Raijin, the Tempest God

Ace of Spades seemed to have a reputation for being remarkably sunny and clear most days, though this day in particular seemed to be an exception. A storm brewed outside, flashes of lightning and roars of thunder peppering the sky and leaving less patrons in the Red Dragon Inn than normal, yet those patrons refused to leave. Rain pelted the windows, as if it were gunfire against a sheet of unbending metal, and whips of wind rattled the foundations of each building. it was dangerous for anyone to head out in such a storm. It had the potential to break wares and even damage houses, should it persist.

Of course, Mai was incredibly giddy at such a storm. The winds and rain and lightning made the young Slayer's mouth water in delightful tastiness. She had already nibbled on some of the storm at this point, only hopping back inside to enjoy the extra warmth that the fire lit within the tavern would provide. This cozy feeling was only matched by such a feeling as Miss Luna's warm embrace, or nibbling on any sort of thing cooked by the wonderful mother figure Mai had.

Breaking the whimsy of Mai's inner thoughts came an unexpected sound: someone blasting through the door in a wet, miserable huff.

"Surprised to see someone weather this storm," the barkeep noted, motioning towards a stool.

"Sabertooth's in this town, yeah?" he gruffly asked.

The barkeep's eyebrow raised. "Uh...yes, sir. It is. Why'd'ya ask?"

"Sabertooth guards the world from invaders from other realms, yeah? Well, this storm's the result of such a thing."

Mai's ears perked up. "Oh? You sure? I mean we've gotten storms pretty rough in the past few months since-"

"This is from an invader. I'm surprised I made it outta there. Those five Aces are damn persistent about keeping things hush about the operation. Euch. Seems like there ain't any folks of the guild 'round here, so can you pass on a message to someone like the Aces or the Guildmaster? This is...not something the common rabble can take care of. Those damn Aces are fuckin' resurrecting a God." Mai's attention was now fully gripped on what the man had to say. "Dunno how they found it, but somehow those bastards found the corpse of some...fuck...some sorta storm god or somethin' like that. They've been workin' some shit for tryin' to resurrect the bastard for the past year or so, and they're finally on the final steps. I...couldn't go through with what those shits were plannin'. I had to get outta there, me and my good friends. I...was the only one that escape. These pricks are no joke."

The barkeep's eyes quickly darted towards Mai for a second, before he nodded. "Not a problem, I can leave this for the higher ups. Though, if you don't mind, can I ask a bit more information? Things like...what can we expect? Do we know what god this is? Where is the job? Anything that can help the guild out would be welcome, I'll be sure to make note of it and get it to the higher ups as quickly as I can."

The man downed a full mug of the strange foamy drink in a second. "Yeach, fine. Somewhere in the Silent Cemetery, way out in the cursed lands. The Aces, oh, there's five of 'em, roughly...S-Rank, I'd say, they said somethin' about the cursed lands being great for this sorta ritual. They're...shit...uh...one's a wind wizard, another's good with water, a third's good with electricity, one's a master swordsmistress, and another's damn good with earth magic. Two of 'em are twins, forget which ones. They've got a lot of mooks, too. None nearly as strong as them, but none are weak by any means. As for the god they're resurrectin'...dunno the name. All I know is that he's some sorta storm god and he looks like a big monkey. Hopefully they don't succeed in the ritual, but if they do, I think we're gonna have some trouble. Even when the bastard's dead, he's got a helluva strong magic aura."

The barkeep nodded. "Aight, thank you. Wanna get a room real quick?" The man nodded as a waitress quickly led him away to one of the rooms of the inn. The barkeep beckoned to Mai, who interestedly wandered over. "That sound like your Papa?"

Mai hesitantly nodded. It had been roughly a year since Papa went missing, and he was a storm god. The rest did not seem to make sense, however. Papa did not look like a monkey, or at least as far as Mai remembered, he did not. Papa was a big, strong...

Mai could not truly remember what Papa looked like. His words boomed in her head, but the image faded from her view. But it just might be Papa, Mai thought.

The barkeep smiled. "Got it, kiddo. Hand this note over to Miss Luna. You're probably the best for the job. Plus, I'm sure Miss Luna'll want to get involved and help you out. Maybe she can help ya talk some sense into your Papa."

He handed Mai a strange sheet of paper with some weird squiggles on it. Mai nodded, quickly running over towards Miss Luna's room and knocking on the door. "Miss Luna! Miss Luna! Some weird person came in and said he might know something about Papa! Please! Can you please come with me so we can beat up the meanies bullying Papa! Please? Please!"

