Hello everyone! Welcome back to chapter 25 of The Glacial Ones!
I've had a lot of reviews for the last chapter, so bear with me for a bit wile I answer them.
Dieter17: I admit I never thought to compare it to a Fidelius Charm. As for the Book of Lies trump card, I see you read my notes on it! Yay! Anyway, for your blood idea, it wouldn't work, as the book would also remove her blood since even if reality doesn't know she's there, the book does.
At the moment through, I've been thinking about its trump card being something along the lines of showing not only a person's name, but also their position in relation to the book and what is going to happen to them in the next three seconds. By editing the location, she can change where they are, and by reading the second part, she can provide intelligence to the others. The down sides would be that she would have to actively rewrite their location, which takes more time that combat general allows, and the future would change the moment she made a warning. On top of energy costs. Anyway, thanks for the review!
Sinnerlust: Thanks for the support, and an interesting if rather final idea for the Horcrux. If I can't find something for it to do, then I will probably just pull your idea out my ass. Thanks!
Tsunashi777: I agree with all your points, but I will say that despite everything I think Izou has some form of loyalty towards them, if only for his honour as a swordsman. Which is why I made him think about it rather than just agree like Dorothea. Anyway, thanks for the feedback!
Jharrell819: Please, don't make me think of it. Though, to be honest, Esdeath could probable scare Orochimaru. Imagine them teaming up… I'm going to go and become a drunk now, to try bury that thought.
Cinder: First, is the name 'Cinder' a reference to RWBY? Just curious. Secondly, kill Ran?! I am insulted! Who do you think I am?! …Yeah, I was actually tempted for a while, but no, I intend to have him kick Champ into the ground. And then drag him off to Esdeath.
And a thanks to Aku no Kotei, Drunkle Qrow, Animefan1337, and, as always, Imperial warlord. Thanks for all your support!
Now that that is all out of the way, welcome to chapter 25 of The Glacial Ones!
I do not own, in any way, shape, or form Akame Ga Kill or Harry Potter.
-T.G.O-
Chapter 25: Dark Side of the Soul
Harry wasn't like Esdeath in the fact that, before the chapel incident, she had never felt true rage. He had, indeed, felt a lot of rage and hatred in his life. Hatred and fury at the Dursley's, at the people who lived normal lives that he could never had, at the world in general.
In fact, he had raged and hated so much that one day something inside him just decided that it couldn't be bothered anymore and told all the rage and hate to bugger off.
And it did, leaving Harry without the ability to truly hate someone, without the knowledge of how it was that one felt anger. And it had remained like that for many years, through beatings from the Dursley's, through harsh training from Esdeath, through massacres and slaughters and war crimes that must never reach the light.
Perhaps it was the slow regaining of his knowledge of emotions. Perhaps it was the talks Bols would give him to help him understand others better. Perhaps it was that Maggie and Tiffany were part of the surrogate family Bols had helped build around him.
It didn't matter.
Six years of suppressed hatred, of fury and malice and murder. Thirteen years of rage at the world, at the injustice of his life before he meet Esdeath. It all exploded forth in an icy, chilling rage, a murderous intent so terrible that Izou decided then and there that Wild Hunt was doomed and he may as well join the Jaegers.
He was a battle maniac. Not suicidal.
A cold, wintery wind howled down the street, swirling around the small boy as the evening sun fled behind black clouds, coating the section of the Capital they were in in an ominous, foreboding darkness like the shadow of falling empire.
Then came the ice. Everything within fifty metres of Harry froze, a layer of frost coating everything, glazing the windows and turning the very grass into icy blades.
The temperature continued to drop drastically as Harry's magic lashed out in fury, overjoyed at the destructive purpose it was to be given.
And in the centre of it all, surrounded by the swirling, howling, chilling wind and covered by the shadows as though the sun was fleeing from his wrath, with ice creeping out around him, Harry smiled.
It started as a small, amused smile usually reserved for parents or teachers towards children who have done something foolish.
Little children who have done something very, very foolish indeed.
Then it began to grow, stretching across his face as it grew wider and wider, splitting his face in two in a psychotic grin that would have disturbed even Seryu if she were still alive.
Beside him Ran recovered from the sense of foreboding doom, Harry's own murderous intent and the chance to final give Champ a painful death releasing his inhibitions as his own small smile took on a malicious and cruel tinge, a twisted mockery of a grin.
