Sapphire Vixen
--By SunFireVixen--
Emerald: Vixen has been sent to solitary confinement.
Aquamarine: Not for the her safety, but for the safety of others.
Emerald -shakes head- High school got the better of her.
Aquamarine: -nod nod- Well, anyways, Vixen also thanks to the people who reviewed, and that maybe she might visit for the next update.
Well, on with the story, then...
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Chapter 35: Identity Theft
Tell me what's wrong, Sapphire. Why are you acting different?
Sapphire looked away, avoiding his gaze, breaking the silent discussion across the room.
Meanwhile…
Emerald lost herself in the dark… there were no doors, no windows…no corridors, and worst, no signs to tell her the way out… she was trapped.
"Don't you worry, Emerald," a mocking and familiar voice echoed and bounced off the dark walls. Emerald's eyes widened.
She knew that voice all too well…Fei.
"Go rot in hell, y-you…you computer nerd!" Emerald yelled, her voice cracking. Fei snickered as she trembled slightly at his voice.
"Losing your touch at smart comments, Emerald?" Fei toyed with her, and Emerald turned around, following the direction of his voice. "That's not like you at all, now, my green-eyed angel."
Emerald gasped as he appeared right in front of her, his arms folded across his chest, silver strands falling to his face, making him look even more sinister. He smirked at her terrified face.
"'Angel' my a-"
"Where did you learn such a dirty language, my pretty angel?" Fei cut her off, taking a strand of her silver-gold hair. Emerald slapped his hand away.
"You're in my domain now, my angel," Fei whispered, as he walked closer, so their faces were only inches apart. "And because of that, you have to do everything I say."
Emerald gave Fei her nastiest glare. "You can't control me, y-you science freak."
Fei smirked. "I beg to differ," he said, his sinister smile growing wider. "I created you. Do you really think I didn't think that you would someday go against me?"
Emerald took a step back, but he only stepped closer.
"I can control the body I made for you, whether you want to or not," he murmured. "I gave you a chance… it was either on your own will- or against it. I really didn't care which option it was, only to get the job done," Fei said angrily, his gaze slowly darkening to a glare as he spoke.
From the outside, Emerald's nails grew. They all turned to look at her as she stood up, her hair like a waterfall of silver-gold covering her face.
She looked up at Kai. Tyson and the rest took more steps back, but they were of no importance to her, unless they got in her way of killing the slate-blue haired boy.
"Emerald- what are you doing?" Sapphire asked, looking at her. Emerald didn't answer her, instead kept her stare at her target, who took a step away.
They all stared as she then stepped closer to Kai, and he took many more steps back. She finally cornered him and held her arm up, readying her attack.
He took advantage at her slow movement, and leaped away. Her nails barely missed his shoulder, and they stayed stuck, making five deep holes on the wall.
Sapphire and the rest stared at Emerald's sudden actions. Emerald took her nails out of the wall, and before she could chase after Kai, Sapphire took her arms, stopping her from making more attacks. Emerald turned around to face her.
Emerald then jerked her arms away and then swiped at Sapphire. The Firefox was slammed against the wall, Emerald holding her neck, pinning her to the wall.
Hilary and Kenny hid behind Tyson. Max stared with wide eyes as Emerald choked Sapphire. He pouted, then walked over to them.
"Maxie- what are you doing? Get back here!" Tyson yelled at his friend.
They all watched as Max with his cute frown kicked Emerald in the back of her leg.
Emerald groaned in pain, then threw Sapphire across the room, throwing her into the wall, then sliding onto the floor, her fox eyes closed. Then Emerald slowly turned and then looked down at Max.
She lifted her hand to swipe at Max, but Kai tackled him to the floor, and she missed. Tyson and the rest picked up Max as Kai stood up, and glanced at Sapphire, her body limp.
Emerald seemed to follow only him.
Why?
