Chapter 1 Part 2


Chili and Akari were sparring each other and Aurora was watching. Hand-to-hand combat was Chili's specialty and he wasn't afraid to show it off. He grabbed the whip Akari was wielding and tried throwing her in the air. Akari took the throw and then threw a lightning bolt at the foot, tripping the squid and making him tumble to the side. After three minutes of neither side letting up, Akari was able to snag the win by using her whip and tied him down using it.

"Hand to Hand may be your specialty." The octoling replied in a confident tone. "But if you're out-ranged, you ain't getting no-where."

Chili snarled. "I told you to use the whip to demonstrate a point. But now that you're getting cocky, I oughta put you in your place. C'mere you calamari!"

Akari moved as he struggled against the whip and chuckled. "You're so silly." She released him from it's grip and hoisted him to his feet. "Don't forget to spar Aurora before you visit Kira in the infirmary."

"Yeah, yeah... Same routine, same ass-whupping." He groaned as he prepped to fight Aurora.

Akari left the fields and saw Mint practicing support. Casting pillars of healing light, using their wings to form a quick shield.

"Hey." Akari spoke as she came closer. "You're getting better."

Their wings raised in approval and they smiled. "Thanks Kari! I've been using Kira's advice and it's been working like a dream!"

"Speaking of the squid, where is she? I thought she'd be better?"

Mint sighed. "That wound is not healing the way we hoped. We need to keep her in bed until we can fix it."

"You know she's going to be pissed about that, right? She is the one who's gotta get this operation going, and the longer she's told to wait, she'll act irrationally and then she'll get more hurt. Just use your healing powers to finish healing and she'll be good to go."

Mint looked away and their tentacles curled up. Akari immediately took this as a sign that they were hiding something and narrowed her eyes.

"Mint. What are you not telling me?"

"I'm just concerned about her health in general. She's always stressed and she's always getting hurt for our sake." They went on. "I just don't want her to die."

Akari let out a frustrated noise. "Neither do I. But we have to let her do these things. After all, it's TarTar we're talking about."

Mint thought about it for quite sometime and huffed. "Alright then, I'll go and heal her up so she can get to work."


Kira and Aero were relaxing in the infirmary as Aero talked about the Splatfests and some crazy stories from when the Splatfest remixes went down.

"And then, we snatched the win outta the bag right under from Aurora's nose! It was fantastic!"

Kira chuckled. "Must be an intense time of the year, eh?"

"Oh yeah, it really is. The recordings we do of the results are always stressful for both ends."

Kira tried standing up again, but felt herself collapse on the bed. "Damnit... I just want to be healed up so I can do something."

Luckily for her, Mint came in and smiled. "Let's try healing that wound again, shall we?"

"Thank cod!" Kira cried out. "I was SO bored just lazing about."

Mint laughed. "For Chili, this would be a luxury." They rubbed their hands together and placed their hands on the wound. Kira winced in pain at first, but slowly relaxed as the wound was completely healed and Kira could probably walk again. Kira leaped out of the bed and laughed.

"I LIVE! I AM A FREE SQUID BABY!" Kira squealed and ran out of the infirmary, locating Chili and tackling him to the ground, making him yelp. "Guess who?!" She yelled.

"Western Union?" He wondered and threw her off of him. Kira let out a tiny yelp before smiling. "It's me dumbo!"

Chili grinned. "I don't know any 'me' squids." Kira latched onto him and grinned as well.

"We got a lot to do! First things first... Can we spar, Chili?"


Kira turned into her dark form and wielded her scythe, while Chili turned into his fire form and held his gauntlets close. The others gathered around to watch the two spar and Mint was ready to help the other in case one got hurt.

"I ain't going easy on you just because yer a girl!" He called out. "Or the fact that you were injured."

Kira grinned wildly, the lust for action embedded into her soul. "Just you wait! I may have been in the infirmary for a few days but that doesn't mean I don't know a thing or two."

Both bowed to each other before they stared into the other's soul, waiting for someone to make the first attack. But Kira smirked suddenly and Chili was pushed forward by an unforeseen crystal that launched him in the air and Kira made a swift fly towards him. he put up his gauntlets to block the attack and his little demon wings flapped, trying to withstand the force of the scythe.

"I see you learned some new tricks while I was away. Is there anything you can't do?" Chili replied with a smirk.

Kira smiled evilly. "You could say that, but the one thing I can't do?" She placed her boot on her opponent's shoulder and pushed him back, allowing for her to quickly slice at the armor he was wearing, it falling apart in pieces, making his eyes widen as it revealed his clothes that were underneath them. If she was playing for kills, that would have easily been his chunky body.

"Oi!" He called out once he landed. "You cheeky bastard, you're playing dirty!"

"I play dirty? You're one to talk!" Kira retorted as she dived down with her scythe in hand ready to strike. Clashing against the gauntlets again as he raised them to block the scythe. "After all, if anyone plays dirty in war, it's you mate!" She broke a crystal over his gauntlets and a shard made a small cut on his cheek.

He wiped the blood away from the cut and gave her his infamous toothy grin. "So you've chosen the hard way, eh?" His quills on his forearms rattled in excitement as he narrowed his eyes at her. "So be it." He made an X motion with his arms and the quills shot forward. Kira was at a disadvantage due to her bare skin being visible. But a switch of the weapon mid-fight brought out the shield and sword, as she evaded the attack via dodge-roll and a catch of the blade.

"Let's see how you fair against sword-play!" She called out.

He shrugged. "I was never good at them."

"Then let me get straight to the point!" She tried aiming for Chili's legs to try and trip him, but he knew better and aimed for the face of his attacker, but she blocked using the shield and elbowed him in the face using it. His vision blurred for a minute before he was able to swing the gauntlets into Kira's stomach and sent her back a few feet, giving him some breathing room.

"Never took you for the aggressive attacker, Kira." He huffed. "Could barely catch my breath during that exchange!"

Kira coughed before she switched to the scythe again. "Ya think? Try this on for size!" She removed the moon pendant from her hair and let it all fall.

"Pfft! Pathetic!" He set his gauntlet ablaze and ran towards her. The squid smirked and her tentacles formed a shield around her, tanking Chili's fiery punches. She finally disappeared from the bubble and appeared behind it, waving at Chili.

"Wait, how are you-"

Kira closed her palm and the shield exploded, sending him back at least ten feet. His nose was bleeding and he was covered in cuts and bruises from the blast. Kira retied her hair into the ponytail using the hairpin and grinned.

"Game Point." She grinned as she placed her foot on Chili's chest. "I win." She whispered.

He coughed and gave her a weird look. "I know I'm rusty but hot-damn that was intense..."

Kira offered her hand to Chili and she picked him off of the ground, Mint instantly getting to work on his wounds.

"But how?" He wondered.

Kira exhaled before talking. "Extensive training. Took the liberty to begin magic training with Misery before our vacation ever took place. So I've been training with her for over two weeks."

"Can you teach me that stuff? I want a rematch." Chili chuckled as she playfully punched him.

"Tonight you and me can do some private training. Meet me in the Sunset Fields at 7pm, when the dusk has finally set. I'll teach you how to unlock your powers."

He smiled a bit and punched her back.

"See you then."


Chapter 2 coming soon