Ren sighed in relief glad that this charade was finally over.
"Man... I'm tired yawn," Ren commented as he stretched his arms. Harushi looked up at Ren and smiled feeling a bit grateful for the kid's help.
"You know... Last thing I thought was that you were going to be some innocent kid trapped in this Dreamscape shit with us... You're actually strong. You're really Senior Agent level strong... Maybe as strong as me," Harushi commented as he assessed Ren thoroughly.
Hikaru stood up, stumbling on his feet a bit as the gaping wound in his torso was covered with ice freezing his blood in place. Hikaru walked close to them and said,
"When I finished my fight, I got transported back to the Dreamscape Kawagoe... I searched around and found some creepy strange guy in a hat and he sucked me in... And one thing led to another I came to you guys".
Ren smacked Hikaru's back grinning with full wide smile. "Yeah, same for me, bro... Like honestly speaking your old man was more stronger than that teddy bear I fought in mine," Ren said looking at Harushi, his arm draped over Hikaru's shoulder.
"Atleast all is well when it ends well," Harushi says as he looks back at the battlefield. His eyes roamed around and suddenly locked at his mother laid into the soft embrace of the flower he created.
Dread, fear and a hint of desperation ran through his face as he quickly whipped out some vines wrapping them close to the tree near her and carried himself over there. Hikaru and Ren looked at eachother and ran towards him.
Harushi came down away from the tree and scrambled his feet towards his mother falling on her chest trying to listen to her heartbeat.
"...Ma? Ma? Are you... Are you there? Please wake up, Ma... We won... I- I no... We... We defeated dad," Harushi muttered as he tried holding her face up, making her look at him. Her body was evident with bruises and violent abuse Akimoro committed right after killing Harushi and Ren before. "MA! LOOK AT ME!", Harushi yelled desperately tears welling up in his eyes.
Harushi's mother, Sakura, weakly moved her head to face him. Her middled aged face, once beautiful now bruised looked up at her son with a smile.
"Ah... Harushi baby... I-im so glad I gave birth to you," Sakura said as she placed her arms around her son. Meanwhile, Hikaru and Ren came running towards them. Hikaru knew the Dreamscape wasn't real, but it portrayed moments of the past deeply ingrained in the subconsciousness or tainted by the Dreamweaver the master of dreams herself. Maybe Harushi's past was this. He must have loved his mother dearly.
"Look at you all grown up, my baby boy," Sakura said holding Harushi's head by cupping his cheeks. A small tear went down her cheek as she finally spoke up again, "The reason why your father... why he was so adamant on executing me was because you're not his son".
Harushi's eyes opened up in shock. So his mother... Cheated? Ren was about to laugh at the irony of the situation, but Hikaru nudged his shoulder with a glare.
"Y-you cheated on dad! Y-you! H-how dare you! How dare you you wh- wh-", Harushi yells in perplexed rage as he holds her shoulders with anger but stopped midway drinking in his anger.
Sakura sighed knowing that her son was right, but that wasn't the full story. She continued, "Please son... Let me continue...".
"Make it good, mom," Harushi replied with a low growl.
She nodded as she continued speaking her voice soothing and tired, "Y-your father was infertile... No matter how much we tired I wouldn't conceive because he didn't have the capacity to make children. He thought I was useless and he was perfectly fine. I got scared, baby... I got scared... He would have disposed off me and taken in concubines... I-I don't know why I loved him... So I met his brother, your uncle and I asked him to give me a child so I could appease your 'foster' dad... Akimoro was overjoyed at the news... But as the years went by and eventually he found out through the fact your hairs were curly like his brother, he got panicked and investigated... He found out and he wanted to kill me... And he did succeed in the real world... I'm just glad you were able to save me this time, baby... I really am".
Suddenly Harushi broke down in tears, his eyes softened and his grip became that of desperate need. "Oh! Oh my god! Mom! I-i'm I'm so sorry! Fuck! I was going to think you were a wh- I hate myself!", Harushi whimpered under his breath
Sakura scruffled his hair and kissed it as she spoke up weakly, "I'm fine. I didn't die as a whore in your image... It's okay, baby... I'm so glad my baby got strong just like your mother... Goodbye baby...".
Her hand on his head slowly slid down, her pupils relaxed and the heaving of her chest stopped. She left. Just like that. Harushi couldn't even say goodbye to her then or now. He broke down in agony his fingers clenching and scratching the earth in it's wake.
Ren felt bad for almost laughing at his mother's unfortunate infidelity and patter Harushi's back. Hikaru did the same abiet hugging Harushi by crouching at his height.
As the trio lost themselves in their own agony, the environment began to dissolve and disintegrate. The environment flashed with a pinkish - purplish glow and faded back into reality. Lucy's Dreamscape was over. They had won. The three were back in Ren's room. It was night and a full moon.
Harushi clenched the carpet below him as Ren comforted him. Hikaru stood up and tried to slide open the door that lead downstairs. As Hikaru slid the door open suddenly the massive tall imposing figure of the Dreamweaver grinned in a mechanical grin.
