Chapter 7

The Ultimate Sacrifice

Sophia layed in her bed. She hadn't changed clothes. Yet at least. She was thinking about her day. Weird things had happened. First Assassin attacking Lucky, then Alica breaking up with Spirit. Many weird things had happened.

A noise on her windowsill snapped her from her thoughts. She looked over quickly and saw Spirit sitting there. She read his mind and saw he was not only troubled, but also worried. She didn't understand because she could only feel his emotions. Secondly, his mind was unreadable. She never had been able to. only that one incident and that was it.

"Listen, I need you to come with me. Lucky wants to talk to you" Spirit said before vanishing. Sophia quickly changed into clean clothes then jumped out the window and floated down. Spirit led her to a stream. Lucky was standing on a rock watching the water.

"Hey Lucky, you wanted to see me?" Sophia asked. "Yeah..." Lucky said, he then looked at her "You remember Assassin?". "Yes... who is he Lucky?" Sophia asked. "He... is me... before I turned hero" Lucky answered. Sophia was shocked. Not once had Lucky ever truely revealed his past. Now she knew the truth.

"... Lucky..." Sophia started, but was interrupted by Lucky. "He is absolutly ruthless. If he can't beat me fair and square he'll use dirty tactics to. Kikki only kissed spirit to protect her own life. I saw Assassin threaten her" Lucky said "I know what he's going to do next. He's going to have her take out Alica. But... I'm going to take him out. You need to let Kikki know that she doesn't have to worry". And like that lucky was gone.

Sophia turned and saw Spirit in his demon form. He was that same as before but he had strange marking all over his body. "Let's go Sophia" Spirit said, he grabbed her hand and they teleported into the castle. Immediatly the alarm went off, however, Kikki stood in front of them. In her arms was a terrified Alica.

"Let her go kikki. You don't need to be afraid of Assassin" Spirit said. "Assassin? oh the Lucky look-a-like. I couldn't care less" Kikki said. "What?". "I love you Spirit. but this gloomy girl had your heart. So i just need to give you a reason and get her to leave you. But now i truely have to do away with her" Kikki said, her claws piercing skin but not going completely in.

"What does she mean spirit?" Alica asked confused. "She loves me... but to her you're an obstacle. To me..." Spirit said, pausing he then continued "How about we make a deal Kikki?". "A deal?" Kikki asked, pondering. "I date you... if you let her live" Spirit said. "Hmmmmm..." Kikki said, wondering what to do.

The next instant, Kikki's claws were slashed off, Spirit pushed Alica away and blocked a strike from Kikki's other set of claws. "Get away from here alica! It's not safe!" Spirit yelled, parrying the suddenly unbreakable claws. Sophia ran to Alica and started dragging her to her room.

"What's going on Sophia? I don't understand" Alica whined. "I'm not sure myself. But i guess she loved Spirit. but you were in the way and now she hates him for it instead of you" Sophia said, only guessing.

Meanwhile, spirit was losing fast. Now she was actually scratching Requim, the god of peace in sword form. He growled with anger. The others would be here in minutes. Unless her finished this fast, they would arrest both of them. He charged and attempted to slice but gasped for air. Kikki's claw had stabbed his throat. The only area he couldn't regenerate naturally.

Spirit fell to the ground, he stabbed requim into the ground to keep himself upright. Kikki left. Sam arrived and arrested him. Spirit had tresspassed. And Sam was angry for Spirit hurting Alica. Although Sam was Mystified by how Spirit got a wound, he was dragged to the hospital wing.