"20 minutes ago..."

"Move!" A guard demanded shoving a group of kids and teenagers through the hall.

The kids moved on obeying the guards orders immediately, without hesitation. There were about 20 kids in the group compared to the 4 guards. All the kids feet were shackled together at their ankles, with their hands tied behind their backs. Every kid wore his own pair of gloves, they were made of some special material that prohibited the use of Levaste.

The guards continued to escort the kids into an elevator. Kao reluctantly cooperated with the guards commands as he waited patiently for the perfect opportunity. As the guards guided them inside the elevator, Kao saw his chance. Kao realized from his earlier attempt, that the gloves prohibit use of Levaste through only the areas covered by the gloves or material. As the fourth guard stepped inside the elevator, Kao acted.

The elevator doors had just started to close; Kao had to act fast. He built up and compressed enough fire together beneath his feet and shot himself up and over the last guard. Kao's back flip over the guard went smoothly. As the doors were approaching each other Kao dove out in the nick of time. The doors closed. Kao tried to summon Fire Akurei Tsume, but he usually did it with his has hands. He concentrated on his spear the best he could.

"Fire Akurei Tsume!" Kao proclaimed violently. Nothing happened.

The doors to the elevator were jerking back and forth, someone in the elevator was trying to over ride the system and open the doors. Kao knew his time was almost up. He hopped to his feet and made his away from the doors as far as possible, while still trying to summon his spear.

The doors slammed open and the guards came charging out towards Kao, leaving the other kids unattended.

"Fire Akurei Tsume! Fire Akurei Tsume! Fire Akurei Tsume! Fire Akurei Tsume!" Kao yelled as nothing happened, "Oh come on!"

Just as the guards were about to snag hold of Kao he burst more flames from his feet avoiding them.

"I've got one Choice", Kao said with a non-pleasing grin.

Kao threw himself to the ground, landing on his back. He tucked his knees to his chest. "Hope this works." Kao built up flames at his feet and as the guards neared him, he released them. Flames engulfed the guards as Kao shot himself down the hall, skidding on his back. Conveniently the was a wall to stop him; Kao learned this the hard way as he slammed his skull against the wall, the rest of his body flew up and slammed into the wall also.

Just then Fire Akurei Tsume dropped in front of him. More guards were one their way, Kao could tell by the thundering noise of many footsteps. Kao managed to tear his gloves off with the head of his Fire Akurei Tsume. He then shattered the shackles binding his ankles together with his spear. He got up and dusted himself off.

"Oh now you come", Kao said chastising his spear ungrateful for the fact that it even showed up.

Up ahead at the elevator kids flocked out of the elevator, Kao ran to meet them; hopefully before the rest of the guards showed up. He chucked his spear ahead at the kids, hoping they'd know what to do. Several kids figured it out as they pushed and shoved each other in hopes to free themselves and escape. One kid was obviously stronger and managed his way to the front; he hopped into the air lining up his hands with the head of the spear. Perfect. The gloves and ties were sliced off. The teenage boy shattered his ankle shackles with the spear, then tore off the special boots he wore, which looked just like the gloves.

Unlike everyone else who just wanted to be free and runaway, this kid stayed and helped the rest of the other kids. By the time Kao had caught up to them, most of the kids were free. A white blast of light hurled through the air. Everyone ducked. Kao summoned his spear to his hand.

These guards had guns and there were about 30 of them. Another white blast exploited itself from one of the guns, which was followed by volleys of white blasts. Most of the kids stood there, then cowardly crunched down to the floor surrendering.

Kao was up front at this time. There were other kids behind him, with weapons, glowing hands, or anima transformations. Kao looked back, then gazed forward. This was it; this was what he'd been waiting for.

"Charge!" Kao ordered! Kids were hesitant at first, but as the guards came closer and the white blasts tore gaping wholes in the floor and walls, they complied.

The white blast seemed to destroy whatever it touched, then vanish. Wholes all over the hall were being eaten away by the shots.

