Colour Bound Battle Chapter Thirty Five: Mercy
Black's POV
She dashed right up to me with lightning speed, her legs barely visible to how fast the moved. Light green grass exploded around her during her epic rush towards me as she let out a battle cry of pure rage and confidence. I readied myself, anxiously awaiting for her to step into the two metre mark as I tightened the grip around the handle of my blade and pressed my feet harder into the grassy ground.
"Eat this!", She exclaimed in fury, swiping the air with both her hands which allowed her to resist friction, making her become a blur in my left eye, and an easy target in my right. I smiled slightly, taking a small step back as she lunged towards me with her hands held in front of her in an 'X' formation. Swiftly, I crouched, pulling my blade diagonally across my face which acted as a shield against her attack. "Hyah!".
It connected. Her knives tangled and clashed with my blade as I tilted my arm upwards with the sword, forcing her to flip over me instead of colliding with me head on. Her golden, beautiful hair danced as she flew over me, reminding me a lot about Shine. Quickly, I spun around, hearing the satisfying scrunch of the grass and a thump as she landed on her feet, bending down slightly to absorb the shock. I erected myself up again, slashing the air in front of me as I stared at her with my intimidating light blue and light red, glistening eyes that could even pick out the movement of light. She charged back at me, reeling both her arms to the side like wings before stopping right in front of me, sending a slash with her right arm. As fast as possible, I slashed it away, causing it to repel back to her side before she sent another strike at me, this time with her left arm. Again, I slashed at it, taking a step backwards for some room as Phase watched from the right, closely observing the fight.
She sent another slice, and another, and another, forcing me to stay in my defensive posture due to the speed and amount of attacks she bombarded me with. She's good with these weapons... But if she's going to stay using them, then what the hell are those two blades behind her back for? Dammit! Now's NOT the time to be thinking!
Just as I slashed one of her hands away from me with the cunning sharp edge of my blade, I leaned backwards, smiling slightly right before I lifted up my right foot and sent a devastating push kick to her stomach. She winded, gritting her teeth and moaning in pain as she slid backwards a good four metres, surprising me greatly to how powerful my attack just was... I've gotten stronger... That's a good thing to know.
"Idiot. Because of that kick, you've activated one of my daggers! Now!", She exclaimed in both anger and happiness, making me smile a little as she took six good steps backwards, taking a defensive stance before reaching for her left dagger behind her with her left hand. Somehow, the blades in between her fingers were still in place, completely defying the laws of physics in every way UNLESS those things are embedded into her flesh and bones. She pulled it in front of her, pointing it straight at me which made me step back, cautious of what she was about to pull off... "I'll have you shredded to pieces of flesh! Say goodbye, Black Melody!". Hmm? Let's see what she does...
"Bring it!" I said with confidence, licking my light pink, soft damp lips in excitement as my right eye began to glow very slightly, indicating that a hint of insanity was introduced into my very being... Dammit! If I go insane now, then I'll cause havoc to everything I see! Argh! I have to keep my head in the fight!
"Take this! Golden barrage!", She exclaimed and at once, upon those words leaving her mouth, a large circle of yellow glowing light surrounded with strange, mysterious symbols hovered in front of her blade right as another smaller circle formed in front of it. They all had a cool, chilly feel to them, intimidating me by just an atom as I prepared myself, turning my body to face the left, making my chances of not getting stuck by whatever comes out of that magic circle higher by fifty percent. One hundred with my blade!
I held my right hand straight in front of me, shining in the bright sun as the mirror-like surface reflected the grassy planes in a deep black and red shade... I took in a deep, slow breath of the fresh air, exhaling most of it out through my mouth loudly as Phase chuckled, sounding like she knew what was going to happen next.
"Execute!", She cried and at once, a massive barrage of golden, bright yellow, glowing knives were fired out of the magical circle at me... It's show time! Timed slowed down for me and my right eye targeted them with ease as I gripped the charcoal black, carbon fibre handle of my blade with my lone right hand, smiling as if this was funny. Haha!
I danced to the movement of the knives, spinning, ducking, jumping and slicing the knives cleanly into a thousand lost fragments of light. The grass underneath me exploded it's fine green contents into the air around my legs, tickling me slightly but I paid no heed to it as one false move and it's game over for me.
