Chapter 4- Overskill! King Gainer!
I slowly opened my eyes… I was in my room... I then looked my clock… it was 3:30 in the afternoon…
"Looks like I missed class today" I thought to myself, then I noticed a folded paper beside me, I opened it and read it.
"Yukito… you passed out cold, so Minami and myself decided to bring you home… and boy were you heavy! Either way, just rest up for today… even if you miss school, we'll tell Akane and the others that you weren't feeling well today. As for Kuroyukihime… we'll try to talk to her today… again just rest up and get your strength back. Sincerely Himeji and Minami."
I folded the letter up, and sighed… passing out again? That new spirit… Gaiking… he really ate up all my energy… compared to Black Selena that is…
Our doorbell rang… that must have been Akane. I struggled to stand as I made my way downstairs, I opened the door and it was Akane… but she wasn't alone, she was with Rumi, and Masato.
"H-hey guys…" I said
Akane then looked at me angrily and said: "Don't "hey guys!" Us! Why didn't you tell us you were feeling sick?!".
"Yeah man, when Akane heard that from Himeji and Minami, she wanted to go home as soon as she could, but our teacher didn't let her." Masato said
"Sorry guys…" I said
Everyone went in as we sat down in the living room.
"So what did you come down with?" Masato asked.
"Nothing serious… just extreme fatigue" I replied.
"Extreme fatigue? What do you do every night to get yourself that tired Tenkawa?" Rumi asked.
"I-I'm not really sure myself" I said
"Well whatever you're doing stop doing it! Aren't your studies more important?" Rumi said scolding me
"Y-yeah…!" I replied, at the same time I thought: "You have no idea what we're going through Rumi…"
"Here you go Yuki… notes from today's lectures" Akane said handing me her notebook.
"Thanks but… what about you?" I said
"I'm fine… you need more than me anyway" Akane said pouting.
"Th-thanks…" I said feeling guilty.
"Just… don't go worrying us like that again! Okay Yuki?!" Akane said
"Y-yeah…!" I said
"Well since we're here… why don't we go over the lessons today?" Rumi said
"Aw man! Why?! We were just here to check on Yukito!" Masato complained.
"Well… who's fault was it to: "Not let two beautiful classmates go to a friends house alone" huh?" Rumi said
"Geez take it easy!" Masato said taking his notebook out.
We did study, and we enjoyed studying with each other's company. The day ended quickly as it was already nighttime… I wanted to cook, but Akane insisted on cooking for us… and I gotta say… I really missed her cooking.
We ate our fill and cleaned up, then they had to leave already, I waved goodbye to them as they kept telling me to: "go to school tomorrow".
I headed back upstairs and crashed on my bed… "Darn it…" I thought "What about the shadows? Who's gonna fight them?" I felt restless…. But I guess it couldn't be helped, I'm in no condition to be fighting…. So I forced myself to calm down… once I did I fell soundly asleep.
The next day, I felt so much better as I made my way to school, once I got there I saw Kuroyukihime and tried to talk to her… but she eyed at me angrily, and snubbed me.
I regretted what I did… but it couldn't be helped… they were people too, and girls at that…
I tried to shake that off as I went back to my classroom, there Akane, Rumi and Masato gave me a warm welcome… Kuroyukihime was there… but she didn't look at me.
Class started off like any other day but this time it seemed to be slow day today… lunchtime came as we met up with Himeji and Minami as we ate on the roof.
We enjoyed laughter and smiles as we had a hearty meal. We then headed back for our afternoon classes… and before we knew it the day was over.
"Whew! Now that classes are over what should we do now?!" Masato said eagerly
"For once I agree with you Kikuchi… what should we do?" Rumi said
"Why don't we go to a karaoke bar and sing?" Akane suggested
"Good idea!" Masato said as we left for the karaoke bar.
We made it, and we got ourselves a room… singing though… definetly not my strong point…
While Masato was singing… I heard a voice… a beautiful voice… it was enthralling, too enthralling that I closed my eyes forgot about Masato's voice… I wanted to know where it came from… but then suddenly it stopped... I looked around to see if anyone else heard it but…
"Tenkawa? You were closing your eyes there… don't tell me you were actually enjoying Kikuchi's voice?!" Rumi said eyeing me suspiciously.
