Clear to cloudy
Target 43: Destructive storm
Rinoka has just revealed her box weapon to be Colibrì di nuvola. A cloud hummingbird. Ricci jumps forward towards Rinoka and Chido.
"You think I'm scared of a tiny bird like that!?" He yells and Chido zips forward and its sharp beak gets longer and sharper and it just manages to graze Ricci's cheek, but instantly changes direction to stab him again. Ricci is forced to keep dodging its attacks. He jumps into the air. "Damn... it's super fast!" he thinks aloud and his bracelet shoots flames again and he attempts to hit the little bird in the air, but it keeps zipping back and forth avoiding everything he throws at it. Rinoka is looking happily up at the bird.
"He's managing," She says happily and Ricci looks down towards her. He smirks slightly. That's right! This little thing isn't his opponent! He shoots down towards the ground going directly at Rinoka. She gasps at his sudden change and holds up her hands to protect herself despite knowing how useless it is in the end.
"RINOKA!" Kotsu yells, but Ricci spots the little hummingbird flying past him with its entire body changed to be incredibly aerodynamic. It stops in front of her and its tiny wings grow to bigger and bigger, yet still flap at the same speed creating a large gust of wind that shoots Ricci back.
"You're getting on my nerves now... i might just get serious," He says and takes off his bracelet putting it on backwards, causing Zaccaria to smirk.
"So he's gotten a bit serious has he?" He says to himself making Kotsu gulp.
'W-why'd turning his bracelet upside down mean he's serious?' Kotsu thinks and Ricci's bracelet's gems start glowing.
"TAKE THIS! URAGANO DISTRUZIONE!" (Italian: Destruction hurricane) The flames shoot out the other way in a much bigger amount and Rinoka's hummingbird tries its hardest to blow it away with its large wings. Rinoka folds her hands.
"You can do it Chido! I believe in you!" She says and the bird flaps even harder and manages to deflect the attack. Kotsu looks to Primo.
"Primo-san… is she really the best choice for my cloud guardian? I know you gave her that box weapon, a-and she learned how to light that flame with Geraldino's help… but still..." He says and Primo smirks a little.
"She doesn't fit within the classic role of a cloud guardian. The cloud guardian is aloof. Distant. It protects the family from an independent stance while being unable to be bound by anything. I chose her since she fits it in a more… social perspective… she wants to be included… but she's too shy…"
"B-but that doesn't make her a good fighter!" Kotsu argues and Geraldino grinds his teeth clenching his hand around his arm.
"Quiet down second. That's my master you're talkin' about," He says leading Kotsu to wonder what the HELL happened during the week to make Rinoka and Geraldino master in student!
"I picked her because she has vast potential that she'll never realize without help Kotsu… help from you and your friends…" Primo finishes with the kind smile he's known for.
Ywan briefly glances to the two talking. "Such foolishness. Thinking a young girl is capable of handling the burdens of the mafia-world…"
Ricci smirks after Chido finishes blocking his powered up attack and its wings shrink in size again. It zips forward and Ricci jump forward at the incredible speed and Chido tries stabbing at him again, but this time he just hits towards it with his short-sleeved hand. The storm flames shoot towards Chido this time and the bird is forced to dodge out of the way and Rinoka ducks under the attack holding her hair down in a panic. Ricci keeps going towards Rinoka and Chido tries stopping him. Ricci stops right in front of her and holds out his hand.
"This ends now," He says and his gems glow, but Chido stabs the side of his hand and pushes the blast of storm flames to the side. Rinoka starts running and Ricci tries running setting after her but finds that Chido's doing his very best to push him the opposite direction looking very determined. Ricci almost finds it cute how much this bird likes her. However he can't let such things hold him back in a fight. He shoots his storm flames behind himself in the direction Chido is trying to force him and he shoots the other way towards Rinoka closing the distance with ease. He grabs her throat with his longsleeved hand and lifts her up as she struggles to get free. "I win," He says as Chido comes to her aid he grabs the bird out of the air as well now with relative ease as it's destination is easy to predict. Ricci's hand that's holding Rinoka. His bracelet starts glowing as he prepares to finish the fight.
"This fight is over!" Primo suddenly yells causing everyone around to look at him.
The Cervello shake their heads. "The battle must continue until one participant is knocked out. Those are the rules. Even you cannot change them Primo-sama,"
However Primo doesn't listen. He holds out his hand which has a really cool metallic glove on it. "Do not make me go in there and stop this fight myself… I said it's over… Rinoka has clearly lost," He says and The Cervello simply don't budge.
"Ricci-san… please finish the fight…" Ricci is once more about to do it when suddenly someone blasts forward slicing the bubble right open with intense strength and Ricci feels certain death loom over him.
"Let my master go… or I will kill you where you stand…" Geraldino says holding up Yamamoto's sword, which he took without warning. Ricci does as he's told and Geraldino looks towards the Cervello. "Forcing master to get more hurt than necessary? How low can you possibly go…?" He says before pushing Ricci aside picking up Rinoka with Chido flying beside her.
