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Chapter 12: Kyoto Trip part 7: Night's Ambush.
Air, Water, Earth, Fire, These are elements of the balance in this world. 10000 years ago I was the hero who brought peace to a terrible war. I along with my friends and teachers travelled around the world to find and face the fire lord Ozai, but one day everything change, I find myself trapped in a distant future, I'm alone but I will remain determined to find my reason in this place.
Following the events of the last chapter.
Aang explained everything for negi about his actual purpose in this time. Being from the past isn't easy. After they conversation ended, they kept just processing what they currently found out in silence. But eishun broke the silence as he started to explain about why there is some among their ranks interfering. It was revealed that konoka is a member of a high-class bloodline possessing a power that surpasses the thousand master himself. They wanted that power to conquer the east so that they could control the all the remaining magic in existence, so to protect konoka, they transferred her to Mahora academy, hiding her prowess in magic from her.
Aang agreed with him but sometimes destiny is a bitch, was annoyed at this, he remember the time when it was revealed he was the avatar, completely changing his life forever, and subsequently becoming the last bender to ever live.
"erm, may I ask who is this Thousand Master you speak."
"He is my lost father" negi answered making Aang feel bad for asking, so remembering that he asks eishun about it, "Do you know anything about him?"
"I know him quite well; after all I was that idiot inseparable friend after all."
"I see, but why he is called Thousand Master?"
"You see it's because-" before he could explain, they heard voices coming from outside and it was very distinctive female voices, startling all of them. So in response they decide to hide behind the nearby boulder, unaware of the presence of asuna and setsuna, who heard everything since beginning.
In the hast they crashed each other, Aang was the first clashing directly into setsuna, since he is taller he knocked her over, he fell on her top meaning that he could feel every single member of her body as well the fact that they were kissing, accidentally. Negi, on other side clashed into asuna, knocking her to ground and groping her on the fall, eishun just stood there sweating at this event.
("Oh god! Must have control… sooo good…") Aang froze a second before entering unconscious after another severe nosebleed. As the girls enter, they find Aang unconscious over setsuna naked body while negi a top of asuna groping her. They stood there frozen for a second, before finally react in.
"WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO SE-CHAN!" konoka yelled before noticing that Aang was unconscious and unresponsive. Haruna was quietly handling a nosebleed in perverted thoughts at Aang defined muscular body. They situation dissipated as negi and eishun drag Aang away from the bath.
Konoka's House: some kind of resting room.
Some minutes past while Aang was resting, finally awaking up he head through the corridor, he meets with negi, who was wandering around as well he was rather confident about finding his father since his eishun is his friend.
"So you is trying to find your father?"
"Yes, since konoka's father is my father's friend I said he will lead me to a house that my father used to live!" Aang was happy for him and decided to help with whatever he could. However while wandering the corridor, Aang several spiritual spike along the way, but since he remembered this is a magic association he ignored, but that changed once they heard a scream coming from the rooms where the students were.
Rushing in there, find statues of Haruna, Nodoka and Asakura all looking very terrified of something.
"This is…" Aang inspect the statues, to fairly recognize the spiritual signature, it was from Fate, but severely changed. ("That boy, this is his magic, but how? His connection of spirit world to cast magic should be the same, still this feels way too different, he can change the composition of his connection at will?")
"This is high-class magic named petrification!" chamo explain after checking the statues as well.
Negi was panicking at their statues, "nodoka-san! nodoka-san! ,aaaa they're…"
"Calm down negi, I can tell that their hearts pumping yet, they are alive"
"Yeah aniki, this has to be the onmyoudo mages who did this! I sure the chief will be able to remove it! We need to be on guard!"
"But we are supposed to be safe!"
"Looks like we are wrong, we should find the remaining students and think on a plan" Aang suggested.
"That's right! Asuna-san and the others!" negi then desperately runs outside to find them not before being held by Aang.
