The New Form

The red flag rises behind Ryuma, the floor has been smeared by the red flame. Creating a large circle as both Ryuma and Line were standing in the center. Ryuma once again smiled devilishly as he looked at Vestine who looked like he left the path of humanity by judging its form.

The form of no eyeballs, and its skin is red like magma itself. The fangs sharpen as if they could pierce any steel. In the inner mind of Ryuma, even he himself could tell if he could defeat the total monster form that Vestine took. But, as the flag formed itself, Ryuma gained the confidence, the confidence that he'd defeat Vestine all by himself.

Line also takes a look at the new form Ryuma took, the right side of his hair turned red. The color of his right eye looks redder than his left eye. A new form that reminds Line of that day when the first time they fought. Vestine, started to speak with a rough voice as he also looked at Ryuma's new form.

"Haha... A truly fresh of a new breath when I look at you. But, do you truly be able to defeat me with a different outfit and attire entirely? How foolish... I'm Vestine, one of the Elite of Flameborn! Will burn your existence until there's nothing left!"

With that word, Vestine charged at Ryuma with his full power. But somehow, a red flame touched the finger that was meant to pierce Ryuma as the red flame burned Vestine's body whole. Vestine could feel the burning of his very skin as he got out of the flame.

"What the... I... am the very flame itself! How did I feel the heat burning my very existence upon my contact with it?!"

"Because, this flame was meant to put you down. One way or another." Before Vestine knew it, the red flame had surrounded him, from left to right. As Ryuma's voice reached Vestine's ears, Ryuma, appeared before the wall of red flame from Vestine's blind spot.

Vestine saw Ryuma point his palm toward him, a palm that held the red flame that sent Vestine to the far, back in the distance as he crashed upon a few rubble from the collapsed home and building. Vestine managed to get back up not long before he fell.

"Grah! Truly, a mischievous brat! Here I come! Hidden Flame!" A flame one could not see, making its way to Ryuma in a different direction to one point, Ryuma and Ryuma himself as if they were homing missiles. But the flame explodes upon Ryuma snapping his finger.

The snap that produces even the smallest flame interrupts Vestine's flame as it explodes upon contact. Ryuma closed his eyes as he took a deep breath of nature, the nature which was collapsed by the hand of Vestine and the Flameborn. 

"Aah~ How long I've ever been feeling this immense power flowing through my body?~ Yes, it's when I'm in the rain, yes that's it. But, I could not know the source of this red flame, all I know about it is... 'It's not coming within me'. But for sure, I'll probably know these answers... After your death, be it from me or by other misfortune, you're dead, one way or another."

Line looked at Ryuma from the back, she felt the chill run through her spine with every word that reached her ears.

(This kid... Give the same vibes when he's inside the rain...) Vestine on the other hand, with the agony and irritated feelings taking hold of him, his wrath grew larger as he summoned a tsunami of invisible flame.

(Ohh... I've seen it, the amount of the flame that was summoned, it could anguish this very town if he wants to... Then, let's try this...) Ryuma snapped his finger which summons a red flame as it pulsated around his palm. The pulsating flame then takes the form of a butterfly. Ryuma, aims his palm toward the huge flame Vestine was about to throw at him, at the city.

"Devour it, take a hold of it, Crimson Butterfly..." Ryuma sent the crimson butterfly as Vestine was about to throw it, the invisible flame that Line could not see became visible with the red color. Soon be devoured as if the crimson butterfly was a sort of a vacuum or a black hole, eating Vestine's flame whole and exploding with a big radius.

Everyone else in the city, in the east and south, noticed the explosion that covered the whole west in the air. Vestine could not believe what just happened, Ryuma took his flame and exploded it in the air.

"In that case, I'll defeat you in the close combat!" Vestine charged at Ryuma once again, just for his fist covered in red flame once Ryuma blocked it. With a devilish smile, Ryuma spoke to Vestine face to face.

"You wanna dance? Sure, I'll follow your lead." Ryuma pushed Vestine out of the red circle and landed a blow to Vestine. A groundbreaking blow, one could say as Vestine's face met the very ground he stepped earlier. Vestine gets back up again, just to hit the ground again.

Again and again, he could not see Ryuma's movement inside of the red flame. Ryuma decides to back out as he reveals the red flame that's taken the form of a red cape. The Matador with his Mutela, Ryuma shakes the red cape as a sign of provocation to Vestine.

Like the bull, Vestine falls for the provocation as he charges Ryuma. Like a bull, Vestine used his head but could not hit Ryuma.

"So close old man, probably use your hand if you want to hit." Vestine charged again and again, that's until Ryuma decided to hit back to the solar plexus, creating a fireworks of red flame. Vestine could barely move due to lack of energy, before he knew it, his blood and flesh had been pierced and bound by the pink Line.

"Oh, where did I remember about it... Yes, it was in the summer, when you had to get out of your home because it was too hot. And yes, we had a tour of the river to cool down. Yes, that's exactly what I'm feeling right now. The feelings of your body temperature cools down when I bathed in the river. Instead of feeling hot, I feel warm. Like someone put the blanket on me in the middle of winter."

Ryuma snapped his finger once again, thus creating the flame from its spark. The flame grew larger and larger. But much more beautiful from the form of Vestine's flame.

"I feel neither hot nor cold. I feel like, I'm gonna cry the longer I hold this power... Red Sun..."