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Of the Sea: Prelude
Couples glided across the marble tiled floor like snowflakes on ice. The lines of winter lilies washed the grand room in beauty and a delicious aroma. Smiles and laughs echoed through the bright light. Women in flowing gowns that seemed to go on forever swirled in a mixture of color around the dance floor.
The lady clad in a pale blue dress with thin, even lighter blue, flowers growing up from the train sighed. Shifting the matching stole tipped with white fur over her shoulders, she made her way to the balcony outside.
The night sky sparkled brightly with all the stars that shone. She leaned onto the stone railing, smiling a secret smile only for herself.
Strong arms wrapped around her tiny waist and shoulders causing the girl to tense.
"A dazzling lady such as yourself shouldn't be out here, much less, at a ball by herself." The man purred into her ear. The girl smiled, then giggled.
"I came alone because I thought I might see you." She leaned back against the man's chest.
"How sweet of you, darling."
"Anubis?" The girl whispered into his ear.
"Yes my love?" Anubis asked kissing a smooth path of kisses down to her collarbone from her chin.
"Why did you come?" Anubis stopped his kissing; bringing his mouth to her sweet brown hair that was held up in a high ponytail by several braids wrapped around the base. Small white flowers and ribbons wound through the soft strands.
"I wanted to see your beautiful face." He sighed into her hair.
"You're a horrible liar." Mia looked down and pulled away from him.
"Truly Mia, I came to see you." Anubis pleaded with her. Turning around Mia looked at Anubis in his white shirt that had a ruffled collar. The shirt was tucked into his tight black leather pants, which were covered by his black mid-calf boots. Standing up straighter, Anubis smirked and tugged on his short black jacket embroidered with a shinny gold thread and gold buttons.
"What do you think?" Anubis pulled his sleeves down and the ruffles beneath them down. He checked the stiff cuffs and the neck of the shirt.
"I believe my father will stop drinking once he sees you..." Mia walked several circles around him, dusting off lint and dust, "You would look better with nothing on." Mia brought one hand up to cup his neck
"I thought I might get cleaned up for you, but if you want I can just as quickly sweep you upstairs and get undressed." He smiled wrapping his arms around her waist.
"That's sounds very tempting. But is that the only reason you came?" Mia looked up at him skeptically.
Anubis sighed and his shoulders slumped, "Touché. I... I have a 'thing'..." Mia huffed and threw her arms up in the air.
"I knew it! I knew you had more reasons for coming here then just seeing me!" Mia opened the glass doors and walked back into the ballroom where the musicians played a particularly slow waltz.
"Mia!" Anubis called after her grabbing her arm and pulling her onto the dance floor.
"Don't you 'Mia' me." She fumed trying to pull away.
"Dance with me and I'll explain." Anubis pulled her closer to him leading her a graceful waltz.
"So?" Mia looked up at Anubis waiting for an explanation.
"Well you see I had made a request to a gentleman and he told me that he had the perfect thing. He told me to meet him here tonight and he would give it to me." Anubis smiled down at the small woman hoping that that would sooth her blazing eyes, even though he loved looking at her flushed face and brightly colored eyes.
"What is it that you needed? You know well that father would be happy to help you find whatever it is you need." The anger in Mia's eyes left and was replaced by a small amount of betrayal.
"That's another thing, where is your father?" Anubis gazed out over the crowd, slightly running his hand a little lower on her back. Mia said not noticing his hands movement.
"I've seen him around." Mia looked around the room as well.
"Where?" Anubis stopped dancing.
"Earlier, at the bar with Mr. Hawkins."
"Do you think he's still there?" Anubis continued to dance but guided Mia over to the far side where a hallway led to the cigar room.
"I don't know, probably. Where are you going?" Mia asked as he broke off from her and began to walk down to the room.
"I'm going to go check." Anubis turned around to see a beautiful sulk painted onto her face. Smiling back at her he took her hands in his and kissed them.
"But you just got here." She whined. Anubis bent down and nibbled at her ear.
"I'll meet you up in your room in thirty minutes at the most." Anubis gave her a quick slap to the rump before walking back down the hall.
