Junko

Claude suddenly got to his feet. "What...what is Junpei doing?!" He was starting to considered whether these Riviello people should be deemed dangerous. He expected Junpei to have a ball park with this battle but he didn't expect this. Maybe he was just all talk. Either way, he still had faith in his lightning guardian. "Come on Junpei, you got this." he cheered but not too loudly. Meanwhile The hard thrust from the spiked sent Junpei flying as he made hard contact with the ground. His body was sent rolling before he came to a halt on his side. All of a sudden, a shocking pain came to his body, which caused him to cry out in pain. Usami immediately stood up. "W-what's wrong with him?!" "It's a certain thing that happens when you are knocked off of your board." Everyone from Claude's group immediately looked over to see one of the Cerevello women suddenly appearing next to Usami. She ignored their shocked reactions and continued. "If you are knocked off of the board, then you are shocked by a special type of lightning until you're back on your board." Alphonse furrowed his eyebrows. "But isn't he the lightning guardian? How is that able to affect him." "Other attributes." "Huh?" "Yes, the lightning guardians aren't suppose to be affected by this but since this lightning is mixed in with other attributes, those attributes are actually damaging him instead of the lightning." Usami slouched back into her seat and puffed her cheeks out, annoyed. "Well that's a dumb feature to an amusement park ride." Junpei found his board hovering back over to him and he made a desperate struggle to pull himself back on. Once he was on, his body was still shaking, small flashes of yellow electricity was still flickering around his body. Junpei was breathing heavily now. That five minute shock took a lot out of him. "...guh" he muttered out as he got to his feet. Iron sand pulling itself out of the arena's ground yet again and hovered around his hand. "Heh, you think you...c-could get rid of m-me with a trick like t-that?" he said as a sword formed into his hands. His body was still shivering but he tipped his board forward and went full speed towards Raiden. "Have some of this!" he shouted as he threw his sword towards him. The iron sand sword split into multiple swords, in which all of them were heading straight for Raiden.

From the bleachers where they were sitting, Alphonse narrowed his eyes. "If Junpei is able to wear me out after two days of training, then he should be able to." he said, really hoping that Junpei was going to make it out of this one. Even though he thought the blonde to be one hell of an idiot, he still seemed strong. Alphonse slid his face down into his scarf a bit and Usami looked over at him before looking back at Junpei on the arena. She, as well hoped for him to do his best. "Like Sonya said earlier, we have more battles to go in order to turn the tables on them." All of them looked over to Reborn. "Junpei will be fine." "He can't be that stupid...right?" Meanwhile, on the other side of the arena where Riviello was watching, Elliott went silent as he looked at Azumi from across the arena, giving her a somewhat ominous stare from behind his black rimmed glasses. He soon snapped out of it and patted Veronica on the head. "Well if that really is their guardian, then I will do more than just silence her..." Meanwhile Claude shook his head. "I couldn't just leave you here alone in the hospital while we all go to watch Junpei fight." ​He looked up, some reassurance crossed his face. "...It's alright. That guy..." Claude found himself clenching his fists in his lap, his eyes reflecting a small flame of determination. "He will pay for what he did to you." A small silence soon took over the room before the nurse that Claude saw earlier walked in and handed a note to Claude before walking out. Confused, Claude looked down at the paper in his hand and started reading the message aloud. " 'This is Sonya. I forgot to mention a smallll thing to you before I walked out and I didn't want you to really miss out. You can watch the fight between Raiden and Junpei on the TV in Tasushi's room. The private channel in order to see it should be on the paper. Enjoy little bro!' " At the bottom of the paper was Sonya's cursive like signature and a three digit number. He looked over to see that The remote for the television was sitting on the other side of the bed, closest to Takushi. "Hey Takushi, can you turn on the television to this channel?" he said, passing the paper to him for the channel number. In a way, Claude was still happy to be able to cheer on Junpei even though he didn't show up. Meanwhile "Wait wait wait wait- i'M NOT R-" Junpei started to say frantically before a hover board came beneath his feet. His body fell backwards onto the board as it was lifting him a little bit over the ground. He rubbed his head as he tried to stand up properly on the board. He looked up and saw the beam of lightning zipping at him and the color in his face immediately disappeared. "S-shit!" He said as he put his arms up in front of him in defense. Lightning zapped a bit around his arms and iron sand from the ground of the arena quickly made its way to Junpei. There was a huge flash as the beam struck. The light went away to see that Junpei made a shield just in time before he could be hit. The iron sand shield started losing its for and Junpei looked at Raiden before he turned around. He tipped the board to go over as he started zipping away from Raiden as fast as he could go without falling off, with the iron sand hovering behind his hands.

