Kula's Fall:
Kula Diamond stood on the street, her face a mix between apprehension and
excitement.
“Finally!
I’ve found him!” She thought to herself, “now all I have to do is get him
back to NESTS and everything will be fine!”
Kula had
noticed, by then, the unusual fire on K’s hands, “What did you do? Play with
ravens for too long?” She mused her white-haired adversary haughtily, ecstatic
to finally find him.
K’ made an
irritated sound, “Cut the crap.”
“My, you
haven’t changed one bit. Com’on, I really don’t wanna fight. Come back
with me to NESTS and we’ll do something about that faulty personality of
yours.” Kula sneered. She was indeed spoiling for a fight; not that she really
wanted K’ dead… but she was being forced to do it.
K’ kept his
cool and looked at Maxima, unsaid words being passed between the two.
“Let’s
go!” Maxima mumbled.
He immediately
charged towards Kula. The long-haired girl let out a bored yawn. As she began to
summon her icy powers, the air around all of them turned still and even colder.
She then casually blew a cloud of tiny crystals from her hand, towards the
approaching Maxima.
The large man
foresaw that and blocked off the attack that had reached him before he could get
within five meters of his enemy. Kula sighed then did a high leap over
Maxima’s figure and planting several kicks into his exposed side.
Maxima grumbled
slightly and knocked Kula off her feet with a low, swift kick. Then he gave her
a taste of his ‘Vapor Cannon’ move up-close, and in her face.
Kula was flung
across the street from the force of the move, but landed on her feet, only
bleeding from her nose slightly.
“You’re
supposed to be gentle on girls.” She yelled out tauntingly, preparing her next
assault.
K’ watched it
all, unmoving. He wasn’t exactly sure on what to do. He didn’t know how to
fight with his own fire gone. In fact, he didn’t even know if he could execute
any move now…
Kula, on the
other hand, was pretty darn anxious to get rid of Maxima. She had been ordered
to capture only K’, without Maxima. Right now, he was a big pain in the ass to
her, getting in her way.
Spotting a
trash bin next to her, Kula smiled to herself and gave it a darn good, hard kick
in Maxima’s direction.
The latter
instinctively blocked off the flying garbage, letting his guard down…
“Maxima! Look
out!” K’ yelled frantically, on realizing what was going on.
But Kula was
too fast – When Maxima looked in her direction (or at least where she last
was), Kula was gone. Suddenly Maxima’s vision got clouded by a screen of
transparent blur, and he blacked out.
K’ had
watched Kula Diamond reappear behind Maxima and knock him out cold by freezing
him in a large block of cruel ice. Now her victim was like a statue, in a
standing position with his face locked in an expression of surprised horror.
Kula brushed
her hands daintily and admired her handiwork for a second before addressing
K’, “Now that he’s out of the way, let’s just get this over and done
with.” She sighed wearily.
Anger bubbled
in K’ like lava in a volcano about to erupt… but what could he do? Without
his fire, Kula Diamond would defeat him too easily.
“Dammit. What
the heck. At least put up a fight…” He swore to himself, taking a few
worried glances at the mass of ice that prisoned Maxima.
Kula’s aura
of power increased as she eyed K’ suspiciously. The area grew much colder and
K’ began walking towards his foe dispassionately, his black fire suddenly
burning with newfound energy.
“A little
over-confident aren’t you?” Kula said.
“…”
Kula watched
her enemy bemused, as the latter approached her slowly. He stopped three meters
from her and glared with those piercing eyes of his, sizing her up.
Kula was on her
guard the whole time, and was also dying of curiosity and tension, watching her
arch enemy do such a peculiar thing. The silence right then was defending. They
stood, facing each other, waiting for something to happen.
The girl kept
her eyes from looking into K’s for the whole time. Why?
“I’m
afraid that I’ll find some humanity and warmth in him. Because if I do, I
won’t be able to treat him as I do now,” Kula answered her own question
quietly, “I have no choice.”
She then gave
herself a mental kick and began her attack on K’.
