Chapter 2: Wars

The lights flashed grabbing the audience's attentionto the last two contestants. It was far from a fair fight. A white haired boy held his opponent by the throat causing his feet to dangle over the edge of the arena. The boy's body was covered in a magical armour created by his own aura, the Keshin.

Concentrating his power into his blade, the boy finished the battle by severing his opponent and letting him fall off the arena.

"Victory, the Lagoon!"

The crowd boomed with excitement after the announcement rang into each of their heads. They loved it when kills were made; especially by their favourite Soldier, SARU.

The boy laughed insanely as he swung his sword downwards to fling off any blood on it. The armour he equipped disappeared along with his weapon.

"This concludes today's Avatar Wars, we await for your next visit." A voice resounded within everyone's head and the virtual world disappeared and everyone was back to the plain black room they were in originally. The audience slowly started to make their ways out.

SARU exited into his waiting room and took a seat while servants proceeded to clean and massage him. A screen appeared before him.

"Good work like usual, SARU…" an old man spoke.

"Of course, who do you think I am?"

"I'm worried you'll lose any worthy opponents, remember, this is a performance."

SARU laughed, "I'm just doing whatever I please. They love it when my opponent's dead.

"We don't have an unlimited supply of Soldiers." The man said sternly, "Control yourself. We're counting on you, SARU." The screen before the boy disappeared.

The boy quickly shoed out the servants, however like usual, 'he' refused to leave. For some reason, SARU didn't mind this young boy's presence. He didn't know his name, age, where he came from; someone from his status wasn't allowed to ask these things to a lowly servant.

The servant bowed deeply, "Thank-you sir."

SARU slowly turned to the mirror in front of him. Something seemed wrong always; like he was forgetting something important, but he could never remember.

Fei wanted time to think alone; Yuuchi and Nagito understood that. The two left the green haired boy in the apartment.

"Is he really going to be alright?" Nagito asked as the two walked.

Yuuchi put his hands behind his head, "Well, I believe Captain would resolve to work with us... Anyways we better focus on finding two more members."

Nagito let out a tired sigh, but nodded in agreement.

Fei held his head, "Everything I fought for, was a lie... I don't understand anymore."

"Then why you trying to understand?"

Fei looked up and came face to face with the stuffed cat android. Caught off guard, Fei jolted back in surprise. Since the cat's eyes were literally buttons, it was impossible to read its expression.

"Sorry, I thought I was alone..." Fei took a closer look at the android and realized it had many green and pink patches sewed on. One of its arms were also lame and dragged past its elbow. "W-what was your name again?"

"Chappie!" It chirped, "Fei doesn't need kotatsu like Nagi?"

"We, Second Stage Children, don't feel cold or hot." Fei smiled patting Chappie's head, "Huh, then how does that girl that looks like Shindou-san still have her powers? Seems Yuuchi lost his like the agreement..."

"Nagi isn't Feida, El Dorado doesn't know!" Chappie mewed.

Fei put his under his chin deep in thought. He decided to ask this android about the "wars" Nagito mentioned.

"A battle between Keshin users. The point is to destroy the opposing Keshin or its user."

"By destroying the user, you mean..."

"Of course death. The most popular Soldier is SARU of the Lagoon. Ah, a Soldier is a partcipant of the Wars and..."

Fei grabbed the stuffed kitty, "SARU!? You mean of F-Feida!?"

Chappie nodded, "Everyone who used to be in Feida is a Soldier... since they all have the potential to become Keshin users. Well, I guess everyone, but you and Yuu... Pupu, that sounds funny when I actually say it..." The cat snickered in the end. Fei dropped him.

"Why... Why would they participate..."

Chappie tilted its head questioningly to the side.

"The two said something about participating themselves as well, why?" Fei asked.

"To defeat El Dorado!" Chappie said nose held up high. "Well they haven't been able to partcipate yet since we need 5 Soldiers to make a team."

"That's why two more members..." Fei laughed nervously, "I'm already counted as a member... Well that's very Yuuchi like..."

"Achoo!" Yuuchi sneezed. He tried warm himself by rubbing his arms together, "Shit, did I catch a cold?"

"Sometimes I wonder if there are more negatives than positives in losing your SSC powers." Nagito sighed.

Yuuchi frowned, "Hmf sure, we lose our telekinetic powers, super speed/strength, effective immune systems, but... we can now live longer. "

"I guess... Hmm!?" Nagito stopped when she saw the public tv. It was showing a live Avatar Wars match.

"...Leader..." Yuuchi clenched his fists in rage

"SARU-san's quite scary..." Nagito chuckled.

"Don't joke..." Yuuchi growled and turned from the screen. Nagito took one last look at it before following her friend.

