Chapter 10 everybody! Whoooppp!

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Lay down your head, your not alone.

Two blades clashed harshly with each other, followed by a harsh grunt. The sound of boots hitting the ground echoed through the arena.

Two girls were advancing against one other girl. They circled her, struck out at her. The other girl's striking blue eyes narrowed in concentration as she kept up with the other two girls attacks. She could feel their next moves, feel the strength in their pulsing muscles. Though she could still feel and see this, this was good.

Rock was happy with the progress. Even though there were two girls fighting against her, she didn't have to fight them as one. She had to watch and fight them individually at the same time. Which was really good. She had asked her two opponents to be on their toes, and they delivered. She asked them to make her actually have to fight them, not just side step and dodge everything. And they delivered. She was pleased with the progress. Very pleased.

One of her opponents was Maid Gunner from the day before. She had definitely improved within the last twenty-four hours. Good. Her other opponent was was a green eyed girl who looked in someway similar to Dead Master called Black Devil Girl. Her clothes were similar to Rock's, only she wore a jacket that exposed more of her bikini top and also closed at the bottom to look like a skirt. Her boots, instead of only reaching the knee, were thigh high. Her hair was long and black, and slightly tinged green. Her eyes also had the same neon green colour as Dead Masters'. When Rock had first met this girl yesterday, she wondered if she had any sort of connection with her green eyed rival. They looked quite eerily similar. But that didn't matter. Rock had quickly banished any thoughts from her head and had focused on her new opponent to try and spot any flaws that needed to be touched up.

As she fought Black Devil Girl, she had noticed that she had white earphones in her ears the whole time. She later learned that Black Devil Girl moved in time with the beat of the music that was humming into her ears. And Rock quite like that, because she too, moved with music. Not all the time, but when she was fighting and really wanted to let her rage properly flow, she unlocked the cage that contained thousands upon thousands music lyrics and let them flow. Black Devil Girl didn't really need many improvements, she just needed to work on her speed and the strength of her attacks. But she moved with the speed of her music, so in order for her to increase her speed in any way, she needed to change her music around a little. Something a little more fierce, but still in the same line as the music she listened too. Rock had, secretly happily, suggested to try add a little bit of rock to her music, as it was a great way to add more step and speed to anyone's movement.

It turned out that Rock's advice had definitely worked as Black devil Girl was a lot swifter, harder, quicker than yesterday.

Maid Gunner leaped into the air and fired numerous bullets at Rock, before flipping in the air and landing on feet and firing more bullets. She hopped to one side a sent her closed fist forward in effort to hit Rock's face, and then jumped to the other side and low kicked at Rock's dodging shins. Nice. Very nice. She was definitely thinking quicker than yesterday. She had even managed to land a few hits on Rock. Very good.

Rock's two opponents charged straight at her, Maid Gunner to Rock's left and Black Devil Girl to her right. Rock's eyes quickly scanned over the two girls, reading their movements, her mind progressing them. Just as the two girls were moments away from swinging their weapons down on her, Rock leaped into the air, making sure to lift her legs up tiddly and cleanly after her. And Rock was impressed to see the two girls below her sense Rock's leap, and they quickly side stepped each other and turned on their heel, Maid Gunner quickly shooting a few strong rounds into the air and Black Devil Girl back flipping up after Rock, swinging her black katana at Rock's ankles and just managing to graze her skin. Rock decided to count that graze as a a hit and realised that her two opponents had successfully managed to land five hits on her. Rock decided to leave the progress at that. Her two opponents were now more than ready to fight the Forsaken on Forsaken Day.

Rock was still in midair. She thrust her hips backwards and bent her back so she was able to back flip through the air. She landed silently on the ground and raised her black blade in air, signaling to her opponents that the sparring match was now over. The two girls dropped their hands to their sides and walked over to their trainer. They stood respectfully in front of her, waiting for their next command. Rock also noted that the two girls weren't breathing harshly like they had been the day before.

Her cold blue eyes gazed at them evenly. "I'm very happy with your progress today. I am also very pleased to say you are ready for Forsaken day. Rest up, I sense that it soon upon us." Rock nodded at the two girls and they nodded back before leaving silently together. Rock exhaled and closed her eyes. The days work was done. She was sure all the Otherselves were ready. Since Rock announced that she would happily lead the otherselves to victory as much as she could, they had finally gotten all 7,000 otherselves to join them in the battle against the Forsaken. Rock was still unsure what to expect on Forsaken day. Dead had recently reported that everything Gold Saw had told Rock only two days ago was true. In fact, it was even worse than what Gold Saw had said. Rock rubbed her temple uneasily. She was successfully managing to lead and direct, train and strengthen every single Otherself within three days without stopping for a break. Her eyes felt dry and and shoulders felt a little bit slumped forward. Rock shook her head and inhaled deeply, pressing her lips into a thin line. Now wasn't the time to even think about any sort of rest. Especially when that stupid, stupid god forsaken day was so close.

