(P.S A new BLACK Chapter has arrived! Also, before I continue on, I forgot to let people know that the OC's Vix and Bart do not belong to me but actually come from RedBlackFlame17. I apologize to him for not letting people know who they belong to. But after that, let the Rebellion continue.)

BLACK 3

Last time on BLACK Rebellion...

Sora Minakaze, A student of the Famous NOL Academy, is currently in battle with two people of his past. The opponents he was facing, Marcus Brown, A fox beastkin and Chikacho, A spider Beastkin. Both are strong opponents of their own right but were also his old Squadmates from a time he wished he could forget. As they proved how strong they are, Sora has decided to go all out against them by unleasing an ars magus that only the three of them were familiar...and this ars Magus is only own as...

The Soul Drive.

And Now...The Rebellion Continues.

The tension present in the arena was that of a western shootout. Nobody dare to even utter a single breath of air as Sora had finally done it. He was in the same state that everyone had seen one month ago as bright silver lines flowed from his body, his eyes glowing the same silver. Marcus and Chikacho got ready themselves as they dusted off the attack that he had just delivered to them in this state. They have seen this form multiple times but never had to fight against it. "Any ideas how we should deal with this?" Marcus said as Chikacho simply shook her head.

Before they could even think up of a proper plan to deal with such power, Sora made his first move. Dashing right ahead in a speed that they were not used to seeing, Sora slid on the ground like he was playing baseball, aiming directly for Marcus's knee. Getting struck at his knee, Marcus slid to the ground as Sora went after Chikacho next with a series of fast and furious punches. Dodging them with some difficulty, Chikacho managed to force Sora to stop attacking by striking his chest with the palm of her hand.

To her shock, Sora had somehow raised his guard as he slid on the ground, digging on his heels to stop. Marcus managed to recover from that attack as he he held them for a second. "Are you alright Marcus?" Chikacho asked in worry as Marcus smiled. "It's alright, we have taken worse from him...let's just focus on this." The moment he said that, Chikacho felt a sense of reassurement in his voice as Sora did not let up, charging straight for them once more.

Marcus then ran forward to intercept Sora's charge as He concentrated his emotions onto EMPTY as he began form a small wind despite not feeling happy in his current state. This surprised Sora as Marcus swung forward with a strong force, forcibly blowing him back on his feet as Marcus noticed. 'I am not the same person I was before Nii-san...I have learnt a few new tricks over the years as well!' Sora thought as he pointed EMPTY forward and released a current of water that nearly struck him as Sora ducked his head to dodge said attack.

Not letting up on his pressure, Marcus continued to release out a steady stream of water missiles as Chikacho did not want him to waste the pressure that they have gained from this as she charged for Sora as well, readying her kunais in the process. As soon as she did, she began to attack him with various slices at areas that are meant to distract him, slicing at his thigh which was successful but didn't give him a deep enough gash to really slow him down. As he felt the attack, Sora vanished as he decided to take it to the air. Appearing in the air, Chikacho chased after him, throwing kunais right at him.

It is harder than what it looks in the movies as Sora twisted his body to dodge the various sized kunais tossed right at him. Despite the speed increase he had, Chikacho had tossed them close enough to nullify the advantage his speed gave him in dodging said attacks, knicking him at various parts of his body. Chikacho finally managed to close in on him, spinning her kunais rapidly on multiple fingers to slice at him. Seeing this, Sora did a heel kick right at her wrist to attempt to disarm one set of her kunais which was successful.

As he continued to get some distance in the air, Chikacho secretly pulled on strings she had kept hidden in her wrist, launching them right at Sora with her fast reflexes. Raising his guard, Sora managed to block most of the attacks delivered to him as their feet soon land on the ground. As they did so, Marcus charged right for Sora, extending the range of his sword EMPTY into a katana sized fire blade. The expression on his face was not suggesting of pure anger but more of a calm happiness as he fueled the fires with the wind emiting from the blade itself.

'Marcus can combine two elements into his blade now!?' Sora thought as Marcus swung at his face with force. Not only was it much lighter, if the fires touched him even once, they will spread around his clothes until he stopped, dropped and rolled which he would have no time for. Focusing a little bit, Sora dashed backwards in high speed as Marcus attempted to strike him at the same time which failed in the end. It did however managed to strike his shoe, something that told Marcus was almost close.

