Last time
Gin grinned broadly. "Take us to the training field; I need to assess what I'm working with here."
Now
They were nervous, no two ways about it. They had done as Gin requested, and after excusing the other monks escorted Gin and his group to the training field. When they got there Gin asked all Kimiko Rai Toph Katara and Aang to step into the ring, telling the other not to step inside the large circle.
"Ok, brats, we're going to have a little spar." He said as he plopped down near the side of the ring. "I'll give you five a few minutes to talk to each other." With that Gin crossed his arms under his head and began to snore lightly.
Sweat dropping at how easy Gin could fall asleep, the five huddled together.
"Hey everyone, like you heard back there my name's Raimundo, just call me Rai though." Rai broke the ice. "This is my lovely fiancée." He gestured to Kimiko, who waved. "I assume you three would fight best together then with one of us, so will make to team, you three and the two of us; that way we're in working teams and Gin'll have to deal with two teams." The three benders nodded, seeing the logic in Rai's plan.
Kimiko smirked at her Brazilian fiancée. "I guess Master Fung did choose a good Shoku, hmm?"
"Tch, but of course." Rai jokingly flexed, stopping when the giggling Kimiko lightly playfully slapped his head. Rai mocked pouting. "Does the good Shoku get a kiss?"
Kimiko scrunched up her brow in mock deep-thought. "Hmm… maybe, but only if the good Shoku impress's his fiancée during the spar." Kimiko sighed in false drama.
Rai smirked. "Is that a challenge?
"Maybe."
At that Rai's smirk not only grew, but adopted an 'I-know-something-you-don't' look. "You're on, Koibito." The other three observed in amusement, Katara and Toph sending Aang and each other furtive glances; being the naïve male that he was Aang missed the looks.
"We'll start when I find a good song." Gin's voice floated over to them. Turning to look at gin, he was in the same position fiddling with an I-pod in his right hand, an ear bud already in his right ear. "Oh, weapons are allowed." Gin added absently.
Nodding to each other, Rai and Kimiko slid on their elemental Shen-Gon-Wu over their right arms as they pulled out their Wudai Weapons; Benders taking their individual stance, Katara uncorking her water sling, and Aang twirling his staff.
Standing up Gin slid his I-pod into his left pocket, and popped the other ear pod in. "Let's go." Bobbing his head to the beat of the song he had chosen, Gin slid into a loose ready stance.
For a while they just stood there the five element users eyeing the silver haired man across from them. As a soft wind blew past them, Gin disappeared from their view. 'Crap! He's faster then I expected, where the hell is he?!'
"Behind you…" Spinning to face the quite voice that had spoke behind them all but Rai was forced back by a large gust of wind, Gin began to punch kick combo Rai who was barely able to block them.
'Shit he's fast and strong…' Rai thought as he back flipped away from him. 'And apparently also a wind user…' While still in the air Rai loosened the reins on his chi, allowing it to travel through his body more freely, making his tattoos appear. Though the others couldn't see them, the two kanji tattoos on his shoulder blades began to glow as he focused his chi into them.
Everyone's eyes widened in surprise as the Shoku Warrior began to give off a purple glow. Suddenly Raimundo gave a loud shout as large purple-scaled dragon wings grew from his back. Rai ripped off his ruined ghi top with his left hand, his right steal bearing the Crest of the Condor and holding the Blade of the Nebula, revealing his tattoos and leaving his gold medallion to dangle on his bare chest, and threw the tattered ghi top to the ground. Using his 12-foot wings, Rai hovered a few feet above the ground.
The reactions varied from person to person. The none-fighters gaped, Fung smirked, Katara explained to Toph why she was picking up such awe fear and shock from the general areas vibrations, Aang managed to say 'wooooow', Kimiko sighed muttering about show off-y fiancées, and Gin raised and eyebrow.
"So?" Gin asked as he pulled of his shirt, after he unplugged his ear buds, and threw it to the ground, which caused many shocked looks as the shirt made a small crater upon impact.
'Are you telling me he was moving that fast with that much extra weight on him?!' Rai heard Kimiko's mental shriek.
'Apparently…' Rai answered back, trying to remain calm and succeeding at keeping his face calm.
With a soft sigh, large, with a 24 foot span from tip to tip, obsidian angel wings with silver tips grew from his back. He smiled at the shocked looks he was getting, even from the ones that had already seen his wings back in Elementai. "I can do that to." He stated matter of factly as he put his ear buds back on.
