Chapter 8

Clashing Powers

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice, Digimon or Shaman King.

Author's Note: I'm sorry this took forever. I unfortunately am not so good at descriptions so in the end this chapter may come out horrible. I'm also sorry that it might b dull. Please bear with me and please help me with more suggestions. Hope you enjoy!

The wind has been blowing without rest. On such a fine day they never knew the wind would blow this hard. Its wind speed was definitely different than before. It became the cause of ruining some of the plans the students of the academy made for today. It was no use fixing their picnic lunches or taking a stroll. It would just leave them feeling cold, tired and restless not to mention it would be impossible to even put the blanket on the soft green grass without being blown by the wind. Even kites were hard to manage in this windy day. They get blown by a gush of wind and the next you know they're in a branch of a tree, too high to reach.

The wind though did not do anything to these students in the forest. These students had much more things to concentrate on. They were in a middle of a battle, ready to pounce and deflect in a split second. A slip of concentration would be fatal when one is in battle. They can't just let a little wind stop and distract them. Not even those who were watching could let the wind distract them. It was too tense of a moment to let anything bother them. Right now each person was simply occupied with the thought of the battle in front of them. Each and every person simply stayed where they were. Not one even making a single sound and the only thing that was heard was the whooshing of the relentless wind.

Then the silence was broken as Natsume threw a ball of flame. The crackling orange and yellow ball of flame was zooming through the air and was hurtling to Tai Chi in incredible speed. Luckily Agamon was ready for this and quickly jumped and opened up its mouth full of dinosaur shaped teeth and to most of everybody's surprise Agamon had expelled a fireball out of his mouth which collided with Natsume's. The clash had resulted in a BOOM as both fires caused a mini fireworks display. After such a display the wind quickly blew away the residue of little sparks and smoke. The wind whirled and whirled causing the sparks to circle around everyone.

"Hmph" Natsume said straightening himself and flexing his fingers. His bloody red eyes glared at Agamon and then darted towards Tai Chi then straight to Yoh. "Well now I know what the plush dinosaur toy does" he said with a smirk.

"Agamon is not a plush toy" Tai Chi said loudly in defense for his friend "He destroyed your fireball by the way. If you haven't noticed" Tai Chi then simply returned Natsume's smirk.

"Too bad you're useless." Natsume said "I bet your pet over there does all the work while you just sit back and relax."

"Excuse me?" Tai Chi said angrily as he looked at Natsume with complete hate from that snide remark.

"It doesn't matter. I can handle that pipsqueak anyway." Natsume said as he steadied himself to his battling stance. He then put his hand upward and on top of his palm an orange and red fire danced and flickered around it obviously showing he was invulnerable to his own flames.

"Then try handling this!" shouted Yoh causing Natsume to realize he had forgotten about watching Yoh and left himself unguarded to him. Before he knew it Yoh was running straight at him with incredible speed. His glowing sword was at his side leaving traces of flickering light behind him as he ran. The light flowed behind as if it was a tail. Luckily Natsume had already readied that ball of fire in his hand and threw it at Yoh.

Yoh then steadied his sword in front of him and slashed the fireball causing it to disperse and disappear giving out smoke. After emerging from the smoke Yoh continued to run to Natsume to find out he wasn't where he last saw him. Yoh then frantically looked for him to his left and right.

"On top of you!" shouted Tai Chi who has just been able to see through the smoke that blocked the view of everyone.

Yoh then looked up to see Natsume coming at him with fireballs burning in both of his hands ready to be used as projectiles in any moment. Luckily before Natsume could react Yoh slashed his blade which created a sort of crescent glow that Natsume found out was concentrated energy.

"What?" Natsume said as he blocked just in time but was sent flying by that sword attack into a tree. Luckily Natsume who was trained for situations like this quickly moved and hit the tree with the soles of his feet. Though painful Natsume simply hid the pain and pushed himself from the tree sending him in the air to attack Yoh.

