Again, sorry guys for the lateness. I've been busy completing my dossier for my college application. And the rest is you know it. Some of the procedures are a pain in the ass. Okay, I don't want to ramble about it here, and I'm sure you don't wanna know about it either.
One thing, this chapter is the last of "The Duel" chapters. Later, I'll continue to produce titles. Well, my friends said it was my forte. Giving titles.
Let's get on with the chapter. Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail~ My troll level is nothing as compared to the real owner. No offense. :P
"BOULDER BREAKER!"
Her body glows with blue-colored halo. "Be prepared, ass."
Her torso darts towards Cahynn's figure with a great speed. He goes panic, seeing her full power. -So she was preserving her strength until now.-
Just when he was too astonished to move, Reika had already gave him beatings throughout his whole body. He jolts backwards to reduce the pain experienced and gets in the stance for his next move.
"Particle Magic: Disembark!"
A herd of medium sized stones start to dash towards Reika but she gracefully dodges all of them. Sure, from the looks of it, she has more experience in battlefield, more that Cahynn who was still baby-stepping in fighting department.
"Short of techniques huh? I can see that you're dumbfounded", she smirks. While gleefully jeering, she launches her attacks, again targeting his vital organs. Reika doesn't want to waste more time for this moron. The sooner she finish her business with him, the sooner she can get back to crash Hibiki's wedding. But she realizes something, the pregnancy somehow depletes her magic level at a shocking rate!
Without anymore talking, she punches and kicks Cahynn with all her might. The Boulder Breaker mode enables her to focus Herculean strength to just one foe. Different from Water Mage mode, its objective was to attack a number of people. Since most of the time she encountered several enemy, her Boulder Breaker seldom showed up. The fact that it was her own invented technique, and not Marn's, made her still unconvinced for the injuries it inflicted and the maybe-side-effects too. But seeing this case, she had built some confidence to use it against the retired mayor.
Cahynn coughs more and more blood. Reika grows more and more tired. Both are getting sick of the fight and it pops out in their minds, it's time to end this. Five hours-long of single fight really take its toll on them.
Hence, with the strength left, Cahynn lifts his right hand and said, "Secret technique: Particle Entrapment."
With this, Reika's body feels heavy all of a sudden. Her eyes widen because of the shock and tries to lift her body parts. Sadly her efforts seems useless. Her body gradually becomes heavier than normal, plus her tiredness, and it took all her strength just to lift a finger.
"Dammit! Dammit! Dammit all!"
Cahynn curses in every moment her body falls to the ground. "Die you ignorant brat! You don't know the sadness in my heart! And yet you still don't want to understand it! Better for you to die!"
Cahynn's screams begins to fade in Reika's ears. She is too tired to fight back, but suddenly she felt something heavy at her belly.
"I see that you endlessly trying to protect the thing there. Are you hiding something?" Cahynn starts to plan something so evil in his mind. "Shall I rip it open to see what's inside that little tummy of yours?"
Her eyes snaps open. -So he did realize it…-
"Seeing the timeline, between your marriage with that pretty douchebag, I think you're pregnant." At the end of the sentence, she senses something so grim. "Maybe I should give him a little surprise. His wife's corpse and his unborn baby…"
He lifts his left hand and a rock comes at her sight, taking its place above Reika's bloodied head. "I'll crush your womb first, than I'll have you flat from head to toe."
Gritting her teeth, she gathers all her energy, whether the present or the wasted or even the future energy, and struggles to get out of Cahynn's invisible grasp. As the struggle seems useless, she struggles more and more vigorous, until her trapped body parts bleeds out because of the pressure. Her goal is just one, to save the baby.
Cahynn somehow is startled by the suddenly refreshed Reika. She struggles so hard that her white eyes are revealing and exhales steams. Her madness takes over her emotion and she starts groaning as she fights her way to get out. At first it was only a mundane human's voice, but later her voice becomes hoarse. In the end, she groans like a dragon.
Still struggling in his grasp, Reika inhales to give her all in this one last struggle, and by that time she let the monster in her taking over. After done inhaling…..
"OOOAAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!"
She roars (literally) which manages to give Cahynn a good shiver at the legs.
