Fighting to kill?!?! I couldn’t believe it, I just couldn’t believe that those words came out of his mouth. It even looked like Lexian was surprised a bit at Triskix brief statement. I mean, yea, as kids we would have our own little fights. Mostly Triskix and Lexian bashing it out together, but it was nothing like this, not this extreme. Triskix had always hated it when Axel got really into it with someone else and then come back, beat and bloodied. I know it was hard for him, losing everyone, but it was just as hard for Lexian and me.
As I looked down from the Rise box, that the rest of us that where not fighting where in, I came to the difficult conclusion. The old Triskix that always had the best pranks, that use to somehow, keep a smile on through the worst of times, had indeed changed. But as you look down at Lexian and Triskix as they began fighting, there was something different about Triskix eyes.
Memories floated back to when they would challenge each other to a fight and their eyes would light up, like the night’s stars, and a cocky smirk will play across their lips, when it came down to a tie.
Looking closer into their eyes I could still make out the two children that I called by Best Friends. Though we have been separated for ten years and we all have changed some of us more then others. Deep down you could still see the flicker of childhood dance across their eyes as they battled, like the good old days. A silent prayer escaped from my lips that they would not get hurt, as well for the others caught up in this.
As I thought about my own battle that I would have to fight. All around me I heard the chatting about whom they think would win, and whom they hoped. I was so tied up in old dreams that I didn’t fully realize that someone else joined us up here, that is until I felt a strange yet familiar flow of rushed energy fly over the rise box. As my own intuition peaked I turn to see Rexikat appear from the back of the group, but her eyes held something in them, like an old memory. Old memories like when Saix and I would train for hours, tired as we were his eyes still glowed wanting to push further.
Glancing around to see what the others where thinking. I came across Xyris and her troubled face. I put a reassuring hand on her shoulder, hoping it will calm her and open her mind up for the fight ahead.
I walked away from raise box to the small walkway that wrapped around the battlegrounds, and raised my head up looking at the stars and numerous other worlds. Triskix did say that we would fight… and we will—but I will not go as far as he wishes from us. I refuse to spill more blood on a place that has already seen it’s fair share. It will be a fight, but nothing more then that.
Spirit is what makes us unique. What gives us strength and it is what lives on after our bodies are no more.
~Nyx
