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Chapter 9Yui woke up groggily back at Headquarters. She saw Yuko and Kana hovered over her.
“Thank goodness~ you’re okay!”
“Wh-what happened..?” Yui said as she held her head.
“It’s Obsidian’s army. They got hold of the Onyx Saber.”
A rush of memories hit her as she remembered what had happened on the battlefield.
“No…” She started to cry remembering her friends being taken away. “No, this can’t be…”
“Yui…”
“What am I going to do now?”
“There’s no other choice. You have to fight them and destroy the Saber.”
“But how?!” Yui screamed, tears streaming down her eyes. “They took the others… and they’ve gotten stronger… I’m…”
“Yui, listen,” Yuko took the girl’s shoulders. “There’s a reason I chose you as leader for this team. You have a power deep within you, and now you have to let it out to save the others.”
“I do..?”
“You do. It’s always been right here,” Yuko pointed at her chest.
Yui looked at her Gem. All she could think about was saving the others, and all of Tokyo. She grasped the Gem tightly.
“Right. I have to fight.”
Yuko typed a few things into the computer and found the location of Lapis.
“If we hurry now, we can catch him before he leaves Tokyo,” Yuko said, “Also, while you were out, I upgraded your Gem.”
“Upgrade?”
“Yup. The rain that was out there weakened it, so I did a little adjustments to strengthen it.”
“Thank you, Yuko. I’ll be off then,” Yui said before she stepped on the teleporter and was transported to the streets of Tokyo.
The whole place was deserted, the sky dark with black clouds. The place was wrecked due to the previous Geodite attacks.
“This is terrible…”
She then found Lapis and faced him.
“Lapis!”
“Oh, you’re back already? It didn’t take you too long to recover. How disappointing…”
“Where are my friends?”
“Oh yes. They’re battling elsewhere… Call it a test of strength.”
He approached Yui and summoned a blade in his hand. He smirked and moved his sword, the blade almost touching her cheek.
“Perhaps we should have one of our own. Let’s see if you can beat me. Although, I truly doubt it.”
Yui gripped her Gem.
“Lapis… you used to be one of us. A Prism Knight… Yet, you betrayed Ange… You broke Yuko’s heart… You fell to darkness… Everything you’ve done.. is unforgivable!”
Yui then transformed and summoned a new sword, which had been upgraded by Yuko.
“For your unacceptable deeds… I will defeat you!”
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Meanwhile, in what seemed like another dimension, the four girls found themselves in a world shrouded by darkness. Everything was bleak and looked almost like a graveyard. Although they were in the same world, the four were divided into two pairs, miles apart from each other.
Sayanee and Haruppi were facing Topaz, Haruppi protecting Sayanee from the back against the Geodites, and Sayanee doing the same.
Topaz chuckled from above. “How pathetic… Do you really think you can keep this up? Sooner or later, one of you will fall.”
During battle, Haruppi was struggling to keep up with the monsters’ attacks. Before she could reload her shouts, one of the Geodites knocked her down and cornered her.
“Sayanee!”
The blue knight quickly came to her call and slashed the monster from behind.
“Is that all you got?” Sayanee grinned at Topaz.
He sneered. “What a nuisance.”
He then snapped his fingers and created a black cage of thorns around Sayanee. She tried to break out, but they were incredibly strong, not even leaving a scratch.
“Now, where were we, little pink knight?”
The Geodites circled Haruppi, making her shiver in fear.
“What’s the matter? You scared?! Why don’t you just run away like the weak little baby you are!”
“I-I… I..!” Haruppi started to cry.
“Haruppi, don’t listen to him!” Sayanee shouted. “You have to fight!”
The girl shook her head. “I don’t want to anymore… I wanna go home…”
“If you don’t fight now, there won’t be a home to go to!”
Haruppi sniffled and wiped away her tears.
“R-right…”
She cocked her two guns and aimed them at the monsters, firing one shot after another and taking out each monster.
Topaz growled angrily again.
“Looks like it’s just you and me,” Haruppi said.
Topaz jumped down to Haruppi, creating a black dagger in his hand.
The battle commenced and Topaz was the one to make the first move, trying to stab the young knight. Haruppi fired a shot, but missed Topaz. She saw him nearly punch her stomach, but blocked it and kicked his side.
He then turned around swiftly and elbow her back, knocking her down for a moment, but Haruppi got back up and fired a few more shots, one landing at his shoulder and another scratching his cheek.
“You really think you stand a chance against me?” Topaz glared. “You’re WEAK! You can’t do anything, so why even bother?! You’re just a pathetic human!”
Haruppi gripped her two guns.
“I… I.. am not weak!”
She fired another shot, and this time, shot Topaz’s hand and knocked away the dagger.
“Haruppi, catch!” Sayanee threw the girl one of her hand knives and Haruppi slashed Topaz, knocking him down.
