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I had to pull myself together. I couldn't. I don't think I was registering what I just saw. Was that a suicide, or did I kill him? What had happened? I fell to my knees and stared.
Kilt flew past me due to a punch from Pokg. He turned a 360 in the air and halted about a yard behind me.
"What happened, Scar? You look kinda pale," Kilt said, taking on a series of punched and kicks from Pokg, who had caught up. I shook my head and spun around on my knees. Kilt and Pokg avoided me in their raging battle. They were going so fast, I didn't bother to try to see what was happening.
"G-Geo… k-killed… himself…" I choked. Kilt and Pokg halted in mid kick and block. Kilt went down from Super and Pokg followed suit. Their gazes drifted behind me to Geo, who was curled in a circle of pain, gripping the handle of my sword tightly still, stiff and dead.
"Scar… you did that to him?" Pokg said. I whipped around defiantly.
"NO! He did it to himself! I didn't kill him! I refused to! He killed himself! I didn't!" I screamed. Kilt flew down, grabbed my shoulders, and shook me.
"It's okay, Scar. Everything's going to be okay. Don't freak on me. Not now. You've got to help me fight him. I can't do it alone. Please, Scar, please, please don't freak," Kilt said, shaking me harder. I nodded. I couldn't dwell on Geo forever, hell, I barely even knew the guy. Now was as good as time as ever to get over it.
"O-okay. I'm okay. Really. I won't let you down, I promise. I won't die, either," I said quietly.
"Thanks," Kilt said, smiling and hugging me, "thanks. You're okay, now lets kick the shit out of Pokg. Okay?"
"How touching. You guys going to fight me or not?" Pokg challenged. I slowly tore myself away from Kilt's grasp and hauled myself up.
'I'll fight," I said, going Super. Kilt stood beside me and went Super too.
"Okay then," nodded Pokg in consent and went Super also. We all stood (flew in Pokg's case) where we were, waiting impatiently for the opponent to strike. I went first. I formed a small but powerful ki behind my back and fired it at Pokg. Pokg expertly blocked it and threw it to the side where it hit the skirt of the forest. Kilt went in directly. A series of kicks and punches to the head. Pokg blocked most of them. Before he knew it, we were back to waiting for someone to move.
"Ha! Neither of you did any damage. You're hopeless! You can't do any damage to me!" Pokg said. I heard Kilt curse under his breath.
"Let's work together, okay?" I whispered. Kilt turned to me and nodded.
"So? Which one of you is going to die first?" Pokg asked. I glared at him.
"Bastard. Neither of us are going to die, you are," Kilt said, glancing at me. I nodded. We flew around to opposite sides of Pokg and then to him. I fired series of ki blasts, punches, and kicks. I didn't concentrate on what Kilt was doing, but I assumed he was doing the same. Pokg blocked most of my physical attacks, but wasn't fast enough for the additional ki blasts. Finally, Pokg escaped from us and we were all back to staring and waiting.
"Scar, beside you!" Kilt screamed at me. I glanced around.
"Where? I can't see him!" I said, frantically. Next, I found myself slammed into a tree getting punched in the stomach.
"Does the little Scar have a weakness?" Pokg taunted. I didn't know what he was talking about, I just set my mind to endure the punches. I screamed in pain as he punched me in the nose. I felt some blood trickle from it. Pokg didn't have mercy. He kept punching me in the abdomen until I was almost limp with pain. I managed a small ki blast from my hand. It knocked him back a little. Enough so I could escape. I held my side in pain, interlocking eyes with Pokg, ready for his next move. I wouldn't be caught off guard this time. But it was Kilt who made the next move.
He flew in bearing a generous ki blast between his hands and slammed it into Pokg's face. I sunk to the ground to regain my energy. Pokg and Kilt were good. I didn't amount up. I probably could have. Geo said that my reason to fight was dead. I wasn't as strong as I used to be. Maybe that was true. Maybe my whole will for everything was dead. No. I still had something to fight for. Youshey. I had to make it to Youshey. But why? Why did I have to fight for Youshey? Kilt flew in beside me and grimaced.
"Well, not as I expected. He found out about your eye," Kilt said, watching Pokg power up.
"What?" I asked.
"Your left eye. You can't see through it. He snuck up beside you on your left and you couldn't see him," Kilt said, turning to look at me. I pulled myself off the ground and grimaced as the sharp pain in my stomach became more brave.
