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Canon 24

Previously on Canon Distortion...

Makoto Nanaya, Formerly of the NOL Intelligence department and currently a wanted criminal has had a busy day. From meeting old friends to fighting others all she wanted to do was simply meet up with Noel and hopefully help get her out of the city so she could search for her boyfriend. Unfortunately that was interrupted when she happened to meet Noel and her other friend Tsubaki having a fight to the death. Though she broke the fight, it didn't take long for trouble to come rushing to her once again in the form of Relius Clover and Hazama. But when her troubles reached her peek, Sora managed to arrive at just the nick of time...

And Now, the continuation of Canon Distortion.

'What the hell is going on here?' Sora thought, his foot slammed on top of the giant doll in front of him. He had so many questions as to what was going on in front of him. All he wanted to do was find Makoto. He found her, but surrounding her was Noel and Tsubaki who looked like they were engaged in a battle to the death, the green haired man who he ran away from lunch from and now the masked freak who basically started the mess of his life in the first place. He then felt the giant automaton push Sora off her as he slid on the ground, recovering with his hand before quickly whipping out the Rev Blade behind his back.

As he did so, time slowed down. His mind racing back to just a few minutes ago before he came over here and was currently fighting against his nemesis. He was simply wondering around the city, using any criminal contacts he had to try and locate Makoto as soon as possible. It was then he started to hear gunshots and the sound of metal clashing with each other that prompted him to come over here in the first place.

He turned his head towards Makoto, seeing her look frozen for some reason as Makoto herself was simply staring right at Sora, unable to believe that he was really here at this moment. Sora then noticed Tsubaki start to run away for some reason with Noel following her as Makoto looked back and saw her friends running away. "Go and follow them Makoto. I promise that I will catch up later." Sora said, his heart still fearful over the fact that Makoto might have forgotten him as Makoto recomposed herself and soon left, leaving Sora with both the green haired man and the masked freak in front of him.

"Hazama. While I appreciate your presence here, I would request that you leave me alone with The Error for now." Relius said as Hazama looked at his friend with a look of annoyance. "Of course... if you would excuse me." Hazama said as he simply walked away from the sight. "Besides, I already saw what I wanted to see so I will just leave you with your...mess" Hazama said as Relius simply ignored him, his focus completely on Sora as he could feel the young man's killing intent pointed at him.

"I believe this is the first time we have met am I wrong? So why did you mention the girl known as Alice?" Relius said, feigning ignorance as while she was a failure, Alice herself proved useful in many other ways as Relius could see the anger slowly build up in Sora's eyes, his hand clutching onto the Rev Blade as he tightly revved it with ferocity. "Why should I even tell you? If you can forget her why should I even waste my breath explaining who she was to you." Sora said with a bluntness in his voice that Relius was able to feel.

"Besides... even if today's not the day I kill you... At least for today I cam make sure you remember me properly." Sora said, Revving the Rev Blade once again before clicking the brake and revving from there. "ENHANCED GEAR! DISTORTION GEAR!" The rev blade chimed as Relius's interest was piqued instead of him becoming fearful as Sora released his grip on the brake. "DISTORTION FINISH!" The blade shouted as Sora raised it high up in the air.

"So you better prepare yourself...YOU MASKED FREAK!" Sora yelled, slamming the blade down with force, releasing out the seithr it had gathered in a singular motion. Sora didn't feel the need to scream out a move at that moment, his focus and anger were all focused into making sure that Relius will never forget him even if he wanted to as Ignis came between the massive wave of seithr rushing towards her and her master.

Relius immediately summoned out a gear like hand from his coat when he realized that Ignis was being flung towards him in rapid speed, causing the two to slide on the ground as Ignis quickly turned around and wrapped her master around her arms to take the full impact of the attack as Relius was already analyzing the attack that had just nearly ended his life with a calm like expression on his face.

"To think that there is a person who is capable of generating such pressure and release it out all at once. And to do so with Seithr of all things... most interesting." Relius said, his face unfazed by the attack delivered to him as he tapped Ignis to vanish and reappear behind him as he gently landed on his feet. As he did so, he couldn't help but notice that Sora was gone yet again, similar to what happened earlier as Relius instinctively formed a gear arm to block Sora's attempt at a slice right for his midsection.

"It appears you have something similar to a speed increasing ars magus... but what is interesting is that it's rather instantaneous." Relius commented as Sora ignored the masked man's words, not intending to exchange any words and began to swing his sword as hard as possible, making sure each time he did, Relius would feel the weight of each blow threaten to cause his legs to buckle as even with one hand and the relatively short size of the blade, Relius was impressed by the strength Sora had managed to put in each blow.

