"oh god..." I shivered like a puppy drenched in cold water. As for the reason I was shivering.. I didn't know.
Most would think it was the terror that clouded my mind but... Maybe it wasn't the terror but the overwhelming exhilaration I was getting from deep within my soul.
"You mind repeating that boy?" The man sitting opposite me asked a smile on his face, his tone dripping with condescension which infuriated me to no end.
'Damn it! Control your stupid body bro!!' I screamed in my mind trying to calm down my body, even just to give this guy one final middle finger, but alast I could only manage a strained yet malevolent and arrogant grin.
Seeing my grin at first he looked at me in surprise his eyes wide then his expression shifted. His smile from earlier turned upside down.
"You have a suicide wish huh kid. Fine then your wish shall be granted." He said raising his index finger that was previously resting on the dining table with the rest of his hand and tapped the table once.
Now of course here I was sitting terrified yes, but also excited for some reason.. and in no way did the situation elude me. I knew exactly what was happening. Infact my instincts were all screaming to move, get out of the way. There was one slight problem with that though. I couldn't move!
So what do I do in this situation you might ask. Simple wait for the final result of what seemed to be death's incoming call. My energy flowed into the ring from earlier, my mind tried it's best to move my body and my destruction ability activating to destroy the chair under me so I could maybe fall and roll out of the way.
'If non of these work, I guess I'm dead then.' I thought laughing to myself.
Only three seconds had passed when the spear started falling. As the spear fell it sped up until. "shzzz" came a sound.
Centimeters away from me the spear froze. Blocked by a purple wall that looked as if it was solid but from the occasional ripples you could tell it wasn't a solid.
"Are you trying to kill my grandson Yusako." Came the angry voice of a woman I couldn't see but I knew it was definitely my grandma.
'Oh how I love you, grandma.' I sighed in my heart feeling greatful and relieved to know I was alive and could move again.
"Yamiko, your 'grandson' just insulted my mother and did many other things that I would normally kill someone for. Don't you think I should at least give him a lesson!"
"Oh he insulted your mother? It's a good thing we don't have the same mother brother else I might have let you do as you please but unfortunately for you, we don't so deactivate your ability and I will discipline the boy later. " My grandma replied as she came to stand beside me.
I sat on the ground because I had destroyed the chair earlier so I got up and dusted out my kimono. After finishing I looked at the man called Yusako and although I wanted to give a snarky grin a thought froze me.
'Man, that would've been so cool to do, I wonder if I could do that someday.' With this thought my view of the man shifted.
I started to look up to the man a little for his ability and the elegance he moved with. His dark purple hair and onyx black eyes. The aged mature look he had plus the black beard that formed a v shape under his chin reaching about his neck collar bone. All these features stood out and gave the man a powerful look and presence.
My thoughts ever shifting I decided to apologize at the very least, so I bowed my head slightly and said..
"Hey, look I'm sorry gramps or great uncle or whatever. I spoke too bluntly and I do apologize for my rudeness." I said half sincerely, the other half not so much but in the end all that mattered was I apologized.
"Hmph, brat you trying to call me old?" The man asked his face scrunched in a displeased expression.
'He didn't deny my apology so that's good.' I thought sighing.
"Good he apologized so you can calm down and stop acting like a man child now." Yamiko chipped in making sure I wouldn't have to go through that scarily thrilling experience again.
With everything calm now we sat back down, well they did. I had to wait for a maid to bring a new chair for me.
After some useless back and forth between Yusako and Yamiko other people began entering the room until 9 out of the 10 chairs in the room was occupied.
Everyone was talking to each other. While I sat silently next to Yuro who was silent except for the occasional dry yes or no he gave when someone besides Yura asked him a question.
The maids eventually brought out a bunch of dishes that smelled heavenly.
Before I could begin eating though my grandma stood up and raised a glass filled with red wine.
"Today we as the Saiketsu family assemble once again for the family meeting and though we aren't all here. We still give thanks for those that are." She said as she raised here cup to her mouth before stopping halfway...
"Oh and I would also like to welcome a new member to our family, Ryouto, my grandson. Also the son of my son Ryoso.
She said directing her cup at me when she finished speaking.
Which made everyone turn their heads towards me.
