Part 1: The New Start

Chapter 4: She's got tricks too!

Later that afternoon, Kari drives Aero back to her house, which was a three hour drive from the town of Standville, the place where they went shopping at. After the hours have passed by during their drive, they were beginning to reach the house. The house appeared to be a two story tall white house with windows that have old, rotting wooden frames. It also has a small, dirt-paved drive way in front of it with very little parking space, along with a small, worn down shed by the left of it.

"It's been ages since I've last been here." Aero thought to himself as he continues to look at the house. "Kinda reminds me of home..."

"You ok?" Kari asked as she noticed Aero zoning out while she parks the car in the drive way.

"Me? Yeah, I was zoned out for a moment." Replied Aero as he adjusts his sunglasses. "Don't worry, I'll be fine."

"Ok, if you say so." Said Kari as she grabs her backpack from the back seat and opens her door to get out of the car. She began to worry a little about Aero, but tries to convince herself that there's nothing to worry about.

"Aero opens his door too and walks out of the car. Both Kari and Aero walk to the front door of the house and try to open the door, but it appears to be locked.

"Ooopsies! hehehe!" Kari said as she slightly blushes from embarrassment. "I forgot my mom and grandma went out to go shopping and I told them before I left that I was going to train for a bit and not be home a little after they got home, so they took the keys. hehehe."

"It's ok, we're gonna be outside anyways so there isn't really any point of staying inside." Aero said as he laughs a little at Kari.

"Shall we go to the backyard then?" Asked Kari as she turns around and looks at Aero.

"Why not." Aero said with a smile on his face.

Aero and Kari both walk to the backyard, which was a good 3 acres due to how the house resides in the country side. The only things are present in the back yard is a sandbox and a picnic table. Kari walks up to the picnic table and set her backpack on it. As she places her backpack on the picnic table, she unzips it and digs through to look for something. Aero begins to wonder if Kari stumbled across some artifact or weapon of any sort, seeing how she's digging through he backpack.

"Aha! I've found it!" Kari shouted as she holds up a small utility belt. "I never train without this!"

"A utility belt I see." Aero said as he looks at Kari put it on. "What kind of stuff do you carry with you?"

"Oh, you know, knives, a pistol, a few grenades, ammo, and this!" Kari responded as she pulls out a battered, old sword hilt. Aero begins to ponder into confusion on why Kari would carry around such a useless item.

"Uh, Kari, is that a sword hilt?" Aero said as she gave Kari a confused look on his face.

"Yes it is! But it's not some ordinary sword hilt. You see, this was once a sword my great great grand father used to fight with. It was given to my father... before he died... So my grandma took it and gave it to me after I told her I wanted to join the RS Republic... But don't let the looks fool you, this sword is more powerful that you think." Kari said as she continues to hold the sword hilt

"But the thing doesn't even have a blade, how do you expect to fight with that piece of junk?" Asked Aero as he continues to look even more confused at Kari.

"Just watch and learn!" Kari replied as she holds out the sword hilt in front of her. The hilt begins to glow as a black blade extends from the hilt. The sword now mostly resembles a katana, due to the blade's length and appearance. After the blade extends out, the blade then creates and radiates a dark blue aura around it.

"WOAH! What the heck! Are you some witch or sorcerer now?" Asked Aero as he becomes shock because of what happened to the hilt. Aero then takes a look at the blade of the sword and begins to observe and analyze it. By doing so, he begins to the feel some form of energy radiate from it.

"Hahaha, very funny. But no, I'm neither of those. Aero, what you see before you is the Shadow Blade!" Kari said as she proudly raises the energy-radiating sword in the air. "This blade took down battalion after battalion in all of the wars my great great grandfather fought in!"

"I'm sensing something unusual about this sword...Something... Dark about it." Aero thought to himself as he continues to observe the sword. "I'm sensing a form of dark energy from it... I just hope Kari know how to properly wield it." Aero continues to look at the sword with interest and tell Kari, "That's pretty kick ass, I'll have to admit. But I know something that's kicks even more ass!"

"Really now, I'm intrigued to know what you've learned." Said Kari as she giggle a little at Aero.

"Oh, then I got lots to show you then!" Said Aero with a smirk on his face. He then puts his hands out to the side and begins concentrating energy onto his hands. As he continues to concentrate energy to his hands, a light blue orb begins to form on each hand. As the orbs begin to light up, the orbs begin to get bigger and they begin rotate and radiate electricity violently. As Aero prepares to show Kari his own ability, Kari begins to look surprised on what Aero is now capable of since they've last met years ago. "I've learned this technique from one of my teachers a while back. Behold, Twin Dragon Claw!" The blue orbs begin to stop growing as Aero suddenly jumps twenty feet into the air. As he soars freely into the air, he quickly descends back down, slamming both orbs into the lush, grassy field behind Kari. As Aero slams the orbs into the ground, the force of impact causes trees to shake, the house to wobble a little, and a 40 feet wide crater behind Kari. Kari looks back at the after math of Aero's attack and suddenly has a shocked look on her face. She's never seen energy used in such a powerful manner before and seeing what Aero just done, she had realized that Aero was playing at a whole new level. After the impact of the two orbs, Aero begin to stand back up, with his legs and arms strained from the attack.

"Oh...My...God..." Kari said with a shocked look on her face. She began to question herself how Aero become that strong in the first place. "How did he become that powerful? My Uncle, who's in the RS Republic hasn't even taught me anything that was comparable to that... Besides one attack, but I'm only using that for emergencies." Kari thought to herself as she watches Aero attempt to walk after his impact to the ground. He continues to walk towards Kari with vasts amounts of strain and stress in his muscles.

"The only problem is... I get really tired and sore afterward..." Aero said as he tries not to collapse to the ground. Aero begins to collapse until Kari catches his fall and carries his tired body to the entrance to the house. She begins to look through her pockets and feels something metallic in it. She then pulls it out and realizes it the house keys.

"So that's where they were, hehehe, blond moment, hehehe." Giggle Kari as she opens the entrance to the house. She continues to carry Aero's body as she walks into the living room, which only consisted of a t.v, a couch, and a table with a few chairs around it. Kari places Aero on the couch in the living room and tells herself in a worried manner, "Oh boy, mom is not going to like what happened to the back yard..."