AN: Good God, I never knew the UK could ever get any sunshine and when it does it hits with a bloody vengeance. God almighty it's hot, summer is definitely here but I wish it'd go away, is this punishment for global warming? I'm burning… lost all urge to write… no air conditioning… even sleeping is difficult…but I must continue, thank you to everyone who supported me in my previous chapter and to Innortol who some how always seem to be the first reviewer and I'm sorry for not reviewing you as much but every time I want to say something it has already been said and to the other reviewers I thank you again, anyway this fic is no where near the end so let us continue.
Disclaimer: I do not owe Love Hina
Chapter 11: Fire and ice
Revenge triumphs over death; love sleights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
Francis Beacon 1561-1937: Essays (1625) 'Of Death'
-Hinata Sou forest-
"You must be tired." Malachite looked at the person before him "But you show excellent progress."
"But I still don't know how to use any skills…" Keitaro panted he tried to get up from the floor but failed so he rested on his knees instead.
"You shouldn't expect to turn into a fire skill user in a day, it takes time."
"…"
"Well…" Malachite bent down to pick up a stone and tossed it at Keitaro.
Pang!
"We at least got you to use a barrier properly." He followed the stone with his eyes as it bounced off Keitaro's protective barrier and back onto the floor "You can now maintain it without even thinking."
"Sigh." Keitaro fell onto his back
"You seem disappointed."
"I thought I'd show more progress." He held his palms towards each other in front of his face and fire began to burn in between them.
"You're just like me when I first started." Malachite sat next to him
"This bad?" the flame vanished
"About the same, it took me weeks before I could do anything properly." He ran a hand through his hair "My sensei is quite the oddball."
"What do you mean?"
"You'll know if you try her cooking or rather not." He looked at the sky "Hey, listen I've got to go, you ok finding your way." Keitaro nods "Good, keep practicing by yourself and I'll contact you next week. Bye." He vanished in a burst of dark flame.
"It's only noon." Keitaro noted "Better start walking." He struggled to stand up his muscles fatigued and sore but nether the less he trudged through the forest towards Hinata Sou
-Hinata tea house minutes later-
Clap!
The sounds of the front door sliding open echoed through the empty tea shop.
"Sorry! We're closed" Haruka called out from the kitchen as she made her way out to the door
"I'm sure you can make time."
"!" Haruka saw who was at the door "Kensuke." Her jaw dropped causing her cigarette in her mouth to fall to the floor.
"You have any idea how many years these things take off?" he picked up the cigarette and examined it before it burnt to a stump in his fingers
"What are you doing here?" she managed to ask.
"To talk of course." He sat down and patted the table "Can I get something to drink?"
After a while getting stuff prepared Haruka sat opposite Malachite as she poured tea for him. "Why are you here? Did something happen?"
"You know full well about Keitaro's condition." He sipped the tea, not caring it was still boiling hot. "Someone as strong as you must've sensed the change in time."
"Only a bit but how did you change time."
"It wasn't me. It was Yumiko." She stared at him "She has a natural interest in him as do 'we'." Haruka frowned slightly at that comment "I know you don't like it but he is a Urashima, one of the four great families of Japan."
"So you're here to take him away?" she tensed but what Malachite did next surprised her
"Take him?" he laughed uncontrollably "No!" he continued laughing "What made you think that?"
"But you're here!"
"Doesn't mean anything, it's been decided that we'll let him choose, since I'm already with 'them'. Remember I'm helping by representing the Urashima family, Keitaro's just insurance in case anything happens to me."
"…"
"I've been putting my backside on the line for the Urashima family for the last few hundred years now, and it isn't getting easy."
"What are you getting?"
"I'm just reminding you, as I reminded Hina that the Urashima family owe me, even though it was this very family that killed me all those centuries ago." The air suddenly tensed.
"It was your own hate that drove you to your end." She stated
"… I suppose that's true…" he glanced at her "Do I make you nervous?"
"No."