His hair shadowed his eyes as behind him, his Teigu activated, two wings of light spreading out behind him, somehow taking on a fearsome hue in the darkness, looking ominous when seen with his own, fearsome expression.
Behind the rest of Wild Hunt, Cosmina shuddered, only partially from the biting chill that was getting colder by the second, glancing around desperately as she realised they had indeed just kicked the sleeping dragon. She spotted Izou standing off to the side, making no move to respond to the threat before him.
Their yes met for a moment, hers desperate for escape, to be saved.
She was scared. Terrified even.
Izou gazed at her for a moment that seemed like eternity before he gave her a look of what almost looked like pity. Even though he knew he could get away fine as long as he didn't interfere, the amount of murderous intent pouring off the two Jaegers was enough to frighten even him.
He jerked his head to the right, motioning for her stand beside him and whispering below sound of the wind as she scramble over to him, unseen by the other present members of Wild Hunt.
"Do not interfere and they should leave you alone. Even if Syura and the other two do manage to beat those two, which seems doubtful right now, they will have to face Esdeaths wrath afterwards. Wild Hunt will not survive the night."
Cosmina nodded shakily beside him.
Across from Harry and Ran, Syura gritted his teeth in fury. How dare this mere brat and some pathetic pretty boy make him feel fear? How dare they interrupt his fun? Anger and fear, a potent mix indeed, clouded his mind as he prepared Shambhala in his hand. He had already set several opening points around the area out of habit.
Beside him, Enshin wasn't much better, for much the same reasons. He was a prideful man and to have someone that he saw as below him wielding such power and inciting such intense fear drove him into a rage that feasted and grew fat on his own fear.
Champ was just enraged that they had interrupt his time with the wonderful little angel he was about to liberate. The fact that he suddenly felt the urge to flee from them only feed fuel to the fire.
Funny how only Cosmina, who wasn't enraged by Harry and Ran's presence, was the only one who listened to her instincts. Izou on the other hand, was an expert on reading killing intent, and even he didn't want to mess with someone pouring out that much of it. Dorothea was still in the palace labs studying the stone, so she didn't even notice.
There was a moment of, well, not stillness but semi stillness as Harry and Ran stood on one side of the street, faces shadowed with terrifyingly psychotic grins on their faces, the bitter wind swirling around them as more and more ice continued to creep away from Harry, the temperature continuing to plummet.
On the other side of the street, Champ, Enshin and Syura stood with looks of fury on their faces, Cosmina standing slightly behind Izou with a look of intense fear bordering on terror as Izou just watched with a kind of detached resignation.
Then there was an explosion of movement.
Champ surged forward, hurling a small ball he had been preparing at Ran, who shot upwards into the sky, letting the ball fly past below him and explode in a flash of lightning, electricity arcing everywhere and bouncing down the frost and ice covered street. At the same time, Enshin shot forwards, his blade flashing out and sending a shock wave towards Harry as Syura charged beside him.
Harry didn't so much as blink at the approaching members of Wild Hunt, a wall of ice bursting up to block the shock wave attack with barely the smallest tug on his core. Enshin leapt into the air, his blade Teigu pulled back for a mid-air slash, only to flip backwards in mid-air as Harry's ice wall sprouted large spikes towards him, grazing his left leg as the pirate flipped away.
Behind him Syura used the ice wall to hide himself as he activated Shambhala, teleporting in a flash of light to a point behind Harry.
Harry's demented mockery of a grin widened impossible as the ice and frost spread across the street informed him of Syura's sudden relocation, another wall of ice rising up from the ground to block the man's knee as it flew towards Harry.
There was a smashing sound as Syura's knee slammed into the ice barrier, shattering it into a thousand pieces that flew towards Harry, stopping less than a foot from him as they hung in the air, morphing into tiny, razor sharp ice shards that flew back the way they came towards Syura.
Syura leapt out of the way of the hail of ice as Enshin landed from his mid-air flip, slashing his blade horizontal to the ground with a growl of annoyance, sending a crescent shock wave slamming into the ice wall already weakened by his first attack.
The ice wall was slashed in half, the shock wave continuing onwards, only to slam into a second wall that had appeared directly behind the first. At the same time, the ice and frost around him moved, spires of ice piercing up towards the man, who leapt backwards into another back flip, land on his feet a few metres away.
