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Chapter 5 - *Chapter 5* Burn Baby Burn

(They all teleported on the street of where the fire was spreading. Reo pulled his sword out. He was ready to battle whatever was causing this fire.)

Taku: "Why is there so much fire? Did someone leave a turkey in too long?"

Reo: "Shut up and stay back. I want to beat this guy to a pulp."

Kazu: "Reo stay back. We don't even know if it's a person causing all of this."

(Once Kazu said that Dark Reo appeared. He walked out of the fire like it was nothing. His jeans were still on but they had burned holes all over it.)

Kazu: "Well, uh, yea it's a person causing it."

Reo: "Awesome. Now I have someone to fight."

Selene: "Is no one going to question how it looks exactly like Reo."

(They all looked at Selene. Then they looked at Dark Reo. Then they looked at Reo.)

Dai: "I see it."

Reo: "Shut up four eyes, it does not look like me. My skin is darker than his, and my hair is blue, his hair is red. So check the facts before you say something, drill boy. I thought you were supposed to be smart."

Dai: "Ok after this fight we are definitely going to have a talk."

Reo: "What, about how much of a nerd you are?"

Dai: "No about- LOOK OUT!"

(A giant fireball came straight for them. Reo tackled Dai out of the way, saving them both.)

Dai: "Oh god. Thanks."

Reo: "Don't mention it. I just wanted an excuse to tackle you."

Dai: "Wait what?"

(Sara ran over to Reo.)

Sara: "Reo, are you ok ?"

Dark Reo: "R-R-Reeeeoooo?"

Taku: "Haha, it knows your name, Reo."

Reo: "Shut it perv."

(Reo started walking towards Dark Reo, but then he heard a sound of a car driving straight towards them. He turned around and saw a news truck headed right for them)

Reo: "Oh god no."

(It stopped a few yards away from the heroes.)

Reo: "Yui, Ruri, go take care of them."

Yui: "On it."

Ruri: "You can count on us."

(They walked over to the press.)

News lady: "What seems to be happening here? Is there a new villain? Can you beat him? Hey what are you doing?"

(Yui picked up her van and started walking away.)

News lady: "Hey what the-?"

Ruri: "Yea, so you're gonna wanna go."

News lady: "What? Why?"

Ruri: "Cuz of the wind."

News lady: "What wind?"

(Just then Ruri made loads of wind make their equipment fly.)

News lady: "Oh, damn it."

(She looked back at Ruri.)

News lady: "I'll be back, and I'll get a shot of this battle."

Ruri: "Ok safe travels."

(Ruri was waving goodbye as they went chasing after their equipment and van. Ruri joined the rest of the team as they thought up a plan.)

Reo: "Lets charge it head on. It can't kill us all."

Selene: "Well with fire it might. Its core looks the same as Demons, but stronger. I don't know how we'd even get close."

Reo: "Way to hype everyone up, Selene. Now they're all afraid of dying."

Selene: "They should be. It's a legitimate thing to be afraid of."

Reo: "Yeah, whatever."

(As Reo and Selene fought back and forth, Kazu was thinking.)

Kazu: "Guys, I have a plan."

(They were still fighting.)

Kazu: "GUYS!"

(They stopped.)

Kazu: "I have a plan. First, I need Ruri and Selene, you guys can control wind, right?"

Selene and Ruri: "Yeah."

Kazu: "Well I need you to cause wind to go away from the flames. We need to get as much air as we can away from the fire."

Selene: "Ok, come one Ruri."

Ruri: "Okay."

(Ruri and Selene flew through the sky causing wind to go away from the fire.)

Kazu: "Sara you go around and try to freeze the fire while they do that."

Sara: "I got this."

(Sara ran off and did her part.)

Kazu: "Dai and Taku, I need you to go into the buildings that are in flames. You guys need to evaluate everyone in those buildings."

Taku: "But that's borrring."

(Dai elbowed his brother.)

Dai: "We'll make sure everyone is safe."

(They ran off into the fiery buildings.)

Reo: "Ok Mr. Leader, what is our job?"

Kazu: "I think you might like this plan. We get to fight him head on."

(Reo grinned.)

Reo: "Well why are we waiting around? Let's get this villain wanna be and show him some real power."

(Yui was a few miles away from the battle with the truck in her hands. She looked around for a bit.)

Yui: "This seems good."