Standing still once more, they did not move yet again. Tactics were beginning to flow into their minds. Sora has the speed advantage but the addition of two people who know each other well nullify the advantages that speed might have. Marcus and Chikacho know Sora and how he would think but did not know what kind of experience he may have gained over the span of two years. They knew well however that they could not prolong the fight for too much otherwise it will end in a draw, and that is the one result they wish to avoid at all costs.

As if they were thinking in unison, they both said to themselves, 'THIS MATCH WON'T END WITH A TIE THAT'S FOR SURE!' as soon as they said that, Marcus began to form a water whip which due to the attributes of the wind present with his emotions began to flow freely. Snapping it forward, He tried to wrap it around Sora as he dashed away. Expecting this in a way, Marcus twisted his wrist to change the direction of where the whip went. This time, he managed to wrap it around Sora's ankles tugging on it to make him slip mid dash.

As he did so, Chikacho went up to him and delivered a series of kicks leading up to a kick that sent him crashing to the wall. Not letting him up, Marcus pulled the whip back to drag Sora along the ground with ease. To their surprise however, he looked like he had taken a minimal amount of damage despite their fantastic teamwork and coordination. Not being discouraged by this however, they both continued their assault, slamming Sora to the ground as hard as he could before dismissing the whip.

Chikacho then leapt onto Marcus's shoulder in order to give herself more air time. As she did so, she began to toss multiple kunais attached with special tags on them as Marcus allowed his anger to take over fully, fueling EMPTY with hot flames that became red hot. Pointing the blade forward, he released it all out as a huge ball of flame that struck the tags, creating a brilliant explosion that covered Sora's area, surprising everyone as Makoto got of her seat out of worry.

While Sora was within the flaming area, he could hear the sounds of something he dreads hearing everyday, the sounds of the people he either killed or got killed years ago. Their moans and cries of pain echoed into his ear as he heard the one voice that always saddens him greatly. "I'm Sorry...Little bro." a female voice said as he clenched his fist gently. The flames didn't harm him as he had expected due to the protection given to him by the silver aura, much to his surprise. He still didn't want to hang around the flames for too long as he began to breathe in too much of the fire's smoke.

Dashing out into the open once again, he began to breathe heavily as everyone in the arena saw the silver lines having wrapped themselves around him to protect him, some portion of his clothes having a bit of char present in them. Marcus and Chikacho were glad that their plan worked as they knew the weakness of the Soul Drive Ars Magus that Sora uses as the silver line disperesed from his body, his hair covering his right eye and his left eye returning back to their brilliant yellow once more as the crowd was just stunned at what happened.

"The ars magus...They made it disappear!" A student at the crowd said as everyone slowly began to let out a cheer out of excitement. Estella and the coach themselves were surprised at what had just happened as they no longer paid attention to how much time was left for the battle as they got into it themselves, not because they were excited but the intrigue that they had before was now increasing with even more mysteries to figure out with themselves.

As they did so, the group above were just as amazed as what had happened. "Who are these people...their teamwork is just unbelievable!" Tsubaki said in her shock as Noel herself was confused as to what she could be feeling right now. "YEAH! KICK HIS ASS!" Vix shouted out in excitement as Bart merely looked at her and calmly sighed. "Vix...please do show a bit more restraint even if the person you are shouting against is your rival." Bart calmly said, pushing his red glasses to his eyes.

Mai herself was focused at what was happening right now as she noticed Cajun was taking notes. "Why are you taking notes right now Cajun?" Mai asked as she closed her notebook with a small smile present on her face. "It appears that ars magus Sora can use has a fatal flaw." Cajun says as everyone looked at her intrigued at what she had said. They became curious at the words she had said as Hunter decided to ask for the group as he noticed their expressions of wonder in their eyes.

Hunter: What do you mean by a fatal flaw Cajun.

Cajun: Well, you remember your battle with him a month ago?

Noel: Y-You mean the one where He and Hunter fought in this same arena?

Mai: Oh! That was the first time it came out didn't it?

Cajun: Why yes, in that fight, I managed to notice something rather intriguing. During that entire fight, Sora was taking in continuous breaths.

Tsubaki: Isn't that normal though? Maybe he was getting his air back. He is quite the aggressive fighter as I have noticed.

Cajun: That is correct to assume Tsubaki, so I observed how he breathed and I noticed it was actually deep breathes. This means that ars magus requires him to take deep breaths to allow it to maintain it's form. The fire that Marcus and Chikacho made was to cut him off from his oxygen long enough to force him out of his ars magus. It's quite genius I have to say.

