"Now, Garu. Which one will you fight ?" Hayato asked Garu as there were two enemies in front of them. It was a man and a woman. The man looked like he was in the early thirties and had a small plump stomach and was carrying a greatsword on his back. The woman looked to be in her late twenties. She had short hair down to her shoulders but had long bangs almost covering her eyes. She was carrying two short swords. The pair could be mistaken for a husband and wife on the streets.
"You don't need to fight," Garu answered him while looking at his Glaive. It was testing time, and there were two subjects, of course, he wasn't going to let this chance slip by him. In an instant, he appeared in front of the woman sending her flying by a slash. Before the man could react, Garu had already created a gigantic fireball at the end of the Glaive. The man was hit by it at point blank range. Garu sent a flying slash towards the woman who was getting up, causing her to be sent flying even further.
The man next to him used his QI to blow away the fire and was greeted by a blade to the face. However, he managed to block it by quickly drawing his great sword.
"Hah!" He tried to pull back his sword in order to slash at Garu, but couldn't. It was only then that he noticed his sword being frozen and stuck to the blade of Garu's Glaive. He felt an immense force descending upon him. Little by little, it overwhelmed him, and suddenly Garu undid the ice. The man's sword broke and he was slashed from his face all the way down to his stomach. The only reason he wasn't killed was that the woman managed to react fast enough. She approached the man and pulled him back, helping him avoid certain death.
This went on for a while, with both of them doing their best just blocking Garu. That is until they both suddenly stopped. Garu stopped as well and started walking back towards Hayato. Hayato looked at him with a bit of wariness. The two behind him decapitated each other and fell to the ground.
"As expected, master understands our needs," Garu spoke while looking at his Glaive. It suited his tastes greatly. "Ah, the spatial rings," Garu remembered something and went back to the now bloody corpses. He took two spatial rings, and also two fur strands that were stuck to their napes.
This was Garu's Hatsu 'Fur Control'. He combined Conjuration to materialize the fur strands, and Manipulation to control them. Once the fur strands hit someone, they would be under Garu's control. He could control those under his level as much as he wants. But can only control three people surpassing his level. The reason the man and woman killed each other was that they were being controlled by Garu.
'In the end, I didn't get to do anything.' Hayato thought while looking amused.
Back on Goburou's side, the scarred man was fighting for his dear life. He was fighting three opponents at once. Goburou used his Hatsu to create two blood clones of himself. This was the maximum amount he could create with his Hatsu which is called 'Bloody Drive'. But, it was more than enough. The scarred man couldn't keep up with Goburou's speed, and currently, he was full of injuries. Unfortunately, he could keep up for a long time, and a blood rd flying slash destroyed his head killing him. "Spatial ring…" Goburou did the same thing as Garu and took the man's ring. They all noticed when Ed did it when he killed those people the other day. So, they thought it would be something important.
"I can control Gravity however I want! I can reduce it for myself and increase for you; you won't be able to keep up with me." The flashy man explained his power for some reason while looking at Alicia and Merry. "With decreased Gravity, I can fly so easily!" He said as he flew in the sky.
"You're a Heavenly Establishment; you should fly without needing to do it." When Merry pointed it out, the man quietly came back to the ground.
"Merry, please let me fight him," Alicia asked her. It was her chance to get some training as she was stuck in bed for a while now.
"Okay!" Merry didn't deny her request and hung around to watch the spectacle.
Since Alicia and the man had the same cultivation, they were almost equal. The man used his Gravity magic, but Alicia used her Light magic to buff herself and keep up with him. The fight looked like it was going in Alicia's favor. She was the one injuring him while dodging most of his attacks. But at one point, she felt a severe pain in her abdomen and was forced to stop.
The man didn't waste the opening and attacked her head. He was surprised to see a feather block his sword.
"You're still injured?" Merry flew towards Alicia and asked her. Alicia was clutching her stomach as the pain was hard to endure.
"It's okay, I can fight," Alicia told her.
"No, you shouldn't. Healing yourself is important." The two of them kept going on and on. Until, the man attacked once more, only to be stopped by a feather again. His eyes couldn't' believe what they were seeing.
"Hmph! You won't be able to move under ten times Gravity!" The man increased the gravity output in an attempt to hurt Merry.
"Hmm? That's all?" Merry looked amused as she was used to many times more gravity.
"You look like you need to be punished." Merry looked at the man and released a wave of killing intent. She used Nen to amplify its effect, causing the man to run away in fear.
"You DEVIL!" He shouted while running away. Several feathers stabbed into his body as if they were a knife cutting through butter.
"That's rude, I'm an Angel you know?" Merry spoke to herself while taking the man's Spatial ring.
Back in the castle, Ed was moving in towards a certain figure.
"You bastard! Why can you use it too?" Lilliana spoke while blood dripped from all over her body. Her voice was shaking and cracking. She was close to dying. She was talking about Space magic.
"If you can use it, I can't?" Ed spoke while looking at her. She was nailed to the wall with several knives penetrating her in different body parts. Ed slashed at her and cut her head off. On the ground, many broken weapons, or melted ones, were laying there.
"Spatial ring, spatial ring," Ed spoke to himself while searching the body of Lilliana. After finding what he wanted, he went to the basement.
"Who are y-" Before the guards could speak, they were knocked unconscious by Ed's Haki. He approached a cell and looked inside. The figure was inside the cell looked at the one visiting her in her last hours, and was surprised by the face peeking at her.
