Is That You? By: OtakuSailorV

Chapter 17:: Fight On

They had traveled through the city at a rather slow pace, and had yet to find any monsters, or any sign of disturbance. This seemed to peeve the usually calm Hikari, as everyone could see the muscles in her mouth tightening as she continued to grit her teeth.

There was a moment of utter silence between them all that was so tense that not one of them dared to break it. Suezo looked sidelong at Genki hopefully, and as he caught the young boy's eye, Genki noticed that everyone else except for Hikari seemed to be watching him expectantly. His gut tightened slightly as he met each of their eyes, inwardly aware of what they wanted him to do.

They expected him to speak to Hikari now. He partially understood this, seeing as he was the closest to an actual leader among them, and he was from the same time period as Hikari. They must expect him to understand her and be able to communicate better with her than they could. Embarrassed, he gulped down his slight anxiety and turned toward the older girl in determination.

Opening his mouth, he was about to speak when Hikari interjected him. "Shh." She commanded, looking at the dark, rolling clouds overhead. The cars on the street had stopped, and the usually busy city was dead silent, even the cooing of pigeons was not heard. It was if the whole place could sense something coming.

Genki had learned about that in school. That animals were silent before an earthquake; that birds stopped singing before a volcano erupted. Because they could all sense something earth-shattering was about to take place. Of course, that was just superstition wasn't it? Maybe that did happen, but a whole city, even full of people, going silent like that? No, it couldn't possibly happened. . .could it. . . ?

Thunder rolled overhead and Hikari looked to him, her tone serious. "It will be up to you and your friends this time. I don't have any power to fight this." She informed him sternly.

Genki raised his eyebrows in puzzlement. "What do you mean you can't help us?" He demanded, though his tone wasn't harsh with his demanding.

Hikari took in a deep breath as she glanced at the rumbling clouds once again. "Listen – I was not trained to fight this menace. I'm a tactician. And even that will fail us here. I have very little knowledge of this threat. It's up to you now. I've taken you this far, but I can't go beyond here to help you."

Genki looked at her with wide, utterly confused eyes. "You're just going to leave us. . . ?" He asked after a moment of silence.

Hikari nodded sharply. "There is nothing more I can do for you, Genki. You and your friends are the only ones who can go on from here." She gave him a confident smile, breaking the ice of her earlier attitude.

Genki gulped and looked back at them for reassurance. The Monsters and Holly seemed equally as confused as he. Genki turned back to Hikari, his eyebrows still raised. "Why are we the only ones?"

"You are the ones that have the power, Genki." She clapped him on the shoulder to show her confidence as she flashed another soft smile at him. "I know you guys can do this."

"Do what. . . ?" But before the rest of the sentence could be finished, lightening struck overhead, highlighting the sky and the silent area around them in an eerie way.

Hikari looked to the flashing sky and studied it for a moment before she seemed to understand something herself. A wry smile crossed her lips before she turned to Genki and the others and grinned brightly. "I think the emergency has finally pulled through."

They raised their eyes to the clouds and looked through wide, frightened eyes as the monsters of all shapes and sizes poured from the clouds above. Holly gasped at the number of them, her eyes shining with anxiety. How could they ever plan to fight off the numbers?

Genki clenched his fists and looked sharply toward Hikari who had turned to watch the descent of the Monsters. Slowly, her head turned back toward him as she felt his eyes on her. Her steely resolve seemed to be back in place, as her eyes seemed empty as she looked to him. "You must hurry. The most terrible of threats is coming."

Tiger let out a snarl, and Pixie's wings flapped as she braced herself on the sidewalk. "There's no time to argue with her, Genki." Tiger growled. "If you want to save your world, we're going to have to move out like she said."

Genki grit his teeth, staring at Hikari for only a few brief seconds before turning away to mount his friend. Nodding sharply, he looked around to his companions. "C'mon guys!!" He yelled, gesturing for them to move forward.

Golem rumbled before his stone body pushed forward, Holly seated on his shoulder safely. "Hold on tightly, Holly." He warned her in his deep tone. Holly smiled at him, though her eyes and mind were on the strange yellow haired girl that was watching them through emotionless eyes. "I will, Golem."


Hikari watched them as they left, her entire being seemed empty. Inwardly, she told herself that if she got emotionally attached to them, that if she ever considered them as 'friends', or if they ever considered her one, that she could not fulfill her duty correctly. 'I must stay distant and discreet. This cannot be finished if I let emotions get in the way. . .'

Feeling sadly out-of-place, she turned and headed to the hidden control room inside of the large corporate office building that lay behind her. Sighing, she looked one last time at the boy and his monster companions before pushing the glass doors open. "They are the only ones now."


Genki watched Hikari over his shoulder until she was just a speck, and the roars of the monsters coming down on them overhead were heard becoming louder and louder. Angry and confused, he pressed Tiger onward, though his monster friend didn't need much encouragement to go faster toward the falling enemies.

"Hold tight, Genki." Tiger smirked as he glanced upward at his friend.

Genki came out of his own little in time to utter a single confused blurb before Tiger jumped up into the air, far above the heads of their allies, the smirk still on his face. Opening his mouth, his fangs glistened slightly in the dim light as a blue orb started to form in his mouth. "Ice bomb!!"

It shot out toward the enemy monsters which screamed as the ice-cold blast hit them dead on. Genki and Tiger both let out a whoop of joy as they came back down. They watched as frozen monsters fell to the earth, chipping their ice prisons as they hit the earth. Their shocked faces were still in place as if they had been stuck in time.

Holly gave them a relieved smile, but still there was the howl of enemy's overhead. Genki and Tiger looked back skyward before they looked to each other and smirked again, their anger at the strange girl dispersed. Genki gave his friend a thumbs up with a large grin. "Think we can do it, Tiger?"

Tiger chuckled slightly before turning his scarred head back toward the rumbling, rolling sky. "Yeah, we can do it."


"Fire Wall!!"

Pixie was sweating as she set the Monsters aflame with her attack. She had no idea how long they had been fighting, but the monsters seemed to be coming from nowhere in numbers so vast that it was nigh impossible to fight them all off. And just when she thought they had been gaining the upper hand, the Monsters had rumbled out of the clouds overhead in even greater numbers.

"Genki!" She called down desperately to her companion. "If we get above the clouds, maybe we can find where they are coming from and destroy it."

Genki looked up and considered it as he kicked and punched at a Zuum that was running around on the ground near he and Mocchi. "Cherry Blossom Blizzard, Chii!!"

He nodded in agreement as Mocchi fended off the Monsters around him. Pixie turned swiftly back toward the clouds. "I'll go as first!!" She called down to him before she flapped her wings and swept upward.

A small trail of sweat ran down the side of her head as she grit her teeth in determination. "Lightning!!"


Sorry, meant to post this chapter earlier, but stuffs came up. sweatdrop

Anyway, I hope I got the assumption of Tiger's attack right. I only knew the names of the attacks, and have forgotten how the Monsters that use them perform them. (Sadly, MR isn't shown on TV around here anymore, and I have yet to get any of the DVD's of the show.) If I make a blunder somewhere, you all will be sure to inform me, correct?

Thanks to my reviewers, as always. It's nice to see that there are so many people who are still suspicious of Hikari too. little grin I didn't think that very many people would like the idea of some strange girl appearing instead of Holly, and that they'd presume she was some form of Mary-Sue thing. sweatdrop

Ah, well, thanks again and see you all son! Ja'ne!!

Review please!!!