Hokage's Room

Chapter 14: Desert Storm

                Ankoku had been dragging Delfino for a while and they had finally reached the Great Desert. Ankoku looked out and saw nothing but rising heat for miles “Well I guess its not called the Great Desert for nothing.” Ankoku started dragging Delfino again threw the hot desert sands.

After a few hours of walking Delfino looked up at Ankoku and thought to himself “Now’s my chance he must have tired himself out by dragging me threw the desert sands.” Delfino picked from his right hand pocket a small blade and turned it up and started to cut threw the rope. Eventually he cut threw the rope and looked at Ankoku who just kept on walking. Delfino saw this and decided to use a wall of sand to flood him and crush him under the pressure and to add a extra killing blow he would use stones from under the sand to stab threw him. He stomped his right foot down and a huge wall of sand flew up and came down upon Ankoku. It swallowed him up and then suddenly huge spikes came out of the ground where he was once at. Delfino had a satisfied look on his face “its over mother earth is safe once again.”

Then suddenly a huge earthquake started “what’s happening?!”

From behind him Delfino could hear the laughter of something evil. He turned to see and it was what he had feared. Ankoku was standing behind him several yards away “Did you honestly think I would have not noticed that you had freed yourself. The thing you just killed was a clone I made when I stopped to admire the desert. I wanted to make sure I had front row tickets to the show.” He laughed and ran at Delfino with a scythe in hand. He was just about to swing it when the sand started to swirl creating a giant twister blinding Ankoku. He started to stumble backwards when he got his footing “Come now Delfino this won’t stop me.” Ankoku stopped the twisting sand by reversing the flow of wind at the same rate it was going the other way making the air go dead. He looked around and Delfino vanished “Where did you go you little rat.”

Suddenly from below Ankoku the sand started to burst upward. Ankoku leapt upward but he was grabbed at his right ankle and thrown to the ground where the sand pounded down onto him. Ankoku rolled back “What in the * was that just now?!” Out from where he had jumped came a creature he had not seen before. It stood on all fours and was the color of crimson blood. From its legs jetted out four razor sharp claws. Its thick armor like fur jetted out into spikes like on a porcupine. It had a giant head with huge black eyes that watched every movement on the sands. Its fangs were nearly two feet long and dripping with poisonous slime.

The beast spoke to Ankoku “Come now Ankoku you do not recognize me anymore.” The beast standing before Ankoku was Delfino. Being the tribe leader of his village he had undergone a ritual that allowed him to invoke the protector of the earth which is what he had become. “I am the protector our mother earth and I will do my duty.” At blinding speed Delfino was upon Ankoku. Delfino opened his jaws and tried to dig his fangs into Ankokus chest but was stopped by Ankokus hands.  Ankoku smirked till he saw a strange glint in Delfinos eyes and at that very moment a huge amount of slime came down and covered Ankokus hands. Ankoku let go for a second and screamed as Delfino batted Ankoku to the ground using his giant claws. Ankoku got up from the ground with huge claw marks on his chest blood pouring from them. His hands started to burn as the poison started to enter his system. He quickly wrapped his torso up and then using his sword cut open his forearms and started to leak out the bad blood. He had gotten out the blood and wrapped up his arms but was now becoming weak from the amount of blood lost. Ankoku thought to himself “I can’t fight him right this moment I need some time. Ill have to summon all three of them at once.” Ankoku stood tall “You know what you’ve gotten stronger but how will you fare against three elemental gods.” Suddenly behind him appeared Hanzo the fire dragon, Intra the wind wolf, and Sentra the water tortoise. “Go elemental gods and destroy that foul creature.” All three started to go towards Delfino when suddenly both Hanzo and Sentra were destroyed. “What just happened?!” From the sands came up a giant bear made of earth.

“This is the earth summoning Nagatra.” The bear started to chase after Intra and the two fought fang and claw but eventually destroyed each other “Now Ankoku its just you and me.”

Ankoku smiled as suddenly he was right in front of Delfino with his gauntlets on “I’m feeling better now.” Ankoku ****ed back and unable to avoid the strike Delfino took a shot to the mouth sending him flying. Delfino rolled in the sand and was stopped by a wall of sand that softly caught him. When he got up on his feet he had broken most of his fangs and blood was pouring out along with the poison. He spit out a bunch on the ground and made a dark spot in the sand. “I don’t care if you feel better Ankoku ill kill you at any cost. I must protect the earth.” Delfino charged at Ankoku and met his gauntlets with his claws. Ankoku held him up and was suddenly grabbed by the sand and held down. Delfino came down with his claws and knocked Ankoku to the ground and started to claw and hack away at Ankoku. Ankoku blocked some of the damaged with the gauntlets when suddenly he changed them into a long spear and stabbed threw Delfinos chest. Delfino flew back and started to bleed badly from his new hole. “I am not done yet.” He went back and started to claw at Ankoku who used the spear to keep a distance from Delfinos claws. Delfino batted away the spear and got in close and Ankoku leapt into the air. Delfino sent a huge wave of hard sand at him and Ankoku used extreme heat to turn the sand into glass and shattered it sending huge shards of glass at Delfino. Delfino got hit by many pieces of the glass and was weakened greatly. He was now barely able to move. Ankoku walked up to him and changed the spear into a huge broad sword. “This ends now.”

“I know.” A giant sand spear came out and stabbed Ankoku threw his right arm taking it off and blood sprayed into the air.

Ankoku screamed as he came down with the sword taking off Delfinos head killing him. The battle was over and Ankoku was now nearing death with no one in sight to help him. He grabbed his arm and put it up close and using the energy he gained from Delfino he grew his arm back together. He limped the rest of the way to Delfinos village and right on the outside of it he created a giant capsule of earth and filled it with water drowning all the villagers. “I got them Delfino I told you I would.” He passed out shortly after saying that.