Kayako of Aridon, Damein of Suteron (chptr 5: Kombat)
The Human girl sighed once more, as if ishe was dreading to tell us the news. I tightened my grip on my axe, not wanting to be caught off-guard. "We have decided that...We don't believe you." My eyes narrowed, and Kayako cursed openly beside me. The Human girl suddenly charged, twin-blades raised, and Kayako cursed again before defending me with her claws.
"What the hell are you doing?" I asked her, and both the Human girl and Kayako smirked at the same time.
"I hate being useless, y'know. I've been useless most of the time from being knocked out, and you're covered in wounds from having to protect both me and yourself from the Lighties." I blinked. Kayako could be...honorable? "I hate it when people are injured for my sake." The Lighties looked as surprised as I was, but I quickly got over my shock and smirked.
"Never knew you Vail had a sense of honor."
"Honor? Bah. I'm just sticking up for my own rep!" Kayako repelled the Human girl, and she flew back about a meter or so. Once again, the Vail have me stumped. I swung my axe over my shoulder and grinned.
"Whatever you say, Kayako." The Lighties quickly got up, readying themselves to fight even though it was obvious that most of their hearts weren't in it. Looks like they had a few in-group disagreements...Kayako, on the other hand, was staring at me as if I'd grown another head. "...What? There a Dragon behind me or something?"
"No, that's just the first time I've heard my name come from your mouth. Last time I'd known, my name was still 'stupid little Vail' to you." I rolled my eyes. That's what this was all about? Sheesh, over-reaction...
"You're really weird, y'know that?" Kayako glared at me, and I grinned back at her, which seemed to make her glare more. "Now let's get this over with! I wanna get home before tomorrow!" There it was again. Home. What does that word mean, and how does it relate to me?
"You're right. Lighties have it easy with all these wussy monsters. I haven't seen a Poison Web Spider anywhere!" Kayako's words made me chuckle, as well as brought me back to the current situation. Six Lighties against two Fury. This wouldn't be good, no matter how strong we were. Beside me, Kayako flexed her claws that were sewn into her gloves eagerly. If she was ready for bloodshed, I told myself, then so was I.
"Let's do this thing!" Came the unison cry from the Human girl with the dual-swords and Kayako, before they charged at each other. The metal struck each other with a loud 'clang', and the other Lighties charged. Kayako quickly withdrew one of her claws and stabbed the Human girl right where her heart was, before heading straight towards the Human Oracle. I mentally grinned at her idea, then swung at my axe at the first Elf who had attacked Kayako before. He backstepped quickly enough to avoid it, so instead my axe swung into one of the male Elves, and hit him in the left arm. The first Elf jumped, dagger raised, and aimed for my head. I cursed, knowing what was going to happen but unable to stop it.
And then Kayako came and hit him with one of those special Assassin kicks to the head. "How'd you like my Halt Kick, shemale?" I grinned, thanking Etaine for sending Kayako to save me, then remembered two things. First off, it was the blue-skinned Assassin who got me into this in the first place. Second, there was still an Elf with a barely attached left arm next to me. I swung my axe back, readying to swing, when Kayako beat me to it with another one of those Assassin attacks, this one letting off blue-green light. "Heheh...And Mitsu says these attacks are weak." Kayako said, grinning almost sadistically as the almost one-armed Elf took a few steps back, before charging at the Elf again. Note to self, don't piss her off too much...
I heard a groan behind me and turned to see the Elf Kayako had 'Halt Kicked', cluching his now bleeding head. "You...You're wrong if you think I'll be just like you..." He muttered, and I raised an eyebrow. Maybe Kayako's Halt Kick had hit him a bit too hard and it did something besides make the guy bleed and unable to stand without shaking.
"Oi, where'd the Vail go?" Came the shocked cry of one of the Elves, and he was quickly answered.
"She must be using one of her upper-level skills to be hiding. I think it's called 'Stealth'!" The female Elf replied, and I spotted an almost transparent figure that resembled Kayako sneaking over to the Human Oracle, who was currently searching for the Vail as well.
"Shit, where is she?" I turned my attention back to the Elf in front of me, who was muttering incoherent things to himself. Suddenly he attacked, and I tried to hit him but wasn't fast enough. The dagger sunk into my collarbone, and I threw the Elf off of me, trying to keep myself calm as I removed the dagger. It had gone in pretty deep, and I knew my chances of leaving Teos alive just lowered incredibly.
"Ahrg! Damn Vail!" I heard the Human Oracle curse, and smirked. Well, not a total loss.
"Muu...You can't damn me, I'm already too damned already." Came Kayako's reply, and I could almost hear the grin in her voice.
"Damn! She got Lumi!" I glanced at the Elf who was now getting back on his feet, and at the dagger in my left hand. I smirked before turning around and chucking it at the female Elf, who had been too worried about 'Lumi' to notice it hurtling towards her. It missed the original target, her heart, but still hit her decently in the chest.
"Mao Li!" All attention was torn from Kayako and landed on me, to which I just grinned and dodged the unarmed Elf and whacked him in the back of the head with the blunt side of my axe. "Damn it all to hell!" The male Elf that was still uninjured looked furious, and made a sign with his hands. I mentally cursed, fearing an attack, and was even more surprised when he took off in the opposite direction, shouting "I'll kill you two one of these days, I swear it!"
And now it was one Nordein and one Vail against two dying Humans, an unconscience Elf, an almost one-armed Elf, and a dying Elf. Wonderous.
The one-armed Elf stepped forward, and I raised my axe in defence, noting that most of the claw wounds inflicted on him by Kayako were being healed by items. "...We'll let you go." I glanced at Kayako, who had a look of sheer disbelief on her face, and then back at the Elf. "Everyone who had originally wanted to fight you are dead, dying, or fleeing. I have no intention of adding myself to any of those lists, so as the final member of Mao Li's team, I proclaim you two as the victors." And with that, he walked off, leaving Kayako and I to continue our journey back home. Kayako grinned, turning her head to look at me. "You hear that, Damein? We can go back home!"
I might not know what 'home' was, but at that moment I was happy to have the chance to go back and find out.
Nyaa...The school computers suck. They've blocked all the good sites, and the keyboards are really evil. I can't begin to tell you how many typos I made and fixed. Anyways, a cookie to the first person who tells me what the two refrences were, and where they're from. This chapter is dedicated to my Co-Mod Meta Kit on Gaia Online for her birthday. Fear her. She has Yahoo Instant Messenger and knows how to abuse it to the point where you feel like blocking her. Amzingly, this only took two front and back pages, so either I'm getting better at cramming stuff into space, or I add lots of words from my rough draft.