As strong winds and cold weather blew across the children while they stood atop the tall and not so sturdy structure, Stelline and Elise both prepared themselves for battle - with Witchie going to assist the former by giving her some Akaachan, given that she had never fought before. “Try to pick up the best ones once they’re scattered, OK?” asked Witchie to Stelline, who seemed to be confused. “Best ones?” she asked, not knowing how to tell which was a great Akachan, and which was a foul. Hence, Witchie sighed, remembering when her mother did the same whilst teaching her how to battle - no she knew her exact pain. Thus, she pulled a commie from her pocket. “This is a commie, is it pretty?” she asked Stelline. Stelline stared at it, “No.” she said, before Witchie went searching in her pocket for another Hikidama. This time, it was blue. “This is a purie, is it pretty?” she asked Stelline, who smiled. “Yes!” she said to Witchie, who put the Hikidama back into her pocket. “The general rule of thumb is that, if it’s ugly, it won’t have the best of effects - and, if it’s pretty, it will.” she then told Stelline. Stelline nodded while looking at her Daichan Hikidama in her hand. Witchie looked down at it as well. “With that one, you need to be careful - as, that’s the Hikidama you use to catch Akachan - and you could never afford to somehow lose that one!” she warned Stelline, who was giving a nod, while standing up, as Elise had called her by saying - “I don’t have all day!”. Thus, Stelline was now up, and facing her. With Elise knowing it by conducting it multiple times, and Stelline’s knowledge of it coming from her observations of others doing the same, at the same time, the two girls both shouted “Click, Lock, Engage!” whilst pressing at their watches. Then, they continued by yelling aloud “Hikidama Matrix!” as the familiar dome appeared around them. Now, with stress, both the girls watched the arrow spin in the centre, and watched as it landed before Stelline. “Already off to a good start, I guess…” she whispered to herself, as she and Elise threw out their Akachan, making the Transire Line. “Hah!” Stelline declared, as she sent out her Daichan, which smacked up five Akachan. “Erk~!” cried Elise, as she then threw out her own Daichan which hit seven Akachan, and managed to stay in the vortex. “Her turn again!” shouted Witchie as she watched. Stelline looked back at Witchie - “I know~.” she told her, before getting her head back to the battle. Elise gave her final shot out, where she blasted up two Akachan, prior to making it out of the vortex. Now again, it came back to be Stelline’s turn, and she hurled her Daichan out, and it hit three Akachan, before going off the vortex. “Great job!” a voice told her in head, as she slowly began to stutter, before Elise prepared for her turn.

“What, voices?” she asked, somehow knowing what was going on to Elise, before throwing out her Daichan which went out the vortex without hitting anything - “Happens all the time to us Clashers!” she said, as Stelline played with her Daichan in her hand. “Clashers?” she asked - “Yeah, clashers, that’s what we’re called - ‘cause our Hikidama clash in a clash!” replied Elise, before Stelline now looked at her selection of Akachan. “I have plenty of good ones.” she told herself before the voice from earlier came back - “But which one is the best?” it asked, making Stelline jump in shock. “Who are you?” she whispered while looking around, to which the voice replied - “Stelline, look down!”. Stelline turned worried, as she stared down at the ground, Thankfully, there was nothing there - but the voice spoke to her again. “Not that far down,” it told her, “Look in your hand!”. Stelline bit her tongue with shyness, as she slowly opened her hand up, to only see the Daichan which she had been rolling around. “Could it be?” she asked herself in head, before speaking aloud, “Is my Daichan talking to me!?”.

Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

The rest of the kids looked concerned for Stelline’s mental health. So, she added, “No, really guys.” before holding her Daichan out for all to see. “It spoke!” she said, as its red core, which once glowed brightly, dimmed down. “Yeah, and I’m the Queen of England.” said Witchie to Stelline’s earlier statement. “Listen to me guys!” said Stelline, before Elise slung a gear at her. “Can you just get this done with?” she asked. Though she sighed, Stelline listened, and went through, searching for an Akachan again - before she spotted a blue Hiidama with a yellow coiling shape going around it, and decided to roll it out. Once it made it there, ready for attack, it became a huge poisonous frog alongside Stelline’s Daichan which now showed to be a mechanical robot, and with Elise’s, which was well, an enormous green and blue butterfly with a reflective white body.

“Papilius, don’t let Dart hurt you!” shouted Elise, as Dart, the giant frog, hopped over to Papilius, the butterfly - who flew up to avoid him. “Get down here!” shouted Stelline, as she then pointed for Dart to jump as high as he could. So, he did, and managed to, using his long tongue, hang from Papilius, and pull her down to the ground, which crashed her to the surface. “More!” Stelline then said, as Dart began to whip Papilius using his tongue, and wrap her up using it. “Stop!” screamed Elise, as she rolled out an Akachan of her own, this one being green. The green purie Akachan, which had a yellow cat’s eye formation in its centre, became Mankiel, a praying mantis with threatening eyes, that smiled as it prepared to eat Dart.

Dart became scared and backed up, before Mankiel, in what felt like less than a second, came over, and bit into his back. “They’re going all out on each other!” screamed Nainai as Dart finally started fighting back, and began an all out rage.

“I can see.” said Zenbu who was next to her, before Lady Gael’ moved her out the way whilst saying “Watch out!” . All the while, Dart shot out a venomous liquid which squirted all across the battlefield. “Well, that was a close one.” said Stelline, as the fumes left from the venom slowly cleared up. Amongst them, Stelline looked off to see Elise coughing. “You okay?” Stelline asked her, as she began to hold up a thumb. “Yeah,” she replied, “And - you won!” she declared, now.

Stelline clapped her hands, as the dome came down, and their Hikidama returned to them, respectfully. “Really?” she asked happily, to which Elise only nodded - before a large colourful sphere appeared in the air.

“That - that’s all the energy collected from the battle!” shouted Elise, before it crashed into the surface -