What another one so soon? How is this possible you may ask? Well I don't really have weekend plans, sad but true and I got sick yay! Thanks dad… anyway I'm excited for this chapter and you'll see why.
Disclaimer: I do not own Air gear nor do I intend to.
Trick 3: The King of the Flaming Fang
Another week has passed for the Eagles and many things happened. Kara, Yume, and Xavier all finished their training while Izumi had been studying Xavier and his A.T. She had decided that Xavier needed a torqued engine so he doesn't have to rev them so much and that way it won't be on a strain on the A.T. The others asked her to look at theirs, after much consideration she agreed. She told Yume he needed a set of wheels with high traction because she saw his wheels would slip easily. Kara really did need anything except for a few parts that nobody really understood. So they decided to have parts wars at their home turf.
Three battles had happened that week all with F-class teams and since they were on their home turf it was a dash. Discovering they had two riders that speed truly transcended F-class –Xavier and Yume- they sped through the battles literally. Only at the last battle did they have a bit of trouble, Yume had lost his match meaning Izumi and Kara had to win both theirs or they would lose costing them some parts. Though with much struggle they made it and got the parts they needed and were raised to E-class. All of these battles had been posted on the parts war website earning the attention of a certain team. That teems name was The Order
"You're serious, you think we should expand our area?" Kara asked in disbelief of Agito's words. "That would just be asking people to come and attack us." She told him. Agito nodded with a smirk showing off one of his fangs. This confused Kara a bit as she didn't quite understand what he was so confident about.
"That's what supposed to happen." Everyone but Xavier looked at him like he was crazy. Xavier knew Agito very well, so he knew what kind of plan he had. "If people come and try to attack you, then you'll be able to raise in rank. Soon enough you be up there in A-class." Xavier smirked knowing his team could do it while the others still thought he was crazy.
"And what if we lose?" Yume spoke up, which was strange since he hadn't spoken much all week. He looked to Xavier remembering what Agito and Nue told him. That night Yume had gone home in silence since he was in shock from what they told him. He and Nue had promised Agito not to tell Ikki he was there, training Xavier. He shook his head trying to get the thoughts out of his mind.
"That won't happen, because we fly higher than the rest." Xavier told him with a cocky tone. "And if we do lose, we'll train and go back to challenge them again." He stated losing the cocky attitude. "If we're gonna be kings someday we need to be confident so you guys better act like winners not losers." Everyone now hearing the words of their leader nodded knowing he was right. "You guys go and I'll stay to see if anyone comes to challenge us." They nodded and sparks shot through Yume's A.T to the entrance. The sudden surge of electricity opened the "door" and the three of them started to head out.
"Wait before you go." Agito words stopped them as he reached into a desk. He pulled out four walkie-talkies that could fit in your pocket. All of them raised a brow at the objects Agito took out. "Take these, it'll be a simpler way of communicating. That way if someone does come to challenge you guys Xavier will be able to reach." He tossed each one of them a walkie-talkie. "Good luck out there you bastards." The three of them disappeared and as soon as they were gone Xavier and Agito headed out onto the roof to watch for challengers.
"And there we go. That should be a wide enough area." Yume told himself as he placed down the last sticker he had on to the lamp post. He put his team's stickers around in a two mile direction west of the base. He took out the walkie-talkie and pressed the button so his voice would transmit. "I'm done on my end I'm headed back." This whole thing had taken really only two hours since he had to search for other teams' stickers incase this area was already taken. He heard a beep sound come from the device in his head and listened for Xavier's voice.
"Alright thanks for the report come on back Shaman." Xavier ordered him. He had been given the nickname Shaman about four days ago when he accidently shocked Xavier causing him to experience some illusions. So Xavier thought it was fitting to call him Shaman. Yume pressed the button to respond.
"Alright be back in ten Eagle." He replied as he began to ride back towards his base. He plugged in his headphones and began to listen to music. Lost in his own little world he didn't notice the wind had suddenly stopped blowing, which was strange since strong winds had been blowing all day. He noticed when his next song began to play. He took off his headphones and looked around for any sign of the wind. "What the hell happened to the wind?" As he asked this a female rider was approaching him. Yume not finding any answer shrugged and began to ride again. The two riders soon passed each other making eye contact, he shivered seeing cold eyes that would freeze the happiest of hearts. Her silver hair made it even worse, making him turn into stone for a second. A few feet from passing her Yume ran into an invisible wall.
