Upon that command from SeitenFire, the rest of the team prepared themselves to deal with the creatures that they must defeat. And with that resolve, they charged toward the enemies with each of them bringing out the primary sidearms that had five-colored buttons surrounding them—the cylindrical item called Hyakureider that had a retractable blade which they activated upon pushing the green button. All of them didn't have a background on how to wield swords but maybe they could think of a way to wield them properly.
But right now wasn't the time to think of maybes. They had to do what they could to fight these guys.
All five of them started striking and slashing the Gargonema that kept coming at them. On the blade-less end of their Hyakureider, they also learned that they could fire laser beams from it as they pushed the yellow button. They fired it toward their enemies which made it easy for them to eliminate the other attacking Gargonema. They were newbies in terms of actual combat like this. But surprisingly, they were all dealing with them without a problem. It was as if they already knew what to do when it comes to fighting the enemies.
But despite the team's effort to fight well, there were still too many Gargonema coming after them. After a few more fights, the enemies started cornering the Seitengers.
"This is crazy! They keep on coming at us!" SeitenWater exclaimed in frustration as he kept doing what he could to fend off the Gargonema, especially some of those that were coming after SeitenYellow and SeitenWhite.
"Our Hyakureiders aren't enough! We need more firepower to deal with this much Gargonema," SeitenEarth suggested as he also fended off the enemies on his side. "Physically fighting them like this will take us a day to finish."
"Oh, come on! I don't want to face them for a whole day!" SeitenWind blurted out as she fended off many more enemies attacking her.
"Onii-chan, do you have any ideas? You're the one who suggested about having more firepower," SeitenLight inquired as she continued fighting the Gargonema.
Well, the white warrior does have a point. But thinking of a source for more firepower? Just where in the world would SeitenEarth be able to have that? And seriously, he couldn't do that on the spot—especially right now that they were all on the battlefield.
But at that point, he recalled a certain part of their conversation with Hideoki a while back about something from Heaven's Medallion placed in their Shifters. What was it called again?
'Hasureiki... It's not only the Heaven's Medallions that have them but also the Spirit Power Medallions.'
Okay... How come it was called like that?
"Oh, forget it!"
"Oi, Itsu-chan! What are you planning to do?"
"Adding more firepower... by summoning something important that enables us to draw forth more of our Heavenly Spirit Guardians' Hasureiki," was the green warrior's reply and pushed the lower button with the word 'Summon' on his Celestial Shifter near the 'Transform' button. "Come Forth, Heaven Tiger!" With that command, the Shifter immediately emanated a bright glow that soon materialized into a green coin medallion with a tiger's head etched in the middle. The item was the size of a large coin that SeitenEarth took.
At that point, SeitenEarth also noticed something like two coin slots on the top end of his Hyakureider. 'So that's why there was a slot there.'
"Okay!" SeitenEarth placed the Heaven Tiger on the aforementioned slot and assumed his stance as soon as he pushed the blue-colored button which soon made the sword glow in green light. "Hyakureider, Form Shift!" Almost immediately, the glowing sword began morphing into another form—obviously a claw-like weapon. "Tiger Earth Slasher!"
At that point, the form of the weapon became visible. SeitenEarth's Hyakureider became a claw-and-dual ax weapon resembling that of a tiger's claw bearing the same symbol of the Vessel Medallion he summoned—which he had placed on the slot of the Hyakureider a while back—on the handle of the weapon.
"Wow... Itsu-chan thought about that. But I wonder what can it do," SeitenWater said as he watched the progress of the situation.
"He asked for additional powers. Now he got it. So it's our turn now to have our own, as well. I think that's the Vessel Medallion that Hideoki-san was talking about a while back before we started fighting the Tareans," SeitenFire said as he followed SeitenEarth's lead. The two girls agreed with a nod.
While the rest were busy summoning their respective Vessel Medallions to call out their weapons, SeitenEarth went ahead on destroying as many Gargonema as he could just until the other Seitengers were ready. Of course, he used his Tiger Earth Slasher to do that. No enemies had ever managed to escape its blade the moment they came in contact with it as SeitenEarth kept on striking it towards his opponents. As SeitenEarth, he figured out that dealing with the Gargonema with this weapon proved to be much easier, despite having an initial thought about it being heavy.
SeitenFire pushed the required button on his Celestial Shifter. "Come Forth, Heaven Lion!" His Shifter immediately emanated a bright glow that materialized a red coin medallion with the head of a lion etched in the middle. As soon as he took it, he placed it into the slot of his Hyakureider and pushed the blue button. "Hyakureider, Form Shift!" His sword began to glow bright red and morphed into another form. "Lion Fire Blade!"
The Hyakureider took its second form and when the glow vanished, the new weapon appeared. It was a nodachi-like weapon about 2 meters in length with the same symbol of his Vessel Medallion on the blade near the hilt.
As soon as it appeared, SeitenFire headed out to battle and began striking groups of Gargonema with ease. The Lion Fire Blade had also somehow increased his speed and it was evident in how fast he was taking down the enemies.
SeitenWater nodded with determination and began doing the same thing as SeitenEarth and SeitenFire.
"Come Forth, Heaven Shark!" His Vessel Medallion appeared right after the Celestial Shifter emanated a bright blue glow that materialized the said item. It was a blue coin medallion with the head of a shark carved right in the middle of it. SeitenWater placed the item to its designated slot on the Hyakureider he held.
"Hyakureider, Form Shift! Shark Water Spear!" The command that SeitenWater recited as soon as he pushed the required button caused his Hyakureider to glow bright blue and morphed it into a polearm weapon—a yari-like weapon with his Vessel Medallion's symbol etched on the blade of the weapon.
