• Leiko quickly created a large wave of fire and shot it off at Sloth as he came barreling out the back door after them
    “Wildfire Burst!” Leiko cried as Shin pulled her along, Leiko tried her hardest to keep up but Shin was running like she was a track star
    “Why are we running, we should be fighting him!” Leiko screamed, Shin looked back quickly to see sloth slowly walking after them
    “We can’t, didn’t you notice that your attack just bounced right off of his belly?!” Shin screamed as she docked around a house and threw Leiko against the wood next to her
    “Shin, we can’t run! He’s destroy the cul-de-sac!” Leiko screamed as a large crack appeared in the earth where they had just been standing two seconds before, Shin turned to Leiko and shook her head
    “No…nothing can hurt him, he absorbs all your attacks and it makes him stronger!” Shin screamed as Leiko looked over her head to the large figure standing behind her.
    “RUN!” Shin screamed as Sloth clenched his large fist around her thin body ready to crush her, Leiko jumped back and threw her Shuriken at Sloth and watched as it just bounced back and she had to jump to grab it or she would have missed it
    “You…sur…surre…give …up” Sloth attempted to sound intimidating but Leiko could see that he was trying to use words that were way too smart for him
    “Let her go…” Leiko said angrily as she formed a large fireball in her hand and glared up at Sloth, he looked back at her and shook his head
    “Me no scared of fly…” Sloth laughed as the sky turned a black color and time froze around them; Shin was hardly breathing from being held onto too tight and she was slowly slipping out of consciousness
    “PHOENIX FLAME!” Leiko shrieked as a large fire phoenix formed and exploded in Sloth’s face, sending Leiko flying backwards with the force and anger of her own magic
    “but…not even a scratch” Leiko whispered to herself as she got up and looked at Sloth standing in the exact spot untouched, Leiko looked down and could see the scratches, scars and burns.
    “Metal Halide!” echoed a voice in the cul-de-sac as a storm of large shredded metal flew up out of the ground beneath the figure and formed into a large metal dragon that barreled after Sloth and rammed directly into Sloth’s chest and face; Sloth grabbed the large dragon by it’s metal horn and in one strong movement ripped it in half.
    Sota came to Leiko’s side and looked her up and down
    “Are you alright?” Sota asked, Leiko nodded
    “But…you haven’t gone to any of our training sessions with Mr. Hiro…how is your magic so powerful?” Leiko asked as he helped her stand up
    “I’ve been studying with him late at night after school” Sota said quickly as he readied his fists which were gloved, Leiko knew that it was Gloria transformed.
    Sloth narrowed his eyes and started for Sota and dropping the unconscious Shin on the broken up ground and metal beneath him
    “stay back…” Sota shouted as he stepped in front of his little sister, Leiko glared at him
    “don’t play the older brother card…we’re all in this together…” Leiko shouted at the back of his blonde head, Sota smirked as a large bolt of lightning flew out of the dark sky and slammed into Sloth’s head
    “now you wouldn’t forget about us would you?” Alberic said as he and Yuki stood at the other end of the street together, Yuki transformed Alberic onto her Shield so that she could protect herself.
    Sloth slowly turned around and saw Yuki standing triumphantly
    “pretty…” Sloth smiled and they could see that he had teeth that were razor sharp like a great white shark’s mouth
    “As if…” Yuki smirked as she held her shield out in front of her
    “POWER OUTAGE!” Yuki exclaimed as a large beam of electricity flew out of her shield and slammed into Sloth’s stomach folds and vanished without the slightest hint of an explosion
    “gross…” Yuki said as she tilted her head to the side.
    “DEEP-SEA DRAGON!” called Suichi as all the water in the area collected in a giant orb behind Suichi’s head, slowly the water turned into a large dragon with webbed feet and a mermaid’s tail, it had shark teeth and eyes the color of the full moon, Suichi pointed at Sloth and the dragon dove after him slamming at him full force and wrapping it’s long slinky snake-like form around Sloth’s fat body, Suichi snapped his fingers and the dragon froze, encasing Sloth in the ice.
    Kouji, who had been standing next to Suichi smiled at him
    “My turn?” Kouji asked, Suichi nodded
    “be my guest” Suichi smirked as Kouji spun his spear around in front of him, creating a large gale encasing him in a tornado
    “Dancing Blades…” Kouji said silently as he closed his eyes and the wind vanished as if it had never been there.
    Suddenly a large tornado appeared around the encased Sloth and ice sculpture blades flew around on the tornado’s gusts as they smashed the ice structure and shards of sharp ice flew everywhere, but when the dust cleared Sloth stood unharmed once again.
    Meicho ran over to check on Shin as Suichi and Kouji stood blocking thme from view
    “lift him…to…the…sky..” shin heaved as she came to, Meicho noticed a large shard of metal sticking out of her stomach
    “HEY, SHIN’S BEEN STABBED!” Meicho called out as he ripped off the sleeves of his shirt to attempt to stem the bleeding
    “you’re gunna be ok…we aren’t going to let anything happen to you…” Meicho whispered lovingly to her.
    “Sloth…that is enough…let me…” called a decrepit old man standing off in the distance
    “Hiro…” Sloth heaved as he stomped over to sit under the tree behind him
    “HIRO!” Suichi and they others shrieked out of shock, Hiro mearly smiled
    “you betrayed us?!” Leiko screamed glaring at the stricked but kind old man that they had all gotten to know over the past few months, Hiro didn’t move.
    “How dare you…” Suichi shot out, as he brandished his sword ready to kill.
    “haha, I’m going to let you all mull this over…I want you to be in tip-top fighting form when I kill you all” Hiro shouted back as the two of them vanished in a wave of dark energy.
    The six of them rushed Shin to the hospital where they easily stitched her, accepting the lie that she tripped and fell on the metal piece
    “I can’t believe I did that to her…” Sota cried into his hands, he ws distraught over the fact that Sloth had dropped her onto his metal shards
    “it’s fine…we’re not worried about her…we’re worried about the fact that Mr. Hiro has been lying to us this whole time, he knows everything…our weaknesses, our strengths…our loves…everything…” Kinoko frowned into her soft drink that she had been attempting to finish off for over an hour now
    “So what do we do next?” Suichi asked them all, they all looked up at him with the same angry look in their eyes
    “Revenge it is then…” Leiko smiled.