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Target 15: The ice wolf himself
Kotsu swallows the blue pill he got from Reborn and right as he does a train drives by at incredible speed making Geraldino lose sight of him. As the train disappears from sight Geraldino sees Kotsu jumping at him with an angry look on his face and the purple flame on his forehead, however, his clothes are still intact somehow, even though he entered dying will mode. He winds his fist back for a hard punch and Geraldino blocks it with his sword.
"I WILL DEFEAT YOU AND RESCUE FUMIE WITH MY DYING WILL!" Kotsu yells off the top of his lungs.
Ren blinks a little and seems very surprised by Kotsu's sudden shift in attitude.
"W-what's going on with him? He was so afraid just a second ago…" He says and Tsugemora chuckles.
"You're a real idiot Ren. Nii-san is just that awesome…" He says and coughs a bit.
"I guess that's part of his character huh…" Ren says and Kotsu pushes his attack through Geraldino's block and the older swordsman slides back just a little bit before pushing back and sending Kotsu away making him land on the rails. However right as he lands Kotsu jumps forward again and Geraldino does the same striking at Kotsu with his sword. Kotsu puts up his left arm to block and tries hitting back with his right, but Geraldino's powerful strike sends him flying to the side before he can get a chance to do so. He tumbles a bit but is quickly on his feet and Geraldino looks at his sword.
"It looks like I'm not striking you hard enough! That dying will mode sure knows how to make your clothes and body TOUGH! I like it!" He yells and Ren gets a slight chill. 'That guy's a little… too much into character…' He thinks as Geraldino jumps forward and he exchanges a few strikes with Kotsu before the two end in a stalemate with Kotsu having both his hands crossed and Geraldino's sword stuck right in the middle. The two look each other straight in the eyes with Geraldino having a rather cocky, calm and confident look compared to Kotsu's angry and determined glare. Kotsu pushes with all his might and manages to take a single step forward and force Geraldino back slightly.
"You little…" He says under his breath and pushes harder, but Kotsu isn't giving in and manages to break Geraldino's attack and land a solid punch right in his stomach sending him flying backwards. Midair, he does a backflip and lands in kneeling position with his sword stabbed in the ground grabbing his stomach from the pain. "This kid… don't tell me…" He says and looks at Kotsu coming right at him. He pulls his sword out of the ground and blocks Kotsu's quick consecutive attacks with a counter strike, Kotsu's fist not getting damaged due to the added toughness of his dying will mode. Geraldino's pushed back again.
"You…? YOU'RE NEO VONGOLA SECONDO AREN'T YOU?! ANSWER ME!" He yells and Kotsu clenches his.
"I AM! AND I WILL DEFEAT YOU!" He yells and Geraldino dodges another attack and jumps back onto the station platform. He takes out a ring with a large blue gem imbedded in it.
"Here I didn't want my tricks to be revealed until I battled him… but if you really ARE him then I have no reason not to!" He yells and Ren looks at the strange ring.
"Do you know what that is Tsugemora?" Tsugemora nods slowly.
"There's a reason why his underlings are named the ice wolves… and it's not because they all have ice-themed powers… but in the mafia world… Geraldino is known simply as 'ice wolf' Geraldino," He says coughing a bit more, but still manages to sit up. The ring on Geraldino's finger suddenly erupts in an incredibly deep blue fire that shimmers slightly making it look a little bit like the reflection of the sun in water. The inner core is deep blue while the further out it goes the lighter it becomes almost looking white on the outermost layer. He takes his sword in the hand with the now booming blue flame. He holds his sword in front of himself pointing it upwards. "FROST BITE!" He yells and the entire sword suddenly becomes covered in the blue flame, but almost as soon as it appears it all turns to ice making his sword a bit longer and gives it extra spikes of ice on the sides. His hand also gets covered by it making the sword stick to his hand completely.
"Here I come Neo Vongola Secondo!" He yells and attacks Kotsu once more with his new sword and this time when Kotsu tries blocking it appears to work for a little bit, but the ice from Geraldino's sword spreads to Kotsu's hands and he pulls back fast and jumps backwards. He looks at his ice-covered hands and slams them against each other breaking the ice and attacks again. Geraldino flings the sword behind himself. "ICE FANG!" The ice changes shape making it smoother and longer sort of like an extension of the sword. As Kotsu approaches Geraldino swings at him with the new long blade horizontally and Kotsu, instead of trying to block it, does an uppercut hitting the sword right as it's about to hit him and the ice breaks.
"You can't beat someone like me with that pitiful amount of power!" Geraldino yells and the ice remakes itself with the blue flames that turn to ice.
"I ALREADY SAID I'LL DEFEAT YOU!" Kotsu yells and attacks again. Geraldino blocks all of Kotsu's strikes with ease with his new ice sword. Kotsu's hands once more get slightly frosted over. As one of his punches connect his hand gets stuck to Geraldino's sword and Kotsu uses the stuck hand as a leaping board to go in for a strong kick, but Geraldino blocks the kick with his free arm easily.
"You didn't think that my sword is all that I have did you!?" Kotsu pulls his hand free from the ice and jumps back again, however, he attacks again instantly.
As the two keep fighting Tsugemora is somehow feeling much better already. "Nii-san! You can do it!" He yells though he's pretty sure Kotsu can't hear him at all.
Ren smiles kindly. "You got this lil' bro!" He yells for once cheering for his little brother seeing how much he's into this 'game'.
Reborn and Murphy come walking into the station. Leon is still hanging from Reborn's hat by his tail, still in the glowing ball form like a cocoon of a butterfly. His glow's gotten even more intense.
