Touma didn't mention the way he met Yuuka, it would scare Index since she already knew her friend was a magician. Hyouka though seemed to know what happened. She even asked if he was alright, even though Yuuka left no marks on his skin. They would need to leave Index at home, and they needed to get out, Anti Skill were most likely coming. –Why are you here Yuuka? –Index was the first one to ask, it seemed she didn't want to make this question in the street where people could overhear them. –A friend of mine got robbed, the perpetrator left a student card of this place by accident. –What are you looking for? –Hyouka asked now curious on what it was –The ying yang orb… –Index smashed her first on the table excited.
–The shrine maiden of paradise?! The legendary Hakurei orb?! Who would steal such a thing?! –I wonder the same thing my friend, but it will be easy to get it back if I knew where they kept it –Touma and Hyouka were completely surprised, seemingly the Ying Yang orb was a legendary item. Something that could not be taken lightly. –There… There is a place I know of… –Touma felt like he had to help, this girl would leave after she gets the item back, and would leave with little violence if done right. –We need to leave soon. Index I may ask you to stay here, we need an ally in a neutral place. I'm certain this place Touma speaks of is very well guarded –he nodded –It's a building with no doors or windows, completely sealed. We need to be silent since the Anti Skill may be already after you Yuuka –she felt like this boy was the only person with common sense in the whole city.
–Alright so we have to leave now. –Yuuka gave a seed to Index –Plant this on a pot inside of here, it'll grow quick, you can speak to me through it. You will give us the locations–Index was confused for the first time in her life about magic, she thought the girl put a spell on the seed, but it was just a common seed. Index nodded and proceeded to find an empty pot with soil on it, a plant that had died from Touma's bad luck a while ago.
–Index will tell us any new information that comes across. Touma I may ask you to look for new information among with your friends in here. You will get hurt if Anti Skill show up… –She didn't know what those people were about but it was dangerous to send a person with protection only on his right hand –Hyouka you will come with me, you can use me as shield if you wish –Anyone questioned her, she spoke with such certainty it was impossible to question her. Her plan even made sense.
Already outside Yuuka and Hyouka walked in small alleys, hard to reach and easy to hide. So the Anti Skills would have to attack them in small numbers when they tried to ambush them. –Why did you ask me to come with you? –Yuuka didn't turn her head, she kept walking on Index's directions through the flower –Because you are the only one who is hard to hurt. Am I wrong? –How did you know that?! –You are bad at hiding Hyouka, it's easy to notice you aren't even human –Hyouka frowned and cried –I-I try to hide it though! –What do you mean? –I am a monster! –No cutie, you are a young god. That's the way you are sensed. The god of ESPers –… –Yuuka smiled and petted her shoulder.
Meanwhile Hyouka started to feel less of a monster and realize the beauty of her existence. As expected the Anti Skill forces were closing in. Surrounding them without knowing they were walking into a trap. Yuuka could easily cover herself in the closed streets, avoiding main avenues. The one in charge of this operation was Yomikawa Aiho, something rare in such incidents. She wasn't even that high in rank to carry such an important task, and moreover she would try to avoid the use of any non-rubber bullets, even though some of the Anti Skill brought them to be safe.
The first attack was hard, they managed to make it silently but Yuuka hid easily behind a garbage bin along with the other girl that came with her. They threw the garbage bin at the Anti Skills, making sure they didn't get squished by it but just startled. Hyouka didn't want to see any bloodshed. They escaped and hid again inside of the dark streets of Academy City. Skill-out who generally walked on those streets avoided them since it was already known that this girl managed to defeat the Railgun with no effort whatsoever.
The second wave came when they were already closer to the building. They could see it above of the roofs. But they had to walk on a place where clearly a big amount of Anti Skill would attack them. Yuuka shielded herself with the umbrella and came out with Hyouka behind her. Their enemies were indeed outside. Yomikawa was holding a loud speaker and talked to them. –Surrender already or we will have to use force. –Yuuka yelled back even though it was hard they would give her the orb with such ease –Give me back the Hakurei orb! Or I will use force! –The what? Please surrender and we will try to get to an agreement! –No way! I have waited too long already! Look how late it is, I missed my nap because of this! –Yomikawa saw no ending to this but she thought it was possible to get to an agreement, though the girl with the umbrella was not stopping. –Please put your umbrella on the ground and get your hands on the air! –You always ask politely for such things? If you are opening fire do it already I want the orb back!
