Streams of electricity, bursts of red fireworks, ice shards and spheres of light yellow flames erupted in the highest amount among the devas released in the police precinct area as the clash between Yuki, Hikaru, Seiren, Saya, the ones who protested against them, the ones who supported them, the ones who were trying to get an interview and the police officers who were trying to contain everyone escalated further.

While fighting, the baby doll looked at one of the reporters who was trying to give a commentary on the current events and was standing too close to the spiky-haired and golden-haired rivals who were fighting battles of their own.

‘-We’re coming to you live from Deckstoru’s central police precinct where as you can see everyone is fighting everyone! And our main celebrities are …’ (that’s when Hikaru hit him from the one side of the face and Seiren – from the other, both of them looking rather irritated)

‘-Just shut the hell up already!’

Simultaneously one of the protesters had managed to land a hit on Saya’s neck, smiling with great confidence and probably believing he had turned the tide of the battle with that single strike.

Rather than that, he had awakened a second Summerbolt beast.

Veins protruded on the fiery mom’s face who smashed a mighty right uppercut in her latest assailant’s jaw, grabbing him by the leg after he had been lifted off the ground by her attack and throwing him on her back, starting to spin and form more and more of her specific flames in a circle around her.  

Yuki had been around one destructive member of this family long enough to know what Saya’s current actions meant – evacuate her vicinity as fast as possible if you want to live.

‘-Everyone, run!!! Get away from her!! She’s gone insane and she’s very scaryyyy!!!’

The fiery mom had formed a typhoon of flames around her, causing it to explode and sending the man she had given a nice tan with her deva while carrying him on her back along with many other protesters, fans, reporters and police officers some distance away, parts of the body of each person affected by the blast being set on fire.

The white-haired beauty herself was thrown aside by the attack and the shockwave it had led to, an arm made of the same light yellow flames coming out of the risen smoke and pulling her back in, Iceflame responding fast enough to envelop the part of her body coming in contact with the flames in her ice.

Saya was waiting on the other side of the smoke with a confused expression.

‘-Yuki, where are you going? We’re not done yet! Get back here!’

‘-How did I even get involved in thiiiiis?!?!!’

As the baby doll was pulled back in the fray, she saw that mobs of protesters had now crushed Hikaru and Seiren in each other, the rivals having smashed their foreheads together and roaring at the other with great anger.

‘-When are you going to stop getting in my way?!’

‘-I was gonna ask the same thing! We still have a score to settle about what happened in the boys’ dorm but I haven’t had a change to crush you yet!’

‘-Why don’t we do it now, then? Might as well settle up before the ordinari kill us!!

A sudden gust of wind split the air as Hikaru and Seiren were getting ready to hit each other and Yuki was getting ready to go and stop them, several people being lifted off the ground by the sheer strength of the wind.

A silhouette passed with great speed through the ordinari protesters who were up in the air, smashing a hit in each of them that sent the bastards flying tens of meters away back into the ranks of the crowd they had come from.

Finally the ground started shaking and a wall of large rocks which were clustered together rose between Saya and Yuki and some of their opponents, one silhouette landing on top of the wall while being carried by a gust of wind, the superfast silhouette who had taken care of those ordinari protesters landing next to the wall and a third silhouette coming out of the wall itself.

The fiery mom smiled decisively upon seeing this trio, Yuki being confused by their arrival at first, soon enough seeing all three had skin with the same color – a few shades darker than Seiren, all of them having the same black hair but while the girl that looked no more than 9 years old and the man that looked in his late twenties had brown eyes, the woman who had used a gust of wind to move around had blue eyes, her hair also being shoulder-length while that of the girl equaled the length of Saya’s hair.

‘-So you three made it.’

‘-Are they … on our side?’

‘-Oh, you don’t know each other yet. They may not look it, but they’re my family, Yuki. That blue-eyed vixen on the left is my younger sister, Iziya, the mindless brute on the right is my younger brother, Graid.’

‘-And the girl in the center, is that Iziya or Graid’s daughter?’

‘-No, silly girl! I’m Rose, these three hot heads’ mom and therefore Hikaru’s grandma! It’s great to finally meet you!’