Claude watched as everyone walked out of the hospital waiting room, Sonya giving him a reassuring smile before disappearing through the doors. He glanced down again before hearing someone come out from Takushi's room. He hopped up to her feet to see that it was a nurse. "You can go in there and wait with him if you want." She said, gesturing to the door, before walking down the hallway, apparently having other patients to attend to. Claude looked at the door before drawing in a breath and pushing the door open. He crept his way inside to see Takushi lying in his hospital bed, silent. He wasn't sure whether to simply approach him or wait until he was ready to say something. From were he was standing, Takushi didn't seem like his usual self. The lost must have really gotten to him. Claude went over and sat down at the chair close to the bedside, not saying anything or noticing the fact that the storm guardian was in tears. He didn't know what to say. Waiting it out was probably the best thing Claude could come up with now, so he waited, staring straight ahead into space. Meanwhile After the rest of the group left Claude to wait with Takushi, they followed the hand written directions on the paper to the location that the battle was going to take place with Junpei versus Raiden. When they finally made it there, they were met with an empty wide open area. It looked like a skating ring except there was no ice, just a dark nickle colored surface.There were bleachers where people would sit to watch. "Just what is this place?" Alphonse said as he glanced around. There was a small sign sitting on the gate to get it, which read 'Electric Boarding' "Electric Boarding.." Junpei read, now seeming to have calmed down. "Just what the hell is that?" "Perhaps it's like skateboarding in some way.." "What makes you say that?" Usami pointed over to a stand on the other side of the gate that had a sort of board holder, the boards inside appearing to look somewhat like hover boards. A loud, and overly cheerful voice came from the other side of the gates. It was, of course, Elliott along with the rest of Riviello. "Heeey it looks like we're going skating or some crap like that!" "Elliott, shut it. It's the dead of night. Why must you be so loud." "Sugar runs through my veins.. I can't be held back." he hummed. He looked over to see that Claude's group was here and he squinted. "Eh? The boss candidate isnt with them this time." His voice suddenly went dramatic. "Is that squirt taking one for the team to grieve over a broken up loser? Aw I'm so touched~" "D-don't talk back about Claude and Takushi like that." Usami said, raising her voice for the first time in forever. "Hmm? Can take the obvious truth? Aw that's too sad, but don't come picking a fight with me friend. I'm not going to be your opponent."

Claude dragged his hands thew his hair as he stared down at the ground. His face was still pale from seeing Takushi in such a state. He's never seen anyone like that in such a condition before that it literally stunned him from saying anything ever since they left the roller coaster attraction. Sonya, leaning against the wall near the rest of them, looked over at Claude with a bit of concern in her eyes. She sighed as she pushed off of the wall and walked over to Claude, crouching down to meet eye to eye with him. "Hey. We still have six more fights to go. We can still turn the tables on them." she said as she placed her hand on his shoulder but he refused to look up from the ground. This was really getting to him. She looked over to the rest of them to see that they were equally as silent. Usami's face still shocked in disbelief as she slouched in her seat, Alphonse staring down at his hands and Junpei crouched in his seat, still stressing over his upcoming battle. It was just a minute before Reborn appeared out of the doors that Takushi was carried through and into the waiting room. "Takushi will be fine. Although..." His eyes went over to Junpei. "It's almost time." Junpei made a slight moan as he moved out of his chair. "Where is it going to be?" Reborn simply pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket. "This was attached to one of Takushi's crossbows. It has directions of where to meet up yet I've never heard of this place being here before." "Maybe it's...a new attraction that they opened up." Usami said, finally breaking her silence. "But why didn't they just tell us in person? This ain't no damn treasure hunt..." "....Can I...not go this time?" Claude finally said, looking up a bit. He was met with questionable stares. "Well, it's just that I don't want to leave Takushi in the hospital all by himself..." Meanwhile Lukas laid asleep in his room in the penthouse. His sword was sitting at his bedside with a note attached to it with tape. Danet, along with the others hanging around in his room as he slept, noticed the note and pulled it off of his sword. "Oooh what's that? A secret admirer or some crap like that?" Elliott asked curious as he bit into a rice ball. "....No. It's directions to the location for Raiden's match." Not really interested, he tossed the paper over to Raiden, who barely caught it in his hands. "That's for you."

