AN: I decided to write this fanfiction to celebrate the ending of my finals period, so don't worry...I'll get back to chance of eternity soon enough! Also, this fanfiction is about a freeware game Alice showed me a few days ago called Blankblood, it's pretty hard, but pretty fun! It's also very bloody, so don't let the kids play it. I didn't make Blankblood, only this fanfiction about it. If you ever run into the guy who made it (I forget his name at the moment,) say "Hi" for me!

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~Talos Angel, Fanfiction-Writing Yukkuri~

BLANKBLOOD: APOTHEOSIS

CHAPTER ONE: IMPERISHABLE BOND

-Ryoko Youko was being strangled by a snake monster; the bastard snuck up on her in her sleep. "Let go of me you overgrown limbless squamata!" Youko screamed as she bit and punched the serpent-like creature. "No!" The snake shouted back as it continued to strangle the girl.

Then the snake got shot.

-As the reptile's head went soaring off from the impact of the bullet, sailing through the air with a trail of red behind it, Youko looked over at the direction the bull came from; sure enough, there stood her best and only friend in the whole entire universe, Nana Maskai. She stood there in full uniform, her purple hair glistening as youthful smile appeared on her undying face.

"Having fun there, Ryoko?" Nana chuckled as she holstered her Makarov, helping the blue-haired swordswoman brush the dead snake off of her.

"I wouldn't dare start without you, friend!" Ryoko laughed as she gave Nana a big hug.

-They were absolutely inseparable ever since they first met in Vietnam over a year ago; Ryoko was a mercenary sent there to investigate some kidnappings that had occurred in the area. It was in the factory of a psychotic drug lord that Ryoko had found the bewildered Nana in one of the holding cells. She was clearly frightened, as evident from her violent shivering, her tear-filled eyes, and her pee-stained skirt. Ryoko couldn't just leave such a frightened, innocent girl for dead, so she punched the guard out and took his keys in order to free Nana. The frightened girl clung to Ryoko like a bivalve clings to an undersea rock. Ryoko hugged her back and whispered "everything will be okay, I promise!"

The two have been best friends ever since, and they've only grown closer and closer with each mission they went through.

-Nana vowed that she would get stronger so the incident would not happen again, so she took the guard's gun, a 1967 Makarov, and began to target practice with it at Ryoko's house so that one day she would be a great sharpshooter.

"Maybe I can save you from a bad guy one day!" Nana chirped cheerfully.

"Then we'd be even, all right!" Ryoko laughed back.

-Ryoko realized right as Nana saved her from that snake that she already had made it even with her; in fact, Ryoko felt as though she owed Nana. She remembered all of those missions where they stayed close together, all the monsters they killed together...all the junk they found together...pretty much everything they did together...

...It was right then that Ryoko realized she was in love with Nana.