The night seemed to hold more surprises than Yuki was prepared to take.

She was already convinced that Hikaru’s family was insane but the fact that his grandmother looked like a little girl next to the fully-grown man and two women who were her children … was simply baffling beyond compare.

‘-Um … how does that work exactly? I mean … is there a rational explanation for this?’

‘-Yeah, but we’ll have to postpone that explanation until we’re out of this, kid!’

Hikaru had also seen the other members of his family arriving, jumping up and down from happiness while Seiren looked extremely miserable next to him.

The protesters seemed to have been discouraged by the trio’s arrival, the fans being excited, the reporters – confused while the police officers seemed to have given up all hope of surviving or even preserving their sanity at this point.

‘-Ha-ha-ha-HAAAA!!!! The Summerbolt Five is assembled! We’re bound to win now!!’

‘-But what about me? No one from my family came for meeeeeeeee!!’

While Iceflame was trying to make sense of the situation she had found herself in, Iziya sent gusts of wind to many of the protesters, throwing them around, Graid going through the ranks of others on the ground with very high speed and beating them up with a single hit for each target given his great strength, his body having burst in green and red energy simultaneously.

Rose was providing cover for those two with her rock walls from the attacks of the anti-deva arsenal the police were using to stop them, Saya incinerating a crystal shell that had begun transforming in a gigantic bull head with a mad expression aimed for Yuki with a wave of her flaming hand, the two looking at each other.

‘-They’ve got our back, Yuki. Don’t worry.’

‘-So all of Hikaru’s family members have devas? (Saya nodded while Yuki sighed) And I guess you’re all insane …’

‘-Better get used to it because you’re a part of that family now.’

‘-W-What? What does that mean?’

‘-I talked with Seiren’s family before coming here. Since my son’s the one who found you, you’ll be staying with our family for the time being. It’s the least we can do to repay you for saving that runt’s life.’

‘-But I’m the one indebted to him! And to Seiren! And to your whole family now!’

‘-Better stay close to the ones you owe a debt, then, right?

A deviant without a family can’t last long here. And if a naïve amnesiac like you is going to be joining any family, might as well join the craziest one! You’ll fit right in!’

Rose stepped closer to those two then.

‘-If you two are quite finished, I think I see our back-up on the horizon so we better get ready for the last stretch of this madness!’

‘-Back-up?’

Seiren had started jumping up and down with a most happy expression himself, Hikaru looking in the direction his rival was looking to see a mass of people that had stopped the traffic on the nearby bridge over the river just next to the police precinct area, the ones leading them being a man, woman and a boy in his mid-teens, all having traits and wearing outfits of a similar color scheme to Blackscale’s.

‘-There they are! My folks and brother are here, too!’

‘-Looks like they’re bringing a lot of deviants with them, but … there is something behind them. What is that?’

The ‘thing’ was actually a number of what appeared to be military ground vehicles in between which hundreds of men in special uniforms with angry expressions were running, tens of military hover- and aircrafts coming to Deckstoru from the horizon, Seiren’s family and the other deviants actually running away from them.

The hot heads back at the precinct couldn’t hear everything the coming group shouted as they were still far, but one word stood out among all the others: ‘run’.

‘-The ordinari brought the army?!’

‘-Now this is going to turn into a civil war!’

‘-Not if we can help it, brats!’

Iziya went past Hikaru and grabbed him with one of her wind gusts, Graid going over to Seiren and throwing him on his back, Saya’s younger brother and sister going to where she, Yuki and Rose were holding off the enemy, the fiery mom shooting up a shot of light yellow flames from her fist that exploded in a marvelous explosion above the precinct.

‘-Over here!’

The other deviants cleared a path for them and although it was hard, the pervert’s family found their way to him, the Blackscales also being brought together, just then the soldiers combining their forces with the police, surrounding the rebels on all sides, the protesters being mixed in their ranks with triumphant smiles.

The fan-group members were angered by this turn of events but stood their ground next to the Summerbolts, Blackscales and their deviant allies, the reporters having fallen silent and looking with great concern at both sides of the conflict, the rays of the sun reaching everyone as it started rising over the bridge.

