With the help of Nanami's teleportation ability, the Vessels were able to reach their destination in no time. But they were shocked at the damage that Diwall had already caused to the town. Many people were huddled in several places, crying and pleading for help. They could only clench their fists at the sight.
"That Diwall... I'll make sure he'll pay for this!" Eichirou uttered in anger.
"It's like we're seeing a repeat of what happened at the hotel fire ten years ago," Misae said sadly. "I don't like this at all."
"Who would like this kind of violence, anyway? Only the Tareans, that's who!" Itsuki stated in irritation. It was something that he'd been meaning to let out ever since that girl Helen appeared.
"Onii-chan, are you okay?" Erika couldn't help asking since she noticed that her brother had been in quite a bad mood ever since he woke up.
Shuichi sighed and tapped Erika's shoulder. "I think the sooner we finish this, the sooner your brother's mood would change to something bearable. If you know what I mean."
The pianist smiled at Shuichi's attempt to joke around despite the serious situation. But before any of them could transform, the racer faced Itsuki. "Can you sense his movement?"
Itsuki immediately knew what it meant. So he closed his eyes and concentrated. It took a while before he could answer Shuichi. His expression was serious when he opened his eyes and faced his teammates. "The one causing the trouble above ground is already the real one. But there's no telling when will he decide to swim under the ground again and attack us from there."
"I think Erika and I could do something about it," Eichirou suddenly said.
Both Shuichi and Itsuki faced the photographer with a frown. "What do you mean by that?"
But Erika and Eichirou just looked at each other and smiled knowingly.
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"They'll be alright, Helen. You don't have to worry about them."
Helen turned to the source of that voice and found Nanami approaching her. She was still standing on the porch where she saw the Vessels off earlier. Her hand was in her light pink jacket's right pocket, this time holding something else other than the smaller cylindrical item that she still wasn't showing to anyone at all.
"I know they can do it, Nanami-san. Besides, I could feel that they could change the history of the Spirit Power Vessels," Helen said before facing the garden's gate once again.
"Helen, are you saying that...?"
But instead of answering that, Helen chose to do something else. "I'm sorry, Nanami-san. But I want to make sure they're alright." And before the woman could even protest, Helen took off with one destination in mind.
This might create suspicion among the elders but she had to make sure the Spirit Power Vessels would be able to pull this off.
XXXXXX
The Vessels finally found their target and they saw that it was busy destroying a gasoline station which could seriously cause a larger scale of damage if they let the fire from there scatter even more. Shuichi did his best to dissipate the rage of the fire as Eichirou and Misae combined their powers to put out the slowly dissipating fire. They needed to prevent the fire from reaching the nearby forest.
Itsuki and Erika evacuated the other people trapped in the buildings and several areas blocked by the Gargonemas. It was a good thing that they didn't need words to tell the people what to do.
Soon after, Diwall finally noticed the Vessels' activities and gave an order to the other Gargonemas to attack. But the Vessels already anticipated it and were already ready to transform and fight.
"Let's go, guys. We still have to deal with this ground-swimming monster before we could finally have our proper breakfast," Eichirou said as he took out his Heaven's Medallion around the same time he opened his Celestial Shifter.
"I think we're already going to have lunch if this battle takes longer than usual," Misae replied.
"Whatever will happen, we just have to defeat it. That's our job right now," Itsuki said, which earned him determined nods from his friends and his sister.
"Let's do this!" Shuichi said and opened his Shifter. He placed his Heaven's Medallion onto the slot and pushed the button required for the transformation.
"Spirit Shift, Start!" the five recited together.
Soon after, the Vessels were donning their suits, letting them become the Seitengers, the warriors that they were, once more and now, they were ready to fight.
"Heaven's Hundred Blaze, SeitenFire!"
"Heaven's Hundred Outpour, SeitenWater!"
"Heaven's Hundred Tremor, SeitenEarth!"
"Heaven's Hundred Howl, SeitenWind!"
"Heaven's Hundred Shine, SeitenLight!"
"The Hundred Heavens' greatest legends! Reiyouki Sentai Seitenger!"
SeitenFire extracted the blade of his HyakuReiDer and pointed it towards Diwall. "It's time we set up the right stage for you!"
