The Rematch

 October 2nd 2018 

The next day, the whole school was kinda shocked, seeing most of the second floor being completely destroyed. The person who was blamed for the destruction was Shona. 

Students said that the principal found Shona laying on the ground unconsciously, with his hand tied. They say the principal took him to give him the greatest punishment know to man

Today is officially the first day of the Kyoto Magical Event. With the second floor being under construction, none of the planned events the classes did for the event had all to be canceled. That includes our class also.

The first, third, and fourth years still had the events going on. They had stands out in front of their classrooms about the type of event they were going to do.

Outside, they also had a stands. Many of them were food stands but some had games, like basketball, ring toss, goldfish scooping, yo-yo fishing, target practice, super ball scooping, menko, ball-tossing into bottles, puzzles.

Many students and parents, also people in the area filled the entire school. I couldn't even imagine how many people were here. Probably many more will come the next day.

Ryusei and I stood against a tree near the entrance of the school. Looking at all the people, we were eating hanami dango. That we got from one of the stands. I take a bite of one of the dango, and swallow it.

"I can't believe Shona actually got the blame." I said.

"To be honest yea. The way the second floor was, anyone could've thought it was more people."

"Seems like Shona didn't open his mouth. If he did, the principal probably didn't care because Shona was the only one at the scene."

"Yep. I can definitely say we got lucky."

Then I can see someone walking up to us. It was Takamei, her short black hair moving in the small breeze, with a smile she made her way over to us.

"Hey you two." Takamei said happily.

"Hey Takamei."

"What's good?" Ryusei said

"Nothing much, I saw you two standing over here and just wanted to hang for a bit."

"Yea we can't really do nothing. The whole second floor is basically destroyed." I noted.

"That is sad. I was really looking forward to seeing you two in those suits…um weird question but you both had nothing to do with the second floor right?"

Ryusei and I were basically frozen, I could feel the sweat drop run down my face. Ryusei gulped, but it was loud for no reason.

"Noooo. Us? Nahhh, we had nothing to do with the second floor." Ryusei said, but you can hear the lie in his voice.

"You sure? I heard some students say they saw some Ice chunks and especially a whole classroom that seemed to be burned. I only know two people who possibly could have done that."

"N-no, um nah. T-that wasn-." Ryusei stumbled over his words, he basically was giving us away. I just sighed

"Yea, it was us Takamei."

"Hey! You can't just give us away like that." 

"You were stuttering, you were already giving us away." I looked back at Takamei "But yea Ryusei and I fought Shona."

"Suika, didn't I tell you not to mess with Rory. And now you defeated one of the Trilogy Knights, just why?"

"Because Rory has gone too far this time." I replied.

"Well I understand that but how far could he have gone?"

"He gets students to bully other students. One boy didn't want to become his slave, so Rory sent students to bully him. And if the boy tells anyone, Rory has already threatened him with his family lifes."

Takamei puts a hand over her mouth, seeming to be shocked by the words I've just said. She knows that Rory isn't that great of a guy but this was just terrible. She removes her hand, her expression still somewhat shocked.

"That's so messed up. Threatening a person's family just because he didn't want to serve you. That's just terrible."

"So you see now. Trust me I wouldn't have gone against you and Ryusei word but after hearing that boy say that, I just knew Rory had to be taken down."

"Yea the boy was scared, it seemed like Rory was hovering over him watching his every step." Ryusei said.

"And so that's why Ryusei and I fought one of the Trilogy Knights. Rory is sending them to take us down, probably before the Fight Show. But we won't go down until Rory is not the king any more."

".....Let me join you both."

Ryusei and I looked at each other. It felt like we were just communicating just from eye contact alone. Ryusei nods his head, i nod myself. I turned back to Takamei and smiled.

"Sure. You're on board Takamei."

"Really?" Her face lights up. "I thought you would say no."

"Why would I say that? I know you're strong and capable, and plus I would like all the help I need."

Takamei smiles happily back. Now that the three of us were together now, taking down the Trilogy Knights wasn't going to be as hard anymore. There were only two knights left and I had a strong guess of who we were going to face next.

Suddenly Professor Amane walks up towards us. I look at Ryusei and I can see him shaking a bit. He's probably scared that Professor Amane knows about us fighting Shona. He stops and looks at all of us.

