SHIN SEKAI: SPARK OF THE NEW WORLD

The lightning strikes through

   Yen laid unconscious with almost no breath in his lungs, his pulse was so little that it could barely be felt. His heart beat as if it was about to give up, and his body was so cold that he could be declared dead.

   But Mina had no time to grieve over Yen's condition. As she knelt beside him crying, a scout came to report that a large army had been spotted outside the city walls. She immediately stood up and left the room saying ,"let's go pay them back" as she wiped her tears.

   Mina made her way to the military assembly ground and called out "STORM RIDERS!!!" And in a matter of seconds, her entire unit was assembled. They numbered about one-thousand with fifty-five elites and all were ready for battle.

   The others also assembled their own units and got ready to march out into battle. Inumaki with his 'ground breakers', Lee with his 'shuan-gou' unit, Susan with the rescue team, and Yamato with the king's army. 

   Rosewell refused to lead any unit. He just wanted to run into the battlefield and rampage until he he felt consolation for his son, "I won't stop until my little Liam is at peace" he said as he ran straight into the warzone and started causing havoc.

   Inumaki's ground breakers followed right behind him and unleashed thier joint eruption technique "WRATH OF THE STONE GOD" and caused every part of the battlefield to tremble. They kept the technique going by placing their hands on the ground and pouring their energy into it and the more they focused, the more intense the tremors got and soon the ground began to swallow some of their enemies. Immediately after that they unleashed another joint technique "GRAND ERUPTION!!" and from within the cracks in the ground, hot molten lava began to pour out in excess and began to burn and impede the progression of the enemies. 

   As the lava cooled down, the ground breakers fell back and the shuan-gou unit advanced forward and joined Rosewell in the midst of the battle. The king's army followed them from the sides while the storm riders and the rescue unit remained on standby.

   Things were going smoothly for the army of Yamato but as usual, the enemy forces had an overwhelming advantage in numbers. The shuan-gou unit were getting pushed back and casualty reports started coming in. Fifteen dead, thirty-six with severe injuries, a hundred and fifty with minor injuries and rest had a few scratches. It wasn't that serious yet but the numbers were bound to increase.

   Susan and her rescue team deployed into the battlefield to help treat the injured and take them out of the fight. They were swift and smooth as they moved in and out of the battlefield, rescuing their injured comrades.

   Mina and her unit remained on standby waiting for 'the right moment'.

   "So when do we deploy, boss" one of her elites asked. 

   "I'll give the command" she said without even looking at him, and he took a step back.

   Soon the moment she was waiting for came and she got ready to deploy.

   As she looked far into the distance, she saw a second horde approaching with Albus leading the charge. 

   She reached into her pocket and brought out a circular device that fit just right in palm of her hand and spoke into it. 

   "E.V.A. activate" she said, and the device glowed with a bright blue pattern. Then she placed it on her back and the device attached itself to her and her eyes glowed blue.

   Mina looked at the elite beside her and noticed that he was trembling and breathing heavily.

   "Are you nervous?" She asked and he replied "yes"

   "What is your name?" She asked and he answered "Clyde"

   "Alright Clyde" she said

   "I know that the second army approaching is a real army of men and that none of you have ever killed a man before, but take my advice."

    "Set your conscience aside in this battle, because your enemies come with none."

   "Now my soldiers" Mina said out loudly

   "SUMMON YOUR MOUNTS!!" and they all did

   "SET FORMATION!!" And they paired themselves into smaller units of two, one lightning and one wind. Mina stood alone with the cute chubby sky rabbit as her companion.

   "STORM RIDERS!!!" she called out

   "CHAARRRRGE!!!" she yelled at the top of her voice and at her command, the entire unit ran through the battlefield destroying every enemy in their path

   In a matter of seconds they made their way through the first battalion and into the huge gap that separated them from the second battalion. Immediately, they switched formation and all the wind users gathered in front and unleashed a joint attack.

   "AIR WAVE!!!" they yelled as they motioned their hands and caused a great wind to blow away the enemies in front of them, and as their enemies stood stunned by the attack, they went for the slaughter.

   It wasn't an easy battle but it wasn't hard either. As usual the enemy had an overwhelming number but that was equalled by skills of the Storm riders. The only hard one to beat was Albus, and they all left him for Mina.

   As soon as Albus saw Mina, he immediately ran to give her his greetings along with a few flaming hot fireballs.

   "I see you came to die again." Mina said to Albus after she had evaded all his attacks. Before Albus could reply, she immediately closed the distance between them and engaged him in a solid snake-like close quarter combat.

   Albus was powerful but hand-to-hand wasn't his forte. Before he could properly react, Mina had already gotten some major hits in. He managed to create some distance between them and get back his focus but as soon as he did that, Mina brought out her crossbow and shot at him. He managed to evade the shot but Mina immediately closed the distance between them again and got a few more hits in before he pushed her back with his flames. 

   "This would have been way easier if I had Yen with me" Mina said under a heavy breath.

   "Well, I'll just have to manage with what Susan gave me"

   "E.V.A" she said as she drew out her sword

   "OVERDRIVE!!"

   Albus noticed the sudden change in the atmosphere and knew that something big was coming. He immediately set up a thick wall of flames around himself but even that couldn't stop Mina. 

   Mina's movement could not be followed. She wasn't too fast see but she was too fast to predict. every movement she made sent Albus' sense of judgement into disarray and threw him off focus but even with that, she couldn't land a finishing blow. Every time she got close enough, Albus would unleash a wide range attack in all directions and cause her to fall back. The arrows she shot with her crossbow had an effect but they were quickly depleted. 

   Another of Mina's problems was that she was running out of energy. Even though she had the upper hand at the moment, she knew that things wouldn't go well for her within the next few minutes and that if she wanted to prevent the worst from happening, she would have to kill Albus within a short time.

   Mina looked down into the ground as she knew and took deep breath, then she's looked up and saw that everything was moving slowly. Soon, she noticed that her heart rate had increased and all the fatigue was disappearing from her body.

   "I know this feeling." She said as tears ran down her cheeks and she smiled and turned back to see Yen walking majestically towards her.