And You Thought
It Couldn't Get Worse
By Lacey Ruby
He who fights, not running away, isn't a coward another day
"Armor of the Wildfire! Dou Chi!!"
The last one was in his armor and he started attacking immediately. Ami and Kat discussed the "marbles" and what they could do. Anjel, on the other hand, saw a prone body in the field of battle and ran towards him.
He was on his back and six blades seemed to be attached somehow, making it look like again spider on his back. Anjel grimaced; then knelt down to see if he was okay. Disregarding the flying bodies overhead and the sound of battle, she listened for his breathing.
He opened his eye, blinking; then focused on the blurred body in front of him. Was someone about to attack him? What was going on? He grabbed the person's arms and tossed him down; then looked at him, waiting for his sight to come back.
Anjel blinked at the strange man in pink armor. "I guess" she smiled. "I guess this mean you're all right?"
He looked down at his captive in shock. He was a girl!!! He felt much like the Ronins when they discovered Kuyira was a girl: shocked! He picked her up and carried her away from the battle. Frowning at the two girls who raced over to him, he put her down.
"Anjel!! What ever possessed you to run into the middle of a battle?!!" the redhead asked.
"She's Anjel! What do you expect?" the other girl replied. She studied him worriedly. "Who are you?"
"Dais. And what in the hell (Anjel gasps) do you think you're doing in the middle of this battle?!! Are you insane? You could get hurt!!"
He studied the girls. The brunette stared at him almost eye-to-eye and was glaring at him. She was wearing a gray old navy tee-shirt and baggy jeans. She kept looking over her shoulder to see how the battle was going. The redhead was almost the same height as the brunette and was watching the fight, completely ignoring him. She had on a band shirt reading: "Big. Fast. Loud." and boxers. He blinked and looked at the boxers again. That was definitely Darth Maul.
"Shouldn't you be helping them?" the brunette asked.
"I am helping them. I'm keeping you girls out of their way."
"We weren't in their way!" the redhead's blue eyes seemed to bore holes in him.
"She was!!" he pointed to the girl called Anjel; then blinked. What kind of dress was she wearing?!! That looked likethey are! They're sheets!!
Anjel looked worried. Tugging her sheets up, she asked, "Why were you in the middle of the scuffle?"
"Scuffle?!!" Dais looked at the girl strangely.
The redheaded girl looked enlightened. "Oh. So that's why she wandered that way! She was trying to help you."
She was looking at him. "Are you implying that it was my fault she waltzed into a battle?!!" Dais asked, enraged.
"Anjel," the brunette turned to her.
"Yes, Kat?"
"Why did you go in there?" Kat pointed to the fight.
"He looked hurt," Anjel pointed to Dais.
The redhead wanted to make sure. "You went in there for Dais?"
"Yes" She smiled and nodded. "Ami, where's that Kento fellow?"
Ami shrugged and turned to Dais. "See, it was your fault."
Dais ignored that statement. "You mean they haven't found Hardhead yet?"
"Hardhead?" Ami asked.
"He's Hardrockbut he's got to be the most hardheaded guy I know! He's an idiot." He looked confused for a second. "Why am I telling you this?" Shaking his head, he continued. "If you stay here, I can help them." Then without waiting for their agreement, he left.
"Ami, should I?" Kat asked.
"Go for it. I'll do it after you."
"Huh?" Anjel was confused.
Kat pulled out her armor orb and yelled, "ARMOR OF CONFUSION! DOU CHI!!" She disappeared from sight.
"Guess it's my turn. ARMOR OF LOVE!! DOU CHI!!!" And she was gone too.
"Umguys? Oh wellwhat do I say? Armor of InnocenceDou Chi? WHOA!" And then she too disappeared.
Kat blinked a couple of times. She was back. She looked down at her subarmor. Now how had she known it was subarmor? Her subarmor was a metallic purple and a pearlecent white. She smiled as Ami appeared.
Ami looked dazed, and glanced at Kat, who studied Ami's subarmor: it was a metallic blue and a pearlecent white. They both faced where Anjel should reappear, waiting.
Anjel appeared, smiling, in metallic green and pearlecent white subarmor. "Did you guys see the colored toilet paper?!!" She looked excited.
"They're scrolls!!" Both Kat and Ami corrected.
"Weren't they pretty?" Anjel smiled.
Ami ignored Anjel and walked towards the battle in search of Kento. Looking around, she didn't notice the guy running towards her, sword out, until it was too late to run. She closed her eyes, "Umwhat did the Ancient say? Um Love's Love's Love's LOVE'S PURE LIGHT!" She waited for the blade; it didn't happen, so she opened her eyes. Everyone was looking dazed and blind.
"What was that bright flash of light?!!" Kale yelled.
"UmI didn't do it?" Ami looked at the guy who was about to attack her again. "I wish I had a weapon." She did the only thing she could do, she ran.