"Mister Reborn!? How did you make it past the rock walls?" Ren asks looking very confused and
Reborn holds out a vial with a clear liquid in it. "Destroyed it," He says nonchalantly before tossing the vial to Tsugemora. "Drink this. It's an antidote for the poison Veleno used," He says and Tsugemora shakes his head.
"Don't need it… I'm all better Reborn-san!" He says and smiles leading Reborn to raise an eyebrow. Wondering how in the world he managed to heal so quickly. The hitman briefly glances at Ren before looking to the fight.
"Is Neo Secondo in trouble?" Murphy asks and Ren shrugs.
"Looks like Geraldino is giving him quite a fight," he says, not really understanding who the winner's going to be as of right now.
"How long have they been fighting like that?" He asks and Tsugemora and Ren look at each other.
"Like… 4 minutes maybe?" Tsugemora finally says and Reborn grits his teeth a little. '4 minutes… that's about his limit right now… that's how long it took to beat Yari…' he thinks to himself and looks at Kotsu's flame on his forehead. How it flickers unstably like it normally does, but it's doing it less frequently than before. He then looks at Leon and pokes him a little.
"Come on boy. Hurry it up. He's losing out there," He says lowly and Leon shakes a little and his face gets a bit more painful-looking.
Geraldino also notes the fading flame on Kotsu's forehead and smirks. "Looks like your time is almost up!" He yells laughing loudly and does a downwards swing and Kotsu blocks it, but he's clearly weaker than before and is pushed back. Geraldino holds out his sword again. "COLD CLAW!" His sword changes shape once more into what appears to be three long bended spikes with the middle one being his real sword. They aren't too far apart making it looks like claws.
He attacks again swinging the claws at Kotsu and Kotsu is sliced over his face and he just manages to move his head and gets a cut over his cheek from all three ice spikes. He falls back and blacks out as the flame disappears. Geraldino holds up his sword and the ice disappears from it.
Kotsu slowly wakes up and looks at Geraldino holding the sword right above his head knowing that Geraldino is about to kill him. "You were a pretty strong opponent, but I've fought hundreds of battles while I take it you have only fought one REAL fights! The outcome is CLEAR!" He stabs downwards, but right before the sword hits Kotsu, who shields himself with his hand, it gets shot so it just misses. Geraldino looks in the direction of the shot and sees Reborn holding up his gun that's smoking a little and he tips his hat with it. Geraldino blushes a bit. "R-Reborn-senpai…" He thinks and quickly tries shaking it off.
"You might want to pay attention Geraldino-kun," Reborn says and when Geraldino looks, Kotsu has crawled away scared out of his mind. Geraldino grits his teeth and jumps into the air going straight for Kotsu.
"Get back here Neo Secondo!" Kotsu rolls to the side just avoiding the downwards thrust and also manages to jump out of the way of Geraldino's next attack. Only just barely though.
"I-I can't fight like this! I'll die!" Geraldino tries another attack and Kotsu can't dodge in time however right as the attack is about to hit Geraldino's arm stops moving and as he looks he sees Tsugemora standing with his wire around Geraldino's arm and he's pulling with all his might.
"I won't… let you… hurt… Nii-san!" He yells and pulls even harder and Geraldino jumps back getting himself free from Tsugemora's wire.
"T-Tsugemora! You shouldn't be fighting! Not after just recovering from that poison!" Kotsu yells and Tsugemora smiles back at him.
"Your thoughtfulness is wasted on someone like me Nii-san," He pulls on both ends of his wire and looks at Geraldino who smirks.
"You already know you can't possibly defeat me Tsugemora! You couldn't beat Yari and I can easily beat that guy! Need I remind you that fight ended with you in the hospital!" He yells and jumps towards Tsugemora slicing down at him and Tsugemora is about to hold out his wire to block but remembers what happened last time he tried blocking something sharp with it and instead jumps back just barely evading instead and Geraldino instantly slices up. Tsugemora dodges again and looks for an opening.
Kotsu slowly backs off crawling but stops halfway. 'T-Tsugemora can't beat him… I know he'll try, but he'll die before admitting defeat… just to protect me!' He thinks worryingly and Tsugemora avoids another attack from Geraldino's sword and right after the sword hits the ground Tsugemora steps on it and jumps giving Geraldino a kick in his side with all his strength, but it doesn't even seem to faze him at all. He instead smirks at Tsugemora and pulls his sword upwards again and Tsugemora is sent into the air slightly and Geraldino punches him now that he's vulnerable. He jumps at Tsugemora who can't get up in time and he holds out his wire to protect himself, but it's sliced clean in half however Geraldino's strike loses most of its strength.
Right as he pulls it back Leon suddenly shines incredibly brightly making him stop his attack to look at what's happening over by Reborn. The lizard closes his eyes and appears to struggle for a little and Reborn holds out his hand to catch whatever comes out. He catches whatever it was and looks at it. Leon falls from his hanging spot and Reborn catches him as well. He looks incredibly exhausted.
"You did well Leon. KOTSU! Catch!" He tosses two hand sized objects at Kotsu and Geraldino jumps in to try and intercept it, but Kotsu gets hold of them before him and Geraldino tries slicing at him, but Kotsu jumps back before that happens. He looks at what he caught. One is a simple-looking fork while the other is a ring made from some kind of purple metal with an even deeper purple gem. 'A fork and a ring!? A… fork and ring?! What am I supposed to do with a fork and ring!?' He thinks and Reborn takes out a bullet from his pocket and loads his gun with it.
"I know what you're thinking, but you'll know RIGHT NOW KOTSU! CRITICISM SHOT!" He yells and fires the bullet at Kotsu and Geraldino slices at Kotsu at the same time with his ice-covered sword. A giant cloud of smoke appears right as both Geraldino's sword and Reborn's bullet hit Kotsu.