After several minutes passed, Ariys had fallen asleep on Ellie's lap. She was tired physically and mentally. Qylaa then got up from the bench. As she went one step away, Ellie suddenly called out to her.
"Qylaa are you sure you can do this match?" Ellie asked, still rubbing Ariys' head.
Qylaa stopped before answering. "Yeah, I'm okay I have prepared something last week for my match against Fri" her voice sounded so emotionless.
Then Qylaa continued walked away from them.
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How long are you going to keep this up, Fri?" Kyle's voice broke the silence as he looked down at his friend, who lay sprawled beside the lake, no longer wearing the bubble wrap. "Why is it so hard for you to just talk to her?"
Fri sighed, his gaze fixed on the water. "I don't know, Kyle. It's just... not easy for me." He rubbed his forehead, frustration bubbling up with each unspoken thought.
"Then I don't see a problem with you going to talk to her" Kyle continued chatted.
"It's easy for you to say. You are good in every aspect of women, not like me who totally doesn't care about other people" Fri sighed.
"What don't you understand about Qylaa?" Kyle said as he set a place to sit.
"I don't know about that too. Actually what kind of question could I ask you when I don't even know where to start" Fri replied.
"Then how can I help you?" Kyle muttered. He then dramatically said things like how could Ellie asked Kyle to handle Fri.
Fri kept quiet and thought of a way to tell the truth to Qylaa. His mind was being wild with many imaginations of him and Qylaa, some of them could be Fri be straightforward to Qylaa and acted like nothing happened between them. Another idea was for Fri to ask Kyle for help to make Qylaa see a hallucination so he can told her without need to saw her face and the last one was Fri sent a note to her tent.
"No, I can't use that way. What would happen if Ariys found the note first?" Fri mumbled alone.
He then looked around, as he couldn't hear Kyle's voice.
Instead of found him, he was surprised.
"What happen?" Fri said as he stood below purple haze sky.
The surrounding was still the same. His eyes then captured a shadow that moved towards him. The shadow had the same color as the sky and a larger body than his. Fri clinched his fist got ready to fight, but the force that emerged from the shadow made him kneel down.
Fear was the only thing Fri could feel as he stared the shadow eyes. Then, the shadow spoke.
"It's all your fault" the shadow voice echoed through Fri's head.
"You're disgrace" the shadow continued bad mouthed Fri.
Fri could only hear the shadow speaking as his body was freeze after felt immersed force from the shadow. And with that they kept be like that for six whole days. Fri's mental couldn't handle the pain from the force and his head was dizzy as the sound kept echoed. He thought he will die if he heard for one day more, he then collapsed on the ground.
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In Ellie's tent, Fri woke up with Ellie looked down in sat position beside him. Her hands were gripping Fri's hand. He touched his head that felt dizzy. Ellie then stood up as she felt Fri movements, relieved the suitable word to describe Ellie reaction as she saw Fri finally opened his eyes.
"Fri, are you okay?" Ellie asked, her eyes teared and her voice was low.
"I'm okay. What's wrong, Ellie?" Fri responded.
Ellie then hugged her little brother. "You're unconscious for six hour, Fri. I'm worried something bad happened to you" she stated because things like this never happened especially when Fri just woke up from his long sleep.
Fri rubbed Ellie's back and said a few things to cheer her up. Like always Kyle always appeared immediately after sensed Ellie was sad followed with Ariys and Qylaa right behind him, but they all just stood beside not wanted to disturb Ellie.
Ariys became curious when saw her sister like that.
"What's on your mind, Ariys? You seem to be curious on something about your sister" Kyle spoke.
"Does this thing really that worry to sis? It's just Fri fall faint, not like he will dead" Ariys replied.
"You have a point, but this is not about what happen. It's about the person" Kyle answered.
"So that means Fri is so important to sis, right? Then how about you doesn't you are sis boyfriend? Don't you feel this is too much because Fri and Ellie are just friend and not a couple" Ariys just gave her opinion without thinking. Qylaa came closer to them as she though this will be interesting to be heard.
"It's okay after all Fri is her family and family is more important than a mere boyfriend like me" Kyle answered calmly, smiled.
Ariys and Qylaa were shocked after heard the answer.
After several minutes passed, Ellie finally freed Fri from her arms. Fri stretched his body right after that while Ellie remained sat at the same spot. He watched Ellie's face that still showed a worried face. He then came closer to her and kneel in front of her. He put his right hand to her left knee.
