6. Potential Unlocked
Hinata slowly started to wake up. The moment she opened her eyes, she was hit with a terrible headache, causing her to wince in pain.
{This is so ridiculous.,} she thought to herself as she forced herself to sit up. When she did, the headache worsened, not to mentioned that she couldn't even lift an arm. or anything else but her head.
Hinata was strapped down to a long table in a sliver room wallpapered with a logo of a skull with wings. She could hear electronics whirling nearby and random chatter.
{What am I doing here? Or better yet, where am I?}
Hinata looked to her right and her jaw dropped in shock. There was another two tables in the room, each containing Sakura and Darrell, who were still unconscious. She was totally speechless at this turn of events.
{Just what in the world is going on here?!}
"Well, at least one of the pretties is awake now. the fun can begin!"
"Sho." she muttered under her breath. "Just the last person for me to see right now."
A door to the right of Hinata swung open, and in stepped in Sho, grin intact. "What does it take to get rid of you?" Hinata asked out loud.
"Frankly, a lot. Now, I just will wake up these guys here." Sho walked up to Sakura and whacked her across her sleeping face with a strong punch. Sakura instantly woke up, disorientated.
"Hu-wha. How did. Hey, what is going on here?!" She was obviously confused on the whole matter. After a while, she finally realized what was going on. She tried to break the leather straps, but she didn't have any luck.
"Come on now, beautiful," Sho said. "Do you really think that you'll be able to break those straps? You'll have a better time jumping out of an airplane into a volcano. Now, for the boy."
Just like Sakura, Sho smashed Darrell in the head with a punch, but he came to his senses slowly.
"Geez." he said weakly, "I hate waking up like this."
He looked up just to see Sho's face. Any sort of fatigue that was in Darrell's body vanished. "Why you. just wait until I get my hands on you, Sho. I swear I'll tear you a new one!"
He motioned his body to get his hands on Sho's throat, but Sho just laughed at him as saw that he was strapped and couldn't hurt him.
Sho turned away from the three to the front of the room. "Now, boys and girls, this is why you are here. A long story short, my boss was weakened by a fight with a certain someone, and he's looking for a source of energy or two to help him reboot, sort to speak. He has been watching you guys very closely. and congrats! You have been elected to have your very energy sucked out of your bodies for our boss! Isn't that just lovely?"
"Well," Sakura started, "why don't you put yourself in our shoes, eh? You just been knocked out cold by some stupid spell and brought to some lab or something like that to have your energy taken away from you for some guy you don't even know. You tell me if that is 'lovely' or not."
Sho put a hand on his chin. "You know, now that you think about it, it isn't very pretty. But hey! Someone has to do it! Now, to begin."
Sho turned around to a panel on the far wall and pushed a few buttons. A loud whirling could be heard throughout the room.
"So, just how are you going to do this, Sho?" Darrell asked. "I don't see some giant laser coming from the ceiling, you know."
"Please, spare me your witty remarks." Sho stopped pressing buttons and turned around to the captives. "But there is a way to suck that vitality out of you." He chuckled a bit and continued. "Those tables you are strapped to aren't just for show. They'll be sucking your energy out."
"No way!" Hinata cut Sho off with her surprised remark, but he continued.
"Right. about. NOW!!"
Instantaneously with Sho's words, a huge electrical current went through the tables to the trio, shocking them at the same time. Their screams came natural to the pain, but what wasn't natural was the fact that their auras began to show, all of them were a white blue color, and they began to shrink.
"That's right," Sho said gleefully. "All of the vigor. comes to me!" He was getting his revenge. He loved the sight of seeing the kids that gave him such a hard time in the last few days screaming in pain. He started to laugh manically.
{No.} Darrell heard himself say in his head throughout the pain. His very strength was being stripped from him, but somehow, through his friends' yelps, he could hear himself. {I can't let them. take my energy. I worked so hard. to get my skills up. I won't. let. them.}
He managed to see his friends' auras get smaller. His eyes closed, holding his rage.
{I won't. give up my own energy. or my friends.} His rage built to a height that it never got before. Not even while fighting Hyo himself.
