This is the third arc! If you didn't read the first one, you can't understand anything!
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I'm italian and I'm translating my story in english because some not-italian people ask me to do it, so please forgive me for this poor and basic english!
I accept any advice because I really want to improve my english and I know there are many mistakes, SORRY!
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Target 38 - The furious storm
The sky is getting dark, just above the main tower of the ancient temple, situated in the center of the Lost Capital. Some grayish clouds seem to announce an impending misfortune, a chilly breeze blowing off the huge door wide open, an ominous echo comes from the inside.
The blond shaman is detached from the cousin, trembling, while Lilium goes up two steps, gazing at the entrance.
Lilium: ... What was it?
It looked like a scream in pain, almost furious, they expect to see one of the typical final bosses of videogames. Yet that's not a game, they're about to face their enemy and they're not even sure of their victory. What would have happened?
Haynes grabs the arm of the little girl, dragging her back and squeezing her.
Haynes: Stay away, it's dangerous! He found the last ring, we don't know what will happen.
Lilium: The last ... Hell Ring?
Her golden eyes are on the cousin, the look seems almost apprehensive and she lets him embrace her, resting her head on his shoulder.
Duchesse: So ... he found what he was looking for ...
She moves slowly, still clutching the hand of the small PonPon, scared, who dries his tears with the sleeve of his shirt.
Luca: What will come out of there?
That screaming doesn't suggest anything good and the lightning goes back a few steps, hiding behind Kaito.
Sirius: Let's going to find out.
He has already activated his compact and tightens the dark katana in his hands, haven't even waited for the others to decide a plan, he wants to confront the enemy and, of course, defeat him as soon as possible.
Diamante: Where are you going, you idiot! You're going to be killed!
Ex-Ten: Hey, hey, what do we have to do?
After all, the boss of the Notturno is taking the initiative, they don't have time to think.
Cloud: Who wants to fight can follow that one.
The guardian of the cloud enters the temple without delay, followed by Kaito and Nando.
Nozomi: We have no chance if we don't fight together.
She looks at all those present at the entrance.
Luca: But ... I ...
He sobs, genuinely scared and approaching the two shamans.
Luca: ... I'll protect them!
Lilium: No need. We go.
She looks down, seriously.
Haynes: What? Are you crazy?
He turns to her, shocked by her sudden decision.
Haynes: Do you want to die? Clover is in there with all the Hell Rings!
Lilium: It doesn't matter, we have a mission.
She looks at him, seems determined and unflappable.
Lilium: He has destroyed our village and killed almost everyone. We can't hold back.
The child locks his lips, almost seriously, perhaps profoundly affected by those words. After all, what her cousin said is true, the illusionist had destroyed everything and killed everyone in his path, he wanted to find the two children and, in the end, he's managed to bring them to his "father". They had become toys in the hands of the scientist, only to be thrown away like garbage. That thought makes him shudder, shaking his fists in anger.
Arashi: Let's go, or those idiots will die.
She goes forward before everyone, up the stairs and quickly entering the sanctuary.
She hears the footsteps of the others behind her, walking briskly toward the center.
The echo seems to be closer, the angry voice of the young man quickly reaches the group, which is found to enter into a huge room, lit by a cold indigo mist, the color of the flame held by the creature with green hair, standing at center of the room.
Sirius is pointing the katana against him, despite shaking like a leaf, while Cloud and Kaito have already activated their compact, but their flames seem to be swallowed up in the fog around them.
It's obvious that he's protecting himself due to his capacity, yet they didn't know that his flame could expand in that way and reduce the other's shinuki. They have no idea if it's his unknown power or it's from the evil rings.
The guy seems somewhat annoyed, his gaze is on the people in that room, he looks at them without worries of any kind, more than anything else seems irritated by something.
The six Hell Rings are scattered on a pedestal in the center of the room, that's where there's the strange mist reacting in unison with Clover II. They don't seem to have acquired some kind of mysterious power, indeed, they seem incredibly "normal."
Probably that's the reason why the illusionist is angry.
Sirius: What do you want to do? Why did you come here? What is your goal?
The young man doesn't respond, shifts his focus on the six rings, which continue to resonate in an indigo light.
Clover II: Tsk.
He puts his hand through his greenish hair, the other resting on his side.
Clover II: I just wanted to try my brother's "clothes".
Diamante: Your brother? Do you have a brother?
The boy looks up at the girl, his orange eyes seem to want to destroy her.
