Authors note:
Post series...will contain series spoilers...lots...
This story will be longish, slightly dark and eventually mushy... well maybe, if you are good boys and girls...wink
Thanks to all who reviewed "Baking Memories" (Saya/Haji fluff)... please keep them coming...go Read and Review if you haven't already...
Closure
by Ashling-chan
Chapter 1
Wake
It was the dark night of a new moon. Her hollow footsteps padded methodically at a slow drudging pace along the frosted aschfault.
Her bloodshot eyes were glazed and lifeless as she walked along in her zombied state. Step by step, pace by unsteady pace she slowly headed towards oblivion unseen in the dull, foggy blackness of the moonless night.
Her cold aching body gave off little heat. What warmth remanded leaked away steadily from her unclothed form with every passing moment. But this did not bother her. In fact it was not so much as a fleeting thought. No, there was no room for such trivial things within her tormented mind's eye.
Flashes of past sins and unbridled fear flooded all her senses. Fragments of harsh memories and illusions of madness spilt out between the thick chunks of blank consciousness.
Unholy images fired rapidly though her head like an unstoppable slide show of horrors. She didn't dare look down at herself. She could feel the sticky, slick liquid she was covered in drip down her body's length. Trickling though her hair it rolled across her shoulders along her arms and off her pale, frail fingertips. Her inhuman ears clearly noted every drop as the substance fell away from her leaving a dark oozing trail laagering behind her steps.
Tiny fragments of a short, happy existence briefly pushed their way to the forefront of her mind. Was it a memory? A dream? Or just a small, pitiful splinter of hope that should have died long ago but somehow clung to the corners of her being crying out not to be dismissed and forgotten so carelessly.
'Sister?' She thought. Her heart pounded involuntarily. Those electric blue eyes still haunted her. Fear, pain, sadness and rage filled her. 'Why did this have to be?' She screamed inside her mind. Over and over again she relived the nightmare of her finally battle with Diva.
She lurched forward into the empty night air, stumbling and swaying with her now limited strength. 'Why won't those eyes stop mocking me?' She tried to push it from her mind; to end her pain by extinguishing the flame in those taunting orbs. But she couldn't kill the memories of a dead queen; the sister she had killed; her other half she had lost.
Suddenly her trembling body stiffened as she yet again faced those same unnerving eyes. She had skilfully spotted them blocks away across the currently deserted city streets. But this was no longer some deluded vision... no this...this was definitely real. Snapped out of her trance she raged towards those firey blue eyes, towards the flesh and bones housing them.
She focused to make them out clearly as they charged rapidly towards her. With one large animalistic pounce the two bodies collided harshly into one another. Though her attacker was significantly smaller in mass both were infused with the raw strength of two hardened warriors. Her bare hand swiped the air to deliver a lethal bow into the jugular. "Saya?!" a weak yet horrified voice shrieked out! "Saya-sama?" She froze at the sound of such an eerily familiar voice. "Riku-chan?!"
TBC
Authors note:
Is my in my opinion that Saya would retain some memory when awaking even without Hajis presence/Blood. I personally think the reason she lost all memory within the series was due to the trauma from the Vietnam incident. Whether you agree or disagree just know that is the reality of this story.
More characters to follow in the next chapters... why where you expecting someone else? Mwwa ha ha
Insert big puppy eyes here If you liked this story at all PLEASE review... Feedback is a blessing... con crit, gush, ramble or one liners are all welcome! Domo arigato to all that do!!!