- Chapter 4 - Like water

"What's with the blank face?! You know that you can get even stronger than that!"

Niza shouted at Aky as he was obviously not beint at his strongest at the moment. Aky was confused as he didn't know how he can go even beyond this current power...

"I won't fight you like this! Use your full strength on me already!"

Niza shouted again as she was getting pretty furious now. Aky clenches his fists as he tried his best to reach an even higher level of power, but it was futile, the white flames around him only got bigger for a few moments. Once again he did the same but he shows more strain while doing it, but still, nothing happened...

"Are you pretending to hide that power from me?! Are you mocking me?! Or...you are really just a disappointment and you can't beat me at my fullest. I guess white flames are your fullest..."

Niza said to Aky while she was obviously beginning to look down on him while he tried his best to get even stronger than this. After a few moments he gave up, but still he didn't want to back down. He stood straight as he was looking at Niza with a look of determination, he may not be as strong to beat her, but he will put up a good fight against her for sure. Niza smiled as she felt that he isn't going to go easy even at his full power which is weaker than her full power...

"This may be my fullest, but I still believe that I can win...I think I have about 30 percent win rate against you at this point, you are faster and more durable than me now, but I still have a slight edge in strength! So I still have to fight like this is my last battle! Once a fight starts between me and someone else, I'll finish it and I won't run away! I'll use all my strength and I'll fight until the last spark of energy in my body is destroyed!"

Aky said. Niza smiled even more now as the pink flames around her began to get even bigger, she is amazed by Aky's mentality...

"Ooh! I like that warrior mentality of yours! You were trained well in the past! Come at me now! We started this fight and we will finish it! Right here and now!"

Niza says. Suddendly a flying pod appears from out of the ocean, inside of it were Yugi, Gise, Okure and Risa. Risa looks at Aky and Niza in shock as she is amazed at how powerful both of them are, she was especially amazed at how much power Aky was hiding for this long...

"Aky...he has the power to exterminate the whole humanity, he hid it for this long, he knew that it is very deadly. But I know that he is holding back his full power, this isn't his fullest, he just doesn't realize it!"

Risa said while Okure was close to her and watching both of the dragons emit bigger flames from their bodies...

"Well, he should know his limit just like Niza does, so this might as well be his limit..."

Okure says, but Gise then interrupts them both:

"I don't know what theory I should believe, I thought the same as Risa a few moments ago, but now...I think the victor is going to be Niza. But! There is a chance Aky might pull it off, Niza beats him in speed and durability now, but he still has the slight edge in strength and his combat skill is nothing to be joking about. While Niza is more like a brawler, Aky is a quick adapter and learner, he thinks a lot about his moves and if he gets a clean combo on her and hits her vital spots she might be knocked down!"

Risa looks at Gise with a worried expression...

"But...what are the chances of him actually pulling off the win?"

Risa said to Gise, Gise shrugs a bit with her shoulders and says:

"Not quite sure, but given how much advantages he has over Niza, I'll say it's about 25 percent. It might be low, but it's still not zero!"

Risa looks back at the two. Both Niza and Aky have powered up to the point that their flames were emitting from their mouths, eyes, hair and tails. Niza charges forward and Aky does the same. Aky barely avoids Niza's right fist as he lands a clean punch to her cheek, then he quickly grabs her right hand as he throws her down to the ocean. Niza quickly recovered from it as she goes back to him with a speed that is way faster than the speed of sound, Aky does the same as they began exchanging blows in the air, their movements were so fast that Gise was barely able to display them on her recording device which was able to slow down objects that move at the speed of sound and display them in a very high detail, but in this situation her device was seeing blurry images of Aky and Niza...

"Amazing, their speed is so fast that my recording device can barely see them clearly in the slowest slow motion! They are multiple times faster than the speed of sound! Aky might even pull this off!"

Gise said. Aky then knocks back Niza once again as he summons a white flame ball in palm, he closes his fist as the ball is now absorbed into his whole arm. He dashes forward quickly, Niza has already recovered as she dashes forward too. She knew what Aky might do, so as soon as Aky got close to her with his fist she pushes his whole arm up with her palm as Aky's punch releases its energy, it was so powerful that it made a big hole in the clouds. He wasn't able to counter Niza's moves as she was now too fast for him again. Niza smiled as she quickly grabs Aky's arm with her legs and rotates her whole body as Aky gets sent into the ocean. Niza puts her hands up in the air as she was creating big pink flame rings around her body, she was creating a massive fire ball in her hands. Everyone from the flying pod watched in shock as she was powering her fire ball...