"Don't worry Ellie, I'm fine now. Thank you for taking care of me while I'm unconscious" Fri said.
"I know, but the worry inside me seem can't be disappear. It just I got the feeling that something wrong might happen to you" Ellie responded, her voice stuttered.
"It's gonna be okay Ellie. I promise to you" Fri said and rub his hand with Ellie's hand.
Ellie wipe out her tears and took a breath. Kyle then got closer to his girlfriend and managed her. Fri walk away with a confuse face. He was confused why Ellie said things like that as they two were adventure together. As he walk away Ariys came stood in front of him. They two glare at each other.
Fri was unease as there were so many that had happened today for him, as his mind couldn't ran from worst outcome Ariys made a move that he doesn't thought about. She leaped her body down and asked for apologize at him.
"I'm sorry, Fri" Ariys said.
"Hah, sorry for what?" Fri asked, confused.
"For blaming you without thinking what would happen to you" Ariys answered as she though Fri feint because she blamed him for what happened to Qylaa.
Fri laughed, "it's okay Ariys, I'm not sick because you're blaming me. There is other reason" he stated and got Ariys' body stood straight.
As soon as he saw Qylaa he smiled, he was happy as Qylaa finally saw him that day. As for Qylaa, she seem not to be happy at all.
"Okay since Fri has wake up, let's continue our sparring session" Qylaa said out loud making Ariys shocked.
"Wait, Qylaa. Fri just woke up from fainting. You can't just fight him when he is not in condition fight" Ariys protested.
Fri then walked passed Ariys and stood in front of Qylaa. He showed thumbs-up to shorty princess behind his back, showed that everything was okay for him.
He stare at the panda princess, "if you want to fight I'm ready. After all we need to end our conflict as soon as possible, cuda" Fri's voice loud and clear made everyone showed a weird face as they didn't know what was cuda mean. He then looked at Ellie.
Ellie understood what Fri wants and she nodded, gave him permission to fight Qylaa. With that the match between them began at the quiet beautifully blue dark night accompanied with a sea of stars and full manifested moon.
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Ten minutes before match started, Ariys came to her best friend that was warm up beside the lake. They two exchanged stare.
Ariys broke the silence with a question. "Why you're so eager to fight Fri?"
Instead of answering Ariys' question Qylaa turned back and continued warm up, pretended she doesn't heard anything.
Ariys stayed quiet, then walked away after waiting a few minutes for an answer from her best friend. She walked with a hopeless feeling as she couldn't did anything to help Qylaa. All she could did now was believed on her sis words.
At the arena, below the night dark horizons. They were bonfire put in every corner to light up the surrounding. For this match, Kyle took over Ellie's work as referee. As for Ellie, she took a seat with Ariys in the bench.
Fri came from the left side arena, while Qylaa came from the other side. Kyle then stood beside the center line.
"I believe you two have know the rule, right?" Kyle asked as he lifted his right hand into the air. They both nodded at the same time.
"Okay, then let's begin the final match between Fri against Qylaa, begin" Kyle announced with his hand slashed down.
As soon as the announcement finished Qylaa already stroke Fri at the stomach, Fri doesn't budge at all. She kept hit Fri in the face, body and leg, none of them had an effect. Fri wanted to launch counter attack, but he couldn't did so as Qylaa will be hurt pretty bad without his bubble wrap. He then tried to grab her, so he swung his left hand from Qylaa's blind spot. With the foresense technique Qylaa was able to dodge that attempted.
Fri was getting annoyed with Qylaa's combo attacks. "Since when she can move this fast" Fri realized her speed had increased again as this training session kept going.
Fri then blew into Qylaa's eyes while blocking her constant attacks. His plan succeed as Qylaa closed her eyes because of the blew, Fri took the chance to went away from there. When Qylaa opened her eyes back she couldn't saw or detected Fri existence.
She turned around carefully as Fri could suddenly launched an attack. None, she had turned three hundred sixty degree and still couldn't found Fri except the referee and the spectator. She then expanded her foresense range looking for Fri, from the ground to the sky.
Out of dark, Fri's voice could be heard throughout the arena.
"Why you still want to fight when you know you can't win against me?" Fri asked.
"Don't ask a question come out and fight me with now" Qylaa answered.
"Hey, cuda can I tell you something" Fri still talked.
"Shut up" Qylaa shouted. Ariys was shocked to see her best friend been so emotional like that.
