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Chapter 19: Inheritance Arc 3

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"Eh!" he laughed "I was coming as I'd felt the rituals with the fangs and wanted to see one but I see you're doing something different this time." with that, he looked at the ritual circle, where Hana was placing the rings "A blood related powering ritual?" he commented "With that those rings will only be able to be used by Vongola affiliated people you realize?"
"We are all members of the Vongola X." said Kyoko with a smile "So it's not a problem. It's even better, as it ensure people won't be able to use our creations against us."

The tengu smiled wildly, visibly amused "Well thought! I knew keeping an eye on you all would be entertaining!" he affirmed, before sniffing a bit "So, you're using the twins blood?"
A nod from most of the Mystic Team.
"You know, I have a bit of blood left over from Giotto." he said as if it wasn't a big deal "He said to give it back to the Vongola when I felt them ready..." he mused "It's not a lot, barely enough to successfully modify the seven Vongola Rings..."

"But if we add a second layer to our ritual, it should be more than enough." added Hana, eyes widening "We could even throw in Kazami and Mizuki's ring!"
"I can see why it would be useful to add Kaze-chan's ring, but why mine?" asked the Fae who was following the ritual via Vox from Britain "I'm not a fighter."

"Precisely for that." said Hana with a smile "You aren't a fighter, but you're our main advisor Mizuki-san, and an essential part of the Vongola X. I don't see why the other Boss didn't have a personal advisor like you, someone who could give precious advise and a very different take on any matter, partly thanks to your wizarding background. As a matter of fact, I think the Moon Guardian position should be made official and always be held by someone not purely from Mafia background!"
Reborn nodded thoughtfully, as the one who was the most Mafia-like of the Vongola X, he could see the point Hana was making.

"Hana-san's right." he said, making the intelligent girl smile a bit proudly – after all the baby-sized tutor wasn't afraid to point out idiotic ideas, so just agreeing with someone already was a good compliment coming from him "After all, we have Lavande as another proof that someone with a different background works well. And the CEDEF are advisor, but they don't work that closely with the Boss usually, so an official Guardian having this position would be good... And contrary to the bambina's position, that could be held by an official Guardian if he had the aptitude to take on such an ungrateful job without being led astray by the power, it would be best held by a non-fighter..."

"Then we'll make it official in a few days." said Tsuna with a resolute smile "After all, inheriting with only the Guardians recognized by the older generations would have been strange... Our Guardians are the Day Squad and Night Pack, and I don't care what the rest of the Mafia have to say about it!"
"Let's do this." agreed Reborn, surprising the young Decimo to be, who thought the Arcobaleno, being the one that made them learn all about the Famiglia's traditions would have been hard to convince – seeing this, said Arcobaleno explained "The Vongola X will change the Mafia world. Why not start right now rather than later?"
Tsuna answered with a blinding smile.

"Let's make a statement to the whole mafia world!" agreed loudly Gokudera

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This new decision made rather suddenly, under the Tengu's amused eyes, the Mystic team was sheepishly turning back toward him "Will you give it to us, then? Primo's blood?"
"I will." agreed the youkai, taking out a small phial from his large mantle "For the Arcobaleno is right, and you youngster will usher a new and much needed dawn on the mafia world, which I think is something all the hidden worlds will benefit from."

Rather than giving the phial, he went to the ritual circle, and rearranging the rings, soon created a whole new circle within it, where only the nine Vongola Rings were put – all that under the awed eyes of all those who had a basic grounding in ritual magic, as he had done it without even seeming to think about all the complicated calculation needed to modify a ritual like that, something even Kazami wasn't able to do so easily.
Which was understandable, as the tengu was centuries old and this was what he did for a living, but no less impressive.

Ritual amended, he turned back to the starry eyed teens, amused and a bit smug at the youngster's admiration "There, that should do it. Be warned that the Vongola Rings will each test your resolve and Flames once again."
"We'll be ready." acknowledged Chrome resolutely as the nine of them stepped into the circle to their positions

With that, they ignited their Flames, esoteric symbols lightning up in turn and power steadily rising within the circle until all of the Flame had merged into one dark red-orange Flame curling along the lines of the blood drawing, hiding the rings from sight.
When the ritual had run it's course, and the magic and Flames saturating the air finally started to lessen, the rings of the outer layer were finally visible again, each still slightly alight with it's Flame type – and sometimes with two Flames, as they had managed to create dual-Flame rings, but no more, as the rings became unstable when three Flame stone were set in...

When they started to take and share the rings, everyone was surprised to realize that the rings were warm from the left-over power, but not uncomfortably so – and that within the Flame gem that were set into the the ring, the Vongola coat-of-arm was visible, as if etched.
"It's beautiful." mumbled Hana, even the serious girl not able to deny it

Then, the inner circle cleared up, and the new Vongola Rings appeared.

Or rather, what would be the new Vongola Rings, as for now, they were nothing more than raw black ore with crystals of the appropriate Flame type.
While the Day Squad and Night pack each went to his rock, Kyoko took what would be the Moon Ring and, with another couple of the new rings to cover all of Mizuki's Flame affinities, sent them over via the Vox system.

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Without even planning it, all ten of them – even Mizuki in Britain – ignited they Flames at the same time, power humming around them.

[Hidden Quest Complete! A New Generation!
Goal: Personalize the Vongola Rings to fit the X Generation
Bonus Goal: Personalize the Vongola Guardian System to fit the X Generation
Reward: +100 000XP, all Vongola X gain X Generation Perk (sometimes all you need is a smile to gain new allies) (+5)
Bonus Goal Reward: +100 000XP, new Ring System unlocked]
[Level up! You are now Specialty Level 20!
+5Agility, +3Luck, +2Charisma
+8SP, +2PP, +5CP]
[Level up!Padfoot is now level 35!
+2Intelligence, +1Strength
+13SP, +3PP, +7CP]

"Interesting..." muttered Talbot, before explaining "I expected that the ring form would be lost, yet it isn't..."
"What do you mean?" asked Souichi curiously
"Well since the rings were reforged by and for you, I expected them to each take a form you would be more at ease with. Yet because you've made the rings into a symbol for all of the Vongola X, none of you even thought of something else than a ring." a smile "I'll look forward to what you'll do to the mafia world, young Vongola. See you next week!"

And with that, the tengu was gone.

"I guess he'll be at the Inheritance Ceremony, then." casually said Takeshi
"This will make heads turn." smiled Reborn "After all, Talbot has a standing invite within all Vongola allied families for important events but he rarely takes advantage of it."
"So, we're ready then?" asked Chrome
"A bit of training with our improved rings and partner, and we'll be as ready as we can be." nodded Bianchi seriously – it would be after all, their first real foray into the mafia, their first statement as a Famiglia

Rings equipped, the Vongola X left the old temple, ready to take on the mafia world.
They never saw the golden kitsune watching them from the temple's roof, an old tengu by his side, both having a small smile on their lips...

Sawada Kazami speLV20:

Strength: 32(48)
Agility: 130(228)
Endurance: 32(40)
Intelligence: 67(104)
Wisdom: 102(133)
Charisma:39(53)
Luck: 56(73)

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HP/FP : 448/1430
Dam/ F Dam: 398/425
Speed/ F Speed: 688/398
Critic/ F Critic: 526/478
Def/ F Def: 128/209