Long update again, sorry. Not to worry the story is almost over. I'm not good at making fight scenes…and emotional moments that well.

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Chapter 17: Conclusion

Neda swung her hand down to cut Krad, but he hopped away want wanted to use some of his magic, but Neda took a step forward and swung her blade sideways. The tip of the blade scrapped Krad's shirt. Krad flew up and Neda followed after him. Krad shot some of his magic downwards towards Neda. Neda dodged the magic as if it was nothing. Around the blade showed some red magic moving around it. She flung the blade and the magic flew off towards Krad. Krad dodged it.

Dark used to Rutile of Grief and Neda's magic was neutralized and Dark was free. He joined the battle; he went in front of Neda and stopped.

"Neda, you need to stop this!"

"Get out of my way!"

Neda pushed Dark to the side and she was fighting Krda again. She flew towards Neda and punched her in the face. She fell a little, and looked at Krad. She wiped off the blood dripping down her mouth and spit the rest of it out. She dashed towards Krad and she grabbed his shoulders. She flew down with Krad in front of her and she slammed Krad on the floor. She jumped away and Krad was struggling to get up.

"You're pretty good, Neda."

"Hikari's are all weak. It was easy for her to kill your master years before. He didn't even put up a fight. You are the same way too, I could slice your throat at anytime," Neda said making the gesture with her thumb.

"Heh, insults, huh? Aren't you sure that you're underestimating me?"

"No, that attack made you fall? Pathetic. If you think I'm underestimating you, I dare you to kill me, this is, if you can."

Krad stood back up and dasked towards Neda. He went to puch her again, but she ducked. She took the blade and stabbed Krad. She moved the dagger down while inside Krad and Krad tried to take the dagger out.

Dark shot some of his magic towards them and he aimed for Neda's hand. She let go of the dagger and Krad took the dagger out, threw it somewhere, and placed his hand over the wound. Neda looked at Dark and said,

"Why must you interfere? It is uncalled for."

"You don't need to kill Krad. There's no need to kill anybody."

"You're just wishing to get killed earlier," Neda said spinning her blade once she got her blade back using her magic (like jedi getting their lightsaber using the force).

"No, I'm not, I don't want you to hurt people."

"Well, it's already too late for you to tell me that."

Neda threw the blade and Dark and it just missed his face with some split hairs. Krad went up the Neda again and tried to punch her. He hit her cheek and Neda looked at him and pointed tow fingers at him. There was a glow on her fingertips and it shot out towards Krad. It went through his shoulder. Neda used her magic again to get the blade.

"Now, let me show you what this blade can do."

She raised her hand she had the blade in in the air and she took the other part of the staff and placed it next to the blade. The staff part started disappearing and started to be absorbed to the blade. The blade was glowing longer and then when the glow subsided, it looked like a glass blade with a thin white strip in the middle. The handle formed like a circle around her hand. She lowered the new sword and spun her sword around.

"See the full power of the shape shifting staff!"

Neda swung the sword down towards Krad and a big wave of red magic ran from the sword. Krad barely flew out of the way and Neda raised her hand to be prepared to swing her sword, but then Dark grabbed her wrist. She looked behind her and Dark had a straight face.

"Stop getting in the way, Dark."

"I can't just watch this while you kill somebody."

"You're so kind, Dark. Obviously, you don't know the thrill of killing."

"I don't like violence."

"That's what someone would say if they haven't killed anybody," she said trying to pull the sword away from Dark. Dark let go of the sword and then Neda faced Dark.

"Kch…" Dark said.

Neda pointed to sword at Krad, "I will deal with you later, since you can't move."

She looked at Dark, "It seems that you don't have to delay anymore. I'll deal with you since you always try to save Krad."

She put both hands on the sword and bent down a little.

"Alright, let's go, Dark!"

She dashed up to him and heavily swung the sword down. Dark jumped away and got hit by the magic that came out. He flew to the wall and fell down. She went up to him and elbowed him on the stomach; Dark spat out some blood. She stood up and looked at Dark who was struggling to stand up and stay conscious.

"It's no use for you. You're too weak."

Dark closed his eyes and fell down. Neda felt a force on her left side. The impact was Krad's foot that kicked her. She fell down, and looked at Krad.

"I'm still your opponent, Neda," Krad said still holding his shoulder.

"You are in no condition to fight, but if you wish to die, so be it."

She stood up and grabbed her sword along the way. She put two fingers up and closed her eyes. She opened them a while and then she pointed her fingers towards him. Krad felt a surge all over his body and it passed afterwards.

She took up her sword and jumped up and flipped down. Krad took out a feather and blocked Neda's attack. She spun around and swung sideways. When Krad dodged that, she stuck the sword in the ground and used that for support to kick Krad in the stomach with two feet. He stumbled backwards; Neda landed, knelt down, took out the sword and sung sideways. Krad jumped and tripped and fell. Neda went up to him, and she transformed the blade into two swords. She stabbed Krad's leg and the sword went through his leg and it stuck to the floor. Krad yelled and Neda was standing in front of Krad and she had the second blade pointed towards his face.

"Should I let you suffer, or kill you instantly?"

The sword that was stabbed through Krad's leg started to glow red and the pain was enormous for Krad since he started yelling again.

"Oh? It seems that my sword wanted to make you suffer."

She rested the sword that she had in her hand on her shoulder, and she started tapping her shoulder, thinking.

"Now, it's time for you to die!"

Neda moved her arm to swing down. She started and Krad squinted (almost closing his eyes so he wouldn't see) until Neda stopped halfway through her swing. Her sword was shaking and her hand looked like it was being held back. Neda's face looked like she was struggling. She started moving the tip of the blade towards her neck (the blade was pointing at the space between the collar bones). Krad took this as an advantage to take out the sword from his let. It was difficult since Neda's magic was keeping it from coming out, but he succeeded.

"It's…not possible…you…can't be conscious."

"Well, it looks like I can," Kazuko said, "I won't let you kill anybody. The only one to be killed here is you."

"Haha…such and idiotic plan, master. If you kill me, you'll get killed as well."

"…That's what I'm meaning to do."

"That…can't be possible. You can't kill me…"

"You'll never know until you try. But since you are a part of me, I can take over this body and kill it then."

Neda's other hand slowly pointed to Krad and then Kazuko said in Neda's voice,

"Krad, stay out of this…this is between me and Neda. If you get any closer, I'll be sure to knock you out."

"But to made sure that Krad doesn't interfere, I'll use the magic that Neda still has on Krad," Kazuko thought to herself.

Neda shot some of her magic towards Krad and Krad felt that surge of magic again, but this time, it stayed. His whole body couldn't move. The tip of the blade was poking at Neda's neck that blood was dripping down the blade. "I don't care if this take a while and if I suffer too. I'll make sure that you die no matter what."

"Master, this is idiotic. If you kill me here, I will come back in the next generation."

"…I know…but at least you won't hurt my friends in this one."

"All you Barero are the same. You only think of yourselves and don't know the consequences of your actions."

"We might be like that…but it's because we know that the next generation will take care of it. Now stop underestimating me!"

Neda stabbed her neck and the blade ran through and appeared in the back of her neck. Neda's pupils were small, and then she transformed back into Kazuko, Krad, for some reason, transformed back into Satoshi.

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End of Chapter 17

Last Chapter: Epilogue