NEVER LET GO
CHAPTER FOUR
MIRROR MIRROR
Hello! So so sorry about the extremely late update. I was having problems with my life -.-
Well then, lets get to it.
NLG
C4
I DO NOT OWN FF! I OWN MY OC's THOUGH
The room spun around, light dazzling Ivory as she slammed her rapier into an unsuspecting dummy. She felt her muscles tense and, rolling forwards she pulled the rapier to slice through the things neck. She paused sighing as she gazed back and found that the blade hadn't sunk deep enough to decapitate the body.
Ivory wiped sweat off of her brow, her thoughts racing on how to impress the firsts, so she could become a SOLDIER. She played with a tendril of her hair, envisioning herself battling it out with the General himself. She quickly cast that idea away, she would be decapitated like the dummy, but with a more successful head loss. So she thought through all of the people she could try to fight, listing them all by their status'. Her first thought was Zack Fair, but she quickly thought not. He may look like an innocent puppy, but he could fight like a terrier. Then a thought hit her, she should try to infiltrate the Turk base. She had heard that no one had been able to do it. Ivory grinned wikedly, but the smirk was wiped off of her face when a distinct voice ringed in her ears.
"Who are you planning on killing today with that Toothpick?" Reno asked, grinning at her.
Ivory straightened up, plastering a look of utter disgust on her face at him, "No one at all, but you may have changed my mind, boy."
Reno laughed, walking forwards, keeping his eyes trained on her rapier, "I'm no boy." He winked at her.
Ivory glared at him, shoving past him she stooped down to grab her backpack, "I have to go, boy. I am busy afterall."
"Sulking yea? I've been watching you and it seems like you do nothing but train and reminisce on how to not be friendly yo." Reno said, blocking her way out.
"If you dont move in ten seconds I will have to-" Ivory began, clenching her teeth.
"You should hang out with me today, yea? I was thinking-"
"A terrible habit that shouldn't be happening, I am otherwise previously engaged with a task I must accomplish. So no. Okay Reno?" Ivory snapped, her temper flaring.
Reno shrugged, "Your loss. I was just wanting to see if you wanted to help me fix up some cadets who have crossed the line. Might end up in a fight. The Firsts will be there."
Ivory froze, her brain thinking over time, "They will be? All of them?"
"Yup, my gift to you yea." Reno said grinning at her, extremely pleased that he had stopped her from budging past him.
Ivory looked deeply into his eyes, "Let's go then."
They reached the floor where the rogue cadets were and Ivory immediately noticed that they were also candidates for the third class positions. She saw Genesis' red coat and almost tripped over trying to look as intimidating as she could. Reno walked ahead of her, grinning at the cadets.
"I brought her. Took a lot of convincing though yo." He said.
Ivory felt a rush of anger as she realised that it had been a trap. She gazed around herself, trying to figure out if she could devise a plan to give her even a slight advantage. Her gaze slid over her opponents, then to the firsts, who were talking to each other, unaware that a fight was about to break out. Though Ivory did noticed that Genesis glanced over to her every now and again.
She knew the cadets by roll call. The first one was the leader, he stood the furthest away from her and grinned so happily that she wanted to smash it off of his face straight away. His name was Ruther Koll, an average fighter, he preferred close combat and couldn't even use a cure materia. His strength was, well, his strength. He had hardly enough brain cells to devise a plan like this so Ivory wondered it Reno was holding the reins on it.
Ruther's arms were as thick as a tree trunk, but his pot belly was as round as a cauldron. He was a slow moving boy. His hair was cut short and a ick light blonde, his eyes an equally ick blue. His main weapon was his fists, but today he had a buster sword held in two hands with him, his arms were shaking with the effort of keeping it up.
The next cadet was Juan Izair, who amazingly wasn't smothering himself in cake today. He was a ranged combat cadet, with his signature weapon, a sling, tied around one of his burly hands. He had a small speckling of stubble on his chin, which was a weak effort of trying to grow a beard. His hair was long, to his shoulders, a deep mahogany that matched his bloodshot eyes perfectly.
The last guy was Henry Wheat, who was as skinny as a stick and used materia amazingly. He preferred fire materia, as he was a fan-boy of Genesis'. His jade green eyes darted over to his role model, revelling in the chance of showing off in front of him. He was tall, almost immensely so as he was a foot above Ivory (who is 5ft 10") but his shoulder's stooped from ducking under things all of the time. He didnt have any hair, and was picked on because of that.
Ivory rolled her shoulders unsheathing Aurum and readying herself for the onslaught.
"You all should leave whilst you have the chance." She called out, making sure to be loud so that the firsts stopped talking and glanced over.
Ruther laughed loudly, his belling bouncing up and down, "One girl against three guys? And you expect us to surrender? You must be a fool."
Ivory laughed, meaning to make her laugh sound eerie to try and make them nervous, "Me, a fool? Talking to a mirror perhaps that statement would carry weight. But when your talking to someone other then yourself, you should address them rightfully. Please, call me a genious."
Juan laughed, but got a smack across the head from Ruther for doing so. The leader dint say another word, he started towards her, shoving past the two others and charging at her with the buster sword.
Ivory sneered at him, "You can barely hold it up but your attacking me with it? Pathetic." She took a step back, dodging the swing he took at her and attacking back with her lightning fast rapier. She carefully snaked the blade towards his head, where he put all of his attention to it, blocking it with his armoured arm and leaving the other side of his face unguarded and dropping the buster sword. Ivory struck out with her foot, kicking him forcefully in the head. He made a strangled noise and fell to the ground.
Ivory hissed in pain as a sling shot hit the side of her sword arm, making her almost lose her grip on Aurum. Luckily she recovered quickly, rolling backwards she dodged the second shot but almost got hit by a blast of fire.
Ivory glanced up, Juan was reloading and Henry had also begun to cast another blast of materia. Ivory closed her eyes for a second. She felt her earring burn, the beautiful gold crystal glow as the materia awakened. She jumped forwards, her eyes still closed and felt a shot from Juan graze past her. She opened her eyes casting the golden fire at him.
He yelled in horror as the flames leapt from the awakened Aurum and into the air. They danced dangerously towards him and Juan fell over himself trying to get away.
Ivory smiled in joy, her fire materia was unique to her, handed down the generations but never working with anyone else but her. It's form was that of a single earring of pure silver, though the bead that dangled was a volcanic red it changed colour to gold when she evoked the awakening spell. She straightened her stance glaring daggers at Henry, who was staring at her in amazement.
"I've never seen materia like that before." He said, his mouth agape. Ivory shrugged, not caring about his words and bringing Aurum up to her chin, the golden flames licked her face in joy, not burning her. She leapt forwards and Henry shot ice materia at her. She didn't bother to dodge it, the golden materia cleaving though the ice like it wasn't there and she felt her rapier touch his throat. Steam enveloped the room and Ivory heard Henry say, "I yield."
She grinned in victory, not being able to see anything or anyone she sheathed Aurum and left the room without anyone noticing.
See, I finally updated it xD
ITS A TRAP!
I haven't been feeling the tug of inspiration lately so the late update was probs horrid, very sorry if I over detailed it, that's my main fault according to my past English teacher. IDC :P
Thank you for reading and I will be posting again soon :D
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