"We're back!" Putting a bag of groceries down, Yuuchi and Nagito entered the apartment.

"Yuu!" Chappie chirped, "What's for dinner today?"

"Actually, I'm making it today." Nagito grinned.

"Are you sure..." Yuuchi asked.

"Stop asking... It's been 6 months since you've met any of your Feida friends, right?" Nagito shoed the white haired boy away. "C'mon, Chappie."

Yuuchi sighed and proceeded to the living area. Since it was chilly in the house, he wrapped himself with a cozy blanket.

"Ah, welcome back, Yuuchi." Fei smiled. "Cold?"

"Don't get too cocky, Captain." The white-haired boy grinned taking a seat next to him.

After a slight moment of silence, "Avatar Wars... Are you really planning to participate?" Fei finally spoke.

"I don't know if Chappie told you yet, or not, but El Dorado took more than our powers. Our memories."

"Huh?"

"To be more exact, our memories of being in Feida and participating in the Ragnarok. Even without the powers, the only thing they remember was the pain of being abandoned, lost, betrayed. El Dorado is seen as a saviour to many of them."

Fei gasped, "but is it really possible to take just that memory of over 50 kids!?"

"Well, they did it. I was lucky to get away with only my powers taken. The old men are probably still searching for me..."

"Me too..." Fei whispered, "Yuuchi, they might know I'm here! I didn't do anything to hide my tracks!"

"That's part of our plan..." Yuuchi grinned. He then stood up, "Speaking of El Dorado... Fei, we got a guest outside."

Opening the sliding door to the balcony, Yuuchi looked down to see a single hooded figure below. Judging from the clothes a Root Agent.

"Fei Rune... and Yuuchi? How convenient." The person sneered.

"W-who is h-he!?" Fei gasped.

"El Dorado, Root Agent. Delta." He threw a strange cube out in front of him and their surroundings suddenly changed. A virtual world was created before them. Though it was night, the entire was lit. A warm breeze blew across causing the grass to sway peacefully.

"This is disturbingly calm..." Yuuchi smiled.

"Won't be for long." Delta cackled as he summoned his Keshin. "Seinaru Kyuubi!" A majestic nine-tailed fox beast appeared. On the tip of each of its tails were eerie blue fire balls. "Armed!" The Keshin transformed into energy, materializing as armour onto the Root Agent. The tails of the fox became a waste cape and ornaments, fire balls levitated around him.

"Better watch carefully, Fei." Yuuchi grinned, "This is an Avatar War battle! Gousetsu no Saiya, Armed!" An icicle feminine Keshin became Yuuchi's armour. 4 long strings flowed down his back like a cape. An icy spear also materialized which he held as his weapon.

"Battle Start!" A voice rang in each of their heads and Yuuchi immediately lunged at the enemy. He jabbed forwards with his spear though it was easily avoided by Delta.

"Too slow..." Delta directed two fire balls to shoot at Yuuchi.

Twirling his spear out in front of him, Yuuchi deflected both. He kept trying to attack, however he was unable to hit his enemy.

"Tch..." Yuuchi growled.

"I guess you're still quite new to Battles... you're attacks are too straight forward." Delta sighed, "Be more exciting, battles are a performance!" Raising both arms Delta summoned more blue fire balls. He shot them all out at Yuuchi.

Unable to deflect them all, the boy was eventually shot backwards. "Argh!"

"Yuuchi!" Fei yelled.

"You guys can both come at me... Won't make a difference." Delta provoked.

Yuuchi slowly got back to his feet. Though his armour protected his body from getting burned, his right cheek was slightly red. "I guess this is enough for a warm up."

"Hmf, quit bluffing."

Yuuchi chuckled then threw his spear at Delta. Though caught by surprise, there was enough distance between the two for the Root Agent to barely avoid the attack.

"Close, but not enou...!?"

Yuuchi was already directly in front of Delta, spear in hand. He delivered a hard blow into his stomache with the dull end of his weapon.

"H-how...?"

"Who told you I only had one spear?" Yuuchi sneered.

Falling unconscious, Delta's Keshin disappeared.

"Winner, Soldier Yuuchi" Along with the sound of that voice the virtual world disappeared.

Yuuchi released his armed. He picked up the unconscious Root Agent.

"Wow..." Fei mumbled.

"Hey Yuu! Fei! Dinner's ready!" Chappie yelled looking down from the veranda. "Hmm who's that?"

"Well..." Yuuchi laughed.

Thanks for reading the second Chapter of Avatar Wars. Please tell me if the flow of the battle scene was a little confusing or just great the way it is… There will be more and I want to make sure they are described well.

THANKS again!