Clover II: Not yet, Horizon will be born soon.
Kaito: Soon?!
Kaito is incredulous, throws a question look to those present.
Even Duchesse, Cristal and Nozomi have already taken their weapons, Haname grabs her rain sword and is positioned next to the other, now gathered in an half circle around the illusionist.
After a few moments of silence, Clover beats his hands on the pedestal, unnerved.
Clover II: Enough, I'm done with this!
He yells, grabbing the rings and putting three in the index, middle and ring fingers of the left hand, the other three in the same fingers of the right hand.
On his face there's disappointment and dismay, but doesn't take long to calm down and show off a satisfied smile, when the rings have begun to illuminate the entire body.
He couldn't figure out how to merge them to create the clothes his father was speaking of, however, he managed to activate their individual power.
The air in the room becomes really freezing and it's almost hard to breathe, hot clouds of smoke come out of their lips and there are white lines on the walls and the ground.
Shinji: An illusion ...
He already has his mirror on his hands, he looks at it as he walks away from that cold cave to avoid to die of exposure.
Shinji: It's one of the rings. But ... I suggest you to destroy them all …
Not just the Arctic, recreated in a small room of a shrine located in another dimension, the earth begins to shake and Sirius, Ex-Ten and Luca have slipped to the ground after losing their balance, while the earthquake shakes the snow on the ground and almost doesn't divide the floor with large cracks.
Diamante: Hey, guardian of the mist!
She is slowly approaching Shinji, quite frightened.
Diamante: Can't you do something against his illusions?
Shinji: ... He's using six Hell Rings ...
In fact, the answer is comprehensive, because they are talking about six legendary cursed rings, each of them has enormous power, and probably no one on this planet has ever been found to deal with all six at once.
Diamante: You are a guardian of the Vongola, you should be more powerful!
Shinji: ... Technically not yet ... If Nozomi's father doesn't choose her as heir ...
Ex-Ten: Also, there is no way that one Guardian of the Vongola is stronger than Hell Ring for six.
He is still sitting on the ground and quite sweaty, despite the bitter cold.
Diamante: I thought that the Guardians of the Vongola were powerful!
Luca: If it was like this, we would have solved all our problems.
He was more or less following the talk.
Luca: ... Juudaime and his men would have defeated Clover in no time!
The lightning miraculously manages to conclude his statement just as a faint black light starts to twinkle from the six rings. Six blacks rays have broken the air around them, ripping through the fog and a few dark bubbles appear, like soap bubbles, but of different sizes. The bubbles surrounded them, floating in the air all around them, one of them approaches Nando and bursts next to his arm, letting out an electric shock that creates a tear on the mantle and forces the boss to flinch.
Haname jumps in the air, slicing the bubbles around her, they burst touching the sword, but the more she breaks, the more they are recreated.
She returns to the ground, watching the blacks dots floating in the ether around them. The guys seem confused, they just avoid to be too close to them, stepping back and finding themselves with their backs to the wall.
When Shinji is about to leave the room he realizes that the entrance is barred behind him.
Shinji: Oh ...
He says, understanding what Clover II just did.
They are locked up in a cold room, shaken by earthquakes and full of electric floating explosive bubbles.
The green illusionist jumps on the pedestal, passing near some bubbles. He has an uncanny smile, he recreates some bluish lightning bolts on his hands that seem to shine in the gloomy room, spins them between the hands and watch the present guys, already aware of what would be his next fun.
Luca: Hey, he want to play the shooting game!
He is terrified and crouches against the wall behind him, trying to be small despite his size.
It's clear that the guys, except the lightning and the two shamans, want to face the enemy head-on, ignoring even the bubbles that could make them a lot of damage.
Still, Clover finds himself in front of the girl with long scarlet hair, which challenges his eyes with a serious expression. She casually dodged all black bubbles that were approached, without batting an eyelid, she has approached him.
Clover II: You ...
Arashi: It seems that now is my time.
She tilts her head to the right, a bubble touches the ear but goes beyond, without dwelling on her. It doesn't seem that they can follow someone, they don't have artificial intelligence, are lifeless and they just float in the air.
And the girl had already figured it out.
A circular device is between the index and middle fingers of her left hand, after two instants it begins to shine a blinding light and Clover backs confused, coming down from the pedestal.
The light illuminates the entire cavern, the slight trembling of the earth seems to stop and the cold decreases considerably, some bubbles move from the core of light, which seems to create an interference with Clover's rings.