"I like you. You're just like Hina when she was your age." He smiled "I'm sorry if I make you feel uncomfortable, can't help it."
"It's ok."
"Keitaro reminds me a lot of 'him' from long ago. So pure but a force to be reckoned with, in time he might surpass me."
"I find that hard to believe." Haruka sipped her tea that has finally cooled down
"I'm sure even you could tell the change in him, he's merged with the Hina blade." Haruka dropped her cup as she stared at him "After 500 years the Hina blade has a worthy master again."
"You let him merge with that thing?" Haruka seemed genuinely frightened knowing full well what was to come.
"It had to be done." Silence loomed in the air "I have to go, give Keitaro the scriptures and I'll be back soon." He stood up to leave "By the way, thanks for the tea!" he waved over his shoulder before disappearing through the door.
"Keitaro…" Haruka whispered, for a moment she stayed where she was but deciding not to do nothing she proceed to the storage area in the back where the Hina blade was once kept.
#-#-#
-Spirit World-
"Yuki!" Fran cheerfully called out as she skipped along through the halls of SWPHQ looking for her friend "Found ya!" She pointed at Yuki sitting behind a desk with a mountain of paper on it. "Whoa… another soul eater attack?"
"Hmm? Oh, hey Fran." Yuki finally noticed her Caucasian friend. "What are you doing here?"
"Special delivery for Inspector Kagura Yuki!" Fran held a small box in front of her.
"Is that the phone I asked for?" Fran happily nods "How much do I owe you?"
"Nothing, it was free. I won it but I don't want it." She shoved the box into Yuki's hands.
"Thanks."
"Tell darling I said hi, haven't seen him around for a while." She waltzed out the door.
"Why is she always so cheerful?" Yuki sighed and resumed her paper work "Estimated damages? How should I know!" she read from the page "I'm going to be here for a while.
-Hinata Sou-
"I'm back." Keitaro weakly said
"Welcome back, sempai." Shinobu greeted as usual.
"Hey."
"Ahm, were have you been sempai?" she looked at his dirty cloths
"Oh! Er… a dog chased me and then I tripped over a bin." He laughed hoping it'd be enough to convince her, he felt a bit disheartened considering how much he has lied lately.
"Really? Maybe you should take a bath and I'll clean your cloths."
"That would be good." He headed for the stairs "I'll leave the cloths in my room."
"OK." A while later when Keitaro was in the middle of his bath and having finishing her chores in the kitchen Shinobu went to the manager's room to get his dirty clothing "La lala…" she hummed picking up his clothing then she noticed that his bin was full and being the person that she is Shinobu thought she help her sempai to take out the trash "There's a lot of…" she saw what was in the bin "Blood?" she picked up the bloody bandages
"Shinobu?" Keitaro's voice can be heard from around the corner "Something wrong?" She quickly stuffed the bandages back into the bin took his dirty cloths and met him in front of his room
"Nothings wrong!" she quickly spurted out "I have to do the laundry know!" she held his clothing out to him to say 'I've got to go' and dashed for the first floor.
"That was weird."
-Later that evening-
"Hello everyone, I'm back." Motoko announced
"Hey!" Su latched on to her
"Motoko." Naru gave her a nod
"Naru sempai." She nodded back
"Hey! You're back! Whilst you were away a new tenant came in." Kitsune stepped into the living room a sake bottle in hand.
"Then I should greet her."
"Nah, she ain't back. Probably still at the hospital."
"Did something happen?" Motoko asked
"No she works there, get this, she's the same nurse that took care of Keitaro when he was in a coma." Kitsune plopped down on the sofa.
"Then I should thank her for taking care of our incompetent manager." She looked around "Speaking of which, where is he and Shinobu?"
"Shinobu isn't feeling well." Naru told her "And Keitaro, he's in his room." She acted as if she didn't care. Motoko was about to ask about Naru's manner but a hand from Kitsune suggested not to.
