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Tsuna watched how expertly Lambo was able to dodge the attacks that Levi was directing at him but he didn't seem overjoyed, he was worried about Amaya who was still on the floor on the opposite side of the roof. He was content with the fact that the Cervello seemed to be taking care of her but he couldn't forgive the fact that it was his father who made her go over there in the first place. His eyes diverted to his father for a second, seeing how his father was watching the battle as he had been doing but with a more critical eye. He only looked away for a split second and that was when Mammon decided to take advantage of the opportunity and lower the illusion barrier to reveal Amaya in her current state.
"Amaya!" The happy yell of Yamamoto followed by other shouts from his guardians brought Tsuna's attention to across the roof where Amaya was now standing with a small assistance from the Cervello who stood either side of her. She looked better than she had done but still seemed to be as white as a ghost from what Tsuna could see, he narrowed his eyes at the cut that was on her neck because he didn't see that a second ago.
"Hey Boys," Amaya grinned at them and yelled softly whilst trying to pull herself up in to a more respectable stance. The muscles in her back were hurting her from the way she had been lying on the floor and her head was still hurting her but for the boys she had to pretend like everything was relatively okay, she had heard Mammon and Squalo's conversation faintly and was clued in. "Glad to see I didn't miss the fight." Tsuna knew that was true but also couldn't understand where the cut came from and made plans to ask about that once the battle was over. As if to back up her statement, Levi started to run at Lambo again but the man seemed to be preoccupied with something that he had found on the floor.
"Take the next jolt straight to your heart!" Levi roared at Lambo who still didn't take any notice of him and instead stood up with whatever he found on the floor in his hands. He managed to block the attacks that Levi launched at him, using his arms to block the umbrellas and absorbing the electricity from them as he did. He managed to use Levi as a stepping stone to jump away from him and land a few feet away before displaying the discarded horns that Tsuna had given young Lambo earlier.
"What's he doing?" Amaya asked herself upon seeing the horns. She just thought they would be a useless luck charm that the teenage Lambo thought of but that was beginning to seem less and less like the case.
"Hey, I've been looking for this for a long time." Lambo said which only served to confuse Amaya and the rest of the Vongola a great deal. Heck even Belphegor was puzzled and he didn't even care about the bloody fight. "That attack cracked the varnish and revealed…" As he spoke a layer of the horn he was holding cracked away showing writing that Amaya made out to say 'Stupid cow' from where she standing. Her mouth dropped open, she had just saw Gokudera write those exact words on Lambo's horns and now here they were again, covered in a layer of varnish from the age they were. Amaya turned to look at Gokudera who at the same time looked at her with the same expression that she had on her face, they were both shocked that the horn was the same horn he had wrote on. "These are those humiliating words written by Gokudera when I was young."
"I just wrote that now!" Gokudera protested in astonishment at the sight of the horns. The Cervello both turned to look at Amaya as if she could second this which she did with a nod of her head.
"That's Lambo's horn twenty years from now." Iemitsu added to once again point out the obvious. Well, Amaya thought that it was pretty obvious now and if people honestly hadn't clicked on to it by now then she honestly worried about them.
"Master of the fucking obvious." Amaya muttered under her breath with a small smirk as she crossed her arms earning the very smallest of chuckled from Shorts and a tiny grin from Dress. To her this was a massive display, for people who hid their emotions and didn't really show anything this was a big thing. She smiled, hoping that these girls had now accepted her and were willing to show her their emotions which they hid from everyone.
"The boss of the Bovino Family gave it to me." Iemitsu continued. "I gave it to Lambo ten years in the future to remind him to call on himself ten years further on." He explained which only aggravated Amaya further, this man had carved himself in to Lambo's life just so he could send a child in to a battle and not feel any sort of guilt at all. Then the arrogant prick had the audacity to smile as Lambo changed his horns to the ones he had just found. "It turned out just fine."
"It better had." Amaya hissed under her breath before proceeding to lean again the wall on the roof, bringing her leg up so she could put all her weight on it. She was starting to feel dizzy again so decided that the best thing for her to do was rest just in case she fainted again, she certainly hoped she wouldn't.
"They feel much better than my spares." Lambo sighed in relief upon feeling his much beloved horns returned to the rightful place on his head. "I can go all out now." Just after he spoke the sky began to light up with another bout of lightning, Amaya looked up despite the rain to see it sparking through the clouds. She hated to think that this could be a bad omen, or some sick pathetic fallacy she would not be happy if Lambo's trait was turning its back on him.
"You won't get away this time." Levi threatened with his newly charged umbrella, courtesy of a lightning bolt. Lambo looked up at him from the ground with a small smirk.
"I have no intention of getting away." He told Lambo slyly. "Thunder Set." He called upon the lightning that listened to his words and collided with his body in an aggressive display. Amaya was worried at first but upon seeing Lambo's position and pose she realised that this is what he wanted.
