- Chapter 3 - Flame Collision

"My mind might be playing tricks on me...no, it can't be, it's another demi-human? And a dragon? Like me?"

Aky thought to himself while he looked back at Niza, she had similar features as him, a tail, horns, pupil shape...she has only one difference, she has a small flame at the end of her tail, and Aky of course doesn't have that.

"Oi! You! Dragon dude! Let's see how well you can fight against a member of your kind! I saw how you performed in your tests and I would like to try fighting you, like I did with everyone in here...except for the boss! Consider this as your final test!"

Niza said...she seems to have lots of confidence...Aky was shocked as he is seeing a member of his own kind for the first time in a few years, he doesn't remember seeing other dragons though because of his lost memory...

"I thought I was the only one...I-"

Aky stops talking as Niza began to talk:

"Hah! Of course you are not the only one! There is always another one of your kind somewhere! Now then, how about we cut off the chit-chat and get ourselves ready for the fight huh?! What do you think?! Do you think you are able to keep up with a master class hero like me!"

Yugi then taps Aky's arm with his elbow as he tells him:

"I forgot to tell you, we have different classes of our heroes: the first and weakest one is called "Rookie class", they are about the same level as a regular policeman, then it comes the "Amateur class", they are a bit more advanced, like an armed solider, then the "Advanced class", now they are like super soliders, able to help out a lot in crimes like bank robberies and such, now there is "Semi Master class", they are the Advances classes who have a big potential to be the highest class, they are able to face villains and supervillains, but the highest class, the "Master class", is the class that takes care of supervillains and they are the strongest in here..."

Aky tilted his head a bit as he was listening every single word Yugi has said, he is pretty interested in this hero stuff, then he asks:

"And...um...which class would I be in?"

Yugi puts a finger on his chin as he thinks a bit...

"Well, Aky, you have the strength and speed, you are able to effortlessly break thick diamond with your fists, then you are even faster than the speed of sound itself, so I would say that you could already be in a Semi Master class, but maybe even in the Master class!"

Aky nodded as he is getting even more excited to work with all of them...Niza on the other hand was looking kind of frustrated...

"I hope you have explained everything to him, boss...now I wanna fight him already!"

Yugi then looks to his right where a big test room was and then he looks back at Niza and says:

"Well, I guess we shall go underground, because this fight might cause lots of destruction you know. We rarely use that place when there is a fight going on, the only times we've used that place is when Okure and Risa fought you..."

Aky tilts his head a bit again as he asks Yugi:

"You also have an underground base?! I actually shouldn't be surprised because you are a billionare..."

Yugi begins walking alongside Aky and others towards a big elevator that is leading deep into the underground...

"Well yes, it is actually a big mine that I've bought, but there are no workers in there, I have AI controlled machines to do all the mining there! They are currently not working there, so you are in luck! Well...I guess only Niza is because she is so thrilled to fight you..."

They all enter the elevator as they are now going deep into the underground...Aky is still shocked that he met another dragon, obviously he wasn't all that thrilled to fight Niza but what else can he do?

After several minutes they have finally arrived into the underground mine, it was massive, it had so much space that it could hold a whole city inside of it...Aky looked around as he was surprised that a single mine could be this big and that only one man is able to afford so much to make it...

"It's massive! Yugi is extremely rich!"

All of the sudden, Niza hits Aky's shoulder lightly as she tells him:

"Hey! Get to your position and let's do this! I don't wanna waste any time!"

Aky looks at her with a blank expression, but he does as she says, he gets on one side of the mine and she gets on the other side...Niza was already putting her fists in front of her as she was ready to charge at him...

"I hope you are ready! I won't hold back on you!"

She said...everyone else is far away from them for their own safety, but they didn't want to go too far because they are also very much thrilled to see this fight...

And then...

- WHOOSH!!! -

Niza dashes towards Aky as she is about to land the first blow, but surprisingly Aky dodged it, and more surprisingly, he didn't even fight back, he just kept dodging and dodging. Of course, Niza got pissed as she is seeing that he doesn't have any intention to hit her...

"Just let me...hit you already! Stop showing off!"

Aky just kept dodging even after Niza's punching speed increased...

"Sorry! But as a man, I am not allowed to hit a woman! Since you are a woman, I shall not hurt you! It would make me feel bad!"

Niza got even more frustrated after that one, but then she smiles and says:

"A gentleman huh? I love gentlemen, but this is a fight! So you will fight back..."