He quickly ran outside as Emerald exchanged her long razor-like black nails for her blade. She followed him outside in one leap.
Aquamarine and the rest watched as Kai tried to dodge all of her attacks.
She swiped at his chest, but he leaped in time, then she tripped him by aiming at his feet. Kai fell backwards, holding his left ankle. Emerald stabbed at him, but she missed as he rolled away, then slowly stood.
She took another swipe, and he then fell to his knees as he clutched his shoulder, blood sliding down his fingers. She stared down at him with emotionless and blank eyes before raising her arm to attack him once more.
Before she could, Sapphire leaped out of nowhere, her incredible speed making her miss by a mile. She picked up Kai flawlessly.
Sapphire carried Kai in her arms, and stopped when she reached the steps of her home.
Kai stared up at Sapphire with eyes half-way open, panting hard. She looked down at him with angry sapphire-blue eyes. He closed his eyes again as she lay him down on the steps.
Tyson, Hilary, Max, Kenny and Aquamarine hurried over to Kai's side as Sapphire turned to Emerald, who walked to them with a hungry look. Sapphire stepped in front of the rest and Kai, her arms outstretched, blocking Emerald's way
Emerald swiped at Sapphire, but she grabbed her arm to stop her attack, so her blade was only inches away from her black fox nose. Sapphire twisted Emerald's arm and threw her back. Emerald collapsed on the floor.
She switched her blade for her long black nails again, and took another swipe at Sapphire, who leaped away, Emerald chasing after her. They swiped at each other incredibly fast, almost too fast for human eyes to see.
Sapphire sank to her knees on the floor, her nose scratched, and a long wound on her stomach with blood silently sliding down and staining her fur. She panted slightly as she stared at Emerald looking down at her.
Emerald slapped Sapphire, which threw her to the floor, her chest rising and lowering in fatigue. Sapphire glared up at Emerald before kicking her in the face with her feet.
Kai opened his eyes again, sat up slowly, and then winced at the pain in his shoulder. Hilary tried to sit him back down, but he pushed her away gently.
Kai stared as Sapphire kicked Emerald vigorously with both her hind feet, knocking Emerald to the ground. Sapphire stood up with her kick, and with one of her big paws, pinned Emerald by the neck to the ground.
Emerald stabbed Sapphire in the side, near her breast, and she growled in pain before sinking her sharp teeth into Emerald's wrist.
Her large and sharp white teeth made her look much more like rabid animal.
Emerald swiped at Sapphire again, but missed as Sapphire took a leap back. Emerald stood up again, and then stared down at her wrist, which was busy trying to fix itself.
Sapphire panted heavily as she stared back at Emerald. The deep wound on her side slowly started to heal, and Sapphire growled at the intense pain. But she leaped away, snapping her fingers. Two medium sized balls of bright fire zoomed towards Emerald, and they circled her in a thick tornado.
Sapphire landed down on the floor again, on one knee. She was exhausted.
Emerald was trapped in between the dangerous flames that circled around her, blocking her view from everybody else.
Kai stared with a worried face towards Sapphire, who panted heavily, with her mouth open, her pointed fox ears flat against her head that hung low, staring down at the ground.
Then they stared at the tornado that encircled Emerald. Emerald started to twirl in circles, her arms stretched out, so her nails pierced at the flames that trapped her. The wind picked up, and the dust spit at the flames, which flickered and died.
Sapphire looked up at the sun that had risen directly above her head.
No… Give me more time… Please…
It was too late. Kai and the rest could only stare as Sapphire transformed into the half human-half fox she was.
Sapphire simply stared down at her body, which was covered in the odd costume from before.
Emerald stared down at Sapphire for a moment before taking a strong swipe at her face. Sapphire was thrown back, sliding on the ground. She stopped near the rest, who stood terrified as Emerald walked closer.
Long scars ran across the left side of Sapphire's face. They all stared down at Sapphire, her scarlet hair all over the place, and blood everywhere.
