14: Merciless Une
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where'd you learn how to be so complacent?
They beat you downand you might as well face it,
your heroes lied yeah they're all just a fake,
don't know how much more of this I can take
we're gonna need some action,
we're gonna need some action soon,
trapped in a world of ordinary madness,
it's all the same, yeah its' nothing new
(Powerman 5000; Action)
Une twirled her scythe around lazily while she kept her crimson gaze transfixed on the two Ronin's standing before her.
She glanced at Rowen knowing he'd be a tough opponent to defeat since he was the only one conscious wearing his armor.
Une's crimson red eyes shifted toward the defenseless Sage and his youngest sister Satsuki, he would be far too easy to disable or kill him along with his sister.
He wasn't wearing his armor nor his subarmor since she absorbed it along with the liquid deamons. //Might has well warm up this new and improved body// She thought shrugging. Sage and Rowen stepped back fearfully as Une spread her batwings twirling her scythe once again, the hair on the back of Rowen's neck stood upright sending a frightening feeling down his spine.
Une's wings began to flap at an extremely high rate, the dust began to rise from the ground and the trees began to sway violently. Satsuki quivered fearfully as the bow of her hair became undone and her flowing blonde hair fell against her back and over her shoulders.
No sooner than that happened Une bolted from her spot causing a powerful blast of wind to wash over their surrounding area, Rowen's head jerked in Sage's direction catching a glimpse of glowing scythe blade hovering over Sage and his sister.
Wasting no time Rowen summoned his bow from the unconscious Dais' grasp and aimed blindly for where he hoped would be Une cloaking herself from the human eye, it appeared clamped in his right hand before he positioned himself and the bow. He pulled back the taught string along with the arrow and released his powered up arrow-shock wave attack making contact with his invisible target.
In a flash of blinding light Une's figure was engulfed by the attack's explosion sending her crashing to the ground in a sideways manner screaming. Rowen lowered his bow searching for Une before he noticed Sage kneeling on the ground with his body shielding his little sister. Sage's white dress shirt was singed but that was about it. "Sage, get out of here! I'll take care of Une!" Rowen shouted grabbing several arrows from his back.
Sage's head shot up in surprise with a mixture of confusion, he knew he no longer had his armor but that didn't mean he couldn't help his friends out. Rowen's scowl deepened noticing two black wings emerge from the dust that surrounded them. "But.....," Sage began but he was abruptly cut off by his blue haired friend.
"Please! I can't fight and worry about the two of you as well!!" Rowen snapped loosing his patience. Sage seemed to be in a trance, was Rowen implying that he was weak? Sage's pride and anger were silenced when he felt his sister tug at the collar of his shirt. "Niisan, please can we go?! I'm scared!" She pleaded with her brother tugging at his collar again.
Pushing his frustrations aside, Sage picked his sister up from under her arms quickly putting her into a comfortable position letting the 7-year-old wrap her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck just as the wind picked up again blowing the dust that hung in the air away.
Knowing he could use the dust as a cover for their escape Sage tightened his grip around his sister and rushed through a dust cloud and into the tree populated area of the park. Satsuki held onto the back of her brother's shirt hoping Mr. Rowen would be okay.
Rowen watched Sage's departing figure with a sense of relief. I hope Sage didn't take what I said the wrong way. He thought turning his attention toward Une who sat on upon the ground on her knees with her fists on the ground.
The blue-haired teenager looked around himself, there had to be a way to wake Kento, Cye, and Ryo up without alerting Une in some obvious way. I've got it! Rowen closed his eyes focusing his mind on his three friends knowing he could wake them up mentally instead of physically.
//Rowen whaddya want? My dream was getting really good!// Rowen smirked, Kento was being usual-self as always. //No time for dreaming Kento, I need you and other's guys' help! Wake up pronto!//
Rowen shouted tapping his foot. There was a grunt of protest from Kento but he obliged to Rowen's request and slowly became aware of everything around him along with Cye and Ryo.
