A.C.: Edited... not that much though so... -shrugs- hmmm I split one episode into like three chapters... err yay?
From the smoldering pit of the dish the two blades faced off, the bit beasts held within rising higher and further than ever before.
The black god rose, the face twisted in an angry snarl as he drew forth to crush the ocean colored blade.
Two phoenixes spiraled forth from the small container of their spiritual beings. Two phoenixes, one ablaze with solar flames and the second darker than the ashes she had been born from. In single unity they shrieked their challenge to the Greek beast god and cocooned the darkness in a grid of gray, reminding them all that they were gods too.
Suzaku, the guardian of South where the lake lies...
Balkov watched angrily as his star pupil was pushed down. Dranzer glowed a varying shade of rainbow as the warmth was transferred from her blader to her. The flames had died down, the scarlet stained bandages were torn away, floating in the air as pink ribbons as the rest came loose and fell to the floor. Everything seemed so clear...
"That's why..." A screech of gear on gear as Brooklyn's black blade was pushed, no blown out of the dish and by the redhead's feet, a quarter of the top melted into nothingness. Wind blew out from the impact whipping the slate gray hair and the double-ended scarf before settling them down. "I win..." though a mere shadow of his former self, the effect was impressive, or at least the crowd thought so as they roared their approval at the reborn phoenix.
"I lost...?"
Brooklyn collapsed on his feet as Hitoshi quietly replied to the unanswered question,
"You've lost Brooklyn, this is what defeat feels like. Now you can final emerge from your cocoon into a butterfly. Your new wings will be stronger than anything you've ever felt before..."
Effortlessly, despite the wounds he had accumulated, Kai caught his heavily battered blade with the same grace as if he had come out of a practice round. The crowd, if anything cheered harder as he stepped down and into the open arms of G revolution.
-
"Kai!"
"You've won our first victory!"
"G-REVOLUTION'S KAI HAS JUST WON AGAINST BEGA'S SECRET WEAPON! AND WITH THIS HIWATARI KAI HAS MADE AN AWSOME COMEBACK! CONGRATULATIONS!"
"We're proud of you Kai!"
"He's such a great guy!"
"Kai, you... you are great... more than I could ever imagine!"
Excited faces ran up to greet him, eyes on peach colored blanks until they pixelized into the background and Kai found that he was being supported by Takao's arms as he swayed dangerously towards the tiled floor.
"Kai!"
Excitement turned into horror in a matter of seconds as they realized just how much damage Kai received trying to secure a win for them all.
"Kai, you alright?"
"Should we get a doctor?"
"Your voices are giving me a headache." the blunette growled and for a moment they all sighed a breath of relief as the seemingly normal behavior surfaced forth.
"Kai are you alright?"
"Of course," deadpanned Kai breaking out of the younger bluenette's loose hug. "more importantly, are you?"
"Yeah! I'm going to win against Garland then I'm going to fight you! Better be prepared Kai because this time, I won't let you off easily!"
Pressing a torn palm on Takao's shoulders, Kai smiled politely and looked at them sternly trying to recognize their faces.
Bladebreakers
G-revolutions...
"I wish you good luck," he said softly and headed for the exit, congratulating himself as he somehow manage to hide in the shadows without stumbling.
Within the top stands Boris and Sergei gave each other all knowing looks as the sped down to capture to elusive phoenix.
-
From the place he had left brief moment before "AND NOW, THE BATTLE BETWEEN BEGA'S GARLAND AND TAKAO WILL BEGIN WITHIN AN HOUR!" reverberated around the empty corridor like a gong, crashing against his head until he stumbled blindly grasping the wall. His sight wavered, just as his knees buckled.
"Ah..."
He sank to his knees, his legs impossibly weak as the bent underneath him with his scarf gently landing on his back like an illustration of mangled wings. Blood splattered the floor and he opened his mouth, gagging on air as he struggled to keep whatever contents of his stomach down.
He slumped against the wall staring mutely at the one fixed spot in the ceiling as the walls around him began to bleach away into oblivion, vanishing into space like the rest of him. He saw the all too cheerful faces of his former teammates, the ones he had betrayed, the ones he had left.
He coughed lightly, spitting out blood and looking at the floor. Dranzer's twisted and fused metal blades seemed like blue smudges against the stainless floor. If he got up right now, he could reach the locker rooms... maybe.
His whole form seemed to go limp as he let himself go, freeing himself of the obligations that chained him to this day. His mission incomplete though not for much longer, he let the mask fall as tears soaked his cheeks and trickled down his jaw where they landed on the torn scarf painting it pink and sky blue.
Dranzer rolled out of his hands though seemingly protesting as she spun weakly on the floor. She stopped in a position where they could see eye to eye, Kai smirked through looking back up at the ceiling as his vision swum like the whirlpool black that was Zeus.
"King of Darkness huh Suzaku...?" the bit beast glowed a soft red, gray and orange in response. Kai's smirk softened into a smile, tears continuously trekked their way down his face, melting away the shark fins.
If he concentrated hard enough, he could almost smell the snow and the storm that were his friends, his family. The roar of the crowd washed over him anew, or was he just listening to another replay of his life played backwards? Looking back up his vision blurred away in a shower of tears as his mouth parted softly.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry I pushed you so hard... I'm sorry... you deserve a better person than me... I don't deserve you... Suzaku..." tears came faster now, eons worth of pain disintegrating off his shoulders. The silver bangs hung limply caked with dry blood. Whatever bandaging he had possessed were all but gone hanging onto him by a mere thread as his whole posture drooped deeper, and deeper... "I'm sorry... Dranzer..."
The core of the crippled blade burned vermilion in objection as the last part lengthened out into wordless sentences of untold feelings. The blue blade began to crack suddenly from the outside, the hairline fractures extending to the heart of the bit. The few outside pieces fell apart but by then Kai was beyond the realm of being able to care.
'Yuriy...'
Last thoughts before the impending darkness. He kissed the air lightly, imagining that red haired Russian had been here today, to watch the results if not to see him.
'Ai shiteru...'
Kai pitched forward into the growing pool of crimson liquid as the the blue blade shattered in to pieces, the phoenix god already gone from the split fragments of blue and silver metal.
And the pyres died down to ashes...
-
Within the white walls of the hospital an indigo haired Russian kicked up a fuss, demanding the camera to be turned back at the victorious phoenix as the announcer began a brief introduction on BEGA's Garland.
Within the white walls of the hospital, behind the red cross and hundreds of windows that looked over the city, a redhead Russian lay on the bed beside his beast companion as the life support picked up an anomaly amongst his vital signs.
Red lashes fluttered, almost unnoticeable. The heart monitor beeped in accordance to the quickening pulse of the red wolf. Wolfborg glowed a soft silver to comfort his master for on the opposite side of the city, a phoenix fell, dying in his own brand of spice branches. And as the flames withered down to cold ashes, a lone tear fell, to mark the same passage they had taken when they had traveled from the eyes of a phoenix.