"Long time no see 'Ice Witch'."
Enjoy.
Emilia looked up in confusion. It was as if a ghost emerged out of nowhere just to spook her. Her eyes remained fixed on Ed for a while before she came to the realization of what was going on.
"Edward?!" Her eyes jumped up once she realized who was in front of her. Surprise and a bit of hope could be heard in her astonished voice.
"I thought you forgot about me for a moment." Ed laughed while making his way inside the cell. In one swift motion of his sword, the reinforced bars were cut down to many pieces. He looked at Emilia and realized that she changed during these two years.
Her golden hair fluttered in the air due to Ed's attack. Her eyes were turquoise, and her skin was snow white, befitting a person living in a snowy environment. Her nose was small and pointy. She looked to be 1.65 meters tall. She was full of cuts and bruises due to fighting before being captured. Her cheek was red due to both blood and her natural blush. Currently, Ed couldn't help but think that she was a fragile piece of glass, about to break due to pressure.
"What are you here for?" Emilia asked him with a bit of hostility in her voice. Ed didn't know why she used such a tone but didn't mind it at all.
"To save you." Ed smiled at her.
"Then I'm sorry to waste your time, but you can go back now." Her answer came as a surprise to him. Obviously, it wasn't a joke and Ed didn't feel like treating it as one.
"As soon as I get my mother's body back, I'll join her." Emilia assumed that Ed would know what happened to her and her mother. She had both her hands chained to the wall, so Ed broke her out of them.
"And how were you going to do that if I didn't come here?" Ed decided to ignore the last part of her earlier sentence; however, he couldn't get it out of his mind. Emilia stood up while rubbing her wrists. Red marks were left there as the cuffs were too tight.
"I would have come up with something," Emilia spoke to Ed while making her way outside. She was free again and would return to her mission.
"So where do you think your mother is?" Ed followed after her, as he adamant about protecting her. It would be a stupid thing if he were to let the one he was supposed to protect, die.
"Like I said return to your kingdom." Emilia wasn't having any of it. She turned back to face Ed and pointed south, indicating the route he should be taking.
"I can't do that. We came here to save you, not for sightseeing." Ed looked at her without flinching. He was getting annoyed by her desperate attempt at trying to kill herself.
"Why would you even do that?! Who asked you?!" Emilia started screaming, attracting the attention of some of the guards who were looking for Ed.
"No one asked me. And why do I need a reason to come save you?!" Before the guards could reach them, Ed released an especially powerful wave of Conqueror's Haki. It was enough to affect the whole castle grounds.
"Go back!" Seeing that she was not getting in Ed's head, she screamed at him and continued climbing the stairs upwards. But, her hand was caught by Ed causing Emilia to turn back and look at him.
"What are you so afraid of, that you don't want me here?" Ed could tell what she was thinking but chose to ask her directly. Emilia realized this and bit hard on her teeth. She then looked at Ed in a forced smile and spoke.
"Nothing, so just go back." Her pathetic attempt at reassuring Ed had the opposite effect. He became a little angry and caught her by the shoulders.
"Who are you trying to fool? For what reason are you doing this?! Are you trying to throw away the life your mother gave just for revenge?!" Once Ed said the last sentence, the eyes of Emilia burned in anger.
"Who said I want to throw my life away? What do you know about my life?!" She's flung Ed's arms away and continued speaking or more accurately shouting.
"From when I was small, my father was murdered. My mother didn't act because my uncle, a high ranking noble, was the one who did it. If she killed him, this country would have collapsed! I had two other siblings who were killed once they stepped outside the castle grounds. All of these incidents were because of my uncle." As Emilia was remembering the incidents, tears filled her eyes. The tears overflowed and her face became flooded. Ed remembered that the first time he met her; she was almost killed by bandits due to her guards abandoning her. 'As I thought, those weren't bandits.' Ed thought to himself.
"And do you know who my uncle is? It's Norris' father. And he was killed by his own son. I thought they wouldn't bother us anymore, and I and my mother would be able to live peacefully. But then, my mother was killed by Blood sect, and it was at Norris' demand." Emilia choked on her own tears before continuing to speak. "I'm now left with no one in the world. I'm all alone! I have no reason to live anymore." Once Ed heard those words, a certain line popped up in his mind.
"No one was born to be alone in this world!" Emilia stopped and looked at him while he continued speaking. "You have me; you have us, don't you?" Ed looked at her directly while asking. But, Emilia started crying and screaming even harder.
"It's exactly because you guys exist that I want to die!" Ed was surprised again by her claim.
"I've already lost all my family. You should know how it feels to lose important people to you!" Emilia knew about the incident back in Scale kingdom. "I'm afraid I'll end up losing you too!" Emilia cried even harder. It was obvious that she cared greatly about the friends she had made. But Ed thought that her thinking process was foolish.
"You want to die, so you wouldn't lose us?! You know the pain of losing the important ones to you, and yet you want us to feel that when you go ahead and kill yourself?!" Ed was shouting at her once again. "You're not making any sense! If you're afraid, then let me tell you this. I won't die, and I won't let anyone die! If this kingdom is the one that caused you to lose your family, then abandon it! If you have no reason to live, then come with me and find it a new one!" Ed extended his hand towards Emilia. Although he was lower than her in the stairs, it seemed that was letting his hand down from a much higher place.
Emilia's backstory q.q. Hope you guys enjoyed it, and I hope I delivered it the way I imagined it^^
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