In an instance the violet aura turned into the shape of a humanoid. It was a she from the way the figure took its form. Having a rather slightly thinner body compared to Yumiko who was much more slender. Her shining red hair compliments well with her glistening red hot eye. She was like somewhere out of this world. But deep down inside of me, I was a little bit glad she doesn’t have other features like having a burning hair or wielding a legendary katana that could cut through spirits and being well…short like Zenith. But that’s just one of my desires because in reality this woman is a bit taller than Yumiko.

“What is that, Yumiko?” I asked.

Yumiko smirked and said, “Allow me to introduce you two to my servant, my ‘familiar’, my best friend but most importantly, MY LITTLE SISTER!”

“Little sister?” Zenith tilted her head.

Yumiko coughed a bit, “Not by blood. But by contract means.”

“Ouhh.” Zenith’s eyes widened and tilted back.

“I welcome you, The Water Goddess, Violet!”

Violet makes a fabulous pose together with Yumiko. Yumiko looked happy. This was probably the first time I’m seeing her having a joyful emotion.

Zenith tilted her head to the other side and said, “What are you guys doing?”

“Darling, we’re posing, of course. Can’t you see?” Violet proudly said so.

“Oh.” Zenith tilted her head once again.

“Can you please stop tilting?” I held her head and prevented her from tilting it. “You’re distracting me.”

“Sorry about that, White…”

I sighed and turned back to Yumiko and Violet and told them, “So this is your trump card or something? Having The Water Goddess by your side?”

“Well you are right and wrong, White.” Yumiko walks a bit, “This is my trump card but it is also only one of my trump cards. I can show you more if you can show me more of your ancient magic.”

Yumiko just said the word. She probably knows something that I don’t know. Looks like meeting her wasn’t a coincidence at all. It was in fact destined to be like this. I have to get something out of her. But in order for her to talk, I have to take her down first.

“Zenith, follow my orders…”

“Um…yes, Master. I mean, White.”

I ‘Blinked’ myself to Yumiko’s blind side and tried to deal some damage with a wind fist to her. But my fist was blocked by Violet’s hand.

“Not so fast, young dragon.” Violet gave me a stern look

“Young dragon?”

Before I was able to ask more, Violet immediately manipulated a small water ball and threw it to me. My whole body started to disintegrate as the water splashed all over me…turning into snow. Violet was surprised and looked back at Zenith who was still standing still. She looked back at the pile of snow and the snow formed back together, forming Zenith. Violet looked again at the original Zenith where she suddenly vibrated and blew up. I was inside of the ‘fake’ Zenith. The fake Zenith was just coloured snow. I threw my dagger to Yumiko. Violet tries to stop it but Zenith blocked her path.

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“No…” Zenith stood in front of her.

“Move over, little dragon!”

The dagger was deflected by one of Yumiko’s bullet as she shoots out a Decoy Bullet.

“Pretty smart.” Yumiko complimented us. “But that’s just going to be it for today, White.”

Yumiko took out a weird looking bullet and reloads it on her flintlock. She then shoots at herself. Blood started to splatter but her head didn’t exploded. The blood on the floor slowly turned into another Yumiko. She cloned herself.

“This is called The Clone Bullet. Anything you shot it at, will be cloned.” Yumiko reloads her gun and repeats the process for 6 more times.

I tried to stop her from cloning herself but her clone prevented me from doing so. Before I realized it, there were seven Yumiko. They all surrounded me in a circle and pulled out both of their flintlock.

“This is going to be messy, isn’t it?” I said to myself.

All Yumiko shot at me with a barrage of different bullets. I tried to deflect it all by ‘pausing’ each of the bullets and deflect it with my dagger. I stop pausing the time near me and all of the bullets ricochet to somewhere else. One of the bullets hit one of the clones, killing it in the process.

“Oh great. You killed one of me. Too bad it’s not the real one!” Gunshot were then heard as I looked behind me.

I barely dodged that bullet but it then exploded because it was an Explosive Bullet. The shrapnel hurt me a bunch along with the minor falling damage.

Meanwhile on the other side of the battle, Zenith keeps turning into snow every time she was hit by Violet’s water ability.

“Can’t you just stop turning yourself into snow and fight elegantly?”

