TALES OF THE VIOLII

ACT II

Lost At Sea

AN: Whoa guys, I am so sorry it is taking me so long to get these chapters out. I've had so many appointments and so so so much homework that I can't even find time to play my violin much less writing and keeping up to date with the story. Not meaning that this is not important, just saying visiting my Hemotologist(?) and Rheumatologist 3 times a week is a bit more important. Anyways enough out of this one. ONWARD TO THE PLOT!

PS: Nina will be the only major character in this chapter outside of flashbacks.

"Daddy look! There's a girl on the beach!" A young girl of roughly the age of 6 runs over to the black haired armor clad figure laying face down in the sand and pokes her with a stick. A middle-aged man slowly walks over and stares down at the figure.

"Just what happened to you young soul." He kneels down and turns the figure over revealing the face of a young woman, about 15 years of age with slanted eyes and a red jewel tied around her neck and a sharp bloody blade in her hand. He takes the blade from her and inspects it. "This is a finely made blade, I have no doubt that it was a master smith that made this blade." He tells his daughter and turns the knife and inspects the handle. "A government of Sheep, requires an Army of Wolves?" He reads the engraving aloud. "How strange." He places the knife in his belt and slaps the girl in the face to try to wake her up.

"Is she dead?" The little girl asks him hiding behind him.

The girls eyes flicker open and she jolts up kicking up sand and spilling water out of the cracks in her armor. "Ers..." She falls to her knees and faints once again.

Lightning cracks around the womans head as she swims desperately attempting to something. Anything that could save her from her impending demise. She feels the water beneath her swell up and launch her into the air with a massive wave right over an Egyptian vessel and smacking into the water on the other side. She reaches her hand towards a plank of wood that had appeared and snags it and uses it to regain her stability in the roaring waves, but her stability does not last long as wave after wave of sea walls hits her sending her down in the water.

"AHH!" She screams under water pushing herself to the top of the waves and breaking surface just as another animal that had been caught in the storm emerges from the water in the form of a massive tail fin of a Sperm Whale crashing into the surface of the water before diving surging the levels of the waves around the woman and knocking her into the now destroyed ship that had once been there. She uses her luck to her advantage and grabs onto the rope ladder hanging off the edge of the ship and hoists herself atop the ship before crashing to the ground and coughing out the water that had filled her lungs, her adrenaline wearing off now she becomes incredibly tired and attempts to stand but almost instantly falls to the ground and regurgitates the bread she had eaten earlier in the day.

She drags her weary body across the deck and climbs to the bow of the ship. "I have to get to...Halicarnassus..." The woman uses her belt to pull a wooden plank closer to her and uses it to stand up and look around. She growls. "WHERE THE HELL IS IT!" She throws the plank to the side and falls to the wooden floor just as a massive wave rises above the ship. She stares in terrible awe as the wave crashes down crushing the remainder of the ship and send her spiraling into the sea.

Trying to regain control of her heaving body the woman desperately swims for the surface. "Thruer guide me...please!" She screams at the top of her lungs attracting some unwanted guests. Sharks three of them swim in a circle around her and slowly close the distance. She feels her heart racing and swims harder and harder, but it isn't enough. One of the sharks bites down on her left arm hard and twists around. Blood fills the salty water and blinds the woman. Almost out of instinct she raises her fist and punches the shark repeatedly eventually bringing up her foot and kicking it in the nose forcing the creature back, however the beast does not release her arm and rips off her arm just below the elbow. She releases a gut wrenching scream flails in the water slowly beginning to sink. She begins to black out and feels something on her waist before she looses conscienceness.

Her eyes jolt open again this time she is in a cot, next to a warm fire. She sits up slowly her head throbbing and having severe vertigo she throws up all over herself and the cot. "Damnit..." She says in Phoenician and looks around slowly trying to lessen her symptoms. She closes her eyes tight and nearly faints at the sound of the door opening.

"Ah...I see you are awake." A familiar voice attacks her throbbing head.

"Shut the hell up..." She mumbles and tries to open her eyes to look at the middle aged man with the little girl. "What? Who are you...Where am I?" She asks him in a very unfriendly tone.

He smiles and pulls up a rocker to sit in front of her. "I'm but a humble servant, Welcome to Cyprus armless sailor." He says startling her.

"What was that last part...sailor..."She looks at her severed arm. "Armless..." She grabs hold of the stump that once was her arm and begins to scream in pain and fear. "What the hell! Where did it go!" She flails back and forth.

He sighs. "I take it you must've lost that arm recently then." He asks her with a sad smile his old wrinkled face filled with kindness. He leans on his cane and adjusts his shawl. "What's your name little one?" He asks her with a soft kind voice.

The woman still in shock from her lost limb looks up at him with tired eyes. "I...I can't remember..."

To be continued...

AN: Oh my god...I feel so bad right now...like I'm being really mean to my followers because I haven't been able to update in such a long time and this chapter isn't exactly the longest...It was supposed to be longer but this was the best place to stop I could find. Again I am so so so sorry I haven't been updating more often, I've just been so busy, marching band plays it's last game today so that will free up some of my time, but I won't really start updating again until symphony is on break again. I will try to post updates once every two weeks and I will be getting started on the first major installment of Project Sappho and ending Act 1 of Violii, this story will be split into three Acts with a small Hiatus in between, technically this is the beginning of act 2, the last chapter was the end of Act 1.

Thanks to those of you who still look forward to this story's updates. I love you guys, R/R-Chizu