Chapter 9 - Training part 2 and Artificial Gears
Third Person's POV
*"Water serpent!" Hiroe chanted as she fought against Yuuto. 5 days had passed and the children managed to use their magic in proper way. Yuuto is training Hiroe to practice her magic. As the daughter of Sona, Hiroe summoned a Water Serpent which was used to defeat Yuuto on their training. Hiroe controlled the serpent carefully as she compete against Yuuto. As the Yuuto defeated the serpent, Hiroe used her Sacred Gear, the Blaze Black Flare. Dragon cuff started to appear on her right arm, "Vritra, attack that guy!" Hiroe ordered as she used black flames against Yuuto. Yuuto avoided the flames but surprised to see Hiroe to fight him in hand-to-hand. She kicked and pucnhed him but Yuuto always dodged her attacks. Unknown to him, Hiroe used water clone as a decoy as she's going to use water splash on him from behind, "Water Splash!" Yuuto was surprised as he didn't even manage to avoid her magic and he was hit from his back, falling onto the ground. He got up smiling, "Very well, Hiroe!" he said.
*"You must hit me on the face, kid!" Vali instructed Draco as they continued to fight using punch. Lately, Draco managed to freeze the whole time. The dhampir is determine to win against Vali, "Freeze!" Vali froze and Draco took this as an opportunity to hit him, only Vali can't move, "Undo," said Draco from behind as Vali fall onto the ground. His face was completely hurt for Draco used his Sacred Gear, Forbidden Balor of View. Draco turned around to Vali, smirking as he won on their battle.
*Claud is currently at the river, standing on the water as he focus his sword onto floating rocks as Airi used her Nature Magic. He opened his eyes and quickly attack Airi's rocks. Those rocks are special for Airi used an incantation in it. He sliced the rocks one by one until they were all gone, "That's nice, Claud!" said Airi as Claud looked serious at his training, "Airi, can we fight each other?" he asked. Airi suddenly blushed for Claud didn't asked her to fight her, "Su-sure, w-why not," she said shyly. She quickly went in front of Claud as her long skirt reaches the green grass, "Ready?" Airi nodded. Claud ran to her place but Airi's eyes were quick as she managed to avoid Claud's sword. She's dead if the sword will hit her, "Roots!" she chanted as she raised her hands towards Claud, creating a massive rope made of roots to hit him but he's too fast. Airi used another spell called Green Light, a powerful light force which can create illusions. Claud closed his eyes and managed to use his mother's technique, the Mirror Alice towards Airi. Fire balls started to shoot towards the young blonde but she used Nature shield to protect herself from the attack. Claud and Airi is out of limit, so they used hand-to-hand combat. Airi is good in fighting lately and Claud couldn't even handle her. At last, Airi used her enhance strength and punched him sending him flying in the mid air. Scared of what she'd done, Airi immediately cast a magic circle to catch him, "Claud! Are you okay?" asked Airi worriedly as she rushed to Claud who is holding his head, "Here, I'm going to heal you," using her Qi, she managed to heal wounds and diseases. She healed Claud until he's okay. As Airi looked up to Claud, she noticed that their faces are only an inch away. Because of this, she flustered again and faint. Claud smiled at her and carried the unconscious Airi back to the base.
*"Ex, you must learn to control your magic because it is very strong. Lately, I noticed that you became proficient in using swords as your battle gear also using your power of destruction and alchemy as your magic," said Vali as he talks to Ex. Ex looks very determine to get strong. All of the children were good in using magic but he's the one who got stronger. This last 5 days, Yuuto managed to train Ex and as he observed, Ex became good and fast, faster than Claud, "Also, don't underestimate your enemies, Ex. We're currently investigating about the leader of fallen angels and exorcists. We still have no clue about his identity. As far as we know, this man has an unusual strength of power, maybe similar to you," said Vali seriously. Ex nodded at his statement, "Alright, let's start!" Vali and Ex started to positioned themselves in distance. Ex watched Vali carefully as he clashed his sword towards his. He closed his eyes and managed to avoid Vali's attack. He opened his eyes and clashed it towards Vali's. Their swords clashed and clashed until Ex used his power of destruction. Vali matched it with his divine power but, Ex's magic is too strong and it ate Vali's power. Gladly, Vali immediately went out of the place. Ex performed a red magic circle and there, black dragon aura appeared and blasted Vali. Vali used a force field to protect himself, "Geez! That one is strong!" He noticed that the sky turned red as Ex used his magic. Vali came out from his force field as the sky turn back to normal. He faces Ex as he's exhausted from the magic he used, "Very well, Ex! When did you learn to use your magic circle and dragons appeared from it?" he asked, "I learn this when I trained with Airi the last 2 days. I accidentally used this from her. Gladly that she has this dragon aura, too but hers were nature based," explained Ex and Vali nodded.