The ground breaks because of the weight from Cahynn's magic, and it breaks even more when Reika outrun his force. With her anger taking over, Cahynn's death sure promises to visit him early than expected. While still barely letting her sight to clear up, she whizzes to the trembling Cahynn. Still roaring, she gives a punch square at his face.
He flies to the left as the impact of the brute punch. Apparently he feels his jaw is falling off. He turns to face the angered mother. Right now she really looks like Natsu when he was on rage.
"You say sadness?"
He receives a kick at his fat stomach.
"I admit I'm an ignorant fool, but at least I understand what you're facing!"
This time his rib becomes the victim of her turning kick.
"If you think you're unlucky enough, then you're the one who should die!"
She grabs her collar and brings his face on par with hers.
"Whatever streetside beggar you would wanna be, don't let Hibiki become the same as the likes of you….Because I'll mince you down…."
A punch at his face.
"…Until you're no smaller than the ants!..."
Another punch.
"…..Even if I'm dead…."
And another punch.
"…..I'll haunt you and be your worst nightmare", she glares with her small onyx orbs.
He feels like pissing his pants off, but luckily his quick mind realizes that his right hand is free to move. Hastily, he 'instructs' the gargantuan rock just now to fly and…
SMASH!
The whole of Reika's body is knock by it and she flies to the jungle, hitting one of the trees and slumps down on the grass. She goes silent, signaling she has fainted. Cahynn lifts his head. It's now nighttime. LOL, he didn't even realize. Right now, he's still shaking like crazy. Reika really gave him a good quivering to the core.
-What nightmare? You're still alive and I still think you're the worst nightmare ever.-
He chuckles…and later it turns to a loud laughter. "I win!" He yells.
Kraud that was wandering in the jungle in finding a way back to Reika's battlefield saw her unconscious on the floor. He quickly takes a good look at her injuries.
"Damn that Cahynn. He really took no pity towards a pregnant woman!" And now he fumes. With care, he carries Reika and brings her to a wider area, further away from the fighting arena.
As he carefully puts Reika on the ground, he heard footsteps behind him.
"Oh I almost forgot there's another rat that came with the black haired monster", Cahynn beams. "Like what all people say, get rid of the evidence and I don't have to worry of getting caught."
Kraud quickly gets ready for the oncoming fight. "You sure want to fight me with those bruises?"
"Don't say it like you care." The chubby man prepares his magic circle again, summoning back the big rock. Looks like the giant guy had become his best flying weapon.
Without further delay, he strikes Kraud with the flying stone. But fortunately Kraud swiftly avoids all of them like it's no big deal. "You really need to tone down your big ego."
"Shut up! I get to control my own life and you have no rights of telling me what to do!"
Again, Cahynn shoots the small stones and this time he includes himself in the crowd. Seeing this, Kraud jumps as high as he could and lands right on top of Cahynn, pinning him at the ground. He held his fist high and while the other hand grabs Cahynn's collar.
"Look, it doesn't even take me one minute to take you down. If you keep this up, you may end up dead."
Cahynn snickers arrogantly. "Like I said, you have no rights of telli-"
BAAMMM!
The punch settles down beside Cahynn's head. Although it doesn't hit him right at the head, Cahynn felt like his brain was shaking from the impact. From the corner of his eyes, he can see Kraud's eyes gleaming with anger.
"You had beaten my best friend half-dead and still insisting of challenging me to a fight. Sometimes you put yourself in a wrong place, big man. Don't compare me with that demon girl. If she managed to put you in a pinch many times, then don't expect me to go easy on you", he speaks with a solemn tone. "Moreover, I realized you really had no pity on her although she was pregnant…"
"What?!" A voice comes from the nearby trail. Then multiple running footsteps follow. Six figures appears, and two cats land beside the group.
"Did you just said something about pregnant?", asks Hibiki.
Natsu nods vigorously. "If I got it right, he really said that….About his best friend is pregnant."
Kraud gets up from his previous posture and goes straight at Hibiki….
…..Only to punch him hard at his pretty face. Hibiki falls to the ground and groans of the pain.
