Trigger Warning: Mentions and flashbacks to suicide
Lambo clutched his side as he breathed heavily, wincing in pain as he searched for a strategy that could help him incapacitate Reborn long enough to rejoin his crew in the ballroom.
...
Reborn's arm struck, pining Lambo by the neck as Reborn held him against the wall, his pistol pointed right at the teen causing Lambo to freeze, his eyes staring right into Reborn's cold uncaring ones.
"No one's here to help you, stupid cow.", Reborn says coldly, flicking off the safety of his pistol in warning, "I told you to give up when you had a chance."
Then a dark avenging demon appeared from out of nowhere from behind Reborn.
...
"Hi-Hibari?", Lambo croaks.
Hibari turns back to Lambo, giving him a reassuring and confident nod.
"Go.", Hibari instructed the awestruck teen, "Your nakama is looking for you."
...
"What the hell do you think you're doing Hibari?", Reborn hissed as he slowly pushed himself back up to his feet.
Hibari's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"What I should've done years ago Arcobaleno.", Hibari growls as he holds his tonfa's up and at the ready.
"And what, pray tell, may that be?", Reborn asks mockingly as he aimed his pistol right at the Cloud Guardian.
"I'm here to bite you to death.", Hibari declared.
A gunshot rang out loudly in the hallways of the Vongola's mansion
...
Hibari ducked down, the bullet missing by a hair's breadth, but the skylark hardly cared as he got close enough to Reborn to swing his tonfas right at his face. Reborn twisted to the side, stepping back, and had to slightly bend backwards so the swing was a miss, causing Hibari to speed past Reborn like a bullet. Without losing momentum, Hibari spun on his toes, kicking out his leg as he does so, only for Reborn to duck and dodge the blow again. With a snarl Hibari lunged forward as he spun one of his tonfas, swinging with the other, attacking fast and hard, refusing to give Reborn any room to breathe.
Hibari lunged forward, but when Reborn stepped aside to dodge another seemingly oncoming blow, Hibari let him, speeding past the Sun Arcobaleno so he was behind him before leaping up, swinging both tonfas down on top of Reborn. It all happened so fast that the world's greatest hitman was forced to use his forearms to block the devastating blow aimed down at his head, instead of dodging like he has been. The ground at his feet cracked into a small crater from where he stood. Dark onyx eyes narrowed, as time seemed to freeze for a split second as Reborn suddenly fell back, Hibari falling after him. As Reborn landed on his back, he kicked his feet out as Hibari was about to land on top of the hitman, only for Reborn's feet to slam into Hibari's stomach, kicking him off and away as Reborn rolled back to his feet.
"Wao."
The Skylark grinned, his dark eyes wide and beginning to blaze with his bloodlust and excitement, but he remained in complete control of his actions. He has no desire of allowing the adrenaline to get to his head as he had in his youth. Doesn't mean he's not going to enjoy this battle; he's been waiting forever for this fight.
The moment Reborn was back on his feet, Hibari was already on top of him, Reborn ducked under a hit aimed for his head, gun raised, and pointed up at Hibari. In midair, Hibari leaned back, the bullet missing his face by millimeters, one of Hibari's palms hit the floor, his legs swinging up to kick at Reborn in mid-flip, his foot just missing Reborn's jaw as he had rolled back and away to dodge the blow as well. Both men halted in a crouch, remaining still for barely a split second before they both sped at the other simultaneously.
Hibari led with another tonfa aimed for Reborn's face, but Reborn's arm shot out, batting the attack to the side as his other arm raised up with his gun, Hibari grabbed the arm, pulling it passed him just as the gun fired. He let go of the arm, only holding it with one hand as he swung his tonfa with the other, Reborn caught the weapon, lashing out with his leg, but Hibari raised his shin blocking the blow, returning with a kick of his own that Reborn took a step back and rotated away to dodge the kick. With the two men's arms interlocked as they are, Reborn ended up swinging Hibari off his feet, trying to get the skylark to let go as he swings Hibari against the wall. Hibari raised his legs, landing against the wall with his feet, causing large spider web like cracks to appear where he landed.