"Yuki…" Akane said giving me the same look.
"Yeah! I knew we were bro's right Tenkawa?! How bout I sing one more eh?!" Masato while wrapping his arm around me.
"Ack...! Let go…!" I said struggling.
Too bad though… struggling really didn't help because Akane and Rumi helped Masato with this… and I had to endure another round of his singing… ack, I cant even describe it…!
After what seemed like an eternity… it was finally over…
"Hehehe! We should do this more often!" Masato said full of energy.
"Yes we should" Akane said smiling
"Indeed!" Rumi said smiling too.
I said nothing…. I would have preferred fighting tens of thousands of shadows while using Gaiking than having to endure that again…
We left and I felt really tired… I crashed on my bed as soon as I got home… but then my cellphone rang… it was Himeji.
"Tenkawa? Are we going to fight some shadows today?" she asked.
"Fight huh…? But how are supposed to find them without Kuroyukihime?" I asked
"I don't know… but I'm sure we'll find a way! Well? Well?" Himeji said
"This looks like a good opportunity to blow off some steam" I thought "Sure lets do it" I said eagerly.
"Yeah! Lets do this!" Himeji said
"Lets meet up in the park… by the way… what about Shimada?" I asked.
"I'll call her! I'm sure she'll be raring to go too!" Himeji said
"Alright, see you guys there" I said while hanging up.
I eagerly picked up my Katana and made my way to the park… and true enough Himeji and Minami were waiting there too.
"Okay now what?" I asked.
"We look around!" Himeji said enthusiastically.
"Once she's like that there's no stopping her…" Minami sighed.
We went around town… and for quite a bit too but we found absolutely nothing…
"Looks like we really need Kuroyukihime for this" I said collapsing on a park bench.
"No! We can't give up!" Himeji said
"Can we just rest for a while?" Minami said also collapsing on the bench too.
"Okay! You two rest there while I search around some more!" Himeji said getting up again and going around.
I sighed as I put my head back.
"Are you okay Tenkawa?" Minami asked
"Hahaha I'm fine I'm fine! This is nothing!" I said "Compared to awhile ago of course…" I muttered
'Really? You seem exhausted though" Minami said
"Nah I'm good… Himeji on the other hand… she looks like a kid out at an amusement park or something…" I said
"I have to agree with that…. I've never seen Himeji so happy before" Minami said
"Really?" I wondered
"Yeah… we've been studying our butts off for the last few weeks… and Himeji looked really worn out… then we were chosen for this… special transfer student thing… but why me too?" Minami said
"Why… you? What's wrong? Did you not want to join?" I asked
"W-well you see…"
"Yes?"
"G-guys…! Come here quick!" Himeji yelled
We then got up and ran towards Himeji's voice… and true enough the place was distorted… but in the middle of a park?
"Wow! Great going Himeji!" I said
"Alright! Lets go then!" Himeji said jumping in as we did the same too.
Where we were now… it wasn't the park anymore… more like one of those scary forests in movies and fairy tales… and whats a scary forest without monsters right?
The shadows emerged from the ground as we engaged them.
"Here we go! Summon!" Himeji said summoning her being.
"Summon!" Minami said doing the same thing.
"Sorry Black Selena… I wanna blow off some steam… Gaiking!" I yelled out as I was engulfed in the same flame from before as Gaiking came out.
"Ready!" Gaiking said enthusiastically
"Lets do this!" I said unsheathing my Katana and lunging for the enemy.
We defeated them all with barely any effort at all… but the distortion wasn't disappearing… something was amiss…
"Whats going on? The distortion isn't disappearing…" I said
"Yeah… something's wrong…" Minami said
"Hey shadows! Come out! We just want to give you a solemn beating!" Himeji yelled out.
"H-himeji…!" Minami said.
"Why Minami? We have to defeat them anyway right?"
"Well yeah but… calling them out? Do you think they can understand us…?" Minami said
"I think they can…" I said when the trees started to grow arms and faces… and razor sharp claws and fangs… and they look really hungry…
"Bring it on!" Himeji said as she engaged them.
