Is it bad when an Author gets excited for their own story? Because I was practically dying to write this chapter, lol.
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Chapter Seven:
"Here I come!" Yukia shouted, whipping out one handgun. Ivia quickly got into a defensive pose and wiped the tears out of her eyes, she couldn't show any weakness...
"Enhance!" Yukia yelled with a huge grin on her face. A silver magic circle appeared. "Spider Web!" The magic circle turned to a purple tint before disappearing. Yukia pulled the trigger and a web shot towards Ivia.
Ivia jumped to the side and neatly dodged the attack. "My turn" She whispered, holding her had out in front of her. "Light Magic." A white magic circle appeared. It seemed to glow with a yellowish light, and was brighter then most magic circles. "Bright Nebula!"
A beam of light shot towards Yukia. It seemed to twist and turn as it went, almost as if it couldn't be properly controlled.
Yukia attempted to dodge the attack. A small of portion of it hit her, and Yukia bit down a cry of pain and a wound appeared in her side. It was bleeding a bit. "Light Magic?" Yukia asked, still somehow grinning. "That's cool"
"It's a very simple Magic once you know how to control it" Ivia replied. "Because of it, the others sometimes call me Hikari"*
"Nah I don't like Hikari" Yukia replied. "I think Sunshine suits you better!"
"S-Sunshine?" Ivia stuttered in surprise.
The sun was setting over the horizon. It was beautiful, painting the land in red and oranges. It reminded Ivia of melting caramel. A warm breeze lazily tousled with Ivia's hair, blowing it to the left. In Ivia's hands was a small flute, loosely held. At this time Ivia was a small girl, probably no older then 8.
"Ivia" A gruff voice called. Ivia was quickly broken out of her trance. She stood up and bowed to the person behind her. "Did you require something, Master Erigor?"
Eirgor nodded "Our allies from the Baram Alliance are launching an attack. You are to accompany them"
Young Ivia blinked in surprise. "M-Me? No offence Master, but I'm hardly-"
"You are to go, and that's an order!" Erigor snapped. Ivia flinched. Erigor grinned evilly and ruffled Ivia's hair. "Don't worry about it" he continued. "You're more then ready, Sunshine..."
"Hey, you okay?"
Ivia snapped out of her memories and glanced up at Yukia, who was looking at Ivia with... Concern?
Yukia smiled sweetly at Ivia. "Had me worried there for a minute, you just spaced out!"
"Why do you care?!" Ivia snapped, sending a sharp beam of energy towards Yukia, who dodged.
"Because it's no fun fighting somebody who doesn't even pay attention" Yukia replied casually. "By the way, how do you manage that?"
"M-Manage what?" Ivia asked carefully.
"Finding clothes!" Yukia explained. "I mean serious, your chest is HUGE! How do you find clothes that fit? I can hardly work out how Lucy does it..."
Ivia blushed and her hands hovered protectively in front of her chest area. Myvo also turned a bright red. "Yuki! You can't just go around asking stuff like that!" Myvo shouted
"Why not?" Yukia asked. "I just don't know how curvy people do it. Although I guess I would like a little more curve myself..." Yukia looked at her own skinny, and might I say it, flat body.
"Will you stop!?" Ivia demanded, still red, as she attacked Yukia with another beam of light.
"Enhance, Fire!" A silver magic circle, appeared again. It quickly turned red and disappeared as a fireball flew out of the muzzle. The fireball and the beam of light clashed and exploded, nullifying each other.
"Okay okay, you don't have to get mad geez" Yukia muttered, whipping out another handgun so she was holding one in each hand. "I'm sorry 'kay?"
Ivia glared daggers at Yukia. She stopped in surprise. It had been... God-knows how long since Ivia felt any kind on emotion that broke her out of her usual emotionless trance. It was dangerous for Ivia to be around this cheerful girl. For emotion was weakness, and Ivia didn't want to be weak.
The town was peaceful. Ivia gazed at it from atop her preach. She was hidden in the hill, along with the other raid members. They would attack this town and reclaim what was theirs... whatever that was.
