Evolution as Thundering Fighter

Thunder Fang locked an irritated look at the cold Chemistra and charged out a surging electrical string that chained the punching knuckles. He heaved one of the thundering knuckles beside his ear before slamming down, enlightening the floating orb in the sky above.

However, the zapping thunder struck didn't appear due to Thunder Fang suddenly closing his ears with both of the surging hands and winced in agony. An aching shriek freed from his throat, causing The Oni Guy's knee to tremble into a kneeling position.

He could feel his head drumming an ear-piercing sound of a soundwave as if he was hearing an ultrasonic noise. Thunder Fang even forced himself to roll down on the ground and tightened the guarding hands at the ear.

Chemistra with a chilling stare she darted at her victim who succumbed to the sea-blue light, raised one of the injection fingers that were already being restored in the fresh state, and pressed the yellow button in a gentle manner. Pearl-yellow light waveringly replaced the blue light within The Chemist body.

It let Chemistra sigh in relief especially on witnessing Thunder Fang was still unsteadily rolling for enduring the everlasting ear-piercing sound. The Chemist heaved the five chemical fingers in a plunging position and channeled out glamouring dust of energy below her feet.

"Chemistra, Catch!!" A shouting from Agano's voice was caught by Chemistra's eagle-like hearing.

She steered her sight to the left and watched the paper card flee onto her like a speeding bullet. Chemistra hoisted her opened palm and precisely caught the paper card with her metal grip.

The Chemist glanced at Agano who recently retrieved his tossing hand and gave a thankful nod toward her comrade. She flipped the paper card and surprised her enlightened eyes on seeing the black-ink Kanji said, "Reflect."

"Learning a new technique, huh?" Chemistra asked.

"Very correct and yup I spent around ten hours to master that." Agano happily replied and peeked at the needle fingers, "You also did too which is turning your rocket finger into a teleporting bullet."

Agano chuckled, "Very impressive indeed."

"Yes and back to the mission right now." Chemistra scolded with a commanding glare. "Especially on how to disable those orb."

"Sure." Agano replied.

The Onmyouji smoothly pinned his sight on the two hovering orbs above, shining like a star in the night sky. He raised the paper card that had black Kanji that said, "Double" to his front sight before commanding his hand to grab something important inside the left side of the pant's pocket.

The object Agano grabbed with the lingering hand was none other than a silver-cyber antique pistol with blue lines glimmered on the rear parts. Hence, The Onmyouji tidily planted the paper card above the revolver and flickered on a temporal yellow light on the whole metal surface.

"It's lucky, I also trained my power to give a buff to an object," Agano murmured gladfully.

Whereas Chemistra swiftly dashed forward onto Thunder Fang's direction with a glossing yellow wave trailed her, obtaining a speed of lightning. It morphed The Chemist into a literal light bolt with the more time she spent on the dash.

Luckily, The Oni Guy could lift up his knee caps due to the tormenting blue light blinking out. The idzzy sound within his head was finally gone like a wind passing through and encouraged him to open a gladful smirk.

Alerting eyes of Thunder Fang wiped away the gladful smirk of his, turning it into a struggling grit. Thundering violet electric strings were vastly cast out to bind The Oni Guy wrists like a chain.

"You are pretty good switcheroo, I admit that." Thunder Fang praised with a deep tone.

As the dashing Chemistra was about to touch his skin, Thunder Fang launched a surging punch in a straight line. The single punch of The Oni Guy instantly stopped The Chemist movement similar to an unbreakable wall.

Chemistra dashing light-bolt form forcefully reverted back onto the physical form especially with the punch landing onto her body. Frightening eyes were raised from The Chemist side and she darted at Thunder Fang who slowly opened a gaily smile for landing the surging punch.

"But, I had faced an opponent similar to you back in my old days." Thunder Fang remarked, "Which means I also know how to counter it too."

Then, Chemistra chortled with a stoic tone, "And you already fell for my trap when you punched me."