As Cajun finished explained what she has observed, her logic was sound and accurate as Hunter himself actually nodded. "Yeah...I noticed that when I started using fire attacks, he found it hard to concentrate the ars magus." He said as everyone looked at him once again in the arena. Sora stood up straight once more as he was no longer in the state that he was in a few minutes ago. Makoto didn't know what she should be feeling right now as she felt that he was finally pushed to the corner. Then...something unexpected happened, something so unexpected that even she couldn't believe happened.

Sora Minakaze...began to laugh...

Sora Minakaze laughed hysterically.

This bewildered everyone as Marcus and Chikacho were unsettled to the laugh as he held his face with his hands, laughing harder onto it before finally calming down. "Marcus...Chikacho...This is just great...I finally have a challenge!" Sora said as he grinned before charging for them once again. Chikacho was quick to react as she tossed a few kunais right at him as he grabbed them blade side without hesitation and dodging the extras. Spinning the kunais at his hand, he looked at them with serious eyes as they knew that even without the ars magus, he was just as tough as they both charged in unison.

Reversing the grip on the kunais to grip on the handles once again, Sora parried the various attacks that Marcus and Chikacho attempted to deliver while using the palm of his bloody hands to push back any attempts for close quarter combat or CQC. Sora then countered one attack delivered by the both of them as he slammed the blunt side of the kunais right at their foreheads to stun them for a moment. After doing so, he focused on Marcus as he successfully managed to disarm him off EMPTY.

Before he could do anything about that, Chikacho managed to recover from the attack she had received and grabbed EMPTY in mid air and thrust it right for his leg. Though her aim is true, Sora was quick to react as he stomped at her attack mid thrust, resulting in EMPTY being stabbed onto the ground. Getting a palm for their hard work, Sora charged for the unarmed Marcus as he got ready to fight hand to hand despite not specializing in it.

A series of quick strikes and blows flew Marcus's way as he clumsily dodged most of them. Seeing Chikacho sneak behind Sora and grabbing EMPTY, he readied himself to catch it when she tossed it, being careful to not give away what he was planning to do with his eyes still focusing on Sora. Chikacho finally grabbed the handle of EMPTY but what the both were not expecting was for Sora to grab Marcus and shove him forward. This sudden motion for a short second disoriented him as Marcus didn't know what was going on.

As he was dazed, Sora readied his palm, spreading his legs wide and his body straight. His left palm was wide open while his right was just by his side. He then thrusted with the left arm as he struck Marcus's face squarely, twisting at the last moment as he was sent flying towards Chikacho who just managed to grab Marcus's weapon. She couldn't dodge it in time as she was stunned that it just happened all so fast for her to react. As soon as Marcus smashed into her, they smashed into the wall where our group were seated, shaking the arena greatly, smoke soon covering the two.

Sora relaxed himself out of stance but soon dropped to one knee, exhausted as to what had he just done. It was the first time he ever did that and it strained his arm a little bit. Pulling it back, he slowly stretched it a little to get the blood flowing back into it once again as both the Cat Witch and Red Haired Beastkin were impressed at what they were seeing. "This is sure the battle we are getting to see huh..." The cat witch spoke as the red haired man didn't say a word at first, still trying to focus a little bit at what is in front of him.

"I have to admit...I did not regret the decision coming here one bit. This is only the first day and it's already getting interesting." The red haired beastkin said as The Cat Witch chuckled a little bit before extending her hand. "My name is Catarina. What abour yours?" The Cat Witch, finally known as Catarina said as the man was reluctant to accept such a gesture. "...The name's Knight...that's all you need to know for now." The red haired beastkin now known as Knight said as he refused to shake her hand for reasons unknown, making Catarina sigh a little bit.

As this small conversation lead to a friendship blooming, at where the main scene of the carnage occured, everyone was slowly evacuating that area due to the protective wall protecting them broke slightly at impact. "Such power...this is unreal." Shiori said as deep within her, she couldn't help but feel that many things were very wrong with the three fighting in the arena right now, other than for reasons other than it's out of her natural instincts as an assassin that tell her so.

As the dust finally settled, they found both Marcus and Chikacho sprawled on the ground, heavily panting as he held his head out of pain. Chikacho herself looked bruised after having to brace for Marcus's portion of the attack. "Sorry about what happened Chikacho...I got careless for a second." Marcus apologized as some portion of his timidity was present. Panting rather tirelessly, she merely stood herself up along with Marcus as she kept her calm. "It's alright...though I think we both don't have much left after that." Chikacho said as she kept a track of all the injuries that they have sustained and she had to admit, she wasn't going to be able to hang on for much longer.

