Sky and Lia VS Ethos

A loud noise came from his sword as he redirected his head over to his left side...

Lia...?

Both of her daggers and a fiery rage in her eyes were clashing with Logos as he attempt to kill me... but she was holding him back.

Lia threw the dagger down past his sword and rose her foot up to his chest. The dagger's handle collided with the tip of her shoe. She kicked it and the tip of the dagger was sent directly into the right side of Logos's cheek, which instantly made him drop to the floor.

I was stuck watching in amazement as Lia fell to the ground and started to bleed more. She pushed her body back up with both of her daggers and stood in front of me, holding her ground against Ethos.

Everything she ever did... appeared in my eyes...

She saved me... why did she save me...? I told her I would kill her, yet, she saved me from that fatal strike?

Then... Tavian was right... she isn't a bad person.

The sporadic change in my mental state as the fight continued was confusing enough, but I knew what had to be done right now. I stood up behind her, and put my hand on her shoulder. She shook as she turned her head to look back at me.

"Just this once, help me," I asked Lia. She smiled and redirected her head back toward Ethos.

"Your injuries. What are they? I can play around you." Lia asked me. She was very clearly injured herself... but she was pushing herself to help me. She... is a strong girl.

"Don't worry about me. Focus on spilling as much blood as possible, I'm with you!" I told her. Lia nodded, flipped her daggers, and ran in toward Ethos.

Ethos rose his sharp sword and focused on Lia specifically. I took that opportunity, raising my sword up past my hips and coming in to attack him.

Ethos swung at my sword to deflect it, then put his sword against Lia's daggers to defuse her attack. He completely pushed me off!

Ethos grabbed Lia by the throat, and that's when I felt something tick in my mind again.

[Adrenaline Surge Status: Activated]

[Current Heart Rate: 179]

I tackled Ethos to the ground after sticking my sword into his leg, but he threw me off, kicked the sword out, and stood on it like it was nothing!

He dropped Lia before it all happened of course, and she already ran back at him to make an attack again. She was persistent! Good!

I stared at my hands with my left one in sight... the stone was glowing red again... and looking at Lia made it brighter.

Shit! I can't be distracted like this! I don't hate her anymore! I need to work with her!

But... somewhere in my mind, I had every right to be mad at her and to hate her. The sudden shift in feelings happened way too quickly... and my mind couldn't process it.

There was hate somewhere in my mind leftover… cast it away! I yelled at myself, repeatedly, even hitting myself in the head to disperse these feelings. Before long, everything around me froze once more, and the common sense I had been so desperately holding onto had dispersed completely.

I could feel myself slipping, and even tried to stop it, but before long, I gave into the euphoric embrace of violent images begging to be brought to life. I brought myself up from my knees and walked over to Ethos

"Sky, look out!" Lia screamed out. She slashed his wrist away and defused his attack. In retaliation, Ethos tried to punch me with his right hand... but I grabbed, it pushed it down, and ripped upward to snap the bone.

He screamed out in pain. "Dammit!" He said.

Without wasting any time, I stuck my sword into his stomach and got close to his face as I churned it around, mixing his guts along the dull edge of my blade.

Lia stabbed both of her daggers into his back and retreated, with caused him to fall to the ground in a surge of pain, I'm sure.

I left his weakened body and stood about three steps back. While smiling, I crouched down to meet him at eye level.

"Say my name," I told him.

To hear him beg for mercy after being so cocky in following us up here was all I wanted.

"Kiss my ass." He told me.

I slid the sword out of his stomach and slammed the dull edge into his extended knees. It didn't even cut through, but it certainly cracked his kneecap. He screamed out again and I put the tip of the sword under his chin and rose his head.

"Beg me for mercy. Go ahead, I might let you live." I told him.

Ethos smiled again, but it was a false one. One driven by spite. I kept the sword above my head, readying for a swing, but he only laughed more and more.

"The only White Stone I speak the name of is Orion Danafall!" Ethos told me.

I mimicked his smile and slung the sword through the middle of his face, splitting it right in the middle of his nose.

I slammed. Again, and again, and again. Pushing through his beaten skull until it was nothing but a mess of pink brain matter splattered along the floor.

"You... murderer..." Logos muttered, coughing up blood about ten feet away from Lia and me.

That bitch is still standing near me?

I walked over to Logos and clasped my hand around his throat, raising him up from the ground like he weighed nothing. He was off of his feet and hanging on by my thumb and other four fingers.

"Say my name." I told him.

"You killed my brother... I will never forgive you..." Logos told me.

I dropped him onto the floor and he smiled.

"I knew you wouldn't be the type of man to-" Logos was cut off as I swung my sword straight through the middle of his skull horizontally, completely killing him.

Logos slowly slouched over to the floor as the life left his veins, and then, I concentrated on Lia again.

I can't control myself... she needs to leave...

"Kill... no... leave..." I muttered, holding back the urge to kill her.

As I got closer and closer, I could feel another voice pleading against my own. A young, yet determinate voice. It stunned me for a moment, and I slowly came to terms with the events that happened here.

I kept repeating, 'I shouldn't! I shouldn't!' in my head, until the sensation in my head had subsided.

"Lia… get up and run!" I yelled at her, feeling completely cleansed of my corruption. I held my head with both of my hands and could feel the heat surging from my left hand. Something was definitely wrong and fighting against this insatiable rage was close to impossible!

A certain voice in my head only wanted me to destroy everything in my path, but I knew I couldn't do that. The anger building up from every event unleashed violently in the form of a scream and a flash of bright, red light.

[Current Heart Rate: 201]

[System Corruption: Level Three]

[vaioDoaioneaYouanoivFeeloainavjaIRAKIHqopiknHeravierbnao?]

[oaievhnoARBMUaiengSaveoieabnoapovalkbnaUsioawnveHelp?]

[aawiehfvoianeoaivhnoaieaoyivhnaoEVIA?]

The clutter of words flashing in my eyes drove me insane, and all at once, everything stopped. The pain, the blood, the wrath, and the voices all subsided, and I fell to the ground with extreme fatigue.

I panted, looking up into the green leaves falling to the ground. It felt like my heart was going to explode out of my chest, but it was all set to ease when I could see Dani peering down into my eyes, just as she did on the beach the day I woke up.

"Carl… He went to… Orion… help him… fast!" I told Dani. The heart rate echoing in my head made it hard to form coherent sentences, let alone say single words. The rate of information processing in my head right now was driving me insane, so I retaliated by closing my eyes.

"Uh, alright! But when we come back with Carl, I'm not leaving your side!" Dani told me. She picked up her weaponry and ran off in the opposite direction.

[SYSTEM ALERT! DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!]

My body instinctively shot off of the ground and tackled Dani to the ground. I covered her head with my hands and a whip covered in chains and razors swung exactly where her head would've been before I tackled her to the ground.

[Current Heart Rate: 220]

[System Error: Shutting Down…]

I tried to mutter words, but I instantly fell unconscious after warning her and saving her life from a weird weapon.