"This is kind of amazing." Yamamoto spoke in awe of what he was witnessing.
"So extreme!" Ryohei added which only made Amaya chuckle slightly at how impressed these two were. If she had to guess, she would say that they would see more amazing and awe inspiring things the longer that they stayed in the Mafia, and she only wished that it didn't take away their innocent ability to be astonished.
"Take this. Elettrico Cornata!" Lambo got into a stance to run at Levi but all the older man did was narrow his eyes at Lambo and call him a fool.
"I already know that move." He announced in a gruff tone. After he said that Reborn began to inform the Vongola of the weakness that Lambo's technique had but Amaya couldn't hear what he was saying due to the chuckling of a certain prince and the commentary of another baby.
"It has no effect if his horns don't make contact." Mammon explained to the Varia. Amaya looked up to the talking baby from her spot after another giggle was heard from Belphegor.
"The lack of range will cost him his life." Belphegor added. Amaya couldn't just let them shit talk Lambo like that, this was her team mate they were talking about after all. She probably should learn not to goad people who could easily kill her and far out matched her but right now she was lost to that idea.
"Or cause Levi to lose his," She spoke up making the prince turn to her with a small scowl. "I mean, how will Levi feel about losing point blank to a man who is really a baby. It would be very humiliating, for Levi and the Varia." Amaya told them offhandedly with a shrug, she really should think before opening her mouth.
"Aren't you dead yet?" Belphegor growled lightly making Amaya raise her middle finger at the younger boy. He didn't deserve the effort it would take her to talk. Lambo started to run at the older Varia member, his head lowered so that his horns were poised to strike at the man while electricity that was red in colour emitted from him.
"You're mincemeat!" Levi announced loudly as his umbrellas were removed from his back and aimed at Lambo. With a wordless command, lightning sparked from the ends of the umbrella in order to power them forward to meet Lambo in the field. The cow muttered something inaudibly before jumping in the air and sending the red electricity that was previously at his horns into an offensive attack. The red waves rushed forward to meet the umbrellas in a cloud of red smoke, obliterating Levi's weapon before Lambo appeared through the smoke to come face to face with Levi.
"The electricity had extended." Amaya spoke as she saw that the electricity from the horns had appeared to create a spear at the top of Lambo's head. Levi immediately went into defence and crossed two umbrellas in order to act as a shield to Lambo's attack. Amaya smiled at the fact Lambo seemed to be having the upper hand at this moment, but she was still nervous for him and as such began to ring her wrists as she had done many times before in anxious times. He just had to push through, just a little more to land a hit on Levi and she knew that the Varia lightning guardian would be defeated. From her position she was able to see Lambo's lips moving as he was talking to Levi but with Lambo speaking quietly and the loud hum of electricity in the air it was hard to make out what he was saying. "He can do it," Amaya whispered to herself hopefully, despite the light being emitted she was still watching the display wide eyed. This light was nothing compared to the sun battle yesterday and she wasn't going to miss this now that the battle was at its final rounds. "He can do it."
Lambo keep pushing against Levi, trying to make the other man break and he could see from the look in Levi's eyes that he was incredibly close to breaking right now. From the corner of his eyes Lambo was able to see Amaya leaning against the wall, a small smile on her face and intense hope gleaming in her indigo eyes. In his time, Amaya had ceased displaying such positive emotion, in fact she had stopped displaying any emotion at all, so seeing her like this so proud of what he was doing only pushed him further and made him fight more for the win. Then it all just had to go to shit, a puff of smoke engulfed Lambo and he was violently pushed back to his time with the memory of Amaya's face engraved in his brain.
Amaya's heart stopped when she saw the pink smoke, her face began to pale again and she couldn't help herself from taking a step forward. This smoke was the same smoke that took Lambo in the first place, she recognised the colour and her stomach dropped at what might be happening now. When the smoke finally began to clear, Amaya was able to make out the distinctive shape of young Lambo's afro hair that was slowly followed by the cow print pyjamas that the young boy wore. Eyes wide in fear, mouth dropped open in speechlessness, Amaya watched as Lambo fully came into view and immediately began screaming in pain with the amount of electricity that was surrounding him in that moment. The kid began to spasm uncontrollably in the electricity making Amaya feel worthless for not being able to help him. She ran forward then at full speed, attempting to run into the field but failing when Shorts and Dress grabbed each of her arms and pulled her back just enough to make a struggle.
"No!" Amaya's scream was blood curdling as she watched Lambo in pain. Tsuna looked from the boy to the woman momentarily to see her collapsing in the Cervello's arms. "Stop this now! He's just a boy!" Amaya screamed again as he knees collided with the cold wet floor. Lambo also fell to the floor at the same time allowing Amaya to see the smoke rising from his body and his tail falling to the side. She looked to the Cervello then, her eyes pleading with them and her lip quivering. "Stop this, please." Her begging was quiet and choked, a lump was forming in her throat that she couldn't get rid of.
