Fire Chapter

Episode 2: Roar of the Flaming Brave!

Ifrit and I stood across from the psychotic Daemon, he had spikey green hair a lavender button up and wore black leather pants complete with black combat boots. He turned around facing me with his lime green eyes, he had piercing on his nose, chin, ears and even his eyebrows. He grinned showing nothing but silver replacement teeth that glen in the sun. "Hmhmhmhmhm...oooh-hooo looks like I left out one brat from the death toll." He said with his hands in his pockets. "I'll clean you up real nice kid. A quick and simple beheading how does that sound?"

"So you did do this?" I said and his sentence was all I needed to get the story straight.

"So what if I did? Don't tell me you're actually gonna try and stop me. Tch just look around you...I'm no normal run-a-the-mill killer." He said licking the top of his lips as if he'd spotted something delicious his tongue was pierced with so many rings that I had lost count.

"Who are you?" I asked.

He grinned even more and snickered abit. "Seeing as though you're about to die here kid. I see no point in telling you my name...now...disappear!" He said and with that flying out from the right side was a huge green vine like rope at the end was a dual hook like claw which was red. "DUCK!" Ifrit yelled and with that Iowered my head and the whip blade swung right past me and slammed through a building to the side of the temple. Another blade vine whip flew towards me straight from Ochu.

I slid forward while bending my knees and leaning backwards and the blades missed my face by a hair's length I watched it pass over me in slow motion as I came to a stop and stood to my feet. "Either you're really lucky or really good." Ochu said glaring at me more seriously now. Two more vines flew up towards me from up high and down at me like missiles, I flipped backwards once which I found amazing because I could never perform flips in my life. The vines slammed into the ground just where I was standing as I hit the stone paved ground and slid backwards.

Ochu dashed through the rising smog and straight at me with two vines potruding from his sleeves. He held his arms up shooting both vines at me. I dodged the right one but the left sliced me along my right shoulder. With both vines past me I dashed at Ochu as well and he seemed surprised to see me coming.

"I'm gonna make you pay." I said just before slamming my fist square into Ochu's face, he went flying back with blood leaking from his nose. He flipped back in mid air and hit a the ground going into a stair tumble all the way down onto the large clearing platform below. I cracked my knuckles then leaped from the top of the stairs landing down on the platform across from Ochu. This feels awesome! I FEEL LIKE A FUCKING SUPER HERO!

Ochu was laying the ground getting up while rubbing his nonstop blood running nose. " I get it now...heh heh...You...you're no..average joe yourself huh?" He said sucking his teeth and rising to his feet with a grin. "You...you're not like me...Not a Daemon. To posses that kinda strength but not share the same power. You must be a....yessss....yesss....a Brave."

"That's right." I said with triumphant smile.

"Then there is no need to hold back. Muahahahahahahaha! Finally I get to use my true power...I hope you're ready Brave-Boy." Ochu said rasing his hand over his face. Suddenly vaporizing off his body was dark purplish gas. "Testaarii" Ochu said in more possessed demonic way. I could hear another voice that sounded off at the same time as him.

O.O-Ifrit "He's awakening his Daemon Powers! Quickly Kelvis you must..." Before Ifrit could finish his sentence shooting out from the dark haze was an even bigger vine with an even bigger curved blades on them. The vine struck me in the chest causing a severe gash to open on my chest. I went flying back and crashing into the stairs. I fell forward landing on my front with blood spreading along the ground around me.

"Muhahahahahahahaahahaha!!! Finally my true power has been awakened!" Ochu said. I looked up at him to see that Ochu had transformed into an oversized green monster with a huge bulb on it's head with eight long vine like arms and four green heavy feet to hold it up. On the bud was Ochu with green skin to match his green leafy hair and red eyes. "I will crush you...after killing you maybe Omega will give me a promotion." I looked up at Ochu then slowly lifted myself off of the ground.

"Damn...how the hell am I suppose to beat that thing?" I asked.

