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Alright now for the new dialogue.
"talking"
(thinking)
/real world events/
[flash backs]
Okay now on with the story.
Last time: Tsuna woke up pretty early taking in account of the Acrobaleno Trials. The phone rang. "Tsu-kun! Can you get that? I'm busy right now!" "Okay!" Tsuna answered the phone. "Hello, you've reached the Sawada residence." "I'll be waiting for you at Nami Middle. Better hurry or something bad's going to happen." The line went dead.
Namimori was shrouded in mist completely fitting the event of Mist Arcobaleno Trial. Tsuna walked through the mist to go to the location that the caller specified. "I can't see anything in this mist…." Tsuna stated as he moved his head to try to see through the mist. Yamamoto is also walking through the mist and it looked like he had something troubling his mind. [I made them cry again nii-san! I made them cry again! I promised that I wouldn't do that again!] ( Alena….) Yamamoto notices that tsuna is there as well. "Well, if it isn't tsuna." "Yamamoto? Huh? Why are you here?" Tsuna asked. "Got a phone call." "Huh? You too?" Tsuna and yamamoto turned their heads to see ryohei running towards them. "Ryohei!" "Hey. It's Sawada and Yamamoto." "This must be…" "Probably." All three of the men came to a conclusion. "You too?" Gokudera came into view. "Finally showing himself?" Gokudera smiled as he saw tsuna. "Ah! Boss! Good morning!" "Gokudera-kun?" "Oh it's just squid head." Ryohei bluntly said. "What's that supposed to mean, turf top?" Before another argument come about, tsuna stopped them to remind the guys why they were brought here. "H-Hold on a second. Hey, did you also get a phone call?" "No, I went to your house and heard you went to Namimori Middle." Gokudera said.
"Huh? That means…." Tsuna's sentence was cut-off as mammon showed up. "Mammon!" "Hello. It's been a while." "Next up is Mammon's Trial?" Tsuna asked. "Yep. I'm not interested in doing stuff that doesn't make cash, but as an Arcobaleno, I don't get a choice." "We already know how this will end! Just give us the Seal that says we passed!" Mammon stopped Gokudera by silencing him. "Shut up. Take a look at this." An illusion appeared that showed kyoko trapped in a cage. "K-Kyoko…" "Why is kyoko-chan….?" Tsuna tried to grasp the situation as ryohei yelled at mammon for having his sister hostage. "Bastard! What did you do to kyoko?" "You need prize to make the game more exciting, you know." Mammon calmly said. "So she's a hostage?" "No way…." "That's dirty!" Each one of the boys said as ryohei remained silent. "Help! Ryohei! Tsuna-kun!" Kyoko exclaimed. "I'll save you, kyoko!" Ryohei replied. Kyoko started to disappear until she was no longer visible and tsuna prepared his gloves and dying will pills. "Hold on. No funny business. Or who knows what might happen to her." Mammon threatened. "What did you say?" Tsuna clenched the items in both of his hands, debating what to do until he finally put them down. "If you want to save her, you'll have to clear my trial." "Damn it…..If I hadn't…"
[Kyoko was heading to the door. "I'm off!" "Yeah. Be careful." "Okay!"] "Why didn't I stop kyoko? If I had…." Tsuna interrupted ryohei's self-mental beating. "No, this is my fault…If….If anything happens to kyoko-chan, I…" Tsuna's sentence was interrupted by reborn who watched the whole display with Lal. "You're pathetic, tsuna." "Reborn?" "Just get out there and save her." Reborn suggested. "But….this isn't fair! Aren't you an Arcobaleno too? You could at least tell Mammon to let kyoko-chan go." "You don't seem to get how this works." "Reborn has his own trial to administer." Lal added to reborn's sentence. "Huh?" "And I'm a 100% neutral party. You have to overcome this by yourselves. That's what makes it a trial." "It's despicable to have hostages! I'll use my fist of justice to save kyoko!" Ryohei turned to mammon and so did everyone else, determination and resolve each in their eyes and hearts. "Let's get started. My trial is a test of adaptability." "Adaptability?" "What are you going to make us do?" "We'll extremely overcome any trial you throw at us!" "I'll be asking you a number of difficult questions. If you solve them, you'll reach Kyoko Sasagawa." Mammon said that seemed to increase the desire to save kyoko grow even more. "So we can't save kyoko-chan if we can't figure out the solutions?" "Exactly. Here's the first question: Where does a pig sleep?" "Huh? Where does a pig sleep? The trial is a bunch of riddles?" Gokudera smirked as it was in his level of expertise. "Let me handle this, boss. With my brain, this'll be a cakewalk." "Ah, that's right. I forgot." "Huh?" Gokudera and tsuna looked at mammon who changed into bianchi. "You're getting in the way, hayato." "S-Sis!"