{NEVER!!!!}
He lost himself in his rage and he let out a loud, long scream, catching Sho's attention. "What the.!?"
Sho saw the American's aura change from blue to hot red-orange. Not only that, but it got bigger. It started from just around his body, but when he finished his rage power-up, it literally consumed his table. With almost little effort, Darrell broke through the straps that bonded him.
"SHO!!!" he roared as he jumped onto the floor, already in Shakunetsuken form, and smashed Sho in the face so fast that Sho couldn't even take a step backwards. Sho's body was instantly engulfed in flames. Darrell didn't stop there. He instantly went into his most used super.
"REKKA NAKKURA!!!"
This version was much faster than the first and second ones, and Sho was screaming for dear life as his body burned. Before anyone knew it, Sho was on the floor, unconscious, and Darrell took this time to ram his burning fists into the control panel, causing it to short circuit. The straps on Sakura and Hinata were released and the girls got off the tables.
"Are you guys okay?" Darrell asked. His back was to them, his tone was still pretty angry, and his eyes were on the door that locked them in.
"Yeah. the short circuit returned our energy." Sakura stepped to Darrell. For some strange reason, her energy, which was already back were it belonged, seemed to rise even more. "Hey. what is with my aura.?"
Both Hinata and Darrell looked at Sakura. Her light blue aura was getting larger, just like Darrell's. So was Hinata's bluish-green aura. "Wow. Darrell. I think you are. giving us a boost."
"That's nice to hear. but." Without warning, Darrell charged up his energy in his hands.
"SHAKUNETSU SHINKU HADOUKEN!!!"
The door gave way to Darrell's blast and melted within 10 seconds.
"Let's go!" Darrell yelled out. "We are going to have to find a way out of here!"
The three ran out of the room and into a corridor. As they ran, Sakura was busy thinking about Darrell.
{He is so much more serious now. could it be his aura change? And my increase. is that from him?}
They turned a corner and broke down another corridor, passing doors and laboratories. Hinata's head was frantically moving from left to right, looking for a possible exit.
"Come on." she murmured. "There has got to be a way out."
"Stop right there!"
Ahead of the trio were about 10 security guards, most of them with guns, blocking the way.
"Come on!" Sakura groaned while they stopped. "Do we get a break in this place?"
"All right, you three." the head officer started. "Just calm down. We are not going to do anything rash now. Now. just follow us. and we'll try to get you out of here as quickly as we can."
Darrell got into his fighting stance but quickly got out of it. "You guys are lucky. I never start a fight without my handguards. My friends here." Darrell stopped for a second, put on his blue handguards and continued. ".are all ready for battle. AND SO AM I!!"
Darrell's aura reached a new height and he rushed to the guards. On instinct, those whom had weapons drew them. "Okay men, on my--- oof!"
The head guard didn't even see Darrell's movements and paid for it with Darrell striking his elbow into the stomach. Just like Sho, his body erupted into flames.
"Yaaaah!" Darrell kicked his dummy away and yelled, "Sakura! Hinata! I need for you to back me up!"
"No problem!" Sakura yelled back. She was already charging forward, along with Hinata. All at once, a Rekka Nakkura, a Midare Zakura, and a Hisshou Rengakiken pummeled the whole guard force.
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"Ugh. those three kids. such pests!"
A man stood up from his luxury chair. His frame was pretty slim but muscular. Everything else was hidden in darkness. He had been watching the group plow through Shadowloo's defenses through the multiple monitors in the room and was growing tired.
"Looks like I'll have to go down there myself."
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"I think I found a way out!" Hinata called out as she and her friends reached a huge metal door. Darrell approached it and put a hand on his chin.
"Well, it is too big for me to punch a hole through it by myself." he noticed.
Sakura stepped up to the door and knocked on it a few times with her hand. After a few seconds, she turned to Darrell. "What if we fired out Shinku Hadoukens at the same time and space? It could puncture a hole big enough."
"Sounds like a plan." The two got into their Hadouken stances.
"Shinku."
"Shakunetsu."
They built their energy into the two small spheres of energy; Darrell's being red and Sakura's being light blue.
