Sapphire Vixen

--By SunFireVixen--

Vixen: -blinks stupidly-

Aquamarine: -pokes Vixen-

Vixen: -tilts and falls flat on face-

Emerald: -lifts foot to kick Vixen-

Aquamarine: -stops Emerald- Vixen has lots of pressure on her shoulders right now, and she's really tired. We apologize...

Emerald: Actually, she's taking this more calmly than I thought. I was betting my money on her dropping out in 3 days tops.

Aquamarine: Alright, anyways... this chapter's kinda short too, but the next one will be much longer, with even more surprises. Emerald's still checking for grammar mistakes, and the spelling check is completed, thanks to me-

Emerald: Ignoring Ms. Ego now... Vixen thanks to every one who reviewed, and she's really excited that this story has 200 reviews now. Son please review, as she hopes to have 250 or more when she finishes the story.

Aquamarine: Please review! -waves-

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Chapter 34: Sly Fox

Dark green swam over the large garden below.

Emerald closed her eyes, and took a deep breath.

Aquamarine stood beside her, staring up at the dark night sky.

"I didn't know," Aquamarine suddenly said, breaking the peaceful silence. Emerald nodded, and crossed her arms behind her head.

"Me neither. I didn't really suspect anything until I actually saw her." Emerald stared up at the bright sliver moon above them.

Aquamarine yawned, closing her tired eyes. Emerald glanced at her. "You should go to bed."

Aquamarine nodded, and walked back to their room. Emerald watched her as she crawled back into one the beds in their room, then turned back to the garden. Her dark green eyes gazed down at the garden, looking for the sly fox that had kept a little secret that everybody but the Bladebreakers knew.

She smirked when the dark purple blur jumped out of the trees, her silver mane swishing with her speed, her dark purple tail with the silver tip whipping up as she jumped into the air, then dived back down into the trees.

"It is true... Foxes… are sly."

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Sapphire licked at her paw.

Her circular sapphire-blue eyes gazed outside, beyond her balcony. Though she wanted to cry, she would not. She would not dare.

Not even if Kai asked her to.

She was a fox. What was worse is that she was half.

Her pointed fox nose directed to the ground, she stared sadly down floor, blue eyes swimming in tears she refused to let free. She closed her eyes.

Sapphire jumped to the door, and opened it. With one leap, she reached the bottom of the stairs. She jumped outside, and into the backyard. She stared at the enormous space she was going to use.

She stood in the middle of the cement ground. She stared down at her sharp black claws.

If I cannot escape this curse, I will work along with it.

She snapped her fingers, and a small spark flickered, and vanished. She clapped her paws, and sparks flew. Sapphire scowled.

She turned around, and started to dance in circles. Very small flames flickered around her, making a circle as she spun, and dust started to pick up. The flames disappeared again. She stopped, and clenched her paws and glared at the floor.

I am not giving up.

Then she began training…

She snapped her fingers again, concentrating... focusing... it flickered, and it was gone. She sat down, cross-legged on the ground, and tried it again.

She snapped both of her fingers, and small balls of bright fire hovered over her paws. She forced them closer, so they hovered in between her paws, and merged into one.

A smile appeared on fox face. The ball of fire danced in the air, and with one of her claws, she directed it, and then it separated into smaller ones, and danced in a circle around her. She put her arms down, and they continued to dance.

She closed her eyes, concentrating harder. All the small flames merged into one again, and the flames began to get bigger and bigger. The flames flickered around her in large circle.

"Whoa! Stop, drop and roll, Sapphire!"

The flames disappeared.

"Never mind."

Sapphire turned around, and saw Tyson waving his arms then stopping when the flames disappeared. Hilary laughed as she punched him on the shoulder playfully.

Sapphire rolled her eyes as they came closer. Max smiled happily like always, Dizzi was tucked under Kenny's arm, and Kai stared with a bored expression to everyone.

Sapphire turned around again, avoiding Kai's eyes. She snapped her fingers once again, and the flames did not flicker this time.

Max sat cross-legged in front of Sapphire, staring at the flame that danced in between them. His mouth was open, amazed at her control.

Sapphire, bored, placed her elbow on her knee and rested her head on her hand, her head tilted to the side, with a bored expression on her fox face.

They all sat around her, staring at the flame flicker, then separate into two, then each of those separating again, then again for a total of eight small dancing balls of fire.

Tyson leaned closer, but leaned on Max too much, they fell down. The flames disappeared. Sapphire sighed, and stood up.

Kai watched her as she calmly walked away. Tyson and Max sat up. Hilary giggled.

"Hey, where are you going?" Max asked his blue eyes wide. Sapphire stopped, and turned her head slightly so you could only see the side of her face.

"Somewhere."

"Can we c-"

"And I want to be alone." she cut Hilary off, and continued to walked away. Hilary stared worriedly, and then they all turned to stare at each other.

"I wonder what's wrong with her…" Kenny asked. They all shrugged.

Kai remained on the wall he leaned on, his arms crossed.

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It was almost ten when Aquamarine woke up. She expected to see Emerald in the bed next to hers, but she was not. Aquamarine quickly stood up, and changed into her clothes.

She buttoned up her blouse, and walked outside into the corridor in search of Emerald. She quickly went down the stairs, and met Emerald, sitting on the bottom step of the staircase. Her silver-gold hair covered her face, and she had a hand on her forehead.

"Are you okay, Emerald?" Aquamarine asked, as she heard a low moan come from the dark green-eyed girl, obviously in pain. A drop of blood made a tiny splash on the floor. Aquamarine lifted her head up, and removed her hands away from her.

Her hands practically swam in blood. A deep hole in her chest was slowly trying to fix itself.

"Whose blood is this, Emerald?" Aquamarine demanded, worried. Then something unexpected happened.

A small tear slipped down her cheek.

"I... I don't know. I can't even remember waking up, or-or d-doing anything." Emerald murmured, hiccupping. Then they looked up to see one of the entrance's double doors open.

Sapphire, still in her Firefox form, walked in. Aquamarine and Emerald looked up. Sapphire stared first at Emerald's hand, then at both of them.

"What happened?" Sapphire demanded her eyes wide. Emerald let out a small hiccup, shook her head, and then looked down miserably at the floor.

"I… I d-don't know…" Emerald hiccupped.

Sapphire glared down at her as she walked closer. "What do you mean you don't know?"

"She doesn't remember doing anything, Sapphire." Aquamarine said, raising her voice, returning the glare from Sapphire.

Sapphire stared at the floor, then they looked up again to see Tyson and the rest, Kai a little bit behind the others.

They all stared first at the puddle of blood that the drops dripping from Emerald's blood-red hands.

Kai and Sapphire stared at each other for a very long moment.

Are you okay? What's wrong?

No, I'm not okay. Everything is wrong.

Tyson, Hilary, Kenny and Max took several steps back. Emerald looked up at them, tears in her eyes.

Then time seemed to stop as her lenses stopped and then zoomed in on Kai.

Her eyes went all dark green; her pupils had disappeared.

"Target acquired."

A smirk appeared on his handsome face, partly covered by silver strands of hair.

What he was about to do was indeed murder, but like they all say-

All is fair between love and war…