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Target 31: Colors in the sky
Kotsu is sitting and panting in his P.E clothes drinking some water after Murphy's rather rough training program. No wonder he's so strong… he constantly gets beaten and hurt. He must be getting SOMETHING in return…
Murphy sits down in front Kotsu on the other tree trunk. After sitting up straight since he obviously sat down wrong and fell backwards he leans forward a little. "I think that's enough physical training for today. But I DO have one other thing I can actually teach you before you start training with that weapon of yours…" He says and Kotsu gulps a little bit.
"Something else…? Like what?"
Murphy takes out an indigo ring. It does NOT have the appearance of the vongola insignia. "It's these," he says and Kotsu looks on his own finger where he has his own purely purple ring. "These rings and the corresponding flame-types are basically the backbone of the mafia world. And knowing what each of them do can save your life more often than almost any special ability you can come up with. Hyper dying will or not," He says and Kotsu now gulps for real as this sounds to be just about the most important thing he'll ever learn after reading and spelling…
"A-alright… I understand… P-please teach me," Kotsu says ready for some intense listening.
"Let's start at the very basics…" Murphy says putting his ring on and it lights up with an indigo hazy fire. "This is a dying will flame. My type is called a mist flame whereas yours is called cloud. From what I heard you're only aware of two other types,"
Kotsu thinks for a second remembering them precisely. "Y-yeah… Ren has a yellow one on his guardian ring and… Geraldino had a blue one,"
"Those are called sun and rain flames but… I'm getting ahead of myself. Within the last 30 years or so there has been a lot of progress made within the research of dying will flames. They're made of your dying will as the name implies so humans are the only ones who can create them. No machine can do the job." He turns his flame off again lowering his hand and Kotsu notes another ring on his opposite hand, which doesn't have a gem or something similar. Instead just a simple silver casing with three sixes imbedded in it.
"What about that ring? Which type is that?" he decides to ask and Murphy looks at it and chuckles a little.
"This one…? Well it's not a ring like my other one. I got it about 20 years ago. But that's not the point here… Let's talk about the flame types. There're seven in total each represented by a color of the rainbow. So let's take it in color order. First is storm which is red, then sky which is orange, sun which is yellow, thunder which is green, rain which is blue or cyan, mist like mine, which is indigo, and cloud like yours which is violet…" Kotsu thinks for a moment to see if he followed.
"Alright… but… when I battled Geraldino our flames seemed to be able to do COMPLETELY different things…"
"that's right. Each of the seven flames has a special attribute. Let's take my mist flame as an example. It's attribute is creation. Our family has a lot of illusionists who can create illusions using these flames and some are powerful enough to create 'real' illusions that can interact with the world."
"What!? That sounds insane!"
"Well… if you want to become the vongola boss you'll have to get used to insane I suppose… Anyway as for your own flame which might be the one you want to know the best, it's special attribute is propagation or expansion slash multiplication."
"Yeah… that was the conclusion hyper-Kotsu came to as well…" He says and Murphy nods.
"I see. You DID seem to make the most of that ability in that fight. Speaking of that fight… Geraldino's rain flame has the attribute tranquility. With it he and other rain users can slow down objects around them and very experienced users can even create ice."
"that's what Geraldino used…"
"Indeed. As for the other flame you've already seen Ren's sun flame has the attribute activation. With that he can accelerate any organic progress meaning it's perfect for healing and energizing. Some users can also use them to accelerate projectiles through the air," he explains and Kotsu somehow now understands how Tsugemora got better so quickly during their run-in with the ice wolves. Ren's flame was healing him…
"Finally we get to those you don't know I suppose… the most important one may be the sky flame as many leaders have this flame. Its attribute is harmony which can be used to petrify objects as well as revert physical things back to their original state."
"Hmm… so Primo-san has this flame?"