"Hadouk-"
"Shink-"
Both of the fighters stopped charging when the metal door started to open on its own.
"I must admit that you are very skilled to get this far and accomplish so much. but I cannot let you go out of here with that vigor. Sakura Kasugano.. Darrell Goodson. Hinata Wakaba."
"Hey! Who's there?" Hinata asked to the mysterious voice as the doors opened fully.
After the metal clang of the doors, the trio found themselves outside the building that they were being held captive at. In front of them was a man in a red military uniform similar to Hyo's, only he had on silver metal plates on his shoulders and legs and a red hat with a gold skull with wings symbol. His eyes were hidden behind the hat and his arms were folded.
"My name is Bison, the leader of Shadowloo." he introduced himself.
There was no reply from the group.
"As you already know, I need your energy. There is no way you will be leaving this place until then. Either you give it up to me, or you die. It is up to you."
"So you are the pin jockey that wants our energy, eh? I don't know how you know our names, and frankly I don't care now. Sorry to disappoint you, but you are not getting this." Darrell's eyes read seriousness again. "You are going to have to beat it out of us."
"I'll have no problem doing that."
Bison unfolded his arms and stood in some type of fighting stance. Darrell fixed his fighting gloves and prepared for battle, but Hinata stepped towards Bison.
"Hey.! What are you doing?" Darrell asked while looking up to Hinata. "I'll take him on for you guys."
"No." Hinata responded. She stopped about a foot away from Bison. "I want to fight him. I guess that after seeing you guys perform. I want some action for myself."
{Well, this isn't like Hinata.} Sakura thought to herself.
Bison let out a chuckle. "It doesn't matter. Either way, all you energy will belong to me."
"If I remember correctly." Hinata started, ".your lackey said that you were weakened in a fight sometime ago. You shouldn't take on an opponent if you aren't 100%, you know."
"You should really think about yourselves."
Hinata saw Bison soar into the air and went defensive. Bison didn't come down for some time.
{How did he get that much airtime?}
"Hinata!" Sakura called her friend. "He's right behind you!"
"Huh?!" Hinata gasped as she whirled around and saw a fist grab her shirt. Bison chucked her over his shoulder and Hinata recovered. Before she could recover completely, Bison flipped forward with an overhead heel kick, planting her face into the ground.
"Come on." Darrell said silently as Hinata got to her feet again. Bison stood right in front of Hinata with his arms folded. Hinata tried a Rengakiken, a barrage of punches followed by a sphere of energy, but Bison just disappeared right in front of her eyes.
"Hey.!" Hinata looked behind her, just incase he was there again.
"Here I am, fool!" Bison shouted from above. Hinata looked too late. Bison planted his boots right on Hinata's head, dazing her for about a quick second. He then jumped off into the air, but luckily Hinata recovered just in time.
"That's it! Hisshou!" Hinata geared up and ran right where Bison landed and unloaded a pack of powerful punches before ending it with her Shouyouken, sending Bison back where he came from, the air.
Bison flipped out of his drop and responded with dashing towards Hinata, his fist glowing with some sort of purple, dark energy.
"What the." Darrell looked at Bison. "What type of aura is that?"
"Oh no you don't! Enbukyaku!" Hinata jumped into the air and unleashed three flaming spin kicks in a row. As the two got closer, Darrell noticed a strong burst of energy coming from Bison.
{And Sho said he was wounded. Please! He's pumping energy even.}
Something hit him at that point.
{He can't hide that from me! He is stronger than he claims to be!}
Darrell covered him mouth for his voice to project clearly. "Hinata! You have to pull out! He's going to cream you!"
"I can't stop now, Darrell! I got him!" Hinata fired the last kick of her Enbukyaku. then the worst possible thing happened. Bison ducked the kick.
"Psycho Punish!" The energy fist hit Hinata just as she was landing, burning her in purple flames. Then the other punched her away.
{Psycho. energy.?} Darrell's mind put together the name of Bison's power. It was more powerful than any normal energy, yet it is so dark. Evil.
"Those were NOT normal flames." Sakura looked at her friend with a worried expression as Hinata rose up to face Bison again. She was noticeably slow to getting up this time, partly because of Bison's attacks, and partly because of planning her next move.