Thunder Fang furrowed a puzzling eyebrows towards Chemistra and scanned her entire body from down to up. In an unfortunate way, the alerting scanning process failed as The Oni Guy was abruptly rammed by a hard-steel, reflecting force.

His hovering body slammed down the ground that hurtfully winced when enduring the tough ground. Thunder Fang sluggishly lifted his hefty head and witnessed Chemistra was enveloped by the soft yellow energy cloth.

A soft energy cloth that originated from the paper card Chemistra safely pasted on the backside of her metal thigh. The Oni Guy frowned with firing surprise for watching his opponent enveloped by the reflecting barrier that started to flicker like a dying light.

"Shit, I should focus more on The Onmyouji." Thunder Fang cursed.

With Thunder Fang slowly lifting his upper body and gripping one of his hands, Agano leveled his enlightened revolver to the right floating orb. The Onmyouji chortled with a thrilling demeanor as his finger was about to press the trigger.

"Alright, time to initiate this buffing shot." Agano exclaimed in exhilarating joyfulness, "Hopefully, it destroyed the orb."

A bluish energy shot with yellow energy enveloped the surface, flew vastly to the orb direction at lightning speed. The bullet punctured through the surging orb and it exploded the orb into ashes.

The howling sound of the orb explosion caught the irritating attention of Thunder Fang as he gritted his teeth with boiling annoyance. As The Oni Guy steered his vindictive gaze at The Onmyouji who repositioned the revolver on the next orb, pear-yellow light glimmered through on the whole body of his.

His body was now fully in a paralyzing state as any motions he attempted to move was frozen. With the pear-yellow light presumed, Thunder Fang couldn't even move his facial part to create an expression and even a sound from his throat didn't go out.

Then, Thunder Fang's mind replayed the previous incident when his attack was hit through his opponent, an inept thing occurred. Chemistra silently thrust the rallying needle fingers on the ground that vanished and respawned on behind him.

The thought replay soon faded away and brought back Thunder Fang to the present time for witnessing another heart-shattering thing. The last floating orb from sky above was pierced by The Onmyouji bullet, eradicating the surging presence till nothing.

"Oh shit, that means she's just pretending to feel shocked." Thunder Fang blurted out within his mind, "What a clever and annoying move at the same time."

"Also, the damn Onmyouji." Thunder Fang added his commentary through the mind, "I needed to take him down first. His annoying buff can literally help The Chemist girl to win this battle. I cannot let that happen."

As Thunder Fang was still trapped by the frozenly paralyzed state, the paper cards that stuck on both Chemistra and Agano's revolver were burned into dust after blessing the buff. The heroes sighed in relief at the same time, especially darting their heedful eyes on their foe.

Agano approached closer to Thunder Fang's direction and hoisted his hand to omit yellow energy within the opened palm. Soft yellow energy that quickly morphed into a paper card with the black ink Kanji said, "Sleep".

While Chemistra raised both of the fingerless hands summoning enlightened ant-size grey twister on each spot of her finger. The tiny twister fluidly transmuted into a complete needle finger with its last spin

The Chemist rested down her chemical finger and glanced towards Agano who stopped his steps when he was near the paralyzed Thunder Fang. Observing eyes were locked at The Onmyouji as he prepared a straight-line tossing position with the current paper card he held

A reluctant sigh was exhaled by Agano and shook his head in bitterness especially on watching the helpless Thunder Fang. Even though the yellow light was flickering, The Oni Guy was still imprisoned by the immobilized motion like a statue.

"It's time for you to sleep, Thunder Fang," Agano announced in a calm tone.

Afterward, Agano flipped away from the paper card that vastly flew into the Thunder Fang direction. The paper card smoothly landed on Thunder Fang's forehead and his vision went into void-black as he succumbed to the side effect when the yellow light lingered within his body blinked out.

Thunder Fang shut his eyes from the outside view and his entire body was quickly laid down on the ground. Hence, the paper card was burnt into ashes by the wavering yellow energy that suddenly emerged after the side effect was already blessed onto The Oni Guy.

