Sorry for the long wait again. It's been hectic around my house, I hadn't gotten a free moment, and now I'm taking advantage of it. Please forgive me if this chapter's short. I'm trying to finish this as quickly as I can, really I am. Here's a little recap of what happened in Chapter 9:
"No!" Haia pounded on the shield, but it withheld stubbornly and vibrated each time she hit it.
"ErrrrrAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"
Haia growled with fury. Then she got an idea. She took out her katana and cut Ivy loose of her bonds, but she still whimpered; it seemed Rolan had done something to her as well.
"Ivy. I need you to go get X'on out here quickly with anything he can to help and then find Talon and explain everything to him."
Ivy nodded and ran off through the gate, still whimpering, and disappeared seconds later. But time wasn't on her side; Ivil too clutched her ribcage as Hiei had done before, passing out seconds later and her head, no longer able to hold itself up, dipped down low.
"Shit."
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(Forgot to mention that Rolan took the cuffs off Haia and Sorin before he headed into the woods.)
Haia felt even more pressure weighing down on her since both her parents were no longer conscious and having extreme difficulty breathing. Haia had to find a way past the barrier and to find where Rolan and Sorin were battling, hoping that she wasn't too late.
Sorin and Rolan were in the small clearing Haia had visited in her nightmare and the fighting was intense; Rolan had numerous gashes across both his arms and three ninja throwing stars embedded in his right leg. Sorin wasn't bad off at the moment. He had a few slashes on his right cheek and several across his shoulders.
"Had enough yet you back stabber?" Sorin half-growled, half-taunted Rolan as he blocked Rolan's katana assult and countered by whipping his kun-chuck chain at Rolan. The chain wrapped tightly around his legs and Sorin snapped Rolan to the ground, flipping backwards and dropping his katana.
"Nnh."
Rolan was caught by surprise by Sorin's quick movements, but quickly regained focus as Sorin came charging, kun-chuck chain swinging vigorously. Rolan rolled away just before Sorin's chain ruptured the ground, making a rather large dent.
Rolan tries to get up but Sorin's chain whip comes flying towards him and wraps around his chest, constricting his chest. And, yet, Rolan laughed.
"Heh, poor Sorin. You're wasting what precious seconds your parents have left to live.."
He had struck a nerve. Sorin grips his kun-chuck chain, as he grit his teeth, and in one swift movement, flings Rolan overhead and hears a loud CRACK of a tree and the thump of a body.
Sorin turns around and sees Rolan witth glazed eyes and his body was twisted awkwardly. He retracted the chain and it turned back into regular kun-chucks.
Slowly, he makes his way to Rolan, his kun-chucks in his bag and his ninja throwing stars ready in his hands. He stops as he gets to Rolan's feet; he sees a clear bottle marked "anti—" but the rest of the label was hidden underneath Rolan's right arm.
But Sorin was hesitant; he found it hard to believe that Rolan could be defeated so easily. So just to be sure he shot several of his stars at Rolan's twisted body.
He waited for a sign of movement.
Five minutes past......
nothing.
So, seeing that Rolan was truly gone be bent down and went to get the bottle.
Slowly, reaching.....
streatching....
Sorin's chest is above Rolan's left hand.....
He's reaching for it....
slowly...
slowly....
He's touching it...
his hand tightens....
Suddenly----
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Haia's swiftly moving from one tree to the next, trying to find Sorin as quickly as possible, as well as Rolan.
Suddenly, she hears the thundering boom of Sorin's kun-chuck chain but it was in the opposite direction; it came from behind her. She had been heading to the cliff that she had been at earlier.
She quickly spun around and sprinted in the direction of the boom. Quickly gaining speed, she suddenly stops dead in her tracks, the limb of the tree shaking violently up and down.
She spots a weapon in the branch of the tree and picks it out; her eyes widen. A ninja throwing star had several edges broken off.
Haia remembers picking up a ninja throwing star with chipped edges in her nightmare and she felt increasing fear creep up her spine. She hears another thundering boom and the shattering of bones; the smell of new blood filled the air and urged her to get going. She resumed her sprinting, keeping the star clenched in her hand.
"You'd better not be dead Sorin." Haia said to herseif, her teeth gritting and her expression darkening; she tried to telepathically contact Sorin but something was interfering and it angered her.
"Damn it! Sorin!!"
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Slowly, reaching.....streatching....
Sorin's chest is above Rolan's left hand.....
He's reaching for it....
slowly...
slowly....
He's touching it...
his hand tightens....
Suddenly----
"AAaaaHHhhh!"
Cliffy! Muwahahaha! Again, I apologize for the long wait. Chapter 11's being typed as you read this!