As Kao charged forward, other kids passed him with their weapons ready. The teenage boy who had been first freed made the first move. Suddenly he disappeared into the floor. Then a hand shot up from the floor and snagged hold of a guards leg. The guard tripped, but as he fell he sank into the floor. The kid rose form the ground and tackled another guard into the ground, making him disappear.

As Kao approached his first guard, he lunged his spear forward straight through the guard. Green blood spilt out. A horrible aroma filled the air around. The guards wore intricately designed mask. The guards gave out a roar as they became injured. The guard looked at Kao, then slapped him 20 feet away. Kao flew threw through the air. The guard aimed his gun at Kao. A series of white beams collected in the barrel of the gun, the formed a white ball; which at this pint as hurling towards Kao with immense speed. Kao dove to the side and ran to the guard again.

Apparently it wasn't just Kao having a hard time. Other kids were being thrown back 20 feet also. These weren't your everyday guards. The guard charged Kao first and buried his knee in Kao's face. Blood drizzled down his nose into his mouth and onto his chin. Clumps of blood rolled off Kao's tongue to the floor.

"Bad Choice! Now I'm angry!" Kao proclaimed as he roared. He threw his arms to the side and then curled them in. Flames began to lick all around his body. His clothes actually started to slowly singe away. The metal floor beneath Kao started shift. Garret, Kao thought. No. then he realized. The flames around Kao became so intense that they started to super heat the metal.

Kao took several lunges at the guard with his spear, but the guard simply snagged hold of it and snapped it in half like a twig.

"NO!" Kao yelled. The flames intensified and massive heat waves began to emit themselves from Kao. No it wasn't just the floor, the walls were slowly but surely shifting also.

As the guard started to charge at Kao once again, Kao met him half way. But this time Kao leaped onto the guards chest. Kao gripped the guards helmet and mask with both hands. The guard became stunned and then dead. The Guards head exploded everywhere. Kao hopped down set his hand against the guards chest and blasted it away. An extravagantly large flare blasted the guards body away, frying it at the same time. The body was now black and charcoaled. Steam rose rapidly as the guard cooled off.

Another guard tried to attack Kao. Kao flew up, the flames of his feet carried him up with ease. Kao held out his hands towards the guard. A beam of fire consumed the guard whole.

By now no guards could even make it to him yet alone any of the other kids. As Kao made his way to the mass of guards, all the kids fled. The heat alone, which was emitting itself from Kao, was enough to to cook the guards. But still the guards attempted to make their way to him. Only a few survived the heat alone; but for those that actually made it to him, Kao either simply set his hand on them, exploding them or he'd create a simmering whole through their gut with his fist.

When Kao looked around, there was only one kid left fighting. The same kid whom he'd freed first. The was only several guards left.

Several white blasts were shot at the kid, but they simply traveled straight through him. The kid finished off the rest of the guards by sinking them into the ground.

"Hey!" the teen age boy yelled in an attempt to get Kao's attention.

Kao groaned and roared holding his stomach, then clawed trying to get up. Finally he did but this was different. Orange, yellow, and red flames continued to grow stronger the metal from the ceiling dripped down at a faster rate than the walls did. Kao's heat waves had a radius of 15- 20 feet. His eyes began to glow light red. His clothes were fully singed off now. Despite the massive heat waves and flames, Kao's skin remained intact and perfectly fine. He didn't break a sweat or show any signs of being too hot.

"Holy Crap!" The teen age boy said diving through a wall avoiding Kao's Heat blast. Even with the kid's Levaste, 'Dematerialization', the heat seemed to somehow break through.

The kid reappeared behind Kao.

"Hey are you alright? You almost hit me!" The kid yelled out hoping for a response.

Nothing.

Kao Spun around swung his hand up creating a wall of fire where the kid stood.

"AWWWW! What are you doing!"

