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Chapter 18
'Oh no!' Lily's mind cried as she realized who was in the room with her. She should have been prepared. In fact she had tried her best to do so, but now that she was within yards of him any preparations she had attempted to make had fled into the darkness surrounding her.
Her injured nose was now forgotten, even if blood continued to slide down to her chin whereupon it fell in droplets to stain her clothing. That was the least of her worries at the moment, something she knew all to well.
'How can I fight him?' her mind asked in a panic. Her sight was just as deplorable as it had been moments ago, but her uneasiness had increased ten fold. To making matters worse her body shook with terror and seemed rooted to the floor. She found herself wishing someone was by her side now, even if it was someone who could not fight, such as Kouran, or even her best friend from home Cathy.
Sadistic laughter from the other end of the room made her realize, much to her dismay, that Fenrir was horribly amused by her state. Why shouldn't he be? She was injured and trembling in fright before the battle had even begun.
'I'm going to die,' her mind cried in sheer horror.
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Kouran stood outside the massive building gazing up at it with worry ever present on her face. She felt sorry for the girl the gods had chosen to aid them. She did not seem ready for such a massive task, but was being thrown head long into it anyway.
It just did not seem right.
She wished she could have followed Lily in. Even if she could not fight, something she would not even think of arguing, she would have liked being able to offer comfort to girl in her time of need. With a sigh she cursed Fenrir and his magic surrounding the place.
All she could do was pray Lily would be alright and wait for her to return.
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Hikou lost his footing and fell onto his back as a tiger leapt upon him, claws shoving deep within his shoulders. Cringing and making a pained hiss like noise he knew he was trapped and that there was little that he could do about it. Even if he managed to use a water attack and dislodged the creature, its claws would only rip at more of his flesh and perhaps render him unable to battle.
Growling low within its throat the tiger revealed its many sharp teeth, as if it was trying to intimidate its prey. It's breath reeked and undoubtedly had swarms bacteria within its very saliva, something that could prove deadly if it even got off one minor bite.
With a growl its claws dug deeper into his shoulders, causing the trapped man to cringe and cry out in pain. Not a moment latter a loud thwack was heard and the tiger roared loudly as it turned its mighty head.
Chichiri stood there with his staff out, confirming that he had in fact been the one to anger the beast more that it already was. A large scratch running from his right cheek bone to his lip bled profusely, but he paid little heed to it now that his attention was centered on the tiger glaring at him.
Unaware of the wolf that crept up behind him Chichiri found himself being saved by Tasuki. The moment of diverted attention however proved unintelligent, as the tiger took that time to release its current victim and pounce on the monk.
This time its claws dug deep into Chichiri's chest and its sharp teeth made ready to bite down upon his face. Only one thing stopped it, something that made it howl in pain and run about frantically to stop the searing of its flesh, a simple, but deadly, cry of "rekka shien" from the bandit leader.
The act had saved Chichiri's life, but had used up a fair amount of what strength the bandit had left. Panting heavily he turned back to the battle as the two other men quickly climbed to their feet to help him.
If the battle went on for too much longer none of them would survive to tell the tale.
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Lily bit her lip harder than she had intended, causing it to bleed and throb unhappily. That made two injuries before the battle had started. On top of that her legs were starting to complain about the position they were in, but her body would not move despite that fact.
What a horrible mess she was.
Fenrir's eyes suddenly stopped glowing and nothing but the blackness could be seen. A panicked squeak escaped Lily as she looked around desperately trying to find the dark god like being. Her eyes, however, were not accustomed to the dark, unlike those of Fenrir's. He could see her perfectly, down to the very trembling her body did as she helplessly looked about for him.
A chuckle threatened to emerge from his throat as he watched her, but he managed to restrain himself. Why give away the fun of having her not know where he was?
So he instead took pleasure in watching the frightened girl. Perhaps she would die of fright before he actually had to get his hands dirty, not that he would have minded, but the other way seemed much more entertaining.
Lily swallowed hard and closed her eyes. She had to pull herself together. Sitting on the ground was not going to help her when the fighting began and it definitely would not help calm her nerves.
'I'm a sitting duck right now,' she told herself. 'It's better to be a moving target than stupid sitting duck.' Her attempts at motivating herself were not working, if anything they caused her body to tremble even more.
Raising her arm to her mouth she bit down hard upon it, her canines even drew blood. As to be expected it hurt like mad, but it did accomplish one thing - her body flinched.
It was a start, a hilarious one that Fenrir could not stop himself from laughing at. "At the rate you're going girl you're going to kill yourself before I do."
Lily found herself glaring in the direction the voice had come from. She did not know why she was glaring, she was deathly afraid of the shadow beast, but her subconscious seemed to think otherwise. 'Perhaps that's the part that come out,' she thought with an uneasy frown.
'Hey, stop being lazy. Get your butt up'. The sudden voice in her head caught her off guard. At first she thought she was going insane from all the fright and stress that she had been forced to endure, but she came to recognize the voice when her mind calmed down enough to think it over.
'Lily' the voice whined. 'Common, get up." It was Cathy. The voice was unmistakable now that she listened to it. Her friend has always been at her to go places with her, even if she wanted nothing more than to hide from the world in the safety of her bedroom.
'So even now she's at me,' Lily smiled faintly. 'She wants me to get up and do what I have to – what I came here to do.'
'Take care out there,' Kouji's voice was next to enter her mind, only to be followed by Taiitsukun's. 'Hope is like a thread, one single strand cannot make anything useful, but when joined with others it can become something wonderful.' The ribbon the wise old woman had given her on behalf of Byakko was tied to the end of her braided hair. Amazingly she could see it fairly well through the darkness as she pulled it to the front of her. Perhaps the hope of others was represented within it and it glowed to trying and give her courage.
She suddenly found that her body was willing to move now and she began to climb to her feet, ignoring the pain in her legs caused by sitting on them for too long.
'It's alright to be afraid,' Chichiri had told her back when they were at Taiitsukun's. 'You just can't give up hope before you even get started.' He was right. She couldn't give up before she even started fighting Fenrir.
Her knees straitened out and her back started to do the same.
'Be brave. Ya got Kouji's sword, and ya also have my - erm- my-' His unfinished words lingered in her mind. She could assume what he had wanted to finish the sentence with by his actions, but it was just an assumption. Still, even if he had not intended to fit the word in that she had thought of, a deep feeling of some sort was there, it was just waiting to be expressed.
She body came to stand completely upright. Her friends, people who cared greatly for her, were relying on her. She could not let them down, especially after all that they had done for her in the past.
This was her time to repay them.
"Fenrir," her voice called out into the darkness with determination, but a bit of fright was still heard in her voice. "I may be afraid of you, no, I know I am afraid of you, but I can't let you win."
The beast of shadow raised a brow, "And who is to stop me? You? You are nothing but a girl, a whiny, frightened and annoying little girl who is barely worth my time."
Lily smiled, "But I am worth enough to take it apparently."
The smart-aleck remark earned a growl from her enemy, a very unfriendly one at that. Without warning he made his move, the first move of the final battle.
This move, unfortunately, went just as Fenrir planned. It caught Lily completely off guard and gave her a bruised cheek. Something quickly complemented by bruised limbs, and scrapped skin as she was thrown to the floor by the attacks momentum.
While the battle had just begun Lily was already feeling more than a little abused and the courage that had swelled within her moments before was quickly fading now that she realized just how much trouble she was in.
Ouch. Poor Lily. The same goes for the guys too. Will Lily be able to defeat Fenrir? More importantly, will she be able to defeat him in time to save the guys? At the rate things are going neither seem likely.
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