"And for a person lacking an arm, you swing as if you were gripping a two handed sword... that tells me you have at least been training yourself to wield your weapon with just a singular arm for a while now." Relius noted, even in the head of battle, his tendency to note what his opponent was doing was still present as he couldn't help but begin to stare at the Rev Blade, wondering how it works as he realized there was other functions about the blade that had yet to reveal itself to him.

"Is your plan for me to just run your mouth while you hope to find a weak spot that you can exploit? Now that I remember right, you have always liked to run your stupid mouth." Sora said, spitting venom right at Relius's direction as Relius couldn't help but be surprised by that. "Such anger for one person...and it's me of all people. Most interesting. I would like to observe your soul very carefully..." Relius replied as Ignis came by his side.

"Please do not harm him badly Ignis. I wish to bring him along with Miss Nanaya to my lab for experiments." Relius said as something popped in Sora's mind as he could feel his blood boil at that moment, his anger wanting to release as he switched the Rev Blade into it's Arm mode, amusing Relius even more as without hesitation Sora attached it back at his stump. "Maybe I should make sure that scrap metal of yours sends you back to hell instead!" Sora yelled as he charged, throwing a punch right at Relius's face which Ignis intercepted with her claws.

As she did, Relius couldn't help but peer a bit, trying to do what he did to so many others before with his eyes but when he did so with Sora, his eyes couldn't help but feel like they were burning like crazy as he stumbled a bit, keeping his composure in the process. 'The sensation my eyes felt peering his soul...You are starting to pique my interest more and more. Sora Minakaze.' Relius thought as Sora grabbed Ignish with the Rev arm and slowly began to lift her up into the air with it.

'Shit! This junk's freaking heavy!' Sora thought, only able to get her feet off the ground but not fling her into the air as he used the small amount of lift he got to deliver a powerful kick to where the stomach would be, sending her flying towards the railing, exposing Relius for a bit as Sora did not relent and pressed the advantage that had been given to him at that moment. Relius tried to call Ignis back but soon saw a hand reach out towards his, forcing him to pull back and summon a geared hand to try and intercept the attack only for said hand to whiff completely.

"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Sora yelled, delivering a kick right at the geared hand, smashing it to the side and forcing it out of Relius's coat. This mildly surprised the man as he made manifest a couple of gears to try and slam them right into Sora. Sora at that moment dislocated the Rev Arm and tossed it right at Relius's face, causing him to deflect it instinctively into the air. He realized what he had done and made manifest a couple of geared hands to try and block the next attack he presumed was from the sky.

For a brief period, nothing happened. Then a painful sensation rocked him in his solar plexuses, causing him to stagger as Sora had slipped his next punch which was a gut punch right through the metal hands. It was at that moment Ignis came back to life and tried to impale Sora with it's massive claws only for Sora to now vanish into the air and reattach the Rev Arm. As he did this, Relius couldn't help but be amused by the speed he was going, zipping across the battlefield rapidly.

'Hmmm… now that I have seen him do it twice, it's time I try to deduce the nature of his drive.' Relius thought as he signaled Ignis and she immediately stopped her next attack, alarming Sora as he heard the sound cue of a distortion being triggered. 'A distortion? When I can see it coming?' Sora thought but then became alarmed when he heard a second distortion drive coming behind him as he turned around to see Ignis come charging towards him with a gigantic ball of light.

To Sora, it seemed that Relius was going to use two Distortions at once to try and hit him for sure, but Relius was less interested in making sure his attack did land. He simply wanted to witness Sora's drive carefully with his own eyes, to see what it was really doing for his own interest as he commanded Ignis to charge forward as if she was going to unleash a distortion. Sora immediately turned his back to Relius, baited by Relius perfectly as he summoned a gigantic gear and sent it right for Sora, threatening to grind him several times in the process.

In Relius's mind. It would take milliseconds for anybody to react, even if they had speed enhancements on them. By diverting their focus away from the real attack, you add in additional seconds to a person's reaction time. This would explain why suddenly tossing something like a ball at someone could result in the person failing to catch it in the first place. 'Now show me Mr Minakaze… is your drive really just...'

Before Relius could even finish his thought, his eyes bared witness to something truly amazing. In the milliseconds he had summoned his point blank distortion Drive, Sora had magically transformed the Rev arm back to the Rev Blade to block the attack, his teeth gritting as several gears clashed with the metal of the Rev Blade. Relius couldn't help but be amazed as Sora forced the gear away, taking a few minutes to recover from the experience he had while not letting his guard down.

