Protecting, vice versa
Chapter 12: Finally, the fight begins. (Part 3)
A/N: In the reviews, a bunch of you keeps wondering what's going to happen to Mukuro, Ryohei and Gokudera, ne? Well... that's only going to be revealed later. Huehuehuehue. (Evil mode. School just started and...)
By the way, I'm only going to present with you one fight due to the start of school. (I'm staying back on all the days of the first week...) and due to the fact that he didn't appear much in the other chapters.
I shouldn't hold you guys back with my long A/Ns, so enjoy~
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anythign except for the storyline. Katekyo Hitman Reborn belongs to Amano Akira.
WARNING: Stuff you guys would not like, again... (and I didn't really check for grammar errors. Forgive me.)
Lightning of the Vongola vs Mist of the Gole Fenice (Iguras)
Lambo sat on Gyudon, innocently blinking as Iguras took out his staff, as if doing a sale. Exaggerating, he pointed it at the cow-kid, who was digging his nose.
"WITH MY WAND OF EVERLASTING MIRACLE, YOU SHALL SUFFER DEFEAT!" the (also) burly Mist Guardian screeched in exasperation.
Silence. And again, the cold wind of solitude blows.
Who names their staff 'Wand'? Enam sweatdropped.
'Everlasting Miracle' my ass. Adelheid deadpanned in her thoughts.
"Lame-name giver..." Leoriko muttered out loud into the microphone, not aware that he had spoken out loud.
Iguras stoned.
In the next moment, he was in a corner, spirits dangling over his head, muttering something about a betrayer.
Lambo stared at the Mist Guardian, still digging his nose, with obvious boredom in his eyes.
"Lambo-san is bored~"
Twitch.
"Lambo-san wants to eat grape candy~"
Twitch again.
"Lambo-san wants to-"
"GAHHHHHH!"
Iguras, in irritation, slammed the end of his 'Wand of Everlasting Miracle' into the ground. As sudden as his action was, Lightning Flames appeared out of nowhere and struck the cow-kid. Seeing Gyudon and Lambo being struck by the Lightning Flames, the Mist Guardian smiled smugly. "How do you find it; the feeling to have your own flame type rebel against you?" his smile appeared crude, and sinister, while his tone contained obvious I-think-I-am-superior tone. He hit the end of his wan-cough; I mean staff, and the lightning died down.
He should be burnt to a crisp by now; that was enough Lightning Flames to power up a whole city. The Mist Guardian closed his eyes, basking in the pure pleasure of electricuting someone to a crisp. He was ready to exit the loction of his battle, but-
"Lambo-san is now irritated!"
Reborn lowered his binoculars. Electro Cucio. Due to being struck many times by lightning, electricity passes right through Dame-Tsuna's Lightning Guardian with little effect or even no effect.
The cow-kid pointed at Iguars, a red tick mark on his afro. "GYUDON! GET HIM!" he screamed, a childish tone playing in his voice. Gyudon grunted and dragged his foot against the ground once, before charging at the Mist Guardian. Of course, Iguras dodged it with ease, but Lambo threw some grenades which was being stored in his afro and somehow, the pins in all the grenades were pulled out with ease. Before the grenades could explode, the 'Wand of Everlasting Miracle' hit all of them away, making them blast holes into the ground away from the two. Iguras then started jabbing his staff into different points in the air, as if doing a ritual or stabbing invisible buttons, and hit the grass on the ground with the front of his wand. The grass grew beneath Gyudon, and its length increased and it curled till it surrounded Lambo and his box weapon in one tight ball.
Lambo staggered back on Gyudon in slight shock, due to the suddeness of being entrapped into darkness. Slowly, eyelids started appear around the cow-kid, one by one, and they all blinked open.
Illusions of Feared Situations. Iguras stared at the grass ball with eyes half closed, bored. The eyes will reflect what the annoying brat will truly fear most... by peering into his eyes, the windows to his soul, and gather all the situations that he'll wish for to never happen. The Mist Guardian spun his staff again so that it was standing upright.
