-1Chapter 10: My Name Is Shade

A/N: There! I updated. Woot! As for my Hawkee, you can go with either the new fic, or the kindergarten one.

Life is filled with mysteries

As Shade charged directly into Izual, he grinned. Izual knew he had to be ready so he slashed quickly the incoming Shade only to realize it was an illusion.

"He is using sound waves already." said Izual, thinking what to do. He couldn't see where Shade was, but that was soon cleared as he appeared in front of him with a grin holding his palm facing Izual.

One day, you are hanging around with your best friend, and your sister.

From his palm, he emitted several Super Sonic wave straights at Izual. He immediately covered his ears, but it was too late as Shade's plan had worked. Shade realized this as Izual jumped back, with his ears bleeding a lot. Izual had closed his eyes from the pain then slowly opened to find his Shade was… slanted. It seemed as if his view was slanted to a forty-five(45) degree angle to the left. Izual panicked, stumbling a bit back as he noticed Shade chuckle. He had to admit, if it wasn't for the fact that his life was in danger, looking at things like this was pretty cool, in a weird sort of way.

The other, you are blasting that same best friend with a super sonic wave blast.

"Time to die, Izzy." said Shade, almost as if it wasn't him. "I evened up the field, giving me a fighting chance, so adios." He charged straight for Izual, which made Izual panic. How was he going to defend himself with his damaged eye sight. He even wondered he had managed to damage his eyesight with sonic waves. He could only assume that he must have temporarily damaged his Vestibulocochlear nerve, which probably disrupted his balance and movement. He assumed his body was somehow adjusting however he didn't have enough time to mount up a defense in this state.

It's actually quite depressing as I look at it back. I bet Izual was probably so scared when I made him unbalanced.

Izual had time to look at the sword as he tried to defend with the sword Shade gave him. It was rather large, and somewhat heavy. Somewhat Shade's style, but seemed to expensive. Izual tried to block the shots, but due to this impaired vision, the shots were all off, leading to him getting slashed all over his chest. As he got slashed several times in what seemed a quick rush, Shade jumped back, panting. He had easily past Izual's pathetic defense, though he noticed he kept hearing a cling sound, as if he was hearing metal, also he didn't see any blood or hear Izual in pain.

"What…the hell?" he asked, panting as he noticed from Izual's rips from Shade's sword, metal rings attached to each other.

I was highly surprised at seeing a Chain mail. Very cheap shot. However, my mind had already suffered from Lilith, so how could I know better? What have I done…let's see…

"It's a chain mail. You know I'm bad with defense." said Izual, grinning a bit, starting to get a thrill of the fight, despite his extreme fear. Shade growled angered. How could he possible defeat Izual with that? He had wasted a good amount of strength for straight for Izual like that, and holding such a big sword wouldn't help. Izual still couldn't get a grip on the balance but try to attack. He rushed and tried to slash Shade, but missed completely. Shade jumped back still regaining his breath.

"Let's try this…" said Shade as he ran towards Izual, placing the tip of his sword forward. Izual started slashing the air, hoping to at least stop Shade while he figured out how to fight with his impairment.

I backstabbed my best friend.

Shade ran and jumped to one side of the pier, then bounce off to go behind Izual. It was such as fast movement Izual, could barely caught it and go into defense when Shade stabbed his sword right into the metal rings. As soon as Izual felt the tip poking him, unable to go much father because of the Chain mail, he immediately rushed to slash the place where he felt the sword was. As he was about to strike, he had realized Shade's plan and moved back, barely dodging the sword the rise, aiming for Izual's head.

I abandoned my sister.

Izual lifted his palm and tried to use his energy to make a sound wave strong like Shade's, but it wasn't strong enough. He hadn't received as much power as Shade did. The sound wave was strong enough to push Shade back though, but Shade enough time to send some sound waves to neutralize any sound waves from reaching his ears. Izual kept sending sound waves. He knew that this way, he was guaranteed hitting Shade due to how small the pier was. Shade kept sending his own waves to block his ears from getting damaged. Izual stopped after the 5th wave and jumped back. Izual knew how to do it. From that poke by Shade's sword that made him bleed, he realized how the balance was organized right now. While he still saw things, in a forty-five(45) degree angle, he figured how he slashed in coordination to how he was seeing.

