Author's Note: Woohoo! We got some action, angst, and FINALLY romance in this painfully long chapter, as well as some... um, surprises. Yeah. ^^ I should really get around to updating Mortal Aeon though... I haven't done so in too long. Anyway, here we go!
Gi wished he could be anywhere in the world at this moment besides here in Nivora Ravine. Back in the Floating Castle, in his lonely chamber, standing tall in a sea of corpses drowned in blood ... the Valley of Noaru, in Vahn's arms...
He wished he could pine over anyone in the world besides Vahn. He was the one that had sparked his interest in the same gender out of nowhere, when he thought he'd be marrying a woman that was united with a Seru. When he thought he would live a miserably ever after in the kingdom of the Mist that he and his siblings had helped Zora create, maybe even continue the story of his need for carnage and chaos. But the story had ended too many chapters ago when he saw Vahn and his life was filled with these depressing pages that told of a romance he would never, ever have.
And that's why, when the cavern shook with the impact of the TimeSpace Bomb that was set all the way down at the entrance to the ravine, anything that he was thinking had been pushed to the back of his mind -- and all that ran through his mind was, "He's finally here. He's finally coming to destroy me."
Maybe Gi had been destroyed so long ago that he didn't remember it ... because when Che got to his feet first and swung his mighty weapon over his shoulder, neither he nor Lu moved from where they sat. Che looked confused for a minute, past the dangerous grin he wore, before speaking. "The hell's the matter with you two? They're here!" His voice boomed out into the silence, only to come back at him from all other angles.
He muttered something along the lines of "I give up" as he turned away from them, raising his free arm into the air and shaking his head. His heavy footsteps echoed out as he marched alone towards where the Thunder Cavern entrance was, stopping when he took position. It was a while before Gi finally got to his feet and kept his head bowed and eyes closed as he had been when he was sitting. "Are you going to fight him?" Lu asked softly, knowing that if she said it any louder, his sanity would come crashing down.
"No, I'm not," he replied. "I'm going to go see him and let him do whatever the bloody hell he wants to me. If he won't fight me because I'm not challenging him, so be it. If he takes advantage of this and tears me limb from limb, so be it. I'd rather die than be here wondering if he doesn't hate me after all. You can go on and chose for yourself, even help Zora destroy Karisto and build her own kingdom. She should've just done it herself instead of making us do her stupid dirty work. And she can't hurt me or anything ... I'm too far below humanity to even reach. When you can't see the light and you've fallen so hard for the enemy like this, life just isn't worth it anymore." On the last depression note of his speech, he sank to his knees with a gloved fist to his chest, and disappeared in a blue diagonal blur.
Lu could only sit there in shock, knowing her eyes had brimmed with tears and her mouth had dropped open, contemplating the words that had hit her so hard... She would follow his footsteps for once. She scrambled to her knees and bowed her head, becoming a pink blur that raced towards the Wind Cave entrance.
When she got there, she looked across to see that Gi had just settled upon a ridge high above the Fire Cave entrance, right knee cocked up and the same arm slung over it. His eyes penetrated the eternal darkness as they always did, though distant and wide like she had never seen them before. He looked as if he caught sight of Vahn, he would slide right off the cliff and into some uncontrollable insanity.
For as long as they'd been living, Lu and her siblings had been following Zora's orders without question and hadn't even stopped once to think that maybe what they were doing was wrong or hurt other people. Did they even know how many innocent lives they ended in a flash of light that emitted from each of their Seru and a crescent of bright red life-liquid? It seemed to her now that Gi was the wisest of the trio ... realizing his mistakes and the path of life that he had wandered down. Though it was too late to mend the gaping wounds they made, they could always reflect and comment breathlessly, in a state of irreversible shock...
*We've always been wrong. And now we're trying to do things correctly, and we're still wrong...*
High-pitched giggles bouncing off the Wind Cave's stone walls jarred Lu to her senses, and her violet eyes went wider than she ever thought they could have gone. She stood from her place, hands loose and refraining from curling into fists to duel with, and looked down at the small area where Noa soon rushed into.
The excited girl danced on her tiptoes, a wide smile across her face. "We did it Terra! We're finally at Koru! Ye~ah!" Terra, on the other hand, was giving off uncertainty that Noa's mind picked up. *You're just saying that to cover up what you feel,* she finally replied.
