"What the actual hell?!" Asked Tanjiro in a shocked state of mind. The trees then began to move towards them both at a rather fast speed. For trees.
The one on the left grew out a set of branches and launched them quickly their way.
"Water breathing; Second Form; Water Wheel!" Tanjiro shouted as he used his form to slice off the branches. The tree let out an ear piercing scream. (if you watch attack on Titan imagine their screams are like the titans) But the branches grew back as it began to charge once again.
"Galactic Breathing; Forth Form; Veil Cascade!" You sliced a another set of branches that had almost grabbed onto Tanjiro. You landed onto the ground nicely and looked back at him.
"Are you okay?"
He nodded his head.
"Yeah, you?"
You did the same thing he did and felt a branch coming. You jumped up into the air like it was a jump rope and quickly delivered the blow.
Another branch came from behind as you used your feet to step off it and jump away into the air.
"Second form; Tail Comet!"
You came down quickly and sliced the branch. However, you saw there were more branches then before.
"Tanjiro! They're multiplying!" You yelled to him as you sliced another one.
"Yeah! We have to kill Hirokai, maybe it'll stop these trees!" He responded back as he sliced a few at the same time.
A branch was hurdling your way to which you noticed and deflected the blow with your sword. Occasional sparks flying from your sword. You were struggling against the branch. You then pushed it away and noticed a new one coming your way towards your feet. You quickly jumped up into the air, but you saw another one catch you in mid-air. You felt your sword leave your grasp as you struggled against the branch. It began to whip you around in the air. Screams escaped your lips as you held onto the branch for dear life.
The branch then brought you down fast and ran you through the tree. Hitting against the branches. You yelped as they all hit you. Your whole body stung as you knew you had cuts all over your body from the impact of the sharp branches inside.
The tree then slammed you onto the ground, causing you to gasp in agony. You heard a small crack and felt a huge amount of pain circulate through your chest. You coughed uncontrollably and turned onto your side. Gasping for air. You looked down and saw blood on the ground.
"Y/N!" Tanjiro shouted as he ran in your direction towards your fallen form. A branch then also slammed him into the ground in his back. He shouted in pain as he fell onto his stomach. Both your bodies twitching in agony.
"I thought you both were demon slayer," Hirokai said coming forward and kneeling down in front of the two of you. "Guess you're more like failures than I thought."
* ~ Meanwhile with Nezuko & Yui ~ *
Nezuko held onto Yui as she had just dodged an attack from Takayuki as he held large orange glowing whips in both of his hands. One of them came crashing down onto the ground as he had missed them once again. He growled in annoyance.
"Damn you. Why don't you just join us, demon! So I don't have to fight you into getting in the way of my midnight snack!" He shouted as he used big at the same time to try and slice the demon and Yui up.
Yui looked up at Nezuko as she stood her ground from just having dodged the attacks so quickly. She felt protected in the presence of her. It was so weird but amazing how a demon would sacrifice their life to save a human. Weren't they supposed to eat humans? Just like her brother did to her parents? But she was different. Nezuko was better than all the demons. Because she protects humans.
Nezuko leapt up into the air and landed on a tall and large pine tree branch, clutching Yui close. Nezuko put Yui down gently onto the branch and looked at her. They both had a moment of silence as her eyes softened, seeing the image of her younger sister.
Nezuko then pat Yui's head softly. Yui was slightly surprised at first but managed to smile up at Nezuko.
"Come on out demon! Why can't we fight properly? Or are you actually afraid you'll loose to me?" Takayuki cockily asked. Nezuko's whole self seemed to switch to a different version of herself. Veins popping slightly from her arms and her face in anger down at the demon.
Nezuko turned to face Yui again and held a hand out as if telling Yui to stay. Yui nodded her head and watched as Nezuko launched down and landed onto the ground with a loud pound. She stared down at the demon in anger. Her eyes looking as if rage burned through her eyes.
"You are a weird demon aren't you?" He chuckled before lifted his hands, "Blood demon art; Storm of the Underworld!"
A dark cloud had begun to form in the sky as meteors engulfed in flames were being sent down into the ground. Nezuko dodged each one. Dodging left and right, up and down in all places in different ways possible to keep away from them.
Yui watched from above and noticed Takayuki had a whip engulfed in an orange glow and was getting ready to use it.
"Nezuko! LOOK OUT!" Yui warned. Nezuko has just dodged another meteor, she heard Yui's warning but before she could even process anything after heeding Yui's words, she felt the whips grab onto her arms and tried to pull her limbs off. Nezuko struggles in her spot as growls were muffled against her muzzle.
"Let her go!" Yui shouted down to the demon who was hurting Nezuko.
"Seriously, kids these days, they're so pathetic." Takayuki scoffed as he took another fiery whip and lashed it in Yui's direction. She squeezed her eyes shut and gripped onto the branch, waiting for her fate.