Mia blushed a bit before sprinting up the large number of stairs, turning down a few halls and running into her room. **************
Mia sat at her vanity bushing out her hair. She sent worrying glances to her bedroom door; it had been almost over an hour. Looking back to her vanity, she stared at her reflection in the mirror letting her mind wonder off to thoughts of Anubis and what he had up his sleeve.
A slight movement outside her door caught her attention. Thinking it was Anubis she re-adjusted her dressing gown so that some of her cleavage was showing and pushing her robe further off her shoulders.
Mia set there at her vanity and waited, and waited, but no one came in. Standing up in confusion, she walked over to her door and opened it. Looking out into the hallway, she didn't see anything. Scrunching her eyebrows together, she pulled her robe closely around her and walked out to the end of the hallway.
A scream pierced the air, followed by several over screams. Gunshots sounded and Mia stopped dead in her tracks. She could hear metal clashing and she ran as fast as she could to the ballroom where the sound was coming from.
More guns were fired, causing Mia to duck as one bullet shot through the balcony and into the wall behind her. Mia screamed and lay down on the floor, slowly inching her way over to the edge of the banister. Looking down on the once grand ballroom Mia felt her stomach heave at the sight. Blood splattered the marble floor and the once white walls. Women held the frames of their dead or dying husbands close to their own bodies. Men dressed in black held those left standing at gun point. There she saw her father and Anubis standing tall as ever. Pride filled heart at the sight of them.
The man that seemed to be in charge of this whole ordeal appeared to be talking with her father. The next thing Mia knew her father spat at the man in black. He in turn pulled up his pistol and shot her father. Mia felt tears roll down her face as he slowly fell to the floor. How badly she wanted to reach out and grab him to ease his fall.
Tears fell faster and she felt her throat burning. Looking around her she was standing and all eyes from the ballroom below were on her. Mia noticed then that she had been screaming. Covering her mouth quickly with her hand she looked down at Anubis. He looked up into her eyes and smiled a half-hearted smile and mouthed something to her. Mia's head shot around to the stairs at the sound of footsteps.
Just as lightning moves, Anubis grabbed the man in black's pistol and punched him. Anubis never let go of the man's arm as he fell backwards. Anubis, taking his advantage of surprise kneed the man in the stomach and pulled his saber out to strike the man below him.
Trying his best to recover his ground from the punch received, the man in black shook his head, looking up at Anubis just in time to see him draw his sword. Jumping backwards to the best of his ability, the man in black pulled out his own sword. Again the hall was field with the sound of clashing metal.
"You cannot beat me Anubis. She is to be mine!" The man in black screamed as he charged forward.
"She does not love you Melrose! Nor will she ever!" Anubis blocked the attack sending Melrose flying backwards into a wall.
"We'll see about that. When I get done with her all she will know is love for me!" Melrose sliced at Anubis cutting his jacket.
"You cannot force love." Anubis growled and thrust his sword forward only for his arm to met resistance a few inches from Melrose heart. Looking to his side Anubis came face to face with Melrose's men, who were holding him back and smiling evilly.
"But you must remember something," Melrose looked over to the steps where a reluctant Mia was being pulled down the steps. Walking over to Mia he ran his rough, callused hands over Mia's jaw down to her collarbone. He could hear Anubis thrashing about behind him. Anubis growled as Melrose's hand traveled down to the furrow between her breasts. Smiling down evilly at her, he grabbed the pistol out of the belt of one of the men holding Mia. Looking at Mia the whole time he finished, "I don't play fair." Turning around sharply he fired at Anubis.
"No!" Mia pulled free of the men's grasps and pushed past Melrose who handed the gun back to the owner.
"Anubis!" Mia caught his form before it fell to the floor. Tears once more fell from her eyes and into Anubis's crimson hair. Blood began to seep out onto the floor on onto Mia's white dressing gown.
"Mia, I'm so sorry...I...I couldn't...pro, protect..." Anubis stuttered in- between gasping for breath.
"Shhh, don't talk right now." Mia pulled him closer to her and brushed the hair out of his face. Mia's face pulled as she tried her best to hold back tears as she ran her figurers along his cooling skin.
