I am back with another chapter baby! Well I'm grounded but at least my parents are letting me type. I think I would die without typing for a whole week or two, and guess what. I have a FIVE DAY weekend! WHOOOOO! Hopefully after this I'll be able to write a chapter for Following One Soul (my soul eater story, not as good as this one). BTW finished Air Gear and it was amazing. So anyway let's get to the story
Disclaimer: I do not own Air Gear nor do I intend to
Trick 2: The Queen of Tools, and the Boy of Fire and Lightning
Bored. That's the way Xavier has been all his life. Sure he's gotten a little excitement but not to the point where he would want to jump out of his seat. He had always hoped for something to come along and make his life exciting. But that never happened. Never.
"What? A link tuner? What would I need one of those for?" He asked Agito wiping the sweat of his brow. Agito had taken Xavier away to train him with the "Fang" and basic moves on A.T. It had been two days since their emblem was made (which took three days) and they had already signed up for the parts war, also they have put up their stickers around their junior high. Since Xavier had been working with Agito, Kara had begged his father to help her with the Sonia road and Yume had asked his father to teach him more about the flame. "I mean I don't have any regalia, so it would be pointless to have one." Agito shook his head leaning against the clock. Since Xavier had finally been able to wall ride they got into the base and made it their home. Agito had been staying their along with his wife Yayoi who was out buying groceries at the moment.
"Just because you don't have any regalia doesn't mean you can't have a link tuner. You gonna need one for when you're A.T breaks down during a parts war!" Agito yelled at and told him. Xavier nodded thinking he was right. "And I have the perfect candidate for you but for now…" He threw one of the dummies he had been working all for the last few days at him. "Get outside and do the trick we've been practicing! Afterwards, I want two wall ride ten-eighties and then practice your hooks on this here dummy!" He demanded of him and Xavier complied.
"Me? Be your Link Tuner, as if." The link tuner answered. The link tuners name was Izumi Winters, she is the tuner Agito had been talking about. Riding around town Xavier had found her fairly easy since Agito had given him a fairly detailed description. Like he told Xavier, her black hair went down to her mid-back and she wore fairly tom-boyish clothes, and she didn't look to be Japanese but looked more like an American. People called her the Mechanic Queen because of her unique road Airchanic, a combination of the Wing and Ring roads. "Even if the former fang king vouches for you, he's the former fang king, he has no pull in the A.T world anymore." Xavier gritted his teeth balling his hands up into fists. 'Just calm down Xavier, don't let her get to you.' He told himself. "Plus, I heard about your little dash with the Rats and how you got your friend to trick them. I wouldn't be a tuner for some cheat." She turned around and started to ride away. Xavier cupped his mouth.
"No matter what you think of me, I will get you to be my tuner!" Before he got another word, she disappeared in a flash. He knew if he wanted to he could catch up to her with ease but he didn't care for it at the moment. If Agito had recommended her then he would be back, and he would most certainly get her to be his link tuner.
Yume road along the rooftops finally being able to do so after a day of work with his father. Yume was coming along nicely practicing his A.T. He is now able to start up a flame with ease and do many tricks of the flame road since his father was an excellent teacher. The one thing that had been bothering him was the weird visions he would see when he rode. People would turn into monsters and walls that seemed were far away would smack him right in the face. He didn't understand it but so far in this "run" he hadn't had it happen to him. 'Today I might be lucky.' He thought to soon as an image of the former thunder king Nue appeared before him. "Okay spoke to soon." What he thought was an image was the real thing, which he soon realized as he tried to pass through him. "N-Nue?" He asked, finding him to be the real one. Yume was surprised to see him since the last he heard of Nue was a year ago when he decided to go around the world and see if there were any more Gravity Children that were actually children out there.
"Yume, good to see you." Nue smiled placing a hand on Yume's shoulder. "I've heard you and Xavier had made a storm rider team." Yume nodded finding a wide grin being placed on his face. "I guess you guys are gonna climb high up the Trophaeum aren't ya?"
"You bet your ass we are!" Yume yelled punching his arm playfully. His face turned into one of confusion as questions ran through his mind. "Why are you back in Japan? Surely it couldn't have taken such a short time to search the whole world." He asked Nue who only sighed. He scratched the back of his head trying to remember that himself.
"Well, your dash had been put up on the parts war site. I saw how you tricked that rider and I wanted to come and congratulate you." Yume looked at him questioningly, knowing that he could have just done so over the phone. "Also because your dad called me, he's told me about your visions." Yume sighed sitting down on the roof and Nue joined him. "Those visions you're having are a result of the Rising road. My road." Yume looked at him shocked, he hadn't expected something like that.
