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Zeke looked at his "partner". He didn't like the look of him. As soon as Zeke joined,he was put into a room with what would be his "partner. They where told of each other's powers and their mission. He used light,and Zeke used darkness. They really thought putting them together was a good idea? "Anyways,all we have to do is kidnap this guy. Supposedly he can control ice. I figure we can handle him. You ready?"

Hikaru looked around the room, his eyes wide in awe as he took in what he was seeing. After he had joined the group, they had immediately led him to a dimly lit room illuminated only by the glow from a pair of large computer screens that filled the back wall. Situated in front of it was a single round table surrounded by five sets of red chairs. He didn't bother to sit on them knowing he was only going to be there temporarily and leaned against a wall, closing his eyes, to wait for instructions for his first mission. When he heard the door slide open once again, he opened an eye to check on the person one of the guards introduced as his new 'partner'.

Both his eyes snapped opened. Partner? No one had told him anything about this when he signed up. He had thought he was going to be alone. The guard led him to the table along with his partner as the screen displayed their information. As the men started to explain their powers, he glanced over the basic list: Name, age, picture of themselves, abilities. His expression fell. The guy used darkness? How was he suppose to work with a someone like that?

Once the introductions were complete, the men began to explain the mission. Their target was a man with the ability to manipulate ice. It was a simple capture and return type mission. Sounded simple enough. He turned to face his partner when he spoke and briefly nodded.

"Yeah, sure. Anytime you are." Hikaru said before doing a double take on Zeke. The guy was black incarnate. Black hair, black clothes...he practically blended into the dark room. It was difficult to tell if he was really there. Figures he'd be completely into his dark role. He thought before getting up and heading towards the exit of the room. "Let's get going."

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*SOME TIME LATER*

"Here we are" Zeke said, looking around. "The guy who controls ice lives in......Florida."
Zeke said,his jacket dissolving into shadows."Guess I won't be needing that. Now,let's go in." Zeke said,opening up the door. " I take that back." Everything in the room was frozen. Some things might had been just ice,Zeke couldn't tell. "Well,the good thing is that it's dark in here. The bad thing is he could kill yes as soon as we step inside....you go first." Zeke said,looking at Hikaru. "Well go on. You thought I was joking?" Zeke said. Suddenly,they where both pushed back by a block of ice hurtling at them. "What the hell was th-" A ring of iced formed around Zeke's mouth before he could finish."Mmmph,hmm,mmmph!" Zke muffled,before he was punched in the face by a man appearing out of nowhere . "I guess you two are here for me?" the man said. He was wearing a red vest,a green shirt,black pants,and brown dress shoes. 'Well,lets get down to it" The man said, ice forming around the group. "I'll let you go first."

"Gee, and I thought you were smart." Hikaru muttered looking over at the man as his arms began to glow. Raising them over his head, he shot a giant ray of light into the sky. It exploded above them into a giant barrier that surrounded the house and yard. At the man's questioning expression, Hikaru shrugged.

"Attacking out in public like this is something an idiot would do. We needed cover. The barrier I made will not only keep the fight within boundary, it will also keep civilians from seeing anything is amiss. All they see is a regular empty house and yard." His eyes narrowed at their target. "Now let's get down to it."

His hands glowed once again, charging with energy before he threw two blasts of energy bolts at the man. The man punched the ground sending up spires of ice that deflected the blasts.

"That the best you got kid?" He laughed, watching as the blast exploded against the barrier walls. "Let me show you a real attack!" With that he began shooting shards of ice at him.

Hikaru scowled and rolled aside as the spikes slammed into the ground behind him. He glanced over at Zeke on the ground a few feet away from him and shot a low blast of energy at the ice on his mouth. "You alright?"

Speckles of white began to cross his vision. Hikaru blinked as he looked up and noticed it was starting to snow. It quickly turned into a blizzard as the wind picked up, then froze solid increasing to hail. Raising a hand above his head, he created another small barrier of light around them. His brows creased as he concentrated on keeping it up while the pebbles of ice slammed against it.

He faintly heard the man laughing again in the background. "You know I should thank you for shutting us into this small area, let's me make a storm quite easily and I don't have to hold back nothing."

