Jet Stream (Kirishima x OC)

Chapter 52: Lemillion

I only find one more fake wall along my way to catching up to Lemillion, and I use my staff this time to destroy it. It's easier to wield my staff now since I'm not surrounded in close quarters with my allies. I can hear sounds of a big fight ahead of me, but I can also hear crashing sounds of fights coming from a few other locations around me. I just hope the one in front of me is where Eri and Lemillion are.

My mind kept drifting to worry about Eijiro, but I had to keep reminding myself that he was with my dad, and my dad is one of the strongest heroes I know. Gale Storm will protect Red Riot, I know that. Hell, Eijiro's been getting so strong lately, maybe he'll end up protecting my old man. With that mental image, I giggled to myself as I ran, almost tripping over a passed out Hassaikai member on the floor.

I observed the knocked out man, lightly kicking him over so I could identify him. I recognize him from the list of the Eight Bullets, this guy is Sakaki and his quirk is Sloshed. If he's knocked out this quickly and easily, he must have gone up against someone who's used to their equilibrium being messed with, which all but guarantees that Mirio came this way.

After our class met the Big Three officially, I started to chat more with Mirio when I saw him on my morning runs. Shinso found him too exhausting of a personality, so he would often fall back and jog with Amajiki if he was there. But Mirio and I bonded a lot, we were both pretty determined and energetic people. I still call him Strip Tease though, he's not living that name down, but it makes him laugh so I don't think he minds.

Having bonded and become friends with Mirio pushes me that much more to move faster.

I could hear the sounds of a battle happening just on the other side of the wall by the passed out sloshed guy. I couldn't find a door of any type, so I powered up some wind around my staff, and made my own door.

The chaos on the other side of the wall froze me for a moment as I took it all in. There were spikes of cement everywhere, the little girl who must be Eri is on one side of the room wrapped in Mirio's cape, Lemillion and Chisaki are fighting, and there are two passed out Hassaikai members, one of which I recognized. The white cloaked guy was from the alleyway that one night with the murders, and I know from our info sheets he's Kurono, but goes by Chrono.

The second guy I recognize from the info sheet as well, he's Nemoto, but what caught my attention more about him was that he wasn't passed out like I originally thought he was. I wouldn't have noticed in the split second that's passed since I entered the room if it hadn't been for Overhaul throwing something small over to him. I watched Nemoto load whatever it was into his gun and frantically aimed it around. I freaked out at first thinking he was going to shoot Mirio, but then got horrified when he re-aimed the gun to Eri, who was defenseless on her own.

My body reacted at the same time that Lemillion's did. Mirio sunk into the ground and resurfaced to cover the girl's body, and I launched myself across the room to where Nemoto was. I needed to get that gun away from him, by any means.

My outstretched fingers were centimeters from the barrel of the gun, so close to having reached it and redirected it, when it went off before I could touch it. I felt like time slowed down to a standstill as my momentum didn't slow down with the shot of the gun, but instead increased. I moved my finger tips to touch the stream of air that the bullet caused, and I clung to it on instinct, just like I've done a few times before in the past. I yanked on the stream of wind with all my might, praying it would be able to do something, anything.

"Lemillion!" I cry out towards him and the girl, watching the aftermath of the shot with bated breath. "It worked." I breathe out when I see the bullet crash into the wall behind Lemillion and shatter, a few of his hairs falling slowly to the ground as he holds Eri in his arms. I turn back and rip the gun out of Nemoto's hands, throwing it against the far wall to get it away from him. He's crushed under rubble anyway, he can't reach it, and I have a new priority anyway.