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Makie was happy she got Lukan down to his back, that meant she could strike him more easily. Although, her was a fast striker, and easily blocked her baton. She withdrew her baton and twirled it around her finger back to the side of her leg where it once was. Then as Makie tried to think of what to do next, she noticed what he was going to do with the scythe. Her milk chocolate eyes widened as she tried to pull it away. A small nick, that was close. Although, if she was too rough with it, the ribbon could eventually break and be unable to use.

Makie felt a little upset that her ribbon was nicked. Her gymnastic ribbons were her prized possession. She had one of every color, shade, tones, and even of different lengths. The girl always had one with her no matter what. In one way, her gymnastic ribbons were like saftey blankets, as she never went anywhere without them. They protected her in a way. Her chocolate eyes changed from tears to a cross between tears and determination. Makie's eyes also held the emotion of regret, which never left.

Deciding not to jump back, or pull away, Makie immidiatly did a hand stand, over Lukan's shins. This way he wouldn't get up. She looked at him and smiled childishly. Next she pulled out her baton and with her feet, and brang her feet on both sides of his chest, pinning him down. After, Makie quickly turned around, taking his arms and pulling both Lukan and herself up.

Secretly, Makie let the hoop from her waist drop down, and with her feet, she slipped it under Lukan before he got up fully. Then, Makie slowly let the hoop tighten around his ankles, which she took the time to slip off a ring. With the ring, with her hands still holding Lukan, she brought his hands closer together as Makie let the ring grow and slip around both his hands. Makie jumped back and then tried to use her blue ribbon to wrap around his arms and chest.

Makie wasn't exactly thinking, she was just kind of playing around. This meant that, the girl didn't think of what he could do to counter. Now the ribbon might not hold as well as everything else, but the hoops could grow and shrink depending on what it surrounds, so it was harder to break. Shaking her head, and her light pigtails, she began to devise a plan. Having already seen how quick Lukan could react, Makie had to think quickly.

'Ehh... Um.... Ah...' Makie's mind wandered as she breathed lightly on the outside. You could swear that she wasn't breathing at all because of how light her breaths were. 'Ah... I-I got it!' With that Makie took a deep breath, and began to take out to batons. She whispered something uncomprehensionable under her breath and began to let the element of light seep into the batons. Seeing as how Lukan would have probably gotten out of her little time buying trap, she set off int a run. There were several hiding places, so why not make use of them?

Makie ran in and out the mountains of trash. The batons started out parallel, and they were slowly coming into and 'X'. "Catch me if you can!" Makie cried out, still running between the piles of junk. You could hear childike laughs emitting from every where. 'Please.... Just let this work...' Makie thought to herself as the batons came into the 'X' shape. Her chocolate eyes were fixed on the batons, and the light flowing into them. The ends were getting sharper now. But this was not what she was aiming for.

Now Makie continued to run, but this time, she was ready for the moment to strike. She couldn't really tell where Lukan was, and she was just looking around. Her batons glowing sharply with sharp ends. They were in a form of an 'X', but if looked closely, it was really a cross.

As Makie waited she breathed silently and lightly. She'd be panting under pressure, if she wasn't afraid to be caught. The girl frowned matching up this moment with pieces of her past. however, when she remembered her past, it came up in bits in pieces. It was hard to say what really happened in between each memory.

'Why am I remembering this! This is not the time!' Makie thought to herself, trying and failing miserably to shake the memory off. 'I'm in the middle of battle! Focus on wha's happening!' At this point, her small head peeked out, unable to see where Lukan had gone. Makie began to ran but suddenly stopped.

***

Makie ran and ran in a dark black forest, tears falling from her innocent eyes. Her shoulder length brown pulled into little pigtails. In her hands she held a bear, and on her body, she was wearing a little yellow sun dress. Although, the dress was ripped and cut up. She was running from something, she wasn't quite sure what, but she was running from something and she had to get away.

A streak of dust blew in front of Makie before she turned on her heels and ran back the other way that she was going to. She ran screaming, panting, scared, the little Makie didn't know where to run. Another streak of dust in front of her again. She turned on her heels again back the way she was going, the streak of dust circled to the front. Makie screamed and ran through the trees. Her dress was being torn even more.

Makie didn't dare look back. She was afraid that she would regret it if she did. Normally her curiosity would get the best of her, but not this time. Her survival instinct was stronger now, and it was telling Makie that she would die if she looked back or stopped. So Makie followed her instincts and ran.