Lukas gritted his teeth as he tried to struggle his way out of the thick threads bounding him to the seat box that he was in. He noticed Takushi pulling out what appeared to be his half of the storm vongola ring. His eyes drifted to the front of the roller coaster that was quickly approaching the end where all the dynamite was sitting, waiting for detonation. Lukas released his grip on on his swords, allowing it to sit in the air, entangled in the thread around it and leaned his body weight backwards. The tough, thin thread was grinding hard against his skin as he tried to pull out of it, eventually cutting into his flesh. One by one, some of the thread binding his hands together started to break off. "You...cocky piece of shit..." he muttered under his breath as blood leaked down from his wrists. With his body able to move around a bit and Takushi within a good range, he left- straight for his neck. The remaining threads around his body started breaking one by one as he pinned Takushi to the bottom of the seat box, his hands tight around his throat. Whatever calmness he had left just disappeared. "I'M NOT LETTING THE LIKES OF YOU BEAT ME. YOU AND YOUR STINKIN' BOSS CANDIDATE CAN JUST DIE." Takushi's half ring stumbled out of his hands and Lukas reached for it. He cupped it hard around his fist and he looked over to Takushi, his other hand still around his throat. A victorious yet sadistic laugh escaped his lips. One of the Cerevello woman that was watching from afar with a pair of binoculars witnessed Lukas obtaining the other half of the ring and signaled the other woman to turn off the ride. The roller coaster slowly made its way to a halt, a few inches from touching the dynamite. The Cerevello woman reached in the pocket of her jacket to pull out a small microphone that allowed them to speak to both groups in their assigned rooms. "The winner of this battle is Lukas Forze of Riviello. Both groups are now allowed to leave their waiting chambers and meet up with their storm guardians at the platform at the end of the ride." Meanwhile Claude and the rest of his group didn't waste no time to make it over there. After climbing a certain amount of stairs, they finally reached the platform to see each Cerevello woman helping Takushi and Lukas out of the roller coaster, both of them appeared to be heavily damaged from the fight. The Riviello group has already beat them there as well. Spotting his group, Lukas pushed himself away from her and stumbled onto his own feet. Claude looked over to see that Lukas had the complete ring on his finger before running over to Takushi. He gritted his teeth before looking back at Lukas and the rest of Riviello, infuriated. "How...how the hell can you do such a thing?!" He yelled over to him but Lukas stayed silent with his back turned to him. "Answer m-" "Are you looking to pick a fight or something?" Danet suddenly said and Claude looked over at him, confused. "What?" "You don't get it do you? Lukas's only goal was to win, no matter what the cost. Your storm guardian failed to understand how much pride he had in order to achieve that goal." "But...but he could have gotten himself killed!" Usami said, pointing over to the arrows still sticking out of Lukas's body. "So? Maybe that's how serious he was about obtaining that other half of the Vongola ring." Lukas started walking away and towards the stairs. Elliott gestured to help him but he simply rejected him. "...pathetic.." he simply muttered before disappearing down the stairs. Junpei sighed as he dragged his hand through his hair. "Dammit....I'm next, aren't I?" "Is that seriously all you are worried about right now?" A quick sign of fright passed through Junpei's face as he looked over at Alphonse. "W-What the hell do you expect?! I'm next aren't I!?" He rubbed his head in frustration. "I probably wont live to see tomorrow." "Geez what happened to all that big talk earlier?" Sonya muttered. Reborn stared at Takushi that was now leaning on Claude's shoulder before he looked over to the Cerevello women. "When does the next battle begin?" "The lightning guardians from each group has a hour to compose themselves before the next battle is to take place. Details on where it will take place will be revealed when you go back to your waiting areas."

both really KH3 is just one of those things where I could care less if people spoiled for me whether on accident or on purpose.

well im sure as hell not going to

yes, for people who are too lazy to look it up themselves. thank you

Lukas stumbled back a seat box and clutched his stomach while using his sword to keep himself standing. "Do you honestly think I give a damn about that right now?" he said as he recovered himself from the blow. Some blood started coming from the side of his mouth. Lukas raised his thumb to his face and wiped it away with his thumb. "My only concern right now is getting that other half of the Vongola ring." He placed both hands on the handle of his sword now, cringing a bit from the arrow sticking out of his shoulder. "I intend to get it one way or another." He growled before moving off the seat box he was in and leaped into the next one. He swung his sword hard down on Takushi's tonfas right as the roller coaster made a series of jerks and turns. As the ride made a sharp turn and shot downwards, there was a small and quick opening at Takushi's side, but that was more than enough for Lukas to work with. (Got you.) He thought with a satisfied grin as his sword made contact with Takushi's flesh on his side. Meanwhile "Takushi!" Claude shouted as he witnessed Takushi getting a heavy blow. Junpei cringed a bit. "Ohh, that's gotta hurt." "But..how is that guy still standing after Takushi managed to hit him with his arrows like that?" Usami said at a slight mutter, a bit terrified. "That guy is probably over determined to win this battle against Takushi. That and he's probably overly loyal to his boss." Alphonse sighed. "But still!" "There's no point trying to understand how that guy thinks, alright." Usami weakly nodded her head in response. Sonya slammed her hand on the table. "This isn't good...that could probably be fatal." "Sonya, were you the one that helped him upgrade his weapon?" Sonya turned and gave a slight grin to Reborn. "Heh, you like it? It helped him a bit out there didn't it?" Meanwhile "Woot. And Lukas makes a shocking comeback!" Elliott cheered as he pumped his fist in the air. "Just how long is this fight going to go on? They're coming close to the end of the ride." "Hm, you're right. They can both die together as sore losers but Zeru wouldn't be happy about that now would he?"