"Aw come on I thought I had this Rising road figured out." He checked his A.T for any sign of electricity or flames but found none. He placed his hand on the invisible wall and raised a brow. "Ok I fell asleep and this a dream." He tried to convince himself this wasn't happening. He turned around and leaned against the wall seeing the female rider standing before him.
"Trust me this isn't a dream Yume Mikura A.K.A Shaman. If it was a dream I'm pretty sure you would imagine me naked." The stated in a matter-of-fact tone pushing up her glasses. He looked at her like she had grown another head. No one knew about his nickname other than members in his team. "Icarus was smart sending me after you seeing as you use a Flame and Rising road combination. My Over road is a perfect match for you." She stated lifting up a fist. "Now come here so I can punch you." The walls began to close in bringing him towards her.
"Wha-" He was cut off being punched in the nose.
"About damn time I finished." Izumi said to no one but herself. She had always hated doing chores and she classified this as a chore. She took out her talkie and pressed the button. "Alright I'm headed back." She said into it as she started to ride back towards their base. She covered about two miles like Yume extending their area the shopping mall to the north. Her talkie made a beep meaning that a voice was gonna come through.
"Alright see ya soon my queen." Xavier responded in a mocking tone. He had called her that just to mess with her seeing as it would make her face a little red with anger. She hated to be treated like some kind of royalty. She gritted her teeth, being annoyed yet again by the Eagle.
"I'm gonna kick your ass once I get back ya damn Eagle." She replied through her teeth. As she put the device in her pocket, the beep came. Laughter rung through the device making her groan.
"Alright you go ahead and try." She wanted to smash the device right then and there. Xavier really knew how to push her buttons. Though they could get along just fine he liked to see her a little mad, he liked to tease her. She rode a bit faster towards the base mumbling something inaudible. As she rode along a small girl with A.T began to appear in her sight. Her short pink hair was the most noticeable thing about her. She stopped in front of Izumi blocking her way.
"What do you want kid?" She asked not having the patience to deal with this. The little girl looked up to her and smiled.
"You're the Mechanic Queen aren't you?" Izumi nodded knowing her name and appearance was well known. "Yay! I don't have to look anymore! Time to make big bro Icarus happy by taking you down!" Many tools appeared from her clothes, these tools were ones to take apart . "Now give me your please!
"Man I did this faster than Soul would have on his bike!" Kara stated proudly referencing to Soul Eater one of her favorite anime. Like her other two friends she was only able to cover two miles before finding other teams stickers covering the south. She pulled out her talkie and held it up to her mouth. "Alright I'm done with the south, I'm headed east now." She had volunteered to take two sides not wanting her precious Yume to do any extra work.
"Alright don't take too long." Xavier responded and she smiled. Unlike the others he didn't have any nickname for her. He couldn't figure out one for her.
"Don't worry I won't. Be back soon Eagle." She told him in a sing-song tone. She began to ride away with a small smile on her face. Riding behind her was a male cracking his knuckles. Hearing the sound of the cracking she turned around seeing the male. Her smile turned into a scowl knowing who the male was, an old school bully who was only known as Storm. No one knew his real name not even the teachers. He was rumored to be an orphan though no one really believed the rumors except for the stupid which she was not. He dropped out of school and supposedly joined a storm rider team. Seeing the A.T on his feet she guessed the rumors were true.
"Ah this should be fun." He said as sparks shot throughout his A.T. 'Rising road?' "I gotta thank Icarus for this fight. I haven't had a chance in a while." He spoke to himself. As he got close the sparks turned into large streams of electricity covering him in a cloak. She tried to dodge them but she got hit with them all the same and when she did it was like falling into Alice's rabbit hole.
Xavier was bored. He was hoping someone would come along and challenge them. He wanted to see how difficult hurdles really was. Though they had practiced it seemed to be a bit of a challenge. Agito nudged Xavier making him open his eyes and sit up. "What." He said a bit groggily. Agito pointed to the schools gate (still keeping an arm around Yayoi) and beside stood a teen who only seemed to be one or two years older than he. Even though it was a bit far away he could see the teen's red hair since it was so bright. He could also see the smirk on his face as he placed a sticker over his own teams. Xavier smiled and switched the nob on the talkie so that he would get the message out to everyone instead of just one person. "Calling all Eagles! We have a challenge! E-class parts war, the stage is Higachi Junior high! Come at once!" He called out to his teammates sounding like a real leader.