"Then I shall retreat to my room." She bowed and took her leave "Wait." She stopped in front of her room "Someone has been in my room." She cautiously slid open her door "The Hina blade?" she saw that the blade was missing from its stand and she knew who was to blame.
"These books are really old." Keitaro looked through the old family books Haruka had given him just before dinner ("How did Haruka san know I would need these books? She just gave them to me and said nothing. But I am grateful…") he studied the pictures in the book and somehow he felt he's seen them before and was quite confident that he could perform them ("I wonder…")
"Urashima!" the door suddenly burst open revealing a very angry Motoko
"Argh! Motoko! I didn't hear you come back!" he cowered
"How dare you invade my room and take my sword!" she pointed her bokken at him "You will now pay!" she raised her bokken and launched a ki attack at him, although the attack was powerful it came to a complete stop a meter before Keitaro as if hitting a brick wall "?"
("That's right, I have a barrier up.") "Motoko, let me explain." He scurried to his closest and pulled out the item Malachite gave "You see, I needed the Hina blade back for personal reasons but I knew you didn't have a sword so I asked a friend to get me another one, so he got me this for you." He gave her the item. Suspiciously she unwrapped the cloth to uncover a Muramasa several feet in length but incredibly light.
"This… this is a…" she pulled the blade out of its sheath and saw the light reflecting off the brilliant sliver blade obviously crafted by a master sword smith "Thank you, Urashima, I will cherish this sword." She bowed speechless by such an act "And I apologise for my actions before."
"It's ok, my friend chose it for me."
"Your friend must obviously have a keen eye." She marvelled at the sword one more time before putting it back in its sheath "I was told we have a new tenant, is that correct?"
"Oh, yeah she'll be back in the evening, she has a lot of work to do."
"Then if you'll excuse me, I wish to practice with my sword." She bowed closing the door.
"I'm glad she likes it." He sighed glad that his head was still attached to his body
-A while later-
"What a hell of a day." Yuki collapsed on the sofa
"You're back." Keitaro came down to greet her "Why so late?"
"There was an incident involving two soul eaters and I had to file a report." She looked at the ceiling "And Edison didn't come in until late so I had to wait, when I saw him he had bags under his eyes. It seems like he hasn't slept in days, wonder what he's been doing."
"I'm sorry I couldn't help." Keitaro looked at his feet in guilt
"Don't worry, it was easy. Nothing I couldn't handle." ("Expect the cost of repairs…") she sank into the sofa a bit more.
"You ok?" he asked worryingly
"I'm fine."
"Since you're back I want you to meet our last tenant." He indicated for her to follow, she shrugged her shoulders and followed him to the roof where Motoko was training.
("That SE, it seems so familiar.") Yuki thought as she followed Keitaro ("But it seems different.")
"There she is." Keitaro stopped at the top of the stairs. There the two saw Motoko swinging her new sword.
("…") Yuki looked at Motoko in close examination
"Ah, Motoko-chan!" he called out to her to stop "This is Kagura Yuki, the new tenant." He approached the swordswoman and told Yuki to come forward.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Motoko nodded.
"Yeah." Yuki slowly replied ("I feel like I've meet her before or something like that… but it seems so vague. It can't be her… she completely disappeared a long time ago, over soul? Reincarnation? I… I don't know…") she was so lost in her own thoughts she didn't realise Motoko speaking to her.
"Yuki-san?"
"I'm sorry, I was lost in thought." She laughed nervously
"As I said, thank you for taking care of Urashima whilst he was at the hospital. He can be so useless at times." Keitaro felt a jab at his pride.
"No problem." She extended her hand and Motoko shook it but instantly fell to her knees holding her arm
"Argh." ("It feels like my blood just froze in my arm.") she grunted in pain
"Motoko-chan!" Keitaro went to her side
"Motoko-san!" Yuki followed suit ("I can't believe I lost my concentration like that.")
"It's nothing it's just muscle fatigue." Motoko got up "I think I will get some sleep."
"What just happened?" Keitaro stared at her retreating form "Yuki-san?" he turned to her but saw her leaving as well "Where are you going?"