"Remember what I said about your eye and your name and you'll probably never see through it again?" Kilt asked, looking back to Pokg.
"Yeah. Why did you say that?" I asked.
"It was just I comment I thought you should know. Makes you look pretty scary. Your eye had not been bleeding from behind, it had from the inside. It turned your iris and pupil reddish brown, some of it is sinking into the white parts," Kilt said. I stared at him.
"What the hell?" I asked.
"Yeah. Your eye is turning scarlet, Scarlet," Kilt laughed.
"Yeah. I'm glad you can laugh at me before we both die," I said.
"You promised you wouldn't die," Kilt said, smiling still from his joke.
"Yeah, the second time I've made that promise to somebody," I said.
"Don't give up. You have so much to avenge for. Your friends, Spink, your parents, everything. You have things to fight for, for the future too. Like Youshey, our new home, and so many things we don't know about yet. You can't give up. This guy killed your brother, make him pay for it, okay?" Kilt said. That was an order. But there was no more time left to talk. Now we had to fight.
"Good luck," I said as Pokg charged at us, flying full speed.
I blocked the inertia-powered punch from Pokg and the snowball ki that followed. Kilt joined in and it was chaos. Feet and fists and ki flying everywhere. I powered up, powered by (AA batteries) my longing to avenge Spink. I received a few ki blasts and physical attacks from Pokg in the first few seconds. I couldn't last too much longer. Pokg had an advantage over me. Pokg always had the advantage. Me fighting him was fire against water. No point in it. I could do damage before he got to me, raging and torrent flames, but once he started to be on offense instead of defense, I was quickly running out of energy. I slammed into another tree. I waited for the punches, but they never came. I opened my eyes to see Pokg and Kilt fighting. There was a match up. Pokg could block everything Kilt threw at him, and Kilt could block everything Pokg threw at him. I watched painfully out of my good eye as they fought. I regained some energy and joined again, as Kilt dropped out in exhaustion. Pokg was still in pretty good shape for fighting nonstop. I was smashed into the ground. I couldn't find the energy to push myself back up. I felt a foot rest on my back.
So Many Things
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I had to pull myself together. I couldn't. I don't think I was registering what I just saw. Was that a suicide, or did I kill him? What had happened? I fell to my knees and stared.
Kilt flew past me due to a punch from Pokg. He turned a 360 in the air and halted about a yard behind me.
"What happened, Scar? You look kinda pale," Kilt said, taking on a series of punched and kicks from Pokg, who had caught up. I shook my head and spun around on my knees. Kilt and Pokg avoided me in their raging battle. They were going so fast, I didn't bother to try to see what was happening.
"G-Geo… k-killed… himself…" I choked. Kilt and Pokg halted in mid kick and block. Kilt went down from Super and Pokg followed suit. Their gazes drifted behind me to Geo, who was curled in a circle of pain, gripping the handle of my sword tightly still, stiff and dead.
"Scar… you did that to him?" Pokg said. I whipped around defiantly.
"NO! He did it to himself! I didn't kill him! I refused to! He killed himself! I didn't!" I screamed. Kilt flew down, grabbed my shoulders, and shook me.
"It's okay, Scar. Everything's going to be okay. Don't freak on me. Not now. You've got to help me fight him. I can't do it alone. Please, Scar, please, please don't freak," Kilt said, shaking me harder. I nodded. I couldn't dwell on Geo forever, hell, I barely even knew the guy. Now was as good as time as ever to get over it.
"O-okay. I'm okay. Really. I won't let you down, I promise. I won't die, either," I said quietly.
"Thanks," Kilt said, smiling and hugging me, "thanks. You're okay, now lets kick the shit out of Pokg. Okay?"
"How touching. You guys going to fight me or not?" Pokg challenged. I slowly tore myself away from Kilt's grasp and hauled myself up.
'I'll fight," I said, going Super. Kilt stood beside me and went Super too.
"Okay then," nodded Pokg in consent and went Super also. We all stood (flew in Pokg's case) where we were, waiting impatiently for the opponent to strike. I went first. I formed a small but powerful ki behind my back and fired it at Pokg. Pokg expertly blocked it and threw it to the side where it hit the skirt of the forest. Kilt went in directly. A series of kicks and punches to the head. Pokg blocked most of them. Before he knew it, we were back to waiting for someone to move.