"Me too...We're pushing ourselves over the edge here." Marcus said as they saw Sora panting heavily. Everyone's cheers began to roar once more as whenever the action occured, they would keep silent out of the sheer awe inspiring sight of combat that these three were doing. Sora himself didn't really care if they were cheering for him or not, all he knew was that this battle was not only pushing himself to his absolute limits, it was also helping him reconnect with two of his closest comrades and family in his life ever.

"Come on Marcus...Chikacho...SHOW ME EVERYTHING YOU GOT!" Sora shouted out of excitement as silver lines emerged from his body once more. Nobody was expecting this at all even Marcus and Chikacho as their eyes widened heavily. "That Ars Magus again!? MARCUS!" the moment Chikacho said those words, she handed him EMPTY as she revealled all of her remaining kunais. Marcus understood what needed to be done as he began focusing for the last moments of this battle.

They soon acted as they began to run for Sora, Chikacho spinning all of her kunais with all of her fingers, wrapping them with her webs secretly, Marcus began to focus all of his rage into empty while still remembering all of the time he was happy as EMPTY engulfed itself in flames once more but this time, a small wind formed around the flames, fueling the flames even more. Soon, the flames began to glow a furious orange as Marcus launched the flames out as a slow but growing fireball.

Sora thought it would be easy to dodge such a slow moving fireball as he felt the ars magus slowly taking over. Before he could say the words to complete it, Chikacho tossed her kunais quickly as her spider strings soon began to leak out a liquid that Sora instantly recognized as as oil. 'Holy shit...' was the only words Sora could think of as the residual heat from the fireball engulfed the strings of the kunais stuck on the ground and created a fiery path that restricted him to what was in front of him...and the front was a gigantic fireball.

As the fireball continued on forward, Marcus slowly held the handle of EMPTY firmly with both hands, concentrating happy thoughts and emotions as Wind began to spin around EMPTY's blade. Pulling on the blade all the way to his back, Chikacho pulled the strings tighter to help him set a path. This move combination was something they rarely get to pull off due to how impractical this is without setting up properly but for this occasion, this was the breakthrough they were looking for as Sora was too busy casting his ars magus to dodge this attack.

"IFRIT!" Marcus yelled as all the force of the wind collected by EMPTY fired in a massive wind blast. The wind struck the ball of fire as it exploded on contact, causing the fireball to swallow Sora in it. The crowd was simply amazed that this happened before realizing what happened. "H-HEY! Sora's still in there!" Makoto said out in panic as Miss Emma and Coach stood up in shock. "Those two overdid it! The arena is not supposed to have a fireblast this big!" Coach said as the fireball nearly ate up to the where the first row was.

Nobody dared to say anymore after that as the fire continued to roar out a blaze. Sora, right in the middle of that blaze was a complete mystery. The fire and smoke slowly began to settle down as Makoto's eyes noticed that they were separating right at the middle. Suddenly, before anybody knew it, Sora bursted from the flames covered in silver lines as all eyes landed on him. He didn't escape unharmed as his body was covered in some char and burn marks were present in his clothing.

Bursting in the air, he soared like a bird as Marcus and Chikacho had exhausted themselves with that attack. Realizing that this was his chance to finally finish his match, Sora cocked back his left arm fully as he aimed himself right at them. Bursting forward thanks to the momentum given to him by his Ars Magus, Sora launched his fist breaking the air itself as he approached the two of them rapidly as the crowd saw his as nothing but a blur. Then...the unbelievable happened.

The bell rung...and a voice said

TIME UP!

The moment everyone heard the announcer say that the match actually timed out, everyone was in sheer disbelief. But that disbelief would have to wait as they just stared at Sora who was still moving rapidly for Marcus and Chikacho, fist out, and about to crash right into them as they were too weak to even dodge this attack. Even if they wanted to, the speed that he was going to was impossible to even do so.

'Shit! I can't stop at all!' Sora thought as he approached them in rather rapid pace. He began to desperately try to stop himself from crashing his friends as he attempted to retract his fist only to find it nearly impossible to do so mid attack due to how fast he was moving. 'I can't...I can't move!' Sora thought some more as his desperation fueled even more at the sight of the two people he calls family about to become splat on the ground if he doesn't stop this move right now. Closing his eyes tightly, Sora felt desperation crawl up into him as he heard a voice speak to him.

