What the

Everyone gathered in one cell.Viola was detecting the mana of kidnappers.

“They are coming!” Viola warned Hikaru.

:clack clack clack:

6 people entered through the wall. 3 with wand, 1 with sword and 2 empty handed,One of them was an elf.

“You should stop drinking!”

“I can't live without it..Now where is my sword?” he searched on the ground.

“Hey! I don't see anyone in this cell.” One with the wand spoke.

“What? They should have been in here.”

He looked in the cell and found no one there.

:Thump:

Hikaru grabs their attention towards him. One leg crouched, another pulled backwards. One hand holding on the sword another on the sheath.

“Who is he!!?? Capture him!”

“Hey you!” The one empty handed runs towards Hikaru.

“Haaa……” Hikaru breathes out all the air, then takes a deep breath.

With the help of wild magic he launches himself at them. In a blink he cuts the wrist of the one running towards him and bracelets of the others. Standing behind them, before the hand of that one guy and bracelets of others falls on the ground he dashes back to his original position using the wind again.

All of that happened in a few seconds making everyone's eyes widen, some from fear and some from excitement.

The sword wielder unsheaths his sword, wand wielders hold the wand in front of them as an act of defence, the empty headed elf backs up while sweating.

Hiakrau walks up to the other guys whose hands he sliced. swinging his sword and separating the head from the body, staining the ground and his sword with his blood.

Lifting his sword and cleaning the blood with his two fingers, with each step stirring things ups Hikaru spoke up

“Lets end it quickly”

One of the wand wielders orders the other two to take care of Hikaru.

They step in front and start firing stone shards. Hikarus runs through them, dodging everyone and trying to land an attack on one of them. He blocks it with his wand, the other aims his wand at Hikaru and blasts a fire ball. Hikaru pushes the one in his front and dodges the fireball.

Swinging his sword again Hikaru manages to make a shallow cut on one of them. While he regains his footing Hikaru attacks and stabs his sword in the stomach of the other.

Taking the two of them out he heads towards the others in front. By a quick jerk cleaning his blood on his sword and facing them. Noticing that one of them who had a sword was not there he turns his face back.

He was in front of the cell in which everyone was.

“When did he go there?"

He cuts open the bars and drags one girl out of it.Pointing his blade at his neck his asked

‘Don't you want to save her?”

It was Viola whom he held hostage. Fella rushes out and tries to fire a fire spell with what little mana she had. That guy deflects it with his sword and kicks her back into the cell.

“If any of you tried to save her again I will cut her arms off!”

Everyone in the cell trembled. eyes fogging up which only let them see the blade on violas neck,backing up in a corner subconsciously they cried without letting the words out.

He turns to Hikaru. Taking his prior stance and glaring at him, Hikaru shouts out while dashing at him.

“One of the joker, i call for you!”

Ripping through space a plain figure like a mannequin without any facial features emerges from the behind of the guy. The tip of the sword thrust a little into Viola’s neck, letting a little blood flow out. The distance between the guy and Hikaru reaches 1 meter. He tightens his muscle to fully thrust it in but that figure uses his aura and snatches viola away from him. He gets distracted by the intense aura. Hikaru reaches Close enough that he could feel his body heat, in the nick of time he tries to dodge it, but hikaru manages to give him a shallow cut in the gut. He jumps back.

“Protect them all and help me”

“Okay”

The figure shifts his form and engulfs every child and lady present there in a ball form and levitates in air.

“Hahaha…..let's step up the game” the sword guy said.’What is that thing though? It turns on my survival instincts’

While unsheathing his sword the pressure near him increases as his eyes fixate only on Hikaru, his aura changed. Hikaru felt familiar with that situation.

“Freedom?...So you are a Quivon huhu?”

“Oh! So you know about us.Then you should also know that we have an upper hand in fights when we have sword”

:Zap:

A lightning bolt falls on Hikaru, he barely avoids it. The one guy left with the wand reminds them of his presence and says

‘We have to kill that guy quickly and sell this batch of slaves. Don't waste time we don't know if he is alone or not’

The kids and ladies wrapped around by the figure were getting curious about the battle outside and scared of the figure wrapping them up. Noises of blades striking each other and lightning made their heart want to see the battle going outside.

“Whats going on outside?’ one girl mumbled.