"I have a better way to find them" so Aang taking a firm stance, he smashes the ground to search the entire mansion through the seismic sense. Inspecting the area he finds countless people standing in odd positions, possibly petrified, but after noticing the corridor he found out that both konoka and asuna were safe.
"Damnit, almost all people of the mansion were petrified, Asuna and konoka-san are ok through" Aang announces.
Negi lets a sigh of relief, "Oi Aniki! The cards! Use the cards!" chamo yelled remembering him of the pactio cards telepathic abilities.
"Ah yes!" so quickly take out a card, put at his forehead and calls for asuna. Aang felt the energy being bended through the card connecting to her. After confirming their current situation, so they quickly set out, negi call his staff back by chanting, "Mea Virga!(My staff/wand!)"
"So what's the plan?" Aang asks.
"We are going to meet with them at the bath so we will reunite. This is going to be really dangerous now"
"Don't worry, I have a few tricks in hand if necessary, it's my job to protect you, let's go!"
Chamo then finds an opportunity to explain the enemy purpose, "Alright listen up! If they specifically used petrification, then they didn't intent to inflict any unnecessary harm"
"It doesn't matter if their target is konoka, we have to stop them in any situation" Aang replied while negi nods in agreement. Then heading close to a corner Aang felt setsuna spirit emission, he tried to warn negi but it was too late as he clashed her sword with his staff.
"Calm down negi, its setsuna-san"
"Eh, setsuna-san!? I thought you were in the bath!"
"I felt a bad presence I and rushed-" they were interrupted as Aang felt vibrations of someone else.
"Ready yourselves someone is coming!" ready to face an enemy, they notice it was the elder eishun, who had half of his body petrified.
"Negi-kun, Aang-kun, Setsuna-kun…"
"Head chief" they shouted. He was barely walking, his feet were cracking.
"I'm sorry, looks like I overestimated the temple barriers a bit; in these times of peace I wonder if anything could be solved that way!"
"Leader, don't worry I can-" Aang suggest to try undo the petrification. But he was intervened.
"No Aang-kun, listen, all of you… be careful of the boy with white hair… he is more dangerous than I expected. You guys… it might be hard with just you all… contact the principal… and please… take care… of konoka…" then the petrification enveloped his entire body, turning him into a full statue.
"Fate…" Aang muttered while slamming the wall at his side.
"Aang-nii-san…" negi took pity was well, but remembered the events of cinema town. "Ah! Yes!, you already fought him before right?"
"Yes, he is really dangerous; we need to join forces if we want to win against him" so nodding in agreement they rushed out.
"I will contact the headmaster; we will need all the help we can get." So quickly taking the phone, since the principal taught him how to use for this mission, he made the call.
"Hello?"
"Principal, can you hear me? It's Aang"
"Oh Aang-kun what is it?"
"Listen negi already know about me the mission is completed but we are facing a strong opposition over here, a single person managed to defeat the entire association along with the chief himself, since my powers aren't fully recovered I may require some help"
"What!? This is serious! But with takamichi over the seas I can't… wait, there is someone I could send, don't worry help is underway"
"Very well, thanks!" so turning, finishing the call they quickly found themselves at the bath.
Konoka's House: Bath House
Once there, asuna was on the floor naked and shivering, Negi and setsuna rushed into her, while Aang search around, focusing in his mind, he quickly notices fate spirit and warns.
"Negi, Setsuna! He is still here!" he yelled through it was too late, appearing behind setsuna, fate tries to subdue her, but reacting fast enough she deflect the first hand, not noticing the thrust, fate punched her with a strength enough to send her bouncing in the floor and knock her out.
Reacting, Aang, using smooth gesture backward, he waterbends the bath and encases fate in ice prison, using this opportunity negi starts to chant while Aang, using the index and middle fingers of both his hands, tears the air and contort his body creating lightning.
"Ras Tel Ma Scir Magister:Unus Fulgor Concidens Noctem, In Mea Manu Ens Inimicum Edat, Fulguratio Albicans!(Rays of light that tears apart the night, gather unto my hand and strike down my enemy, White Thunder)" as he finishes, both Aang and negi release their lightning attacks at fate creating a bright flash with sparks scattering everywhere.