Gokudera's face went blue and fell to the floor. "Go-Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna rushed to gokudera's side. "F-Forgive me boss…The rest is up to you…" Gokudera went unconscious. "Um, he's already out of the game." "The trial will be taken….by Tsunayoshi Sawada, Takeshi Yamamoto, and Ryohei Sasagawa. All others will be forced to leave." Mammon instructed. "No way…" "Well, I'll be waiting at the solution." Mammon disappeared leaving tsuna and the others to ponder the question. "We have to do this ourselves." "Count on me to the extreme, Sawada!" Yamamoto and Ryohei reassured tsuna. "U-Uh, yeah…We should be able to solve a riddle…" Ryohei nodded and to scan the area. "Where does a pig sleep?"
"Wouldn't it be a pigsty?" Yamamoto asked ryohei. "Ya-Yamamoto…." Tsuna couldn't believe his friends, the question is a riddle and it shouldn't be taken literally. "Okay! A pigsty, right?" "Th-That can't be it…" Tsuna muttered. "Don't just stand there, Sawada! Let's go find a pigsty!" Ryohei and yamamoto ran to find a pigsty with tsuna following them. "H-Hold on!" Tsuna grabbed ryohei's waist to try to stop him which they both did but for a different reason. "That's right. I think Watanabe-san on 3rd street kept a pig…" "Okay! To 3rd street!" They ran again to go to 3rd street with the objective of finding a pigsty not even noticing tsuna came along with them, telling them what they thought is wrong. "Y-You've got it wrong!"
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"Why do I get the feeling that nii-san is doing something idiotic?" Alena said as she was back in the dojo of Yamamoto's house. "I wish I could help tsuna with his trials but with this particular trial involves fighting and since I have zero fighting experience, I'll just get in the way." Alena picked up her bow. "Once I learn how to use the bow better, I'll definitely help you tsuna…. Just wait till I do." (However I cannot forget what happened last night…...Why did I dream that? And I remember having the same dream too when shou-chan 'captured' us. What exactly is going on?) "I have to shou-chan and spanner about this." Having her objective fully laid out, alena began to train with her bow and arrow as Alice instructed her to do. "I hope tsuna isn't having any trouble….."
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Tsuna and the others arrived at a tunnel. "The answer is a tunnel?" "Yes. You take the ton from tonkatsu(pork chop). So a pig(ton) would sleep(neru) in a tunnel(tonneru)." Tsuna explained to his friends. "You're sharp, tsuna." "I'm extremely impressed, Sawada." They both praised. "Uh…" (That's a grade school-level riddle….) "This will be rough." "It's part of tsuna's trial." Tsuna and the others went into the tunnel to meet with mammon. "No cars have passed through…" Yamamoto noted. "Good point…I wonder why." "Because I used my illusions to close it off for now. Congratulations on answering the first question correctly. I guess it was too easy." "Enough talk! Give us the second one already!" Ryohei cut off mammon.
"Okay, I'll begin the experiment." "Experiment?" Three balls came out of mammon that were covered in mist flames and continuously bounced off the walls. "What?" Tsuna ducked as he thought one had hit him. "Tsuna! This is…" "Standing still is dangerous, guys." "Keep calm! He's bluffing!" Ryohei punched a ball but it seemed to bounce the walls and hit ryohei in the face. "Ky-Kyoko…." Ryohei kept punching the balls while tsuna and yamamoto were dodging it. Mammon was writing in a book, mumbling something. "This type should become stronger with more balls…Like billiard balls." (Using this Arcobaleno Trial to test out a new weapon….I was only interested in making a little money when Verde gave me the job.) Mammon had a box in his hand. (I could turn a decent profit by selling this thing.) Mammon had snapped out of his thoughts when he saw tsuna and the others still standing still and not progressing at all. (I'll use this damn trial to run a complete test, to judge the market value of this new weapon.) "Wh-What do we do?" "We can't move an inch like this!" "So persist!" The bouncing started to get more violent which prevented their movement even more. "How long are you going to play around here?" "You risk being disqualified." Lal mirch warned tsuna. "Easy for you to say!" "It's okay if we don't hit them back….But we can't make any progress!" "I've got it, tsuna!" "Huh?"
