Battle of The Bands Arc

[Anonymous]

A weakly flickering amethyst light could be faintly seen from one of the windows on the second floor of the Saotome Dojo, adding an sense of despair to the solemn juggernaut.

[Asrana]

Yui carefully walked over the smashed door, relaxing the stealth technique as she picked through the mess of overturned contemporary furniture.

She sighed softly, older and happier memories surfacing as she idly putting a few chairs back on their legs before heading up the stairs, praying that in this state he wouldn't hurt the bearers of bad news...

[Anonymous]

A throbbing amethyst light could be seen slipping underneath the crack of the farthest room in the upstairs hallway.

Occasionally, the light would either dramatically increase or decrease in its luminance, but the constant aura of depress...and more darker emotions was a constant in the air.

[Asrana]

Yui drifted down the hallway, wincing every time a floorboard creaked.

Shivering for a moment outside the door, she gently knocked, "Olguin-kun? It's Yui..."

[Anonymous]

"...yui?" A quiet voice asked in a tired and haunted toned. "is that really you?"

The light that had been flickering from within the room suddenly went dead, the crackle of electricity surging through the air as it was pulled into the room, leaving nothing but a dead silence and a lack of...life in its wake.

"come in yui-chan."

[Asrana]

Yui shivered again and hesitantly opened the door, carefully stepping in and looking around for but a moment before her eyes locked onto Olguin.

"Olguin-kun...?"

[Anonymous]

"..they're all gone..and now i'm alone."

Lying in the middle of a completely destroyed bedroom was a kneeling figure, who would occasionally shiver as a nimbus of amethyst energy crackled across his form.

Patches of ice covered random portions of the scarcely furnished room, and the smell of ozone was thick in the air. The figure didn't even seem to mind, though, chosing to stare at the burnt ground underneath him.

The ground beneath Olguin chose this moment to ominously groan.

"...genryu died in london...he couldn't of survived...no one could've."

The sharp crack of wood splitting rent the air.

[Asrana]

Yui reached out to Olguin, the look on her face almost desperate, momentarily ignoring the stench of ozone and cold environment in favor of Him. "Olguin-kun!"

She couldn't let him go, she wouldn't.

[Anonymous]

"...go on yui-chan, just let me go join them." Olguin looked up with blank eyes. Moments later a spark of life entered them, voice strengthening, he continued.

"You have it all, just forget me and move on."

Another sharp crack of wood splitting

[Asrana]

Tears welled up in Yui's eyes, the little hazel pebbles shimmering, "Please, Olguin-kun..." She fell to her knees as close as she could safely sit to him.

"Please...I don't want to have anything without you around..."

[Anonymous]

"...why do you want to be around me? don't you know that i just bring tragedy to everyone around me?" Olguin dully whispered, but a flicker of concern lit his eyes when he looked at her face.

[Asrana]

"Because you also bring us happiness...you protected me when we were kids...I just wouldn't want to be able to enjoy that without you..." Yui's hand tremblingly reached for Olguin's, tears still held back...

[Anonymous]

Olguin's eyes snapped back into focus, but the spark was much dimmer than it originally was.

"I...can't let it end like this, can I?"

His right hand firmly grasped hers.

[Dracos]

Above the dojo, a blue robed figure landed softly.

It had been many years since he first came here.  When he first met the boy...



"So...is that all?  Who's next?  What about you lad?" Behind the white mask he taunted them.  Somewhere out there one with the proper spirit and destiny lived.  Maybe it was here.

No...  that boy standing up wouldn't be the one.  Too ingrained in life he was.  Lifting his hands once more he smiled under the mask, another polished stone beneath his feet.

The boy had come here.  His student.  Something was wrong though.  His spirit was unbalanced...uncontrolled.  He shook his head.  There was simply no time to fool around.  If he'd found the boy the first time, then he would have had the time but...

With those demons on the loose, there was no time for fooling around.

lifting a silver flute to his lips, he played his sad melody to the stars above...

Fearless Leader

[Asrana]

"No, you can't." Yui smiled a bit as she pulled him off the burned and cracking wood, leaning back to offset her lack of general strength.

"Wah? Ahh!" Yui cried out in surprise as she leaned to far back, tipping on her heels and thumping down against the more solid wood behind her, accidentally also pulling Olguin down on top of her. A bright blush suffused her cheeks at the situation, slight shock impairing her speech.