"Reawaken...what you lost..." Sora heard as he opened his eyes only to find him paused where he was moving for some strange reason. Marcus and Chikacho staring at him in shock as he looked around the crowds to see everyone else on the edge of their seats. He didn't know why he was paused right in between this move as he couldn't move his body for a little bit. "Sora Minakaze...reawaken what you lost." Sora heard once again as he felt a surge of energy flow within him as time began to move again for him but this time it had slowed down to a crawl.

Much to his surprise, he found himself being able to retract his punch while recovering as he twisted his body and launched his right fist towards the ground. As soon as he experienced this, his eyes blinked as he found himself back in motion, what he did before was actually something he saw which made no sense in his minds. As he continued with his descent with the punch. He closed his eyes as he began to concentrate. 'What I saw... I need to do that...No...I WILL DO IT! NO MATTER THE COST!' Sora thought as his eyes flashed azure green when he opened them as his body emitted a burst of azure green light for a second.

"SOUL SHIFT!" Sora yelled out as he retracted his entire body in a near violent manner, feeling his muscles pull the moment he did so as he forced his right fist towards the ground, smashing at the ground with a force that created a crater at the ground. It was eerily similar to what he did through the vision he had as everyone else saw this as a bright green light that blinded everyone. The next thing they saw is more dust kicking up as they heard a body drop. The tension was intense as Makoto herself gripped at the chair in front of her tightly nearly breaking it in the process through her strength.

The dust slowly cleared as people wonder what the hell was going on down there. Estella and Coach were the closest to the scene as their eyes scanned the scene in front of them throughly. They soon saw a figure as the dust cleared away. To their surprise and everyone else in the audience, Marcus and Chikacho were the first two to be seen and they were completely alright as they had collapsed to the ground. Next to them, was a giant crater that had cracked the ground at the arena greatly.

The dust soon finally cleared as Sora was now in view. He was right in the middle of the crater, fist on the ground as blood flowed easily from his hand to the ground as he laid on the ground backside. Faint green lines traced around him as they fade away along with the silver lines, panting heavily on the ground. His right eye had traces of blood which was hidden by his hair, some blood was present at the nose as Sora remained panting on the ground. "T-Tie...It's a tie." Coach stuttered as Marcus and Chikacho went to Sora out of pure worry.

"Nii-san! Are you there! Speak to us!" Marcus said quietly enough so that everyone else did not hear what he had just said. Sora looked at the two of them as he chuckled a little bit. "What's so funny Master?" Chikacho questioned as Sora merely smiled at them. "It's nothing...I'm just proud that you two have become much stronger." Sora said as Marcus and Chikacho were surprised to hear him.

"It's nice to see you two again...Marcus and Chikacho Brown." Sora said with a smile as he extended out his bloody right arm to shake their hands. They felt a wave of emotions hit them as Chikacho had better control over her emotions while Marcus looked like he was going to cry out a river. "It's...It's been so long Nii-san. Way too long." Marcus said as he grasped Sora's injured and bloody hand with his own as Chikacho kept calm. "I have returned to serve you once more...Master." Chikacho said as she joined the joint hands with her own.

The reunion of the squadron hidden in obscurity...brings along a series of chain events that changes the lives around the squad and the people around them.

GREETINGS LOST SHEEP OF FANFICTION! How is everyone doing right now!? I hope you all are enjoying what you all are reading so far. This fanfiction is coming along quite well as I know where I am taking this. Keep your eyes out for the next BLACK chapter as this will be an adventure that you wish to come along! Also! Expect my LORE Explaination to come around next week with the topic being about Phase Shift Zero! Since I don't have any questions for that fanfiction, I will just give the best explaination of that series as possible! So look out for that chapter some time next week!

ALSO! I wish to thank Cosmo Camelia and Deviljho's hatred who lent me their characters for this fanfiction! Catarina is Cosmo Camelia's OC while Knight belongs to Deviljho's hatred. I hope to do these two justice you guys!

NOW! With the reunion of the Code Zero Squadron, what is going to happen in the Academy!? What kind of adventures await our trio?! What other secrets does Sora have to discover!? And what about Makoto and her friends, How will this reunion of the most feared squad to never be reported on affect their lives!? All this and more in the next BLACK Chapter!