Yoh had no idea what happened but suddenly Natsume was flying on top of him again and before Yoh could attack once again Natsume had shot three balls of fire one after another, hurtling at one target, Yoh. It took the last remaining seconds for Yoh just to block those balls of fires but the impact was still strong enough for him to lose his footing and sent him crashing to the next tree, dragging his feet on the ground with him.

Before Natsume could land and gloat, his attention was caught by Tai Chi. "Hey idiot, look here" shouted Tai Chi. But as Natsume turned to look he was hit by a ball of fire and it sent him crashing to the ground.

"Ouch…" Tai Chi said while looking at Natsume "Tough Luck" he continued but suddenly another gush wind came and along with it some specks of dirt. Tai Chi and the spectators had blocked their eyes with their arms in order to protect their eyes from the wind and dirt. Once Tai Chi had dropped his arm to look again Natsume had taken this time to his advantage and threw a fireball straight at Tai Chi.

Luckily Tai Chi wasn't as helpless as one would think and quickly avoided the fireball by jumping away and landing on the ground with seconds to spare, instead the fireball had hit the tree that was behind Tai Chi. The tree had gone up in fire. "Great" Tai Chi said as he looked at the tree burning beside him.

"Great job for trying to burn the forest down, sparky." Tai Chi said at Natsume

"It wouldn't have happened if you didn't move" Natsume said angrily with balls of fire growing bigger and bigger. Before Natsume could have said more or done anything else he was suddenly slammed by a force and pushed towards the ground but his body continued to be dragged on the ground by the force that had hit him and he didn't stop moving till he hit a tree.

Natsume propped himself up to see that it was Yoh who had hit him. Yoh hadn't hit him with the sword though. It appears that Yoh had slammed Natsume with his body which sent him to the ground.

"That's revenge for sending me flying to a tree." Yoh said while rubbing his neck "That hurts you know."

"I'll show you what hurts!" Natsume said angrily as he stood up and suddenly threw fireballs continuously at Yoh, Tai Chi and Agamon.

"Brilliant, get him more angry." Tai Chi said to Yoh as he was running and dodging the balls of fire which missed by only inches and centimeters. The three of them were just dodging as they ran as fast as they could, wherever they went balls of fire went whistling past them from the back and even right in front of them. In the process of missing though some of the balls of fire went hurtling towards the spectators which luckily Mikan had her nullifying power to stop them. Most of them though had hit the branches, trunks and leaves of the trees surrounding them.

All of them suddenly stopped whatever they were doing to realize that in the process of all of it Natsume had spread his fire to the trees. All of them were now surrounded completely by a burning forest.

"Natsume!" Mikan shouted in a panic "Stop it! Stop the fire from spreading and getting bigger not to mention saving us!"

"Hold on!" Natsume said quickly and had killed off some of the fires beside him. "Tch." Natsume uttered with this annoyed look on his face

Mikan had noticed Natsume's reaction and asked "Is there something wrong Natsume?"

"This fire isn't much of my alice power anymore. I can't quickly kill it off like I would if it was my alice." Natsume shouted at Mikan trying to kill off more of the fire nearing them "The problem is if I try to kill it off at the rate I'm going the fire will spread too far and become too big that I won't be able to stop it. I can try harder though!" he shouted as he suddenly put out an incredible amount of fire and faced to the other parts of the woods to put out more of the fire when suddenly Natsume coughed violently and recoiled to his knees.

"Natsume!" Ruka shouted as he ran towards his best friend. "You're still not yet well from the last mission are you?"

Natsume was panting hard and simply looked at Ruka. Natsume saw Ruka's pain and worry in his eyes. "Don't be silly Ruka." Natsume said in between breaths. "I'm fine" he said while standing up. One can see though how hard and painful it was for Natsume to stand up from his position. His legs shook horribly as he put one after another on the ground and steadied himself.

"You idiot." Mikan said while running towards Natsume "You better not move! If you do! I swear I'll make sure you won't be well once I'm done with you."