Meanwhile, Kat started her own search. She stopped as Ami ran by her, then looked up to see a big man racing right towards her. She frowned. "UmWhat did the Ancient say? Umoh yeah!! TRUTH'S UNSEEN DAGGERS!" The man seemed unaffected as he ran closer to her. But then, he suddenly dropped. Kat looked down at him. He had daggers sticking through his armo and was bleeding to death. "Wow."
Anjel, having been left alone, decided she would find out where that Kento Hardrock fellow was. She waved as Ami ran by and walked over to Kat. Looking down at the dying man, Anjel gasped. "Kat? Did you do this?"
"I'm not sureyes, I did," the realization hit her.
Turning pale, Anjel left Kat staring at her attacker. She walked calmly, dodging weapons and stepping over bodies, oblivious. She blinked. Was that Kento? She thought she'd spotted the orange from his armorWas his armor orange? She headed towards him.
"They're letting females fight their battles now?" an amused voice asked.
Anjel turned around. "Actuallyno. We were told to stay put, out of the battle."
"We? There're more female warriors nearby?"
"Ami, Kat, and I," Anjel paused. "Whoever you are, sircould you help me?"
"Help you what?"
"Move Kento. He looks awful heavy and he could get hurt here." She pointed at the still form.
"You know Hardrock?" he asked while picking Kento up.
"No, I just assumed he was Kento. Thank you for confirming it," Anjel smiled.
"You didn't even know if he was on your side or not?!! What if he was a bad guy?!!!"
"Bad guys have feelings to. I'm quite sure had he been a bad guy, he'd want to live as much as Kento would've," she pointed out.
Bemused, he asked, "Where do you want him?"
"Over there." She pointed to a safe distance away.
"And if I put him there, will you stay out of the battle?"
"I'll try," she promised. "You go on ahead. I'll follow from a safe distance."
The man carried Kento easily through the battle and Anjel tried to keep up. Suddenly, a yell of attack was heard and Anjel turned around quickly. The man Kat had attacked, still bleeding from the daggers, was racing towards her.
She screamed. "STOP!! Oh. You're going to run me overPlease stop? Umthe Ancient said" she closed her eyes, thinking; then yelled out, "PURE FREEZE!!!" She opened her eyes slowly, and what she saw astounded her.
No one was moving. Sehkmet seemed to be floating in the air in the middle of an attack. Rowen's arrow had stopped mid-flight. The man carrying Keno was now facing her. Ami and Kat seemed to have been in the middle of a discussion.
Anjel raced over to Ami. "Ami? Ami?" She tapped her on the shoulder; Ami jerked.
"What do you want Anjel?" Ami asked, annoyed.
"You moved!" Anjel looked ecstatic.
"Of course I moved. Why wouldn't I?" Ami looked around. "What'd you do this time Anjel?"
"I, ohoops?" Anjel looked guilty. "I didn't mean to well, I did I just didn't know that when I meant to, that I'd do something I didn't mean to also."
Ami tapped Kat on the shoulder; nothing happened. Anjel tapped Kat on the shoulder; Kat glared at her.
"What'd you do now, Anjel?" Kat asked after looking around.
"Well" Anjel started.
"Don't ask," Ami mumbled, going around and tapping people randomly on the shoulder.
"Soit only works when Anjel touches them," Kat murmured.
Ami grinned. "If it only works when Anjel does it"
"Now that's a thought" Kat grinned back.
"I'll distract Anjel." Ami went over to Anjel and asked her to explain something.
Kat raced over to the blue-haired freak. "Humph! Not like Kats indeed!!" She punched him with all the force she could.
Kale fell to the ground with a big thud. He looked up and glared at Kat. "Why you little brat!" Jumping up and chasing after her, he dodged the statue-like people. "Get back here!!"
"Do you prefer glasses or contact lenses?" Ami asked Anjel, watching Kale chase Kat.
Oblivious, Anjel answered, "Why else would I get up every morning and practically poke out both eyes to shove a piece of plastic in them if I preferred glasses?!!" She waved at Kat and Kale as they ran by. "are they playing tag? No, that can't be it They're racing!! And look Kale's catching up!!" She frowned. "But wait wasn't Kale frozen?"
Ami thought frantically for a new subject. "Umhow do you feel about shots?"
Forgetting all about Kale, she answered, "Shots?!! Yuck!!!! You know what I never understood about them: why nurses tell you not to tense. I mean, yeah, it hurts less, but How can they expect you not to tense when they're about to stab you with a needle and inject the corpses of dead viruses into your blood stream?!!"
Kale tackled Kat down and during their brawl they knocked over the poor man who attacked all three girls. Kale looked up I time to see him about to stab through them, grabbed Kat; wrapping his legs around her, rolled her to safety. He untangled himself and raced towards the attacker. Trying to figure out why he was now only in his subarmor, he called his full armor and attacked.