"Oh no, if that ball reaches the sky it might be game over not only for Aky, but for the whole Japan as well! I have to do something!"

Gise said as she quickly flies out of the pod, she aims her palms in Niza's direction, the fire ball stopped expanding for a bit as Gise began using her telekinesis to try and shrink it...

"Niza! You moron! Stop tha-"

Gise screams out, but Niza cuts her off as she breaks her fireball out of Gise's telekinesis:

"Shut your mouth shortass! I'll do whatever I want since I've finally gotten someone worthy of fighting me! I'll use my full strength to make him black out! And he shall do the same!"

Niza screams as she laughs like a maniac and just makes her fireball even bigger now to the point when it's almost touching the clouds, good thing they are far away from the city so they are unnoticable.

Aky was deep in the sea as he steps on a stone floor of a coral which was going deep into the depths of the ocean. He looks up as he was clearly able to see the massive pink fire ball Niza was making, his eyes widen in shock...

"You...idiot...you will go this far to just win a fight? Now I'm fighting not only for my life, but for the life of the people of Japan..."

Aky thought to himself. He quickly came with a plan on how to stop that massive fire ball. With all his strength he swings his fist upwards as he splits a part of the ocean for a bit just enough for him to charge up his flames. With his flame powers he creates a big flame whip in his hands and a big flame blade at the end of the whip, he swings it quickly as he then charges upwards towards the gigantic fire ball, the ocean below him got back to normal but he was already above it.

"The outcome of this battle is already clear to me! You were worthy, but still not strong enough!"

Niza screams out. Everyone got shocked as they saw Aky jump out of the ocean with his weapon which was fully made out of white flames.

"So Aky can form anything out of his flames?! Niza can't do that as far as I know!"

Gise says with excitement. Niza threw the fire ball in Aky's direction, the more Aky swung the whip, the blade on it got bigger and bigger as it was now big enough to cut the fireball apart. He finally swings it as he was still flying up very fast, the blade smoothly cuts the fireball and it instantly explodes and it creates a barrage of "fireworks" which fly around and explode like real fireworks, that was indeed noticed by the citizens of Japan, they can't believe what is happening, first an earthquake and now a massive firework show? No human has ever seen such an event of nature.

Aky was floating in the air as he was obviously exhausted from the power increase since the blade of the whip became so massive that it was even going beyond the clouds. Niza looks at Aky with shock and frustration as she realizes that he was actually holding back this ability of his all this time. She clenches her fists...

"You've been holding this ability back all this time?! You moron...you didn't use your full power to fight me after all! I've had enough of this!"

Niza screams as she makes the pink flames around her even bigger...

"I'm finishing you right here and right now! If you won't use all your strength to beat me, then I'll beat you with all my might and power! And I won't hold back on breaking your body either!"

Niza screams out as she charges forward at the exhausted Aky, he was about to block her punch but then she spins her body as she delivers a powerful kick to Aky's right side which sends him flying to the left. Aky couldn't do anything but to just block, he didn't have enough stamina to fly quickly, all he can rely on is his durability and blocking. Niza got close to him in a second as she delivers another kick but to his stomach, that sends him deep into the ocean, but as soon as he turned his head down he saw Niza again as she grabbed him by his tail and threw him out of the ocean. Then she proceeded to follow him up by launching herself out of the ocean, she swung him up into the sky beyond the clouds. As soon as Aky has stopped flying up Niza punched him to the stomach as she sends him flying up even more. Aky just kept groaning and screaming in pain as Niza has now surpassed him a lot. She is not stopping though, after that punch she delivers another kick as she sends him flying even more. Under them was the pod with others as they were following them. Risa's eyes widen in shock as now a sudden flame of rage begins to burn within her as she is watching Aky getting beat up by Niza. Aky was still concious but he was barely able to see in front of him at this point, he can just hear Niza's screams and feel the pain she is delivering to him. After a few more minutes of getting beaten up, Aky got grabbed by the throat by Niza...

"You were holding up pretty great, but still, you are just not too strong...you are weak to me!"

Niza said. But all of the sudden...

- ZZZAP!!! -

An electric arrow is shot between Aky and Niza. It was Risa as she was staying on top of the pod with her electric bow, she was gazing at Niza's eyes with pure rage...

"Let Aky go...you've taken this too far you moron!"

Risa said. Niza smirks as she actually lets go of Aky, but he was already unconcious so he falls down towards the ocean. Gise immidiately flies out of the pod with her motorcycle towards Aky, but it was too late, he was already deep inside of the ocean. Risa aims her bow towards Niza...