"I...I wanted to...give you this...to...tonight." Anubis stretched his hand out to his pocket and pulled out a small box, "Look...looks like I won't...be...be getting an answer." He smiled ruefully up at her. He strained to place to box in Mia's hand.
"This...this was the 'thing'?" Mia bit her bottom lip as Anubis nodded.
"I had the whole speech planned out..." Anubis looked up into her eyes full of sorrow and smiled. "I guess...It doesn't mean... mean much now but...I wanted to...to be able... to watch the sun...sunset in your eyes every night like we did in the...the Islands...I wanted...I wanted to spend an eternity in your arms...watching the waves come and go with the stars...I wanted to memorize every part of your...of your being...I wanted to hear your heart beat in...in rhythm with mine as we slept...I wanted to hear you call out my name in the passion that we make... I wanted to be...to be there when you gave birth to our children...I... I didn't want to be off chasing...pirates out to sea...I just wanted to be with you when you read to our child...when he took his first steps... when you cried because he fell... asleep in the barn and we couldn't find him...when we go skinny dipping just... just to remind us that we're still young at heart...even through the wrinkles...I...I just wanted to be with you...forever...To watch over you... and protect...protect you...I love you Mia Koji...you...you and your books...your eyes...your heart...your...your...." Anubis gasped for breath and Mia cried.
"You will...you will!" She screamed at him tears rolling freely off her face.
Anubis smiled at her and nodded. Reaching up he cupped her face in his palm. Mia took his hand in one of her hands and nuzzled it with her face.
"Enough romance, ladies and gentlemen. She belongs to me now, Anubis, and I don't share well. Especially not with the dying." Melrose fired his pistol and blood splattered all over Mia.
Mia didn't move at all, her body and soul in shock. A pair of strong arms reached down and picked her up off the floor. Clutching the box tightly to her chest she looked down at Anubis's dead body. Her brain shut off and she fell into darkness.
~*~*~*~*~*~ I hope you like it so far; more is to come, hopefully anyways. -Lady Dragon Heart
Of the Sea: Prelude
Couples glided across the marble tiled floor like snowflakes on ice. The lines of winter lilies washed the grand room in beauty and a delicious aroma. Smiles and laughs echoed through the bright light. Women in flowing gowns that seemed to go on forever swirled in a mixture of color around the dance floor.
The lady clad in a pale blue dress with thin, even lighter blue, flowers growing up from the train sighed. Shifting the matching stole tipped with white fur over her shoulders, she made her way to the balcony outside.
The night sky sparkled brightly with all the stars that shone. She leaned onto the stone railing, smiling a secret smile only for herself.
Strong arms wrapped around her tiny waist and shoulders causing the girl to tense.
"A dazzling lady such as yourself shouldn't be out here, much less, at a ball by herself." The man purred into her ear. The girl smiled, then giggled.
"I came alone because I thought I might see you." She leaned back against the man's chest.
"How sweet of you, darling."
"Anubis?" The girl whispered into his ear.
"Yes my love?" Anubis asked kissing a smooth path of kisses down to her collarbone from her chin.
"Why did you come?" Anubis stopped his kissing; bringing his mouth to her sweet brown hair that was held up in a high ponytail by several braids wrapped around the base. Small white flowers and ribbons wound through the soft strands.
"I wanted to see your beautiful face." He sighed into her hair.
"You're a horrible liar." Mia looked down and pulled away from him.
"Truly Mia, I came to see you." Anubis pleaded with her. Turning around Mia looked at Anubis in his white shirt that had a ruffled collar. The shirt was tucked into his tight black leather pants, which were covered by his black mid-calf boots. Standing up straighter, Anubis smirked and tugged on his short black jacket embroidered with a shinny gold thread and gold buttons.
"What do you think?" Anubis pulled his sleeves down and the ruffles beneath them down. He checked the stiff cuffs and the neck of the shirt.
"I believe my father will stop drinking once he sees you..." Mia walked several circles around him, dusting off lint and dust, "You would look better with nothing on." Mia brought one hand up to cup his neck
"I thought I might get cleaned up for you, but if you want I can just as quickly sweep you upstairs and get undressed." He smiled wrapping his arms around her waist.