"Look, I need someone to help carry somethings for one of the stands." He said.

Before any of us could respond he just grabs Ryusei arm and starts to pull him away.

"Come Ryusei, help me out."

"Wait! What! Guys help meeeee!" Ryusei stretches out his hand but Takamei and I just stand there as they both start to disappear from view.

"Well, I feel bad for him." Takamei said.

"Yep sucks to suck." I lean back against the tree, finally finishing my hanami dango.

Takamei takes Ryusei spot and leans back against the tree next to me

"Hey Suika, who do you think Rory will send next?"

"It's an obvious answer."

"Well who?"

"Erika. Erika Hana is who he's going to send."

"That's pretty understandable. But do you think she's a Knight?"

"Well yea. That fight I had against her two months ago, she was crazy for the man. Like she said, his words were like the bible to her. So I definitely believe that Erika is a knight."

"True, she was always cautioned about someone saying his name. When do you think she'll attack?"

"Anytime today. She wasn't here yesterday but I bet she'll already know that I'm after Rory. Is only a matter of ti—"

I couldn't even finish my sentence, because what I just felt was death itself. I feel the eyes, the eyes of someone who was ready to be killed. My whole body shivered, I looked around trying to find the source. The sea of people was too much, and I couldn't pinpoint the person.

But then I saw them. That long lower-back length metallic silver, those pitch black eyes. It was her, Erika.

"Suika, are you okay? You looked a bit tense?" She tilts her head in confusion.

"It's Erika." I pointed in the direction where she was standing. "She finally appeared and I can feel the malice off of her from all the way over here."

Erika turns around and starts to walk away. Seems like she wanted this fight to go somewhere else. Somewhere she can kill me.

"Come on Takamei. We have a fight on our hands."

"Gotcha. Let's do this, let's bring down the second Trilogy Knight."

And so we quickly rushed towards the direction Erika went. We ran past the sea of people, they all looked happy and having fun at the event. We kept following her, and then we finally stopped.

We were fully behind the school. A big open space, around half the size of a soccer field. This place was behind the gym and indoor training area that are separate buildings from the school. So basically no one comes behind here, only reason people come behind this far. Is to smoke, or to fight. 

Erika stands in the middle of this space, she wears the regular school uniform but it was in all black and light gray strips. She runs her hands on her body, feeling the uniform.

"You know Suika, I don't remember the last time I wore this color of the uniform. But I know I only wear it when I'm about to kill someone."

"Even after two months you're still that crazy girl. I guess some people never really change."

"Hehe I guess you may be right on that Suika…i guess you probably already know what's about to happen but first."

She held up her right hand, and on the back of her hand showed a sword with the number 2 beside it.

"I'm the second of the Trilogy Knights." she puts her hand down. "I heard you defeated Shona. Ha, he was weak anyways. You know after our first confrontation, Rory was so happy that I managed to hurt you that he moved me up to second. You should've seen Shona's face, he was definitely pissed. But sadly he's not a knight no more."

"What do you mean no more?" I asked.

"Oh when a Knight loses, they get kicked out. But for Shona he got kicked out and also Rory will break all his limbs." She said it so normally, like it was nothing wrong what she just said.

"Break all his limbs? But isn't that going too far. I understand you not being a knight but he doesn't have to do all of that."

"Well that's the oath Shona made, so womp womp to him. Anyways let's stop talking about that loser and let's get started killing you and your little friend."

Takamei steps up. I can see her light green magical energy start to surround her, sparks of lightning also surrounding her. She laughs somewhat evilly.

"You, killing me huh? Erika you got some jokes up in that psychopathic brain of yours."

"Oh poor baby, I wasn't joking. I will kill you. And Rory is going to praise me MORE!!!" She shouts crazily, smiling.

"Let's see you tried, you crazy bitch."

Takamei launches at Erika at high speeds, creating lightning streams as she'd launched. As she gets close she does a jump spinning hook kick, but Erika blocks it.

But the kick had so much force that it cracked the ground beneath them. Erika seems to feel that force and quickly pushes Takamei off of her. 

