Sorry I haven't been updating for the past two weeks (again), I'm not in the best of moods. Everything has been going wrong for me lately... The presentation for the talent show crashed during the second to last act and my friend and I had to quickly make up a speech two freaking days before the actual Grad. Probably the only thing that went as planned was the Chinese Grad- and even that had some problems. Whatever... at least I got honors three years in a row...
Remember that one time I described how Lily smelled like home ? Yeah well, fun fact: I was thinking of lasagna while writing that. Think on that.
"Reporting! The subject has shown no signs of protest as of lately. Though her brain signature fluctuate quite frequently; we firmly believe that subject A has now been rendered disabled and this may have an effect on her magic ability, sir."
I let out a small scream as I was hurled into the dirt and went crashing onto my back with a thud. The wind was already knocked out of me and I could only sigh as I rolled over and a long frozen spear of red lightning impaled itself onto the place where my head was last.
I didn't even have a chance to get up onto my feet when I felt long wires snaking their way up my legs and before I knew it I was hanging upside down.
"That's what you get for
messing with my plans, little girl. Had you given up sooner, the experiment would've gotten along just swimmingly and you probably wouldn't have ended up this way."
An aggravated scream slid out from the back of my throat, pulling my body upwards as I tried to pry my legs out from the wires before having to force them out and falling right smack to the ground. I felt adrenaline rush through my system as I willed the air around me to harden and sent streams of wind hurling at my old team mates, not bothering to make up a name for it anymore.
V had kicked up dust seconds before the slicer attack hit them and I felt a collective silence fall upon the audience as we all waited for the dust and dirt cloud to clear. I was sweating all over and the steel dagger that was hanging from my belt at the beginning of the match was now in my hands.
It didn't even matter if I had sworn never to rehearse this spell again; I had already broken that promise in my first match. It wasn't like I had anywhere to return to after this fight after all; the cold metal of the dagger was already telling me I had nothing to lose. My mind was too far off to think properly anyways.
"You will be replacing Minerva for tomorrow's Games"
The random storm of frozen knives laced with red hot lightning and wires startled me so much that I almost forgot to roll onto my side as I dragged my wrist against the dirt in a daze. I winced as I felt rocks graze the injury and suddenly I was up again.
I shut my eyes in irritation, trying hard to clear my head of these voices and fighting the sickly urge to puke as I heard Ken's lazy voice complaining in front of me.
"We
Without startling anyone, I slowly brought my injured wrist up to my mouth and sucked the blood out of the big gash I made.
"You
Trying hard not to swallow, I shut my eyes once again and spitted out the blood, letting it fountain onto the ground below me. But before it touched the ground; I forced the air, the gravity to spread it all out and splatter it in a thin pattern on the ground.
The humid air of familiarity was almost killing me as I knew the guild members of my old guild who were watching were already piecing it all together.
Talk after talk, I knew I couldn't hide any longer. My options were little to none and in this death match that was still surprisingly legal with council members present, I had no other choice.
The storm of frozen lightning ice came again and I bent the air so that it would cut through the wires and not through me without another thought, not caring if I had to make another awkward encounter with the ground.
Strands of random pink locks were scattered everywhere in the arena, along with pieces of V's 'shirt' and wet spots where Ken spit in frustration. We were all breathing heavily as V continuously sent sharp shards of ice my way while Ken tried to capture me once again with his wires and hack into my magic.
I had managed to run a lap around the two before letting myself get captured, dragging my right foot on the ground and drawing ancient characters I remembered from the top of my head while sending discs of wind their way to keep them distracted. The memorized words were already tumbling out from my lips as Ken's wires tightened their grip against my leg.
"This time," he whispered through clenched teeth, his eyes reflecting pools of red hot anger, "you won't get away."
Before I felt the tingling feeling of Ken's Hacker Magic seeping through my injuries, I let myself give up my senses and concentrate on the words. Ignoring the fact that I had just surrendered myself in my weakest state. My mouth was already moving in light speed and my eyes closed to see the images behind each grim voice that were now combined into one overpowering threatening lull. I didn't see V until it was too late...
will be made into something powerful today."
Blood had escaped my mouth through violent coughs as V dug her lightning laced ice lance deeper into my stomach. I almost gave myself to Ken's hacker magic as I felt an old worn scream well up in the back of my throat. Tears were starting to well up in my eyes as I swung around helplessly, trying to get the blade out as I felt a cold sensation overcome me.
Something just ticked then and before I knew it, I was screaming out the name of my old friend as the bloody magic circle lit up and the outline of a giant jade wyvern came spiraling out from the ground and let loose a mighty roar.
"You can't hold any secrets from me."
I felt like begging for air by the time I was dropped onto the ground for the millionth time that day as every L'Arc Sibyl member stared in bewilderment at the faint outline of the feathered wyvern. Reminiscing on every good memory the wyvern spirit guardian had brought to them.
Biting my tongue was all I could do before I let myself be cut off and ordered it to attack.
But maybe that wasn't the best course of actions because when the spirit did take off to the skies, Ken and V turned towards me in disabelief.
"Lilian?"
"You will fail sweetheart, and now lets see who makes a more convincing Queen."
And that was all I could hear before I blacked out to the sound of cruel laughter bellowing out from the distance.
Sorry guys, its a short chapter, I'm planning on revising 'Fool's Gold' and rewriting the first chapter so please excuse me if I don't update in a while again.
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