Asura's Wrath

Wyzen:
Did you think a mere monkey like you could defeat a GOD?

Yasha:
Is it really over?

Asura:
I don't know.

Yasha:
Is your wrath gone?

Asura:
I told you, I don't know.

Yasha:
I see. Let's go, Mithra will be waiting.

[seeing an attack from the Gohma]

Asura:
Twelve thousand years, and NOTHING has changed!

Wyzen:
What Lord Deus spoke of was true. It has been a while, traitor, I never actualy thought you would be foolish enough to come back!

Asura:
Who are you?

Wyzen:
Hmph... do not tell me you have forgotten everything? How could you forget the Great Wyzen?

Wyzen:
Kneel, before one of the Seven Deities!

Asura:
The Seven Deities?

Wyzen:
The Eight Guardian Generals who knew only war are no more! We Seven Dieites rule and maintain order throughout the world...

Asura:
[lays out Wyzen with a punch] YOU TALK TOO MUCH!

Wyzen:
[a giant Buddha] Witness the power bestowed on us by our Priestess! Your very daughter, Mithra!

Asura:
My daughter Mithra's power?... What did you do? Tell me what you've done with her!

Wyzen:
You'll have to make me!

Wyzen:
Kurikura Fudo Uchi!

Asura:
I remember now... you bastards!

Yasha:
Why are you here, Asura? Do you even know what you want? You have already failed once at living. You are a fool. Next time, do not come back.

Yasha:
[fighting Asura] Do you realize Wyzen wasted hundreds of millions of souls, just to fight you? No, I suppose not.

Asura:
[to Yasha] I'll knock that mask off your arrogant face!

[fighting]

Yasha:
Things have changed!

Asura:
NOTHING has changed!

Yasha:
How would YOU, the fallen, know?

Asura:
More than you!

Augus:
[sparring with Asura] You learn fast. Here's your reward! [headbutts him]

The Golden Spider:
Awake at last, are we?

Asura:
Where am I?

The Golden Spider:
Well, this is Naraka. But I won't bother explaining, because I doubt you would understand, so for now let's just say you are having a bad dream.

Asura:
Who are you?

The Golden Spider:
Good question!... Not the right one. The right question would be "Who are you?"

Asura:
[tries to remember] I...

The Golden Spider:
[cackles] Start climbing then, I. However, I would be careful. I trust I need not tell you what would happen should you fall. [Asura climbs]

The Golden Spider:
That's it, up you go! Yes, there is a reason why you must continue to climb, isn't there? You may have forgotten why, but the flame inside you still burns... That's it! Keep going, Asura!

The Golden Spider:
[to Asura] Deus said he would save the world. Are you satisfied with being a cog in his machine? Or you could just curl up and die right here...

The Golden Spider:
Crying, in Naraka? There is nothing to hear but the sound of my voice!

Asura:
[looks around a barren wasteland] What the...?

The Golden Spider:
Your world, Gaea. Twelve thousand years have passed since you were here last, but that's nothing to a demigod like yourself, now is it?

Asura:
Is this how you save the world? This place looks like hell...

Yasha:
[defeats Asura] Enough! We are bringing salvation to Gaea. As Priestess, Mithra has dedicated herself to the salvation of our world. You should be proud.

Asura:
What did you say? Be proud, of Mithra suffering?

Yasha:
Yes, and I will say it again: your daughter is devoted the cause in order to save the world!

Asura:
Who do you think you are?

Yasha:
God.

Asura:
YASHA! [charges]

Asura:
You are as ugly as ever.

Yasha:
[unmasked] As is your temper. But... before the cause, it is meaningless! [chops Asura in half and drops him into lava]

Asura:
Do not return again. Witness the salvation of the world from the depths of Naraka.

The Golden Spider:
You choose to move forward... this is exactly why your soul will never belong to the Gohma nor the Seven Deities. There is a great power hidden in you, one I have been looking for...

Yasha:
[to Asura] Now that you have something to protect, why are you so full of rage? Or perhaps, that is exactly why...

Augus:
Something to protect? Nonsense! The only reason one needs to fight, is the fight itself!

Yasha:
That is so like you, Master.

Augus:
[seeing Asura and his family] So, that is what he must protect?

Yasha:
Yes, though you may not understand why.