She noticed nothing had happened yet.
She reluctantly opened her eyes and looked behind her. She noticed that there were embers of the whip that had lashed the branch instead of her. Small flames sizzled in the dead of night.
That is when a loud cracking echoed through her ear drums. Panic flooded through her veins as she knew what Takayuki had done.
Nezuko thrashed and squirmed as the ropes kept her down as she was trying to get out to save Yui. However the whips were burning her skin like a fish being charred over a fire alive. Muffled noises sounded through her muzzle as she moved more and more to try and get out. But was failing horribly.
A loud snap echoed through their ears as Yui screamed as she felt the branch falling down to the ground. It fell onto the ground with a loud boom as a cloud of dirt erupted from where the branch fell.
Nezuko shouted under her muzzle as she thrashed and kicked more and more.
"You're noisy." He did a motion with his hand as the glowing whips around her arms tightened more, causing blood to spew from her arms. She screamed through her muzzle in agony. Tears on the brims of her eyes.
Takayuki laughed under his breath as he walked over to the destruction in which he had caused.
"Guess I get more food after all." He walks over and looked around for the girl. Only thing was, he couldn't find her.
"Now where the hell did she g—" he didn't even finished his sentence as a slashing sound echoed through Nezuko's ear drums. She turned around behind her as she looked to see the demon's head fall down and roll off to the side. His body falling with a thud as well.
The figure sheathed their sword and turned around. It was a girl. She looked to be wearing the same uniform that was related to the demon slayer corps. Her cape was a pristine white that looked like a blanket of snow. Her boots were also a pristine white color with a few blotches of dirt as they reached up just below her knees. Next to her was Yui. She didn't look badly hurt but had a small scratch just below her right eye.
Yui saw Nezuko and ran over to her. Wrapping her arms around her.
"I'm so glad you're okay!" She cried in happiness. Nezuko hugged her back tightly.
"Caw! Caw!"
Nezuko, Yui, and the other girl looked up and saw a crow flying around in circles.
"Caw! Caw! Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado! As well as Y/N L/N are to be taken under custody of the demon slayer corps! Caw! Caw!"
The girl stepped forward slowly and crouched down. Looking at Nezuko with her bright lavender colored eyes. Black hair tied with a butterfly clip flowing with the small breeze.
"Are you... Nezuko?"
* ~ Meanwhile with Inosuke & Zenitsu ~ *
"Ughh... my head... where am I?" Zenitsu asked looked around while his vision adjusted to see Inosuke standing right in front of him as he stared down at the demon, Akio, with the blue streak in his hair.
"What happened Inosuke?"
"How should I know?! The demon that looked like the boss must've teleported us somewhere in the forest."
Zenitsu stood up quickly and looked to his side, seeing the lake on his right side and the moon light swimming in the water of the lake.
"Stupid demon scum! I'll kill you here and now!"
Akio laughed.
"Wow! You might actually be the only one I've met who had the balls to say that to me when knowing they were going to come face to fear with death."
"I don't plan on meeting death anytime soon!" Inosuke yelled back. "Death would have to challenge me! And he'd loose!" Inosuke laughed feeling a sense of pride kick into his ego.
"WAAAA! INOSUKE DON'T SAY ANYTHING YOU'RE GONNA REGRET!"
"Shut up Monitsu!"
"Okay this one here, he's got no ball sack, am I sure that your not a little girl?"
"Huh? Who me?" Zenitsu questioned.
"Yes you! Who would I be talking to? The Koi fish? Yeah you might as well be a woman than a man if you think like that."
"THATS NOT NICE!!! WAAA I WANNA LEAVE INOSUKE!!"
"Shut up!"
"Whatever, I'll kill you anyways."
"Like hell you will!" Inosuke then charged towards the demon. This caused the demon to smirk. He lifted his hand up and a low rumbling sound was heard. The ground shook slightly.
"What the hell is this?!"
"GAH! WHAT IS THIS?! AN EARTHQUAKE?!"
Zenitsu snapped his head over to his right side and heard the sound of cracking muffled by water due to his extreme hearing ability.
"Inosuke... we have a huge problem." He said going full panic as he knew what was going to happen.
"What Monitsu?!"
"IT'S A TSUNAMI!" He yelled.
"What's that?! Can I fight it?!"
"NO! Climb up the trees and stay up there!"
"Why—?" Inosuke was about to retort when he looked over and noticed a huge wave hurdling their way. His eyes widened. His heart beginnings to race. The water at the shoreline of the lake retreating into the lake faster than he could slash his swords together. A large wave, bigger than he'd ever seen. Maybe almost as big as a mountain!
"INOSUKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! CLIMB UP THE TREES!" Inosuke snapped his head back up and saw the amber eyed demon slayer climbing up the tree and already halfway up.
