Time for this feud to end.

[dasuke]

Willow walked out of the woods n her eyes widened slight, the land infront of her was strewn with dead bodies and a massive amount of blood. If her past had been ay different than what it was she might have thrown up, instead she almost gagged but held it back. However before she could utter a outspoken self question she saw people kneeling around someone on the ground, recognizing Gaara's red hair she gasp as she somewhat rushed to them. Stopping on the opposite side of Mordy and Gaara her eyes widened once more as she kneeled to the ground next to Dasuke.
"What the he'll happened?...Mordy...do you need any help?"
It was still a bit awkward to be around him...especially since she hadnt talked to Turo yet. She shook the problem from her head, that was something she could worry about later.
Jourdan looked over as a new voice joined them. The girl was pretty but she seemed to be a friend of Dasuke...that and she seemed to know Mordy pretty well, even though there was a bit of tension...all he, and mostlikely Gaara as well...possibly more than him, wanted was for his cousin to be back to full health.

[SoulofDarkness]

Gaara heard a new voice, but he didn't look up. He wouldn't take his eyes off Dasuke.

Ashe's eyes widened with rage when she saw Leon, even more so when he pulled Yuudai off of her. When she saw him ready her fist, she quickly maneuvered herself between the two. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" she snarled.

Yuudai had a smug grin on his face as he watched the girl side with him over one who had done so much for her.

[Mordecai L. Halder]

"He doesn't care about you, that should be obvious now. He only wants to get what enjoyment he can, and then either disappear, or make you disappear. I may not be the right person for you, I may not be a good person at all, but I will not let this happen to you, who are a good person." Leon said, looking at Ashe, his face blank. He was even farther in his shell after that, after realising that she hated him so much that, even though he knew she was happy that someone had halted Yuudai, she didn't care, and was instead angry that he was still around.

No matter what he did, it seemed, she would hate him. Oh well. As he said, he was doing the second thing he'd ever been sure was right, which was not letting her get hurt any more. He would die if need be. He wasn't going to allow this. He'd already caused her so much grief in such a short time, he'd rather make her want to kill him, in fact he'd rather she do that deed, than let Yuudai do what he wished. Which, as Yuudai himself had made clear, intentionally, time and time again, to Leon, was not at all in Ashe's best interests.


Mordecai could still feel the anger... But it was Leon's anger at himself. He wasn't angry with anyone else... Well, he was homicidal toward someone, but it wasn't Ashe. It wasn't any of them. He shrugged the concern off when Willow got there however, as that reminded him that he had an important task to do, one which could not be messed up.

"Do everything you can." He said to Willow, not looking at her face. He didn't know if the situation had been resolved, but if it had, he knew that Willow had decided against him. Either way, it wouldn't do Willow any favors to look her in the eye at the moment, so he kept his focus to the task at hand.

[dasuke]

Willow nodded, knowing his reason for not looking in her eyes or even at her. She moved to Dasuke's broken ankle though when she gently touched it to access the damage she sighed...it wasn't set rght and she knew resetting broken bones hurt like he'll so she looked up at Gaara.
"Gaara, I know she's unconscious right now but you might haveto hold her still...I need to reset her ankle, most likely her wrist will need resetting also."
Willow didn't say anymore, she knew she didn't have to. She just hoped she would still have enough energy after healing two broken areas when it came to her ribs. Willow could tell from how Dasuke was breathing that she had a few broken ones. She just prayed that none had punctured her lungs...for that might just make things even worse. Not dwelling on anything negative Willow waited for Gaara to do what he had to before she even dared to reset the ankle.
"Mordy could you possibly set Dasuke's wrist the way it's supposed to be at the same time I do her ankle?"

[SoulofDarkness]

Gaara nodded and wrapped his arms around Dasuke, being careful not to hurt her but also ensuring she was secure.

"What happens to me is none of your business!" Ashe snapped, "Don't you get it? I don't want you following me around just in case something bad will happen to me, that's for me to worry about and not you!" How could she get away from someone who followed her everywhere, like her own shadow? She gave a bitter laugh, "You say you wont let it happen to me, but is that really your choice to make?"

Yuudai placed a hand on his sword. "If he wont leave you alone... Do you want me to take care of him for you?"

Ashe remained silent, her face hidden. She stretched her arm out, blocking Yuudai's path. Then she slowly raised her head, and the pure rage within her eyes could be seen. "No..." she said in a cold voice, one that scarcely sounded like her own, "I'll take care of him myself..." Her raging emotions had completely destroyed her mind, and all that was left was the desire to kill she had kept locked within her all her life.