Saya and Seiren’s father stepped forward to speak with the police commissioner and the general leading the army forces that had just arrived, Yuki having wound up between Hikaru and Seiren in the midst of all the chaos, the three starting to talk with each other as the representatives of the opposing groups started talking as well.

‘-So you met all the members of my family. What do you think?’

‘-I’m not all that surprised, considering they’re related to you.’

‘-My family’s a bit more normal, so I’m sure you’ll like them more. You’re welcome to stay with us if you want, Yuki.’

‘-I may take you up on that offer, Seiren, but for now I’ll be staying with the Summerbolts.

Hikaru’s mom told me earlier that’s the decision your two families have come to.

I’m the one most directly responsible for everything that’s happened here, so I don’t really have the right to question your parents’ choice.’

‘-Guess I win this time, Blackscale!’

‘-Don’t get too thrilled, Summerbolt. We may all be dead soon enough, so you won’t be able to enjoy your triumph for much longer.’

The trio’s attention then turned to the adults who seemed to be negotiating with the police and military elite at the moment.

‘-I see the ordinari have not sat idly by and have gathered a considerable force.’

‘-We formed a rebel force of our own in response to the violent treatment of the deviants from Deckstoru after this last incident.’

‘-And what do you plan to do with that rebel force now?’

‘-We only wanted to send a message. If you brand a single deviant, all others will rise to defend their kind. That’s how unified we are. And you’ll have a civil war on your hands if you keep this up.’

‘-But there’s no need for such things. Neither side will profit if the violence escalates further.

These three kids even offered to take on all the punishment you had in mind for us just to avoid the possibility of the conflict between ordinari and deviants growing any bigger.

Although they knew what had happened was no fault of theirs.

They cared for protecting the ordinari as much as protecting the deviants. They cared about protecting the very people who had condemned them for crimes they didn’t commit.’

‘-All we came here to do is to defend those three and what they’re fighting for.

To defend the peace between our species. For both sides’ sake.

I’m not sure if there’s any better proof we can give that our intentions are not hostile, so long as you don’t hurt any deviants.’

‘-So you’re suggesting we just let this slide?’

‘-Would you prefer to go with the other option over something so petty?’

‘-We’re not saying the latest events shouldn’t be investigated.

But wait until you find actual evidence implicating any Deckstorian deviant before you start judging us while we’re trying to protect everyone.’

The commissioner and the general sighed and looked at each other and then at the people around them.

It felt as if an eternity had passed before any of them spoke again and the tension in the air became that much more palpable during that moment of eternity.

‘-You’re free to go. But we’ll be calling on all deviants in the city for questioning in relation with the incident from yesterday.’

‘-And things won’t go smoothly at all if we find anything on any of you.’

‘-Much appreciated! And about the protesters who are still here …’

‘-We’ll deal with the hostile elements in our ranks. Do the same with the ones in yours.’

‘-Understood. Thank you, sir.’

The deviants started cheering, the protesters getting ready to attack them again as the police and army split the effort of holding them back, the reporters continuing their reports of the situation, Seiren turning his triumphant grin to Hikaru while the overly happy Yuki sighed at the rivals’ newest confrontation.

‘-I guess we won’t be dying yet, mad bastard! That means Yuki’ll have all the time in the world to decide which family she prefers to stay with! Our battle is far from over!’

‘-I’m ready for a rematch any time, damn pervert! And so is my family!!’

That was the first instance in which Yuki responded in a manner she would expect one of the Summerbolts to react in – she hit both Hikaru and Seiren on the head and held them down as they reached for the other with an angry face.

‘-Will you two give it a rest already?!!’

The old dogs from the Summerbolt and Blackscale family laughed while watching this scene with overjoyed smiles.

‘-Yep! The three of them are getting along just fine, I see!’

The white-haired beauty had been in Deckstoru for only a short while but already the temper of the local deviants and most of all – that of the Summerbolts – seemed to be rubbing off her. What was going to happen as she spent more and more time with them?