{Okay, he has speed, power. but what about endurance? If I constantly attack him, then he'll have to be hit a few times. And if I make those hits count. and maybe if these two can help me.}
"Bison!" she said out loud. "I'm going to get you this time!"
"Stubborn child." he muttered. "Don't you know when you are outclassed?"
"I haven't even started." Hinata got into her stance again, just as Bison's body started to become consumed with the purple aura.
"This wasn't much of a fight. so I'll end this quickly. PSYCHO CRUSHER!!"
Bison drove his body forward like a torpedo, spinning around with energy surrounding him. Hinata braced herself as Bison approached. Just as Bison closed in for the hit, Hinata screamed, "Sakura!! You know what to do!"
Darrell turned to Sakura, who was already running toward the battle. "What the."
Hinata reached forward and actually grabbed Bison out of his Psycho Crusher and held him up as Sakura came up from behind.
"I hope you have a high tolerance for pain, because this will hurt!" Sakura boasted right into Bison's face before everything turned white and the sound of hits being landed and Sakura yelling out. In the next moment, Bison was on the ground while Sakura was brushing her hands.
"The Harugokusatsu! That's how it's done! Now, Hinata. Finish this."
Hinata gave a smile. "No problem!"
Sakura ran back to where Darrell was, who was standing there in shock.
{The Harugokusatsu. it's like that move in my dream. How did she learn that move?}
"Sakura." Darrell started.
Sakura looked at him. "Yeah?"
"That move. that you just did. How did you do that.?"
Sakura didn't answer. She just stared at him. He looked really curious to know, but she could also sense that something was wrong with him. "Why do you want to know that?"
Darrell was about to answer when he heard a voice that yelled out, "AMAI!"
Bison's body began admitting a large Psycho aura as he rose up.
"This thing. called pain. I don't feel it." Bison grew a sinister smile, looking at Sakura, then Darrell, then finally Hinata. "But you WILL!!"
Bison charged forward with such speed that the three couldn't even track him until, WHAM!!
"NO!!" Sakura yelled at the sight that had just been seen. Bison planted his fist right into Hinata's stomach. Her face was frozen, expressing pain. She started to cough up a small, red liquid.
"He didn't!" Darrell growled out loud as Hinata dropped to the ground on her knees. She was holding the spot that Bison pummeled with both arms while letting out gasps of pain. Bison just laughed heartily.
"If that did so much damage. then you are way out of your league!" Bison ended his sentence by kicking the downed Hinata in the side of the head, just barely missing her temple. Her body was knocked down fully, and she didn't show any signs of getting back up very soon.
"Hinata.!" Sakura finally lost all judgment and despite Darrell's pleas for her to stay, she high-tailed it towards Bison. Meanwhile, Bison was busy moving his hand above Hinata's body, who was struggling to get up.
"You'll be a good source of energy, Hinata. and these other two will be an even bigger prize!"
Bison's aura and Hinata's aura started to show. The moment it did, Hinata's energy began to jump to Bison.
"That's it." Bison commented on his deed, then he felt a malice. He turned his attention to his side. "What?"
Bison saw the other girl just a breath away from him. He tried to move. He didn't get away.
"Midare Zakura!!" Sakura named her attack while systematically beating Bison down. She made sure that Bison felt every blow that she threw. "You stay away from my friend like that! Shouoken!"
Sakura ended her assault with her multi-hitting uppercut, sending Bison flying across the area. Sakura didn't even stop to check about her friend. She just ran after Bison as Darrell went over to Hinata.
"Hinata. Hinata, if you can hear me. please answer me."
Hinata looked up to see the American's dotted face. "I'll. be. fine, Darrell." She paused for a second to raise her head. She looked at her friend who was staring at the man that injured her. "Do you. feel that.?"
Darrell looked down to her. "Feel what?"
"It's like a dark force, but it is. coming from Sakura."
Darrell's eyes read troublesome. "But. this is Sakura! Sakura Kasugano that we are talking about. right?!" Darrell took a minute to calm down. "But if my hunch is right. and that dream wasn't messing with me. then."
