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Chapter 4: The Final fight

One week of practice had passed so quickly. The tournament had started and the whole school was buzzing with excitement.

The Ocean's blood were good, but so were the boys of Pirates High. All the matches had been very tough.

Julia and Salima had won their matches. So had Kate, Tala and Kai. As the days passed on, the final two came to be Kate and Kai.

By now everyone had seen how skilled Kate was. It was impossible now to guess who would win the whole tournament in the end.

In thirteen days Kai had completely forgotten the whole 'wind cutter' move thing. So had Kate.

The evening before the final, the Ocean's blood were on the beach. "Kate, you've just got to win this thing." Julia said uncontrollably.

"It would be so amazing if we won!" Salima sighed. "But no pressure," Mariah added with a giggle.

"I'll try my best, you guys but my opponent is Kai. He's just as good as I am." Kate said wearily.

The girls were so anxious to win that they were making her head spin. "Well, you've practiced enough for the day. Better get some rest for now." Salima suggested.

"You guys go ahead, I'll come later." Kate waved a hand and walked towards the shore.


The crowd was making immense noise and it was really difficult for the coach to make his own voice heard.

"Just win!" Julia said hastily into Kate's ear. Kate sighed and looked at her eager group. She noticed that coach was signaling her to come forward.

Coach Will blew a very loud whistle to make the crowd stop. The noise lessened. "All right, people! The final fight of this tournament, then I can maybe get some rest!" He shouted.

Kai and Kate were standing face to face. He smiled at her, she smiled back. Both had their swords in their hands.

"Give it up for our finals! Kate and Kai!" Coach cried and the crowd once again shot with noise and applaud.

Kai and Kate shook hands. "Good luck to both of you," Mr. Lawrence nodded and Coach Will blew his whistle one more time.

Before they knew it the fight had begun. The sound of clashing swords was filling the ground.

"Not bad, Kai," Kate breathed after dodging his blade. "Even after little training, you're too good!" she smiled.

"I never need to practice," Kai smirked, his sword blocked hers. "Maybe you needed practice to win this match," Kate suggested.

She whipped around to attack him with force. Her long hair tingled around Kai's face. It smelt of the fresh sea, and flowers.

In that momentarily distraction, Kate had slashed the front of Kai's shirt. The crowd gasped.

Luckily Kai had gotten only a slight scar. While resuming the fight, he wondered whether he was underestimating Kate.

No, I'm not. I know she's really good. He told himself, glancing at her sparkling silver eyes.

"Don't worry Kai, in a moment I'll probably get a slash or two," she said lightly. Or would she? Kai wondered.

Maybe she's better than me. Better enough to beat me. He thought. But then again, he didn't care about winning much. Sure, winning would be good, but he wasn't worried about that.

Many thoughts occurred in his mind. "Come on, Kai!" she said in a low voice, watching him. "You can do better…"

Her voice snapped Kai back into reality and before he knew it, he was doing the wind cutter move against her.

The girls of Ocean's blood gasped. Kate was ready. She had dodged it, nearly perfectly. But, no…

Kai's wind cutter had been too powerful, too swift, and too sudden. Kate had avoided it, but that wasn't enough.

Everyone watched in horror as Kai's blade went slicing the side of her upper arm, making her trip and fall on her knees.

Drops of blood sparkled on the sword like rubies. Kai nearly dropped his sword. Dropping your sword during a fight meant you quit, or you lose.

Coach's whistle blew. "Take a two minute break," he said, looking at Kate's bloody arm.

Kai took a few steps back, watching Kate's friends surround her. Someone placed a hand on his shoulder.

"It's okay, buddy! She'll be all right," Tyson said, taking his sword from him to wipe it clean.

"Yeah, she's tougher than that and you know it," Tala assured him. Julia was furious, but Kate wasn't in a position to argue.

"Kate, we've got to ask for a first aid kit! If we don't fix it up" Salima was interrupted.

"My two minutes are almost over. It's only a scratch. I'll be fine!" Kate waved a hand and tightened her grip on the sword.

Kai didn't realize that he was back fighting with her. Two minutes had gone past like a second.

Her arm wasn't bloody anymore, but the flow hadn't stopped. As time flew, her arm was once again drenched in blood. The cut was so bad that the blood wouldn't clot.

She was in pain. He could see it in her eyes. He felt guilty. "Kai, focus!" she whispered, frowning.

But Kai didn't feel like fighting. He was only blocking her attacks. Coach Will looked angry.

And then, as expected, Kate couldn't hold on much longer. She dropped her sword in defeat and clutched her bleeding arm.

The crowd broke into instant noise. Kai dropped his sword too and hurried to give her a hand.

Her friends came forward to help her. "Come on, I'll take her to the san." Kai said.

Everyone watched them rush to the school building. Kai didn't come to receive his trophy.

The students were happy but sad all the same. They all liked Kate a lot because she was really nice.

Tyson and Tala took Kai's trophy and went towards the san too. Slowly the whole school was going the same way.

Mr. Lawrence shrugged as he and Coach Will looked at the empty grounds. They walked back towards the building.


"Let her rest! Let her take her rest, everyone!" Ms. Peterson cried impatiently, shooing away the students from the san.

"Nobody visits her till tomorrow morning!" she declared. Everyone groaned. "You can let me in, I'm her boyfriend!" Enrique said.

"Not at all!" She snapped and shut the door at his face. "Come on, Kai. Better to let her have a night to herself now. She had already lost too much blood. Good thing she had brains to quit."

Kai glanced at the sleeping Kate and turned to leave.

(Oookay, Kate got injured! No worries, she ain't gonna die!:) Review and tell me how was it)