The Arrival of Neo Tokyo's, Newest Superhero
The orange sky of the afternoon awakened once more and broadened the soaring light of the world. Beneath it, South Akihara was shone by the light and it was a district where a variety of juicy traditional Japanese food restaurants took place in the crowd.
A small red open door ramen restaurant that had the people eating in front of the cooking, had holographic sumo proudly presenting the bowl full of fresh worm-like noodles and other ingredients usual in Ramen, shone the neon light the most compared to others. Hatoshi and Yuna were occupied the two rectangular, wooden chairs closed to each other and stared at the empty bowl couple, sat on the elongated wooden table with satisfaction glaring after tasting their delicious ramens.
"Hatoshi, thank you so much for bringing us to Daichi." Yuna spoke in a cheerful tone, "I never thought that we would go to South Akihara today."
"Of course, I will do anything to make you happy," Hatoshi said in a confident tone and chuckled.
Yuna started to laugh joyfully and Hatoshi was invaded by a tiny spark of annoyance that he threw to the right. Blushing red awkwardness boiled down onto his face.
"You are so sweet." She mumbled with a laughing tone.
"Hey come on, I also wanted to eat in this place too." Hatoshi countered in an embarrassed manner.
"I know, I know."
The conversation shifted into a brief pause and Hatoshi grabbed his red case phone. Afterward, the phone brought a lively blue screen with a single tap of his fingers. White thin, four-digit numbers inside a transparent barrier that were divided into two numbers, told the current time, "16:15."
"Yuna, I think it's time to go to your part-time job, right now?" Hatoshi told Yuna in a polite tone.
"It's true though." She replied in a little gloomy tone, "Anyway, I wished we could stay here more."
Hatoshi gave out tiny laughter of enjoyment and glared at Yuna with a smile on her lips.
"Yeah, but you know the internship is strict when it comes to time." Hatoshi countered.
Yuna nodded and folded his hand that leaned down to the table. A warm smile and giggle were created towards her. Hours later a yellow bus with Blueline all over the giant door, just stopped on a nearby sidewalk that was specifically inside Neo Tokyo territory.
Many passengers inside the bus stomach headed out when the door slid opened the mouth. Hatoshi and Yuna walked side by side and blended in with the crowd of people from two different areas.
As the high schoolers continued walking, their destinations were reached within the naked eyes. A cloudy white and small cafe stood and watched them from the right side. The cafe had a giant holographic cup of coffee.
In the middle part, there were neon cocoa brown pairs of kanji spelled Heiwa and banana yellow large fonts that spelled "Cafe". The high schoolers stopped their path and looked upon Heiwa Cafe. She glanced at Hatoshi with a comforting smile by her side.
"Are you really sure you want to wait outside"? Yuna asked with a concerned tone.
"Yup." Hatoshi said in an unsure tone "Because I don't want to disturb your job."
Yuna gave small laughter and she stared at Hatoshi in pity, especially gloominess made an appearance on his expression. Sudden tide, she wrapped around a gentle hug onto the schoolboy.
A widened shock appeared within his eyes and Hatoshi slowly raised his hand to envelop her back with a hug too. Red embarrassment blushed momentarily before a grateful smile and closed eyes got rid of it in an instance. They calmly let go of their hugs and stared into one another, comfortably with each other.
"Be careful out there, Hatoshi," Yuna exclaimed in a calm tone.
He nodded and afterward, she walked away and headed towards Heiwa Cafe. Hatoshi watched her with a relentless smile and he shed a little line of tears that came down. Her presence had finally entered the cafe and he sighed in relief.
"I had been helping a lot of people, but I still couldn't help myself when it comes to emotional problems." He said in his mind and turned back in a confident manner, "Thank you very much, Yuna for making me more confident to face a problem that I am sorry for not telling you about it."
"Now it's time to face the real problem, my new purpose in life," Hatoshi added within his mind.
He started to blend in with the walking crowd, especially in the opposite direction. His hand suddenly engulfed a stable orange flame that morphed into his hand as he continued the steps. A few moments of walking had been taken, Hatoshi finally stopped when his eyes met by sorrowful alleyway on the right side.