End of Chapter 6
Hinata slowly started to wake up. The moment she opened her eyes, she was hit with a terrible headache, causing her to wince in pain.
{This is so ridiculous.,} she thought to herself as she forced herself to sit up. When she did, the headache worsened, not to mentioned that she couldn't even lift an arm. or anything else but her head.
Hinata was strapped down to a long table in a sliver room wallpapered with a logo of a skull with wings. She could hear electronics whirling nearby and random chatter.
{What am I doing here? Or better yet, where am I?}
Hinata looked to her right and her jaw dropped in shock. There was another two tables in the room, each containing Sakura and Darrell, who were still unconscious. She was totally speechless at this turn of events.
{Just what in the world is going on here?!}
"Well, at least one of the pretties is awake now. the fun can begin!"
"Sho." she muttered under her breath. "Just the last person for me to see right now."
A door to the right of Hinata swung open, and in stepped in Sho, grin intact. "What does it take to get rid of you?" Hinata asked out loud.
"Frankly, a lot. Now, I just will wake up these guys here." Sho walked up to Sakura and whacked her across her sleeping face with a strong punch. Sakura instantly woke up, disorientated.
"Hu-wha. How did. Hey, what is going on here?!" She was obviously confused on the whole matter. After a while, she finally realized what was going on. She tried to break the leather straps, but she didn't have any luck.
"Come on now, beautiful," Sho said. "Do you really think that you'll be able to break those straps? You'll have a better time jumping out of an airplane into a volcano. Now, for the boy."
Just like Sakura, Sho smashed Darrell in the head with a punch, but he came to his senses slowly.
"Geez." he said weakly, "I hate waking up like this."
He looked up just to see Sho's face. Any sort of fatigue that was in Darrell's body vanished. "Why you. just wait until I get my hands on you, Sho. I swear I'll tear you a new one!"
He motioned his body to get his hands on Sho's throat, but Sho just laughed at him as saw that he was strapped and couldn't hurt him.
Sho turned away from the three to the front of the room. "Now, boys and girls, this is why you are here. A long story short, my boss was weakened by a fight with a certain someone, and he's looking for a source of energy or two to help him reboot, sort to speak. He has been watching you guys very closely. and congrats! You have been elected to have your very energy sucked out of your bodies for our boss! Isn't that just lovely?"
"Well," Sakura started, "why don't you put yourself in our shoes, eh? You just been knocked out cold by some stupid spell and brought to some lab or something like that to have your energy taken away from you for some guy you don't even know. You tell me if that is 'lovely' or not."
Sho put a hand on his chin. "You know, now that you think about it, it isn't very pretty. But hey! Someone has to do it! Now, to begin."
Sho turned around to a panel on the far wall and pushed a few buttons. A loud whirling could be heard throughout the room.
"So, just how are you going to do this, Sho?" Darrell asked. "I don't see some giant laser coming from the ceiling, you know."
"Please, spare me your witty remarks." Sho stopped pressing buttons and turned around to the captives. "But there is a way to suck that vitality out of you." He chuckled a bit and continued. "Those tables you are strapped to aren't just for show. They'll be sucking your energy out."
"No way!" Hinata cut Sho off with her surprised remark, but he continued.
"Right. about. NOW!!"
Instantaneously with Sho's words, a huge electrical current went through the tables to the trio, shocking them at the same time. Their screams came natural to the pain, but what wasn't natural was the fact that their auras began to show, all of them were a white blue color, and they began to shrink.
"That's right," Sho said gleefully. "All of the vigor. comes to me!" He was getting his revenge. He loved the sight of seeing the kids that gave him such a hard time in the last few days screaming in pain. He started to laugh manically.
{No.} Darrell heard himself say in his head throughout the pain. His very strength was being stripped from him, but somehow, through his friends' yelps, he could hear himself. {I can't let them. take my energy. I worked so hard. to get my skills up. I won't. let. them.}
He managed to see his friends' auras get smaller. His eyes closed, holding his rage.
{I won't. give up my own energy. or my friends.} His rage built to a height that it never got before. Not even while fighting Hyo himself.
