Dragonheart Part 43
#15 of Dragonheart Part 29-58
A day had passed when Surasshu had announced the news on the admission to the archaeological mission in the desert city of Pytha. All of them had packed their belongings for the trip and waited on the fact that Lyra and Luso with an expensive, but come back for a longer trip suitable luxury train from Herena and Shiba, who exacted the money needed for this from his old friends. Meanwhile, the other remained in Coral Port and passed the time with all sorts of things.
"So, let's begin." Said Rieder, who stood between Shadow and Surasshu. He had both asked for a training session with him, but was prerequisite to fight without any weapons. Shadow was pleased with his fists clenched itself on the training. "I've always wanted to fight you, Rieder," he said. Surasshu also was glad to fight against Rieder, especially since he should do it without a weapon.
"Now I can see how much the training has brought me to my father." He thought to himself. "Here we go." Said Rieder and opened the fight. Shadow ran up to him, pounded his fist; Rieder read something to fall back, evaded the blow and grabbed Shadows arm, he grabbed him so that he gave him several blows to the side before he saw him with another shock pushed her away.
He slid across the floor, then remained standing beside Surasshu, said looking at him. "He's good." Said Surasshu. "Yeah so what? He is good but not perfect. Let's go! "Said Shadow and started with Surasshu attack from two sides. While Shadow was attacking him from the left side, Surasshu came from the right, which brought Rieder initially in some dicey situations, Shadow came after him, Rieder his knee was on the other hand, what took him to step away Surasshu his other leg.
He almost fell to the ground as he could just lean on his hands. He leapt forward, landed on his feet and went into a stance that seemed strange at first glance: outstretched right forward, the left slightly bent, as if he were in a squatting position, arms in the direction in which the legs are stretched. The two looked at him and asked him what he was before.
Rieder looked at both and seemed to wait just waiting to attack him. "I think we need to find it yourself." Said Surasshu. "In one way I am." Agreed Shadow. She ran up to him, was about to attack as a sudden strike began Rieder: first against the chest of the two with his fists, then with the hands flat against his stomach with a final uppercut.
The two fell to the ground with a bleeding nose and looked like Rieder went out of his pose. "Hakke Sho, the fighting style of the eight cardinal directions." Said Rieder. The two stood up and asked him where he could that style. "That was one of the first things I had to learn." He replied. "Thanks for the training, I hope we can repeat soon."
When he went in again, asking the two would be, which is probably when they had fought with weapons. "Perhaps it would be somewhat different course." Said Surasshu. "Well no matter. I'm hungry now anyway. Lust Auf'n Happen? "Said Shadow. Surasshu nodded and went inside with Shadow.
"Tell me, Sylvia, what's your specialty? So what can you special? "Asked Aussa Sylvia, as she sat with her in the library. "I am a Rune Mage: can I use my magic to release the spells that disappeared long ago and came under wraps." She said. "What do you mean by" under lock and fell "?" Aussa asked curiously.
"Once upon a time there was a lot of magic, whose power was so great that they are sealed to protect the public. Some of them are so old that when she releases runs the risk that they will destroy everything that stands in their way. To unlock this magic, but it takes a lot of experience, I have not, unfortunately,. I can easily unleash spells or seal, depending on the situation, "she said quietly.
"And why is the rune mage then?", "Each spell I use a sealed into a rune magic is." Aussa nodded as if she had understood it, and then asked Sylvia nor Khads skills. "Khad is a paraphrase .... I like it best ...... oh no matter; Khads skills resemble those of a bounty hunter: he always does his jobs as they are given him, he always prepares well and always has an escape and emergency plan in case something goes wrong.
He is also incredibly strong and dutiful. Our parents gave him the mandate to protect me no matter what would happen,. Until now he has always done, no matter what, he has protected me, even if he did it in danger, " That sounds like it would be times what bad happens. "began Aussa slightly worried. "He has thrown himself during a fight with a gang of robbers in front of me and caught a ball that was on me.