Noa's smile dropped like it had been attached to an anvil, weighing down her mood with it. The truth always hurt the most, didn't it? But she had to learn to deal with the truth and stop hiding from the pain that it carried -- and did just that. Her hand flexed, cracking her wrist and fingers, shifting ever so slightly the feral that was fixed on top of it. *Go ahead and call for her. You have to be prepared.*
She took a brave step forward, and then another, her feet making no sound upon the cold stone beneath them. "Lu, I ... I know you're here! Come and show yourself!" she yelled, recoiling at the sound of her own voice saying those threatening words. A pink flash came from the cliff above the entrance, catching her attention. It was Lu, who looked like she was walking to her own death...
Before Vahn could even enter his sight, Gi looked worse. All color had left his skin and his body was slumped over as he sat in wait, like he was already dead. A corpse left with his eyes wide open and adjusted in sitting position. Sooner or later he was going to fall off the edge and break -- both physical and mental edges.
Che was nowhere to be seen because he was planning to spring out and ambush Gala like there was no tomorrow. There probably was no tomorrow for them, but Gi seriously didn't feel like sharing that fact with his siblings.
There came the echoes of footsteps from the Fire Cave, and Gi's eyes glazed over. Concerned about him, Lu looked his way. He had frozen completely, and in one swift motion had rose to his feet, standing motionless and cold like a statue. Vahn emerged from the cave, with Meta glowing his normal color as he talked. *Are you ready, Vahn? You know what may happen, or what may not. Please, just be yourself and do this...*
Vahn nodded weakly and balled his hands into fists, letting his knuckles crack. His voice called out at such a loss of confidence that he expected Gi to roll out any minute, clutching his gut in hysterical laughter. "I know you're here, and there's something I need to tell you. Right now. I don't care if you behead me right now, but just come out and show yourself!"
*My god ... that sounded so stupid...*
And then it happened. Two ruby orbs pierced the darkness no more than ten feet from Vahn, and the echoes of footfalls invaded his ears. "There's something I need to tell you as well," came a low and smooth voice that made his entire body feel weak. Booted feet pulled a tall and sculpted body into view, which didn't help the Ra-Seru hero's situation either. "Finally, I get to see you again," he said rather calmly.
Wondering if he wanted a response from that, the words stuck in Vahn's throat and out came a nonsense croak that struggled for a voice. He cleared his throat a few times, and swallowed hard. Where to start...? "Listen, Gi," he began. "Let me just get this off my chest right now before your dagger goes through it. You haven't stood in my way at all, and you've done nothing to earn my hatred. You've only earned my..." He tapered off there, unable to complete the sentence.
But Gi tried to change the subject. Just a bit. "You would hate a man that does his job like this, though," he said with a loose shrug. "My job is to stop you. To kill you. To build the kingdom of the Mist on the very ground we're standing on now. And I can't quit, because it would mean my life." Something in there had struck a bad chord with Vahn, and he recoiled like he had been punched across the face. "But I guess that would make -your- job a hell of a lot easier, wouldn't it?"
Vahn froze. His body was shaking from the impact of emotions hitting him all at once. Meta went quiet as well, from the quiet gasping that he had never paid attention to.
"Wouldn't it, Vahn?"
That did it. His vision blurred and he raced towards Gi with the gears in his head wheeling at the speed of light, instantly grabbing at the fabric of his shirt collar and twisting it within his angrily confused grasp. "No, it wouldn't!" he screamed. "I don't want to kill you! I can't bring myself to hate you under any circumstance, and I really don't care about my mission anymore! As long as I'm suffering this way, the world isn't worth saving at all!" When he regained some sense, he realized that hot tears were spilling down his cheeks uncontrollably, and that Gi didn't anything along the lines of cold and unforgiving ... or confused.
No ... he looked like he completely understood...
His eyes were no longer hard and glazed, focused upon one thing with amounts of fear, but now as soft as those of the quivering boy that was leaning against him. Like any minute now, he would cry too. "So you feel the same way too," he said distantly, emotions undetected in his voice. Vahn looked up, wondering if he felt as stupid as he must have looked, and tried to fight back the tears. "You ... you too?" he asked, sounding far from surprise, and Gi could do nothing but nod.
Every bone in his body seemed to go limp -- well, you couldn't call -that- thing a bone, and it certainly wasn't limp -- making him collapse, using the taller young man as his support. "So I've been suffering and killing myself for absolutely nothing," he mumbled into Gi's shirt. "For too long I thought that you've hated me, and that these efforts would be for nothing. But now..." He'd never been hit by something so hard, and found it hard to finish through the pain that suddenly came at him. But Gi didn't need him to, and brought his arms tight around Vahn. "It's all right," he whispered, hoping to ease the emotions that had obviously been pent up for a long time.