"H-hey! Wait!" Minami said supporting her
"Hehehehe…. HERE WE GO! HYDRO BLAZER!" I yelled out as the demonic trees were burned to ashes.
"N-no fair Tenkawa! Save some for us!" Himeji said chopping them up with her being's sword.
"H-himeji…! Don't get too excited…!" Minami said also chopping up some trees.
"Aww! Don't be like that Minami! Lets kick some butt! Look at Tenkawa!" Himeji said attacking even more than ever.
I gotta say… letting out some steam felt really great. I think even Gaiking was enjoying himself… but I wanted to fight… I wanted to fight even more…!
We cut and burned these trees down… what a waste though too bad they were shadows, they would have made great paper… if they weren't so bloodthirsty that is.
"Mission complete!" Himeji said happily.
"Is it?" Minami said
"The distortion isn't gone yet…" Himeji said as more shadows came out. " Yaay! More stuff to beat up! Lets get 'em Tenkawa!"
"Hehe you got it!" I said as Gaiking's Flame Aura surrounded us.
"You seem to be on fire master" Gaiking said
"Yeah… and im gonna kill every single one of these things!" I said drawing my Katana again.
"Man… whats gotten into you two?" Minami said
"Isn't this fun Minami?" Himeji said splitting a shadow tree in half.
"H-himeji…" Minami said fighting as well.
We fought and fought… and we defeated the next wave that came… but after that they seemed to stop coming.
"Did we do it?" Minami said panting
"Aww… over already? But this is so much fun!" Himeji said
"Man I was getting started too" I said cracking my neck.
Just then we heard shadows splattering…
"What the?" Minami said
"It sounds like someone killing shadows!" Himeji said
"What are we waiting for?! Lets get em!" I said dashing off
"Alright!" Himeji said dashing after me.
"H-hey! You two!" Minami said chasing after us
We looked around and we saw this pink haired girl with twintails wearing a blue school uniform and using a knife to slash away at these shadows… and her face was full of the shadows blood… strangely enough it looked like she was enjoying herself… much like how we were too.
"H-hey! Are you alright?" Minami shouted.
The girl looked at us. But still continued to kill shadows with her knife.
"Well Tenkawa… she can't have all the fun now can she?" Himeji said
"Of course not!" I said as we both charged in.
We defeated all the shadows she was fighting… then she looked at us with a killer look on her face as she said:
"You people… you took my prey…."
"Now now… you were hogging them… learn to share" Himeji said with a bloodthirsty look on her face too.
"Yes… leave some for others too please…" I said flicking my katana to the side as the blood on it splattered on the ground.
The pink haired girl said nothing as she lunged at both Himeji and me… we clashed with each other… but man was this girl strong… she was fighting both of us at the same time… but she was barely breaking a sweat… and the rapid motion her hands moved as she swung her knife around was amazing… but we weren't gonna let up as we fought back even more.
"Himeji! Tenkawa! Stop!" Minami yelled.
"Why Minami?! This is so much fun!" Himeji said still fighting.
"Himeji…" Minami said helplessly.
"Let us handle this" a familiar voice said
"?! That voice…!" Minami said as she turned around… it was the gun slinging pink haired girl and her blonde friend!
The two lunged at the three of us as they knocked us all back… then the blonde girl fired shots at us as it shocked us making us collapse on the ground unable to move.
"Target suppressed" the gunslinger girl said.
"Wh-what did you do to us?!" Himeji yelled.
"Paralysis… don't worry you wont die from that" the blonde said
"Himeji! Tenkawa!" Minami said running towards us till the blonde stopped her.
"Don't go near them… it looks like THAT girl has something to do with this." She said.
"What…? Her?" Minami said looking at the other pink haired girl.
"Yes… that girl is mentally unstable…" the blonde said
"What…?" Minami replied.
"Haven't you seen the current news? There were killings of many innocent people in different towns… and different areas, but after every killing there would always be a bloody knife at the scene… some witnesses say that there was a young girl with dead eyes who left the crime scene… and she fits that description just right." the blonde said
"A knife…? Young girl with dead eyes?" Minami said as she looked at the girl and thought "Her…?"
"Yes… and that girl was definetly you… Yuno Gasai" the blonde said
The girl named Yuno didn't say anything… she just stared at the gunslinger girl and blonde as well as Minami with a murderous intent.