"This is his true form, Daemons hide their true power and potential behind their human forms. Once they unleash their power they turn into real fiends." Ifrit explained. "There is a way we can match his strength for Braves too have the power to unleash their true forms."

" How do I do it?" I asked as I seen Ochu stomping forth towards us.

" You must place your hand over your heart and say the activation word; Invocare." Ifrit explained. "I will be able to lend your ALL of my powers once transformed and you will be several times stronger than you are now."

I placed my right hand over my heart and just as I was about to say it. A large vine came flying at me from the side, my eyes widened as I clenched my teeth and dove backwards with my hand on my heart. "INVOCARE!!"

Before I touched the ground I floated in mid air, suddenly I found myself covered in raging and spiralling flames that covered the entirety of my left and right arms as well as my legs, head and my body. It was all covered in flames. And in an instant the fire had left me revealing a brand new me. I was bending down with my feet spread wide apart and my fist down hitting the ground like Luffy Gear Second.

I wore an all black tight suit under with flames emblazed along the sides, crimson red shin guards with pointed knee padded tips, the same crimson red guantlets on each arms with crimson red shoulder guards and a red Kilika flaming symbol on my chest. Wrapped around my neck was a long scarf made of pure fire and on my head was a flaming red helm with two long Ifrit like horns sticking from them and backwards.

"Awesome." I said standing to my feet and staring at my palms. The flaming scarf around my neck one of the ends to the scarf morphed into a flaming Ifrit's head as it leaned up. "This is the true power of the Flaming Brave! With the proud flame in our hands well vanquish this Daemon." Ifrit said and with that I grinned showing long sabertooth fangs. Suddenly rising up from the scarf was mouth guard that covered my nose and mouth like a ninja's helm.

"This is my first time seeing a Awakened Brave." Ochu said with a grin.

"And this will be your last. I gaurantee it..." With that I stomped off of the ground hard flying high up into the air atleast 25 to 30 feet.

"Ivy Missiles!!" Ochu screamed as four of those vines flew straight at me like missiles. I kicked my right fist forward and my shin clashed with the four vines at once, they concentrated on a single point. Both me and the vines were clashing trying to force one another back in mid air until Ochu forced me back with two more vines causing me to go flying back. I flew backwards off into the trees leaving the platform. I landed on my feet as I slid back on the dirt.

Slicing through the trees while stomping towards me was Ochu he sliced a huge enough path for a free way just to get to me. One of Ochu's tentacles flew towards me and I leaped to the side while grabbing it as hard as I could. I stomped both of my feet into the ground planting them down and began to spin around around while held onto Ochu's tentacle, I pulled Ochu from the ground and with supernatural strength and pulled back then spun him around.

"Huh...ehhh..RWAAAHHHHH!!!" He screamed as I swung him around and around. I finally let him go sending him flying off and landing into a pile of trees like a bowling ball into a row of pins. Ochu stood up almost instantly and shot one of his tentacles towards me again. I leaped up with my feet spread wide dodging the claw. "Scissor Pinch!" He shouted and like a pair of scissors two vines crossed themselves and chopped down clamping me in between the two.

"Pyro Tornado!" I shouted spinning around with a flame surrounding me like a miniature flaming hurricane. I burned through the two tentacles while spinning until I hit the ground, I was still slightly spinning and slowing down like a human flame drill. I looked up at Ochu whom roaring aloud from agony out of losing his two tentacles. Ochu glared at me as I stood staring back at him my right fist had lit up and was surrounded and covered in flames like a torch. I dashed off towards Ochu as my entire right gauntlet was engulfed in flames, I shot my fist forward. "Volcano Fist!" It looked like I was holding a missile in my hand as I slammed it square into Ochu's ugly front body.

The Ochu screamed aloud and flew off while spinning in a spiral with a heap of smoke expelling from the spot where I punched him. Ochu stood up crying and screaming "IT BURNS! IT BURNS!!!" He screamed. "Gah I'm not done yet fool! Bad Breath!" Ochu said as his body had disappeared into the bulb, the bulb opened wide revealing a green gas that began to slowly seep around the forest. Planets and trees died after a wiff of this terrible gas.

