One tear was too many. [CLOSED]

[ritsu_kouyou]

Characters: Akiha Tohno and Kris Loop, later Katina Tarask
Date: The same day, after this
Summary: This just keep getting better when Kris pries what happened out of Akiha.
Warnings: ANGST and Kris is a little crazy yandere, leading to violence and/or character death.

[When it was all done, Akiha had gone back inside, wrapped a cloth about her bleeding hand, then headed up to her room. She locked her door, closed her balcony door and locked it, then like any teenager, threw herself down on her bed and actually cried. Akiha didn't cry often, if at all, usually able to turn any pain and hurt into anger. But not this time.

After a few minutes of earnest crying, she shed her clothes in an unsightly, un-Akiha-like, pile on the floor before wrapping herself in her robe. Back on her bed, on top of the covers, she curled herself into a bit of a ball and stared at the wall.

She wanted to sleep, to forget for even a moment, what had just happened, but sleep only brought the dark whispers of her blood these nights. And she wasn't sure her ragged will would hold out against those whispers right then when she was in so much emotional pain.

...she didn't even realize she'd dripped blood onto the floor downstairs before she'd wrapped her hand up, leaving evidence behind that a certain magician was sure to notice.]

Comments

[ported]

I'm glad you could confirm that for me.

[Whatever it is, it doesn't stop her from steadily walking closer to Katina.]

You did an awful thing today, you know.

[grandtheftmecha]

[ Katina would love to grin and bear it, but there isn't going to be much grinning. She takes a step back. ]

Yep. There's no question about that.

[ported]

[She reaches inside her cloak and pulls out one of her wickedly curved knives that she keeps out of sight.]

Do you have anything to say about that? Depending on your answer, this could be painless.

[grandtheftmecha]

...I'm not gonna apologize or make excuses.

[ No matter how good Katina is at hand-to-hand, even with the strength ring she can't beat Kris unless the girl doesn't use any magic whatsoever. ]

You know how blunt I am.

[ported]

Is that it? Nothing else?

[grandtheftmecha]

What do you want from me? Akiha told you all about what I've done and what I said, I bet. Do you think I'm gonna tell you some reason for it that'll make you want to kill me quickly instead of skinning me alive?

[ported]

That's not of any concern to me. But if that's all...

[She held her hand out in front of her, forgetting the dagger in it for the moment.]

[grandtheftmecha]

That's it. Do whatever you're gonna do.

[ Katina lowers herself a bit, ready to... what? Run? Fight?

[ported]

[Whatever it is, there isn't any time left to think about it.

Lightning shoots out of Kris' hand towards Katina.]

[grandtheftmecha]

[ Fuck this Star Wars shi-

Katina can't dodge lightning. It throws her back, twitching, onto the ground. ]

Agh!

[ported]

[Star Wars indeed. And it doesn't stop, her eyes growing wider as the seconds pass.]

[grandtheftmecha]

[ Before now, Katina's been zapped. A brief shock from working on her machine here, a rush from an enemy attack there. Nothing like this prolonged electrocution, her body writhing on the ground, jaw clenched painfully shut.

God damn this hurts!

[ported]

[She halted her barrage and lifted up a finger.]

I suppose I can end this now.

[grandtheftmecha]

[ Leaving Katina laying there, head back, still twitching. ]

Gah... hah... then... come on...

[ported]

[She's the one that asked for it.

But this time there's chanting. No sense in blowing extra power just to cast it instantly.

When the last words come out of her mouth, four large meteorites appear in the air, all coming to crash down on Katina and eventually explode on contact.]

[grandtheftmecha]

[ Yeah, well, she figured she was gonna die no matter what. Trying to talk her way out of whatever Kris had in mind would just be pathetic at this point, no matter how painful it is.

...holy mother of... fucking meteors. Katina can barely throw herself into a roll, and the explosion still rattles her, tossing her, singing her, as everything... goes quiet?

Oh. Her eardrums must be busted. And she's burned and bleeding, though she can barely tell where any of her injuries are. ]

...f-fuck...

[ported]

[What was that? Oh, Kris couldn't hear it over everything blowing up. She enjoyed that kind of thing, definitely. And was pretty sure that did in Katina.

She sighed once in relief and make a quick departure via teleportation magic. She could feel better about keeping Akiha safe from everything now.]

[grandtheftmecha]

[ ...she left...

...didn't check her body...

...laying here... coughing... bleeding... mostly alive? Fuck this, she should've just finished the job damn this hurts. ]