Recently
on Fires of the sky, the El Monte students returned to Earth only to find it
still frozen. As they return to Arkon’s Magic, the six main students, Matt,
Yessenia, Jaime, Alex, Venus, and Winny all enter a bridge that leads them to
the Elemental Challenges! Without further delay, they were forced to attend as
the six members for the challenges, but are they ready? After finishing the
first match, the El Monte students find that they have humiliatingly lost
against all the other four schools. Even worse, one of the members of El Monte
seemed to have mysteriously run away with Benny, a member from Rosemead. What
does this all mean?
Episode 221 – Vermillion of Flames, Friendly Two-Year
Reunions
Through the bothersome search for
students, Shirley and the others made way for the interior of El Monte. Van
suggested entering the school. “This place is kind of weird because there is
not a single person here.”
“I can’t even hear the freeway. The
only sounds I hear are our steps echoing into nowhere.” Jon commented.
Shirley was behind the whole group.
“Um guys, what were your reasons for coming here again? We can take care of all
of our errands and then we’ll leave as soon as possible. I don’t want to
interfere with the Elemental Challenge.”
“I thought we just came here to
follow you!” Maggie said as if she had no idea what was going on.
Shirley sighed. “Oh… And I thought
you had some more important business to take care of… Anyway, I came here to
talk to Emmy. I kind of wanted to battle her.”
“Aren’t you interfering with the
Elemental Challenge that way?” Jenny became worried.
“Maybe… I guess you’re right. But,
that’s not interfering with El Monte, so I’m going to do it anyway.”
Michael stopped her. “Why would you
want to go? It doesn’t matter if you’re not bothering El Monte. You’re
tampering with the challenge by messing with other schools.” He hid under a
tree. “And if the higher officials see us just wandering around, he could
capture us, interrogate us, and then when he finds out we’re from El Monte,
they can ban our school from even continuing the challenges.”
Shirley clamped her hands together.
“Aw, pleaaaase, Michael? We’ll only be here for a bit. I’m the only one who
wants to get my errands done, right? It’ll be fast!”
“The last time I tried to stop you,
you had a whole city destroyed.”
Shirley froze. She remembered the
time when her group met with Michael at the Grailden Cavern before entering the
formerly destroyed city of Wisteria. The trio-sisters became guilty and quiet
as well. Jon scratched his head. “Did I miss something here?”
Michael sighed again. “Ah… Sorry for
reminding you about that. Look, if you want to break the rules, then that’s not
my problem. I should be graduating as soon as we finish the stupid challenges.”
“Right?” Shirley went on, “Because
of that, it won’t be your problem. It will be on us. Don’t worry. I get away
with a lot of things! Hehehe.”
She walked on ahead and Van and
Maggie followed her. Jenny said to Jon, “I’m starting to think this is a bad
idea.” She had her hand over her chest indicating that she was struck with fear
and stress.
“I don’t even know what the heck is
going on.” Jon shrugged. Michael decided to stay under the tree and do nothing
until the challenges were over. After all, he did not want to interfere with
the challenges.
~~~
Matt tried to catch up with Nix who
was speeding through road to road. “Are you getting tired already?” Nix teased.
“No way! It has only been five
minutes!” A small fire appeared out of his hand for a split second. Nix stopped
joking and he became serious, curious about why a piece of fire appeared out of
nowhere. Again, out of nowhere, Nix had been punched in the face once it faced
forward again. It bounced to the ground and disappeared into Matt’s soul after
being inflicted by a large amount of pain. Matt gasped. “N-Nix?! What
happened?!”
There was a hooded man in front of
Matt. “Long time no see, Matt.”
Matt squinted his eyes. “Um, who are
you?”
“You ran a lot with me in middle
school. What happened now? You’re really out of shape.”
“Could you be…?!” He stopped. A
small patch of fire flashed from Matt’s hand for a second.
“Dude, when I say you’re out of
shape, I mean it. That fire is coming out of your hands for no other reason,
no?” The boy removed his hoodie and this student was one of Matt’s old friends.
His name was formerly Brandon, the same name derived from Brandon Mares, but
this boy is named Brandon Martinez who often loves being called McLovin. His
thin glasses gleamed clean and his light blue and white hair flashed from the
sunlight. “And remember, don’t call me by my real name. Do you remember my
nickname?”
Matt raised his fists and said in
happiness, “Of course I do! It’s McChicken or something, right?”
“Excuse me?!”