"If we can't hit them back," Yamamoto took out his sword and cut the balls in half. "We can just cut them!" "Yamamoto…." Mammon started clapping and stopped signaling that tsuna cleared the experiment. "Congratulations on clearing this stage." "Give Kyoko-chan back, mammon!" Tsuna demanded. "Here's the second question." Mammon ignored tsuna's demand and continued on with the trial. "Mammon!" "There's a flipped alligator in Tsunayoshi Sawada's house. Where might it be?" Mammon disappeared again to the spot where the answer to the second question lay. "A-An alligator in my house?" "I never knew you kept an alligator." "I'm not!" "In any case, let's go to Tsuna's place." Yamamoto suggested. "Yeah." Everyone left to go to tsuna's place but reborn stayed to take a closer look of the balls. (That viper…..)
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"M-Mom! Mom! Where's the alligator?" Tsuna asked his mom who was drinking tea while lambo and I-pin was eating dessert. "Why is everyone in such a rush?" "Lots of guests!" "I bet you're all here for Lambo-san's pudding! But Lambo-san's not sharing!" Lambo yelled as he assumed that they wanted his pudding. "That's not it….Anyways, where's the alligator?" "Hmm? Alligator?" Tsuna's mom, Nana, was confused of what tsuna had asked her. "You know, like the alligators you find in jungles!" "Come on, Tsu-kun. How could there be an alligator in our house?" "I'd normally agree with you, but…" Tsuna was cut off by lambo. "Stupid Tsuna! Gator-Gators are only in the zoo!" "Gator-gators?" It seemed that tsuna had realized something. "Huh? What is it, tsuna?" Yamamoto asked in concern. "Alligator-gators? That's right! This is a riddle!" "Sawada?" "Flip the alligator(wani) around! Which means the lawn(niwa)!" Tsuna rushed to the lawn with yamamoto and ryohei following. Tsuna slid the door open.
"Where are you, mammon? Mammon!" The lawn looked the same until water came out and an alligator appeared as well. Ryohei went first to take on the alligator. Ryohei opened the alligator's mouth wide open. "Ryohei!" "Don't worry! I won't lose a contest of strength!" Tsuna's mom stumbled upon ryohei wrestling the alligator. "What a surprise. There really was an alligator….." "This is, uh…." "A gator-gator!" Lambo yelled in glee. "It's really there." I-pin wondered if the alligator was real. The alligator started to melt all of a sudden. "This…." The melted alligator continued to melt until it was gone. "What's going on?" Mammon was sitting on tsuna's window porch, watching all of the events unfold with a box close to his chest. "Guess it still can't maintain its shape for an extended period of time."
"Hey viper." Someone else found where mammon was located. "No, you're going by mammon now? Where did you get that thing?" Mammon stood up and tucked away the box into his cloak. "If you want information, you'll have to buy it." Mammon told reborn as he went down to congratulated tsuna. "You've cleared the second stage. It's about time to end this game." "Where's kyoko?" "Namimori Shine." Mammon told ryohei while he was disappearing. "But will you be able to make it there in one piece?" "Namimori Shine…." "That kid just disappeared…." Tsuna had completely forgotten about his mother being with him. "And there was that alligator…..What's going on?" "U-Uh…." Tsuna was at a loss to tell his mother luckily reborn was there to provide a cover. "How did you like our gator-gator illusion, mama?" "Reborn!" Tsuna yelled in fear that reborn gave away too much. "Illusion? Oh, it was just a magic trick of yours." "Sawada." Lal called tsuna's name to get his attention. "Go to the shrine." Tsuna nodded. "Yeah." All three ran straight to Namimori Shrine, to end this trial once and for all.
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Alena was finished with her training and decided to take a break. "Phew done. I feel like I got better with the bow and arrow but not by much…I wonder if Alice will show up again?" Alena looked at her bow. "I want to thank you for giving me the bow and arrow." (I feel so much more calmer now. I'm glad that I have nii-san, he's filling the void of not having my own brother…..) Alena shook off her last thought and resumed her training. (I hope hibari-san is doing well. It's been forever since I've seen him; maybe I should pay him a visit tomorrow.) "Tomorrow it is then. Better shine on tomorrow's trial alena."
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As the three were running, mammon appeared again but was undetected by the three. "I won't make this easy on you! Viper Mirage!" The entire town was covered in Mammon's mist. Tsuna had turned on a corner but stopped as he reached a familiar place. "Huh? We reached Namimori Middle." "Shouldn't this be in the opposite direction?" Ryohei asked in confusion. "But we headed straight to Namimori Shrine after leaving the house…..That's odd." "Oh well, let's turn back." Ryohei suggested and they went back but when they did, they returned to Namimori Middle. "Wh-What's going on?" "We've been tricked. This is an illusion. The entire town's been turned into a maze." "Then how are we supposed to get to Namimori Shrine? What about kyoko-chan? What are we going to do? We're running in circles." "Are you tired tsuna? Take a little break." Yamamoto was calm and collected since he had experience with illusions. "What about you?" "Well I've been training." Yamamoto replied. "The result of daily exercise. Anyways, let's hurry!" "Now, Now, calm down senpai." "How can I calm down?" Ryohei yelled.
