Chapter 9 : the dance of fire and crystal

After Mashiro's transformation , the rug on the floor started to burn but with the intention of impressing Arika , she moved her hand and the fire came back . then she transform it into a fire sword bigger than herself . the gorgeous dress she chose before turn into rags . Arika who already turned into Otome was looking at the show Mashiro gave. Then when she noticed that the show was over , she applauded .

' great show Mashiro ! My mashiro wasn't able to do it … looks like the power of the queen of hell is more powerful than I thought .. were you able to do it too , Mai-chan ?'

' Ano …I don't know .. I used to be able to protect myself from missiles with a fire shield but materializing a fire sword was something unknown for me .'

' I see , so you are stupider than the Mai I know . such a pity .'

' Hey … Shut up girl ! how dare you ….'

' Tokiha-san , please calm down . May I remind you that you're powerless ?'

' Fine Mashiro-sama .' replied Mai , disappointed .

' Then shall we go , Mashiro ? I'm getting tired right now …'

' yeah . let's settle our fight .'

Then Arika materialized her own Akitsuki sword but it was shorter than usual .

' Wait Arika , isn't your sword unusual ?'

' So you did noticed it Gal . For a fucking robot , you're pretty smart . But you know I'm gonna honor your great work … SURROGATE-BETA MODE ! YUMEMIYA ARIKA MODE ZWEI !'

Arika shined again and suddenly a second crystal sword appeared in her hand .

' Surrogate mode beta ? What's that Gal ?'

' Gosh .. Arika ! How did you … It's a project I got before the third war . Bacuse of the Fumi-sama incident , I thought about a better surrogate system . but it's still unstable , that's why I gave up …'

' Then how Nagi succeed to obtain it ?'

' I don't know !'

But taking advantage of the situation , Arika attacked the two by surprise but thanks to their goods reflexes , they both dodged Arika's sword .

' I think we should postpone this fight later Mashiro because looks like one who is more important …'

Then the real thing started . Very quickly , the fight became a real mess . All the dolls on shelves started to burn , the windows were exploding into thousand fragments of glass . The fire and the smoke filled the whole room so much that the others girls including Fumi had to escape from it . the few furniture who weren't burned to ashes had been cut into several pieces by Gal's head ring and Arika's swords . But quickly , Arika took the advantage and started to ward her opponents attacks off . Moreover , she was taking advantage of this situation to counter them , hurting them quite badly . after 10 minutes , Mashiro and Gal were literally exhausted . Mashiro was bleeding seriously and it was very difficult for Gal to stand up . Arika was quite fine unlike the two others . she was bleeding a little bit because of Gal's attacks and was also burn because of Mashiro's . but she succeed to keep her nice smile on her face despite the energy she had to use .

' Oh Mashiro-chan , are you Allright ?' asked Arika ironically

' Shut up , antsy . You haven't win yet .'

' Gosh .. please , I know that you want to die but look at both of you … You're bleeding and all the cables of Gal are almost cut … Do you really think it's intelligent to keep fighting ?'

' Arika even if I have to explode , I will avenge Midori ! What you did to her is unforgettable ! She was trying to save you from the ….'

' SHUT UP ! I told her to not trying to stop me , I warmed her ! But she called her beast and started to attack me!'

' She was trying to save you ! how can you be so stupid ?'

' Could you stop wasting time ? Now let me show you how insignificant the Hime power is against the Otome's!'

' Really ? But you maybe not know that but the Hime have something that the Otome don't have ….'

' Oh yeah I know ! Guts !'

' You're funny … But it's a bad answer , ansty . the right answer is childs …'

' Childs ? what that's ? You mean baby ?'

' Ah Ah Ah , how stupid you are Arika Yumemiya ! No , a child is nothing like that … But an a concrete example is better that explanations , don't you think ?'

' What the fuck are you planning …'

' KAGUSUTCHI !'

And then , from the outside of the house , Kagusutchi shot a huge fireball on Arika , who avoid it at the last moment . Then Kagusutchi destroyed the facade of the house and his huge face appeared in front of Arika .

' That's your tramp card ? It's just a bigger slave !'

' I think that you didn't get it … every child came from the heart of his Hime . So to be more clear , when the Hime is very angry and powerful , the child is too but the main difference is that the child can be only beat by .. another child . So I think it's a dead end for you my dear antsy …'

then suddenly , someone called Mashiro ..

' hold on mashiro !'

' this voice … it's not possible ! I killed you !'

' well , looks like I'm a undead if it's really true …'

' Tomoe ! why are you here ?'

and behind the three fighters was standing Tomoe . she was wearing a windbloom's formal outfit and were quite delighted to see Arika mad at her .

' Tomoe , I don't know why Natsuki sent you here but I can settle this situation ..'

' I know that but you know , Natsuki-chan noticed that the Hime's situation wasn't settled yet so she send me to let you settle what you have to do .'

' But …'

' Mashiro , let's Tomoe handle Arika , the Hime need us …'

' Gal … Tomoe .. please let me finish her .. she killed Mashiro ! I have to avenge her !' screamed Mashiro , torned between anger and sadness

' Listen . Natsuki-chan told me that you will react like that but she told me to handle the Arika's situation anyway ..so now , leave .'

' Tomoe .. please ,avenge Mashiro . For windbloom's sake and mine's too ..'

' Don't worry Mashiro-chan . I won't disappoint you .'

' Thanks Tomoe-chan .. now let's go Gal !'

' Yes sir !'

Then both left the room leaving Tomoe and Arika alone .

Author note : well that's it , here comes the new chapter yeah ♫ Maachingu Maachi Hajimarimasu .. Maachingu Maachi Atsumarimasu ! ... Daijoubu deshou ? Goaikyou deshou ? ♪ (sorry I'm in HALCALI mode right now because in July , I'll see them at the 2OO7 japan expo in paris so I'm really in fond of their song lately … just listen to the song called # marching march and you'll discover a great song ) anyway when I was thinking about my fics , I thought it would be fun to give a positive role to Tomoe-chan .. in the anime she is 100 dark and that's too bad . maybe , deep inside her heart , she has a good side so I decided to try this possibility what do you think about it ? BTW , I'm talking about a lot of think like the fact that mashiro the queen is dead or that midori is dead too and I don't explain exactly what happened so here the deal :

1) I finish this fanfics (not yet don't worry , I still have a lot of ideas ) and I write some One shot about what happened in windbloom's dimension

2) I offer you to email me and you'll able to imagine by yourself what happened ;) sound fun isn't it ?

Well , tell me what you think about that and maybe I'll work with you in the future

BTW , when I began to write my fics , a lot of people noticed to me in their reviews that I was doing a lot of mistakes when I was writing . So here is my question : Am I still doing some or my writing really got better ?