Hibari kicked off doing an aerial over the hitman, upon landing, shoving hard, slamming Reborn against the wall, pinned. With a mighty shove and Reborn pushed Hibari back, snapping his arms open, causing the skylark to release his grip. Hibari's eyes widened slightly as Reborn's arm shot forward as quick as one of his own bullets, his hand wrapped around Hibari's neck, squeezing harshly. Hibari let out a near silent croak as his air way was near crushed as Reborn spun the two of them, slamming Hibari against the wall, creating a crater in the wall with Hibari's head and body.
His head pulsed with pain, Hibari can feel warm liquid drip down the back of his neck and staining his dress shirt and suit jacket. Reborn's gun is pointed at Hibari's face, fortunately, the cloud was fast enough to grab Reborn's wrist, forcing it upward just as another shot was fired. But this action only left Hibari to grip the wrist of the hand that is choking him with one hand. But one hand is enough for the skylark. With a harsh twist, Hibari forcibly made Reborn release his throat, their arms shaking as Hibari slowly pulled the hand away from his neck. And just when Reborn was about to shift to unbalance Hibari and pin him back against the wall, Hibari's leg was suddenly there, smashing into Reborn's chest, causing the hitman to go stumbling back and away from the snarling carnivore.
Hibari sped forward like the demon many who have faced him, claimed him to be.
...
Gokudera stepped to the side, just as Lambo reached him by using the speed of his Lightning Dying Will Flames, causing the teen to overshoot and speed past the Storm Guardian. But before he could get far, Lambo coughed as the collar of his shirt was suddenly choking him due to the fact Gokudera grabbed the back of Lambo's collar as he went pass. With a growled shout, Gokudera slammed Lambo down to the ground, the cement cracking from the force the boy's body had hit the ground with.
Lambo coughed and gasped, feeling the air knocked out of him from the impact. Lightning flared around Lambo, and the teen flashed back landing so he's kneeling several feet in front of Gokudera and the small mini crater he had created where Lambo just was with his foot, having stomped down while using his own Storm Dying Will Flames.
With green lightning dancing around his iris's and shaking form, Lambo flashed to the side, behind Gokudera, above him, next to him, speeding everywhere around the Storm Guardian as he had with the 'Invincible Pearl' back at the Baratie. Until, his speed increased enough where Lambo is satisfied then he sped towards Gokudera, leg out for a kick to his chest. But Gokudera just turned, grabbing Lambo's ankle as he did so, and used Lambo's own sped against him as he spun and threw him into the outer wall that surrounded the Vongola compound.
Lambo let out a groan as he fell out of the deep crater his body made in the wall, crashing into the ground with a grunt. His back feels like it's on fire and his ankle aches as well as his shoulder, Lambo is pretty sure some his stitches ripped due to the flecks of blood bleeding into his shirt from his previously injured shoulder back from Arlong Park.
"Stupid Eel.", Lambo huffs to himself as he slowly pushes himself up, his bad shoulder pulsing with pain as he does so.
"What's the matter stupid cow?", Gokudera questioned with a glower as he steps closer to the fallen teen, "You asked me to go all out, didn't you? How's it feels seeing how clearly out classed you are."
"Bakadera.", Lambo hissed in pain as he slowly stands back up, lips pulled up showing off a grin that could be called feral, "I'm excited. It'll be more fulfilling when I beat you, that I did so at my best as well as yours."
Lambo flashed forward, jumping into the air, knee out as to aim a kick at Gokudera's head. But when Gokudera raised his arms to block the blow, only for Lambo to wait until he landed to kick his leg out, swiping Gokudera's feet out from under him. Gokudera rolled backwards the second his back made contact with the ground, already recovering from the surprise by the feint. He then leapt forward, slamming into Lambo's stomach and side as he tackled the boy to the stone ground.
The teen cried out in pain as the two crashed to the ground, Gokudera landing on top of Lambo and quickly taking his advantage as he punched down just as Lambo attempted to sit up despite the older adult on top of him. Only for pain to explode across his face and Lambo saw stars for a second as Gokudera's fist landed on his nose with a sickening 'crunch.' Lambo's head slammed back on to the stone ground from the force of the head, now the back of his head ached and Lambo could feel warm liquid drip over his lips and chin.
"This is not my best.", Gokudera growled as he landed another punch against the teen's cheek, Lambo's head snapped to the side from the force, "But I'll admit...", his fist collided with the opposite cheek, snapping Lambo's head to the other side, "... you're definitely putting up more of a fight than I expected."