Ivia's gaze fell upon a small blacksmith. Although she could not see very well from the distance, a burly man with a messy of bright pink hair stepped out of the shop. A small girl with matching pink hair followed him. Even though Ivia could not hear what the girl said, it was clear the girl was telling the man something. Ivia presumed the man was the father of the girl.
"We strike now" A hoarse voice whispered, breaking Ivia out of her trance. The voice belonged to the raid leader, a tall man, hidden underneath a hood.
"W-We have to attack?" Ivia asked, fear and apprehension creeping into her voice.
"Kid" The leader spat. "Quit your whining. Emotions are weakness, and you can't be weak..."
"Okay it's starting to get annoying now!"
Yukia's voice rang through Ivia's memory, snapping Ivia out of it. Yukia glared at Ivia impatiently. "Will you quit zoning out?" Yukia demanded. "It's hard to have a good fight when somebody doesn't even pay attention!"
Ivia replied by slamming her fist on the ground. "Crystal's shine!" She shouted. A magic circle appeared around Yukia's feet. "Crap!" Yukia hissed as the raw light burst from the ground, hitting Yukia and launching her into the air!
"Yuki!" Myvo shouted in fear and worry, preparing a spell to help Yukia.
Yukia landed on the ground, slightly wobbly. "Stay out of it, this is my fight!" Yukia shouted at Myvo. Myvo grimaced, but lowered his hands and nodded. Yukia smirked before focusing her attention back on Ivia. "Time to get serious" Yukia's smirk turned into a grin as she slapped the two guns together. "Fusion!" Yukia shouted as the gun shone in a silver light. When the light dissipated, the two handguns had transformed into a single rifle.
"Technology Magic?" Ivia inquired.
"However did you guess?" Yukia replied. She shot at Ivia, each bullet consisting of pure ethernano.
"I used to know a girl that used Technology Magic" Ivia replied, easily dodging each bullet.
"Oh cool!" Yukia exclaimed. "You have to introduce her to me! It's not often I meet somebody that uses the same magic as me!"
Ivia failed to understand this girl. They were in the middle of a battle, and yet Yukia was attempting to make a conversation with Ivia? Who did this girl think she was? "Focus on the fight" Ivia said simply, shooting three beams of light simultaneously at Yukia, who dodged as if it was nothing.
"You kidding me? Having a fun conversation is half of the fun!" Yukia giggled wildly, almost as if she just saw this as a game...
"Half of the fun...?!" Ivia murmured in disbelief. "You... You do realize that I'm taking this seriously right? We're fighting with our lives on the line, how can you be so cheerful?!"
Yukia's grin disappeared as she stood up straight, holding her rifle loosely. "Our lives on the line?" Yukia asked, her head tilted to the side slightly in confusion. "If that's really the case, then why are you not putting effort into it?"
Ivia's head snapped up. "What?"
"I mean" Yukia continued. "You're not putting all of your strength into this, you're holding back. It's almost like you don't want to win"
"I want to win!" Ivia shouted. "I have to win! I'm not allowed to lose..."
Yukia's expression softened. The rifle in her hands glowed again as it transformed back into the two handguns, which she place on her belt. She walked towards Ivia and placed a hand on each of Ivia's shoulders. "And why aren't you allowed to lose?" She asked quietly.
Ivia glanced at Yukia is surprise, unable to stop the tears that sprung up in her eyes. "B-Because I'll get in trouble..." Ivia murmured. She couldn't believe herself! This girl clearly had no maturity, she was far shorter then Ivia as well. On top of that, she was the enemy! "I'm a devil, I have to take down good guys like you!" Ivia exclaimed, backing away from Yukia.
Yukia's hands fell limply to her side. "You're a devil?" She asked quietly. "I don't think your a devil" Yukia continued, as wistful expression coming over her face. She suddenly looked up at Ivia and smiled a large smile. It was a crooked smile, so cheerful and filled with happiness. It was the kind of smile that would fill almost anybody with happiness just seeing it. It broke Ivia's heart.
"After all, I think you look like an Angel!" Yukia finished, never breaking that lovely smile of hers. Ivia didn't even notice the uncontrollable tears that fell down her face
Red and orange flames danced and twisted as they consumed the humble buildings of the town. Screams rang through the air, although some were cut short, followed by a gruesome sound
Ivia walked down the ruined street, her fringe casting a shadow over her face hiding her yellow eyes. She was covered in blood, not a drop of it her own.
