Title: The Repentance Of Resolve
Disclaimer: Don't own anything of the game series and whatnot...
Major Spoilers at end of game
-Storyline may vary to my point of view of how the story should had went-
AschXNatalia
Genre: Romance/Angst
Beware! in later chapters will hold fluffiness! BEWARE!
Time Period: Is set the moment Asch and Luke settle the score who'll kill Van.
The meaning of birth is...
It was time.. Time to see who was superior and most suited to kill the man that had betrayed their trust. The tension was rising as asch had a dull look on his face, he felt an urge to say nothing and start the battle.. But he didn't.
"Well said... I'll make those words you're last, Replica!" As he said swinging his weapon down in a cutting manner.The tension of the air finally collapsed due to the great pressure and the battle had begun, only a few minutes into the battle and Asch was almost completey on the defensive.
Asch and Luke began clashing their swords against eachother's as they had before, but something was wrong with it.. Luke was almost as strong as Asch... Asch refused to accept this as they continued to fight, then! a spark of light came from Asch's sword, Luke try and parry it, but it had already cut him across the chest, a gash was left where it had sliced, blood slowly dripped out.
"Better stand back!" Asch raised his sword as he had before when they fought, a surge of power stunned looked as he tried and maintain his balance, but he could not. The moment Asch cried out "Rending Saber!" it fell to his feet, but no! Luke refused to give up he picked up his sword and backed away abit, breathing heavily.
"Tch... You've gotten bettar dreck..." As he made a quick impact strike to both of their swords, they were now in a deadlock - small sparks flew away from the two combatant's swords.
"Then... Again... You're weak compared to my power!" As he pushed his replica away with a forceful shove, he had quickly made a offensive stance, A snarl was on Asch's face as he began pacing towards the left. "You'll need to use a bettar tactic then an all out attack, because if you don't... Then you might as well let me kill you now!" Asch raised his sword into the air, charging Luke like a feral wolf, As their blades met yet again in a deadlock, It was Asch who had Luke at his mercy.
"Nngh...Not now.. I can't lose after coming this far...!" Luke said in a desperate attempt to push Asch away - but it was too late now... Asch had Luke against a corner and Asch was about to push Luke's back against it. Asch formed a twisted smile as he relieved some of the pressure, at this moment Luke staggered and he was about to fall to his feet, then a sudden punch to his stomach prevented such a fall, Asch clenched his so ruthlessly he too, felt the pain.
"Re...Pli..Ca!" The moment Asch had said this, he slammed Luke into the wall, a crack could be heard, Luke now had his sword dropped and his hands wrapped around Asch's fist, trying to remove it, but the more he tried to remove it, asch just pushed harder within, a more devastating crack could be heard as Luke now spat blood on Asch's face.
Asch now removed his fist by his own volition, Luke collapsed and almost coughed up more blood from the fall. Asch could clearly see his counterpart was at the end of his strength... Asch just wanted to see how long he could last against his attacks..
"I... No.. Asch.. " As Luke now looked up to the towering figure infront of him, a hint of mercy was given on this moment of their parting.
"Give me the jewel... and open the door... It's over... Luke" Asch felt a rush of adrenaline just a second ago, but now he felt he was just doing it for the hell of it.
Luke staggered as he pulled out a orb --- and that moment Asch picked Luke up, setting him next to the lock. " You need to use Hyperresonance to open the doorway" Asch placed luke down on his fours as he began to explain. "I know you can do it..." Asch narrowed his eyes as he began to walk towards the door, however he heard a door from the opposite direction open.
"Halt! Don't let them get away!" Barked a oracle knight replica, a small echoe was heard in the small chambers they were in. They began to make a craned formation around Luke as he had just put his hand on the lock, slowly opening the door. "Goodbye, See you soon..." Asch said as Luke removed his hand from the lock, he turned his head as he the decapitation of Luke, Asch simply smirked in triumph - he was the bettar, The superior and the Chosen to slay Van... But he felt a sudden urge in energy... A faint orange grow surrounded him --- Luke was killed and he felt his remorse as he was now bearing Luke's resolve and soul as well...
"Asch!" A voiced cried out of no where... it was Natalia! ----- As Asch looked towards the direction of the voice, he saw them on higherground, However... Natalia was the only one with a smile as Guy and Jade had a grimace on their faces, Anise a displeasured frown and Tear had a pale, terrified look. on contact with Asch's smirk of triumph -- it was clear to everyone but the one with the smile.