Then I sat for the first time a rune, they were not the strongest ranged, but in order to beat them to flight. "Said Sylvia slightly sad. Startled, she asked Aussa then, what about after that Khad. "For two weeks he lay with a bullet wound near the left lung in the hospital." She replied. "And yet he still protects me from any danger." Smiled Aussa and took Sylvia's hand. "He must really have you very much, if he makes your life before his own, Sylvia." Said she kindly.
"Come on already, all you can do?" Hiita asked her brother, as they had persuaded him to a workout. Panting and sweating Natsu stood over her with flaming fists. So far none of his attacks had caused permanent damage to her what it was once angry with each. "Rieder told me that you did yourself from your own flame can vanquish. Want to piss me anyway? "She asked him also applied.
In her hand, gathered the flames until they were at a ball the size of a football. Without waiting, she threw it after Natsu, who was it then with his bare hands. He grabbed the ball and threw it into the ground. "I know that I know what happened that you have to tell me not again!" Said Natsu and turned off the flame in his hands two whips.
Hiita smiled and said, just happy ". Well, it goes" She stretched out her arms and wrapped herself and her brother with a big bubble fire. "I hope you remember this fire think stand." Natsu struck with the whip on the floor and said:. "Do not worry, sis, this would be times I will not make you so easily," he raised his arm, struck from above with two whips to; Hiita jumped back, collecting fire in her hand and threw it at him.
With the other whip, he laughed and told them this. From both sides then the flames raced toward Hiita. She jumped up, took a breath and then shot a flame breath to Natsu. This he countered with his own, his color was much brighter than that of Hiita. When they then mutually annihilated Hiita Natsu looked at with a slight surprise.
"Fancy that: you have become stronger." She noted. Natsu withdrew his whips and replied: "I have every reason to become stronger." "And what shall be for a reason," she asked?. "I want to protect, are important to me." Said Natsu. "The guard you care? Sounds like you would do for the Rieder, right? "Hiita asked again what Natsu answered with a shake of the head.
"Not only Rieder; Surasshu, Luso, Ryu, Alice, you and everyone else in this clan I will defend with my flames. This is the reason that made me so strong. "He replied firmly. Hiita looked at him, was still the small Natsu, who fights out and eat nothing else in mind. "Well, if this is so." She began and closed his eyes.
"Then I'll probably have to turn one step higher!" The fire colored bubbles around the black, just as the flames to Hiita. "Finally I can use it: the black fire," she said, and immediately started with a wave of attacks, starting with a black fire bullets. Natsu came with the defenses do not keep up so fast was the ball.
"Hey, that's unfair," he cried. "What is it unfair? Are you thinking about, your opponents will be eternally as strong as you? "Asked Hiita him. The flames around it were black and red, which differed significantly from Natsus flames. Natsu they looked for a moment, then smiled and gathered fire in his fists. "Fancy a fist fight?" He asked.
Also collected Hiita fire on their fists and said, "You surely know that you do not hit or a girl?", "Yes, but you're not a girl, Hiita" Hiitas view changed from happy to angry. "Please?" She asked abruptly. "Well, you just do not behave yourself you will not find too girly?" He asked. "Well, you wait less," she screamed and ran toward him.
The same did Natsu whereupon a violent fist fight broke out between the two. From the outside you could see the red flames of Natsus exactly when they met with the black fire Hiitas. Bertram, who, seated in front of the bubble just sighed and wondered why he was actually there when he could not join anyway. "The only thing I should do a secure box did it." He thought to himself.
"Because they also whom you ask different, because these are my skills much too low." With one finger sign that he made again and again had to let the two inside a fire escape to the outside, he sat and watched the fight to. In the interior, the struggle continues between the two siblings, who were embittered by the minute.
Some burn holes and the two stood facing each other and were by no means ready to give up. "Looks like it would take even longer here." Stated Natsu. This opinion was also Hiita, even if it was a little more tired than her brother. In some places, the bubble began to lose their fire, which also struck Natsu.
"Hiita, all right?" He asked, but after Hiita shot a fireball him. "Do you really think that I'm a bit of training at the end?" She asked him and picked up the flames of the bubble around him. Natsu realized that she was exhausted, but was willing to keep going no matter what comes. The flames around her body clung to her body formed a kind of armor in the form of a black fox.
