Hands clasped tightly around a knife that hung loosely between her spread legs. Sakura sighed as she thumped her head against the wall followed by a quick sting and a fading buzz. She refused to close her eyes no matter how tired she got, if she was going to figure something out and keep herself protected she had to stay awake. The night was no place for a human to lose since and forget themselves, especially if they had raging immortals coming after them.
Her breathing sped up, her chest rising and falling with every forced intake of air she took. She tried to calm herself- even as the darkness pressed in around her; anywhere darkness fell was their domain, once her domain. She no longer belonged to the night and shadows anymore though, being human wasn't all bad because now she had an escape from them. She could go into the light and leave the shadows behind. She felt a burst of homesickness take her over and she fought back the urge to vomit.
Sakura had no doubt in her mind that they were watching, waiting for her to make a mistake. She refused to let herself make a blunder, they were probably enjoying the sorry state she was in already.
Her hand clenched tighter to the knife handle.
Inhale
Exhale
Inhale
Exhale
It was getting harder to breath and once more she cursed the human body with so many weaknesses. She had fallen low and she had no hope of bringing herself back up; she had nothing and she was nothing.
She closed her eyes and calmed herself, fear would get her nowhere. She maybe human right now, but she wasn't ignorant, she still had centuries on some of the others. She was a war god and she wasn't going down without fight. She was human which came with allot of weaknesses, but also gave her some advantages over the others. She didn't have her god strength, but she wasn't as weak as a human and she had more than enough time to hone her fighting skills to work in any body. She was quick and agile and she would be damned if she kneeled over and died for anyone.
She opened her eyes and the familiar jolt of power shot through her body. She glared down the dark hallway at nothing, she knew they would see her and hear her as she whispered, "I'm not going down without a fight." She could hear shrill laughter and excitement fill the empty space around her seeping from the darkness.
She had excited them with her declaration.
Sakura felt the knife slip from her tense and tired hands as a soft bird chirp drowned at the snickering, a single ray of light pierce the darkness so adamant on tearing her apart. She was exhausted and paid no mind when she heard nothing when she should have heard the knife hit the floor.
She didn't see one of the retracting shadows pull the knife back into the darkness with it.
