A big fight between two sides who are both Ashikabi in this tournament, one side is Riser and his peerages and Sekirei's while on the other side is Rayne and his Sekirei, if Rias and her team was part of this then this would really be on the upper hand on Rayne's side but this is a personal fight.
Inside the inn Miya was putting some clothes on the clothesline outside the inn and while everyone was elsewhere, Rayne will soon come outside to speak to Miya about something. "Hey Miya, you got a minute?"
Miya was folding one of Uzume's shirts before looking back to Rayne "Hello Rayne, sure go ahead."
"Listen…" He takes a few steps towards her "After this battle is done and this stupid 'under the dome' is dealt with, I will be heading out of this city. A while ago I bought myself a house with the money I got from a certain someone, and since these Sekirei's won't go anywhere without me they will end up coming with me."
"I see…" She places the shirt on the clothesline then turns towards Rayne "Well I'm glad you are going off elsewhere and not living here forever, It's good that you are heading out, shame I am going to miss all the entertainment around here."
"Well you still have Homura and Uzume, there not my Sekirei's so they will stay with you. I'm sure there are others out there that might be interesting in coming to stay here."
"Yes there is that, but one thing… Are you going to be this deviant to those Sekirei's?"
"What… Uhm…" He leans his head back blushing a bit before looking to the side "I'm not that type of guy who will sleep with them twenty-four-seven, all I'll do is protect them and make sure they stay safe. I know they can take care of themselves but they still need me."
"Well you better get ready when you leave this place, but you should come visit this place more often, I like the company sometimes."
"Really? I thought you wanted me out of here and even the Sekirei's I brought over."
"True I was getting mad that you and your friends always end up causing troubles, but I am going to miss you."
"So you will be continuing this inn while we are gone?"
"Absolutely."
Rossweisse comes appearing behind them having her battle armour ready. "Rayne, we are ready to go."
Rayne looks back "Alright." He then looks back to Miya "Well…. We'll see each other again; we need to come back here to get our stuff."
"Take care of yourself Rayne and be careful out there."
"I will, don't worry a thing." He turns back and walks with Rossweisse to the front door.
Miya will look worry for the moment but she gets a smile on her face. "This reminds me the time when we used to do this." She sighs before turning back then looks up "Just like old times my dear."
When Rayne gets outside he notice everyone outside at the ready, seeing Matsu standing there walking towards him holding a laptop and an ear headset to communicate with the others. She already gave the others the headset except for Rossweisse and Rayne which she will be doing it now, moving towards them and lending two of them to the two so she can contact them in battle.
"Here guys."
"Thanks Matsu." Rayne takes one and places it over his right ear and the same thing goes to Rossweisse. "I thought you were going to stay here?"
"I would but it would be good to head out there and not here, don't worry about me Rayne I will be far away from the battle."
"Well just in case something happens…." He takes out his revenant double barrel and lends it to her "Just in case you know."
"Hmmnn…" She grabs a hold of the middle of the double barrel.
"Can you fire this thing?"
"Of course I can."
"So were all ready for this?"
"Yep." Musubi punches the air in front of her "You can count on me Rayne to get the job done."
"I will make sure that you don't end up dying out there Rayne." Tsukiumi said having her arms crossed "Only I shall kill you when I see fit."
"Yeah thanks Tsukiumi…."
Uzume was standing in the background looking down and seems to be afraid at something, she will look back to them seeing them talking and noticing Rayne laughing at something on what Musubi and Tsukiumi are doing, seeing they are complaining at one another while Shiryuu was nearby holding the sheath of her katana, using this blade and not the ones Rayne gave her.
"So are we done now because we will be going into battle as a team right, or are you all going to go freelancing on this and fight whoever is in front of you."
"That's the plan." Musubi and Tsukiumi and Shiryuu said it at the same time, causing Rayne to let a deep sighs.
"Look if you don't want to fight together that's fine but don't expect me to save you when you're down, remember that."
"Got it."
"By the way what type of team are we going to do if you suggest that we team up?"
"Well…. Shiryuu you're with Homura."
"Understood." She said when she walks towards Rayne and stands next to Homura.
"So your teaming a swordswoman with a flaming Sekirei?"
"I can avoid your flaming attacks Homura." Shiryuu said "I am quick so don't hesitate to attack."
"If you say so…"
"So moving on…" Rayne looks at the others and thinks about it before saying it "Well Musubi you got Uzume."