"That's right. The storm flame is next. One of the simplest attributes out of the roster. Disintegration. Anything it touches begins to break down into nothingness. And finally is the thunder flame which also has quite a simple attribute. That being hardening…. I don't suppose you want me to go into depth with what that can do,"
"N-no… I think I got it. It makes stuff harder… I-is that it?"
"Well it's the basics of each flame type. There's a whole bunch of science-y stuff about how they work with wavelengths and such,"
"So… I need to look out for not just ONE ability from everyone I fight but SEVEN!? That's impossible!"
"You're right about that. Luckily you don't have to. Most people can only conjure up a single out of the seven types. So no worries about overloading your brain," Kotsu lets out a relieved sigh before realizing a little quirk in his statement.
"Wait… you said most people…"
"That's right. It's incredibly rare, but some people have more than one. The most known example is the current storm-guardian… who doesn't just have two, but FIVE out of the seven flames," As soon as he hears that Kotsu gulps even harder imagining some horrid monster of a man.
"That sounds really scary… good thing he's on our side…"
"Quite so… the current generation are quite QUITE special. Each of them are also incredibly strong. There're very few people in the world who can match them,"
"T-then WHY are they retiring!?"
"that I don't know… but anyway… do you have any questions about the flame-types?"
"Not really… not right now anyway… maybe one question… how do I light my ring like you did? I've been using the cloud flame on my forehead this whole time,"
"I see… well we can surely work on that for now," He says beginning the same exercise that Geraldino told Rinoka to do. She's still working on making it light up at the moment without much progress…
-NII-
Reishiro walks across the street almost getting hit by a car he doesn't see coming but luckily it manages to stop honking at him which he doesn't even hear. "WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING KID!" the driver yells and Reishiro stops to look at him with the usual confused look. He then looks down at his feet and keeps walking while looking exactly where he's going as in watching his feet.
"This is kinda weird…" He says to himself before walking into a lamppost. "Oh! Sorry miss…" He says walking around it finally making it to the building he had a gotten a picture of. "Hmm… this doesn't look like his house…" He enters the building. After looking around for WAY longer than necessary he finds the stairs and heads up a few flights of stairs he stands in front of an apartment. He knocks on the door using his head since he doesn't really feel like raising his hand. After knocking like that about 10 times someone finally opens the door and he falls straight forward onto the floor as he tries knocking once more.
"um… can I help you young man?" A grumpy ugly man says and Reishiro seems to mumble into the floor. "Hey! Get up! I don't feel like dealing with you youngsters tomfoolery!" He says and flips Reishiro open.
"Can I?" he asks and the man grits his teeth.
"Can you what?!"
"Come inside…?"
"Why on EARTH would I let a stranger in my apartment?!"
"My mama told me to come here…" he says which is seemingly unrelated but to Reishiro it makes perfect sense as to why it's relevant.
"Why should I care what your 'mama' told you!? That's got nothing to do with me," Reishiro gets up and seems to remember something his mom told him before leaving and the man is about to close the door.
"Ah! Sokaaa… mama told me to tell you my name's Reishiro Dokuro," he says and the man is about to slam the door when suddenly his gaze seems to go blank. Reishiro has his back turned since he is ready to leave and doesn't seem to see the black smoke emitting from the man's body. It slowly changes into a much more handsome tall man with dark-blue hair set in a long pony-tail and a little pineapple-like spike at the back. He's wearing some black leather and is holding a strange metal trident.
"So… you actually came? I'm a little surprised you managed to find this place," He says with a smirk and Reishiro turns back around seeing the man and his face lights up, as much as Reishiro's face can. He looks happy at least.
"Hey papa… I didn't know you lived here,"
The man gestures for Reishiro to enter the apartment. "I don't. I live in Italy still, but you don't need to understand. Do you know why your mom told you to come see me?" He asks and Reishiro thinks for a few seconds before hitting his fist against his hand like he just figured it out.
"Ah! Sokaaa… yeah… I know…" he says laughing a little, happy to see his father.