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"Well, looks like it's time to bring out the big guns" Zeke said,his arm glowing black. "Time for pre-asskicking mocking." Zeke thought,jumping ontop of Hikaru's shoulders. "Really? Ice? Oh no, surely I shall be defeated by your great and powerful ice. I mean,you might even give me a cold! Oh,I just knew I should have worn gloves today!" Zeke said with a smirk,jumping off of his partner's shoulders and into the air. Really high into the air for that fact. "High five!" Zeke said, throwing his now completely black hand towards the man. "Please, you think whatever it is you're doing will work?" The man said,putting a shield of ice around him." I could freeze you completely right now, but I want to see what you can do!" The man said, looking at Zeke. "Okay, if you want." Zeke said,his arm now moving quickly towards the man. As it was moving towards him, quite fast I might add, it was also growing larger. So a large flying black hand was hurtling towards the man. ".....Shi-" was all he could say before the hand smashed him into the ground. "Yeah! What now ice man?" Zeke said,falling back to earth. The hand seem to have had discconnected from Zeke's arm as it had smashed the man, showing the hand was nothing but a shadow around Zeke's arm. "Man, I love doing that. So, we have any way of getting him back to the base?" Zeke asked, landing by Hikaru. Suddenly the hand exploded outward, the man standing there,bruised, with a look of anger on his face. " No more playing around with you little punks." He said, ice forming around him as a sort of armor.

"Instead of thinking about getting him to base, how about making sure you really knock him out first?" Hikaru said, looking pointedly over at Zeke in a dark glare. Turning back to the target again, he watched as the man's body became fully encased in ice; shaping around his form before jutting out into spikes and smoothing out to become battle armor. The storm whipped up once again, this time in a giant blizzard of ice and snow from behind him. Hikaru's eyes squinted against the storm.

"And that looks like trouble...Any ideas now?" He asked throwing his hands up to create a tall barrier of light.

The snow and ice pounded against it, melting into water just before reaching them. Hikaru shivered slightly, feeling the cold starting to build up around them under the enclosed area. Patches of ice and snow started to form on the ground as the temperature rapidly started falling. His eyes flashed to the outer barrier he had erected. The walls were starting to be covered in a layer of ice.

"O-okay, t-t-this i-is n-not w-wworking o-out!" He said in between chattering teeth. Pulling his hands back, the small light shield he created grew and wrapped around them in a small dome. "Close your eyes." He exerted more energy to raise it's intensity warming the inside and melting the snow around them before lowering it back to a manageable level. "This should keep us warm for a little bit while we think of a way out of this."

He turned back to his partner. "And unless you've got an idea for protection, I don't think it's smart to go out there." Taking out a device from his belt, he shoved it out the barrier and watched as it froze solid in an instant. "I'm guessing it's below zero degrees out there, as even the digital thermometer turned into a Popsicle."

The man slammed his arm into the ground sending a series of ice spires shooting up towards them. Hikaru lowered one hand at the incoming attack and shot a concentrated laser blast of light at them. It shattered through the pillars headed straight towards the man that quickly slid out of the way. Hikaru's eyes widened. As the man's armored form plowed towards them with the speed of a train. Instantly appearing in front of his barrier.

"You've got to be kidding me." He growled and winced. Spikes erupted from the man's hands as he slammed them against the barrier.

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Zeke jumped back, the barrier shattering. "Enough of this. Time to finsh you two off. I can only guess you two just got your powers? Barriers, blasts, is that it from you?" The man said,pointing at Hikaru. "Freeze." Ice started to move up Hikaru's legs,freezing them. "And you." The man said, looking at Zeke. "You make me sad. Such a waste. You know how many people have power over shadow? 2. I'm not joking,it's that rare. And please note, the other is dead. Has been for thousands of years. Infact,only been one or two more with light powers for that matter. Shame, maybe if you two had a little more imagination, or teamwork ,I would be beaten already. I admit,giant hands are interesting,but don't really work most of the time." The man said, ice crawling up Zeke the whole time. "Well, I guess this is good bye boys. I must say thanks,I had nothing else to do today."The man said, the ice starting to go up the two faster." Well,I guess you two are going to make lovely statues for my yard." The man said, walking away. "No....no....am I going to die? No, I'm not, don't worry about it. I'm not going to die here,am I here? No, I can't, not on my first mision, not when I'm so young. Did I run away from my family just to die? No, I didn't, no.....no......no......NO!" Zeke thought. He was getting more confused and depressed as the seconds passed."NO!" Zeke yelled, a shockwave coming forth from him, breaking the ice on him, Hikaru, and the man's ice armor. "I'M NOT GOING TO DIE HERE." Zeke yelled, his eyes completely black. " Well,this is interestin-" The man said,before Zeke cutted him off by grabbing his head and slamming him into the ground. Again and again. "DEAD YET?" Zeke yelled,only to be blasted away from the man. "Well, seems like you tapped into a bit more of your power. That's good. Shame that it seemed to take control of you, you have to be careful about that." The man explained. "What happened?" Zeke asked, his eyes back to normal.

"I don't know. Your eyes inverted and you had a mental breakdown. But on the bright side, you got us out of that ice." Hikaru said looking over at the man then the shattered shards of ice on the ground. Zeke did seem a lot stronger than he had been before in those few moments they were in trouble. "Guess he has a point about tapping into more of your power though." He looked over at the man and took a step towards him. "And who do you think you are? Our mentor? Just to tell you, I got my power down just fine!"

