Astrovoid Shower- Celestial University Book 2: A Bully Romance

Chapter 54: Alliance Ambush - Session Six

Sehki blocked Mako's attempted decapitation via making a hand blade.

"You ingrate! How dare you insult our people!"

"That's what I'm talking about!" He tried to push them in the way of a Void approaching them, stabbing them. "If Saiban is so strong, why are there more Voids than ever? Huh?"

"Quiet," pulling his blade back to summon a whole field to shoot at him.

He deflected them, realizing too late Mako was weaving them to slice up his partner. "What, not gonna say that rumor about me being able to summon Voids was complete BS either?"
His other hand gained another Peacock Blade to duel wield. "You fight against them yet your lover was one the whole time!"

Sehki responded with a second arm blade. "Who's more civilized than you are? Did they know about the Void your dad was going to replace Xia with?" He swiped at the more experienced swordsmen, getting deflected, enduring more strikes, and dodging another.

"My father's actions will forever be for the good of his people!" He threw a stream of blade bullets meant to lock Sehki in place, going for a full frontal strike.

"Including the ones he's let suffer? What about the people born in Saiban that go here?" He caught Mako's arms, holding him back from swinging. "How many people wouldn't have been hurt if you were here with us that night?"

Mako dropped his sword and hands in shock, then piercing Sehki with two manifested blades at his torso his shadows refused to let through.

"Real fae are strong enough to handle themselves! Those who struggle or need support will always fall!"

Sehki decked him in the face, drilling it harder in response.

"Are you blaming them for being attacked by people your father collaborated with? Don't you dare insult the people who fought to survive!"

He crushed the blades, tossing the feathers straight at Mako. The rest of the Rising Twelve finished eliminating most of them, facing the surprise on their leader's face.

"You-hit me?"

"I prefer to humiliate, berate, and mess with bad people. You have your siblings and mom, I have no one," calming down. "Hate me all you want, but let's just end this."

Mako's hands and body shook, confused. Sehki had Ophiuchus fly around, purifying the feathers while keeping his eyes on his adversary.

Mechion witnessed Nico and Claudia getting more people to the Center while the professors were stretched out far and wide to lead the other students closer.

"Almost there?"

"In about a minute," Akilah claimed. Jia cheered upon seeing the device shutting off faster than she expected while Mechion checked her watch.

Sehki sighed. "Look, everyone's okay. Mako, we don't have to be enemies. Regardless of your dad's intentions, you are your own person. That's the Mako I want to know," offering his hand.

Mako said nothing. Getting he may have struck a nerve, he left Mako to think upon the Jovetress Transits.

Across all sides, Bella was carrying a concerned Bodin out, Cree and Candy used their bits of magic to get Lorena and the Nuckelherd out of the Shadowscald Woods, and only one Malora Constain was left.

Claudia was running out of energy, so Sehki came down to punch the Void away, about to absorb it when his body sent a high control of power charging up.

"How dare you lay your hands on the heir of Saiban!"

Mako's blade glowed with purple light whose aura was the size of Ophiuchus itself, launching it at him. The energy crescent was wide enough to potentially obilerate every student nearby.

Sehki commanded his beast shadow to charge at it head on, sucking in as many forms of potential negative energy possible and clashing against the extra field of blades, pouring most of his power into pushing it back.

A dark lavender glow sparked from the clash. Sehki was reduced to his snake shrinking back into his normal shadow length, with just the aura flowing around him fading.

"Everyone okay?"

Nico and Claudia confirmed so.

"Sehki, get away, now!"

Cree's warning fell too late. Mako's sword slammed into him pumping the half of his magic he didn't use into his sword, drilling blades into his aura, ramming his fist to clear an opening to strike him in the abdomen, slicing through his torso, about to reach his heart.

The professors and Shadow Brawlers ran to his aid, about to be too late.

"That's enough!"

A large elastic wet force captured and yanked Mako's arm away from Sehki as a particularly well toned man stomped the swordsmen with a powerful kick.

The son of Jun recovered, slicing a power wave, but the savior winded his tongue back, blaring through the air between them with a molten force resembling lava: striking back with the same force.

"Mako," peering at Cree, "you? And the Nuckelherd too?"

"You-you're already conscious? How?"

"My allies whispered the melody of their memories to capture my fading sanity. I doubt that technique would work on your malice."

Sehki clutched his chest, watching the tongue of his new protector's stellar movements, spitting flaming bullets forcing his adversary to cushion them with his blade.

"Get out of my way! He is a poison to our people!"

His sword was blocked by a stave resembling a tail.

"His hopeful melody will triumph the malice singing in your heart," twisting to lock their weapons close to each other's face.

The eerie pungent color of the barrier dissipated, and the clear blue sky shined on Mako's face, allowing shadow of the person covered Sehki's face as he tried to help.

"It's okay. Let your big cousin handle this."

He gasped. "You're?"

He spun to pick Sehki up, deflecting several Rising Twelve members. Mako thrusted his blade down but as all the First Spouses and Mechion blocked his attempt, a tail was a inch away from skewering his neck.

"Who dares to touch Prince Mako?"

Tenshia ordered him to stop.

"The Imitator of Darkness: Wali Leontis."