Book V: Uzuki

Chapter XXXIX

"Violet! This is our old hometown! Don't do this!" Acacia pleaded.

Violet laughed. "Oh that's fucking RICH coming from you. You left me, just like you promised me you never would..."

"What's going on, Acacia? This is the same girl who attacked us when we were with Zeke, right?" I questioned.

"Yes Silas," she sighed. "This is Lieutenant Violet Uzuki, my sister."

"Funny you should mention that old fool," Violet laughed. "I guess no one told you that he died."

Gabriel immediately spoke up. "Don't you bloody dare lie to me," he said, angered.

"Oh, you're his bastard right?" Violet giggled. "Yeah, I'm not lying, manipulation is more of my sister's schtick."

"Violet, I left you so we could survive together, I don't understand what you're talking about. I left you with a home and funds to keep it paid," Acacia explained.

Violet laughed for a good while before sighing. "You're funds never reached me."

Acacia gasped. "What do you mean?"

"Of course, you would have known that if you'd ever bothered to read the letters I sent," Violet continued as she started pacing back and forth. "You never once wrote back, and I didn't even think you ever opened even one of them. So I jumped out on the streets, a girl with purple hair and eyes is a rare sight, and one that had given up on life, yet still wanted to see her sister again, no matter the cost... Well... I took up a 'special' job. I worked with men, and whatever they wanted to do, I let them. As long as they did it in a way that I could hide it underneath a shirt. You want to know how I got those scars?" she stopped and laughed as she gripped her katana.

"Violet... you didn't!" Acacia yelled, not wanting to believe it.

"I BECAME A WHORE!" she yelled out. "And not just any old whore, a tiny one. I was still fifteen, but I lied about my age to anyone that asked. And the things some of those guys did... cuts, bruises, flesh wounds, they loved to see me cry," she stopped, looked down, and smiled, "And I did that a lot."

"I never intended for—"

Violet cut Acacia off. "But you did! The 'home' you gave me, I was evicted from it the moment you left because we were already that behind on bills! And when I tried to reach out for you, when I NEEDED you, you weren't even willing to look in my direction."

We stood there silently, not sure how to respond, Gabriel seemed to be contemplating his father's alleged death, wondering if she was really telling the truth.

"I saw you, y'know," Violet continued. "Receiving the Colonel rank from General Adonis himself. You looked so proud, and so I tried to get up to the stage. I told your detail that I was your sister, and they told me that you'd said you had no family."

Acacia fell silent.

Violet sighed before pointing her katana at her sister. "So I joined too. I became VERY friendly with the General and ranked up faster than you ever did, and then you started drinking your life away. I hardly knew you," Violet then took a very serious look. "So I'll kill you, and preserve the memory of the sister who did care for me. You're not my sister, you're a demon who took her body, her voice, and I'll make sure you suffer every ounce that I have."

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Pyra, who had stayed in the background quietly, pulled her sword and lunged at Mythra, who drew her own and fought back.

Acacia pulled a short sword and fought against Violet, Gabriel right behind her.

Pyra slashed quickly, but Mythra was still much faster. She kicked Pyra back and knocked her to the ground before passing the sword to me.

"Rolling Smash!" I yelled before slamming my sword into her.

Violet slashed with extreme speed, so much so that Acacia couldn't quite keep up.

"You should be using your weapon, why are you holding back?!" Violet yelled as she jump kicked Acacia square in the face.

T-Elos and KOS-MOS also went full force at each other.

"T-Elos' output is currently four times my own, I will require your assistance," KOS-MOS said to Rafi and Poppi.

"Right! Poppi! Let's show mean robot what Poppi and Rafi can do!" Rafi said, getting pumped.

"Roger masterpon," Poppi said as she transformed into her QT π form, throwing Rafi the sword.

"Stop calling Rafi that! It weird!" Rafi complained once again.

Poppi nodded, "Yes masterpon."

T-Elos slashed at KOS-MOS with her scythe, KOS-MOS jumped backwards and shot a barrage of bullets with her R-Cannon.

"Malos! Hand me your blade," Acacia ordered.

"Whatever," he said, throwing his Aegis blade at Acacia.

She felt the dark power course through her as she was able to move much faster and hit much harder.

"So this is an Aegis?" Violet giggled. "Good."

Violet slashed quickly, Acacia keeping up carefully.

"Monado Buster!" Acacia yelled as the blade of darkness radiating out of Malos's sword shot out and she slashed it at Violet.

Violet knocked the blade out of the way with an ether shield, and immediately afterwards, the shield dissolved into nothing.

"What's this?!" Violet gasped.

Malos took the sword from Acacia. "My Aegis power, I can destroy anything I touch with this blade. Don't underestimate me," he warned.

"Ah, so this is what Adonis meant...," Violet said, she then proceeded to laugh. "Then try this one big boy!"

Violet rushed Malos with her katana, slamming it into Malos' blade. Her katana, however, did not dissolve.

"Hm, so you got yourself a shiny weapon? That's fine, let's see what you can do with it," Malos laughed, almost entertained.

They slashed back and forth at incredible speeds, however Acacia knew that her and Violet weren't what anyone would call "normal people".

Violet dashed quickly and knocked Malos into the air before slicing off his arm and throwing him to the ground. She then immediately charged towards Acacia.

"YOU PROMISED ME!" she yelled as she slashed at Acacia.

Acacia held her own pretty well, but not so well that she hadn't already been cut a few times.

