Chapter 6

Tatsumi woke up again in the black void.

"Deagora?" He asked.

"Yes master?" Deagora said as he took shape out of darkness into the dragon Tatsumi first saw.

"What was that? What was 'Deagora axios'?" Tatsumi asked.

"Deagora Axios, Deagora I am worthy" Deagora said. "It is a trump card only I can use, It is basically when I decide if my master is worthy enough for me to use my draconic essence to heal there wounds, unfortunately this can only be used up to three times, with time this power can be used on others but it has to be one of the three times. As it puts the body under great amounts of strain." Deagora explained.

Tatsumi opened his eyes, he was back at HQ in the infirmary, his stomach ached so much. He took a pained breath. His vision cleared as he looked around to see Mine resting her head on his bed, sleeping soundly sat in a chair. She had bandages and cast around both of her arms. Tatsumi smiled slightly, "See everyone here is soft" He thought to himself. He climbed out of bed quietly wrapped a blanket around the sleeping Mine, it was early morning, probably everyone would be sleeping, which is good news for Tatsumi he could take a quiet stroll to the river, maybe a soak would be a good thing.

He arrived at the river took of his top and walked in slowly, he looked at Deagora on his left hand.

"That guy beat me because I wasn't strong enough" He said slowly, "So to deal with that in the future I must continually change the situation, deagora prima" Tatsumi said as a jet of fire burst from the ring and took the shape of the metal dragon, it landed next to him.

"Master you should be resting not using your power yet" Deagora said, the dragon seemed to even portray Deagora's emotions as the dragon cocked it's head and even gave what could be a look of concern.

"We can create any weapon out of fire right?" Tatsumi asked.

"Well yes, you can" Deagora said as Tatsumi summoned his two flaming swords.

"Then we need to train, I want you to keep attacking me, force me to change the situation, don't let me use the same weapon for too long." Tatsumi said smiling, he jumped on a rock and face the little dragon.

"As you wish master" Deagora said with amusement in his voice as the dragon jumped and spat three fire balls straight at Tatsumi, he battered the first aside, then the second and was forced to put both blades in the way. Deagora soared into the air as it turned back on itself and let out a jet stream of flames, Tatsumi was forced to change the blades into a shield which kept the flames away from him. Deagora land in front of him, it smashed it's tail into the ground next to it, as rocks and boulders became dislodged. It then threw a boulder at Tatsumi, who changed the shield into a gauntlet and smashed his armored fist into the boulder breaking it into pieces. He saw an even bigger boulder flying towards him, he changed the gauntlet into a hammer and smashed it aside, he then saw more fireballs flying his way, he changed the hammer to a bow staff and battered aside balls of flame with ease. Tatsumi then jumped of the rock and changed the staff to a bow and pulled the string back to release a volley of flaming arrows.

Inside the HQ

Bulat heard sounds of fighting, he instantly panicked thinking that they followed Tatsumi back last night he rushed out Incrusio in hand only to see Tatsumi practicing with a metal dragon near the river. He smiled to himself, "what a tough cutie" he said to himself smiling.

Then during the fight Tatsumi doubled over in pain and coughed up blood, the dragon disengaged and landed next to him, supporting him by the use of it's wing.

Bulat armored up and jumped over there, "Hey Tatsumi need a hand" he said as he landed next to him.

"Hey Bro" Tatsumi said between coughing fits of blood.

"You should be resting, with what happened yesterday you should be taking it easy." Bulat said as he carried Tatsumi back only to notice that they had an audience of Lubbock, Leone, Akame, Kurome and the Boss.

"That was very impressive Tatsumi" the boss said as Bulat gentle rested him on the floor.

"What was?" Tatsumi said between grunts of pain.

"Well rescuing Mine and Sheele" Kurome said

"You are working your way through Night Raid members who haven't been saved by you" Leone said smiling.

"The fact that you are still alive and training is the most impressive fact" Lubbock said arms crossed.

"How's Sheele?" Tatsumi asked realising he hasn't seen her yet.

"She is resting, the bullet went through her collar bone, it did significant damage, she'll be off missions for a while now but thats better then her being dead" The boss said with a smile.

Infirmary

"Ow..ow" Mine moaned in pain as she lifted her head, when she saw the empty bed she panicked wondering where Tatsumi is she wobbled out of the infirmary each step sent shooting pains all throughout her body, she tried her hardest not to cry out in pain. She struggled even for breath. She managed to get herself to the main hall under much pain and she saw Tatsumi limp back into the main hall limping a little bit, upon seeing her, he rushed to her side.

"Mine you should be resting come on let's get you back to the infirmary" Tatsumi said voice full of concern, he took Mine of her feet and carried her to the infirmary.

"I don't need to be carried you jerk" Mine said, which only made Tatsumi smile as he gently placed her on the bed.

"Rest for now, you can shoot me later" Tatsumi said as he headed for the main hall.

The imperial palace

"We've lost more generals to the rebel army my emperor!" One of the advisors said kneeling in front of a green haired child and a fat grey haired man who was eating large amounts of raw meat.

"They are growing more powerful by the day, we should eliminate them soon" another advisor said.

"STOP PANICKING!" The child said as he stood from his throne. "The rebel army is located to the south of the empire, we could crush them at any second, but we have a greater threat to deal with do we not prime minster?"

"You are right of course your highness" Prime Minister Honest said between mouthfuls of food. "We should eliminate Night Raid, especially as they have a fire wielder. I believe as soon as Esdeath has finished crushing the Northern Tribe we should call her back and assign her to kill every single last one of them." He said

North of the Empire

"Is there no one to challenge me?" A blue haired women said wearing a white uniform as she stood atop a mountain of frozen corpses. She turned to see a messenger run towards her.

"Lady Esdeath I bring a letter asking for you to return to the capitol as soon as you have finished crushing the northern lands." The messenger said as he read the message shaking in fear.

"Well looks like we have a job to do, let's go beasts" she gestured to three individuals kneeling to the side of her. One looked like a child, he had blonde hair and wore a black uniform. The second was a young man with long blonde hair carrying a giant axe and finally the last individual was a grey haired man wearing the same black uniform. "Yes my lady" they all said in usion.