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Chapter 22: A Deal's a Deal
"In the black of the night's
When it all falls down
An angels crying
And the rain it pours down
The wet earth soaking up
All the pain and the strife
And through that labor
Is born a new life
Somewhere the heart has
Lost its way and has died
But like a phoenix it
Rises out the fire
And beating hard and fast
With this new life
Cutting through the silence
It sends a cry through the night
There it goes again
That familiar sound
The sound of victory and defeat
Raging war in the mind
Then a wish is made for sanity"
- Inuken (part of a poem/song I wrote that I thought would go good with the chapter, called "Wish")
She began running threw the long corridors what she was looking for, why was she running. Lyric was so confused the feeling that went through her she'd never felt anything like it. What just happened in that dinning room, why did she feel so vulnerable?
"What are you doing?"
She turned around to see Yunsung standing behind her.
"Yun…" she whispered and fell into his arms
Mina entered the stadium, zanbatou at hand ready to face her opponent. The weight of the world crushing her shoulders, nervousness began to reside in her. She now had to prove herself worthy of the title hero and warrior and gain the respect of her peers. She could see Hwang entering on the other side of the stadium, there was a sense of longing in his expression and they stared at each other for a while. It was Mina who turned away first, her heart sank, after all she loved Hwang. Through it all she had always wanted to marry him but on her terms not on anyone else's. Suddenly the stadium was quite as Sueng Han Myong entered the room. He sat down in the front row's center.
"Now we shall begin the battle" He announced
Hwang and Mina walked both walked out to the center of the stage.
"Good luck Mina" Hwang whispered and he got into fighting position.
She wanted to say something but instead found herself in battle position as well. The battle had begun.
"What the hell are you doing get off of me" Yunsung said pushing
Lyric off of him and she fell onto the floor. "Look I'm sorry" he said he didn't mean to push so hard he reached out his hand and picked her up, when he did this he noticed she'd been crying
"What's wrong?" He said but his tone was gentle without him even realizing it.
"Why do you care?" she said not wanting to look at him
"Your right why do I care, anyway, maybe you should stop running around this place you'll get lost." He turned to leave
"I'm already lost" she whispered and he turned around
SWISSH! Mina's zanbatou whistled through the air almost striking Hwang who then countered with a low attack. However Mina saw it coming and was ready to punish him. She jumped into the air and came down hard with her zanbatou. Hwang barely escaped. Blow for blow they were an equal match. Mina finally broke through Hwang's defense however and using her opening the treasure chest technique she lifted him in the air. He came crashing down but he arose unscathed.
"Good job Mina you're doing well"
"Did you expect any less besides I'm doing better than well."
"Let's end this Mina one attack, one shot at the win."
"It's a deal."
"Just remember Mina A deal's a deal."
They both charged each other; the crowd was once again silent. The sound of clashing metal could be heard and then suddenly the battle was over.
"You know Lyric sometimes I really don't get you. You want to always act tough and hang with the big boy's but you're really just a wimp. I mean who are you really Lyric." He walked up to her and they were face to face.
"Don't even give me that Yun. I mean who are you Hong Yunsung, let me tell you, your just a little kid who wants to play grown –up. The only problem his he can't handle the pressure, can he, is the game to hard?" She retorted
"Ha, you know what Lyric I don't feel like arguing with you, Okay. I just wanted to know if you were okay, if that makes me a bad guy than sue me."
"No it doesn't but you have a weird of showing you care."
"Who said I cared." He said with a sly grin
"I don't know do you." She smiled back
"You know maybe I do. So tell me, what's the issue?" He had his arms around her she opened her mouth to speak but then a student came running down the hall. They broke apart almost instantly.
"Come quick the battles over." She ran back and without saying anything they followed.
When they got there the stadium had emptied out and there still stood the heroes, Hwang, Shin and Sueng Han Myong.
"Well you guy's are late, what were you doing." Maxi said a little angry
"Well…"
"It's not important. Yunsung please take the Japanese back to their boat they will no longer be staying at the dojo." Myong announced
"You mean…"
"That's right Mina lost." Shin said
"But how … what, what happened." Lyric said amazed
They charged at each other and Mina took zanbatou and once again lifted him into the air but this time when he came down he took the hilt of his sword and brought it down onto Mina shoulder. She fell onto the floor and both their weapons fell to the ground and the sound of ringing metal was heard. Mina had lost the battle and suddenly she felt her world crashing around her.