As the ride leveled out, Lukas made his way into the seat box and onto his feet. He yanked his sword out of the side of the seat box and propped it on his shoulder again. He cocked his head to the side as the barrage of arrows came rushing at him. A small smirk came to his face as he raised his sword. "Ah, I see." he said as he swung his sword down, reflecting the first wave of arrows that came towards him. "Do you really think you can come at me full on without a plan of some sort?" He swung his sword down again, reflecting the next wave, before walking forward towards Takushi, climbing over a seat box. "Honestly, I'm just hurt now. Do you not think I'm not worth a fight or something?" he said sarcastically as he swung his sword a few more times, reflecting more and more of Takushi's arrows. Two zipped past his blade and ended up digging itself into his shoulder and thigh. Although, he seemed completely unaffected by it, as if he was just walking the pain off. Lukas continued to advance towards him, appearing scary now with the blood starting to stain his clothing. "Don't worry my friend. I'm going to end this match of ours- and your life." With that, the ride made a heavy jerk to the left, giving Lukas the perfect chance to advance further to Takushi after he composed himself and brought his sword down towards him. Meanwhile "Shhh you guys, I think Lukas is going to lose it." Elliott suddenly hissed, now interested in the match. Danet sighed. "The funny thing is, he hasn't gotten like that in a while. Don't tell me that that guy is actually worth a fight for him." Elliott shook his head. "No, in the next few minutes, he's sure as hell a goner. Besides, is Lukas going to pull those arrows out of his body anytime soon. They looked pretty sharp." "Probably not. He's more focused on going in for the kill now. But if he doesn't soon, he might pass out from boss loss. That idiot..."

The ride began scaling its way to the top of the roller coaster tracks. Lukas held onto one of the bars on his seat to keep himself from falling. (A goddamn roller coaster. Great, as if they're trying to make my life harder.) He thought as he said nothing while staring back at Takushi who was just one seat below him. They were getting closer to the top now. Finally coming up with something, Lukas brought out his sword and gave a slight chuckle. "That's a huge mistake that you're going to regret making you dumbass." he said as he suddenly let go of the bar and jumped off. A hard kick dug into Takushi's chest, causing him to fall backwards, before Lukas fell past him a few more seat boxes down and caught onto the last one. The part of the roller coaster they were on finally made it to the top of the roller coaster tracks and Lukas dug his sword into the side of the seat box he was hanging on to. A rush of air came quickly at them as the roller coaster shot downwards. Meanwhile Claude suddenly shot up out of his seat. "No way! He's playing dirty!" "As expected but it's not like we can do anything about it." "Wh-" Usami looked over at Claude and raised an eyebrow. "Did you already forget? We can do anything to help Takushi. Not to mention that they are fighting on a roller coaster. How can we make it to him on time?" "Heh. Takushi is already losing. So much for trying to look all cool." Claude sat down, looking a bit disappointed. Sonya looked over at Claude before looking back at the screen. "Well the match isn't over yet. He can still redeem himself." "...Yeah." Meanwhile "Isn't that breaking the rules?" Elliott said as he watched Lukas kick Takushi hard down the roller coaster. "Well they never said that he couldn't do anything like that so he's fine." Elliott hummed as he now watched Lukas hanging on as the roller coaster shot downward. "He's going to win this."

