A/N: Here you have it, this is my collection of Shadow Hearts romance fanfiction. Inspired by a variation of songs, and the pairings consisting in this collection being of course Yuri x Alice, Kurando x Anastasia, Margarete x Keith, a young Zhuzhen x and a young Sea mother, Joachim x Lucia, and Nicolai x Karin.
Disclaimer: I do not own Shadow Hearts or any of it's characters, Midway does.
Inspiration: This collection of Shadow Hearts romance stories, were inspired by the Mariah Carey song Vision of Love, but this chapter was inspired by her other song, her beautiful ode to finding someone to share endless love with.
Ages: Alice Elliot-20, Yuri Hyuga-24,
Side Info.: This chapter is centered on a YurixAlice romance, possible lemon as the chapter goes on. SPOILERS for Shadow Hearts:1 good-ending,
Setting: Time frame: 1912, Yuri and Alice visit her mother. What will happen along the train ride, what new events will change and brighten both of their lives?
Summery: A collection of Shadow Hearts love stories, strictly one-shot, and some hold passionate lemons the couples include: Yuri x Alice, Kurando x Anastasia, Margarete x Keith, a young Zhuzhen x and a young Sea mother, Joachim x Lucia, and Nicolai x Karin.
Vision of Love
Chapter1: So Blessed
Such a long train ride, but peaceful nonetheless. And for that I am quite grateful, especially with all the confrontations, all these battles dealing our lives on a silver platter. Though it was draining, I never regret one minute. You see, I have found something so precious, a treasure some people find themselves wandering the world to find...True, imperishable love
Resting back in the coach seat, eyes sewed to your hunched over body, accommodating to the small space. Finding simple pleasure in lean his slumbering face in my lap. Rocking to the rythym of the car as it travel at moderate speed along the jagged tracks, rocking steadily ever so often.
"So tender, under that shell you take cover in, my love." It's like when he is caught off guard, even in that split second, I see the frightened child inside. Fighting away the darkness, stroking my finger tips across the smoothness of his cheek..
Lying beside you
This joy is so deep
I reach out and touch you
Tenderly
I hold that fragment of a memory close to my heart Yuri, when the mask's binding seal on my soul had been commenced. And I had been teleported from sleep to the dreary graveyard in your soul. I was so frightened, my time had ran out, the last grain of the lot had dropped in the hourglass of my fate. I thought I would be taken by the god of death, my soul stolen in it's prime before I could tell-you.
Stumbling around aimlessly, though I had been to this treacherous place once before hand, we I had proclaimed my soul for the salvation of your own soul. That was the only definite comprise available, so I obliged, whether you'd care or not. The sacrifice was worth it in the end...
Looking inside you
My world is complete
I struggled to find you
Now I'm free
However this time around, I had succumbed to the overwhelming fog of immorality, so intense I felt my heart throbbing in exhaustion. Beating was so strong and loud my eyes stung with the pounds of strain, weakening my body. "Yuri-I," in my pain I noticed a small tombstone. Quite incompatible from the other graves of the demons, you had fused with.
Possessing no specific nimbus, setting it apart from the monstrous presence emitting from the other stones. This one in particular gave me uneasy chills trickling down my spine, such emptiness...I was almost afraid to see what the carvings read. Why?
Crawling closing until my eyesite was capable of decrypting the message rotting on the tombstone. "Alice Elliot, rest in peace..." I felt a disheartening ocean drown me deep in its depths. A remorseful acknowledgment of my approaching death. Waiting in prowl to snatch my life away,
"That's me, could this be the grave...I have dug myself?" My hesitant footfalls treading at the base of the stairs, staring up at the devilish masks as they taunted me. "I told you we'd come eventually, little girl." The staff mask grumbled arrogantly with a strident spin,
"Even if you are in the very arms of that pitiful fool, you are not safe. We have sought after you, and now...you must face him, are master...Atmen"
The creaks of the hinges of the thick door, as it steadily opened, exposing the darkness cascading out onto my trembling physical structure. Soaking me, knowing that I had no time to be a coward in the face of death. I pushed internally finding myself closed into the iniquity room, where he awaited me.
"You're completely alone, no one's coming to save you little girl, you're going to die here and now. Accept your fate silly child." cast a demoralized gaze to my feet,
"But tell me, do you have any last regrets...about sacrificing your life for the foolish boy's?" Was that foul creature honestly expecting me to grove? Never, not to such a beast, father, I kept close those words you whispered in death to me, as your wounds spilled open. "Never have regrets, never fear the darkness that lurks, even in the worst predicaments...Alice,"
"Father," Enclosing my palm around the crucifix that you, Yuri had bestowed on me as a gift. One I still treasure to this day. It was the symbol of encouragement for me, after the long months you had vanish in the illumination of the Seraphic Radiance. I held it close, in hopes your that pure vitality of your soul still lingered,
"No, I bare none." I whispered in a spiral of impressive confidence. Brimming brightly, noticeable to even the satanic form floating before me. "Not as long as I live, or die."