"Are you saying I'm using the Rising road on accident?" He asked as Nue nodded. "If that's true then why am I seeing the visions and not others? Isn't the rising road supposed to place them on other people?" Nue nodded again.
"You're exactly right. The reason this is happening is because you are not using the road properly and instead of ejecting the electric pulses out of your body and A.T they are getting sent straight into you. You're father called me to teach you on this road while he teaches you about the flame." Yume looked confused even more since he had no idea at how he would use those two roads at once since one canceled out the other. Sensing the oncoming question Nue answered. "It seems as if your flames amplify the illusions you are seeing instead of nullifying them. Even at the tiniest spark you could make someone experience mass hallucinations. You may be able to make a road more powerful than the Rising and Flame themselves. All it needs is a name."
Yume stood up, looking towards the horizon seeing the sun now beginning to set. "It shall be called the E-Three road." It was then and there his shadow had been shown. A gigantic cloud taking the shape of a man towered above him. Raging inside the cloud-man was lightning and on the outside fire was bursting forth. Nue nodded and stood beside him smiling seeing the fire in his eyes.
"Alright, let's get training."
Letting her go was one of the most idiotic things Xavier had ever done in his life. Since it was now dark, it had become hard to see. Only from the lights of the homes was he able to see. He growled and punched the nearest one finding that a bad idea afterwards. He shook his hand trying to get the stinging pain out of it. "Damn that hurt." He slid down the wall and closed his eyes resting them. But suddenly the roaring sound of passed over him. He heard six in all, instantly he got up and rode up the wall finding his training had paid off. He looked to where the sound had been heard and found that with focusing his eyes, he saw five riders from Sewer Rats and the tuner from earlier, Izumi Winters.
Xavier rode towards the riders, finding that his speed had become slightly faster during that week. He caught up to them with ease and rode up alongside Izumi seeing one of her A.T wheels had been busted. 'The one day I don't have tools on me.' She thought to herself before seeing Xavier riding backwards facing her. "Need any help my queen?" He asked in a mocking tone. She gritted her teeth finding his presence slightly annoying. Though she didn't like to admit it, she did need help and since he was he only one around she would have to accept it. She muttered a small yes and he faced the Rats. "Hello boys remember me?"
"Stupid Eagle this is none of your business! She intruded on our turf and it's our job to teach her a lesson!" One of them yelled at him, and Xavier shot him a look. He smirked showing sharp fangs. The hooks revealed themselves from under Xavier's pants and jacket. He charged towards the rider who spoke with a killer grin on his face.
"You're first!" He yelled making one of his hooks wrap around his helmet. He used the hook the pull himself forward and knee the rider in the face breaking open his helmet causing a few glass shards to make their way into his face. He turned to the next rider after the one he had been facing had fallen and wrapped a hook around his leg pulling them out from under him making him catch some air. Xavier kicked the man in the back making him go into the river below. Izumi watched this fight with amazement finding it more like a dance than a brutal battle. Xavier's shadow had fought with him the whole way making it more of a spectacle.
Xavier continued to attack jumping up behind one and made his wheel go amazingly fast. He slashed the riders back finding he had struck a woman. Though he didn't care at the time he would feel gravely bad later since he always tried to follow a code of chivalry. Through this whole experience Xavier had experience something he had never felt before. Excitement. This fight had made him excited. He didn't know why but marking his road made a wide grin form on his face. If people saw him they would have thought he belonged in the mental asylum for being so happy about what he was doing. For an unknown reason this excitement caused the strange mutation in his eye to appear and make itself known.
The other two riders tried to get away by getting onto the street, scared for their lives. Xavier wouldn't let the happen though as he rode by them and wrapped his hooks around them making them into a cocoon. He rode up the wall of the apartment building they had been riding on which stood three stories tall. He jumped from the wall and dug his hooks into his victims before releasing them making them spin wildly in the air. Finding his wheels at the same speed as earlier he marked their bodies making blood spew forth into the sky and they landed on the ground beaten and bloody. Looking up he could see a "road" made of their blood in the sky. This had been the trick Xavier had been practicing all week.
He was surprised he pulled it off. "Ride Fall Bloody Twist, Wall Ride Ten-Eighty." He said naming the trick. From up above blood rained down on him. He didn't mind as he liked the warm red liquid on his skin. Though he thought that weird, he liked it none the less. Izumi from up on the building began to clap loudly. Xavier looked up to see her sitting on the edge of the roof swinging her legs.
"I gotta say Eagle that was impressive, quite a dance. I've never experienced quite a show." She said with a grin. She wasn't lying, she was truly impressed by his skills. "I gotta thank you for saving me." She said as she jumped down. "So thank you." Xavier nods and puts a questioning look upon his face.