'Man this is nerve-racking.' I thought to myself. Luckily for me however grandma spoke up once again gathering everyone's attention.
"Let's toast to our continued prosperity!" She shouted.
With that the feasting began. We spent quite some time inside dining room just eating and chatting until we eventually ended up in the yard in front the house.
Where there was light posts for us to see surprisingly so it wasn't completely dark. In fact the area looked pretty bright considering that I could see almost as good as the day time.
But enough about that apparently the main event was just starting.
"And...it starts!" My grandma shouted as fireworks of all different colors lit the sky after it faded words made from some type of purple energy appeared in the sky. The words read..
"Let the battle selection begin?" I questioned myself reading the words that seemed engraved in the night sky.
"It's a tradition, when the family is reunited like this there has to be a battle between two people but no one person can choose who battles. So we vote." Yuro said to me as he looked up at the words with his usual distant demeanor.
Soon the voting was done and surprise surprise.. I was selected to battle. Against who? I imagine you might wonder well non other than..
'No flipping way, why him... Why Yuro?' Now you might not understand but I had a gut feeling saying he's the last person here to piss off. Although he was one of the youngest, if we excluded the kid that seemed to be 11 maybe 12. While Yuro and Yura seemed to be twins and looked like 18 or so.
Eventually we ended up in the middle of the field. Yuro standing opposite me with his hands in his pockets, his usual relaxed pose and plain look on his face.
While I stood facing him hands at my side, ring glowing from the adjustments made to it, face serious and body tense. The rest of the family stood off to the side watching us.
'I hope this ring can at least help me somehow.' earlier before we had started getting ready for the battle Yamiko took my ring and gave it to a man in his thirties, he did some weird thing and it started glowing for some reason. Apparently they had made it so the force field is a little different from usual and my clothes aren't going to get destroyed if I go full power. Whatever that means.
"Ready kid?" Yuro asked wanting to know if I was ready.
"Yeah. I'm ready." I said my voice steady. This would be my first battle outside of training. Although it wasn't life and death it was still a battle.
Saying so I activated my ability. Purple energy surrounded my hands and began swirling in a clockwise direction. Raising my hand the energy followed as I got into a boxing stance. Left hand in front the other, right foot behind the other and energy chaotic like no other.
Yuro on the other hand simply stood there hands in his pockets until he took out one hand, lifted it, pointed at me and 'boom!' A violent purple energy surged out from his entire body. Next thing I knew he was in front of me, finger directly touching the middle of my forehead.
'How?? He's so fast!' I thought trying to figure out how a human could move that fast.
But realizing he was in front of me my hand instinctively reached to touch his hand that was touching my forehead. Before reaching his hand however he was suddenly back in his original position. Like if he just glitched out of reality and came back...
"Bro what the hell's going on how are you that fast, is that your ability!?" I asked really confused about what he was doing.
"Yeah something like that, my ability name is linked-destroyer. Earlier I destroyed the movement it would take me to reach you. That's how I ended up there so fast." Yuro said looking at me with his usual relaxed face.
"What?... How am I supposed to defeat that..." I said putting my hands to my side.
"Don't worry I got some weaknesses you just have to find it." He said giving me a smile as he walked closer to me eventually standing arms length away from me and took his hands out his pockets.
"Let's fight using our fists for now though." And with that he threw a punch towards me. The punch was fast and came down at me swiftly. I barely managed to dodge by shifting my body and leaning my right.
Seeing the opportunity I sent a left jab towards his stomach as I couldn't aim any higher due to my height restriction. Realizing my punch was centimeters away from hitting him my heart jumped with some joy but the next moment Yuro hand slapped my hand away to his left. Making it go off course and causing me to lose my balance because of the force I had pushed my fist forward with.
'shit!' I screamed in my mind as Yuro's palm that hand slapped away my fist earlier curled into a ball as he pulled back his hand and bam! His fist shot forward and struck my face. The impact it made was clear for all to hear, or at least that's how it sounded to me who was dazed and sent flying back. My mind in a mess, nose bleeding and eyes unfocused I landed on the ground.
"Cough,cough!" I choked out blood onto my face. Mind still dazed I saw Yuro walking to me through my blurry vision and something flared inside me. I didn't know if it was excitement or maybe the addrenaline, but I knew I wasn't going down from just one punch.
