Pop quiz for those who read the book series called Escape From Furnace! At the end of book two, Solitary, what happens to Alex? This is a lead on into book three. Who can answer? I'll be waiting…
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Chapter 15: Fury Of Yuudai
"Looks like he ruined my good mood." Yuudai mutters sighing.
Yuudai notices a lit candles sitting next to a pink haired girl. Louise is crying. Tears running down her face. It is at night too, so this makes the scene all the more insulting to Yuudai. Such a beautiful scene daring to be present while such a depressed girl is here. He walks over to her.
"What's wrong Blanc?" Yuudai asks gently while locking away his frustration for later.
Louise runs at him pressing her face against his chest hugging him for dear life. He wraps one arm around her back and the other wrapping around the back of her neck trying to comfort her. She continues to cry on his shirt. She then sniffles.
"How…how can they just…just throw their lives away Yuudai?" She asks through tears.
"Sometimes there are things that others believe in that are incredibly stupid." He answers. "For instance, remember how I believe that I have the right to do whatever I want?" She nods. "It is the same idea. He believes that it is his duty to show what a true noble should act."
"But I always thought your loved ones come first." She tells him unsure of herself.
Yuudai looks through a window noticing how pretty it looks. He turns to the the window. "Look into the night sky Blanc."
She looks into the sky loving the beauty even in her distressed state. "Imagine this. Wales runs away to Tristain taking your advise. Now that Albion is taken over by rebels they come for Tristain whom is now dealing with a prince who has a crush on the princess that will marry so that they can have a chance to defend themselves."
Her eyes widen in pain and realization. "So…there isn't anywhere else for him to go…"
"Correct. I don't want him to die either, but he wants this and if he doesn't he will just be hunted down until they kill him." He explains. She replants her face on his chest.
"I just want to go back to the academy. Away from all this nonsense. Where things make sense and where nobody has to die." She cries.
"I know Blanc. I wish we could too, but we need to steel ourselves until we return the letter." He tells her.
She goes silent disturbing Yuudai. "Don't you miss your family or girlfriend or something?"
His face goes into a sad smile. Louise looks up at Yuudai. "I never had a girlfriend, but I do miss my family."
"Then I will find a way home for you." Louise states. Louise watches as his eyes grow cold. 'What? I thought he was supposed to be happy.'
He lays his hands on both of her shoulders. "I don't want to." He tells her shattering her entire vision of him being selfish.
"W-what?" She asks in complete shock.
"I love my family to death, but I never had a purpose in Japan." He tells her. "But I now feel like I have a reason to go on into the bright future. A future that I desire to be apart of."
"What about all those things you said before? Won't you miss them?" She questions trying to straighten her thoughts.
"Yes, but what use are those things if I have no other purpose in that kind of life? I like to reference things to my world because it feels right, but I feel at home in this place. I just feel full of life." He explains full of happiness while speaking the words coming out of his mouth.
"Why won't you let me hate you?" She asks softly.
Yuudai grows confused. "What do you mean?" She starts crying a little more then runs away down the hall. "Blanc! Wait!" He calls out reaching out to her.
She doesn't even turn back as she runs from him. He drops his arm to his side feeling confused and now frustrated. He looks out the window to the sky again. It no longer is shining down beautifully. It is just darkness with stars that look down at him with pity. Yuudai clenches his fists.
"Stay calm Yuudai." Derflinger tells him from his back.
"Why? Blanc is marrying a guy I don't trust and apparently she wants to hate me!" He growls punching the wall forcing a fist sized crack in it.
"If you don't trust him then stop the wedding." Derflinger tells him. "I don't like the guy either so denying him his wedding should show his true colors."
"Your right." Yuudai mutters. "If I can show his true colors then I can give pay back for what he has done."
"Exactly! All we need to do is play the waiting game now." Derflinger says.
"Then I believe a nice sleep is in order." Yuudai walks to his room feeling a bit more content about things.
Next Day
"You know that it is against tradition to bring weapons to a wedding, right?" Wales asks sweat dropping.
Yuudai deadpans. "It is also against tradition to have a fleet of enemies ready to destroy the very building that the marriage is happening at."
"Fair enough." Wales says smiling.
The doors open revealing the two main people of the day. He normally would look to Louise first, but his eyes are on Wardes. Or should we say, his narrowed eyes. He plans on doing something, but that'll have to wait. In fact, he has another plan in mind.
He stands up and stops Wardes from advancing to the podium. He allows Louise to head up. "What do you want familiar? I'm in the middle of something."
"There is a tradition back where I come from. A tradition where the closest person to the bride that isn't the groom has the right to punch the groom." Yuudai explains. This is a lie though. This is step one.
"Alright then. I will respect your traditions. No matter how pointless they are" Wardes says bracing himself.
Yuudai smirking cracking his knuckles. Louise cringes at the sound of his knuckles popping. Yuudai then sucker punches Wardes in the face knocking him to the floor. Yuudai walks back to his seat knowing that he ticked him off.
'I can't wait to kill him.' Wardes thinks in his mind as he gets back up. He walks to the podium with a bruise on his face.
