eternally yours

Thirteen

You're vaguely aware of everything around you being strangely quiet and when you look around, you see everyone from the heroes to the bystanders staring at you with the same expression on their faces: complete and utter betrayal.

You feel a brief pang of guilt, especially when you glance over at Keigo who looks completely heartbroken. His voice cuts through the silence. "Solar, what's going on?"

You force yourself to look him in the eyes and say, "I'm sorry, Keigo."

As quickly as it came, your guilt is gone when you look back to Endeavor and you light yourself on fire once again, Touya also getting in a ready stance beside you. He shoots you a crazed grin and you fight down your own smile before turning to the assembly of heroes before you.

Endeavor looks about ready to pop a blood vessel. "You're a traitor to hero society!" He roars and this makes your blood boil. "LOOK WHO'S TALKING, FUCKWAD." You yell back and attack him first. As soon as you move, it becomes a free for all. You don't know what other heroes are here to fight alongside Endeavor but you really don't care. It feels like for once in your life you actually have a reason to fight and you hold absolutely nothing back as you attack Endeavor with your flaming swords.

Your specialty is close range attacks and since Touya had already put ol' Endy through the wringer you manage to land a lot of blows. You've never moved like this before. There's purpose behind your every movement and you can finally let loose the carefully controlled rage you've felt towards hero society. You find an opening and slice your flaming blade up at Endeavor's face, reopening the scar he got from the Nomu attack and you're about to attack again when Touya says your name followed by, "DUCK!"

Without hesitation you hit the ground as a torrent of blue fire rushes overhead towards Endeavor and Touya continues to fight him while you're forced to stand face to face with none other than Hawks.

He still looks hurt, but his face contorts into a scowl. He paces back and forth like a caged animal, a feather blade in each hand and his coat lying on the floor, tattered and in shreds behind him. "How could you?"

You try your best to catch your breath and focus your fire past your fingertips to form your swords once more. "The system is corrupt, Keigo. You have to see that."

"But him?" He stops pacing to point a feather blade at Touya who's fighting his father not far off. "He's a criminal."

"So is Endeavor." You counter.

He sighs deeply. "I don't want to fight you. You're my friend."

The swords in your hands suddenly feel a lot heavier and you shake your head slightly. "We both know I'm not going down without a fight."

You swear you see tears shine in his eyes right before he lunges at you with a yell.

Something you regret is not practicing sword fighting techniques with him when you had the chance. It's a shame that you two have only gotten around to it now that you're trying to kill each other.

You struggle keeping up with him since he is indeed very fast but something that gives you an advantage is the flames on your blades which serve to keep him at bay. You manage to land a slash on his chest and he grits his teeth before one of his blades goes whizzing past your face. There's a slight sting on your cheek before you parry the other blade coming up behind it and he suddenly takes flight.

His wings flap around you and it becomes more and more difficult to keep him in your sights. You feel a sharp pain on your knee and you hit the ground, wincing as a slash of crimson rips through your hero outfit. As soon as you get back to your feet there's another slash on your other knee and you cry out in pain, hitting the floor hard. It feels like he's everywhere at once. You can't win like this.