"I'm not feeling too well." She said down heartily
"Oh." He was left standing under the moon light by himself.
("What just happened? When I touched Yuki-san's hand it felt so cold, it was coming from her, it felt like death…") Motoko thought to herself ("Why?")
("There's something about her that makes me feel strange, it feels like… hate? But why?") Yuki asked herself laying on her futon ("But I've never met her before, have I?")
-Next day-
For the early half of the day nothing happened much at Hinata Sou, it being her day off Yuki wondered around the town a bit getting to know the place better but that was a excuse to avoid Motoko there was something about her that made her feel uncomfortable and that was exactly how Motoko felt about her. Yuki continues this thought as she walked through town not paying much attention to her surroundings which almost got her ran over so she decided to sit down at the closest shop and think.
("Sigh, I just can't figure it out… there's something about her… but what?") Yuki ruffled her hair in frustration.
"Here you go, miss." The waitress came up to her table and placed a pot of coffee on the table along with a cup and spoon.
"Thanks." She poured a few spoons of sugar into the cup then the coffee ("Maybe I shouldn't think so much about this… its getting annoying.") she stirred her cup. ("I'll deal with it another time.") she decided and drank her cup.
-Hinata Sou-
"No, Su, wait!" Keitaro pleaded as he backed into a corner, Su slowly but menacingly walked towards him carrying a large cannon like weapon.
"This won't hurt at all, it's my new 'Particle Deteriation Cannon' capable of turning diamond to gas in seconds!" she grinned evilly
"That'll kill someone! Help!" he called out
"It's my new mecha-tama's main weapon and you're the perfect test subject." The machine hummed to life.
"I keep telling you, stop testing on humans! Especially me!"
"Yah!" the cannon fired a large beam of light at Keitaro.
"!" he covered his head and expected the worst "?" but nothing happened "What the?" he opened his eyes and saw that he was perfectly intact but the area around him was another story, the walls and floor were melted and giving off fumes a bit of the ceiling falls to the floor and melts like ice on a hot summer day.
"?" Su looked at Keitaro then at her cannon "Must need recalibration." She said and went to her room
"What happened?" the barrier around him flickered for a slight second. "Oh." He looked around again "Damn." He just remembered who would have to clean up the mess.
-Hours later-
"Done." Keitaro applied the last nail in to the board "Phew." He wiped the sweat from his brow "Hmm." He looked at his hand "Maybe I'll go train so that I'll be ready next time Kensuke comes along." After clearing up Keitaro went to his room changed and took out his board along with his gun and books, looking out his window he checked that no one was around before jumping out on his board and took off.
"Hey, Keitaro?" a voice called out from above the manager's room "You there?" the board that covered the hole on the ceiling suddenly moved. "I thought I heard him." Naru peered down
"Is anyone here?" a man yelled at the front door
"Who is it?"
"I'm the cable guy." The man replied
"Cable guy? We ordered cable?" Naru queried and went to see the man
-Hinata forest-
"I think it was here." Keitaro hoped off his board onto the forest floor "Let's start." He summoned the Hina blade, holstered his gun and began his training in the art of fighting
-2 weeks later Hinata forest-
Clang!
Dark steel parried dark steel as two swordsmen clashed at each other, one swordsman parried the other's attack effortlessly with one arm making it look easy, the other swordsman looked as though he was struggling even though he held onto his blade with both hands he was still being overpowered.
"Rargh!" one of the swordsman roared and pushed the other on to the ground.
"?" The fallen swordsman wasn't fast enough to react as a sword was held against his throat his own sword a few yards away.
"You're getting better." Malachite commented taking the sword away
"Thanks." Keitaro got up before falling back on to his backside again
"But you still attack too recklessly." Keitaro looked disappointed "But you're getting there."
"Sigh." Keitaro let out a big sigh as the numerous cuts and bruises across his body began to heal instantaneously too fast even for him
"Your control of your SE is getting much better."
"Thanks to you teaching me how."