As she pleaded through the closed door, Mai felt a tear slowly roll down her cheek. Six years ago, Papa had begun to teach Mai in the intricacies of the world. How to use magic, how humans destroyed the natural environment, how to act like a proper huntress and how to truly hunt after humans, both in a sense of sabotaging them with cuteness and the most effective ways to kill them afterwards. A year ago, Papa disappeared. Shortly after, Mai arrived in Sabertooth, and not long after that she met Miss Luna on a search for information about Papa from the guild Fairy Tail. Now, Miss Luna had taught her so much more about the world. Humans that were not entirely awful? Someone in such power not always being correct? Camaraderie with humans? It all confused the girl, and, as much as she insisted she was a big girl, even she knew that was a lie. She was not a big girl. She felt herself slowly retreat into the recesses of her mind. She was just a terrified child, hoping for answers. She just wanted to see her Papa again and yell at him for being gone for so long, but...would she stay with him? She could not just up and leave Miss Luna, could she? Miss Luna had taught Mai so much in so short a time, yet Papa was Papa. He was infallible, right? There must have been a reason that he vanished for so long, right? It had to be so! Papa would never do anything so wrong and mean! Or...would he? Mai had slowly begun to accept Papa not being in her life and living with Miss Luna, yet now she could possibly find him once more, and it was too big a flood of emotions for Mai to handle.

When the door finally opened, Mai was little more than a blubbering mess, one arm extending out the strange paper while the other covered her eyes as she cried. She tried to speak, but words refused to form. Finally, Mai would finally meet with Papa, but how would Miss Luna react? Mai feared no matter what would happen, yet this was not something she could ignore.

Even in this strange day of tempests and storms, Mai always knew that the most calming thing she could experience was the warm, loving embrace of Miss Luna. Papa had embraced her in times before, when she was sad that she failed a hunt or she could not fully understand the machinations of working a spell or her magic, yet this felt...different. Papa's embraces never felt as warm as Miss Luna's. They felt cold. They numbed the pain that was felt, yet they never mended it. That was something Mai would conquer on her own, and fell all too satisfied for. Miss Luna felt warm, however. Miss Luna was kind and loving and, most importantly, she felt understanding. Mai sniffled, trying to regain her composure. Despite the pounding rain and furious storm, which usually calmed the rambunctious child, it felt nothing, her dripping wet clothes dampening the couch and the blanket Miss Luna placed over her. She sniffled. Why did she feel this way? It all felt so strange. She had never felt this way. Never had she felt so helpless, even in this time that should spell hope.

"*sniff* I- *sniff* don't know what the paper thingy says, b-but...*sniff* the guy who was talking *sniff* back at the inn said *sniff* something about a s-storm god...*sniff* a-and I think it was P-Papa!" Mai could barely get her words out. She did not know what this feeling was. She had felt sad before, such as when she first came to Sabertooth, but this was not sadness. Yet...Papa always said that people cry when they are sad, and Mai was crying, but she was not sad. She clung tightly to Miss Luna. "I-If we find out *sniff* where this is, c-can you help me f-find him?" She sniffled once more. She wanted to find her Papa for so long, yet now there was a strange reluctance to ask. She feared she might replace Miss Luna with Papa, but... it was Papa! She could not just abandon him like he did her! But... that would mean leaving Miss Luna? True, she did not remember much about Papa, but...

There were too many thoughts rolling around in Mai's mind. She snuggled tighter to Miss Luna, letting herself cry. She did not like any of this weird business with having to think about things. She was never one that had to deliberate over anything. It was either "something deserved to be punched" or "something does not deserve to be punched." Yet now there was a question bouncing in her young, dumb brain. Papa or Miss Luna? The caretaker that taught her all she knew about magic or the one that cared for her the past months? "Miss Luna, which one should I go with?" she mumbled. Her head turned to look at the Nature Fairy. "I don't like having to think!" Her tears and sadness turned into a petulant anger as if it were swinging on a pendulum. "Miss Luna! Decide for me! I don't wanna think about weird, difficult things like this!" She buried her head into Miss Luna's side, trying to escape from the everything that was going on.