I leaped backwards as the gas got close to touching my feet. "What's this gas?" I asked.

Appearing at the end of my scarf out of flame again was Ifrit. "It seems to be eroding everything it touches...and it also seems to be slowly taking up the entire area."

I looked up to see that the air just above the trees was clear. "I got an idea." I said leaping high up into the air with a front flip until I was just soaring above the trees, before Gravity could claim me I raised my right foot high up before spinning forward with my foot extended. "Scorching Buzzsaw!" I shouted spinning at high speed, in mid air I did look like a flaming buzzsaw. With that I began to fall, falling victim to gravity until the back of my heel slammed onto Ochu's head in the bulb, his entire fuck ugly body slammed into the ground and rising up from the ground was a geyser of flame that torched Ochu's body.

"WAAAAHHHHHH!!!!"

All that was left was flame and burning trees I stood in the center of that flame watching Ochu's body burn to scenders. " You did it...For your first battle that was nicely done!" Ifrit praised me.

"Thanks I had you to help me though." Kel said clenching my right fist.

"We mustn't rest, for the true battle is only beginning. You will face much more stronger Daemons than this." Ifrit said as his head appeared out of flame at the end of my scarf.

I turned around and started walking up towards the Kilika Temple. "Right...but first...let's give these guys a proper burial."

Atop a tall hill in the distance on Kilika Island having watched the entire battle was four figures, one a tall bulky man with black spikey hair, sitting on his shoulder was a small girl of about 10 or 11years old with shoulder length blue hair wearing a sailor schoolgirl uniform. Hanging upside down from a tree was a long lanky man with long bright yellow hair and tanned skin. And finally a boy seemingly Kel's age with spikey red hair swayed back wearing an all black biker's outfit. He stood with his arms crossed and his eyes closed like a red haired Squall Leonhart.

"So that's a Brave." The school girl asked with a grin.

"He totally toasted Ochu." The one hanging from the tree laughed.

"Ochu was a weakling, no point in a fuss over someone so low on the bracket." The boy in the biker suit said walking off.

"Should we kill him now?" The big brutish man asked.

"No, we tail him and wait for him to gather other Braves. Then we make our move." The lead Daemon said as he disappeared among the bushes.

"Hmph..."

With that the other three walked off behind him disappearing amongst the bush as well.

Author's Note: As you've read both the Daemons and Braves have activation phases that allow them to transform both in latin and both meaning invoke. Daemons say "Testaarii" and their transformation engulfs them in a poisonous looking smog while they transform. While Braves say "Invocare" and they are transformed with their element or a flash of light.

Transformation Guide:

Daemons even in transformation remain human looking they only gain either alot or some features from their Fiend selves. The more a Daemon looks more human the more powerful they are. For example if a Daemon has a Behemoth for a fiend source of energy, if he transformed and he remained standing on two legs and his physical features only change slightly then he is very high on the bracket. If a Daemon however transforms and he keeps his full features and fully transforms into Behemoth then he's strong because he's a behemoth and not because he's a Daemon. Got it? In lamer terms, the more human they look while transformed the stronger they are. Daemons have the abilities of their fiends as well as further abilities given to them by their human forms.

Transformations for Braves however are different. When a Brave transforms they gain different types of armor that fit their combat style, since Ifrit and Kel's fighting style is fisticuffs they have less armor giving him more of Megaman Stream type of look. The Braves have the ability to get stronger as well like Daemons. Braves have uppgraded forms, they can temporarily upgrade to these forms for a short time but then they transform back. Think of it like Shikai and Bankai from Bleach or going Super Saiyan for a short time. These forms are called Oversoul. Once a Brave reaches a certain level they can Oversoul to Level 2. Once an Oversoul begins the Brave's appearance is always different, one Brave will recieve a weapon or another will recieve some type of armor or ability upgrade which will make them significantly stronger. Oversoul Level 3 is the strongest level a Brave can reach. In level 3 a full sync of both the Aeon and Human is formed and the beings become one for a period of time.