"Peaka- BOO!"
Lucy yelled in fevourous excitement as she landed a blinding fast jab at Hikaru. His eyes rolled up. Hikaru's body crashed through the window, exploding the wall exposing the cool night air behind Harushi and Ren, flying through a few buildings in Kawagoe before falling down limp a few blocks away covered in a heap of debris.
"W-what the fuck?!", Ren yelled as he desperately tries grasping the air but his Senzai was ran out. He grabbed Hikaru's fallen sword and got in position.
"Aw, how cute. I played around with your emotions in the Dreamscape, boys. Too bad I had to sacrifice half of my Senzai for today for just using my Territory. But hey, I had fun messing with you three: Ren, you were so funny, praying for your deceased Mother and Father's souls. And then Hikaru, ha I had fun seeing how the boy had to push past his moral compass to kill a damn human - his own pathetic sister! Haha!", Lucy smirked as she created a pinkish glowing rope out of midair and shaped it into a lasso or a tool of something.
Harushi stood up, his eyes in blazing fury and his mouth pressed thin. His jaw clenched. The Dreamweaver looked down at Harushi and continued with a smug expression,
"And the cream on the top was you! Ah~ how truly amazing how humans can be crippled to the core~ I knew about your past so I messed around with you~ How does it feel being unaware of this bombshell of an information before that moment? In all honesty, I fuckin' laughed at your desperate pleas to save your mother".
Ren looked at Harushi, his face covered in shadow and a blinding rage. Ren spoke up trying to calm him down,
"H-hey d-dude don't act rash-".
As before Ren could finish his sentence, Harushi let out an uncountable numbers of of vines whipping at the Dreamweaver with the intent to slaughter at sonic speeds. Lucy grinned as she prepared herself.
Ren's house erupted outwards with Lucy leaped way up in the air and Harushi's vines following right behind her.
"Pretty technique but that isn't enough!", Lucy said with glee as she wrapped her glowing rope around all of the vines as if a bundle of cables and used her overwhelming eclipse strength to tug at her rope and mid air pulled Harushi by his vines up and twirled around smashing Harushi at dangerous speed against the few buildings down below completely smashing 5 whole buildings in one attack.
People started screaming in fear as they ran away from the zone, the people stuck in the debris of the buildings around Harushi, injured tried to escape.
Suddenly, with a whistling sound, Lucy can crashing down at Harushi punching him in the gut as the sheer force of the wind behind her created so much power that it killed the few people around them in an instant.
Harushi vomitted blood as he looked up at Lucy and grabbed her arm.
"DIE YOU FREAKING BITCH!", Harushi yelled as he used mitosis to regenerate his injuries and meanwhile tossed some explosive seeds around them.
Lucy's eyes raised in curiosity before they both got engulfed in a moderate explosion that shook the buildings around and created a blast three buildings tall.
As the smoke subsided, Lucy held Harushi by the throat, having felt not effected by the attack at all. His Senzai completely drained.She scoffed as she pressed harder onto his throat, threatening to turn his vision dark. Lucy stared deep into his eyes and said,
"Dreamweaving Senzai Art:
Chained Dreams"
Suddenly, Harushi's body convulsed as if going through epilepsy. His eyeballs moved everywhere, his brain frying up. Her technique was threatening to burn away his memories.
"N-no... My friends...", Harushi whimpers as the image of Hikaru, Ren and Yoru began blurring away into darkness.
The mind control went for a few seconds before his body hung limp in her hand. His pupils turned purple and a nosebleed went down. His brain overstimulate from the massive stimulus he achieved. A drool went down at the side of his lips.
Lucy smiled in satisfaction as she let Harushi fall down his body falling down against her thighs in submission. He barely murmured and only saw new dreams: dreams that gave him a purpose: to serve her and become her slave.
She created a glowing chain just like her rope and shoved it in his forehead jamming it deep in his cranial cavity and let go. Now Harushi had fallen.
"One down," Lucy said nonchalantly as she looked back at Ren watching in fear.
She suddenly came behind Ren and held the nape of his neck as the Chained Dreams Technique started causing his body to convulse just like Harushi. He let out a squeal before facing the same effects and fell down with a chain attached to his forehead.
"Two down-"
Suddenly a massive blue aura of Senzai erupted in the distance. The debris of the buildings flying up around in the air. Hikaru stared down at Lucy in rage. Adrenaline finally pumping into his bloodstream as his output yet again started to increase. Hikaru Shimo was truly one with unfathomable potential to grow.
"I-i'm going to kill you for what you've done, eclipse," Hikaru grunted without emotions as he slowly walked towards Lucy. His Senzai aura following him suit. The road and debris below Hikaru got pushed down whenever Hikaru took a step.
"Well well well! LOOKS LIKE BREAKING YOU WILL BE MORE FUN HIKARU SHIMOOO!", Lucy yelled in excitement tossing Hikaru's sword towards him.
The two started walking towards eachother. Then they started running and then...
Chapter 31, end