"What are you going to do with her?" Minami asked.
"Not only her… we need to take your friends in as well" the blonde said
"Wh-what?! You can't take Himeji and Tenkawa!" Minami said
"I'm sorry but its for their own good… they have Battle Frenzy…"
"Battle… Frenzy?"
"Battle Frenzy… it is a state of mind where in a person thinks of nothing but battle and will not stop unless everything around him or her is dead… symptoms of this is the look in the eyes of the ones who have it."
Minami looked at Himeji and myself… and true enough we had a murderous intent in our eyes.
"I can't let you do that" Minami said summoning her being.
"If that's the case then we'll have to take them by force" the blonde said as she drew her weapon, so did her friend.
They clashed but Minami was no match for the two as her being was knocked down was as well as her.
"Give up, you've lost" the blonde said as she drew a sword to Minami's neck.
"Kh…!"
"Huh… three of you huh? What happened to that other girl with you? Ah it doesn't matter! Take them" she commanded the gun slinging girl.
"Sorry about this" the gun-slinging girl said as she picked us up by our collars with barely any effort.
"Let us go! Let us go!" Himeji frantically screamed.
I tried to struggle but it was no good… my body refused to move.
The twintalied pink haired girl put up no resistance as if she had given up.
Suddenly hordes of shadows began to rise... but they weren't attacking us… instead they were combining together… into an even bigger shadow…
It took the form of a tree…. But with these wicked looking branch-arms, it stood on these two titanic legs as the vines on its head were lunging for us.
"No way they combined! There's no way we can win against that! Lets get out of here!" the blonde said as she picked up Minami as the gunslinger girl threw the three of us up as she caught us as we made our break.
"Wh-what?"
"You lost, but I have no reason to leave another human here" she said
"Th-thank you…" Minami said.
We were fleeing pretty fast as there was no exit in sight… suddenly one of the vines caught the leg of the blonde as she was thrown to the side and we fell down on the ground as the creature was looming towards us.
The gunslinger girl fired her guns at it, but it looked like it had no effect… till it exploded…
"Explosive Rounds…" she muttered as she continued to fire away.
Her shots were chipping the bark of the monster… but it made it even more angrier as it fired these leaves at the girl… she blocked it with a force field of some sort… but those leaves weren't ordinary… they were like blades… as they were deflected from the force field the pierced the ground easily.
"Razors…" she said as she fired away again.
"Himeji! Tenkawa!" Minami said running towards us.
"Help us Minami! So we can kill that thing!" Himeji said with a bloodthirsty look in her eye.
"Yes! Let us loose!" I yelled.
Suddenly Gaiking came out and said: "Battle Frenzy… how dare you take over my master!" he said as this flame emanated out of him, it was a fire… but it didn't hurt any of us, just that demonic tree shadow.
That desire to fight disappeared… I was back to normal.
"Master! Are you alright?" Gaiking asked.
"Gaiking… what happened?" I asked.
"You were affected by Battle Frenzy… it's a sickness that makes the ones infected want to fight until the death"
"I… had that…?" I said
"Yes you did… even your friends had it… but you will be alright now" Gaiking said.
I looked at Himeji and the other girl… they looked okay already.
"Tenkawa…! Are you okay?!" Minami said
"Shimada! Im okay now!" I said as I looked at the giant tree monster in front of us. "But this thing wont be once im done with it!" I said as I summoned Gaiking and flew straight toward the enemy shouting: "PUNCHER GRIND!" as Gaiking shot one of his arms off, but it bounced off the monster.
"No effect?!" Minami said.
"Hey! Stop fighting! If you keep fighting you'll get Battle Frenzy again!" the blonde said as she was struggling to get up.
"Don't worry! Gaiking's got my back!" I said firing a Zaul Geyser at it… but to no avail.
"Who?! Who's Gaiking?!" the blonde said
"My guardian! Now lets go full power!" I said while focusing all my power as I yelled: "HYDRO! BLAZER!"
The flame hit the tree monster dead on… but it looked like it had no effect.
"Hydro Blazer… didn't work?!" I said as it knocked Gaiking and I back.