"That's sounds very tempting. But is that the only reason you came?" Mia looked up at him skeptically.
Anubis sighed and his shoulders slumped, "Touché. I... I have a 'thing'..." Mia huffed and threw her arms up in the air.
"I knew it! I knew you had more reasons for coming here then just seeing me!" Mia opened the glass doors and walked back into the ballroom where the musicians played a particularly slow waltz.
"Mia!" Anubis called after her grabbing her arm and pulling her onto the dance floor.
"Don't you 'Mia' me." She fumed trying to pull away.
"Dance with me and I'll explain." Anubis pulled her closer to him leading her a graceful waltz.
"So?" Mia looked up at Anubis waiting for an explanation.
"Well you see I had made a request to a gentleman and he told me that he had the perfect thing. He told me to meet him here tonight and he would give it to me." Anubis smiled down at the small woman hoping that that would sooth her blazing eyes, even though he loved looking at her flushed face and brightly colored eyes.
"What is it that you needed? You know well that father would be happy to help you find whatever it is you need." The anger in Mia's eyes left and was replaced by a small amount of betrayal.
"That's another thing, where is your father?" Anubis gazed out over the crowd, slightly running his hand a little lower on her back. Mia said not noticing his hands movement.
"I've seen him around." Mia looked around the room as well.
"Where?" Anubis stopped dancing.
"Earlier, at the bar with Mr. Hawkins."
"Do you think he's still there?" Anubis continued to dance but guided Mia over to the far side where a hallway led to the cigar room.
"I don't know, probably. Where are you going?" Mia asked as he broke off from her and began to walk down to the room.
"I'm going to go check." Anubis turned around to see a beautiful sulk painted onto her face. Smiling back at her he took her hands in his and kissed them.
"But you just got here." She whined. Anubis bent down and nibbled at her ear.
"I'll meet you up in your room in thirty minutes at the most." Anubis gave her a quick slap to the rump before walking back down the hall.
Mia blushed a bit before sprinting up the large number of stairs, turning down a few halls and running into her room. **************
Mia sat at her vanity bushing out her hair. She sent worrying glances to her bedroom door; it had been almost over an hour. Looking back to her vanity, she stared at her reflection in the mirror letting her mind wonder off to thoughts of Anubis and what he had up his sleeve.
A slight movement outside her door caught her attention. Thinking it was Anubis she re-adjusted her dressing gown so that some of her cleavage was showing and pushing her robe further off her shoulders.
Mia set there at her vanity and waited, and waited, but no one came in. Standing up in confusion, she walked over to her door and opened it. Looking out into the hallway, she didn't see anything. Scrunching her eyebrows together, she pulled her robe closely around her and walked out to the end of the hallway.
A scream pierced the air, followed by several over screams. Gunshots sounded and Mia stopped dead in her tracks. She could hear metal clashing and she ran as fast as she could to the ballroom where the sound was coming from.
More guns were fired, causing Mia to duck as one bullet shot through the balcony and into the wall behind her. Mia screamed and lay down on the floor, slowly inching her way over to the edge of the banister. Looking down on the once grand ballroom Mia felt her stomach heave at the sight. Blood splattered the marble floor and the once white walls. Women held the frames of their dead or dying husbands close to their own bodies. Men dressed in black held those left standing at gun point. There she saw her father and Anubis standing tall as ever. Pride filled heart at the sight of them.
The man that seemed to be in charge of this whole ordeal appeared to be talking with her father. The next thing Mia knew her father spat at the man in black. He in turn pulled up his pistol and shot her father. Mia felt tears roll down her face as he slowly fell to the floor. How badly she wanted to reach out and grab him to ease his fall.
Tears fell faster and she felt her throat burning. Looking around her she was standing and all eyes from the ballroom below were on her. Mia noticed then that she had been screaming. Covering her mouth quickly with her hand she looked down at Anubis. He looked up into her eyes and smiled a half-hearted smile and mouthed something to her. Mia's head shot around to the stairs at the sound of footsteps.
