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SAVE MY POOR HEART
Chapter 1: Sword&Scythe
Blood drips from the tip of the dark blade of a scythe. Evil animal heads are scattered on the tops of rocks. Patches of dark-red, foul-smelling blood cover the dark mine. The wielder of the cursed scythe hacks away at the boulder obstructing the way to the room ahead.
The boulder splits into pieces, and the path is cleared. Inside is a beautiful maiden with long black hair and milky white skin sleeps on a grand bed with a glowing sword over her. Reaching for the sword, the scythe-wielder gets pushed back by an invisible force.
'I WILL NOT GIVE THE SWORD TO SOMEONE SO IMPURE!' an outwardly voice calls out, the sound booming.
"Try and stop me," the scythe-wielder says keeping an icy tone in his voice. Smirking, he grabs his dark weapon and slashes the light, this dissipated the invisible force. The sleeping-beauty wakes as he stares down at her laying down with a silk blanket draped over her.
'The sword will not be given to the wicked!' the outwardly voice says as the maiden stares into his cold eyes, 'Go away now or you will be killed!'
"Kill me! HA! You make me laugh," the man chuckles. He bends down and slings the girl over his shoulder with his right hand and grabs the sword with the other. The light starts to engulf, but is blown away by shadows.
'Just who are you?'
"The Angel of Death!" the man says as he leaves the room.
"Stop kicking, your only going to make yourself tired." the man explains as he gets out of the mine. The beauty has tried to brake free of his grasp while he was climbing and is still going strong.
'LET GO OFF ME YOU MANIAC!! AND GIVE ME BACK THE SWORD!!' the man hears in his head.
"Telepathy eh, I guessed you were the voice, " he lets her off but keeps the sword. Being at least two feet shorter then the man, she couldn't come close to getting the sword as he held it up high. She was only groping the air in desperation, and even trying to jump. Grabbing her in a hugging gesture, he grabs a pink stone out of his pocket and mumbles something.
POOOF! They vanish in a smoke and reappear on a run down farm.
'Let go of me you pervert! What did you do??Who are you?? How did you take me out??' the man hears in his mind. The maiden's face turns a deep shade of red. He leads her to a small wooden house.
"Well, if you must know, I used a teleport stone," setting her on a near by chair and playing around with the sword. He continues, " I am the son of the Witch Princess, Yuji, cursed to hold a soul- gathering scythe for all eternity," sliding his index finger along the blade of his scythe. Staring at her eyes he says, "I came to take the Angel of Life, Princes Keria."
The girl stares blankly into space, and when she regained consciousness, 'ME? AN ANGEL? What do you want of me? And further more, your mother, that woman is the same one that placed me in the mine and cursed me!' the words ringed in Yuji's mind. She stood up face to face with Yuji, trying to scare him with the interrogation. Her fiery eyes piercing into his cold eyes.
Frowning deeply, "She put this curse on me too... when she was killed one thousand years ago." he pats her softly head and stands up to get the sword. "We have to fulfill our destiny as the world's balance; we have to kill her murderer and maintain the balance between light and dark, good and evil. The Harvest Goddess is the one you have to put an end to." pulling on the sheath of the sword, when it didn't slide out, he continued. "My scythe can't touch her, but the legendary sword, the sword that the Princess Keria holds, can."
Look of great disbelief is riddled on her face. Yuji continues, "My powers have been growing for one thousand years, but the Goddess's power has been weakening. For one thousand years, the world was in peace, but now the world is in war and dismay as their balance of peace is worn out. If you replace her, our powers will even out and the world will be normal again."
'HA! Like I would do anything like that! Why would I kill her? How in the world would a Goddess' power weaken? It is good that the Witch is dead; the Goddess is the one that kept me safe and fought for me!' Yuji heard in his head.
"I know." Yuji said in a grave voice.
Time stood still.
'Just what happened before I was cursed?...' Keria thought as she stared blankly into space.
Flashback:
Rain poured hard in the dark night.
"RUN!" the Harvest Goddess Goddess calls out at a young Keria. Looking worried and lost, The little girl runs toward the mines. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" the Goddess screams as something explodes in front of her. Laying down on the ground, blood drips from her forehead.
"NOOOOO!" Keria shrieks as she hears the horrifying screams of a half-dead Goddess. She takes refuge in the dark and damp mine. Shivering in fright, she curdles up, hugging her legs.
