(Few Months Later; Ichika’s POV)
It’s been months since Charlotte and Laura’s IS woke up, but we’re still no closer to finding the fragment cores. I think that the first step is near, I can feel it.
(Normal POV)
“Alright class, that’s all for today. Prepare yourselves for the Inter-class tournament” Yamada-sensei announced to the class.
“Hai!” They all replied with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
Yamada-sensei left the room and the students all began to leave, except for a select few.
“Phew, thank God the first day of our second year is done.” Ichika slumped on his desk in exhaustion. .
“Hahahaha, don’t relax just yet, Ichika” Aden laughed as he tried to cheer up his friend. Ichika always got like this whenever he was lazy.
Ichika smiled and leaned back on his seat, “Yeah, I guess you’re right.”
As the two friends chatted with each other, the girls made their way towards them with Yammeness in tow.
“Yammennes? What are you doing here?” Ichika asked, confused at her sudden appearance.
“I need you all to come with me, our progress so far has been too slow.” She replied in an even tone.
“What do you mean slow? We’re doing everything we can!” Aden said with indignation.
“Yeah, I know that, but still it’s not enough.” Yammennes said.
“And if it’s not enough?” Laura asked as she fiddled with her combat knife (Which unnerved the
others).
“Try again…” Cecilia said.
“And again…” Rin continued.
“And again.” Houki finished.
“Until it’s enough” They all said in a bored tone.
Seeing their lack of urgency, Yammenness felt her temper flare.“STOP IT NOW, WILL YOU? WE’RE IN A HURRY! SO LET’S GET THE **** OUT OF HERE NOW!” Yammennes shouted in annoyance.
“Right!” They all replied with slight fear.
(Normal POV; Huge Field)
“Mind telling us why we’re here?” Rin asked, not seeing the point of all of them going to the field.
The others murmured in agreement. Usually they only went to the field for training or emergencies. Neither were very appealing to them.
“We’re here so Ichika can summon my original form, or dragon form, whatever you want to call it” Yammennes replied.
Everybody turned towards Ichika with expectant looks.
Noticing the stares, Ichika felt nervous all of a sudden, “But, how am I supposed to do that?” He
asked.
“You’ll need a lot of concentration to do that, but don’t worry, I’ll help you. Just once we started, get a hold of yourself.” Yammennes advised.
Ichika took a minute to compose himself before turning towards her again. Summoning her true from always required absolute focus and calm nerves.
“Alright. I’m ready.” Ichika said.
“The others can stay back while we’re doing this. Once we summon my original form, contact
Chifuyu quickly and send the data and coordinates about my core. Got it?” Yammennes asked the others.
“”””“Got it!”””””
Aden and the others backed off, none of them wanted to be caught in the large transformation of their not so normal friend.
“Are you ready, Ichika?” she asked.
“As much as you are.” He replied.
“Let’s get started.”
She took a deep breath before she spoke.
“I” She stepped closer to him.
“Will” She placed her hands on his chest.
“Give you” Her eyes closed in concentration.
“My” A faint blue light started to cover the two of them.
“POWER…” Both of them started to glow a radiant blue and covered the area around them in crystalline light.
The blue light began to cover everyone’s field of vision and they barely saw Yammennes dissappear into the male pilots body.
“What’s happening?” Houki asked.
“They’ve started.” Aden said. “Prepare yourselves now!”
“How long will it take for them to summon it?” Laura asked.
“I don’t know, but we should keep our guards up, in case the Blood Crusade might appear.” Aden said.
“Got it.” They all replied.
All of them summoned their units and stood in rapt attention. Anything could happen
(Normal POV; Ichika’s status)
“Arghhhh!!” Ichika screamed as he felt pain envelop his body, this always happened and it never got easier no matter how many times they did it.
“Come on, Ichika! Concentrate! Clear your mind!” He faintly heard Yammennes voice though the pain.
“Argghh! I…don’t…think I….can do….this!” Ichika replied choppily, the pain was getting intense. He wouldn’t be able to handle it for too long.
“Just concentrate! I know you can do it! You won’t be able to reach this far if this test will just bring you down! Think about it!” Yammennes said, louder and clearer this time around .
“GWAAAAHHHHHH!”
Ichika strugglled through the pain and tried to concentrate. It took every inch of his being to keep himself from fainting from the stress.
‘Just a little more’ He thought desparately.
A gigantic dragon appeared in the field, it’s body was covered in white crystals and it’s form radiated a bluish haze. Everybody became speechless at the awe inspiring sight. (A/N: Check my profile for this
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“Thank you Ichika.” Yammennes panted, laying the boy down on the field as he lost conciousness.
“Aden, did you get the data we needed?”
“Yes, I got it. I’m contacting Orimura-sensei now.”
“…”
“Hello?”
“Orimura-sensei, this is Aden. We summoned Yammennes’ original form now and I managed to get the data, sending it to you now.”
“Alright, I got it. Commence the search now!” she ordered.
“Got it.” He replied before cutting the line.
“Yammennes’ core is located in a place called the Silentra Canyon.” Aden read through the data sent back to him. “Yammennes, do you know where it is?”
“Yes, it’s in Gelmaros, we’ll require a dimensional rift in order to .” She replied as she prepared the necessary steps.
“I’ll open one for you but I can only keep it open for a day at most, you’ll need to do this quickly.”
She focused on the rifts appearance before the space around them began to contort, it was comparable to a piece of cloth being ripped open at the seams..
“Got it!”
All of them did a small prayer before going through the tear, who knows what they’ll encounter once they crossed the boundary.
