Helping Hotaru
Chapter IV: A Lesson Learned!
Kairyuu's Tactical Victory.
(Play Wild Arms the best – rocking beat -: Battle VS Liz and Ard)
"Time to teach you a lesson…"
"Cocky brat! You're the one who's gonna learn something!"
Sailor Uranus charged forth.
"Uranus no!"
"WORLDO…"
Kairyuu smirked.
"SHAKING!"
The orb of earth and wind energy streaked towards Kairyuu. His smirk widened as a cross shaped staff appeared in his right hand. An orb of purple energy appeared at the tip, as a ring appeared around the orb. He held the staff in front of him like a gun.
"Dead…Scream."
The orb fired like a bat out of hell and collided with Uranus' Attack. The two met and exploded, kicking up a large amount of dust. The Senshi were astounded.
"Did he just…"
"Pluto's Attack…"
The dust swirled and Kairyuu appeared right in front of Uranus.
"World…"
Uranus had a moment to gasp.
"SHAKING!"
Kairyuu slammed his right fist right into Uranus' gut, and detonated the energy contained within, creating a gale of wind and dust that sent Uranus flying through the air, against a tree, where her Henshin faded.
"URANUS!"
Neptune and Pluto ran over to their fallen ally. Jupiter was pissed. She charged at Kai and delivered a solid punch towards his forehead. He brushed the fist aside as he shifted his body to the left to avoid it. Here, he used the back of his left hand to deliver a quick slap to her stomach, and her chest, just above her breasts, which later on he would admit was damn hard to pull off considering she's got the biggest chest of all the Senshi, something she likes to occasionally remind them of in abstract ways. The movements stunned her for a moment, which was long enough for him to deliver a right kick to her face knocking her back.
"Mars…"
His ears twitched as he heard and felt Sailor Mars' attack beginning.
"Flame Sniper!"
The flaming arrow was launched at Kairyuu, who responded in kind.
"Shine Aqua Illusion!"
A torrent of freezing cold water erupted from the palm of his hand, overtaking the flaming projectile.
"Venus Love Me Chain!"
Kai had to make a quick hop backwards to avoid the attack from Venus, one that erupted from the ground. Venus was about to correct the angle of attack when the chain was grabbed. Kairyuu grinned evilly. Sparks of electricity started coursing around his free hand. Venus' eyes widened.
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"
He slammed his free hand onto the chain, sending torrents of lightning through the metal conductor onto Venus' skin. He broke the chain after a few moments of it, and Venus was out for the count, her transformation breaking as well.
Mars turned to Venus for a moment, but immediately turned back as she heard the next words out of his mouth.
"Mercury!"
Of course thinking he was addressing her, Sailor Mercury answered.
"Y-Yes?"
"Neptune!"
Neptune looked up from where she was kneeling next to Haruka's battered, but still breathing body.
Two glowing orbs of blue were in Kairyuu's hands. He slammed the orbs together over his head and they fused into one gigantic orb with a ring around it. Then he slammed his hands onto the ground.
"Submergence Rhapsody!"
There was a rumbling and suddenly a tower of water emerged from beneath Sailor Mars, trapping her within its spiraling fluids. Within moments, four blue, ringed orbs of energy slammed into the center of the twister. The twister exploded and Mars dropped to the ground, still breathing, but beaten, her henshin dropping as well.
"Nice. I didn't know Sensei could do that."
Mikoto had her wind barrier up around herself, Chibi-Moon and Hotaru. The three of them were joined by Kouji, who was standing just outside the sphere of condensed air.
"Kairyuu-san…he's…he's winning."
"Of course. You should know Hotaru, your Senshi are too blinded by their bonds to make full use of them. Take a look at what he just did. He used Venus' attack as a conductor, and defeated her with Jupiter's move. If they had combined powers beforehand, he'd be hard pressed. And his double Water elemental fusion was amazing. He's not even using his own attacks, simply defeating the Senshi with their opposites.
"DEEP SUBMERGE!"
The orb of water shot right past the other Senshi and rocketed towards Kairyuu. He clapped his hands together and a small bubble formed between them.
"Shabon Spray! Freezing!"
He cupped both palms and fired one big bubble of ice energy which collided with the orb of water, freezing it over instantly. However, it was still heading towards him. He ran forward to meet it.
"World…SHAKING!"
He slapped the frozen orb with a good bit of wind energy, sending it right back to Neptune, who was too shocked to dodge it. It slammed into her chest, dissolving and freezing most of her body within moments.
Haruka woke up in time to see Pluto attack.
"Dead SCREAM!"
She had placed more power than ever in her life in that one attack. Kairyuu leapt into the air over it and swung his arm in a circle in front of him. Six orbs containing different kanji appeared before him. The orbs became a glyph.
"Burning Mandala!"
Multiple flaming disks shot from the glyph and right into Neptune's frozen form. The ice turned red and then shattered in a wave of fire. Neptune crashed into the same tree Uranus did and her transformation dropped. Her body fell into Haruka's arms.
"Jupiter!"
Kairyuu was still in the air as Makoto began her ultimate attack.
"OAK EVOLUTION!"
She began spinning like a top, electrically charged balls of wood flying at Kairyuu at insane speeds, like a machine gun.
Damn…a lightning-wood fusion attack. Nice move, and since I'm in the air…there's little I can do…accept…maybe…
Chibi-usa smiled. "There's no way he can avoid that! One hit and he's stuck, only for the others to hit him too!"