With my will to fight I pushed my self up enough to sit on the ground, wiped my mouth that was covered in blood and I couldn't help but to look at Yuro and smirk. Looking back at me Yuro stopped and gave me back a similar smirk.
Rising up from the ground, standing once again on both feet my energy flared but unlike before now mixed in with the purple was a white greenish color too.
"Now I'm ready to go all out." I said as the energy that was once following my body started to spread out in a 360° radias until everything around me had traces of the energy making it look like a dome surrounding me and Yuro.
Yuro stood there looking at the dome around us, a bit curious I think. Now I wouldn't blame him because I didn't know what I should do right now either.
'Maybe I make guns with my creation ability and then destroy the ground, then when he moves in..' I thought thinking about how I could defeat Yuro.
Settling my thoughts I raised my hand, made a motion of sweeping the air and most of the greenish energy turned into guns. While the purple energy sank into the ground.
With a "Bam!" The battle truly began from this point.
3rd pov
The dome surrounding Ryouto and Yuro extended to about 100 to 200 meters. The rest of the family was outside of this radius but because of the transparency of the energy they could still see inside. What they were seeing would normally send shockwaves through any normal human but for these people it seemed trivial, like another everyday occurrence.
Back to the two boys in the dome. Shots rang out through the air. Yuro dodged left, right, jumped and did all sorts of menuvers to avoid the bullets raining from all directions. As he continued dodging he moved closer to Ryouto who stood opposite him originally.
Yuro dodging the bullets reached close enough to Ryouto to send out a punch straight for Ryouto's face, but the next moment his punch stopped in mid air. A bullet then flew past where his hand would have been if he had continued his attack.
'Damn, if I had sensed the danger... Even a second later that bullet would've left a straight hole through my wrist. The Kid's impressive to control so many guns with this much aim.' pulled out of his thoughts a moment later by the ground under him turning to dust as the purple energy began moving towards his slippers from the ground.
Realizing this he kicked of the ground and swung the slippers off his feet. Leaving only his socks.
'Damn this is getting dangerous really fast.' Still in the air Yuro thought. Realizing the dire situation he was in. The bullets, the destruction energy and Ryouto still hadn't moved since he created the dome.
Worst of all he was in the air, with dozens of bullets flying his direction. 'Guess I have to use it for real in this battle, linked destroyer!' sighing in his heart he resigned himself to having to use his ability against a kid.
The next instant he was in another part of the dome, completely unharmed. After recovering from the discomfort of changing positions so fast he began running towards Ryouto who had his back towards Yuro right now.
As Yuro drew closer Ryouto turned around with a shocked look at first but it soon changed to joy as Yuro seemed to trip and began falling face first to the floor as he was around 10 meters away from reaching Ryouto.
"Bam! Bam!" Sounded two gun shots as the bullets flew and tore a hole through Yuro's legs leaving him immobilized for the rest of this battle.
Seeing Yuro lying on the ground his legs limp. Lying face first on the ground Ryouto began walking to the down Yuro.
" I win huh." Ryouto said as he stopped, created a dessert eagle silver pistol in his hand and lifted it pointing straight towards the lying man.
"I guess so. But how did you do it? How did you make me trip?" Yuro asked as he stared up at Ryouto.
" I figured you'd want to finish me as soon as possible after that close call when you wanted to punch me a second time. So I created clear strings all round me so when you rushed to get close or even teleported to me you would get tied or tangled up by the strings and low and behold it worked!" Ryouto said grinning like the child he was.
"You win kid, you've got some good battle instincts but where'd you tie the strings?" Hearing his words Ryouto relaxed releasing his energy and sat down taking a deep breath.
"I can control anything I create, but thank God that's over." The red eyed boy said as his eyes soften and stopped glowing as the energy and weapons around him disappeared.
Ryouto POV:
"Congratulations!" The family said as I looked at them. My grandma especially as she smiled looking at me.
And this is how I officially became a Saiketsu. A cursed one.
This was only the preset of my journey though. Everything truly begins when we enter Sky High and begin to learn about this world and the secrets that was hidden from us. Most of all it's where I fit the pieces of the puzzles into place and uncover the secrets behind my grandmother's death and so much more.