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Rescue
Setsuko's POV
Fai stared at me from inside his confinement, his hands pressed against its glowing yellow surface, and his blue eyes wide with worry. A gunshot echoed in the cavern. I stared with wide eyes and trembled in fear as Seishirou held up his demon sword, which had reflected my bullet. "No way . . ." I said quietly and shakily, then he struck me with the flat side of his weapon, which knocked me clear across the ground.
"Setsuko!" Fai shouted as I skidded and tumbled to a cluster of crystal. I cried out as my back struck it and I fell to lay out of breath, beaten, bruised, broken, and bloodied on the dark earth. "Setsuko!" The fear in his voice was unbearable as was the pain coursing through my body.
Footsteps by my head made me shift my eyes upward to see Seishirou looming over me, his sword dung into the earth next to my head. "What a foolish girl. You honestly thought such a normal girl like you could defeat a god-like figure like me?" He narrowed his eyes and raised his sword above his head, "Allow me to spare you the pain of wallowing in your stupidity any longer!" He smirked as his eyes shifted to Fai who was watching in pure horror at the scene he was helpless to intervene. "And I'll be sure your dear friend watches you die."
His blade came out. I cried weakly as I clenched my eyes shut and braced myself. A loud noise sounded and I did not feel my fatal blow. I looked up to see Syaoran kneeling in front of me, his sword clashed with Seishirou's. "S-Syaoran . . .!" I exclaimed weakly.
"Told you if you don't get out of this alive, you were going to be left with one unhappy mother." I looked up and gasped.
"Hikaru!"
Hikaru's POV
Syaoran shielded Setsuko and I and I looked behind me and gave her a little smirk as she lie on her stomach. "What can I say? A good mother always comes when her child needs her."
"Thank you." She smiled weakly.
"Seishirou." Syaoran looked up at him, his brown eyes burning like his sword. "What do you want with my friends?"
The black-haired man chuckled briefly and leapt into the air, soon followed by the brunet.
"Hikaru! Get Setsuko out of here!"
"Right!" I turned to her and lifted her up. "Let's go."
"Wait!" She cried, clutching my vest, and looked up at me with pleading, round, brown eyes. "What about Fai?"
"I'll take care of him!" Kurogane shouted, "Don't worry; just go!"
I nodded and ran off.
"Not so fast." Seishirou said, looking at me from his position in the air. He then whipped his sword, causing a swarm of demons to burst from it and race towards Setsuko and me.
I stared at the wave. "You idiot!" Kurogane boomed, "Get back!" But I couldn't move. They were finally upon us and struck. I cried out as I was tossed back and Setsuko was knocked out of my arms. We tumbled to a stop and I looked up to see a massive demon arch its body over us. I struggled to my feet and threw Setsuko over my shoulder just as the creature struck down on the earth where we once were, burying its way undergrown.
I looked around as I ran, trying to see if I could tell where the demon would rise. I found that out the hard way, because it rushed upward right in front of us like a geyser. The earth uprooted and I tried to keep my footing, but failed and rolled backwards with Setsuko. We stopped, but Setsuko was too beaten to even look up; I did and I gasped at the sight of the demon arching before its attack. "Hikaru!" Came a loud cry, before Kurogane rushed over and struck the creature with his sword, knocking it down, and he landed in front of us. "You two okay?" He gave us a glance.
"Wish I could say we were, but Setsuko is barely hanging in there!"
"Damn." He growled, facing the demon again and charged forward, "Stay put!"
I scrambled to Setsuko and held her up in my arms. "Hang in there, okay? Syaoran and Kurogane will take care of this.
"But what about Fai?" She asked with tears in her eyes.
"They'll get him out, too." I noticed she gave him a look and he continued to stare in terror from behind his yellow orb prison. He bowed his head, his platinum hair hiding his face, tightened his fists and clenched his teeth.
I knew how he felt. I felt the same way when I had to take Sakura and Kirito out of danger's way and was only able to watch the café blow up from a distance with my friends trapped inside to face our foes on their own.
