Aven tightened a white cloth bandage on his knuckles. Using his teeth to knot the end of the bandage. After he was done, his gaze shifted to a heavy breathing Sun, covered in blood.
Sun's knight armor was now dented, with a grunt, he peeled off his golden shiny gears from his skin, it landed with a soft thud, revealing a set of white crusty silky clothes.
He winced in pain as he rolled back, his back against the floor as he clutched his stomach where a purple bruise formed up. He cleaned off the bloodly crust on his forehead, grimacing about how dirty he was.
Aven noticed that Sun wasn't healing like a usual higher rank member. He took a little peak at his stats, but he flinched, staring at his system floating screen that displayed the word; [BLOCKED]
Aven eyes widened, shaking his head before he glanced back at Sun again. How did he block me? No one should be able to do that.
But Sun managed to smile back at him, his blood stained teeth flashed at him. "My apologies, Queen, I can't just let you take a nasty look at my system like that. It's rude."
Aven scowled at him. He clenched his bruised fingers, taking big stompy steps at Sun. This bastard kicked my head like a soccer ball and have the nerves to call me rude?!
He dragged Sun by the collar, tightening his grip on him.
Sun aimlessly flailed in his hands, unborthered and smiling like he hasn't lost a tooth when Aven punched him back as payback. "Don't act like you're with dignity here. You killed my teammate, you psycho!"
"Again, It was an accident. If the knight hadn't blocked my path when I wanted to find my fun, he wouldn't have been dead. It was a mistake my sword hit him—"
"What about Elian, huh! You made me drop him, and now that Idiot ran away!"
Sun scoffed, he tilted his head to the side, his mismatch eyes squinting back at Aven.
The smoky atmosphere choked in his nose, stung his eyes, but he burst out laughing, leaving Aven really confused. Forming his hand into a fist, he punched Aven in the guts. "I think that is a 'you' problem."
Aven staggared back, coughing out a bit of blood, his eyes glassy and wide as he tried to suck in the pain. His hands flew to his stomach, clutching it. His angry eyes met Sun. However, Sun immediately disappeared into thin air, warping out of time.
Aven flinched, his pupils shrank, twisting his torso to the side just in time, he took two steps back.
His eyes searched the sky, instantly, he thrust his leg into the thin air in a roundhouse kick. It hit Sun right in the face, going down with a loud thud as he touched his swollen cheek, eyes burning from the forced tears.
"Ow-ow-ow. OW! That hurts! How did you know I would appear behind your back?!"
Aven merely shrugged. "You were too predictable. Another attack above my head? Really?"
There was a slight silence. The only sound passing through the present time was just the cackling of the fire burning in the buildings.
Aven sighed loudly, stretching his limbs before he levitated, floating in the air. His eyes examined the burnt down chaos, and the broken apartment buildings littered on the ground.
He had followed Sun and Moon angrily to avenge his teammate, Kent. Perhaps, he didn't know when he flew all the way here.
All out of anger to kill Sun. After all, Those twins are one of the white pieces. But he couldn't do it. Sun wasn't even fighting back with full force when he could.
He spotted a pool of blood, mixing in among the ruins on the lower grounds. Squinting his eyes as he lowered himself down. The warm wind caressing his face, he softly landed, eyes darting to an iron rod that escaped out of a broken building.
His eyes locked on the iron rod, blood glistening as it dripped onto the damp concrete. Crusty in some places, still slick and sticky in others, the scent of iron filled his nostrils.
Aven scanned the area. In the first place, not even a Rook-class can survive a fall from a tall building, not to think of a mere pawn. He coughed, spitting someting dark into the ground. Not that Elian was a mere pawn.
His hand clasped on his hair, drawing out a loud sigh. He leaned back slightly, if his dead body isn't here, then he's very much alive. "Where the hell are you, Elian. At least don't die yet unless i solve this mystery," he muttered to himself.
He felt a slight shift of air, twisting his head to the side to see who it was.
Sun stood behind him, his lips were pressed thin, looking away from Aven's gaze.
As if thinking a thousand times before letting out a single word, Sun reluctantly opened his mouth, squirming, "Why didn't you kill me when you had the chance? Don't you wish to avenge your teammate?"
Aven gaze lingered a little while on Sun's awkward movement. "Because i'm not a killer, duh. If I lost one life, I can't get it back at the expense of another. It doesn't work like that."
"Umm… thank you," Sun bit his lips, his eyes searching anything but Aven. "I… I have to go right now."
"Oh no, you don't. You are gonna stay here with me to find the survivors of this outbreak and find Elian too!"
Sun shifted his weight again, a reluctant sigh leaving him. "Fine… I will accompany you. But mark me—this is for finding the pawn, not for your… temper. I don't care about the other survivors. I want mine back."
Aven groaned, tilting his head, but nodding nevertheless. He signalled towards Sun, asking him to come forward. "We work together now, Kay? No silly fights."
Sun gave a short smile, even after he rolled his eyes at him. He followed Aven, steps careful, dragging one hand across a low wall to steady himself over jagged debris. "Fine."
Dust and grit fell from the edges of broken stone, mixing with blood smeared across the floor. His boots clicked against the cracked concrete, sound echoing unnervingly.
A silence stretched between them, heavy, broken only by distant echoes of shifting stone and faint wind brushing through jagged edges. Then Sun's head tilted slightly. His hand raised, pointing.
"What… is that?"
Aven's eyes followed the line of his finger. The horizon shimmered, then shifted.
A massive eye hovered above the ruins, impossibly large. Its pupil moved unevenly, jerking side to side with unnatural squelches and wet, sucking sounds that echoed in the rubble. The iris bent and warped, stretching in angles that made both their stomachs churn.
His breath caught. "That… is not natural."
Shortly, both their Systems pinged at the same time. A bit starting to both.
[The Constellation 'Eye Of The Board' just added his new pet.]
[Meet 'Kykloi' the new Watcher of this Verse.]
[Do not anger it.]