"Kind of busy at the moment!" Yume's voice came through with a lot of additional noise which sounded like a hurricane.
"Sorry you're on your own Eagle!" Izumi's came through with a lot of clinking metal.
"St-pid ba- get o-t her-. So- gon- be a while!" Kara's voice came in cutting out at some parts.
"What the hell is going on?" Xavier asked no one in particular. He looked down towards the challenger who was leaning against the gate. Whoever he was, he had something to do what was going on with his friends. If that did turn out to be the truth Xavier wouldn't be able to hold himself back. He turned to see Agito wide eyed and his jaw slacked. "Agito you alright man?" He asked.
"That's Jenzen Icarus leader of Icarus, otherwise known as the Revival King of the Phoenix road. A combination of the Flame and Bloody roads. His team is a part of The Order." Xavier raised a brow questioning the order. "The Order is basically a super storm rider team like Genesis used to be. They are around to make riders like you guys are following their laws. They don't allow violence of any kind to go on. The thing that disturbs me is, Icarus is a team that likes to fight. So it doesn't make any sense why they're part of The Order." Xavier nodded understanding his confusion and rode down to the challenger.
"Hey, mind if we wait for my team? They're out expanding our area." Xavier asked Icarus who only started to laugh. Xavier took a look at his A.T which he guessed were the Regalia, flame red wheels with a light orange as the primary color and dark red as the secondary. They looked fit for a Flame road but he didn't see how they could incorporate the Bloody in there
"If we wait, then you won't have a team anymore." Xavier shot him a deadly look that would make anyone cower in fear, though Icarus was unfazed as he kept standing their looking calm. "My teammates are keeping yours away, so this will just be between you and me." Xavier gritted his teeth, his suspicions had been right. "Now Xavier Minami bet your emblem! On behalf of all members of The Order I will personally take you down!" Icarus smirked knowing he could take down a complete beginner. Xavier finding no other way looked up to Agito.
"Record the battle live! Let everyone know the devastation of Icarus and his team! E-class parts war, the bets are our emblems!" Agito began to laugh and set up the parts war battle with his computer, he then gave them the thumbs up signaling the ok to start. As people began to log into the parts war website they saw the battle between Icarus and Hybrid Eagles. Many of them put on their and went to the battle to see firsthand what the newbie team could do. Agito rode down to them as Yayoi filmed it.
"The goal is the statue on the other side of the building, whoever grabs both emblems first wins." Agito told them taking both of their emblems and placing them at the goal. While he was gone a little idea popped into Icarus' head.
"Let's make a wager. Whoever loses has to join the others team, we both need a fifth member. How about it?" Xavier nodded agreeing to the bet. As Agito came back they got in starting positions, Xavier got low to the ground as possible and it Agito could swear he looked like Yoshitune on the day Kogarasumaru challenged Trident. Icarus being a little to overconfident stood with his hands in his pockets. Agito stood behind the two ready to give them the okay to start.
"E-class parts war, Icarus vs. Hybrid Eagles. Begin!" And they were off!
Blood dripped onto the ground as Yume laid there utterly beaten and exhausted. The rider who went by the name of Emily rolled her eyes at how easy it was to beat him. She began to ride away finding she didn't even break a sweat. "I was hoping this kid would at least post a challenge. Icarus is probably already done with that Eagle." Laughter began to ring in her ears. It was coming from all around so she couldn't find the origin of the voice. She looked around trying to find who was laughing and found that Yume's body had disappeared and blood on the ground was gone like it was never there in the first place. The laughter stopped as she found herself being surrounded by heat
"O time, stop thyself for your master." Yume's voice came from behind her and she turned around to see him charging at her. He accelerated his moments and struck her joints –those of which that allowed her to move- and paralyzed her. He looked her in the eyes knowing she could still see. "I'll leave you here like this, attack the Eagles again and I won't go easy." He rode away while she internally screamed for help though the words would not come out her mouth. Yume found that fight too easy for him, it made sense after all she was the weakest on the team with a read of only thirty, Yume had an impressive read of fifty which was fairly good for someone who started only two weeks ago. "I hope that damn Eagle is ok."
