Reiyouki Sentai Seitenger

4.11 Lion Motor

Thrown quite hard from their fighting position, and the situation for the Seitengers didn't turn out so good as they dealt with Motross with only the four of them while waiting for Shuichi to finally appear and help them finish the fight.

"I guess this monster's out for blood this time," Eichirou commented with a grunt as he struggled to get up despite the pain he felt from the impact.

The other three followed suit with their blade-extracted Hyakureider as their support. Itsuki was already clutching his left side because of the pain coming from there as he tried standing. "No kidding."

"I think we know the real reason as to why Motross' speed is unbeatable right now," Misae said with a grunt.

"He was drawing someone out to challenge him, using us as bait for that to happen," Erika responded and heaved a sigh as she stood up with the help of her Hyakureider.

Indeed, it was something that they were all worried about at the moment. They did a lot of consecutive attacks to at least weaken Motross, but the Triske Monster seemed to have been just playing with them using his speed. Adding the fact that the motorcycle part of the monster's body could shoot out beams, it was a losing situation for the four Seitengers whose transformations were now disintegrated because of Motross' simultaneous attacks on them.

"How long do you think we'd be able to hold out?"

"We still have to do our best to keep this up, or else we'll all end up dead," Misae uttered with determination despite her small and slightly pained voice. Until her eyes widened and turned to face Motross because of what was about to happen.

The Triske Monster was about to fire a powerful beam towards them that only made the Vessels unable to move to avoid it. Not to mention that their injuries were crippling them at the moment.

"Lion Laser!"

But all of a sudden, they were surprised when an even bigger beam was fired toward Motross and it was powerful enough to at least injure the monster.

"Red beam?"

"No way..."

"Is that...?"

Misae smiled and nodded. "I think it finally is."

When the four warriors turned to the source of the beam, they saw the tip of Shuichi's Hyakureider emanating a red glow. Despite the pain that they were feeling due to their respective injuries, the Vessels raised themselves to approach their teammate who had just arrived.

"Seriously! Do you have to arrive this late?" Eichirou reprimanded as he punched Shuichi in his chest.

And yet, it didn't seem to affect the biker at all. He just smiled.

"In any case, I'm glad you're here now," Itsuki said as he placed a hand on Shuichi's shoulder. The biker could only smile at that.

"Does that mean the placing of the upgrade on your bike was finished already?" Erika asked.

Shuichi nodded. "Yeah, it did. I'm sure you were all aware of that."

"Well, we just wanted to confirm if it was okay with you changing your favorite motorcycle's form like that."

At this point, Shuichi sighed and faced Motross with his eyes narrowed. "I'll dwell on that later. Right now, we got other important things to focus on. One of them is finally defeating Motross."

The others agreed to that without hesitation. With that, all five of them faced the still maniacally laughing Motross with determined expressions.

"Let him laugh all he wants. It's not going to last long, anyway," Eichirou uttered that only made the rest of them smile.

"Spirit Shift, Start!"

Soon after, all five of them donned their suits and dealt with Motross and the Gargonemas that the monster had summoned.

"Heaven's Hundred Blaze, SeitenFire!"

"Heaven's Hundred Outpour, SeitenWater!"

"Heaven's Hundred Tremor, SeitenEarth!"

"Heaven's Hundred Howl, SeitenWind!"

"Heaven's Hundred Shine, SeitenLight!"

"The Hundred Heavens' greatest legends! Reiyouki Sentai Seitenger!"

SeitenFire extracted the blade of his Hyakureider and pointed it towards the Triske Monster. "Let's go! It's time we set up the right stage for this monster!"

Four of the Seitengers decided to deal with the Gargonemas which, of course, had surprised SeitenFire.

"We had enough of dealing with that monster," SeitenWater said as slashed all of the Gargonemas coming after him and SeitenFire.

"Besides," SeitenEarth spoke this time. "You're the one that he wanted to deal with."

"Don't worry, it doesn't mean that we're not going to support you," SeitenLight said as soon as she was done eliminating all the Gargonemas coming after her using a destructive sound spell.

When SeitenFire faced SeitenWind, she just gave him a thumbs-up before destroying her own set of Gargonemas using her Falcon Wind Arrows.

The red warrior could only thank his friends in his mind before heading out to settle the duel he had with Motross for one last time. And he was going to make sure that it would be the monster's last rampaging race.

"Ah, red guy. You've finally arrived. I was getting worried you decided to hide under a rock after that last race we had," Motross mocked with an annoying smirk on the monster's face.

However, SeitenFire remained unfazed by that. Instead, he took his Hyakureider and put the Heaven Lion Medallion into one of the slots without breaking his gaze to Motross. "Hide under a rock? You've underestimated me, Triske Monster. But don't worry. I'll make sure you've never made a mistake about challenging the Fire of the Fang on a death race."

"Oh? Now that's new to hear, especially coming from a puny human." Motross ended those words with a cynical laugh.

Sometimes, SeitenFire wished he was born with the same sense of humor that Eichirou had. But that would only make things crazier for the group if that truly happened. Dealing with Eichirou's unbelievable sense of humor even in a dire situation was more than enough for the Spirit Power Vessels.

Pushing a button on his Hyakureider, SeitenFire recited the command right after that.

"Lion Motor, Build Up Start!"

In seconds, the said vehicle in dark red color appeared before him. He couldn't help staring at the finished product in awe. There was indeed an immense change done to his favorite motorcycle, but not in a bad way. He liked it. The most distinctive change was the figure of a griffin in front of the motorcycle. He now knew that it was probably done to remind him of the two Vessel Spirits' powers that made this possible.

SeitenFire couldn't help smiling triumphantly inside his suit and nodded at the thought of thanking the cousins Kanako and Natsume, and even Akira later after this battle. With that, he boarded the said motorcycle and faced Motross with narrowed eyes.

However, around that same moment, a memory from his earlier encounter with Helen appeared in his mind...