"Oh really? Excuse me. I must need glasses since you were doing more than blasts and barriers." The man said, bringing his palm to his mouth and blowing on it. A blast of powdery ice started rushing towards Hikaru who instinctively raise another barrier. The ice grew on the barrier before shattering through it sending Hikaru sliding back against the snow.

"Like I said. You've got nothing but shields and blasts." He smirked, crossing his arms. "At least that kid got more variety. You a one trick pony."

Hikaru's eyes narrowed to slits as he glared at the man. He quickly dusted the snow off of him before getting back to his feet. "You want more variety? Fine. I'll show you something new." With that Hikaru faded from sight.

"HA! The old invisibility routine with light reflection? Don't make me laugh." The man said watching the snow crunch on the ground. His hands slowly clenched into fist as the snow hardened around Hikaru's leg into ice.

"What?!" Hikaru gasped returning back to visibility.

"Here's a tip for ya kid. If when you're invisible, try to make sure there's nothing that can let people know where you are." The man said jabbing a finger towards the snow before firing shards of ice at Hikaru and Zeke.

Hikaru ducked and blasted the ice from under him to free his leg. He grinned looking at the man and then started forward. "What did I just tell you about being our mentor?" He glanced over at Zeke, hoping he would be ready to attack when he did. "Thanks for the advice. I'll be putting it to good use starting now." Instantly Hikaru faded from sight again.

The man chuckled watching the footsteps in the snow again. "Give it up kid! I told you already, that's not gonna work!" Raising his hand again, he clenched it into a fist to solidify the snow to ice. His victorious grin slowly faded as the ice formed, not around a leg, but into a smooth flat sheet.

"Told you, I'd be putting your advice to good use!" Came a voice from behind the man. He whirled to see Hikaru coming towards him from above. "Damn!" He growled before crystallizing his hand and firing ice missiles up at him. They flew throw his body and slammed into the ice dome around them, cracking it. "Damn illusions, I hate illusions!" Pieces of ice started falling to the ground from the broken ceiling. The man quickly shot a ray of ice along the ground and slid out of the way. "Close one." He murmured.

"You're telling me."

The man turned just in time to see Hikaru raising a hand and send a glowing blast of light in front of his face.

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"There, we got him." Zeke said, throwing the man down in front of the man who gave them their mission. "Good, didn't expect you two to survive. Good to see I was proven wrong." Zeke, a little annoyed at the "not expecting them to survive" comment, replied "Ok, what do you want us to do next?" The man looked down at Zeke. " Most people would like to rest after their first mission." "Well, you wouldn't let us rest any way, would you?" Zeke asked. "Good point. Your next mission is another kidnapping mission. But be careful, unlike the last one, this one can, and will if you piss her off, kill you both quickly and painfully." The man replied. "Wait, a girl?" Zeke asked. "Yes. I hope you have no convictions against beating her to an inch of her life, correct?" "No...but..." "Good, now go."

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The two reached their destination, a lone hut on a cliff, overlooking the sea. There, sitting right outside of it, was a lone girl, who appeared to be in her early twenties. "Well, I guess you two are the latest sent to capture me? Well, I'll give you two about..hmm...five minutes before you die." She said, standing up.

The girl's dark hair swayed in the wind as she glared down at them with piercing blue eyes that seemed to look into their soul. In the moonlight, they seemed to almost hauntingly glow. "Well, are you going to attack or what? You've already wasted about 30 seconds of your time." She said coldly, crossing her arms and huffing at them. Her attitude belied years of discrimination or abuse. She'd been around. Hikaru recalled that her profile had said her name was 'Cynthia'. The defiant girl maintained eye contact, her chin held high. She looked as though she could spit in their fact. Her white dress swirled lightly around her body as she continued to stare them down. "You've got three minutes left."

It didn't look like she was lying, she truly meant that she would do something to them if they didn't stop her now. But what could she possibly do to them? Was she really that powerful? His mind whirled as he tried to remember what information he could gather about her. There had been other attempts but no one had ever reported back again after finding her. There had been only one message left from one of the agents, quick and brief: 'Leave me alone. Don't send anyone else if you value the lives of your men.'

"One minute..."

Hikaru's fist clenched, his mouth set in a thin line of determination. "Alright. Enough of this. We don't have to fight. If you just come with us peacefully, no one has to get hurt." He spread his arms. "Look, we're unarmed. We won't hurt you."

Cynthia's eyes narrowed to slits, dropping her arms and glaring at them. "Hmm...I somehow doubt that. The men before had weapons clearly visible, the organization you work for is smart. They wouldn't try the same trick twice. You two have something else up your sleeve."

As she spoke, Hikaru noticed a giant tidal wave rising behind her. It was coming closer and was as tall as the cliff face. He took a step back and gestured to the tower of water behind her. "Cyn...there's a..."

"Tidal wave behind me? I know. I'm the one doing it." She smirked as the water parted around her and rushed towards them.

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