Back in the grass ball, Lambo was thinking hard. He knew that the grass ball and the eyelids were an illusion. But he couldn't break through it. So, all he could do was sit down on Gyudon and see what illusion is this.
Suddenly, the cow-kid noticed the eyelid in front of him open and close; blink, and the eyes played an animation.
"Face it. You will never defeat me, Lambo Bovino." Fake-Animated-Reborn appeared, saying those words while holding out a Leon-gun. Said fake hitman then turned around, and walked away into the everlasting background of white.
Lambo shifted a little. That was indeed something that he didn't want to happen to him. However, he shook his head; it was an illusion, something fake that was not to be trusted.
The eye disappeared, and the next eye in line slid in steadily, and blinked. In the video, a frowning I-pin's head was the largest object in the eye.
"I-pin hates Lambo! Hmph!" Fake-Animated-I-pin pouted, turned, and ran further down the lane she was on, and disappeared into the horizon of white.
Lambo's small fists started clenching up slowly. "I-pin..." the cow-kid muttered, eyes turning slightly disillusioned. But then again, he shook his head and squeezed his eyes. He knew the videos and animations were not real. Only one matter, real or an illusion, will be able to make his mental stability go out of control.
He opened his wide green eyes, looking down upon the skin of Gyudon, who in return grunted in corcern for its master.
While Lambo was looking down, the next eye had already blinked and started playing the animation. His eyes widened when he heard the words being said from the eye;
"I don't recognise Lambo as one of my guardians."
Lambo looked up, the original plain and slightly disillusioned eyes now being mixed with a whirl of emotions.
Fake-Animated-Tsuna was standing there, eyebrows slightly furrowed, while around him were Fake-Animated-Gokudera, Fake-Animated-Yamamoto, Fake-Animated-Ryohei, Fake-Animated-Chrome, Fake-Animated-Mukuro and Fake-Animated-Hibari, who was slightly spaced away from the others. They all nodded their heads in agreeement, and they slowly paced away from the Lightning Guardian sitting on the lightning-based bull.
Lambo was blank for a second, then his mouth curled up in an attempt not to cry. "Ga...ma...nn..." (1) He chocked on his words, eyes teary and cheeks red. But, just like the other times, the Lightning Guardian had failed in trying to control his tears. He raised his arm up, reaching for the Fake-Animated-10th Generation of Vongola, who were still strolling away calmly.
"N-No! Tsuna-nii... no! Lam...Lambo-san is one of your guardians..." The green eyes which were filling up with tears looked at the leaving figures. "...right?" the cow-kid forced a fake smile through tears.
Remember, in the trap of Iguras, the eyes can peer into your soul, your memories, if you are also concentrating on them. That's why, as if hearing Lambo's teared attempt to resolve himself, Fake-Animated-Tsuna turned around with a hard, sick and stoned look in his eyes. His mouth opened, and Lambo's eyes started shining with happiness to see his nii-san turn around, but-
"No."
And the fake-animated-brunette paced away as if never saying a thing, vanishing from the sight of the cow-kid.
Lambo's arm dropped and hung loosely and livelessly by the side of his body.
"...no..." It started off as a whimper, while he himself gathered enough energy to raise his arms and grab strands of his curly hair.
"...No...!"
Tsuna's attention sped to Lambo's fight. His Hyper Intuition was nosediving; a lot. He looked at the ball of grass, anxiety rushing voer his entire body, except that it was more unnoticable since he was in HDW mode. Whatever was tormenting his Lightning Guardian, was most likely illusions, he concluded, but his Hyper Intuition was telling him it was much, much worse than that.
"Lambo..!"
And, as if on cue, when the sound that appeared from Tsuna's mouth faded till the vibrations in the air caused by saying the Lightning Guardian's name disappeared without a trace, Lambo couldn't take it any further.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" ...
