Evanius vs Karinia

February, Age 15
Malon City

I burst through the double doors and stopped when I saw my sister Karinia. She didn't even turn around. She just kept her eyes on the machine in front of her, occasionally pressing more buttons.

"Karin!" I shouted as I drew my spear from the holster on my back. "Back away from that machine. If you activate it you'll blow up everyone in the city."

"Tell me something I don't know." She said smugly.

"You don't have to do this." I said, trying to think of something that would convince her to stop. "You don't have to act like those monsters just to feel excepted. Don't let them use you this way. That's what they're doing, they're using you. They are not your family."

She finally turned to me with a scowl. "What do you know about family? Oh, maybe much more than me since you were able to be adopted into a nice home. You had someone to be your mother and father. You even had a new sister. I'm pretty sure you two got along more than you and I did. And what did I get? An abusive group of people that treated me however they wanted. But now they're dead so I don't have anyone anymore. Except for my soon to be family."

I felt a pang of guilt as I realized why she was so determined to do this. She felt as though I had abandoned her. She's even a bit jealous that I had been living a better life than her.

"You still have me as your brother, Karin." I told her. "I wrote you letters and sent--"

She let out a loud laugh. "Letters? Wrote me letters? No phone calls, no visits. You didn't care what happened to your big sister. You only cared for yourself."

I shook my head. "No, you only care for yourself. You'll kill all of these people just to have a hazy image of a family. A family that's nothing but a group of villains planning to cause more people to die... You can't let yourself become one of them. Do not let the Karin I used to know get overpowered by your own desires."

I saw sadness in her eyes. I hoped that I had gotten through to her and made her realize just how bad this was.

She smiled a little and shook her head. "The Karin you used to know has died, Evan." She said sadly. "She's been replaced by someone who wants more in life. With the people that you call villains. They opened my eyes to what I can accomplish if I'm able to fully be myself and focus on what I want. Sorry, Evan."

She pressed more buttons on the machine and I felt tears well in my eyes. I wasn't able to talk her out of doing such an evil deed. So there were only two things left that I could do and both of them would be very hard.

I could turn my back and walk away. Let her blow up the city and everyone in it. I didn't know many people here in this city anyway.

But ofcourse I knew how wrong that would be. I would feel guilty for the rest of my life for not doing anything to save them.

So my second option was to fight my sister. And if that wouldn't be enough to stop her... I would have to kill her.

Karinia smiled as she continued to press more buttons.

"A few more seconds and this city will be toast," She said. "You're welcome to join us if you have any sense. I'll talk the Dark Assassins into letting you join. The side you're with are destined to lose this war. It's what they always do."

I ignored her remarks and dashed toward her. I tackled her around the waist and brought her to the floor.

She cried out angrily and tore from my grasp.

We both climbed to our feet and I raised my spear. Her hand started to glow and her weapon slid out the palm of her hand.

When it was fully out it extended into a crossbow. Except I knew that she could charge power into it and shoot that at me instead of normal arrows. There were also blades on each side of the crossbow that she could use for close range attacks.

She gritted her teeth and swung it at my head. I ducked under it and tried to uppercut her.

But she was quick enough to jump back. She used magic to leap up onto the wall and stay there. Then she fired at me.

Power hit my chest and broke my armor. The impact knocked me onto my back, but I wasn't really hurt.

She fell back to the floor, landing on her feet and took aim at me again.

I quickly climbed to my feet and threw my spear at her.

Her eyes widened and she jerked her head out of the way just in time. The spear sailed pass her and plunged into the wall.

While she was distracted, I ran forward and drop kicked her in the chest.

She stumbled back and cried out as she hit the wall hard.

I charged after her again and she swung her crossbow at me. I raised my left arm to block but the blades still cut my forearm.

I let out a cry from the sharp pain and jerked my arm away. Then I punched her hard in the gut with my right fist.

She groaned and brought her knee up into my chest. My chest armor was already cracked so the knee to the body went all the way through.

I groaned and grabbed her leg. Then I slung her hard into the wall away from the machines.

She hit it hard and the wall cracked from the force of the throw. She fell to her knees briefly, but slowly climbed to her feet.

I pulled my spear out of the wall and held it in front of me once again.

She fired her crossbow at me again and I ducked. I had already seen that one coming easily.

But she had other plans. She appeared behind me and I couldn't turn quick enough. So she fired at my back.

The power stabbed me in the back and sent me sprawling face down on the floor.

I turned onto my back and gasped as she aimed at me again. I rolled away as she fired and climbed to my feet.

She fired again but I knocked it away with my spear. Then I dashed forward. Before she could react, I cocked back my spear and knocked her legs out from under her.

Her head made a hard thud as she hit the floor.

A wave of panic shot through me as I thought I might have seriously hurt her. Even if I'd have to kill her, I still didn't want to.

"Karin?" I gasped as she remained still.

She finally groaned and sat up. I stood over her and held my spear at my side.

"Karin, please." I croaked. "Please don't make me go through with this. I don't want to... you know."

She nodded as blood trickled through her blond hair and down her face.

"Don't worry... you won't have to kill me," She said quietly. Then yelled, "And you can't because you can't beat me!"

She leaped up and brought her crossbow over her head. I saw that she had already charged a lot of power into it. If she struck me she could almost kill me.

She swung it down hard and I leaped out of the way. The crossbow missed me by just a few centimeters and hit the control system. It plunged into the metal and the machine began to electrocute her.

She jerked back and forth as she was shocked, eyes rolling back in her head.

I used my spear to knock her away and she fell to the floor once again. She trembled as her eyes darted back and forth wildly. Then she looked up at me as if seeing me for the first time.

She narrowed her eyes at me angrily and then they widened. She turned to the machine as it crackled and finally went silent.

"No!" She cried and climbed to her feet. She staggered over to it and pressed on the buttons. But nothing happened.

"Nooo!" She wailed. "I don't believe this. What did you do? You broke it! You've ruined everything. They'll hate me for this. They'll never accept me now."

I just stared at her with surprise. If all I had to do was destroy the machine, I would've done that as soon as I arrived.

She turned to me angrily. "I'll make you pay!" She cried before her legs gave way and she fell to the floor. Then she lowered her head and began weeping.

I let out a sigh of relief. What a blessing. The city was safe for now and I didn't even have to kill Karinia.

She would hate me with a passion for ruining things for her now, but that's something I can live with.

I turned away and left the room. Her weeping growing more distant with every step, but still giving me a feeling of satisfaction and victory.