–Anti skills opened fire but they bounced off from the umbrella like raindrops. Yuuka was still walking slowly, until she reached a car. Again she used it to scatter the shooters and gain some advantage. They shot back again when they were less startled. –Sorry Hyouka… I will be soft I promise –Yuuka left the umbrella to her, and she started flying upwards receiving some hits from the rubber bullets. She held a small red card up her head. She didn't need to announce her attack or use the card but it was in signal of respect to Reimu who made the spellcard rules.
–Flower sign! Reflowering of Gensokyo! –many petal like, yellow small energy bullets started scattering from her body in a flower pattern, a rain of them. She had given the umbrella to Hyouka so she could shield herself from the Danmaku, not from the bullets of the Anti Skill. They were non lethal, of the same kind she shot back at Gensokyo. But an amount of them was enough to make a human pass out. She continued shooting for about two minutes, those who weren't unconscious were hiding. One of them, crawled out of a sewer. –Please stop, why are you doing this? –the same woman who tried to make her surrender. Oh if she knew Yuuka was holding back, that she could have leveled the city to the ground and look for the orb in the ruins.
She didn't answer. Yuuka just pointed her hand at Yomikawa as it started to glow yellow, another bullet of the same type of the danmaku. It took a fraction of a second to shoot it, but she had less time than that. She received a hit to the head, making her fall to the ground. A white haired boy had stopped Yuuka from hurting that woman. His eyes were the same red color as Yuuka's but his expressed way more anger. She tried to get up but he hit her again. It was one of the few times she had bled.
Yuuka managed to warp away from the boy. She was smiling with blood coming out of her lower lip and her nose. She cleaned the blood with a kerchief and laughed. This boy didn't know how to attack but his sheer power made up for it. The first serious fight she would have in this city.
–20 moves –Yukari said. Marisa replied –I'd say less. He isn't holding back. 10 moves, 5 to realize what he does, 5 to take him down. –Reimu was shaking now, she gave her estimate now for the first time –I wouldn't go by moves. I am afraid she might kill him out of frustration. He is still human, Yuuka can survive things he can't deflect –Aleister spoke –30 moves. She will play nice to get the fight to last as long as possible. –They started to count from 2 because those were the moves made by Accelerator.
It was unbelievable she had survived those hits, she was more resilient than she seemed. Accelerator knew as much as Yuuka that this fight would be interesting indeed. Since his defense was already good enough because of his ability he charged first against Yuuka.
She had yelled at Hyouka so she would toss her umbrella at her, which she got just in time and opened it shielding herself from the attack. The umbrella was tougher than her skin. She tried to hit him with it but he changed the vectors of her attack so the umbrella would fly off from her hands. She then gripped his chest and attempted to punch him. The hit was made with such strength that the recoil caused by Accelerator made her whole arm explode. The blood started to scatter everywhere. Yuuka kept the pain in check. She managed to push him against a building. She was using great amounts of strength to push him back, and his ability was pushing back as well. Though she was strong enough to counter it. He had even taken a little damage on his face with the punch. Her strength was just above the limit of Accelerator's ability, but that wasn't enough to get to hurt him by using normal brawling.
Accelerator was impressed by the fact that this girl had strength beyond his maximum limit. It was the first time anything had reached it, he was excited rather than scared. Even though she was managing to get the upper hand, even though she held his neck after she had pushed him against the wall. Her grip was closing, fighting against his vector manipulation, slowly closing to strangle him. Suddenly he stopped holding back anything, in her grip Yuuka broke Accelerator's transmitter. She started to get closer and closer to his murder, but the stress caused by such a situation activated his ability to the fullest.
Yuuka felt the stab and hit of two dark wings, she had seen these before, a certain demon she knew manipulated the same thing they were made of. She started to bleed even more, closing to the point where being alive was a mere miracle because of the loss of it. She was now in the other side of the street, where Hyouka stayed. She was now being hit several times by those wings. Her body started to bleed more and show signs of heavy damage. Hyouka knew both of the fighters, and didn't want any of them to die, but deep down she preferred to root for the girl who said she was a goddess and not a monster.
