Something Else To Reconsider
Written by Karinda Stellare Yosheru
Chapter 29. Rules.
"What the fuck are you doing here, you mongrel?!"
With a hair raising snarl, Syaoran spun around on his heels and shoved Ry back into the podium. He stood over the silver haired bastard of a man, his eyes filled with fury as he knelt down, grabbed his shirt and pulled a fist back, ready to punch. He shook Ry violently.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you..." He growled, bringing Ry's face close to his. All noise vanished as the familiar silence rang out once more.
They now all stood in a circle, Kieba, Meiling, Vaporiana, Reili, all surrounding the two men, ready to attack if needed. Kieba looked up to the sky, as if searching for answers, and shock appeared on her face as the clouds literally dropped from the sky, painted with red, settling as a mist upon the forest floor. She looked over to Reili, her face with question.
"I bet you never saw the end happen like this, Li!" Ry hissed, kneeing the young man in the stomach. He watched him reel back with pain as he clutched at his stomach, winded from the surprise attack. "You never thought it would all end like this!"
With the wave of a hand, a river of white rushed over the village of Edo, sweeping anyone in the area into a violent pool of white.
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"Welcome... Welcome to my battle arena, you unworthy lot of pitiful fools."
Screams of protest and pain brought Sakura around to a place that she had recalled seeing before. It was a large battle arena, Edo's battle arena. Instead of its usual grassy fields however, it was covered in a pitch black, tar like substance. It bubbled and churned underneath her, and she frowned. She was floating above it, some three foot away from the mess. Looking around, she saw the rest of her companions, all held back by maroon swirling ribbons, mimicking chains, and if one was to inspect any closer, they would have been able to see them slowly cutting into flesh. She felt strangely calm, and it was this calmness that seemed to worry her the most. She should have been bound together by terror, unable to move. But she was able to move freely about, go wherever she wanted to go. The others acted out as if they could not see her... Everything around her held a blackish hue around it, as if everything was blanketed by some sort of black cloud. She took a couple of steps closer to the group, she thought that it would be best that she kept herself quiet, as to not bring any attention to herself, when she hit something. Extending her hand, she could only really gasp at the fact that there was some sort of an invisible wall before her. Frowning, she turned and raced backwards some ten meters or so, before proceeding to almost knock herself out on another wall. She sighed as she rubbed the back of her head.
"Well... So much for the "freedom" theory." She muttered, trying to look for a possible way out. It suddenly dawned upon what she was doing and she physically hit her head.
"You are looking for a way out of an invisible chamber. Wow. I must say, Sakura, you are intelligent."
She brought her gaze back to her companions and frowned once more as she saw Ry take a step towards Ikira and raise a fist to her face, threatening her. It was only then did Sakura realise that she was all alone inside of her chamber. She shivered, feeling loneliness creep up on her. She sighed, knowing that she could not do a thing to help her companions. She watched Ry continue his yelling and screaming at her, and strangely, all she did was sit there, as she fell into a trance. The last thing she felt was her knees going out from underneath her and the impact of her body hitting the floor of her invisible confinement.
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"These are the rules to my game."
Ry hovered before the group, a long wooden staff in his right hand. He was holding it out before him as if it was a travelling rod, as he continued on his rambling. Syaoran snarled, pulling against the strength of the ribbons, not caring if they were cutting into him or not. He laughed in Ry's face.
"Rules? What the fuck do you take us for? Fools?" He yelled, and Kieba sighed. He was going to rip this guy's head off if he was given the chance. Ry only raised a brow.
"Ha! Let's see..." He stopped to add to the effect. "YES!" He spat.
Reili stamped a foot on the ground and snarled.
"Common, Kieba..." She muttered, raising her claws into the air. "Lemme rip this fucker's guts out."
Ry payed no heed to her. Instead he took a stance and looked at them. The winds began to pick up.
"Rule number one!" He shouted. "Only one character can fight at a time from each side."
"Sides?" Ikira snapped, getting annoyed. "What sides?"
Ry simply waved his free hand behind him, and out of thin air appeared several large reptilian creatures, all coloured with different hues, all with unique markings. Reili raised a brow as she noticed something familiar about the raptor army.
"Jesus Christ..." She murmured, watching them draw near. She narrowed her eyes. "They look like..."
"You." Kieba butted in, and her muscles tensed. She knew how well Reili could be in a fight. She would hate to see how this lot would fair out. Ry beamed.
"Clones." He exclaimed, pointing his staff at his army. "Raptor clones. My family." He spoke with a sense of passion. Ikira felt disgusted.
"Your family?" She hissed as she began to strain at the tightening ribbons. "You are insane." She remembered when she was considered a part of his "family". She growled at him.
"Insane?' Ry echoed, and he brought the staff to his chest. "Perhaps so. But I like the term, 'genius'."
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity." Syaoran muttered. He scanned over the army and something caught his eye. There was a character standing alongside them, someone that did not seem to be of reptilian extract. This character seemed oldly human...
"Moshitsu!" He yelled, gaining the man's attention. "I can see that a member of your "family" is not all that lizard like!"
"Of course not." Ry drawled, taking a few long strides so that he was face to face with him. "That, my good son, is my perfect creation. Mind her now, will you." He grabbed Syaoran's chin and tilted it with force. "She still has a lot to learn." He snapped his fingers and the ribbons around Syaoran's wrists and ankles tightened. They seemed to act like wire, they cut into his flesh, and buried themselves under his skin. Not once did he cry out. He was far too engrossed with revenge upon the man who stood before, who was now laughing his head off like a blatant idiot. Syaoran growled.
"Anymore rules, you fool?" Ikira asked, trying her best to show no fear. Ry nodded.
"Only one more." He began. He swept his hand towards his army once more and smiled. "You defeat my army, you shall win your award..."
"Award?" Reili and Kieba echoed in unison.
"I don't see any award." The dragon muttered, narrowing her eyes at the man. Ry smiled and dropped his hands to his sides.
"You shall see when the time comes, my little dragonic friend. Till then, shall we start?"
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