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Chapter 11: A Stay In La Rochelle
Yuudai grins evilly unnerving Wardes. Yuudai then jets towards him at the speed of lightening and strikes Wardes in his cheek with a well placed whirlwind kick. Wardes is then sent flying to the side some yards in a state of shock. Yuudai keeps grinning holding his weapons at his side.
"What's wrong Viscount? Are you that weak? It looks as if…" Yuudai then blurs next to him. "You can't protect Blanc." He whispers blurring many yards away as a look of irritation flashes across Wardes' face. Wardes pushes himself back onto his feet. "Ready for more? Fine with me."
"Air Bolt!" He yells sending an straight column of air magic at Yuudai. Yuudai jumps up high in the air thanks to his power boost. He then comes down on Wardes with a downward slash. Wardes blocks this cracking the ground beneath him from the power behind the slash. He then pushes against Wardes' weapon pushing himself a few feet away.
"Give up Viscount before I break my promise and send you to the hospital." Yuudai threatens not dropping his grin. Wardes goes to reply, but he is cut off feeling a sharp metal pressing against his throat. "Choose wisely Viscount. Unless you'd like a scar."
Wardes growls in frustration. "I…I concede this win to you."
His grin widens. "Too bad. I think I might continue this fight for a while." He says sadistically. "But I don't think you are worth it." He makes the gun disappear and puts his sword away in its sheath. The grin disappears too. He notices that the area where he held the sword on Wardes' neck is bleeding a small bit. "If that was your best then I am very disappointed." Yuudai says. Seeing an opportunity, Wardes swings his wand at Yuudai, but he catches the wand in his hand. Yuudai punches the man in the face hard enough to make Wardes stagger backwards. "This is over. Don't try to play dirty when I am no amateur in regular fighting as well."
Wardes wipes his lips wiping off a little blood. "You are very powerful familiar. Stronger than I could have imagined. But you need to control your emotions with that power." Wardes advises.
"It is a gun made of pure darkness. I would think that it is obvious it influences my actions while using it. Why wouldn't you assume the same?" Yuudai questions frowning.
"That is a fair point, but you should try better to control it." He says.
"You dog! You made Wardes bleed!" Yuudai turns to see a fuming Louise.
Yuudai rolls his eyes at her. "I didn't send him to the hospital so calm down." Yuudai tells her. He turns to Wardes. "Mind if I borrow some gold?"
"Why?"
"Because I need a drink and all she is doing is giving me a head ache." Yuudai explains.
Wardes sighs lightly. "Don't drink too much. It's only the early morning." He says handing Yuudai a bag a coins.
"All depends on what they have." Yuudai replies.
"Don't you dare walk away from me!" Louise orders angrily.
Yuudai walks past her. "I'm sure Wardes will happily keep you company while I am gone. See you later."
"You...I don't know why I even bother!" Louise yells.
"Let's just leave him be." Wardes says laying a hand on her shoulder.
"But he-"
"Just let him go. Maybe you can talk with him later."
Louise stares at Yuudai as he walks away without looking back. A look of hurt flashes in her eyes. 'Why do I care about him?' She asks herself in her mind.
Later
"Another one please." Yuudai says handing the bartender his empty cup and some gold coins.
"This is your third one, is everything ok?" The man asks poring another cup of his requested drink.
"Just a lot of stress lately and then I am sure I get a break tomorrow either." Yuudai explains. "So I decided to get as much a break as I can today."
"Well don't try to drink the problems away. Brimier knows I tried." The man says.
"Don't worry, this'll be my last drink." The teens says taking a drink of his newly fill cup.
"Get me what he's having." Guiche says putting some gold coins of his own on the table. The bartender does while Yuudai looks at Guiche.
"Where were you? I would have thought you would like to watch the duel." Yuudai says taking another drink.
"I wanted to watch, but I was still sleeping." He explains sighing. "But from Wardes and Louise's moods I would assume you won and ticked Louise off."
Yuudai laughs for a minute. "You are getting used to being around us aren't you?"
"Unfortunately." Guiche replies.
"So why did decide to come here?" Yuudai asks curious as to why the blond would be where he is.
"Because I guess I want to be around you a bit more. I don't know why, but even though I don't like you, I can't help feeling confident that our group is safe around you. It's strange." Guiche explains.
Yuudai smiles at Guiche a bit. "Now if you were this honest and nice more often I wouldn't be abusing you like I have been."
"I have a bad feeling though. I feel like something bad is going to happen and it won't be pretty." Guiche admits taking a drink from the cup the bartender just gave him.
"Hey Guiche." Yuudai says wanting Guiche's attention. "Can I trust you with a big secret?"
"Of course." Guiche replies solemnly.
"You know that letter we are delivering?" Guiche nods. "Well I made two more letters each with different messages."
"Why?" Guiche questions with wide eyes.
"Because I want to be sure that nobody will ever find the real one. I am currently carrying all three letters." Yuudai explain pulling out one of the fakes. "In a way I want someone to take one of the fakes. I would love to see the reaction to the letters."
"Can I see?" Guiche asks. Yuudai hands it to the blond. Guiche opens it then reads it eyes widening with each word. He finishes it then hands it band to Yuudai. "That's messed up."
"It would get my message across clearly though." Yuudai reasons proud of himself. "I think I might go to sleep for the day. I don't know what else to do, so see you later Guiche."
Later in a day dream
"Come on Yuudai! It's time for dinner!" A motherly voice calls to said teen.
The teen grins happily running for the dining room. "Yay! What's for dinner?" Yuudai asks sitting in his chair across from his two parents.
