15: Silent Orbit
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Author's note: AnimegirlH: Yes indeed Une is cocky [as she is stupid] and it just might be her downfall hehehe. Thanks for the review, and as for Cye being on his own fighting against Une.... You'll have to read to find out. This is the second to the last chapter. *Laughs evilly* Enjoy! [Disclaimer: I do not own Rectifier by Ra.]
I'm so afraid of ghosts, that can see me,
they know my thoughts, they read my mind.
Beside myself I judge my condition,
I close my eyes but can't go blind,
I feel all the heat of chaos,
It's gotten underneath my skin,
so far to go to reach absolution
my sanity, my soul runs thin
Why don't you care?
Don't, don't you dare,
Rectifier,
How's the world supposed to be?
Rectifier, take my hand and rescue me
[RA: Rectifier]
Cye's plummeting figure crashed side-first onto the dusty ground of the construction site, he tumbled uncontrollably down the massive hill of dirt he landed on swallowing much of it in the process, his body came to an abrupt halt when he landed on his back. Cye began to cough violently, he sluggishly turned around supporting himself on his knees and arms and began to vomit blood and saliva along with the dirt he swallowed.
Une floated downward with her wings closed slightly before she landed on the ground blowing the dirt below her in all directions revealing covered up concrete beneath, she bit the side of her lip playfully as she watched her worn opponent stumble to his feet as blood drizzled from his mouth while he fought to keep his eyes open.
"So boy have you had enough? Or shall I further educate you in the dangers of crossing me and my mission ... which happens to be crushing you at the present moment," Une added with a humorous tone of voice.
Cye stood himself upright with a grunt the pounding his head was causing his vision to double he furrowed his eyebrows as he begged for his headache to go away.
Une blinked slowly at him while she scratched the back of her head with the tip of the Scythe's blade with a childish look about her. Une watched as fresh blood fell from scalp of her enemy as the young be fought to flex the muscles in his seemingly lifeless arm that hung beside him.
"I'm not done ... yet," Cye dragged out. Une removed her blade from the back of her head throwing her arms up in the air with an exasperated groan indicating she had lost her patience somewhere along the road. "Then I suppose I'll have to go and kill your friends for amusement. Your obviously in no shape to fight me any longer." Une said curtly turning her back to him.
Cye's widened slightly at her sudden outburst, was she really serious? Une slammed her foot hand into the ground causing the earth beneath them to shake, Cye stumbled backward grunting at the dead weight from his disable [right] arm he forced himself forward wishing he had his trident right about now knowing it was going to be sheerly impossible to beat the woman without it. Unlike Kento, he barely knew how to bar fight like the bulky boy.
Une turned around with a shake of her at the approaching teenager, he was persistent she would give him that, his relentlessness is what made the battle against him worthwhile before it began to drag on due to his weakness. //The boy doesn't learn.// Une thought as she turned herself around completely to face him. Cye looked up at her in question slowly raised his fists up in front of him placing himself into a fighting stance.
Une blinked at him but nevertheless she accepted his silent challenge lowering her scythe slightly with a coy smirk. And before Cye could even react Une charged him without warning smashing her elbow into his stomach damaging the torrent armor severely Cye felt as if the very life within his being had been sucked from out him, the air had left his body completely causing him to feel light headed.
Une smirked at his dilemma, with a quick motion of her arm she rammed her elbow underneath his chin causing a spray of blood to splatter from his mouth as he hit the ground hard with a sickening thud, Cye vomited blood once again when the air had returned to his body. Une made her way over to his convulsing body dragging her scythe through the dirt warning him of her approach.
The bearer of Torrent couldn't do much of anything anymore since his body was indeed in no shape to fight at the present moment and his arm was completely numb to the extent that it hung limp at his side.
His robin blue gaze shifted toward the woman that took in front of him wearing a smug expression on her face before kneeling down to his level, Une sighed with a causal expression on her face tracing her finger across Cye's jaw before he turned away from her with a hiss of disgust, Une sneered at him and slapped him hard across the face busting his lip.
"Have you no respect for those who are about to conquer you?" She snapped slapping him for a second time. Cye winced but never answered her question, Une growled and punched him in the stomach cracking his armor, he gasped in disbelief as he watched his armor shatter into a million jagged pieces falling to the ground leaving him unprotected.
Une bit her lip so hard in enjoyment after just watching the armor of Torrent's remains fall to the ground that her blood seemed to boil from the outside as it seeped through the cut she created on her bottom lip. She picked up her scythe from her side raising it over her head with a crazed battle cry and brought the weapon down into the English-accented teenagers side ... or so she thought.
There was a strong gust of heated wind the kind would feel when you stood in the middle of a raging fire Une shifted her gaze to right noticing a haunting figure several feet away from her twirling its weapon above his head excerpting the heated wind she was feeling Une shifted her attention back to Cye only to discover he was no longer there.