Doing her icy
uppercut out of the blue, Kula expected it to catch k’ completely off guard.
But much to her dismay, K’ sprang into action the second she moved; jumping
away slightly and kicking her mid-air.
Kula resorted
to trying to freeze K’s hands when she had landed. She ran pass K’ in a
sudden flash and reappeared back at the spot she has started, waiting for the
odd fire on K’s hands to get snuffed out and replaced by her ice.
To the surprise
of both white-haired youngsters, nothing happened. K’ was mildly glad. He took
the opportunity of Kula’s frustration to perform his ‘Minute
Spike’ kick on her.
She was
unprepared, but blocked it off just in time. She fumbled a bit and got kneed in
the ribs by her opponent. Retaliating by freezing his legs to the ground, Kula
gave him a good punch on the abdomen while K’ was immobilized. Then she
elbowed him down into the cold hard ground, face flat.
Blood stained
the side of his mouth when he lifted his head. Kula was standing right above
him, looking just about ready to finish him off.
In a frantic
moment of desperation, K’ did his ‘Crow
Bite’ with the black fire. Kula was struck aside from it and got thrown
onto the ground pretty roughly.
“What?” She
uttered, looking at her suit that had been burnt rather badly in some places.
K’ was not
far from Kula, his hands no longer burning with fire. He had no time to wonder
what made the black flames disappear. Kula Diamond was still around and after
his blood.
Kula got up
grumpily and charged towards K’. The man vanished from Kula’s sight and
appeared behind her, delivering a heavy punch into her back. Kula whirled round
and got K’s foot in her face.
Furious, the
girl backed off quickly and went offensive by freezing some pieces of garbage
and kicking them at K’, intending to distract him like she had done to Maxima.
K’ hit the
garbage aside quickly, never allowing Kula out of his sight. He then slide
towards Kula in an instance and performed a series of kicks and heavy punches
that hit home, injuring Kula.
“That’s
it!” K’ heard Kula yell.
The girl
flipped K’ off balance when she grabbed his leg and yanked it upwards. The
latter landed hard on his back and felt the world suddenly turn cold around him.
Kula was just
beginning to trap K’ in her ‘Ice
Coffin’ move when he began charging up on his ‘Heat
Drive’ move. Kula immediately jumped far back, preparing to block or avoid
the completely.
“I
don’t know if this will work, but I have to try.”
K’ mumbled as he held his hand out, half-expecting his flames to fail
him again. Flames did come, but they were black. Caught up in the moment, K’
didn’t really care; as long as there was fire. Then he waited for the right
moment…
Kula was in awe
of strange sight before her; K’ was being engulfed by black flames all over
his body. This can’t be good, she
cursed, and braced herself.
K’ let loose,
all the anger he had towards Kula in his ‘Heat
Drive’ move. He felt somewhat different doing it now though, he charged
towards his foe much faster than before and the power of the black flames seemed
odd.
Kula had only a
fraction of a second to react. She desperately performed her ‘Diamond
Edge’; sending three enormous icy spikes erupting from the ground in front
of her.
K’ would have
been struck by Kula’s move, ordinarily that is. But now, he went through
the icy spikes and knocked Kula high into the air with the full force of his ‘Heat
Drive’. Behind him, the icy spikes disintegrated in the wake of the black
flames overwhelming them.
The girl
tumbled back down to earth, bleeding quite a bit and suffering from a few
fractures in her ribs.
“How
could he…? When did he get so powerful?”
Kula urged
herself to get back up on her feet. She couldn’t. She felt really sick now,
slightly nauseous plus the pain of K’s ultimate attack. She was able to
withstand most of his attacks three months ago, why not now?
K’ was no
longer burning with black fire all over. Seeing Kula utterly defeated, he walked
over to her calmly. The girl was having trouble breathing and glared at K’
with hatred-wrecked eyes as she growled, admitting her defeat.
“Whatever.
Just finish me off now.” Kula took a slow breath and got ready to die.
Part 5 coming up...