"Your opponent is me now!"

Risa screams out. Niza's smirk gets even bigger as she sees how determined Risa is, so she just laughs...

"Hahah! Ahahahah! I guess you are ready to lose again! Bring it on!"

Back in the ocean, Gise has transformed her motorcycle into a mini submarine as she was searching for Aky's unconcious body...

"Damn it! That crazy girl! She always takes things too far, but not this far! I have to find him! I still believe that he can beat her, he most definitely has a hidden power that is even beyond Niza's pink flame. Please...please...where are you?"

Gise said while she was turning on her heat detection device which was able to detect heat from anything from even a few kilometers away. And almost instantly, she saw a humanoid figure going deep down into the depths of the ocean right below her. She immidiately goes to check if that's Aky and it was indeed him. But his pupils were all white and the heat of his body was going down, though he was still showing a sign of life as his chest is sees pulsing, it was of course his slow heartbeat. Gise sighs as she is glad that Aky is alive and not fully unconcious after all. She pushes his body towards a nearby rock as she is preparing a set of robotic arms to carry him back to the surface.

Back into the sky, Risa was still aiming her bow at Niza...

"What's wrong? Scared to shoot? You know that you are still not able to beat me as of now! You were barely even holding up when I was using my white flames! Do you think you can take me down while I'm in my pink flames?"

Niza said, but Risa didn't take her eyes off her and just kept adding up more voltage to her bow...

"Shut your mouth! I'll teach your egotistical ass a lesson! You have taken this too far!"

Risa screams at Niza. But Niza just laughs again and says:

"Oh? I have just been very excited! Hah!"

After those words Risa gets even more furious...

"You call this excitement?! This is just nothing more than an intention to kill! Is this the way a hero treats others?! Tell me!"

Risa says. Niza just laughs even more but then looks down at Risa with a sadistic smirk on her face...

"I can do whatever I want, human! With all this power, I'm just unstoppable! I'm the world's main weapon! I'm the definition of power!"

Niza says as she is now acting like a complete maniac. Risa then just fires her arrow at her as she has finally had enough of her talking.

All of the sudden, we are sent back into the past. In front of us is a younger Aky as he is hanging upside down on a tree branch while playing with a small fire ball in his hands. Below him was someone taller and older...

"You seem to be pretty impressed by that fire power of yours Aky! But one day you will make those flames of yours even stronger."

Says the person below him as they've had a voice of a 30 year old man. Aky nods as he keeps on playing with the fire ball in his hands...

"I know! I'll be able to create even bigger fire balls than these! And I'll even be able to create my own flame sword or axe...or a flame staff! I just have to keep training so I can reach those goals!"

The person below him chuckles as they hear those words coming from him...

"By the way, I have to tell you something Aky."

The person says and Aky almost immidiately gets off the tree branch to listen to them...

"In your path towards your goals there will be many things that will try to stop you. But you have to go through them. Water is an element that can go anywhere it wants. It flows through a smallest crack and it eventually gets to the other side. Be like water, don't let those barriers stop you from making your goal come true. Just remember...be like water!"

The picture blurrs out as we are now taken to the present time. Gise was going to grab Aky but she stops as she suddendly sees through thermometer that his body is getting hotter now. She backs away immidiately as soon as she notices that...

"He...he is getting hotter? Huh?!"

Gise says as she also notices that his eyes are slowly gaining their norm green colour. She doesn't know how he is regaining his body heat, but she does know that she has to stay back. Why? Well, Aky's heat is now getting even hotter than ever before.

"Holy crap...what is happening? His body is so hot that it's even boiling the water around him! Good thing that he is getting back. This might also mean that...he might be able to get back into the fight!"

Gise says with excitement and relief.

Back to the surface, Niza charges forward at Risa as she delfects the arrow that has been shot at her...

"Your puny arrows won't do crap to me! Now prepare to be knocked out cold!"

Niza was about to get close to Risa, but all of the sudden her tail was grabbed by something pretty hot. Niza looks back as she sees Aky grabbing on to her tail with his hand...

"Ah?! So you are back for more huh?! Bring it on! I'll knock you out again!"

Niza was about to punch Aky, but she was thrown back into the air by him. She looked down on him as she was shocked...

"How did he get back? He lost all his energy, right? He must have lost it! But...he is now full of energy and he is even more heated up! What's with him?!"

Niza tought to herself. Aky had a cold expression on his face as he was floating upwards so he can look straight at Niza...

