Monday, December 31, 2007

Author's Note: Ok before you start reading let me say a big sorry to my readers! I know I made you wait a long time for this but here's chapter 28. Enjoy it! This chapter is the last chapter for this year and here's wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Angel Protector Chapter 28: The Sword of Martyrs

A bright arrow flew and knocked the dagger off Lust’s hands. It disappeared into the darkness as it flew further along with the arrow.

“Ayumi...” whispered Sera who was still on the floor.
“What! You’re alive?” Shouted Lust as her irritation showed up on her face.
“Yes. No thanks to you.” Said Ayumi calmly as she drew her bow once more.
“How? How are you still alive?”
“It’s not that hard to understand really. Considering I was actually faking when I dropped to the floor.”
“You faked your own death?”
“Yes…to find an opportunity to defeat you.”
“HAH! What make you think you can defeat me now?”
“Because...I have this now.”

Ayumi gently dropped her bow to the floor as it disappeared as light into the night sky.
“You just made your weapon disappear! How is that going to defeat me?”
Ayumi said nothing as she stood there watching her weapon disappear.
“Now...appear before me...Aeolus!”

A great gush of wind blew across the area as she lifted her hand above her head. Pink feathers drifted down from the sky unto her hand. Slowly, the feathers formed a shape, the shape of a long curved sword.

“That’s the...no...It can’t be.” said Sera, looking on in disbelief.
“A sword of feathers? You think just because you have some fanciful new weapon you can defeat me now?”
“Yes...I can.”
“Die!”

Lust dashed towards Ayumi with daggers in hand. Ayumi stood there rooted to the ground, looking at Lust calmly. She took off one of the feathers from the tip of the sword and kissed it.

“The blood you shed will not be in vain.” Ayumi blew it gently as it flew away.
“What do you think you’re doing?” Shouted Lust.
“I will defeat you by the time the feather reaches the floor.”
“What nonsense are you saying?”
“Spirit of the wind, bestow upon me your blessings. Let my feet fly after the storms.”

As she said that incantation, a vortex of wind surrounded her as wind gathered at her feet. Lust stopped from the pressure of the wind that was pushing her back. The feather that Ayumi blew away was now floating slowly to the ground. After the wind subsided, Lust steadied herself and prepared to attack Ayumi again, but as she turns to the position Ayumi was, she was no longer there.

“Where is she?”
“I’m right behind you!”
“What?”

Lust jumped back ash Ayumi swung her sword at her. Lust conjured up a replica from her shadow and stood back to back, still in their battle stance.
“There are two of you; lets see you take on all of us!”

Ayumi’s voice echoed through the area taunting Lust. A blurred image starts to manifest before Lust. Even though it was blurred, one could tell it was Ayumi. Ayumi circled around Lust, giving the illusion there were many of her.

“How can you replicate yourself?” shouted the confused Lust.
She frantically threw daggers at the illusions but to no avail. The daggers just go through the illusions of Ayumi. Lust shouted and screamed loudly as she continued throwing dagger after dagger.
“How? How! HOW!”
“Hear the cries of the martyrs in this sword.”

The clouds above them swirled into a spiral as it descended as a typhoon unto them. Lightning streaked through the typhoon as Lust still screamed out in anger.

“Let your soul be purified in this storm.”
“I don’t have a soul! Muahaha!”
“Judgment storm. Purify thy evil.”

The lightning that was flashing through the typhoon now struck Lust in a flash of brilliance.
“Even if you kill me, the sin of lust will still remain. A new Lust will be reborn through Lord Lucifer’s power!” said Lust as she disappeared as glitters of golden light.
“Let her soul find peace. Amen.”

The floating feather slowly landed next to Sera as the storm cleared up. Ayumi reverted back to her human form as she walked slowly towards Sera who was still on the floor. She knelt down on the floor beside him and picked up the feather.
“The blood you spilled has not been in vain, find peace within yourself.”
The feather turned white and flew away in the night sky.

“Ayumi, what happened? You were behaving so differently.”
“Sera, while I was lying there I had a funny dream. Someone was talking to me. Her voice was so soothing and soft. She’s the one that told me about that sword.”
“That means you know that sword is...”
“Yes, the sword made up of the spirits of the martyrs of heaven and the power to control wind, Aeolus.”
“Each feather represents a spirit of a martyr and it’s pink because of their anguish and suffering.”
“Yes, by the way, are you alright Sera?”
“I won’t die after you saved me.”
“That’s good, wait, where’s Sakura? Sakura!”
“I think she’s somewhere over there.”

Ayumi runs hurriedly to Sakura who was lying motionless on the floor. She embraced her and cried in bitterness. Just at that moment, a silhouette of a woman walked over to the place Krysta was. She took Krysta unto her arms and walked away.
“Who are you?”
The silhouette did not say anything and disappeared into the ground.

“Did we really win this battle?” thought Ayumi.

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