"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO GOT HER PREGGY AND NOW DON'T ACT SO OBLIVIOUSLY! GET THE DAMN OUTTA HERE AND BRING HER TO THE HOSPITAL QUICK!"
Lucy and Christine takes a quick look at the fallen guy while Mirajane changes into her Satan Soul. Even Natsu shouts 'Hey!' when Kraud gives Hibiki the beating. Ayumi just looking around when her eyes caught something.
"Minna! There's Reika!"
All eyes focuses on the person Ayumi points out and the first one to sprint there is none other than her husband. From the look he gave, clearly he regrets making the decision of marrying someone else. Seeing Reika lying there, blood spills out almost every inch of her body, with a pair of closed eyes, he feels like killing whoever did this to his dear wife. She just looked so vulnerable now. Then he recognizes the only clean part, free from the blood and dirt, is at her belly. That proves the theory. His wife is pregnant.
Scanning through all her wounds, she really did a great job on protecting their baby. While he is busy grieving over Reika, the others walked up to them and Natsu pats Hibiki at his shoulder, sympathizing him.
"We must take her to the hospital quick, Hibiki, or she'll be dead for sure."
Hibiki's bangs covers his mad orbs. "Can I ask you a favor?"
"Sure. What is it?" Natsu and Lucy wonder.
"Bring Reika to the hospital. I've got something to settle here, but I'll keep in touch with you along the way", Hibiki downloads the map for them to get out of the forest. Right at that time, Happy interferes.
"That's no good, Hibiki. You must reserve your magic for any incoming battle, plus with Cahynn is still here. I suggest you use the pendant and cling it at Reika's neck."
Truly he is startled. How the heck did Happy knew about that? He turns to the smiling Happy.
"I just stumble upon the time before you walk to the aisle. I saw you kissed it and put it back into your pocket", Happy explains. Lucy's eyes starts to water, feeling choked of the strong love Hibiki had to his runaway wife. Meanwhile, Mirajane gives out a sad look at her face. Even Ayumi wipes away her suddenly-falling tears. Christine, on the other had, smiles at the sight of Ayumi crying. That's one rare situation. Good job Hibiki!
His hands shoves into his pocket and brings out the shining blue pendant. Carefully he clasps the hook of the pendant and kisses Reika's forehead. "Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Christine and Julie, promise me you'll take care of her."
Natsu lifts Reika bridal style with a confident grin across his face. "Don't worry, we will." With that, they take off to bring Reika to the hospital.
Hibiki turns around and glares at Cahynn. And then, Kraud holds his arm.
"Don't get too mad now. He is fragile. We can't be too harsh on him", Kraud advices Hibiki.
"Who said I'm mad?", Hibiki looks at Kraud.
"I know in anime they have this small vein icon popping out at their forehead if they're angry, but Hibiki yours are too real to be one of them", Mirajane walks closer to them. "Even Kraud can see. It's so visible."
Kraud nods in agreement. Hibiki touches his forehead. True, his veins are popping out from under his skin! He has been restraining his stress too much that this thing occurs. Sighing, he tells them, "Okay, I'll calm down. Gimme 3 minutes and after that, we'll interrogate that bastard."
Hibiki walks to a nearby tree and leans himself against it. He closes his eyes and breaths slowly. Kraud looks at the Demon Mirajane and is surprised to see her shocked face.
"What's the matter?"
Mirajane faces Kraud. "Did he just said 'bastard'?"
The enddd of the chapter~…Wheewww I think I got the mood right. I put the puzzled face of Mirajane to highlight the moment when Hibiki doesn't realize his angriness. Maybe some of you ponders," what's so shocking about him cursing?" Okay, let me tell you this. If you read the previous chapters carefully, you'll realize that Hibiki never cursed for real, or if he did, maybe in his mind. But this didn't include the "FUUUUUUUUUUUUU~" moment with Reika.
…..Man, now even I am missing their sweet and mischievous times. I hope Reika will recover fast.
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Oh wait. It's me who decide the storyline, and I can accelerate the timeline of I wanted to. Haha…Sorry guys. Some system in my body doesn't seem to be working well. I'll go and check it later.
Then, till next chapter. :D