Ex's POV
Wow! Our last training with them was intense. I'm glad that all of us achieved our magic and all of us got stronger, "Hi,Ex!" Hiroe greeted me as I looked above the sky, "Hey! So what's up?" "Well, it seems like Vritra and I are getting along since he told me of how to use my Sacred Gear properly," she said, "That's good, you know!" speaking of Sacred Gears, Airi and I don't own any of them. Hiroe has Blaze Black Flare, Claud has Blade Blacksmith thing and Draco has Forbidden Balor of View. We only have our natural magic in us. As I'm going to speak, Claud come out and said, "Hey, Ex! Your brother is here!" how the hell did he find us? I trusted Airi that she didn't tell. I hope it's Kurenai, not Shin, not Zen, not even Merlin Freak! I came inside with Hiroe and to my relief, it's Kurenai, "Ex! Good to see you in such a fine condition!" said my half fallen angel brother, "Of course! I'm Ex Gremory whose body is strong as always and..." "Yeah I know. Stop proclaiming Scarlet head and go over here with Airi," he said as I come over. He had a wooden box with him sealed with his own magic circle, "What's in there?" I said, "I know you two don't have any Sacred Gears yet so I decided to make ones for you two," my eyes were delighted as I heard it, "What kind of a Sacred Gear is it?" Airi asked, "Airi, come here," he said as he get a golden arm cuff with purple gem in the middle, "This is called the Gigantis Maiden Robe, similar to your mother's other Sacred Gear that Azazel gave her, the Downfall Dragon Spear," "So why is it called a robe again?" "Well, it can also form a sub-species armor unlike the Downfall Dragon Spear which could create complete Balance Breaker, this can create Counter Balance. The form of the armor is similar to mom Rossweisse," he continued, "it's power source is the Golden Dragon King, Fafnir. It is like Vritra's who have three Sacred Gears and it acted as its power source," said Kurenai as he place the Sacred Gear on Airi's arm, "Now, it's permanent on you arm. You can use magic to make it in invisible to ones eyes," said he, "Also, your armor is called Gigantis Blessed Scalemail but the scalemail is not like our father's," Kurenai finished, "Thank you, big brother!" she thanked. Kurenai nodded as he turned his attention to his younger brother, "As for you, scarlet head!" he exclaimed as he got a red Sacred Gear from the box, "Uncle Yuuto told me that you inherited mom Rias and dad's power. So I made a Sacred Gear similar to dad. This is called Boosted Gear Diabolos. It's power source is Ddraig. It can form complete scalemail and Counter Balance like dad's," he perform a magic seal on my left arm and I got confused, "What are you doing?" "I'm trying to attach this on your lower arm," "what the...?" the light shone brighter and it hurts. It's attaching on my lower arm as if it won't break, "ARRGGHH!" and done! The gear is now attach on my arm, "What the hell have you done?! did you replace my arm into this?!" "Ex, it's useless if it is not attach, alright! And there will be time that you need to sacrifice your left lower arm," said Kurenai as he got another gear, "And what's that?" I pointed, "This? I heard from Yuuto that you're a good swordsman so I made this sword that has an alchemy in it. This is a type of crimson sword called Galatine III," said Kurenai, "Awesome!" I exclaimed. "Airi, Ex, those gears were Artificial but unlike those first Artificial Gears, those don't have any side effects but you need to be careful when you using it," said Kurenai, "I better be back in Grigori," "Mom Akeno isn't angry at you, anymore?" Airi asked in concern, "Well, she isn't mad anymore and she lets me work. I forgot to tell you that I'm working in Girgori during her day off," "Now we know," Airi and I said both, "I forgot to tell you, mom Akeno and mom Asia know your whereabouts but don't worry, they didn't tell them. I'm off now!" and he disappeared. I'm glad that we have our own Sacred Gears even though it's artificially made.
