~Chapter 20: Battle of Memories
"If you guys are joining, i'm going to kill you, and for the first time, i won't be excluding Annchi."
The expression on Yuki's face was indescribable, yet at the same time it was murderous. Yul's expression was emotionless, and blank, Fai stayed silent and sighed. Annchi looked like she was going to burst into tears, and Yuki... She was glaring at them with cold emotionless eyes. They reluctantly let go of Yuki and stood away from her.
Allen and the others stayed silent, staring at Yuki in shock. Allen began to snap out of his shock, and walked towards Yuki, and held her hand. Yuki didn't respond to Allen's actions, but she could feel that he was worried about her.
Yul clenched his fist, and glared at Yuki with ice in his eyes. He approached Yuki once again with his fists clenched tight. Both Fai and Annchi tried holding him back, but he pushed them away.
"I don't care if you try to kill me, but can you kill me? If you can defeat me in a battle, then i'll let you have the choice of killing me. However, if i win, then i'll be joining the Order with Fai and Annchi."
"As you wish, Yul. You can pick the location."
Yul nodded his head and headed towards the forest. The others followed him, and finally they reached the forest. The others stood on the sidelines, away from the two black and silver haired siblings. Yuki and Yul faced each other. Their eyes were cold like ice, glaring at the other.
Fai looked at Yuki and Yul, and both nodded their heads. Fai also nodded his head and raised his hand.
"Let the battle begin."
Yuki's visible eye glowed for a moment, and she appeared in front of Yul, with her swords in her hands, ready to attack Yul at any moment. She attacked him with no hesitation, and Yul blocked her attack with just his bare hands.
Yuki made a tch sound, and jumped away from Yul. Yul smirked and grabbed something black out from his pocket. He raised his hand, and a humongous shuriken about as tall as him appeared in his hands. His smirk grew wider, and he threw the shuriken at Yuki. She dodged the shuriken, but it came right back towards her. She dodged it, yet it came a bit too close, cutting her arm in the process, and the cut was quite deep.
Fai narrowed his eyes, and clenched his fist. Annchi silently gulped and stared at the two siblings with worry. Allen clenched his fist, until blood could be seen.
"Xue... She might lose."
"What do you mean?"
"Xue may be strong and powerful, but Yul's shuriken has the power to nullify and drain one's strength for a minute. But, that's not really the problem. The problem is that she can't beat Yul in close-range combat no matter how much she improved in it."
Allen and the others looked at Fai in shock, then looking back at Yuki with worried eyes. Yuki closed it on Yul, trying to slash him multiple times which only scratch him on the arm.
They narrowed their eyes, and clashed their weapons against each other. When the weapons clashed against each other, it created an explosion and images appeared in both of their head.
~Flashback~
In the cold weather, there were sounds of swords clashing against one another. Soon there was another sound of someone falling into the snow.
"Yul! I told you i can't beat you in close-range combat. Plus, i'm already good enough at it. Why do i have to fight you and learn more?"
A black and silver haired girl around nine or ten years old, glared at the boy in front of her with a frown on his face. The girl's expressionless features and her appearance reveals to be Yuki.
"So you can protect yourself. And once you can beat me, i won't be giving you any more lessons on close combat. Also, i'm doing this for your own sake. Fai and Annchi will also be learning close-range combat."
"I don't care. I'm going back into the house."
The young Yul's eye twitched, and he ran towards Yuki. He grabbed her arm, but she grabbed his arm and flipped him in the air, glaring at him, but the young Yul landed on his feet safely.
"You're not going anywhere until we finish this lesson. If Fai and Annchi finished their lessons for today, then you should be able to do it as well."
"I told you. I don't care. I can go wherever i want and i'm busy."
"Same here. I don't care if you're busy or not, and i'm your brother. Older brother, so you have to listen to me and continue on with the lesson. Unless you're afraid of losing to me."
"Oh, i'm so afraid. I can't do it. Sorry Yul, but you can't provoke me so easily with just that."
Yul narrowed his eyes slightly and smirked. He charged towards Yuki, his palm about to slam into Yuki's stomach, but she grabbed his hand and kicked him away. She grabbed a sword laying in the snow nearby and tried stabbing Yul in the head. Yul, however, grabbed the sword with his bare hands and made them injured. He had also grabbed a sword laying in the snow, and charged towards Yuki.
He smirked and slammed his sword against Yuki's, clashing against one another over and over again.
"One day, i'm going to kill you in close-range combat!"
~End of Flashback~
The smoke from the explosion finally cleared away. Both Yuki and Yul were unharmed except for the injuries they received from each other on their arms.