Yasha:
[about Asura and Mithra] He almost looks scared of her...

Durga:
He just doesn't know what to do when she starts crying.

Yasha:
Then he should pacify her.

Durga:
[laughs] Him?

[Mithra cries a little, Asura draws back from her]

Durga:
Even one of the Eight Guardian Generals is no match for his own daughter, is she?

Asura:
She's... so small...

Durga:
Do you know what I think? I believe that you wish only the best for our daughter...

The Golden Spider:
Why? Why are you so full of rage, Asura? Where does this wrath come from?

[a group of people pray on their knees to Asura in gratitude for saving them]

Asura:
Stop praying. This is pathetic.

Kalrow:
So this is the reason for the unusual Mantra concentration in these parts. How disappointing.

Kalrow:
Before your tarnished souls fall to Naraka, I shall guide you to Heaven! [a massacre of humans begins]

Asura:
Stop! What are you doing?

Kalrow:
I need not explain our ways to the fallen. I doubt a monkey like you would understand anyway.

[Asura punches Kaldrow, but discovers he's just a hologram]

Kalrow:
What could you accomplish by trying to hurt us? Enjoy your new lease on life... [fades away]

Asura:
I will not stand for this. Your lives will end here!

[Asura sees a little girl beating up a soldier for having killed her mother]

Asura:
[stops her] I know how you feel. You... you let ME handle them.

Kalrow:
When you fight a fool, you waste your time!

Asura:
What is this?

Kalrow:
These are the mortal souls that have been harvested into mantra. And these ships, guide them to Heaven.

Asura:
YOU SOB!

Kalrow:
Impossible! How could one man destroy my entire fleet! How, how did you get so powerful?

Kalrow:
With no plan, there is no victory. The age of beasts has long since ended!

Kalrow:
[being crushed] Wait, Asura! We, the Seven Deities, have finally brought stability and order to our world! And above all, your daughter is the pillar that keeps it in place!... WAIT, I SAY! Even you had fought to protect this world from the Gohma, yes? We are almost there, soon the Gohma will be no more! After the Great Rebirth, no more will need to be sacrificed! The world will be free from the Gohma, and we shall attain eternal paradise!

Asura:
I grow tired of hearing about the world! [destroys Kaldrow]

Augus:
[to the girl] Do you worry for him? You need not fear, he will not die yet. When he does, it will be by THESE hands! [walks on]

[Asura wakes up in a paradisiac pool]

Augus:
Just relax, son. Enjoy every moment! You fight, then eat good food. You fight, then drink fine wine. You fight, then sleep with beautiful women - hell, fight beautiful women! That is what it means to live!

Asura:
I am not like you.

Augus:
So you think.

Augus:
The world has become a boring place. That fool Deus claims he'll bring salvation to Gaea, he has this grand plan for it all... he actually thinks he's going to save the world. "The Great Rebirth." Ridiculous! They are all too dependent on Mantra; that's why Wyzen and Kaldrow were so weak. The battles I fight for them are disappointing, they are unsatisfying. Things were different before. Yes, we used to fight side by side... those were the days...

Asura:
Where are they? Where are my enemies? Come on!

Augus:
[as the Gohma approach] Leave this to your master, Asura! I have not yet had my fill!

Asura:
You never taught me how to stop using my fists!

Augus:
In that case... let's see who gets there first!

[on the moon]

Augus:
[to Asura] This will do. It's just you, and me. Time to raise some hell!

Augus:
This is fun! It's like hunting!

Asura:
And YOU're the game!

Augus:
I have carnal knowledge of the fairest maidens in heaven, and have tasted the finest wines of Gaea... but none of it, none of it excites my blood more than using my blade!

Augus:
This is where real men belong, in the fight!

Asura:
I don't give a damn!

Augus:
Only the strong survive! I taught you that much!

Asura:
That is not for you to decide!

Augus:
I don't fight for good and I don't fight for evil, I just fight! I will say it once more: I am you, and you are me!

Asura:
I am nothing like you.

Augus:
Then tell me, how are we so different?

Asura:
You wouldn't understand, even if I sent you to Naraka!

Augus:
Then make me understand, Asura, with your fists!

[last words]

Augus:
[sliced nearly in half] Yes... that was a hell of a battle. What now? Where will that anger take you? You are not me, yet you continue to fight... You no longer need my training. The one who stands in the end is righteous. Asura, walk the path that you must...