"Alright! Time to take down the Gargonema with this!" And with that, SeitenWater headed out and destroyed another batch of Gargonema heading towards him. He was pretty much enthusiastic about dealing with the black-clad enemies using his new weapon. Slash after slash, he didn't miss a single enemy with his spear.
As for SeitenWind and SeitenLight, they followed the boys' lead and called forth their respective Vessel Medallions using their Celestial Shifters.
"Come Forth, Heaven Falcon!"
"Come Forth, Heaven Dove!"
Their Shifters glowed brightly for a few seconds before vanishing and were immediately replaced with the Vessel Medallions they summoned. SeitenWind's Vessel Medallion was a yellow coin-shaped with an etching of a falcon's head while SeitenLight's was colored white with the figure of a dove with its wings spread wide etched on it. Both of them placed it on the slots of their Hyakureider.
"Hyakureider, Form Shift!"
At that point, their sidearms began glowing bright with their respective color representations of their Hasureiki.
"Falcon Wind Arrow!" SeitenWind's Hyakureiken morphed and became a long bow which, of course, had made her quite excited. Her longbow had the figure of her Vessel Medallion on the arch. "Woah! Now, this is more like it," she commented with a giggle and positioned herself to fight.
"Dove Light Striker!" At that command, SeitenLight's Hyakureiken started morphing and after a few moments, her sidearm changed into a 3-bladed land shuriken with the figure of her Vessel Medallion molded on the intersection of the blades.
"Here we go!" the two girls exclaimed and both of them headed towards the enemies that were about to strike them.
SeitenWind, with her expertise in archery in her civilian form, was able to use her weapon with ease. She was able to merge her wind powers—despite not knowing how it worked yet—with her arrows she kept on shooting towards her targets. Upon doing that, she was able to take down groups of Gargonema with just a few arrows at hand. Anyway, she was using magical arrows.
As for SeitenLight, even though it was her first time wielding such a weapon, it didn't take her long enough for her to be able to use it. Much to her surprise, she was able to use it to take down multiple Gargonema with so much force as she threw the shuriken toward them. She could command its path so she managed to destroy a few more enemy groups that were even located a few more meters away from her.
Upon taking down the last of the summoned Gargonema, the five Seitengers gathered and faced Juman. The Triske Monster didn't like the turn of events in front of him.
"You're the only one left, Juman," SeitenFire said with conviction as his grip on his Lion Fire Blade tightened.
"Prepare to die!" SeitenWater added.
"As if I'd let you kill me!" And with that, Juman charged towards the Seitengers as he growled. He extended his thorn arms and tried to strike it at them but the team managed to evade it in time.
Being together for a long time sure had its advantage as words weren't needed for each of them to know the plan. SeitenFire headed to strike first.
"I'm counting on you, my sword," he mumbled as he raised it. With one swift move, he leaped into the air and delivered his first strike.
"I hope I get a lesson on how to use a spear after this commotion," SeitenWater muttered and decided to attack, as well. Right after SeitenFire, he followed in delivering his final attack on Juman who still hadn't recovered from SeitenFire's blow.
"Never thought I'm meant to do something like this. But right now, that doesn't matter," SeitenEarth readied himself and poised to deliver his attack using his naginata. Full concentration was what he needed but he was surprised that he could do so in the middle of the battle. But since he was doing it to prevent further casualties, he might as well go with it.
And with that thought, he headed out and charged towards Juman.
The two girls decided to attack following the first 3 ones. After all, their weapons were meant to deliver mid-ranged attacks on their enemies. Now both SeitenWind and SeitenLight were going to attack simultaneously using the Falcon Wind Arrow and the Dove Light Striker respectively.
At SeitenFire's signal, SeitenWind shot one arrow that immediately multiplied followed by SeitenLight throwing her shuriken. All of it struck Juman multiple times that he couldn't even do anything to fight back or counter the Seitengers' simultaneous attacks. The Dove Light Striker delivered the fatal blow to Juman that rendered the Triske Monster unable to move faster.
"Shuichi, now!" was SeitenWind's scream while looking in a certain direction.
From that direction, SeitenFire came out charging towards the motionless Juman with the blade of his Lion Fire Blade blazing in red fire. With that, he delivered his heavy final attack on Juman.
It didn't take long before Juman exploded and got destroyed his scream echoed for a while before he got blasted to atoms.
SeitenFire's weapon reverted to being a Hyakureider. The same goes for the other Seitengers who approached the exhaling red warrior.
"Wow! Shuichi, you're really good out there!" SeitenWater exclaimed as he glomped on the red warrior despite the latter's effort to get away.
"Wait a minute! Eichirou-san, you're going to kill him like that!" SeitenWind could only say as he tried to pacify the two older boys.
But SeitenLight couldn't help noticing SeitenEarth's tensed silence in the midst of her enjoying the interaction between SeitenFire and SeitenWater. It didn't take long for the said two Seitengers and even SeitenWind to notice that, as well.
"Is there still something wrong, Itsu-chan?" SeitenWater asked as he approached the silent green warrior.
"Don't you guys feel it? That dark energy hovering around..."
SeitenWind didn't waste any more time figuring out SeitenEarth's source of worries. "He's right... The dark energy's still here."
The other 3 Seitengers tried sensing the dark energy that SeitenWind and SeitenEarth were talking about. A few moments later, they later realized that it was true.
"But where could that be coming from?" SeitenLight inquired as she looked around.
Though before any of them could begin searching for the energy's source, SeitenFire and SeitenWater saw a black orb coming from the reeking dark energy of Juman's remnants.
"Don't tell me...?"