Black and White
I'm so sorry guys, I know that my recent chapters are boring :( Its just the feeling and the mood to write this one already vanish somewhere far and even though I try, it turns out that the chappies are not interesting ._. I guess that's because my hiatus for three months T.T I hope you guys would bear with me for two more chapters for this story, and I'll try my best in this chapter, to give a last boost.
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-Sorry for bad grammar and tenses-
Disclamer : I do not own Gakuen Alice
Chapter 19 : Battle of the Royals
Luna let out another battle cry, as her sword clashed with Mikan's. They each tried to push their swords against each other, and it lasted for a few seconds.
"You will lose, half breed!" Luna screamed, releasing her dark energy.
Luckily, Mikan reflexes are good enough, so she has already put up her nullification barrier before the energy hit her hard.
Mikan grunted in pain when that happened, and she took a step back, scrutinizing Luna. She wonders, if a bit of her dark power could make her feel a pain like this although her nullification barrier can repelled it, how would it feels if the energy hit her directly?
"Stop calling me half-breed, Koizumi. I'm a blend." Mikan said in a low voice, trying to buy them some times.
Luna cackled. "I can call anything I like to a trash like you. You are not White and not Black, you are a sore thing."
A stream of fire shot out from Natsume's hand towards Luna's way.
The Queen yelped in surprise, and she was slow in defending herself causing her cape to suffer with a burnt on the side from the sudden attack.
Luna throw a glare at Natsume's way. "Stop interfering my fight, Black Elf, or you will taste my wrath."
"Mikan is not a sore thing, she will make a wonderful ruler." Natsume growled, his crimson eyes blazing with fire.
Mikan's eyes widen hearing Natsume's statement as her heart fluttered a bit. But she can't let her concentration break now, she would ask about that later, when the so called Queen already stop breathing.
"Hmph." Luna snorted. "As if that would convince me. She would always be a tainted one, no matter what."
"Hyuuga." Mikan whispered in a gentle voice. "Please step back, you could help the others take care of the troops, I can fight for myself."
Natsume frowned as the answer, but he didn't voice out any protest and started to run to the fighting troops.
"Let's continue the fight, Koizumi." Mikan said calmly. "It's futile for you to insult me since I won't respond to that."
Mikan doesn't let her nullification barrier down at all, and she keeps up with the vicious attacks Luna gave to her in a continuous motion while steadily shooting some icicles here and there, trying to freeze some parts of Luna's body.
Her work is not fruitless, since Luna got some cuts all over her body, but that's not enough to kill the Queen of course.
"Can you die, Your Highness?" Mikan ask in mocking tone, clashing her sword one more time with Luna's. She took a few steps to the right, turning her body while locking Luna's sword so now she's able to jerk Luna's sword away from Luna's hand.
The sword clattered quite far, and Mikan, not wasting her time, quickly slam the butt of her sword to the side of the Queen's face, earning a shrill scream from the blonde elf. Mikan was half hoping that Luna would fall unconscious at the force she has given to her, but it seems that her wish was too good to be true.
Although bleeding on the side of her head, Luna still manage to stand firmly, swiftly pulling out another sword from the scabbard on the side of her hips.
"Such a lame question." The Queen retorted, as she returned to a fighting stance while repelling all the icicles Mikan have sent.
"I know." Mikan replied smoothly, jumping to the side, evading the attack of a black energy ball from Luna.
Luna frowned, seeing that her attacks from the start till just now only graze Mikan here and there. She summoned her dark energy again, and commanded the wind to obey her command.
Mikan tried to compose her face, preventing her from leaking out a suprise expression seeing that Luna's dark energy can summon many elements.
The wind swept on Mikan, making her stumbled despite the fact that she has her nullification up.
'This is not good." Mikan thought to herself. 'Her power really is stronger than mine.'
Seeing the chance, Luna jumped and slashed towards Mikan, while Mikan, who was disoriented because of the wind, only manage to dodge it a bit so the tip of the cold sword wonderfully kiss Mikan's right knee, and since her knee cannot support her body weight anymore, Mikan immediately fall down. Luckily, she manage to caught herself and not planted her face flat on the ground.
Luna pounced on her, ready to give a deathblow when Mikan flicked her hand, summoning wall of ice, making Luna back away a bit.
Mikan quickly stood up, wincing in the process and gripped her sword harder.
"This is no use, fighting against a weak being like you," snorted Luna. With a swish of her hand, the wall vanish easily.
"Have you gone all out, Koizumi?" Mikan ask carefully, eyeing Luna's every movement while limping badly.
Luna let out a twisted grin. "What do you think, half – breed?"
"Haven't." Mikan replied, twisting her sword so that it would go the other way and suceessfully make a clean cut on Luna's shoulder.
Luna growled, taking a step back while pressing her deep wound. She glared at the smirking Mikan. "Then I guess you will taste my wrath."
"Bring it on," taunted Mikan, bringing out her nullification barrier in full force.
To say that Luna's power look scary is an understatement.
