbling, normal form would. That meant he wasn't going to let himself be killed here if he could help it. Even so, he hadn't picked up on Hades' location until he swung. The way it sliced, it jostled the powder around just enough for Tsuna to pick up on its relative location. That didn't mean he knew where Hades was, though, a problem which he quickly rectified. Tsuna did perhaps the most dangerous thing he'd done all day. He did something that could have killed him if he messed up, which he could've easily done. Tsuna leaped...
...and landed on Hades scythe. He couldn't stop to pat himself on the back here, and it didn't matter, because Dying Will Tsuna was focused on only one purpose, and that was beating Hades, which in his subconscious mind he thought would help Thane. And so he ran, down Hades' scythe, aiming a knee in the creature's direction.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Tsuna yelled. Outside the cloud, Reborn smirked. From the sound of it, Tsuna was still alive and not too badly injured. That was a surprise.
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Post by mugenginga on Sept 18, 2010 23:59:05 GMT -5
(OOC: HEAVY Godmoding done with full permission)
Hades was calling it luck that Tsuna had avoided the hit. For the grand total of one second he was calling it that, he'd intended on moving to another area of the room and attempting again. The time he called it that lasted only a second because instead of dodging to the side, Tsuna dodged up. Tsuna dodged up and landed on the scythe. Hades had never in his thousands of years encountered a human that would do anything quite that reckless, and that created a hesitation as Tsuna let out his shout.
The knee connected with Hades' face. Tsuna was forced to crouch to connect it, showing a spacial perception Tsuna would have been hard pressed to come up with in normal circumstances. Hades tried to recover from the impact, which was responded with the teenager using Hades' chest to kick off of. It was a slight pity no body could really see the impressive backflip he pulled... his landing, however, was far less guaranteed.
Whatever was the case with Tsuna, he'd cost Hades his chance to recover. The demon was kicked back into another pile of boxes, sending bottles of various sorts flying every which way. Hades managed to swipe his scythe into the air, knocking anything that threatened to land on him out of the way. It was quite possible some of it would fly at Tsuna. One bottle of baby shampoo caught the highly sharpened scythe just right and split open. Most of the contents hit the ceiling. Hades kipped up and snarled, exposing his fangs despite it not being all that visible in the fog of powder, which was fastly dropping...
"What in hell's name are you!?" Hades ears were open for movement. That kind of stunt wouldn't work again, and he was ready to leap out of the way of another attack should it come to that.
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Post by Jilak on Oct 8, 2010 22:09:24 GMT -5
Reborn's smirk quickly turned to a frown. This wasn't good. Tsuna was using up valuable time just trying to find Hades, and from the sound of it had been extremely lucky to get in even his FIRST successful attack. Let alone a second one. Not to mention, he'd already taken one of the dying will PILLS earlier, and the two were really pushing it. Under normal, preferable circumstances, Tsuna would've had at least a week or so to recover from hyper dying will mode and the strain it put on his body. Especially before entering normal dying will mode.
There was also something else Reborn noticed when Hades yelled out. The creature sounded angry, but not particularly injured.
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Tsuna, while completely unaware of Reborn's musings, had his own problems. Hades would probably be ready for another attack if one came. That meant he couldn't attack him head-on. His hyper-intuition led him upon a brilliant plan, however.
Tsuna hefted up a large, relatively heavy crate, tossing it in the direction he remembered seeing Hades fly, quickly running off to the side in a circular fashion...
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Post by mugenginga on Oct 8, 2010 22:25:06 GMT -5
A crate of that size had quite the effect on the baby powder fiilled air. It pushed it enough that Hades heard it coming after the sound Tsuna had made as he grunted. The crate, after all, was quite heavy. Able to push his body to the limit or no, even a panicked mother tended to make a noise as she lifted a care off her child.
However, it was moving quite fast. Hades didn't really have an exact idea as to how fast it was coming. Even for his own supernatural speed (concealed as the rest of their actions were), he barely managed to bring his scythe out in time. The next development may have been foresight on Tsuna's part given his dying will, but odds were it was just plain luck. As the crate sliced down the middle like a hot knife through butter, it also sliced through the various contents. As Hades flicked his scythe to the side to send the two crate halves out of his way, he spread the various contents.