Topaz was about to attack, when he suddenly felt something pull him back. He disappeared in front of Sayanee and Haruppi. The black cage also disappeared and Sayanee was free.
“What just happened?”
“No idea. But, my watch is sensing Jurina and Mako close by. We need to go hurry and find them.”
“Right! Let’s go!”
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At the same time, Mako and Jurina were fighting Black Amethyst. Jurina’s spear clashed with the Onyx Saber Amethyst wielded, creating a loud clang.
“I see your skills have improved since our last encounter,” she said coldly. “But that does not mean you can stop me.”
“I can still try. I’ll keep going until I finally beat you!”
Jurina pushed her away and was about to slash her with her spear when the dark warrior held out her palm and pushed the girl back with a strong force.
The green knight was sent flying and fell to the ground, her body suddenly weak.
“Wh-what..?”
“The Onyx Saber increases the dark powers of one’s Black Prism. Oh, but it seems it only stunned you. With the amount of power I was using, you should be out cold.”
Jurina chuckled. “See? We have gotten stronger… you can’t knock us down just that easy as last time…”
Amethyst was about to slash her, when Mako shouted out and ran for a surprise attack, swinging her war hammer.
“Pathetic…” Amethyst froze the girl in her tracks.
“Eh..?” Mako struggled to move, surrounded by a purple aura. “I c-can’t.. m-move..!”
“You’re next,” Amethyst raised her hand and created a dark orb. She shot it at Jurina, the girl just barely dodging, causing her annoyance.
She swung the Saber again, this time, cutting some of Jurina’s scarf which was around her neck. The blade was now aimed at her neck.
“All you Prism Knights are the same… You hold on desperately to some lost hope and try to keep fighting even though all is lost… It’s all pointless.”
“How can you say that?!” Jurina said angrily. “We fight… the reason we fight is to stop villains like you from doing evil deeds!”
“And where is it getting you now?! You should just surrender, just like your oh-so dear Lady Ange and so-called ‘fearless’ leader, the former White knight…”
Now Jurina was mad. A new fire burned in her and she swung her spear fiercely.
“You… will not… talk about her… like that!!!” she screamed as she kept slashing Amethyst’s Saber, leading to one final attack.
Jurina created a strong green shockwave with the shear force of strength, knocking her far away and landing on the ground, releasing the Onyx Saber.
Having let go of the Onyx Saber, the dark aura around Amethyst dimmed. The Saber itself also became smaller and less deadly-looking, no longer resembling a sword, and more like a long knife.
The purple aura around Mako disappeared and she could move again.
“Jurina, get the Saber!”
“On it!”
Jurina quickly took the Saber and wrapped it tightly in a cloth, making sure none of the black metal was shown.
While she was doing this, she looked up and noticed that Amethyst was in great pain, not just from the draining of her energy, but it looked like she was actually having an internal struggle.
She remembered something she had saw in a book when she was searching for the memory spell…
“A pure Black Prism can also hold the power of warping a person’s thoughts or memories.”When she looked back up, Jurina saw a pulsing purple glow that seemed like it was coming from Amethyst’s eye, as if there was something inside her fighting for control.
“This Saber… it truly is a dastardly weapon,” she said as she tied the cloth tightly.
Amethyst could still hear multiple whispers of the Saber’s corrupt power. It was twisting her thoughts and causing all sorts of chaos in her head. Darkness clouded her senses and she felt like she was going insane.
She ran up and tried to grab Jurina, and in a panic, Mako swung her war hammer and hit the dark warrior in the head, knocking her out cold.
The two walked over the dark knight.
“Now what should we do with her?”
“Maybe while she’s like this, we can--”
Before the pair could think of what to do with the dark soldier, however, a Geodite suddenly appeared and grabbed Amethyst. It then disappeared as abruptly as it appeared, leaving the two a bit shocked.
“Well, scratch that.”
“Jurina-san! Kojimako-chan!”
The two then saw their comrades running towards them. They embraced in a group hug, relieved to have reunited.
“What happened to you guys?” Jurina asked, noticing the injuries on the two.
“We were fighting Topaz. And you guys?”
“Black Amethyst.”
“But she got away. A Geodite took her.”
“Same. Topaz just disappeared. Literally.”
“So, now what do we do?”
The group suddenly felt themselves become pulled away from the world they were in and re-arrived in Tokyo, locked up in a black cage hovered over Yui and Lapis. Topaz was also in a separate cage, watching from afar.
“Why were you locked up in here?” Jurina couldn’t help but ask Topaz.
“Obsidian was angered that I had lost, so he put me in this cage.”
“I’m surprised he hasn’t done that long time ago.”
“WHAT WAS THAT?!” he roared angrily.