Yuki shook her head, trying to push back the memories to the back of her head and charged towards Yul while he was too busy with his own memories of the past. Yuki's attack was successful, slashing him across the chest, however she got stabbed in the stomach at the same time.
"This is bad. These two.. They better not be fighting to the death..."
"They're being way too serious with this."
"Fai-nii... Do you think that Yuki is trying to keep her promise with Yul? I mean... She always tried to keep her promises no matter how impossible it seems."
"Maybe.."
"Wait. What do you mean by promise?"
"I remember that there's one time when we were still learning close-range combat skills from Yul, Yuki promised Yul that she'll never die and to prove to him that she can protect herself by defeating him. Although, that time she said 'yeah, yeah' when he told her to promise him that..."
"True... Although, Fai-nii? Are you absolutely sure that's the promise that might be related to all of this mess? I have a feeling it's not.."
Yuki's eyes showed determination, and of course, definitely the intention to kill somebody that is in front of her, slamming his shuriken down. Yul's smirk was growing wider and wider by the minute, and this was pretty much what irks Yuki, making her attacks seem a bit more reckless.
Yuki raised her blades in front of her and began spinning around. An aura of darkness and light began to surround her, creating a tornado of darkness and light, joining forces together. Soon the tornado or darkness and light aimed for Yul and attacked him straight on, throwing him in the air. However, when the attack was over, Yuki was nowhere to be found.
Out of nowhere, she appeared above Yul and grabbed his arm. She began spinning in circles in the air, and as she was about to land, Yul's body was facing the sky. She was still above him and she slammed her leg down on his body, hard, creating a huge crater below them.
Yul spitted out blood, and Yuki backed away from him, putting up her guard once again.
"Damn. I never thought that she would use Aerial Damage... And here i thought she couldn't master the attack. After all, Yul and i always caught her before she could land the finishing blow on us."
"Aerial Damage? What's that?"
"Aerial Damage is a type of attack performed in the air. We created the attack, well actually Yul and i created it. First, like how Xue did it, all you need to do is throw your opponent in the air, and somehow make yourself above your opponent in the air. And then you grab their arms or leg, maybe even head, and try to spin around in circles in the air. Then at the last moment, you slam their body down on the ground with your arm or leg or weapon."
"That sounds like it's going to make some critical damage..."
"Yeah.. Aerial Damage needs a flexible body and speed to perform it. You guys can probably learn how to use it, well that depends on if your body is flexible enough."
Allen stayed silent most of the time, he didn't listen to the others. He was focusing on Yuki and Yul the whole time. Although, he did listened to the others talking about Aerial Damage.
Yul stood up, while coughing out blood like crazy. He held his stomach and shoulder in pain, and charged towards Yuki. He got in front of her and in a flash, he stabbed her once again in the same spot with a sword and slammed her against a tree. Soon, he then began to move the sword around inside the wound, making the wound widen and blood coming out.
Suddenly images came rushing back into his head, making him hesitating a little while moving the sword in Yuki's wound around to make it worse.
~Flashback~
In the clear blue sky, there was a figure being thrown in the air, and another above them. The one above the figure below them was a young Yuki. She grabbed the one below her which seems to be Yul and spun around in the air in circles.
Soon, before she landed, she was about to land her finishing blow to Yul, but however, he caught her leg and threw her. He landed perfectly on the ground, and charged towards her.
He soon threw her in the air and slammed his leg down on her stomach, making a humongous crater below her.
"Xue.. You alright?"
"Oh, i'm alright, you idiot.. Be gentle. This is just training, not a real battle. Gosh."
"So what? Even if it's training, it's still a battle, and a battle means you have to go all out and be serious about it. Plus, you have to mater this skill."
"Whatever. What do you call this so-called skill you made up with Fai?"
"It's called Aerial Damage!"
Out of nowhere, a young-looking Fai appeared behind Yuki and ruffled her hair. He grinned at her and dodged her attempt at trying to kick him at where it hurts the most.
"Yul! I'll train Xue next~ You go and take a break, i'll train her for you."
"Sure. Have fun."
"Okay!"
Fai charged towards Yuki and tried kicking her in the stomach, which she blocked. He tried landing a kick in her face, but leaned back and did a flip, kicking him in the process. This continued on and on, until Annchi came out and cheered them on with some treats in her hands. Yuki glared at both Yul and Fai with cold eyes that says i'll-kill-you-one-day.
"I'll show you that i'll master Aerial Damage, and then you'll be the ones that'll be sorry!"