Meanwhile, Anjel decided to touch the nice man, with Kento on his back, so that he could get to safety. She came up to him and placed her hand on Kento's forehead; then tapped a finger on the nice man's nose.
He blinked. "Weren't you just getting attacked by the guy that Corruption is destroying?" Anjel smiled and led him to a safe spot away from the all-but-frozen battle scene. "And why isn't anyone moving?" he asked, looking around, after putting Kento down.
"There're people moving. I'm moving, you're moving, Kale's moving, the person who's losing the battles is moving, Ami and Kat are moving; Kento would be moving if he was conscious"
"Well, what about them?" he pointed to the stationary warriors.
Anjel shook her head and asked, "What's your name?"
"It's Mikal," he answered, distracted.
"I'm Anjel!" she yelled to his back as he raced over to one guy and studied him.
Finally, he just punched the guy and the man fell. Mikal studied the guy who was now in just his subarmor.
"Find Aussie and push him downnot too hard. Bring him to me. He should be on the sidelines if he followed my orders." The man nodded and raced off, ignoring the other helpless men.
Satisfied that he would bring back Aussie, Mikal walked back over to Anjel, who was now trying to wake Kento up. He doubted she'd man and was relieved. He'd thought he'd have to give a good explanation for talking with the "enemy." He grinned.
"Kento! Kento!! Wake up Kento!!" she called to him.
Kento opened his eyes slowly and blinked. Who is this girl in front of him? He asked himself.
Kento?
Yes Sage?
What did you think you were doing?!! Going off alone with Dais!! You should've called us when you were attacked?
Kento shrugged and studied the girl. Who's this girl? he asked Sage, telepathically.
What's she look like?
She's blonde and
That's Anjel.
How do you know?
Boy do we have a lot to tell youbut first we need to win. So if you don't mind?
Okay, okay. "Anjel, we need to keep you away from the battle, okay?"
"How'd you know my name?" she asked.
"I've been trying to keep her away from the fight. But now you're awake Hardrock; it's your turn."
Kento studied the man. "Who are you?"
The man stood a little taller then Kale, with black hair lying about his ears. When the man turned to look at Anjel, Kento noticed a streak of silver that had been hidden from sight earlier. The man looked back at him with cool grey eyes.
"Does it matter?" he asked.
"Which side are you on?" Kento got to the point.
"Think about it silly! He protected me and carried you to safety. Whose side do you think he's on?" Anjel grinned.
Kat and Ami raced over to Anjel and glared at Mikal. "Who's this?"
"Are you okay, Anjel?" Kat asked.
"I'm fine. And this isWhere'd he go?" Anjel asked, looking around.
Kento frowned. "The only people here are our people And they're What happened to them?!!"
Ami and Kat, both pointing at Anjel, said, "Anjel happened to them."
Kento, incredulously, "Anjel?" They all turned to Anjel.
"Iwell, you seeoops?"
Kat grinned. "We've discovered that although we can't touch them and wake them up like Anjel can, if they're attacked they wake up I their subarmor."
"How?" Kento asked, staring as Kale gave a final blow to the now-dead body.
"I yelled out Pure Freeze, like the Ancient told me and well" Anjel's voice trailed off.
Kale walked up behind her. "First of all, you shouldn't be able to do your sure kill attack without your full armor; second of all, when you yellfocus on a person or certain people!! Look at the havoc you caused!!"
Kat stepped in between the two. "Don't yell at her!"
"And you, Neko-Baka!! You and I need to talk. Now!" Kale glared at her while Ami talked to Kento.
Anjel walked off, determined to help everyone. She looked at Sehkmet, floating in the air, mid-attack, and shrugged.
"UmSehkie?" She tapped his foot.
One instant Sehkmet was sprawled on the floor in an interesting landing place and the next he was on top of her. He blinked. "Anjel?" he whispered. "WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE?!!" Breathing hard, he got up off her and helped her to her feet. Trying to calm down, he said, "You could be hurtPeople will attack andWhat happened?" He stared around in shock.
"Why don't you go talk to them?" She pointed at the people she'd just left. "And get them to help wake everyone up."
She was walking off towards Rowen, when she heard Sehkmet yell with a grin, "wake him up with a kiss. That should shock him!" Anjel shrugged and kissed Rowen on the cheek.
Rowen blinked, and turned pink. Then watching his arrow fall, glanced to see who kissed him. "Anjel?" He seemed surprised.
"Yes?"
"Did you just? Nevermind" He picked up his arrow and looked at Ryo. "Couldn't we just leave him there?" Then seeing Anjel shake her head no, punched Ryo, toppling him over.
"W-what?" Ryo looked down to see himself in only his subarmor, and looked back up at the grinning Rowen. Without sparing a glance at Anjel, he attacked Rowen.
Anjel watched, upset. "Oh dear."