“But anywho, I can’t believe you
were in the Elemental Challenges this whole time!! How’s it been?!” Matt said
while frowning. “Actually, you know… we weren’t that close in middle school,
were we? I remember meeting you through Jen because you two loved to run a lot.
I still remember, McChicken! Your mile time was like 6:04, one of the fastest
in middle school!”
McLovin began chuckling. “Ohoho, so
it was.” He then glared at Matt in the eyes, “Was. Heh.” He ran towards Matt with super quick speed that it felt
as if he teleported behind Matt.
Matt’s heart skipped a beat from
surprise. “W-What the? (That was way faster than Taiger…! How?!)”
McLovin whispered into Matt’s ear,
“I’ll have you know, since two years ago, my mile time, without cheating, went
down to 4:52 and it is still decreasing.”
“Cheating? What do you mean ‘without
cheating’?”
McLovin teleported in front of Matt,
but at a twenty-foot distance. “Well, take a guess. My elemental ability is the
power to speed through time.”
“Figures. That’s what everybody
seems to want nowadays.”
McLovin pointed at Matt’s fiery
hands. “According to society, no one really wants your power. Why don’t you
show me what justice is really like?”
“What do you-…” Matt was interrupted
by a sudden punch in the face. He was about to fall but McLovin held him from
behind. “What the hell?! How did you do that so quickly?!” Matt uttered.
“Don’t fall now. That’s a sign of
losing.”
“Ergh… You’re just playing with me
now.” Matt opened his palms, “Alright then, I’ll just have my little friend to
help me, heh! Come on, Nix! Let’s do this together!” A puff of smoke appeared
but nothing came out of it. “Nix? Where are you?”
McLovin made several more punches
towards Matt’s face and chest. “Stop goofing around and show me how a real man
fights after two long years, Matt!”
Matt forcefully created a fire aura
all around him. “Eraaagh! You need to stop. This is serious!”
McLovin was slightly inflicted by
Matt’s flames but he jumped away quickly. “Now you’re being smart. You should
have done that sooner, hehehe.”
Matt knelt down, feeling pain from
the flames that he created. He grabbed onto his head. “Ergh!! This headache!”
“What is it now, another trick up
your sleeve?”
“No… This doesn’t feel safe at all…
You have to run!”
“What are you talking about?”
Matt was on his knees. He squinted
his eyes and he faced the sky above. “AGGGHH!!! What the hell is going on?!”
The fire aura exploded about ten
meters around himself while McLovin made a quick run for it, barely being able
to miss the flames. All of the trees and crops nearby Matt’s radius had been
burnt and some were left in flames. McLovin was still in awe. His lens
shattered. Matt could stand up again, noticing that McLovin had a difficult
time seeing.
Matt chuckled. “Hehe, I think I
found your weakness.” He glided towards McLovin with flames on his legs. “Now
that I know your weakness, I’m not afraid to fight back!”
McLovin ran away from Matt’s now
blob-like appearance. “Wait a minute there, Matt. I don’t think it’s a good
idea to meddle with your powers after experiencing that. You don’t know what
could happen next.”
“Are you scared now? Have the tables
turned?”
McLovin said angrily, “This time,
it’s not a matter of fear and bravery. That automatic explosion can account for
another disaster, and you know it!”
Matt threw a large Vermillion spell
at McLovin which he could not avoid since its width was several times larger
than a normal attack. “I feel fine! I can control my own powers.” He then made
his fireballs into Twirling Flames which were thrown towards McLovin. McLovin
had trouble running away from a large, orange blob of flames. He was thrown
against the floor from a slight explosion created by the Twirling Flames.
“Your powers are immense, Matt. I
don’t think I can go any further…”
Matt calmed down, but his aura was
still around his body. “Phew! That was a close one.” He watched as McLovin
struggled to get up. “Are you okay?”
McLovin sighed. “I lost… The first
match was an extremely simple challenge, but then I ran into you here. It’s
interesting, really.” Matt listened to him mumble on. “I’m not really one to
hide things, really.” He took out a key. “This might not be of use, but it’s
something. Rosemead entrusted the key of South El Monte, to me.”
McLovin threw the key at Matt. Matt
grabbed onto the key from midair and then said, “That makes sense. Since you’re
the fastest, running away with the key would be the best idea. So, this is the
South El Monte key, huh…”
“Matt, listen to me.” McLovin
warned, “Those powers of yours are not what they seem to be, at least for right
now. You look as if you’re malfunctioning and I have no clue what is the cause
of it.”