"You seem excited today. Did anything happen during your walk?" His mother asks with her warm smile.
"Yup! I met some new friends that I can hang around with!" Yuudai exclaims happily.
"What are their names?" She asks seeming to fade away along with his silent father.
Yuudai's eyes look down showing a depressing smile. "Their names? Their names are Blanc, Siesta and Guiche."
Out of day dream
Yuudai blinks his eyes realizing he is staring into the night sky. He then sighs. "Will I ever see them again?" He asks himself. "That is only wishful thinking."
"You shouldn't be in here moping." Louise states without any emotion in her tone.
Yuudai turns to the pink haired girl. "You're right, but I have nowhere to go. Nothing much to do except think of my past that I can only revisit in my memories." He explains growing a faint smile.
'I don't want to be angry at him like this. Not like he is now, but why? I shouldn't care about this.' She thinks. She walks next to him. "Can you tell me about your past?" She asks gently.
Yuudai's heart skips a beat at this. "You…you want to know about me?" He asks in disbelief. Louise nods with a very light blush. "Well I can tell you that I wasn't ever social. The few people that I did talk to stopped talking to me after a couple fights I have been in." Yuudai starts.
"How about your family? I want to know about them." Louise tells him.
"Well my mom is and has always been a caring person. She could just smile and you would feel warm and happy. She was a great person." Yuudai says smiling at the memory. "But my dad was always a quiet and calculative guy. You couldn't get anything past him. If you were to like to him he would know you are because he could always see the slightest twitch or nervous look. He was very strict too. He's also the reason I have very good combat ability. He also gets really distant and cold when he gets upset."
"Do you have any siblings?"
"No, I do not. I never really even wanted one. My family was never on the wealthy side, so I hoped every night that they don't have another kid so that they don't have to worry about spending more money than they need to." Yuudai explains.
"I…I need to tell you something." Louise says nervously.
"What is it Blanc?"
"Wardes…he…he wants me to marry him after this mission." Louise finally tells him looking very undecided.
Yuudai looks into the night sky. "What is your plan of action?"
"I don't know. My father arranged the marriage since my childhood, but now it just doesn't feel right." Louise admits to her familiar.
"I don't know all the factors, but the most common reasoning is that you didn't get a choice at first. Now that you are presented with the choice you don't know how to react." Yuudai suggests.
"How do you know something like that?" Louise asks.
"Let's just say that it lead into one of the fights that lost a friend through." Yuudai says remembering how he knocked the other guy out cold for not leaving his friend alone when she said she wanted time to think.
"Since you're my familiar and all, I want to know your opinion about this. Should I marry him or should I not marry him yet?" Louise says looking into the night sky as well.
"If you really want my opinion then I would say absolutely not." Yuudai answers. "The reason being that he is too interested in the letter for my comfort."
"What do you mean?" Louise asks.
"He has been asking for it since we started this journey and I don't like it. It just doesn't feel right." Yuudai says. "Sadly I can't do anything drastic without any solid proof. But if you were to marry him, imagine what it would be like."
Louise tries her hardest, but comes to an awful conclusion. "I…I see myself looked down on and compared to my sisters more than ever."
"Do you think you could live your life like that?" Yuudai questions looking into her eyes.
"No. I don't think I could."
"Then how about I drive you both into the ground? After all, I owe you that much." An angry voice growls from over the balcony.
Yuudai smirks not looking at the intruder yet. "Hello Fouquet I see…oh hell no." His face pales as he looks at Fouquet on her new golem. A golem made of stone. He also notices another guy in a mask next to her, but the stone golem is a bigger problem at the moment.
"Yes! I love that look! Now stay still as I smash you!" Fouquet yells.
"Calm down. I didn't recruit you to attack blindly." The man states.
Yuudai grabs Louise and carries her bridal style then runs. He proceeds to kick the door down while running into the hall. "Why in the blue hell is Fouquet on a freaking STONE golem?!" Yuudai exclaims.
"Why didn't you just fight her?" Louise asks a little fearful.
"If I took one good hit from that I would have been smashed into the human pancake." He replies trying to calm himself. "Let's regroup with the others. Where are they?" A loud boom echoes throughout the hotel down at the ground floor. "I guess we know now. We better hurry" Yuudai hurries to the ground floor with Louise in his arms.
They finally reach it to find the four other hiding behind a table trying to avoid being hit with an arrow. He quickly ducks behind it too. Yuudai sets Louise down on the ground peeking up to see a bunch of mercenaries shooting arrows at them. He quickly pulls his head back to look at his companions for the mission.
"So I guess this is a surprise to everyone?" Yuudai asks nobody in particular.
"Unfortunately you are right. They just came and started to attack us." Guiche explains.
Yuudai sighs unhappily. "We need a plan and Fouquet being here isn't a good sign."
Tabitha closes her book catching everyone's attention. She points at Guiche, Kirche and herself. "Stay." She then points at Wardes, Louise then Yuudai. "Leave."
"Are you sure? Will you all be ok?" Yuudai asks a bit worried for Tabitha and Guiche. Maybe Kirche, if not just a little bit.
"We don't know, but we can't hide behind a commoner when things get tough. That would just be embarrassing." Kirche explains.
"Maybe you're not as bad as I thought." Yuudai says. "You all be careful and don't die."
"Alright we need to get to the docks! Let's hurry." Wardes tell his two companions.
The three run out and are immediately shot at. Yuudai grabs one of the arrows out of midair then touches his sword making his hand glow. He then throws the arrow as hard as he can at one of the mercenaries ripping into one of their stomachs making blood come out. Yuudai continues to follow the two out the back door running to the docks that may hold the key to their escape.
End
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