Without hesitation, he entered the dark alleyway with a clenching fist and bitten lips, a mixture of confidence and nervousness. Around two or three steps taken, he stopped and looked at the bulky brick wall. It had a four-color painting that said, "Hero lives on".
"This is the right place to transform." Hatoshi said in a placid tone.
All of sudden, a flaming twister rolled in an aggressive way in front of his body. His hand, engulfed by the flame, ate his entire hand in less than a second. Even his entire legs fell down by the burning flame that kept expanding to above. Any painful scream wasn't let out by Hatoshi as if the burning it's like being covered by a soft blanket.
"I wished I could actually teleport into Sakura Forest," Hatoshi murmured in a gloomy tone of his mind.
The last spin from the twister was initiated and Hatoshi vanished in thin air. No trace or evidence of his existence. Not even ashes spawned on the broken pieces of his clothes could be found. The alley away could grasp the peaceful and quietness once more.
The cold night wind blew away to the lively Sakura forest, a forest where the entire tree had Sakura flowers blooming on its upper side. A large oval bluish lake slept and was surrounded by the Sakura trees civilization on every ground corner.
Therefore, a flaming twister popped out from nothingness on the south ground, especially the side that directly witnesses the blue lake's calm beauty.
Like a butterfly in a cocoon, the flaming twister opened up Hatoshi to reality and his body was literally made by a mass of fire that decided to form that almost resembled a pure naked human. Yellow lantern eyes were opened and immediately looked towards the reflection that was trapped in the water with a mixture of impressed and confusion.
"Wait, I am truly transformed into him, the Sparror, right?" Hatoshi said in an amused tone, "And somehow my voice is still me entirely, I thought that I would have some kind of voice change."
He ventured deeper towards the reflection and dissatisfied eyes on him joined the fray. He sighed in disappointment and politely took a step back.
"To be honest, my form is kinda basic for a Superhero." Hatoshi politely complained and soon let out an apology, "Yeah sorry about my opinion, Sparror, I wished I could actually have a costume based on the design on---."
Flaming armor constructs heated up and shone brightly the flaming light towards the Sakura Forest. An orange medieval knight armor debuted on his body and helmet with twister bull horns intact from left to right. A void space was spawned and acted as his face without a nose, mouth, forehead, or ear. Only sparkling yellow eyes included.
His amazement lifted both of the armory hands and surprisingly, it's light as a human body. Furthermore, he flexibly twitched and rubbed his hand back and forth. Even the sound of moving armor didn't exist as he stepped closer to the lake. More likely, the armor was literally just like a normal everyday cloth when comes to the mass.
"This is amazing, I even got the armor design that I wanted, thank you very much." He said in a firework excited voice and widened his eyes after a reminder swoops in, "Yeah, I remember that Sparror thing mentioned that he would take my previous form when I..died."
A brief pause had appeared on Hatoshi as well a skeptical expression joined the fray with him clenched the fist tightly as ever like holding a rope from falling death. The schoolboy sighed in relief and washed his gloomy feeling as a result. Instead, he brought up his confident gaze.
"Come on don't think like that" He spoke in a relaxed manner, "Just think, what should I do with this new superpower."
He lifted up a deep breath from his lung and let out the annoyance and burden that may impact a disturbance. Hatoshi sharply locked his hand and a flaming torch sat down on top of his open hand.
"Okay, it's kind of obvious that I could do fire blast, fireball, and different types or sizes of fire blast." Hatoshi said in a dissatisfied tone, "But, what if my thoughts actually think that my fire will turn into you know a....sword or even a machine gun."
All of sudden, the flaming torch flickered into a sharp flaming sword. His wondering face sharply shot at the sword and suddenly, the sword morphed into a flaming revolver.
Amazement got out the best of him and the flaming revolver morphed into a bulky flaming fist, that protected half of his hands. A new life discovery successfully impressed the teenagers' minds.
"Wow, that's pretty cool, so I can literally make a construct out of my flaming power." Hatoshi praised in full amazement, "Awesome, awesome."
Hatoshi watched the clean white moon from above and he raised his hand that was ready to grab the moon. Although, from the moon's perspective, he was like a tiny ant.
