BATTLE SCARS: (Indigo Symbols Book II)

Chapter Sixty-Four: Cafeteria Battle

KITANA:
"TELEKINESIS." Huntor's command rang out like a church bell, an order to be followed. Each of us threw a hand out, telekinesis shielding the innocent from the guilty. THe Keepers opened fire, shooting at the innocent on their knees, but their bullets rebounded and flew every which way. It took them a few moments to realize they wouldn't break our shields, then they drew long deadly black blades and turned toward us, as Huntor had intended. I popped my fans open, my own declaration of blood. Three Keepers came toward me, their swords raised high. I ducked under one and slashed up with my right fan, my left hidden behind it. The Keeper ducked aside the first strike, not seeing the other behind the first. Flesh tore as my fan gouged lines into his face. I lashed out with a tiger sweep and sent him sprawling. The other two tried to take me together, I spun, using a move I taught Sarah, leaping through the air and efectively kicking both in their faces, bringing my fans down on their heads. Wenzi flew through the air, as if winds indeed lifted her. Her flaming red fans flashing, she and Sarah moved side by side, fire and ice working in unison to take out the Keepers. Indeed, the Keepers tried using their blades, their evil stone to break through, but Wenzi and Sarah were too powerful, were too endless. "TOGETHER." Huntor shouted. "WE WORK TOGETHER. WE END THIS NOW." Diana landed next to me, her eyes dancing, her forehead glowing with a silver circlet, "Let's go sister, you, and I." With that, she shifted into a horse and I threw myself onto her back, switching my fans for one of my Japanese Katana blades. Diana whinnied her fury and galloped through the Keepers. I swung and stabbed, feeling bonded with my sister in a new way, in a different way.
One Keeper ran toward me, baring my teeth I swung as she jumped, intending on taking me off my ride. I slashed up and kicked at the same time. She screamed as she lost her arm and was sent flying. Wenzi and Sarah moved toward the dozens, the hundreds of people in the middle of the gigantic cafeteria, their telekinesis flowing, wild and frozen, weaving together to create, to create, a portal appeared, one of fire and ice, a portal unlike any I've ever seen before. One moment, they were there, the next, they were gone, taken to the Communal Plain. But more warriors began to make their entrance. The Indigo Signal must have worked a bit too well. Old faces appeared, a boy I vaguely remembered, long and lanky, his shoulder length dark brown hair out, his rapid fire Mexican tongue flying with insults as he wielded a gun of his own and took calculated shots at the Keepers. He front rolled through the air and landed in the middle of a group of Keepers, right behind their lines, and rained hell on them. I saw Camille, her body ever shifting, ever changing, move toward him, fluid as water. When she reached his side they took hands and marched through the army, fighting and killing with expert ease. The boy spat out something in such fast Spanish I wasn't sure if even Brooklyn would understand, but Camille echoed it and I heard her loud and clear as she said, "Reloading, reloading, reloading, chuh-chuig, yes, we are the Indigo mafia. G G G G G G G G G. Reloading, reloading, reloading." I saw Huntor actually shake his head, as if he heard it a thousand times and still, even now, didn't know how to respond.

HUNTOR:
I took Audrey's hand as we were circled by Keepers, armed with those blades and bits of stone. Together, we caused a storm to appear right there in thee center of the school, to rise and push through their ranks. Together, we moved forward, rain of the sea and skies pounding over their heads, filling me with confidence and power. "Together, only by working together would we be able to finally destroy them." The prophecy, the prophecy finally, was finally makingg sense. It didn't just mean Sarah and Reina working together, not just the three of us, but all of us working together. All of us fighting as one. Camille and Jeffry, Wenzi and Sarah, Sarah, Reina, and myself, Audrey and I, Kitana and Diana, Kendra, Joy and Luna. By us all working as one, we would free true Indigoism, we'd defeat the Keepers, and win this war. Lighting flashed over our heads, striking down three of the Keepers, melting the stones that they used. Audrey twirled her fingers and winds of great power surged forth, sending several off their feet and into the air.
The world around us shook as Reina's power quaked, soothing aginst our senses. I saw her, along side Kendra, Luna, and Joy, each of them using their power to wage war, to destroy the Keepers. "Each of you have Battle scars. Each of you, especially you Huntor, even you." This ends, this war, this ends. Thunder boomed overhead, as if echoing my thoughts. The world shook again, again, and again. Kitty and Ramya sped through the crowd, their claws slashing and stabbing like knives, their faces feral as they allowed the mosters in them to rise to the surface. Diamond, a fire aside them, burned as her power created gems that exploded against the Keepers, blasting them apart. But there was only one person I was seeking, one person I was intending on battling with, one final time. Indeed, Amanda was waiting for me as Audrey and I made a path of blood toward her. We reached her as she sat atop one of the long wooden tables, Audrey growled, "Bitch, oh I'm gonna enjoy killing you." Amanda moaned, "Oh dearest child, you still haven't grown up yet." "I'll show you who's grown when I rip your heart out, if you even have one." Said Audrey. Amanda laughed softly. "You see Huntor, you wanna talk about us mudering you, your people, your kind? What about you? This," she gestured to the carnage around us, "You did this too, you shed human blood, you're killers too." I bared my teeth, even as cold seeped through my bones. "Yoou've survived too long." I said to Amanda. "You've caused too much bloodshed, you, if any of us, are severely to blame." I raised my Indigo staff, "YOu, Amanda, have betrayed us many times. When we won the tournament, you betrayed me, in the Keeper prison you betrayed me, and Amala, in the Symbol, you, if any of us are to blame for this, for war, for blood." "You wouldn't kill me." Said Amanda. "You can't, you don't have it in you, don't have the will, the blood, the backbone to." "If he doesn't, I do." Said Audrey, very coldly. "Why don't we find out." I said. "A rematch, God Huntor you can't, you can't make the final shot, can't kill me." I shrugged, and attacked.