Olga:
Asura... that half-witted baboon! I will not allow him to interfere with Lord Deus's plans any further! All ships, commence purification! [bombs start to fall]

Asura:
No!

Yasha:
Even Augus could not defeat you... why? Why do you keep coming back? What is it that you are fighting for? And this power of yours, how can it surpass the power that took us 12000 years to attain?

Olga:
[on Asura] He is too much of a threat, he must be stopped here and now! Ready the Brahmastra!

Yasha:
Olga, you cannot do this! With that one blast, do you realize how much Mantra will be lost? All the souls that have been given for the cause... Do you not realize that this will hinder the coming of the Great Rebirth?

Olga:
Then we will just get more Mantra! With the mortals under our control, our supply is endless! If we do not finish him now, there will be NO Great Rebirth!

Yasha:
Wait, I will finish Asura...

Olga:
Like you did before?... If we finish him now, once and for all, he can never come back!

Yasha:
Do not stray from the cause! That power is made for the eradication of the Gohma! Do not waste the souls of the dead on the likes of him!

Olga:
This conversation is over! You will not interfere! [shuts off the screen]

Yasha:
All of those souls are for the cause... I will interfere. I will not let you do this!

Sergei:
Soon this village will be overrun with Gohma. Before that happens, we must take action. Prepare to purify the village immediately. Wipe it out.

Yasha:
But the village is not under attack yet...

Sergei:
That's quaint. But this is what we do, you know this. [the Gohma are spotted]

Sergei:
Well well well, here they come! How disgusting!... Or perhaps YOU would like to exterminate them before they reach the village?

Yasha:
I had planned on it...

Yasha:
All these years, I have believed in the cause. But Asura's Mantra has grown powerful enough to rival our own, that of the Brahmastra... after the blast, we lost track of his whereabouts. We do not know when he might attack again!

Sergei:
[wounded by Asura] Magnificent! This is the rage I have been searching for! How exquisite! Beauty, pure beauty! Your wrath is glorious, Asura!

Sergei:
[to Asura] What fuels your wrath? Was it the loss of that woman...? [Yasha moves]

Sergei:
Oops! How careless of me. Ah, but the cat is out of the bag now, as they say. 12000 years ago, when he was branded a traitor and hunted down, where do you think I was? Yes, who do you think took Mithra? Who do you think I took her from? [laughs]

Sergei:
It was I! I killed your precious sister! [Yasha is silent]

Sergei:
Oh, how boring. I thought you would show me a more beautiful face than that.

Yasha:
I... I knew.

Sergei:
I see. So you chose the cause over your own sister. Bravo! You deserve a treat, loyal dog of Deus! So you, too, see the beauty in the death of your family... [Asura stomps Sergei]

Yasha:
When you live among the stars, you lose sight of what is happening on the ground.

Asura:
[looks at the Golden Spider] He is the one... he is the reason for it all! You, YOU are the one I should kill!

Yasha:
[looks at Asura] There is not much time... you are the only one who can save this world.

Asura:
[as Yasha fades away] You idiot... you were always a brother, never an enemy.

[Asura prepares for battle]

Durga:
[holding a weeping Mithra] There she goes again. She cries every time you leave the house.

Asura:
I don't know what to do when she cries... the best I can do is punch anyone who makes her cry.

Durga:
[chuckles] How befitting of you! Right, Mithra?... I will raise our daughter. You concentrate on making the world a safe place for her. You just do what you think is right, you're at your best when you're fighting for what's right.

Asura:
I pray to no one, nor will I be prayed to! But, above all else, I will never forgive you for making my daughter cry!

Mithra:
Wait! If you kill him, all the Mantra will be lost!

Asura:
But... you will still live.

[Asura starts to fade away]

Mithra:
Why do you always act so recklessly? I didn't want this to happen, that's why I...

Asura:
I... I couldn't bear to see you suffer.

Mithra:
[weeps] Stupid!

Asura:
No more crying... Smile. My wrath... is finally... gone.

[last words]

Asura:
Durga... I'll be home, soon... [fades away]

[last lines]

[Mithra tells the tale of Asura to children]

Mithra:
[in conclusion]... and that, was how my father lived.