***

The younger Makie stood, breathing lightly. She had barely escaped from whatever was chasing her and now she was hiding behind a huge row of bushes. Tears lightly fell down her cheeks. She was scared. She didn't want to die. She heard footsteps walking away from her. She breathed out, trying to relax. Then something hit her from the back of her head and she fell forward.

***

The older Makie, with an arm stained with blood, and her dark to light attire powdered in dust, stood tears silently falling from her eyes. She didn't know why she was crying though. She told herself to be quiet, and not to cry, but it didn't seem to work, because she heard a sound. The girl didn't see anything through he milk chocolate eyes, but she definatly heard something. Makie choked on the air, from inhaling some of the dust that was suddenly created.

Makie coughed up the dust that tried to go down the throat. On top of that, she couldn't see a thing. She closed her chocolate eyes, still coughing. Her ears picked up on another sound, she guessed it was Lukan, but she couldn't pick up where he actually was. She tightened her grip on her batons. He could strike at any moment, from anywhere. Then it hit Makie. Literally.

An impact of three sharp claws hit her stomach. This time between coughing up dust, she coughed up a bit of blood. Her batons went flying some where, and her childish eyes opened instantly. This time the tears came out from the dust that came in contact with her eyes, the memory and because of the pain. Makie felt her skin being exposed to the air, and she felt something running from her stomach down her skirt down her leg. This stained the skirt of the dress and her unique sky blue tights.

Makie's mouth moved, her mind screaming out, but her voice not coming out. Sure a choked word emerged from those perfect pink lips, but no actual words, syllabels (sp?), vowels came out. Her body was thrust to the pile of trash, causing a few things to fall out, one box hitting her causing more pain. Her eyes blinked rapidly trying to remove the dust from them. At the same time, her large brown orbs scanned for the batons, they were out of her reach.

'Ow.... I... N-Need to do s-something... B-But what...?' She thought to herself. The dust finally cleared revealing the sun light that soaked the girl's body and revealed the new Lukan. Makie's eyes would have widened if she hadn't coughed up another bit of blood. Lukan now had his bushier tail, sharp claws and fangs. He looked like he was getting serious, which meant Makie would have to get more serious too.

She stepped forward, feeling great pain in her stomach. A hand over her stomach, and then Makie ignored any pain coming from her stomach. She quickly twirled out a baton, and chucked it like a dart at Lukan, sharp ends going straight towards him. Next, the moment after she flicked the baton, Makie took out a clip from her hair, growing it to a red ball, which she threw to the ground at her feet, creating a light explosion. Soon, she took all the light coming from the explosion and the sun, and formed it to her hands.

In a few moments she whispered a few things under her breath, removed her hand from her stomach and clasped them together over her chest. Then opening her upset eyes she opened them up to reveal a large ball of light. Makie quickly maneuvered her body to the side, running as she let the ball expand larger then the width of her small body. "Spring forth from my hand towards my enemy. Divide and conquer what is right fully yours!" Makie cried out as the light came from her hands to split into several light arrows shot out towards Lukan. It would be impossible to dodge them all, but you could probably be able to get away from some of them.

"Owww..." Makie said falling to her knees, her stomach sending pain through her whole body now. The girl's head spun in circles and she was getting dizzy and tired.

( This fight is just getting warmed up! I'm pumped for this fight! Sorry, if this is too long Lukan. >.> )

Makie heard Lukan's cry. She knew that some of the arrows had hit him, but her stomach really hurt. She'd probably be whining out loud if it wasn't for her voice. Nothing was wrong with her voice, but from all the dust then the blood, she was pratically getting sick over every word she spoke. Makie used one hand to brush back her brown pgi tails and the other to support her. Although, her pigtail fell back down to the side of her face even after she brushed it back. Makieclosed her eyes for a second.

This was weak of her. She had to get up, besides, Lukan might decide to take the chance and attack her. Makie tried to move, but then she felt as though she was stuck in place. She took a breath, and managed to get to her knees before her opponent came. The brunette took defense position, but after a few moments, she realized what he was doing. Makie nodded, and slowly got up.

First, she took a few moments to breathe, while placing a hand over her heart. Makie paused slightly, trying to re-collect her thoughts. 'I need those batons... I can at least cause some critical damage... But...' Makie thought to herself, moving some of her bangs from her eyes. ' If I make a dive for it, he'll get me... Lukan's faster now... I have to win this though! Ohhh... That's so selfish of me...' Then her mood shifted slightly to self disappointment. But then, she shook that feeling off. She'd once again go straight into the battle, trying to wing it as she could.

