CHAPTER 5: Vicious Wind
Harpuia, the first Guardian on the other hand had met a girl named Janis, who found him near her house. Like the others, she thought Harpuia was a persocom but the miffed guardian quickly corrected the girl's mistake. He made contact with Leviathan later to know whether his fellow Guardians is safe but Fefnir and Phantom can't be contacted since they're out of range.
After he spent few days living with her alone, Harpuia had suddenly grown quite attached to Janis, and he felt this persistent urge to protect the American-Japanese girl. Like Leviathan, he follows her anywhere, noticing that the other civilians do tend to ignore Harpuia.
"Leviathan's out of range again."
"Harpuia, are you ready? I'm going out now."
"Be right with you, Janis."
Janis walked out of her apartment and she slug her backpack to her back after she locked the door shut. Harpuia walked faithfully behind her.
"So, where are you going, Janis?"
"To the feudal era."
"What?"
"What's wrong?" Janis asked as she looked over her shoulders. "Did I say something wrong?"
"N-nothing. I'm just surprised that you can travel back in time. How can you do so anyways?"
"I can't do the time travel part without my friend's help, Kagome Higurashi, Harpuia."
"I see."
After a few minutes of walking, Harpuia and Janis arrived at the long stairs of the Higurashi Shrine. The wind-type Guardian took Janis' backpack and he flew all the way up the stairs while the blonde-haired girl jogged up the long stairs.
As she and Harpuia arrived there, Janis saw Kagome with her younger brother, Sota, her mother and her grandfather. Apparently, Janis saw another reploid beside Kagome and Inuyasha.
"Kagome! Inuyasha!" Janis called from afar.
"Oh, look, Janis' here, mama."
By the time she arrived there, Harpuia was standing next to the blue and seemingly similar Reploid.
"Harpuia –"
"Don't worry, Janis. I'll explain on the way there."
All of them said their goodbye before they gone into the well house. Before they made the jump, Leviathan hesitated.
"Are you sure this is going to work, Kagome?"
"Two at a time Leviathan. If we rush, somebody will be pushed out of the well by telefrag." Kagome joked, but it doesn't seem like brushing off Leviathan's worries. "I'm just joking."
"Yeah, you can joke alright. Telefrag means death of being crushed (Teleporting on top of anything, usually in games.) you know."
"Stop worrying, you worrywart. That is so not going to happen." Harpuia snapped.
"Okay."
Kagome and Leviathan went in first, Followed by Inuyasha, Janis and Harpuia. Both the young priestess and the blue ice Guardian had already climbed out of the well.
"Who is the one we saw with Janis just now, Leviathan? Is that another Guardian?" Kagome asked as soon as she went out of the well.
"Yeah. That's my leader, Sage Harpuia of the Wind."
"Oh."
"I just don't understand why we're back to the past, Kagome. I just don't get it."
"Don't worry. We'll know what's causing it later." Kagome assured.
Then Kagome saw Sesshomaru coming. Like usual, he wanted to fight Inuyasha, but before he could ask the hanyou's whereabouts, he struck his gaze at Leviathan.
"…Who are you?"
"Fairy Leviathan of the Ice." Leviathan said, holding her halberd ready. She was itching for a fight like when she met Zero, but for some strange reason, she held it back.
"Kagome, where's Inuyasha?"
"Um… he'll be around here…"
Inuyasha, Janis and Harpuia came out from the well. Inuyasha had anticipated that Sesshomaru would be around, trying to gain Tetsusaiga from his younger half-brother again. The only thing that's weird is that Harpuia seemed to be a little interested in Sesshomaru's strength…
"You look like a tough one to start with."
"Step aside. You had nothing to do with me."
"Fine then. I'll make this a quick end for you."
Janis suddenly came ran over to Harpuia, grabbing his left hand. She then raised it to the air, whispering to the guardian. "Harpuia, let's do it."
With a quick bright flash of light, lightning spread all over the place, forcing the others to cover their eyes.
"PERFECT UNISON! ACTIVATE!"
Seconds later, Harpuia was gone, but Janis was still standing there… wearing the green guardian's armor like Model HX. Unlike Model HX, the 'wings' behind her looked even smoother than Model HX and he gauntlet she's wearing was a little pointy at her elbows. And unlike Model HX, there's just a triangular jewel on the helmet and a diamond mark on top of it.
All of them were speechless seeing Janis and Harpuia merge together. However, Sesshomaru weren't too surprised as he came rushing at the merged Janis/Harpuia at an astonishing speed. Although a little distracted, Janis could block the attack with Harpuia's V-Hanger blades.
The daiyoukai's merciless attacks had put Janis in a defensive mode and if she slips the blades, she'll be gone for sure. The attack hadn't given Janis much chance of attacking, since Sesshomaru was fast on his feet and he wasn't going to leave an opening for Janis to exploit.
"Harpuia! He's too fast! What should I do?"
"Let me hold this for a while."
This time, Harpuia took Janis' system for a while and made her step backwards a bit before thrusting the blades like a lance forwards.
Sesshomaru backed away a little and later he used his Dragon Wave. Thanks to Harpuia's agility embedded since the synchronizing procedure, she managed to avoid the lightning bolts before making her own. Janis then used Harpuia's 'wings' as jump jets to propel her into the air.
"YAAAH!"
Hovering on air, Janis crossed the V-Hanger blades and produced purple lightning sparks. With each swipe of the V-Hangers, one by one purple lightning bolts came crashing down on Sesshomaru.
Sadly, he managed to evade the bolts.
Still hovering, Janis charged her powers and swung her blades again. This time, two small lightning balls appeared, one behind her and the other formed tight in front of her. Both lightballs then chased after Sesshomaru like heatseekers (Or A-01's Enemy Chasers nonetheless.)
The daiyoukai managed to evade that as well, making Janis much irritated.
"I don't believe this! How can he do that?!" Janis yelled.
"That's enough, Janis. Disengaging the synchro."
Janis and Harpuia separated themselves and Harpuia gave his verdict.
"He's too fast, Janis. My speed can be measured in mechs but his' can be calculated for like the speed of sound."
"But this is not over yet. I'd say that we postpone this battle first so that we can get more data about you." Harpuia said to Sesshomaru in a confident tone.
"Do as you wish."
Then all attentions turned to the well, where it had lit up right after the battle ended. Kagome knew who was coming, so she suggested everyone to make way.
As expected, Chris Belmont and Amar Ma'aruf came out of the well using their superjump. At the apex of the jump, both made a darting kick towards the ground.
After the two friends landed, Zero came out of the well with Ciel in his arms. The Guardians didn't believe what did they see in front of their eyes. Zero however didn't look too amused.
"…What?"
"Zero! What're you doing here?!"
"It's a long story anyways. Care if I tell you all right here?"
"Give it a rest!" Leviathan snapped.
"Okay guys and gals… that's enough. For now let's head back to the village. Amar-kun was waiting at Kaede's hut."
A/N: …I don't know about you guys but I'm starting to get confused here. Hope that this doesn't end up like Fierce Battle (A MMZ-IY fanfic that I made when I first started as a fanfic writer, but I scrapped it up because lack of ideas.). Read on and review! TQ.