{NEVER!!!!}
He lost himself in his rage and he let out a loud, long scream, catching Sho's attention. "What the.!?"
Sho saw the American's aura change from blue to hot red-orange. Not only that, but it got bigger. It started from just around his body, but when he finished his rage power-up, it literally consumed his table. With almost little effort, Darrell broke through the straps that bonded him.
"SHO!!!" he roared as he jumped onto the floor, already in Shakunetsuken form, and smashed Sho in the face so fast that Sho couldn't even take a step backwards. Sho's body was instantly engulfed in flames. Darrell didn't stop there. He instantly went into his most used super.
"REKKA NAKKURA!!!"
This version was much faster than the first and second ones, and Sho was screaming for dear life as his body burned. Before anyone knew it, Sho was on the floor, unconscious, and Darrell took this time to ram his burning fists into the control panel, causing it to short circuit. The straps on Sakura and Hinata were released and the girls got off the tables.
"Are you guys okay?" Darrell asked. His back was to them, his tone was still pretty angry, and his eyes were on the door that locked them in.
"Yeah. the short circuit returned our energy." Sakura stepped to Darrell. For some strange reason, her energy, which was already back were it belonged, seemed to rise even more. "Hey. what is with my aura.?"
Both Hinata and Darrell looked at Sakura. Her light blue aura was getting larger, just like Darrell's. So was Hinata's bluish-green aura. "Wow. Darrell. I think you are. giving us a boost."
"That's nice to hear. but." Without warning, Darrell charged up his energy in his hands.
"SHAKUNETSU SHINKU HADOUKEN!!!"
The door gave way to Darrell's blast and melted within 10 seconds.
"Let's go!" Darrell yelled out. "We are going to have to find a way out of here!"
The three ran out of the room and into a corridor. As they ran, Sakura was busy thinking about Darrell.
{He is so much more serious now. could it be his aura change? And my increase. is that from him?}
They turned a corner and broke down another corridor, passing doors and laboratories. Hinata's head was frantically moving from left to right, looking for a possible exit.
"Come on." she murmured. "There has got to be a way out."
"Stop right there!"
Ahead of the trio were about 10 security guards, most of them with guns, blocking the way.
"Come on!" Sakura groaned while they stopped. "Do we get a break in this place?"
"All right, you three." the head officer started. "Just calm down. We are not going to do anything rash now. Now. just follow us. and we'll try to get you out of here as quickly as we can."
Darrell got into his fighting stance but quickly got out of it. "You guys are lucky. I never start a fight without my handguards. My friends here." Darrell stopped for a second, put on his blue handguards and continued. ".are all ready for battle. AND SO AM I!!"
Darrell's aura reached a new height and he rushed to the guards. On instinct, those whom had weapons drew them. "Okay men, on my--- oof!"
The head guard didn't even see Darrell's movements and paid for it with Darrell striking his elbow into the stomach. Just like Sho, his body erupted into flames.
"Yaaaah!" Darrell kicked his dummy away and yelled, "Sakura! Hinata! I need for you to back me up!"
"No problem!" Sakura yelled back. She was already charging forward, along with Hinata. All at once, a Rekka Nakkura, a Midare Zakura, and a Hisshou Rengakiken pummeled the whole guard force.
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"Ugh. those three kids. such pests!"
A man stood up from his luxury chair. His frame was pretty slim but muscular. Everything else was hidden in darkness. He had been watching the group plow through Shadowloo's defenses through the multiple monitors in the room and was growing tired.
"Looks like I'll have to go down there myself."
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"I think I found a way out!" Hinata called out as she and her friends reached a huge metal door. Darrell approached it and put a hand on his chin.
"Well, it is too big for me to punch a hole through it by myself." he noticed.
Sakura stepped up to the door and knocked on it a few times with her hand. After a few seconds, she turned to Darrell. "What if we fired out Shinku Hadoukens at the same time and space? It could puncture a hole big enough."
"Sounds like a plan." The two got into their Hadouken stances.
"Shinku."
"Shakunetsu."
They built their energy into the two small spheres of energy; Darrell's being red and Sakura's being light blue.
"Hadouk-"
"Shink-"
Both of the fighters stopped charging when the metal door started to open on its own.
