Rei.
"Babe, keep fighting, please. Keep fighting." Toya's voice fills the room.
I get up running, my lungs feel like led, my legs are heavy, I fell from exhaustion, it's getting hard to keep this up.
I'm fighting as hard as I can Toya I promise you.
I push the doors and look around, I'm trapped in a school.
I grab the first thing I can find, it's just a piece of a broken school chair, it's good enough to bash a head with. Though, I am honestly the worst at swinging sports. Good thing the target is big.
Magenta shows up again, Toya must have interfered, whatever he did saved my life.
She attacks me again but this time I'm not afraid, as long as I'm not afraid she can't have a one-sided fight.
I attack her with a strike of lightning to her spine. I get behind her and repeatedly go after the spine poking her, break the spine, you break your enemies' mobility.
I finally crack it and shove the piece of metal straight through her heart, "I really wish you were Yachi." I am still grateful the legs for school chairs are steel and not wood.
I keep running, I should be waking up, but I guess it means she cannot get killed in here. Fine by me, I'll have fun doing it again and again.
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Yachi.
Magenta winces waking up.
"Well?"
"She killed me, twice." She holds up a peace sign, she does not sound too happy about the dying, but it's essential to my plans.
"Good, keep at it, I want her to keep killing you until she enjoys it. Don't give her time to catch her breath." I want to make a serial killer out of her, force their hand, that Kai and Toya will have to put her out of her misery by ending her life.
Magenta passes out and I roll my eyes, she's giving her time to catch her breath.
Stupid Magenta.
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Kai.
I have no idea where she is. Dammit!
"I've got everyone searching. We know Magenta has to be somewhere close, we have men looking closer to where Rei is. She cannot attack from this city." One of my men reports.
I call Toya and make him aware of Magenta's location. I will never make it there in time.
I finally got actual work done, and my life falls apart, what the hell?
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Toya
I have everyone search for Magenta while I sit with Rei.
She's been fighting to wake up, but she can't seem to. I know she'll win eventually, she's mentally strong, if this was a real physical fight Rei would not stand a chance, but I have faith in that mind of hers
Dad had everyone moved to safety, it's just Rei and I at the house.
I can hear a chopper right above our house, what the hell is going on? We should have everyone fooled thinking there's no one here. The decoy strategy was flawless, do I have a traitor in my ranks?
I rest my hand on her stomach, I just want both mother and child to live, I keep thinking of an outcome where Rei makes it but the baby does not.
This baby is no healer at all, I can tell, They have my genes and that means when something goes wrong their odds of survival are 0% "Hey, I want you to know that your dad will protect you no matter what. I promise you that." I kiss Rei on the lips.
The roof falls apart and I cover Rei with my body.
I look up and it's Rin's father, the news camera is right behind him.
Bullshit media. What the hell kind of bullshit is this? Is this entertainment for you people, Ohhh that really makes my blood boil.
"See that, I told you this would be a moment you do not want to miss, the moment I end Toya Hiryu. I need the girl alive, but you, I will rip you apart." He threatens with a sadistic look on his face.
My mind drifts to that worst case scenario again.
"I always hated you Ise." I stand up and circle Rei with flames ready to fight.
I turn around when she turns over and throws up, "Hey, are you …"
My heart skips a beat when Rin's dad is literally just about to kill me. Fuck, my priority should be the fight but Rei is carrying my baby, I can't put this fight above her. She's a priority, but I can't die.
I can't leave Rei to go at it alone. Not again.
I'm saved by my dad again whisked off my feet like a damsel in distress.
I hate the Ise family.
Dad puts me down and I run to Rei's side, she throws up again and I can't even be upset she ruined my shoes, "Rei, please, please keep yourself alive and the baby too. I love you." I truly love you Rei Arashi, so don't you dare die on me.
I look up feeling intense heat from above, dad is going one on one with crazy dad from the Ise family. He's going to win that fight, I'm sure of it. I've seen him survive worse, sent by me in fact.
Rei coughs up blood and convulses on the floor after her throat bleeds.
"No!" Someone screams, I turn around and Kaiya is here, "Mom!" Katsuki snatches her up and she fights to get out of his hold managing to stretch a single hand out, "Mom!!!!!!!!"
There's a glow from her hand and Rei's body glows for a literal second.
Her screaming is so deafening.
I just feel in this moment.
Cold.
Everything around me has stopped moving.
My world is quiet.
My heart, I can't feel my heart. Just a second ago it was beating, and now, there is, complete, and utter silence.
I'm surrounded by darkness.
Black fog, black air, a big black world. Just dark. There's never any fucking light for people like me.
I finally had my light, but the darkness swallowed it whole, maybe if I was a better man right? Maybe if there was more light in me, instead, it's darkness. My friend.
My vision is blurred. Tears? Again? The darkness does not cry, get it together Toya.
My flames feel different, but I just want to kill something, I'll do it with broken flames if that gets the job done, but after I murder all the Ise's, I'm going to rip Kai Riden's heart out. This is his fault.
I look at crazy Ise dad and I'm so angry I'm numb, but at the same time I can feel anger.
I fly up and incinerate him. I turn and go after all the Ise's, I don't care about the minions, I want this family wiped from existence. Today is the day where I will slaughter them all.
I manage to go after only 5 of them before my dad and Cat hold me back.
"Toya calm down." Dad yells in my ears and I refuse. I won't calm down, not after there's no bringing Rei back. We already used the two bursts we had.
I didn't just lose her, I lost my child too. For that, their going to pay.
My hands and feet are tied.
Dad apologises as he's about to punch me light out