Taking her still nicked ribbon, Makie lunged forward, whipping it twice as she leaped and spun in the air. When she came out of it she landed in fron of Lukan, where she quickly moved to the side, then behind him and then once again to the front. The girl was basically circling him, twirling at the same time. Round and round she went, hoping to make him dizzy. Her pigtails went flying like propellers, which also added to the spinning and dizzy. Then, she jumped out of it, and whipped out her ribbon. Next she wrapped it around his tail and then began to run. She felt bad for doing this, but if it could cause some pain, enough for Makie to get the two batons from earlier, she would have to do.

"S-S-S-Sorry..." Makie choked out.

Makie stood as Lukan winced in pain. She didn't know what to do. Her eyes wandered from the boy, the nicked ribbon, her batons and then back to the boy repeating the process. She bit her lower lip and decided she would stop dragging him. As the fox, or dog demon raised his claws, Makie jumped back, and eventually went flying. Since she had already been pulling back, when Lukan broke the ribbon she pulled hard and went flying.

Her body once again hit the ground. Her fragile skin brushed harshly against the ground, feeling rocks dig into her skin and cut her arm up. Makie laid there, still hearing Lukan's cries. Her chocolate orbs were filled with worry. The brunette slowly got up, and scrambled up onto her feet. When she regained her balance, she wandered over to Lukan in slow steps. She stopped in a good distance.

"A-A-Are you o-okay?" Makie called out, her voice both shaky and smaller than it normally was. Then she saw him get up. The girl's eyes widened before she turned on her heels and ran. Her breaths were light and quick. She ran to the batons as quick as she could. Makie dove into a tuck roll, and quickly picked the batons up. They still had the power of light flowing inside of them. It was then the girl's small ears heard Lukan's battle cry.

She started in a small run, before she stopped herself. Makie had to face this. The girl stood back turned towards Lukan. 'Just turn around Makie! Don't be a coward!' She gulped as she thought this and turned around to face Lukan, just in time to get hit. She was hit just above her left breast, between the shoulder and chest area. The claws dug right in. Makie couldn't hold it in.

"EIYAHHHHH!!" Makie's voice voice cried out as loud as she could. The batons went flying again and her body went another. The left strap broke, as the blood literally flowed out from her body. The girl couldn't end it there, but that literally dug through her skin. "Ow!! Ow!! I-I-It hurts! It hurts!" Makie yelled again, but her words were choppy and let out on breaths. Her knees pulled together, her arms holding the wound.

"Ow... Oww!" Her chocolate eyes opened and closed in pain. Makie just lied there still trying to get over the pain. She thought about talking with Misty before this. Misty had told her to show no mercy, but Makie wasn't like that. Teras stung her eyes harder. From both pain and of failure. 'I-I-I've failed Misty... I-I can't fight, but... O-O-Oliver... A-A-And I t-t-told myself I'd m-meet s-sister Sakura i-in the finals, or at least for one round.' Makie told herself, not being able to control the tears, as she rolled from her right side, to her back, to her right side, to her back.

Misty also said to never give up. Makie was trying, she really was, but she couldn't move, she felt terrible. She felt paralyzed, she felt like she was going to die. Then she cried even more, Misty was probably watching her fight, which means she was watching Makie's moment of pain. Tears stained her light brown pigtails to a darker brown, making them stick to her pale cheeks.

"Get up and fight Makie!" A voice cried out from the audience. Makie looked painfully over to see her older, more mature and much stronger friend. "Don't leave it at this! You aren't a failure until you give up! Remember who else is watching too! They can't talk but they're probably saying to get up and win this! We'll treat you after!"

Makie paused crying, trying to sit up, but failing. She should just give up, it would be easier. But no... It hurt too much... She felt like she had lost a long time ago. "My god, just get up! Be strong for me... For them... For Oliver if it gets you pumped up! Relax and continue the fight!" Misty called out again. This time Makie wondered if Lukan cared, it didn't matter what he thought, but Makie didn't want to loose a friend. The girl certainly didn't want to loose.

Her childish instinc got the better of her, and her survival instinc. She would have to win and survive. But also, children hate to lose, they hate to have something precious taken away from them. In this case, if Makie lost, she would lose her interest and happiness in looking forward in hope for a battle with her friend. If Makie lost, she felt as if she'd lose more than the battle. She felt as if she'd loose all of her confidence, faith and trust. She did not want to lose that.

