Gah! I didn't put quips in the last chapter! I could...put one now...but It may seem...Um...-worry worry- -fret fret-
Chapter 16 - Teacher vs. Student
'It hurt, it really did.
My chest hurt so badly.
For Kira, and for everyone.
I could feel their pain...' (Chapter 15)
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'Battle is dirty, I've always hated it.
Was this really necessary?
Why is the final battle always the hardest?'
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The battle seemed to go on forever. Athrun and Cagalli ended up back to back with each other, fighting big muscular men. Sai, Tolle, and Mwu had vanished at some point, and Dearka had gone over to the Gammow to fight. Lacus was fist fighting at the entrance to Kira's room, and winning against guys with swords!
If anyone had checked, they would've noticed the two blurs above their heads.
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"Good job Kira!" Rau called out to him over the yelling below. "You've recuperated quite nicely!"
"I don't need compliments from you!" Kira yelled, attacking him in mid air before they both landed on different masts, holding to the ropes of the sails.
Rau smirked.
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Sai and Tolle broke the lock on a large door on the Gammow, Mwu fending off the men attacking them. His left arm was already injured due to fighting 10 against 1. The door opened to reveal hostages.
A brunette woman about Mwu's age came out first, and thanked them for their help.
"Thank you for the rescue. My name is Murrue Ramius. I was a teacher in Luin before my class and I were captured." she explained before looking at Mwu behind the boys. "Shouldn't you be helping him?" she asked.
Tolle and Sai gave slight gasps before turning around and fighting too. Murrue smiled slyly to her students, she had that power over kids.
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"You should be proud, Kira! You're finally coming into the power you inherited from the gods!"
"What are you talking about?" Kira leapt from mast to mast, just out of Rau's grip. "What power?"
"Come now Kira. You can't really believe that you survived that explosion by mere luck! Or all the falls you took as a child! And your ability to know when treasure is near!" he called out tauntingly, sword landing where Kira had been a second before.
"It was you!" Kira yelled angrily as he stabbed at Rau, who flipped around the mast and slashed at him. "You've been trying to kill me ever since we met!" he dodged the attack, grabbing a rope nearby and swinging away.
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Sai and Tolle had backed up a bit behind Mwu, attacking the men that came at them. Injured fighters lay all around the three. Mwu seemed to be having trouble, his arm being injured and all.
A man leapt from the upper deck behind them to attack Tolle. A blur ran and jumped after him, stabbing him in the back as they landed heavily on the deck between the trio of fighters and the civilians. He retracted his sword from the man's back, flipping his hair from his tanned face.
"D-dearka!" Sai and Tolle gasped as they turned around. "When'd you get here?"
"I've been here. Be glad I was or you'd be dead, Koenig." he smirked boastfully as one of the students nearly fainted.
Mwu took down the last man on the Gammow and turned around.
"Come on! We gotta go help out the others." he scoffed. "Kira hasn't whistled yet..."
"What does the whistling mean?" a guy with bright redish orange hair asked.
"It means he's taken down the captain of the enemy ship." Dearka answered as Mwu had already taken off. He blinked at the guy. "Who're you anyways?"
"Hmph. I'm Clotho. This here's Orga and Shani." he pointed as he spoke. "We're-"
"The macho men who screamed like little girls when the school was attacked." a light brunette girl, the one who almost fainted, said snidely. "I'm Miriallia by the way. Miriallia Haww."
Dearka took her extended hand and shook it before turning to the Freedom. "I gotta go help the captain. See if you guys can make it to the pink hair princess on the Freedom. Go into the room behind her. You'll be safe there." he told them briefly before smiling in a joking way and running off to fight.
"We'll help you." Sai offered his hand to the maroon haired girl who had been sitting in the shadows the whole time. She blinked but smacked his hand away.
"I don't need your help." she lashed out.
"Flay Alstar!" Murrue began, but Sai stopped her.
"It's ok. I am a pirate afterall. It's natural not to like me." he smiled happily at them before turning to lead them to Kira's room, behind Lacus. Tolle leaned to him and whispered in his ear.
"Stop trying to smile like Kira. It doesn't work." he whispered harshly.
"I know that." Sai whispered back. "But it helps if you aren't harsh with them." he nodded a bit before walking.
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Kira and Rau's swords clashed frequently as they were now just jumping from mast to mast at each other, the same two masts, trying to take the other down.
"This will be our last bout together Kira!" Rau proclaimed on one of his leaps. "This time....One of us will be dead!"
Kira's eyes narrowed as he grabbed the side of the mast he landed on. He narrowed his eyes and ran around the mast, grabbing a rope and swinging higher, to the sails.
"Now Kira. Why run? It will only delay the inevitable end you have foreseen!" he called, climbing a rope to the sails.
