Hello! Fourth chapter! Yay! I actually had this done this morning but the stupid site wasn't letting me submit it! And I finally wrote something to the people who read the story and not just the story. Yay! I say yay a lot... well, enjoy!
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It was the middle of the night, but Hyde was still awake. Eido was asleep, and Hyde was sitting on a mattress on the floor, which he slept on every night. (it's actually quite comfortable) He sighed and touched the spot on his cheek were Nisa had kissed him. He didn't feel upset, and yet…. he couldn't fall asleep. He felt….. alight. He almost felt like he could float. He shook his head. No way, there was no way that one kiss could have done all that. Hyde stood up and looked at Eido. He was snoring.
"Idiot." He muttered. Hyde quietly opened the door and crept down the hallway to the stairs. He walked up all the way to the roof and sat on the railing, staring at the sky.
Meanwhile…….
Nisa yawned. She looked over to see the clock. She groaned. 12:15.
"Why did I wake up so early!" Nisa whined. She tried to get back to sleep but no dice, she was awake and apparently, she was gonna stay awake. She sat up and wandered over to the window. She smiled. The stars were bright, and there was a full moon.
"Beautiful." She whispered. In a good mood, (and unable to fall asleep) she went downstairs and outside. It really was beautiful.
Hyde looked down for a minute, he saw Nisa outside, looking at the stars. He ignored her for a minute, then sighed.
"Hey! Nisa!" Nisa stopped for a minute.
"That……. sounds like Hyde." She muttered to herself. She turned around and saw Hyde on the roof. She blushed. Did he want something? From her? Why did he call out to her? She felt excited! She took a deep breath.
"Hi Hyde! What are you doing up there?" Nisa called out. Hyde blushed and turned his head for a minute, then he looked up at the sky.
"The view's better up here." He replied. Nisa paused, for just a second, then smiled. He wanted her up there with him! Or, something…… But he invited her up there, right? Sort of, he implied that he was inviting her, didn't he? Maybe-
"Hey!" Nisa looked up.
"Are you comin' or not?" Nisa beamed. She hurried inside and up two flights of stairs. Right before she opened the door to the roof, she smoothed out her hair and straightened her pajamas. Then she opened the door.
"Um, hi Hyde." Nisa greeted. Hyde kept looking at the stars.
"Hi." Nisa smiled and walked over to him. She sat next to him on the railing and gazed up at the stars.
"The view really is better up here." She gasped. Hyde looked at her.
"Yeah, it is." He whispered. Nisa looked at him and he turned away, blushing. Nisa blushed and looked back at the sky. Nisa gripped onto the rail, her palms where sweaty and her face felt warm. Nisa glanced at him, he was just looking at the stars. She took a chance. Quietly, she slid a little closer to Hyde. But her palms were still sweaty, and she suddenly slipped on the bar.
"AHHH! I'm not falling." Nisa looked up. Hyde was hanging upside down with his legs bent over the railing, and his feet locked in the bars. He was holding onto Nisa's hands and looked worn out for some reason.
"Hyde." Nisa breathed.
"Hold on." Hyde ordered. Nisa nodded. Hyde started swinging her back and forth.
"What are you doing!" Nisa yelled.
"Trust me!" Hyde replied. Nisa was quiet. Hyde kept swinging her, but after she was swinging at a steady pace, he swung her so her entire body was level with his head, and let go.
"AHHHHHHH!" Nisa screeched. But she noticed she was going to fall back on the roof. She curled into a ball and flipped forward. She stuck out her feet and landed onto the roof with perfect form. Nisa stood up and turned around. She ran over and pulled Hyde back onto the roof by his ankles.
"Hyde! Are you okay?" Nisa asked frantically. Hyde stood up and grabbed her shoulders.
"Don't scare me like that! Are you insane!" he yelled. Nisa stared at him.
"You were….. worried? About me?" Hyde blushed.
"Well….. I- um…" Nisa just smiled and hugged him.
"URIIK!" they both heard the spell. Hyde grabbed Nisa and threw himself to the ground. The spell missed them by inches.
"That was close." Nisa gasped.
"At least the roof didn't catch fire." Hyde replied. They heard laughing. Hyde and Nisa turned to see Cronlin and Galig standing on the doorway. And boy, did Cronlin looked mad. (only Galig was laughing) Galig opened his mouth to read the spell again but Cronlin reached over and closed the book. Galig gave him a confused look.
"Look, Galig, they don't have their book owners, so I think I should be fair and just let you watch." Galig nodded. (he's stupid, so he's not evil, he just does whatever Cronlin tell him to, so fairness makes sense to him) Cronlin jumped off of the doorway and walked over to them. Hyde and Nisa got ready to battle, but Cronlin just stood in front of them.
"Hyde." He said monotonously. Hyde waited for him to say more. Cronlin smiled.
"YAHHHHHH!" Cronlin jumped on Hyde and they got in a tussle. Hyde was taken by such surprise, he hadn't tried to defend himself and Cronlin had the upper hand. Nisa grabbed Cronlin and tried to pull him off Hyde, but Cronlin took her by the arms and pinned her to the ground. Hyde stood up and tackled him.
"Hyde! You can't do this by yourself!" Nisa yelled. Hyde kicked Cronlin in the stomach. While he was occupied with trying to regain a normal breathing pattern, Hyde grabbed Nisa.
"I know! I'll distract him, you go get Eido and Kaniki!" he whispered frantically. Nisa nodded and ran off as Hyde was getting his arm bent backwards. Galig, being a doofus, was also occupied with the fight, (watching it) and didn't notice Nisa slip away.
Nisa clambered down the steps and ran into the guest room. She didn't hesitate, but instead, jumped onto the bed and screamed as loud as she could.
"KANIKI! WAKE UP!" Kaniki awoke with a start.
"Nisa! Are you insane!" Kaniki asked angrily.
"Hyde is up on the roof fighting Cronlin and he needs our help!" Nisa yelled. Kaniki nodded and grabbed the book.
"Come on, we've gotta get Eido." Nisa ordered. The two girls slammed open the door to
Eido's room, and good for them, that was enough to wake him up.
"Huh, what's going on?" he asked.
"Grab your book and come with us." Kaniki told him. Eido picked up his book and got out of bed.
"Hey, where's Hyde?" he wondered aloud.
"Being killed on the roof!" Nisa shouted, "Duh! Why do you think we need you to come with us!" The three ran up the steps and onto the roof to find Cronlin holding Hyde over the edge of the roof by his foot. Nisa opened her mouth to speak but Kaniki covered it. Nisa looked at Kaniki with confusion. Kaniki just smiled and gestured to Eido with her head. Eido was holding his book open, and waiting. Nisa was washed over with reassurance.
Cronlin smiled, unaware that there were 3 people behind him waiting to kick his butt. Hyde was trying frantically to get away from Cronlin, when he noticed the three of them standing in the doorway. Eido gave him a thumbs up. Hyde stared for a split second, then tried even more frantically to escape. Nisa and Kaniki sweat dropped.
"Apparently he doesn't trust Eido very much." Nisa murmured. Kaniki nodded in agreement. Galig was so stupid that he didn't notice them there at all. (him being stupid saves me a lot of planning) Cronlin grinned at Hyde, and let go.
"AHHHHHHHH!"
"JIKIR!" Cronlin whipped around.
"GALIG YOU IDIOT! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THEY WERE THERE!" he shouted angrily.
"I didn't know they were there." Galig answered stupidly.
"MIKRON!" the white blast shot out and knocked Cronlin into the railing. He sneered and stood up.
"Idiots! You can't beat me! You're weak! WEAK YOU HEAR ME! WEAK! YOU'RE-" WHACK! Cronlin fell over, out cold. Hyde was hovering above him. (he kicked him in the head)
"What a weirdo." He muttered as he landed. Nisa beamed.
"Hyde! You're alright!" she exclaimed. She squeezed him happily. Hyde blushed. But before he could say anything……
"YAHHHHHHHH!" Cronlin had woken up and pounced on Hyde again. He pinned him to the ground but Hyde kicked him in the stomach. Nisa ran over to Hyde who flipped her. She flipped backwards and kicked Cronlin in the face. He held onto his nose.
"HA! HA! He's got a nose bleed!" Eido chanted. Cronlin looked up in surprise.
"You're as much of an moron as Galig." He thought aloud.
"Idiot." Hyde corrected.
"That's Mr. Idiot to you!" Eido replied, "Wait, that didn't come out right." Suddenly, they all saw a glow, they turned to see Cronlin's book, glowing bright.
"GALIG! READ THE SPELL!" Cronlin shouted.
"But you said-"
"FORGET WHAT I SAID!"
"CREHOR!" The fire blast shot towards Nisa. Everything slowed down. Slowly… it came closer. Not fire, it was……..nothing….her own fears and terror…..just…….everything was coming to an end…..it was moving so slow, somehow…..she became frantic…..she wanted to scream, run, but nothing……she couldn't even blink. The revelation came slowly back to her………this had happened before…..what happened? How did this end? She couldn't have died…..she's here now, isn't she? Or is this a dream……but she has to be alive to dream…….right? It felt like a dream……but…..she knew….it was real…..yet, somehow…..something was tugging at the back of her find…..this had happened before……behind the mountains of fear, she had that one crystal clear thought……this had happened before, it had, she knew it had. The heat that tormented her into knowing that it was over…… she knew she wouldn't die…..she was stronger then a human….yet…..somehow……..it felt like…..for know…..this was the end. It was over. There was no time to cast a spell……it felt slow to her…but it wasn't…….it's not….it never was………
"Nisa! Nisa! NISA!" Nisa blinked. She was jerked back to reality to see the flame rushing towards her with no signs of stopping. But she didn't scream, she didn't flinch, she didn't move. She just stared. It was inches away, any second now, she would be hit by the crushing blow that would scar her forever. Forever haunted by this flame, she already was…. But then…..she was floating flying almost. Then…… she began to fall, slowly…peacefully…. A sharp pain seethed her shoulder. Thoughts rushed through her head and settled back to what was happening. She was lying on her side, she had fallen over…….the pain was from hitting her shoulder on the hard surface……she looked up. Hyde was holding himself above her, breathing heavily, he rolled over next to her. She sat up, holding her shoulder.