(Normal POV; in the middle of the woods)
“Are we near?” Rin asked.
“No, not yet, we’re still 2000 miles from the coordinates.” Aden said. “Let’s move faster.”
“Right! Let’s go!” All of them put on a burst of speed and headed to the destination, no one wanted to spend any more time here than necessary.
(6 hours later)
“Here we are.” Aden said.
“A cave?” Rin asked.
In front of them stood a cave with jutting rocks at the edges. All of them gulped as they noticed the faint traces of blood on some of it’s sharp edges.
“Yeah, never seen that before.” Ichika deadpanned. “Knowing our luck, it’s probably haunted.”
Aden turned towards Ichika with a “don’t jinx it” look on his face.
“Let’s just go in” Rin said.
All of them went through the entrance and into the inner caverns of the cave. The surrounding area was covered in a cold mist and made seeing too far difficult.
“Really, this place is kinda creepy.” Cecilia said, shivering from both the cold and the thick atmosphere.
“I agree.” Houki was shivering even more than Cecilia, it was obvious she was nervous .
“I remember, when we were kids Houki always held onto me and said “Kyaaaah~ Ichika, I’m scared!” whenever we went to a haunted house ” Ichika chuckled as he remembered.
Houki blushed red as she raised up her dual katanas.
“BAKA!”
With obvious rage, she smashed down both blades and tried to take off the unfortunate boys head.
“Woah! I was just kidding!” Ichika boosted to the side and barely managed to dodge the oncoming attack. “Calm down, Houki!”
The angry girl ignored his pleas and continued to try and take of his cranium much to the consternation of her fellow group members.
After a few minutes of waching the lovers spat, the group had had enough.
“Stop it! We need to do this as quickly as we can. Who knows what’ll happen if we keep screwing around?” Aden’s voice had a slight tone of annoyance to it.
The two of them nodded their head’s in embarassment before they all continued on their way to the end of the cave.
After nearly an hour of walking, they managed to reach the end of the path and into an open space.
The area was huge open space lit by some kind of ethereal light. Various stalagmites of different sizes and colors dotted the walls. Overall, it had a very mystical feel that made them all pause in
awe.
“Woah, this is cool” Rin said as she saw the wide space with different lightings.
“Yeah.” Ichika agreed in amazement .
The quiet moment was broken when Aden saw something that nearly made his eyes bug out.“Ichika, over there!” Aden pointed to a small spherical object.
Both of them made their way towards it and started to investgate it for anysigns of being their core.
“Is this it?” Ichika asked as he inspected the core.
“This must be it…” Aden answered him.
Aden pulled out his communicator before contacting Yammennes about the core.
They waited a few seconds before Yammennes appeared before them.
She ignored their surprised looks and turned to the core to examine it.
“Is this it?” Ichika asked her.
“Yes, this is it.” She extended her hands and concentrated one the large spheroid. “I’ll need to make it smaller, then we can leave.
“This might take a few seconds. Keep an eye out, the Blood Crusade could be near. ” She said as
she lowered the cores mass and volume t more acceptable limits..
All of them stood around her in preparation for possible attacks.
“There, it’s done now. Let’s move out!” Yammennes said as she handed the core to Ichika and disappeared.
All of them breathed a sigh of relief, the mission was over and there were no problems so far, all that’s left is to go back.
“Alright let’s—LOOK OUT!” Aden shouted as he saw a blast coming towards their direction.
“GWAAAH!”
*BOOM*
Everyone separated and scattered as the blast impacted, smoke filled their visions and made it hard to see anyhting.
“Is everybody alright?” Laura yelled through the smoke.
Another blast impacted near where she was, nearly taking off her leg armor.
“You aren’t going anywhere, kids” A cocky female voice hissed out.
“You people again…” Laura said in a bitter tone.
*BOOM*
More blasts impacted the area and sound of collapsing debris soon filled everyone’s ears/
“Come on! We gotta get out of here now!” Aden yelled through the smoke. “This place is going to crash!”
“Is the core okay!?” Houki replied, shouting.
“It’s with Ichika, we have to get out of here now!” Cecilia replied.
Aden quickly charged to the three aggressors and quickly used the Aerial snare to bind them in place.
“Let’s go!” He yelled to the others.
“Move out!” Laura shouted as they burst off out of the cave.
All of them moved through the cave as fast as they could, falling rocks and stalagmites impeding them the entire way as they tried to escape
“Move faster guys!” Aden said as he evaded the falling rocks.
They moved until they saw the cave entrance, just a little more till freedom.
“AHHH!”
Aden turned back and saw Laura pinned under a huge rock. Thankfully, her shield protected her from most of the impact.
“Laura!” Aden shouted as he doubled back and helped her up.
Aden struggled to lift off the rock to no avail.
“Just go! I’ll be fine!” Laura yelled at him.
“Not a chance in hell!” He put as much power as he could and managed to lift the rock enough for her to slip through.
“Get up! We’re getting out of here!” Aden grabbed onto her and used a flash of speed to catch up with the others
“We’re nearly there!” Ichika shouted.
Debris started to fall over the entrance, blocking their only escape route out.
“Keep going!”
*CRASH*
“*Pant* *Pant* Is everybody alright?”
Ichika looked around the area, all of them were bruised and their armor was dented but they were very much alive.
“Whew, I thought we we were going to be buried alive there” Houki replied with obvious relief.
“Anyway, we better get going now, the rift might close before we get there.” Charlotte reminded them of their current objective.
2011-11-18, 07:05
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I just wanted to know if the re-write is okay (Compare it to Yachi's previous chapters on fanfic.net)