“Let me show you” the figure spoke and made the ball transparent. They flinched for a second.They could see what was going on outside but no one could see them from outside.

They were moving at high speed following HIkaru, but they could barely feel anything inside the ball.crashing through walls they entered the cave from which Hikaru came from. And a whip from the ball gripping tightly the elf.

Swords and lightning were raining on Hikaru, giving chills to the spine of all of them.cave crumbling down from each of their attacks and amidst all that Hikaru laughing and chasing them. Wounded and sweating, both of them running ahead.

The person holding the sword turns back and jumps at Hikaru, the force he used broke the ground. The sword aimed to slice through Hikaru Heart.

Hikaru heated his sword with one hand and sliced through his sword. Without wasting any second further Hikaru shot a stone shard aimed at the wand of another person. His wand breaks.

“Looks like you are still imperfect when it comes to using the freedom state. I have felt terror when someone I know used it, but you are a speck compared to her.There is much more to it.”

:Seeeeesssshhhhh:

The swordsman and the wand wielder both run deppers in the cave.

The waves were coming again to flow them away.

“Not again.” Haikru looked at the ball “help me!”

“‘Got it,” he forms a whip and sticks it to Hikaru's hand. The whips divide in smaller parts and retraces veins up to his shoulders. Hikaru's blood boils. He calls back his whip.

“What did you do?”

“Increased your breath holding capacity”

The waves come and sweep them away with its flow. They reach up to those two, Hikaru swims towards them.

The swordsman was holding his mouth and the other one had a sly grin on his face.

Discharging electricity in small amounts he states at Hikaru with a smile.

He discharges all of the electricity causing Hikaru to tremble with all the pain. The swordsman near him dies in an instant.

The ball wraps around Hikaru in another ball connected to the first one. The sword fell from Hikaru's hand. Hands still shaking and burned marks on body, somehow still conscious but too injured to move.

Before anyone in the ball could say anything the whip comes out again and heals Hikaru.

“Are you okay?” one of the ladies asked.

Hikaru changed his serious expression in a second and smiled at her.

“Yup, alive and kicking”

The pressure gradually decreased, the water now flowed like a small river.

“Okay, we will meet again in a few minutes “ Hikaru stepped out of the ball while picking up his sword.

“That hurt pretty badly you know?” Hikaru glared at him.

It was easier for hikaru to now fight him. Unarmed and wounded by hikaru's attack he started running again. Hikaru caught up to him using wind magic and cut him in half.

The ball regained his original figure, letting the children and ladies out, the elf kidnapper was tied by some vines made by that figure.The children and ladies were worried about Hikaru because he went straight to fight without any rest. They rushed to him and asked if he was really okay. Hikaru reassured them by showing them his sword play.

The figure sliced the space with his hand and said “Beware of the 4th and 5th” before going into it.Hikaru was confused with what he said. He set it aside for later and dragged the elf kidnappers with the vines before he could run away.

They started heading deep in the cave because Viola told them there is a way out at some distance and she felt another presence over there.She can't properly see it but she was sure it was sure someone was there. Viola couldn't properly use her magic because of being hungry for days there. Hikaru told her to stop using it.

The matter of escaping the prison was solved so Hikaru was a little more relaxed, now he just had to take them back to their home and find a way for him to go back.

As they approached near the exit they started hearing groans.

“Stay alert and close by. I will check the area” said Hikaru. He handed the vine in the hand of one of the ladies.

Searching next to the exit he found a baby dragon wounded near its stomach on the ground. Black scales covering his body and bat-like wings.

Hikaru's eyes first sparkled with excitement but when his eyes saw the wound he started healing it immediately. Others ran over to them as they heard the baby dragons screams.

When he was fully healed he jumped back as an act of defence. That dragon still didn't trust them but it didn't take more than a minute before he melted down in all the ladies and kids hands. But he still didn't like being touched by Hikaru.

‘He is a male i swear’ The rejection broke his heart.

Being dejected Hikaru headed out of the hole he could see at the top. He made a way for others through lifting up the ground so they could climb up.

The bright light blinded him as he set foot outside. Slowly regaining the vision his eyes told him about a creature bigger than him. As he regained his vision bloodlust greeted him.

“WHAT THE —”

:Smack: