Fair.

Aella and doll walked through the valley, the snow starting to fall lightly. It was rare for snow to come this far south of the capital, even this time of year.

Looking up the cliffsides and past the top of the hills Aella could see the sky turn orange, sunset was coming in, and the rock face on the opposite cliff across the ravine glowed a strong orange.

“You really think they will attack here Doll?”

“I think it’s likely, its our best route through the hills to get to the capital, it shouldn’t be hard to figure out we’ll go this way.”

“Well why don’t we take a different route?”

A voice from above called out to them, “because then you wont be in time to rescue your friend right?”

A girl slid down the cliffside and stood on the ledge before them. “I’m Yami.”

Aella looked immediately at Yami’s bracelet.

“Doll!”

“I see it too…” Doll readied herself. “You’re only half of our opponents!”

“How troublesome.” Yami pulled out her swords. “I was hoping you wouldn’t realise until further in the fight, regardless…”

Doll felt something behind her and jumped to avoid Yami’s other body’s attack, Yami gave chase with that body and as she was jumping across the cliff face trying to kill Doll she also made a move for Aella, not expecting to survive, but Aella simply dodged the attack. There was no high energy blast like Yami expected.

Doll pulled back and ran full speed towards the Yami who swung at Aella and made a Qi punch as powerful as she could, be even though her back was turned Yami dodged it and used the force of Doll’s punch to throw her down to a ledge lower in the ravine. Doll righted herself in the air and skidded to a halt on the rock.

Yami could see Aella was giving up chances to attack and decided the best approach was to go all out at Doll before Aella. This was to her advantage. She jumped both bodies down and landed before Doll.

“How did you dodge my attack without seeing it?”

“I did see it,” Yami grinned, “four eyes see?”

Doll readied herself, if that was how it was then it wasn’t the four swords that were most dangerous. She tried to use a cutting Qi type attack to get past the swords but Yami perfectly spaced the swords and the when the Qi attack hit them the specific placement cancelled the attack out.

“What!?” Doll was amazed it was even possible to nullify an attack like that.

Yami smiled “turns out reading all those Qi resonance theories payed off after all.”

Doll jumped from the ledge and ran away from Yami along the cliffside, a different strategy would be needed if she was to come out of this alive. Yami followed, running along both sides of the ravine in pursuit of doll.

Aella tried to keep up on foot running along the side of the path, she could easily have used her abilities to move fast, or to even have killed Yami almost just by willing it, but she didn’t have the will to fight. It was down to doll.

Doll jumped to a spire type rock in the middle of the ravine and turned to face Yami, who still ran along the cliffs towards her, at least she had the advantage in speed doll thought, but that wouldn’t get past Yami’s tight defences. She placed her Qi all along the cliffsides about one meter in and pulled it into the ravine as fast and hard as she could. The walls practically exploded, rocks flew everywhere and giant slabs of cliff started to fall in. as the biggest chunk fell before Doll like a wall, she hoped all the debris would carry both Yamis down and over power them, but the huge stone wall before her split in two and then two again, both Yamis launching through what was left of it and at doll full speed.

“Harmonic swords?” Doll knew a weapon of Polot’s could afford high tech equipment, but this was something she had only heard rumours about, Yami could cut through diamonds with swords like that. She jumped back and only just dodged Yami’s attack, the three bodies fell further into the ravine together and landed on a ledge, doll facing the two of Yami once again.

The left Yami had a massive scar down the side of her face and blood spilling down her cheek. ‘that’s one eye down’ doll thought to herself.

Doll and Yami stood facing each other for a time, catching their breath.

“Why do you do this for someone else?” Doll asked.

“None of your business.” Yami spat.

They both breathed hard before doll threw all the rocks she could up at them from inside the ledge beneath, Yami fought back the dangerous rocks but was forced to ride their flow upwards, and Doll disappeared below the rocks. She set off to find a decent hiding place, she knew she couldn’t attack directly until Yami only had one person’s sight.

The rocks lost momentum and as they started to fall Yami jumped to the cliffsides and looked all around below looking for where Doll had hidden herself.

A little further along the ravine Doll hid in a cranny hoping for a chance to launch more rocks at Yami’s eyes but she didn’t get her chance, Yami used the pull on both her bracelets to triangulate Doll’s exact position, and Doll had to launch herself from the crevice to avoid being crushed by the rocks cut away above her by Yami’s harmonic swords, looking up she saw it was the damaged eye Yami there, but the other Yami was elsewhere, probably in the very direction she found herself falling now, she had to think quickly or she would be dead in seconds.

Something white caught Doll’s eye as she fell past, one of the rocks falling beside her was lit by the sunset slightly differently, it was chalk, Doll knew this was her only chance.

Doll threw the chalk up at one-eye Yami who cut it with her sword, but the harmonics caused the chalk to just become a dusty cloud. The Yami’s vision was now compromised, Doll kicked off some of the falling rock sensing (and only just dodging) Yami’s swing. Knowing she couldn’t see from behind her now doll pulled a large rock from behind Yami and through her chest. Yami let go of her sword.

Doll found her footing on a ledge and Yami and all the falling debris fell past her down into the ravine.

She heard screaming coming from above where one eye’d Yami was.

Doll walked up to Yami, on the floor bent over clutching her chest she wouldn’t stop screaming, her mind and soul, constantly feeling the death of her other body. Her screams intensified as her other body hit the bottom of the ravine.

Fighting the pain Yami looked up to doll, tears in her eyes “Kill me!”

Doll did it as quickly as possible, and Yami felt nothing anymore.