Matt opened his eyes wide. He
remembered the time when Santi overused his powers. “Crap…! Did I… go too far?!
This can’t be. This just can’t be!!” Matt froze in fear. McLovin watched him in
confusion…
~~~
Shirley, Jon, and the trio-sisters
ventured through a desert-like towards Arroyo. Shirley giggled, “We’re near the
front entrance to Arroyo!” She took a look at the school before entering, “Hm…
I still remember her. She was a pale, but very happy girl. She cried so much
because she said she was forced to go to Arroyo since the rest of her family
went there. Emmy, I hope you’re here.”
As the five students entered the
school, they could see a girl sleeping under an extremely large and shady tree.
Shirley screamed from the bottom of her lungs, “EMMY!!!!!”
Emmy jumped from the shock. “Oh my
gosh! What the hell was that? Enemies, where?!”
Shirley ran towards her. From Emmy’s
view, Shirley ran slowly. She could see Shirley’s beautiful, longish hair
flying in the wind with her clothes tied together in several bows. She wanted
to cry. “S-Shirley…? Is that really you?” She also recognized Shirley’s skirt
which was extremely short – something that the typical Shirley would wear.
The two girls hugged and Van and
Jenny wanted to cry from their reunion. Maggie smiled and Jon was still
confused. Emmy cried out loud and yelled at Shirley, “Damn it, Shirley! You
disappeared from me for over seven months. Where have you been? I thought you
had… vanished…”
“I was stuck in a world called
Elsiya. We had so much trouble finding out way home, but in the end, it all
worked out. Well, kind of. We were interrupted immediately because the
Elemental Challenges needed urgent participation by El Monte.”
“Oh, we all requested it and we
waited, hoping for you guys to return. The moment all of your auras and
essences appeared out of nowhere on Earth, we figured you were back! It shocked
me and I wanted to meet you again after the challenges, but then… I couldn’t
show you my awesome powers.”
“That’s how I felt!! Oh my gosh!”
Shirley said. Her tone deemed to show that she was extremely happy to see her
old best friend. She had never been this happy before since middle school.
Jon said to the trio-sisters, “Since
the time I’ve seen Shirley in the beginning of Freshman year, I knew something
was off. She was always happy, but not extremely happy enough. I had a feeling
something was missing – but that key has been found: Emmy.”
Van wiped her tears. “What an
adorable story.”
Maggie shook her head. “Yeah, it’s
pretty sad and cute at the same time now that I think about it.”
Jenny was off crying and wiping her sulked
tears against a tree. “That’s so sad!!!!!!!!”
“Jenny, are you okay?!” Jon
panicked.
Emmy said to Shirley, “Anyway, you
should get going. You’re not in the challenges, so the higher officials will
catch you.”
Shirley gasped. “You’re sending me
away already? I… kind of wanted to battle you with my powers really quick.”
“Shirley… I’m sorry. This is a
serious matter.”
“I-I don’t understand, Emmy. I came
all this way to meet you and battle before one of us loses our powers.”
“I know. I wanted to do that too,
but it’s too late. And, I don’t want the higher officials to execute you for
interfering. Please, understand me, Shirley. I promise we can meet once this if
over.”
Shirley disagreed. She shook Emmy by
the shoulders, “But they haven’t caught us yet. We’ll do this real quick-…”
“I am afraid that is not possible”,
said a mysterious voice from above. All of the students became shocked. Where
and who was this voice coming from?
~~~
-NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW-
Matt:
On the next episode of Fires of the Sky…
Shirley:
Oh shit we just got here and we’re getting caught, damn it!
Matt: That’s
what you get for talking last time!
Shirley:
Excuse me?!
Jaime: This
is troublesome. I stayed in the center of school so I could do nothing but now
we’re being attacked. Who is this Sammy chick?
Sammy:
Don’t spoil the surprise. I hope you El Monte people miss me.
Jaime:
And what kind of power do you have?
Sammy: Sh, it’s a secret!~ I can predict
what happens next.
Jaime: I don’t know about you, but I think
you just revealed it.
Sammy:
And my foretelling says someone else will infiltrate! See ya!
Jaime:
What?!
Matt:
Why are people attacking our base?! We didn’t even do anything yet! Next time
on episode 222, Vanishing Students, Rosemead Infiltrates El Monte!
Shirley:
What’s going to happen to us?!
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