[Mordecai L. Halder]

"If that's how you really wish it to be, I won't stop you... But I'm going to do one last thing first." He said, drawing the Nightmare, the longsword, and releasing both the hidden blades, taking up an unusual fighting stance, but it showed that he knew what he was doing.

"No. It isn't my choice to make. But he's made it clear to me time and again that I'm making the right choice. I'm sorry, Ashe, for everything. I should have followed the ideal I had my entire life, which is that someone like me cannot love. It's not safe. All I'm meant to do in this world is hurt and kill people. But this time, I'll be doing it for a good reason. At least as best a reason as there is to kill someone." He said, the old him coming back out in what he knew would be his final moments. Either he won, and she killed him, or he lost, and died.

"I'm so sorry." He said again, tears flowing openly down his cheeks, though his voice was even.

"Let's do this, then." He said to Yuudai, keeping one eye on Ashe, and one on him. He would get rid of Yuudai, then... He'd kill himself. He didn't want Ashe to become that which she so hated: A killer.

(He's that determined to save her)

Mordy got in postion to set Dasuke's wrist. "Yeah. Whenever you're ready."

[dasuke]

Willow nodded her head. She knew that settjg both bones at the same time hurt pretty much like something breaking agan.
"We'll set then on three ok?"
Willow knew that Gaara had a secure grip on Dasuke so she started to count.
"One...Two...three"
As she said three, Willow pushed Dasuke's ankle back into the correct postion as shimmediately began to heal it. It didn't help any really that right after she had set it I to it's correct position, Dasuke basically tightened her muscles since she couldn't move.
Jourdan turned back towards to his. Walking back over to where he had been, kneeling across form Gaara, he once again took that spot but left enoughroom for the new girl to have room while she helped out.
"I...I'll be righb back...I need to go clear my head really quick..."
Jourdan ran a hand through his hair as he walked into the woods. Getting so lost in his thoughts, Jourdan unconsciously walked in the direction Leon had disappeared in. Hearing people talking in angry and somewhat emotionless voices brouth him from his thoughts of hating himself for what happened.
"Leon? Ashe what's going on here?"
He moved towards the side where Leon stood as he glanced between the three.

[SoulofDarkness]

Ashe took a slow step toward Leon, drawing the sword on her back. "I wont let you kill anyone else..." Yuudai watched from behind, amused at the turn of events.

[Mordecai L. Halder]

Leon glanced at Jourdan.

"Nothing. You should probably leave."

He looked back at Ashe. "I know.... But I'm afraid I can't allow you to complete that goal until I complete mine." He said, knowing that he would never say the right thing. But he would be damn well sure that he DID the right thing.

"I remember we had a talk about how it was, perhaps, just, to kill those who killed, those who hurt others without cause. Meaning that you're fair game, Yuudai. I? Well, I don't know why all those people wanted Dasuke dead, perhaps I did the wrong thing. Regardless, someone who's taken as many lives as I should go as well. That's the foundation of my goal."

"And my goal, is to rid this world of two more people. Me... And you..." Leon said, slowly, dragging the Nightmare across his arm, opening a large gash, as he stared at Yuudai. He looked down.

"Now it needs only spill your blood, and all of it, and I can put this blade to rest." He snarled, looking up. His irises were now Crimson.

He moved around Ashe and swung at Yuudai's neck in less than a sixth of a second.


Mordy had set Dasuke's wrist at the same time as Willow had her ankle, and began to make a splint.

[dasuke]

Jourdan wasn't sure if he should leave like Leon had said or atleast try to stop the fighting. Though he thought about pulling Ashe out ofthe way of the battle but quickly decided against it when he saw how angry and serious she looked. Turning around he walked back to where the others were before kneeling next to Mordy and whispering to him.
"Mordy...if Leon was going to go all out in a fight to the death...how large of a range do you think there would be for damage done?"
Jourdan focused on keeping his voice calm, hopefully it worked he was sure.
Willow looked over at Gaara, trying not to pay attention to Mordy and Jourdan.
"Gaara...is there any other major placethat she is injured?"
Dasuke let out a soft, almost shaky breath once Mordy began to put a splint on. She still refused to scream though yelling a few select choice of words was always and option, since smacking someone was clearly not able to happen.

[SoulofDarkness]

Gaara glanced up at Willow, "I'm not sure... I didn't see the whole fight, and she wont let anyone know what hurts..."

In an instant, Ashe's blade was in front of Leon's. The force pushed her back, and she could tell she would lose in a battle of strength, so she quickly formed the blade into a bent shape to lock Leon's position. (Think wabisuke) Then, holding the sword with her left hand, she ducked to the right and slid her poisoned knife from her sleeve.

