Chapter 13: Shadows
Entilza: Well, we're about halfway through my yami's gym challenge. He's gotten through half of the machines and has five hours left.
Shadow Entilza: I swear you'll regret this!
Entilza: Oh really? We'll see, if you survive this. Now back to work! You're wasting time!
Shadow Entilza: This will just make me stronger. Meaning it will be that much easier to beat you.
Entilza: We'll see just how strong you are after you're finished.
Shadow Entilza: Yes we will.
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Stormrose: Thanks. I know. I want one too. I've seen all the episodes too. I was going to add a chapter to bring in Flora, and a chapter where the Trix sisters are ambushed. Does that sound good?
Hikaru was floating above herbed meditating. She did this to focus her mind. Now that Derek had seen her at full power, he knew how to beat her. Hopefully she still had some tricks left.
She sensed someone coming and resumed Steven's form and lowered herself back to the bed. Steven's mother came in.
"Hey Mom what's up?" Steven asked.
"I need your help to move one of the chairs to my office," she said.
"Sure," he replied. His mother had just gotten a second job as a medical transcriber and was redoing one of the rooms to serve at her office. Steven followed her to the dining room, where six heavy chairs surrounded a circular oak table.
"This one," she said, picking out the one nearest to the door. Steven took one side and his mother took the other. His mother grunted when she picked up her side. The chairs were made of thick wood and were very heavy. Steven barely flinched. If she'd wanted too, Hikaru could have carried the whole chair on one finger.
Steven's mother faltered on the concrete steps going down to the walkway. The chair slipped out of her grasp, so without thinking Steven grabbed it and his mother's arm. She looked at Steven in great surprise.
"Thanks," she said. "How did you manage to keep a hold of the chair?" She asked.
"I shifted the weight so it pulled me back then I pulled on you to keep from falling on my butt," he answered. His mother seemed to accept this. After they set the chair down Steven went back to his room.
Steven's moth though, was deep in thought. She knew Steven wasn't strong enough to carry that chair on his own. Still, he'd done it. She was just confused.
While Hikaru was continuing her meditation, Tyler was still thinking about what it had been like having powers. Sure he'd been under Derek's mind control, but it had just felt so incredible. During the battle with Hikaru he'd felt on top of the world. He wanted to feel that way again.
Derek was sitting in his home, allowing the latest wave of energy generated by his device to be absorbed into his body. With this new energy and the data he'd gathered during Hikaru's fight with Tyler would ensure he was victorious the next time they fought. That time had now come.
Steven was watching TV when he felt it. Derek had returned. He walked outside and immediately the Shadow Field came up. Derek appeared a moment later.
"Don't you ever get tired of getting your butt handed to you?" Hikaru asked once she'd returned to her true form.
"Oh but this time I will win," he replied, surrounding himself with a bright blue aura. "Take this! Crimson blast!" He called, firing a beam of ruby energy. Hikaru blocked it but was knocked off her feet.
"You've gotten stronger," she commented. "But so have I!" She said, summoning the prism crystal. "PRISM, CRYS- hey!" She cried as Derek formed an energy whip and tore the prism crystal from her neck.
"I know all about your power item, and now it's mine," he said. He tried to absorb its energy, but all he got was a huge shock.
"No one but me can use the Prism Crystal. It's useless to you," Hikaru said. Derek smiled.
"Perhaps, but now you can't transform so I have the advantage," he said, firing another Crimson Blast at her. She dodged but the shock wave knocked her into a tree.
"He's right, she thought as she picked herself up. Every attack she threw at Derek was rebuffed easily.
"This is it for you," Derek taunted. He began forming a fireball in his hands.
"I don't think so!" A voice called out. "Ice Coffin!" A blizzard froze Derek's hands and smothered the fireball. Then a certain blue haired witch appeared.
"Icy!" Hikaru called out.
"You bet. Just thought you could use a hand." She said, smiling.
"But aren't' you supposed to be evil?"
"Only in the TV show. Remember what Bloom said. We know what our characters are doing but we don't have to do the same. In the real Winx Club realm the three schools get along pretty well. Sure we play pranks and we do have the occasional spat, but Bloom and I are actually pretty good friends. Even though we also happen to be each other's favorite sparring partners."