"Nonsense, over the 3 weeks I've only sparred with you 3times and you're getting better through your own, I'm merely giving you hints." Malachite shrugged off the complement.
"Yeah but still." He got up now fully recovered "Thanks"
"None needed."
"I give you everything I have and you don't even have a scratch." The manager looked at the criminal up and down noticing that his clothing wasn't even dirty
"I have plenty of combat experience." He ran a hand through his hair "Speaking of which, have you been into a proper fight yet?"
"No." Keitaro merely shook his head
"I see." Malachite pondered for a moment "Never mind, I need to get back." He suddenly blurted out.
"Same time next week?"
"No, there's no point." Keitaro was stunned "From now on it's something you have to do yourself, find out what fighting style best suits you, develop your own skills. Don't worry, you'll do fine."
"How will I know?"
"Trust me, you will. It's in your soul." Malachite disappeared in a flicker of a flame
"What do you mean 'in my soul'?" The sun began to sink slowly in the west illuminating the sky in bright orange and yellow, the day was over.
#-#-#
-Few days later-
"It's been too peaceful since the last attack." Yuki mumbled as she channel surfed in her room "I mean they even gave me a few extra day offs." She stopped on the spirit world shopping channel "That good I suppose but I wonder what the Prophets are up to?" she switched to another channel "Sigh" she turned off her TV "So many channels but nothing good on." She rested her head on the table reached into her trousers pocket and took out her cell phone and turned it on, even though she's had it for quite a while she can't even figure out how to text with it, right now she struggled with the menu options "What's Tetris?" Just then her phone's tone began to play and vibrate "Is this it?" she thought until a sign flashed across the screen indicating it was a call from Fran. "Hi." She answered and immediately held the phone away from her due to volume of the voice on the other end.
"Where the Hell have you been?" Fran screamed
"Calm down, what's going on?" She slowly brought the phone back to her ear.
"It's Reptile! He just kidnapped a scientist, we're tracking him now! Hurl your ass here ASAP! Keitaro's already on his way, meet him at the Living Gate!" Yuki jumped to her feet pocketed her phone got all her gear and whistled for Seeker and in a second they flew out the window.
-Spirit world-
"So, Fran, what's going on?" Yuki held the phone between her ear and shoulder as she flew towards the edge of Neon district with Keitaro close behind.
"About 40 minutes ago Reptile ambushed a group of SWP officers guarding Dr Iowa and took him hostage. He's not alone, he's got cronies so be careful and your orders are to take out Reptile and rescue the doctor." Fran informed Yuki over the phone her voice serious and stern
"Right, I'll call you afterwards. Get some officers to restrain the journalists and help the civilians." She hung up "Kei, we're landing, I can sense our target." Keitaro nods and the two began their descent. "There!" Yuki pointed to a group of 7 humanoids with reptile in the lead carrying an unconscious person on his shoulder. "Stop!" Yuki pulled out her gun and fired one of the humanoids fell to the ground its leg bleeding the others turn to look.
"Damn you, inspector!" Reptile spat and instructed the others to attack.
"?" Yuki readied her gun as the injured soul eater hurled itself at her, a bullet went through the creature's chest but with it's remaining strength it latched itself on to Yuki holding her in place, worst of all she couldn't move her arms. The other 5 gave off a hideous screech and lunged at her ("What a low move! But I can handle it!") She gathered her SE and prepared to freeze all of them when suddenly 5 gunshots were heard and all 5 of the soul eaters fell to the ground each with a hole in their heads. "What the?" the soul eater that had previously latched on to her now dissolved she was free to move, she turned around and saw Keitaro both his arms outstretched a smoking gun in his hands, the gun she had given him a few weeks ago.
"Did I just do that?" Keitaro asked a look of horror on his face "It's just that when I saw them lunge at you, I just… my body moved on its own and…" he visibly shook in fright.
("I didn't know he was that good.") Yuki thought looking at the dissolving bodies ("Very good, 5 shots, each one right between the eyes.")