Parts lay on the ground as the two Ring road users take deep breaths recovering what air that were lacking. Izumi's A.T was unable to move as four main components for an A.T to function had been taken out, while Dream's A.T while damaged was able to at least ride backwards due to the duel motors she has in her A.T. Unable to use the Wing road as the wind had been sucked up due to Emily's over road, Izumi and Dream had resorted to an all-out parts war, literally. Dream finding she had won began to ride backwards towards the base of the Eagles.
"Well it's been fun but I should get back to big bro Icarus now, he does need his tuner by his side at all times!" She said with a sweat innocent little smile. Izumi gritted her teeth because she too needed to get back to the one she needed to tune. But she couldn't just yet as she still needed to beat this brat. Riding forward she surprised her opponent since her were not supposed to be able to move. "How are you able to do that? You're A.T shouldn't be able to move at all!" Izumi laughed finding this situation very funny.
"I'm a queen for a reason. It's because I have a regalia, meet mine Seven Tooled Bessie!" She yelled pointing down towards her A.T which were black and white like a chessboard. "Bessie is a regalia of my own design using the technology of the Sano Corporation, which I so happen to come across one day." She told her getting quiet at the end of her sentence.
"You stole the technology didn't you?" Dream asked crossing her arms. She didn't believe that the Sano Corporation would just give someone their technology just like that. She would know after all being one of them. Dream Sano was her full name and was air to the head of the corporation being the only blood child of the C.E.O. She would someday inherit the company and she was determined to make her father proud.
"What no! Well yeah, maybe." She scratched the back of her head before suddenly shaking it violently. "Anyway, using the Sano Corporations technology I have made my A.T into a self-regenerating model able to replace any missing parts with its factory function. So no matter how many times you take it apart it will continue to rebuild itself, getting stronger each time. So without further ado… I'll take you down as queen of the Airchanic road!" Her voice echoed through the street and she charged towards Dream ready to finish the twelve year old girl who only hold her hands up in defense cowering.
"Stop you win!" Dream yelled when Izumi's fist was inches from her face. "Plus, I don't have to hold you back anymore, just listen you should be able to hear them." Izumi listened to the sounds of the world, wanting to see what she was talking about. About a second later she heard the sound of clashing A.T coming from the Eagles base. "It's already started, the battle to decide the fate of the Hybrid Eagles and Icarus. We must go and watch." She said riding backwards towards their base but Izumi stopped her.
"You can't ride like that the whole way." Izumi felt a gust of wind hit her as Yume's battle had drawn to an end. "Do you feel that? The wind it's back, let me get those parts I took out of your A.T back." She hit her right A.T against the pavement hard causing a set of tools to come flying out ricocheting of walls and objects eventually ending up back in her A.T. After a few seconds parts flew into Izumi's hands and she drew tem towards Dream's A.T making a few tools and parts come out of her clothes as well. The tools took apart the A.T and the parts inserted themselves into her A.T fixing it while the tools put it back together again landing on the ground. Izumi picked up her tools putting them back in her clothes, while dream stood there in awe of what happened. She witnessed the true abilities of a queen of the Ring road, well a variant of it. Izumi held out her hand and gave Dream a small smile. "Come on, they're waiting for us." Dream smiled back grabbing a hold of her hand riding away back to the base.
Kara dodged the oncoming electric attack trying to get to land on the ground. Though learning that she was a Gaia road user from Icarus has decided he wouldn't let her touch the ground. Once she got out of his reach she landed on the ground and smirk beginning too rapidly hit her A.T against the ground causing seismic vibrations to make their way towards Storm paralyzing him. While he was like that Kara began breathing in and out rapidly causing nitrogen bubbles to make their way into her spinal cord. She then jumped in the air and began to flip in a circular motion getting faster and faster than once able she sent "thorns" his way, a new trick she learned from her training. When he was hit with the "thorns" he got on one knee trying to hide the pain he was feeling.
