After lunch, Kyoko and Dakai went out to a park. Kyoko had no clue why Dakai led her there, but she thought that it was sweet that he was taking to her teasing well. Dakai gently sat down and a bench, but it suddenly turned into a puddle of water, making Dakai fall down hard to the ground. "Dang it!"
Kyoko shook her head and used her magic to make a bench of rock for Dakai. "Something wrong? Why are we here?"
Dakai slowly shook his head and sighed. "This is all going downhill, Kyoko. You're going to end up getting hurt because of me, and I can't stand that."
Kyoko gently smiled and sat next to him. "I trust you, Dakai. I know that you won't do anything to get me hurt. You're not as dangerous as people think you are. We both know that."
The Chao whimpered softly and sighed. "It's not that, Kyoko. People hate what I am. Humans and Dari only think that my people are evil and that we should never be trusted."
Kyoko sighed, not knowing what to do. She knew that her people along with the humans of Edge saw the Chao as outsiders, but was it really as bad as Dakai made it seem. "Dakia...I...You're not a monster. You're more of a man than any human or Dari that I've ever seen. The only difference is the colour of your eyes or hair and your magic. I wish I could see you. I bet you're handsome."
"It's more than that," Dakai said, trying to hold back his frustration. "Everybody expects us to be just like Farthenway. I've been trying to find him for the past three years. I don't know what I'm going to do when I see him. All I know is that once I find him, everything is going to get better."
Kyoko smiled, gently cupping Dakai's face in her hands, then she gently kissed Dakai's lips softly. He almost pulled away, but he wanted this. It felt right, but at the same time it felt wrong because he knew who she was. As she pulled away, Kyoko looked gently at Dakai, wishing she could see his eyes. Dakai looked softly back at her, wanting to never look away.
Moments later, Dakai was pinned down on the ground by a massive Earth Dari clad in full Dari armor. The armor had symbols and colours from each element. Other than that, it didn't look different from human armor. The big difference was that elemental didn't work on it, so Kyoko couldn't attack. It didn't matter though. Dakai wrapped his legs around the man and pulled him back, releasing the Chao's hands to use a blast of chaos to send the man flying.
Kyoko got up to run to Dakai, but he told her to, "stay." She nodded and looked to where the Dari had fallen. The man slowly stood up and brushed the dirt off of his armor. "Kyoko. You are to come home right now!"
Kyoko's jaw clenched as she realized who was attacking Dakai. "No, Daddy! I'm staying right here. You go home."
The man growled softly and jumped at Dakai screaming that Dakai had brainwashed his daughter. Dakai sent himself up into the air with a blast of chaos and landed behind the assailant. As the Dari turned around, Dakai pulled out a spear formed completely of his chaos magic. He then made it collapse making a small scythe with a chain attached to the hilt of the blade.
The knight charged, pulling out his own weapon, a broad sword sharpened to a near perfect edge. Dakai charged as well, the grass and rocks behind him blazing in fire with each step he took. Kyoko fell to the ground crying out as she heard the clashing of blades.
Dakai slashed and dodged trying his best to avoid the Dari's attacks, though the man had more skills and experience in battle. Every five or six attacks, Dakai was hit. The blood slowly started to stain his cloak or his dirty blonde hair, but he kept on pushing through the pain. His mind was accepting the fates of death. He knew that if this kept up, he'd be the shadow cloud, waiting to be consumed, hopefully by a human or Dari so he could take over them and find Kyoko.
That's when he saw it. Another Earth Dari had a blade to Kyoko's neck. "Clearly defiant to your own kind, young Dari. Today you perish as an rebel to your people." Dakai was struck again by Kyoko's father, but this time he allowed it. He held the blade in place by quickly wrapping the chain around it and pushing the blade of his scythe into his shoulder. Pain consumed his body, but his attacker couldn't do anymore for the moment.
Dakai sent and stream of chaos magic right at Kyoko's attacker's forehead, destroying his brain from the inside. The man fell down to the ground, dead as Kyoko screamed in fear.
The Chao then forced his scythe back into chaos and let his attacker pull out the blade. A single tear fell down his cheek as he fell to the ground, his body slowly going into itself. Kyoko heard the man's body slowly burning as chaos started to take it over. She ran to him and cried out. "NO! Dakai! Don't leave me! Not now! DAKAI!!"
A older Chao being ran beside Kyoko and pulled out a sphere filled with a black cloud. "Darkness! You're not dying. Not like this." She broke the sphere with a nearby rock and let the cloud flow onto Dakai right as his eyes gently closed.
