Disclaimer: Still don't own NGE.

Chapter Six: Unleashed Power

-o0O(Recap of last chapter)O0o-

"Who the hell are you guys?" Shinji asked, eyeing the huge battle-axes on their backs.

"We are a type of demon called Time Impeders…the name is pretty much self-explanatory. We were sent here to make you disappear."

"Why just me? Why not the others?" Shinji asked confused.

"Take out the leader and the others shall fall easily. You know the saying, 'United we stand, Divided we fall' right?"

"Well fuck, this is gonna suck isn't it?" Shinji said getting into a ready stance.

"For you…yes." And with that the five launched at Shinji.

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The leader dropped kicked Shinji in the chest and followed up by slamming his axe handle into the teen's stomach before Shinji could do anything. As Shinji staggered on his feet, Demons two and three swept his feet out from underneath him. Shinji opened his eyes and rolled out of the way to avoid the fourths axe to his chest.

Still rolling away from the axe swings on the ground, Shinji pushed the wind underneath him spinning, and then landing on his feet. As the fourth swung once more, Shinji countered it with a sweeping kick at chest level, hitting the handle and knocking it out of the demons hands.

Shinji was thrown backwards as the fifth grabbed his right leg and began to spin him around and around. When he was satisfied with the speed he had reached he let go of Shinji and watched as he flew through the air and into the side of a building.

Shinji dropped to the ground, sinking to his knees and looked behind him to see his imprint in the build and debris that was stopped in midair. Shaking his head he took a running start towards the fifth. When he was satisfied with the distance, Shinji leapt into the air and wrapped his legs around the little neck that it had. He carried through with the momentum that he had and flipped the fifth with his legs and slammed him face down into the ground.

Shinji pounded on his back with both feet to further stunning the creature while ripping the battle axe from its back. Before he could ready himself to swing the finishing blow however, he saw two other axes one coming for his legs and the other going for his neck. Quickly swinging the axe downwards into the spinal cord of the fifth, Shinji launched himself into a back flip, to avoid the two strikes. Continuing flipping, he didn't stop until he was a suitable distance from the four remaining Demons.

"You…you killed our brother." The leader said, his voice filled with disbelief.

"Well the way that you're going on it's supposed to be this incredibly difficult task, but all it took was a swift downward stroke with the right amount of force." Shinji said through his panting.

The leader narrowed his eyes at Shinji and whispered something to the others that Shinji couldn't make out. He looked on with fascination when he noticed that the four were taking off their armor.

Underneath all that bulky armor, they weren't that much bigger than he was. What scared the crap out of him though was the fact that before they moved at incredible speeds, that he could keep up with due to his powers. Now without anything but their axes slowing them down, he was going to be in an ass load of trouble.

Another thing that did nothing to help his oh-so-shot-and-trampled optimism was that after the armor on their backs came off two long, wide wings unfurled themselves.

When the final piece of armor dropped to the ground, the demons took flight without warning and disappeared. Shinji, deciding against staying in the city due to damages and innocent bystanders, jumped from the ground and up to the roof of a small store, then proceeded to jump from roof to roof away from the city.

Sighing with relief at the fact that he was almost at the outskirts of the city, he was suddenly picked up and kept going higher and higher. Shinji shut his eyes and forced himself to remain calm as everything turned into little specks from the altitude that he was at. Letting out a breath he called upon the air to mingle with the water in the atmosphere. Looking upwards he saw the beginnings of the clouds that he was asking for.

"I hope you enjoyed your time living Elemental," the leader growled in his ear. "Because from up here there isn't anything that you can do to stop me, or yourself from plummeting to your death." With laughter ringing in his ears, Shinji felt himself being let go.

He dropped about five feet before slowing down and coming to a complete stop. All around him the clouds that he summoned earlier were twisting rather fast to form a thin tornado, which he rode down to the ground. Feeling his feet hit something solid, Shinji looked up to see the four demons regarding him with a little surprise etched onto their faces.

Shinji Smirked a little about this and then decided that since they were in the air he could control their flight patterns. He raised his hands into the air and dropped them quickly, watching as the demons suddenly dropped twenty feet quite rapidly. He smirked as they all began to flap their wings extremely hard to try and stay aloft but without any air resistance to help them it was impossible.