Kira paused and kneeled behind a sail as his head hurt. He remembered...He had seen himself on the ground. Rau had a sword to his neck. He had lost...
"No!" Kira yelled, standing abruptly and flipping around to parry Rau's blade. "It won't end like that!"
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The students and the teacher now stood behind Lacus. Cagalli was fighting the stoic Natarle Badguriel. Athrun was fighting Yzak.
"Why are we fighting?" Athrun asked as he pushed Yzak away.
"Because we're enemies." Yzak responded giving a downward slash that was dodged. Athrun repeated Yzak's attack.
"But you're my age. You have a scar from some previous battle. It doesn't seem sensible, does it? Killing constantly." he nearly whispered, but Yzak heard...and glared hard.
"Killing? Imagine what we went through! People whose villages were attacked! Whose parents weren't spared! Where did we go? Huh? To that haven called Heliopolis?" Yzak slashing madly now, causing Athrun to walk backwards as he blocked. "I don't see what was so special about it!" the silver haired boy yelled.
Athrun blinked.
"Then why are your eyes so sad?" he yelled back, and Yzak froze mid strike.
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Rau and Kira were inching back and forth across the base of the sail. Kira had managed to slice Rau's sleeves off. The captain's cloaks were now just oversized t-shirts. Rau's and Kira's. Kira sported a leg wound, not a serious one, and winced every other step.
On one of these steps, in the midst of Kira wincing, Rau smirked and tilted slightly. Kira followed the action, to the opposite side, having forgotten where they were. His lavender eyes widened as he footing went missing and he began to fall.
"No!" Kira reached out for something and his hand grazed a rope. Grabbing it, he landed sideways on the mast it connected to.
He looked around wildly, looking for his blonde, masked opponent.
"Rau! Where'd you go?" he called. Glaring he forced Rau's past on him too. "Why do you where a mask now Rau? Did the navy give it to you as a present?"
He heard a dull 'thunk' and cursed his big mouth. The rope went slack, having been cut, and he fell. He hit the ground hard, but no sound came from him except a dull 'mmph.' But the thud had cause all the fighting to end. Everyone had stopped moving.
Rau Le Creuset landed next to the Freedom's captain. He smirked.
"Did you land on your injured right leg?" he asked tauntingly. "Is this how your vision turned out?" he asked in a more serious toned voice.
He raised his sword slightly to aim it at Kira's neck. Kira cursed in his mind. He had lost...He dropped his sword, and it clanged loudly in the silence. He had been stopped mid-stand. Athrun, Cagalli, Dearka, Mwu, Lacus, everyone was watching with baited breath.
"You will all be witness!" the blonde man called to the spectators. "In a few moments the crown will pass. The Great Prince of the Sea will fall...And I, Rau Le Creuset, will inherit his abilities!"
Most people on deck seemed utterly confused. Only Yzak, Natarle, Dearka, and Cagalli seemed to understand. Rau smirked at Kira.
"By beheading, I will claim all of your powers." Kira glared at him. "Beheading is effective. The explosive that destroyed Luin was not. You're still alive, and I will soon have that rebirth as my own!" He raised his sword above his head.
Dearka glared. HE planted that bomb! He ran forward as Rau's sword came down for the kill. Their swords met, and Kira's eyes were wide.
"Dearka." he breathed out. Dearka was focused solely on the blonde enemy captain in front of him. Yzak's eyes flashed at the sight of this new warrior.
"How could you say something like that? Huh?" Dearka asked angrily. "Kira's a nice guy! He cries a lot, usually when someone's death was his fault. He cares about everyone and everything."
An image of Kira in a forest feeding the wild birds clung to his memory. Kira standing in front of him with a sword in his shoulder and crying. Kira hugged him when he mourned...He played with the strays in each village. He could see the brunette reading a book he loved so dearly.
"Kira's simple. He likes simple things. He likes to read and cares more for books than all the treasure in the world!" Dearka yelled.
Athrun's eyes were shaking, Lacus's and Yzak's too.
"That's why he's the Prince of the Sea!" the tan blonde continued. "Not you...You back stabber!" No one seemed to understand the word. "You're his teacher for God's sake!"
Athrun, Lacus, and everyone but Cagalli and Kira gasped at this news. Rau just smirked, raising his sword from Dearka's and into the air. Dearka blinked in confusion before it hit him.
"If you love your captain so much...Then you'll join him!" Rau yelled.
His sword came down...and Dearka couldn't move...
Wow. Only 5 pages long and look at how much happened! -grin- Cliffy! Cliffy! Aren't I evil? -blink- Oh! I've finished writing this story! All 18 chapters! Now it all depends on my computers tolerance of the internet. -laugh-