Without wasting any more time, they dealt with one group of Gargonema after another with ease. SeitenEarth did this even though he was also activating his Hasureiki to monitor Diwall's movement both above and under the ground.
It didn't take long for him to notice certain abnormalities in regards to his observation. He gave a signal to the others and almost at the same time, the other Seitengers destroyed the Gargonemas attacking them.
"Where is he?" SeitenFire asked as inconspicuously as he could to SeitenEarth.
"He already began moving underground. I'll do what I can to take him out of there. Eichirou-san and Erika, you proceed with the plan when I did that."
The blue and white warriors nodded and started taking their places to do what they had to.
As for SeitenFire and SeitenWind, they decided to lend SeitenEarth their powers by channeling their own Hasureiki to the green warrior who was now concentrating on casting a spell that he could use to strike. SeitenEarth needed to only cast a single but powerful attack to the ground that could hit Diwall if he wanted to take that monster out of there. Despite the fast movement of the monster, he was able to detect him quite easily, thanks to SeitenWind's Hasureiki.
He could tell that the monster was getting closer to the three of them, and then---
With the push of the green button of his HyakuReiDer, he recited the spell he needed as soon as he opened his eyes.
"Heaven's Rumbling Land Strike!"
But instead of doing a slash attack, SeitenEarth just stabbed the ground and let the spell 'travel' without destroying the ground itself until it reached its target. Moments later, a part of the ground exploded and threw out Diwall which seemed to have earned even deeper injuries because of that attack.
"You did it, Itsuki!" SeitenWind exclaimed. But her excitement soon faded when Diwall started sinking. "Don't tell me...?"
"Eichirou! Erika! Do it now!" SeitenFire ordered.
Soon after, the three Seitengers noticed the ground exuded a light blue glow, indicating a combination of two different powers. They soon saw that Diwall was trying to move since its feet remained submerged on the ground but to no avail. It looked like the monster stopped sinking before it could reach halfway.
"What is this? What's going on?!" Diwall yelled while still trying to move its feet and get out of there.
"I think it's our turn to strike," SeitenFire said rather calmly and pushed the green button of his HyakuReiDer. "Misae, let's do this."
SeitenWind nodded and also pushed the green button of her HyakuReiDer.
Each of their weapons glowed with their respective colors and prepared themselves to cast their attacks toward Diwall.
"Heaven's Raging Fire Strike!"
"Heaven's Turbulent Wind Strike!"
The two slash attacks were soon thrown to Diwall who couldn't do anything to get out there, even with the help of its powers. The impact of the attack, however, was the reason why the ground exploded once again and threw the monster off of its position. When Diwall tried to stand up and regroup, SeitenEarth stabbed the ground with his HyakuReiDer once more--this time, for a different reason.
When the other Seitengers looked around, they saw several vines growing quite fast and soon bound Diwall before it could even get up.
"Itsu-chan, you sure are angry right now, aren't you?" SeitenWater commented warily as soon as he reached the others.
SeitenEarth just sighed quite rashly and faced the blue warrior. "I just want to end this as soon as I can. I'm still tired from that last fight."
"Then why don't we end this already, Onii-chan?" SeitenLight suggested when she reached her brother and stood by his side.
The others nodded as soon as SeitenEarth agreed to that.
Once again, the Seitengers pushed the green button of their HyakuReiDer and prepared themselves to cast their finishing attack. No matter how much Diwall tried to struggle and break free, the vines themselves won't budge.
"Five Heaven Slash!" the Seitengers recited together. Not long after, they threw their combined slash attacks towards the bound Triske Monster.
The vines that bound Diwall were destroyed along with the monster who barely had a chance to do anything to escape after that.
When the explosion dissipated, the Seitengers heaved a sigh and looked around. This was the third monster they've destroyed by far and yet the damage that Diwall caused was too much for them to see. Indeed, it was the kind of damage that reminded them of the hotel fire ten years ago.
"Onii-chan, are you okay?" SeitenLight asked as she placed her hand on her brother's shoulder.
SeitenEarth just nodded and placed his hand on his sister's head. But the Seitengers became tensed when they felt something foreboding that was about to come.
"Get ready. Here it comes again," SeitenWater warned the others and prepared himself for the trouble that was about to appear before them.