Erika quickly raises her hand and many vines come out of the ground and launch them at Takamei. Takamei lands back on the ground and when she'd focus back she sees a barrage of vines heading her way.

Takamei starts to run to the side, dodging the vines. But Erika wasn't stopping, as the vines kept on coming. Then Takamei stopped and put her hands onto the ground.

"Lightning Quake!!" She shouts.

The ground starts to shake, and behind Erika where the vines was coming out of, got hit by lightning. Burning up and dying.

It seems like Takamei sent lightning through the ground, to killed off the vines that was attacking her. That was a pretty smart move.

Takamei didn't waste any time and launched back at Erika. Erika didn't have to react and felt a punch straight in the face. She was sent flying back hitting the ground multiple times, until she finally stopped.

"Haha, and you said you were going kill me? Like I said, that was a funny joke you had."

Erika starts to slowly get back up, you can see the blood dripping out of her nose. She fully stands up and just starts laughing.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA. I kill you, I kill you, I kill you, I'LL KILL YOU!!!"

Erika's dark green magical energy starts to surround her, she raises her arm up in the air and starts to spin it. I could feel a slight breeze and then I knew what she was doing.

"Blades leaves!" She Shouts.

I remember the attack from last time, but behind the school there were tons of more trees. About 20 of them. The trees around us start to shake and leaves start to fly out, more specifically flying towards Takamei. It had to be hundreds of sharp leaves.

"Takamei watch out!"

Takamei noticed the bunch of leaves, but she just smirks. She held out her hand and could see her building up magical energy.

"Lightning Uso!!"

Then the sky seems to get a bit dark, and from the sky itself many lightning bolts strike down upon the leaves. Destroying each and every single one of them, burning them to a crisp.

The attack stopped and the clouds moved away making it bright again. Erika stood there in disbelief, she probably never thought that someone could just stop her like this.

"Suika, I can't believe you had trouble with her two months ago."

"Hey! It was just hard, ok. Don't start bragging now, you haven't won yet."

Takamei turns her attention back to Erika, seeing her bewildered face.

"Aww cat caught your tongue, you look speechless over. Is everything alright??" Takamei asked sarcastically.

"Y-you whore. You think this is funny to you! I'm Erika Hana, the second knight and the one who's going to end your life!" She boasted 

"Whatever you say. I guess i should end th–"

Before she could even finish her last word, three vines pierced right through her back and out in the front of her stomach. Takamei coughs out blood and then falls to the ground.

"Takamei!" I shouted.

I quickly rushed over to her, I bent down holding her head up with my hand.

"Hey, wake up!" I shake her. "Takamei wake up dammit."

"Aww, look at her now. I told her I was going to kill her, but she was acting too cocky and that's what she got. Also those vines had that same poison I used on you Suika. Foxglove is running through her body. She'll died in no time"

I lower Takamei back on the ground softly, I stand back up straight and look at Erika with a fierce look. Periwinkle energy starts to surround me, my magical output raising.

"Ohhh look like i made the pretty boy mad. Well i guess i can finally kill yo–"

Before she even had time to finish I was already in her face, I punched her with so much force that I got recoil from it. She was mid-air for a couple seconds.

I quickly grabbed her hair, gripping it tightly. I held her up and hit her with an uppercut. So hard that a small shockwave was created. She was launched up in the air.

I raised both of my hands in the air, and gathered more magic energy.

"Rain down Twilight Arrows!" I shouted, bringing my hands down.

30 Twilight Arrows spawn above her, and because she was still stunned by the uppercut so she couldn't do anything. And so the arrows rained down upon her, not one arrow missing.

She comes crashing back down to the ground, breaking the ground beneath her creating some smoke/dust. After the smoke clears you can see that she hurt, badly. Bruises and blood cover her body.

Then to my surprise she stood back up, she was wobbly. Her legs barely even supported her. She spits out some blood.

"Y-you think that w-would've killed me? Well y-you got it wrong Suika." She tries to chuckle but coughs out blood. 

"This is just sad. Why, why fight for someone like Rory? He's a terrible person, why follow him?"

"It's b-because Rory saved me."

"What?"

"Back in middle school no one wanted to be my friend. They were scared of me. My eyes just look like a black hole to them, but for Rory he'd loved them. He says he would be my friend, that he'll do anything for me. At that moment I fell in love with him."