"That will only end up getting you killed." Alphonse said bluntly before siding out of his seat and leaving the room. "W-wait, you are going to meet us at the entrance of Mafia land, right?" "Let him go. He doesn't have to be there tonight. It's Takushi and Junpei, remember?" Claude looked down slightly. "Yeah but..." "Ah don't worry about him. He'll meet up with us eventually. Besides, it's a few hours before the storm guardian battle starts. Shouldn't we start heading over there." Junpei gave a smirk as he nudged Takushi in the arm. "He's probably wetting himself right now." This obviously angered Takushi and Junpei quickly moved away from him before he could do anything. Reborn got out of his seat. "Sonya is right. You don't want to get disqualified for not showing up do you?" Meanwhile The moon hung brightly in the sky as the two women from Cerevello stood patiently in front of the gates of Mafia Land. Set up from earlier, such as restaurants and their outside tables, small attractions and etc remained untouched. The time was now 11:55 PM. Takushi walked ahead of the group with Junpei and the rest of the group following behind him. One of the Cerevello women spotted them coming in but her face remained neutral under the mask. At the same time, everyone from Riviello, minus Zeru, made their way over to the meeting place on the other side. Veronica was holding onto Elliott's hand as he pushed his glasses up a bit and squinted over at the other group. "Heey, Lukas was right. They are a bunch of brats." Lukas narrowed his eyes a bit as he walked ahead of his group with his hands sitting in his pockets and large sword sitting on his back. Danet glanced over at him. "Do you remember which one you're taking on tonight?" Lukas only shook his head. "No but does it matter? They're no match for me." Both groups stopped walking, face to face with one another with the women of Cerevello standing between them. Usami peeked from behind Junpei and her eyes widened as they landed on Elliott. "Y-y-you're..?!" "Hm? Do you know one of them?" Claude said as he looked over to her. She shook her head a bit too quickly. "He gave me money...to by takoyaki.." Elliott noticed Usami's sudden outburst and gave a toothy grin at her. "Ah, so we meet again. See Veronica, you're playmate is right over there." One of the Cerevello woman gave a sudden cough, interrupting the talking, and began to speak. "So it seems that the storm guardian from both parties are present and on time. Will the two of you step forward." Without any protests, Lukas and Takushi stepped forward, staring one another in the eye. "Tch..." Lukas snickered before his aura changed to a somewhat teasing tone. "May the best man win." he said with a smirk. "This battle is between the storm guardians and the storm guardians only. Any outside interference will lead to that boss candidate's guardian's match to be disqualified. Both competitors must have their half rings on them. The battle will only end with that guardian successfully obtains the other half of the Vongola ring. To keep in mind for the near future, any tardiness from one of the competitors that would be fighting leads to them being automatically disqualified. This whole area is available to you as your battle ground. Now will both boss candidate and company please wait in the assigned buildings in order for the match to start." She gestured over to a small building for Claude and his group and started walking towards it, gesturing them to follow. The other Cerevello woman did the same with the Riviello group. Once they got inside they were faced with that appeared to be a small waiting room with a large round sofa and a round table in the middle. In front was a wide screen TV, showing where Lukas and Takushi now stood. "Woahh! It's like a movie room!" Alphonse blankly stared at him before going to sit down at a spot in the sofa. Reborn slid his hands into his pocket as the Cerevello woman left. "Well there's nothing we can do now except hope that Takushi wins this." he said as he went to go sit down. "Why are you calm about this?! That guy looks like a tough opponent." "What? Are you telling me that you have no faith in Tasushi?" Sonya said as she raised an eyebrow. Claude glanced down slightly. "No...it's not like that-" "Great! Now shut up, sit down and cheer your storm guardian on!" Claude looked up at the screen and watched as the two Cerevello women came back onto the screen and were saying a few things to Takushi and Lukas before the four of them started walking off. "Hey. Where are they taking them?" "Probably the real fighting grounds that they're going to be on." - "So this is where we're staying huh?" Danet said as he parked himself on the couch. Elliott stared at the television set displaying Lukas and Takushi before sitting down. "Man, there's no food in here...." he muttered at he leaned his head back. "You goddamn fatass, you just got back from a buffet with Veronica not too long ago." Elliott gave him a blank stare. "You're point?" - The two of them were now standing on a seat on one of the the biggest roller coaster attractions in Mafia Land. Lukas moved one on his hands out of his pocket and onto the handle of his sword. "The the battle shall be over before the ride crashes at the end. Whenever you two are ready, you may begin." One of them said before one of them pushed the start button and the ride began to roll in motion up the hill.

"I-I don't think that he's that old." Usami frowned and pulled the paper out of Takushi's hand. "Hiro, this looks terrible. He looks something like this." she said as she pulled out a pen from her skirt pocket and started drawing another image on the back. After a few minutes, she placed the pen down and seemed satisfied with her work. Alphonse leaned over her shoulder to take a look but quickly looked disappointed. "Usami, that's spaghetti..." Curious now, Claude and Sonya also looked over at her work. "Why does the spaghetti look like tentacles...?" "Usami, I didn't know you were into that kind of stuff...That's kind of kinky." Usami's face went somewhat of embarrassment as she quickly shook her head in denial. "N-n-no it's just what I thought he would look like." "But a flying spaghetti monster though? That's a bit too far fetched...." While this was going on, Junpei looked over to Colonello and cocked his head to the side before a frown crossed his face. "Are you underestimating me or something?! Of course I know how to use them! Unless you can't handle my strength." As he said this, small sparks of green electricity flashed around his curly dirty blonde hair. Meanwhile "Damn he made a direct hit." Elliott said out of shock as he looked at Raiden passed out on the floor. "Tch. The bastard better not sit around like that for the rest of the day. He's also battling today." "Yeah but that was a waste of a vase..." Elliott walked over to Raiden's body and poked his head with his shoe.