Not too far away from them, the same sort of problem was going on with Lu and Noa. Noa not being able to properly argue with Lu's wanting to die already, she was quick to dissolve into tears. "I'm telling you, Lu!" she yelled, shaking her head, releasing the tears from her eyes that were to journey down her cheeks. "I'm not going to kill you no matter what you say! I can't!"
But Lu, on the other hand, was bent on reversing her mistakes only by erasing them with her miserable existance. "Please, Noa," she pleaded with a hopelessness that would have made Lady Zora sick. But did she care anymore? No. "Just one stab and it'll be over ... it won't hurt me a bit." At that, Noa kept on shaking her head until her neck hurt, and she thought she was going to go crazy. "I WON'T!" she screamed, collapsing to her knees. "I can't do that to you, Lu! There's something inside of me that won't allow me even if I wanted to! I..." She stopped to try and catch her breath, hiccuping once. But she couldn't continue even then, through her hysterics.
Lu kneeled beside the girl and wound her arms tight around her shaking form. "If I could help you save the world, then I would die," she whispered fiercely. "It's better if I just left this world already so I wouldn't have to deal with this. Nobody would want me around, right...?" Noa's head instantly popped up, her high ponytail of pink tresses flying backwards. "That's not true!" she cried. "I would! Please understand!" She herself didn't understand, because she threw her arms under Lu's and buried her head in her chest. It had been since her very early childhood that she had been cared for in any sense, and right now that was all she wanted. And right now... that was all that Lu wanted, too. To sit just like this, feeling like something had been resolved.
Screams seemed to be coming from around the cavern, nobody paying attention to one another but their ex-rivals, like all hell had been torn loose between just six people. And the only ones who had actually fought were Gala and Che, with Che losing just as expected in the battle between real good and evil. Gala stood over the fallen warrior as he lay on the ground, trying to take in oxygen, but to no avail. "Why don't you ... just finish me already?" he gasped. "I'm going to die anyway ... so stop my suffering right now." Gala continued to stare down at him, feeling no regret -- but he couldn't end his life like this, either.
"Biron does not allow the senseless death of one who is critically injured," he stated coldly. And he turned away, folding his arms across his chest, refusing to hear another word of it. Che weakly reached an arm up, placing his hand flat on the ground, and attempted to push himself up. "You're a coward," he growled quietly. "I asked you to kill me, and you refuse." He almost got a knee up, but he just fell back down again with a loud grunt of pain.
Gala cast a glance over his shoulder, smirking somewhat cruelly. "I'd rather watch you suffer so that you know how it feels," he said. For someone who was usually merciful and a pacifist unless forced, Gala was acting very strange. On something of a bright side, at least he wasn't drowning in his own tears like his comrades were.
But something suddenly wasn't letting Gi surrender already and transfer sides. Even if it killed him due to the lack of Mist, unless he separated the parasitic Seru from his soul, he would gladly die knowing that he had helped Vahn. Something at this very moment was consuming him as he hugged the hero close ... something he didn't trust. And that's why he pulled away, leaving Vahn with a curious look.
His head began to buzz and ring, rattling his senses, and his vision began to blur with an evil sort of crimson hue. He staggered backwards, clutching his head, and groaning in pain. "W-what's wrong?" Vahn stammered, reaching out to try and hold Gi on balance. But Gi stepped backwards, shaking his head madly. "Get away from me ... please ... she's going to make me kill you..." His entire body shook violently and his eyes slammed shut.
Vahn didn't retreat at all -- rather, he moved towards him, guard up and arms extended. "She who?" he asked. Gi's head shot up and his eyes flew open, now a pair of hideous black voids that would have shimmered like diamonds of malice if they would allow any light through. "I said get away! NOW!" he yelled.
It hit him like a blow to the head with a brick, and he immediately backed away into the nearest cavern wall. *Zora is trying ... to turn him against me, isn't she?*
And things only got worse. As Noa had pulled Lu to standing position, her body had shaken as well and her voice had dropped to a lower tone. Her eyes were blank just like that of her brother's ... as well as Che's, who had suddenly stood from his slow and painful death of bleeding upon the ground.
For the first time in hours, Vahn looked to his right to see Noa in the same position as he, looking more scared and confused than he did.
For the first time ever, the Delilas siblings were their true rivals.