Only a few moments and the light becomes scarlet-coloured, begins to fade and is piling on the hands of the girl, materializing her weapons that seem almost fiery.
Arashi raises her arms, the flame of the storm materializes two small dark handguns she points to the enemy. When the light fades away completely, leaving only place to the flame and the guns, they may notice the brownish color, some gold decorations and the symbol of the storm that stands out on both sides, in addition to the weapon names written in romaji on each of the two: ~Raven~ on the left and ~Scarlet~ on the right.
She lowers her arms to the ground, jump backwards and is positioned slightly forward, with her right knee bent.
Arashi: Scarlet & Raven, version XI.
She raises her right arm, which tightens Scarlet, pointing toward the ceiling of the room. Raven is facing down toward the floor with small traces of snow almost completely dissolved, both are again enveloped by the flame of the storm, which seems to devour the two guns, the girl raises rolling on herself and avoiding other bubbles with agility, preparing to take a jump.
She leaves the ground in a few moments, the flame of the storm helps her like a catapult, throwing her toward the high ceiling where she lands with her feet, turning around and shooting quickly towards the bubbles close to her. Not all of them can regenerate themselves, her destructive storm bullets are able to prevent the recreation of many of them, but she's not fast enough to block them all.
She doesn't seem annoyed or even nervous, in fact, is thrown back to the ground but hangs in mid air, almost at mid-height, thanks to the flame that holds her. The storm is accumulating beneath the toe of the right foot, the red-head slightly bends the knee and pirouettes on herself.
The red flame wraps her completely, becoming like a tornado standing in the middle of the room, from which some scarlet lights begin to leak out, which hit all the bubbles that are in a particular line of air.
After four and five consecutive laser, they begin to appear simultaneously, three, then five, all lasting for half a second, until they become ten and fifteen at a time, emerging on either side of the cyclone, carefully avoiding the present and bubbles around them.
After some seconds, the storm fades and the young girl falls to the ground, always turning in on herself, hitting the last bubbles, those too close to the other guys, with ordinary bullets, always thrown from every direction. All the bubbles are gone when Arashi stops, hovering on the right leg, putting the left on the ground and pointing Raven against the incredulous Clover.
Vongola: Catastrofe Impetuosa.
The Illusionist backs away, shaking his head. The guys in the room have again their flaming weapons in their hands, they are approaching him with threatening looks. They don't want to give him some time to summon other bubbles-bombs or several earthquakes, they want to oppress him with their presence. None of them has been shocked by the technique of red-head girl as he was, petrified and disbelief at that explosion of power. He probably didn't expect anything like that, knowing their old weapons and being ignorant about Neveria's compacts.
Clover II: NO!
He screams suddenly, clutching his hands to his chest, as if he wants to protect the six rings he's wearing. He has come this far looking for the latest one and he found it, it's clear that it's really important to him.
Yet he seems almost like a beaten dog, despite his furious gaze and his orange eyes now strangely bright.
Clover II: NO! I won't lose against you!
He steps back and scrutinizes them with hatred. The hate seems to come out of his hands, the dim bluish light is losing saturation and is graying while the owner backs.
It almost seems like he is growling like an angry dog.
Clover II: I won't return defeated! I'll get the dress and my father will be proud of me!
Clover II: I'll be the only and the best! And he will love me!
His body is being slowly devoured by the gray light, the air around him begins to be more dense and almost unbreathable, the present retreat quickly, something seems to threaten them.
Kaito: We have to do it now!
He tries to get close to him but the gloomy aura, now dark as night, pushes him away and makes him roll to the ground.
Shinji: No, no, it's too late!
This time it's Shinji speaking, he seems strangely restless.
Shinji: Go away!
Arashi shakes her head, she wants to deal with him but her finger doesn't want to pull the trigger, her hand trembles and only manages to lower the weapon, reaching Haname and Nozomi behind her.
Lilium: This is... hate ...
She squeezes Duchesse, scared. The boss of Elegantia embraces the child, without stopping to observe the enemy before her.
The air thick and dark materializes something around the illusionist, just above his shoulders, it takes the form of a huge circle of studded stone, which seems to hover around his neck.
The six rings are gone, they are merged into the giant creepy-looking ring, which moves slowly and gives off a nefarious aura.
People can't move or speak, petrified in front of that vision, only the little Lilium manages to whisper something.
Lilium: Devil... Circlet...