"There there, you won't beat an illusion by panicking. If you panic, you'll lose sight of the big picture…." Flashbacks of the fight between Genkishi were resurfacing. "Yamamoto…." "Everything before our eyes is a lie. But one thing is certain. The real Namimori Town is right here, unchanged." "Yamamoto…." "Okay! Leave this to me!" Ryohei took off his bandana and put it over his eyes. "Wh-What is this?" "I've been running through this town as part of my roadwork. If I close my eyes, my body should remember the way." "I see." "Follow me, guys!" Ryohei began to run with tsuna and yamamoto following. "Ah, Ryohei! That's a dead end!" Tsuna warned ryohei. "No! It's a straight path!" "Ah! There's a wall!" "Don't be afraid!" The wall was really an illusion and it disappeared as soon as ryohei ran through it. "It's the real Namimori Town…" "Nice job, senpai." "We're extremely charging the whole way!" "Yeah!" Tsuna and yamamoto exclaimed. "Hold on, kyoko!"
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Tsuna and the others reached Namimori Shrine. "Okay! Namimori Shrine!" "Good work, buddy." "It's all thanks to you. We finally reached kyoko-chan…." Kyoko was at the stairs, it appeared she was out cold. "Kyoko-chan!" "Kyoko!" Everyone ran up to check on kyoko. "Sorry. It's okay now." Kyoko was not out cold but instead put her head down. "Yeah. Thanks, Tsuna-kun." Kyoko had changed into mammon. "Mammon!" Mammon flew above of tsuna and the others. "Well? I sound exactly like Kyoko Sasagawa, don't I?" "Damn it! You fooled us!" "Mammon! Where's the real Kyoko-chan?" Tsuna angrily yelled at mammon to tell him where kyoko was. "Oh, Kyoko Sasagawa?" Mammon showed tsuna a cloud that showed tsuna and the others kyoko was unharmed. "She's enjoying herself shopping. They're probably having tea right now." "Huh? That means…." "You lied about taking her hostage!" "Of course. I couldn't make a penny by getting unrelated people involved." Mammon explained while made the others relieved. "Really…I'm actually relieved…" "I wanted to test a number of things with the lot of you in a normal state." "Huh?" "It wouldn't be much of an experiment if you went all-out on me." "You used us for an experiment? So this wasn't the trial?" Tsuna was puzzled along with the others. "Now then, you're no longer handicapped. You'll be using your full power in the last test. Viper Mirage!" "What?" A huge of water was coming straight to the gang. "What's going on?" The wave engulfed the three quickly not leaving them a chance to bring out their weapons. Tsuna's head popped out of the wave. "Th-This is…" "Wh-What's going on?" Ryohei was drowning as his swimming is very poor. "An illusion! Calm down!" "Yeah, Ryohei!" Yamamoto and tsuna were now unaffected by the wave that turned out to be an illusion. "I-Incredible…This is…" Ryohei stood up once he found out it was an illusion.
"The illusion's just a little bonus. Here's the main dish!" Mammon had in his hands a ring and a box with the ring now lit up. "That's….!" Mammon opened his box and it turned out to be an animal box weapon and his animal box weapon turned out to be starfish. "A Box Weapon?" "It can't be!" "Why is there a Box Weapon in this time?" Everyone was in disbelief even reborn who was watching the whole thing. "Reborn, do you know what that weapon is?" Lal asked reborn who was silent. "I get it now….Those were all….Box Weapons!" Tsuna came to a realization. "Why do you have those mammon?" The starfish inched their way closer to the three. "Do you have time for chit-chat? It appears the form of a simple organism can be maintained for a longer time." The starfish started to spin very rapidly. "Now, it's time for the final experiment! You'll die if you don't get serious." Mammon advised. "If kyoko-chan's okay…" Tsuna took his dying will pills and soon he was in his hyper dying will mode. "I don't need to hold back." "How dare you fool us! That's extremely unforgivable!" "Let's clear this thing!" Everyone was ready to end this trial once and for all. "We'll see about that." The starfish each took one of the three. "There's nothing scary about that!" Ryohei punched each of the starfish, immediately destroying them. "What?" The remains of the starfish accumulated into one big starfish. "They combined to become bigger…This will never end…" Yamamoto raised his sword. "In that case, we have to take him out!" Yamamoto began to run toward mammon but stopped as he saw an illusion of a tree. "You did well to see through that." The illusion disappeared. "Yeah. Unfortunately for you, I've experienced this before."