"What?"
Musubi sighs "Were not teaming up together Rayne?"
"Wha… No.. Well…" He looks to the side "When you're done fighting your opponents you can re-join with me."
"Oh ok."
"So I guess it's you and me Tsukiumi." Rossweisse said looking towards her
"I guess so just as long as I don't team with Musubi."
"So if you can't defeat your enemy then might as well trade places." Rayne said
"Or you could always make us Sekirei's a lot stronger." Matsu said fixing her glasses
"What do you mean?" He turns his head to Matsu
"Well.." She slightly smiles "You just have to kiss them and get them to be winged again."
"…"
"Hey that's a good idea." Musubi said raising her arm in the air "That way we can fight at full strength."
"I'm not doing that in the middle of a battle! Besides how do I know you're telling the truth?"
"If I'm not telling the truth then why am I asking you to kiss the others and not me?"
"…. Good point…"
"I take it me and Tsukiumi are going to face the queen then?" Rossweisse asks turning her head to Rayne.
"Yeah you two can handle her, the rest of you guys can deal with the others. I don't know who you will be facing but let's hope you got the advantage over them or else you're in trouble."
"Leave that to me." Matsu said "If I got the look on the field, I can tell which sites you guys can go to meet your opponents."
"That's good but whatever happens leave Riser to me, I'll distract him for the time being until were ready to make the move on him."
"Do you even have a plan?" Homura said crossing his arms
"Yeah don't worry a thing, just worry about defeating your opponents."
"Rayne.." Uzume said quiet when she took a step forward.
"Hmn? Yeah Uzume?"
"Just… You sure you know what you're doing?"
"Don't worry a thing, I will take care of him and win you can count on me to end this tournament."
"…"
"So I guess were ready to go." Rossweisse said
"Yeah, make with the teleportation."
"Right, I'll teleport as close as I can get."
"Teleport me to a good point of view, away from sight." Matsu said
"Don't worry about it."
Rossweisse quickly uses her magic to create a large symbol underneath them, just as it started to glow Miya comes out to wish them a good luck before they end up vanishing out of there, their symbol will vanish when they do. All of them will end up appearing in the same area, appearing on the rooftops seeing the sun slowly getting darker. Before Rossweisse can teleport Matsu suddenly a slight change of colour would occur as the whole area gets a sudden change, for a few seconds all they could see is the whole area will change to red for the moment then will return to normal, they all stay the same and no one got attacked or anything which got them curious to what just happened.
"Rossweisse?"
"I believe Riser created an energy field around this area, think of it as a rating game but a match." She looks around before looking back to Rayne "There's no turning back on this now."
"Well I guess he's asking for it."
"Well if that's the case does that mean we can't leave until one team is left standing?" Matsu asks
"It seems that way, although to be honest we were never going to leave this place anyway so were ready to fight and not surrendering this to Riser." He said crossing his arms then looks to Matsu "Matsu you need to find a safe and perfect area now."
"Alright but first…" She takes out a remote control helicopter with four wings. "I can use this to check the field, think of this little guy as the eyes on the sky."
"Alright, Rossweisse go for it."
"Right." She will create yet another teleporting symbol on the ground, teleporting only her somewhere safe and quiet from the battle, hoping that no one will find her.
"I hope she will be alright."
"I agree…" Rossweisse looks at the flying helicopter seeing it flying high in the sky.
Matsu already got started and opened up her laptop and started to see the view of the camera in the air, looking at the group then looks out to find any heat signatures around the area. She crouches down somewhere in a dark area hiding herself while she looks, she will contact them while the team stays where they are for the moment.
"Now we just have to wait…" Rayne said looking at them then to Uzume seeing her looking away and hugging herself "Uzume? Are you alright?"
"I'm sorry Rayne…"
"Hmn?"
"What's wrong Uzume?" Homura said walking closer to her
When he got closer to her suddenly they notice a symbol underneath them appearing all the sudden and quickly, seeing this symbol was a trap which causes Rayne to quickly act before it's too late "Break!" He shouts before the whole area gets exploded in flames, consuming everyone except for Homura and Uzume.
Matsu saw the blast from her camera causing her to gasp. "… Rayne…"
The blast was heavy and consumed the area in smoke and only Homura and Uzume got out of there in time as they weren't exactly on the symbol they were outside, seeing it in time Homura moved and Uzume included out of there. Both falls to the ground when it explodes but they slowly get back up and looks at the flames, waiting for someone to come out of there. Few seconds later Rayne will come jumping out of the flames having Musubi in his arms, seeing her unconscious and burned on her right arm and legs.
