Sorry it took so long to post this chapter, and I'm not going to lie I was more motivated at the beginning to write this than at the end. The ending is anticlimatic and I had more to write before the big reveal. Thank you for following me this far great fans.
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"Hello darlings!" The white mask man viviacously said flamboyantly. "I am the Effervescent Entertaining Molo and with me is my lovely fellow entertainer Babra. I noticed you need help with an attractive male and his female partner."
The three henchmen pulled out their glocks and their shivs. They were only trying to intimidate the joker, but his assistant took a deep breath and blew bubbles at them.
At first the men closed their eyes and started poking the bubbles. With each poke their arms and their legs started juddering like they were on a dance floor. While they were moving about, Molo and Babra skipped past them.
"Ciao darlings."
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Ai escaped the sexually abusing loan shark, however, the renter was still running after her. Moreover, he had a transparent screen in the shape of a three leaf clover on his torso.
"Ai! Ai! I'm sorry you had to learn about this game, but I would never do anything to hurt you!" The renter shouted passively.
"Then take a hint and leave me the F alone!" Ai incensed back.
While this was going on, an acrobatic team was looming over the hard working sister and bizarre renter. They were jumping from bedsheet to bedsheets like metal bars. Most of their routine was Molo grabbing the bars with his hands or feet and Babra grabbing him before flipping. Molo flipped, he went by two bedsheets, and Babra caught him. They stopped doing this when Ai and the renter finally stopped running. They were standing around trying to settle thing.
"So your this Sekirei and you have these anime-esque powers, but your true powers come from finding a fated soulmate who will crack the shell entrapping your powers-an Ashikabi? I like the way you explained it. You should be a voice actor or maybe even in those shitty live action anime movies."
"I'm glad I found an Ashikabi who can make light of a Battle Royale; movie even Sekirei have seen and find it not half-bad. Still, what I acquire for this game is for you to just kiss me on the lips."
"Why? Can't you get through this game alone? I mean, you will still be the same person whether you get a kiss or not, my friends can tell you that from experience. Besides, if this kiss leads to me partaking in a dangerous game...I'm out."
"Oh honey, you are like a brother and sister." A voice said sweetly and with malice.
Both Ai and Chigata the renter turned bodyguard searched the area for that voice.
Ai was used to begging and having no pride, but making a fool of herself staring at people and getting close to see them just say "Ukkk" was embarrassing. But, as silly as she looked, the entrance of a flamboyant boy and girl was even more embarrassing to her.
"Kon'nichiwa, fellow participants of the game I am not allowed to say. But this boku managed to find a solution to that predicament. Oh lovelies!"
Turns out Molo didn't just have one assistant. Like acrobats in the circus, men and women dressed as jesters and clown swung in. The entrance wasn't what awed the crowd, it was the music they played and the pony that trotted in the street. It was a load of fun, until a policemen approached them.
"No animals allowed in the street and no street entertainment without a license! Hey!" He yelled.
Before Ai could say anything, Babra smacked her ass. Ai squeaked but didn't react. Those fingers that smack her also poked her back.
"Don't stay here. The show is in the blindspot."
What she did made Ai move; the only way Molo could make a brooding strong Sekirei like Chigata Ramiel move. They walked down the street, hearing the sounds of sirens afar, and then when they were finally away from pedestrians, Molo and Babra started spinning like ballerina's.
"Oh what joy you bring to our hearts! Ohh what sorrow we must bring to yours!" The duo sang in unison. "Now we entertain you with a battle!"
Both of them got very dizzy spinning while singing. First they were moving around in confused ways, that followed with Molo catching Babra only for her to have to pull him towards her when he lost his balance, and it ended with them laughing like kids before they kissed. Babra's wings emerged as did power surge through her.
Chigata was in the face of a torrent, a accumulation of bubbles breezing out of Babra and heading towards Chigata and Ai-so they thought. Turns out the bubbles were actually merging together, turning into a solidified being. What it became was a living mythological animal, a phoenix with blue feathers and crimson eyes, it's talons chalky white.
