23 Chapter Twenty-Three: Returning Fire (2/2)
Immediately, Amelia thrusts her knee into Siran's jaw, and sends him flying backwards a few meters. The rest of The Six Guns crew raises their guns, except for Satomi who doesn't have a gun, and takes off their masks. Amelia smiles and then says ”You better be prepared to fight if you're going to pull out a weapon”. The crew all fire at her, but all the fire is stopped by a wide digital shield. Amelia goes to kick Alex, but Zia grabs her leg and stops her kick. Zia, countering with another kick, sends Amelia backwards with a huge and powerful gust of wind.
”You're all mine” Zia says as she stares Amelia directly in the eyes. All of the soldiers surrounding them point their guns, but all of the civilians are grabbing them, preventing them from shooting anyone. Alex, Satomi, Finn and Holly help hold the soldiers back and protect the civilians. Siran gets back up, with a small stream of blood coming from his mouth. He wipes off the blood from his face and begins walking towards Amelia. Zia, who was locked in combat with Amelia, tries to throw a punch with her fist coated in bright flames. Amelia grabs Zia's fist, the flames disappearing immediately as she touched it. Amelia squeezed Zia's fist, and Zia screams in pain as you could hear a popping sound coming from Zia's hand. However, Siran came flying in from above Zia, grabbing Amelia's forehead. Siran pushes her head into the asphalt ground beneath them, and dragged her head against the road. No blood came out, although the asphalt shattered from the impact. Amelia laid still for a short second before she began to smile. Amelia uses both legs to kick Siran off of herself, and jumps back to her feet. ”It's going to take more than that to take down a mage” she says.
”Damn buff magic” Siran says as he clenches his fists.
Zia walks past Siran and pulls out her dagger as she says ”This wouldn't be so interesting if it were that easy”. Zia and Siran were trading blows with Amelia, just as Satomi walks up to the fight. More soldiers were coming from the base as backup. Zia once again gets her distance and Siran gets out of the way of another one of Amelia's punches. Satomi and Siran stared at the incoming soldiers as Zia remained fixated on Amelia.
Satomi wielded a metal bat as she looks at Siran and says ”We'll need to take care of this, wanna give me a hand?”. Her face was calm and collected.
”Are you going to be alright?” Siran asks.
Zia, not taking her gaze off of Amelia, says ”Go ahead, I've got this. You guys handle the interruptions”.
”Pretty big talk for dead girl” Amelia says.
Zia readies her dagger once more and replies ”Pretty haughty talk for a cunt”.
As the soldiers get close, Satomi and Siran charge at them. Satomi's bat starts glowing a bright light blue color as she swings her bat at the first soldier she approaches. The impact kicks a cloud of dust off of the ground, and the soldier flies onto his back, as well as several soldiers behind him. Armament magic. The impact sent a shockwave through several of the soldiers, knocking most of them out, killing a few of them in one swing.
”Keep it going!” Siran shouts at Satomi as he flies into a large group of soldiers. His hand was clenched like a claw, and upon entering the fray, a tunnel of fire engulfed Siran and the soldiers around him.
Looking over at Siran, Satomi shouts ”Not bad! Maybe next time I'll have you give me some lessons!”.
Siran pointed his gun in Satomi's direction and shot right over her shoulder, hitting a soldier right behind her. ”If you don't focus, there won't be a next time!” he says. Satomi nods and picks up her bat again.
Zia and Amelia seemed to be locked in a stalemate as they moved around, almost too fast to keep up with human eyes. Every time they clashed, sparks, fire, dust clouds and various other things always flew out from between them. The crowd still struggled with the soldiers outside. Amelia gained her distance from Zia this time as she prepares a giant fire ball that would not only hit Zia, but kill all of the citizens behind her. As Amelia threw the fire ball at her, Zia raised both of her arms to prepare to stop it. Using the same trick Siran uses to control magic, Zia stops the fireball before it touches anything. While Zia was busy with the fireball, Amelia slides under Zia from between her legs and gets behind her. ”Too slow” Amelia says, then she grabs Zia by the neck and throws her into the air. As Zia flew, she used her magic to rip the fireball apart and used the fire from it as a jet propulsion. She threw all the fire behind her and used it to thrust herself forward at Amelia at a high speed. Amelia prepares herself for an attack and says ”I win” with a big, sinister smile. Just as Zia gets close, she seems to almost vanish in black smoke and appear behind Amelia. An illusion spell, shadow step. Zia grabs Amelia by the neck of her shirt and uses the force from her flight to throw Amelia over her shoulder at Siran. As Amelia flies, Zia yells ”Siran!”.
