Corrupted Stars

I Will Save You

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8.

Feathers slice viciously through the air as a colorful lizard Vastaya, Neeko, rushes between them, dodging them only by the slightest.

Xayah grunts loudly, pulling back few of her feathers, catching Neeko, but only to realize that it was a clone, and not her actual target.

Xayah looks around, trying to figure out where pesky little Neeko went until she hears a sound behind her. Xayah turns her head only to be met with Neeko coming out of invisibility, and instantly Xayah reacts by trying to throw a few more feathers at her.

    Neeko slings a tangle of yellow light at Xayah, attempting to root her, but Rakan quickly dashes in-front of his mate, shielding her from it.

Xayah growls and pushes Rakan away, jumping up as she nears Neeko.

    Neeko stands still for a moment, stunned as Xayah lands and her entire body turns into a silhouette of dark matter.

As the shock wears off, Neeko begins to run again, only to have Rakan quickly dash up beside her, running at the same speed as the fast lizard. Rakan tries to suspend her into the air with a spiral, but is instead met with nothing.

Xayah however, continues to chase in the general direction that Neeko was running, and sure enough, she appeared again just a few seconds later. However, something was different.

The stupid little lizard had turned into Xayah.

Xayah began to throw feathers at her duplicate as Neeko did the same, each dodging the others feathers as they slice through the air.

However, when Neeko turns her head to try and throw another set of feathers at Xayah, she runs into a pillar and staggers forward slightly, groaning out in pain.

Rakan sees the duplicate and Xayah, but not knowing which is which he runs in front of Neeko and shields her before throwing one of his own magical feathers at Xayah. Xayah attempts to block it, but it still ended up causing her to gasp out in pain.

Xayah reaches her hand out towards Neeko and quickly limps towards Rakan, grabbing onto him and falling slightly as she reaches him.

Rakan catches Xayah and looks down at her with guilt on his face, but Xayah only reaches towards Neeko as she turns back into herself, a fearful look on her face as she begins to run again.

Suddenly, Rakan notices the dark matter spreading on her face. He caresses her cheek as a bright glow begins to emit from him, getting rid of the dark matter on her, and making her phase back into her original Star Guardian form for a split second.

Xayah realizing that the pain is gone, quickly rushes from Rakans arms and chases after Neeko again. Not even caring about Rakan or how her pain was gone.

As Xayah runs away, Rakan reaches for her and limps slightly, only to stop and grip his arm as the dark matter that was once on Xayahs face now covers his arm. Rakan stands there, slightly stunned.

Did he just.. take her corruption? That pale pink.. it felt like it had been so long since he had saw it.. could he revert her darkness?

He knew he had light still inside of him, and he knew that he could heal her, but he had no idea his light could do that.

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Neeko continues to run, panting loudly and desperately as she does.