meanwhile on the outside of the building.
"YOU TWO!" Ray shouted, as he quickly got close to the Akuma and hit its face with his right hand, which had gloves that blow a strong burst of wind at the back, making his punch a lot stronger.
The Akuma flew to the opposite side of the building Yuji was thrown into.
"You two!" said Ray, "this Akuma seems to target the ones that doesn't seem a threat, which means it'll go after you since you got no weapons".
"What should we do?" Layla said.
"LEAVE! I can take care of this Akuma, but not while it's targeting you" said Ray, "Go on ahead to the center, it's not too far from here".
Layla nodded, as she tried to pull Elizabeth, but Elizabeth would not move from her position.
"ELIZABETH!?" Layla shouted.
"I'm going to get Yuji!" Elizabeth said.
"Miss, Yuji is..." Ray said.
"HE'S ALIVE!" Elizabeth said, "But he's dying!"
"I CAN SAVE HIM!" she looked at Layla, "You know I can save him!".
Layla gripped her wrist tighter, as she shows an extremely worried face.
The Akuma started to get up from the hit.
"GUYS WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME!" Ray shouted, as he pulled out the laser gun, and pointed it at the Akuma.
Elizabeth held Layla's hand, as she smiled at Layla, "Please, Layla if it wasn't for Yuji, I'd be long dead, you know that".
Tears came out from Layla's eyes, "I'm going to go... and get some help" said Layla, as she sobs a little, she let Elizabeth go.
"Thank you... sis" Elizabeth said, then she ran inside the building quickly, very motivated and was not hesitating.
Layla dried her tears and made eye contact with Ray. They both nodded at each other, then Layla left, sprinting her way to the turn where the center lies ahead.
Ray stared back at the Akuma, which was standing still in front of him, as the smoke from the impact on the wall disappears.
"So you didn't move huh?" said Ray, "or you couldn't".
The Akuma took a small step, then Ray fired the laser. The Akuma once again dodged the laser and was already positioned beside Ray.
Ray expected that and quickly dodged the akumas attack.
"If Elizabeth can really heal that guy..." Ray thought, "I should lead this thing away from here, but where?".
As the Akuma kept attacking, Ray lifted his left hand a little, as he jumped and hold his breath.
"Gravity cancel... my ability, time to use it".
Ray's ability is Gravity cancel, by holding his breath, his body loses gravity, making him float in the air.
"I can't fly with this ability, but with the help of these specialized weapons..." Ray thought, as he clenches his fingers a little, as a sign of activation for the glove.
"I can fly fast!" he said. The glove then let out a strong burst of wind from the palm of his glove, as he floats in the air with his breath held, making him fly quickly.
As he gained some distance from the Akuma, he stopped holding his breath, thus, making him fall back on the ground. Drifting his feet on the ground making him stop his continuous movement.
"Alright, now where to take this thing," Ray thought, as he went back to thinking, he looked behind him.
"Didn't Mr.Gin said something about a risk?" he looked back in front, the Akuma was already near him.
"CRAP" Ray said, as he quickly aimed the Laser gun on his right hand, to the Akuma, and quickly pulled the trigger.
The Akuma once again, with unbelievable speed, dodged the laser.
"Heh, for a second there I thought I got you..." Ray thought, "alright, time to take you to Mr. Gin and the others, hopefully, this isn't too much trouble"
"but of course, if I can get rid of you on the way... I'd gladly would" Ray said, as he floats in the air and flew back longer, leading the Akuma away from Yuji and Elizabeth.
Earlier, on Gins perspective.
"Alright, now that those kids are out" said Gin, "I said I was going to take the risk, but of course we can't just wait".
Gin raised his arms on the side "we need to try and get rid of this as soon as we can" he said.
As the Akuma keeps attacking the soldiers, Gin turned his lighter on, as he once again tried to make a ball of fire.
The ball of fire increased its size, as Gin lifts it up. The Akuma noticed this, then it ignored the soldiers for a short moment and went straight to Gin.
"Sir! it's coming at you!" The soldier shouted.
"I can see that, you know" Said Gin as he swings his right arm, where he was holding the huge ball of fire, at the Akuma.
The Akuma backed away to dodge the ball of fire, which didn't leave Gin's hand.
"Did you think I can't move when I'm holding this!?" Gin said in a cocky voice, "not just that, you bastard".
Gin made a gun shape with his hand, two fingers pointing and a thumb up, aiming at the Akuma.
"Form two, Flame bullet" suddenly, multiple large diamond shaped flames suddenly emerged from the ball of fire Gin was holding, all pointed at the Akuma.
"There it is!" the soldier shouted, "one of captains ability forms!".
"Wait shouldn't we be backing away, because of this?" the other soldier said.
"Crap your right".
The soldiers then ran further away from the Akuma and Gin.
"Burn!" Gin said, as the diamond shaped flames came flying at the Akuma, like a bullet.
The Akuma came running right and left dodging the flame bullets, then eventually got hit twice on the body.
The Akuma came flying at the stone wall of a building across the road, hitting the wall, but did not fall down.
"It's pretty fast, I probably won't hit it if throw this large ball of flame at it" said Gin, "I think I'm going to go a little crazy with this, let's try...".
"Flame bullets"
Once again multiple diamond shaped flames emerged from the ball of fire, only this time they were smaller.
"alright, let's see if this would work" Gin thought, as he left the ball of fire floating on his head, as he grab and activate the lighter form his pocket, and made the ball of fire even larger.
"That's..." the soldier said in a shaky voice.
"Do you guys think this is enough space for that?"
"Nope!"
The soldiers once again moved farther from the area.
Gin puts his lighter back on his pocket, "ok then, come at me you bastard" he said.
The Akuma quickly ran straight towards Gin, with it's large arm covering it's face as a shield, while the bullets keep hitting the Akuma, then.
CRASH! The Akuma hit the wall right where Gin was standing.
The Akuma slowly turned around after hitting the wall.
"What? you thought you hit me?" said Gin, standing right behind the Akuma, with his arm holding up the large ball of flame.
"Did you think I can't walk or jump while holding this?" Gin said in a cocky voice.
"RAAAGGGHHH" the Akuma roared.
"DIE!" Gin shouted, as he swings down the large ball of flame directly at the Akuma.
BOOM*
A large explosion occurred, reaching the top of the small buildings covering their area, making it visible from a distance, as smoke covers the area.
"Holy crap!" the soldier shouted, "we were just barely reached by that!" as the three soldiers chatted.
"That was way scarier than any akumas I've faced before...".
"umm, shouldn't we be worried about the Vice-captain?".
"Oh yeah, you haven't seen him do this yet".
"Huh?" the soldier said in confusion.
"He's fire and explosion proof, he won't get harmed by this".
"Does he do this all the time?".
"Not rarely, but not really always...".
"It's more like casually"
"Yeah! he casually do this kind of things".
"That's insane...".
"what are you guys talking about?" said Gin.
"WOAH! vice captain!" the soldier shouted in shock.
Gin's upper uniform was burned to shreds, only covering 20 percent of his body.
"You look hot sir!" said by one of the soldiers.
"Anyways, I think we should go...." as Gin was about to say something, he heard a female voice shouting from a distance.
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