Throughout this scene, Louise is deep inside her mind. Thinking about her decisions up to this point. The thing is that now the wedding she always dreamed of is now here, but she feels as if it should be someone else. Not Wardes.
"Groom Viscount Jean-Jacques Francis De Wardes, do you take this girl to be your wife and swear to love and respect her in the name of Brimier?" Wales asks Wardes looking at him.
"I swear."
"Bride, the third daughter of the De La Vallière family, Louise Françoise Le Blanc De La Vallière do you take this man to be your husband and swear to love and respect him in the name of Brimier?"
Yuudai feels his entire plan fall off the island itself at Louise's next words. "I'm sorry Wardes, but I can't marry you."
Wales blushes and frantically turns to Wardes. "Viscount I am terribly sorry, but she doesn't wish for this ceremony to continue."
"…You are just nervous Louise. You can't seriously be refusing my offer." Wardes says acting as if he hadn't heard Wales.
"I'm sorry Wardes. I may have yearned for you and maybe even loved you, but things are different now." She tells him hoping he would understand.
He places his hands on her shoulders with a cold stare. He goes to yell at her about ruling the world with him, but is sent flying away from her into the wall. He lands on the the ground, but hurries back to his feet. His eyes meet with the eyes of cold wind. No. A pair of eyes holding a hurricane of emotion.
The eyes belong to Yuudai. The boy has his hair streaked with light blue again and his hand is glowing from holding Derflinger. Yuudai is standing in front of Louise looking very unhappy.
"You screwed up bastard." The boy states in a voice full of contained rage.
Wardes growls in rage himself. "You have been in the way since the beginning. I had three goals for this trip and I have not gotten even one accomplished because of you!"
"Seems like I am doing a good job then, huh?" He says in a cold voice.
"But before I kill you." Wardes chants a spell called Air Needle at Wales. However, Yuudai throws himself in front of Wales shocking everyone in the room. The Air Needle impales itself through Yuudai's chest forcing blood to seep out of the wound.
"YUUDAI!" Louise cries out as tears start to fall from her eyes.
Wales wordlessly stares with wide eyes at Yuudai. The boy took the attack for him. A boy who he hasn't known for even twenty four hours.
Despite the magic impaling him, he wraps his hand around it gripping it with an insane amount of strength. Yuudai rips the staff right out then drops it. Blood starts to come out the wound harder, but then seems to slow as his ring glows brighter.
"Like hell I will let you kill anyone today. I won't let you!" Yuudai yells raising his sword.
Wardes' eyes widen in surprise. "You…" A grin spreads on his face. "Killing you would make everything on this unbearable trip worth it."
"Not before I send you to hell." Yuudai states. He proceeds to move incredibly fast towards Wardes. Yuudai makes a downward slash at Wardes who dodges it at the last second. His sword crashes into the floor sending numerous cracks throughout the tiles.
Wardes immediately flies into the air as the area he was just in is attacked by Yuudai's sword. He moves to the side to dodge a flying tile from the floor. He looks at Yuudai making use of his surroundings to go on the offensive without being in the air himself.
"Ubiquitous Dell Wind." Wardes chants summoning two other clones of himself. "You're outmatched familiar. Just give up!"
Louise covers her mouth in horror. She is watching her own familiar, whom still is bleeding from his wound from earlier. Not to mention the one she once wished to marry caused it and now is trying to kill her familiar. She looks at Wales and cries harder. An Air Needle has pierced his heart from behind. By another Wardes that is smirking from behind him.
Wales falls to the floor face first as blood flows out of his mouth and wound. Yuudai notices this. His eyes are then hidden by the shadow of his hair. The fourth Wardes grabs him from behind forcing him to drop his sword. However, his ring grows much brighter upon contact with the clone of Wardes.
The ring then flashes a blinding light that blinds everybody watching. The moment everyone gets their eye sight back they all stare in absolute shock and for Wardes, fear. Yuudai is no longer standing on the floor.
He is high in the air above Wardes himself. He is holding his gun, but they are many differences. One being that it isn't made of darkness anymore. It is made of wind! A contained hurricane in the shape of his gun. On the side of the gun is a dark spot that indicates his original gun.
His hair is completely light blue and his eyes are completely light blue. Not just his pupils, his entire eye. He grips the gun harder.
"W-what is this?! How are you doing this?!" One of the Wardes demands in fear. Yuudai doesn't make a sound. "Get him!" The three clones of Wardes rush at him, but he shoots at one in the head. Instead of absorbing it, blood spurts from the wound then the clone disappears now that it is defeated. Wardes grunts in pain feeling what his clone felt.
The real Wardes grits his teeth and tries to leave through a hole in the wall. However, Yuudai appears front of Wardes with another Wardes held by his neck in front of him. Yuudai shoots the clone with a cold glare pointed at the real Wardes. The blood is splattered on his face a little bit. The clone disappears leaving nothing between Yuudai and Wardes.
"Where are you going Viscount?" Yuudai asks in a dark voice. "I thought you would want to die along with your clones." He places his new gun in front of Wardes privates. "Although I might let you live. I think that will work." He says as a sinister grin spreads on his own face.