Only to leap again as the ice reacted below him and lashed out upwards again.
Landing from his dodge on the other side of Harry, Syura shot forward, evading the two spires of ice that lunged from the ground towards his chest and slamming his fist through another ice wall as he lunged towards Harry. The younger boy turned slightly, looking at the charging man with half his face shrouded in shadows.
He unleashed a flash of his power.
It was a neat trick he had learnt a while ago, using his power to amplify and transmit his killing intent and bloodlust. Of course, it could only multiply what was already there, and there was a limit of how much he could multiple his killing intent, so, since he rarely actually had any more than the barest amounts of killing intent, he rarely used it as even multiplied it was too insignificant.
Right now though?
There was a flash of killing intent, of pure murder that swamped the entire street for a single moment.
Enshin froze, a killing intent induced hallucination of a spire of ice slamming through his chest appearing before him.
Standing behind Izou, Cosmina stopped breathing for a moment, an image of her being violently torn apart flashing through her head.
Izou shivered, crushing down his death vision before it could come.
Syura froze, fist mere centimetres from Harry's fist as a vision of his skewered body shot through his mind.
Then it was gone.
Enshin leapt to the side, the spire of ice aim to skewer him slashing a gash across his side instead as Syura leapt backwards, suffering small cuts to his arms and legs as he barely evaded the thin spikes that grew from the ground and shattered ice walls behind him. A moment later Harry was in front of him, fist cocked back for a blow to his stomach.
With one hand, Syura blocked Harry's punch, barely noticing the unnatural strength behind it as he landed from his jump, Harry's fist still in his hand as he sent his right leg up towards the younger boys head.
Ice appeared along Harry's skin like armour as Syura's foot slammed into him, smashing away most of it and sending him flying off to the side, ice spears materializing and firing at Syura as he flew.
Harry landing in a crouch as his opponent dodged to the side, leaping back again as Enshin sent a powerful attack down towards him.
Sliding back as Enshin spun towards him, Harry materialized a boulder of ice above himself, sending it crashing towards the charging pirate.
Syura activated Shambhala once more, vanishing in a flash of light and appearing above Harry at a point he had sent when they began the fight, slashing his foot down in a vicious axe kick as Enshin dodged Harry's boulder and sent a horizontal shock wave at him once more.
Harry ducked under the shock wave, his left hand coming up to catch Syura's axe kick as he covered it in a thick layer of ice ice.
Syura's heel slammed into the ice protecting Harry's palm, shattering it as the smaller boy caught his foot, the momentum sending ripples through the frost at his feet. Tugging at his core, Harry encased Syura's foot, and most of the leg up to the knee, in ice before sending a burst of chilling wind to knock Enshin sliding backwards across the icy terrain.
Leaping backwards, Syura landed next to Enshin as he slide to a stop, shattering the ice on his leg as he glared at Harry.
"How? I know all the Teigu that exist, and only one has powers like that, which is being used by general Esdeath. How can you have ice powers as well?!"
Harry just smiled eerily.
"Poor, little, Syura can't figure it out."
Across from him, Enshin and Syura dropped into combat stances as a wave of metre long spears of ice appeared, floating behind Harry.
"I'm not using a Teigu."
It was timed perfectly, the wave of ice spears surging forward a moment before he finished his sentence, Syura freezing for a millisecond in shock before diving out of the way of the attack.
Too slow.
That single moment in which he was frozen meant that he couldn't dodge the attack perfectly, a single spear slamming into his shoulder and hurling him backwards as Enshin, having fully dodged the wave of ice spears, shot forwards, sword flashing.
Harry stepped to the side, his psychotic grin never leaving his face as he narrowly dodged the shock wave sent his wave, his two blades unsheathed and rising to block Enshin's downward slash before he had even finished dodging the first attack.
Enshin's blade slammed down onto Harry's own crossed blades, forcing him down and buckling his knees slightly, an uncomfortable reminder that physically, even when he reinforced his muscles, he was inferior to both his opponents.
Suddenly, there was a flash of light behind him and his ice informed him that Syura had used Shambhala to get behind him moment before a foot slammed into his side, cracking his ribs and sending him hurtling away from where he had been struggling against Enshin's blade.
There was a flash as Enshin swung his Teigu in Harry's direction, a shock wave splitting the darkness of the street as it flew towards the mid-air Harry.