Inosuke jumped up and began to climb into the tree that was to the left of the tree Zenitsu was in.
Zenitsu squeezed his eyes shut as the wave then crashed down onto the land as the tree shook with in impact of the wave. He held onto the tree like his life depended on it (well, it sorta did).
Inosuke looked up from the water running through the now flooded land and noticed the demon, Akio, smirking over at the two boys mockingly. Inosuke growled under his breath as he hated when anybody or anything did that to him.
He drew his swords and leapt from the branch he was on and prepared for an attack.
"Beast Breathing; Forth Fang; Slice 'n' Dice!" He shouted as he then went in for the attack. He slashed like crazy in diagonal motions none stop at Akio. But he kept in dodging the slashes.
Akio then tried going after Inosuke in the tree. Trying to claw at him and use his demon art.
"Beast Breathing; Tenth Fang; Whirling Fangs!" He used this form to block each other Akio's attacks, which worked out successfully.
"Damn you! You stupid animal!"
"Hah?!" Inosuke roared back in anger as he charged once more.
"Blood demon art; Sphere of the Lake!" Akio waved his hands around and the water below that was flooding the area below began to crawl up the tree like a disease. The water was then blasted towards Inosuke and formed into a sphere of water to which he thrashed around in. He tried to slice at it but it was hard, like ice. But it was so weird. Inosuke was so confused because this was water, not ice. But he couldn't cut through it.
"Let me outta here you scumbag!"
"Now now, don't say such mean things." Akio taunted.
"I swear when I get my hands on you I'll tear you to pieces!"
"Oh really? I'm so scared! Oh please, you're not even the least bit frightening and you couldn't even scare me in a million years. So come on out of that thing and try me again. Like you did the last few times." He laughed. Inosuke continued to slash at the water. He took one sword and held it down against the water and took the one in his left hand and began to bang them both together.
They then snapped in half.
Inosuke looked down in shock. His weapons just broke. From water? How?
I think I've been spending way too much time in the real world for this shit. It's all so confusing!
Zenitsu looked over at Inosuke and saw his blades had broken into two.
"WAAA INOSUKE!" He cried out.
"You!" Akio pointed to the yellow haired male. Zenitsu stood frozen in fear.
"People like you should be eliminated! You shouldn't even be a demon slayer. You don't even have the balls to defeat me and save your friend. You're weak and pathetic! Now you will die along with your friend!"
Zenitsu went full on panic mode and felt his soul leave his body. He fell down onto his back and hung over a tree. Akio stood in shock at the boy.
Did he actually just fucking faint? What the actual fuck is wrong with him? How did he even get to be in the corps anyway?
Zenitsu's face grew serious yet looked calmer than he had been a second ago. His brows furrowed in concentration.
A small cloud of condensation left through his teeth as a hissing noise sounded from him. He gripped onto his sword and stood back up on the branch. Bangs covering his face.
"Thunder Breathing; First Form; Thunder Clap and Flash!" All of a sudden, Akio noticed he vanished with small sparks of lightening left behind.
Huh? Where'd he go?
He snapped his head around noticing a presence behind him and launched an attack as he sent streams of water towards the blonde haired male.
Zenitsu bounces off of each tree as fast as lighting. It was all so fast that he couldn't see anything.
"Stop ducking moving and face me like a real man! Or are you still a p*ssy?!" Akio shouted trying to pinpoint where Zenitsu was going.
Inosuke watched as he noticed Zenitsu finally slice Akio's head clean off.
He sheathed his sword back into its holster. Inosuke was in awe. Seeing someone like him actually slice a demons head off. Now he knew why he was part of the demon slayer corps. But he couldn't help but feel ashamed of himself. He couldn't even lay a finger on that demon. Only to have broken his swords. He looked at his broken blades and clenched them sight in his fists.
"Damn you stupid brats! I swear I'll kill you! I'll kill you!" His voice echoed as those were the last words as his head then fell into the lake water that flooded the land below.
Inosuke noticed the water cage had then fallen down like water and joined back with the river.
"I'm free! Ha ha! How was that you loser!" Inosuke yelled to the floor. He turned around to see Zenitsu laying against the tree on a branch and sleeping like an idiot. Inosuke just rolled his eyes.
The lake water had begun to retreat back to where it once came from. They had defeated the demon.
"WAAA! I'm awake! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!?"
What the—? Even Inosuke was confused as to why Zenitsu was confused.
He looked over and watched as the rest of Akio's body had then leaned over the side and fell into what was left of the water as his body was dragged down into the lake.
"AHHHH HES DEAD?! ALREADY!?"
"You—" Zenitsu started as he pointed at Inosuke speechless. He then went and tried to hug Inosuke.
"Thank you for saving me Inosuke!" He cried with relief. He just rolled his eyes.
"Come on Monitsu, we need to fine Gonpachiro and M/P/N."
"Right!"