"Sad, you were blinded. He clearly manipulated you."

"What?! How dare you say such a thing?!"

"He realized you were alone, you had no one. But if he became your one and only friend you would do anything for him because you were that grateful of finally getting a friend. He used that to get into your head and manipulate you. You're not really his friend but a pawn."

It seems like that really tickled her off. Her face is now full of rage and hatred. The pressure around us started to feel heavier as she raised her magical output, a dark green aura started to surround her completely.

"I'm not his PAWN. YOUR DEAD FOR SAYING THAT!!!"

She puts her hands and the ground starts to shake heavily, like a 7.0 earthquake. Cause now the ground started to break apart and on each side of her A daisy flower appeared. But the daisy started to grow and grow. Until it was massive, 20x a regular size flower.

The disc of each daisy started to glow brightly, radiating magical energy. I quickly jumped back a few feet from her. This was definitely her last attack.

"Suika, you live far too long. If I knew you were going to tarnish Rory's name that much. I would've killed you on our first encounter. Rory would never manipulate anyone, you're the delusional one."

"You just don't see it. I feel bad about how much he has blinded you."

"Getting ready to die Suika!!!"

With her hands still together, she outstretched them forward pointing at me.

"Planta Devastation!!" She shouts out.

The disc's glow brightly and then they both shoot out a large beam of energy. It was incoming fast, if i didn't do anything i would die. 

I hurriedly created two orbs of my flames, within my hands. As the two blasts were about to hit me, I held them back with the orbs in my hands. I gritted my teeth, putting everything I got into this.

Damn, I have to keep holding on but her attack is too powerful. In a matter of time both blasts will engulf my orbs and then me in the process. Think Suika, Think!

But I couldn't do anything, I was getting pushed back more and more. The end was near. I didn't want to face it but it seems that I have to lose here.

"It's over Suika! This is what you get for trying to test Rory!"

"Don't tell me you're losing, Suika?" A voice echos behind me

I turned and my eyes started to get a bit watery. It was Takamei, she was standing.

"I knew you wouldn't die that easily Takamei."

"Yea right, you thought i was dead."

She walks up beside me, and starts to raise her magical energy, lightning sparks surround her as her output gets more stronger. She rubs her hands together quickly, lightning starts to spark off her hands then outstretches them forward.

"Thunder Volta!!" She shouts.

 A huge blast of dense lightning unleashes from her hands. Her attack combines with my two orbs and makes one attack, the colors swirl together. The attack becomes way more powerful.

Our attack starts to push back Erika's Planta Devastation. Erika tries to apply more magic but those twilight arrows really damage her making her really weak.

"Now Takamei, full force!"

We put on one last push, our attack basically engulfs the Planta Devastation and heads towards Erika. It connects and a massive explosion happens, a huge mushroom cloud of purple and yellow color. After the smokes clear Takamei and I hands were still outstretch, we put our hands to the side.

"We did Takamei. We beat the second Knight." I breathe out heavily.

"Yeah, we did Suika." She was also breathing out heavily.

But as I began walking forward, I couldn't believe my eyes. Erika was still alive. I didn't want her to die in the first place but I thought that attack would've killed her.

I approach her closely towering over her. I bent down and I could hear her still breathing. She was just completely unconscious. 

"I guess she used that last bit of her magic to block herself from getting the full impact of the attack."

Takamei walked up slowly behind me, she couldn't barely walk by herself. She was about to fall but I quickly caught her, putting her arm over my shoulder.

"You ok Takamei?" I asked.

"I-im fine, Suika. Thanks for helping me." She smiles.

"Yea no problem. Hey Takamei, how did you even survive the poison? I thought that would kill you?"

"Well I burned the poison within me with my lightning. The lightning generates extreme heat, and so the poison molecules break down or alter their chemical structure, rendering them less harmful or completely destroyed."

"Wow I didn't think that would be possible, but I guess it is now. Here let's get out of here and take you to the infirmary, our battle has finished here."

The rematch with Erika ended smoothly kinda. But I'm happy that we won. And now that means there is only one knight left to beat. Then it's Rory. I won't stop until Rory is defeated and dethroned.