Corrupted Hopes

-[6]- More Than One.

"C-Calm down,"He put his palms in front of him, using them as shield.

"How can I calm down when someone like you can come in that easily-" she pause, catching Kai's face. "You go to this school here?"

"Yeah. I'm a candidate," he notice her appearance, black loose hair, long bangs, a braid around her hair and head. She was that chair's owner that Kai took the other day. "You are the one that I took your chair the other day, aren't you?" He is already gaining trust from her, and stand up, ignoring the sword aiming at his chest. "Sorry about that."

She continue to stare at him narrowly. "How did you get in?" She wasn't gonna let her guard down so easily.

"I knew this place for a while-" the sword lift up and aims towards his neck. "F-From my sister!"

"1st?" Her grip loosen.

"Y-Yeah, she told me about this place."

Her grip grows tighter, and lift the tip of her blade to his head. "Bullshit. The 1st won't give information like this to the 24th soldier."

"What about you then?"

"Huh?"

"What. About. You." He look at her narrowly. She was losing confidence, yet she show no weakness except her shaking grip, "23rd."

"So your not really any difference. Compare to me, the 1st is my sibling. So drop the sword," he paused for a moment.

"Please?" He smiles.

She move the sword back from his face and lower it against her side.

"Come in." She face away from him and starts to head back inside. He pick up his sword and trail from behind.

"So tell me, your the type of soldier where they are all melee only?"  She look  back at him, picking her gun from the ground.

"No, uh-" 

"Let's fight," she said, cutting him off. He didn't get the chance to explain he's one of her.

"What the fuccck-" She sprint toward him, and twirl her body at him, swinging her sword at him. Kai give himself a strong grip to his sword and put it up in front of him, as her blade impacts against his, pushing him back. 

Kai stumble back into position, to see her sprinting at him again, swinging her sword with one arm, slamming her arm along with her sword across at him from the right. He turn his torso and blocked the blade, but not being push back.

"Stop it! I can't attack you like this!" He exclaims, as he push her back by pushing his sword against her's. 

"We are only trying to disarm each other, that's all. So don't lose your grip," she sprint at him again, and swing her sword upwards at him. He only block, but this time he parry. Parrying her sword allow him to get a clear opening as it'd remove their defense and hold in position, as moving their sword away from their body. But she only leap over him, like she did a huge front flip.

"What the hell-" he hear a gun cocking.

"Oh that's just cheating!" He start to sprint away from her, heading deeper into the obstacle course.

"They are BBs, think of them as Nerf darts," she begin to fire at him. The gunshots echo through the room. It was giving him an ear rape.

"That's does not help!" He stop to hide behind a pile of safety mats. They were at least a couple of centimeters thick. "What happens if I get shot?" He calls out.

"Then you lose!" She calls back.

"That is absolute cheating."

He push the mats forward, knocking over the pile, and towards the girl. It catches her off guard, yet she never lower her gun. He sprint out of the room.

"Hey! Wait!" She start to trail behind him, flipping her sword in a reverse grip.

She was cutting corners in each room, following his trail, but Kai was sprinting for it like his life depends on it.

She slowly come to a walking pace, scanning each rooms with her gun in front of her. It was obvious that he'd come pop out from a corner and hit her gun out or sword. 

Or her.

Trails of footsteps were around her, echoing. Yet Kai was sprinting around, creating multiple divisions of himself around the place. She was looking around her, letting her gun follow.

Hearing the steps stop, she can feel the floor being weighted, and aim at the direction where Kai is, then pulls the trigger, suppressing him. 

Yet she stopped and heads for a wall, and slams her back against it.

She can hear heavy footsteps, like he was sprinting at her. She quickly switch magazines with her gun and came out of the wall to fire, but to see Kai sprinting at her with his sword in a reverse gripping and a pistol against the top of his wrist. 

He fires back at her, twirling his sword around by moving his wrist around. She hides behind the wall again.

"Since when can you use both weapons at once?!"

Kai appeared from the other side of the wall, next to her. "Long time ago," and fired.

"So! In other words, you said nothing and kept it a secret to me of you being a sword slinger, I say that's cheating." She has healing pads on her face and hands.

"You didn't let me finish! You exclaim I'm a melee type." He also has healing pads too, he was leaning back against the wall. She was too, but was standing up, next to him. "But I hate that trick you used."

"What trick?"

"After I aimed the gun at your face, you slammed my gun with your gun and tackled me like some football player. Is that what you do as a soldier to an enemy?"

"I-I panicked." She pouts.

"Kay then." He cross his arm.  "What's your name anyways?"

"Just call me 23rd, Kay?"