"No! I can't just not do anything. We'll burn, you idiot. If I can't stop it, what do you think will happen to us?" Natsume said still breathing hard and Mikan noticed his determination despite the pain when she looked at him.

"Don't worry." Yamato suddenly said which caught the attention of everyone. "We can take care of this. Just rest." he said which shocked Natsume's company and even Yoh.

"How can you?" asked Ruka

"We'll show you. Come on" Yamato said as he looked at Sora who nodded in understanding. Yamato took her hand and brought her with him to the middle. Suddenly both of them had brought out the same devices that Tai Chi had except both of them seemed to have different colors. Yamato had his in blue while Sora had hers in Red.

Suddenly both of these devices started glowing just like Tai Chi did, except it glowed the same color as their devices. The next thing that happened two circles appeared just as what happened with Tai Chi and in the end two separate creatures came out of them. The one that was addressed as Gabumon by Yamato was this creature that had blue and white fur with a horn on top of his and it had two visible teeth like one of saber tooth tigers. It seemed to have two flaps of fur that looked like extra arms that fell at its side. The stomach of this creature was yellow in color.

Beside Sora whose name apparently was Biyomon was a creature that looked like a bird that had pink colored feathers, a yellow beak and feet and a stray feather on top of it's which was the color of pink with blue stripes which slightly flopped.

"Ok! Gabumon, start using you ice powers to kill the fire." Yamato said.

"No problem" Gabumon replied. He then quickly blew out this icy breath that started removing the surrounding fires.

"Biyomon" Sora said "Fly up and blow out you the fire with some wind attacks."

"Ok!" Biyomon said as she started flying and sent blasts of wind one after another, blowing away the fire.

"Good job guys!" Yoh said as he looked at how the fire was being put out little by little.

"Don't congratulate us yet." Yamato said as he suddenly stiffened. "I'm afraid it might not be fast enough. We're making progress indeed but not enough." Yamato said not losing his sight on the increasing huge fire. "It could end up reaching the academy."

"I'm going to have to help." Natsume said as he stood up straighter and removed the hands of Ruka and Mikan that were feebly trying to restrain him.

"Natsume!" Ruka said as he motioned towards him. "You can't use your power too much."

"I'm really fine Ruka." Natsume said as he turned towards his best friend "I can do it."

But before Ruka could do something, suddenly another huge gush of wind started blowing incredibly hard. It was so hard that everyone had to shield their eyes as leaves, dust and twigs flew about.

"Is this the work of that creature?" Mikan asked as she couldn't see past this incredible wind. It was hard enough to keep her hair from flying about and even into her mouth as she spoke how much more trying to see with all those hazards.

"Biyomon?" Sora asked but looked up to see Biyomon being carried by the wind and was hurtling towards the ground. Luckily Sora had dove towards the ground in time and caught Biyomon before she could hit the ground. Yamato ran straight towards Gabumon grabbed him and went straight towards Takeru alongside Tai Chi who had done the same with Agamon and was heading towards Hikari. The two older brothers held on to their digimon and sibling against the winds. Bracing the wind, all of them couldn't help but exclaim shouts and screams caused by the wind.

Before they knew what happened, the wind stopped and everyone had dropped their arms that were raised in defense of the winds. Everyone looked with awe as they realized that the fire surrounding them was completely extinguished.

"Big brother, what…just happened?" Hikari asked as she took in her surroundings.

"I'm not quite sure." Tai Chi answered honestly. Everyone was shocked by what happened too. No one could understand what just happened.

"Well, well, well" said a voice that caught everyone's attention. To their dismay the one who spoke was Mr. Jinno who was standing their with his stick crackling with electricity. He was surveying the kids then looked at the damage of the forest that surrounded them. Although the fire wasn't spread too far a number of trees were burnt and destroyed.

"You guys are definitely in a heap of trouble now." Mr. Jinno said while eyeing each one of the students with hate.