Like Catching the wind...(Blaze)

[Gabriel Seran]

The school was empty. Students either in their classes evading the patrol of the pillars or even going so far as ditching class. It was a depressing scene after the events at ground zero. Students began turning on each other acting as though there was no hope, no rule at all. Fear spread like dieseases and there was no order far worse than things had ever been. Truth be told there was no hope. What could anyone do against the sick mind of a totalitarian dictatorship with more power than the students could have possibly amassed. Who could make a difference?

Gabriel Seran, Leader of the Black Knights aslso known as the Dark King. He was known well enouh by his brutal tactics that day which led to the down fall. He was at fault, but he wouldn't let that consume him. Fate have it that an equal would rise to do the same as he. Make a change. On opposite sides they fought for the same purpose only with different ways of doing so.
David Blaze. Hero, Prodigial Knight of the once great Public High school #259, Warrior for peace and hope. Would he have the right choice here to make a change did everything come into play?

Where was justice when evil prevailed? Where was hope, did tyranny become one's only sanctity in times like these? Could fate prove to be on their side or would bitter rivalries drive these two great beings apart?

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Gabriel Seran was unafraid of this tyrant's rule, he was tired of having to fear, tired of constant warfare dragging everyone to look over their shoulders. He'd admit he was the first to suggest a bitter out cry but here he stood with a plan and the hopes of something new.

Students fought in the courtyard, it had gotten so bad that a group of four men picked on a helpless boy, beatin ghim till his forehead was soaked in his own blood. Gabriel wasted no time in splitting it up.

"What aare you animals!" He cried in furious terror breaking them up with several well placed punches.

His body heaved with rage at the sight, if he was to blame let him atone for his sins not the school. He never wanted this. The pain was too great.

[David Blaze]

Davie swung, his fist connecting with the temple of one of the four who Gabriel, unknown by David to be there right then, had broken up. The boy went out cold, His knuckle having connected clean with the temple. The other three got horrified looks. "Fuck, its Blaze! Run!" But they would be going nowhere. He grabbed the hair of the two closest, kicking the feet from under them and pulling on the hair, smashing thier backs into the ground. He made fists with both hands, letting go of the hair and whipping his powerful weapons over thier face, slamming them down on the noses. The cried out, both holding broken bones. David broke into a run. Sprinting toward the last running fool. He ran along the wall beside the boy, jumped off, and gave a hard spinning crescent kick to the fellows head.

He whipped his foot up, and stomped the heel down on the guys face.

Instant KO.

He walked back over to the other two, glancing over the child who was injured and Gabriel, whom David gave a slightly suspicious look to. What was he trying to pull? He football punted one student under the chin. Nighty night. The other, he grabbed by the hair, pulling his head back and making him look into the Seniors eyes.

"Today is your lucky day. I'm going to let you stay awake. Go, tell everyone what you did and what happened for it, and who it was that brought this on you." He slapped the kid forcefully, the boy sobbing as he rolled to his feet, stumbling backwards. "Run! And tell everyone that David Blaze did this! GO!"

The child plowed through the door, breaking away to tell all he knew of what had happened.

David turned, his side Facing Seran.

"What are you doing here Gabriel?"

He almost made it sound accusing, like he assumed the guy was up to no good.

Past experience, he guessed.

[Gabriel Seran]

Gabriel fired several juts of his fist into the kid's faces shattering teeth and breaking bones. He was malicious in his strikes sending them to the floor. Another had joined him and the name was ushered. Blaze. The sruggle didn't last long soon enough the kids scrambled or were on the floor suffering for what they'd done. And he was left there face to face with his old rival.

"What are you doing here Gabriel?" David accused.

It didn't surprise him, after certain events between the two trust was surly not one thing they had to share with one another if anything they were near hatred. Always at opposite ends fighting endlessly for the smae cause they just saw things differently.

"Same reason you're here."

Gabriel didn't let down his gaze, if anything there was an even greater moment of intense focus between the two as they stood at ends of one another. There was something deeper going on here a moment of great minds along with great deeds.

"I'm here for justice." He thought just leaving the situation as it was, there'd never be a chance for the two to unite, they were at ends with one another.

[David Blaze]

Davids eyes poured into Gabriels.

"My justice and your justice are far different, Seran. The sooner you realize that, the better."

He walked over, checking out the students vitals. He places a hand to his neck, concern passing his face at how damaged the boys body was. He sighed, then stood, turning his head to look at Gabriel square in the eyes. What was this boy trying to pull? He played off like he was trying to help, coming to the aid of a student when he used to have people like this beaten up just to send a message. It made his blood boil. He clenched and unlenched his fists. Did he hit him? No, he couldn't. He couldn't just attack him for reason of suspicion/ He had to be certain.

He glanced around, making sure they were alone.

"Justice in my book is following the laws of the school and the state. Obeying your teachers, not causing fights, and not looking for trouble. You don't do any of those. You cause riots to fill your own lust for power, and threaten pregnant women just to prove a point."

He turned so his body was facing Gabriels completely.

"Your the type of person whom i should be pounding on, right this second. Give me one good reason why i shouldn't start."

[Gabriel Seran]

"Because I saved her life!" Gabriel shouted his features jolting to anger and defiance.

Gabreil took a few steps foreward so that now he was right in David's face. The temptation to hit him was so overwhelming more anger flowed through him than it would for most people but it was not hatred. It was envy that drove him. Gabriel had no set of morals to his actions though there was an instant where David was wrong, he hadn't done it for power.

"You don't know everything about the situation all you base your justice on is what you can see, what you can do to interfere with the situation you don't understand how wrong you are. That justice comes with a price that without everyone coming to terms there will be no justice."