“Alright, you two. What’s not important is the confrontation up here,” Sayanee said. “What matters is down there.”
She pointed down to where Yui and Lapis have both already gone through an intense battle. Both had suffered injuries, and both seemed to be struggling to tolerate the damage.
“The readings on Yui’s Gem are weak,” Sayanee said. “If she pushes too hard, she may give out and…”
“Don’t say it,” Mako said.
“Yuihan… She just has to win!”
However, Yui was already at her wits end. Even though she was fighting with all she had, she was growing weaker with each passing second.
She fell to her knees, trying to catch her breath. Her sword was starting to grow heavy in her hands. Lapis flashed an evil smile and started to approach her.
“Someone… someone lend me their strength…”She closed her eyes, prepared for the worst…
“NO!!!” Sayanee screamed, Jurina covered her mouth and Haruppi looked away from the sight, Mako holding her.
But then, Yui felt a warm hand on her back. Her body suddenly felt light and replenished. She stood up, a bright aura surrounding her, and slashed Lapis away with her sword.
His eyes widened. “This aura… It can’t be..!”
“Lapis, retreat,” he heard Obsidian in his mind.
“Yes, sir.”
He and Topaz then disappeared.
The black cage vanished and Sayanee and the others flew down to Yui’s side, who had now stopped glowing.
“Yui! That was--”
They were interrupted when Yui suddenly collapsed and transformed back to normal.
“Yui!”
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Topaz stood at Obsidian’s feet, his head lowered in shame from his defeat. The dark lord hovered over him with glowing red eyes.
“Do you understand that I will not allow these constant failures to continue?”“Yes, my Lord. I’m very sorry.”
“You should be. If this keeps up, someone is going to lose their life.”Topaz gritted his teeth, growling angrily in a low tone at the memory of his loss.
“More importantly, where is Black Amethyst?”As he said that, before Topaz could answer, Lapis stepped in, carrying an unconscious Black Amethyst in his arms.
“Oi, what happened to her?” Topaz asked, slightly shocked in seeing the dark warrior had fallen.
“Most of her energy has been drained. Seems that the Onyx Saber really took a toll on her. I’ll take her back to the Black Prism to replenish her energy.”
“You do so, then. Topaz, you’re dismissed as well. And remember, no more disappointments.”“Yes, my lord.”
The two left and Topaz followed Lapis silently to the dark chamber in which Black Amethyst had first emerged. The sight and overwhelming power of the Black Prism in the center of the room was bone-rattling indeed.
Lapis laid Amethyst down on the altar and let the dark energy become absorbed into the dark knight’s body.
“You felt that aura, didn’t you?” Lapis then said.
“Haa?”
“Of the red knight. Something awakened in her. Or, more likely, she awakened something.”
“What are you implying?”
“What if this red knight.. as some connection to Ange’s soul?”
Topaz’s eyes widened in fear. “That can’t be..! We eliminated her! Her soul should be gone!”
“No. It’s shattered, it scattered across Earth. Part of it somehow was able to find it’s way to the red knight. How or why is the question.”
“It doesn’t matter. I’ll find out why and eliminate it! I want Ange and her bothersome knights completely GONE!”
Lapis only silently walked passed him.
“And just so you know… I still don’t trust you,” Topaz then sneered.
“I understand completely,” he replied before leaving.
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(Listen to
this song playing)
Yui opened her eyes and found herself in a familiar field. She remembered this field from her dreams and saw she was now underneath the tree, asleep.
But the other figure she saw was not sitting with her, asleep. Instead, she saw a young girl standing beside her, looking out at something. For some reason, however, Yui could not see her face clearly.
The girl turned to Yui and what she could see clearly was a smile curving the girl’s lips. She then mouthed something.
“Yui…”
“Who..?” Yui tried to reach out to her, but then became blinded by the sunlight.
Her eyes blinked and she found herself back at Headquarters, staring at the white sealing.
“Yui!”
She looked and saw Yuko, Kana, and all the others surrounding her as she laid in the infirmary bed.
“W-what happened.. to me..?”
“You were out for three days.”
“Three days?! Tokyo--!” Yui tried to get up, but her body was still a bit sore.
“Don’t worry. We reversed everything the Onyx Saber created and destroyed it permanently. The city’s back to normal and no one remembers a thing.”
The girl sighed in relief. “Thank goodness…”
“Still, what you did during that battle with Lapis was awesome!”
“You were shining and glowing and you looked like an angel!”
“Angel..?” Hearing that word, Yui did distinctly remember someone with her during that time. Maybe it was the girl she saw in her dream, maybe she was an angel.
Kana nudged Yuko and whispered, "Was that part of the upgrade?"
Yuko only shrugged. "I don't think so."
“Look, what matters is that you’re okay.”
“So… what’s going to happen now?”
“I guess only time will tell.”
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