"Gaah. Are really really starting this tomorrow? I still feel like crap." Junpei moaned with his head faced down on the table. Claude looked over to Junpei, a bit worried before hearing Takushi's outburst and looked over at him, feeling somewhat reassured since he came off as strong to Claude. "Yeah. Good luck Takushi." "Wait. So who will fight one of the other guardians after Takushi and Junpei?" Usami asked, now a bit more curious. "I'm assuming that one of the members from Cerevello will eventually tell us after their battle but the bosses go last." "Um..." Claude was a bit worried again. "Did you ever see the other boss candidate from Riviello, Reborn?" He shook his head. "No, I haven't actually and I know know where he and his other guardians are staying on his island but I do know that his name is Zeru." Claude looked down a bit in thought. "Zeru..." he muttered. Sonya slung an arm over his shoulder, catching him off guard. "Ah don't worry about it. You can beat that old fart with one hit." "W-wait, are you saying that they're not the same age as us?!" "What? Did you just assume that? The other two that we encountered didn't come off as a bit older to you?" Claude shook his head and Sonya lifted her arm off him and sighed. "Old? Sonya they're around the same age as you last time I checked." "S-shut up! Look either way they were just words of encouragement!" She said as she shoot up from her seat. Alphonse looked over to Takushi. "Are you really confident that you might have a chance against that redhead? He almost killed Claude last time I checked. Not to mention that huge sword of his looks like it can kill anyone with one strike." Claude's eyes widened a bit. He was right. His throat was almost slit if it wasn't for that Cerevello member coming in time. Junpei lifted his head and gave a smirk. "Al is trying to start something with Tasushi huh..." he said as he leaned over to looked at the two of them. Meanwhile Lukas moaned as he leaned his head back where he was sitting on the couch. "Great...I guess I have to fight who ever the luck little shit from that small group we encountered." "If that's so then you shouldn't have a problem taking that person on, or even killing them for that matter." A small grin crossed Lukas lips. Elliott, staring at Raiden and Lukas for the past minute now with a stick of pocky sticking out of his mouth, looked over to the Cerevello woman. "Who is going to go next after them?" "That information will be given to you after the match between the lightning guardians is complete. However, the battle between the two boss candidates will be last to determine who will win." With that, the woman turned to leave the room. Ellioot nodded his head slightly before looked back at Zeru's room. "You hear that! You're going to have to wait for your fresh meat to kill boss!" There was no response from the room and Elliott turned back to the others. "Hmmm, should I place my false optimism in any of you?" Lukas immediately sat up, annoyed now. "What the hell is that suppose to mean?!" A small chuckle escaped Elliott's lips as he consumed the rest of his pocky.

There was yelling at the beginning? Wow episode one is a blur now. The ending made me sad. my poor kokoro QAQ

hehehe you have fun with that

Danet sighed as he leaned against the wall in the hallway and Lukas sitting down on the floor next to him with his head hung down. "Sooo how did it go??" Elliott said as he peeked his head around the corner before walking over to them with Veronica following behind him. "And where have you been?" "The buffet of course. Where else would I have ran off to?" "...Hell maybe." Lukas muttered under his breath. Elliott shook his head before walking over to the penthouse door and opening it. "Hey Zeru!" He said as he was about to walk in. The axe Zeru was holding earlier zipped past his and hitting hard into the wall right next to Danet's head. A small cut appeared across Elliott's head and a drop of lood seeped out from the cut but he still had that same happy expression on his face anyways. Elliott walked over to the wall and pulled the axe out of the wall and set it at the axe down at the door before closing it behind him. He stood there silent for a moment. "....He seems in a better mood than usual today." Danet looked up at him, the color somewhat drained from his face from almost getting hit in the face by Zeru's axe. "Sarcastic little shit..." Meanwhile Claude nodded. "Yeah. Everyone else seems to be worn out today anyways." He looked over to Junpei, who was still knocked out before looking over at Alphonse. "H-how bad did you hit him to get him knocked out for this long?" He said nervously and Alphonse shook his head. "It was all the floor's doing." "...What?" Sonya moaned as she made her way to the door. "Uuugh. Let's just go get some sleep already. Usami, Azumi. Let's go." Usami looked up from daydreaming after having a few more of those custard puddings and shakily stood up out of her seat. "C-coming." she said before tripping and falling on her face. She was probably that worn out that she couldn't think straight. Sonya sighed and went to go pick Usami up. "Heh. So now she's a bit of a clutz." Reborn said as he stood up and walked to the door. "Let's go." The rest of them proceeded to head back to the cruise ship and stayed there for the night, getting their rest for more training tomorrow.

Juvia although I hate how they reduced her to mostly a freaking fangirl

Never dated either and I'm perfectly fine with it. It's really stupid how people think that being single or 'Forever Alone' is terrible when it really isn't.

I just flat out say no. Some of them are so damn persistent though that it's annoying. No means no. Eventually they leave me alone but gaah

Danet raised his eyebrows, surprised that Zeru had no idea what this was. But to avoid being punched in the face, he answered him bluntly. "The ring conflict is the battle between the two Vongola boss candidates and their guardians to gain control over the Vongola rings and become one step closer to becoming the next Vongola boss." Lukas raised his hand up to reveal that he was wearing the half Vongola storm guardian ring. "We all got one not too long ago. Although you should still have yours right now, boss." "There will be a one on one showdown between the bosses and the corresponding guardians within a few days." "But I thought it would be easier to just take out the other boss candidate to get rid of one less problem to deal with." Lukas quickly chimed in, although he has that gut feeling that Zeru was going to be pissed at him regardless. Meanwhile "Well it's really up to him on what he considers an intense training session. But he did better than I expected overall. He's already starting to get used to the heavy effects of the hyper mode bullet." Claude gave a small grin from Reborn praising him for his hard work today. He looked over to Azumi, a bit confused. "You don't look the least bit tired..." he said, his voice trailing off bit by bit. Azumi did have a lot of energy in her so that should be expected. Sonya reached and ruffled Claude's hair. "Aw somebody actually made progress with something for once in his life." "S-stop that.." he muttered as he looked away, annoyed