Huddled against a building was a small girl. Blood was dripping from multiple wounds over her tiny body. She was crying, crying so pathetically it would break anybody's heart.
If they had a heart that is.
The girl was clutching something to her chest as she sobbed. She was wearing a simple brown dress, oversized blacksmith gloves that made her tiny arms seen even scrawnier, and small gray sandals. Although her eyes couldn't be seen, she had short, pretty pink hair. Alas is was matted and tangled with blood and dirt.
Ivia walked towards the girl, no longer having the strength, or will, to run. Ivia had orders, kill everybody in the village. No mercy, no exceptions, no emotion.
Ivia held a hand in front of herself and prepared a spell, the girl was so tiny it would easy to pierce her thin body. The familiar white magic circle appeared.
It was then that the girl stopped mid-sob, and looked at Ivia through tear-filled eyes. She had such pretty eyes, such a pretty purple.
"A-Are you an angel?" The girl asked in a cracked voice, broken by crying. "Are you here to take me to my Daddy?"
Ivia stopped in surprise, the magic circle disappeared. Ivia was prepared to kill this girl, prepared to take her life! And yet the child called her an angel...
Ivia looked across the street, she recognised the blacksmith she had seen from atop the hill. It was wrecked and caved in. The pink-haired man must of died inside.
Died...
Ivia looked back at the girl, who staring at Ivia with those beautiful purple eyes. "I will take you to your daddy." Ivia whispered. "But I am no angel, I'm a devil."
Despite the tears running down her face, despite the wounds covering her body, despite that everything she knew was burning, the girl somehow smiled at Ivia. It was such a large, pretty, lopsided smile.
"How can you be a devil?" She asked. "After all, I think you look like an Angel!"
Ivia froze, unaware of the tears pricking in the back of her eyes. An Angel? Her? That was impossible...
The girl opened her mouth to say something else, but stopped. A large hole had appeared in her middle. With tears still running down her cheeks, with a smile still on her face, she slumped over and didn't move. Dead.
Her tiny hands opened, revealing what she was holding so close to her person. A pair of cyan goggles.
Ivia stared in disbelief, forcing herself to look up. It was the leader of the raid
"No mercy, No exceptions, no emotions." He stated simply before turning around and making his way down the broken street, leaving Ivia behind.
Ivia couldn't stop the tears that fell unstoppably from her eyes. She just couldn't stop. She looked at the corpse of the child and recalled what she said,
"After all, I think you look like an Angel!"
Ivia fell on her knees, the tears pouring from her eyes. She quickly held her hands over her eyes to try and hid the tears, hid the pain, hide the weakness...
She felt a pair of warm arms wrap around her. Ivia let out a sob in surprise as she was pulled against Yukia, who smiled at Ivia warmly. "Crying isn't a weakness" Yukia whispered in Ivia's ear as she hugged the sobbing girl
Ivia couldn't help herself. She couldn't stop herself.
And so she cried, and cried, and cried...
Afterwards Yuki told me that she wasn't fighting Ivia seriously either. I was surprised, can you blame me? Yuki told my there was something in Ivia's eyes, such grief, that made Yuki want nothing more then to comfort her.
Yukia never fails to amaze me, she's such an extraordinary girl, she really is. Yuki told me that she learned something important in that battle, but all I saw was a close friendship starting to be formed.
And Yukia was right about Ivia. Ivia isn't a devil. How can she be?
After all, She looks like an Angel.
-Myvo
Gosh I've been reading far to much emotional stuff lately. Sorry if I broke anybodies heart!
Anyway there you guys, meet Ivia! She'll be more important to the story later.
Anyway again, thanks SO MUCH for following and reviewing guys! You have NO idea how much it means to me!
I hope I keep living up to expatiations! Cya guys next time!
*Hikari is Japanese for Light. Yeah I know, that was a little cheesy of me, but I just love the Japanese language so much! I'll try to avoid putting too much Japanese in my stories as I'm aware not everybody watches Fairy Tail Subbed.