"Amazing… to think that Phenomena Intervention could be bent to a single individual's will." Relius commented as Sora couldn't help but raise his eyebrow at that. "Phenomena Intervention? Are you talking about my drive?" Sora questioned as Relius couldn't help but shake his head. "Impossible...for such a thing to occur, one must be a being of immense power." Relius commented as Sora couldn't help but be annoyed, not because Relius was annoying him but because Relius was behaving the way he did all those years back.

"Shut up you masked asshole. As if I care about your talk right now. Are you going to continue fighting or are you too amazed with your research to even care right now." Sora said, his anger growing as Relius stared right at the man, his eyes able to see his soul glowing like the flames of hell itself, swallowed by anger as he was starting to make sense of things, things not even Sora understood. "I see now… no wonder you are able to use such power." Relius said as Sora simply closed his eyes in annoyance, unable to take the crap he was hearing at this point.

"I don't care what kind of shit you're trying to pawn off to me. But you listen and you listen well. I don't care what happens to you next. Even if it means becoming a wanted criminal of the NOL officially. I am taking you down." Sora said, his soul brimming with hatred as Relius wanted to at that moment observe him much closer. But unfortunately, the situation presented to him was not one he could take advantage of easily.

"You can say whatever you want. I do not care. But your soul… the way your soul is briming right now… It simply warrants a much closer observation now." Relius said as Sora shook his head at that. "Observation huh… then come closer...I DARE YOU." Sora said, stabbing the Rev Blade on the ground and revving it with force. As he did, the blade began to open it's vents. "REVERSE FLOW ACTIVE!" The blade yelled as Relius was able to see Seithr but more importantly, portions of his soul flow into the blade itself, as if he was giving his soul to the blade.

'Is he doing so without knowing? Most interesting. I wish to investigate this further but I fear what would happen if I allow this to proceed any further.' Relius thought as he should end this now… but his curiosity over what he is currently witnessing override his desire to retreat for now. 'I must make sure the memory of his soul is engrained into my own eyes. So show me Sora Minakaze. Show me the weight of your soul!' Relius thought, raising his hands and creating multiple gears at several spots, forcing them to converge to where Sora was standing as Sora ripped the Rev Blade off the ground with force, slamming the edge of his blade right at one of the gears and causing a chain effect of knocking each and every single one sent after him away.

"I AM GOING TO SEND YOU TO HELL!" Sora screamed as he revved the Rev Blade. "ENHANCED GEAR! DISTORTION GEAR!" At that moment, Sora was about to rev to the Astral Gear but soon realized that if he did it now in an area with multiple airships, he might accidentally drain all of the seithr that powers those airships and potentially send them crashing down to the heavy seithr below.

'Dammit!' Sora thought as he settled with the Distortion gear, him still unaware of just how far using an Astral heat with the Rev Blade will drain Seithr from. Sora soon charged forward, diving with his whole body forward as Ignis manifested herself in front of Sora, raising her claws to block Sora's next attack as Sora himself was determined to make sure this attack will land, regardless of what happens next as he clicked the brake handle to engage the gear. "ENHANCED DISTORTION FINISH!"

"NOTHING WILL STAND IN MY WAY! SO GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!" Sora yelled, raising his blade ready to do the same attack he did to Relius prior as he now could feel his soul screaming, telling him to yell out it's name as he continued to run towards Ignis only to suddenly phase through her, surprising the automaton and amazing Relius as he could see Sora slash his blade right towards his face at point blank range.

"GEIRU BUREDO!" Sora yelled, slashing down as a massive wave of seithr like wind came crashing down on his body, slamming Relius with a force that he could have not expected was possible. At the same time, Relius had retaliated with a counter attack as while he deduced that Sora was manipulating Phenomena Intervention somehow, it seemed that he was only able to do it for himself and thus Relius still had free will to do anything he wished.

That wish was a fist right into Sora's arm, cushioning the blow that the enhanced Distortion could have had on his body if it was full force as both men were blown back by the sheer force of the attack, Sora slamming his entire body onto a lamp post and causing it to crumble down in the process and relius all the way to a fountain where the water splashed upwards when his body came in contact with it. The attack itself was enough to carve the land in half as the walkway now had a visible gash right in the middle and several ripple like patterns were present on the ground.

Sora was first to recover, having to support himself standing up by using the Rev Blade itself. While he was not in particularly bad shape, the blast of the attack was enough to take him off his feet and knock out some of the wind that was in him. "Was...Was that enough for you bastard?" Sora questioned as he stared at Relius's direction. His eyes not letting his prey away from his sight as he was determined to make sure he was unable to stand up ever as he slowly approached where Relius was.