There were no responded from Fri, Qylaa still stood in the center waited for Fri to attack. Within a few seconds both Fri's hands emerged below the ground at Qylaa place. He grabbed both Qylaa's leg made her fell to the ground.
"Are you in a mood to hear now?" Fri asked straight into her eyes as his body faced with her in a laying position.
Qylaa gritted her teeth, "no" she said as she threw him away. Qylaa then ran and set her body into the air, Fri just woke up and immediately saw a double kick was flew towards his face. It was a clean hit.
"Fri" Ellie said, her voice sound so downed as she saw Fri roll backwards from the impact. Kyle also immediately wanted to jump in to stop Qylaa from attacked Fri, but Ellie held his hand tightly. Although she was worried, she couldn't let Kyle disturbed they fight as she knew Fri had a plan to end his conflict with Qylaa.
As for Ariys, she was left quiet to see Qylaa powerful attack.
Qylaa stood still in her position, her face didn't seem happy at all even though she managed to strike Fri continuosly and end it with a powerful attack. She clinched her fist when saw Fri still got up.
"Why you don't fight back, Fri?" Qylaa shouted. Her discomfort feelings that she kept hide from everyone was began to speak off.
"I don't have a reason to fight you, cuda" Fri answered, his voice still clear even thought he had severe injuries.
"No, don't lie to me" Qylaa responded, her voice began to slow down, Fri still loyal to hear. "You hate me, right?" She continued, "then why you don't strike me with all you got. You're powerful isn't it a piece of cake for you to release what you don't satisfied with me" her voice low and clear while her eyes began to fall down a little waterfall.
Fri glared at her, he started to move coming to Qylaa. As he walked closer, Qylaa couldn't moved from where she stood as she was too tired not physically, but mentally. She continued to cry, wiping her tears away with both hands
Everyone was tense with suspense, waiting to see what Fri would do except for Ellie, she had already smiled knowing that something good will happened.
As soon as Fri arrived at Qylaa, he flew his fist towards her. Ariys became worried saw that, she began to set her feets into the arena. Ariys movement was stopped by Kyle by Ellie order.
Qylaa's vision was blurred, her hearing sense also couldn't heard anything beside her own tears. Her sights then became clear as someone hand wiped out her tears.
"Who said I hate you?" Fri's soft and gently voice entered her hearing sense. He wiped the other side too with his left hand at her right shoulder. "I never hate you, cuda"
Qylaa looked Fri in the eyes, "then why are you keep your distance with me suddenly without telling me anything" Qylaa said. "You know it's hard for me to keep on when you suddenly acted like that" Qylaa continued.
"Yeah, I know, cuda. I'm sorry it's all my fault for suddenly acted like that without discuss it with you" Fri said, his left hand now grabbed Qylaa's hand the same pose like she did when they were in the school. "How are you feeling now?" Fri asked.
Qylaa doesn't answered instead she also grabbed Fri hand tightly with his right hand. Fri also rub her back tried to comfort her down.
After eight minutes passed, Kyle made an announcement that Fri had lose as he now step outside the arena. Ariys quickly went to Qylaa and hug her while Ellie and Kyle went to Fri.
"I'm sorry Ariys for making you worry and treated you harshly" panda princess said while in shorty princess hug.
"It's okay, it has been a past already, so no need to apologize. The important thing right now is you will act like always, rights?" Ariys responded.
Qylaa nodded with a warm smile at Ariys. She looked at Fri without realizing it, and he, while being checked by Ellie, also smiled at her.
After Ellie made sure that Fri didn't had any bad injuries, he walked to the panda princess and kneel down in front of she with everyone else stood beside them.
"I'm sorry, Qylaa. I promise after this I will never act stupid again after this before let you know. I know this will be a little bit awkward to ask, but are you willing to give me a second chance to fix our relationship?" Fri said made Qylaa flustered.
She also kneel down immediately and touched Fri's face to faced her. "Yes, I'm ready to give you a second chance" she responded and stretch out her pinky finger.
"Thank you, cuda" Fri said as his pínky finger touched with her. A promise was made.
"Fri could you tell me what cuda mean" Ariys suddenly asked and appeared beside them.
"It's just a simple word that I combine from cute and panda" Fri explained made Qylaa flustered even more, she even hide her face from everyone now.
Ariys became worried seen that, but Qylaa reassured that she was okay while the others just laughed looking at them.