Flipping in mid-air Harry landed in a crouch, ducking under the shock wave and crossing his arms across his body just in time to block a jarring punch from Syura that lifted him up and hurled him back again, a wave of ice spears materializing around him and firing forward to drive his attackers back as he landed once more.
He never stopped smiling.
Enshin's blade flashed in the gloom as he sent several shock waves towards Harry, a massive wall of ice rising up to block them before growing spikes and firing them at the pirate, forcing him to jump aside.
Off to Harry's side Syura appeared at another of his gates using Shambhala, slamming his foot into the ice wall that rose to intercept him.
The wall shattered and, once again, the ice shards transformed into razor sharp spears that blitzed towards him. Syura, having predicted the attack, had already ducked low under the barrage, shooting across the ground towards Harry with his fist cock back at his sides.
He began to rise from his crouched running, fists ready to slam into Harry.
The ice beneath him shifted.
He abandoned his attack, diving to the side just in time to avoid being skewered by the ice spire that rose from the, slashing a cut along his side as he threw up his hands just in time to block Harry's follow up kick that sent him flying backwards.
Harry leapt backwards, narrowly avoiding the shock wave that came down on him from above as Enshin leapt over the wall of ice that he had formed. A wave of ice shards shot towards the pirate in retaliation, slashing away at his body as he released a second attack that forced Harry back again, straight into a blistering round house from Syura that slammed into the side of his chest, snapping already bruise bones.
Harry flew off to the side, landing awkwardly as he dropped one of his blades to clutch at his side, sending a wave of energy to numb the pain as he materialized a rotating buzz saw of ice two metres in diameter, sending it spinning towards Enshin as he landed at the same time as a series of ice spires forced Syura to leap into the air.
With a flick of his wrist, Harry banished the mid-air Syura backwards into the building behind him at the same time as summoning the buzz saw back to him moments after Enshin ducked it, dropping his remaining sword as he did.
Hearing the sound of the spinning buzz saw behind him, Enshin ducked into a forward roll as it flew over him, rising back to his feet with his sword prepared to slash out.
The buzz saw flew past Harry as he reached into his core, tugging it as he began to swirl the chilling winds into the palm of his right hand.
Enshin's sword flashed sending a total of eight shock waves towards Harry
Harry thrust his right hand forwards, his bundle of high speed air blades exploding forward to slam into Enshin's attack.
The attacks collided in a screech of air and howling wind as one overcame the other.
An explosion of blood painted the ice crimson under the gloomy light of the street.
-T.G.O-
Several minutes ago with Ran.
Ran flicked his wings down towards Champ as he lead him down the street, ignoring the flash of electricity behind him as he sent a wave of razor sharp feather like structures surging towards Champ.
Leaping backwards, Champ threw the five remaining balls in his hands up in front of him where they floated in mid-air in a circle, spinning as they did. Then the wave of feathers hit, slamming into an invisible shield.
Snagging another ball out of the air, Champ hurled it towards Ran as the barrage of feathers stopped, the orb clipping one of Ran's wings as he went to dodge.
It exploded.
Ran was suddenly encased is a tornado of howling winds, forcing him towards the ground as Champ charged forward, the lightning orb flying back to his hands as he threw another at the raging tornado.
Seeing the incoming ball through the howling wind, Ran hurled himself backwards, pushing himself through the wall of moving air as he wrapped himself in his wings for protection. The winds howled around him, batting at him until he finally left the tornado.
Then the ball thrown by Champ struck the dying pillar of wind and exploded in a flash of fire.
There was a howling, crackling roar as a wave of heat wash over the street, struggling against the ice and chill that Harry had created as the tornado was transformed into a roaring, raging pillar of fire that seared the very sky for a moment, before Harry's chill beat it down and buried it beneath waves of artic air.
Ran pulled his arm from where it had been protecting his eyes, glancing around for Champ and noticing him down below, covering his own eyes. Flicking his wing again, Ran sent another wave of feathers towards the large man as he glanced up at Ran.
Champ dived to the side as he noticed the incoming attack, moving his body surprisingly fast as the wave of feathers descended.
Not fast enough though.
The feathers slammed into his lower body and the ground beyond, piercing his flesh and borrowing into layers of fat as he roared in fury, landing in a clumsy crouch and staggering to his feet as Ran landed on a nearby rooftop, not wanting to use up his flying time as he released another barrage of feathers towards his target.
