Sticks And Stones

Part 2

"What!?"

That was the first thing Max had said after the long silence that followed the stranger's words.

"You can't be serious! You knew Ikamaru's father!?"

The man stared at Max with his black evil eyes. Then they suddenly turned blood red, which made Max nearly jump out of his chair. Then Max stared at the eyes for a breif moment. He felt dizzy... and dizzy... until he dropped unconcious. After that, the man's eyes turned to it's normal charcoal black, but the pupil grew a noticable size. Than the man dropped down to his knees, keeping his hands over his eyes. Blood leaked out.

"That was not necessary, Takimaru. You probably won't be able to see until the next morning" A voice spoke from behind. It was Hayaku. But something was wrong. His eyes were indigo. And he had yellow strings on his skin, reaching around his body. It looked like his nervous system was completely high-lighted, but the strings were bold and wide. He also grew dark green wings that outgrew Hayaku. And one was bigger than the other.

"Enjoying your new body, Rouge? But it won't be long 'till you switch"

"Ah well. I'll just enjoy this moment while it lasts. Anyways, I say we take this a--hole back to the hideout before the drug gets worn out. We'll have to torture him even more"

MEANWHILE

Ikamaru did a hand sign where he put 3 fingers up from his left hand and 5 on his right. A red orb appeared in between. Then a spark of fire started orbiting around it, and then another one, and another one, until there was practically a second layer. Then Ikamaru stood back.

"Hurry up! We're nearing the net!"

The orb grew 100 times it's size and was now bigger than Ikamaru. Then he made another hand sign where he clasped his two hands together as if he was clapping. Then he separated them as Ikamaru spread his arms. The orb let out some fire which melted the ice net.

"Nice, Ikamaru!" Sakira said. More nets started appearing from mechanical balls. Fire came out of the orb again, but this time it headed for Ikamaru. It landed behind Ikamaru's back and created flaming wings. Then, a fire turret completely made of fire came out of the each wing. Then Ikamaru simply watched as the turrets burned down each net per shot. Sakira, the dragon, was amazed.

"To think that you actually used a fire technique!"

Ikamaru frowned. "C'mon Sakira... let's get ou-"

"I thought you were useless with just water and ice"

Ikamaru frowned harder. "That's enough..." A metal ball appeared infront of them and released a net, but this time it was as hard as steel. It was a metal net! Ikamaru shot multiple fire balls at it but they didn't seem to destroy it. Sakira couldn't stop since the lava flow was going so fast. Ikamaru fell off Sakira and landed in the lava!

"Shit... Ikamaru!?"

The spot where Ikamaru fell exploded with a lava-like burst and revealed Ikamaru. But he had a barrier around him.

"How'd you do that?"

"I... don't know. Must be some sort of-" Before Ikamaru finished the three, Ikamaru, Sakira and the masked ninja in the shadows, heard a noise. Ikamaru glance behind and saw a large stampede of lava bouncing around at their way. Ikamaru knew that with his newfound powers that he would be able to make a hole in the walls and get out. And that's what he just did. "Come on" Sakira disapeared in a poof of smoke and Ikamaru flew up. But before that, he was hit by one of those metal balls. It exploded and knocked him out of his barrier and up onto the rocky earth. He was knocked out cold.

Part 3 Coming Soon