Lambo looked up to Gokudera with a glare as his flames danced around as the Storm guardian's only warning, but Gokudera never got the chance to react as a stream of green lightning left Lambo's body, slamming into Gokudera, sending the bomber tumbling several feet away from Lambo.
"Good.", Lambo's voice came clearly through Gokudera's faintly ringing ears as he shook his head to clear it, Gokudera looked up just in time to be met with a knee to the face, "I want to be the challenge you never saw coming."
As Lambo sped close to press his own advantage, only to be thrown back as an explosion of Storm flames bursts from the silver haired mafioso.
"You think you're a challenge!", Gokudera growled, "I'll show you how much of a challenge you really are... None!"
Once Gokudera's is through with the stupid cow, there's going to be nothing left in the courtyard to destroy.
Lightning seemed to dance around Lambo's irises as his eyes narrowed into a determined glare. Adjusting his horns to make sure they are still attached firmly to his head as Gokudera lunged forward, body covered in his Storm flames, Lambo can feel his flames rising up to meet Gokudera's own in challenge, but he smothers them down, keeping the flames sizzling at the surface as time seems to slow, the smell of ozone filled the air. And Gokudera got closer, inch by inch, Lambo can feel the destructive power get closer inch by inch as seconds felt like minutes which felt like hours.
The shy darkened and Lambo swore it started to rain harder, his hands raised up, crossing them like an x, fists clenched tightly. And at the last second, just as Gokudera finally reached him, in Lambo's perspective, the teen reached out and the heavens answered, the biggest lightning Lambo has ever seen struck just as Lambo fully activated his flames and met Gokudera, their flames collided with a loud crash of thunder that made Lambo's ears ring loudly, drowning out all sound for a hot minute.
Gokudera's shocked wife's eyes met Lambo's own as the teen simultaneously drew in the lightning and then let the strike burst from inside him, sending out a shockwave with another, softer, sound of thunder echoing around them as Gokudera was suddenly sent flying back. Using the left over energy from the lightning strike to cover up his own flames, Lambo sped towards Gokudera, who didn't have enough time to sense for Lambo's flames underneath the lightning Lambo used as cover. Allowing Lambo to slam his fist into Gokudera's face.
The impact barely even had a chance to take effect and move Gokudera backwards even more before Lambo disappeared in a flash and not even a second later, reappeared behind Gokudera, his elbow slamming into and digging into the base of Gokudera's spine, his earlier punch that would have usually sent Gokudera back further only cause the man's body to dig deeper into the appendage from the Force.
Again, the Storm Guardian barely had a chance to even register the pain before Lambo was suddenly next to him, crouched down low as he swung his leg at Gokudera's ankles, swiping the man's feet out from under him, Lambo appeared at Gokudera's other side in a flash, leg up and slamming down on Gokudera's ribs, sending him the rest of the way to the ground, causing it to crack beneath the force of his body's impact against the floor from Lambo's vicious ace kick.
Coughing, Gokudera clutched his ribs, pretty sure one's at least broken, wouldn't be surprised if they were all cracked from the attack. Lambo stared down at Gokudera, his Lightning Flames flickering around his form still.
"I am…", Lambo states firmly, his Lightning Flames seemed to speed up around him due to his feeling of determination and retribution being made, "made of more than you think."
Faster than a blink, Gokudera's hand shot out, grabbing Lambo by the ankle and pulling him roughly down to the ground as he staggered back to his feet, Lambo's ankle still in hand. Before Lambo could make a move to free himself, fueled by his flames, Gokudera suddenly swung Lambo up and then down one the ground. Pain exploded in Lambo's head as it hit the hard cement floor, unfortunately for Lambo, Gokudera slammed Lambo's body into the ground several more times, creating multiple Lambo shaped creators, before throwing Lambo with a mighty heave, sending the boy spinning until his back slammed painfully against the thick trunk of the courtyards tall cherry blossom tree. Bouncing from the tree to the hard ground with a cry. Raising his eyes up to meet Gokudera's as the Storm Guardian slowly stalked forward with his Storm flames raging all around him.
"Youare made of tougher stuff? More than what I think?", Gokudera spat in disbelief, "Prove it."
...
Hibari zig-zagged gracefully across the room, dodging the bullets fired at him by a stoic Reborn. It was almost easy, crossing the room in only mere minutes, compared to others who would hide from the offensive enemy fire, reaching his target with absolute focus as I leapt forward, brandishing his preferred weapons. Reborn lunged for the ground, rolling under the strike intended for him as it slammed into the wall behind him, causing sad wall to crumble before the skylark and dust to fill the hallway like a smokescreen.