However, a spark of black electricity shortly surged out from the black armor and his resting palm began to move up in a sluggish way. A chance for Thunder Fang could potentially happen as his mind sent him into another dimension.

A dimension was dominated by the color scheme of his skin which was purple with violet electric strings covering the surface of the sky. While Thunder Fang firmly stood on top of the thundering purple ground that zapped a harmless bolt of lightning whenever he took a step.

Furthermore, The Oni Guy headed towards a five feet tall coal-black floating face. A face that was a perfect duplicate of his, but there was a twist that broadened the vicious, yet alluring grin.

With sheer determination, Thunder Fang kept continuing his constant step forward and towed the other surging fist beside the left side of his stomach. A picture of Sayato opening a smile shone brightly within The Oni Guy's head, embracing the gladness in a form of a smirk.

Although Thunder Fang was still boiling his determination, he stopped the electrifying feet and retrieved down the surging fist as his surprised eyes caught a familiar presence. A presence The Oni Guy wished should not appear in this kind of situation due to him gritting his teeth in despair.

The unwanted presence was none other than his younger self who shivered the deep spine of Thunder Fang. The younger self had short black hair, a clean purple Karate Gi with a smiling- red Oni logo latched on the right above side, and a black belt strapped on his waist.

An intimidating gaze of The younger self was sharply locked towards Thunder Fang who was consumed by a little fear as he took a one retreating step. The Oni Guy also watched his younger self valiantly clench both of his fists that were shaking in a demeanor ready to land a punch.

"Shinjou, please reconsider your choice." The younger self scolded with a demanding voice, "Do you really think the cause of losing your power is worth it?"

"You are also aware Sayato didn't want you to lose your power too, right?" The younger self added.

Thunder Fang unnervingly bit his lips and avoided the direct stare from his younger self by glancing to the right. The Oni Guy's open hands unsteadily trembled in dreadful anxiousness, the more he took a slight glimpse of the younger self.

It shiveringly haunted Thunder Fang deep within his heart that forced him to take another step back. Although he was still drowned by the anxious feeling, The Oni Guy suddenly released a repeating chuckle.

His head flashed out the image of his daughter and his wife awaiting his relief on the favorite couch that they used for happily watching a cheerful show. Moreover, Sayato and Karin raised their triangular praying hand on the forehead and wished Shinjou to come back to spend time together with each other.

The flash of image vastly blinked out that left a glimmering gift through Thunder Fang. The gift of fiery excitement being represented in a form of a broadened smirk, swiftly abling him to take a step forward.

"Even though Sayato didn't want me to lose my power, I'm still going to take that risk." Thunder Fang confidently replied, "Having complete family members…..is more important than having this Oni enhance power."

"So, begone from my sight and let me continue this path no matter what the cost." Thunder Fang added with a chilling, yet commanding stare.

The younger self mesmerized a puzzling look and his fists were dreadfully shaking especially with him darting the shocking sight onto Thunder Fang. However, the younger self shook his head and sighed in defeat as The Oni Guy took one step closer to him.

Nonetheless, the younger self closed his eyes and nodded in acceptance before it dissolved into a purplish dust scattering around the surrounding area. The purplish dusk that also walked past by Thunder Fang who upraised the surging fist once again.

Thunder Fang exhaled the dust of his younger self and it filled up a refreshing wind blew away inside his thoughts A blissful eyes were pinned at the hovering oni face, roaring a thundering electricity wave enveloping the uprising knuckle.

"Sayato, I'm very sure you will get the cure today and I am truly ready to accept the horrible cost." Thunder Fang announced with a sparking pridefulness. "Besides, seeing you get cured of heart disease is more valuable than my power.

"You also indirectly opened up a perspective that being the strongest fighter or obtaining an unstoppable power will not guarantee true happiness." Thunder Fang added.

Thus, Thunder Fang proudly howled as he plunged a thunder shocking punch on the gate face. The gate instantly crumbled into a million electrical sparkles fleeing freely on the sky above as a representation of The Oni Guy's acceptance with the cost of prolonging the fight against the two elusive heroes.

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