"Hyde, are you okay?" she asked cautiously. He stopped and looked up. He looked…….surprised.
"DON'T YOU EVER SPACE OUT AGAIN! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY HURT! DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU JUST DID! I MEAN-" he stopped when he saw her eyes water. She sniffed.
"I'm sorry…" she whimpered, "I just…." He sighed guiltily. He looked at her for a minute. He reached out to touch her, but jerked his hand back when she looked up.
"No….. I'm sorry…. I overreacted, it's not you're fault." He replied. She looked at him, and smiled.
"Thanks." Hyde stood up, but held onto his arm and quickly sat back down.
"Hyde! Are you okay?" Nisa asked worriedly. Kaniki and Eido had been momentarily stunned, but they rushed over. Kaniki kneeled down and examined his arm.
"He's burnt pretty bad….." she muttered. Nisa looked at him. He was very burnt, she had just noticed. How did that happen? Wait! The sharp pain, she was on the ground, he was above her…. Of course! Why didn't she see it before! He had pushed her out of the way! Sure, he hurt her shoulder, but he had third degree burns all over.
"Well…..we can't treat him when the idiot's here." Kaniki announced.
"I'm right here ya know!" Eido commented.
"I was talking about the fire kid!" Kaniki sneered.
"IS HE GONNA DIE!" Nisa panicked.
"I'M FINE!" Hyde shouted back.
"YOU'RE FRIED!"
"I'M JUST FINE!"
"YOU CAN'T EVEN STAND!"
"YES I CAN!"
"NO YOU-"
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" They all turned to see Cronlin, his eyes were fiery red, and his gaze was deadly.
"I let you have you're little moment," he said through clenched teeth, "but that's over, now, we fight." Nisa stared. They couldn't get rid of him, there was no way……they would be able, they were too tired, they would just have to hold him off as long as they could, which…..wasn't long.
Nisa stood up, Kaniki followed suite.
"Eido, Hyde can't fight right now, you watch him, we'll hold 'em off." Kaniki ordered. Eido nodded, Hyde groaned.
"MIKRON!"
"URIIK!" The two spells collided, but Cronlin stopped and ducked. The spell went over his head. Nisa gasped. No! He wasn't supposed to do that!
"URIIK!" the blast missed her by and inch.
"We're running out of juice." Kaniki whispered frantically. Nisa took a deep breath.
"If we're going down, we're going down fighting."
"What are you talking about?" Nisa turned to her in surprise. Kaniki grinned.
"Who said we were going down?" Nisa beamed.
"Right!" They heard squabbling and turned. Eido was holding a frantic Hyde to the ground.
"Let go!"
"No way! You're not supposed to fight!"
"I'm fi-OW!" he screeched. Eido had hit him on the burn on his leg to prevent him from getting up. (and yelling at him) Hyde's eyes watered, he bit his lip to prevent tears. Eido patted him on the head.
"I can finally boss you around." He grinned.
"You're dead." Hyde replied angrily. Eido smiled. Nisa gave a small smile and turned back to Cronlin to see that they were already casting a spell.
"URIIK!" Nisa and Kaniki gasped, there was no time to get out of the way.
"Okay Nisa, give it all ya got." Kaniki whispered. Nisa nodded.
"MIKRON!" The two spells went head on, and neither was letting up, Cronlin knew they didn't have enough energy to win, and Nisa knew that they weren't fast enough to dodge Cronlin's attack. Cronlin's attack pushed forward, closer, closer…..they couldn't win, he was too strong……
Nisa cringed. It was over, it was really over. No! She had to keep trying! She pushed forward, but she was tired, she was starting to burn out, his attack continued to push forward. Kaniki held her breath.
"BRACE YOURSELF!" she screeched.
"REKRI!" a blast of sound burst forwards, it was blue and seemed to be surrounded by static. It hit the fire blast and fought along with Nisa's light blast. (not light like weak, it's really light, like a light bulb gives off light) Everyone turned to see who it was. Nisa gasped, then, she smiled.
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Cliffhanger! Whoo! (not yay) thank you to compulsive twitch, you were the only one who reviewed my stories! And possibly the only one reading them... But thanks! I shall update again as soon as possible! ASAP!