Meanwhile, coming up from his roll, Reborn unhurriedly raised a second gun and fired three shots into the dust that filled the hall.
This time, all aimed around Hibari.
They passed the Cloud Guardian harmlessly, who raised a brow as his eyes narrowed in suspicion. Reborn tilted his hat, causing a shadow over his left eye, his right eye glittering sadistically as his lips tugged up into a smirk.
Hibari's eyes widened as he suddenly lunged forward, rolling to his knees just in time to miss the three bullets soaring overhead. They had bounced back from the wall far behind the Skylark, almost hitting Hibari in the back. But the bullets didn't stop. They continued to ricochet along the corridor and going right for Hibari consistently. Hibari leaped back, the bullets hitting where he was just standing, and just like before, the bullets didn't stop there.
Having enough being chased by something that isn't even another predator, Hibari spun his tonfas in hand, he then hit each one of the bullets with his near unbreakable weapons, even when they bounced right back, Hibari continued to block and dodge the relentless bullets. Forced to retreat further and further back, putting more distance between himself and Reborn while the Arcobaleno just contently watched.
The exact opposite of what Hibari wanted.
"Tch.", Hibari scowled before his Tonfa's were suddenly alite with purple Cloud flames as he struck, with a single swing Hibari had sent every single one of the bullets hurling straight for Reborn.
Reborn's eyes narrowed, firing his gun and easily destroying the bullets that were heading for him. His lips pulled down a little in a frown, but before he could think any more about the failure of his attack, Hibari was already right in front of him. Reborn sidestepped, grabbing Hibari's arms and pulling him all the way down so that his upper back and some of his neck slammed down against the tiled ground, causing another mini crater in the hallway. As Hibari went to get up, continue the fight, Reborn stomped down on Hibari's arm, the many letting out a grunt in only response to the most likely now fractured, if not broken, bone caused by the hitman.
"This. Is not the time for a fight Hibari.", Reborn nearly snarls, speaking up for the first time since the fight started, ignoring Hibari's clear struggles to remove his arm from underneath Reborn's foot as the older man speaks, "Your boss has called on you to wrangle Vongola's lightning, to drag him back to his place so he can learn."
Hibari finally paused, something in Reborn's words causing the carnivore to freeze, looking up at Reborn with eyes blazing. Before shooting Reborn a near feral grin in pride.
"What do you think I've been doing this whole time, Arcobaleno?", Hibari questions.
Reborn's eyes narrowed in confusion just as his vision was filled with purple light as an explosion of Cloud flames erupted from the Skylark. Thrown back and through the wall into a large bathroom reserved for guest when a party is thrown is the ballroom. They traveled closer to the ballroom than Reborn thought, fighting the Cloud Guardian taking more of his focus than he'd like to admit.
Storming in after Reborn, Hibari entered the bathroom, with a wide grin and his Cloud flames waving all around him like a cloak as he walked. Only for the Cloud Guardian to freeze the moment he seemed to recognize what bathroom he is in, his flames immediately went out, his eyes almost glazed over as he looked over the bathroom with... grief. Hibari's grip on his tonfas tightened with a white knuckled grip as his body began to shake.
"Do you know... what happened here? What almost occurred? What could have become a part of Vongola's Legacy? Sawada's Legacy?", Hibari's shaking increased with each word, his voice dangerous low, began to rise with his fury, "The taint that would stain you all? Stain me? I'm almost tempted to wish it had happened, that the blood here managed to stain like its owner had wished, even if it wasn't how he had meant it."
Everything seemed to freeze, time itself holding it's breath as Hibari spoke the most words to the Hitman than he has to ever the whole time he has been with Vongola (as far as Reborn is aware of at least, having no idea the many words of wisdom the Carnivore has imparted his omnivore before sending him out to sea).
"If it weren't for what I would have lost if he succeeded, I could almost wish that it worked. So, you would all experience the disdain of others just as he has."
(He didn't like it. How quiet it was in there. It made Hibari nervous, and he Hates being nervous. With a burning passion, he hates being nervous like this, over something so seemingly insignificant.)
Hibari glared down at Reborn, who is the most confused he has ever felt in a long time, and that's including when he was first cursed. If it not for his pride in his intelligence and observation as the world's greatest hitman, Reborn would have asked Hibari what he meant.