"I...impossible! You're hitting and dodging all of my knives?!", She exclaimed in shock and terror, gritting her teeth just to how powerful I was. "In that case, I'll take you on-".
I curved my sword into a circular motion, hitting more than five knives at once, and, as intended, they bounced right back to Yellow. One smashed right into the magical circle, causing it to fracture and explode into a million pieces of bright yellow particles of her energy whilst the other ones hit various parts of her. One burrowed straight through her left arm, another two lodged themselves harshly into her stomach as the others just grazed other parts of her body. She cried in pain, quickly coughing up blood onto the green grass underneath her... Dammit... This is bad!
"Agh! Ou...ch... It hurts! It huuuurrrtttsss", She vomited out a bagful of blood onto the ground before dropping down to her knees in pure agony, making me grunt and regret my actions as I quickly rushed to her aid. Her golden hair, stained with blood coiled to her sides, her bright yellow jacket, soaked in so much crimsons... "Black... I...it's not over yet...", She stuttered under pure pain, trembling as she held dearly onto her stomach like no tomorrow. I felt sorry for her and at the same time, I felt some sort of... Excitement... Ah! No! I'm not sadistic to think like that! Argh! I can't let my mind be consumed by insanity!
"Yellow!", I exclaimed, sliding down onto my knees up towards her, perfectly stopping to her right as he grass scrunched like dried leaves. A strong burst of air blew head on, making our hairs dance magically behind us as she turned her head to face me with her left eye tightly shut and the other filled with crystal clear tears building up at the bottom...
"A...Ack...", She trembled painfully in a pitiful manner, destroying my guard entirely as I immediately dropped my blade to the side and cupped the back of her head with my right hand gently. "Dammit Black... I can't believe you managed to stay unscathed by my attack, let alone... Deflect them and destroy my magic".
I took in a quick breath of the cool, chilly air and let out a small sigh of relief that she's moderately find, allowing me to become less tense. Slowly, I shuffled behind her, sitting on my thighs before I pulled her onto me gently, making her moan in pain as her face flushed a slight red... It's a shame that things had to be like this. She picked the fight, not me.
"Does it hurt here?", I asked, placing my left hand onto her stomach where the two blades were locked inside like nails, softly pushing down some pressure before she suddenly tensed, jolting the back of her head downwards onto my chest which made me gasp slightly as my face shot a deep red to the strange feeling.
"Y...yep...", She stuttered in pain... "Why... Aren't you going to kill me?... D...do you like seeing me... S...suffer?".
"No. I just can't stand to see someone hurt like this", I said in a motherly tone of voice, rubbing her hair gently with my right hand... Her hair's so soft... "Yellow, listen, if you want to stay alive, you'll have to trust me as much as possible", I said suddenly with a stronger tone of voice, making her suddenly twitch just as blood drooled out of her mouth...
"But... What if you betray me?", She mumbled, making me smile a little before I immediately let go of her head and just as I placed my index and middle finger across her neck, a loud, unbearable booming sound emitted from behind us, instantly widening my eyes to how familiar I was with it... It was a simultaneous three-fired explosion that sounded like the wind being torn into oblivion, forcing me to push Yellow off of me, grasping onto her body as quickly as possible and turned her around. Her head faced my right and her feet faced my left, making it much more easier for me to pick her up. Swiftly, I slid both my hands underneath her, left under her knees and right under her upper torso. Standing up, I grit my teeth, smiling a bit more vividly as Phase gasped in terror. My right eye glowed more brightly, shining like a miniature beacon.
"Yellow, hold on tight! Someone's firing at us!", I exclaimed in excitement, immediately staring my dash across the grassy, boulder infested plain that had very little hiding places to take cover against the exploding warheads of the fucking mortars fired at us! The wind blew from behind me like a massive surge of ice, freezing me to the bone which increased my stamina and boosted my physical abilities.
