A Clash of Powers

Pain for a moment was still primal he glanced wildly around until finally setting eyes on Shiro, a low growl escaping his lips. But after that moment the surge of power gone his thoughts were coming back, and his power was slowly depleting, his sword retracted back into his body and the blood that hovered in his gaping hole of a head soon took hold of gravity falling and sizzling as it touched Pain's skin, he licked his chapped lips as he suddenly realized that defeat was imminent. The thought of death, or even just a life without pain was more comforting than escaping Shiro's prison and Pain could only chuckle at this sudden realization.

"Who are you?" Pain asked, his voice cold but brimming with curiosity as he stared at the male. Plans formulating his escape but he bit them back as he stood to his feet, now flat footed and was able to stand without a hunch showing his rather tall appearance. He would continue this walk forward for quite a few more steps before putting up his arms in a boxing stance, more for humor than actual effect. "Come, we can chat while we fight like actual civilized creatures!" Pain says satirically, anyone that could merely knock him around while in such a fueled form was not one to trifle with, only briefly seeing Shiro's wings causing him instinctively to flex his own wondering if Shiro would even stay to fight, seeing the prison that locked him in was to the others design.

The relief Shiro gave Pain was euphoric, so much so that he left out a sigh of relief as the pain slowly faded in form of his energy however a new threat came from this, a calm and well thought mind. "Shiro" Pain mouthed the word back to him as if trying to figure out where the name came from not feeling familiar at all. "Well Shiro, my name is Pain, you are obviously feeling it now." Pain smiled staring at his abuse to Lust, obviously getting some sort of twisted pleasure in the whole moment.

In the moment of his second words a whirring sounded deep within him. "Without all of that energy my body doesn't regenerate from self mutilation, however I still cannot die from it." Pain says stately as his sword peeks out of his arms and legs cut at the bandages however revealing deep holes throughout his figure as it tunnel through, very slowly closing back up, blood leaking out and sizzling as it touches the floor.

With a quick glance to Lust he couldn't help but to be curious, his thoughts floated as his sword bored its way out of his shoulder allowing him to grab it, the holes healing slower and slower as he stands in front of him. "You obviously understand me to some extent, why are you doing this?" He smiled with his sword in his hand there was a beam of confidence, even in such a dire strait waiting for the right moment, his sword flexes and turns to continue it's swings at bandages.

Shiro growled, as the small hint of rage that remained inside of him erupted in that moment, as his question was not answered, he of course felt the need to bring pain to Pain but this once again came to his mind as futile and pointless. The rage died down, and quickly went back into the corner of his soul. "NaaaaammmmmeeeeeEE?" He asked again, ignoring Pain's questions towards him for now. He wanted to know what it was he would call Pain... as he knew nothing of the Avatars in fact he knew nothing of Eden, the only thing he knew before killing Ura was that he wanted to kill both her and Elisa and would do what ever it took to do so, with Ura dead the power that fueled him to kill had severely died down, so lust took over, and with his lust he desired the power that he had once had, hence why he sought out Pain in hopes of filling the gap that was left by Rage. 

He had not targeted Pain from the start, he in fact had to force it out of several of his slaves that he had come across while on his travels. They were completely hypnotized via Lust's powers, so Shiro could have his way with anyone he wanted, male or female.

Pain sighed, obviously he would have to deal with him, the voice causing him to twitch with annoyance. "Shiro, my name is Pain." He stood on his feet at this point giving all of his attention to him as he waits for his final moment, his wounds on his sides almost completely halting their healing process a very thin filament covered the large sword wounds so that he merely did not bleed out leaving dark red marks on his body looking like deep bruises. Pain's mortality was not something he was immediately used to as fatigue plagued it.

The sparks of rage from this strange figure sent a disturbing chill down Pain's spine. He was slowly putting pieces together, only just recently being able to focus from his normal scatter brained self, remembering the lust based attack he could only assume that this figure had some how brought down the mighty Rage himself which only made his situation more grim. "Why are you doing this Shiro?" He asked again, probing at the terrifying force in front of him.

Shiro paused for a moment, as no one had ever questioned his motives, he had never thought about himself too hard either. Originally he had been letting the other Avatars influence motivate his action, he was originally angry and wanting vengeance on someone who had done him no harm, then he found himself lusting after a power he once had, now he only felt pain... and with pain came a sliver of humanity.

He shrieked, as he remembered who he was before he died and arrived on Eden, and with this pain he found himself seeing what he had done, who he had become. It came to him as quite the shock but he was quick to think back to things his father had taught him, things he knew were true facts. "I did it because when you are your own person and nothing can get in your way you have to put your foot down and show everyone you mean business... if you don't anyone who can will walk all over you... so you have to step on all the ants to show them that you are in charge" The aura of Pain, Lust, and Rage all harmonized within him as these things made up his entire life, by thinking back at who he once was he had fueled the two Avatars, and brought life back to his inner rage, albeit the direction his rage was at was no longer towards Elisa but more so towards the ways of humanity, he had become a little more sane and a lot more bitter and cold. His eyes finally centered as he blinked and felt himself focus more.

With his focus came a realization, one that would prove useful to him as he had not been taking everything he could from the avatars, he had given them the ability to talk back to him, to question what he was doing, he had also given them a chance at hope, something he had never been given as a child. His eyes grazed up at pain as the bandages, began to mummify Pain's entire body. They would do the same with Lust, but both the avatars would find themselves disarmed as the bandages took away their weapons. The bandages would carry them over to Shiro, as he grabbed a hold of Pain's sword, and wrapped the sharp parts of the hilt into a bandage guard in order for it to not cause him pain. He would have the sword strapped to his back; all three swords were neatly sheathed.

"Thank you Pain... for bringing me back to myself... now that I know what I am capable off... I think I will go see what this place has to offer me... as this is my chance... my chance at a better life"