(Wasting no time at all, Hibari was quick to storm the isolated guest bathroom, scowl set, mouth open, ready to command the bathroom's occupant, only to freeze. His expression quickly turned horrified as he barely suppressed his gasp as he took in the bathroom, heart beating quickly, filled with complete terror.)
Fortunately, or unfortunately, for Reborn, Hibari is done being silent and ready to reveal to the hitman everything. The herbivore is going to need someone to fill in the blanks when this is all over.
"The omnivore was tired of you all, tired of this world."
(There is blood everywhere. And usually, at any other time, he wouldn't mind the sight of blood, no matter the quantities.
But this wasn't like any other time.
No, this time, Lambo laid in the thick of it. Lying painfully still in the middle of the bathroom floor, eyes closed and forearms are absolutely drenched in blood.)
"I couldn't let him stay here. What if I wasn't here to stop him next time?", Hibari question faux casually, his expression darkening, "I couldn't keep my omnivore safe here. He needed... a vacation."
It clicked for Reborn then, as he looked up at Hibari, unable to hide the shock he felt. Reborn, who prided in himself as the world greatest hitman, who could see or predict everything coming. Didn't expect Hibari Kyoya to go above and beyond for a stupid cow.
"You set it all up, didn't you?", Reborn slowly stood up, staring down at Hibari with narrowed cold black eyes from under the brim of his fedora, "You made it so Tsuna would send him off for vacation."
For a long moment, Hibari stood still, not reacting to Reborn's accusation. Then he sent Reborn a sharp smile, his eyes glinting in the bathroom light viciously.
"Best way to get my omnivore out of here. I hoped he'd find something better, find better people. Imagine my surprise when not even a day later, we receive a letter and Lambo's ring stating that he joined a crew of pirates.", Hibari snickered under his breath, yet Reborn still heard him clearly, "And what a crew he's found. He left as my herbivore and came back an omnivore in just under two weeks, much less time than the years I've been trying to help him."
And just as quick as the predatory glee had entered his eye, his expression darkened as he glared at the hitman, his facing setting back to its usual stoic expression, with added the added promise of a world of pain headed Reborn's way folded within.
"You think I'm going to let you herbivores pull him back down beneath you?", Hibari questioned dangerously, "Did you think I would let you go back to trampling all over him until there's nothing left? Leave to fight tooth and nail for everything? Hell no.", Hibari's eyes narrowed as his Cloud flames flared around his body once again, "Reborn, for my omnivore's pain, I'm going to bite you to death."
Reborn barely had time to summon his own flames to protect him just as Hibari slammed into Reborn's body, tonfas first. Sending Reborn crashing through the bathroom wall set just behind where Hibari found Lambo those few, yet long, months ago.
With a blood thirsty grin, Hibari leapt after the hitman through the hole his body has created. Feeling his flames practically hum with anticipation, for blood will be spilt, and vengeance shall finally be served.
It's about time Hibari has finally cleaned up his territory, he's gotten lazy.
Reborn, meanwhile, finds himself groaning as he slowly pushed himself up from the rubble of tables and chairs he had created beneath his body. Immediately taking stock of his surroundings, Reborn blinks in surprise at the location change.
He's in the Library?
A chain wrapped around Reborn's leg, and the hitman let out a shout as he was flung up into the air and pulled down, crashing into one of the many large bookshelves within the Library, crushing it beneath him.
With another low groan, Reborn pushed himself back to his feet, drawing his gun from under his suit jacket where he hid sounded his way, and Reborn swiveled around, gun already cocked and aimed, his finger pulled the trigger just as Hibari was only a step away.
The gun fire sounded out loudly in the large empty room, the Cloud Guardian froze, his eyes trailing down to the hole in his chest, then he smirked.
"Missed me."
He dispersed into purple Cloud flames, Reborn didn't even get a second to process what just happened when a knee slammed into the back of his head. His ears rung and his eyes blurred from the impact as he stumbled forward, barely managing to stay on his feet. Blindly, Reborn fired behind him in order to buy some time for him to recover from the concussion by using his Sun flames on himself.
There was a grunt, and Reborn was barely able to heal most of the concussion before Hibari was on him again. Reborn leaned back, dodging the first swing, ducked under the second, and caught the third, gun aimed up and a bullet found itself digging into Hibari's forehead. Only for the skylark to, once again disperse into Cloud flames.