"I see. Ah, yes, you're all on the shrine grounds right now. It's dangerous to move around too much." The starfish came to attack yamamoto but he moved out of the way. Tsuna had mammon when he was preoccupied with yamamoto. "Tsuna!" "Leave mammon to me. The two of you should deal with the starfish." "But they just combine and become bigger." Yamamoto argued. "It's easier that way." "I see." "I've totally got it!"
"We've come this far by working together. We'll definitely win!" Yamamoto and Ryohei each continued to attack the starfish until they were back to back. "Tsuna's right." "We have allies to watch our backs! How can we not win?" They went off to attack the starfish again. "That's why I hate you people." Mammon turned his attention on tsuna. "Now then…" Mammon created clones of himself. "Which one is real?" "It doesn't matter." Tsuna is preparing to use his X-BURNER. "Th-This could be dangerous…" "Gauge Symmetry. Standby for launch." Tsuna's assistant informed. "X-BURNER: Air!" The X-BURNER attacked all of the clones and even mammon himself. The illusion was broken as it returned to being Namimori Shrine. "You did it Tsuna." Yamamoto cut another starfish but again it made a bigger starfish. The big starfish went to attack yamamoto and ryohei. "They've joined together, senpai!" "Yeah! That's what we've been waiting for!" (Scontro di Rondine!) "Maximum Cannon!" Yamamoto and Ryohei combined their attacks and hit the starfish, ultimately defeating it. The remains of the starfish scatter around the shrine and when the parts land, it seemed to melt.
Reborn and lal mirch dodged it and kyoko was approaching the shrine. Kyoko put her hands on her head and ducked but hime threw knives to stop the blobs from touching them. "Kyoko!" "Ryohei." "Kyoko! Are you okay?" Ryohei asked in concern. "Yes." "Why are you here?" "I had a feeling you were doing roadwork around here." Kyoko replied. "R-Really?" Yamamoto noticed the knives that were etched in the stairs. (These knives are the Varia's…) Yamamoto faced Hime who smiled. (You're….!) "What was that anyway?" "O-Oh….I think a huge shooting star fell." Tsuna was flying in the air, witnessing everything and couldn't help but smile.
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Tsuna was on the roof of Namimori Shrine with a defeated Mammon. "Good grief. Game over." "You were able to effectively utilize your Guardians, Ryohei Sasagawa and Yamamoto Takeshi, as their boss." "My trail is adaptability. It makes me sad to say that you've cleared it. Now hold out your ring." "Yeah." Tsuna hold out his ring and the same thing happened, with an indigo glow flowed into tsuna's ring. "That makes three." (But the best part is that kyoko-chan is safe. What a relief…)
"Hey mammon. I have something to ask you." Reborn told mammon. "Oh yeah! Why does mammon have Box Weapons?" "You mean these?" Mammon showed the Box Weapon. "They've been showing up within the Mafia. Such fascinating new weapons…." "New weapons, you say?" "I was asked to test them out, in exchange for a fee." Mammon said. "By who?" "Verde." "What? Verde?" Lal exclaimed. "I don't like this."
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"That's it for now, I better go and eat dinner." Alena cleaned up and proceed to go to the sushi bar. However there was a sharp pain in her head. (Not again….) The pain was intense but it didn't cause her to pass out instead fill her head in memories.
["Please Giotto let me be your guardian!" "A-, please I don't want you to get hurt. Please understand." Giotto tried to reason with the woman. "Giotto I am part of this family whether you like it or not. I can protect myself just fine; I have fratello and my friends. Please let me fight for you as a Guardian." Giotto dropped his shoulders in defeat. "Alright, you win. A- G- will you be my - Guardian?" "Yes boss."] The pain started to go away, leaving alena in a world of confusion. (What was that? Vongola Primo and who is that women? Another Guardian but that's impossible…)
"I should tell nii-san this too." Alena headed to the sushi bar and gasped as she recognized familiar faces. (Belphagor and Mammon! What are they doing here?) "Ushishishi. What do we have here?" (Nii-san help!)
I hope you like chapter 10, sorry for being late Phoenix Wright and Fairy Tail took over my life. Think of this an early New Years' present. Alena will be in the next trial and continuing on, I just needed her to get a grasp on working the bow and arrow so bear with me. Please review I would love what you think of this chapter. Trust me your reviews are important. Next chapter: Fourth Arcobaleno Trial: Fon's.