With tears clouding her vision, Mai felt alone and lost. Then, a soft hand brushed aside Mai’s hair. The familiar scent of Miss Luna and that always-kind touch of the woman Mai wanted to call Mama forever set Mai at ease, with the little girl hugging her mother figure tightly as she explained, the fairy’s hand stroking the hair of the girl who was, at this moment, not the monstrous child that bullied her ace, not the girl that tried bringing ruin to all those dumb humans, not that child who would take what she wanted without thinking of the consequences. At this moment, Mai was just a young girl who felt scared and confused. The blond-haired lightning bolt of a menace had never felt like this. She felt, as much as she hated it, human. She felt like she was weak. She felt like she was crying like a dumb human would and not showing the pride that her Papa would have wanted her to show as a Goddess. Papa had always taught her to ignore those sad feelings, to just punch anything like that in the face! But... Miss Luna taught something different. She taught that it was okay to have these sadnesses. That it was okay to be weak. That even people as strong as Miss Luna could be hurt.

It was a lot of thinking, and Mai did not like thinking. So, she let Miss Luna’s words do the thinking as that calm, motherly voice explained to Mai. That voice that had told Mai good from bad, that even when telling Mai she did something wrong she was still just learning, Mai stared up into the eyes of Miss Luna the entire time as she spoke, absorbing each word as if it were the gospel truth, as if it were words from a Goddess herself towards her chosen child.

It was then that Miss Luna asked a question. If Mai was ready. She sniffled as she thought. ”I don’t like having to think... and I really don’t like to do stuff I don’t wanna. But... Miss Luna’s right, like always! I wanna go and bash crash pow my worries and stuff! I wanna know what happened to Papa! I wanna bash crash pow those meanies that are trying to do stuff! And I wanna make sure that I can help Miss Luna! I wanna be like Miss Luna! Miss Luna’s amazing! Miss Luna is kind and pretty and strong and she knows what to say and she’s smart and funny and loving and pretty and knows a lot of things!  Miss Luna? I wanna be just like you! And I wanna punch away all those painful thingies and get to be just like you! Miss Luna doesn’t feel pain! Miss Luna is unstoppable and invincerble! I wanna go with you, Miss Luna! I wanna learn from you how to do all the cool things you do and I wanna learn how to be as pretty and kind and nice as you!” Having steeled her resolved and wiped away her tears, she hugged Miss Luna and grabbed her hand. ”Let’s go bash crash pow some baddies!

Mai was too busy struggling with the internal thoughts to even get excited about her first time in Miss Luna's car. The weird transporty mobile was something the little God Slayer was interested in for as long as she knew that Miss Luna owned it, and now she could not even really get excited for anything. Thoughts bounced around her head as a familiar voice called to her. Mai! it rumbled. Mai's ears perked up. Even though it had been some time since she last saw him, the voice was recognizable anywhere. Papa's voice. Mai, you can't do this. You're being tricked by a dumb human. Look at her. She is a human trying to kill a God! She's betraying everything I taught you! Remember our lessons? How humans were the epitome of the scum of the earth, that they were mere playthings for Gods like us? Now look at you, dancing in the palm of the hand of a filthy pink haired human, betraying every last thought of me as you try to abandon me for another, weaker parent, a human parent! I can help free you, trust me, Mai. We can be reunited, Mai. Father and Daughter once more, ready to rid this realm of filthy humans. All you have to do is kill that foolish human in the front seat. You know you can. I've taught you well enough, just unleash a blast of magic into the back of her head and-

Papa's voice was cut off by Miss Luna's. She wanted to reassure Mai, she wanted to tell Mai that things would be okay, even if Papa was nothing like how Mai remembered. Miss Luna told Mai she could run if need be. "I-I don't wanna!" Mai stammered, tears trickling down her cheeks. "I already lost Papa, now I don't wanna lose Miss Luna, too!" She followed Miss Luna to the edge of the cemetery, the whipping winds and torrents of rain battering her face, lightning crashes visible and thunder booms audible. Mai was used to seeing through the storms. Papa taught her well, and she could very easily see a bunch of people in dark purple robes pacing around the place, seemingly standing guard over a small stone mausoleum. Mai took a few steps forwards, getting herself ahead of Miss Luna, before quickly darting forwards, her takeoff bolstered by bolts of lightning striking the ground beneath her feet. She roared aloud, turning herself into a living missile as she charged towards the group of strange men.