Thinking they got a clean hit on him but they gasped as soon as they saw him completely clean from the blast. Aang then signaled to negi to cast another spell, and charging his body with energybending , he lunged at fate to face him hand-to-hand. Both were equal at melee, the difference was that fate isn't fighting serious and he wasn't using any kind of close range spells, Aang on other side was trying to distract him using his own chi to match him.
"Ras Tel Ma Scir Magiter…" he began chanting again; they kept fighting fiercely on the bath, Aang was mostly pushing him aside using a combination of both water and energy bending to push Fate away. Allowing negi to cast:
"…Sagitta Magica Series Lucis!(Magic Projectile Barrage: 7 Arrows of light!)" the arrows fly in their direction, Aang created them an ice wall surrounding them to prevent fate from escaping, All the arrows however were blocked or deflect, rendering it useless.
Noticing that Aang was only a distraction; he overwhelms him and pushes him aside to intercept negi. But Aang quickly restores his composure and, with smooth gestures, he stops his tracks by freezing his legs again; then Aang sprinted again charging his right hand to punch him at his stomach, but fate caught it.
"It's useless…" fate taunted. But Aang smirked.
"…Fulguratio Albicans!(White thunder)" Aang quickly jumped away as negi thunder target fate. But with a simple gesture of hands, he deflects it and redirect to Aang.
"Ah! Crap!" negi panicked, but Aang, reacting fast enough, he points both his fingers at the thunder, absorbing the entire blast to his body by pointing to the stomach, and points back at fate effectively redirecting the lightning. Not expecting that, Fate took the blast destroying the wall section behind him. When the smoke cleared once again with Fate came out completely unhindered, the only damage he saw was a burnt mark at right cheek.
("What a power, he is still moving after taking direct hits. Damnit this is the strongest person I have faced until now.") Aang thought.
Staring his opponent negi, thought about what the leader warned about him: "Whe-where did you take konoka-san? Turning everyone into statues, hitting setsuna-san, taking konoka-san, even doing perverted things to asuna-san! As their teacher… As their friend… i- i- I won't forgive you!"
"So then, what will you do? Defeat me? Even together you don't stand a chance, it would be better to stop" he taunted, taking a quick glance at Aang, ("That monk… he may be stronger than I tough, but nothing serious") so he disappears as the water swallowed him.
"Using water teleportation, aniki he's a pretty high class mage!"
"Even so, he is not far, I can sense his spirit moving further." Aang said as negi checks both asuna and setsuna conditions. So Aang assist negi in healing the girls with his waterbending. What the leader before was true indeed, even with the efforts of both Aang and negi, they were unable to defeat him properly. But then chamo suggests setsuna to make a pactio with negi.
"What is a pactio." Aang asks.
"Pactio is a contract between magister and partners where aniki can transfer his magical power to the partner allowing then to protect the mage."
"So by kissing you establish such contract giving power to another person"
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"I already can tell" Aang mutters remembering how nodoka got that mind reading book power and how asuna also go involved.
"Think a while! Setsuna-nee-san can use chi right? So if aniki adds his magical power on top of that, it should be a super power up!"
"Not exactly" Aang denied after connecting his thoughts.
"EH? Why?"
"Both Chi(Physical energy) and magic power(Spiritual energy) will reject each other, they will behave as independent source of her powers, unless the person conquers his own heart it's virtually impossible to do so, setsuna can only control her chi, but she can't bend it outside forcing it to rely on techniques she learned on the school correctly?" he said mentioning her, who just nodded.
"EH? But-" asuna smashes the poor ermine on the wall. "Shut up perverted ermine!"
"There is no time to talk, let's go!" they all nodded in agreement.