"Alright, I guess it's time to end this now..."

Aky then relaxes his fists as a few blue sparks appear around his body and soon enough his whole body is covered in blue flames. Risa's expression is now fixed as she is once again excited and glad that Aky is back to fight once again. Niza looks at Aky with shock but she gets very angry once again...

"So you have been keeping even more power away from me?! I'll let you know what happens to people who play with my power and my pride!"

Niza screams out as she quickly charges towards Aky. She lands a clean punch on his cheek, but this time Aky just ate the punch. He was staring at Niza as the punch dealed nearly to no damage to him. He didn't say anything, he just immidiately grabs Niza by her face and with a blinding speed pushes her into the ocean and in a matter of seconds they were on the bottom of it. The blue flame basically made him even faster than anyone's eye as his movement was just completely invisible to Niza. Aky lets go of Niza's face as he then punches her gut so hard that he created a wide hole on the ocean floor under them. He then proceeds to stomp her gut as he grabs her by her hands. He then throws her out of the ocean water back above the ocean. Niza was sent back there from the bottom od a deep ocean, she just couldn't believe it. Aky was also too fast now as he was now holding her torso with a chain made out of blue flames, Niza tries to break out but the chains were too tough to break. Aky then swings the chain as he throws Niza back to the land towards a big mountain. She stops right in front of the big mountain, but the she steps on it as she dashes forward so she can get back to Aky. But he came back to her as he punched her right in the gut once again which sent her flying into the mountain. The hit was so hard that she even flew thrught the mountain to the other side of it. She gets back in her position in the air as pink flame rings appear around her body, she immidiately absorbs them into her hands as she fires a massive flame wave towards Aky. But now Aky just goes through the flame wave as he appears right in front of Niza. He delivers a powerful kick to her face as he sends her flying down to the ground. Niza was laying down for a bit before Aky charges at her once again, but this time she barely dodges his hit as she pushes herself to the side but she gets sent flying a bit by the wind of the impact of Aky's blow to the ground. It even caused another small earthquake to happen, but this one was barely felt by the civillians of Japan and China. Yes, they are now in between Japan and China. Niza then stands up and looks at Aky...

"You...you are not holding back huh? How unlikely for a gentleman...hah hah!"

Niza says. But Aky just sighs...

"Sometimes I have to stop being nice to you, I hope you understand that..."

Aky says with a cold tone of voice as he almost instantly appears in front of Niza and grabs her by her hand which was in the air as she was in her combat stance. He squeezes her arm hard as he quickly spins around in the air and slams her body hard on to the ground which makes a big hole on it. He still didn't let go as he proceeds to slam her body against the ground once again. Niza grunts in pain as she is now being the weaker one, she realized that. Upon that realization, she bursts out a flame explosion in Aky's face and hand as she quickly moves her arm out of his hand. She then backs away a bit but then gets back to Aky as she begins to send a flurry of punches that were mostly hitting his face and his torso. Those punches seemed to be effective against him, but in the end the only thing she did to him is a small scratch on his cheek which he just swipes with his thumb.

"Very fast and strong, but still...not strong enough!"

Aky says that with a small smirk on his face as he grabs Niza by her arm again and kicks her in the gut which sends her back towards the mountain. Niza grunts in pain and frustration as she holds her stomach. As soon as she looks forward she sees Aky aiming his fingers at her just like before, the same hand gesture which was forming a gun. Blue flames began to appear in front of his fingers as he is forming a blue fire ball. Niza could barely move at this point so this seems to be the conclusion of this battle.

"Blue flame style...Fireball"

Aky says with a cold tone of voice. Niza looks in front of her as she is about to meet her fate. But before Aky could shoot out his fire ball, Niza falls down on her knees as she is seriously beat up, she could barely move so if Aky shot that fire ball at her it would be the end for her and she knew it.

"Listen...I...I surrender...I accept defeat. I admit it, you were stronger than me Aky..."

Niza looks up at Aky with an unexpected smile on her face. Aky then lowers his hand down as the fire ball disappears. Soon enough he falls to his knees too as he was out of energy as well. So the winner of this fight is Aky!

Above another mountain was a drone as it was recording the fight. It seems like it has recorded since the two have been fighting above the ocean. Then we see a monitor with a footage of the fight on it. A girly voice says:

"Well well, it seems like we've caught another pair of demi-humans, but these are the most valuable ones!"

And then a manly voice of a 40 year old speaks up:

"Yes, and it looks like they are Yugi's properity. This might even lead us to the location of his base. Great job Clarie!"

- End of chapter -