Doom and Dispair

by Tyria

Chapter 4: Dispair Discovered

I _would_ remind you again about mind-to-mind, but it doesn't seem to happen in this chapter. I love this chapter, it's funny. Strangely enough, about half of it is in Uli's POV. Go figure. Enjoy!

The searing pain in my jaw keeps me still for a while, so I just watched. My one eye isn't working so well.

"Dispair? Tyria, what'd ya mean? Tyria? Tyria!" Rowen turns her over and lifts her up. When he begins backing away, I gasp. I can see that Sage's armor actually went through her armor. She was bleeding pretty bad.

I didn't think Sage'd ever hit Tyria. It's obvious he likes her, even to a seven year old like me. Then again, I didn't think he'd hit Mia or me either. This just isn't right.

A patch of black ooze fills the gash in Tyria's stomach. She stands up straight, without the help of Rowen. She hisses violently. I guess Death is in control now. "Dissspairrr, rrreleassse Sssage and flee orrr elssse!"

"What, and allow myssself to be exterrrminated like that pathetic Dessstrrruction?!?" What? Sage is talking like Death, clicking and holding his Ss and Rs.

"I am honourrrable. Rrreleassse him now and you live. Rrrefussse and sssufferrr the sssame fate asss Dessstrrruction!"

"You darrre thrrreaten me?! Die! Lightning...Clap....Ahhh!" THen he starts talking like himself again. "No...I...won't...let...you...Arghhh!!" Then the symbiot takes back control. "Sssorrry, morrrtal. You had yourrr chance." He smiles at Tyria. "I'm going to enjoy killing thisss one.

Lightning...Clap...Sssunderrr!!" His sure-kill knocks Rowen away from the weakened Dark Lady of the Dynasty.

"And now to finsh you off, sssisssterrr dearrr! Black Void of Dissspairrr!"

"Ssstarrr Sssworrrd Ssscrrream!"

The black beam and the blue beam meet in the center. After a moment of struggle, the black wins and sends Tyria flying. She catches herself herself with wings. She looks really beat up but she manages to land safely.

"Rowen!"

"But Tyr..."

"You trusted us before. Aim for the helmet."

"All right. Arrow shock wave!!" Rowen's arrow splits the black helmet in two. Sage's unrully hair fell into his right eye. He looks angry. That's strange. In a fight, Sage normally never looses control.

"God, why'd it haveta be a symbiot? Now we have to fight Sage."

"It hits hard."

"Ya, Uli, but we hit harder."

THen, something really strange happens. Death oozes out of Tyria and she powers down. "I can't believe I'm going to do this... I'm gonna need a tetanus shot after this. Will someone keep him busy?!"

"Why, what are you going to do?" Ryo asks "If I tell ya now, it won't work. Just trust me and try not to feel too nauseous."

Tyria runs into the tree-line.

Once in the woods, I begin making my way slowly, watching Jiki/Sage all the time. I hear, "Flare up now!"

Damn. That sent Sage flying backwards. I start running. The twigs and branches whip at me and a few tangle in my hair. I don't really care, I can brush them out later. One really large branch rips a tear in my jeans, scratching my skin a little, just enough for it to bleed.

I am _NOT_ looking froward to what I have to do. I'm going to play with Dispair's...well, dispair.

After this is done, I'm gonna spend, like, three hours in the bathroom and everyone else be damned!

I'm parallel to Jiki/Sage now. He stands back up. C'mon, I need him to move closer to the edge of hte woods. Closer, damnit, closer!

"Super wave smasher!" Dispair dives out of the way. He's a few feet away from me now. He stands up. Here goes...

I walk up in front of him and put my arms around his neck. I lean forward and kiss him deeply on the lips. Nasty, eh?

Let me explain cause this might seem a little random and I don't want you thinking I've gone insane. Death figured out that since it's totally obvious he likes me, he must 'dispair' because it's equally obvious I don't like him.

Meaning, to get rid of the dispair Jiki's using, I have to make it seem obvious that I _do_ go for him, even though I don't. Gradually, the black of his armor fades away into the normal green as Sage regains full control. The green Halo helmet s lying on the ground where the eclipse helmet pieces had been.

We stop kissing. I step back quickly as Sage falls to his knees as Jiki begins oozing slowly out his mouth.

Kissing Sage wasn't half as bad as I thought it would be... "Cye, get over
here."

"What, gonna kiss me too?"

"No, but if you don't get over now, I'll kick your ass. Get over here before Jiki reinfests."

Cye walks over. A look at everyone else. They all are wearing identical expressions of disgust on their faces. Ui has his face buried in BlackBlazes Flank. I'm pretty sure I could hear him saying, "Ew... ew... ew... ew..."Cye takes off his necklace and places the shiny, light blue stone in the black symbiot. "Trust."

The high-pitched scream that follows as Dispair shrivels makes us all fall to our knees in pain. the scream ends as the dust is blown away. After I stand up, I look around. Everyone is staring at me. "What? Well, excuse me for saving his life! Anyone have a tooth brush and tooth paste? Or at least gum?"

Everyone breaks out laughing except Sage. He doesn't look amused. "You're a stronger person than us." Ryo comments.

"Why?"

"No one else here would kiss him, for _any_ reason!"

"Gee thanks, Ro. So caring. And you're supposed to be my best-friend."

"Yah, your best-friend, not your boy-friend!"

"Ew! Rowen, this is the last time I'm telling you this, I AM _NOT_ GAY!!"

"Ya, we just had an obvious..."

"...And undoubtably disgusting..."

"...Display of that fact."

Sage blushes. Kento exclaims, "Don't remind me!"

Sage blushes deeper. "Hey, considering how much you eat for breakfast, I'm surprised you're not the size of Mia's house." I...defend? Sage. Kento doesn't reply and looks away instead.

"Uh, Tyria...?"

"Don't get any ideas, blondie."

Sage's blush returns. "NO! I wnated to thank you for saving me."

"Oh. Sorry. Hey, where'd Death go?"

"What?!"

"She's my friend, I can't just leave her alone! She'll die!!" Sage looks down to the ground at mutters something to himself. I just ignore him.

Well, that was thoroughly nasty, wasn't it? So, Tyria's confused, Sage's embarrased, Uli's disgusted and Sendo's missing. This fic ain't over yet! Happy 2001! Ta!

Tyria

Back | Next

Ronin Warriors Fanfiction A-M
Ronin Warriors Fanfiction N-Z
dans l'ombre des arcanes