Kao summoned pillars of fire in random places. The kid weaved in and out of them. Then finally Kao moved. He stepped forward one step, looked around. He noticed the kid running around. Kao roared and charged. Kao Leaped and slammed his fist down where the kid was moments before. The ground was now cement, all the metal within 30 feet had vanished. Ceilings were stating to collapse, walls gave in, and all life except the kid and Kao had vanished from the area.

"Psss! Over here", a younger girl called out. The teenage boy disappeared into the ground. And found his way to the little girl.

"You have to get out of here. It's very dangerous", the boy whispered.

"No. I can do this, but I need your help and we only have one chance. I have water powers, I can put off the fire guy."

"That's a great idea, but I can't let you go near him. I have to do this, there is only one way and only I can do it, but I have to hurry or he'll die."

"Zack! Don't die, okay?" the little girl said gradually raising her voice from a whisper to talk.

"I love you, Ellie." He responded.

"I love you too, bruder", Ellie, only 5 years old, said. She had trouble pronouncing her th's and didn't fit the words in a sentence together properly all the time.

Zack walked around the corner Kao was still there burning things up.

"Two chances, but hopefully we only need one."

Kao was still rampaging. Zack ran towards Kao stealthily, but Kao sensed him coming. Kao spun around and shot out mini suns. The balls of fire exploded, once they missed. Luckily Zack was already gone. Any moment now Kao would be lost within L.E.O. forever and would have to die along with L.E.O.

This was it...

Zack's hand immersed from the ground directly beneath Kao. Kao grabbed it instantly, and started to super heat it. The flames and the heat were taking their toll on Zack's hand. He only had another second or so, before his hand would explode.

Zack dematerialized his hand along with Kao. But as Kao sank into the floor Something exploded and blood simmered on the concrete floor.

Ellie peaked around the corner.

Nothing, but super heated concrete slabs.

No one, but herself.

"Zack?" Ellie asked.

Several minutes passed by, but still nothing. Then she saw it. A hand, more like half an arm, popped up from the ground. The arm and the elbow were used as leverage to lift the rest of the body out of the concrete. Zack's head poked out, then climbed out completely. The concrete was still super heated. The soles of Zack's shoes melted away instantly as he tried to stagger out of the area. The heat burnt his feet far beyond 3rd degree, but at this point his nerves were already killed. He tripped. His face should've been melted off by the concrete, but something caught him. One of the other kids ran out to help him despite the next kids burning feet. He managed to get Zack away from the super heated area.

"Where's the other guy", Ellie asked.

"It was too late", Zack managed before he passed out.

Suddenly a large chunk of concrete started to sink in and a boy climbed out from within the molten concrete which now glowed light red.

The boy climbed out and stood there... naked. His eye's glowed red for only a moment before they died out to their regular color.

"Can I have some clothes please?" Kao asked as he covered his mid section with a thick flame and grinned out a small laugh.


A group a Kids stood there in front of Kao, who was now clothed.

"My name's Kao. I need all of your help to save my sister. Before I didn't realize how hard it was going to be, now I do. My sister and I formed a team with other Levast, in hopes to stop Phantom Heart. I helped you escape their bonds and now you owe me a debt. It's time to repay it. Please I need your help to at least save my sister."

There was a silence. A few kids walked away, but the majority stayed.

"Who's with me?" Kao pleaded.

"Dey killed my family, and now my bruder's hurt because of dem. Count Me IN!" Ellie declared. Kao was thankful, but he knew he couldn't let her fight. Everyone else looked at Ellie and smiled.

"Me too", one guy said.

"I'm in", another said.

The rest of the kids agreed and cheered.

"Captain Kao, what's first?" Someone asked.

"First, I'm not the Captain. My team Captain Garret, is; he's our captain. Second, find Garret. Show him my Spear so that he'll now I sent you. Third, find a way to get Zack's injuries healed. And fourth, Save Alice, My sister.

Kao looked back at Zack's arm, which he'd exploded off. He'd also thankfully unintentionally burn it shut so it wouldn't bleed.

"What happened?" Kao asked Ellie.

"You tapped into L.E.O., Solar Burst."

Kao's face went blank.