"What the f-----," Une was cut off in mid-sentence when powerful blast resembling a deadly earthquake knocked her off her feet sending her crashing into the ground sliding toward the base of the uncompleted building. Her body made impact with first horizontal support beam destroying it from the sheer impact her body made against it and continued to do so she continued to slide across the ground.
Her scythe was thrown from her grip it lodged itself into the soil, Une's attacker walked up to the wobbling weapon before yanking it from the ground placing his Bo against a pile of bricks and proceeded to snap it in half.
A wicked grin spread across his face as he detached the blade from the staff and threw the two broken parts onto the ground. "Hmm, that was too easy," He said cockily running his finger across the tip of the blade before tossing it over his shoulder. Another teenager appeared from behind him with Cye's arm flung over his shoulder also wearing a grin across his features.
"You know, this would be the third time in this month that we saved you," The tiger-blue eyed boy laughed nudging Cye in the ribs with his free arm. Cye scoffed wincing. "Three times? I highly doubt it," He replied in a Monotone tone of voice.
The teen picked up his boy resting it upon his shoulder trying to remember the first time they rescued Cye. "When was the first time Ry-man?" Kento asked staring up thoughtfully as another teenager [Rowen] came up from behind Ryo and Cye. Rowen chuckled handing Cye his trident.
Cye looked at him in disbelief before slowly reaching up to take the chipped weapon from his grasp. He nodded his thanks to the blue-haired boy who blinked in response. "When we saved his ass from that Yuy bully, when we saved him from Une the first time, and now," Ryo pointed out shifting the position of his armor's helmet.
Rowen blinked at him in confusion, the last he remembered he was being attacked by Une and Cye saved him. He lifted a finger up in objection. "Uhh... Ryo I think you've got your story wrong," Rowen said as a matter-of-factly. Ryo scoffed in objection shaking his head. "Nu-uh," He shot back. Rowen was about to retort to his objection when he realized it was absolutely futile to try and correct the raven-haired boy when he had his mind set on one thing.
He shrugged in defeat fixing his dress-shirt's collar. Cye looked around him shifting his weight from off of Ryo to try and stand on his own, he stumbled backward slightly staring at his three friends noticing one out of the several people he regarded as friends besides the ones before him was missing.
"Oi, where's Sage?" He asked curiously careful not to shift his sorta heavy lifeless arm in the wrong direction. Kento glanced skyward with a coy smile, Cye was confused by the smiles on Ryo, Kento, and Rowen's faces. "We left him with an amnesiac Mia and Yuile, along with Lady Kayura, Satsuki, Mina, and the warlords," Ryo snickered starching the side of his nose.
Cye shook his head in disappointment imagining all of torture Sage must have been going through, he kicked Ryo in shin before walking up to Kento who happened to be staring at destroyed uncompleted building surrounded by dust clouds. Ryo sucked in his momentary pain as he followed Rowen toward the other two warriors noticing the dust surrounding the demolished building was parting. "Uh-oh," Kento muttered absentmindedly.
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Une laid awkwardly amongst the rubble with a resentful look in her crimson eyes, the warrior of justice had caught her off guard. This would be the second time that her enemies caught her with her head in the clouds again. Blood escaped through her various gashes and wounds as she blinked away some blood that drizzled down the side of her nose into her eye.
//Talpa would be ashamed to hear I was so easily beaten by these pathetic runts.// A scornful expression spread across her face at the thought of Talpa laughing at her while he burned in hell. She lifted her injured legs upward pulling her knees against her chest before ramming her feet into beams in front of her, the ones above the beams she was continuously kicking against shifted falling to the sides of sliding forward into another direction.
Une continued to kick as hard as she could knocking everything above her out of her way, her seemingly futile attempts were beginning to anger her but she had to keep that temper in check before she caught herself off guard when thought of something. A sly smile appeared on her face.
She pushed herself into an upright position kneeling on one leg while used every muscle in her body to part the two support beams in her way of escaping, she climbed out of the hole she made making sure her wings were down completely so she wouldn't tear them while climbing out of the hole.
She leaped onto the top of the ruble staring right through the dust at the four teenagers who seemed to be staring right at her. "Baka's," She uttered spreading her wings paring the dust surrounding her. Digging her heels against the metal she bolted from her present spot and flew toward the four figures before her laughing maniacally.
Her laughter alerted the four warriors a minute too late they jumped of her way except Rowen who was grabbed by the wrist and slammed into him the ground with a wicked grin, Ryo threw his Katana into her wing slashing it down the middle causing the woman to rip the Katana out of her wing and threw it back at the teenager who caught it with ease and smiled teasingly at her.
Une fired a ki blast at the boy knocking him into a stack of bricks, Kento growled in anger charging the woman in a blind rage. Une dodged his Bo sending an uppercut in his direction.