"I must admit that you are very skilled to get this far and accomplish so much. but I cannot let you go out of here with that vigor. Sakura Kasugano.. Darrell Goodson. Hinata Wakaba."
"Hey! Who's there?" Hinata asked to the mysterious voice as the doors opened fully.
After the metal clang of the doors, the trio found themselves outside the building that they were being held captive at. In front of them was a man in a red military uniform similar to Hyo's, only he had on silver metal plates on his shoulders and legs and a red hat with a gold skull with wings symbol. His eyes were hidden behind the hat and his arms were folded.
"My name is Bison, the leader of Shadowloo." he introduced himself.
There was no reply from the group.
"As you already know, I need your energy. There is no way you will be leaving this place until then. Either you give it up to me, or you die. It is up to you."
"So you are the pin jockey that wants our energy, eh? I don't know how you know our names, and frankly I don't care now. Sorry to disappoint you, but you are not getting this." Darrell's eyes read seriousness again. "You are going to have to beat it out of us."
"I'll have no problem doing that."
Bison unfolded his arms and stood in some type of fighting stance. Darrell fixed his fighting gloves and prepared for battle, but Hinata stepped towards Bison.
"Hey.! What are you doing?" Darrell asked while looking up to Hinata. "I'll take him on for you guys."
"No." Hinata responded. She stopped about a foot away from Bison. "I want to fight him. I guess that after seeing you guys perform. I want some action for myself."
{Well, this isn't like Hinata.} Sakura thought to herself.
Bison let out a chuckle. "It doesn't matter. Either way, all you energy will belong to me."
"If I remember correctly." Hinata started, ".your lackey said that you were weakened in a fight sometime ago. You shouldn't take on an opponent if you aren't 100%, you know."
"You should really think about yourselves."
Hinata saw Bison soar into the air and went defensive. Bison didn't come down for some time.
{How did he get that much airtime?}
"Hinata!" Sakura called her friend. "He's right behind you!"
"Huh?!" Hinata gasped as she whirled around and saw a fist grab her shirt. Bison chucked her over his shoulder and Hinata recovered. Before she could recover completely, Bison flipped forward with an overhead heel kick, planting her face into the ground.
"Come on." Darrell said silently as Hinata got to her feet again. Bison stood right in front of Hinata with his arms folded. Hinata tried a Rengakiken, a barrage of punches followed by a sphere of energy, but Bison just disappeared right in front of her eyes.
"Hey.!" Hinata looked behind her, just incase he was there again.
"Here I am, fool!" Bison shouted from above. Hinata looked too late. Bison planted his boots right on Hinata's head, dazing her for about a quick second. He then jumped off into the air, but luckily Hinata recovered just in time.
"That's it! Hisshou!" Hinata geared up and ran right where Bison landed and unloaded a pack of powerful punches before ending it with her Shouyouken, sending Bison back where he came from, the air.
Bison flipped out of his drop and responded with dashing towards Hinata, his fist glowing with some sort of purple, dark energy.
"What the." Darrell looked at Bison. "What type of aura is that?"
"Oh no you don't! Enbukyaku!" Hinata jumped into the air and unleashed three flaming spin kicks in a row. As the two got closer, Darrell noticed a strong burst of energy coming from Bison.
{And Sho said he was wounded. Please! He's pumping energy even.}
Something hit him at that point.
{He can't hide that from me! He is stronger than he claims to be!}
Darrell covered him mouth for his voice to project clearly. "Hinata! You have to pull out! He's going to cream you!"
"I can't stop now, Darrell! I got him!" Hinata fired the last kick of her Enbukyaku. then the worst possible thing happened. Bison ducked the kick.
"Psycho Punish!" The energy fist hit Hinata just as she was landing, burning her in purple flames. Then the other punched her away.
{Psycho. energy.?} Darrell's mind put together the name of Bison's power. It was more powerful than any normal energy, yet it is so dark. Evil.
"Those were NOT normal flames." Sakura looked at her friend with a worried expression as Hinata rose up to face Bison again. She was noticeably slow to getting up this time, partly because of Bison's attacks, and partly because of planning her next move.