"Ai, get close to me!" Chigata shouted.
"Okay, but not because your yelling at me to do it-I still don't trust you and yelling at people isn't a good form of COMMUNICATION!"
Chigata created a grid of green energy in the form of a clover with those three petals. A bolt of lightning roared like a lion in a den before firing like nature-unpredictable and full of might.
Chigata watched it all happen so easily the phoenix howl when the lightning pierced it and explode into bubbles. In the mist of bubbles, a bright red rose shone through it all, and then Molo dashed up and throttled into Chigata!...turns out though he just tapped him in his pecs not very hard.
"Your it, you silly. Show me how you want to hit me. Your all prepped up, all revved up, darling."
Chigata didn't want to really hurt a human despite how much easier it would be, but he did attempt to hit this flamboyant jester. He missed as the jester raised his hands up high and sucked his gut in.
"This is going to be a jaunting showdown!" He cooed.
Chigata carelessly punched for the joyous jester's forehead. He ducked, pulling a rubber ball from his right sleeve as he did so. Chigata tried stomping on the man, but he did a handstand on Chigata's tibia-another rubber ball pulled out of his sleeve.
"Your buying time." Chigata growled. "You know you can't use that deus ex machina kiss of empowerment every time, it needs to build up first."
"Wonderful! Having an opponent who can see through my act is just...FANTASTIC!"
Ai didn't know if she wanted to say anything to her renter or just bash her bag into one of these dramatic entertainers also dangerous foes. Like everything in her life, Ai was slow and the repercussions for this was the jester juggling five rubber balls-blue, yellow, green, purple, and red-before he dropped all of them from a flinching punch Chigata made. He dropped the balls before the punch could even connect, and Chigata was about to find out why; a smokescreen. The balls were seeping out smoke half pink and half blue.
Chigata was standing in a bedlam, crowds seeing the smoke shouting out and the cackling of the jester in a direction he couldn't tell. Chigata couldn't use his clover powers while he didn't know where Ai was.
"Ai, you have to find me!" Chigata shouted, wasn't very helpful.
"Mwahhh!" The jester taunted like a parent pretending to bite his kids' finger. "How about another kiss, sweetie?"
Chigata was too late. The smoke became a sea. Bubbles appeared again each glimmering like fireflies in the moonlight. That was the power of an Ashikabi energizing his Sekirei.
Chigata immediately charged up his clover chest to fire.
"Chigata!"
Chigata saw Ai running towards him. Chigata panicked at the sight of her running foolhardily towards him when a phoenix was soon going to screech to life and fly towards her. That didn't really matter to Chigata when she tripped into his arms.
"I'm sorry." Chigata said. "I brought you to this game with the same chances as a hell mary."
Ai was silent while the screeching started to din. Ai wasn't smiling, wasn't yelling, and her frown had this pink flush while she looked like she was pondering. At last, her warm hand pat the renters cheek. It just happened after that, she kissed him lips puckering through his lips into his mouth. This kiss was energizing, and wings sprouting like the jesters Sekirei's did.
The phoenix flied through the bubbles preparing to claw the two kissers. Like lightning, the sky started to crackle. Not only the crackling, an insignia of a three leaf clover rose into the sky. It was against what Mother Nature could do. A one color, blue, rainbow beam shot down and fired into the phoenix!
The bubbles were finally dissipated from the area. To no one's surprise because Chigata didn't let Ai take her lips out yet, the jesters Sekirei was unconscious. They finally looked at him, kneeling down and stroking her, a smile instead of anger or regret. He stood tall before Chigata and Ai, his hand adjusting his mask, and taking it off. Next he messed with his own hair looking more like a guitarist.
"Enough of this flamboyant jester act! You dense amateurs got lucky, but next time I will bring a different Sekirei from my harem and put on my next costume."
With a wave goodbye so goading it made Chigata want to fire another chest beam, he banished himself from sight breathing fire from his mouth. The sight of fire was scary to Ai but seeing it for Chigata...made him want to laugh.