Kento yelped in surprise crashing to the ground unconscious. She blew a kiss toward him before shifting her gaze toward Cye: the last man standing holding his trident, her eyes widened in surprise at the worn object in his grasp. //How did he get his trident back?!// Une thought enraged as she tried to keep her eyes from dilating any further.
Cye wore no look of emotion as he stared at the stunned woman in eye standing his ground, Une lowered herself to the ground her heaving chest was all to visible along with her trembling limbs the brown-haired teen began to focus his energy into his trident despite the fact he no longer had his armor around his body anymore.
Une continued to try and control her ever-present rage from boiling to the surface, her nails split her skin causing warm blood to flow over the palms of her hands spilling onto the ground. Unable to hold it in any longer the winged woman spread her bat wings with a shout of rage and the ground came up around her creating a barrier of black light around her that jerked Kento, Ryo, and Rowen out of their unconscious states.
Cye stepped back ignoring the forceful shove of the wind around him before glancing skyward; the abnormal ocean lightening filled sky appeared to be giving way as if it were being weighed down with something with a weight greater than its' own.
He blinked as he watched several parts of the abnormal sky began to fall down onto a number of buildings from what he could see he glanced downward watching his friends jump away from the barrier behind him with fearful looks.
"Cye we've gotta get outa here!" Kento shouted. "Une's gonna level this entire place, taking us with her!" Cye gave his friend a look shaking his head, Kento's panicked expression faltered giving way to a confused one. "If any of us leave, Une destroy China completely!!" He shot back despite his friend's dismay.
Ryo and Rowen nodded in agreement while Kento slumped his shoulders in defeat knowing he was beaten, Cye placed his trident forward horizontally when its blue aura became visible and he could feel the burn of his kanji upon his head, Ryo, Kento, and Rowen's Kanji's began to glow as well, powering the trident.
The black barrier began to dissipate in the front revealing the enraged woman before them, Kento noticed the veins across her jaw and face were clearly visible and seemed to be pumping with life.
He stepped back holding back the urge to say "Eww!" Rowen watched anxiously as Une slowly raised her arms with her hands clasped together, her fingers intertwined with eachother while both her index fingers and thumbs were pointed directly at Cye who continued to stand his ground as the woman prepared to attack.
Sparks of energy from all around them formed at the tip of her extended fingers as thunder raged above their heads and lightening striked the ground destroying everything it touched, Une parted her hands slowly with a wicked grin while a ball of energy formed between her hands growing larger in as the seconds passed them by.
Cye gritted his teeth in preparation, water began to from around his trident in swirling motion until the three blades upon his staff radiated with a light blue that resembled the cloudless sky on a spring day. With a blink of her crimson eyes Une fired her attack at the teenager who fired his superwave smasher attack at the same time the force of impact of the blasts made caused all of them to be blown back slightly skidding across the dirt.
Cye could feel the strain taking its toll on his muscles as he fought to keep from falling backward from the force Une's attack was emitting his feet carved the soil beneath him leaving their skid-imprints in the dirt. Une smirked in an early triumph thinking she could overpower the teenager with a powerboost to her attack electricity surged across her arms snaking its way into his blast giving it a significant boost causing Cye to slide backward again and blast the other Ronins across the ground.
"Kuso!" Cye hissed out as his hands began to sweat loosing their grip on his trident. He could feel his shoulders blades aching with growing need to retire his arms to his side as if there was threat before him at all when an image of his mother and sister flashed passed him, his eyes began to dilate as the thought of Une getting past him and killing them for the fun of it.
Cye clamped his eyes shut fighting back the horrid thought his grip on his trident became ever stronger as sweat began to roll his down his face with a mixture of tears. The trident began to shake uncontrollably erergy began to flow from Mouri's body into the weapon causing it to vibrate from the great amount of power he was sending out from within himself, unconsciously the brown-haired boy let out a cry of anguish giving up the last bit of energy he had left within, a sharp pain shot up his spine causing him to fall backward.
Une began to loose her grip on her ground the blast of Cye's attack began to weigh down her body, her knees buckled Une crashed to the ground fighting against the lingering laugh of Talpa the trident's attack began to outpower her attack not to mention her will to fight.
The wounds on Une's hands began to bleed once again burning with a pain she had never felt before, it was too human for her. Une's arms fell to her side and she slumped down knowing the only thing she could do was wait for death to claim her. And it did; both blasts engulfed her being vaporizing her completely.
Silence engulfed the construction site the skies above Hong Kong began to dissipate revealing the moonlight and the stars until the its' abnormal appearance vanished from sight leaving only destruction in its wake. Une was gone.
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(Tokyo; Japan)
Mina sat on a cold steel bench inside a hospital wearing velcro sneakers with no backs to them she wore a one size too big blue sweater and scruffy pants to match the worn look on her face and disheveled hair that had grown to half way past shoulder length.