Silence ensured in the battlefield, the only sounds coming from the clashes in the other battlefields.
"...Lambo..." Tsuna stiffled a sob, regretting that he had let his young Lightning Guardian onto the field, regretting that he had even got the cow-kid dragged into such a situation. However, it was that moment the brunette remembered TYL! Lambo's words:
"I looked up to all of you, and wished that one day, I could enter the world that Young Vongola and his friends were in."
Tsuna gritted his teeth in the agony of seeing his younger guardian getting hurt through mental shock. Lambo wanted to fight alongside him all the time, but his Lightning Guardian was still too weak to fend himself from their enemies. He was the boss, he was to make sure that the safety of the majority are protected, including his friends...
Rauji could do nothing but stare helplessly; but his trance was thrown away after a moment, as he ran against the fence seperating him from Lambo. He seemed to crash into into the fence, but his fingers curled around the holes of it.
"LAMBO!" he roared in terror of the cow-kid getting hurt. "PLEASE, BE...okay..." his voice trailed off at 'okay', as his knees fell onto the grass.
Mochida raised an eyebrow upstairs at the affection. The mafia cared about the safety of their collegues? That surprised him; he was part of a yakuza gang, but they didn't really care if he got hurt or injured. He ruffled his hair, now more luxurious then before he fought with Tsuna.
Maybe I should consider joining Vongola when I grow up...
Well, he did, but that's to be found out in the future.
Iguras smiled slightly, releasing the illusionary ball of grass. He should be too traumatized to fight now... the second burly guy guaranteed the defeat of Lambo, as the grass uncurled. But, through the holes of the grass, pink smoke, almost transparent, puffed out of the trapped space.
Tsuna and Rauji paused. Pink smoke?
A tall, and slightly bent figure was made out of the uncurling grass, beside the bull. His hair was slightly curly, and his hands were kept warm in the pockets of his pants.
"Yare yare." (2)
Iguras was appalled for a short while, but he pointed his staff at the figure in slight disgust. "Who are you, and where's the cow brat?" the second burly guy snarled, glaring at the figure.
The still shadowed figure straightened a little. "The cow brat?" he questioned, taking out a hand to put it in a thinking position. Suddenly, he whipped his finger up, as if he had gotten an idea. He pointed at Iguras.
"You're Iguras-hentai-nii-san, aren't you?"
Iguras twitched. His days of watching hentai, yaoi and yuri in his room was exposed by this unknown teen... and why did he say nii-san?
The teen, as if realising his mistake, covered his mouth. The grass finished uncurling, and a purple bazooka was on the ground beside him.
The teen removed his hand from covering his mouth, and smiled. "I am the annoying cow brat." TYL! Lambo deadpanned, hand inside his pocket again.
Iguras twitched, and he jabbed his finger at the cow-teen, fuming. "DON'T JOKE WITH ME!" He screamed, charging at TYL! Lambo.
He spun his staff, and struck the front of it into the ground. As he ran, it dragged along the soil of the ground. When he raised his staff, flowers with their stalks grew out, except that the flowers had mouths, and the stalks kept growing and moving along at random.
TYL! Lambo stared at it, bored, and simply placed two horns on his head. He muttered a couple of words; "I have no idea how this ends... so let's just try..."
He dodged the flowers which were attempting to glomp itself onto him, and he placed both his hands behind his horns. "Thunder Set." he muttered, and lightnig struck down to be stored in his horns, as he hopped backwards. He swerved to his right, and screeched to a stop, digging into the soil at the same time. Electro Cornata! A huge, small distaced sword of lightning came out from his horns, and he swung it to cut the flowers. Still, the heads of the flowers regrew. Noticing that the illusions were getting harder to define, he ran to Gyudon. "Gyudon! Cambio Forma!" The bull grunted, and it changed into a seemingly steel helmet with the Lightning Crest in the middle, as well as a shield covering the front of his body.