"You!" Reptile was furious at Keitaro's actions and his neck began to balloon, tilting his head back Reptile spat a viscous green liquid at him.
"Kei!" Yuki tried to raise a barrier but it was not needed as Keitaro recovered himself placed his forearm in front of his face and blocked the liquid with his barrier. ("Since when was his barrier that strong?") His next action surprised Yuki further Keitaro with a look of determination on his face, the fear evidently gone, quickly hoped to the side kicked a trash can at Reptile obscuring the creature's vision and fired a bullet at him. Reptile not being able to see clearly but still can hear the gunshot quickly dodged to the side the bullet just missing his head but flew past the side of his head deafening his ear.
"Argh-ss!" he hollered in pain and dropped the doctor as he covered his ear hole.
("It's like he moves like a man possessed, a completely different person.") Yuki looked on in awe, in a matter of seconds Keitaro had over souled 5 tough looking soul eater, blocked a fatal attack from a dangerous criminal and almost over souling him as well.
"Damn you!" Reptile turned tail and ran
"!" Yuki regained her composure and gave chase "Kei! Look after the doctor!" Yuki hoped over the unconscious Doctor and fired a few bullets at Reptile "Damn." She saw the bullets bounce off his barrier ("He reinforced it! But even if he didn't I doubt the Barrette M1934's bullets would've done much to him in the first place, in that case…") she put away her gun and aimed her palm at him firing a ball of ice at him which did the trick freezing his arm.
"!" Reptile winched as he ran faster past people towards the city centre park
"Too many people!" she found herself having to weave through people "SWP!" she held her badge in her hand and people immediately cleared way as many recognised her and knew trouble was a foot. This pursuit ended when Reptile found himself in the middle of the park surrounded by heavily armed officers, though they seemed more like commandos.
"Surrender!" One of them shouted.
"Give it up, Reptile." The men stepped aside and let Yuki pass through
"…" Reptile looked around him and inwardly cursed "…"
"Men! Get ready!" Yuki signalled the men. Even though out numbered and having a frozen arm Reptile was prepared to go down fighting as he readied himself to block the on coming attack and counter just then some of the men were ignited in dark flame.
"Well, it seems like I came in time." Malachite appeared next to Reptile
"Malachite!" Yuki and Reptile exclaimed at the same time. Malachite turned to his companion in crime saw his frozen arm, leaning a bit to the side Malachite placed a gloved hand over the ice and it thawed in an instant.
"Thank you." Reptile clenched and unclenched his hand the feeling in his arm finally returning.
"Reptile, go back to the cathedral and rest up." Malachite faced Yuki he stared at her through his mask. "You'll just get in my way." He raised a hand to stop Reptile from protesting "Besides against her you're at a disadvantage."
"Fine." The lizard flickered his tongue "But I want her soul crystal."
("You weakling.") Malachite thought as he gave no answer. Reptile bent down and burrowed into the ground disappearing from sight.
"You bastard!" one of the surviving commandos screamed about to fire at Malachite
"Stop!" Yuki shouted and the man looked at her strangely "Gather everyone that survived, help the injured and move the over souled, also evacuate all civilians from the park and keep them out." She gave out her command "I'll handle him." She pointed her Yari at Malachite.
"Yes ma'am." He replied knowing that was the best choice of action "All units to me!" he spoke into his com as he went searching for survivors trying to avoid the intense black flames.
"You've gone too far this time." Yuki took off her jacket and took a stance.
"What do you intend to do?" He removed his hat and held his dark blade in front of his masked face.