Siran looks over and see Amelia flying at him from several meters away and shouts at Satomi. ”Satomi! Bat, now!”,
Satomi nods and throws her bat at Siran, who catches it perfectly. This time Siran uses the armament magic and makes the bat glow a bright white color. Amelia creates a digital shield around herself as Siran swings the bat, however, the bat shatters the shield and goes through it like butter. The bat hits Amelia on the top of her head, but instead of flying, her body spun 180 degrees as she smacked into the asphalt with a heavy impact. Her body, no longer moving, with a large splatter of blood strewn across the ground.
Siran takes a step up to Amelia's lifeless body and lightly kicks her as if to make sure she's dead. He then crouches over her body and checks for vital signs. ”Tch, so much for the no-kill rule” Siran says. The soldiers froze in shock as Zia walks up to Amelia's lifeless body and says ”Looks like I've won”.
The crowd behind them have stripped the soldiers of all but their clothes by this time and charged into the base, pointing the soldier's guns back at them, seizing the victory. The soldiers dropped their guns one by one, and put their hands up. Satomi turns around to face the crowd of civilians and says ”Everyone, the first victory is ours!”.
A loud ”Huzzah!” was heard throughout the crowd as people started to rejoice. Finn, Alex and Holly walk up to the rest of the group as Finn complains ”That was MY move! Did Zia steal my techniques? When did she learn to do that!?”. The night grew darker as it got later. The crew head back to the hospital and discovered Rose who was panicking in her wheelchair at the front door. She seemed happy and excited, which was surprising to the rest because of how depressed Rose has been lately with her condition. She kept trying to say something to the rest of the crew as they arrived but she only seemed to jumble all of her words in an intelligible mess.
”Calm down” Finn says as he approaches close to Rose, ”What's up? What are you so worked up about?”.
Rose takes a deep breath and starts talking, although she seemed too excited and still a stuttered a lot. This time however, she could be understood, as she said ”M-M-Mikoto! It's Mikoto!”.
Suddenly panicking and expecting the worst news, Satomi jumps up the rest of the stairs and leans really close to Rose. ”What about Mikoto!?” She asks.
”She... s-she's” Rose says, ”She's AWAKE!”.
”WHAT!?” Satomi says as she looks up at the hospital doors, then runs inside.
The rest of the team follows behind her. When they get to the room, they're met with a confused and drowsy looking Mikoto, who's trying her best to smile as she hugs Satomi and Satomi who's crying uncontrollably. As this display goes on for several minutes, Rose asks Siran ”What do you want to do from here? I've heard about what happened on the TV from Mikoto, so I assume the job here is done?”.
”I'm not sure if the job is done for sure” Siran replies, ”we might have to stick around for a little bit longer”.
”That's fine with me” Rose says. Rose then thinks to herself and raises her head back up and says ”I've decided”.
Looking over at Rose, Siran asks ”Decided what?”.
”That even though I'm blind” Rose replies, ”and that no matter how bad it'll get in the future, that I'm going to stick with the team”.
Siran was surprised. ”Are you sure?” He asks. ”You could easily be in danger and might have troubles with your lack of sight”.
Rose shakes her head and says ”I'm sure. You guys are my family now. Besides, you made me a promise, didn't you? You said you would get me my eyesight back. I'm not sure how you plan on doing that, but you still made a promise”.
Siran looks down at his feet and says ”Yeah... you're right. I will find a way, I promise”.
Rose holds up one pinky finger and asks ”Pinky promise?”.
Siran laughs and says ”Sure” as they shake with their pinkies like some young children.