"Keeping her in the mines! I'll seal your Princess!" a furious witch says. "beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere!" the witch cast as she points an open hand toward the mines. A bright transparent circle hovers over the entrance of the mine. A faint shriek comes out of Keria as the magic circle disappears.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!" the Goddess yells at the witch.
"NOTHING EVEN COMPARED TO WHAT YOU DID TO MY HUSBAND!"
Tears fall down her face, "IT WASN'T MY FAULT! HE DID IT ALL ON HIS OWN!"
"BULL SHIT! YOU SEDUCED HIM YOU BITCH! THEN YOU KILLED HIM!" the angered witch shouts. She starts to cast the spell of destruction. "dulce bellum inexpertis!" Glowing balls form in front of her, they are hurled toward the Goddess.
"NO!"the spheres coming at her would even kill a Goddess. She did a thing that only humans would think was right. Defend herself. A reflective barrier formed around her. The deadly spheres bounced off and killed the witch. Even more tears fall from the Goddess' face. What had she done? She had selfishly killed her only friend in an attempt to save her self. 'How selfish of me...' she thought as she cried even harder.
Two items fall out of the sky as the witch dies. The Legendary Sword and Death's Scythe. Each one going to their respective owners. A young girl in the mines, Princess Keria the Angel of Life, and the young boy, Son of the Witch Yuji the Angel of Death.
"YOU TWO HAVE NOT HEEDED OUR WARNING! GODDESS, NOW THAT YOU HAVE KILLED THE WITCH, TWO ANGELS HAVE BEEN BORN TO KILL YOU AND RESTORE THE BALANCE OF MAN!" outwardly voices calls out to the Goddess.
Limping up to the mine, she sees that Keria is sleeping on a giant bed with the sword laying on her. Crawling over to her, the Goddess whispers to her sleeping form, "Kill me. It would make everything better."
Out in the forest, a young boy, the Son of the Witch sleeps in a small cottage. A cursed scythe is brought before him, waking the boy. The dark voice says, "Yuji your mother has been killed by the Harvest Goddess. Kill her and avenge your mother's death!Take the scythe and find the Angel of Life, for your scythe can not touch the Goddess, but the other Angel's sword can . The Angel of Life is now sleeping, once the Goddess' power wanes a thousand years from now, you will wake her and kill the Goddess!" Shock washes over the boy as he holds the a scythe twice his size in his tiny hands.
'No this can't be. Mama, you said we would live happily together... forever...' he sadly thinks to himself as tears roll down his face.
"YOU ARE NOW THE ANGEL OF DEATH! REAP THE SOULS OF MAN!" the voice becomes louder, " BRING EVIL, CORRUPTION, AND HORROR TO THE WORLD! FOR YOU ARE NOW IT'S BALANCE!" the voice goes away in an instant.
Yuji weeps for the curse that has been laid upon him, but mostly for the death of his mother. As he stops his crying, his eyes turn ice cold, turning from blue to black; he swears to himself, "DAMN GODDESS! I WILL KILL YOU!"
In the shadows, the evil voice laughs at the monster it has created.
Keria falls over in shock, she tries to scream, but no sound came out of her mouth. Yuji comes over to pick her up. Tears are flowing down her cheeks.
"Now you know what has happened. Why I must kill the Goddess. Why we must kill the Goddess." he says as he lends her his hand.
She takes his hand and pulls herself up, wiping her tears. 'How do you know what I saw?' looking at him in disbelief and evidence of shock about the vision still in her expression. 'How can this be? I am an Angel destined to kill a Goddess.'
"I can read minds, opposite of your telepathy. Our magic is completely opposite. You have visions of the past, while I have visions of the future. You have the power to bless life, while I have the power to take it, and a long list of abilities that are paradox. Basically, you give, I take." he explains to her in a matter-of-fact tone. Yuji leads her to a bed. "Lay down, you need your rest. We have a lot of things to do tomorrow."
She looks at him with sorry and sad eyes, obviously for the fact that she saw his mother die,as she gets covered with the blanket. Yuji, seeing into the future, can tell that he would need to answer a lot of questions from her tomorrow. Letting him do his mind reading, she thought, 'Just make sure I don't fall asleep for another thousand years. Kay?'
Colossal-kun here! Hope you guys enjoyed! Just so you don't catch where the characters came from, they are from the Harvest Moon DS, but Yuji is my original... ANYWAY plssss review begging you! Flames, criticism, whatever you can dish out plsssssss! Ill be updating(well at least try to) every week. If I don't pls rant and rave about it! Makes me feel special!
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