Makie rolled onto her bum, then to her knees. Then slowly got up. The first few attempts, she fell back down with out the support of her whole left arm. When she finally rose up, and with the blood still gushing from her shoulder, she smiled innocently as if nothing happened. "Let's go!!! The round hasn't even begun!" Her voice declared happily, but also fear hidden under it. In her eyes were all things childish, but I suppose it was just determination and her survival instinct that kept her going.

"I... I-I'm okay! S-So... W-We should continue our f-fight and... T-Then a-after w-we'll b-be friends... D-Don't hp;d back b-because I'm a l-little g-girl though..." Her voice was a bit more shaky, but still held innocent childishness. Then, within seconds, she was back to her silly old tricks. Using the sun, Makie managed to create only a few copies of her. Not a lot though, since it took a lot of energy, but it would manage to keep Lukan busy. "G-Go forth my friends, a-and play with your doggie!"

Her happy little innocent voice said, and the light copies of her went to play. They threw punches and kicks, and each of them had a different weapons. One had a more effectice light element gymnastic ribbons, Another had two hoops, and the two others had two batons each. In short there were four copies using their weapons one right after another. They wouldn't last long since it takes a couple of hits, but it did buy Makie time.

Makie finally used the light from the sun and began to morph something. It began to take form of a staff, then as she spun it, it created a shield and a vortex of light. As she twirled, she backed away going to take one last baton from her side, and letting it take a lot of light from the sun. It went as sharp as it could go, so Makie twirled the light staff faster, to ultimately draw Lukan to her. Since she was spinning it so fast, it was like a vortex or a tornado, kind of sucking up everything in it's path.

( Shoot! I'm sorry it's soo long Lukan! )

Makie was surprised when he pulled out some flasks and pretty much blew up her copies. She winced slightly, and then took a deep breath. It would almost seem as if she were holding her breath. As she twirled the saff more, the more wind was created, and Lukan seemed to be drawn in. Makie bit her lower lip slightly, and twirled it as hard as she could. Whispering nothing but prayers under her breath, she tighted her left hand's grip on the baton and readied it for attack.

As Lukan got nearer, she quickly had to decide where to strike. It had to be quick, because he reacts quicker than a human. The brunette, watched the light staff for a bit, finding herself getting a bit dizzy. But, it was then she found a good place to strike. Lukan got nearer, and nearer, until he was in reach of her baton. Makie gulped and closed her eyes.

Still twirling it and bringing LUkan closer, Makie jammed the baton through the light staff, where it eventually stayed and seemed to be slowly being engulfed by the light of the staff. She twirled it one more time, before switching directions with the light staff and the baton. Next, she stopped it, and as if she didn't stop twirling it at all, Makie quickly struck Lukan, in the thigh. The sharp ends in. Then she pulled it out, and tackled him down.

Like she had already mentioned before, Makie was winging this whole thing. She had no strategy, just to win. A breath, before she stuck out her tougne playfully and hastly let the light comes to her hands. As she tightened her grip on Lukan's shoulder's obviously the light was attacking him at the same time. "D-D-Don't st-strain yourself... I-I'f y-you're hurt tell m-me..." Her voice said, as she continued to tighten her grip and attacked him with light at the same time.

Releasing one hand, Makie raised it up and manipulated the light to a ball. Next still pinning him down, she exploded it. This blinded both of them, and she noted early that light affected him. 'Umm... Quickly, think...' Makie then, knew she had to rely on her light abilities and not her broken ribbons or her lack of suppy of batons. The light balls were still in her hair buckles, the same with the hoops around her neck and fingers.

Makie felt something impact with her stomach. her eyes widened as it pressed against her small, still hurt stomach. She managed not to cough out blood, but blood did trickle down from the sides of her lips. She giggled softly instead of yelling in pain. She had already cried enough, so there was no point in crying. Makie let her body fly in the air, but before she landed she flipped and landed on the tips of her toes.

Ai had told her not to go on her toes since she last healed them, but battles were an exception in Makie's mind. She nodded as Lukan signaled her to her to bring it on. She figured that she might wait until she used her batons. So, she leaped forward and she twirled around and around. Then she stopped right by him, landing a kick to his stomach. Figuring he might attempt to block that one, she used her fingers to do the peace sign and poke him in the eyes. Then she gave him a shove. Makie moved to the side before he fell, and gave him another shove to the side to land on his shoulders.

