Risha and Floga stood inside the training room as Destiny and Gnomon spectated them from a specially designed room so they don't get caught in the crossfire of the fight, Floga felt confident about the fight and he wasn't afraid to so it
"Hey what's your plan? Run away until I get tired?"
Floga asked Risha, but she didn't respond, she simply readied up and when she was over he asked Floga
"Are you ready?"
Once Floga nodded Risha charged at him, Floga was caught off guard so with his leg he directed a big wave of fire toward her
'Did I overdo it?'
He wondered but before the fire could disappear Risha came through it with a long wooden weapon, the kind of weapon a monk would use, Risha prepared an attack by jumping
'This is just a stick, I will catch her attack and then burn it'
Floga thought but his plan was unsuccessful, Risha kicked the hands of Floga as she fall and then hit him in the head with her weapon, stunning Floga and also sending him away from her so his flames couldn't hurt her
"Woah, Risha is very good at fighting"
Destiny complimented her to Gnomon
"Well of course, if she wasn't then she wouldn't have been here in the first place, but just so you know both of them haven't even started fighting even a little seriously, I'm Floga's teacher so I know that if he was aware of her talents then Risha could never get a hit like that in"
Destiny seemed surprised to hear that but instead of doubting him she waited to see how the battle will end
"Come on Floga, I heard great things about you, but you don't exactly deliver what the rumors said"
Risha said with a cocky smile
"Shut up hag! If you want to get burned this much then get ready"
Floga said as he swiftly flew at Risha, Risha was caught by surprise but she was still able to defend against an attack like this by blocking it with her staff
"What? Too fast for you?"
He asked, Floga was trained by a Time attributed person so his speed had to be great in order to succeed, plus the fight with Daniel made him more used to maneuvering in the air and also applying the ideal force on what he want's to do, even if it is fighting or moving
But even after all that Floga still ignored Risha's ability to create things, suddenly he felt something on his leg, but before he could realize what he had on his leg Risha created heavy weight and attached them to the wooden staff, resulting in rooting it on the ground, she then rushed away from it, when Risha left Floga finally noticed what happened to his leg, Risha had created handcuffs and attached Floga's leg with the all of the heavyweights
"Seems like you are stuck"
Risha said as she created a pistol, Floga used all of his power to try to melt the handcuffs but didn't work, he then tried to break them but that didn't work either
"Don't bother, the handcuffs are made of tungsten, a very sturdy metal and the hardest metal to melt, so let's play a game, you see my gun? It is a revolver, I will load only one bullet, the last one at that, and if you don't manage to get out of the handcuffs before I reach the killing shot you lose"
Risha told Floga as she loaded the pistol, Floga at first tried to attack her with fire but things didn't go well, Risha easily dodged his attacks since she was very fast
"Come on, try to get away not attack me, if you do you win!"
Risha told him again, this time he directed his fire at the handcuffs
'No metal is resistant to fire, some just need a little more heat to melt, so that's what I will do to win, create a hotter and hotter fire until I melt this piece of garbage!'
Floga thought as he applied more force to his fire, he made it hotter and hotter until he reached a point where the base of his fire was blue, a blue fire, it was hot, very hot but not hot enough to get away...
BANG
"Seems like your time is over you lost, now unlock this"
Risha said as she threw the key to him, she then went into the spectator's room
"Did you see that?"
Risha asked Gnomon and Destiny excited
"Blue fire huh? I think Floga is more promising than I thought"
Gnomon said with a smile, seeing them being so happy about Floga's improvement Destiny felt...D E T E R M I N E D
'I can't keep falling behind everyone, even though Luck is a divine that doesn't excuse me, Floga is improving, Caroline is too, I can't afford to stay the same as I am now, I NEED to change'
"Hey MS. Risha..."
Destiny said
"What?"
"Can you train me too?"
She asked her with D E T E R M I N A T I O N, in her eyes
"Sure, get into the training room, and let's have a friendly spar"
She said with a smile, the two ladies entered the training room and Destiny's improvement started
...
Meanwhile back into Biol, everything looked calm, it was Fall so tourists didn't visit the island anymore and most of the streets were empty, Caroline got bored so she left Luck alone to go and eat ice cream, even though it was Fall, the temperature wasn't so low so most shops still had ice cream
As for Luck, he went and bought a bouquet of flowers and cigarettes, he then went to the graveyard, it was a special day for Luck but not for a good reason, it didn't take him long to reach the graveyard but when he did he saw Destiny's mom exiting it
"I told you not to come here ever again year after year, why do you still come?"
Destiny's mother asked him, she looked at him with sad eyes
"And I told you I won't, I respect your opinion but Hope was my friend"
Luck said as he stopped to look at the mother, even though he said that if the mother insisted on him leaving he would have done so
"If you are that persistence then why didn't you come to the mural in the church?"
She asked Luck
"I don't think people will like that, plus here I feel more comfortable"
The woman remained silent for a little and then asked Luck something once again
"Why was my kid taken away? Was it really you?"
Luck's head started to hurt as he remember scenes from back then
It was cloudy
A girl fell from the rooftop
A pool of blood was created
"Why didn't you save me?"
