To Love a Theif

By: Helbaworshipper (AKA 'Helb')

Chapter 12

Eric pulled Alice gently to the alter of maram that had been constructed only days ago. Her robes moved with almost stealth as the still lotis filled person followed him willingly. The invaders tried their best not to completely struggle and use their energy reserves. Scipio's mind thought of his only companion...who had died so painfully.

"Neyozeka? What has happened?" He pulled the rabbit to his lap and listened to her labored breathing. The fly should not have been that hard to do, she had been trained well to keep up and still have lots of energy left. "Have things been well?"

"I'm getting so weak Master Lotsuan, and Alice has yet to learn enough to need your help." Her eyes looked pained as well, and he tried to heal her with Jiva. It did not work, and why did it not?

"I've asked the lotus tutor to try it as well, but it has not worked. I have been poisoned...no doubt a plan."

"Neyozeka, how long do you have left?"

"A few days."

"I shall fetch you as soon as I can with my strongest lotis. I will not let you die on me."

Yet she died before he could even try and help her, and it angered him. He had to help everyone and save Alice from making the worst decision in her life. His body filled with his lotis as he chanted within his heart. 'Vimuku!' The chains released everyone, including Kyou who dropped rather clumsily to the floor. He ran towards Kyou, finding himself being protected by Mayura with the last of her lotis reserves. "Kyou, I need you to seperate Alice from Darva and wake her up, I shall fight him." The male nodded before running with Scipio and the others, who had been planned to distract the others.

Chris and Mei Lin managed to tug Shinigami away as they felt his dark claws try and stab them. However, Chris managed to avoid the attack barely enough to see the desuri and counteract it. Mei Lin looked a Chris a moment, and pulled out an Utei to find him a clump of dead souls. She didn't know how to exactly fight it at all, and looked towards Chris for some sort of sign. Chris made a motion toward's one of his ruby colored bracelets before they dodged another round of his rambito arrows. "Mano!" The two said together, making the maram master fall into pieces.
Billy and the remaining lotis masters not in other battles tried to figure out what Kayna and Samuel's weakness was. They were barely in any sort of reserve of energy as well. Mayura made a notion, which was a huge gamble as Frey called out an Utei to expose their darkness. It had worked, so she and Billy managed to cleanse the two before getting injured by the awakened maram masters.

Alice and Kyou's battle...

She felt herself removed from the cold and comforting existence she had been around for only weeks. She was scared, but she would be his wife like she had promised. "How dare you remove me from my fiance!" The male looked at her more determined than the last time she had seen it.

"I was supposed to be your fiance, that man tried to taint you. You are a lotis master, not a maram master."

"You're wrong! Dara!"

"Shibi!" He dispelled the wind just as fast as she had found the word.

"Matsu!"

"Vimuku!" She was running out of energy, and her lotis fever was increasing more that she was away from her own supposed fiance. The male approached her, and her words wouldn't come, there was no energy to save her maram. "Alice, return to me...I love you."

"Deisuri!" A strong symbol pushed him away from her, she tried to move farther away, finding herself against the chair he had only recently been restrained in. "Get away from me!"

Darva and Lotsuan's battle

"Just you and me, eh Scipio?" Eric's smile sickened Scipio's mind, he had been planning this revenge for awhile...and it would not be destroyed by this man's ambition. "Should I kill you mercifully, or should I kill you like I killed Neyozeka?" The male's tone had changed to something of a grating motion, rather than some sort of hatred. His desired effect seemed to just appear in time.

"How dare you say her name! She was not supposed to die so painfully."

"Oh, did I hit a nerve?" The man approached him and he reacted with his lotis. The darker one knew how to easily counter an angry lotis master. He expertly watched the symbol the other was making as he predicted.

"Rajei!"

"Karu!"

"Riiya!" He just managed to avoid the sneak attack of the kick the other male had managed to get off while fighting with his words. "Vimuku!" He rose in the air with his wings, and stood up above Eric as he saw him targeting Alice in the distance. He wouldn't kill his wife, unless he... 'A trap...and I can't let Alice die.' He flew fast to catch the Rajika arrow, which hit him straight in the heart. Kyou looked as he heard a thud, and the lotis masters noticed it as well.

"SCIPIO!"