Next he brought his arms up quickly again and the air returned full force creating a kind of upside down tornado which made them all spiral out of control. He turned around and began to run further out of the outskirts when a heavy beating told him that the demons had escaped. Before he could do anything about it though he felt a sharp pain in his legs and then collapsed.

"Well I'm certainly surprised that my axe didn't cleave off your legs with the first blow, Elemental." The leader said grinning sadistically. "It's never failed before."

"Self defense mechanism," Shinji gasped through the pain. "The air around the area where I'm about to be hit compacts itself and form a type of air cushion so the damage is lessened."

"It is truly amazing what you can do with the molecules in the air." The demon said looking genuinely impressed.

"Heh, are you not going to kill me or what?" Shinji said grinning up at his opponent.

With a heavy sigh the demon gently placed his axe on Shinji's shoulder at the base of his next to line up the hit. "Any last words before you die?"

"Yeah, when I'm in heaven and you're in hell, I'll come down once and a while to kick your ass." With this Shinji spit on the ground at the demons feet.

"Very well." The leader brought his axe up and swung it at Shinji's neck. Shinji dropped to the ground just as the axe was about to remove his head and the leader couldn't stop the momentum from carrying the axe into the legs of one of his fellow demons.

"DAMN IT! Elemental just stay still!" he roared. Shinji continued to move around the ground as the three demons began to swing their axes downwards. Unable regenerate its legs, the fourth used its wings to keep itself aloft and joined in the axe party.

Shinji kept rolling on the ground until he was able to flip over and backwards until he reached a safe distance from the blades. Closing his eyes for a second to gather energy was his undoing. Shinji heard the axe swing at him but it was too late to duck or create a counter. Steeling himself for death he felt the blade hit him in the stomach area and was thrown backwards ten feet.

He rolled over and tried to get up, but couldn't get past staying on his knees and palms. He coughed and felt his mouth fill with a coppery taste and spat it out. He opened his eyes to see a good amount of blood below his mouth and watched it trickling out before he was roughly pulled to his feet.

"Instead of butchering you elemental, I'm going to beat you to death. Think of it as payment for our brother and causing me to cut the legs off of my other brother."

Shinji grinned a little bit and turned to the demon that lost his legs. "Don't you just hate it when someone cuts your feet right from under you? I mean you really should just stand tall and say something."

The demon swung the flat of his blade into Shinji's face and smirked when he heard a crunch, the breaking of Shinji's nose.

"The leader dropped him and told the other three to pick a limb and break it. With four to six hits they successfully shattered his arms and legs. The leader grabbed Shinji by the hair again and yanked him back to his feet once more.

"We failed the first time but how about we try the whole 'dropping-you-from-two-miles-up-in-the-sky' thing again?" With this he took off and flew straight upwards not caring when his axe hit Shinji cutting the teen deeply in his back. He looked down after flying for ten minutes to see everything had shrunk and looked like he could crush the city with his hand.

Satisfied, he held Shinji out at arms length, hearing his ragged breathing. With a satisfying smile he dropped Shinji and watched as he plummeted down to the earth.

Shinji couldn't see past the pain in order to try and slow down his decent. He barely heard the leader come flying beside him on the way down over the wind and pain but he heard it when the demon spoke in his ear.

"After you we're going to go after the fire elemental but before we kill her we're going to unfreeze time for some people. When we do that we'll make sure that she's tossed in with only the finest kind of rapists this world has every had the pleasure of seeing."

With a laugh he flew off leaving Shinji with a growing anger that he couldn't try to stop even if he tried or wanted to. Shinji kept feeling this powerful emotion overwhelm him until it was all he felt. He didn't even register the fact that he couldn't hear the wind rushing past him anymore, or the fact that he stopped a hundred feet off the ground.

His body shuddered once, twice, and on the third time his eyes snapped open to reveal pure gold with his symbol where his pupils would normally be.

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Asuka was having a great day so far. She woke up earlier in the arms of her boyfriend, had a wonderful German breakfast, had a nice long game to pass the time in class with the group and now was shopping with her best friend Hikari and the ever-growing-into-a-best friend, Rei.

"Ohhhhh, Asuka lets go in here." Hikari said looking at a pair of jeans the she just had to have.