Elliott shurgged. "I don't know. I only saw her for a quick minute and lent her some money." "What the hell are you doing giving the bastard money?!" Elliott rubbed his head and gave a wry smile. "Hehe...she was getting takoyaki so-" Lukas gave him a dark stare Elliott turned his gaze away from him quickly. The five of them continued walking in silence while the sound of faint music could be heard from Danet's ear buds. A taller building, bigger than the rest nearby, started to come into view until it was revealed to be a hotel. Elliott shot his fist into the air. "Woot! Time for Zeru to throw another bitch fit and it's not at me this time!" "That's not something to be happy about..." Danet mumbled before he watched Elliott run off with Veronica in through the automatic sliding doors of the hotel. Meanwhile There was a small break room near the training rooms full of small refreshments, comfy seating and some entertainment items, such as a flat screen TV hanging from the wall. Claude sat back in a chair with a small towel draped around his neck. "If that's really all you've got then how are you going to train tomorrow?" Claude sat his head up to look at Reborn. "I-I'm trying okay! Plus I can at least walk down compared to the last time you shot me in the head like that..." He glanced down nervously. "...Just how many more times are you going to have to shoot me like that..?" Reborn slightly cocked his head to the side. "Just for a while longer, or at least until you're able to go into hyper mode by yourself." Claude slightly moaned as the door slid open. He looked up to see that it was Takushi and Sonya. "So I see that you two are done for today as well?" she said cheerfully as Claude shot up from his chair and pointed a shaking finger at her face. "Y-you're bleeding!" Sonya looked at him for a moment before remembering that Takushi cut her on the cheek earlier. She crossed her arms. "Don't throw a huge fuss over it. It's only a small cut." "Sonya, your blood is dripping on the floor." Reborn said as he glanced at her. "A. Small. Cut." Claude quickly walked over to her and brought her over to where he was just sitting to sit down. He walked over to one of the cabinets and pulled out a first aid kit and set it down on the coffee table before wiping the blood away from her face. Sonya sat there and glanced away. The doors slid open again and Usami walked in through the door with her hair appearing to be a bit more messy than usual, Junpei and Alphonse walking in after her with Junpei up on Alphonse's back, still knocked out from earlier. Sonya looked over to Alphonse with her eyebrow raised. "So I guess training went well with you two?" Alphonse gave her a thumbs up before dropping Junpei on the sofa and sitting down next to him, worn out himself. Usami went to sit down next to Sonya after looking though the small mini fridge to find custard pudding sitting in there. She hummed in satisfaction as she stuffed a spoonful into her mouth. Claude placed a bandage on Sonya's cheek before looking over at Usami. "How was your training with Kaede?" She hummed again before looking at Claude and taking the spoon out of her mouth. "Good." she simply said before taking another bite.

*tosses 5 yen*

The color in Lukas's face immediately drained as he took a step back away from Raiden. "N-no way I'm answering that. Danet, take it." Danet gave an annoyed glare at Lukas before looking back at the phone in Raiden's hand. With a sigh, he stood up from the bench and took it. There was a slight pause before he spoke. ".....Hello?" Zeru was yelling again from the other end of the phone and Danet inched the phone from his face for a second before taking it back to his ear. "Damn, you jackasses made him more pissed than usual." Elliott said with that same annoying cheerful tone in his voice but he was ignored. "...They don't look that much experie-....yes but that woman from Cerevell-....Alright..." Danet hung up the phone and rubbed his head in annoyance. "Well?" "There's not really more we can do if we don't know their current location. Besides, with Cerevello lurking it's going to be harder to confront them." Elliott took another bite out of his taiyaki. "Welp, now there's just the wait for the actual ring conflict." "...and he wants us to meet back with him where we're staying." Elliott sprung out of his seat, swinging Veronica in one arm and his bag of food in the other. "Alright! This place was getting boring anyways. Did you happen to see a small curly haired girl when you met them?" Lukas raised his eyebrows. "I guess so. Why?" Elliott hummed as he dropped Veronica down and patted her head. "I met her earlier. Looks like Vivi has herself a playmate." The girl stared at him, confused, but he just grinned and turned on his heels, grabbing Veronica's wrist as he walked off with her. "...speaking of which, where the hell did Oz go?" Lukas shrugged as he walked off after Veronica and Elliott. "Don't know, and frankly, I don't give a damn." Meanwhile "Now that's what I'm talking about!" Sonya said excitedly as she pulled out her rifle again and started using to block off some of the arrows from hitting her. As she swung her gun down from getting hit by another one, a few arrows harshly grazed her cheeks. Sonya planted the end of her rifle down on the ground as she reached up to feel blood rushing from the cut that was made into her face. She gave out a chuckle before reaching out to the last arrow that was zapping to her forehead and caught it with her two fingers. "Lemme tell you something Tasushi. As much as you don't like your teammates now, you will have to collaborate with them effectively in order to work together as a mafia family under Vongola." She squeezed her fingers together and the arrow snapped into two. Sonya released her hold on them and they fell to the ground with a small thud. A grin came to her face. "Buuuut, if you're that determined then you can probably pull it off and become a good right hand man for Claude." Sonya swung her rifle to sit on her neck. The blood from her cheek was still flowing down her face and starting to drip onto her shirt. "I guess we can call it a day. You did good..hmph I wasn't expecting that though..." Meanwhile Alphonse and Junpei clashed swords once more before leaping backwards from each other. The two of them were exhausted from all the heavy breathing the evident damage to their clothing. Junpei gritted his teeth before waving his iron sand sword angrily at Alphonse. "This isn't right dammit. You're not suppose to be evenly matched with me!" "What? You came off with the impression that I didn't know how to fight? I'm not clueless, you know." he said calmly, which pissed off Junpei even more. Junpei tightened his grip on his sword before rushing at Alphonse one last time. Alphonse lowered his blades and waited for Junpei to come close enough to him before he stuck out his foot and tripped him. Junpei fell flat on his face with the sword tumbling out of his hands. The sword melted down back to a pile of iron sand and green electricity flickered around Junpei's dirty blonde hair. Alphonse tucked his scarf up over his mouth. "We're done for today." He said as he walked off towards the door, leaving Junpei slightly twitching on the ground. Meanwhile For the past hour now, Usami has been attacking the multiple dummies rushing at her with her whip. She rolled down onto the floor after cracking her whip at another one before another dummy was rushing into her direction. "T-Tsubasa!" she called to the tiger before the tiger leaped at the dummy coming for her and crushing it with its teeth. Usami named the tiger halfway through her training when she had to 'bond' with it. She was running out of breath now and slumped down to the floor. Eating all those sweets from earlier didn't fuel her enough and now she was craving more.