Kai gave Emerald his nastiest glare as he stood up.
"What do you want?" Kai roared, and Emerald smirked, her eyes still blank.
Another voice responded to Kai's question.
"What do I want? I want to get rid of you. And of course, get rid of all my experiments. Except the original, of course. I still need her. But you… you took away all of my power. You took away all my chances of being the best." his voice spat at Kai through Emerald.
Kai's eyes widened.
Fei…
How Kai despised the insane science maniac. Fei hurt Sapphire, mentally and physically. For this, he would never forgive him.
"Now, if you don't mind, I have to kill you now." Fei voice mocked, as he used Emerald's robot body to swipe at Kai.
Kai growled as he felt intense pain pounding throughout his already wounded body, then slowly sank to his knees in front of Emerald.
Fei laughed. "You are weak. How could your little pathetic brain take away my treasure? My Sapphire-?"
Kai cut him off as he kicked Emerald at the side with his healthy leg. Kai stood on one knee, his other leg in pain.
Emerald was thrown about five feet away. Kai smirked.
"I'm not weak. You obviously are; you hide behind your sick little experiments." Kai said coldly, slowly standing up.
Emerald glared at Kai as she stood up also. She exchanged her nails for her blade, which was already stained with his blood.
Kai could only stand, his knees threatening to give away under him.
His life was put in this kind of danger before, he remembered clearly… and this situation was alike theprevious one.
Emerald pushed him back into the floor, his elbows holding him up. Emerald raised her blade above her head.
Before the blade could stab at Kai, Sapphire forced herself to awaken. She watched as Kai stared up at Emerald, her blade diving towards his chest.
Then something unbelievable happened-
Sapphire was engulfed by white light, and she transformed back into her firefox form. She gathered all the strength she had left…
There was no sound for a whole minute as they all stared with wide eyes, as Sapphire had stopped Emerald's attack- with her own body.
A small thud was heard as Sapphire fell limp on the floor, her fox ears pressed flat back against her head.
Hilary and Aquamarine pressed Kenny's, Max's and Tyson together so they could not hear the dirty swear word Fei yelled through Emerald.
Blood had started to pool around Kai's legs and stained his dark navy-blue shoes. Sapphire's chest wasn't rising and falling with breaths. In fact, she wasn't moving at all.
Emerald's eyes turned all black and she fell backwards, like an appliance or toy robot just turned off.
Kai crawled towards Sapphire and the white light transformed her to her half human-half fox form. Her scarlet hair was like the sunset… it was all over the place, and it circled her like if she was the setting sun.
He picked her up, her head covered by the slate-blue mass of hair that was ducked low to kiss her soft lips. Sapphire still didn't open her eyes, instead, more of her blood pooled around them.
"Sapphire… please… wake up." Kai pleaded quietly, but Sapphire remained silent as more of he blood stained his torn clothes.
"Shouldn't w-we try to help Kai?" Max asked, his dark blue eyes sad. Aquamarine shook her head.
"What he doesn't know won't hurt him… Let Sapphire herself tell him." she said, staring at Kai as he held Sapphire in his arms.
They turned to stare at Aquamarine. "But Sapphire's- she can't…" Kenny trailed off.
"A human would never be able to survive that attack. Sapphire's weak spot is hidden. In the form she is right now she can be wounded countless of times and she wouldn't die, only feel pain," Aquamarine murmured. "Her weak spot is extremely important. If removed, she would die in a matter of just minutes, with no cure."
They stared with wide eyes- well, we don't know if Kenny was, but that's not the point right now.
From the forest edge, they spotted a figure limping towards them. Aquamarine's eyes widened, and she raced off to help the creature.
She helped the firefox walk towards the others. Max and Tyson's eyes were big as plates.
The firefox had a beautiful dark purple coat, and a metallic silver mane. The violet eyes of the head maid stared back at them.
"Riza?"