(She gently set the truck down on the ground. The News Lady was right behind her when she did.)

Yui: "Oh no, do I need to keep walking?"

News Lady: "No" *pant* please *pant* you're a fast *pant* walker."

Yui: "Ok, so are you gonna stay away?"

News lady: "Yes" *pant* "while I catch my breath."

(She pulled out a bottle of water and gulped it down. She then laid down on the street and breathed heavily.)

Yui: "Ok, well I'm going to get to the battle. I don't want them to be outnumbered."

News lady: "Ok, but before you do that" *pant*. "Do you have any idea who the new leader is?"

(Yui looked down at the News Lady.)

Yui: "No, but I know who it is currently, and they need my help."

(Yui ran off to the direction of the battle.)

(Selene and Ruri were using their wind to keep them up in the air. Selene was slowly moving wind away from the flames. She never knew how hard it was to use her wind to keep herself up and on everything around her. She was starting to get dizzy. She wanted as much air from the fire as possibly, but it almost seemed impossible. She looked over at her sister and saw that Ruri was putting out many fires with her wind. She was doing great.)

Ruri: "Come on, lil sis. We need this fire out."

Selene: "Right."

(Selene almost forgot Ruri is a pro at this. Not only does she know how to use her wind better, but this is technically her job back in Tokyo. Fixing up the buildings, saving the people in the way. Selene wouldn't be surprised if she put a few fires out too. Selene liked that she had a two-powered core, meaning she was born with two abilities, but it's harder to be good at both. When you have a core, you get better with it as you live on, but Selene has a harder time because she has to balance out having two. She is better with her wind because of her sister teaching new things to do, but she seems to only be able to do a few things with her lighting. She can shoot it out and have it course through her arms, but there is so much more she can do with it and she knows it.)

Ruri: "Ok Selene, it seems to have settled down over here. Let's go to that area over there and try to make it die down."

Selene: "Ok."

(They started to fly over there, but Selene has used so much of her wind that she's so dizzy she barely knew where she was going.)

(Dai and Taku were inside the burning buildings leading civilians out. It was a lot harder than Taku thought, but still extremely boring to him.)

Taku: "Daaaaai, this is boorrrriiiing. Can't we just leave and fight that fire guy?"

Dai: "No Taku. We need to stay here and save these people. Some could die. WHy don't you flirt with a girl we save or whatever? You love doing that."

Taku: "I do but all the chicks here are ugly."

(Dai was picking debris off a girl when Taku said that.)

Dai: "Uh, not you ma'am, of course."

Taku: "Especially you ma'am. Why is your nose so big? Get that fixed you witch!"

(The girl ran off crying and Dai looked at Taku.)

Dai: "Great, now she's scared from being in a burning building and you telling her that."

Taku: "Well someone had to."

Dai: "Luckily she ran to the exit. Anyway, I think that's everyone in this building."

Taku: "So we can go fight?"

Dai: "No, on to the next building."

Taku: "Uggghhh, this sucks."

(Taku kicked a wall and it fell over and busted the floor under it.)

Dai: "Great. You wanna destroy this after we're out, that would be great."

(They then heard a scream of a little girl.)

Little girl: "Hewwo. Is anyone thewe" *cough cough*.

Dai: "Hello? Is someone down there?"

Little girl: "Who awe you?"

Dai: "we are heroes. We're here to save you."

Little girl: "My mommy is stuck undew a pillaw. Hewp her pwease."

Taku: "Awww, she's so adorable."

Dai: "Now's not the time. Now help me down."

Taku: "Fine mister bossy."

(Taku slowly let Dai down where the little girl and her mother were.)

Dai: "Taku, stay there and bring us up in a second, ok?"

Taku: "Fine, whatever."

(Dai walked over to see a little girl in a tiny dress and had pigtails in her hair. She was standing next to an unconscious woman, she was covered in ash, and Dai could barely see her face.)

Dai: "Ok, I'm here don't worry."

Little girl: "She feww asweep. My mommy is weawwy tiwed."

Dai: "Yes, yes she is."

(Dai lifted the pillar up from the mom slowly. He made his drill a hand and stuck it under the pillar letting it stay up. He then slowly pulled the woman out from under there with one hand. Taku stood there watching and looked up, the ceiling was very unstable. It looked like a sharp piece of metal was about to fall. He looked where the little girl was standing and saw that the metal would hit her.)