The three of them looked over to the two walk up to them and Elliott waved as he took his ice pop out of his mouth. "Oi, Raiden, Veronica!" he said cheerfully as Lukas 's sword was still against his neck. Danet looked up at the two. "It was Cerevello." he said calmly. "It seemed that they managed to catch onto Lukas a lot faster than I thought." Lukas gritted his teeth as he put his sword away. "What the hell you little shit?! You were with me too, ya know." "Yeah but it's not like I actually did something now did I?" Elliott hummed happily as he pulled a taiyaki out of his bag sitting next to it. "You're probably not going to get a second chance to get it. They're probably long gone somewhere by now, but I have a feeling they're still nearby." He said before taking a bite out of the taiyaki. "If anything, blame those two." Lukas and Danet gave Elliott a venomous stare but he ignored it. Meanwhile "'So what'? Aw don't tell me you're that clueless." She groaned as she twirled her knife between her fingers. "If you're willing to serve under your boss, then should that mean you should get stronger? Even to the point that you should at least surpass me?" Sonya quickly moved and in seconds she was right in front of Takushi with her knife up to his throat. Her voice went down to an eerie whisper. "Unless, of course if you're not cut out for it then any of the other guardians can do it." Meanwhile Usami picked herself off the of ground but kept her distance away from Kaede and the tiger.The tiger seemed more calm than she thought it would be. She took a few steps closer to the beast. (Ah...hello...) The tiger immediately looked at her and walked up to her slowly. She was going to step away when it stopped and stood there. Usami looked at it before reaching out a hand to touch its head. The tiger slightly purred at her touch and she gave a small smile. Meanwhile Alphonse stood ready with his dark blades in each hand as Junpei stood there with his hands in his pockets. There was a bin sitting in each corner of the huge training room with black sand in each one. Junpei hummed as he looked over at each one of them before looking at Alphonse. Alphonse groaned and lowered his weapons. "How long are you going to stand there and stare at me like that?" "What? Do you expect me to attack now? Genius cannot be rushed you know." "....Did you forget how to work your weapon..?" His comment immediately struck a nerve. "N-no! If you want me to defeat you so badly then so be it!" Junpei said and held out his hand. A second went by before green lightning started flickering around his hand and some of the iron sand from the box closest to him moved towards his hand and formed into a sword. "W-woah...!" he breathed in amusement as Alphonse raised his weapons again. "You were asking for it man." Junpei said with a smirk before the two dashed at each other. Meanwhile "You need to shoot with both of your guns for more damage." Reborn urged as he stepped out of the way from another one of Claude's shots. He was right. Claude has only been using his right pistol this entire time that they were training. The brunette was already beginning to look worn out. He nodded and stuck out his other pistol in the air before shooting both of them towards Reborn. The recoil from the blast sent him backwards and stumbling into the ground. Reborn stood there as the blast zipped above his head and hit the wall behind him. The flame from Claude's forehead flickered away and he laid there on the ground, exhausted. Reborn sighed as he walked over to Claude. "Fine. I guess we'll have a break for now."