"W-What?" Blocken muttered as he looked about from the chest of the dinosaur model. Ice had surrounded him and it was getting colder. He should have built an insulator in this body! He thought to himself angrily as he shivered underneath the plastic armor. "A world of ice."
"Thank you Ice Men." Horohoro said when he walked up to them. "Thanks to your spirits, we'll get out of here. It will be a bit cold, but you'll have to hold on. Well, I was raised in any icy country, so I'm used to this." He smirked.
"What?" Blocken questioned from his perch. "What are you think about doing? Brr... I don't understand... I can break the ice... and also, a shaman can't control souls whose strength surpasses their own furyoku level! Not respecting this rule can lead to death!"
Horohoro stood silently with a giant bird ball at his fist. "He annoys me. He's not teaching me anything. My goal is to create fuki plant fields. I will not die before reaching my goal. That's what makes me different from Ren. Things are only getting complicated now. Their reiyoku seems hard to master. I will not be able to use all of the Ice Men's souls at once. But my furyoku level should allow me to use them individually. One soul per attack. I really worked on preparing this attack... I can't mess up!" Horohoro thought to himself as he raised the ball up like a cannon. He smiled up at Blocken and chuckled. "I'm waiting. Don't tell me you're already scared.
Blocken smirked, showing a row of sharp teeth. "Feh... Bill... You were wrong. This kid can't be brave." He could see his breath, it was so cold already. The dinosaur took a step forward, shivering because Blocken was cold inside his lego body. "A boy who doesn't feel pain or fear can never evolve." The dinosaur began to charge and dropped it jaw, ready to gobble Horohoro down. "But this is kid is a simple moron!"
Horohoro put both hands into the back of the ball. "Let's go Kororo." He whispered. He lifted the ball up to Blocken. "Kow Kow Puri Wemple!" He shouted as the bird ball shot ice out at Blocken and his Die Block.
Blocken laughed as the ice went passed him. "It's too late to use such lame techniques!! All I have to do is avoid them, it's so simple!! Go on Blocks!" His sharp teeth gleamed as he stared out with bloodlust.
"He fell into my trap." Horohoro said to himself, grinning. "I release Kororo!" He put the totem pole in his mouth and picked up Zoria's leather shield. "But that's not all! Oversoul water spirit, Vodiandi!" The giant water spirit appeared, the shield inside his belly as Horohoro pointed it up at Blocken.
"What?" Blocken's dinosaur stopped at his command. "What is..."
"He is heavy." Horohoro said through clenched teeth as he held the totem pole in his mouth and focused on the shield. "Give me strength!" He shouted as Vodiandi shot out a water beam from his mouth.
"Water!?" Pirika exclaimed.
"Horohoro, you want to use souls one by one?! It's not good!" Kalim shouted.
"Huh..." Blocken stood, staring at what was happening.
"Water is surrounding the hail!" Kalim exclaimed as the hail met the water.
"I release Vodiandi and I deploy another oversoul!" Horohoro shouted as he tossed back the shield and kicked up Pino's staff. "Badbh!"
The staff was a neatly carved, wooden staff. Not like Kaia's. At the end was a crafted metal hook like a chakram and as the spirit, Badbh, merged with the staff, eyes, wings and feet grew out on the sides and a beak appeared at the end on the hook.
"Here you go, giant icicles!" Horohoro shouted as he felt Badbh sucking up the heat around Blocken and blowing giant icicles at him.
The icicles stabbed at the Die Block Dinosaur, breaking through the blocks. Blocken stood, unharmed but shook up from the attack. Suddenly, he dispersed the blocks, letting the icicles fall.
"Icredible! An oversoul combination that uses the different reiyoku skills. Horohoro has just done something unheard of!" Kalim exclaimed excitedly.
"Hey! Tell me!" Blocken shouted as he flew backwards with his formless blocks. "You defended yourself well! And you think you've won!?" The blocks began to form again. "You've just destroyed Die Block but it won't be enough! Die Block! Transform into Die Tank!" Blocken ordered as his blocks caught him in the front seat at the steering wheel.
It was a piece of art in the block medium. The terret was done with a pipe piece and was attached to the hull which could turn this way and that, aiming at any enemy within a circular radius. The track was made of a large rubber piece and was partially covered by thin blocks that attached to the othe blocks by hinges. The tank was even accented by a red siren light.
"FIRE!!" Blocken shouted as the tank flew backwards, the missile going way over the treetops and the tank making a massive splash into the ocean. The force that the tank had used to fire the missile sent it and Blocken straight into the ocean! The sea? Blocken's lungs, or what was supposedly left of them, filled with water as the bubbles rose in front of his face. Was this the end? Oh, how he wished to have seen Kaia one more time! She would be even stronger by now. She'd be able to get him out of this mess. He didn't care if she saw him like this or not. He watched the fish swim by him like he didn't even exist. Kaia would notice. His mind tricked him as he saw her graceful little white hand extend to him. No, it was the light of the sun setting, coming through the ice as the giant iceburg bobbed in the ocean. He couldn't breathe! He was quickly reminded of that night, fifteen years ago. The smoke choked him and he was in horrible pain, his arms and legs felt like they were on fire. He remembered the thousands of fuzzy rodents rushing by him as he was sprawled helplessly on the floor, staring up into that grinning face, framed by the dark hair. Blocken blinked as the ice cracked. Someone was saving him!
"I'm going to kill you." Horohoro announced coldly as he pulled on the chains. "Or so I would want to say, but my furyoku is already at its last bit. You should be thankful for the amount of furyoku it needs to use Deht." Horohoro pulled the iceberg up onto the bank. "I won."
A hole had melted into the ice, reaching Blocken's face so he could breathe. He saw Horohoro walking away. This kid was still a moron but he was a nice moron. Bill smiled. No doubt that this kid was a friend of Master Yoh's.
To be continued in Chapter 37!
I think that what Blocken said here gave a clue as to what happened to him. My imagery of the fire and the grinning face was all of my own work but that definitely clued me in there. "A boy who doesn't feel pain or fear can't evolve." I should write a Blocken one-shot explaining more on what happened, in my mind, if I can't cover it in Trial By Fire.
In the manga, the translator said this is Ainu language. I went and briefly translated it. Roughly, it means 'Hundreds and Hundreds of Weather .' I couldn't figure out what wemple meant. But you get the general idea that it's a cool attack.
I would save Blocken right now but I have school tomorrow. Sorry Blocken!