Reconciled hearts: a season9(Lloyrumi story)

Chapter141: Showdown up in flames

Now, having dodged, he glared at the very one who casted that flame ball in the first place, of course it was Zephyr.

"Lloyd! Lloyd, my guy. You have potential." Zephyr cackles, refraining from attacking for a short while. He stood in the back, by the throne along with his companions Ava and Matias.

Lloyd, who was rather salty and exhausted from the fighting already,
"Shut up." he didn't want to hear anything this man said.

Ouch, how rude. That was a compliment!

Zephyr slits his eyes jokingly. "—wasted potential, I mean." He corrected himself in order to spite the green ninja. "You could have been the perfect spellcaster. Doesn't dark arts interest you?" He proposed.

Lloyd shakes his head. No well, there was a time where he rebelled against the ninja and idolized his villainous father.

The times when he was an idiotic but lonesome child.

"It never did." He denies, his pupils showing a sign of wariness and distaste for the topic.

Zephyr was quick to cut through his words, he knew. "Now, we both know that's a li—" there was a loud crash that stopped him dead in his words.

The throne room had blown up to smithereens, the cavern walls burst into flames.

Lloyd and Zephyr's eyes widened in that moment. Despite the same reaction, both expressed something entirely different:

"HARUMI!!!"

"SUCK IT NINJA, SHE'S FINISHED!"

Very...different thoughts. One had sounded desperate enough to run after her, panicking in place. While the other, was ready to scream bloody-murder.

The blast had caused Harumi to hit the wall, she did manage to get out of the machine in the end — though rather...injured. She coughed out dust, not finding anywhere strength to get out of here while this room was doomed to collapse.

She was surprised she even survived that, could it be that the fact she's an oni saved her from an incident that no human can survive?

Kicking the doors open and punching the half-broken walls out of his way, Lloyd frantically searched for the white-haired girl. He called out her name, he kept doing so, in hopes of finding her soon.
There was just,, so much rubble in the way. His chest tightens.

He remembers such a scene.

He experienced it himself before.

Almost.

The light in his eyes return at the sound of a small groan from under a pile of rubble,
"Over here.." it was Harumi, barely on the brink of consciousness, it seems.

Relieved that she was found, Lloyd rushed over to her. Using his strength, he pushed the rocks off her frail and probably broken body, and held her in his arms. He sighs, glad to have her here with him again.

He smiles a little.

"Harumi...I was so scared that you.." he told her, the words he pronounced were predictable each time, but still held the sam effect even after he's said it to her so many times.

He loves her so much, and even if she's put in so many death-defying situations, he's still worried as hell for her.

Having trouble to breathe, Harumi shut her eyes from time to time, struggling to stay calm in such a hurt state. "Lloyd.." she mutters out his name, proving to him that all clouded her mind at the moment was the pain she experienced.