Kyoko looked over to the woman, fear in her eyes. "Wh-what are you doing?" she asked. The Chao smiled and took the girl's hands. "Giving him what Farthenway left behind for each of his children. It's part of the chaos that gave birth to the Chaovira, the first of the Chao beings. "If this works, then he'll survive and I'll get him another sphere. This is what keeps us alive when we're on the brink of death and we don't want to wait for a human or Dari to consume us. That and not every Chao is able to accept death like Farthenway did."
Kyoko nodded and five minutes later, Dakai was up, and he was ready to continue his battle with Kyoko's father. This time, he had Viatru right beside him. The Dari didn't care though. He just wanted the Chao dead. While Dakai was down, the knight was sharpening his sword so that there would be a clean cut with each slash.
He smiled as he jumped at Dakai, who was still not fully healed. The boy created a sword with his chaos like before, but now it was pitch blade and as long as one of his arms. He used the sword to block that attack and pushed as hard against the man as possible, pure rage in his eyes.
Viatru dashed at Kyoko's father, but she stopped halfway there. The knight dropped down his armor and looked right at Dakai. He noticed that something was different about the boy. He was using his emotions to guide his blade instead of pure instinct like before.
Dakai hated this Dari with every ounce of his being. He was willing to let his daughter die just to keep his name clean. "Such a lowly creature you are," the Chao said, his voice just as smooth and stern as the man that he had been searching for. "You know nothing of honor, and nothing of life."
The Dari charged at Dakai, his sword aimed directly at the Chao's heart. Dakai smiled and slashed his blade down hard, shattering his attacker's weapon. He then sent and wave of chaos directly at the Dari's head, but pulled it back right before it reached him. "No. I'm not going to be like you. Go, before I show you how much hatred your people have put inside of my heart."
The man quickly ran away, not wanting to see any more of what Dakai wanted to do to him. Dakai slowly walked over to Kyoko and pulled her into his arms. Kyoko leaned against his chest and sighed as her tears finally stopped falling. "What are we going to do now?"
Three Years Later
Kyoko smiled softly as she walked up right next to Dakai, alone, instead of with her father as most women do. Nobody was giving her away. Nobody wanted to claim her, but that was alright with her. She was being claimed by the only person she wanted to be claimed by. They both shared their wedding vows and shared the kiss that made them complete. The only people who were there were members of the Chao guild that both of them knew and trusted. Viatru was, of course, the maid of honor, and the wedding was outside, as was customary for Chao.
Dakai looked down at everyone who was there, then over to a tree where he at last saw the man with pitch black hair and eyes. Farthenway smiled and walked away, leaving without even letting anyone else seeing him. Dakai, looked to Kyoko then back to Farthenway and sighed. He didn't need the man anymore. He had no need for whatever Farthenway would have helped him with. He didn't need anything more than what he had. For the first time in his life, Dakai Davia was truly happy.
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What's the age of majority on Edge? It seems to me that if Kyoko is 20, she'd have the right to be out on her own, and her father wouldn't have any legal rights about it.
If Dakai knew what was in the sphere, then he wasn't really sacrificing himself, was he? You may want to make that clearer, if you want Dakai's near-death to come across as noble, instead of merely a clever trick.
And hang on now, I thought Farthenway wasn't supposed to be dead?? The folks in Alexia's story seemed to think he was still around, even before he showed up.
I'd also think Dakai would have included the fact that this is Kyoko's father in his inner debate, even if the dad IS a jerk and a bigot. Can't just go around offing your true love's parents, after all, even if they attack you.
But I very much like the end, that Dakai has found his own center and his happiness, and no longer places these things in the symbolic act of finding Farthenway.
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I am glad that you like the ending. So far, Dakai is my favorite in this series. He seems to be the one who is more believable. At least to me he is. Hopefully, when I get into the Devastated Age, it'll have more than just fluff in it, which is what I'm getting from most of the other stories. Funny thing is, Dakai lives on until the Devastated Age's combination story. He'll be one of the oldest, but that's another tale for another time.
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Yep, he is the most believable. I think this is because you show him gradually adjusting to Kyoko's openness, so that the fight with her dad provides the climax to that development without it being a sudden change of heart.
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I maintain that Alexia DID have a choice. One knife-wielding asshole doesn't have to so radically reverse her opinion of the whole human race. Didn't she have family? friends? did that one guy make her suddenly hate them all?
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Yeah. There are a lot of things that I'm going to change about Alexia's story. Nothing really drastic, but it'll be more believable.
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