What the hell is going on here? That's twice that happened.
Thanks to many years of experience, Reborn stepped back, dodging a blow from his blind spot on the side just in time. He grabbed Hibari's arm, keeping him in place before emptying out his clip into his back. Sneering as the double disappeared in another burst of Cloud flames.
Now that he is no longer panicking and finally thinking clearly, Reborn can't help but scowl. The Cloud flame power is to multiple, to copy, but no one has been able to use Cloud flames to copy a living being, much less a person. Reborn doubts that even the first Vongola Guardian could do it.
And yet that is exactly what is happening.
Hibari is creating copies of himself using his dying will flames.
"Carnivore,"
Slowly, Reborn turned around to be met with at least a dozen Hibari's ready to face him down. And his pistol is currently empty, and his other spares have been lost somewhere in the mansion during the fight.
"Die.", one of the Hibari's glared as they all lunged at the Arcobaleno at once.
Sun flames it is.
Forced to drop his preferred weapons, Reborn coated his hands with dying will flames punching a clone in the face and throwing him into a bookshelf. One came at him in a flying flame coated kick, but Reborn grabbed the leg and swung the Hibari clone mid-air and out the window. Reborn dove into a roll, ducking under a double swing by two Hibari's, rolling back to his feet, Reborn slammed the two together before tossing one up into the air, and throwing the other into a group of three.
The first clone crashed into the light fixtures above, causing sparks to fall and catch aflame amongst the very flammable paper books in a library. Only good thing about the room being set on fire is that it became Reborn's only light source aside from his own dying will flames and the occasional flash of lightning from the storm outside.
Many, if not all, the clones were quickly, or already, recovering from Reborn's blows and they all lunged for him at once. Most likely in hopes of overwhelming him. But, not only is Reborn the world's greatest hitman, but he also was not one of the Arcobaleno for nothing, you have to be a skilled flame user as one of the requirements in order to become an Arcobaleno.
Reborn released an abundance of Sun dying will flames in an enormous blast that destroyed all the clones in a single attack, andputting out the fire that consumed the libraryas he did so. But despite the mini army being gone, Reborn did not relax, waiting for another sneak attack from his blind spots.
Only for a figure to burst through the fire, Cloud flames protecting him from the hungry flames around him, speeding right for Reborn, a tonfa covered in concentrated layers of dying will flames aimed for Reborn's ribs. Coating is arms in his own Sun flames, Reborn goes to block, only for Hibari to change the trajectory of his blow at the last second, dropping his tonfa as he does so, causing Reborn to freeze in surprise just as Hibari's hand grabbed his face and slammed Reborn down into the tiled flooring, cracks appearing due to the impact.
Hibari slammed Reborn's head down once. Twice. Four times before stopping, breathing heavily as he stood back up, Looking down at Reborn's motionless form in consideration.
"You are a carnivore; I'll give you that. Anything or anyone that says otherwise was either lied to or lying to themselves.", Hibari paused again, tilting his head in thought before parting his final words to the unconscious body, "You are a fearsome carnivore, but when it counts, you make a lousy predator."
With one final grunt, Hibari turned on his heels determined to find his omnivore, only for the entire mansion to shudder, with a rumble, a loud crash can be heard nearby, in the ballroom if Hibari had to guess.
With a smirk, Hibari continued on his way.
It sounds like someone else had their taste of blood for the day as well.
...
"You think you can fight!?", Gokudera shouts angrily.
Lambo coughed as a flame encased fist slammed into his stomach, causing him cough and wheeze for air as he was sent flying back with Gokudera stalking towards him, no longer waiting around.
"You think you are worth something without Vongola!?", Gokudera swiftly kicked Lambo in the jaw, flipping the teenonto his back from the force of the blow, Gokudera reached down, twisting the fabric of Lambo's shirt at the collar as he lifted the Lightning flame user back onto his feet, "Without the Decimo!?"
Lambo aimed a punched for Gokudera's jaw, but Gokudera caught it, twisting Lambo's arm painfully, before releasing Lambo's shirt with the other hand, grabbing his throat tightly as his leg swiped Lambo's feet from under him, allowing Gokudera to Lambo down on the grown, creating a spider-web of cracks from the pavement beneath him.