Zenith then stopped turning herself into her human shape. Leaving down a small pile of snow. Before Yumiko was able to realise it, the rooftop was covered in snow. All of it was a part of Zenith. All of the snow started to pile up together and vibrates all over the place. The snow started to move around the roof. Combining my wind ability, I made a whirlwind. Combining both Zenith’s and my ability creates a snowy tornado. All of the snow then slowly transformed into ice shards as Zenith orders it to do so. Some of Yumiko’s clone was eliminated by this move while Violet tries to defend herself from the shards.

“Yumiko! Are you alright?” Violet shouted to her ‘sister’.

“We’re okay.” All of the Yumiko answered while another one was eliminated.

Currently there were only 4 of them remained including her. Violet retaliates by raising both of her arms and placed them to the floor. This unleashes a huge amount of water around her, creating a huge wave of water on all direction. The water slowly stops the wind and the ice shards from becoming their worst nightmare. The water recedes after a few moments have passed. We’ve come to a standpoint.

“This is going nowhere...” I said as I carefully observed Yumiko.

Yumiko then laughed and said, “No, this is not enough. Not enough information for me. I can’t seem to understand your ability yet, White. There’s only one thing left I need to do in that case…”

Yumiko aimed her flintlock and shoots out a Mini-Black Hole Bullet. The small black hole begins to pull everyone towards it, even her ‘little sister’ was holding on to her feet.

“Yumiko. I’m out. I’ll see you again when you’re done. Take care of yourself, sister.” Violet bails away as she transformed herself into the same violet aura and disappeared.

“Very well…I’ll see you in a bunch” replied Yumiko.

Zenith and I struggled to get away from the black hole. This black hole was a little different than before. It had a stronger gravitational force. This reminds me of the time when I was facing a member of my old team, Team Stardust, Yukimura Airi Mortar and his gravity controlling ability. But this was even worse than that. Even so…I remembered what I did the other day. I let go of myself and the black hole sucked me in but as it about to completely suck all of me, the mini black hole disappears.

“What happened?” Zenith was confused.

“I tell you what ‘might’ happen.” Yumiko seemed to figure it out, “Correct me if I’m wrong, White.”

“Go on…” I replied to her as I tried my best to stand properly.

She begins her explanation, “What we just saw there was a whole different power. It’s not just Time Manipulation or Space Manipulation. It was Time-Space Manipulation. It can also be called, Continuum Manipulation. By combining both of White’s ancient magic, he ultimately obtains a third one as well. White is able to manipulate, distort or even bend the very fabrics of reality in which all exist in. It is very different than your two other magic. Is it not?”

“You’re right.”

Yumiko continues, “To control space-time is to alter the fabrics of reality, allowing one to erases existences and not just the flow of time, but also reorganize, alter and erase historical events. To move through space-time is more than simply teleportation or time-travel, as it allows one to connect to alternate realities, even metaphysical realms. Much to how you always ‘stopped’ my bullet and you connecting yourself to a different universe...”

I was caught by surprise of her knowledge on me, “Wait. I don’t mind about stopping the bullet but what do you know about me connecting to a different reality?”

“You’re not from this reality are you, ‘master’? Oh wait, that’s not the right call…it is supposed to be, my King.”

“King?”

“Yes. The dragon inside of you is The King of Dragons during the golden age of Dragons. Much as how I know that little girl over there has the bodyguard of the king.”

“What are you in all of this?”

“What am I? Well guess what? I also have a dragon inside of me. But not just any dragon, it was an infamous dragon. This dragon inside of me used to belong to a different ruler until it defected and betrayed its old ruler and joined the ranks of your dragon, White. And you know what happens then? It was all a ruse for this dragon to gain the trust of the King of Dragon. My dragon betrayed your dragon. Resulting in the decline of the dragons.”

“How do you know all of this?”

“My current master. The fourth Champions of Chaos, Kitsuneki told me. I also learned a few things about The King of Dragon from the third Champions of Chaos, Vatherion.”

“Wait…how many of these Champions of Chaos are there?”

“Beats me, but I’m going to say something to you. Either you want to believe it or not depend on yourself.” Yumiko whispered to me and said, “You better get ready, because the third Champions of Chaos got you on his sight. He will come for you soon.”

“Why are you telling me this? Why should I believe you? You even said it yourself. The dragon inside of you betrayed The King of Dragon.”

“I don’t care what you think about it. But the only thing I can say is that we dragon keepers are not the same as the dragon inside of us. We are a different individual. Isn’t that what you said to that short girl?”

Yumiko left us pondering about the revelation she had told me and Zenith. I dropped down on my knees as I ran out of Infinitum after using it all on nullifying the mini-black hole…

TO BE CONTINUED