The first to get over their surprise was, surprisingly as it was the first time he had seen Gins angel wings, Rai, who sent a large wind blade Gins way. Gin smirked as he cocooned himself in his wings. The blast hit the wings and split into, leaving to deep cut in the ground on either side of Gin. Before Gin un-cocooned himself, the others who up till this point had done little to nothing, all sent a large burst of their respective elements at Gin, Rai also sent another blast at the man.
When the smoke cleared Gins feathery cocoon was seen hovering over a deep crater... totally unharmed. Slowly Gin parted his wings to reveal himself; he gave a low whistle as he looked down at the crater and pocketed his ear buds. "Nice." He complimented as he lightly touched down at the rim of the crater.
"As a reward for such nice attacks..." A small purple vortex, just large enough for Gin to slip his hand into, appeared in front of the angel winged man at chest level. "...Let me show you..." He reached his right hand, which those watching saw that the reflective black nails looked even more dangerous then they had before, into the vortex, pulling out a normal looking katana. "...One from a style that I..." He unsheathed the blade and threw the sheath to the side, holding it at his standing shoulder height parallel to the ground, placing his left index and middle finger at its hilt. "...Made personally..." Gathering his energy to the two fingers at the blades hilt, he traced the swirling chaotic silver energy down the swords curved blade. When the two fingers reached the end, he let them trail off and let the arm fall to his side.
While Gin had done this, everyone could only watch in shock as Gin raised the sword radiating a fast amount of energy, an energy Rai and Aang were vastly familiar with as it felt like the atmosphere itself was wrapped around the blade, above his head. With a savage smile he brought it down, when the swords tip hit the ground five a... sharp blasts of wind charged the five fighters. All five hit all at the same time
As the blast hit their individual marks, Rai, who had landed, thought he heard something... sing right before they were showered by their own blood as it poured from deep cuts that suddenly covered them.
Raimundo fell to his knees, barely managing to keep his hold on his Blade of the Nebula, as blood continued to pour from his wounds in an unceasing tide. 'What was that?!' Rai shouted in his mind. 'It was like the wind was… singing…'
'Like he said, that was a original move from his personal style; a style of wind aligned attacks whose power is beyond you're imagination.' Silon answered.
'Tch.' Was Rai's way of answer. 'You ok Kimi?'
'… Yeah… but damn he's strong!' Rai smiled at Kimiko's mental reply.
"So you couldn't hear it, Aang?" Gin asked, scratching his chin with his free hand, the sword still held in a lazy grip in his right hand, as he blurred over to behind the shaved head boy. "I figured as much, you don't have the right mind set for that style…" Taking a fist full of the scruff of Aang's shirt, Gin threw the young Avatar out of the ring. He blurred a few feet over to stand between the two Bender girls.
"Remember; I can get rid of your main weakness, Toph, I can cure your blindness." Gin muttered into her ear, hovering a few feet above the ground to but emphasis on how her blindness, though it helped her Earth Bending, made her vulnerable to aerial attacks/attackers. Grabbing them he threw them over to Aang, Katara, who he had used the weakest attack on for this purpose, began to heal the threes wounds.
He looked around for Rai Kimiko, who had disappeared from view. 'Now, where are the other two?' The answer to his question came in the form of a gigantic fire/wind tornado coming at him from behind. Swirling around Gin inhaled the entire attack, finding the two Xiaolin he exhaled a massive blue-fire fireball at them. When the counter-attack hit them, they dissolved into wind.
'Wind illusions, heh?' Gin thought, amused. Listening contently, Gin heard nothing. 'He can elude my senses? It's true I'm not really trying very hard to find them, but that's still impressive… Ah, there he is.' Grinning Gin raised his sword to block Rai's down slash.
"Yo, Raimundo, where's Kimiko?" The Brazilian didn't respond verbally, letting go of the Blade of the Nebula with his left hand, he pulled out the Sword of the Storm in his now free hand to slash at Gins chest. Pumping his wings Gin flew up and backward, away from Rai, only to feel an intense heat coming at him from behind.
"She's behind you." Rai answered cheerfully.
Laughing a little Gin turned around and back handed the blue fire ball into the ground, where it left a small crater. Gin smirked at Kimiko's look. "Nice try." He mocked, soaring high into the sky to float around a bit.
'What the hell?! What's with this guy?!' Kimiko shouted in frustration across her and Rai's link. 'He just back handed a freakin blue-fire fire ball! How do we beat something like him?!'
Rai nodded, tightening his grip on his two swords. 'We can't beat him, so let's impress him!' With that, he pumped his own, scaled, wings and engaged Gin in an aerial sword fight. Which he immediately became the losing side, his inexperience in both using his wings and sword play itself evident.
