Filed to: Into The Sky

Adu Tanding

“I believe you won't use anything weird, Jack..”.

We immediately threw ourselves behind each other, giving distance before going to attack again. Glancing at my eyes towards Knox, he seemed to be looking forward to a moment like this. Jack looked very seriously at me, as if he wanted to tell me something.

Taking a position, the sword was ready to swing. Unconsciously my mouth screamed and then also unpretentious with Jack. The feet move quickly to attack each other. The rumbling sound of footsteps resounded until one moment the sound of the two swords beating all of them.

Only the sword speaks. Very loud the sound was bubbling around. A blind tub of bullets, its relentless speech makes many. Incandescent liquid seemed to come out when the two hard metals collided, covered with sheets of gloss and black smoke surrounded it.

There was the sound of conversations of people around me. I couldn't see their faces at all, only their familiar voices in my ears.

“Very soon... I barely saw them fight..” muttered Leora.

“How can they do it like this.?” keep Lukas.

In the end Jack and I both stepped back to take a breath. The sound of applause immediately accompanied us.

“Excellent! You guys are very smart to entertain me.. Hahaha.”.

I haven't been hurt at all and so has Jack. We were just pitting swords as if it was just a warm-up. Right, now my body has been covered with sweat that is endlessly flowing. I drew my sword back at him.

“Let's get out all the techniques we've learned,” Jack.

“You want us to dance? Alright,” reply.

I took back Jack's side position who was just as ready to attack me. The loud pounding of my feet left the initial footing and the wind was blowing backwards. It seems Jack wants to attack the top. I avoided it by lowering the body and then attacking it from below.

“It's not that easy,” Jack said. He jumped me so that my sword could not hit him. My back to each other I immediately turned around for a surprise attack but he immediately turned his body in the air away from me.

“They are really dancing..” muttered Leora.

“Beautiful dance!” We looked back at each other again.

“But I am still waiting ******* of all this.”

“Jack! I know you never let me down.”

“Of course! I'll show you everything that can cheer you up, Knox.”

He lowered his position with a sword pointing right at my face. I smiled at him and waited for him to attack. Right, he galloped towards me, while I was still in place to make another surprise attack. “Hah?” I was surprised to see him jump and float.

Quick thinking I concluded he would attack from above—

“Bumm!”

Stroke hard from his feet while launching his sword. Darting so fast, I could only reflexively hold it with that sword.

“Cring!”

The sword hit my sword so hard that I couldn't hold the sword in my hand. Throwing my sword back. Jack's sword slipped from my face but felt on my right cheek.

“Uhh…! I can't see it!” leora kept her back away.

“Malka!” alya Lontar.

I wiped my cheeks with my hands, “Quiet. I can handle it.”

Now Jack and I are not armed with anything but our own hands. I took it as I learned at the time. Fists Jack did too.

I attacked at the same time as him. There was no longer a loud high voice, just the sound of a physical collision between us. Jack had my attack a few times. Occasionally blood came out of his mouth, but his face still looked fit. My hand hurts a little.

“Now it's my turn.”

He came to me soon. I know very well all the moves he's made. I think something similar is on Jack's side. Our game was just full of attack and defence.

“Arghh!”

My carelessness allows him to attack me at will. He attacked me without my having taken it first.

“Malka!” shout Alya.

“Stop, Jack!” continued.

My body was slightly limp after that attack. We looked back, we walked around this place.

“Now our conditions are the same,” said Jack.

“Only for now..” reply.

Time is running. I don't know how long I've been fighting Jack. Honestly, a lot of my energy has been drained just to attack him. Nothing stops us. Hundreds of times we played, no one was seeded. We occupy the same position.

I have to put an end to all this no matter what.

Now I let my ego come into play, even more wildly.

“Wuah... I'm sleepy,” blow Lydia shut her mouth.

Wait, I think I realized something.

“Why are you quiet? Already surrendered?” chirps Jack.

I glanced thinly at my sword from afar, seemingly not reacting to anything. I also felt a slightly different air than before. I took a stone then—

“Now what? Want to play rock throwing like a kid? Hahaha!” continued Jack.