Niza gets closer to Aky as she blocks his vision almost completely, her tail then quickly wraps Aky's right leg as it pulls him even closer to her, that gave Niza a chance to finally hit him...and she did it, she landed a clean hit to his gut...

"...or be dropped down like a worthless idiot!"

Aky only smiles as he got hit, surprisingly he didn't take any damage, not because he is durable, but it's because he let all his air out of him before he got hit...he then picks both of Niza's arms as he pushes her back with his legs. She at first looked angry, but then she looked pretty happy and amused...

"No damage huh? I see what you did there! You blowed all your air out before I hit you! I like you...you really are beginning to amuse me!"

Niza charges at Aky once again as she is now creating shockwaves with her punches while Aky was now even blocking them, some of those punches punch the walls of the mine which causes that section of the mine vibrate quite a bit...

Meanwhile on the other side of the mine...a short girl with green hair and yellow eyes peeks up as she hears the rumbling which was coming from the fight...

"Ooh? What might that be? Are the machines malfunctioning? Or maybe...maybe someone is fighting there!"

She jumps up as she lands on her flying motorcycle...

"I must check it out! No matter what it is!"

We are back in the fight...Niza was gaining more speed as her blows are close to hitting Aky, on the other hand Aky seems to get kind of sweaty and exhausted from this...as he sees that Niza won't stop, he decides to finally use a move that could damage her at least a bit and most importantly give him lots of distance in between them. He quickly lowers himself down under her leg as she was about to kick him, he aims his open palm to her torso as it fires an explosion which sends her flying back a lot. She doesn't seem to be damaged by that blast a lot, but by her happy expression, she is getting excited...

"Finally! You hurt me! But you can hurt me more!"

Realizing that she will have to push him more so she can have a taste of his power, Niza forms a flame ring around her as she dashes forward towards him. Then she suddendly stops in the air as she aims her palm at Aky, all of her flame rings get absorbed into her palm...

"Have a taste of a real explosion!"

She screams out as she fires a big explosion at Aky. His eyes widen as he then leaps to the side, barely avoiding the blast, a bit of his robe gets ripped off because of the blast...

"Dang, so you can use flames too?! I guess I'll have to take you even more seriously..."

Aky says as he faces Niza who was still levitating in the air, she smiled as she landed quickly in front of him. Her body was slowly getting more and more covered in flames as she was obviously gaining more and more power...

"That's right! You should have taken me seriously from the beginning! I'm not a weakling you smartass!"

Niza screams our as she suddendly disappears in front of Aky's eyes...

"She's getting faster..."

Aky says. A few seconds of silence...and then...

"...dang it!!"

Aky says as he lifts his arm up, he blocks a powerful blow from Niza who charged up to him with so much force and speed. She seems to be getting as fast as the speed of sound now, impossible to be seen by the regular eye...

"You are sweating! Come on! Fight back, Aky!!"

Niza just keeps getting faster as she begins running all around Aky as she was waiting for him to drop his guard down. Aky was concentrated as he was kind of able to see Niza's movements...and barely...just barely, he blocked her powerful punch which was aiming to his torso, it sends him flying back a lot...

"Ooh!! Niza's fighting! And it seems like she is fighting someone that seems to be in a similar race as her!"

The green haired girl says as she was levitating close to the celling of the mine with her motorcycle, Yugi notices her and screams out from the distance:

"Gise! Get out of here! Get back to checking those machines!"

Gise twirls her hair as she lays down on her motorcycle...

"Come on Yugiiii, can't I just watch the show for once? The machines haven't been malfunctioning for months after all!"

Yugi grunts a bit and sighs as he shrugs it off. Gise then gets a bag of fish chips as she watches the fight...

"Thank yooou!"

Gise said as she winks at Yugi's direction. Back to the fight, Aky seems to be struggling in blocking and dodging Niza's blows as some of them scratch him and even land. Niza's speed increases now as she gets under Aky's arms, she's about to land a punch...

"You're wide open! HAH!"

And then, finally...

- WHAM!!! -

Niza finally lands a clean punch to Aky's torso as it sends him flying into the air, he kind of endured it, but when he thought that was the only blow, Niza jumps towards him quiclkly as she lands another blow which was now a clean kick to the throat. Aky gets sent back to the wall as he looked knocked out, his eyes were getting pale...Niza then lands in front of him and grabs him bs his hair as she talks to his face:

"How was that huh?! I guess you finally learned who the strongest is! It is me of course! You were such a coward you didn't even fight back!"