When she landed Kara using the last of her energy sped up and stepped on his ankle twisting and breaking it. He screamed in pain as felt the bone break and she towered over him her shadow now seen. The large snake of myths, the Oroboros. It scales dark as the earth below it, fangs tipped with venom while it hissed at the Rising road user. "You lose." Unexpectedly he began to weep, this startled Kara as she had never seen the old bully cry before. He then began to curse loudly obviously not caring who would hear.
"I'm sorry Icarus. I failed you." He said after his little temper tantrum. She bent down and put his arm over her shoulder lifting him onto his feet. "What are you doing? We're enemies." He stated while she rode towards the Eagles base, Storm using his working leg to ride with her.
"I can't leave an injured man behind. Why don't you answer some of my questions while we ride?" She looked towards him with a scowl. "Why did you and your team attack us?" She asked with a poison tipped tone.
"The Order threatened Icarus, they said they'd kill his parents if we didn't join them." She knew about The Order, most riders did. Well not Xavier… she did and that's all that matters. "They then told us to challenge you guys, Icarus didn't want to. He actually has a little respect for your leader." Kara gave him a questioning look as she didn't understand how Icarus could respect someone he didn't know. "I don't know either but my best guess is, he sees the excitement and happiness in that kids run. He wants to run like that carefree, being able to do whatever he wants. I guess you can say he's a little jealous of the Eagle's freedom." Kara began to ride faster wanting to relay this information to the others as soon as she could. She found the recent arrival of the wind helped her find her way.
The first hurdle had been easy enough but, he never saw it coming. He felt the heat a little before it hit. What he was hit with was a flaming fang made from the regalia of Icarus. When he was hit he turned around and saw his shadow. Like most thought it would be, his shadow was that of Icarus from legends holding a golden bow at the ready. Xavier could plainly see the deployed regalia, the wheels had unfolded and formed into shark fin-like objects. Though it didn't look like it the fins were spinning at an alarming rate moving faster than Xavier's torqued engine. But when he landed the fins dug into the ground, though giving him traction it greatly slowed him as he moved along the field making indents of the fins into the buildings and the ground. As he did so the riders watching from around took out their cellphones and took a read on him, his battle level was eighty-six. Some of them took some time to read Xavier, finding he was seventy-one.
Xavier looked up to see Icarus pass over him like a bird. He reached up and tried to grab the sky but no such luck, since of course no one can grab the sky. "Dammit. Why am I lying here when the sky is so close?" He got up to one knee and began to apply pressure on that foot making his wheels spin. "Dammit!" He rushed up the wall and flew over that building catching up to Icarus. Icarus looked over to him and smiled seeing the mutation in Xavier's eyes. He had done his research about him, knowing that mutation only happened when he was angry or excited. Icarus didn't know which he was but he was happy Xavier was getting serious.
"Looks like this little eagle can fly." He chuckled to himself. "Good now I know I don't have to hold back." He moved far away from Xavier so he wouldn't be caught in the blast radius. He then jumped up and fired three fangs his way one after the other. Xavier got hit with two of them and before the third one hit him and idea formed in his mind. Xavier lifted up his A.T and forced the front wheel to go backwards while he forced the other to go forwards creating a vacuum effect sucking up the fang. Many took a gasp out of surprise including Icarus. Xavier had just used a property of the Over road.
"Try and hit me with one of those now you bastard." Icarus sensing his fangs would no longer work used a trick of the flame road, Afterburner. Accelerating to supersonic speeds he rushed his way to the goal while Xavier made his way up the next building. Seeing as Icarus was only a few moments away from victory he recalled the ultimate trick of the Bloody road. "I may not have the regalia to make a real fang, but with the wind in my feet, I'll be able to make one of my own!" So Xavier jumped up and as he made his wheels go faster, the wind that he captured in his A.T began to get compressed and once he kicked the wind released itself forming into a fang. Xavier quickly jumped on it and road on it. As he did the wheels on his A.T began to spin the wind further and make it faster and sharper.
'You know, I've always relied on the sky and the wind. Always carrying me to wherever I needed to be since the day I was born. Of course I'm grateful but I've never been able to show my full potential. Ever since I've gotten these wings on my feet, that's all changed. I no longer rely on them. I create my own wind and fly high above the sky! People will look up to me from now on!'
"Hybrid Eagles! Let's fly high!"
OK I hope that was good, until next time. Caterwill21 signing out!