"We are what makes you great. We are what make you powerful. Respected.", Gokudera spat out venomously, neither of the Guardians notice how something seemed to glow within Lambo's pocket, "You think you can get that without us? You think the 'replacements' you found are better than Vongola? You. Are. Nothing! You hear me? You are nothing but a spoiled brat of a stupid cow."
Something snapped, Lambo's eyes were suddenly engulf by bright green light, with sparks flickering at the corner of his eyes as his Lightning flames reacted violently.
"SHUT UP!"
There was a loud crack of thunder as green lightning flashed brightly into the sky, sending Gokudera flying back. With a small groan, the Storm Guardian pushed himself back to his feet, his Storm flames distinguished. But Lambo's dying will is nowstronger than ever before with green lightning flying all around him as Lamboholds his palm out in front of him. Letting the green lightning come together above it, slowly coming together to form concentrated ball of energy the size of a softballa ghostly green haired figure glaring into Gokudera's soul from behind the teen.
Lampow, the first Lightning Guardian of Vongola had already given his descendant his blessing to leave, to sailfree on the sea with his new Sky that he found. But to see that the current generation of Vongola to outright ignore his blessing, basically refusing it as well, it pisses Lampow the hell off.
Who do these people think they are? The chosen ones? Think again.
"I am no stupid cow.", Lambo snarls, as Lampow claps his hands together above his head, slowly separating them and creating an arch of Lightning flames over his head as the left-over lightning flames were drawn to the arch and began to slowly form something, "I'm a bull now bitch."
Lambo's hand clenched tightly into a fist with the Lightning Flames inside and then slamming his hand down to the ground, the lightning burst from his hands connecting to the half-formed lightning flames shape that Lampow created behind him. The Lightning flames shifted and sparked is it slowly began to even out as the shape became clear.
"And you know what they say.", Lambo grinned as the larger-than-life bull made up of lightning flames snorted, its hooves swiped and stomped at the ground readily from over Lambo's much smaller form, "You mess with the bull, you get the horns."
Lambo pointed silently at Gokudera, and with a loud moo, the bull charged. Gokudera face went pale with fear as the Storm Guardian quickly gathered his own Storm flames and fired them out in one large beam that collided against the construct bull's head and horn's. But the bull continued racing forward, barely even slowing down as he crashed into Gokudera with a loud rumble of thunder.
Gokudera was sent flying back with a pained filled scream, still encased in Lightning flames as he slammed through the front doors that lead into the ballroom, but that didn't stop his momentum.
No, what did though, was a limp form that crashed through the ballroom's ceiling from the mansion's second floor, crashing into Gokudera's body as the two crashed down into the middle of the ballroom floor, several feet away from Ryohei's unconscious form in the far corner.
With an exhausted sigh, the glow faded from Lambo's eyes as he fell to his knees in exhaustion.
"I'm... not going... to be able to... do that on my own... again, huh?", Lambo panted.
Lampow smirked, "Not for a while, and not without a lot of training."
And with that, he faded away.
"Didn't think so.", Lambo huffs, before pushing himself back to his feet with a stumble.
Someone came from above. A body, signaling a battle over, and Lampo can only think of two people right now that made it to the second floor for their fight. And it's terrifying for him as he slowly made his way to the still smoking crater in the middle of the ballroom in order to see who lost, but the smoke would not go away.
So, Lambo slowly, hesitantly, looked up towards the winner. His eyes widened when he saw...
Author's Note:
Okay, yep yep. I had to do it. I'm sorry, but I had to end it here on a cliffhanger, it was always going to be like this. Sorry not sorry. Any hey! Would you look at that! I didn't take over an entire year to update this time!
And how about that surprise reveal with Hibari? There were some hints, not a lot, I wanted to make it super vague, that pointed towards this being the case. It's okay if no one noticed, I didn't want you guys to, the hints weren't supposed to made a big deal of or obvious on purpose. I wanted this reveal to be like a bomb dropped on top all of your guys' heads, and I hope that I wrote it well and that you guys liked it.
Just for a quick explanation, Lambo's fight was so short in comparison to Hibari's because I already had written multiple scenes of Lambo's fight in previous chapters. It's part of the reason why I combined originally planned two separate chapters into one. Speaking of chapters, only two more chapters until the Vongola Arc is done! Woo-hoo! I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.
Be Your best You! See you guys' next chapter! Bye~!