With a satisfied grunt Rowen opened his eyes expecting to find Une in the same place she was before but soon discovered the woman no longer resided there. His midnight blue eyes widened in confusion as he began to scan the area for any movement.
"Where'd she go?" He muttered irritably. A gust of wind answered his question, Rowen turned around one minute too late. Une floated before him upside down with a cooked smirk on her face.
Rowen was frightened beyond his comprehension to the extent that he didn't even feel the woman place her hand on his chest. "Your armor is mine.....," She uttered firing a stun blast against his chest sending Rowen flying across the ground.
Rowen's body skidded to a halt his head hit the ground hard but he managed to remain conscious. Shit. He thought holding his head in his hand before feeling a familiar frabic slide down his shoulder.
Rowen's midnight blue eyes tripled in size realizing he no longer wore his armor nor subarmor, just his school uniform! The boy scrambled to his feet unable to comprehend what had just happened along with what he had discovered, before his eyes bore into Une's crimson ones.
The woman shook her head with a tisk rasing her scythe toward his shoulder, Rowen raised his arm upward and tried to shove the woman away from him; Une didn't budge an inch while she hooked the blade up on the inside of his shirt pulling it back up on his shoulder like a nanny who watched a parents scruffy unruly little boy.
Rowen had totally forgotten where he was in a second flat; he felt like a 7-year-old boy again, but his feeling was abruptly ended by a blow to the head from the butt of Une's scythe.
Rowen fell sideways, holding one arm out Une caught the blue-haired teenager with ease before deciding to drop him. With a girlish 'humfph!' Une's arm returned to her side and Rowen's body collapsed onto the ground with a sickening thud.
Une examined the dark blue aura of the Strata armor around her before looking down at Rowen with a smug expression. "Idiot," She uttered plainly turning her attention to the seemingly other unconscious teenagers, when a powerful blast of water collided with her body sending her reeling into the ground leaving a creator where she laid on the ground. Une opened her eyes gazing down at the ground dejectedly, she watched a small puddle of blood that drizzled from her busted lip form below.
"Nice one Cye, I think you nailed her good that time," Kento snickered tapping his Bo against his foot with a smirk. Ryo rolled his eyes slapping Kento on the arm in a playful way while Cye kept his eye on the unmoving Une. He tapped Ryo on the shoulder with a stern expression. Ryo shifted his gaze toward Cye with a curious expression when the English-accented boy pointed his finger toward all those who were unconscious;
Kayura, the warlords, Rowen, and Mina. Ryo knew exactly what his friend wanted him to do and decided to asked what he was getting at. "How exactly do you want us to carry six people out of here eh?" He asked. Kento nodded in agreement wanting to know as well. Cye was quiet for a moment and then shrugged, both his friends fell over with their feet in the air.
Cye gave them an apologetic look as they regained their composure with shooting glares at the teen. "Bloody hell, I'm not the Almighty one above for cripies sake! Get off your sodding bums and help the others!" Cye demanded unaware he had barked several British terms at them.
"What did he just say?" Kento wondered while straining his brain trying to figure out the English terminology's. Ryo shrugged rushing past Cye toward Mina. The bearer of Wildfire kneeled beside the girl with a faint pink shade of blush across his cheeks as he tried to pick the girl up and fling her over his shoulder, that however proved to be an impossible task.
So instead of trying to fling her over his shoulder he scooped the girl up in his arms like the groom would do with his bride. Ryo went red in the face at the sheer thought of a wedding.
Me & Mina, married..... Mina Sanada......"My Bride," Ryo said aloud before he felt the stinging pain of a slap. The raven-haired boy blinked back his tears staring into the face that might has well had belonged to the Grim Reaper himself.
"Mina..... whatcha do that for?!" He almost shouted at her. Mina folded her arms across her chest turning her nose up at him, Ryo shrugged pretending to be unaffected by her slap and advanced his way over to Kayura before he realized the woman was getting up cursing several foul words before using her staff to lift herself from the ground cursing some more.