"Over Soul you!" She charged at him aiming for his heart, in response Malachite plants his feet firmly on the ground leaning back avoiding the attack, Yuki using the momentum drops to her knee and delivers a sweeping kick to Malachite's back, before it could connect Malachite pushes his feet off the ground with his toes his body arching in mid air bringing a leg up intend to hit Yuki's head, in a blink of an eye Yuki plunges her Yari into the ground acting as supporting throws her body to the side landing in a squat position swings her Yari in a upward arch with enough force to slice a truck seeing this coming Malachite twirls so that his chest rather than his back was facing the Yari and brought his sword vertically across his chest blocking the devastating blow but it still had enough force to send him upwards which did little to him as he somersaulted through the air landing gently a few feet away from Yuki. A few commandos that were still left looked at the two in awe, to them it was a blur in motion, and they wondered how they moved like that, were they human? Questions like that went through their minds. "What are you still doing here? Didn't I tell your commander that you should all leave?" Yuki shouted her eyes not leaving the man in front of her.
"Sorry ma'am!" they practically fell over each other scrambling away.
"Such incompetence." Malachite looked at the retreating commandos "I expected no less from you, inspector!" he smiled beneath his mask
"Heh heh, you're not bad yourself. The soul eaters I usually fight go down in one go, it'd be nice to let loose now and then." She grinned a malicious grin and prepared for another strike.
"I feel the same way." He clenched his fist in front of his face. For the next few seconds neither moved as they observed the other a hot breeze blew through the air, the sounds of people calling out to each other can be heard over the crackling noise of the still burning black fire.
"Kori Habari! Ice Lancet" Yuki moved her hand in front of her in an arch movement leaving a trail of ice in the air and from it 5 icicles shot forth towards Malachite.
"Hono Ya! Flame Arrow" Malachite spread his arms apart causing flaming arrows to form and counter Yuki's attack. The two attacks exploded on contact.
"Fuyu Yoru! Winter Night" A freak blizzard carrying freezing snow and shards of ice blew at Malachite through the smoke.
"Meido hi Taki! Hell fire Ignition a wave of fire erupted forth and nullified the attack. Eventually the smoke cleared.
"Seems like we're quite evenly matched." Yuki commented
"Really? Let's take to the sky shall we?"
"You can't fly without a medium…" she was cut short as Malachite's long coat began to flutter and move as if it had a mind of its own, it slowly lifted itself off his back and in a burst of flame formed two bat/devil like wings attached to his back. "Your kidding?" ("What type of SE control is that?") she looked on as he flipped his wings and took to the sky, she was about to follow but had to defend herself against another flame attack ("Damn it, he knows my ice skills only have medium range at best.")
"This is it Inspector!" Malachite held his sword above him when he let go of it it stayed in the air, thrusting both hands towards the park below he gathered SE for his next attack "Hono Hashireru Flame burst" a sphere of fire formed in his hands, it grew until it burst and wave after wave of fireballs rain down on the ground below.
"!" Yuki concentrated hard on her barrier as it was pelted with fireballs after a few minutes it subsided. "Damn you, Malachite!" she looked around the area was completely demolished. "I need to put out the fire but its not normal fire, damn!" As if an act of God it began to rain "That's good but normal rain won't do!" But to her surprise the flames began to dwindle she reached out and caught a rain drop "This is…"
"This is a water skill technique." Malachite mouthed to himself as the rain continued to pour ("Wait! That means!") he franticly turned around in the air and soon enough he spotted a figure far away at the edge of his eyesight standing in the middle of the ocean ("I knew it, only she has this much power.") he looked down and saw that in a few seconds all of his flame was completely put out "Inspector! We'll meet another time!" he shouted before flying off.
"Grr… I'll get you next time." She stared at the sky "But I'm more concerned as to who could've done this?" she looked at the burnt park "Malachite's flame attacks are very powerful, who could've possibly have that kind of power to put out his attacks like that? And so easily as well?"
End of chapter 11
AN: Finally, another chapter done, that took long enough. 5 attacks in one chapter don't know if I can keep this up but I hope you all liked it as you all seemed to want action judging from the reviews of the last chapter, there will be more fire and ice attack in the making along with water, air, metal, lightning, earth, light, shadow the whole shebang and of course 'void' as well, it'll become more apparent in later chapters. Anyway not much to say this time except the weather has gotten more bearable and so until next time, bye.
