C6 Retribution

At the white leafed forest known as Kohes forest, many students laid bloodied on the ground. During this incident, an injured student was sitting beside a tree and tried to stand up but ended up groaning in pain, due to his injuries.

"Damn it, Izaiya!" Izaiya said, "You've really outdone yourself, today..."

Izaiya stared at bloodied bodies around him and scoffs.

"It was foolish of us to think that we could defeat him with numbers." Izaiya said within himself while touching his injured belly and facing the ground, "Damn. Looks like his rank isn't for show. What a monster..."

Izaiya suddenly lifts up his head and sees a shadow figure walking towards him with glowing flaming eyes.

"Ah, there you are..." Izaiya said while smiling, "The monster among mortals.... Onak..."

Onak steps out of the shadow and glares at the injured Izaiya.

"You know what to do..." Izaiya said, "You've collected the black flag and-"

Onak interrupts Izaiya as he clamped his hand over Izaiya’s face. Other students became startled as they heard sound of Izaiya's screams from afar.

Back at Koshendu forest, Van lifted Garl off the ground by the throat with one arm while Rico sat unconscious beside a tree. As Van was choking Garl while grinning sadistically, blue beams suddenly appeared round Van, causing him to let go of Garl (due to Van's body stiffening).

"What the..? My body! I can't move it!" Van said within himself .

"Enough, Van!" Rico said while getting up, "You're strong. Infact, you are far stronger than any of us! But remember, my kan ability of Soul chain, gives me control over your soul's movement, therefore affecting your physical movements as well.

As long as those blue lights are there, Van, you cannot move without my permission, neither can yo-"

Rico was quickly interupted as he found himself being grabbed by the jaw by Van.

Witnessing this, Garl stepped back as Van peeked at him and smirked evilly while still holding Rico.

"What the...how did he get there?" Garl asked within himself, "He was under Rico's hold, a few minutes ago. How did he get out? Once your trapped within those blue lights, you can't break out!"

Van smashed Rico's head into the ground, which created massive craters and left Rico unconscious. Van sadistically smiled as he peeked at Garl, again and kicked the unconscious Rico to a huge tree.

" I've got a new move, I've been waiting to try out.." Van said with a grin as he raised his index, "Hornet light: Unforgivable chain!"

Van snaps his fingers and multiple lilac beams appeared round the unconscious Rico, piercing all over his body in an instant and leaving him to bleed out.

Garl, being angered and shocked by what he saw, grinded his teeth and snarled.

" VAN! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!" Garl asked, "He was down and out! There was no reason to beat him to that extent!!"

"Oh? Is that so?" Van asked as he turned to look at Garl, "I had every reason to beat him to that extent. You, Juni and that rat, deserve more than this, for betraying me.

You know, when you first brought me into your little group, I was given the impression that you were my friends but you were all nothing but backstabbing rats."

"Van, Rico did not betray you." Garl said, "It was me and Juni that planned this. When we told Rico of our plan, he disagreed and begged us not to commence with it.

Multiple times, we planned to take you down but Rico would look at us and we would decide not to attack."

"Oh, so you did plan to betray me?" Van asked while glaring at Garl.

"Yes, we did." Garl answered, "So, if there's anyone you should be angry at, it should me and Juni. But please, punish me instead of them, since I was the first to think of it."

"Oh, don't worry." Van said, "You'll get what's coming to you ... After I deal with Juni."

"Juni?" Garl asked in shock, "But she's unconscious."

Garl stared in horror as he spots Juni slowly getting up and Van's glare quickly turned into a smile.

"Van...stop..." Garl shakily said.

"Hornet light..." Van said slowly while still smiling.

"Van, please don't...!" Garl said.

"Mata... Maraiya ..." Van slowly said while grinning.

A nest of lilac hornets appeared over Juni and Juni, sensing their presence, lifts her head and stares in shock. The hornets rained down liliac beams on Juni that pierced her body severally and created a lilac explosion.

As the smoke had cleared, Juni fell on her knees and Van appears in front her and instantly lands a high knee on her jaw, which sent her crashing across the forest.

"Trash." Van said while smiling.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Garl asked as he punched Van on the cheek.

"I TOLD YOU TO TAKE OUT YOUR ANGER ON ME!!" Garl said while viciously punching Van on the face.

Van quickly retaliates with a headbutt and followed up his attack with a lilac beam on the belly, that sent Garl roughly tumbling on the ground.

While Garl was struggling to get up, he began to cough out blood and noted himself to be bleeding on his belly.

"Don't worry." Van said while smiling as he was walking towards Garl, "I'll make sure that your punishment will be far greater than her's."

Back at Xondu forest, the injured Cloud was heavily breathing while holding his belly in pain as he reaches an isolated area in the forest and falls flat on his face.

"Damn, i managed to escape from that maniac." Cloud said within himself while struggling to get up.

Cloud recalled as Xorian was slamming him repeatedly on the ground while holding on to his ankle with one hand and tossed him away, like a rag.

Another flashback occurs as Xorian ran towards Cloud and drove one of his shoulders into Cloud's midsection, causing Cloud to cough out blood and spittle while crashing back-first into multiple trees.

Another flashback occurs as Cloud was at the edge of a cliff, bleeding severely from his forehead while his entire body was shaking as he struggled to stand.

Xorian slammed his fist against his palm and grinned.

"I wish i could play with you some more, but unfortunately for you, you seem to be at your limit and time is fleeing." Xorian said as he sets his right fist in a position to punch Cloud. Xorian suddenly ignites his fist with red aura and sighed.

"It was fun. Have a good trip, Cloud of the Stormwind!"

Just as Xorian launches himself towards Cloud to punch him, Cloud quickly opens his eyes and sidestepped Xorian, causing him to fall from the cliff

"F*****CCCKKK!!!!" Xorian screamed while falling into the bottomless mist

Cloud, seeing Xorian has gone, fell on his knees and began to breath heavily.

After recalling that moment, Cloud stood on his knees and sighed.

"I only averted his punch because of the hunting technique, my father taught me on how to read the target and the environment before they attack."

Cloud tries to stand on his two feet but painfully falls back on his knees.

"You are basically the weakest and lowest among us..." Karma's voice replayed in Cloud's head.

"I am weak..." Cloud said within himself while facing the grass on the ground, "Honestly, I don't know how I've survived alone, since my tribe's death. All the dangers, the monsters and other things that have tried to kill me when I was wondering on my own... I don't understand how i was able to survive all that...

I don't understand how I even managed to survive this academy's trainings and tasks.

I don't even understand how I managed to survive against other students!!

I should have died a long time ago. No matter how I try to look at it, I am just a useless guy, who is trying to keep a promise that was made a long time ago."

"You weren't present during the first five months of intense training where some of the students even lost their lives while some left because they could not handle the pressure...You came after these five months when the training became a bit mild, but you still barely survived and passed..." Zera's voice replayed in Cloud's head.

"Damn it!" Cloud said within himself as he hammerfisted the ground, "Why am I like this? So weak... So damn useless! I'm not like them, I'm not...

Well, there is no point of me complaining now. I just have to keep moving forward."

As Cloud tried to stand on his feet, again, a green potion falls out of his cloth to the ground, which made Cloud recall when he was discussing with Leorona, alone.

"Here, take this." Leorona said as she hands a green potion to Cloud, "Took me over a week to make this, but you'll feel a lot better... Trust me.."

Cloud takes the potion from Leorona but smell of the potion, caused Cloud to hold his nose.

"Ew!" Cloud said, "I know you're giving me this, incase I run into another Van beat down situation