(just to clear it up, this sword is Wabisuke)

[Mordecai L. Halder]

Leon froze, for half a second, when she actually risked her life to protect Yuudai. He knew, again, that it was out of her hatred for him, not out of liking for Yuudai, but that didn't mean that it didn't further crush him.

I know she hates me, I know she wants me dead, and I know she's right in that want, but I cannot fail. For once, I'm certain that I'm taking the right course of action, and now, when it matters most, for the first time, I won't fuck it up.

He then snapped his wrist upward, letting go of the Nightmare, and wrenching the blade from Ashe's grasp, sending both

soaring over the trees, and rolled to the side, swinging at Yuudai's legs with the longsword.


Mordecai looked at Jourdan.

"Depending on what he's fighting.... Well, considering what the situation seems to be from the look on his face and the tone of his voice, I imagine half this forest could end up destroyed, accept for the patch upon which Ashe is standing, which will be untouched.

One way or another, we need to get Dasuke stable and get her away from here, whether seven thousand trees are felled or not, this isn't a safe place for her in this condition." He answered, looking toward the trees where Leon, Ashe, and Yuudai were. He saw the flash of steel in the air, and recognised the Nightmare spinning over the trees, deeper into the woods.

That was not a good sign.

[dasuke]

Dasuke's eyes flickeded open slowly as she caught the last part of what Mordy was saying. She didn't want them to take a risk just to 'stablilize' her. Her voice was slightly strained and a bit tired sounding but sue didn't care.
"Gaara...I'll be fine...you guys go ahead and get us somewhere safe. I'll be able to hold out till then."

Willow looked from Mordy to Gaara.
"Gaara it's up to you what we do..."
Jourdan glanced from the the woods and back to Mordy.
"Then we might have less time than I thnk...las time I saw them they both looked like they had a goal set...."

[SoulofDarkness]

Ashe scowled, and shoved the tip of one of her remaining swords into the dirt to block the blow. "You bastard," she growled, "I'm your opponent."

Yuudai leaned against the tree, watching the fight. He didn't even have to defend himself it seemed, Ashe was doing that for him.

Ashe's ability slowly began to act on Leon. Too slight for him to notice, she made his sword seem longer than it really was. That would make his movements with it more awkward. Then she slid a kunai from her sleeve and aimed carefully before letting it loose. Her influence on space made it look as if it would miss Leon entirely, but her skill was too precise, there was no question that it wouldn't miss.

Gaara closed his eyes, thinking. He watched Dasuke carefully; he knew they had to get her away from here. "I should have enough strength left," he said slowly. He clapped his hands together, and the sand beneath Dasuke began to rise, remaining flat so she didn't move. On her makeshift stretcher, Gaara moved Dasuke away from the battlefield. "Let's go," he said, flinching from the strain.

[Mordecai L. Halder]

Leon gritted his teeth as the Kunai punctured his abdomen, despite his best effort to get clean out of the path, since he knew she wouldn't truly miss with the fact that she aimed the shot, and pulled it out, and quickly pressing it into a ball in his fingers, causing his own blood to cover his hand, before throwing the balled weapon into the woods as well. The gritting of his teeth wasn't from the pain so much as the fact that he realised he actually had to fight Ashe now. She was far faster that it had previously seemed, as she was actually able to keep up well enough to block his attacks. She was strong too, again, as evidensed by being able to block his attacks. He had to get her out of the way without hurting her.

He could throw her, but he couldn't get her very far without running the risk of injuring her. What could he do?

The only way to save her is to fight her... FML. I now have to attack the one person I truly care about, so as to protect them. If there are gods, I'd like you all to know that you guys SUCK.

Leon turned to face Ashe, shaking his head slightly to try and clear his head, to fix his perception, even if only a little.

"Fine." He said, swinging upward with the longsword, preparing to pull the blade if she was somehow caught offguard. His only hope at this point was to either beat her without any major injury, or to... Well, he hoped it wouldn't be necessary to pull the last option he was thinking of.


Mordecai looked at Gaara. "If It's solid, I'll carry it. You need to keep what strength you have left in case this hellacious day isn't over yet." He said, quietly.

Leon, may the gods shine upon you today. They're the only ones that can help you now. I'm sorry, I'd do what I could, but I have to stay with them, to make sure they're alright on the way back to a safe place. Hopefully you can pull through on this last one. I'll watch over her for you, as best I can. I know that's all you'll want, is for her to be safe. It's the least I can do.

Almost as if in answer, he remembered what Leon had said that morning, when they were playing 'Go Fish'.

'I don't believe in the gods, but even if I did... They're gonna sit this one out. It's entirely a matter of chance... And I lost. Hopefully that's the worst thing that happens today, eh?'