I clasped the stone then—

“Ouch! What the fuck are you attacking me all of a sudden?” cry Lydia.

“You're sleepy, right? That's so you don't fall asleep—“

“Because your master is no longer here.”

“Aaaa..!” alya shouted excitedly, entering the arena with the others.

Crowded, sounds rumbled within the ground surrounded by a pitch-black mist. I immediately took my sword lying down, and came back to face Jack. He looks tired, just like me. I used my sword to utilize the black fog around to complicate our view.

“Jack, come here,” my whisper nearby.

“Thank you for watching me.”

“You're fine, right? Sorry if I attacked you too hard,”. Suddenly a small giggling sound came from him. “I can't match your kindness, Mal. Take it easy, you don't have to worry about your match.”

“That's what I expected,” reply I smiled.

“If I had come with you when I left this company, Mal. Maybe we won't be like this.”.

“Come on.. I think it'll make things worse. I am grateful to have a friend like you. Because of you, now we are here.”

“Malka, you really believe me, right?”

“I believe you are Jack who has introduced me more with him,” reply me while looking at the shadow of a woman who is fighting behind a cloud of fog.

“Wait, you're getting interested in him?”

“B—Not that I mean! I don't know why I remember so much when we talked in class. When everyone was busy seeing me familiar with him.”

“Hahaha! Either you're innocent or something. But remember carefully, I trust you, no matter what.”

“Good. By the way, do you know where Knox is going now?”

“He did not explain his purpose. It's just that he really wants to go somewhere that he says no one has ever been able to get there.”

“Unaffected places in the sky?” I thought of remembering everything I had read from the book, and the distant Alya explained it to me. It flashed through my mind about the sky that had seven layers, but it made me even more confused.

“Now we have to stop this fight and move on. Do we have to cripple them?” my spoken.

“Do not. What if we make them join us?” reply Jack.

“But how?”

“I'm sure your sword can do it. Actually all our troops are cursed by the black smoke, including them,” Jack said.

“Shortly, then why can't you get hit by all that?”

“I can't tell you here. Now, use your sword.”

I used my sword and imagined that all the smoke that covered each of them had disappeared. My eyes closed for a moment. When it reopened, the sword gave off a light that floated amidst the fog. I could not see clearly what was happening to that light, but the battle was still going on.

“What happened nothing?” muttered Jack.

Instantly the noise began to subside, then the bright light scattered in all directions and blew away the fog that came with it. It's too glare that I can only see it for a moment. After that, everyone seemed to be lying on the ground, except me and Jack.

“Why are they all like this?” astonished say.

Slowly they started to wake up and wake up. “What happened to me..?” muttered Alya while holding her head. They all look confused.

“Friends, you guys okay?” my many.

“Slightly dizzy, why am I like this?” answer Stella.

“Thank God, the important thing is that you are all fine.”

“Where does Knox go? We have to fight it!” lontar Leora

Jack approached his colleagues. Their condition is the same as my friends.

“Aren't we fighting Knox?” ask Lydia.

I went back to Jack and said slowly, maybe not to be heard by others, “What is this you mean Jack? They're not damned anymore?”

“It looks like so. We can directly move looking for Knox go.”

After everything improved, Jack and I introduced our friends one by one. I explained everything, with lies accompanying me. They don't need to know the truth if it makes things worse.

“So we have to find the place that Knox is going,” said Alya.

“Do you know, Eil, Yeil?”

“Actually there are many places that have not been found by us. But if it was Knox, maybe he would go to the Holy Garden,” Luceyl replied.

“Holy Park? You mean the throne of the Sky King?” sahut Eil was shocked.

“Yes, but it's been a long time. As if the place was hidden by time,” explained Luceyl.

“As fantasy alone, time is power,” Leora continued.

“Fantasy in our world, real in their world,” Zilei chirped.

“Maybe, but I've never heard of anyone who could use that,” Luceyl replied.

“Wait, you can really break through time?” ask Cathy curious.

“If it exists, then Knox is already there now..”.

“We have to go to that Holy Garden now!” lontar Eil's.

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