Told ya so! ^^ Woohoo, I'm really starting to love this story and where it's gonna go. I hope you will, too~.
Gi wished he could be anywhere in the world at this moment besides here in Nivora Ravine. Back in the Floating Castle, in his lonely chamber, standing tall in a sea of corpses drowned in blood ... the Valley of Noaru, in Vahn's arms...
He wished he could pine over anyone in the world besides Vahn. He was the one that had sparked his interest in the same gender out of nowhere, when he thought he'd be marrying a woman that was united with a Seru. When he thought he would live a miserably ever after in the kingdom of the Mist that he and his siblings had helped Zora create, maybe even continue the story of his need for carnage and chaos. But the story had ended too many chapters ago when he saw Vahn and his life was filled with these depressing pages that told of a romance he would never, ever have.
And that's why, when the cavern shook with the impact of the TimeSpace Bomb that was set all the way down at the entrance to the ravine, anything that he was thinking had been pushed to the back of his mind -- and all that ran through his mind was, "He's finally here. He's finally coming to destroy me."
Maybe Gi had been destroyed so long ago that he didn't remember it ... because when Che got to his feet first and swung his mighty weapon over his shoulder, neither he nor Lu moved from where they sat. Che looked confused for a minute, past the dangerous grin he wore, before speaking. "The hell's the matter with you two? They're here!" His voice boomed out into the silence, only to come back at him from all other angles.
He muttered something along the lines of "I give up" as he turned away from them, raising his free arm into the air and shaking his head. His heavy footsteps echoed out as he marched alone towards where the Thunder Cavern entrance was, stopping when he took position. It was a while before Gi finally got to his feet and kept his head bowed and eyes closed as he had been when he was sitting. "Are you going to fight him?" Lu asked softly, knowing that if she said it any louder, his sanity would come crashing down.
"No, I'm not," he replied. "I'm going to go see him and let him do whatever the bloody hell he wants to me. If he won't fight me because I'm not challenging him, so be it. If he takes advantage of this and tears me limb from limb, so be it. I'd rather die than be here wondering if he doesn't hate me after all. You can go on and chose for yourself, even help Zora destroy Karisto and build her own kingdom. She should've just done it herself instead of making us do her stupid dirty work. And she can't hurt me or anything ... I'm too far below humanity to even reach. When you can't see the light and you've fallen so hard for the enemy like this, life just isn't worth it anymore." On the last depression note of his speech, he sank to his knees with a gloved fist to his chest, and disappeared in a blue diagonal blur.
Lu could only sit there in shock, knowing her eyes had brimmed with tears and her mouth had dropped open, contemplating the words that had hit her so hard... She would follow his footsteps for once. She scrambled to her knees and bowed her head, becoming a pink blur that raced towards the Wind Cave entrance.
When she got there, she looked across to see that Gi had just settled upon a ridge high above the Fire Cave entrance, right knee cocked up and the same arm slung over it. His eyes penetrated the eternal darkness as they always did, though distant and wide like she had never seen them before. He looked as if he caught sight of Vahn, he would slide right off the cliff and into some uncontrollable insanity.
For as long as they'd been living, Lu and her siblings had been following Zora's orders without question and hadn't even stopped once to think that maybe what they were doing was wrong or hurt other people. Did they even know how many innocent lives they ended in a flash of light that emitted from each of their Seru and a crescent of bright red life-liquid? It seemed to her now that Gi was the wisest of the trio ... realizing his mistakes and the path of life that he had wandered down. Though it was too late to mend the gaping wounds they made, they could always reflect and comment breathlessly, in a state of irreversible shock...
*We've always been wrong. And now we're trying to do things correctly, and we're still wrong...*
High-pitched giggles bouncing off the Wind Cave's stone walls jarred Lu to her senses, and her violet eyes went wider than she ever thought they could have gone. She stood from her place, hands loose and refraining from curling into fists to duel with, and looked down at the small area where Noa soon rushed into.
The excited girl danced on her tiptoes, a wide smile across her face. "We did it Terra! We're finally at Koru! Ye~ah!" Terra, on the other hand, was giving off uncertainty that Noa's mind picked up. *You're just saying that to cover up what you feel,* she finally replied.