"Thunder Helm, Version X." TYL! Lambo said coolly, and he started hopping backwards again. "Thunder Set!" Again, he said the words to make lightning enter his now bigger horns. He swerved his head to his left, again thinking; Electro Cornata. The lightning sword came again, however was now slightly longer and filled with near-pure Lightning Flames. He swung it at the flowers still lunging at him, and now cut the bottom of the stalk. Again it regrew, but was now shorter. TYL! Lambo grinned to himself, pleased with his achievment, but his eyes suddenly narrowed as he frowned.
"What's wrong, Older Lambo-dono?" Basil shouted, the first to notice the sudden frown.
TYL! Lambo gritted his teeth. "I can barely define the illusion anymore..." the curly haired teen mumbled, obviously troubled by this fact.
Naito, who became smarter after being gone from many scenes for some time, had something clicking in his brain. I see! The main point of Mist Flames are «Conjuration», while the main point of of Lightning Flames is «Solidification»! So, when «Solidification» is used against «Conjuration», obviously the «Conjuration» will become more solid and stronger! In other words, when Lightning Flames are used against Mist Flames, the illusions are bound to be stronger, more solid, and harder to define!
Still, TYL! Lambo decided to continue attacking. He held out Lampo's shield, and muttered; "Corna Fulmine."
Reborn raised an eyebrow. Corna Fulmine. Lampo's shield unleashes powerful Lightning Flames to defeat the enemies around the user. The flames are so solid and thin, they are able to pierce through it's enemies like sharpenel.
Indeed, as it was explained by Reborn in his mind, Lightning Flames gathered around his shield, and it exploded all around, continuously piercing the flowers till they became impossible to define. However, with the Lightning Flames all around him, it was suicidal to just attempt to attack him this way. Still in concentration, TYL! Lambo walked towards Iguras slowly, while the Mist Guardian of the Gole Fenice slowly backed away. He backed till a fence blocked his back, then took out a similar ring to Flariek's, and placed it beside a purple ring. Both blasted; the Flariek-look-a-like-ring ring with Sun Flames, and the purple ring with Mist Flames. From the ring, the fulames combined with the staff, and by spinning it and jabbing it onto the ground, an illusionary barrier was made.
TYL! Lambo's flames started pressing against the barrier. He attempted to step forward; only realising that he couldn't. The cow-teen gritted his teeth, as he continued to try to press forward into the barrier.
Iguras smiled cunningly. "How do you like it; your Lightning Flames losing against an illusion?" he hollered with glee.
TYL Lambo grunted. Those damn Sun Flames. They powered up the Mist Flames using «Activation» , the main component of Sun Flames, to multiply the power of the Mist Flame's main component «Conjuration».
He squeezed his eyes tight, as the Lightning Flames became shinier and brighter. Iguras fert begun digging into the ground; apparently, the power of the Lightning Flames were too much for him to take.
TYL! Lambo smiled smugly. "Now, I shall-"
POOF!
Pink smoke engulfed the cow-teen, and as the smoke cleared, a cow-kid dropped out, slightly scratched and bruised, or at least seen from his teared clothes.
"Lambo!" Tsuna shouted, concern ringing in his voice.
Lambo, who's back was facing the audience, turned around slowly, stumbling slightly due to the heaviness of the helmet, which still hasn't changed back. His tear filled eyes and slightly scathed face worried the boss; a lot. But Lambo turned back before the brunette could say a thing.
"Tsuna-nii..." the Lightning Guardian uttered, and somehow, only Tsuna heard it. The eyebrows of the Vongola 10th slanted upwards slowly.
"...I won't doubt you anymore..."
Tsuna blinked. Doubt? The illusions..? He touched his hood. Now it all made sense. The Mist Guardian could use his illusions to peer into the hearts of his enemies, and can see what they wouldn't want to happen most and play it by an illusion...
