Soulcalibur High

By: Tsubasa Caligrapher

Chapter 14

Disclaimer : I don't know own Soulcalibur ... that was almost too easy wasn't it ? Well, I'll just let it go this time. I'm depressed enough already. I would also like to thank the-everglow and Nakoya for constantly reviewing. Thank you guys a lot.

She ran the other way with her hairclip dropping to the ground accompanied with a tear.

" Thanks Xianghua, I appreciate your help. " Xanghua nodded and waved Yunsung off. After wandering across the street, he spotted something glint in the sunlight.

As he got closer, he realized it was the brooch he gave Talim ! ' What is this doing here ? Tal looked like she treasured this, she wouldn't just lose it like this. Why do I have such bad feeling in the pit of my stomach ? I have to find her ! ' and he went off running.

In the shadow of a tree near Xianghua's house, the camera lens was slowly pulled down to reveal Lynette's sad face. " Oh Yunney, none of us can help Tally now. Only you can. I got two more pictures but I can't put them in the scrapbook, but if they do hook up, I'll use them to blackmail Yunney. " she tried to laugh but tears were coming out of her eyes now.

' I hope those two can get back together. They're like part of my family now, and I can only hope they can be happy and make up. '

Talim was running aimlessly around in tears with Alun following suit. ' Why does this hurt so much and why can't I stop crying ? Where am I going anyways ? ' and then just realized she was lost.

She was in a dark alleyway, probably on the bad side of town.

" Hey baby, are you lost ? Come on, let's go to my house and play a little. " and shadow came out and Talim could see that it was a sleezy man, but what was worse was that there were many more behind him.

Talim started cowering in fear when she saw that they had weapons, probably to ' persuade ' their victims. She soon reached a wall.

" Go get help. " she quietly said to Alun and it flew away screeching. After the men were distracted by the noise, she turned around and stepped on the wall. She stomped on it and used the force to propel her enough to flip backwards through the crowd.

But after she landed, she turned around to find two human walls. They both growled. One was wearing a strange mask but was otherwise shirtless and had a pair of leather pants. The other had a mammoth mask and was also shirtless but wore enough to be decent.

One of the men shouted, " Asteroth ! Rock ! You take care of her for us. " the two nodded and charged but they soon hesitated in shock when another voice interrupted.

" You two bastards ! Get away from her. " Alun appeared with a silhouette, the owner of a very familiar voice.

" Talim ! Are you in here ! " Yunsung crashed the house to find a very surprised Mina and Hwang but no Talim.

" Is Talim here ? " he yelled at the two. They were too shocked and only managed a nod that spoke no. He quickly rushed out and Lynette came in.

They two looked at Lynette' depressed face. " After the fight, I trailed Yunney. "

" Thanks for that but what is wrong with him ? This might be serious, he called Tal her full name. " said Mina worridly.

" He went to one of his best friend's house, a Chai Xianghua, and seeked guidence. After awhile, he came out and looked a bit more confused but a bit better and turned around to hug his friend for thanks."

" But then, Talley came at that exact moment and saw Yunsung hugging Xianghua and probably got the wrong idea. She ran away is probably lost somewhere. "

" Even though Tally and Yunney had just met eachother, they already share a strong bond and he probably senses that she is in danger or something. "

The other looked at her with their mouths open. Mina regained her composure first. " Ok Lynette, how did you get all this ? "

Lynette's face suddenly darkened and her eyes became piercing stars and her mouth curled into an evil smile. " Dddoooo yooouuuu rreeaaalllyy wwwaaannntt tooo kknnooowww ? " she said ghastly.

Mina and Hwang sweatdropped and chuckled nervously. Everyone then got serious.

" Yunney is probably right about his feeling so I'll go help him. "

" You're probably right Lynette, go first and we'll stay here just in case one of them comes home. " said Hwang. They all nodded and went their seperate ways. Hwang and MIna waited in the living room while Lynette went to stock up and then left after Yunsung.

A snake-like whip struck the men down. In 2 minutes, all the men were down and only Asteroth and Rock were left but it seemed harder from there, they were excessively powerful and each had a giant axe.

The figure appeared out of the shadows and it was Ivy ! She was still wearing her uniform and had Alun floating right above her. Alun flew towards Talim and landed on a railing behind her.

Talim was about to ask something but Ivy shushed her. " Fight now, talk later. Here use these, it's all I got. " and threw Talim a pair of spiked bracelets.

Talim hastily put them on and they were surprisingly light and sharp. She got into her Gale stance and Ivy pulled out her whip and got into her own battle form.

Ivy was fighting her battle easily. Asteroth was powerful, yes, but he had slow attacks and short attack range. She wrapped her whip around his left leg and pulled. He easily fell down.

' Easy. ' thought Ivy and he got up again. She started to expertly handle the whip and scored in 3 hit straight in the chest. She then threw her whip around the handle and pulled, trying to disarm Asteroth but then came the trouble.

Ivy forgot that he had superior strength and would win in a game of tug-of-war with her any day. Even with pulling with all her strength, the ax didn't budge. Asteroth smiled and pulled Ivy up close to him, wrapping his massive arm around her neck.

Talim was starting to have trouble too. She had to quickly switch to her Wind Charm stance because Rock was like Asteroth, powerful but slow, but Talim was different from Ivy.

Ivy seemed like a specialist in long range and quick attacks while Talim was a specialist in close-combat and quick dodging. Her dodging came in use but she was at a disadvantage in the close-combat department.

She was fighting with unfamiliar weapons and the bracelets could only be used to defend effectively and to attack, she must be very close but if she got too close, one hit from Rock could end everything.

All she could do now is dodge and try to land kicks but she was naturally weak and all her best moves were canceled since she doesn't have the appropiate weapons.

' Dang ! Why haven't I ever worked on my muscles. Damn my female self-conscioussness. '

After a quick look at Ivy, Talim knew this had to be ended quickly. She did a somersault and got right behind Rock. Talim pulled her left arm back, and punched Rock as hard as she could.

Or so she thought. Rock was anticipating an attack soon and turned around and grabbed Talim's arm. She pulled hard but couldn't get it free. Rock started smirking and started to squeeze tighter until Talim winced in pain.

He pulled his arm back to ready a punch. Talim closed her eyes. ' Yunsung, I didn't want it to end like this. Not when the last thing we did was fight. Now, I will never know the truth about that girl. Yunsung I guess I care for you more than I though I did. I would ask you to help me, but I don't know if you will come. Won't get my hopes up.Goodbye Yunsung. '

Rock smashed his hand into Talim face and she screamed.

CHAPTER 14 IS DONE ! Again, another cliffie. But don't worry, I will post the next chapter as fast as I can. Could you please review ? I don't know if I should continue this story or not because I have only 2 faithful reviewers.