I was afraid though, still. I remember the raw commitment of your voice as you swore to Koudelka to keep me alive and untainted by death. I wish you...no, I couldn't die wishing for your rescue. I couldn't leave that hope a drift as I die.
Tears stung my eyes again, thinking it'd be the concluding time I would posses the ability to shed tears. Faltered as the evil aura glowed undyingly around him, preparing to smite me from existence. Locking my eyes tightly, expecting shear pain. Opening only to turn and see the door burst open, and my protector till the very end emerging from the light. Reflecting in my tear stained face,
Precious love
Burning so deeply
Shining completely
For you
"Hands off my woman!" Growling fiercely, taking your place beside me. "Sorry I'm late, those damned masks got in my way. But I'm here now!" Reforming into a fighters stance, fist ready in gear to pulverize any competitor. "Now, prepare to fight Atmen!"
"Imbecile, interrupting a soul contract? An ancient scared ritual! How dare you?" The embodiment of the god of death, rumbled in fury. "You wish to risk your pathetic life for her, you can die you fool!" Narrowing his many crooked eyes at us.
"Yeah! Haven't you been listening? She IS MINE!"
In a clash of power the battle had ended, I felt strength subside from the enormous resilience of that god. But I was overwhelmed by relief and felicity, the binding had broken, I could be with you for all of my life now, without a concrete thought I embraced you so warmly. My slender arms entangling in a sea of loving emotions unable to be expressed more that what I had given.
"Yuri I can be with again, I never wanna leave you," I sobbed into the collar of his trench coat. Heaving tight breaths, as your arms smoothed over my back. Whispering kind things in my hair,
"I know baby, don't worry...I told you I'd protect you didn't I?"
Releasing after a could fifteen minutes I nodded with a timid smile, as we left that horrible place, hand in hand.
So blessed
Amazingly
Touching you now
Awakens me
You are my heart
My everything
Feeling you now
Is all I need
"Alice? ... Alice wake up! Alice please?" stirring back from my short nap, my eyes flutter gently, as the sun rays grazed them. I titled my cheek and stared up at you, as your hands clenched each side of my hips, shaking me. "Alice...Oh baby, don't scare me like that," your eyes resting from your anxiety. Detaching your grip on my waist.
"Yuri...what is it?" I moaned, leaning into your shoulder. Sighing in drowsiness,
"It's just, I woke up and notice you slumping to the side...I was just worried," Such a doll, I grimaced a dedicate smile in response. I had a wonderful man that cared so deeply, I am a lucky girl. Caressing your nose with a impeccable giggle, as it twitched.
"Thank you," I whispered in a daze.
Your curious face emerged, lifting an eye brow in interest. "For what babe?"
I breathed, "For escorting me to my mother's, it truly means a lot."
"Escorting huh? I thought I was meeting your mother," your sly grin curled into a poor impression of a lonely puppy. Whimpering as one might, I scoffed and nudged your shoulder playfully. "Forgive me, thank you for meeting my mother with me."
"No problem baby, for my woman...I'd chase you down to hell to meet your mama." snickering frolicsomely, rubbing your soft cheek against mine. Nipping at my lips with your own, making me blush rapidly as the other people around us observed.
"Behave yourself," I dictated in embarrassment, flattening my face to my lap. "Mother won't be please with your sinful advancements." I whispered shyly, into the fabrics of my skirt.
"Sinful huh? I'll show you sinful baby, when night comes." Chuckling masculinely as you gazed out the small window to the side, polished with dust and dirt from the many passengers. Oh lord, I'm going to need to repent to you father after this long voyage.
"What mother wouldn't love old Yuri?" You laughed mischievously, "I'll make her love me, and that way she'll be nice enough to buy us a huge ass wedding present." Pausing for a moment for my reaction,
I yanked my neck up so I could face you, my mouth agape, eyes trembling in disbelief. "Really, Yuri is this your way of...proposing?" I felt my eyes drench in tears of delight, a dream had become fulfilled sooner then expected.
"Yeah, was that how you do it?" Chuckling as would an excited child, I stared in a haze of doubt. "I even bought some damnly expensive trinket, voila." whipping out a small leather case, cracking it open, resting inside the clam like case, was a simple ring...endowed with a small stone, glittering in the light.
"Look, I know it's not some huge gem...but when I was rummaging through the jewelry store, I thought this one would be perfect, it reminded me of you Alice... chaste, but so beautiful to any one who really looks."
Tears spilling down my pale cheeks, as I listened. "No, I love it...I love you." Flinging my arms to ensnare your neck, as I continue to cry tears of joy into your shoulder. "I want nothing more then to be your wife."
So blessed
Amazingly
Touching you now
Awakens me
You are my heart
My everything
Feeling you now
Is all I need
Precious one
Don't ever leave me
Forever need me this way
The End...
A/N:Than you all for reading, the next chapter will be starring Kurando x Anastasia. So be sure to check it out okay? And let me just tell you, I was incredible moved by the part in SH:1 where Yuri can save Alice, it inspired me to finish. I love them as a couple, they are so elegant and wonderful.