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Chappie one
One Fateful NightOne day a little baby girl was born to a master at swords, or as we say a samurai from the past, two to be exact her name was Elyssa. She had long shiny dark sapphire blue hair with a little red tint in it here or there. Her skin was a milky white like it had never seen the sun before. She wore it tied up in a high ponytail while the rest stopped at her waist, but most of the time whore it up in two buns on each side of her head with various hair coming out everywhere. Her light icy blue eyes were curious and loving. She always had a knack for carrying a stick shaped just like a sword with her wherever she went pretending she was a samurai like in the story's her mother always told her. She wore the traditional style of clothing for samurai's, but hers was different, she had a short white skirt with a short-sleeved shirt traditional color red.
They lived in a small town with a small market place and a few privately owned shops along the little streets. There weren't any other children around to play with her so the only friends she ever really had was the mother and father. The town was not really known for anything it was almost all it didn't exist at all. Her mother and father taught her every thing they knew from adding to subtracting to washing clothes and surviving out in the cold hard world, but the thing she loved out of all her parents had taught her was sword fighting and being one with her sword. She practiced six hours a day at least and the rest of her day was committed to chores and learning new things. For her seventh birthday her mother and father made her a sword especially for her. Because she had taken a liking to it she practiced even more using the real sword she had just gotten. When she was finally ten she challenged her parents to sword fighting with sticks and to their surprise she won some of them, but even if she did win her mother and father said that "you still have a lot to learn" and "that winning doesn't mean that you really are ready for the outside world" and "she didn't even know half of it" which kind of made her a little angry and made her roll her eyes. When she was twelve her parents had already taught her all the math and English skills she needed and that she was a master swordsman, but the one thing that always stuck to her mind was when her father said, "you never give up never".
Every day was the same until one night the streets were bare and cold chill blew that night even though it was the middle of June and the air tasted like fresh blood the strong unusual wind. Elyssa and her parents were asleep when suddenly her father woke up to an unusual sound at the window. Her father walked slowly to the window and discovered it was open, but he just brushed it off and just said, "the wind did it" even though he really felt different about it. He got back in bed and in a minute or two later the window mysteriously opened again. So he woke up again and knew something was wrong and he jumped out of bed and reached for his sword, but much to his surprise it was gone and then he heard a quiet laughing sound coming from the window and by then his wife was up frozen staring at the dark figure. The dark figure walked into the moonlight slowly carrying his already bloody sword from old dried bloodstains by his side so you would see it. Still laughing with Elyssa's father's sword balanced on his index finger he wore all black and even cover his mouth with a black cloth so all you could see was his dark menacing brown eyes. The mother asked afraid as she looked to the man with angered eyes, "W…who are you and what do you want?"
The dark figure said chucking amused, "my name I shall not tell but my purpose is to kill."
The father asked as he tried to figure out whatever he was trying to do "who?" in a clam firm voice.
"You have a daughter do you not?" The dark figure asked as he stopped laughing
"Why do you ask?" The mother stood up and asked angrily
"Its not like I'm going to kill her I just wanted to know." The dark figure said pretending to feel offended,
The father said calmly, "We do…"
The mother sharpened her eyes to glare at him "why do you choose to kill?"
The dark figure laughed menacingly "You both have killed my family and my clan! I work for the one that will find the lost jewels so they can come back and relieve this world of you samurai's! Your dirty little daughter that I can't kill is the only one that stands in the way besides you two sense you're the last one's alive!"
The father sneered, "Then why can't you kill my daughter?"
The dark figure came up to him placing the tip of the sword against his neck under his chin making a drop of blood splash to the floor and said "you and your pretty little wife so he can come and kill her." The blood stained the wooden floors
Elyssa's eyes shot open as soon as the drop of blood hit the floor as if she heard it. She threw the covers of her and grabbed her sword as she ran to her parent's room.