(is all loyalty oblivious?)
The party began to walk down, As Asch stood only afew feet infront of them. Silence was lingering for afew moments until Jade advanced, a smirk again on his face.
"Oh, so.. does this mean Luke is...?" Asch nodded closing his eyes, enjoying every moment of the question, Jade merely closed his eyes in sudden irritation. "May I ask why? Is it because he took everything away from you? does that justify it?" Asch got a disgusted appearance on his face as he clenched his fist towards Jade, "Yes it does! How would you feel if you had every little thing taken away from you along with you're future AND hope! Tell me! How would you feel you son of a..." Asch felt like cutting off Jade's head as his cruel but sarcastic comment.
Guy advanced, looking just as angry as Asch. "Asch! thats enough! I don't agree with what you did, But I'm more concerned that we don't fight here and work together to defeat Van!" Asch snarled and lowered his fist, turning abit.
" I have no reason to help you people out! I did the thing I always wanted to do, next is the thing I've been WANTING to do!" Asch revealed the jewel of lorelei and everyone fell silent, Asch pulled out his sword, putting the jewel into the empty socket, sheathing it again after that. "There is no garuantee that you people.. or me will survive this... so we might as welll... work...t..to together..." Asch almost jumped out of his skin as he said that, feeling like killing himself after saying it.
Natalia raised her voice finally, out of surprise. "But we haven't found Luke yet! We..." Natalia looked at those emerald eyes of Asch's he got a sadistic look in them.
"Tch.. don't you get it? His DEAD! killed by those replica soldiers of the oracles! what? is all royalty oblivious?!" Asch yelled, a moment of silence fell to the people standing there again as they felt those words ringing in their thoughts, Natalia now understood now everyone was angry and had disgruntled looks on their faces.
Natalia averted her eyes from Asch and sighed, feeling a certain despair coming over her, "So... how did.. Luke die?" Natalia asked softly, almost sounding like a whisper, She looked over to Asch again.
"He died by a sword, the moment The door closed, All I saw was their swords flinging down at him! His probably in pieces!" Asch turned around pointing a finger at natalia, she stepped back abit in shock of Asch's hateful voice. "And you know what? I hope his in pieces! He stole everything from me! He deserves it! I..." Asch about finished as the sarcastic Jade interrupted him.
"Even more then Van?" Jade raised his head abit, looking down at him. "Does Luke deserve to be in pieces more then Van?"
Asch stepped forward to Jade, grabbing onto his uniform ruthlessly. "Shut up! they both deserve it! Luke deserved it because he stole my happiness from me! Van deserved to be in pieces because his the one that did this to me! they both are the reason why I haven't killed myself! As long as I see both of them dead, I don't care!" Asch threw Jade back abit, However Jade quickly caught himself by balancing.
"I don't quite understand you're logic... but.. it'd be best we worked together so we both can see Van in pieces" Jade smirked widened as he saw Asch's angry face. "We both want him in pieces, so why not we work together? Oh... my bones ache and whatnot... We need as much help as we can get!" Everyone looked at Jade in disbelief, absolutely stunned at his sudden sarcasm.
"... Colonel! you're the strongest one here!" Anise got next to Jade, tugging on his overcoat, Smiling deviously at Asch. "You'd probably beat Asch in a heartbeat with indigmationary!" Anise yelped out proudly.
"It's called Indignation Anise..." Guy loathed at her mistaken name for it.
"Whatever!" Anise drew a hand towards Guy, who quickly jumps back
"Hmph...idiots..." Asch looked over to Natalia, a slight smile came across his face, however he withdrew it and put a hand on the top of his head, bringing down his hair. "You can follow me and fight with me.. just don't expect to become friendly.. I still have one more on my list of who to kill..." Jade smiled even more as he saw Asch's eyes trail over to him.
"oh.. my, my? Who would that be? Anise! you should get off me before Asch becomes jealous!" Jade cried out as sarcastically as possible.
Everyone remained silent... Asch was fairly angry at Jade now... "You know what? you just took first place on my list! But... I'm going after Van first!" Asch walked away, still smoothing down his hair.
Owari :)
Author's notez: plz.. no flamey! its no like fiiiiiirieee! ;.;