Aky's eyes were almost completely pale as he was about to pass out...but then he puts a hand on Niza's shoulder...

"...coward?"

He says in a low tone, Niza looked surprised as she looked at him with a bit of shock in her face...

"Yes! You are a cowa-"

Aky's right arm moves up quickly as he then lands a powerful punch to Niza's stomach while he was holding on to her shoulder, the punch creates a big shockwave from Niza's back, Niza grunts in pain:

"G-GUUH!"

Aky wasn't done, he looks at her as his eyes were now back to normal. Then he gets his hand off her shoulder as he punches her again, that punch sends her back flying towards Yugi, Risa and Okure...

"Here she comes!"

Okure says as Niza was about to land on them, but Niza stops in the air at the right time, she looked really excited...

"That...that's a real punch from a man like you!"

Green flame rings form around Niza as her fire power and temperature increases, she opens both of her palms in front of her as the rings began to get absorbed in her hands...

"NOW FIGHT ME FOR REAL!"

She screams out as she fires a massive green flame wave towards Aky while he was staying there. Aky raises his hand a bit as he forms a gun in his hand by raising his thumb, index and middle finger. Then a big flame ball began to form above his index and middle finger...

"Orange flame style..."

Aky says that as he dashes forward and then he avoids the big green flame wave. In a matter of seconds, he was in front of Niza as he aimed his fireball towards her, luckily Yugi, Risa and Okure got out of there right on time, right before the big impact...

"...Fireball..."

Aky says in a cold tone of voice as he releases the fireball towards Niza, it sends her backwards as she is not able to push it back and it finally exploded as soon as she made contact with the wall behind her. That explosion did a big amount of damage on Niza as her sweater was almost completely torn off, her body didn't have much scratches. She was breathing heavily as she seemed to be very exhausted from this fight, Aky then appears in front of her as he charges a punch at her, but she barely dodges it. The punch hit the giant wall behind Niza and it made a big crack on it, Niza was surely amazed by Aky's strength. She realizes that she has to increase her power just to have a fair fight with Aky...and so she does, the flames on her body turn from green to white...

"You are so strong...but I won't give up yet!"

Niza screams out as she lands a clean and quick punch in Aky's face which sends him back a bit. Aky smiled as he began to enjoy this fight too, he gets back in his fighting stance as he is ready for any move that is made by Niza. She charges at him once again as she is about to punch him...

"Come on!"

Niza screams out, Aky as well goes for the hit as he is about to punch her. Both of them hit eachother in the face with such force and speed, they were barely able to see those punches themselves because of how fast they were. Both of their punches made two shockwaves, the whole mine trembles like it was hit by an average earthquake, it was barely felt on the surface since the mine is so deep underground. Aky gets back to his senses as he gets back to his fighting stance, Niza was about to throw another punch at him but he already got his counter attack ready, he lowers himself down under her arms as he slides his one leg back and the other one gets launched at Niza as it hits the top of her torso and her face, it of course sends her back as she hits the wall with a huge amount of force. Aky is suddendly disturbed by some crunching sounds, he turns around and looks up just to see Gise munching her snacks while she is watching the fight...

"Ah?! Who...Who let a child in here?! This place is too dangerous for you!"

Gise then grins as she takes a bite...

"Don't worry! I'm a master class her-"

Her expression changes as she realizes that she is mistaken for a child because of how short she is, she is now really grumpy...

"C...CHILD?! I'M 22 YEARS OLD YOU DUMMY! JUST BECAUSE I'M SHORT IT DOESN'T MEAN I'M A TODDLER!"

Gise then looks away from Aky a bit as she points at Niza's current direction...

"By the way, watch out!"

Aky then looks back as he blocks a high kick from Niza that was coming from his left, he gets sent sliding to his right after that blow. Aky leaps quickly on a wall as he is about to launch himself towards Niza while she was once again forming flame rings around her body as now they are white and way hotter than the green ones, all those rings get absorbed into her hands as she is about to shoot a flame wave at Aky. Gise was watching them as she is excited as never before because of a fight...

"Impressive, even while using her white flames, Niza barely stands a chance against Aky while he is only using normal orange flames...that guy is something else. I know that Niza can produce flames that can be extremely hot and that her hottest flames are the pink flames, Aky probably has even a higher mastery and power of his flames, perhaps he also has pink flames but it could be that even those are not his maximum...could it be...that he is able to use blue flames?! If he pulls that up Niza would stand no chance! And even at this point...their power combined is enough to almost completely crumble a planet!"