Ryo's eyebrows raised in question as he came up to Kayura, the dark blue haired woman dusted her arms free of all dirt. //I don't know why I bother to help these mortals// Kayura thought in annoyance before turning to meet the slightly amused and confused gazes' of Ryo and Mina.
This of course the wielder of the staff ignored their looks stepping back slightly as Kento came over holding Dais and Shekmet over his shoulders, while he held Rowen and Cale by their wrists; their bodies laid limp on the ground.
Ryo gave Kento a look that meant he wanted the bulky teen to treat their allies and friend with a little more regard to their well-being, Kento rolled his eyes directing the front of his foot toward the woman before him.
"Hey Kayura, are we gonna get outa here or what?" He asked impatiently feeling his shoulders beginning to ache. "As of now, Hardrock. Patience," Kayura uttered raising her staff over her head. There was a moment of silence before the rings began to ring uncontrollably creating a deafening sound that surrounded their bodies as the orb upon the staff emitted beams of golden light that moved around everyone in a spiral motion alerting Une of her surrounding area and the situation at hand snapping her out of the blood-transfixed line of sight.
Cye waved to his friends without turning around, Mina waved back with a smile angering Ryo slightly who managed to hide that feeling before the staff teleported him and the rest of Ronins' and immortal's to another place in Hong Kong.
Cye gave a relieved sigh knowing they were beyond Une's grasp at the moment, his robin-blue gaze shifted toward Une who had climbed to her feet, her hands were tangled in her hair while she fought to place it up in a style so that it wouldn't bother her while she fought with the twit of a teenager before her. Cye examined her hair; several strands hung out of place while two ribbons held her hair up in two parts almost bun like.
The crimson eyed woman lifted her scythe from between her arm with a smirk, the English-accented boy tightened his grip on his Trident gritting his teeth underneath hidden by his mouth. Une placed her hand on her hip shifting her weight on one leg.
"So boy, are you ready to commence our fight?" She asked a bit too haughtily. Cye said nothing he simply placed himself in a fighting stance ready for her attack, with a disappointed shake of her head the woman came at Cye headfirst spreading her wings and rising to the sky surprising Cye to say the least.
"Wha---?!" He uttered just as the wind picked up knocking him off his feet. The brown-haired boy fell face first but was grabbed by the ankle by noneother than the wind itself, Cye felt himself yanked upward into midair watching the ground in front of him becoming farther and father away from him until he could see nothing but the tops of the trees, the nightsky and then the city buildings from afar.
The 16-year-old held his hand over his hand over his mouth to prevent air-skickness from becoming worse than it was at the moment; his stomach felt like he had found a new home in his throat before he was thrown in an upright position causing his stomach suck itself inward in an uncomfortable way.
Une laughed outloud at his greenish complexion as he tried futilely to balance himself while in midair. She shifted her gaze downward examining the ground below her with an interest.
While she was in the sky she had the advantage of controlling the water, wind and the lightening with ease and she could defeat Cye Mouri no problem.
He was practically a weakling without his comrades in arms to back him up. Shifting her gaze toward the slightly pale English-accented teenager a few inches away from her Une powered up her scythe and charged the teenager with the weapon held over her head.
Immediately Cye's instincts kicked in; with a quick twirl Cye placed his Trident in firing position and blasted a massive superwave smasher attack at the woman sending Une into out of a control spin through the air. Unaware of how he was able to do it, Cye came after the woman a swift moment of a flight through the air firing her another attack at the her current state.
Une looked up from the spinning world around her catching sight of Torrent's attack and summoned water from the dark storm cloud. Thunder rumbled loudly above the two fighters causing the clouds to churn counterclockwise, Cye glanced upward with a scowl as an ocean of water in a tubercular shape came down upon his water attack swallowing it whole.