"Kairyuu-san…" The more she saw…the more she was amazed. Her fellow Senshi were sloppy, disorganized…and Sailor Moon wasn't doing anything. Perhaps…she doesn't wish to fight… Hotaru wouldn't blame the blonde, Kairyuu was displaying amazing tactics and ability.
"Could Pluto have been right? Could he really have once been able to stave off even Saturn's ultimate attack?"
"Sensei's not done yet kid. Just watch."
"VENUS LOVE ME CHAIN!"
Minako awoke when she heard that. She watched as Kairyuu flailed his arms around himself creating multiple spinning chains that were like rotating rings around him. He put his hands into a few seals.
"Fire Soul!"
Flame engulfed the chains that were swirling around him. Jupiter's attack slammed into the multiple chains, and was halted.
"What?!"
"Genius."
The few Senshi still standing/conscious turned to Mercury.
"He created rings of metal to absorb the electricity of Jupiter's attack, and set them on fire to dissipate the wood within it."
Jupiter stopped spinning. "I don't get it."
Kairyuu landed. "Then I'll explain. Oak Evolution is a two element attack. You combine the Earth Sub-Element of Lightning with the Wind Sub-Element of Nature to rapidly fire multiple balls of lightning charged wood at your opponents. What I did was use Sailor Venus' metal chains in the form of rotating rings around me to absorb the Lightning. However that alone wouldn't have stopped the attack. The wood portions would still get through, and though the damage might have been minor, since I would be stuck in mid-air by the attack, eventually the wood would have taken its toll on me. By setting the chains on fire, the balls of wood that the rings didn't stop would burn to ash before they could reach me."
Haruka had to give him props. "Damn…I never would have thought of that."
He smirked. "Now…if you don't mind…"
"Love Chain Bind!"
Five chains shot from beneath Jupiter and wrapped around her. Kai did a few more motions and tossed up and Ofuda scroll.
"Fire Soul Bird!"
The ball of flame turned into a falcon shape and streaked towards the bound Senshi.
"World…SHAKING!"
The ball of wind energy appeared right behind the bird, and a vortex of flame engulfed Jupiter. When the vortex faded, Makoto was unconscious, light burns decorating her body. The chains retreated into the ground.
Before anyone could move he had summoned a ball of flame, and a ball of ice in his hands. The two began glowing with energy. He slammed them together.
"Frozen…FLARE!"
A beam of blue and red light slammed into Sailor Pluto. The immense shock to her nervous system caused her body to temporarily shut down, the way it did for Sailor Neptune. Pluto's transformation vanished.
Sailor Mercury and Sailor Moon were all that was left. Moon was paralyzed with shock. That left Mercury. She summoned her most powerful attack.
"Mercury…Aqua Rhapsody!"
The staff appeared in Kairyuu's hands again. He held it up.
"Time Stop!"
A golden clock of pure energy appeared, its hands rotating as the attack sped towards Kairyuu. The clock's hands suddenly stopped, and the clock shattered. The world froze, the colors displaced and inverted. Kairyuu quickly moved to Sailor Mercury's side, picked her up, and placed her in the way of the attack. He stepped away and waited but moments. Time resumed and before Mercury could react she was engulfed in her own attack, and knocked unconscious.
Sailor Moon fell to her knees. Kairyuu walked right in front of her.
"Please…I don't wish to fight you Kurayami-san."
"Really. I would have thought the opposite by how your Senshi tried to kill me."
"The Outers…tend to act before they think things through."
Hotaru blurted out. "No crap!" Those conscious turned to her. She blushed and ducked her head.
"I never would have guessed."
"Please…Kurayami-san…I never wished to fight you. I only wanted to know the truth."
"The truth…it depends on which truth you were searching."
"The truth of that night…"
"I wasn't there. Though…I have an idea of what it was you might have seen."
"You do?"
"Yes, but I don't like repeating myself…in one weeks time, come to Hotaru's school. I'll explain my theories and reasoning's then."
"Very well…and…Kurayami-san?"
"Yes?"
"Thank you…for not killing them…"
"It would have broken Hotaru's heart to loose some of her precious friends…though I wouldn't be surprised if she rips you all a new one herself."
"We have earned it."
As he turned to walk away…Kairyuu suddenly dropped to his knees.
"Ahh…I…was wondering…when the side effects would kick in…"
The field dropped. Mikoto and Kouji ran to Kairyuu's side. "Sensei!"
"I'm…alright."
"Elemental backlash huh?"
"Yeah…I'm…really tired…"
"Lets get you some rest Sensei."
"Kairyuu-san!"
"Hotaru-san…stay with your Senshi…they need your powers right now…I'll see you in a week…"
"Nani? You won't be in school?"
"Hah…not like this…I unlocked all the gates…even if partially…I'm not going to wake up for a few days once I fall asleep."
"Ne? Then how will you eat?"
"I won't…I'll just have to pig out when I wake up."
"Just…be careful…"
"I'll be fine…practice what I taught you Hotaru…chan…"
As Hotaru blushed, he fell asleep, not to awaken for days.
"I will…Kairyuu-kun…"
Two chapters in the same day! It's a florkin miracle! Don't expect the next chapter to be here so soon…I gotta figure out how I'm gonna set it up.
Taeniaea: Here's the next chapter!
Hope you like how the battle went!