The dark figure pushed the sword harder and harder into the father's neck "who will be fir…"
He was cut of by the sound of the door slamming open and Elyssa standing their sword in the 'come and get me' mode.
The figure took the sword off of the father's neck leavening a scrape and walked over to her, but before he could get there her father and mother stepped in front of him. The figure said "what a pretty little girl mother's eyes and father's hair my guess?"
"Don't you even lay a hand on my daughter I will kill you!" The mother hissed
The figure said shrugging his shoulders, "Like I said before that's not my job. My job is to kill you two to get to out of the way."
The father screamed "OVER MY DEAD BODY!"
The dark figure laughed, "That can be arranged."
The father quickly grabbed the sword out of the mother's hand and charged at him.
The fight was on and the dark figure stood in the ready stance as the father charged him. Then suddenly the father disappeared and then reappeared behind the dark figure back.
This shocked Elyssa and before he stabbed him she cried "NNOOOO FATHER!"
Her father stopped and glanced at her just for a second, but that second was long enough for the dark figure to turn himself around and grab the sword right threw the father's stomach and instantly killed him. The father fell to the floor lifeless as the mother and Elyssa just stared in shock at him.
The dark figure said with a cold heartless voice "your next." As he stared at the mother.
The mother saw the sword in her daughter's right hand and took it from her and pointed the tip of the sword to his face. As she said fearlessly "I'm not afraid of you."
The dark figure laughed a little and said back "come with all you got you bloody samurai!"
CLASH
BAM
BANG
The swords made as each swing was hit by another. Elyssa just stood there in silence as they fought, she knew not to speak in a fight because of her father so all she could do was stand there and watch in silence. As time went by the mother and the dark figure stopped fighting to catch their breath. Blood cover both of them dripping quickly onto the floor making the wooden floor turn red, but not even the looks on their faces gave you a clue that they even cared that they were almost bleeding to death because they both knew this was a fight to the death. As they continued about five minutes into their battle the mother had no other choice she was dieing fast so she did her last charge with everything she had left and ended up giving the dark figure a scar across his whole face as he blocked it enough that it wouldn't kill him. She fell to the floor coughing up blood as Elyssa ran over to her. The dark figure walked over to the mother and Elyssa grabbed the sword out of her mother's hands and said forcefully with tears in her eyes "don't you come near us!"
The dark figure laughed, "If your mother and father couldn't kill me what are the chances you will?"
Elyssa said nothing, but she held her position. The dark figure said "He said to wait until you grow older and stronger until He kills you. He wants to make you suffer the most being the last of the bloodline that you are. I just had to get them out of the way. Goodbye." And with that he disappeared through the window.
Elyssa put down her sword and looked at her dying mother holding her cold hand in her own and asked crying "what do I do mother?"
The mother looked at her squeezing her hand with all the might she had left still lying on the floor and said "just cough get stronger and eventually when that day comes you'll save the world cough."
Elyssa said holding her mother's freezing hand sobbing uncontrollably "I love you."
The mother smiled a weak smile and said "I cough love y…you too just always remember w…what we said."
Elyssa nodded her head. Her mother smiled one last time at her and her eyes closed.
Elyssa looked at her mother then at her father and said "NNOOOO!"
She slept that night by her parent's side.
Ok that's it for now! Not such a bad cliffhanger now is it? The next Chapter is
'A New Beginning'
Clip from next Chapter…
Rena sniffed the air for a second and walked over to her and slowly circled her once or twice and sniffed the air around her and said, "I get a good nose from her though, but… you're not human are you?"
Elyssa looked at her shocked and asked, "What?"
Rena smiled and said, "The nose never lies."
Elyssa, "but…but I am human."
Kenshin walked over to her and walked around her like Rena did and suddenly stopped, then leaned so close to her face that their noses were almost touching and smirked, well I hate to admitted it, but Rena's right you aren't human at all."
Elyssa really blushed at the closeness.
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