Darkness Spreads
Chapter 9 - The fight begins
Well hello! I'm very sorry about the long wait this time! I am very tired...
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Kurogane dodged another blow, jumping up onto a tall rock, the start of the mountain at the edge of town.
Ashura shook his head. "You are an irritation." He muttered.
Kurogane smiled. "Must be like an itch, huh?"
Ashura nodded, then frowned. "I don't need to converse with you, mortal."
Ashura struck out at Kurogane with his ice staff. Kurogane dodged it with an inch to spare.
"That wizard must bother you."
Ashura's eyes narrowed. "Do not speak of him."
Kurogane grinned. "Me and Fai got to know each other well while we were together. He's nicer than you'd think."
Ashura lunged at him, his spear parried by Kurogane's staff. Their faces were so close Kurogane could feel the coolness of Ashura's skin.
Ashura's eyes were wide with anger.
"Do not mention him!" He screeched. Kurogane felt his ear drums straining with the noise.
Suddenly Ashura stopped, turning slowly, his face seemed to split in two with the hungry grin which crept onto his face.
"Fai..."
Kurogane's eyes widened.
"Fai!"
Ashura pushed his staff forwards, forcing Kurogane's head into the cold, hard rock behind. As Kurogane slumped forwards Ashura turned.
"You came to me Fai... My Fai..."
Fai stood, staring at Kurogane's limp form. He shook his head.
"I... I had to stop this... This madness..."
Ashura's smile faded slightly.
"Fai?"
Fai was trembling.
"I... I'm so sorry... Ashura..."
He shut his eyes, clasping his hands together.
"No... Fai... NO!"
Fai opened his hands, his eyes turned white, his mouth opened in a silent scream. A light shot from his hands, so bright it would burn the eyes of anyone looking at it. Ashura screamed, his hands reaching up to his smouldering face.
"FAI! FAAAAAAAAAAAI !"
His skin started to fall to the ground in clumps of smouldering mass, his eyes were gone, burnt completely. He fell to his knees, grabbing his face. As the light hit his hands, they started to burn too, the skin crackling and peeling.
Fai blinked, the light stopped. Ashura's body fell to the ground, still.
Fai shivered in the sudden cold which had enveloped him. He fell to his knees then began to drag himself over to Kurogane.
"Kuro... Kurogane?" He said quietly.
Kurogane stirred.
"What..."
He looked up, blinking in the sunlight.
"Wha... Fai!" He sat up quickly as Fai fell forwards, catching him.
"Fai! FAI!"
Fai looked up at him, his eyes half closed. "I... I used too much power..."
Kurogane shook his head. "You aren't going to...?"
Fai smiled, then coughed. "No... I'm not going to die... I wont die because of him..."
Kurogane laughed, mostly from the shock of imagining Fai dying. Tear began to pour down his cheek s and he couldn't stop them.
Fai pushed himself into a sitting position.
"I can't walk just yet... We need to find Syaoran..."
Kurogane shook his head again, the tears stopping slightly.
"Just a few more minutes... Please?"
Fai smiled, a genuine smiled not his sad smile. "Of course Kuro-min."
Kurogane laughed and punched him lightly.
"Don't call me that... Idiot."
"Now now. No need to be rude!" Fai giggled.
Kurogane stood up.
"Hey! I can't walk you know!"
Kurogane looked back at him, an evil grin spreading across his face.
"What? Kuro-tan? What!"
Kurogane reached down and picked up the wizard, slinging him over his shoulder, he started to run.
"Kur - o - min!" Fai gasped. "Put - me - dooooown!"
Kurogane laughed. "No chance!"
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As the pair ran off, the first flake of a new snow storm fell onto the corpse of Ashura. Then another, and another.
A finger twitched slightly, then the burnt, crumpling corpse began to stand. It stood on shaky, burnt legs then let out a last scream, so high in pitch that it made birds fall from the cliff rock, stunned, ice break and fall.
The figure let out a feeble cry as it's legs began to turn to dust.
"F... Fai..." It managed to gasp. "M... My... Fai..."
The figure that used to be Ashura slumped forwards one final time, never to move again.
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Another chapter done! I thought it was kind of sad and a bit twisted... Ah well! This is the second to last one! Only one to go! See you then!
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