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Zero skated throughout the village.
He turned a sharp corner when he saw dopple.
"Bingo You're dead!" Zero barely diped down and dodged his sword strike. He turned and took out two guns. He boosted his stride and started shooting. Dopple blocked all the bullets with his sword.
"Let's have some fun." He took out a scroll and tossed it into the ground. Zero and dopple then wore a spatial chain around their right arms connecting to eachother.
"A fight to the death? You're kidding me." Damn this is bad! I can't beat him like this!!
Dopple didn't answer, he just rushed at Zero and grabbed him by the robes. He placed Zero in front of him and started running through buildings. Zero's bones started to bend a bit from the pressure of each wall he went through.

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Retsu woke up from the explosion. He quickly shot out from his sleeping place an rushed outside with his ice arm blade. He looked around quickly to find the source of the explosion.

Dopple finaly, after the fifth building, threw Zero and jumpkicked him urther into the air. He raised his left hand and drew it back to him. Zero stopped in mid-air and followed suit. Dopple charged his right hand with fire and punched the falling Zero with the force of an 18 wheeler truck. A mirage of Zero seemed to flow out of Zero before he finaly followed it out of Runo and into the ground. He couldn't move. He tried to get up. Nothing seemed to work. Dopple apeared in the sky and with thunder in his arms. A black cloud seemed to follow him. As he pointed his palms at Zero a huge thunderbolt struck the crater Zero was in.
Zero barely managed to dodge it by blasting his boosters while dopple was setting up his attack.
((Nothing can dodge lightning. It's 1/10000 of a second fast. Just a little fun-fact.))

Dopple hit the ground. He clapped like this was nothing but a game to him. He crouched down and speed towards Zero.
Zero jumped in time, but missed what dopple had planned next.
Dopple changed his direction and forced Zero into the ground but didn't stop running.
He laughed maniacally while dragging Zero into the dirt.
"Give up Alex! You can't win!" He then tossed Zero threw some more trees and into the ground again, but followed him and sent a fist into his chest, puncturing Zero's right side and through him.
Dopple took his hand out and Zero coughed blood.
Dopple walked out of the crater.
"Just stop and accept death. Even if you did fight...To quote Sasuke from the Naruto universe. 'You're out a shoulder and a lung.' You have no chance."
Zero used his left hand and stood up. He looked gruesome. A hole was in him. You could see right through him to the other trees behind him. Blood was everywhere. And was comming out of his mouth and left eye. But he was standing.
"No...I...have....to protect...Aura...and my friends..."
Dopple laughed.
"Suit yourself. I'm gonna torture you until you surrender. I'll make sure not to kill you untill it happens." Dopple teleported to Zero and kneed him in the stomach. He then kicked him so hard Zero flew back into Runo.
Dopple teleported twenty feet away from him and walked.
"This is too easy."
Zero tried to use his left and again to get back up.

Zero barely began to stand when dopple kicked him far and down again. Zero cried.
"Aura...forgive me...I don't think I'll be able to see you again...not after this." He closed his eyes and grabbed a knife. It had a sun on it. He looked at his right arm and cut a circular rune into hit. he then placed a symbol on it. It was a sideways eight. After it was completed he stood up with ease and healed his arm and all of his injuries.
Dopple was stunned for a bit. Zero's skin turned black, then just like his shadow hand, it started looking like it was a person made out of black flame. Nothing distinct but his red eyes were distinguishable from him. Dopple cursed. After that he turned back to normal, but with two things. The knife he was using for the symbol and his Masamune. He ran at dopple, every step he took made a crack on the ground.
Dopple didn't know what to do. He punched a little out of desparation and Zero knifed him three times. Zero then pinned him to the ground by impaleing him into it. He took out his knife and cut a symbol into his head. And the same symbol into his own.
"It's time we left Dopple. And we're going to the same place."
He grabbed dopples head and using his aura he overloaded himself and Dopple. He was starting to glow like a lightbulb. Dopple was doing the same thing. Both seemed to be in pain.
"No! You...die...alone!" Dopple tried to move, but his increase in power and pain prevented him.
Zero laughed and cried a little. "Sorry dopple...but that's not going to happen, this is over. You're finished forever this time."
"You idiot! You'll be finished as well!"
"Then that's all the better for the incarnates."

Zero stepped back and fell on his hind quarters.
"It's done...you be souless in a second."
Dopple laughed and stopped struggleing.
"So you finaly won eh...funny...somehow...I always knew you'd-"
At the middle of his sentence the light peaked and dissapeared. Dopple layed lifeless on the ground.
Zero then started to glow brighter.
"Heh....it's my turn huh..." He closed his eyes.
He turned at looked at Rahvine and tossed her his backpack.
"Keep it...I won't be needing it where I'm going..."

Zero looked at her with his normal brown eyes. They were filled with tears.
"I'm gonna join the three incarnates I couldn't protect."
The light peaked and dissapeared.
Zero's eyes were lifeless, and he dropped with a smile on his face.

((Don't worry, this isn't the end of him...))