Tuesday, July 10, 2007

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Nicole and Eureka ran after her, only going as far as the volcanic path would let them. The called desperately after her, and Rone and Gloria followed them. “Stop!” hissed Gloria. “You’ll just make it come back!” She grabbed their arms and led them towards the portal. Rone was pulled also, but she shook Gloria off. “This is my entire fault…”
“What are you talking about?” cried Gloria, tightening her grip on Eureka and Nicole’s hands. “I should have never asked Gloria to come…” Rone said. Gloria looked furiously at all of them. “Come on, let’s go now.” She reluctantly let go of the gasping girls’ hands. Nicole shuffled to the edge, and her shoulders heaved up and down. Eureka tried to yell, but only a hoarse whisper came out. “Please…” Gloria hiccupped. A figure jumped of the cliff wall, right in front of their paths. “Where do you think you’re going?” she said sharply, like Rone. She looked at the other three girls, stunned and tired, and then her attention rested on Rone. She chuckled and drew out of a long, worn case a sword. “Come on, Rone! Fight with me!” She held her sword in front of her, battle posed. Rone shifted her weight to her other foot. “Yuna…” she exclaimed. By her side was a smaller sword, a bit longer than a dagger. Eureka thought it was there for protection against Skoltan creatures…Rone drew the small blade, the sound of metal being rubbed against her case. “Hmm…that’s new, Rone. Ha, do you even remember me?” Rone didn’t move, except her knees, which bended a little. She’s about to fight her….Eureka thought. Rone’s expression turned dark, and a tight grimness stretched across her face. “Forget you…never.” Yuna smirked. “That’s right. Never forget your sister, hmm?” Rone grinned tightly, and her shoulders heaved. It took Eureka a second to realize that Rone was laughing. “Oh, Abtra, Yuna, I can’t forget you. Oh no, never! Look, you scarred me!” Rone turned her head, revealing what was hidden behind her chin-length bangs. An ugly scar reached across her jaw line, almost up to her ear. Yuna frowned. “You evaded that easily…” Rone bent down and pushed her weight of the side of the canyon wall. She swung at Yuna, but Yuna evaded the attack by crouching low. “Come on. You can swing better than that!” Rone countered Yuna’s strike with a hit to Yuna’s left arm. Yuna stumbled back for a second, and then took her sword to her side, as she lifted the blood onto the sword’s hilt. By now, Nicole and Eureka had taken out their weapons, and were poised to jump in. Just before Eureka set a foot in, Gloria blocked them off. “This is her battle.” She muttered. Eureka looked at the two sisters. “Yeah, but she’s losing.”
Rone screamed once in pain, clutching her arm tightly where it was gashed open, and picked up the blood-covered dagger. She swung it expertly through her fingers, taking her hand off her open wound. “You’re going down.” She said, furious. Yuna laughed. “Okay…next time, you’ll be stronger. Come back when that’s the case, you abtrak.” Yuna smirked, and then ran across the canyon wall, her feet defying gravity. Her sword dropped amounts of Rone’s blood over her path. The girls walked unwillingly to the portal, where Rone was twisting her blade through her fingers, blood dropping to the ground. “I will…” she muttered as she walked last one through the portal.
Eureka and Nicole split paths, where they left Gloria and Rone to the forest trees. Gloria climbed slowly into her usual tree, and sat there, awake and shaking violently. Rone climbed into an old oak with her left hand only, and struggling under the weight. She collapsed to the tree’s strong branch, and moaned deeply. Her wounds were deep, and her pain was great. “Gloria…for every breath I take I feel my regret…” She coughed, clutching her dagger tightly.
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