Lambo wiped away his tears, focusing on his enemy, and remembered what the unknown group of people he had met had said.
FLASHBACK
Lambo sniffed as he was surrounded in pink smoke, when he had pulled the bazooka over him. No matter how, that was the bazooka that had always solved all problems by pulling him into another world for 5 minutes.
Maybe he would meet the group of thr older and caring Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei, Mukuro, Chrome and Hibari again... and ask them about what he should do.
Indeed, as the smoke cleared, he saw the group; the TYL! 10th gen Vongola.
"Oh? It's mini Lambo!" a voice resounded from above him. Lambo looked up, only to see TYL! Yamamoto grinning at him.
TYL! Tsuna nodded, his fluffy, still gravity defying brown hair bouncing along with his nods. He looked directly into Lambo's green eyes. "I suppose you have another problem?" Lambo smiled a little and nodded.
TYL! Chrome smiled gently, purple eye shining in concern. "Tell us." the ten-year-later female illusionist whispered, her long hair falling over her shoulders.
Lambo lowered his head again, and explained the whole situation; him getting trapped in a whole ball of grass, him seeing the disillusioned situation in the eyes, him losing his faith in the younger Tsuna; everything.
TYL! Ryohei pumped his fists in the air, sunlight shining down on him. "THAT IS BAD TO THR EXTREMEEEE!" he screamed, making the others sweatdrop.
TYL! Tsuna simply chuckled as the wise person he was. Even though his IQ had only increased by 10 over 10 years. (3)
"Lambo. You do know that I'm your nii-san from 10 years later, right?" Tsuna smiled gently at the cow-kid.
The young Lightning Guardian nodded slowly, and something in his mind clicked. This was the Tsuna ten years from now, and so he had experienced the same things as the Tsuna of his time had...
He looked up at the TYL! 10th generation of Vongola.
TYL! Mukuro nodded, his long and fabulous ponytail hopping along. "Kufufu, we have experienced whatever the Vongola of your time are experiencing." the napo with overgrown leaves (ponytail) said it out loud, so as to confirm.
TYL! Tsuna's mouth still held firm. "If I did not approve of you as your Guardian, would your 10-year-later self still be with us?" The brunette concluded, arms patting the head of the young Lightning Guardian.
Lambo's eyes widened. The videos he saw were fake, after all...
TYL! Hibari simply grunted, since he was not much of a speaker.
TYL! Chrome seemed to remember something, and touched the horns of the young Lightning Guardian. "Let me teach you something..." she whispered.
Just after TYL! Chrome had finished teaching, and TYL! Tsuna had whispered once more into his ear, the cow-kid disappered in a pink smoke, just like how TYL! Lambo did.
Current Time
Lambo held his horns from behind, eyes being shadowed. He breathed in, eyebrows set down in concentration. He breathed out, and opened his eyes. His air circulation regulated, as his heatbeat swayed from fast to slow; nervousness to calmness. His mouth opened;
"Thunder Set."
His voice was still sounding kiddish, but the air of seriousness around him made him seem like a teenager. Grey clouds gathered, as lightning struck down, and the horns dazzled with green, static flames, made more pure with Gyudon still as a helmet and shield.
The audience, or at least the ones who knew Lambo, gaped at the scene. Thunder Set? Where... on earth had he learnt that?
Lambo ran forward, tiny legs barely managing the weight above. He held out one arm, mouth opening yet again to say another skill; "Electro Cornota!"
As he ran, his mind seemed to make everything in slow motion. The lightning turning into a short, thick and bright green sword, Iguras still holding up his shield, and Tsuna looking at the television, teeth clenching at the wounds his friends had recieved.
"I won't let TYL! Tsuna-nii and Tsuna-nii down..." Lambo muttered to himself. He remembered, as TYL! Tsuna leant down to say the words as a hushed sentence, only to be resounding inside his ears.