Asuka smiled and nodded, picking up her three bags that she had so far. Today at the mall she had been successful in buying ten outfits for herself, twelve for Rei and six for Hikari…yes, today was indeed a great day. But that was when it happened. On their way out, they were talking about getting Rei a boyfriend when Asuka noticed that everyone around her just stopped. (A/N: Remember she was frozen when Shinji was fighting, so the second before everything stopped for her was when Shinji and the five demons were fighting.)

"What in the…" she said, placing her bags down on the ground and waving her hand in front of Hikari and Rei.

"Guys? Ummm…what's going on?"

"You know that's what Air Elemental asked before we introduced ourselves." Said a deep, raspy voice.

Asuka whipped around to see three out of four demons standing behind her, and the fourth one flapping its wings in a slow steady beat to stay aloft.

"What are you and what did you mean by Shinji?" she asked eyeing the now bloody blades the four were carrying.

"Ahhh, how rude of me. We are called Time Impeders, and the late Air Elemental said exactly what you said when he noticed that time had stopped for him."

"W-what do you mean by 'the late air elemental'?" she asked fearing the answer.

"Just what it sounds like. He was an exceptional warrior and managed to drop our numbers by one. Not and easy task and something that has only been done once before. Anyways after making me cut off my brothers legs, we managed to send him falling to his death." The leader finished with a grin playing on his features.

"Y-you k-killed him?" Asuka asked with tears clouding her vision.

"No need to cry my dear. You'll be joining him soon enough…right after we give you to some men who are very sexually frustrated."

Asuka narrowed her eyes and called upon her element. Sending a pillar of fire underneath the four of them, she thought about how weak they really were when to her horror they calmly stepped out of the inferno unmarked.

"Fire Elemental, we were spawned in the hottest depths of Hades itself, born directly into fire that could melt anything in the universe. You think that that was going to stop us?" he asked sarcastically.

He gripped his axe by the bottom of the handle and launched it as hard as he could at Asuka. She closed her eyes waiting for her death to come and take her to her Shinji. After five seconds of waiting she found that she was still breathing and thinking. Opening her left eye, she saw the axe floating and inch in front of it making her squeak at the unexpected closeness of it and falling backwards.

"…the hell?" the leader mumbled walking over to his suspended axe and plucking it out of the air. Before he could do anything he was thrown backwards and continued until he slammed in the wall of the mall with enough force to shatter his wing bones. The angry roar of something in the air easily masking his roar of pain.

That demon watched, mesmerized as the air in front of Asuka shimmered and then came together in what looked like a tornado with arms, legs and a head. The body was twice the size of the demons and could easily hold two of them in it with them standing side be side and back-to-back. Its arms and legs, half the size of the body, ended in hands with a thumb and four fingers and feet without any toes. Its head sat upon a sturdy looking, for air anyways, neck and only had two glowing gold eyes and the symbol of air where the pupils should have been.

Asuka looked upwards that the creature and saw that it stood roughly fifteen feet high. She gasped when t turned to look at her and saw the symbols in its eyes.

"Shinji?" she whispered and watched as her boyfriend-now-turned-creature advanced on to the demons.

The one missing its legs was the first to die when it whipped its axe at Shinji only to it enter its body, showing how fierce the wind inside were when the handle was quickly ripped apart leaving only the dangerous head to spin around on edge of him.

Shinji lifted one of his massive arms, his hand spread out, and pointed it at the demon. With a sudden clenching movement, Asuka heard a faint popping noise, along with a loud crunch, and watched the demon implode upon itself.

The other two demons tried to fly away but Shinji stopped them from moving by binding them with air. After drawing their blades into his body as well as the leaders blade thus creating a meat grinder, he ripped the wings off of the second demon and threw him into the air. Asuka watched as the demon flew so high that she couldn't see it after a couple of seconds.

Hearing a choking noise she turned back to find the third demon grasping its throat as if it couldn't breath. Feeling the wind caress her cheek, she looked up at Shinji and saw that he was miming something. After a couple more times she got the hint and created two fire balls and watched, fascinated as Shinji sucked them into his body and channel it through the air.

She watched as the demon that was suffocating burst into flames, this time from the outside, instantly cooking all its organ and blood vessels. Hearing a roaring then a heavy crunch and something that sounded like wet meat hitting the ground, she looked behind her to see what was left of the second demon in a crater.