"So why were you in their territory?" She scratched the back of her head breaking eye contact. "What do you have a crush on one of them or something?" He asks trying not to laugh as she shook her head furiously.
"I looked at your dash video and saw you didn't actually talk to your friend. I wanted to go and smack my brother for telling me such bull-crap. He deserved to be beaten by you." His eyes widened and his jaw dropped.
"So you're saying Aikido is your brother?" She nodded not really seeing what the big deal was. "But wait you two don't have the same last names." She nodded again.
"We aren't related by blood, you probably noticed I'm not Japanese." Xavier nodded. "Well truth is, I'm from America. My dad decided it would be a good idea to go on a trip, it didn't cost much since it was just the two of us. He met my step-mom and they fell in love and we ended up staying here. As well as getting a step-mom I got an annoying older brother. He doesn't let anyone know about me so that's why those Rats of his attacked me." Xavier nodded and stepped forward finding her story had been finished.
"Allow me to formerly introduce myself. I'm Xavier Minami leader of Hybrid Eagles and future sky king." Xavier said with a confident smirk.
"Izumi Winters, new member of Hybrid Eagles and your link tuner." Xavier's smirk turned into a grin and she had a small smile on her face. Today had been quite interesting for Xavier at least.
Training in the dark was good and bad or riders of the Rising and Flame roads. Good because you could tell If you actually made a flame or a spark or not. Bad because pretty much people from a mile away could see the flames and sparks coming from Yume's A.T. Nue was impressed because in the short time he had trained Yume –it was only a few hours-, he had learned to propel the electric impulses from his body and even give Nue some hallucinations here and there. Yume slid down the wall being utterly exhausted. "Ok I say it's time we stop for today. I'm surprised those flames of yours haven't attracted that croc." Nue told him referring to Agito's father Kaito. Yume nodded agreeing, it was strange for the old man to not have come seeing the first sign of a storm rider.
Though he hadn't met Kaito before, Yume knew exactly how he was like. He had heard so many stories from everyone that you think Kaito was some kind of monster. He now thinks different since he had recently heard the story of Gazelle and Lind. Nue sat next to Yume, finding it had become very quiet. "So how's Xavier and this girl…" He snapped his fingers thinking it would help him remember. Yume picked up his water bottle rolling his eyes a bit.
"Kara." He states taking a sip of his drink. He puts the cap back on the bottle and looks up towards the sky. "Well Kara is having Ringo train her in the Sonia road and Xavier is learning basic stuff and the Fang from Agito." Nue looked at Yume in complete and utter shock. Yume looked at him weirdly finding his expression strange. "What's wrong?" He asked Nue.
"You said he's training with Agito?" Yume nodded and Nue gritted his teeth. Sparks started to shoot through his A.T. "That bastard!" He raced away in the direction of Eagle's base. Yume got up and followed along silently making sure he wouldn't be seen by Nue. 'If Nue got mad something is up.'
The base opened up revealing a very angry Nue. Agito scratched his head sitting up and yawning. "Fuck, what the hell do you want Xavier?" He asked trying not to wake up the sleeping Yayoi. When he saw Nue he widened his eyes in shock. "Ah shi-" He didn't get to finish his sentence as Nue picked him up and threw him against the wall. As this happened an extreme amount of heat entered the room though no one really cared at the time.
"What the fuck are you doing here you bastard!?" Nue asked and yelled. Agito was as calm as ever knowing he was just angry. After about a minute of an intense staring contest Nue puts Agito down while Yayoi was waking up. "Answer me." He demands still a bit of anger in his voice. Agito brushed the wrinkles out of his shirt. He looked Nue dead in the eye.
"Fuck what else, training Xavier." He says like it was the simplest thing in the world. Nue balled his hands up into a fist. "Why else would I be here? Certainly not to see that fucking Crow." Agito folded his arms getting defensive. Nue gritted his teeth and resisted the urge to punch him.
"That's the problem you damn Shark!" He yelled. "You aren't supposed to see him! If you do Orion will come back." Agito cringed at the name. "You know that will happen yet you still came." He stated.
"Agito knows better than anyone what Orion is capable of." Yayoi told him entering the conversation. "He knows if Orion does break free of his cage, Agito will be able to stop him. I believe he can do it and you should too Nue. After all you two ran together, you know what he is capable of." Nue looked away trying to find a way to win this argument. Eventually he had to agree she was right and he slid down the wall feeling defeated.
"Even still, it's risky." He looked over to the corner of the room. "Stop with that damn heat, I'm frying over here." Flames emerged from the corner of the room and eventually disappeared showing Yume to have been there. "Your father taught you too well don't ya think?" He asked as Yume approached them.
"Now who the hell is Orion?"
DONE! See ya'll next time!