AN: Again, originally wrote this on my nook and emailed it to mahself to post, so I might miss some stuff while editing. Blame my mother, she changed the password to my apple account on our computer. She thinks I spend too much time on it. Which, actually, is probably true. Teehee...
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Chapter 25: Rematch, Maybe?
"Hey! Ginger! Get up!" A voice says, shaking me awake. I open my eyes and sit up. I'm still in the nurse's office, and I'm still laying next to Sarith. He gestures toward the door.
"Your boyfriend's coming, I suggest you not be laying in the same bed as me when he arrives." He says. I nod and stand up. Just as I do, I hear the doorknob turn. A second later, Soul steps inside.
"There you are, I couldn't find you! Did you get up early to come here?" He says, walking up to me and taking my hand without a single glance toward Sarith. I smile at him.
"Yeah, it's cool! I'm fine! I just wanted to know what Sarith needed to tell me," I say to him reassuringly.
"We better get going, Stein has a special lesson for all the meisters after breakfast," he says. I nod. "Okay, sounds cool to me. See ya, Sarith!" I say, turning to him. He waves. "Goodbye, Ginger." He responds. Soul leads me out of the room a little quicker than he probably needed to. When we get outside, he doesn't release my hand.
"Hey, are you okay Soul? You've been acting weird ever since Sarith got here," I say to him. He shakes his head. "I'm fine." He says. Of course, I don't believe him.
"Black Star?" I mutter when I check the list in front of me. Stein's lesson for the meisters was for us to fight each other without using weapons. What an amazing idea.
Anyway, each meister was assigned a fighting partner. And I got Black Star. Just great.
"AHAHAHA! YOU READY TO GET YOUR ASS KICKED! GINGER?" Black Star laughs from the next list over. I sigh. No, not really...
"Whatever. I think this whole fight your friends thing is uncool anyway." I reply glumly. He swings his arm around my shoulder. "Don't be scared! I'll take it easy on you because you're a girl!" He says. I frown and stomp on his toe.
"You're probably going to regret that." I tell him as he recoils his arm to grab his foot. He hops around on one leg, howling in pain.
"Oh, suck it up!" I tell him, walking over to the mat set out as a fighting ring. Kind of.
Since Black Star and I are second, there's one pair before us. So I sit down and wait for their fight to be over.
"You're so going down!" Black Star calls from the other end of the mat. I roll my eyes and slip off my sweatshirt. I can hear people whispering nearby, including Stein himself. I don't know who he's talking to, but I heard my name. And that's enough to get me to tune in.
"I actually can't say yet." Stein is saying. Black Star lunges at me. I duck and hold my hands up, crouching in a fighting position.
"See, Black Star's specialty is martial arts, and that comes from physical strength. He has the ability to attack with his soul wavelength directly, which is one of the reasons he's such a great fighter." Stein explains. Right as he finishes, Black Star extends his palm to me, obviously trying to use soul force. But, of course that only works if it hits me.
"However, Ginger's strength comes from her agility. She can avoid Black Star's wavelegth attacks with ease and strike back with one of her own. Hers is nowhere near as strong as Black Star's, though." He says. I dodge another wavelength attack and slide my foot under Black Star's toe, causing him to topple over.
"Ginger plans out her attacks based on the damage they'll cost and how much it will affect her body and mind, while Black Star dives straight into his attacks without thinking. This is why I paired them together." Stein finishes. I need to stop paying attention to him and focus on the fight.
Black Star throws a punch. I duck and grab his arm, yanking it so he flies over my head and onto the ground behind me. I whip around and hold my hand out infront of me, concentrating my wavelength into my hand. I strike Black Star in the back with it, and he yells and jumps up.
"You're not the only one who can use soul force!" I shout to him, wiping sweat off my forehead. My dad taught me how to use it, and I know how, it's just that I prefer not to when I don't have to. I just don't feel the need to use my wavelength when it's not neccesary.
But now, I don't have many options.
"But I'm the only one who can use it well!" He retorts, coming back at me with his own wavelength. I try to dodge, but I'm too slow and it hits me in the stomach, right where my patch is. I scream and collapse.