Just as one with a weird looking hat on top of his robes turned, Mai crashed into his stomach, sending him flying away, crashing through hundreds of gravestones before he eventually was out of sight. A moment of stunned pause rested in the air before Mai flickered her arms into gloves of purple clouds and leaped at another one, tackling him to the ground. She rapidly began laying fists into his face, droplets of red water sputtering out of him. Mai was too angry to even think about drinking the water to try to get into Force. These people were between her and Papa! Mai knew, this had to be Papa, there was nothing and no one else it could be! And all of these stupid hooded people with their dumb hats were in her way between her and Papa! Spikes of stone and mud erupted beneath her feet, Mai nimbly leaping atop each peak unfazed by the attack on her. She fired a quick laser shot of lightning into the earth mage who tried to skewer her, sending her tumbling backwards. Mai jumped downwards, her arms becoming entombed in thick, billowing clouds. She swung them forwards, pummeling a man in the face and sending him spiraling down to the ground in a comedic manner. Bolts of fire began racing towards the God Slayer, with the young, angry child reacting by simply countering each bolt of fire with a bolt of water and charging again. She leaped onto his shoulders, firing lightning out of the bottom of her feet to propel herself skywards, weaving between arrows along the way. As she reached the apex of her jump, she fired yet another Tempest God's Roar, pushing her backwards at a high speed, making sure to spin along the way. Magic harmlessly was warded away by the twirling spiral of prepubescent rage before she crashed into the muddy ground, sending plumes of wet dirt flying. The mud volcano made a good enough cover for Mai to fire a quick succession of watery arrows from her mouth, pelting each of the weird robed guys.

Mai huffed and puffed, bolts of lightning flickering off of her body. These people prevented Mai from seeing Papa again. These people might think to harm him. They might think to harm Miss Luna! All of this was unacceptable. Mai raised her hand skyward as a bolt of lightning struck her, the youngling eating the snack heartily.

"Shit! This is the fuckin' kid!" a panicked voice roared. "Those assholes were right about that, at least!"

Mai fired wind from the bottoms of her feet again, rocketing herself towards the voice. She pelted him with a headbutt before grabbing him by the long strands of his robe. She saw a look of panic on the human's face as she unleashed a point blank Tempest God's Bellow, covering the man's face. Mai nimbly cartwheeled out of the way of an attempted line of steel magic trying to cut her through, springing off of a hand with added aid from a gust of wind to send her skywards as the ground beneath her opened and hands tried to grab her. As she spun in the air, she fired a quick three shots of laser thin lightning, each one hitting a different target. Immediately upon landing on the ground, she rushed ahead again, delivering a tempest infused boot to one of her bolt struck foes' shins. She then twirled around behind him before managing to get her arms around his waist and hips enough to suplex him, the force digging his head into the mud. She twirled with a stream of water, dousing the shots of metal and missile. Once more she charged ahead, a man with a sword getting into her way. He swung the sword from Mai's right to her left, but the girl managed to parry it away with a swipe of a tempest coated arm. She punched the man below the belt, sending him folding forwards for Mai to wallop him with an uppercut, sending him flying. Mai leaped high once more, pummeling his likely unconscious body with a flurry of fists, their speed managing to keep him skyward. She then flipped in the air and delivered a bicycle kick to him, sending him crashing to the ground. Mai held her hand in the air, a ball of electricity forming within it as she aimed at the crowd. She fired it towards them, where it exploded in the sky with pretty colors as a missile struck it. Of course, this was the plan. Mai fired quick compressed shots of wind from her feet, using the smoke as a barrier as she crashed into the ground with a wave of water magic. As they began flying into the air from the force of her landing, Mai clapped her hands forwards in front of her, a tornado erupting from her hands and swirling around the foolish robed people, making them rise higher and higher into the air until Mai was finished, when they fell to the ground.

Mai looked around, still huffing and puffing. Groans of pain rung out from her heavily wounded foes. Mai made sure not to kill any of them, since that was not something Miss Luna liked. Mai turned towards her idol as she readied to enter the mausoleum. "Did I do good, Miss Luna?"

Mai tilted her head as Amelia covered her ears. "Ooh, are we playing a game?" Mai asked. She tried to wiggle free from Amelia's grasp on her ears, very unsuccessfully. Eventually, Mai's ears were free, to which Mai then tried to grab Amelia's ears, though that ended up very unsuccessfully as well. It was then that Miss Luna announced that they were going in. "Yay! We're going on an adventure!" the little girl said, skipping along to follow her mother figure. "It's like that one book Gaia read to me that one time about that... uh..." Mai pressed her knuckles against the side of her head. "Nope! Don't remember! I think it had to do with a girl hero fighting a bunch of baddies in a dungeon, though! And that's what we're doing! Miss Luna's a hero fighting a bunch of baddies! Boom! Crash! Pow!" As always, Mai punched the air with her "Boom! Crash! Pow!" cry, giggling afterwards as they slowly began to descend into the depths.

