My arms trembled as I tried to get back onto my feet before a sudden force thrust me back into the ground. Said ground exploding out all around me after I was kicked into it by a lying shit flying about on little whirlwinds. A growl soon left me as I shot myself across the field and stumbled back to my feet. The jeering of the crowd filling my ears as I was attacked over and over.
Turns out this wasn't a duel between two inexperienced students, this was just a scheme set up by one of the more experienced students! One from Exceptional House no less! The very best had lulled me into a false sense of security when I should have been paranoid about them and they are now using me... Using me to get meaningless fame!
"You can still get up, Bug?" he laughed out cruelly while taking in the cheers directed at him. A real attention seeker alright...
"If you actually tried... Maybe I wouldn't be..." I told him with a sneer before spitting out the large amount of blood I had been holding back. Another thing worthy of note, turns out you can get quite violent in these duels so long as you were not using blows aimed to kill. If you were? I did not know, I assume you got hit with criminal charges...
Not that assuming anything would help me right now. My clothes were in tatters and I was struggling to stand up and only stayed up because of my anger. An anger that was boiling out into such quantities that I was just one tiny thing from just going berserk. And it looks like I would get that push I needed to do so...
"So, Rose-sweerui, any plans tonight?" he then said with a smirk which suddenly left me dead on the inside. Had she been a part of this plan? Was that why she was acting funny these past few days and being so distant...? Was that why my actual name suddenly found itself being used over all others?
She wouldn't even look my way... Just like the moments before she stole my first kiss... Just like then, when she came out of nowhere and said 'I love you!' Or, something to that effect, it did not matter much to me...
I wasn't even going to voice my anger, there was just no point, instead... I ran, I ran as fast as I could go. I cratered the ground under me and I scarred it forever. I charged with unrelenting fury and I roared to the orbtial-halo and brought my right fist back.
Yet, I missed. I missed him completely and was met with a body-wide numbness and a complete lack of understanding as I was now on the other side of the arena... And all I saw was Rose slowly walking up to that man...
"Rose...?" I spat out in confusion before my anger just stopped along with my ability to stay awake.