Reason I Love to Fly
Chapter 12
"Die!" Yuri heard herself said as diamond dust began to form a solid sword in her hand. Krad dodged Yuri's attack in time and had prepared an energy ball between his palms but he couldn't bring himself to release his attack. His power diminished from his palms and he sighed as he looked up at her.
"You don't have the heart to attack me?" Krad realized that it was not Yuri who was speaking to him. He concluded that someone was controlling Yuri's body and also used her powers.
'What am I supposed to do?' he asked himself. Just then, a thought struck him and he headed for the mirror with an energy ball in his palm.
"What are you planning?" a voice said venomously in his ears. Krad swirled around to find Yuri flying beside him and he saw that her hazel eyes had turned red in hatred.
"I'm getting Yuri back!" Krad answered but the other angel laughed hysterically as she circled the air around Krad.
"How did you know it was me inside her?" Yuri's voice began to change into a man's.
"I was just beginning to wonder where Varen went if he was not here to watch," Krad said.
"But you would not hurt me while I'm in her," Varen said victoriously and landed on the floor, "There's nothing you can do except to dodge my attacks until you are too tired to move and that's when I'll kill you."
"It would be very simple for you to just seal my power and imprison me," Krad began as he landed on his feet in front of the possessed Yuri, "What do you have in mind?"
"Simple," he replied, "Like I said, this charm has a will of its own and its will is too much for me to bend it to my command. If I were to destroy the one thing she held dear to her heart, she will be broken and that is the time for me to use her."
"What do you plan to destroy?" Krad asked but inside, he was beginning to fear for Yuri's life as he saw an image of Yuri bathed in blood in her mind. Varen, who realized that Krad was uncertain, saw the chance to kill him and he rushed to the blonde angel.
"You," he said before he released Yuri's body and returned to his own body.
Krad gasped as he felt a sword pierced through him. He looked down and saw the glittering sword implanted into his abdomen. Two shimmering drops of tears caught his attention and he looked up to see Yuri.
"Y-Yuri…chan," he smiled when he knew that she had returned but he began stumbled backwards on to the floor, leaving the sword's edge as his blood slowly coloured the royal yellow floor.
"Krad-san…" Yuri threw the sword away as it escapes his body and gently caught him as he fell. She gently placed Krad onto the floor and knelt beside him.
"He's going to die and you know it," a voice said behind her.
"No," Yuri said, "Krad-san will not die because Yuri knows that Yuri has powers."
"Do you even know what kind of power you possess?" Varen asked, his voice trembled a little at the confidence Yuri had shown.
"Luck," she answered, "Yuri's lucky to have healing powers."
"NO!" the young baron stomped towards the girl who was healing Krad's wound. He grabbed the girl roughly in his hand and looked at the wound on Krad. He was shocked when he saw that not a single drop of blood was left on his white clothes.
"Yuri-chan!" Krad called as he got up to his feet.
"Too late, Krad," Varen faded and went into Yuri's body again. He laughed triumphantly and hovered in the air. Krad flew up and looked at the other winged angel, uncertain of the whispers her heard while he was in pain.
'When Varen goes into Yuri, Yuri'll try to force him out. If Yuri can do it then we can suppress him but if Yuri can't, kill Yuri,' he remembered but his mind shouted, 'I CAN'T!'
"If I can't destroy you," he continued, "I could erase you." He laughed hysterically as he took Yuri's precious moments out of her.
"No!" Yuri screamed as she held her head in pain, "Don't take Yuri's memories from Yuri! Doooooonn'ttt!" She screamed and her wings failed her as she started to free fall down to the floor but Krad managed to catch her before she fell to her death.
"This is an unexpected turn of event," Varen said as he regained his body in front of them.
"What did you do to Yuri?" he asked with anger in his voice and looked at him with hateful golden eyes.
"You'll know when the time comes," he laughed, "And I'll be the one she trusts most."
"What are you jabbering about?" Krad muttered.
"Enough said," Varen finally wished to stop talking, "I'll have her!" He thrust his hands out to grab the unconscious girl in Krad's arm and missed only by centimeters as Krad leaped back from his grasp.
"Krad-san…" Yuri mumbled to him, "I want to talk to him."
"You might get killed!" he said but she shook her head tiredly.
"Just a moment," she said and Krad obliged by walking up to the awaiting young Baron. He slowly set her to her feet and held her by the waist. "Yuri understands that Varen wants to fulfill Varens destiny but when you have fulfilled it, what is next?"
"Live happily ever after," he answered impatiently.
"Is that so?" Yuri asked, her eyes still not willing to focus, "Varen wanted a warm family in the future for Varen's children. Having the same lust to kill as Varen's predecessors will only make history repeat itself."
Varen looked at the girl who fought to keep her consciousness in wonder at her word. "I lost?" Varen chuckled, "To a girl?"
"Yuri-chan!" Krad called when the girl slumped onto him.
"I'll not have it!" the baron screamed and lunged at the two of them. Krad dodged his attack and flew out of his reach before sending a few of his white feathers towards the mirror. Krad heard the mirror shattered and a painful howl from the young baron as Krad flew out of the castle with Yuri safe in his arms.
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"Yuri! Thanks goodness you are awake!" her mother exclaimed as she embraced the confused looking girl tightly.
"Mother? Father? What happened?" she asked, "Why am I in the guest room?"
"Don't you remember?" her mother asked worriedly, "You were kidnapped and someone rescued you and brought you back to us!"
"I was kidnapped and I saw Varen," Yuri tried to remember.
"Surely you must have seen the face of the one who rescued you?" her father, Kosuke, asked.
"There was no one else," Yuri answered truthfully.
"So, that was what he meant by erasing me," Krad said softly to himself as he eavesdropped in their conversation. "It's painful," he admitted as he felt his whole body shattered at the truth. He sat on the roof for a long time before his could gather up enough strength to will his wings to fly.
'But Yuri knows someone was there,' Yuri thought to herself as she was left alone in the room. 'Someone came for me,' she remembered looking out of the mirror into the thin air, 'Someone saved me from him. Who was it?'
'Someone was there beside me these few months too. Who was Yuri talking to?' she thought as she could only see herself talking to someone who was not there. 'Yuri was happy with that person,' she said, 'Yuri remembers the feeling but not the person.'