I joined a sexy succubus-like demon.

Shade realized that as long as Izual could kept sending sound waves, he was in deep trouble. He immediately started swinging and Izual tried defending Shade's swipes with some of his own. Surprisingly, the swords clanged as they hit each other, Izual deflecting some of the blows. Shade chuckled as he knew Izual had missed the whole point of the attack, which lead to Shade slashing the back of Izual's hand.

"AH!" shouted Izual as he dropped his sword immediate which lead to Shade slashing Izual's palm. As Shade's sword slashed Izual's hand, Izual jumped back as smoke started coming out of it. Pink light started coming from it. "Flashback.." Why am I getting a flashback?

Flashback.

It was one of the classic spars between Izual and Shade where it was totally one-sided, in Shade's favor. Izual was on the ground, groaning. His sword faraway from him, Shade gleaming. Shade kicked him which made Izual rolled to one side.

"I…give…" said Izual, in pain. Shade kicked Izual's gut, pushing Izual forward.
"What are you a failure? Fight!" shouted Shade as he kicked him again. Izual groaned again, then the flashback stop and started rewinding, showing that same scene over, and over again. The Izual watching the flash shouted "Stop!", in the flashback, but he kept seeing himself suffer, by the hands of Shade. The same scene kept rewinding faster and faster till it stop. And it was silent, all dark. Then a big Shade appeared and grinned.

"This is my game." it said, laughing at Izual then it faded as his laughter deemed.

End of Flashback

As Izual saw the flashback and it stopped, all lasting about a second. He stared at Shade who had backed up in that second. He seemed to be extremely tired, by the way he was standing. Izual felt great pain in his hand from the slash, with smoke coming out of it. Shade had damaged the sound modifier in his palm. He ignored the pain.

"I'm not a failure!" shouted Izual as he used his other palm and emitted a very strong sound wave. Knocking Shade back several feet. He was highly surprised by the force of the wave. He felt extreme pain as he landed against the dock. Many thoughts rushed through his mind, though none of them including dealing with the pain he was feeling. He seldom wondered how he had managed to stayed up, but now he realized that he couldn't fight like this. He slowly stood up, wobbly.
"Damn…" said Shade, looking at his wounds and how he had left several bloods spots all over the pier. He noticed Izual rushing towards him, swinging his sword. Shade tried to dodge Izual's despite, that were pretty accurate despite his inability. Due to his fatigue, he could only block most of them but got slashed by a couple. He moved back, but not before Izual slashed Shade's hand, making him drop the sword. Izual's slash only hit the top of the hand, and not the palm thus not disabling Shade's sound modifying system. Shade held his hand.

"You…" said Izual, mad. His eyes glowed a bit from the energy of Lilith. He did a long swipe on Shade. "I want you to feel my pain!" Then he slashed him again. "My anger!" Then he slashed another long slash on Shade. "AND ALL MY SORROW!!!" he shouted as a he sent several slash all over Shade. As he went for the last slash, he screamed "Ahhhhhh!" and stabbed his sword through Shade's abdomen. Shade widened his eyes at he felt the sword pierce through him. As he felt the sword stabbed in he wobbled a few steps back with the sword in his stomach, blood pouring out from the hole. Izual stayed still, his mind going over what he had just done. Shade chuckled a bit, as he fell backwards, hitting the pier. His blood coming, started making a little puddle. From the fall, three of his lilies fell on the blood.

My name is Shade.

"Shade!" shouted Izual, as his eyes stopped glowing. He rushed to his friend. He couldn't believe he had taken him down. Shade merely looked to his side, looking at the lilies that had fallen on his puddle of blood, watching them turn black, and dying. He smiled a little, as some tears fell from his eyes, as his vision grew blurry. He rose his head a bit. "Karma…is a bit-" and with that, he dropped his head against the peer.

And I have no regrets.