"H-hey!" Ricci says gritting his teeth. "It's not like I WANTED to finish her! I was just following the rules!"
The Cervello remain passive simply raising their hands. "As Rinoka has been given assistance she is disqualified and Ricci is the winner," They simply say which no one has a problem with.
Geraldino looks back at Ricci as he walks out with Rinoka crying in his arms. "I know. I just don't care,"
Rinoka gently pets Chido on his tiny head with a cute smile. "You fought very bravely Chido. You're a true friend," She says and passes out. Chido flies into his box and it closes up. Kotsu runs in to see if she's alright. The same goes for the small and eager Cotton who jumps out of Marco's grasp to check up on her.
"Rinoka? Rinoka!?" they both try and Geraldino gently puts her down. Kotsu can't help but look worried at her knowing she's not used to fighting nor is she even meant to know how to!
Reborn puts a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry about her Kotsu. She's fine. But something was definitely off with that fight..." He says and looks after Ricci going back to Zaccaria who seems to be annoyed that Ricci hesitated with finishing her off and that he helped her during the fight.
"Like... what?" Kotsu asks looking at the young man.
"He didn't use his right hand to punch with at all," Geraldino says crossing his arms again. Kotsu looks at Ricci's right arm which has the long sleeve. He gulps realizing he's right. Every punch Ricci threw was with his left hand…
Ywan tsks in annoyance. "What a pointless battle… Primo must have truly gone mad to appoint such a useless girl as a guardian…" He says and Kotsu looks at Rinoka who's winching a bit in pain. He knows she probably feels useless right about now. But he doesn't really care about that. He's just glad she's safe and survived with few and small injuries.
Just then Ren and Tsugemora finally arrive seeing Rinoka laying there and they runs over. "R-Rinoka!" Ren says kneeling beside her. "I-Is she alright?" He asks frantically and Kotsu smiles a bit.
"She had a tough fight… she'll manage. She did her best but it wasn't really enough…" He says and Ren looks a little sad at her.
"Well… as long as she's not hurt too much…"
However Tsugemora seems more annoyed with her. "Damn… I guess we've got to pick up her slack!" He says gritting his teeth slightly.
The Cervello seem to rush things along as they've already placed the green circle and red x on the board. "Now then! Shall we begin the next match? Will Kotsukiba's mist guardian and Ywan's storm guardian please step forward?" They say and Kotsu looks around for his mist guardian as Antonio steps forward. He already has the box he used against Boris out causing the brutish Russian to laugh.
"Are you SURE you want to use that thing?! It might accidentally break again with how weak it is!" He yells chuckling happily at his own little joke, and Antonio just looks annoyed in Zaccaria and the gang's direction.
"It is more than capable of handling whoever this child sends my way," He says looking to Kotsu. However no one seems to want to be his mist guardian.
However suddenly someone hits his fist against his palm and steps forward. "Ah! Sokaaa… that's me…" Reishiro says as he walks forward in his zombie-like state. Everyone present even Reborn get a little surprised seeing him there as he walks forward.
"R-REISHIRO!?" They all yell. "W-what're you doing here!? H-how long have you been here!?"
Reishiro points to Ren. "I went with Ren and the little guy… They went out late so I wanted to see what they were doing," He says and both the guardians look absolutely confused.
"I-I didn't see him at all…" Ren starts.
"I-I'm always on the lookout for enemies… I-I don't know how…" Tsugemora says simply stunned someone managed to sneak with them seemingly without even trying.
Kotsu runs out to pull the boy back. "E-either way Reishiro! T-this isn't something you should get involved with!" He says and Primo smirks a little.
"Actually…" He says and Kotsu looks at the arm he's pulling on seeing the ring on his finger. It's a the vongola mist ring! "Reishiro is your mist guardian," He finishes and once more shock hits the three younger boys all looking at the clueless third-year.
"He's WHAT!?" They all yell and Kotsu lets go of him leading him to blink wondering what just happened before walking in to meet Antonio.
He lazily raises his hand. "Yo," He simply says and Antonio seems almost offended that his opponent is yet another child.
Kotsu and Ren are both quite upset and are getting all up in Primo's face to get him to explain while Tsugemora just seems to accept it as Primo-sama's words are law to him. "Alright alright you two… calm down… I have a reason for choosing your friend there okay? Trust me,"
The Cervello raise their hand. "Let the fourth match of the ring conflict… BEGIN!"
Ywan smirks. "I believe you are outmatched once more Kotsukiba. Antonio is one of my most powerful guardian… he will make quick work of your friend," He says as Antonio punches his box weapon causing the phoenix to pop out. It screeches before charging at Reishiro who's still just lazily standing around. The boy picks his ear after hearing the screech.
"Hm… what was that…?" He says and the phoenix grows in size becoming a large flaming monster and it envelops Reishiro. As the smoke clears everyone looks shocked seeing that… Reishiro is no longer there… there's only a scorched circle where he once stood.
"REISHIRO!"