Blood is thicker than water

[Garza]

I opened my arms wide open. Indicating the lab that we were standing in. "Then why the fething hell is this here?" I let my arms fall to my side and turned to the table with my clothes. Picking them up, I started to walk away from here, and that's when I stopped. I could feel my heart wrench as I looked over my shoulder, "I hope that my brother didn't have to deal with this from you." And I began to walk away again. Knowing that my words would hurt her.

[member="Lexa Imura"],

 

[Zayani Brin]

Lexa flinched as if someone had literally hit her in the gut. How dare he just say that. As if he knew what Morna was like. They may have been brothers, but Nickolas was nothing like him at all. The hurt quickly turned to a deep sort of anger. Her eyes began glowing a bright yellow-white. Flames erupted on her arms and legs as everything around her began to shift and shake. "You know nothing of him," She snarled.
[member="Nickolas Imura"]

 

[Garza]

The items in the room started to shake. Instead of fearing for my life like any other person would, I smiled brightly as Lexa said I knew nothing of him in a growl that threatened on becoming much like a demon. I really did hit below the belt. I knew it too. I let my clothing drop to the floor as it slid from my hands. I could hear the crackle of flames as they were ignited on Lexa's arms. "So it seems that my brother taught you how to use fire." I lifted my head up as though I were stretching. "Looks like you stole more from me. First my brother, now his and my powers. What next you queen, My girlfriend? My lab? my powers as well?"

I turned around and ignited my own flames. Deep red and almost crimson as they were filled with hate, and anger. Looking directly as Lexa. I could feel my body flare up in pain as I was using a crap ton of dark sided energy. "Come on lexa, Take my life just like you took Morna's" Daring her, challenging her to attack me. I so wanted to spill blood today. And it would be hers.

[member="Lexa Imura"],

 

[Zayani Brin]

That was the final straw. Lexa's power swelled immensely, reaching heights that even she never realized it could go. The Dark Side radiated from her like a beacon, summoning more and more to her core. A high-pitched, agonizing scream travelled from her lips, and a massive shockwave sent everything in her vicinity flying out in all directions. Her body became nothing but lava and flame. She activated the two sabers in her possession. One was hers, and the other was her husband's. The metal beneath her feet was beginning to glow as the heat from her body began to melt it. She was awesome. She was terrifying. But most of all, she was ANGRY.
[member="Nickolas Imura"]

 

[Garza]

I smiled as the blast from her voice was filled with anger. A scream of hatred so loud that it buffed me back. However, I stayed on my feet. I pulled my own saber form my belt. Igniting the double blades in a crimson glow. Both of us stood there. Wanting so much to tear eachother open with sabers, and swords and bare hands. "Tisk tisk, Lexa, you should know better than to yell at your family." I slowly began to walk forward. Sadistic and wanting to play.

[member="Lexa Imura"],

 

[Zayani Brin]

Lexa was seething. Her white eyes boared into Nickolas as he began advancing towrd her. Famiy? She no longer knew the term. She had no family. Morna's saber dripped with lava, and she twirled it along with hers a couple times in anticipation. She wanted him to get closer. She wanted him to attack. She began relishing the thought of his corpse lying at her feet. Yes. The darkness had finally been unleashed.
[member="Nickolas Imura"]

 

[Garza]

I smiled as she drew a lava saber. I had heard stories of Morna once owning a saber that would drip lava. I smiled sadistically as I had my saber drawn. Activating the black saber, The red crystal on the hilt glowed up. Holding it off to my side, I threw my clothes away from me. Slowly I walked towards her. Wishing very well to simply end her life for taking my brothers. She would pay.

Launching my fist at her, blast after blast of fire was thrown at her across the room as I simply walked towards her. baiting her to try and take me on.