"Musubi…"
Rayne slowly puts her down "Musubi…" He looks back seeing Rossweisse appearing with the others "You all alright?"
"Yes…" Rossweisse will run towards Musubi "Musubi…"
"She's hurt; can you heal her?"
"Yes I can."
Rayne looks to Tsukiumi "Can your water help her?"
"That I can…"
"Can you please do it for me?"
"I…" She blushes "Very well then." She then walks over to assist Rossweisse
"Damn it…" He looks away then draws out his handgun "They know. How did they know where we would go to?"
"It's my fault…" Uzume said looking down at Musubi
"What?' Homura takes a step back away from her "What do you mean it's your fault?"
Rayne looks back to Uzume "Uzume… What did you do?"
"I... I can't do this... Not this way..."
"Are... Are you with Riser?" Homura asks
"..."
Rayne walks closer to her "Are you their spy?!"
She turns her head to the side then responds to him. "Yes…"
"…"
"Uzume how could you." Homura said
"Treachery!" Tsukiumi said "How dare thee fall to something so drastic."
"Because she is just doing the right thing." Riser can be heard nearby floating in the sky using his flaming phoenix wings.
"Riser!" Rayne moves forward looking up at him
"Don't be too harsh for her, all I did was offer her a chance to save her friend, she would take it and any of you would end up doing the same thing."
"What's he talking about?" Rayne asks still has his eyes locked on Riser
"It's your Ashikabi isn't it?" Homura said looking at her
"She… She was dying and I didn't want to lose her, there was no cure to her disease and I didn't want to lose her."
"If an Ashikabi dies then so does the Sekirei." Shiryuu said drawing her katana in front of her, holding it with two hands to it looking at Riser
"Yes but… We never really merged. I wanted to but she didn't want to do it or else she will die and so will I…" She looks towards Rayne "Riser was the only one who can help me cure her disease, after that we can be together."
"Did you forget that Riser is the one who wanted to be the only Ashikabi?" He looks towards her "You do know that if your plan ever worked, what would you say to your Ashikabi to what cost you paid."
"…."
"Would you sacrifice all of us in order to save your friend?"
"What the hell would you do Rayne!" She shouts out having a bit of tears going down her face "I wanted to save my friend, my Ashikabi… The one I care for, surely you would do anything in order to be with the person you care for!"
"…" Rayne ends up seeing some flashbacks of him and Akeno together and even Rias and the whole team, causing him to sighs and took a moment before giving her an answer. "I would do anything for my girls, but I won't sacrifice everyone for one person, even if she is my love."
"Really?" Tsukiumi asks looking towards him
"Yeah…"
"My my… we already started and you've forgot what's really going on here." Riser started laughing at them and raises his hands in front of him "This is going to be so easy." He ends up summoning this phoenix spear in the air, grabbing it and prepares to throw it down towards Rayne. "Taste this!"
Rayne stood there for the moment as the spear comes at him however when he looks up at Riser he summons Rebellious, smashing that spear in peace's with one swing of his sword, standing there with one hand to his sword and the other to his gun, both of his arms have spread and his face was facing the ground.
"Half of me tries so hard to fall in love, after what happened to me last time I rather not fall to that again…" He looks up to Riser "I have lost so many friends because of stuff like this… I know love is a powerful weapon and that is why I try to remove it, even though I try so hard to keep…" This triggers a few flashbacks of him with Akeno, seeing him with a smile on his face as he lies on top of her in bed. He will also see a few more flashbacks of Rias and him, Musubi with Matsu with him.
"I know you all care a lot for me, you deeply care for me because that is what you Sekirei's are force to do. You care so much for your Ashikabi it's hard to disobey, but right now I will still protect you all against this son of a bitch." He aims his sword forward "Because that is what I do!"
"Hmn… great speech." Riser ends up snapping his fingers, causing others to appear nearby, showing a handful of chosen peerages he called and bringing his Sekirei's showing a third member that joined his group.
She appears as a gothic slender female Sekirei who is wrapped in bandages, covered by a tattered kimono. She has dishevelled grey hair, a studded choker, and narrow eyes; giving her a wicked, daunting appearance, she is the Sekirei number one hundred and four named Haihane the blue Sekirei.
"Let this fight begin!"