"Mom, Dad, I am sorry I couldn't join you that time because of my ideology, who insisted on a choice to become a Superhero." He uttered in a sad tone before happiness appeared, "But, I hope you are all happy there".
Hatoshi put his hand down willingly after the moon watched him and a confident gaze turned around his body to the opposite side. He grabbed the chin and realization rang through his shocked eyes.
"Oh yeah, when I get out, I probably need a cape for this suit because it looks cool...I guess." Hatoshi outstate the realization and chuckled.
A blazing wave burst out from his shoulders and fell down like a waterfall. Flaming cape held onto the armory shoulder before dissolving. Change into a clean and long red cape that covered his upper body. Afterward, he sharply locked into the front line with another chuckle a bit.
"I just remembered that I had teleportation power and I knew where to go next," Hatoshi exclaimed in confidence.
Rolling flaming twister engulfed the entire armory and vanished in less than a second. As usual, no more trace of evidence was left out and Sakura Forest took a fresh windy breath after his disappearance. The Neo Tokyo night sky had gotten darker than usual. From blue into purplish as time passed by and chilling night wind blew slowly to everywhere.
Four shining golden statues consisted of a guy dressed almost resemblance a Shogun with monkey shape helmet in the middle, a tall woman that wore a wide holiday hat and dressed that only cover her upper part near right the shogun, a twin tail girl that had schoolgirl uniform on the left, and lastly was a guy with tiger ears, snake face, bird feathery body that only wore pant in the very left.
The statues showed their bravery, especially toward the incoming chilling wind. An unexpected guess made an entrance towards the statue by a floating flaming ball and Sparror came out in a steady position. He looked upon the towering statue and glared with enthusiastic eyes. Furthermore, Hatoshi respectfully kneeled down with willingness.
"Nippon Carnaval, don't worry you all can rest peacefully because Neo Tokyo City just got another Superhero that hopefully stays for a longer period". Sparror proudly exclaimed, "And without your presence, I would never be confident enough to choose my second life chance as a Superhero".
Sparror got up and gazed upon the Nippon Carnaval members' statue. Moreover, he focused on his locking yellow eyes towards the Shogun statue.
"Samuro, don't worry too, I will repay your debt from 3 years ago". Sparror confessed his happiness, "The day where you saved me from a literal serial killer".
Unbeknownst to his left side, there was a tall old man with a tiger claw scarred face and single red hair that looked like a torch. He wore a well tidy, red gentleman suit and fakely coughed up. Sparror looked to the left in shock at the old man's presence.
"Umm...sorry that I may disturb you". Sparror apologized in an uncomfortable tone.
"It's okay kiddo". The torch hair man said in his calm demeanor with his heavy voice.
The torch-haired man glared his annoyance at Sparror and sighed with a bothersome demeanor.
"I understand what you are doing here, but I am here to tell you there is a Supervillain appearing in Noburo Bank called Thunder Fang The torch hair man bickered.
Hatoshi was shocked by amazement and he gazed at the orange arm or hand. A flaming ball popped out from the surface of his hands and he squeezed it with his clenching fist.
"Luckily, I have been there and this is probably a good time to test my power". Hatoshi mumbled in a confident manner within his mind, "Besides, I hopefully have a higher chance to win against Thunder Fang because cosmic power will be more powerful than street level, I guess".
"Also, first-time lucks might fall faster within my hand, especially with the seemingly limitless potential I possessed."He added.
The torch hair man's annoyance faded away and was replaced by curiosity as he continued to stare at this mysterious stranger.
"Anyway, what should I call you"? He asked.
"Sparror''. Sparror said in a confident tone, "That's the name that you should call me, and thank you very much for telling me the recent news".
A blazing wave suddenly awakened through the entire orange body with ease. Sparror gave out a confident stare to the torch hair man and he dragged alongside the wave into disappearance with no ashes stranded. The torch hair shook his head and rolled his eyes after The Flaming Hero just vanished from his sight.
"One common thing that all Superheroes really share, love to avoid a conversation and just disappear in thin air as if that we never know they exist". The torch hair man sarcastically bickered.
He chuckled in a short time and glanced towards the Nippon Carnaval statues. A smile of gladness shines through his face.
"Rest well, your heroism will continue again. The torch hair man said in a hopeful tone.
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