Streams of electricity, bursts of red fireworks, ice
shards and spheres of bright yellow flames erupted in the highest amount among
the devas released in the police precinct area. The reason?
The clash between Yuki, Hikaru, Seiren, Saya, the ones
who protested against them, the ones who supported them, the ones who were
trying to get an interview and the police officers who were trying to restrain
everyone escalated further.
While fighting, the baby doll looked at one of the
reporters who was trying to give a commentary on the current events and was
standing too close to the spiky-haired and golden-haired rivals who were
fighting battles of their own.
(Random reporter) ‘-We’re coming to you live from
Deckstoru’s central police precinct where as you can see everyone is fighting
everyone! And our main celebrities are …’ (that’s when Hikaru hit him from the
one side of the face and Seiren – from the other, both of them looking rather
irritated)
(Hikaru, Seiren) ‘-Just shut the hell up already!’
Simultaneously one of the protesters had managed to
land a hit on Saya’s neck, smiling with great confidence and probably believing
he had turned the tide of the battle in the protesters’ favor with that single
strike.
Rather than that, he had awakened a second Summerbolt
beast.
Veins protruded on the fiery mom’s face who smashed a
mighty right uppercut in her latest assailant’s jaw, grabbing him by the leg
after he had been lifted off the ground by her attack and throwing him on her
back, starting to spin and form more and more of her specific flames in a
circle around her.
Yuki had been around one destructive member of this
family long enough to know what Saya’s current actions meant – evacuate her
vicinity as fast as possible if you want to live.
(Yuki) ‘-Everyone, run!!! Get away from her!! She’s
gone insane and she’s very scaryyyy!!!’
The fiery mom had formed a typhoon of flames around
her, causing it to explode and sending the man she had given a nice tan with
her deva, while carrying him on her back, some distance away.
Many other protesters, fans, reporters and police
officers were caught up in this, of course, parts of the body of each person
affected by the blast being set on fire.
The white-haired beauty herself was thrown aside by
the attack and the shockwave it had led to, an arm made of the same bright
yellow flames coming out of the risen smoke and pulling her back in.
Fortunately Iceflame responded fast enough by enveloping the part of her body
coming in contact with the flames in her ice or she would’ve been toast, too.
As she was pulled back in, she saw Saya was waiting on
the other side of the smoke with a confused expression.
(Saya) ‘-Yuki, where are you going? We’re not done
yet! Get back here!’
(Yuki) ‘-How did I even get involved in this?!?!!’
As the baby doll was thrown right back in the fray,
she saw that mobs of protesters had now crushed Hikaru and Seiren in each
other, the rivals having smashed their foreheads together and roaring at the
other with faces almost comically twisted
by anger.
(Hikaru) ‘-When are you going to stop getting in my
way?!’
(Seiren) ‘-I was gonna ask the same thing! We still
have a score to settle about what happened in the boys’ dorm but I haven’t had
a change to crush you yet!’
(Hikaru) ‘-Why don’t we do it now, then? Might as well
settle up before the ordinari kill us!!’
A sudden gust of wind split the air as Hikaru and
Seiren were getting ready to hit each other and Yuki was getting ready to go
and stop them, several people being lifted off the ground by the sheer strength
of the wind.
Something passed through the
ordinari protesters who were up in the air with great speed then, smashing a hit in each one and
sending them flying tens of meters away to fall back into the ranks of the
crowd they had come from.
Finally the ground started shaking and a wall of large
rocks clustered together rose between Saya and Yuki and some of their opponents.
Seconds later one silhouette landed on top of the wall while being carried by a
gust of wind, the superfast silhouette who had taken care of those ordinari
protesters landing next to the wall and a third silhouette coming out of the
wall itself.
The fiery mom smiled decisively upon seeing this trio,
Yuki being confused by their arrival at first, soon enough seeing all three had
skin with the same tone – a few shades darker than Seiren, all of them also having
the same black hair.
While the girl that looked no more than 9 years old
and the man that looked in his late twenties had brown eyes however, the woman,
who had used a gust of wind to move around, had blue eyes, her hair also being
shoulder-length while that of the girl equaled the length of Saya’s hair.
(Saya) ‘-So you three made it.’
(Yuki) ‘-Are they … on our side?’
(Saya) ‘-Oh, you don’t know each other yet. Meet the rest of the Summerbolts, Yuki. That blue-eyed vixen on the left is
my younger sister, Iziya, the mindless brute on the right is my younger
brother, Graid.’
(Yuki) ‘-And the girl in the center, is that Iziya or
Graid’s daughter? I don’t think it’s a good idea to bring a child into all
this.’
(Rose) ‘-No, silly girl! I’m Rose, these three hot
heads’ mom and therefore Hikaru’s grandma! It’s great to finally meet you!’
The night seemed to hold more surprises than Yuki was
prepared to take.