I was believing in you, and now I still am.
Lambo's other fist curled. 'Lambo-san... will believe in Lambo-san too... and;" His sword touched the Mist Barrier.
"WILL FIGHT FOR LAMBO-SAN TOO!" The words Lambo had in his mind tumbled out of his mouth, followed by a sound of lightning crackling along the shield. Illusions, however struck by Lightning Flames, will still get stronger with a single surge of Lightning Flames, and Lambo was easily resisted.
"HAAAAAHHH!" Iguras bellowed, the Mist Barrier propelling the Lightning Guardian away, into a wall behind the battle scene. The impact was enough to create a crater around the Lightning Guardian, and the said Guardian slowly slid down the wall, as his eyesight fumbled around.
"Lambo-san is sorry, Tsuna-nii... Lambo-san can't win..." Lambo seemed to be sliding slowly, as his thoughts took over his mind.
"...and sorry for losing my trust in you..."
THUD
Lambo laid on the grass floor, unconcious, as Iguras started doing a victory dance. Also known as hula dancing; wherever he had gotten the coconut bra and the grass skirt from.
In the fight of the Lightning of the Vongole versus the Mist of the Gole Fenice, Lambo had lost.
Omake: TYL! Chrome's Knowledge.
TYL! Tsuna looked on as TYL! Lambo returned, slightly beaten up. TYL! Chrome approached him, helping him up.
"Thank you, Chrome-nee-san!" TYL! Lambo smiled, as he whispered the additional part in her ear; "Did you teach my younger self the skill?"
TYL! Chrome nodded slowly. "Yes, I did. He got pretty scratched up during the training though." she said softly, remembering the young Lightning Guardian aquiring many wounds while learning the skill.
TYL! Lambo blinked. "Did he get as many wounds as you did while learning it to teach my younger self?"
Shaking her head, TYL! Chrome sighed. "You two have immunity to lightning, while I don't." she deadpanned, putting both palms out, as if tired of whatever she had done, in memory of her training to master the Electro Cornotta. TYL! Lambo had said that it was TTYL! (4) Chrome who had taught him Electro Cornotta and Thunder Set, thus they just went with the flow, and taught Chrome both skills in order to teach the Lambo of 10 years ago.
TYL! Mukuro, who had been suprisingly quiet, sniggered. "Kufufu... Lambo 10 years ago was quite troublesome, don't you all think?"
TYL! Gokudera, since he got calmer after 10 years, sighed instead of snorting. "You don't say, you pineapple."
Shit is going to get down.
(1): "Ga...ma...nn..." is the Japanese way of Lambo saying "Must...calm...down..."
(2) "Yare, yare" is the Japanese way of TYL! Lambo saying "Well, well." Or at least it is.
(3): This is true. I read Vongola Coloure and TYL! Lambo was saying that Tsuna's IQ was 105 after ten years. But, currently, his IQ is 95.
(4): TTYL! is my way of saying twenty years later. So you may not see this in other fanfictions.
A/N: Sorry for the late update, and sorry for only presenting one fight. Next fight would be Yamamoto vs Hicagen, maybe the most awaited fight~
So...
REPLY TO REVIEWS:
ReiraVonAllen: W-What? oAo My story is your favourite and very well written? No, no, there are much better stories out there. Well, here's the update, and I probably won't be stopping this fanfic anytime soon UNLESS school... yeah.
Kuro Yuki 34: Here's the update~ They would be alright XD Just... go on with the flow of this story first.
Faliara: AWESOME? REALLY? oAo And the update was fabulous~
Guest: Nice idea buuut... I already have the story planned out. But thanks for the suggestion!
So, since this was only one fight, there would be another part, making this fight have 5 parts. So, leave a review please? (And also. Late updates coming up because of school. Sigh.)
SO, if you are traumatized from school, I feel you.
For now, janne~
RawwrMage (08/01/2014)