As my heart races
Author: Okorie Kenna
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

  "the sensation filled my lips and my tongue then went straight into my head. then I felt it pass through every nerve in my body and settle at my heart. the electrifying feeling was something out this world. It was the feeling of love and its power."

  The two lovebirds were still kissing even after the battle had begun. Kojiro stood back to protect them within his barrier while the others proceeded to mow down the enemy. 

  All of Mina's assertions were on point. the robot army that charged at them was powerful. their punches were fast, precise, and it felt as if one would instantly die if he got hit by them. 

  the way they moved was awfully machine-like and one could understand why they didn't use handheld weapons after seeing the amount of blades they could eject from different parts of their bodies. 

  but despite the the intimidating features these things had, the only problem that Inumaki and his boys had was the problem of numbers. 

  their metal bodies were no problem for Fubuki's icicles, all he had to do was give them a little freezing touch then pierce through.  

   They didn't fare well against Inumaki's lightning strikes. they didn't do well against any of his other elements either. his fire burned them from the inside and he basically drowned their circuits with his water. he didn't use much of the earth because people were around but him wind blades were running wild. all that came against him couldn't leave in one piece.

   as for Rosewell, the robots didn't need to do much calculations to understand that he was dangerous. He walked majestically into the battle, evading the most critical of hits with just the slightest bit of movement that somehow took someone's head off. anything he touched got sliced into a whole lot of pieces; and I mean a whole lot because the pieces could not be counted. there was a whole lot of irreversible disassembly going on at that side 

  Meanwhile, kojiro was in his impenetrable barrier watching a completely different event unfold. As it turns out, Yen wasn't kissing Mina for no reason. Through the contact of of lips, body and soul, a transfer of energy occurred.

  Her hair became as white as the midday clouds and her outfit looked like they were made of light, and just like Yen she was covered in sparks of lightning. 

  Mina looked at the man she had fallen for and felt her heartbeat resonate with his. looking into his eyes, she could tell what his thoughts were and what he was thinking at the moment was "let's do this....together." and on realizing this, Mina cracked the smile of someone that was about to cause mass destruction. 

as my heart races,

I have no fright.

as my heart races, 

I I'll lose no fight. 

as my heart races, 

all my worries dissolve 

as my heart races, 

I'm one with my love.

  The all-powerful Rosewell had ended his majestic walk and entered into a beautiful flowery rampage. his enemies couldn't follow his movements and none of them could predict where he was coming from due to the increase in his speed and the unknown trajectory of the petals that followed him.

  his speed was incredible, evasion was flawless and his brutality was off the charts. there was no stopping him. as of that moment, he was the strongest in the battlefield, or so he thought. 

  In the midst of his flowery rampage, he felt a hand grabbing on to the sword on his left side from behind. as he turned to see who it was, the presence he felt switched direction and he saw no one. he immediately turned in the right direction but what saw left him stunned. 

  all that was in front of him was the very definition of desolation. In the blink of an eye, every enemy around him had fallen and only his allies were left standing. It didn't take long for him to realise who did it. 

  "that man is incredible" he said out loud unknowingly. 

  "not only him though" Kojiro replied as he walked towards Rosewell. that was when Rosewell realised that something was off. 

  At first he had thought that he felt the presence of two people but they were identical and moving in the same direction so he concluded that it was one very powerful person, but when he looked around and saw that Mina wasn't with them, he said to his brothers "I don't feel I should be understanding what just happened here"

  "I didn't even get a chance to show off" Fubuki said. 

  "by the way..." he added 

  "just how far did they go?"

  Mina looked back at the destruction that she and Yen had left behind and said "I definitely made a miscalculation". she had expected the fight to last a bit longer but as she noticed, it was over. the number of soldiers she and Yen had taken down was estimated to be about five hundred thousand but the amount of time in which it was done was about ten seconds. 

  "all this,just because of a kiss" she muttered as she looked at herself in disbelief 

  "who the hell are you?" she said as she glared at Yen 

and he replied "I'm Yen" with all sincerity. 

  "anyway let's head back" she said as she turned back to return to the others but Yen immediately called her back and asked "who is that person coming towards us from the distance?"

  the person could not be recognized from afar but as soon he came closer, the words that came out of Mina's mouth were "oh shit!!"

  "who is that?" Yen asked, not knowing what was going on. 

  "they call him 'Albus' the white flame" Mina answered 

  "he's the most powerful of all the prophets in the order" 

  "so should we run?" Yen asked 

  "I'm at least confident that I can escape"

  "no need for that" Mina replied 

  "we can take him"

  "so what where you worried about?" Yen asked 

  "you will soon find out" 

  the man was finally in front of them, standing and looking carefully at both of them as he stroked his snowy beard. 

  "who would have thought...." he said 

  "....that the one causing all this trouble would turn out to be you?.... my daughter"

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