Kyoto Forest, Konoka's House Outskirts
Meanwhile, just outside the association, Chigusa and her minions acquire Konoka from fate, who successfully captured her away from negi and his team. As they are about to leave to an certain altar, Asuna, negi and setsuna intercept them, but Aang seems missing. With intent to dispatch them, Chigusa, forcefully extracting Konoka's spiritual power, summons a demon army consisting of hundreds of demons outnumbering them greatly, in response negi chants:
"Ras Tel Ma Scir Magister: Vertatur Tempestas Veris, Nobis Protectionem Aerialem!(Let the spring storm turns, send the protection of air to us!)" negi creates an orbiting hurricane around themselves to think a plan out.
Meanwhile… Aang was intercepting Chigusa. When they decided to split up, Aang knew that since the beginning, Fate wasn't fighting serious, so he wouldn't interfere if Aang didn't fought, so he was supposed to hide in the forest and distract Fate to let the others rescue konoka, but they didn't expect this. Alone Aang pursues them, seeing them running he stop their tracks by earthbending a massive barrier trapping them.
"What!?" claimed chigusa startled. Turning around they find Aang floating in an air spout, a airbending skill that consist of rotating and stabilizing the air under his feets in a hurricane manner, similar to what the waterbenders can do in full moon. Konoka was relieved when she saw him, and tried to struggle with no avail.
"You again! You are nothing but a pest interfering in our plans." Chigusa was rather annoyed by the constant interference that Aang has done since then, she quickly retreat in fear was she remember his anger face.
"Hand over Konoka back!" Aang said showing his anger, he suppressed the avatar mode, but he temporally acquires the knowledge from his past lives in a half second and restores his power.
"Ha! You think you can scare me? I will show you the power of Ojou-sama-" She was about to summon more demons but she was interrupted by Fate.
"Forget it…from what I can tell he is different… I'll take care of him" Once fate told her that, Aang compressed the hurricane and directed to fate who was rushing at his direction. But the stream was stronger than he anticipated, blowing him away. Aang, was about to pursue chigusa again but he felt negi spiritual energy spike, he turned around to see a massive thunderstorm blasting the demon legions, and far on distance he saw negi, rushing with his staff closer at Chigusa direction.
Since Fate was the only danger to him, so he had to use his powers to distract turning around, the boy appeared in front of him ready to deliver a punch at him, but Aang parried perfectly and counterattacked him back with a charged punch at his chest, if wasn't for his seismic sense, he would be flying right now.
Fate rushes once again, so do Aang and they clash at each other, but since fate was stronger Aang was to one pushed away. Fate gain upper hand and start to overwhelm him severely, forcing Aang on defense, he could only counterattack the moment he drop his own to predict his next step with seismic sense something really hard, since he was more offensive than normal. After another successful counter at his stomach, Aang make a rough stance and thrust forward, bending a boulder at him.
Fate shattered it away with ease, more boulders were coming, so Aang switched his strategy, Fate noticed that there was something strange with Aang, he was only on defensive earth moves, after finally realizing, ("… so that is your plan… it won't work"), he appears behind Aang, who made a compressing gesture, that made the earth smash both of them, fate retreated to avoid it but noticed the something covered in a rock armor attack him, blocking away he blasted Aang severely but he wasn't damaged, intercepting him again, he managed to crush fate with his earth gauntlet.
Fate quickly recovered after clearing a section of the forest, but something very strange to him, Fate spiritual emission was strangely weak moments ago. Once he charged again, Aang made a spin to redirect the punch and blow him again, it was strange, suddenly, Fate was way too weak. He did discover the reason as he saw the body he blasted disintegrated in water.
"Interesting but again nothing impressive, unfortunately this was come to an end." Touching his burnt mark at his cheek. "I have mission to accomplish, until we meet again, monk…" then he reduced into water.
("What!? Shit he tricked me!") So focusing his surrounding he notices a huge spiritual energy close to a lake on the distance, it was from konoka but it was also being transferred to something big. ("No…") Aang saw the pillar of energy at distance, what he was supposed to do now?
TO BE CONNTINUED