'No fair! You know I haven't gotten to the point of being able to fly using Firdra's wings yet!' Kimiko mentally yelled at her fiancée.
She could feel his mental shrug. 'Practice your aim then, Koibito.'
'Fine! But it's your ass I'll burn if I miss!'
'Oh, a mental link, Heh? No wonder you two could work so well together without speaking… actually, that's a bit unfair of me; you two always had good team work, the link just made it all the easier.' Gins voice echoed in their heads. Kimiko looked up at Gin in shock, and Raimundo flipped away in surprise.
'What? Is it so surprising I can speak in your minds? I'm not insulting your bond or anything, but any one can do this much, with the right training; but it's a far cry from the special connection you two share. You just need to work on shielding your mind from others.'
Shaking his head to clear it of his surprise, Rai leaped back towards Gin, swords raised. After a while of further sword fighting, Gin slipped his katana under Rai's guard, and used the blunt side to send Rai hurtling to the ground.
Kimiko helped Rai up into a sitting position inside the crater. Suddenly Gin was standing a few feet in front of them, his sword pressed lightly to Rai's throat. "Do you yield?"
Kimiko and Raimundo growled, the Brazilians pupils slowly slitting like a cats as purple began to bleed into his yokes. Gin frowned, pressing his sword jus hard enough into Rai's neck to to draw a single drop of blood. "Don't force your bond to Silon, push to hard to soon and you may brake it; which would kill you."
Though his growling persisted and his pupils remained slited, the purple receded. Rai grinned, showing elongated teeth, as the dragon on his arm began to give off a black glow.
"Why do you push your self so hard?" Gin questioned his face blank. "Is it pride?"
"Pride?" Rai repeated, standing with his fiancée's help. "That's part of it, but there one more…"
"This is fun!" Kimiko finished, letting go of Rai to attack Gin, managing to get him to move his sword from Rai's throat as he used the flat of it to block the Japanese girl's attacks.
Rai, who had managed to stay standing, though with a sway, tossed the Sword of the Storm too the side. Taking the same pose Gin had taken not to long ago, Rai trailed his purple chi down the length of the blade.
Gin's eyes widened as he felt the wind grow heavy in a way he was intimately familiar way. Giving Kimiko a hard hit, that she block with her armor covered right arm (2), and set her flying several yards away. The none-human turned to face Raimundo, who had his sword raised high above his head. 'He learned how to, how ever sloppy, perform that move... from seeing it a single time...? Kids got some fuckin serious potential...'
"Well? I f you know that much, I'm sure you know how to release it." Gin smirked at the Shoku Warrior. He turned around, again, when he felt a great heat from where he had nocked Kimiko to. Kimiko stood facing him, blue fire incircleing her arms (1).
"... Wind severs..." Rai intoned, his sword pulsing above his head.
"... Fire burns..." Kimiko continued.
"... Together, they incinerate!" They finished as one, launching their attacks.
The observers watched in awe. The now healed Benders watched in shock, finding it hard to believe these kids that were around their age were so powerful; the none Benders having similar problems in believing what they were seeing.
Clay and Omi were in shock. They had known something had changed with their two friends, but this was in league they had never thought of.
Fung was the only one to remain calm, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. 'Hmm... What fuels Raimundo's strength? Even with a Silver Dragon Spirit, this skill is unnatural.' Fung thought. 'That is a move from Gin's personal style, it should not be so easy to grasp... unless... no, that is a bit too far fetched...'
"Delightful, but that was your limit." Gin spoke as the smoke settled, he hovered in the center of the large crater the two attacks had caused. The only sign he had been affected at all was the small fire in his silver hair, which he quickly snuffed out, and his slightly tattered clothing. The observers couldn't decide which was more surprising; the lack of major damage or the fact there was damage.
Rai kimiko could only mutter 'Damn', before they feinted, Rai's tattoos vanishing as he lost conciousness.
Gin laughed, quickly opening a vortex to put his sword in before closing it, he picked them up. "Where's their room, Fung?" Gin asked the kung-fu master as he adjusted Rai and Kimiko's positions under his arms.
Fung chuckled. "Engaged though they are, they do not sleep together."
Gin raised an eyebrow. "What the fuck, are you serious?" Fung nodded. "That's just weird..."
(A/N)Yo. Well, that's the longest chapter I've ever written with absolutely no help...
(1)Like in the episode Call of the Siren when the guys were being idiots about Desiree(I think that's her name)
(2)She blocked it with her Cats-Eye-Draco, which covers her arm.
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