Bertram and Natsu, they looked at; Natsu asked her if she would be safe here. She clenched her fists, went into fighting stance and said that since she was Quentin Tarantino."I'm old enough to know how dangerous this is." She said before she attacked Natsu. The first attack was partially evade Natsu, but when she was faster, he could not avoid her, which meant that she landed a direct hit in his stomach.
He collapsed and leaning with one hand on the floor. Hiita looked at him, just wanted to come again, when suddenly the flat side of a katana was pressed against her leg. The blade was purple, hardly shone as the flames lit it. Hiita looked at Bertram's face: it was quiet, as if he knew what he was doing. "It's over, Hiita." He said quietly.
Hiita wanted to dismiss the katana, but Bertram was stronger at that moment. Suddenly she felt like she was getting weaker, at the same time, the flames disappeared from her body and she slumped as well. She looked the katana that in a light, fiery aura of exhaled and asked what it was for a katana.
"It is midsummer, it absorbs all the warmth with which it comes into contact." Said Bertram, and put away the katana. He passed his hand Natsu, who took it and read then pull up on him. Then he helped Hiita, which was significantly weaker than Natsu. "Bertram, can you take care of them? I have come to bed alone. ", She asked Natsu and limped back to the fortress. Bertram took Hiitas arm, put it over his shoulder and brought her back to the fortress.
"What was that .....", he began to ask him to Hiita talked in between: "The soul of fire, or" blood is called the fire "a form of fire magic at you with the animal, as that personification of the magic is used fuses and can use his strength. Unfortunately, it may happen that the animal gains the upper hand and then himself is. "
Bertram looked at her, saw that she was sorry for what was doing and just nodded. "It's okay, Natsu is so hard to take in, you will take the already not so bad." He said soothingly. Hiita laughed briefly and then thanked for constructive words.
Alice leaned back in his chair in her room. She was just so busy to think about what they could probably do next. On her desk lay a half-whipped novel, a box of crayons, one of her already half-finished picture of a cat and an apple next to it. She decided to get up once, and to stretch a little.
Then they went out of her room and then went to the beach. She sat down in the sand, looked around and saw all the other people who were together with friends and family at the beach. She took off her shoes and blouse. The wind blew through her hair and gave her a feeling of Lightening. Then it was torn from someone from her thoughts.
"Why so alone, Alice?" She asked someone. She turned around and looked behind to Eria. "Oh, I ... I just wanted something to be outside ..... nothing else." She replied quietly. Eria sat down beside her and asked what keeps her so Surasshu and of the others in the clan. "I think they're real good friends on whom you can rely on forever." She replied.
"So I see, as more than just friends. It may sound a little strange, but somehow we are like a family that is always there for each other," she said kindly. Alice looked at her in amazement. Ever since she had joined the clan, they sprayed a strange, warm and friendly aura, as if everything and everyone as a friend, as if the words of hatred and enmity foreign to them.
"But then we have a rather strange family but do not you think?" She asked, giggling slightly. "Of course we are, after all, we all come from different places and belong to different races." She replied. "In addition, each family in their own strange way, that makes them so special." Alice got up, put her shoes back on and said she would go back to her room.
"I stay here a little and enjoy the view." Said Eria. "We'll see.", Alice is still adopted and went. On their way back they met Raio, who looked exhausted easily. She asked him what he did, whereupon he replied that he had trained a little. "And what have you trained?" She continued. "I am a little jog in the fields south of the city, with a five-pound rock on my back." He replied with a proud look.
"Five pounds? Is not it hard? "She asked, startled. "Depends on how long you been doing that. For some five pounds are nothing to carry as many as eight to ten pounds on her back! "Said Raio the shoulder while he read a little circle. "Sounds like you had to have 'a lot of exercise, Raio." Alice said, laughing.