[member="Lexa Imura"]

 

[Zayani Brin]

The fire did nothing to Lexa, especially in her current form. She merely held up her hand and allowed the blasts to be absorbed into herself. Without further hesitation, she flew at him. It was as if a fiery onslaught from Hell was being unleashed down upon Nickolas. Torrents of fireballs sailed through the air like meteors, lava coming down like rain. Her sabers were savage, quick and difficult to track as she attacked every inch of his being.
[member="Nickolas Imura"]

 

[Garza]

My smiled only brightened as she came at me. While my fires had done nothing, I knew what it would do later on to her. Something that my brother might have not have taught her. While I contemplated the use of the form, My saber flashed back and forth between the two blades. Both of us at a stand still. However at a small break in her form, I attacked. Slinging my sword to her left, and then to the right followed with a stab and a force push from my off hand. "Now I know why he died."

I smiled. Using a form of Sith Lightsaber combat, "He wanted to leave you so badly."

[member="Lexa Imura"]

 

[Zayani Brin]

Lexa was pushed backward, but not knocked off her feet. Nickolas's taunting didn't effect her like he hoped. Instead of falling deeper into her hatred and attacking again, she began to laugh. It wasn't the pleasant laugh that Morna had so often heard from her. It was a vile, twisted sound, almost inhuman altogether. "My my my, listen to the child. So full of hatred for the wife of his brother. Merely because he is envious of her." Her demented voice echoed through the room. "So jealous that she had been the one to find him before he could learn of his long-lost brother. That she was the one to be swallowed by all of his love and attention. The boy was forgotten. Unwanted. Unloved. Tell me, how does it feel? To know that the one person you've been searching for your entire life, placing every thought you've ever had into, all your love and hopes and dreams, is gone forever? And you never even had the chance to meet him..."
[member="Nickolas Imura"]

 

[Garza]

I only smiled as she spoke. She struck at me again. Getting us into a saberlock as she spoke. Saying that I didn't get attention from him. I didn't love him. I didn't care for him. He was a Brother, yes, but I would have killed him. He left me to die. He let me be taken away. and all he did was hide in the counter while I was snatched up. He forgot about me and moved on because he didn't want to remember. I would have ended his life myself given the chance.

"You are wrong, I never loved him." Pushing with my saber, I got out of the saber lock and sliced at her once with the humming blade. "I wanted his blood on my hands." I then went into a fury of strikes. Suddenly my speed seemed to almost triple as I became a blur of motion slinging the sword around to hit her left twice, her right, stab followed with an uppercut and a downcut, another jab, and then once more to her right twice before sending one upper cut with my saber followed by my fist. My left fist that was my demoinic arm.

All the time I could feel the burning from the poisons from within me. Threatening to engulf me in the darkness. And yet, I loved it. I wanted to become the shadow of the Dark side. I had lost my family, be left for dead, and now, The rest of my family would pay.

[member="Lexa Imura"]

 

[Zayani Brin]

Lexa fell in time with Nickolas's attacks. They began moving in unison, dragging the stalemate even further onward. She spoke as the battle continued. "So, killing me is supposed to somehow atone for you missing your shot at revenge? How useless. We both know that I'm nothing compared to him. I never will be."
[member="Nickolas Imura"]

 

[Garza]

"I don't care, you are the closest thing to him." I continued to strike at her. Trading blows back and forth. I was using a simple Shi-Cho Saber form. Not much of a great form, but when used correctly, it was a deadly way to use a saber. Slashing at her with a flurry of wide arcs of the saber. Trying to push her back, the trails of our sabers echoed of where they once were as I continued to fight. "Then tell me Lexa, How is it that you still care for him after he left you?"

[member="Lexa Imura"]

 

[Zayani Brin]

For some reason, this question did nothing but calm Lexa down. She stood perfectly still, as if she was made of stone instead of fire. Slowly her Fire Form receded into nothingness and her she was normal again. Her arms fell to her sides, her sabers deactivating. A tiny smile, pure and genuine, crept onto her face as she looked down to her feet. "Because I love him," She breathed. "And no amount of time or distance will ever change that. What I feel for him is too deep to be forgotten."
[member="Nickolas Imura"]

 

[Garza]

Lexa had stopped her attacks. Just standing there as she almost seemed to calm down. I stopped myself. breathing heavily with my bare chest heaving in and out as I looked at her like she was a lunatic. "You just loved him? and forgave him for all the crap he did to you?" I pointed over to the side as though he was standing next to me, almost yelling at her, "How could you stand by him when he just left you? Up and went into a war to fight to the death. And leaving you alone? He left me for dead! He cared nothing for me!" I crunched down on the saber hilt. Not actually breaking it, but the creaking sounds were heard. the saber shut off as I threw it off in the direction. Not caring what it hit.