"Black! I'll watch your six! Make sure you keep running and don't stop!", Phase yelled at me just as an earth shaking explosion thundered from behind me, causing a gush of toxic, sulphuric
gas to bash against my back. Up ahead, I could see the forest boarder steadily getting closer and closer by every second I ran with the terrified, weak Yellow in my arms. Not three seconds later, an explosion occurred to the left of me, sending a painful shockwave to beat against my head mercilessly as a massive puff of flames and black smoke swirled up into the air in the shape of a bundle of balloons. I looked behind me, over my right shoulder to just watch the final shell hurdle straight for us, instantly inflicting a lethal dose of adrenaline into my bloodstream which allowed me to sprint as fast as ever towards the bush... "I got this! I won't let you hurt Black!", Phase exclaimed as I looked straight forwards, blinking twice. The ground suddenly shone a light blue then a dark, deep red before returning back to it's original light green texture upon a massive, earth shattering explosion that made Yellow yelp cutely in fear...
Something's wrong... Terribly wrong... If we were to continue fighting, then we would've been a pile of ashes by now! I just want to know exactly WHO shot those thing at us and from WHERE! C'mon! Just a little more then we're in the safety of the forest! My feet stung, sweat dripped from my forehead down onto my black shirt and my stomach stirred like a tumble dryer. Argh! The adrenaline's already wearing out?! Even my little dose of insanity?! Dammit! Ten metres only!
Phase's POV
Haaaaah! I can't believe Black ran all that way with that girl to this place! If it weren't for me destroying that final mortar shell, then they would've died! Haha... Hmm... She looks so cute when she's lost in her own world of thought... I wonder what's on her mind right now.
She leaned against an old oak tree, legs crossed as she held Yellow's piece of paper in her right hand and her own one in her left, glancing at the two with a confused face. The late afternoon sun scorched the plants and grassy ground like red hot plates, killing all life that dared to even attempt to leave the shades of the arching trees. Yellow rested just in front of her, both hands on her green bandaged stomach that was made using the nearby shrubbery.
"My paper has the wrong rules", Black suddenly said in a tone of anger, scrunching up the paper in her left hand noisily.
"What do you mean?", I asked her almost immediately in surprise.
"Yellow's rules states that it's a hunt or be hunted type of game. And that the first one to reach the White Castle all the way at the north and defeat the 'Boss' there wins. I can see why people would want to try to kill me...", She sighed.
"Hmm... What Boss do you think it is?". I asked her curiously. She blankly blinked, taking in a deep breath of air before she exhaled it all out through her gapped mouth.
"Most likely White", She stated... Huh?!
"What makes you think tha-".
"It's obvious... The only person here who matches me is White, and don't forget that the castle is completely white. It's a dead giveaway. Also, if she WASN'T the boss, she'd be here with us", She claimed.
"How?".
"She's a vampire, and last night she didn't drink my blood, meaning that she's probably in her semi-insane form. She'd automatically know where I am from the scent of a tiny drop of my blood".
"But you didn't bleed, did you-".
She pulled up her shirt, revealing a slash wound on her stomach that looked fresh and still damp... Ouch... Dammit... She's always a step ahead... I have a lot of faith put into her.
"Hey Phase, how does a spirit like yourself stay alive? I mean, there must be something specific you have to do in order to stay alive", She suddenly said, lowering her shirt back down to her waist with a small, pleasant smile plastered across her amazing white face that held her beautiful coloured eyes... Now that she mentioned it... I hovered away from her a metre or so as I remembered GREATLY about what I need to do at least once every five days in order to stay alive... Something that I know Black will never agree on...
"Haha... Well... Uhh... It's something", I chuckled nervously, smiling at her as she tilted her head slightly to the right with curiosity, making me slightly grit my teeth to how difficult it was for me to decide whether or not I should either ask her or force her... I don't want to disappear nor do I want her to hate me... Maybe she'll understand if I ask her. "Black... Let's say that tonight's my last night... And by tomorrow disappear. Would you do anything to save me?", I asked her, looking to my far right into the deep, distant forest that held many beautiful flora that stood out in the brightness of the shimmering sun.
Black chuckled, placing down both of the papers onto her lap as I turned to face her again. She stood up slowly, smiling brightly before waking up towards me, both hands behind her back. A small gust of wind blew from behind, making our hairs and attire dance to the influence of the wind as we both stared into each other's eyes deeply. The wind ceased and I lowered myself down to touch the grassy ground with my bare feet. She stopped right in front of me, not thirty centimetres away before she immediately pulled her arms out from behind her and embraced me tightly. My eyes widened and my heart ached as hard as a sledge hammer smashing point blank at my chest whilst my blood cooled dramatically to an arctic-like state... Her right, soft hand cupped the back of my head, gently stroking my light blue, long hair motherly as her left hand rested on my upper back. I blushed a terrible colour of red, staring into her eyes as she too turned a bit red and smiled...