He nodded and said they indicate whether they had recently trained once again. Startled, she jerked briefly and then answered that they had found up to now no one who had trained with her. Raio then made the proposal, if he could train with her. "What? But ... you're already completely out of breath. "She said anxiously. Raio then said: "That little bit? I still can not tolerate a little bit more. Unless you do not like. "
But then Alice showed her interest in the training, after all, they did not want to stand there like a scared rabbit. "I'll get my things quickly." She said, and ran to her room. She took three brushes from her desk drawer and three small bottles of paint, then all this strapped around her waist and ran back to Raio. This was already there with a small sword, and waited for her.
As they stood facing each other they began. "Show me what you, Alice!" Demanded Raio on them. Alice took a brush, opened a bottle of ink, and put into the brush. She pulled it out and pulled something from the blue paint from the can. These droplets then joined them in the air using her brush and paint on it and painted a blue swan that fell in front of her.
"Charge!" She told the swan, who immediately spread her wings and flew to Raio. He took his sword and cut up the bird, even before he could reach it in two parts, the rest to him over and then burst. Alice just gritted his teeth and then painted a few more swans fly towards one after another Raio.
But these were broken again by Raio, he met with such precision that Alice wondered why he leads a Claymore if he can be as good with a sword. "Okay, that really boring do not you think?" She said Raio. On its blade stuck the blue color as if it were blood. "Do not worry, that's not all!" Said Alice, took a different brush and dipped it in a different color bottle, this time with a red color.
This was down slightly, so that the brush was a kind of whip with which Alice then struck Raio. This could avoid the blows, until his sword was wrapped. He did, however, cut the thread, the color fell to the ground, leaving some red spots on Raio blade, the mingled easily with the touch of blue color.
Raio beheld the sword, and wondered if Alice did that on purpose. "Seems as if my plan would work." She thought with a smile and took the last and the last paint brush bottle, this time with a yellow color. "Yellow color? ..... Wait a minute ..... a red, blue and yellow color now? What did she just do? "Asked Raio in mind. And just when he thought that Alice was able to start a new attack, she slipped and read it all the ink bottles onto the floor, where they broke them all.
Alice sat up again, saw the chaos and made a sad face. "Oh no, what am I doing now?" She wondered. This Raio used as an opportunity to end the fight. He ran toward her, was about to strike with the flat side of the sword, as Alice grinned suddenly. "Pure pleasure." She said, and rolled away from Raios blow.
Raio stopped, looked at her and asked what he had fallen for. "That I'll show you now: purple snakes," she said, waving the red and blue brush. The colors mingled Raios sword and then came out in the form of several small, purple snakes and wrapped both his sword and his arm.
"Drying up." Suddenly, a dried snakes and Raio was no longer able to move his arm, let alone the sword. "What in the world?" Said Raio, but Alice was already on their next attack. In no time they daub his upper body with red and yellow color, which blended when they are triggered to Orange a tickle.
First, could withstand the Raio yet, but as it grew stronger, he could hardly keep from laughing. But Alice was not done yet, and now they took all three brushes and painted Raio the whole body in the colors green, purple and orange. Type of snakes on the legs, a tickle on my left arm and an incessant itch caused by the green color on the neck had Raio defeat.
When he was stammering on the ground was the only thing he could say the petition to free him from these colors. She took the brush, holding it for a moment about Raio, the colors flowed together slowly, then separated again into its primary colors and then flew up into the brush, the colors purple, green and orange floated more freely in the air.
Alice pulled out her pocket handkerchief, which she could easily offset the remaining colors. Then Alice Raio helped to get up, after which she immediately asked this, why would they fight so well. "You fight so well that you could even take it with some strong adventurers", he encouraged it. She looked at him happily and thanked for it, and then asked: "Do you really think"
Raio nodded, smiling what Alice always be read broadly. She could not take even throw themselves at him, making him read a little red are. "It is you come with such interesting tactics .... even by my standards pretty new. I never thought that you could do with so many colors, "he said. Alice looked into his eyes and smiled in joy.
"Thank you Raio." She thanked. "Again and again, like Alice." Said Raio. "Do you eat an ice cream with me? After all the training I'm really out of breath. "Alice asked him then. "Why not." Agreed Raio and went with her to eat ice cream.
To be continued .....