"Why isn't Lukan-kun showing his awesome attacks?" Her voice asked in childish curiosity. "C-Come on! D-Don't h-hold back!" Then her voice returned to it's normal shakiness. Her hands trembled as they collected light energy. This time she would try to do something completely different then all her attacks. As her hands gathered energy, she began to dance around on the tips of her toes, smiling childishly.

'He'll never guess what I have in store for him!' Makie giggled as she thought this. Playing the scene out in her head. The brunette just recently thought up of this and practiced it. It worked on Misty for a second, but... Then it just... Didn't work for some reason... But Misty is weird like that, she was sure it would work on Lukan, if she could manage to do it correctly.

Now it wasn't an attack what she was about to do... It was more like a... Well I suppose it was an attack, but it was something leading up to it. Of course, I'll never tell what it is until she does it. Makie took out black ribbons on by one, tying them to her broken straps, ultimately fixing them for the time being. Her semi-long shoulde blade length hair flowed out, and danced along with her as she twirled, waiting for Lukan's attack.

It made Makie wonder what Lukan's attacks might be. She figured out he could use alchemy and that he could use his claws to damage his opponents, so, maybe he has nifty little attacks that combined the two or something. Prehaps he would use flasks like he had used beforeon her light copies, who knew?

( Eww! This is really small. )

( tee hee hee. Her childish side is showing! Kids always do this! )

Makie was unaware of what Lukan was doing. She just continued to spin and giggle. She felt that just playing around, not using her powers now was like relaxing. Her hands glowed faintly with the light surrounding it. The girl slowly began to lift up her arms. In the spin and as she rose up her arms, it looked really enchanting as her glowed arms slowly rose up as she spun as fast as a bullet. It was then she saw something out of the corner of her eyes.

Makie chocolate eyes looked over as she spun a little slower. Her eyes wided and she jumped around. Her arms waving about, her expression as frantic as if she was running away from something. "SNAKE!!! SNAKE!!!" Her voice cried out as her face changed from frantic to upset to scared then back to frantic. "Whatdoido!?Whatdoido!?" Her words were slurred together as the girl seemed to run around to bump into the statue again. She ran the other way, still screaming about the snake. She still didn't realize it was a statue.

"HOMG!!! H-Help!! Snake!!" Her childish voice cried out, before it stopped moving. Then her head looked around for her opponent. Where did he go? Then she looked up to see him coming down at her foot first.

Her reflexes acted quickly as she ducked down, his foot gazing her back and ripping a bit of the material off. 'Why does my newly made costume have to be torn the first battle?' Makie thought sadly before she got up again. She would have to carry out her plan no matter what. "Look at me Lukan! Look at me!" Makie declared as she took a breath. Using the light formed around her hands she used the light to strech out and create a nice, happy relaxing feeling. You know how that hot weather in summer always makes you a little relaxed, well that's the feeling that Makie was trying to create.

Next pointing her right foot, Makie rose up on her right foot, turning around. Her hair, hirt skirt, and her body were now rotating around and around. Her back left foot was raised at least 90 degrees. Then she began to leap out of it, then when she landed she went down into the splits. From her splits, she bent both her legs, turned around, and crossed her right foot over her left. Next she lifted her whole body off the ground except for her right hand that supported her. The blood stained left arm was raised up in the air. A drop of blood fell from her arm to her pale cheek.

After, Makie lowered her body back down, spun on her butt again, and got up swiftly, to run gracefully around in a circle around herself. She paused slighty, lunging on her right foot, her left foot behind. She stepped on her left foot, before stepping on her right and jumpinjg in the air, lifting her left leg in the air as she jumped. The girl landed on her right foot, making her step on the left foot and repeting the same thing. A little later, Makie began to twirl around on her right foot, her left foot pointed to the side on the side of her knee. When she spotted her head, you could see the relaxing and calm feeling in her eyes, but they also looked a little empty in a way, forgetting about everything. When Makie came out of the spin, it seemed as though she defied the laws of physics by leaping, twirling side ways in the air. She managed to land this but barely. She managed to land it, but barely.

What was she doing anyways? Makie was basically creating a relaxing area for her opponent. Relaxing them, making them feel comfortable and forgetting about any terrible feelings like anger, hate, lust, envy. She made them relax, forgetting about the battle. Then as she danced smoothly and gracefully, it would make Makie's opponent more vunerable. Now this didn't always work, and she only practiced it starting recently, so there was no garuntee it would work. Makie only hoped though.