Lloyd stood up, his head leaning forward slightly. There’s a deep cut in his stomach but there’s no time to worry about that now.
“The ship can’t hold anymore.” Eric said, glancing at the fire.
“I know…” Lloyd said, his body strained and exhausted.
“Lloyd, you shouldn’t get up.” Glenn said softly, with V.V clinging onto him like a koala bear, refusing to let go.
“We really got to get out of here, dude.” Francis said as there’s another explosion and the ship shook.
Inari turned into her fox form and smiled, “All aboard.”
All of them smiled gratefully as they begin to take off from the burning ship, finally they’ll be able to get some rest and head back to the States if all goes well-
When strands of red hair pulled Inari into place. She gasped and tried to pull herself free but the more she does, the more the hair tightened its hold in her.
“I’m not happy…I won’t let any of you escape here alive…”
It’s Guy, his face blazing with anger. His eyes are looking very murderous than before.
Glenn snarled and fired at him, using all of the remaining bullets, even though they caught him one after another in the head, neck and stomach respectively , he refused to let go.
V.V. crawled over and tried to cut his hair off with a transformed blade but a bullet caught her on the side of the head and she collapsed. Reo had held out his gunblades, which were aimed at her.
Glenn flung the now useless revolver aside and is working hard with Eric, now armed with his orochi blade, cutting Guy’s hair, but it’s impossible. Everytime they cut off one part, another will take its place. Another explosion sounded and the ship’s half destroyed, with chunks of it falling into the sea. In mere minutes, he’ll pull them with him.
Lloyd flung himself overboard. With one seamless movement, he did a somersault and cleaved the hair holding them into place and landed on the deck, much to Guy’s amusement.
“Lloyd-kun?” Inari said.
“Inari, get them out of here.” He shouted.
“What?!” Francis gasped.
“Get out of here, all of you.” Lloyd said as Guy charged at him. He parried the attack and flung him aside. “Go, now!”
Dario lunged at him, the rapier missing him by a few inches, but nevertheless, a horizontal cut appeared on his face. Their weapons clashed as they meet and he was kicked on the ribs. Revarie grabbed him and tried to drink his blood but a quick-thinking Francis threw the bottled holy water like a baseball which exploded on his arm, burning him.
“Don’t be absurd. We can’t leave you.” Eric said, looking at him as though he’s crazy.
“Just go!” Reo had come after him, his movements like a graceful assassin. Lloyd knocked both of his gunblades aside and hit him hard with the handle of his Zanmato.
“Lloyd, we can’t leave you…” Glenn shouted, half-tempted to jump.
For a moment, Lloyd stared up at his face. Their eyes met and locked on each other. Gold amber met with pearly grey.
“Don’t slack off, Glenn. She needs you…” He said over the flames.
“Don’t be stupid, V.V. needs you too.” Glenn snapped. Now he’s tempted to jump but Eric and Francis held him tight.
“Don’t, Glenn. You can’t!” Francis shouted.
“Inari, get them all out of here, now!!!”
Inari looked over her shoulder and said, “I’m sorry…” And flew up higher and sped off, away from the flaming chaos.
“No! No! No! Let go!” Glenn shouted trying to fight off the other two who are holding him into place but Inari’s going faster and faster, picking up speed and going higher, stopping him from jumping. Even with half-vamp strength, it's impossible for him to jump off at this kind of height.
Aboard the flaming ship, Revarie with his bat-like wings, carrying Reo, Alen and Guy on his back, is staring down at the two people on the flaming deck.
“Your friends left you behind, brother dearest.” Dario said.
“No.” Lloyd said, holding his Zanmato. “I chose to stay behind. I want to settle this, face to face.”
Dario raised his rapier, the long thin blade look like a surgical blade, wickedly long, thin and sharp. “Really? You think you can beat me?”
“We won’t know til we try.”
“Bravely spoken. Then, let’s do it.”
In the sea of fire, both brothers raised their respective weapons and charged, shouting to the skies of heavens.
BOOM!!!
An explosion which erupted from the entire ship like a huge firework display. Even from the distance, Glenn could see it clearly with his own eyes. Chunks and parts of the ship flew in all directions and the ship itself is slowly sinking into the sea, like the Titanic.
“We didn’t have any choice.” Inari said, looking sad. “We had to leave him…”
Glenn glanced at V.V. who still haven’t woke up, although Eric had dug the bullet out and the wound is already healing. That’s what everyone says…. That’s what everyone says. I can’t stand it. Why him? Why? Why not me? WHY? WHY?
The cry came from deep beneath himself. A loud, hoarse cry to heaven, which peeled from his backbone and throat.
“LLOYD!!!!!!!!!”
To the skies.
And into the sea of flames that will never die.
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