"'I'll protect you sis!' You couldn't even protect yourself!" Violet yelled as she went for the killing blow.

"Sentimental Burst!" a high-pitched, female's voice said as Violet was hit with condensed dark ether, throwing Violet back.

Kasandra then threw her club, a shield hammer, to Gabriel.

"You look like you could use a hand," he said.

She nodded, "Careful, she's much stronger than any normal human."

"Come on Kassy, let's show her what a Tantal Prince and his blade can do!"

"Right!" Kasandra nodded.

Pyra slashed at me as I narrowly parried her attacks with the ether shield on my arm.

"You've gotten stronger," Pyra giggled.

I threw Mythra's sword, narrowly missing Pyra's head. Mythra caught it behind her.

"And you haven't grown at all," Mythra said as her core crystal began growing brightly and she began floating off the ground as she pointed her blade skyward.

I jumped back as Mythra pointed her sword downwards, a beam of light instantly shot down from the sky and hit Pyra directly.

It threw her unconscious.

"That took a lot out of me... I'm not sure why, I used to be able to do that quite a few times before I was drained," Mythra said.

"Take a break," I said before putting her weapon away and pulling another weapon, summoning Sheba.

"How can we help?" Sheba asked.

"We got Adonis' forces on us, you ready to go?" I asked.

"Very well," Sheba said, stepping out of her bath tub. "Let us serve them their just desserts."

Rafi slashed at T-Elos, who deflected his attacks fairly easily.

KOS-MOS shot out a few rounds before switching to her R-Blade and putting everything she had in it, slashing into T-Elos.

"KOS-MOS you're pointless," T-Elos said, knocking her to the ground.

"Noponic Axiom!" Poppi yelled out as she took her sword, flipped it to a gun, and shot out a laser beam at T-Elos.

T-Elos evaded it, flying into the air with intense speed. Poppi activated her own thrusters as she flew up and met T-Elos in the air, slashing at each other with their blades.

T-Elos spun her scythe around and slammed Poppi into Rafi, throwing them both out of the fight.

"Detonation Blow!" Gabriel yelled as he slammed his shield hammer into Violet, who slashed the entire weapon out his hand with her katana.

"What's that thing made out of?!" Gabriel exclaimed.

"Pain, suffering, and fuck you," Violet joked as she kicked him square in the throat, throwing him to the ground.

She went for the finishing blow, but Kasandra jumped in between them, using her ether shield to block the katana.

The katana pierced straight through the ether shield, stopping just before it would have pierced Kasandra.

"She's... toying with us," Kasandra pointed out.

I converged with Acacia as T-Elos converged with Violet.

"Let's finish this, Violet," T-Elos said.

"Agreed."

"Leopard Blow!" I yelled as I shot out a beam with Sheba's ether cannon.

T-Elos knocked it out of the air with no effort as a few metal prongs pulled the top of her shirt away in a revealing fashion. A large metal chamber was revealed as a large red ball of pure energy was formed right in front of her.

"U-TENERITAS," she said as the ball of energy grew to huge proportions and blasted itself at us.

"What the hell is this?!" Acacia questioned.

Sheba jumped in front of us, using her ether shield.

I put myself between her and her ether shield, and added mine to hers as the blast wiped up out completely.

We were all thrown to the ground, breathing, but far from ok.

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"Well that should about wrap things up," Violet said simply, she then looked at Pyra, who'd just gotten up.

"Taking a nap I see, I'm sure Adonis will be glad to hear just how important you were," Violet scolded.

"I'm sorry, I really am!" Pyra pleaded quickly.

"Whatever," Violet scoffed, before turning her attention to the entire army patiently waiting in the background. "SOLDIERS! Take aim, we kill them all now. Leave Mythra alive."

They all took aim.

"What do we do?!" I asked Acacia.

I then saw something I'd never seen before, she was crying, in a way that only I could see it.

"Ha, so this is it, eh?" Gabriel chuckled.

"None of you knew how to work together, you were all weak and doomed from the start. Fire!" Violet ordered as we heard the gunshots all fire at once.

But strangely, none of the bullets never hit.

I looked up to see Malos, with both of his arms. He dropped a large number of bullets and laughed.

"I was wondering if I'd ever get the chance to try out my power, so I guess I should thank you, slut," Malos laughed.

"Malos no!" Mythra shouted, however, she was still out of power and unable to do much.

"Listen here, princess. Just because you're scared of yours doesn't mean I'm scared of mine," he laughed before gripping his sword in his hand.

"What are you going to do?" Violet laughed. "You couldn't beat me a second ago, what makes you think you can beat me now?"

He disappeared into a cloud of black smoke, disappearing from reality before reappearing behind Violet, slapping her to the ground.

"I am an Aegis, don't underestimate me," he said.

T-Elos immediately shot another red energy orb at him.

Malos laughed as he caught it, turned it pure black, and threw it back at her, driving her into the ground.

Immediately, all of the soldiers took aim at him and fired. Malos smiled and disappeared again before reappearing right where he was.

However, the gun shots had stopped.

I looked up to see all of the guards had been reduced to piles of severed flesh, he had killed them instantly... and moved so fast that we hadn't even seen it happen.

"Flee now," he warned.

Violet stood up, pissed off. "Fine, T-Elos, Pyra, move out."

And so they did. This brought the battle to a swift end.

It was this day that I realized what being an Aegis meant. The power that I was meant to control. The very thing that had flipped history on its head three times, this was the power of an Aegis.

Readability Level: 11-12th Grade

Time Taken: 5 Hours