Tears of the Sun... [Narrative] [Finished]

[Kanjin Taiyou]

"What is it that you seek Taiyou, do you crave revenge, fo you hunger for the death of the one who roobed you of your family." Oni said, as she sat on the edge of a crushed boulder, her sarcastic tone direccted toward a sweating and nearly exhuated Taiyou, crouching near a dimly let fire.

"Don't patronize me Oni, or I'll..." Taiyou said before he was interupted.

"Do What, kill me, kill me like the Yami-ou, how's is that going for you." Oni snorted, laughing at the wounded fallen. Taiyou was scarred and covered in dirt, having isolated himself this cave for serveral weeks, having gone without natural light. Being lost within the intricate structure of caverns would have been a problem for anyone else. But this was self imposed isolation, training for any up coming conflict with the most powerful angel in either Heaven or Hell, the Yami-ou and source of both Taiyou's most honorable inspiration, and current state, Sanada Tomo.

"It's dark in hear, and it stinks, like your attitude, let me open a portal and get us outta here." Oni said, yawning a the sight of the dishevled angel, who was on he knees, knuckles bloodied, breath short. Lifting her head as Taiyou slowly stood to his feet.

"The depth of the cave and lack of air make it harder to conjure fire, this place makes for good training." Taiyou said as he concentated, gritting his teeth, trying despratly to summon more fire, "Come on, come on..." Taiyou said, growing more and more restless by the second.

"And the rocks?" Oni said, looking at the surrounding debris. As she stood, she walked over to the fire Taiyou was concentrating on maintaining, an ardous task, even for celestial, being nearly 3 miles underneath the cold earth, with virtually no air. "Hmph, stop going easy on yourself. Your never going to beat her. You families death mean nothing." Oni said kicking clumps of dirt on the fire. extinguishing it.

"Dammit, shut up!" Taiyou said angrily as he stood at his feet, "Don't mention my family you heartless bitch." he said angrily, punching the wall of the cave, creating a fissure that shot right up the wall, creating a cave in, causing stalatites to fall from the ceiling. Sanding in the shower of stone Taiyou moved over to a pile of rocks and grabbed his massive sword.

"Their dead, and so are you when you figth Sanada Tomo, give it up." Oni said, laugh cruelly at Taiyou's plight.

"Enough!" Taiyou said pointing his weapon at the failing debris, summoning all his rage into a single firey blast that incenerated the failing stone, leaving nothing but the sight of charred peebles dropping in the air before the inferno crashed in to the wall split, melting the stone, and thereby sealing the rift, as newly formed magma glowed in the darkness, dripping down the wall with neon luminsence.

[Kanjin Taiyou]

In the dimming light of melting rock, Taiyou let a small smile escape, "You talk and talk and talk Oni, but you never listen to you say. If I die, this body will never be yours, then you can go find another powerful, grief ridden Celestial drunkard to make a pact with." Taiyou said walking over to the sealed crack.

"My Fire is a good as it will ever be, but the Darkness that the Yami-ou wields, its too powerful." Taiyou said stiffly, the grasp on is sword growing tighter.

"So what, she can throw shadows all day, your scared of a little darkness?" Oni asked sarcastically.

"You don't understand. The Yami-ou wields terrible power, her powers go far beyond just creating and manipulating shadows. She created Hell, an entire realm and her power sustains it." Taiyou said, reflecting on his thoughts. "Darkness is what is there but not seen Oni, the substance that binds us, it doesn't cower in the presence of light, it recedes to fulfill its purpose." Taiyou said, holding his hand open, creating a flame in his palm.

"Fire is dependent upon the intensity of the wielder, if I go into this fight with doubt, I am sure that my flame will be snuffed out. She might not even remember who I am, leaving her no reason to be merciful, like she was to the bitch Chiyo." Taiyou said angrily as the flame in his hand grew in intensity and size, changing from red, orange, bright blue, and finally white.

Taiyou's gauntlets began to crack and peel from the intense heat, and the small cavern became thick with heat. "Its the Darkness I must fight, not just Sandia!" Taiyou shouted aloud. "Oni, clasp me now!" Taiyou said as the Void sprite's intangible for surrounded him.

"I was waiting for this." Oni said,forming black incorporeal tendrils around Taiyou's hands, his eyes now white with no pupils. The shroud of Void enveloped him whole,

"THE FIRE OF HATRED IS WHAT I USE TO FUEL MY WILL AGAINST THE YAMI-OU, I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL EVERYTHING BEFORE HER IS REDUCE TO ASH!" Taiyou said in a distorted demonic voice, as his and Oni's were one. Tossing the white flame near the ceiling, Taiyou held his sword and place, trailing the fire ball right before it reached the ceiling. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Taiyou screamed in his Tyrant Form now complete as a sudden rush of heat and energy channeled through his sword caused the ultra hot, white ball of fire exploded with much fury. The intense heat that radiated from the blast traveled throughout the cave, super heating the air.

Removing a small bottle of incendiary fluid from his burning vest, Taiyou poured the fluid one edge of his sword. One the bottle was empty Taiyou used his enormous strength,a nd tossed his sword at the burning gape in the ceiling, the friction of the edge of the blade along with the extreme heat caused a massive explosion. Taiyou's immensely heavy weapon bored throughout the roof, the explosion behind it causing it to jet propel to the surface breaking the face of the mountain under which Taiyou sought seclusion to train, creating a hole that exposed Taiyou's underground training area to the surface.

Once the heated air escaped the vacuum pressure of the carven Taiyou was in, the fresh air of the mountain entered where Taiyou stood with terrible force, extinguishing the flames in a violent miniature hurricane. Taiyou standing there, took the brunt of the attack by nature, his garments slightly protected by the aura of Void that protected him, the rocks and walls of the once underground cave smashed and cracked by the force of the wind.

Standing there, smoldering and ragged, Taiyou took a deep breath, and the shroud of Oni removed itself form his body. "Were done here, let's go..." Taiyou said, his whitened eyes returning to their natural orange. Taiyou began to climb up the debris to the surface.

"Where are we going now?" Oni asked in a childish manner, walking up the wall, defying gravity itself.

"First to find my sword, then to Hell, for a reckoning and revenge." Taiyou said a the granite rocks of the mountain wall crumbled inside his hands like sand. Now on the surface, it took nearly an hour of looking but Taiyou found his sword among the rubble, and after retrieving it he walked away from the mountain, now broken into hundreds of thousands of boulders and fragments of rocks.

"Sanada Tomo will die by my hands..." Taiyou said full of anger as he walked along, to his next destination.