"Anything. Even if I have to throw myself into a pit of alligators. Not just for you", She said soothingly, looking to the left at Yellow who lay on the ground. I too turned to look at her, surprised to see her wide awake with a cheeky smile across her face, holding softly onto her stomach with her right hand. "Even for Yellow I'd go through the hell"... What?... This can't be Black... The was she spoke sounded like Frost... Or is that how she talks when she's serious? Either way, it's surprising no matter how you look at it...
"If anything... Then... Tonight, can you help me. Even if it's anything?", I asked, looking back at Black's amazingly cute face that made me blush twice as hard...
"Black. When did that girl come?", Phase asked curiously, instantly making the two of us jump like springs in pure shock to what she had just said. W...what?! "Serenity?".
"A...haha... No. She's Phase. Just a regular girl with a regular body! Nothing special", Black stated happily, breaking a bead of sweat...
"Mhm! I'm Phase! Nice to meet you Yellow!", I said, playing along with Black as naturally as possible to hide my identity...
"Nice to meet you too", She said happily... Phew...
Black's POV
"Tomorrow we're heading to where those artillery rounds were fired from", I said with seriousness in my usual innocent tone of voice, grasping both Yellow and Phase's attention as they ate soft chunks of meat on a wooden stick in front of a small fire that was the only obstacle in between us. Their constant chewing was the only sound other than the chirping of nearby crickets and the howls of distant wolves in the young night.
"Why?", Yellow questioned me, swallowing a mouth full of meat before she dug in to eat another chunk.
"Because I want answers and to confront whoever fired those shots", I sighed, blinking once as I inhaled a lethal mixture of carbon and oxygen, exhaling it out slowly before I looked down at my lap for an unknown reason.
"Hmm. Then we'll go with you. I can't let the one who spared me and cooked me delicious food to go do something dangerous on their own", Yellow chuckled, waving her stick of meat in the air with happiness. Haha.
"Yep! We're coming with you!", Phase said with enthusiasm, fist pumping the air with her left hand with happiness and both her eyes closed. She's so cute!
"Haha. Yeah!", Yellow cried. These two get along really well...
"Who wants seconds?", I asked cheerfully.
"Me!", they both said aloud. Ahahaha! They're so adorable!
"I'll get going then. Phase, you come along. Do you think you can stay here by yourself again Yellow?", I said, pushing myself up off the ground slowly with a small grunt, shaking my head to move my jet black hair away from my eyes.
"No problem!", She exclaimed, giving me the thumbs up with her left hand extended out forwards with passion. "My magic can repel all sorts of monsters! Don't expect to come back to a pile of bones!". Haha! I laughed, turning around with a big smile across my face as Phase chuckled and waved goodbye to Yellow. I never would have thought that Yellow was like this! She seemed like a hot headed, single minded person at the start! Haha. I guess it's because I pissed her off...
Phase's POV
"Just a little more, I see a wolf up ahead", I lied, luring the unsuspecting Black deeper and deeper into the dark, forbidding forest as she shivered to the coldness of the night. I felt guilty just trying to do this to her, but I have no other choice... She doesn't want me to disappear as well...
"How much longer do we have to walk for?", She moaned lazily, stumbling on a rock which almost caused her to fall over like a log. "It's so hard to see!".
"Don't worry Black. Just follow me"... I grinned... I think this is far enough... Let's give her a warm, bloody welcome! I'll make it look like an accident!
Yellow's POV
I could've sworn I just heard someone scream... But who and where is the question. I hope Black and Phase are alright... I'd hate it if something were to happen to either of them.
Frost's POV
...Hmm! So THAT'S how a spirit stays alive! They need to kill a mortal at least once every five days in order to exist! Even so, she should've at LEAST knocked me out before brutally stabbing my stomach and chest with a fucking ROOT! Argh! And it's already morning! I hope Yellow's still asleep!