Suddenly, Rock's eardrums were attacked by a high pitched, pained, deathly scream. Her hands reflexively went up to her ears in order to block out the sound, but then her other natural instincts to investigate kicked in and she broke into a sprint, leaping up and forward flipping through the air and landed on the dusty ledge that went right around the arena. Her blue eyes narrowed as she scanned the area around herself. Her eyes then settled on a cluster of othersleves standing around something, murmuring uneasily to each other. Something wasn't right. Rock's eyes narrowed even more and she broke into a full sprint, her long slender pale legs covering a lot of ground and within well under a minute, she had reached the cluster of still gathering otherselves. "Let me through!" she called out orderingly. The otherselves stepped respectfully but reluctantly back and formed a clear line to the small incident that had happened.

Only this incident wasn't a small incident at all. This was what Rock had feared the most.

Lying in a bloody heap on the ground at her feet was the tiny otherself Rock had grown fond of. Rock had recently learned that her name was Taize. The little otherself with ashy blonde hair and hopeful green eyes. Only those hopeful green eyes were widened in shock and unblinking, her pretty face was bloody and her whole body was twisted into all the wrong angles, bones crushed and broken in two. The poor girl had died painfully, brutally. But she had died trying to protect another girl. That other little girl, was the spitting image of Taize. The little girl was Taize's counterpart. And she died trying to save her. All for nothing, because the little girl was lying beside one of her Oherself's twisted arms, dead. But what was most freakishly horrifying and weird about the whole thing was that in blood writing just under Taize's counterparts twisted feet was;

"They die aswell."

Rock shakily raised her gloved hand to her mouth to try and stifle a pained and shocked gasp that was trying to escape her mouth. She squeezed her eyes shut and through her gloved hand she shakily managed to say, "What happened?"

Chariot was standing in the crowd, face grim. "We don't know. I just remember seeing her counterpart running towards her, screaming for help. Taize was running towards her too, and then.. It just happened. Bang..." she trailed off. Rock moved her hand away from her mouth shouted, "What happened to them? Who or what did this?!" she was trying to keep her voice calm, but it wasn't working. Another girl called Black Matagi spoke up quietly. "A purple flash. I remember seeing a huge sword within the flash and a lot of blood. Then it was gone.. And you can see what the thing did.." she answered quietly. Rock couldn't move her gaze away from the horrible sight in front of her. She wanted to, but she suddenly felt like she lost control of any movement at all. A recent memory from yesterday suddenly came back to her. It was her conversation with Strength and Yuu.

"I have been experiencing short pangs, here, in my heart" Yuu said earnestly. "And I feel little pulls, like the sorta feeling I get before I wake up here." Strength looked at Rock, worriedly. "What does this mean?"

Rock knew what this meant. All their desperate acts, fights, everything they did to try and protect their human counterparts would be for nothing. They too, were going to be forced here on Forsaken Day, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. They too, were sentenced to die.

As Rock stared down at the bloody mess infront of her, all she could think of was her human counterpart.

Mato...

No...she didn't derserve to see any of this. All this blood and destruction. But all Rock's desperate acts to keep her out of the Otherworld until Forsaken Day had passed was pointless. She was going to be sucked in here anyway.

I need to...I need to warn her..I need them all to be prepared.. She inhaled deeply and stood up and faced the crowd of the gathered together Otherselves. About over 4000 of them were standing in front of her. She would have to warn the others later.

"You all probably know what this means." she said emotionlessly. "I want you to warn your counterparts and try close your connection barrier as much as possible." Rock was suddenly aware that her hands were shaking. She clasped them together tightly, and continued. "I.. I am sorry to say that we may not just die because of the Forsaken. We may die because our counterparts may already be dead. And I'm sorry to say that I..don't know how to prevent that.." Rock felt like a failure. She felt let she was letting all these otherselves down, but couldn't do anything about it. She moved her gaze to look at poor broken Taize. I've failed her aswell.. Rock desperately wanted to run, scream as many lyrics as she could think of, release the tightness in her lungs. But she glued to the spot. She felt like she lost all control over her own body. Her attention suddenly shifted away from the girl.

She heard a whistle. Three long notes, all at a different pitch. Rock stared at what she was hearing and seeing. Every Otherself in front of her raised their weapons into the air, and repeated the three note long whistle. Black Devil Girl was standing at the front of the huge group of otherselves. "We have every faith in you. We will protect our counterparts. We will defeat the Forsaken. And if we die, we die trying." and she too, raised her katana into the air. Then they all declared: "Today, Tomorrow, Them, Us!".

Rock felt a little bit better. At least they didn't think that she failed them. A little bit of relief. Rock exhaled slowly and nodded at them. "Forsaken Day is nearly upon us. Prepare yourselves, I have every faith in you all." She then raised her blue gaze to the stormy looking sky. Not long now..

I'm ready for you.. You Godforsaken being.. You may hurt me all you want, I don't care what way, but you will not lay a finger on Mato. I refuse. And if you even try, I swear to whatever Gods who are listening that you will die.

She closed her eyes.

For you, Mato..