"So…t-the stories…about…the e-elementals…w-where true…after all." Came the pain filled voice of the leader.

She watched as Shinji was about to kill him before speaking. "Wait Shinji," Shinji looked back at her and reluctantly let the demon go. "What do you mean about the stories?" she asked.

"We're all told stories growing up about four fierce warriors here on earth, the four elementals, Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Out of these four, Water and Earth were evenly matched, Fire was stronger than them, and Air outstripped the others. Anyways, we were told that under extreme stress, and anger, an elemental would transform into something that could only be fought by the power of the Demon King."

The demon smirked and let out a small chuckle. "I never believed that the stories were real, mainly because they were just that to me."

Asuka, satisfied with this answer, nodded at Shinji whose eyes burned brightly with happiness, then changed quickly to anger.

Manipulating the wind, he carefully turned Asuka around, much to her protests, and dished out the final punishment. All Asuka heard was the pained roars of the leader. Behind her Shinji was slowly feeding the leader into the swirling blades, which formed a small circle, and the leader was slowly being fed feet first into the blades.

After five minutes the roaring finally stopped and Asuka looked back to see Shinji was now blood red with bits and pieces of flesh flying around. He closed his eyes and pointed his head upwards and slowly began to shrink and shift until three minutes later he was back to being Shinji again all his wounds healed and everything.

"A-Asuka?" he asked the teen on the ground. "Why are you unfrozen? What the hell happened to the demons?" He asked when he saw the fight scene around him.

"You don't remember anything do you?" she asked him.

"Remember what?"

"Never mind, Shinji…you don't want to know."

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After twenty minutes time unfroze and everyone went about his or her business like normal. NERV still couldn't explain how the streets and building across from an arcade suddenly collapsed as though a fight had taken place. The guy that had tried to fight Shinji was hauled off to a mental heath ward when he began to tell everyone how a teen could teleport at the cost of his shirt, shoes, socks, and ripped up jeans.

Kensuke kept badgering Shinji about how he was able to do that but when Touji mentioned some war memorial that was coming into town, he promptly forgot it even happened.

Shinji and the other three found another reason why they should try to keep their emotions in check.

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"So in the summer of '99 I was sitting by a lake waiting…"

Class unfortunately was once more boring the hell out of everyone. Just as everyone was about to fall asleep the intercom turned on.

"Will Touji Suzuhara please report to the principles office? I repeat…"

Touji looked around at Shinji who just shrugged and leaned back into his conversation with Asuka.

Touji stood up and silently walked out of the classroom and down the hall. Five minutes later he entered the office and saw the blonde doctor that Shinji and the others work with.

"Ahhh Mr. Suzuhara. I'm Doctor Ritsuko Agaki and I'm here to ask you a question."

"Well, I'm not sure what it is but I'll be glad to try and help." Touji replied a little grumpily.

"You see, the angels are getting more and more dangerous. This last battle that we fought in, Shinji almost died."

Touji's eyes went wide at this and at what she was implying.

"You don't…you cant…are you asking me to pilot?" he stuttered.

"Ritsuko smiled. There you go Touji. See you had the highest scores out of everyone else in your class thus that's why we chose you."

"Sorry doc but you've got the wrong guy." Touji grinned and turned around to walk out. Just as his hand touched the door knob though Ritsuko spoke up.

"How's your sister Touji?"

Touji stopped dead. "What the hell do you care?" he asked without turning around.

"Well, I'm looking over her latest results and can't help but think that they aren't going up any more. In fact, they most likely will go downwards. Now if she were to have the best medical treatment, that only NERV can offer, she would be right as rain in a couple months time." Ritsuko said looking down on the clip board she carried with her.

"She would get the best?" he asked in a whisper.

"Yes she will, but the only way for that too happen was if one of her family members worked for NERV."

Touji stood there silently thinking about what was just said. After ten minutes he turned around and looked her straight in the eyes.

"Where do I sign?"

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A/N: I apologize for the lateness and shortness of this chapter. Halfway through it I met a brick wall called Writer's Block and had to someway get over it. Well not much to say so if you have ideas or suggestions then I'll be glad to read them. See ya next chapter.