Then the rumbling began once more into Mai's ears. Mai! You're letting her get too close!" it screamed. That human is getting in the way, you need to stop her! She's out there trying to separate you from seeing me again! Don't you want to see your father once more? Don't you want to see me again?

Mai's face grew into a little pout of contemplation as she listened to the words. "Miss Luna?" Mai asked, tugging on the hem of the pink haired fairy's shirt. "I-If Papa turned out to be a big old meanie, w-what would you do? Because... from what I've heard people say, Papa was a big meanie. I...I don't remember Papa being a meanie, but..." she blew her nose into the shirt. "I also know you aren't a meanie!" She thought for a few seconds, much longer than she was normally accustomed to. "Because I know Papa's here! I've heard his voice! He's been all grumbly in my brain and it's making me confused because he said that I should kill you for being a stinky stupid human, but you aren't stinky or stupid or bad at all! You're not even a human, so..." Mai took a few steps forwards, picking up a detective hat from the wall that somehow managed to fit her perfectly. "I know that Papa's down here because I hearded his voice, and I can also smell him and I can feel a bit of the rumbly tumbly power that he has, but... Papa's also not a dummy dumb! He should know that you aren't a stinky human and that you're really cool and really nice and better than every human, especially Imai!" Mai pressed her hand against her chin in contemplation, suddenly seeming to sprout a few new brain cells in the process. "So I think it's people impersonating Papa! They don't know anything about me, especially since he or they or something isn't Papa, but Father! I know Father means the same thing but Papa is Papa!" Mai went deeper and deeper into thought. "Not understand, very not understand!" Mai continued to think, wondering why things were somehow both making sense and very much not making sense.

Mai would be lying if she said she fully understood what was happening with all of what Miss Luna and Amelia were saying about Papa. Her mind was not too great on moral matters, and it seemed like this was a massively moral matter. "So..." Mai said, a bit meekly, staring at the flower. "Papa's a villain, then?" It was the only conclusion Mai could come to with the facts she had been given. Her Papa, standing around, hurting people? Just for fun? It was something that made Mai admittedly slightly intrigued for quite a long time, but now? Something felt wrong about it. Something felt off. Mai knew a bunch of good humans. Victoria, Gaia, everyone that was not Imai, honestly. So how could Papa just go out there and try to do a broad, sweeping generalization of all humans?

Maybe everyone was right. Maybe Mai had to make judgments for herself.

"Miss Luna?" she said with a sniffle. "Can I do something? If Papa is there, can I try to talk to him? He may have been a big meanie, but he still is my Papa. Maybe..." Mai's head dipped to the ground. "I not know. All of this stuff too confusing. I just wanna go home! I wanna eat candies and have fun and chase Imai around!" A tear fell down her cheek, but she clenched her fist tightly in resolve. "But I know this is something that I need to get over. You try to lead me in a goodly direction, so I'll do it! I'm going to try to be goodlier to try to be more like Miss Luna!" Saying that, she hugged Luna tightly before rushing ahead into the largest chamber of the mausoleum, her fists wrapped in lightning. The five wizards there turned towards her, firing out spells at Mai, who dodged them easily. The first one she went for, a old looking man shooting wind spells at her, stumbled back onto his feet as Mai approached and punched him square in the jaw with a tempest wrapped hand.

She stared at the rest of them for a moment, glaring each and every one of them down. She turned towards the orb of mysterious, powerful magic centered in the middle of the room. There was no doubt. It was Papa. "You all hurt my Papa! You all deserve to be painfulled!" The lightning and water wizards began frantically firing spells at her, the young girl consuming them with ease, her switching into Force fueled even more by her rage at the situation. When the dust settled, Mai found herself entirely wrapped in a black aura, sparks glaring from her eyes. "This is what happen to meanies!" she roared, her words much more unintimidating than her already unintimidating appearance. She darted ahead, headbutting the water guy in the stomach like a missile, sending the two of them continuing through into the wall of what looked to be an underground coliseum. Once their momentum had been stopped by the immense wall of stone, Mai's fists fired at a rapid pace, bludgeoning into the man's face with hyper active speed. She was only stopped by a portion of the wall jutting out and smashing her in the face, sending the small girl tumbling back.