It is downright frightening.
Mikan tried to suck in her fear and watched with a straight face as Luna hold a crackling ball of black energy in front of her.
A crazylike half smirk appear on Luna's lips, before in a quick movement – which Mikan nearly can't followed – she commanded the wind to immobilized Mikan, as she shot the ball directly towards Mikan's heart.
'No, I must get away!' Mikan thought in panic, as she commanded her nullification to stop the whirling wind which trapped her in the same spot.
Finally, after struggling a few miliseconds, Mikan manage to stop the wind, but it's too late, since the ball of black energy hit her with full force.
The force knocked out all of Mikan's breath in her lungs, as she was being thrown really far and her back hit the tree trunk with a sickening crack.
Mikan could feel her front body burning with an unbearable pain, as her head pound crazily and her vision started to blur on the side. But she didn't pass out, Mikan willed her mind to work, gripping on the verge of her consciousness.
"Well well, look at the pitiful creature here, so weak." Luna taunted, cackling all the way as she pulled up Mikan's chin with the tip of her bloodied sword. "What should I do with a half-breed like you?" She asked cheerfully, her cruel smirk playing on her lips. "Maybe sending you to hell with your lovely father would be good enough? No?"
Mikan coughed out blood, wincing in pain when her whole body shook. She licked her lips, tasting her own blood in the process. "Shut up you fake Queen. My father would be in heaven and you would be in hell."
Luna laughed heartily, throwing her head back in amusement. "Unbelievable, still have such a strong will on the verge of death." Luna shook her head. "Just like your no good of a father." She added in a whisper, as she leaned beside Mikan's head.
Mikan managed to let out a growl and pushed Luna with her burst of ice, sending the Queen a good few meters back.
"How amusing." Luna commented, getting back to her feet as her energy sending her gently back standing in front of Mikan. "Do you know I was the one who kill your father?"
Mikan gritted her teeth and force her eyes to open, despite her blood from the head wound already running down all over her face. She throw a vicious glare at Luna. "How come? Why did you kill him?" Mikan croaked out, her hands formed into fists.
"Well, he would be too powerful if I let him live too long." Luna answered off handedly, like the life of Izumi Yukihara was not important.
Mikan screamed a battle cry as she jump up, ignoring all her pain and wounds and pounce fiercely on Luna, who was too suprise to do anything so they both go tumbling down to the ground.
Mikan pinned Luna with her newfound strength, wrapping her with a nullification barrier which successfully rendering the Queen from using her power, and knocking away her sword when Luna intended to pierce her through with it.
Luna struggled a bit, hitting Mikan's face and kicking her wounded knee, but Mikan didn't budge at all. Instead, Mikan summoned her icicles which rained beautifully on Luna, making holes all over her body.
Luna screamed in pain, she was thrasing wildly, trying desperately to reach for her dark power when Mikan struck her heart with her hand, pulling out her heart in the process.
Luna coughed out blood as her eyes widen, knowing that she has lost.
"I hope you rot in hell, Your Highness." Mikan said mockingly as she watch the cold blue eyes glared at her before becoming lifeless.
Mikan stared at the broken body with empty eyes, before throwing the heart on the ground, feeling disgusted by it.
"Polka."
Mikan look up, only to see a pair of concerned crimson eyes staring at her as she felt all the unbearable pain rushing back to her.
She fell down, but Natsume managed to catch her before she touch the ground and pull her close to his chest, carrying her bridal style.
"Hyuuga." Mikan pant out, forcing a weak smile on her lips. "Fancy seeing you here huh."
"I already told you to stop calling me that." Natsume said firmly, looking at Mikan with fierce crimson eyes.
"Why should I?" Mikan asked, putting her hand on Natsume's warm cheek.
"Because I told you so." Natsume replied smugly.
Mikan chuckled, which resulted her coughing up blood a few times. Natsume glared at her for weakening her already battered body.
"Shut up and just hold on Polka. We need to bring you to the hospital."
Mikan softly groaned. "Not again."
A smirk curled itself on Natsume's lips. "Well, it's your own fault."
Mikan sighed. "Just burn the body and the heart first. I'm sick looking at them."
Natsume glance at the dead Queen and the bloody heart, and flick his wrist, burning them to ashes in an instant.
"Satisfied?" Natsume asked in his husky voice, arching his eyebrow and looking at the half conscious girl emotionlessly.
Mikan let out another weak smile and slowly nodded. "Yeah." She whispered, inhaling a full breath of Natsume's scent while she rest her head on the crook of his shoulder. "Its over isn't it?" She softly ask, her eyes dropping.
"Yes. It is. The darkness has vanished." Natsume answered, started to walk with Mikan on his hands. "Just sleep Polka. I will wake you later."
"Thank you, Natsume." She said before passing out.
A small smile crept its way to Natsume's lips, as the fire wielder strode with a light heart and a happy feeling bubbling inside his chest.
I hope you are satisfied with this chapter ;) The next chappie would be the epilogue :D
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