As Sora slowly approached, Relius remained still on the rubble he laid on. "So this is the power of your soul hmm… such potential indeed." Relius commented, prompting Sora to immediately prep the Rev Blade for another attack as he did not hesitate to unleash another Distortion Drive right at the man to try and finish him off. As he raised his blade, something stopped him immediately as he felt something dig inside him, as if it was trying to bury itself within his body.

"Now normally this will be where I would capture you and bring you back to my laboratory… but you have made that almost impossible now." Relius said, raising his head and revealing to Sora something his mind could never forget ever since he saw them. Relius's mask at this point had been completely shattered, unable to take the impact of the distortion head on as blood dripped from the blond haired man's forehead but that was not what Sora was focused on.

It was his eyes… what is hidden beneath the mask. What laid under the mask was not a normal human eye but glowing magenta eyes that shined at the irises. Sora wanted to move but couldn't as Relius continued to stare him down, glaring at him with interest as he slowly approached him. "The way your soul becomes one with the seithr around you… most interesting indeed." Relius commented as Ignis simply remained still, not responding as Sora tried to keep himself standing but his knees suddenly gave out.

"You feel it do you… the way your chest feels heavy...as if something is burying itself onto you." Relius said as Sora simply raised his head in defiance, glaring at the man as Relius simply continued to walk forward. "What the hell is this? Magic?" Sora questioned as he was quick to realize that ars magus on the scale like this while possible, would not be the cause of the glowing magenta in Relius's eyes as he knelt down in front of Sora and grabbed him by his neck.

"Your soul is so vast… brimming with potential… Now let me see further." Relius commented as Sora could feel Relius start to dig into his head, like all those years ago as memories of being strapped onto a gurney table and having the man keep staring at him, all while he did things that he said were to stimulate the soul began to resurface as Relius could see those same memories. "I see now… so you have experienced this before… and I conducted it as well… most interesting." Relius commented as Sora gritted his teeth, the pain unbearable but he knew not to show weakness at that moment.

"It also appears that your soul has developed greatly over the years… the presence of Human stimuli and various emotional stress points… is that the source of your development?" Relius continued as he glimpsed and could see that Sora was starting to resist his techniques, his soul fighting back as the image of Makoto Nanaya peered through his soul. And not just her, various people Relius did not recognize as well made their appearance in the corner's of Sora's memories as a pink haired woman made her appearance last, besides Makoto Nanaya as Relius immediately recognized her.

"Oh… I see now." Relius commented, his attention heavily drawn towards Sora at this point as Sora himself could feel his body becoming weak for some reason, the strength he had was being sapped right out of him as Relius's eyes would not stop, and won't stop until he had seen everything. "GET OUT...OF MY HEAD!" Sora screamed as Relius found his observation being interrupted as Sora soon found the willpower to swing the punch he had been trying to do, slamming Relius at his chin and releasing his grasp on his body, suddenly feeling a wind of exhaustion hit him.

Relius was simply unfazed by this, wiping the blood at the corner of his mouth. "While I did manage to peer through a glimpse of your soul… it appears that I will need to weaken you more the next time I wish to observe your soul." Relius commented as Sora tried to stand up but the exhaustion he felt was too much as he collapsed to his back in the process. "How about we continue this at another time… Sora Minakaze." Relius said as Sora was only able to get a glimpse of a dark mass swirling in front of Relius as he had a hand over his eyes before he walked through the portal with Ignis in tow.

As soon as Relius left, the feeling Sora had on his chest immediately left as Sora couldn't help but gasp for air at that moment, as if a fish that was brought out of the water and tossed back in. As soon as that feeling subsided, Sora slowly got up to his feet, the exhaustion he had felt prior going away. 'Looks like if I want to take him out… I will have to deal with those eyes of his at some point.' Sora thought, biting his lip in the process as he tried to get his bearings at that moment.

"Right… now that Relius has left all that is left is… Makoto." Sora said as he was not exactly thrilled at the idea of meeting up with Makoto again. Sure in his heart he wanted to meet her so desperately, he wanted to see her again after a few years of not doing so. Yet at the same time, with the whole memory wiping thing happening in his life right now he did not know how she was going to respond when she saw him. It was for this specific reason he replied back to her in English rather than Japanese.