REINA:
I wasn't sure what made me look, what made me paused, but whatever it was had me gaping, first in awe, then in fear, then fury. Huntor was fighting Amanda again, but this time he wasn't sontrolled like before, this time, anger and hatred filled his face. "The burning fires of hell." That's what he made me think of. No swagger this time. No wolfish grin. No taunting remarks, pure unhinged rage and power. He slashed and kicked. Spun and blocked. He delivered a vicious roundhouse that Amanda was somehow able to block. She twirled away like a dancer, only to come back with a vicious gut strike. A scream was on my lips, but Huntor was so swift he went with her gut strike and they both went flying across the tiles. Huntor threw her off him and they got to their feet. He jumped back and landed on a table. Amanda followed, jumping onto the same round table. They fought there, seconds passing like hours as they became wind and smoke, slashing and stabbing, backing off, only to come back in. Huntor made a vicious tiger sweep that made the table rock violently. Amanda threw herself toward him and he jumped to the other side of the table, sending it rocking his way. He lashed out with a back kick that scored Amanda in her face, sending her recoiling, and falling to her side of the table. The table actually tipped on it's side, spilling Amanda off and Huntor went into the air, easily turning and landing on another circular table.
Amanda uncoiled to her feet like a snake and landed on his table. Even with the noise of battle, the fighting, the screams of the wounded, I heard her loud and clear, "I'm impossible to kill my love. Don't you get that by now. If your litle Earth-bender couldn't make the shot, what makes you think you can?" Huntor merely bared his teeth, and I shuttered, because there was a God looking out from that beautiful blue eye. A God as he said, "Hard to kill, not impossible." He attacked again, weaving and dodging, slashing and kicking. My mouth went completely dry because, because, because here it really was, here was the uncontrolled Indigo-God, the God of all Gods, the most powerful Indigo in the world. Huntor, Leader of the Indigo, fighting for us, and for himself. He slashed and bashed, lashed out with a kick, then his elbow, using his body like a weapon, just like the staff he bore. The table tipped crazily to one side as Amanda landed on Huntor's end. He jumped and delivered a vicious Dragon kick to her face, but she dodged and was in the air, they both flew to another table as that one crashed to the ground. Huntor landed on one of the longer tables, Amanda's sword stabbing into the wood in between his spread feet. He kicked, but she dodged and yanked her sword out. She slashed but he dodged again, spinning and smacking her in thee side of her head with his staff. She stumbled and he moved in her guard and delivered that same vicious Dragon kick to her gut. This time, she was thrown back and bounced as she hit the edge of the table, then fell off.
"Loosing your touch aren't you Amanda?" Huntor asked, completely feral now. "Seems like you're becoming exhausted." She snarled as she got to her feet. "Oh yeah, let's see how long you last until I gut you, then take that girl that the King wants, you know the one, the girl with soil brown hair and green eyes." My blood went to complete ice. A familiar kind of icy rage filled my blood as fury roared in my heart. Huntor tilted his head, as if displaying absolute nonchalance, a dangerous sign. "Come on Amanda, you're slow, I'm already aware he desires her." "But you don't know why." She smirked as she landed on the table. Both sides were silent now, both sides watching, as Amanda and Huntor sized each other up. Bodies of Keepers lay everywhere, but thankfully, nonee of them were Indigos, thankfully. But, "Oh, and just why Amanda, why does he so greatly desire her?" "He has plans for her and her siblings, only three, only three can do it Huntor. But you aren't apart of the three. She is." She pointed her sword at me. Huntor smiled, as if he already knew, as if he was fully aware. "Again, you're too slow, I already know Amanda. What's the point in you trying to tell me so openly, in front of what is left of your force?" "Because he won't stop until he has her." Said Amanda. "No matter what, he will have her, and you won't be enough to stop him." "You've grown tedious Amanda." Huntor actually yawned, then, in a move so fast no one could've seen it, he spun and with his full force, Dragon kicked Amanda right between the eyes. She went flying, end over end and landed, freaking landed on her feet, as if she expected it all, the swagger, the playing of whatever game she was playing. Huntor flipped his staff, once, twice, thrice, then, "You have a choice." Said Huntor. 'Leave, leave, and never, ever, ever, let me find you again, leave, and take you hoard with you. Or die, right here, right now." Amanda laughed, actually laughed. "I knew you didn't have the stomach, the gut to do it, to kill me." She waved her hand and said, "I'll just leave a little present for you." then the cafeteria doors burst open, and more Keepers flooded in. "Kill them all, while I report to the King." she said, then she was gone, gone, in a flash of gold light.