Index and Touma didn't know if they had reached the building, the fight between those two set alarms off. Both were worried about what was happening, the building was evacuated and in the way to the shelter the fight was getting to the point where Yuuka started to lose. In the shelter there were some televisions, and the fight was being broadcasted since the press wouldn't miss such a thing. Yuuka had caused enough racket with the Anti Skills to get the press to look at her, not too much to get them to run, not too little to make it a meaningless new.
Yuuka was being hit repeatedly, each time losing more blood and flesh. She was resistant indeed, one of those hits was enough to kill anyone. Hyouka couldn't stand such a show –Move Yuuka! He will kill you! Please defend yourself! –another hit, more blood splattered around, pieces of her own skin flying off from her body –Move or you will die! Please move Yuuka! Move already!
–Then she felt it, like it has just appeared, a surge or energy like she had never felt it before, like the ESPer population had grown many times over. Hyouka felt how Yuuka awakened, stress activated it too. Accelerator was strong, and Hyouka could feel it, but the girl on the ground was something beyond.
Her hand blocked the path of the wing to her body, it absorbed the wing. Yuuka was not behaving like a plant, absorbing everything the world threw at her, assimilating it and turning it into useful energy and resources. The absorption was so high Accelerator got pulled near her, Yuuka had her yes opened now, her mouth open and panting like a wild animal. She hit him back with her left leg throwing him away, this time he could not stop that thing, she was absorbing the recoil from his ability and turning it against himself, the more he resisted the more it hurt.
Yuuka stood up and growled, plant vines started to grow from the ground, breaking the concrete and connected themselves to her limb with a missing arm. They got detached from the floor and slowly started to become a new arm for Yuuka. Accelerator quickly retaliated the attack his wing grew back easily and he used both to attack Yuuka again. She absorbed that new attack as well, his wings quickly disappearing and coming closer to Yuuka. He tried to manipulate the wind against her but she easily tanked it out.
Yuuka held her arm up, it started to glow blue. Accelerator was easily thrown back again by it. A Master Spark. She started closing in to Accelerator, regenerating from the damage done. Accelerator was now the one with the most damage done to him. Six wings of light started to grow in her back, two purple, and four green ones. Accelerator was now trying to get up and pull himself together but Yuuka shot again at him, if he didn't shield himself with his ability any of those attacks would have vaporized him instantly.
Hyouka now didn't know what to do at all, Yuuka was blind with rage, she didn't want to choose between their lives. If Yuuka was right and she was the goddess of ESPers it was her duty to make sure they didn't get hurt. She had to stop this fight.
Index and Touma started to get inside of the shelter. Now seeing the true power of Yuuka in the televised fight. She was strong enough to reach Accelerator's limit, she was indeed holding back the Master Spark against Misaka. Index was not surprised though she was scared, she didn't want it to be true. She had found many stories of a character alike in the books inside of her memory. Many gods and demons with those abilities. She hoped Hyouka would be able to calm her down, that was the only hope they could have, Touma had shown that his Imagine Breaker was too untrained to get to defeat her.
Yuuka was now closing into Accelerator, he was still awake but so hurt he could barely move. Her Master Spark had hurt him so bad he had got something close to a sunburn. Both were speaking to each other, in a language only angels spoke, and by what she was saying he knew his life was reaching its end. Yuuka though got cut by Hyouka who became a human shield to Accelerator. She didn't want any of they two to die, even if it meant her own death.
–Did anyone count the moves? –Yukari was trying to calm down by fooling a bit, she had seen Yuuka so angry few times, and none of them ended well. –I told you this was not right –Reimu was acting as the voice of reason –So that's how her Master Spark truly is… –Marisa was trying to distract herself, Aleister was silent. He saw how weak his strongest ESPer was, how easy he was taken down. Academy City was not as safe as he thought it was.
Yuuka had stopped when she by reflex had struck Hyouka with one of her wings. The cut was deep but there was no blood. Even in that state Yuuka had some self control. Hyouka hugged her begging her to stop, Accelerator was too hurt to do any damage. More importantly he needed medical attention. Yuuka slowly started to hid her true capacity, Hyouka could feel how the energy source became small again. How did she manage to have such control of herself?
She was crying now –Are you alright?! –Hyouka showed how she was healed by now –Why did you stepped in front of me like this?! –Because you were going to kill him. He was just defending the people you hurt. –Yuuka had stopped so easily because the only way to stop her in such state was if one of the people she cared about got hurt in her anger. Otherwise her rampage would continue until everything is destroyed.