Part 8: Showdown with Raven

We ran as we took out enemies along the way. Mechs were coming in and we had to destroy them to keep going. We were approaching the ship Mei got here by. "We're almost there!" Said Mei. But hiding behind it was Raven. She slashed the ship and it exploded. Mei-Senpai!" Shouted Kiana as Raven appeared from the fire. "Here we meet again." Raven appeared. "No one will stand in my way this time..."

"Mei-Senpai!" Shouted Kiana. "I'm fine... Don't waste time for me, Kiana-chan." Said Mei. The girl gently put down her injured friend, stood up with me and looked up. The gray cloak flapped in the wind. She looked down, staring at us, like a raptor staring at its prey.

"Move. Stop, before it's too late. You're not saving people, you're killing them." Said Kiana. "That's right, if the stigmata activates inside everyone, they will all die. You're going to kill them all if the bomb goes off." I said. "Killing? You murderous monster, culprit for the second Honkai..." "SHUT UP!" I shot a laser blast from the Dragon Guns only for Raven to dodge the blast. "That was a different Herrscher of the Void! Not her!" I screamed. "She's still the same type of Herrscher, Dragon. And yet you're both standing here, criticizing us for killing people?" Said Raven. "That's right Raven, you have been killing too many people in your experiments. You just won't admit that you are killing innocent lives in your experiments." I said.

"Have you heard the cries of the people who died because of you?" Raven turned her gaze at Kiana. "Those dying people who have been infected with Honkai energy... Those grieving women who lost their husbands in the war... Those innocent children who were taken away from their families and trained into mercenaries... Their wails, their crying... you've never heard!" I fired another blast to shut her up but she dodged again. Her expressionless face unexpectedly showed a hint of grief.

Drago decided to take control and speak to Raven to share his grief. "You don't know the first thing about Herrschers or anything about us." Drago spoke. This got Raven's attention. "Before the 2nd Honkai eruption started, my family was killed by Schicksal and I was taken away to Siberia to be experimented on. Children were taken away from their families before the war to be turned into mercenaries and into stigmata. I had lost everything. But so did Sirin. The original Herrscher of the Void. You don't know the real pain from getting experimented on and being forced against our wills. When I received my Herrscher Core, it chose me. On that day in February, Sirin and I killed everyone in the tower to escape. After being rescued, we got away and turned into Herrschers. We had one goal. To destroy Schicksal, but after going to the moon and meeting the final Herrscher... Sirin changed, she changed the goal into destroying all of humanity. The Herrscher of the Void from your time was not Kiana. It was Sirin. And I was there, not my host."

"I don't care if you share the same bodies or if you're not the same person Dragon or if the Herrscher of the Void was someone else from the 2nd Honkar Wars. That girl next to you was the one that caused the eruption 4 months ago. Once the experiment is completed, humanity no longer needs to suffer from what you represent." Said Raven. "Move... Don't make me say it again!" Shouted Kiana.

"You don't know what Otto has done to us... Otto cloned Kiana and implanted Sirin's Herrscher core and Sirin herself inside of Kiana to reawaken her. When I found Patrick, I was able to merge my Herrscher Core with him and I slumbered inside of him for years till I would awaken to be his guide and his partner. The original Herrscher of Reason, Welt Joyce passes on his Herrscher Core to Joachim who changed his name to Welt Yang and inherited the core. All you care about is what type a Herrscher is, not who was or if there was more than one type of Herrscher." Said Drago as he let me regain control as I switched to the Dragon gauntlets in the same form they were before. "This won't be like last time Raven. This time we will beat you." I said as I charged in with blue fire and blue lightning on both the gauntlets and charged in as Raven did the same thing. My claws clashed with Raven's claws.

I jumped back and threw a fire ball at Raven only to slash through it with her claws and it exploded behind her. I let Kiana go next and opened fire with her guns. Raven responded by shooting sharp feathers from her grey cloak. "Raven is fast and strong. We can't let her beat us twice. I need to come up with something. What would Issei Hyoudou from "High School DXD" do?" I asked myself. "I got it! I'll charge up for an attack with the Dragon Gauntlets." I started to charge up for an attack.

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Raven had Kiana down. Before she could deliver a killing blow, a powerful energy blast hit her and blew her away with so much damage. 'Now I better do what Midoriya, Iida, and Todoroki did to the Hero Killer Stain from episodes 15 to 16 in season 2 of "My Hero Academia" and hit her as hard as I can with punches, fire, and ice.' I told myself in my mind as ice appeared on my right and fire appeared on my left. "Go!" I shot fire and ice from my hands at Raven only to dodge and send three energy ravens at me only I countered with a fire dragon and an ice dragon that broke through her attack and landed a direct hit. Then I jumped up and energy appeared on my right fist. 'Now for a mimic of Deku's...!' "Detroit Smash!" Then I punched her down to the ground. I landed back where Kiana was.

Raven got up and spoke. "Not bad Dragon. Now let's see if you can handle this." She disappeared then a ship flew out of nowhere and blew up the bridge then Raven reappeared down below. Kiana and I jumped down to face her. She jumped and floated in the air and was now shooting feathers from air. Kiana and I ran as we dodged. She shot her guns while I shot ice and fire. Raven zoomed in on me to do a drop kick but then I shot fire from my leg to get a boost and kicked her instead. She disappeared then the environment turned darker then Raven reappeared floating in mid air with red energy coming off her back. Raven was now getting more serious. Red energy circles appeared underneath us then we jumped out of the before red energy shot from them. We nodded to each other as I brought out the Dragon Lance and Kiana brought out her Subspace Lance. When Raven attempted to strike us from above, we dodged then Kiana used her ultimate, Void Unleashed and stunned her long enough for me to strike her with my lance then Kiana followed up with another strike from her lance.

"Time to end this." I said as I switched to the Dragon Sword and fire manifested on it. "Finishing move!" I rushed up to Raven to deliver the final blow. "Dragon Slash!" I slashed at her and then she exploded.

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