The white walls reflected her dirty brusied skin she had her feet positioned on their ends as she motioned them back and forth lazily awaiting the coming of her family.
Thankfully Kayura had sent them all back to Japan and ironically she and Cye ended up in front of a hospital, Mina didn't know where the others were though she assumed the midnight blue haired woman sent them to their homes for some reason.
A loud sigh emitted from Mina as she waited for the news of Cye and how he was fairing in his current condition when the sounds of footfalls approaching at a speedy pace echoed through the nearly empty halls of the hospital catching the attention of the 15-year-old.
Mina glanced up from the floor and gazed upon the three figures that were her family, too dumbfounded to anything let alone move Mina let herself be pulled from the chair by her father who immediately began to smother her with kisses and hunder-miles-per-hour paragraphs consisting of his and her mother's worries about her safety.
"Otou-san....!" She grumbled gently pulling herself out his embrace with a sheepish smile. "Gomen nesai, Mina," Mr. Kojiya said patting her on the head.
Mrs. Kojiya came up to Mina yanking her sister Junya along with a tear streaked face, Mina was beginning to feel uncomfortable in the atmostphere that hung around them and clamped her hand onto her left arm running it up and down the arm indicating she was quiet ashamed of what she put her family through.
"I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to worry you guys like I did," Mina said quietly. Junya snorted turning her head in the opposite direction of her sister. "I wasn't worried at all," The wild haired girl lied placing her hands on her hips. Mrs. Kojiya kicked her daughter in the leg warningly while Mina smirked knowing Junya was telling a fib as usual and with a wave her hand she sat back down on the bench with a sigh running her hands through her hair.
Mrs. Kojia motioned her oldest daughter to sit next to her, Junya stood where she was for a moment before reluctantly joining Mina on the bench.
"We're gonna get something for you guys eat, we'll be back," Mr. Kojiya told them before he and his wife trotted off down the hall to the cafeteria.
There was a lingering silence between the two sisters, Mina shifted in her spot nervously wondering what to say to her talkive gossiping sister of collage before she felt her sister tap her shoulder. Mina turned around in question staring at her sister who began to play with one of the spiked ends of her hair.
She cocked an eyebrow in question. "Onee-chan [big sister]?" Mina asked. Juyna looked around the room embarrassedly making sure no one was around before asking her question. "So what happened after I left?" Junya said with narrowed eyes. Mina blinked in surprise, why would my sister be interesting in a story that might as well be a fictionous story made up for attention? Mina turned her nose up at Junya with a scoff. "You'll think I'm crazy," She said curtly.
Junya shook her head. "I will not, promise!"
Mina gave her sly smile extending her pinky. "Pinky-swear?" She asked.
Junya paused for a moment thinking over her decision while getting funny faces from her younger sister. What the hell! Junya thought in defeat.
"Hai!" She cried wrapping her pinky around her sisters with a nervous look. Mina smirked with a nod and began to tell her story.
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Cye stood in the middle of a meadow wearing his subarmor, the wind blew through the high grass across the hills causing the branches of the trees from afar to sway in its' direction.
His hair blew across his face as his robin blue eyes danced across the jasmine covered meadow with a look of awe twinkling in them, the sun beamed down through the clouds onto the ground below, the birds soared in the air gliding on the wind.
"Where am I?" He said to no one in particular.
"Your in your mind, where else would you be?" Came a smooth reply from behind. Cye turned around with a questioning look at the woman that stood not too far away from him.
Her hair was flowing and brown, her eyes were that of the color olive, her skin was a tanish color and she wore a pilot's leather jacket, underneath the jacket was a hunter green shirt and a womans tie, a skirt, stockings, and ankle high boots. Cye cocked an eyebrow at the woman's appearance before scatching the back of his neck in confusion.
If this was his mind then was he dead? Did Une get past him anyway? A million thoughts sped through his mind before the woman spoke up again.
"No your not dead, just unconscious for the time being," She replied. "You beat me Torrent, I have to regrets for lossing against you." Her deep voice awoke something within him, he realized who it was he was talking to.
"Une?! N-nani?!" Cye cried dumbfounded. This woman was Une? The woman nodded her head stepping forward, Cye searched around for something to hit her with incase she was playing something.
"I have died, you fought well Mouri. But I'll back and I do, you'll know who I am," Une said clamly. "But I won't know who you are. You have nothing to fear."
She smiled warmly, Cye blinked at her confused greatly, but before he could say anything else he felt something tugging on his conscience and Une disappeared from sight. The world around him vanished, and he fell into darkness.
[Authors note II: Yippie I'm done this chapter! Finally! It forever to write! I hop you all enjoy it! I'm outa here! Ja ne! Gomen nesai for any misspelled words grammitcal errors and other things.]