Chapter X: Where the Feather Went
"Look up there." Kurogane gestured up.
"Eh?" Syaoran said in confusion while Jasmine looked up to see an unclear figure floating in the air.
"That was a surprise." Fai smiled. "A Kudan can do that? This country is pretty amazing. You liked that attack, didn't you, Mokona?"
"Amazing! Amazing!" Mokona clapped.
"Primera's Kudan is special level! Be careful!" Masayoshi warned Fai through his tears.
"That makes me so frustrated!" Primera glared. "But... You won't beat me!" Fai dodged. "Don't you fly on me!" He dodged again. "No avoiding me either!" Primera failed to hit Fai. "Quit running away!"
Fai jumped to another part of the building's roof to avoid the attack.
"Why? Why can't I hit you?"
Fai lightly smiled. "If I let you hit me, it might hurt."
"What are you planning?" Kurogane's voice made Jasmine looked at Syaoran to see him look around nervously.
"We have to get to the top and get those two down! We also have to help Fai!"
"You can leave him alone. He'll be fine!"
"A tudor who tooted a fruit tried to tutor two doodoos to toot!" Letters came toward Fai with him dodging them. "The sixth sheik's sicko's ship's sunk!"
"I've fought with Kudan, so I know. Even if your Kudan is able to fly, your muscles are your body's normal muscles." Kurogane told them.
"You mean the ability to float and dodge like he's light as paper... Is Fai's own ability?" Syaoran asked.
Jasmine covered her ears again when the crowd behind her yelled.
"Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow yorry!" Primera's attack missed. "A flea and a fly flew up in a flue, ee-ai-ee-ai-oh!"
"Ah." Kurogane narrowed his eyes. "Look at that damn grin! That man is a combat veteran."
"I imagine so." Syaoran commented.
Kurogane glanced at him. "That doesn't surprise you?"
"There's a clue in the casual way Fai carries himself...and...the look in his eyes just gives you that impression."
"Maybe you're not a complete fool."
"But...I'd still like to help him out if I can."
"But..." Jasmine protested, making them look at her. They nearly forgot she was there. "...if you try to help, then it proves that you don't believe in him. Fai wants to help, but you won't let him. In his own way, he wants to help the Princess."
Syaoran stared at her in surprise. "Really?"
Jasmine nodded. "Yes. I can't read people very well, but thinking logically here, it makes sense."
Kurogane narrowed his eyes at her. "...You're not so stupid after all."
Jasmine almost smiled. That was close to a compliment she would ever get from the older man.
"You forced me into it! Change!" Primera held up her mic.
"Primera! Primera!" The crowd cheered.
"My Kudan, change form! When my Kudan becomes a mike stand...there's no running away! All the fans love me... Yeah!" More letters came after Fai, but at a faster rate.
"Fai!" The brunettes yelled at the same time.
An explosion came very close to the castle.
"Fai!"
"I'm all right!" A hand came up from one of the trees before he stood up, dusting himself off. "I never expected it to change form! And those letters sure come after you!" He smiled. "And since this girl is fighting with her Kudan, and Mokona isn't reacting...it must mean that the girl isn't the one with the feather."
Jasmine stared at Masayoshi, who was still crying. It'll happen soon...
Primera laughed. "Well? Do you surrender?"
"If I did, what would happen next?"
"Then I move on to the next ones to defeat, this "Syaoran" and that girl!"
Jasmine signed. Was it that hard to know her name? People at her school knew her name but always misspelled it.
"We can't have that. Syaoran has some important business to see through and Jazzmina doesn't feel well at the moment." Fai smiled light-heartedly. "I'd really rather that it ends with me."
Jasmine silently watched them.
"If so...then I...will just have to win!" A row of fast letter came hurdling toward Fai before he jumped on top of them, running towards Primera.
"Eh?!" Primera gasped when Fai very close to her.
"I don't want to be the cause of injury to a beautiful young woman. Won't you stop?"
Jasmine was actually thankful she couldn't see from far distances very well.
Tears formed into Primera's eyes. "Th-THIS IS SO NOT FAIR!"
Jasmine flinched when an explosion came from where Masayoshi and Mokona were.
Mokona squealed in excitement while Masayoshi screamed with his Kudan holding him.
"Watch out!" Syaoran cried.
Just then, the blue Kudan from earlier appeared, catching Masayoshi and Mokona just in time.
Shogo pulled his goggles up. "What do you think you're doing, Primera?"
"Shogo!"
Masayoshi's face lit up while Mokona's eyes opened.
Wow, I finished two chapters in a row. I am amazed...
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