It then grabbed that girl named Yuno and was flinging her around… but Yuno didn't let that thing have it way as she slashed at its hand… but it looked like it had no effect.
"No! Gasai!" the blonde said firing at its arm… but it wouldn't let Yuno go.
"Gasai…? That girl?! Okay… we'll save her!" I said getting back on my feet and dashing toward the monster, we used a Despair Sight to heat up the arm of the monster… and it worked, it let go of Yuno as I caught her.
"Hey are you alright?" I said.
She said nothing… but instead looked into my eyes… full of fear.
"Don't worry… I'll protect you…" I said as I let her down, but before I was about to dash toward the monster again the grabbed my sleeve… I looked back and she said:
"I'm going to fight too…" she said
"What…?"
"I'm going to fight too…!" she said as she drew her knife and smiled at me.
"Well… show me what you can do with that thing and we'll talk!" I said
"Very well… " She said.
We lunged for the enemy, and hit it with a Counter Cross and rapid knife slashes… but it didn't work, instead it knocked us back and got even angrier.
"Looks like that won't work…!" I said
"Kh…!" Yuno said.
"Lets try again!" I said
Yuno nodded.
But before we could move… I had a flashback… it was that hill again… and this girl was one of those who were on the crosses! Then she disappeared from the cross… I then heard a voice inside of me…
"You who have set free the cold of heart… use your newfound power to freeze your enemies into nothingness."
I recalled Gaiking as I focused this power… I then said: "King Gainer!"
A small yet tremendous force came out of me… it was a small looking spirit… it floated on the air, it had two legs like a human and two arms, its head was round as its face had these green things on it, it was also wearing these strange goggles on its head and it had these rasta like hairs on its head and it was holding a sword.
"So you're my new master? Cool." it said
"Hehe… you've got quite an attitude there! I like it." I said as I looked at Yuno and said: "Lets get em!"
Yuno nodded as she drew her knife again.
We then lunged at the monster…. But this feeling was different… using King Gainer I was faster than before! Yuno and I then slashed away at the tree, but it had no effect at first… then King Gainer told me to focus my power into the sword, I did so and instead of a blade it was a chainsaw blade instead! We attacked it again and King Gainer's chainsaw blade cut its arm off! Yuno then struck the freshly opened wound with a mighty stab as it let out a yell of pain. I then used King Gainer's speed and rapidly slashed the monster from all angles as Yuno followed up with powerful slashes.
The great monster cried out in pain, as its bark had been removed…looks like this was our chance to finish it off.
I focused my power as King Gainer's strange eyes moved in a strange way I posed focusing the power and released it saying: "Overfreeze!". Then a massive blizzard came out and froze the monster as Yuno aimed a well-timed strike as it shattered the frozen monster into a million pieces… we had won.
"No way… he beat the monster…!" the blonde said
"Amazing…" the gunslinger girl said.
"Yeah! We did it master!" King Gainer said as he controlled my body as we did a strange dance.
"H-hey!"
Minami giggled as she saw it.
"Not bad, but we're still taking Gasai" the blonde said
"Gasai?" I said landing.
"Yeah that girl beside you" the blonde said
Yuno looked at the blonde in a bad way, but I stopped her and said: "Are you going to take her even though she saved us?"
"Saved us?! You were the one who defeated that monster!" the blonde said
"It wasn't "Me" but "Us!", without her help we wouldn't have beaten this thing!" I said
"Kh…! I'm not listening to this! I'm taking her in!" the blonde said
"Hold on…" the gunslinger girl said handing her cellphone over to her.
The blonde answered it… then gave the phone back to her friend as she said: "Fine… Yuno Gasai has been cleared of suspicions… for now…" she said "Lets get out of here" she told her companion as they left.
The distortion disappeared as we made it safely back.
"W-were back!" Minami said
"Yes we are…" I said
The girl name Yuno turned away and walked…
"Where do you think you're going?" I said.
Yuno didn't look back as she continued to walk.
"At least tell me your name?" I said
"Yuno… Gasai Yuno…" she said as she walked away.
"Yuno Gasai huh?" I said carrying Himeji "Come on… I bet you're tired Shimada" I said
'Y-yeah…" Minami said as we walked home.