The drenched in blood girl from his memories asked him
Luck then snapped back to reality after a loud motorcycle sped past them
"You know how she died..."
Luck replied
"I want to hear it from YOU! Not from others I want YOU to tell me what happened!"
Destiny's mother said with a loud voice, Luck felt trapped so he didn't answer, the two of them stood sometime there staring at each other, the mother then started walking away
"Turns out you really are trash, I hope Destiny cuts ties with you fast"
She said before leaving, Luck didn't say anything back, he simply entered the graveyard and walked up to a grave, he placed the flowers and the cigarette box on the grave and took a seat near the grave, and lit up a cigarette from the box and started smoking it
"It is this time of the year again, huh? Do you remember when we used to fool around or fight? You taught me so much good and bad stuff, giving me this cancerous stick was one of the bad ones, but I can't bring to hate them because they taste just like you..."
Luck talked to the grave of Hope Hoarz with a smile on his face, he then took a long break of silence, during this break rain started to gently fall
"I wonder if you hate me, I mean I was a stupid kid that wouldn't let you alone when I was younger, I attacked you, cursed you, bothered you, but even after all that you smiled at me, and you stayed by my side again and again, I even loved you and even after knowing that you still treated me sweet and what do I do in exchange?"
As he was talking his voice started to slowly break
"...I killed you, pushed you off like you were a fly, and after that I didn't have the strength to even pull you up, or at least hold you until help came, so you have to hate me right? I hate me too so it's okay, you can hate me, and curse me all you want from heaven, I won't mind, so please God during this mission let me get killed..."
Luck said as tears ran down his face, during this time Destiny had finished her practice and went to see the grave of her sister, but there she saw Luck, thankfully for Luck, she didn't hear what he was saying because the rain silenced the sound of his voice
"What are you doing here Luck? You will catch a cold!"
She said as she covered him with an umbrella, Luck was surprised to see Destiny but he acted cool
"When did you come here?"
"I just came, anyways, hold this for a little"
She said as she handed the umbrella to Luck, Destiny then prayed for Hope and left her a flower and canned chocolate milk, Hope used to drink that a lot...
"Let's go now, you have to change clothes"
Destiny said as she got under the umbrella, she was very close to Luck, the two of them silently walked while the rain didn't seem to stop, after some walking the two of them reached Destiny's home
"Come in, you have to get warm!"
Destiny said as she pulled Luck toward the house
"Your mother is inside so there is no way she will let me get in, she will probably kick me out"
Luck said as she resisted
"She won't! I will talk to her if she tries to!"
Luck still wasn't very convinced but he was shivering, his body needed heat even if he didn't so the two of them entered the house
Destiny told Luck to sit on a couch that was covered with a towel, and she also brought an electrical heater for Luck, Destiny then brought new clothes to Luck and after going somewhere private he changed into them, after the fight he had with Daniel his mana control was weak so he couldn't use any of the elements
"Do you want me to make you tea?"
Destiny asked Luck, but before he could answer Destiny's mom came in with a bottle of vodka in her hand, when she saw Luck she giggled
"What is he doing here Destiny? And why is he wearing dad's clothes"
She asked with a pissed tone
"He was soaking so I told him to get in to not catch a cold"
Destiny replied
"A little cold won't kill you so get out of my house murderer"
Luck was shocked by what he heard
"What are you saying, mom? He is a guest of mine so he won't be going anywhere!"
Destiny said with a loud voice
"Don't talk back to me missy, don't forget what your friend right here did to your sister!"
Destiny paused for a moment but she then talked once again
"There is no evidence that he killed her so don't go on accusing someone like that"
This time Destiny yelled at her mother
"Don't fight, I will leave"
Luck said as he got up, but before he could move he was slapped by Destiny's mother
"YOU COME IN MY HOUSE UNINVITED, WEAR MY HUSBAND'S CLOTHES, SO DON'T EVER OPEN YOUR FUCKING MOUTH IN HERE!"
She screamed at Luck's face as she struggled him, Destiny pushed her mom away, and because of the alcohol's effect she fell down, the vodka spilled all over the floor
"I-I'm sorry mom, I didn't mean to hurt you"
"BOTH OF YOU GET OUT OF MY HOUSE BEFORE I KILL YOU!!!"
Destiny's mom screamed at the top of her lungs, Destiny was scared, she had never seen her like that, Luck grabbed Destiny's arm and with her, they run away from the house, barefoot in the rain and without an umbrella, the two of them ran and ran until they reached Luck's house, Destiny was crying during the ran to the house
Once they entered Caroline was there waiting for them, when she saw the stare Destiny was she was troubled, Luck explained everything to her and before they could do something else Caroline took Destiny for a warm shower so she didn't get cold, she was also looking out for her in case she did something she would regret
After the shower Destiny silently slept in Luck's bed
"How the hell do you fix that?"
Caroline asked Luck, she couldn't believe what she heard
"I wonder the same thing..."
Luck thought as stared at the dark wood of his home's ceiling, he was looking for a solution but he couldn't find anything like this...