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Chapter Thirty-Five: Not Over until it's Over
Juri watched Ura walk from the ring. She began her count.
"Get up Tara!" Katsumi yelled at her. "You need to get up!"
Kurama had went limp when Ura first made the power ball. He couldn't feel any power around or toward Tara.
Hiei walked up to her. "Katsumi let it go." She turned around to him, unspilled tears in her purple eyes.
"She has to get up Hiei, she just has to." Katsumi buried her face in her hands, and then in Hiei's shirt. His eyes darted around. This was the first time either one of them had shone emotion toward the other. Slowly he put his arms around her.
"Did anyone feel that?" Kuwabara asked.
Yusuke nodded. "Felt like the temperature dropped thirty plus degrees."
A fog creeply settled around the lower arean. Small lighting bolts went throughtout the mist. Ura stopped walked and turned around. Katsumi stopped crying and looked back to the ring. She didn't leave Hiei's grasp though.
A faint hearbeat could be heard by all of the audiance. It sounded every three seconds or so. Juri quickly jump out of the ring and ran for cover.
The wind picked up as the fog densed. Lighting struck the sky. The fog began to move and swirl.
Ura backed away some. "I...I thought you were...gone" He studdered.
Two small golden lights came from the fog. A figure could lightly be made out. A hand went up and the fog dispersed.
Replaced with the gloss was a look of vengence. Cold gold eyes replaced the once welcoming mint green ones. "That was one of the most entertaining matches I've ever been in." She smirked. "Gone? Oh no I had to stay around for the ending." Tara's movements were seven times faster then her human form. Ura could hardly block any of the attacks. Wounds opened quickly around him. "I want to thank you for ending our first battle. However you have to win all battles to win this tournament." She punched him hard in the upper area around the ribs, three of them cracked. Her other hand found its way to Ura's face.
He spun back and laid on the ground bleeding heavily.
"How does it feel?" She stood in her place. "I want to know how it feels to be beaten down until you can't move. Can you move?" Her voice was posioned with anger.
Ura smiled and tryed to laugh. "You're being controlled. Like father like daughter."
"You make me sick. Don't even think that I want to be related to you." She kicked him in the back.
He rolled over and stopped on his back. His eyes were closed. "Who said anything about us being related?" Opening his eyes slowly, they were pure white again. It seemed as if the air itself picked Ura up from the ground. "Shall we finsh what has been started?"
Both jumped in the air and fought for what seemed like hours. She came down and landed on her feet, Ura wasn't as lucky.
"No one...has ever...given me...this...much...in a...battle before." He shakely stood.
"Well perhaps you deserve it now." She began to spin. "Rose Thorns!" Rose pedels rose creating a flowerly twister. Then from no where sharp thorns all sizes shot out in swirls, hitting their target which was Ura. He screamed in pain as the posion seeped from the points to the blood stream.
Falling to the ground, this time he didn't move.
"Is it over?" Yusuke asked.
"I don't know." Kurama replied. "If is, then I'm grateful." He sighed deeply. Suddenly Tara shriked and aslo fell to the ground.
Katsumi moved forward. "A mind battle." She whispered.
Well believe it or not, we are almost done. As I calculate there are about two story chapters left and one credits page. So about three in total. Thanks again for sticking around.