~End of Flashback~
He smiled and moved the sword up a little from inside the wound, and Yuki coughed out blood, and the blood from the wound came out like a river.
He pulled the sword out from her body and jumped away. He looked at the sword and smirked. Yuki held her wound, and closed her eyes, breathing heavily.
~Flashback~
"Xue..."
Under the cloudy sky, there was four young people, fighting each other in close-combat. Yuki vs Yul and Fai vs Annchi.
"What?"
"What would you do if you had a sword in someone's wound?"
"I guess i would give them some painful experience and move the sword around in their wounds.. And then finishing them off by cutting off their head and then separating the head and body pieces from each other..."
"You're one cruel person, Xue!"
~End of Flashback~
Yuki snapped open her visible eye, and found Yul charging towards her with a sword in his hand. She waited for a moment, and blocked his attempt at cutting her head or body parts off. She threw her swords at Allen and the others and grabbed the sword that Yul is holding with her bare hands.
She kicked him in the chest area, opening his wound once again, and took his sword away, throwing it away towards the others as well. She charged towards him and grabbed the shurigen in his pocket and threw it away as well.
"N-now.. You have no w-weapons..."
She soon began kicking him and pushing more pressure into her attacks. And finally, she once again threw him in the air. With the help of the trees in the area, she jumped up into the air above him.
She grabbed his arm, despite Yul's struggle, and began spinning around in circles except this time even faster than before. Before landing, Yul tried to put Yuki below him and he'll be the one to finish her off, but Yuki had a firm grip on him and faster than before. She made the finishing move and Yul was below her, with the crater.
Yul soon got up, and pushed her away, and somehow got out a small knife and stabbed her in the arm. Yuki's eyesight began to blur, and felt her eyelids getting heavier and heavier by the minute. Soon, she could no longer keep her eye open any longer, and she fainted. With darkness around her, hearing the screams of her name by Allen and the others.
Yul, at the same time, had also fainted, hearing the voices of his friends, and Yuki's friends in the Order.
Allen's eyes widen, and he immediately rushed to Yuki's side, trying to check her injuries without hurting her. Kaoru and the others ran towards Yuki and checked her condition, while Fai and Annchi checked Yul.
"Let's bring both Yuki and Yul to the Order."
"Okay..."
Fai began carrying Yul on his back, following Allen who is carrying Yuki bridal-styled, rushing back to the Order. Annchi followed them with tears in her eyes, and looking at Yuki and Yul back and forth.
Lenalee and Lavi silently gulped and also began rushing back to the Order, with worry shown. Kaoru kept the normal emotionless face, but on the inside, she was worried about Yuki's condition.
When they reached the Order, they rushed in, and immediately brought them to the medical ward. They waited outside, until the doctors came out. They surrounded him, wanting answers.
"Don't worry. Yuki and the black and silver haired boy are fine. Their injuries were deep, and all, but they survived. However..."
Everyone silently gulped, trying to ready themselves to hear the bad news.
"Please, don't let them do anything overboard.. Also, for Yuki.. One of you might have to feed her and other stuff related to using her arms.. The wounds were quite deep. But don't worry. She'll recover and she'll be able to do those daily stuff and use her swords once again."
"Thank you."
"You may go visit them, but please don't make a ruckus..."
They sighed in relief, and walked inside. Fai and Annchi checked Yuki before going to Yul. Allen stayed by her side, holding her hand in his, while Kaoru and Lenalee held her other hand in theirs. Lavi stood there with worry in his eyes.
Both of them had bandages wrapped around their body everywhere.
"At least.. They're both safe.."
They nodded their heads, before going back to look at the injured person. Soon, they all left, and Allen whispered a few words to Yuki before he left with the others.
"Have a good rest, Yuki..."
~Author's Note~
Yes! Yes~ I finished this chapter before 12:00 AM~ At least in my time zone... :P
Four days... Was that too long? If it was, i'm sorry. I got caught up with Wizard101, One Piece, Bleach, Vocaloid, and Pokemon... XD
I know, i know.. I'm not creative when it comes to attack names and all. But that's the only thing i can come up with. Aerial Damage.. *sighs*
DarkFlame Alchemist, things will go crazier with them around. Especially with Fai.. If you read his personality, then it only spells one word. Trouble. I have some things involving Kaoru, Lavi, and Fai~ I hope you'll forgive me though...
Shima, i hope you like this chapter, and i hope you didn't wait too long for this chapter. Hope you enjoy this chapter~
Thanks for reading and reviewing~
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