Gabriel's anger turned into something more powerful, passion.

"You can't just go around the school cleaning up the streets on your own as some lone gunman." Gabriel drew in a deep breath, "You need to have a path..."

[David Blaze]

David didn't flinch, he stood his ground, staring into gabriels eyes unblinkingly as the boy spoke.

"You talk of justice like its something you wanted all along. The means you used to go about delivering your twisted version of justice was not the means that should have been used. Trying to prove that those students who fight for the school care more for a title then the people by actually destroying the individuals we try to protect is, regardless of how you look at it, wrong." He tilted his head a little to the left. "And as for a path- your wrong. I've tread the path before me for years and it has earned me nothing. I will have no path, no center, no distinction between a small evil and a great one. I will tear anyone apart who goes against the ethical code of conduct."

He paused for a moment, his voice softening.

"Would you like to stop me, Gabriel? Would you dare to try and put an end to something you are obviously unable to muster the courage and stomach to do? Or perhaps you do have the strength and courage, but you can't get it to your soul what is right and what should be done."

He took a half step back.

"I used to be a Captain, a leader. A Hero. But no more. I will make no parley, and will hold no qualms about having fear to be my weapon. I won't do it like you did- i wont tear apart a system, i wont make myself the center. I will simply hurt people who hurt others, and do it without prejudice."

He was speaking from the heart- he knew what he needed to do, what he may become because of it. A public enemy, a target. He didn't care. If people jumped him, he would heal, and pick them off one at a time. If someone defeated him, he would grow stronger, and fight them again. If he found himself friendless and alone- that would be the price he had to pay. He was unafraid, uncaring.

He would become the Arbitor, the Prodigal Knight, the Piercer of Heaven.

He would do what must be done.

[Gabriel Seran]

"Yes I did, I went about it all wrong... I did this all created a world of chaos and havoc I am to blame and now I'm back to repent for my sins rather than hide in the shadows of the past." Gabriel surrendered to that fact that logic that everyone saw him as. They didn't know however that Gabriel had spared lives that day, given up a seat of power to save Reira's life, to even safe Matrim's.

"But what makes you better than the past is standing once you've fallen, and where I've fallen and sowed dark roots I shall make them ungrown I will burn them to the husk and tear the flesh from my hands with the effort and forever lie amongst the rotting earth if need be but I will not bow down to cowardice David Blaze!" Gabriel stepped up again flushing his chest out.

"You my friend are a coward! Hiding in fear, you think you've made the right choice and think that you are a knight of honor of peace and justice but now you're worse than ever rather than standing as one you choose to follow your own path to hide in your own fears. You are the selfish one here... not I and still nothing has changed, nothing but the rotting of corpses against this earth. The people here have grown angry and driven furiously by discent upon one another, what are you going to do Great David Blaze, Ex-Captain of #259, are you going to follow this course? Or be the hero everyone see's you to be?"

Gabriel hoped this plea was enough, as much as he hated to admit it he needed David, he trusted him to do what was right and this above all else was the tilting point the edge at which they must unite together, seperate but equal. And with their strength they could do anything.

"Please David... I'm not asking for you to give up your morals... Just give this a chance."

[David Blaze]

He chuckled, then laughed.

"Gabriel, you are SO off base. Hiding? Cowering? Being AFRAID!? No, those USED to be me. Your looking at a David that was here two weeks ago. I am not him. I am not hiding or sitting in my own fears. I am liberating myself and the school with me. I did not act before because i was afraid, because of my personal fears. Now i am going to act i should, as i used to. Against those whom cause is to instill fear for an evil purpose. I AM being the hero i am needed to be, and i am doing so without putting my friends on the line."

He turned his face more serious.

"You are making out like what i want is bad, like its going to only make things worse. I honestly don't know if what i want to do will work, because i truly have no long term plan for it. Its not some big, extravagant thing. What i told you will happen, and thats that. As for your....repenting...." He paused, staring long and hard at this man. He sounded so sincere, yet he couldn't help but be wary.

"We will see. I will not destroy you, Gabriel, for now. You talk of trying to do good- prove it. I will be watching you, and we'll see if you have really had a change of heart."

[Gabriel Seran]

Trust. Such a funny thing. Truly deep down it came down to more than just trust, things came down to the smallest little detail. People were all inherently the same. All wanted something in life, Gabriel wanted potential, he wanted power and he wanted peace. David on the other hand was strange to him Gabriel saw something much like himself in the boy but something was different a sense of confusion within himself perhaps. Someday it'd be his mission to find out, till then tey'd remanin at a distance always watching one another.

"I'll show you what I'm made of David Blaze." Gabriel murmered silently as he exited the back yard keeping a good distance from theboy.

In time they'd see each other again, even though David had no long term plan Gabriel did. He sought the moon stars and everything in his encompassed sight. Till next time.

[David Blaze]

'Yes, yes you will.'

David bent, picking up the body at his feet after Gabriel left. His feelings and mision in his own regard were unchanged, though his basic outlook on Gabriel did. Now, instead of a enemy, he moved his feelings to a nuetral location, giving Gabriel the chance to undo what he had done wrong. Every individual of law could give someone the chance, just one, to prove themselves changed, and though Gabriel was guilty internally of commiting crimes, in the world itself his crime were not in fact that hefty. The intentions and what he planned was, but his actual actions were more than worthy of forgiveness.

He carried the boy easily on his shoulders, leaving the other three males to sleep until such a time when they either woke of thier own accord or were taken to the hospital.

David looked up to the sky and, for the first time in years, thought of his mother.

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