As a result and the position of the two fighters, the liquid spray would douse them both. Scent wouldn't be a very good indicator of where they were as they both got a fairly equal coating. It was woman's perfume, of a stronger sort, and smelled a fair bit like cherry blossoms and vanilla. Hades eyes were protected because they were already closed, Tsuna's was up in the air. The spray managed to lessen the baby powder fog to the point that Tsuna would be able to see if he didn't have perfume in his eyes. The problem was how much time had passed... he didn't have much longer.
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Post by Jilak on Oct 8, 2010 22:42:07 GMT -5
Reborn wasn't entirely sure what had happened, but judging from the fact that he could now make out Tsuna's form and Hades' form, Tsuna's hyper intuition had encountered a case of brilliant foresight and come up with a very clever plan. On the other hand, it was just as likely that he'd pulled a stupid and gotten lucky, but it wasn't as poetic. Still, time remained a factor. But Reborn was certain Tsuna could handle it. After all, he was the tenth boss of the Vongola. Not to mention, he'd been trained by the best.
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Hades had been saved by the fact that they were already closed. Tsuna had not been so lucky. His eyes had been wide open, hit by a blast of perfume. It stung. Very badly, in fact, and any normal person would have stopped after realizing how much bloody pain they were in, but right now, Tsuna was not a normal person. Right now, he was in dying will mode. As such, even though he could barely see, he kept on. He could still vaguely make out Hades' form, so he reeled his fist back, running full blast at him.
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Post by mugenginga on Oct 8, 2010 23:03:06 GMT -5
What Reborn wasn't taking into account was that Hades wasn't human. It had probably been pretty clear given some of his stunts, but it was quite possible the Arcobaleno was trying to explain it via other means. Some of the people involved in the fight for the Vongola Rings had pushed the limit of "humanity" rather far in various methods. Once you removed the bit of power Hades had shown, he was little more than a mutation of some, sort.
The situation was made worse for Tsuna by the amount of negative emotions flowing from him, as well. It was a beacon for Hades, who could be aware of where the teenager stood while his eyes remained closed. And the teenager was moving so recklessly, too. Someone with nothing to lose... well, if he was a mere puppet for that "infant", it was quite likely it was so. In any case, Hades dodged the attack with little effort, and if Reborn could make out the scene well enough he'd realized Hades' eyes were closed.
Hades lifted his scythe up and spun it around. He was aiming for Tsuna's stomach with the bladed base. Or to be more precise, his spine. The position Tsuna had gone into meant the stab forward would go through the base of his spine. Given the construct of the scythe, if anyone read his movements they'd realize Hades' aim was to disembowel the teenager. Hades was aware it likely wouldn't stop what seemed to be an undead teenager, but he could decapitate him after he got him to stop moving. It would only be reflexes that allowed Tsuna to dodge, and if he did it just right it was quite possible he'd be able to grab the scythe above its base...
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Post by Jilak on Jan 11, 2011 23:38:18 GMT -5
While in his simple Dying Will mode, as he was now, Tsuna lost a lot. He lost a bit of his intelligence, he lost all fear, he lost everything that made him Tsuna. Arguably, he lost his humanity. But he gained so much more. He was faster, he was stronger, and he had much, much better reflexes. So when Hades brought his scythe around, Tsuna reacted instinctively. He flipped, throwing out a hand. To be quite honest, what with his BURNING EYES, he couldn't be sure if he would grab the blade or not. He lucked out, and grabbed the scythe above its base.
He put as firm a grip upon it as he could, bringing a leg upwards. His intention was to use the inertia provided by Hades' own scythe to deliver a rather strong kick. Failing that, he would try to rip the scythe from the non-human.
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Elsewhere, Reborn could only watch as Tsuna's time steadily ticked away. Whatever he was fighting, it wasn't human. It was strong, too. If Tsuna's time ran out, he'd most likely be dead.
And if the tenth boss of the Vongola died in another world, that would be terrible.
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