The Cursed Bloodline
Zen Vs Tanuki's

25 Years had passed, since the Nue seal confirmation incident that finally killed the Snow pillar, Yukio. People have started to forget that, they don't even know, a special-powered child was born that day. For the people of Sora they only lost one influential person, but for Zen this is the starting point, where he began to lose his closest friend. Mito, Yoshiro, Aoryu, Kizuna and even Tanuki.

" You're right, Tanuki. We have lived in difficult times like that. " said Zen slowly. But a second later, a sharp look was directed at Tanuki.

" But the misfortune cannot be used as an excuse to justify your actions this time! "

Srenggg!

Zen unsheathed his sword, with steady steps, he started running towards Tanuki. Zen is unwilling to fight against the only remaining companions, but Tanuki's attitude is beyond Zen's patience

Tanuki just showed off his sneaky grin, as if welcoming Zen's attack with open arms.

"We see how strong you are now Zen! " cried Tanuki satisfied.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew, the wind that came out of nowhere made Tanuki's gaze slightly blurred. Tanuki narrowed his eyes, Zen who was running towards him suddenly vanished from his sight

" He used his element of desire to hide from me. Let's see where you came from, Zen! " Tanuki started to stand by, the wind that filled the room was the Zen magic medium to hide himself.

The sresh!

Tang!

The two swords clashed against each other, the friction of the two balanced forces even creating sparks and ear-splitting whirring sounds. Zen attacked from Tanuki's back point, but the man with the bandage wrapped around half his face was certainly not to be underestimated. Tanuki replied to Zen's attack, with his fire element-coated sword. Zen was unwilling to give up so easily, he tried to suppress Tanuki's defense, while activating Gyoku in his hand.

"You're just a cowardly kid, who happened to meet me and Kizuna. Without us, you might never feel what you have right now! " snapping Tanuki.

Zen again focused the power on his sword blade. The wind element lining his katakana handle was spinning fast, thinning to make Tanuki's defense gradually penetrated.

" I am a coward in all things. But if it's about what's valuable to me. Even with my life, I am ready to risk it! "

Wind-elemented magic power filled Zen's body, a rigidness capable of tearing apart opponents who came into contact with the manipulation of tiny, sharp needle-shaped wind magic. Tanuki's defense began to weaken, with just a jolt of Zen's sword, the two opposing forces reacted to each other to cause a huge explosion.

Brassiere!

Tanuki's body was bounced away by the full attack from Zen. As a result of the explosion of power between fire and wind, as large as the body of the Temple was even smashed. Tanuki's body was thrown down, falling into the ground, making a small crater.

Zen looked at Tanuki's body from up there. The height between the Temple and the plains below reaches 500 meters more, it makes Tanuki's body like an ant when viewed from such a height. Zen's body suddenly disappeared just like that, in just a matter of seconds he was already standing right in front of Tanuki.

The tip of the Zen sword was unsheathed right in Tanuki's heart. Zen glanced at Tanuki's right eye covered in bandages, never forgetting what Tanuki sacrificed to help him first.

But, everything has changed. Debt must be paid. But for Tanuki's case, Zen doesn't even want to mentor his best friend's evil deeds that have jeopardized the wizarding world. Zen realized that he himself had to kill Tanuki with his own hands.

"Why? You can't slash my body with your sword? You're a coward, Zen! Ahahaha! " although his body was covered in wounds, Tanuki could still make fun of Zen while laughing out loud.

Sreshhhhhhhhhhhh!

Zen was about to slash at Zen's body with his sword. However, a mysterious arrow shot out and shot at his shoulder. The sudden attack incapacitated Zen, the arrow that pierced his left shoulder was no ordinary arrow, a special piece of iron capable of weakening the opponent's magic power.

......................

Tanuki started to stand up. Right behind him, a black-robed warrior complete with a death god mask appeared. A bow and a few arrows were pinned in his pocket. The parjurit only looked down respectfully, while opening the mask that covered his face.

"You all right, sir? " says the flat voice of a woman. His long violet hair was smashed smooth. The contract symbol in his hand echoed the red light, as well as the symbol in Tanuki's hand. Yume, currently completely under Tanuki's control. Due to the influence of the contract, Yume automatically moves to protect Tanuki even if it is not his own will.

" You saved me. But enough to get here. This fight, just for me and Zen, got it! You're quite on guard, and don't let anyone interfere" Tanuki said firmly.

" Okay Sir! " yume said slowly, he then disappeared from there.

Meanwhile, Zen was still trying to get up. He began to make a special symbol, and locked the spread of the influence of the arrow that pierced his shoulder. The fact that he was the former captain of the White Cloud Cops, of course Zen had a special hidden technique to ward off the typical magic of the Red Cloud Cops.

"You used a child to take cover from my attack. Hmh! You're a lot more cowardly than me, Tanuki! " zen taunts

" It won't happen again!" The wounds on Tanuki's body begin to disappear, he seems to apply Mirai's regenerative magic which he seized through special blood into his body.

He began to activate his gyok, coating his sword. The same thing in Zen, he didn't even care about the wound on his shoulder. Zen started to tighten the sword in his hand. The two companions began to run towards each other, the two swords clashing back together. Neither Zen nor Tanuki, they both possessed high-level sword skills.

Zen shrewdly swung his Hand, striking several points on Tanuki's body. Tanuki shrewdly dodged, gently moving his sword to be able to slash at Zen's body.

Age could not affect the quality of the two veterans' fight. Explosions of magic energy, almost adorning every movement of their lightning. The Fire and wind magic seemed to be on the sea, and retaliated against each other's attacks.

On the other hand, the fierce fight between Zen and Tanuki made the entire valley of life in an uproar. Some birds even flew away from the location of the fight.

Deep in the forest, there was a glint of black shadows darting towards somewhere. Ten, who had been tracking down the Zen leader's whereabouts, finally reached the location where the teacher was. He began to enter the Valley area. He felt something strange was happening, Ten finally stopped his movement, he put his feet on a large tree branch and began to observe the situation around. The wind blows strangely. Not only that, Ten also felt the air turn hot, clean when the sun has not fully risen in the eastern horizon. Ten's focus was on the birds flying away, even the sound of a faint explosion could be heard by his senses.

"A fight must be going on around here somewhere. " Ten accelerated his movement towards the origin of the explosion sound.

Sure enough, from a distance he saw a fight between Tanuki and Zen. Half the plains in front of him had already been destroyed by the fight, he also saw Chairman Zen had started to be overwhelmed by receiving attacks from his father.

"Chairman Zen! " ten shouted, he was about to run towards Zen and help him. However, an arrow shot back towards him. It was fortunate that Ten could avoid it. The silhouette of a woman was seen walking towards Ten. Ten's eyes were perfectly rounded when it came to knowing who the woman was.

"Stop there! Or I'll kill you! " said Yume with a sharp look.

" Yume? How can you- "