School of Elementals: Karen Killer

5 | Knife Fight

Keith gripped his knife tighter in his hand, ready to commit murder, when Gabriel took a knife by the blade and threw it at Keith. He dodged by sidestepping to the left, but the area around the knife exploded.

"This is unlike anything I've seen before." he thought, as he checked his phone. There was an unread message from his grandpa, and he held the phone in his left hand as he tried to deflect a knife headed straight towards him. However, it exploded upon impact, and as he fell on a nearby car, he thought, "Blocking is useless."

He quickly read the message with his quick reading skills, and it read, "Your cousin's heading here, but she's stuck in traffic. Try checking in on her." It then vibrated, and Keith dodged another knife before seeing what his grandpa sent. It was a contact number, with the name Sakuya. "Sakuya?" he thought. "My cousin? She's real?"

A knife headed towards him was then deflected by another knife going at lightspeed, and as Keith tucked the phone in his pocket, he looked at where Gabriel was looking. There stood a girl in a blue-and-white maid outfit, her face looking young as ever. "So she's real... but is she my cousin?"

A small sense in the corner of his brain pointed towards the girl, and he knew that they both had a connection. The rain started to pour down, and as everyone outside got wet, the girl, who was approaching, said, "Gabriel, you need to calm down with your knives lately. You're getting out of control."

"Don't tell me shit, Sakuya!" he shouted, throwing a knife straight at her. Keith stepped in and protected her, the explosion tearing away the lower half of his jacket. "I honestly didn't expect your damn exploding knives to pack a lot of punch." he said. 

"What's this? A romance?"

"If she really is my cousin, then you're really getting into the Alabama spirit. No, fuck you, I'm helping her out."

"She's older than you, if you're below 16."

"Anyways, I really don't plan for anyone else to die right now."

"Then I'll take you down!"

Gabriel threw a storm of knives at Keith, but Sakuya, his elder cousin, caught them all, and said, "Hold the knife by the blade, and throw it like a dart. Be careful not to accidentally cut your hand in the process."

Keith held his knife by the blade, aimed it at Gabriel, and let loose. It flew straight towards his hand at lightspeed, and it pierced through, landing on the asphalt of the road. The latter shouted, "You... bitch!"

He took a few more knives out of his pocket only to find he had run out, and threw them all at the duo. Sakuya counterattacked by taking out a bunch of knives from her underskirt, and threw them all straight towards the knives with sheer accuracy. "Don't ask how I got them from there." she said to Keith, after confirming Gabriel was down.

Keith ran towards his knife and took it up, the handle a little worn out thanks to the numerous explosions. He put it in reverse grip, only for it to be struck by lightning directed from a tree. He wasted no time and stabbed Gabriel in the back with it, causing him to fall to the ground. No police were around at that time, but he thought, "I shouldn't kill him."

Gabriel got up, having conjured a few knives by himself, and created a large explosion further worsening the traffic. The people in the front already evacuated in fear, and Keith asked, "Why the hell are you doing this?"

"Imagine having so much power you suddenly start to get an itch telling you to use it. I did just that." he replied, the grin still not wiped off his face.

"You're fucking drunk."

"So what?"

Gabriel dashed towards Keith's side in an instant, and said, "You shouldn't waste time, kiddo."

With a slice, an explosion occurred, and Keith was sent to the field on the right of the road, opposite a small forest. He was badly injured, but he could still fight, only that he couldn't move a lot. He looked to see Gabriel, menacingly approaching, his blue shirt catching fire. At that moment, a really strong shockwave was felt by everyone, and as he put out his hand, fire crackled on his palm.

"I feel warmth coursing through me." Gabriel said, preparing to kill Keith. The knife was raised high, but at that moment, 3 knives pierced through his arm, and he dropped his knife. Sakuya had thrown them, saying, "Don't you dare hurt my little boy, Knife of Destruction."

"What..?" Keith thought, now unable to move even an inch due to fear. Gabriel was crouching on the ground, staring at his arm in disbelief, as Sakuya walked to Keith's side and picked him up, carrying him on her back. She took a knife, and threw it near Gabriel, saying, "You shouldn't go out and use this power for evil. That's not going to be good for you."

The people at the front of the blockage had cleared the debris from the battle, allowing the cars to move again. The trio watched, and Gabriel was about to create an explosion when Sakuya left a pile of knives in his body, rushing towards her car. She got in, and found that Keith was crying a little.

"You're safe from him now." she said as the car started moving.

"No, it's just that..."

He got himself up, and laid his back by the backrest of the back seat. "I've been thinking too much." he said, as he looked out the window. As much as he wanted to, he couldn't stay awake for a few more minutes, and so he collapsed onto the window's edge. Sakuya then thought, "Since I'm staying over at his place, why not sleep in his bed? No, no, that might freak him out a little when he wakes up, but it's the only bed in the entire place, unless I want to sleep on the couch." 

She decided to sleep in his bed by the time the car arrived at Welton Hotels, and when she got out, carrying him, she saw his grandparents.

"So, how was the trip here?" his grandpa asked.

"Dad didn't agree at first, but decided to let me have some free time." she replied.

"Don't you have all the free time in the world?"

"Dad made me and my siblings become maids for the family."

"Sounds rough. Let's get you in, shall we?"

The three of them, Sakuya carrying Keith, took the elevator to their room, and once they got in, she laid him on the bed, before tucking the blanket over his side of the bed. She then changed to her nightwear, which had the same colors as her maid outfit along with her night cap, and tucked herself in. She then dozed off quicker than a car travelling 2 kilometers at the speed of 70 kilometers per second, and Keith's grandma came into the room to turn off the lights.

The next morning, Keith opened his eyes back in his room. He realized he was still in his old clothes, and said, "Man, I really need to buy a new jacket." The moment he looked behind him, he was shocked to see his cousin sleeping beside him. "You decided to sleep here? Really?" he thought as he grabbed his phone and started his usual business.