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Anonymous
As soon as the stars gather, Ashura's less-friendly, dormant personality, that of his ashura-race blood, awakes. After killing his own mother (read it, you'll see why), Ashura lapses into an improvised cocoon reminiscent of your worst xenomorph nightmare, emerging in a full-grown, adult form, leaving behind all shotariffic goodness and all morality whatsoever. Ashura thus reveals his purpose: the stars were living sacrifice for him, and now they have gathered for the slaughter. With their blood feeding him, Ashura will destroy all that is evil-- that is, what ASHURA SEES AS EVIL, which is a pretty subjective thing, namely ALL THINGS LIVING. As Ashura goes through the heavens, killing any and all things, the cast falls one by one, until Yasha-ou is left to fight Ashura. Leave it to Yasha!
Oh wait, he gets beaten up quite good.
Taishakuten will stop him!
Not really.
So, it's all hopeless. The heavens and all creation are doomed. Ashura prepares to slaughter Yasha, the last of the six stars, to affirm his power... and then stabs himself instead. Yasha and Ashura's bond prevailed at the end, and Yasha's unwavering love for Ashura called out to the goodness in him: Ashura ends his rampage, falling into a timeless sleep, whilst Yasha promises to wait for him to wake, so that when he does, he won't be alone, and Yasha will be there to prevent him from becoming the god of destruction ever again.
Skimmed a lot of details here and there, but then again, READ THE MANGA for the rest. READ IT, you won't regret it. It's from the days when CLAMP actually finished their stuff, and boy did they do it well.
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