Taku: "Hey, little girl! Move out of the way!"

Little girl: "What!?"

Taku: "I said move!"

Little girl: "What!?"

Taku: "MOVE!"

Little girl: "What?!"

Dai: "Taku she can talk to you when we get up there. Now quiet I'm trying to concentrate."

(Taku looked up and saw that metal thing just fell. It was headed straight for the girl. Taku jumped towards the girl and shoved her. She fell over and out of the way, but then Taku felt a sharp pain in his upper thigh. He looked down and saw the piece of metal sticking out of his thigh. Dai pulled the woman out and threw her over his shoulder. He looked down to see Taku laying there bleeding.)

Dai: "Oh god! Taku, are you ok?!"

Taku: "Oh I'm fine, just fine. Except that there is a piece of metal sticking out of me!"

Dai: "Oh god. How did this happen?"

Taku: "Lets just say that what I had to say couldn't wait."

(Taku tried to stand up, but he fell back down when he tried to stand on his wounded leg.)

Taku: "I can't walk. Go on without me. Tell the ladies of my sexy hot story of how I saved a little girl."

Little girl: "Don't wowwy. I know how to stop you fwom bweeding.

Taku: "Where'd you learn that?

Little girl: "Scouts."

Taku: Girl scouts taught you that? I thought you just sold cookies.

Little girl: "No no, scouts. Its fow girls and boys."

Taku: "What? Who came up with that dumb idea."

Little girl: "Do you wanna ask questions, ow live."

Taku: "I guess live."

Little girl: "Good."

(She grabbed a piece of cloth from the ground and a marker she found on a broken desk. She wrapped the cloth around his upper thigh and made a knot. She put the marker in the knot and started twisting the marker.)

Taku: "Ow, ow, ow. I'd rather bleed out then feel this much pain."

Little girl: "Stop being a baby, and howd stiww."

Dai: "Ha."

(She stopped twisting it and it looked like the blood slowed down.)

Taku: "Nice. Now can you make something to carry me in."

Little girl: "I don't know that much."

Taku: "What?"

???: "Don't worry, I can help."

(They looked over and saw Yui standing there.)

Dai: "Nice. Yui, can you carry Taku out of here for me?"

Yui: "Sure."

(Yui picked up Taku and carried him like a baby.)

Taku: "Yui, where did you come from."

Yui: "That hole over there."

(Yui started to walk towards a giant hole.)

Taku: "Ooooh, I see. You broke a wall to get in. Nice."

Yui: "No, it was there when I walked by."

Taku: "Wait what?"

(Taku looked down at the little girl.)

Taku: "Did you know this?"

Little girl: "Yeah."

Taku: "Why didn't you leave?!"

Little girl: "My mom was hewe."

Taku: "Aaaaaaand?"

Dai: "Taku, shut up and calm down. We're free and we're all ok."

Taku: "Oh yeah, you wanna tell that to my LEG!"

Little girl: "We'we all ok, weg."

Taku: "God, you're lucky you're cute."

Little girl: "Hehe yaaaaaay."

(Kazu and Reo were fighting Dark Reo together as all this was happening. Dark Reo kept producing lots and lots of fire. While Kazu and Reo were still trying to find a way to get close.)

Reo: "Ugh, I haven't even got to throw a punch yet, cus this coward keeps causing fire. What are you afraid to fight or something?"

Dark Reo: "R-reoooooo."

Reo: "That's all he seems to know how to say."

Kazu: "I think he wants you."

Reo: "You think?"

Kazu: "Yeah, well look at him."

(Reo looked and saw Dark Reo covered in flames.)

Reo: "Yeah I see him. What about it?"

Kazu: "Look at his right hand."

(Reo looked and saw a katana.)

Reo: "Ok so? He has a sword, and?"

Kazu: "Yeah, and so do you. It's not a coincidence that he looked like you, Reo. I think he wants you. Like just you.)

Reo: "Hmmm."

(Reo looked at Dark Reo. It looked like Dark Reo was only looking at Reo. Totally ignoring Kazu.)

Reo: "You're right. I have a plan, but I hate it."

Kazu: "Ok, what is it?"

Reo: "I'll have to play a distraction, and get no action, and have to wait years to get a real fight again. God this is going to suck, but it will work."

Kazu: "Well ok. I'll follow your lead."

Reo: "Good, cuz this might get tricky."