Narrowing my eyes, I sprung to my feet and ran towards Fai. "Hikaru!" Setsuko screamed, which turned the demons' attention to me.
"Stop her!" Seishirou shouted as he continued to fight Syaoran, but I kept running. I grabbed a long shard of sea green crystal lying near the orb and swung it with all my might, shattering the prison confining Fai.
Right away, Setsuko screamed again as a massive wave of demons zeroed in on her. Fai surged forward, grabbed me in the process and stood in front of Setsuko. He held his arms in front of him and a yellow glowing emblem shone underneath us. Energy sparked the air around us and a wind stirred. I held close to Setsuko and we watched the demons shriek and dismember. Seishirou narrowed his eyes and turned in the air to head towards us.
"No!" Came a cry and we turned to see Sakura staring in fear, Mokona on her shoulder, from under an archway.
Seishirou smiled a little. "Ah, there you are, Princess." He ran towards her.
"Princess Sakura!" Syaoran shouted and hurried after him.
Just as our enemy leapt up and was about to attack, the brunet crashed into his side and sent him flying into the wall. "Kurogane!" I exclaimed when he joined me, Setsuko, and Fai. "Aren't you going to help him?"
"No, this is his fight. The kid said he knew him, and something tells me there's a deep-seeded revenge that has to be played out here, once and for all."
"Not to mention that man has one of Sakura's feathers." Fai added. "That's why he's after her."
"Damned bastard." Kurogane growled.
We watched the battle intensify. Then, rumbling from above caught our attention and we looked up to see the stalactites shaking. "That can't be good." I said.
"Yes, we should get the princess and you two out of here as soon as possible." Fai pointed out.
The fight increased and I honestly didn't see there ever having an end, but if I had to choose I'd sadly say Syaoran would lose. "Don't you two think you should help him?"
"No. He can do this." Kurogane said, not taking his red eyes off of Syaoran. "All of his training is coming together." I stared at him for another moment then back at the brunet, who was knocked to the ground.
"Syaoran!" Sakura cried from her position far from the scene.
Seishirou leered down at him and heavily placed his foot down on his chest making him cry out. "I told you before, you can't beat me Syaoran. I taught you every fighting move you know, I can predict your every move." I saw Syaoran narrow his eyes then vanish. "What?" His foe said with wide eyes then turned around in time to see the young boy reappear behind him and land a powerful round-house kick to his stomach. The black-haired man was sent flying and crashed against the wall and coughed up blood when his apprentice dug his foot into his stomach.
"You may have taught me how to fight for myself, Seishirou." His brown eyes burned. "But I taught myself to fight for others."
I never thought I would him be able to do this, but the next thing he did was slash his sword across Seishirou's chest and he watched him collapse. "Well . . ." the dying man said weakly with a smile as he looked up at him. "I never thought I would live to see the day when you would defeat me, Syaoran."
"Well that day's today." The brunet glared down at him and held his sword with both hands, the blade facing downward. "Now you have something that belongs to me." He narrowed his eyes. "And I want it back." But the finishing blow wasn't needed, because his mentor chuckled.
"Take it." He stared up at him as the feather drifted from his chest and he closed his eyes.
I noticed Mokona and Sakura relax from under the archway. Syaoran grabbed the feather and smiled at her and she returned it gratefully. However, the calm did not last, because another loud rumble sounded around us and we looked up to see the stalactites shaking even more. Then, to our full surprise, the wave of demons Seishirou had sent out shot from underneath us like a geyser. This sent the crystals from above to rain down.
"Princess!" Syaoran cried and he darted to the panicking strawberry blond.
I cried, but was too shell-shocked to react to the cold feeling settling in my arms when Setsuko fell out of my arms. The shards neared me and I screamed and clenched my eyes shut. "Hikaru!" As I shielded myself, I felt Kurogane bring me close. A loud crash sounded around me, deafening me until I drifted into unconsciousness.
Setusko's POV
As I fell from Hikaru's arms, I did not react to the falling stalactites. I was too weak. I slowly closed my eyes, then felt something warm wrap around me and hold me close. Darkness overcame me.
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