Champ grabbed a blue orb and hurled it towards the incoming wave of feathers, a single feather slamming into the orb and causing it to explode, covering everything within several metres around it in a layer of ice, the suddenly frozen feathers shattering as they fell to the ground.
Even as the feathers began to fall from the sky, Champ hurled a second orb towards Ran, catching the wind one as it flew back to him.
Ran shot upwards into the sky in a burst of speed.
The orb slammed into the empty shop just below where he had been standing.
It exploded.
A massive fireball consumed the building, lighting up the gloomy street for a moment as Ran braced himself in the air, the shock wave buffeting him upwards from below.
Stabilizing in the air, Ran glanced at Champ again, just in thing to see him hurl the lightning ball at him.
The orb flashed in mid-air a metre in front of him as Ran made a sudden drop.
The orb exploded in a flash of lightning, arcs of electricity dancing down to the ice and frost covered ground, leaping across it like a brilliant fire work display.
Ran slammed into the ground, flicking out a wave of feathers towards Champs last location as he blinked the stars from his eyes. Champ was already moving, running to the side as several of the balls he had thrown returned to him.
Noting Ran's white wings in the gloom, he hurled a purple black one at his opponent's location.
Noticing the ball hurtling towards him through the half gloom, Ran fly upwards once more. Below him the orb flashed an ominous purple as it exploded.
If Ran was the kind of man who swore, he would have cursed up a blue streak by now.
Below him, the grass rotted away, the very ground decomposing under the power of the orb as it decayed everything in range.
Flicking his wings, he sent another flurry of feathers surging towards Champ, intercepting his fire orb which exploded in a searing inferno that incinerated most of the feathers. Ran paid it no head as his Teigu sent out several feathers in different directions, the feathers turning in mid-air and homing in on Champ from every side as they flew around the dying mid-air inferno.
Noting the feathers coming at him from every direction, Champ leapt backwards, pulling his large frame back as his arms came up to cover his face.
That act saved his life.
The feathers converged directly in front of him before suddenly changing direction and slamming into him, piercing the flesh of his arms and shoulders as he roared in rage, ignoring his injuries as he hurled his storm orb to intercept the next flurry of feather in a pillar of wind, his other hand hurling the ice orb a moment behind the other as the two opponent's views of each other was cut off.
Ran flicked his wings, preparing to send more homing feathers around the tornado just as the ice ball burst out of the tornado, somehow unaffected by the howling winds as it flew towards him.
Cursing, Ran abandoned his original plan as he sent a group of feathers at the orb, wrapping his wings around himself in an effort to protect himself.
The feathers slammed into the orb.
It exploded.
Ran was blasted backward, his wings protecting him from the worst of the icy explosion as he tumbled backwards before trying to stabilise his flight and retaliate.
…
His eyes widened in horror as he realised that his wings were frozen in front of him, a moment before he slammed into the ground with a pained thud.
The tornado between the two opponents vanished out of existence, revealing to Champ his foe as Ran slammed into the ground. Jerking his arm back Champ let out a victorious yell as he hurled his explosive orb at Ran.
The orb left his hand, arcing towards Ran.
An explosion light up the gloomy street, shaking the earth as it did.
-T.G.O-
I'm sorry. Really, I am sorry, I didn't originally intend to pull yet another cliff hanger. Anyway, that is chapter 25 complete!
Hmm… I don't like this chapter for some reason. I like the start, but something seems to feel… off about it… I feel like I forgot something important.
I don't actually really know how Champs Teigu works, though I assume that normally the user would have to go and pick the orbs up. I've made it so that once they regain some of the energy they used in the explosion the orbs return to the person who threw it. As for Ran not fighting as well as he could, he is still wanting to capture Champ alive, so is holding back from dealing a certain death blow.
And yes, I have an evil plan on how Ran will beat Champ.
Next chapter will finish up this fight and then we will hopefully have break from intensive combat only chapters for a while. I love writing combat, believe me, but several chapters of only combat? No thanks!
Anyway, any ideas, likes, dislikes, advice, constructive criticism or simple thought about the story are all welcome and appreciated! So please review!
Finally, I hope you have enjoyed chapter 25 of The Glacial Ones and the story so far!
Goodbye and thanks for reading! Until next time!