JustKay
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Troy breathed deeply as he calmed down. His partner in the upcoming battles was there. She greeted him in her usual way and he nearly cracked up laughing. "Yuliae, you know if you keep calling me commoner, we may have problems out on the field right?" Troy remembered his talk with the headmistress, she left no room for him to argue. Especially when she mentioned that if he left, his partner would be sent out solo. He didn't want to do that to Yuliae, despite her personality she was a good girl. Troy walked over to the window and enjoyed the view with her. "The cherry blossoms are beautiful this year. Maria would've loved to have seen them."kurol said:Troy slowly woke up. His eyes were frightened and large. She knew this too well. Had he had a nightmare too? She had one. About running away... About Mama and Papa. "Commoner?" she said slowly. Yuliae walked into the common room and sat on the seat near the window, looking at the cherry blossoms that peacefully flew down from their branches. It brought back many memories that Yuliae thought she had erased from her mind. Looking at Troy she wanted to help him, or at the least talk to him, but she could only look out the window.
(Sorry it's short)
@Kiroshiven
"Yes, Maria Mishkenof. She was a third year water mage. She was very important to me." The cherry blossoms fell and Troy opened the window, catching some of them. He created a small fire out of it and the pink flame continued to burn as he held it with magic. "One time when I was learning to control my power I accidentally set the falling petals ablaze. Many feared and hated me for it. Maria found the beauty of the pink fire flowing through the sky. She was the only person at this school that could see the beauty in the destruction I caused. She became my first real friend. And I was her only friend." Troy leaped out the window and started igniting the falling petals. Only some, not all. He didn't want to tarnish Yuliae's memories of the blossoms.kurol said:He laughed as she called him commoner. A grin appeared out of nowhere on Yuliae's face. "Well that's too bad, commoner," she said. He neared her and looked at the pastel pink scenery that radiantly flew outside. Cherry blossoms dove and landed in the sky like small pink and white birds, leaving their nests in the trees. "Spring is beautiful," she murmured to herself, eyes glazed with an adoring longing.
"The cherry blossoms are beautiful this year. Maria would've loved to have seen them," Troy said, a sad smile on his face. Yuliae didn't look at him, keeping her eyes on the cherry blossoms. But she did reply. "That's her name, isn't it?" she said quietly, staring outside at a distant focal point.
@Kiroshiven
Troy nodded as he swirled the fire together and turned it into a giant cherry blossom. "You see, I've battled the demons before." Troy focused on the flaming blossom before him. This was a symbol of his friendship with her. This what he made when she told him how lovely the cherry blossoms were and how beautiful the pink flames were. She said that they really matched each other well. "With Maria's help I was able to reach the same skills as some of the third years. I was sparring with her on a daily basis and it made us a lot stronger." Troy's left eye turned orange as Kiro spoke. "That woman was a firecracker let loose in an explosives factory. Wild, unpredictable, easily the best fighter ever, but only during combat. She trounced both Troy and me every time." Troy interrupted. "All but one time when we worked together that is." Kiro smiled. "True enough." Troy sat down as he shrank the fire blossom and set it in his lap.kurol said:Yuliae stared outside the window, but she had heard what Troy had said. They were friends... But Maria dies. Yuliae watched as Troy leaped outside the window, and ignited the drifting blossoms into small bursts of pale pink fire. He didn't burn all of them. Yuliae fought to keep her emotional wall standing as memories of the cherry blossoms, her family and their laughter mixed in with the sight of the beautiful cherry blossoms lighting up in pink flames. A tiny smile crept onto Yuliae's face. Even though it had appeared because of the joy of the cherry blossoms in front of her, flying in the air, some aflame and some not... it was still a sad smile.
Yuliae held her stare on the cherry blossoms, watching them fall from the trees and some being lighted up by Troy's fire. It was a beautiful sight. But there was a sad story behind it, and Yuliae knew this. And she needed to know more, no matter how much it would pain Troy. "She died, didn't she.." Yuliae said sadly.
@Kiroshiven
"It's fine Yuliae, but now you know why I REALLY don't want to fight the demons. I-I just can't do it. Every time I think of a demon, I see Maria impaled on the horn of a demon." He felt nauseous as he remembered her face of pain yet again. He also left out the part that they had just started dating a week before that. "The only thing that I still have of her is a photo." Troy pulled out his phone and gazed upon the picture again. "She really was my rainstorm of joy."kurol said:He lifted the large burning cherry blossom to her, and she wrapped her arms around it. She silently listened to his story. The ending provoked tears. She couldn't let them out..! I am not a weakling. I am not a weakling. I... am... n-n-not... a...
"C-c-c-commoner!!" she yelled, and burst into tears. They were cold, yet hot and stingy as they ran down her cheeks. Yuliae didn't look at Troy, embarrassed by her weakness. Her body trembled, and the salty water ran down in constant streams from her overflowing eyes.
@Kiroshiven