"I'm all dizzy now." Lambo spoke, he sounded exhausted and looked terrible. Amaya watched in horror as Levi was able to stand up and conduct himself properly, he seemed to be quite angry about his near defeat which was evident when he was walking closer to Lambo in a deadly manner.
"I am the one most suited to being the Guardian of the Lightning Ring." He threatened as he walked closer to Lambo. Amaya immediately began to thrash in the Cervello's arms, her feet kicked out to Shorts effectively grounding the women who remained stunned on the floor. Amaya then grabbed hold of Dress and pulled herself up using her weight.
"He's going to kill him!" She screamed in the Cervello's face, her eyes twinkling with tears. Dress attempted to wrestle against her, putting her arms on Amaya's wrists but the Japanese woman was too quick for the Italian and used her strength to throw the Cervello away from her. She scrambled to the edge of the field, the young boy firmly in her sights despite the yells from the Vongola who had watched the whole ordeal. She was close, oh so close but when her legs gave in from underneath of her and she landed on the floor just centimetres away from the border, she was defeated once again. "Let me go, you fucking Bastard!" She shouted to Squalo who rested his foot on her back so she couldn't get up and move, he wanted to crush the fucking woman for making him interfere in the Cervello's fight.
"VOOII, if you interfere we don't even get a fucking ring because you aren't a damned guardian so you aren't stepping a foot into that arena!" He yelled back at her, applying more pressure to her back as she attempted to move again. Her stomach collided with the floor again, sending a small thud to meet her ears. Amaya's head looked forward, small tendrils of blonde hair breaking up her vision as she watched Levi pick up Lambo by the head, the boy was too weak to even stop Levi from that. Amaya's eyes met with Tsuna from across the battle, her eyes pleaded with him to do something, anything right at the moment to safe Lambo from the fate he had been dealt but the teenager just watched in shock, Reborn had already told them not to interfere in fear of disqualification and there was nothing he could do.
"Die." The shrill word rang through Amaya's ears causing her to cry out in anger and pain as she watched Levi send electricity through Lambo at a terrifying level. There were no shouts from the young boy, how could he do anything at this point when there was so much voltage running through his small body. Amaya felt a tear drop run from her eyes down her cheek upon seeing the child hurting, it was even worse when the electrical assault stopped and Levi dropped Lambo to the ground like he was a piece of dirt.
"We'll be witnessing a harsh end." Amaya heard Mammon say from behind her, she raised her head to look over the shoulder only to see that Bel was absolutely enjoying what he was seeing and Squalo too had a blood thirsty look on his face.
"VOOII, burn him already!" The swordsman shouted to his comrade on the battlefield. Amaya was angry at these people, these assassins. How could they condone the killing of a child? They obviously had very little humanity but she thought there would at least be a shred of decency in them, Amaya was disgusted by them and wanted nothing more than to get as far away from them as possible. That's why when Squalo was distracted by Levi, Amaya reached for the hammer on her back and managed to unsheathe it just before Squalo could react. She quickly landed a blow on his side, allowing her to get up from her previously defeated position to swing the hammer a few times in order to stretch the muscles in her wrist.
"You little vermin," She spoke lowly, her voice menacing as she addressed the Varia member not involved in the fight. Squalo brought up his sword upon hearing her speak, she was angry and even he knew that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. "You make me sick that you actually enjoy the murder of a child." Her teeth were bared in a snarl as she raised the hammer above her head, preparing to run and land a strike on the shark who was squaring up to her.
"Die!" A repeated yell caught her attention though, she turned her head to look around her arm to see Levi charging his umbrella again. Reacting quickly she altered the angle of her hammer and placed it on the level of her waist before putting her full strength behind it to throw it at the lightning guardian who was about to kill a child. When she released the hammer from her grip she saw that on the other side of the arena was Tsuna, but he seemed different to her because of the flames that were coming from his head and hands. Tsuna nodded at her when they made eye contact, then he picked up one of the cables and melted right through it sending a surge of heat down the wires that also melted the electricity towers and caused them to fall. Levi stopped what he was doing to see this and because of that he was hit square in the jaw with the left face of the hammer and fell to the floor from the force.
"If I were to lose an important ally before my eyes, I wouldn't be able to die enough times to make up for it!" Tsuna yelled once he had caught everyone's attention. Amaya's hammed landed on the floor next to her after it made its round journey, she grabbed the handle and lifted it in to the air before draping it over both of her shoulder. She turned back to the Varia with an angry glare in her eyes and a smirk on her lips.
"In other words," She told them clearly. "You can all fuck off!"
Six chapters. One episode took me six chapters to write. I am so sorry if I have bored you with it, trust me it was not my intention. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed and if you like the story don't forget to leave a review and follow/ favourite this story. Thank you for reading guys.