"It's the damn monkey's kid!" a woman wielding a sword barked. The old windy guy soon got up, firing a tornado at Mai. Mai rushed into it headfirst, letting the intense winds fire her into the sky. As she floated towards the top of the coliseum's roof, she fired a thin beam of electricity, piercing the neck of the windy old man, sending him tumbling back with roars of pain. Soon enough, however, Mai would be smashed down to earth by a portion of the ceiling jutting down and sending her crashing into the ground. Once she impacted, a dome of earth wrapped around her body, capturing the small girl in what seemed to be a cage of sorts. Mai was being smothered by the rocks, which slowly began to close in. Mai used her own know how, plus the improvement from being in Force, to dig through the soft, loamy earth. She emerged on the other side of the cage, her magically imbued hands as if they were magnets to the face of the water guy, sending him flying into the wall. Mai looked over towards the entrance to this strange underground mausoleum coliseum, seeing Miss Luna engaged with the woman with a sword. The earthy woman scoffed, staring down Mai, who still felt the combined power of rage and Force ready to tear apart this woman who had kidnapped her Papa.

The mages were none too receptive to Luna's plans to extract information from them, all five of them breathing out as the souls left their bodies, floating to the orb containing Papa. All of them were dead, and now Mai was alone with Amelia and Luna as the orb shook the entire room around them before a violent explosion took place, clearing the room into just a perfectly round colosseum. When Mai got her head pulled out of the walls of the arena, she looked and saw-

"PAPA!" she cried out.

Without thinking, Mai rushed over to try to hug Papa, only to be met by a beam of white tempests from his index finger, blasting her back into the wall. When the beam cleared, Mai saw that it was Papa, standing and stretching.

"Keh. At least one person in this damn adventure isn't an idiot. Lunaris Mira. I know who you are. I thank you for helping train my lovely little weapon. She was still young, weak, and useless before you showed up. Now she is properly fit. Once I imbue her with even a fraction of my power, the world will be mine. All you mortals are weak compared to me. My pinky could slaughter a city."

Mai took a few pained steps forwards, her head tilted in absolute confusion. "W-what are you talking about, Papa?"

"You, brat." His piercing, blood red shining eyes glared at Mai with a wicked, fanged smile on his face. "You hate humans, don't you? Don't you wanna be with your Papa?"

"But..." Something felt off.

The hulking beast that was Papa took steps towards Luna, ignoring Mai. "Whatever. I suppose I'm lucky that at least one of the test subjects survived. Most of those I took couldn't even withstand a breath of my power. I'd've thought noble families would have had more magic. To think it took a dozen noble families and countless peasants in order to finally find one that wouldn't immediately die. Finally, though, I got this whelp." A deep, booming cackle escaped his lips. "What's that? You didn't know? Ha! What sort of guardian are you! You train this child as your own for however long it has been and you didn't even know? She is of noble birth, and you didn't know? I know your thoughts. The air crackles, the very hairs on your skin stand on end at your pathetic attempt to hide it. I mean, it should be easy to find. A noble family of blonde hair with a missing daughter? I'm sure if you truly cared you could have worked it out with ease. No, there is more. You call me a monster, you call me a murder, you call me a demon, a malevolent god, but look what you have done! At least I have the care to know of my wards! You don't care for the whelp! You could have done this, but you didn't! You claim to care for her, yet you only care for her in order to satisfy yourself! I, at least, would not dare lie about my intentions! You care for her because you are scared and because it makes you feel good! I have molded her into something great! You've done nothing!" He laughed once more. "No matter. You'll see her true power." In his hand, a small ball of tempest magic formed before turning into a small candy. He lazily lobbed it into the air. Mai immediately knew what it was, her favorite old treat of Stormckers. She easily ate it up before power coursed through her veins.

The power shot off her and Mai's mind went blank.

Raijin was always such a loving father. Now he was back! All Mai could do was rejoice! But... something was wrong. Papa's violet - no, red? eyes were glared at the pink haired woman. She was an interloper. She was trying to kill Raijin. Mai could not let this happen.

Nothing could get between her and her father.

Mai dashed ahead, her eyes the same glowing blood red as Raijin's, her fist wrapped in storms, as she prepared to punch the interloper to death.