She was already convinced that Hikaru’s family was
insane but the fact that his grandmother looked like a little girl next to the
fully-grown man and two women who were her children … was simply baffling
beyond compare.
(Yuki) ‘-Um … how does that work exactly? I mean … is
there a rational explanation for this?’
(Rose) ‘-Yeah, but we’ll have to postpone that
explanation until we’re out of this pinch!’
Hikaru had also seen the other members of his family
arriving, jumping up and down with the widest and most joyous smile his face
was capable of producing while Seiren seemed to be overwhelmed by emotions just
as strong but with a focus on misery and disappointment instead.
The protesters looked like they had been discouraged
by the trio’s arrival, the fans being excited, the reporters – confused while
the police officers seemed to have given up all hope of surviving or even
preserving their sanity at this point.
(Hikaru) ‘-Ha-ha-ha-HAAAA!!!! The Summerbolt Five is
assembled! We’re bound to win now!!’
(Seiren) ‘-But what about me? No one from my family came
for meeeeeeeee!!’
While Iceflame was trying to make sense of the
situation she had found herself in, Iziya sent gusts of wind to many of the
protesters, throwing them around, Graid going through the ranks of others on
the ground with very high speed and beating them up with a single hit for each
target given his great strength. Only now did the white-haired beauty notice his
body had burst in green and red energy simultaneously while doing this.
Rose was providing cover for those two from the
attacks of the anti-deva arsenal the police were using to stop them with her
rock walls as Saya incinerated a crystal shell aimed at Yuki with a wave of her
flaming hand.
After seeing the shell had begun transforming into a
gigantic bull head with a mad expression before crumbling, the amnesiac and
Hikaru’s mother looked at each other.
(Saya) ‘-They’ve got our back, Yuki. Don’t worry.’
(Yuki) ‘-So all
of Hikaru’s family members have very strong devas? (Saya nodded while Yuki
sighed) And I guess you’re all insane …’
(Saya) ‘-Better get used to it because you’re a part
of that family now.’
(Yuki) ‘-W-What? What does that mean?’
(Saya) ‘-I talked with Seiren’s family before coming
here. Since my son’s the one who found you, you’ll be staying with our family
for the time being. It’s the least we can do to repay you for saving that
runt’s life.’
(Yuki) ‘-But I’m the one indebted to him! And to
Seiren! And to your whole family now!’
(Saya) ‘-Better stay close to the ones you owe a debt,
then, right? A deviant without a family can’t last long here. And if a naïve
amnesiac like you is going to be joining any family, might as well join the
craziest one! You’ll fit right in!’
Rose stepped closer to those two then.
(Rose) ‘-If you two are quite finished, I think I see
our back-up on the horizon so we better get ready for the last stretch of this
madness!’
(Yuki) ‘-Back-up?’
(Saya) ‘-You didn’t think we've been fighting all this
time just because of the protesters’ taunts, did you? The plan right from the
start was for the Summerbolts to come here in two waves in order to focus the
attention of everyone in the area, especially that of the police, on us. That
way our back-up could move freely and reach us without anyone noticing.’
Seiren had started jumping up and down with a most
happy expression himself, Hikaru looking in the direction his rival was looking
to see a mass of people that had stopped the traffic on the nearby bridge over
the river just next to the police precinct area. All these people were led by a
trio, consisting of a man, a woman and a boy in his mid-teens, all having
traits and wearing outfits of a similar color scheme to Blackscale’s.
(Seiren) ‘-There they are! My folks and brother are
here, too!’
(Hikaru) ‘-Looks like they’re bringing a lot of
deviants with them, but … there is something behind them. What is that?’
The ‘thing’ was a number of what appeared to be
military ground vehicles in between which hundreds of men in special uniforms with
angry expressions were running, tens of military hover- and aircrafts coming at
Deckstoru from the horizon, Seiren’s family and the other deviants actually
running away from them.
The hot heads back at the precinct couldn’t hear
everything the coming group shouted as they were still far, but one word stood
out among all the others: ‘run’.
(Seiren) ‘-The ordinari brought the army?!’
(Hikaru) ‘-Now this is going to turn into a civil
war!’
(Iziya) ‘-Not if we can help it, brats!’
Iziya went past Hikaru and grabbed him with one of her
wind gusts, Graid going over to Seiren and throwing him on his back, Saya’s
younger brother and sister going to where she, Yuki and Rose were holding off
the enemy.
Once they had done that, the fiery mom sent a shot of bright
yellow flames from her fist above the precinct, where it released a marvelous
explosion.
(Saya) ‘-Over here!’
The other deviants cleared a path for them and
although it was hard, the pervert’s family found their way to him, the
Blackscales also being brought together, just then the soldiers combining their
forces with the police, surrounding the rebels on all sides, the protesters
being mixed in their ranks with triumphant smiles.
