Author Notes: Hey... I only got one review for that chapter. Are you guys mad at me or something? And Jami, you are psycotic. And Rose, where are you? And everybody, here comes a fight scene, where somebody gets the crap beaten out of them. I also stop hiding Em's personality from you, and reveal what she's like. I imagine I'm gonna get some hate for this...
Areon flew forward, growling, and hurled his daggar at Valen's chest.
Areon blinked. Where did he go? Valen dodged to the right and looked at him.
"You see. You didn't even get close to landing a hit. You are a little boy."
"I am not!" The thing Areon hated more than anything else was people calling him a kid. Sure he wasn't an adult, but does everybody need to call him a kid?
"Yes you are. Watch." He flew towards Areon at top speed with his sword in his hand. He hit, and blood sprinkled the floor. However, he hadn't hit his original target.
Josh was facing Valen, in front of a startled Areon, holding his shoulder and wincing in pain. It looked like Valen got Josh really good. The clothes covering his shoulder were covered in blood, and so were his hands from holding it.
"Valen, come on, don't be stupid. You know he couldn't hit you if he tried to attack, so just leave him."
"You're calling me stupid," Valen asked with amusement, "You just jumped in front of a sword and sliced open your arm, and I'm the stupid one? And you have no say in who I decide to attack, because I could decide to attack you. And there's not a way you would be able to stop me." After he was finished, he hit Josh in the stomach with the hilt of his blade. That knocked the wind out of him, and he slid to the ground, cursing at Valen.
It was then when Em flew at Valen at what seemed to be the speed of light, and gave him a hard kick in the stomch. His guard had been down, and this caught him by surprise and he choked and bent down to his knees.
"What was that for? What the hell did he ever do to you! He tries to talk some sense into you, and you have to knock out the guy!" Em yelled at him, kicking him in the ribs as she did so. He tried to get up, but she just kicked him back down again.
"What's wrong? You better decide to attack me quick, because there's no way I could stop you then.", she said, dripping with sarcasm. Meanwhile, everybosy else was too surprised to speak. They could have been afraid that if they tried to make her settle down, she'd turn around and kick them in the stomach too. This isn't right, Crystal thought, he isn't getting up. He can't get up, he's defenceless. Em had taken his sword and threw it across the room. She was now making sure that he'd have bruises everywhere it was possible to have bruises, makeing everybody cringe. Finally, it seemed like she was done, and she was letting Valen get up. She wasn't done. Em grabbed him by the throat.
"You know, you seemed pretty happy with yourself five minutes ago. Perhaps the only people you can beat are younger guys and unarmed people. But you can't beat a teenage girl who has just gone dragoon for the first time. Congrats, for being a pathetic bastard." She said hapilly.
At the same time she was concentrating on the power of lightning inside her dragoon spirit. She was sending an electric shock through her fingertips, which of course wouldn't hurt her, but it would hurt Valen. To end her outburst of rage, she threw him to the ground and watched as blood oozed from his mouth.
"Come on, let's go."
"Em." Crystal whispered.
"What?"
"That was wrong. That was unnecessary."
Jun went over to where he lay on the ground, now with a small puddle of blood under him.
"He's alive. He's unconsious, barely breathing, and has some broken ribs, but he's alive."
"We've got to get him to a hospital."
"Liam, help me carry him." Jun turned to Crystal, "We'll go to Kazas. You guys turn back into normal, as it's probably good to hide the fact that there are new dragoons again as long as possible. Liam and I can get him there easily."
Everybody turned back into normal people. Josh just kept lying on the floor pretending he wasn't there and watching the scen in front of him. Em's attack on Valen made him feel like a moron. He was impresssed though. She really beat the living daylights out of him. What was her name again? As he was losing himself in his thoughts, he failed to notice the group walking out the front entrance. (Or flying)
THENEXTDAY
Valen had been rushed inside as soon as they got there, and that was about two minutes ago. Isn't it funny, that the nearest town was a day's walk away?
On the way there, Valen's condition got even worse. Jun bandaged him up really well for someone without a first-aid kit. It helped, but he was losing alot of blood anyway. A few hours before they got to Kazas, he started to look really pale. He had started taking really slow breaths, and Crystal had never been so scared in her life. The only reason they knew he was still alive was because his dragoon spirit would have left to find another master if he was.
They all sat in the waiting room doing various things, none of which were very exiting. Lily and Crystal were sitting on the couch looking nervous, and Em was sitting on the couch looking bored. She hadn't said anything since they left Hellena Prison. Crystal hoped it was because she was ashamed of what she did, but didn't think it was very likely. Areon was walking around in circles, obviously bored. Jun was looking at a pamphlet and Liam had interested himself in the wall.
After what seemed like days, the doctor came in.
"Is he going to be alright?" Crystal asked.
"He'll make it. He's going to have to stay here for a while though. I don't know what happened, but somebody must have wanted him dead."
This comment made Em bury her face in her hands. She knew Crystal was glareing at her, she had no reason not to be. But either way, Em wasn't about to say she was sorry. She really wasn't. He deserved it, she thought.
"Can we go-"
"No, I'm afraid you can't visit him yet. He'll be consious in a few hours, you can visit him then. Why don't you all get something to eat?"
Now that he mentioned it, they hadn't eaten or slept for two days. The doctor told them where the inn was, and as soon as they checked into thier rooms, they were fast asleep. Food would wait until morning.
It turned out that Valen didn't wake up a few hours later. Or the whole day for that matter. They went to bed again that night worrying. They knew he wasn't dead. Was it possible that Em had put him into a coma? The Dark Dragoon Spirit would have left him if that was the case, right?
Em woke up in the middle of the night. She didn't know why, she just did. So she went outside to have some fresh air. Oh Soa. Alot of people are going to be really pissed at me if Valen doesn't wake up soon. Stupid moron. I wonder if he won't wake up on purpose, just for that reason.
Her evil thoughts were inturrupted by a dark shape walking towards the inn. She got up and stared at it. It was a person, she could tell that much. There was something dripping off it's body, probably blood. As it got closer, she recignized who it was and ran over to hm.
"Josh! What happened?"
She had been correct about him dripping blood. It looked as if he had been stabbed five different times, and the wound Valen gave him was reopened.
"I tried to get away... Hoshiko's new favorite minion ...said I was a traitor." He tried to say more but the words wouldn't come out. Instead, he passed out on the ground.
!&ABOUT TIME I FINISHED THE CHAPTER#?
Hey! I hope that was a good cliffhangar. That chapter was really hard to write, but I think it turned out okay. I was wondering if everyone could tell me who thier favorite character is, because I love them all and want to see who you like. BYE!