Wardes face pales. "I beg you, please don't!"
A look of fury appears on Yuudai's face. "You beg me?! After you killed a man?!" He sucker punches Wardes in the gut then kicks him into the floor.
Yuudai proceeds to float to the ground in front of the man groaning in pain. He grabs a fist full of Wardes' hair and pulls him up. Yuudai puts the gun in front of Wardes' privates again.
Yuudai pulls the trigger sending a wind bullet into Wardes' most sensitive spot. Unfortunately it doesn't explode, but it seems that it will simulate the pain as if he did get shot there. Wardes screams in pain holding himself together by a strand of thread.
Yuudai brings his head closer to Wardes. "If I ever see you again you can bet your life will be mine. Even if I have to kill you in front of Henrietta." He growls. Yuudai throws him through the hole making him disappear.
Wordlessly, Yuudai walks over to Derflinger and picks the sword up. "There is fifty thousand enemies coming our way. Are you ready Yuudai?" Derflinger asks solemnly.
Yuudai breathes in and out. "Yes." He replies. "Hey Blanc." He calls over.
"Yuudai." She mutters in a quivering voice.
"Leave this place. Get away safely. I will cover your escape." His gun forcibly disappears as does his wind powered power up. His ring returns to normal as he falls to his knee.
"Please don't stay Yuudai!" She pleads.
"Damn it Blanc!" Yuudai yells scaring her a bit. He gets back to his feet with his sword in hand. "I'm sorry, but my job is to protect you. Not to go wherever you want if it endangers your safety." He tells her in a more gentle voice.
The floor starts to rise making Yuudai tense up. And out from the floor comes…Verdandi. This shocks Louise and Yuudai since they last seen the mole at La Rochelle.
"How did you get here?" Yuudai asks disbelief clear in his voice. The mole catches site of Yuudai's new ring. "Don't even think about it." Yuudai says hiding his ring in his pocket with his hand.
"Hey you two." Guiche greets popping out of the hole.
"Guiche…" Louise says.
Guiche looks around at the damage. "This place looks like it was caught in a tornado."
Yuudai smiles a little bit enjoying the blond's cluelessness. Kirche comes out of the hole too. She locks her eyes on Yuudai, but is the first to notice the bleeding hole in his chest.
"What happened to my beloved?" She asks instead of what she planned on greeting him with.
Yuudai sighs. "Nothing important." He says hearing incoming soldiers. "Get in the hole Blanc. I have to do something." Louise nods reluctantly. Yuudai walks over to the dead boy of Wales. "I'm sorry I couldn't save you Wales. You deserved a nice full life."
"Hurry up!" Guiche urges.
Yuudai smiles sadly. "I guess I will see you when I die then."
Yuudai runs to the hole and jumps through while sheathing Derflinger as the door is blown off covering the escape hole. Unfortunately for the black haired teen there is nothing under him except for the clouds now. Luckily for him Tabitha's dragon catches him on her back.
"Thank you Sylphid. You are amazing." Yuudai tells the dragon. The dragon makes a happy noice. He then finds Louise unconscious. "At least I managed to keep her from being harmed." He mutters feeling happier.
He looks back up to the hole where he came from. He starts to think about what he said to Louise. He had been more than willing to risk his life against an army of fifty thousand soldiers for her safety. He can't believe it. A week ago he would've told her she's on her own, but at that moment his body and mind synced into the goal of killing anyone who came in that room.
"Would I have died?" He wonders out loud. The pain shoots through his body reminding him of his actions in the room. A smile forms on his face despite his chest wound. "I would gladly do it again too. After all, it doesn't hurt as much as that lightning bolt."
He turns back to Louise. She's still asleep, but her breathing isn't relaxed. It's as if she is talking to someone.
"Is that you…Yuudai?" Louise asks in a low voice.
"She's dreaming." He says out loud. He then remembers what she had said the night before. "What did she mean by that?" He sighs. "Oh well. All that matters is that Blanc is safe and I have the letter." He says with his eyes starting to widen. He takes out the letter finding some of his blood on it. "I hope she likes the envelope's new color."
Louise smiles to herself in her sleep. Because in her dream is Yuudai. Yuudai and her kissing in her old childhood secret place. She knows the real Yuudai wouldn't do this, but in her mind things are perfect.
End
And we finished the finale! That was easier than I anticipated. Although I assumed it would be longer. Oh well. I can only write so much without dragging it out.
Now that volume two of this story is done I don't know for sure when the third part will start. Hopefully another this month, but if not then don't worry too much. After all, I plan on having a special one shot story out soon. Hehehe.
"How did you all like what I did with Yuudai? Just an FYI, but Yuudai can only access that form if he comes into contact with too much wind magic at once. The reason being is that the ring unlocked this ability. And the reason it didn't kill Wardes is because it only hurt wind mages. It will only give the feeling of the pain, but not the injuries that usually come with it. The flying part is because of all that wind magic gathering in one area inside him.
Anyway, I don't think I have much else to say so thanks for reading and have a great day/night/morning!