"Ha! Neither of you did any damage. You're hopeless! You can't do any damage to me!" Pokg said. I heard Kilt curse under his breath.
"Let's work together, okay?" I whispered. Kilt turned to me and nodded.
"So? Which one of you is going to die first?" Pokg asked. I glared at him.
"Bastard. Neither of us are going to die, you are," Kilt said, glancing at me. I nodded. We flew around to opposite sides of Pokg and then to him. I fired series of ki blasts, punches, and kicks. I didn't concentrate on what Kilt was doing, but I assumed he was doing the same. Pokg blocked most of my physical attacks, but wasn't fast enough for the additional ki blasts. Finally, Pokg escaped from us and we were all back to staring and waiting.
"Scar, beside you!" Kilt screamed at me. I glanced around.
"Where? I can't see him!" I said, frantically. Next, I found myself slammed into a tree getting punched in the stomach.
"Does the little Scar have a weakness?" Pokg taunted. I didn't know what he was talking about, I just set my mind to endure the punches. I screamed in pain as he punched me in the nose. I felt some blood trickle from it. Pokg didn't have mercy. He kept punching me in the abdomen until I was almost limp with pain. I managed a small ki blast from my hand. It knocked him back a little. Enough so I could escape. I held my side in pain, interlocking eyes with Pokg, ready for his next move. I wouldn't be caught off guard this time. But it was Kilt who made the next move.
He flew in bearing a generous ki blast between his hands and slammed it into Pokg's face. I sunk to the ground to regain my energy. Pokg and Kilt were good. I didn't amount up. I probably could have. Geo said that my reason to fight was dead. I wasn't as strong as I used to be. Maybe that was true. Maybe my whole will for everything was dead. No. I still had something to fight for. Youshey. I had to make it to Youshey. But why? Why did I have to fight for Youshey? Kilt flew in beside me and grimaced.
"Well, not as I expected. He found out about your eye," Kilt said, watching Pokg power up.
"What?" I asked.
"Your left eye. You can't see through it. He snuck up beside you on your left and you couldn't see him," Kilt said, turning to look at me. I pulled myself off the ground and grimaced as the sharp pain in my stomach became more brave.
"Remember what I said about your eye and your name and you'll probably never see through it again?" Kilt asked, looking back to Pokg.
"Yeah. Why did you say that?" I asked.
"It was just I comment I thought you should know. Makes you look pretty scary. Your eye had not been bleeding from behind, it had from the inside. It turned your iris and pupil reddish brown, some of it is sinking into the white parts," Kilt said. I stared at him.
"What the hell?" I asked.
"Yeah. Your eye is turning scarlet, Scarlet," Kilt laughed.
"Yeah. I'm glad you can laugh at me before we both die," I said.
"You promised you wouldn't die," Kilt said, smiling still from his joke.
"Yeah, the second time I've made that promise to somebody," I said.
"Don't give up. You have so much to avenge for. Your friends, Spink, your parents, everything. You have things to fight for, for the future too. Like Youshey, our new home, and so many things we don't know about yet. You can't give up. This guy killed your brother, make him pay for it, okay?" Kilt said. That was an order. But there was no more time left to talk. Now we had to fight.
"Good luck," I said as Pokg charged at us, flying full speed.
I blocked the inertia-powered punch from Pokg and the snowball ki that followed. Kilt joined in and it was chaos. Feet and fists and ki flying everywhere. I powered up, powered by (AA batteries) my longing to avenge Spink. I received a few ki blasts and physical attacks from Pokg in the first few seconds. I couldn't last too much longer. Pokg had an advantage over me. Pokg always had the advantage. Me fighting him was fire against water. No point in it. I could do damage before he got to me, raging and torrent flames, but once he started to be on offense instead of defense, I was quickly running out of energy. I slammed into another tree. I waited for the punches, but they never came. I opened my eyes to see Pokg and Kilt fighting. There was a match up. Pokg could block everything Kilt threw at him, and Kilt could block everything Pokg threw at him. I watched painfully out of my good eye as they fought. I regained some energy and joined again, as Kilt dropped out in exhaustion. Pokg was still in pretty good shape for fighting nonstop. I was smashed into the ground. I couldn't find the energy to push myself back up. I felt a foot rest on my back.