Noa's smile dropped like it had been attached to an anvil, weighing down her mood with it. The truth always hurt the most, didn't it? But she had to learn to deal with the truth and stop hiding from the pain that it carried -- and did just that. Her hand flexed, cracking her wrist and fingers, shifting ever so slightly the feral that was fixed on top of it. *Go ahead and call for her. You have to be prepared.*
She took a brave step forward, and then another, her feet making no sound upon the cold stone beneath them. "Lu, I ... I know you're here! Come and show yourself!" she yelled, recoiling at the sound of her own voice saying those threatening words. A pink flash came from the cliff above the entrance, catching her attention. It was Lu, who looked like she was walking to her own death...
Before Vahn could even enter his sight, Gi looked worse. All color had left his skin and his body was slumped over as he sat in wait, like he was already dead. A corpse left with his eyes wide open and adjusted in sitting position. Sooner or later he was going to fall off the edge and break -- both physical and mental edges.
Che was nowhere to be seen because he was planning to spring out and ambush Gala like there was no tomorrow. There probably was no tomorrow for them, but Gi seriously didn't feel like sharing that fact with his siblings.
There came the echoes of footsteps from the Fire Cave, and Gi's eyes glazed over. Concerned about him, Lu looked his way. He had frozen completely, and in one swift motion had rose to his feet, standing motionless and cold like a statue. Vahn emerged from the cave, with Meta glowing his normal color as he talked. *Are you ready, Vahn? You know what may happen, or what may not. Please, just be yourself and do this...*
Vahn nodded weakly and balled his hands into fists, letting his knuckles crack. His voice called out at such a loss of confidence that he expected Gi to roll out any minute, clutching his gut in hysterical laughter. "I know you're here, and there's something I need to tell you. Right now. I don't care if you behead me right now, but just come out and show yourself!"
*My god ... that sounded so stupid...*
And then it happened. Two ruby orbs pierced the darkness no more than ten feet from Vahn, and the echoes of footfalls invaded his ears. "There's something I need to tell you as well," came a low and smooth voice that made his entire body feel weak. Booted feet pulled a tall and sculpted body into view, which didn't help the Ra-Seru hero's situation either. "Finally, I get to see you again," he said rather calmly.
Wondering if he wanted a response from that, the words stuck in Vahn's throat and out came a nonsense croak that struggled for a voice. He cleared his throat a few times, and swallowed hard. Where to start...? "Listen, Gi," he began. "Let me just get this off my chest right now before your dagger goes through it. You haven't stood in my way at all, and you've done nothing to earn my hatred. You've only earned my..." He tapered off there, unable to complete the sentence.
But Gi tried to change the subject. Just a bit. "You would hate a man that does his job like this, though," he said with a loose shrug. "My job is to stop you. To kill you. To build the kingdom of the Mist on the very ground we're standing on now. And I can't quit, because it would mean my life." Something in there had struck a bad chord with Vahn, and he recoiled like he had been punched across the face. "But I guess that would make -your- job a hell of a lot easier, wouldn't it?"
Vahn froze. His body was shaking from the impact of emotions hitting him all at once. Meta went quiet as well, from the quiet gasping that he had never paid attention to.
"Wouldn't it, Vahn?"
That did it. His vision blurred and he raced towards Gi with the gears in his head wheeling at the speed of light, instantly grabbing at the fabric of his shirt collar and twisting it within his angrily confused grasp. "No, it wouldn't!" he screamed. "I don't want to kill you! I can't bring myself to hate you under any circumstance, and I really don't care about my mission anymore! As long as I'm suffering this way, the world isn't worth saving at all!" When he regained some sense, he realized that hot tears were spilling down his cheeks uncontrollably, and that Gi didn't anything along the lines of cold and unforgiving ... or confused.
No ... he looked like he completely understood...
His eyes were no longer hard and glazed, focused upon one thing with amounts of fear, but now as soft as those of the quivering boy that was leaning against him. Like any minute now, he would cry too. "So you feel the same way too," he said distantly, emotions undetected in his voice. Vahn looked up, wondering if he felt as stupid as he must have looked, and tried to fight back the tears. "You ... you too?" he asked, sounding far from surprise, and Gi could do nothing but nod.
Every bone in his body seemed to go limp -- well, you couldn't call -that- thing a bone, and it certainly wasn't limp -- making him collapse, using the taller young man as his support. "So I've been suffering and killing myself for absolutely nothing," he mumbled into Gi's shirt. "For too long I thought that you've hated me, and that these efforts would be for nothing. But now..." He'd never been hit by something so hard, and found it hard to finish through the pain that suddenly came at him. But Gi didn't need him to, and brought his arms tight around Vahn. "It's all right," he whispered, hoping to ease the emotions that had obviously been pent up for a long time.