Gise said as she watched the fight. Niza finally fires her flame wave as she screams out, but Aky on the other hand had a plan already. He launches forward as he dodges the flame wave quickly, while being in the air he changes his flame colour to white, seems like Gise was right, Aky is also able to change the colour of his flames. He had a white fireball formed above his index and middle finger as he is probably going to do the same thing he did the first time Niza shot the flame wave towards him. But no, Niza remembered the dirty move he did on her the first time she fired the flame wave, so she uses her ability to shift the flame wave back towards her as it was now going towards Aky, but then...Aky shot his fire ball at the blast as he stops it from hitting him, around his other arm he had white flame rings and as soon as he got close to Niza he aimed his palm towards her...

"Flame beam!"

He screams out as a big white flame beam shoots out of his palm and it sends Niza flying back into the celling of the mine, it was so strong that it even got her through the celling as she is now going to the surface, and finally Niza reaches the surface of the planet, but instead of being in a crowded city or on a mountainside, she is in the depths of an ocean! She quickly gets back to her senses as she is about to go back through the hole that was made by the beam, but Aky came out of it sooner than expected as he tackled her very quickly to the air above the ocean.

Back in the cave, seeing that the mine will get flooded by the ocean water, Gise raises both of her hands in the air as she uses her ability...telekinesis! She uses it to stretch all the rocks around the hole to block the water, and she succeeded to do it. Gise wipes her sweaty forehead...

"Youch...that was close! Stretching objects is harder than anyone thinks. Now I just have to go back to the surface to watch these two fight!"

Yugi screams at her from the elevator as he was inside of it with Okure and Risa:

"We are going too, you know! So get one of those big flying machines with you!"

Gise nods as she gets in the elevator with them.

Now back from above the deep ocean, Aky grabbed Niza's hand after tackling her high above the ocean as he gives her another gut punch which sends her flying back, obviously she was exhausted, but she is far from giving up just like Aky is...

"Damn, you are smarter than you look...you idiot!"

She charges forward with a smile as she is about to land another punch, but she gets easily countered by Aky as he gets under her and sends an elbow to her torso and after that he spins for a bit before delivering a kick to her face. Niza was pissed, but very excited at the same time, she floats in the air as she is looking at Aky with a big smile on her face...

"You have so much skill...I haven't been struggling like this in a fight for so long! It is making me finally go all out! Which I will obviously do!"

Niza closes both of her fists as the flames around her began to change colour, her eyes then began to emit flames which were also changing colour, she was beginning to grin a lot while doing that, it was like she is a real psycho. On the other hand, Aky was looking impressed and excited as he began to emit more white flames from his body, now even from his eyes as he is using the full power of those flames...

"I gotta say, you are a real deal! I haven't been fighting seriously for so long! I don't even remember if I have ever fought someone like you!"

Aky screams out as he once again charges a white fire ball above his fingers. Niza finally finished covering her body with pink flames as she is now using her full power against Aky...

"I hope you are ready! Because now I'm going full on!"

Niza charges at Aky with a speed that is far beyond the speed of sound as her movement is barely seen by a human eye. Aky absorbs the fire ball into his fist to make his punch even stronger. They both charge at eachother as their fists collide, the aftershock was so strong that it made a giant earthquake that shook not only the whole city of Sendai, but the whole country of Japan as well, even the wind that was coming from the collision was felt all around the world. For the second time in the fight, Niza began to get the edge over Aky as she was now faster and more agile than him, and she is even more durable as she was able to tank multiple punches that came from him...

"Damn, she really is something else in this state, I can barely block these attacks, let alone dodge them! Think...think! Use a technique to at least push her back!"

Aky thought to himself as he then finally uses a technique that could help him. He lets himself get hit by Niza as he uses shaori to absorb the punch and then take it back to the sender, it sends Niza flying back as she is really impressed by Aky's skill...

"Your skill is so remarkable Aky! That should really give you the edge in this fight! But no! You still decide to hold back your full strength! Come on! Fight me with your full strength! I can summon pink flames and I'm sure that you can go even beyond that! So show me that strength! AKY!!"

Niza screams at Aky as he remembers that he can actually get stronger than this, but he just doesn't know how...

"How...how can I go beyond this point of power? I know I can...but...how?"

- End of chapter -