"Less talk more action!" Hikaru yelled as she barely dodged another blast from Derek.
"Right. I came here to give you something. When you were reborn, it wasn't just the good girls who gave you powers. Some of us evil divas got in on the action too. Our energy though, separated from the good energy somehow. Here, take this!" Icy called, throwing something to Hikaru.
Hikaru caught the thing and opened her hand. She was holding what looked like a black version of her Prism Crystal.
"What's this?" She asked, dodging another of Derek's blast and throwing a Rainbow Lash back at him, buying herself a little time.
"It's your dark power item. It's called the Shadow Prism," Icy answered. "And unless you want to end up six feet under I suggest you use it."
Hikaru looked at the Shadow Prism and decided.
Ok, here goes. SHADOW, PRISM, POWER!" She called and was enveloped in a swirling black cloud. She screamed in pain as a new energy flooded into her body. Tyler, his body immune to the Shadow Field, saw what had just happened.
"What's going on?" He asked.
"Hikaru is simply adjusting to her new energy," Icy replied, watching intently as Hikaru changed.
Hikaru felt herself becoming darker, more evil. Her cloths vanished and black energy began swirling around her body. It solidified into let black bots and fingerless elbow length fighting gloves, and a rather skimpy black v-neck tube top and min-skirt. Her hair and angel wings both turned raven black, with blood red streaks running down her hair. Her nails grew half an inch long and razor sharp and the crystal went into a black collar on her neck. When she opened her eyes they had changed. They were now crimson red, with black irises. A dark smile spread across her face, showing her two sharpened vampire like teeth.
"Ah. Much better," she breathed, a vibration moving through the air and sending shivers down everyone's spine. "Now, shall we continue?" She asked, her aura now crimson.
Derek was actually getting scared. Hikaru's energy was much stronger than before, and she now looked like she wanted to kill him, very slowly and painfully.
Hikaru sprang into action in a blur of motion. She passed right in front of Derek, stopping a few feet away. Then Derek felt a stinging on his check. He passed his hand over it and it came away crimson.
Hikaru brought up her hand, showing the blood on her nails. She casually licked the blood off one. Icy and her sisters were beaming.
"Now she's perfect," Darcy remarked. Her other sisters only nodded, focused entirely upon the girl who was about to go into overdrive on the anime hunter.
Hikaru nailed Derek with a spinning heel kick that sent him flying into a tree, splintering the trunk. Then she drove her fist into his gut, causing him to cough up blood.
That's for coming after me in the first place," she said, grabbing Derek's arm and swinging his around until a loud pop was heard. Then she threw him through both walls of the garage. "That's for my brother." She ran in fast forward again and embedded her fingers in Derek's chest up to the wrist and pulled it out in a flood of crimson blood.
"And that's just for fun."
Derek staggered back to his feet. He looked down and saw the terrible wound he'd taken. Hikaru was still smiling that sick smile of hers.
"Are you done, or do you want some more," she asked, her smile widening.
Derek vanished, leaving only the puddle of blood. That went away with the Shadow Field. Hikaru then looked up at Icy, Darcy and Stormy.
"Well, how did I do?" She asked, glancing at her blood covered hand. The witches were actually in tears.
"That was incredibly," Icy said, taking hold of Hikaru's clean hand. "I had no idea you could be that ruthless."
"Neither did I. Man, it feels so good to be so bad," she said, returning to her normal form, the blood vanishing as well. Then she looked over and saw Tyler. He was shaking and looked like he was about to faint.
"I guess I'd better explain al this to him," she said. "Actually, I think it's high time I told my family the truth. I'll do it tomorrow when my Dad gets home from work. He's always in a bad mood right then. I'd like you three to be there too if you wouldn't mind."
"Of course we'll be there," Icy said, still smiling. "We always help our sisters. Consider yourself an official member of the Trix Club."
"Thanks," Hikaru said. "So I guess I'll see you tomorrow," she said as she headed over to explain to Tyler what had just happened.
How was that? Sorry if it was a little bloody. What do you think of Shadow Hikaru? In the next chapter Hikaru will reveal her true self to her parents and Derek will begin his ultimate plan to rule the anime worlds. Star tuned and don't forget to review! See ya soon!
ENTILZA