Not too far away from them, the same sort of problem was going on with Lu and Noa. Noa not being able to properly argue with Lu's wanting to die already, she was quick to dissolve into tears. "I'm telling you, Lu!" she yelled, shaking her head, releasing the tears from her eyes that were to journey down her cheeks. "I'm not going to kill you no matter what you say! I can't!"
But Lu, on the other hand, was bent on reversing her mistakes only by erasing them with her miserable existance. "Please, Noa," she pleaded with a hopelessness that would have made Lady Zora sick. But did she care anymore? No. "Just one stab and it'll be over ... it won't hurt me a bit." At that, Noa kept on shaking her head until her neck hurt, and she thought she was going to go crazy. "I WON'T!" she screamed, collapsing to her knees. "I can't do that to you, Lu! There's something inside of me that won't allow me even if I wanted to! I..." She stopped to try and catch her breath, hiccuping once. But she couldn't continue even then, through her hysterics.
Lu kneeled beside the girl and wound her arms tight around her shaking form. "If I could help you save the world, then I would die," she whispered fiercely. "It's better if I just left this world already so I wouldn't have to deal with this. Nobody would want me around, right...?" Noa's head instantly popped up, her high ponytail of pink tresses flying backwards. "That's not true!" she cried. "I would! Please understand!" She herself didn't understand, because she threw her arms under Lu's and buried her head in her chest. It had been since her very early childhood that she had been cared for in any sense, and right now that was all she wanted. And right now... that was all that Lu wanted, too. To sit just like this, feeling like something had been resolved.
Screams seemed to be coming from around the cavern, nobody paying attention to one another but their ex-rivals, like all hell had been torn loose between just six people. And the only ones who had actually fought were Gala and Che, with Che losing just as expected in the battle between real good and evil. Gala stood over the fallen warrior as he lay on the ground, trying to take in oxygen, but to no avail. "Why don't you ... just finish me already?" he gasped. "I'm going to die anyway ... so stop my suffering right now." Gala continued to stare down at him, feeling no regret -- but he couldn't end his life like this, either.
"Biron does not allow the senseless death of one who is critically injured," he stated coldly. And he turned away, folding his arms across his chest, refusing to hear another word of it. Che weakly reached an arm up, placing his hand flat on the ground, and attempted to push himself up. "You're a coward," he growled quietly. "I asked you to kill me, and you refuse." He almost got a knee up, but he just fell back down again with a loud grunt of pain.
Gala cast a glance over his shoulder, smirking somewhat cruelly. "I'd rather watch you suffer so that you know how it feels," he said. For someone who was usually merciful and a pacifist unless forced, Gala was acting very strange. On something of a bright side, at least he wasn't drowning in his own tears like his comrades were.
But something suddenly wasn't letting Gi surrender already and transfer sides. Even if it killed him due to the lack of Mist, unless he separated the parasitic Seru from his soul, he would gladly die knowing that he had helped Vahn. Something at this very moment was consuming him as he hugged the hero close ... something he didn't trust. And that's why he pulled away, leaving Vahn with a curious look.
His head began to buzz and ring, rattling his senses, and his vision began to blur with an evil sort of crimson hue. He staggered backwards, clutching his head, and groaning in pain. "W-what's wrong?" Vahn stammered, reaching out to try and hold Gi on balance. But Gi stepped backwards, shaking his head madly. "Get away from me ... please ... she's going to make me kill you..." His entire body shook violently and his eyes slammed shut.
Vahn didn't retreat at all -- rather, he moved towards him, guard up and arms extended. "She who?" he asked. Gi's head shot up and his eyes flew open, now a pair of hideous black voids that would have shimmered like diamonds of malice if they would allow any light through. "I said get away! NOW!" he yelled.
It hit him like a blow to the head with a brick, and he immediately backed away into the nearest cavern wall. *Zora is trying ... to turn him against me, isn't she?*
And things only got worse. As Noa had pulled Lu to standing position, her body had shaken as well and her voice had dropped to a lower tone. Her eyes were blank just like that of her brother's ... as well as Che's, who had suddenly stood from his slow and painful death of bleeding upon the ground.
For the first time in hours, Vahn looked to his right to see Noa in the same position as he, looking more scared and confused than he did.
For the first time ever, the Delilas siblings were their true rivals.
Told ya so! ^^ Woohoo, I'm really starting to love this story and where it's gonna go. I hope you will, too~.