The fan-group members were angered by this turn of
events but stood their ground next to the Summerbolts, Blackscales and their
deviant allies, the reporters having fallen silent and looking with great
concern at both sides of the conflict, the rays of the sun reaching everyone as
it started rising over the bridge.
Saya and Seiren’s father stepped forward to speak with
the police commissioner and the general leading the army forces that had just
arrived while Yuki wound up between Hikaru and Seiren in the midst of all the
chaos.
The three started talking with each other in a low
voice as the representatives of the opposing groups started talking as well.
(Hikaru) ‘-So you met all the members of my family.
What do you think?’
(Yuki) ‘-I’m not all that surprised, considering
they’re related to you.’
(Seiren) ‘-My family’s just as crazy, so I’m sure
you’ll like them more. You’re welcome to stay with us if you want, Yuki.’
(Yuki) ‘-I may take you up on that offer, Seiren, but
for now I’ll be staying with the Summerbolts. Hikaru’s mom told me earlier
that’s the decision your two families have come to. I’m the one most directly
responsible for everything that’s happened here, so I don’t really have the
right to question your parents’ choice.’
Those words brought a jubilant smirk to the
spiky-haired teenager’s face.
(Hikaru) ‘-Guess I win this time, Blackscale!’
(Seiren) ‘-Don’t get too thrilled, Summerbolt. We may
all be dead soon enough, so you won’t be able to enjoy your triumph for much
longer.’
The trio’s attention then turned to the adults who
seemed to be negotiating with the police and military elite at the moment.
(Saya) ‘-I see the ordinari have not sat idly by and
have gathered a considerable force.’
(Serego) ‘-We formed a rebel force of our own in
response to the violent treatment of the deviants from Deckstoru after this
last incident.’
(The commissioner) ‘-And what do you plan to do with
that rebel force now?’
(Saya) ‘-We only wanted to send a message. If you
brand a single deviant, all others will rise to defend their kind. That’s how
unified we are. And you’ll have a civil war on your hands if you keep this up.’
(Serego) ‘-But there’s no need for such things.
Neither side will profit if the violence escalates further. As I understand it,
these three kids even offered to take on all the punishment you had in mind for
us just to avoid the possibility of the conflict between ordinari and deviants
growing any bigger.
Although they knew what had happened was no fault of
theirs. They cared for protecting the ordinari as much as protecting the
deviants. They cared about protecting the very people who had condemned them
for crimes they didn’t commit.’
(Saya) ‘-All we came here to do is to defend those
three and what they’re fighting for.
To defend the peace between our species. For both
sides’ sake.
While using extreme measures to protect the brats,
that was meant to further demonstrate our resolve. We would kick ass any day to
avoid deaths, as weird as it may sound.’
(The general) ‘-So you’re suggesting we just let this
slide?’
(Serego) ‘-Would you prefer to go with the other option
over something so petty?’
(Saya) ‘-We’re not saying the latest events shouldn’t
be investigated. But wait until you find actual evidence implicating any
Deckstorian deviant before you start judging us while we’re trying to protect
everyone.’
The commissioner and the general sighed and looked at
each other and then at the people around them.
It felt as if an eternity had passed before any of
them spoke again and the tension in the air became that much more palpable
during that strenuous moment.
(The commissioner) ‘-You’re free to go. But we’ll be
calling on all deviants in the city for questioning in relation with the
incident from yesterday.’
(The general) ‘-And things won’t go smoothly at all if
we find anything on any of you.’
(Serego) ‘-Much appreciated! And about the protesters
who are still here …’
(The commissioner) ‘-We’ll deal with the hostile
elements in our ranks. Do the same with the ones in yours.’
(Saya) ‘-Understood. Thank you, sir.’
The deviants started cheering, the protesters getting
ready to attack them again as the police and army split the effort of holding
them back, the reporters continuing their reports of the situation.
Seiren turned his triumphant grin to Hikaru then, while
the overly happy Yuki sighed when she saw the next confrontation between the
rivals was already brewing.
(Seiren) ‘-I guess we won’t be dying yet, mad bastard!
That means Yuki’ll have all the time in the world to decide which family she
prefers to stay with! Our battle is far from over!’
(Hikaru) ‘-I’m ready for a rematch any time, damn
pervert! And so is my family!!’
That was the first instance in which Yuki responded in
a manner she would expect one of the Summerbolts to react in – she hit both
Hikaru and Seiren on the head and held them down as they reached for the other
with an angry face even while on the ground.
(Yuki) ‘-Will you two give it a rest already?!!’
The old dogs from the Summerbolt and Blackscale family
laughed while watching this scene with satisfied smiles.
(Rose) ‘-Yep! The three of them are getting along just
fine, I see!’
The white-haired beauty had been in Deckstoru for only
a short while but already the temper of the local deviants and most of all –
that of the Summerbolts – seemed to be rubbing off her. What was going to
happen as she spent more and more time with them?
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