"Shit...!" I mutter, my eyes brimming with tears. I lift my shirt up to check on the patch, and it's throbbing. I let go of ny shirt and cuel up into a ball, still on the floor. It hurts like hell.
"That was a smart move, especially for Black Star. The patch on Ginger's stomach is a huge weak spot, and by hitting it with soul force, he knocked her out of the fight quick and early, while also causing some slightly major damage to that area." I hear Stein say. I cough up a bit of blood and turn to Stein and the student he was talking to.
"Shut up! You're starting to get on my nerves!" I shout at him. He takes a puff of smoke.
"Are you okay, Ginger?" James asks, kneeling next to me. I nod and gulp. I blink a few times, but my vision is a bit blurry. "Yeah, I'm... I'm fine..." I say as he helps me stand up. I clutch my throbbing stomach, amd then my knees buckle and I fall over. Luckily, James catches me before I can hit the ground.
"Th-thanks..." I mutter. "Should I take you to Nygus? Or would you just like to go back to the cabin?" James asks, swinging my arm around his shoulder. I clutch his jacket. "Cabin, I'll be fine in a bit..." I tell him. He nods and leads me towards bunker X.
I climb up into my bed and close my eyes. I'll be cool after some rest, no problem...
"Ginger? Are you okay, I saw James help you in," a voice says, slowly getting closer to me. I moan and turn over.
"I-it's n-n-nothing, I j-just g-got hurt in-na fight ag-gainst B-black Star..." I stutter. Just great. More stutters. I open my eyes and a fuzzy, white-haired figure stands in front of me.
"You sure? You don't look fine," he says. I blink in an effort to make the image clearer. It looks and sounds like Soul, but I honestly can't tell.
"I j-just need some res-st, th-that's all..." i tell him, my eyes drooping closed. I hear the creaking sound of someone climbing up the ladder and then feel a body lying down next to me. Yup. Definately Soul.
"Th-thanks, but you don't n-need t-to stay with m-me..." I tell him. He plants a kiss on my head. "It's cool. I want to be here with you." He responds, resting his chin on top of my head and his hand wrapped around my wrist. My head lays on his arm.
"Jeez, Soul... you're such a cheeseball sometimes..." I say without stuttering. Good. They didn't last as long this time.
"Eh. Whatever." He says. I cuddle up to him a bit more. "This is cool, just us like this." I tell him. He nuzzles into my hair a bit.
"Yeah, it is..." he trails off. I take his hand.
"So what happened with Black Star? I'd think you'd at least last longer against him than you did," he says. "Well, he hit me with soul force right where my patch is and my mind just kinda went blank. I could barely stand up, which is why James had to help me get back here." I tell him.
"Ah. I see. Well, in that case you should probably get some rest." He says. I laugh. "That's kinda what I've been trying to do," I say. He chuckles.
I turn over so I'm facing him. I rest my forehead against his chest and his arm is on my side. I can hear and feel him breathing. Smells like... spearmint. Hmph.
"Soul, are you sure you're alright? You've been really... clingy lately." I say after a while. He plants a kiss on my forehead.
"What do you mean?" He asks.
"It's just... before Sarith got here, you were treating me more like a friend. Now suddenly you're with me almost always, and your treating me more like a girlfriend. I don't have a problem with it, but why?" I ask, looking up to him.
"What, am I not allowed to hang out with you?" He asks. I look back down at his chest. "No, I just want to know why you're so lovey-dovey all of a sudden." I tell him.
"Welll it's cause I love you." He says. My cheeks get warm. "Again with the cheesiness..." I say. He chuckles. "What's wrong with cheese? And weren't you gonna sleep or something?" He asks. I sigh. I give up for now. But I'll get him eventually...
"Alright, fine. You win. I'll sleep." I say. He chuckles and pulls me a bit closer to him. I close my eyes.
AN: Aww, you have no idea how hard I tried to make this a cute ending. But, I didn't succeed. Sorry! I needed to end it somewhere! Do you thunk it was cute?
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