{Okay, he has speed, power. but what about endurance? If I constantly attack him, then he'll have to be hit a few times. And if I make those hits count. and maybe if these two can help me.}
"Bison!" she said out loud. "I'm going to get you this time!"
"Stubborn child." he muttered. "Don't you know when you are outclassed?"
"I haven't even started." Hinata got into her stance again, just as Bison's body started to become consumed with the purple aura.
"This wasn't much of a fight. so I'll end this quickly. PSYCHO CRUSHER!!"
Bison drove his body forward like a torpedo, spinning around with energy surrounding him. Hinata braced herself as Bison approached. Just as Bison closed in for the hit, Hinata screamed, "Sakura!! You know what to do!"
Darrell turned to Sakura, who was already running toward the battle. "What the."
Hinata reached forward and actually grabbed Bison out of his Psycho Crusher and held him up as Sakura came up from behind.
"I hope you have a high tolerance for pain, because this will hurt!" Sakura boasted right into Bison's face before everything turned white and the sound of hits being landed and Sakura yelling out. In the next moment, Bison was on the ground while Sakura was brushing her hands.
"The Harugokusatsu! That's how it's done! Now, Hinata. Finish this."
Hinata gave a smile. "No problem!"
Sakura ran back to where Darrell was, who was standing there in shock.
{The Harugokusatsu. it's like that move in my dream. How did she learn that move?}
"Sakura." Darrell started.
Sakura looked at him. "Yeah?"
"That move. that you just did. How did you do that.?"
Sakura didn't answer. She just stared at him. He looked really curious to know, but she could also sense that something was wrong with him. "Why do you want to know that?"
Darrell was about to answer when he heard a voice that yelled out, "AMAI!"
Bison's body began admitting a large Psycho aura as he rose up.
"This thing. called pain. I don't feel it." Bison grew a sinister smile, looking at Sakura, then Darrell, then finally Hinata. "But you WILL!!"
Bison charged forward with such speed that the three couldn't even track him until, WHAM!!
"NO!!" Sakura yelled at the sight that had just been seen. Bison planted his fist right into Hinata's stomach. Her face was frozen, expressing pain. She started to cough up a small, red liquid.
"He didn't!" Darrell growled out loud as Hinata dropped to the ground on her knees. She was holding the spot that Bison pummeled with both arms while letting out gasps of pain. Bison just laughed heartily.
"If that did so much damage. then you are way out of your league!" Bison ended his sentence by kicking the downed Hinata in the side of the head, just barely missing her temple. Her body was knocked down fully, and she didn't show any signs of getting back up very soon.
"Hinata.!" Sakura finally lost all judgment and despite Darrell's pleas for her to stay, she high-tailed it towards Bison. Meanwhile, Bison was busy moving his hand above Hinata's body, who was struggling to get up.
"You'll be a good source of energy, Hinata. and these other two will be an even bigger prize!"
Bison's aura and Hinata's aura started to show. The moment it did, Hinata's energy began to jump to Bison.
"That's it." Bison commented on his deed, then he felt a malice. He turned his attention to his side. "What?"
Bison saw the other girl just a breath away from him. He tried to move. He didn't get away.
"Midare Zakura!!" Sakura named her attack while systematically beating Bison down. She made sure that Bison felt every blow that she threw. "You stay away from my friend like that! Shouoken!"
Sakura ended her assault with her multi-hitting uppercut, sending Bison flying across the area. Sakura didn't even stop to check about her friend. She just ran after Bison as Darrell went over to Hinata.
"Hinata. Hinata, if you can hear me. please answer me."
Hinata looked up to see the American's dotted face. "I'll. be. fine, Darrell." She paused for a second to raise her head. She looked at her friend who was staring at the man that injured her. "Do you. feel that.?"
Darrell looked down to her. "Feel what?"
"It's like a dark force, but it is. coming from Sakura."
Darrell's eyes read troublesome. "But. this is Sakura! Sakura Kasugano that we are talking about. right?!" Darrell took a minute to calm down. "But if my hunch is right. and that dream wasn't messing with me. then."
End of Chapter 6