The next few days passed at a snails pace, classes felt like entire days, and when we couldn't tell anyone what we were doing with our work studies.
I had reserved a battle arena for me and Yang to train with our Maiden powers every night after supper. We beat each other to the point that we had to be dragged to Recovery Girl. We didn't say a word during these bouts, because our actions said everything for us. We needed to be stronger.
We needed to be more then heroes, or huntresses. We had to be symbols.
Chapter 30: Training montage
I sat at my desk, my hands working on one thing, a clip of new rounds, slowly with a wooden mallet I set the dust round in the brass case. The round glowed slightly with each tap. I squeezed on the clamping plyers and the round was set in place. I rolled the round in my hand, I had four of these rounds. The actual bullet was made from a hard resin that was mixed with lightning and gravity dust. 'If Weiss was right... this should be powerful enough to punch through a full grown Goliath.' I set the round in the clip and picked up the next casing, placing the funnel inside the hole and I slowly added a dark red power from a marble mortar and pestle, corrupted fire dust. Each tap of my finger on the stone object sent a little more into the casing.
It was slow dangerous work, one wrong tap, and the room would be gone. Slowly the round was filled and I set down the mortar. I kept making rounds well into the night. "20." I said as I used up the last of my corrupted dust. I set the bullet in the casing and slipped the round in the clip with a click.
I held onto my rapier as I battled the faux villains, each strike on the robotic creations made to perfection, piercing steel with ease. To my right Seduction ripped them apart as Dragonheart watched us, making notes. "Seduction has the potential to be my successor, but Ice Queen has the precise control to contain it." he muttered a little louder then he meant to.
'Successor?' I thought as I activated my semblance, and the Arma Gigas rose from the ground, it's blade slashing through the machines. I leaped from glyph to glyph disabling machines with ease.
I stood in the center of the woods with Menzro. "You have poor control of the other aspects of your magic." He walked around me as the wind blew through my long blonde hair. "You understand the fire, and the power it holds, yet you neglect the other elements. Lighting is strong and precise but at the same time unpredictable, wind is soft, yet harsh. Ice is unyielding yet soothing."
I clenched my fists as the air around me whipped up into a wind storm, my hair stood on end as lightning crackled around me, and ice formed around my hands in shards. Breath, Yang, breath and release it. Cinder coached.
I let my breath out and punched forward, a arc of lightning leaped from my had and struck the tree, blowing it apart.
I smashed my fist into the cement over and over. 'Harder! HARDER!' I screamed mentally as my body hardened over, my fists a blur to my eyes as dust was kicked up in the air around me. stone splinters sparking off my skin as I struck over and over. "RED RIOT: UNBREAKABLE!" I yelled as I smashed through the ten meter thick wall crack ran all the way up it's length as it fell apart.
I placed my hand on the ground and created another wall, and repeated the process, and even though my hands were hardened over, I had them wrapped in a bloody cloth.
I ran along the school track at ten percent Full Cowling, I had just had my aura unlocked. And it felt like all of my old injuries were fading away slowly. I felt lighter, faster.
Stronger.
I had to become stronger, for if I was to be the number one hero, I had to master One for All.
I slowly walked to the Shie Hassaikai headquarters, Adam, Mercury, and Neo behind me. 'Oh Chisaki, I never intended for our partnership to last.' I already had people inside. I waited by the wall until a rope was thrown over. I climbed it and landed on my feet, I looked at Toga, Twice... "Where are the other two?" I asked.
"Chisaki killed big sis Magne. Said it was what he did to those he can't trust. His henchmen are being distracted by Emerald." Toga said with a hiss. "I want to plunge my knife in his back." The others scaled the wall
"Oh don't worry, we are plunging something much worse then a knife into his back. After all, I just need his work, and a sample of Eri's DNA to make the drug. Let's go." I said, "We just have to wait till the hero raid is over. Now get back inside you two. We'll avenge Magne soon enough."
Short Chapter before the raid. Tell me, what do you think Bowen meant by successor?