'Can...can I really see her right now? Am I...really ready to face the worst possibility?' Sora thought as he felt the fear in his heart simply paralyze him as he wondered what he should do at this very moment, what can he do and how he should do it. "Even if...Even if she's forgotten about me...I have to at least see it through." Sora thought out loud as he began to make his way towards where he had seen Makoto run towards as his heart was racing with nervousness, slamming onto his chest in the process.

With each step he took, more questions began to ring in his mind. What should be his first words to her when they meet again? Should he play it safe and use English once again or risk it all and speak to her in Japanese? Just how much is he allowed is he going to be allowed to express himself to her and finally what will he do if she does reject him? Does he try to play it cool and walk it all away, pretending like she didn't exist or even try to persuade her that she does know him like everyone else.

The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't help but reflect on his current situation and the people he had been meeting with. He remembered the days that he would have to spend with Pikaka, Derrick and Neko, trying to convince them that they remember who he was, how he would make frequent visits to the shop, making sure to show his face everyday to them so that they don't forget what he looked like, asking Caroline to help check their memories with stuff he has no clue on how they worked.

Should he do the same with Makoto if the worst case scenario had come to pass? Is it even worth it at this point? A feeling began to swell up inside him as he couldn't help but slow down his walking, taking his time to reach Makoto as more doubt began to swim in his mind. Soon he caught what he was doing, slapping himself in the face to snap himself out of the self doubt that was in him. "Dammit Sora… You can't be doubting your resolve now… not after you decide to see her in the first place." Sora said, reminding himself that his negativity was not helping.

And the slap he gave himself could have not come at a better time as soon he face to face with Makoto Nanaya once more, seeing her seated on a bench, stroking the hair of what appeared to be Noel who had fallen asleep with tears in her eyes. Sora stopped walking for a moment, taking his time to recompose himself as he readied his resolve for what was to come next. Regardless of whether or not she remembered him or didn't, Sora was determined to at least meet with her face to face.

"So… How is Noel doing?" Sora said, getting Makoto's attention as he walked towards a lamp post, allowing the light to illuminate him as he looked at her with a normal look. He didn't know how he should act at this point but he couldn't help but just try to play safe as he didn't want to jump to conclusions. "Well… I guess looking from here, I can tell she's had a bit of a rough time… with whatever is going on in her life." Sora continued, Makoto remaining silent as Sora looked away for a bit, not sure if he should keep his eyes on her or not.

The silence was unbearable. It felt like she was simply staring at him and he was waiting for the inevitable to happen. He kept his eyes closed, thinking that would help to lessen the blow that was coming his way but he knew that it was inevitable. He was going to have to face her directly and whether he liked it or not, the truth was going to come his way. "Makoto I..." Before he could even say a word, a pair of hands grabbed him by the back of his head and pulled him closer to a pair of lips.

The action caught Sora completely off guard as his eyes slowly opened to see Makoto, tears in her eyes tearfully kissing him as they parted for a moment. Soon they returned to immediately kissing each other once again as their lips did not part this time, their tongues intertwined in a romantic manner as the desperation both felt for each other immediately evapourated on each other, their hands not wanting to release from each other as Makoto kept her hands firmly on Sora's neck and back while Sora did the same with just his one arm tenderly holding Makoto in the hips as they finally parted, their eyes slowly about to tear up as the emotional stimuli of seeing each other was proving too much for the both of them to handle.

"What...What took you so long Sora?" Makoto said, trying to hold back the tears in her voice as Sora sniffed a little, trying to stiffle his own tears in the process. "Sorry Makoto… Life has been finding ways to keep me busy that's all." Sora replied, the two of them feeling their emotions reach an all time high as they continued to hug each other affectionately. While life had been cruel to them so far… there was one thing that the two were simply glad had not changed.

...The two had managed to reunite with each other… and two broken hearts were now one once more...

Geiru Buredo: Gale Blade

GREETINGS LOST SHEEP OF FANFICTION!? HOW IS EVERYONE DOING!? Well… Looks like we have entered into a Pandemic folks. While I don't specialize in the field of Medicine, I do specialize in the field of writing. Thus I hope that while we live in these trying times, I can continue to deliver to everyone stories that people can enjoy whether they are stuck at home or having to endure working away from the safety of home.

SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT!? WHAT IS GOING TO BE SORA AND MAKOTO'S PLAN NOW!? JUST WHAT DOES THE WORLD HAVE PLANNED FOR OUR TWO HEROES!? AND HOW WILL THE TWO FIGHT AGAINST WHAT THE WORLD PLANS TO GIVE THEM!? Well… in order to find out more, You will have to wait for the next chapter to come out to find out more.