The bearer of Torrent wore a look of shock upon his face unable to comprehend what had just happened when Une came flying at him slashing him across the chest cracking his armor to another extent, Cye fell downward before he was grabbed by the collar of his armor and then thrown upward like a rag doll.
Une smirked taking flight after him with her scythe ready to send a devastating blow to his skull instead disabling him slowly. //He's good as done.// She thought smugly stopping above the clouds watching Cye's body ascend toward the stratosphere. Gripping the end of her weapon Une brought her arm back and hurled it toward Cye's rapidly climbing body; with this done Une laid back and waited for her scythe to finish off the teenager.
Cye's body began to feel unusually cold as he began to slowly cease his ascension, he opened his throbbing robin blue eyes realizing he had gone above the clouds themselves and slowly heading into outerspace! "B-b-bloody H-hell," He shivered through chattering teeth, just as he felt himself stop.
Cye breathed a sigh of relief watching his breath in cloud form vanish just as quickly as it appeared, the teenager yelped soundlessly as he began to plummeting toward the clouds at an incredible rate of speed. Cye remained calm as he could see the top of the clouds coming into view, he placed his Trident behind him unaware of Une's scythe's weapon was heading toward him until a cold shiver ran down his spine.
His eyes widened in surprise as he gazed at the oncoming scythe, the bearer of Torrent tried to weave to the left but by the time he had tried to the scythe's blade slashed his arm destroying the limb part of his armor. Cye watched in horror as a part of his armor shattered into a million pieces and carried away by the strong chilling breeze, he glanced down at his unprotected pale arm and his bare hand.
"N-not g-good," He muttered in shock before noticing his enemy above him. He glanced up at Une who floated above with an amused grin while scratching her head with the point of her scythe's blade. Cye scoffed at her laid back attitude searching for his Trident before a realization hit him.
My Trident was in my right hand! Where'd it go?! He thought in panic as his eyes darted from side-to-side while he concealed his worry from the woman he knew as his principal for just a day. "Looking for something, Mr. Mouri?" Asked a smug Une.
Cye glanced upward with a blank expression noticing she held her Scythe and his Trident criscrossed pointing down at him, the teenager shifted his gaze from Une's changing expression down to the two weapons that were surging with her negative energy.
He returned to line of sight back up at Une who was gradually bringing up a chuckle rumbling deep within her throat causing the usually kind hearted young man to hiss unwillingly through his teeth. Une's mouth formed the shape of a oval as her body began to shaking from her chuckles. "Ooh, I seemed to have struck a cord Mr. Mouri, ne?" She laughed focusing her energy into both weapons in her hands.
Cye scoffed feeling a major fuse within him about to blow. "Pfft. Your about as cocky as you are stupid Une," He snapped narrowing his eyebrows. Une rolled her eyes blowing a piece of hair away from her right eye before firing both objects in her hand at the young warrior below her.
Knowing he was utterly powerless against the attack, Cye threw his arms up over his face turning his back to the blast and took the full force of the blow in that position.
He cried out in pain as his body began to plummet through the clouds and toward a unfinished building below, Une gave his Trident a look before throwing it aside following after him with the ever-present need to finish this tedious battle.
(Author's note: The name Une is German for: One. Be warned; I not good at writing fight scenes. so sorry if that sucked. Okay, I plan to finish this battle between Cye and Une soon. Probably in the next chapter, and probably not. Writer's block is slowly desending on me. So don't mind this usual short chapter. If wanna call this short.
14 chapters is the longest I've ever wrote for a story, its' hard work! *Grins* Yippie I gotta new reviewer! Uhhh thanks on the use spelling Cale's name. But I think Mr. Warlord's name is spelled with a "C" instead of a "K".......
I'm not entierly sure wwhich word they use for the vegetable and the name. I mean no offense of course. I'm currently working on two other stories. If your a DBZ fan or Gundam wing fan, feel free to read to my in progress stories "Dragon Ball Z, Ryu" and "Questioning of Battles" Sorry for any mispelled words or grammar errors. Ja ne! Sakura123~