"You just accepted the fact that he married you, only to go off to war so he could die? And you forgive him?"

[member="Lexa Imura"]

 

[Zayani Brin]

Lexa met Nickolas's eyes. "You have a girlfriend. Aerin, wasn't it? If you believed that the only way to give her a happier life was to fight for her in a war, would you not go and fight? Would you stop at nothing to ensure that she had the happily ever after she wanted?" She walked right up to him, not caring how dangerous that might be. "I forgave him because that's what he did for me. He joined a war to make sure that I would be safe. For a time, yes. I was angry. Angry that he didn't let me come with him. Angry that I didn't try to chase after him despite him telling me to stay put. Maybe I could've saved him. Maybe we would've died together. But that anger faded with time. I realized he'd done it for me. Ans as much as I wanted to hate him, I couldn't. I loved him. I'll always love him."
[member="Nickolas Imura"]

 

[Garza]

I looked at her. Clearly she was calm now. No longer yelling. She walked up to me. I got mad at her for even daring to bring Aerin into this. No. she will not do that. But when she pointed out that I would do anything for her, I stopped. Thinking. Would I really do anything for her? Even if that meant the cost of my life? But that would cause her so much pain to have to deal with my death. And if I had a bounty on my head from the war, then you might as well pain a target on her as well.

I looked down. Really thinking about this. I raised a hand and tried to speak, but stopped. I let my hand come to my face. Trying to hide from it all. My eye's closed, I shook my head. Trying to not believe it. I didn't want to. I hated Morna for so long. I wanted to strangle him for leaving me. But how could he explain himself to me? is there a way? I shook my head again. accepting the fact that over the course of his life. Morna had changed a lot. and I would have to deal with that. Silently, I spoke. Barely above a whisper.

"Kalee will show you too your room when you want her to." I let my hand reach out and the lightsaber flew into my hand. it slowed down as it neared my hand. Reaching for it, I kept a hold of it as I turned to walk away. Not saying another word.

[member="Lexa Imura"]

 

[Zayani Brin]

Lexa took a deep, shuddering breath when Nickolas left her alone. Bravado had always been a strength of hers. She could appear as strong as she wanted to be when she was face-to-face with someone. But there was always that moment when she buckled as soon as they left. She slid to the ground. In reality, she had been genuinely scared. The kind of raw anger he'd radiated was something only a true Imura could have. She was certain that if Morna had ever been the same way toward her that she would've ran for her life.
[member="Nickolas Imura"]

 

[Garza]

I walked towards the door and opening it with a wave of my hand walked through. Closing the door after me as well. I needed to think. unhindered. Hunter walked up to me in his slacks and tank top, but was geared up for a battle. he saw the burn marks on my body and started to run for the door. I stopped him. Shaking my head. As much as I needed my time, Lexa needed hers as well. Hunter looked at me.

"But Sir she att-"

I waved my hand and Hunter's mouth was closed shut.

"Leave her."

He nodded and began to walk away after looking back at me for a few seconds to see if I was alright. Moving on, I walked into the room and plopped myself down on the couch. Just sitting there. Thinking over everything that had happened. How I had acted to Lexa. I probably owed her an apology.

[member="Lexa Imura"]

 

[Zayani Brin]

After a while, Lexa got up from her place on the floor. She went and found Kalee, then was led to her room. It was small and comfortable. She sat down on her bed and decided to meditate for a little bit. That usually helped.
[member="Nickolas Imura"]