"Mina a deal's a deal in 3 days you will be married, on the second day there will be a festival in celebration. Right now however, you all must retire to your rooms." Myong said and then he left, followed by Hwang
"So Mina, what do we do now?" Raphael said sarcastically
"I don't know okay, leave me alone." She said quietly
"I thought you had the perfect plan why don't you explain what's perfect about this Mina." he continued
She tired and upset and she knew she let everyone down but she was really pissed that Raphael had to badger her. She just exploded "LOOK, I asked you to get off my back ok I'll think of something , I made this mess and I'll fix it but will it kill you not to make me fell like a piece of shit Raphael, seriously you can keep your comment's to yourself." She said and went up to her room
When she went into her room Hwang was waiting.
"You fought well today Mina."
"Don't even come in here with that Hwang."
"No seriously you fought better than I did."
"Don't be an idiot if I fought better I would have won."
"No, you fought better in fact you held the upper hand, that's why I made that pact with you to end the battle because if it dragged on longer I would've lost, I knew all I had to do after the pact was get you on the ground and I would win."
"But WHY would you do that what would you have gained making me lose you knew I had people counting on me and now have disappointed them, Now to them I'm an idiot."
"Because Mina I love you, who cares, what they think. In 3 day we'll be married and we can be happy with each other Mina, end this frivolous quest, let me take on your burdens, Mina we're not getting any younger and this is truly getting old. Mina I'm not going to chase after you forever…" he said and then left her
"If you truly loved me Hwang you will…"
"Typical woman…" he said under his breath
"You know bitching about it won't make it better Raphael!" Xianghua yelled. Everyone's nerves were on end and any slight comment or mistake could make them angry, you could definitely feel the tension in the air.
"Listen, Xianghua is right fighting about this won't help us Mitsurugi and I will just go on the boat and wait for you guys I'm sure you guy's will come through and we can leave here with the shard." Taki said and they both headed out of the arena
"So what do we do now?" Talim asked
"We wait for Mina to make up her mind." Yunsung said
"What are you serious it may be forever before she thinks of something good?" Maxi said
"You give Mina little credit, she put her future on the line so that she could help us and you're just putting her down. Don't forget Mina is supposed to get married in three days and knowing Mina she'll be thinking of a way to avoid it and get the shard at the same time she's a lot smarter and crafter than you give her credit for." Yun said in Mina's favor
"She better, let's give her a day or we do this our own way." They agreed to this
"Wow this just gets more and more interesting" Shin said and everyone jumped they had forgotten he was there
"Listen tell anyone anything and it'll be your head." they threatened
"My lips are sealed."
"If you want to keep them they better be."
They all went to there rooms and went to bed however 4 were still awake. Mina was still awake and suddenly it came to her she knew how to get the shard and leave before her wedding day, it was all figured out now to tell the other, she thought ,she would not be beaten. Also awake were Mitsurugi and Taki not because the wanted to be they had a problem in need of fixing and lastly Shin was roaming the hall ways and ended up in Myong's room.
"So tell me everything you learned today…"
End chapter 22
Well guess what it's time to rejoice I've finally gotten a new computer that works! That's right so that means I have more chapter for you. Oh and Jaru look I changed the katakana, sorry about that I had some one else do it for me cause I only knew hiragana and only recently I finished learning katakana. Anyway sorry for offending you but you got to chill exploding all the time ( maybe you should see a doctor bout that -) no need to get mad about that, It's like me getting made because a foreigner spells hello with one l, it's so not worth get angry about seriously. Oh and the other stuff yeah I know Great- divide already informed me I said I was going to continue with the story using the right words (i.e. Hylan, hyrule etc.) and go back later to correct the old errors, However thanks again for trying to correct me because I don't really care to much for punctuation and I do need someone to help correct me Oh and finally You never said if you liked the story I don't mind some one correcting but please tell me weather it was good or bad and reason's why, don't leave me hanging man! Anyway, thank you everyone who reviewed and sorry for the 4 month wait but don't fret the story still goes on!
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