Just as lightning moves, Anubis grabbed the man in black's pistol and punched him. Anubis never let go of the man's arm as he fell backwards. Anubis, taking his advantage of surprise kneed the man in the stomach and pulled his saber out to strike the man below him.
Trying his best to recover his ground from the punch received, the man in black shook his head, looking up at Anubis just in time to see him draw his sword. Jumping backwards to the best of his ability, the man in black pulled out his own sword. Again the hall was field with the sound of clashing metal.
"You cannot beat me Anubis. She is to be mine!" The man in black screamed as he charged forward.
"She does not love you Melrose! Nor will she ever!" Anubis blocked the attack sending Melrose flying backwards into a wall.
"We'll see about that. When I get done with her all she will know is love for me!" Melrose sliced at Anubis cutting his jacket.
"You cannot force love." Anubis growled and thrust his sword forward only for his arm to met resistance a few inches from Melrose heart. Looking to his side Anubis came face to face with Melrose's men, who were holding him back and smiling evilly.
"But you must remember something," Melrose looked over to the steps where a reluctant Mia was being pulled down the steps. Walking over to Mia he ran his rough, callused hands over Mia's jaw down to her collarbone. He could hear Anubis thrashing about behind him. Anubis growled as Melrose's hand traveled down to the furrow between her breasts. Smiling down evilly at her, he grabbed the pistol out of the belt of one of the men holding Mia. Looking at Mia the whole time he finished, "I don't play fair." Turning around sharply he fired at Anubis.
"No!" Mia pulled free of the men's grasps and pushed past Melrose who handed the gun back to the owner.
"Anubis!" Mia caught his form before it fell to the floor. Tears once more fell from her eyes and into Anubis's crimson hair. Blood began to seep out onto the floor on onto Mia's white dressing gown.
"Mia, I'm so sorry...I...I couldn't...pro, protect..." Anubis stuttered in- between gasping for breath.
"Shhh, don't talk right now." Mia pulled him closer to her and brushed the hair out of his face. Mia's face pulled as she tried her best to hold back tears as she ran her figurers along his cooling skin.
"I...I wanted to...give you this...to...tonight." Anubis stretched his hand out to his pocket and pulled out a small box, "Look...looks like I won't...be...be getting an answer." He smiled ruefully up at her. He strained to place to box in Mia's hand.
"This...this was the 'thing'?" Mia bit her bottom lip as Anubis nodded.
"I had the whole speech planned out..." Anubis looked up into her eyes full of sorrow and smiled. "I guess...It doesn't mean... mean much now but...I wanted to...to be able... to watch the sun...sunset in your eyes every night like we did in the...the Islands...I wanted...I wanted to spend an eternity in your arms...watching the waves come and go with the stars...I wanted to memorize every part of your...of your being...I wanted to hear your heart beat in...in rhythm with mine as we slept...I wanted to hear you call out my name in the passion that we make... I wanted to be...to be there when you gave birth to our children...I... I didn't want to be off chasing...pirates out to sea...I just wanted to be with you when you read to our child...when he took his first steps... when you cried because he fell... asleep in the barn and we couldn't find him...when we go skinny dipping just... just to remind us that we're still young at heart...even through the wrinkles...I...I just wanted to be with you...forever...To watch over you... and protect...protect you...I love you Mia Koji...you...you and your books...your eyes...your heart...your...your...." Anubis gasped for breath and Mia cried.
"You will...you will!" She screamed at him tears rolling freely off her face.
Anubis smiled at her and nodded. Reaching up he cupped her face in his palm. Mia took his hand in one of her hands and nuzzled it with her face.
"Enough romance, ladies and gentlemen. She belongs to me now, Anubis, and I don't share well. Especially not with the dying." Melrose fired his pistol and blood splattered all over Mia.
Mia didn't move at all, her body and soul in shock. A pair of strong arms reached down and picked her up off the floor. Clutching the box tightly to her chest she looked down at Anubis's dead body. Her brain shut off and she fell into darkness.
~*~*~*~*~*~ I hope you like it so far; more is to come, hopefully anyways. -Lady Dragon Heart