8 MAY 18
I think I made this chapter so much stronger than what it was before… you could see a lot on what happened with Asuka's death as he told the story.
Really hate to say this… but that was a real nice touch on making this hurt even more.
The girls were sitting at one end of the large dining room table eating while the four adults at the other end.
"What do they know Hekapoo?" He asked her with his hands folded together covering his mouth and elbows on the table.
"They know how Henry roped you into the war and Asuka becoming your Battalion XO, that's it." She did mean that he would be the one on telling them more.
Asuka was right in front of him laying her belly on the table, elbows holding her dead face up and legs swinging in the air, "They're going to get a kick out of this, and don't skip out on the dirty parts!"
"I see… you know that nasty scar over my heart?" He asked more to Star and Janna as they both nodded at him wanting to know what they had to do with this..
Asuka smiles and claps her hands together quickly.
"It's from the first day I meet that crazy redhead bitch!" He wanted to piss Asuka off which it worked. She flips in off in the Japanese style by using her pointer finger to pull down her right eye while sticking out her tongue.
"She nearly killed me that day, as punishment she was the one that had to keep me alive or she would have been put to death. I lost a lot of blood and she had to lay next to me naked to keep me from dying of hypothermia." Marco had no shame in the truth.
All the women mouth hangs wide open.
"That first year we would run into each other on the battlefield and tried like hell to kill on another… it was a game we played." He gives a true smile.
"Awwww, you going to make me cry Reaper… NOT!?" She starts to make a puking face.
"She sounds like a real crazy bitch!" Janna felt like she wasn't going to like the rest of this story.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN SEE IN THIS ONE?!" Auska was now trying to punch Janna in the face.
"Ugh… who left the window open?" The filipino flet blasts of cold air hitting her face a few times.
Marco just shakes his head, "You have no idea!"
"I feel I should have popped up and checked on you now, but it was fun to watch you guys go at it sometimes. She really messed you up too many times to count!" Hekapoo laughs to herself.
"Awwwww thank you Goddess Hekapoo! I take back what I said before!" Asuka was on her knees with her hands together over her heart and had stars in her eyes.
"Second year seemed to go by, just like that." He snaps his fingers.
The girls at the other end of the table start running around playing tag.
"We put aside the bullshit and whipped up an unstoppable Army… I never kept count, but I've been told I killed hundreds of men. I never felt more alive… when we were together killing anything that moved..." He looks down at the table feeling ashamed on how true that statement was.
"Marco…" Star never thought she would hear that come from him.
He closes his eyes, "Yes I know… what's worse is that I'm really good at it. Henry gave me the name Solid Reaper because how many people I've killed on the trip we made back to his camp, everyone else just called me Reaper."
"Now don't be upset about that, when you find your life calling, just go with it my evil Reaper!" Asuka walks down on top of the table to get a better look at his kids.
"I'M NOT THAT MAN ANYMORE!?" He slams his hands on the table and everyone jump.
"Marco… what's the matter?" Hekapoo kept her voice low.
"Sorry about that… just hearing things. Last I heard my body count was over 500, but I think my men was hyping up the numbers..." Or were they?
"Oh Mewni…" Star places her hands over her mouth in shock.
"All with that sword on your hip?" Janna asked now seeing him in a different light, the stories that her and Star were told about him from the people they met. They were all true...
"Yes… and with my boot knife... we hit the frontlines running and made a name for ourselves, they started to call my unit Reaper Squad." He takes a deep breath.
Janna leans forward wanting to know more as Star held her hand not ready for what was going to happen.
"From that point on we stopped fighting each other and anytime we were on the battlefield, together… we never left each other side until the battle was over. Then we made our checks on the men and patched each other up." Memories that left like a life time ago...
"The way you talk about her, you sound like you guys had a thing for each other?" Janna gave a nervous laugh looking over to Hekapoo hoping it wasn't true.
"Oh, but we did little one, we fought like hell and fucked even harder every chance I could get my hands on him!" Asuka walks back to them to hear the rest of their story together.
"You guys are really not going to like this part…" He was scratching the back of his head.
The Jinko gives him a sickly smile as she looks down at him.
"It was a few months before the war ended and you know… one thing leads to another between a man and a woman… a lot" He looks up to Asuka.
"I think it was because she was jealous of Miia and Ryoko mostly!" He smirks while looking into her eyes.
"OH YEAH FUCKING RIGHT?! ME?! FUCKING ME JEALOUS OVER THOSE GOOD FOR NOTHING FAT COWS?! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME?! JUST LOOK AT THIS BODY!?" She turns back normal naked while showing off her perfect tight warrior body, as Asuka rubs her hands up and down a few times.
"WAIT… THERE'S OTHER WOMEN?!" Star was on her feet…. poor Princess… there were more than just those 3 women in 16 years...
"Ummmmm moving along before I'm murdared… the day she died…" Everyone gets quiet and Asuka jumps off the table while then walking away. She didn't need to hear this again, all the time in The Dark Land… it was the memory that played the most in her mind.
"… it was the worst days of my life… we just won the war… I had to get out to her before her position was overrun…" His eyes start to pool up with tears.
"ASUKA… THE WAR IS OVER… WE WON!?" Marco shuts his eyes as he lowers his head… it takes him a few minutes before he could go on.
The tears start building up, "I found her and told her the news, we hugged each other… that was the last time she ever held me like that."
Star and Janna knew this was going to end badly… just by watching his body told them he could feel it all coming back to him right now.
"What? We… we… did it? It's really over?" He starts to rock his body side to side as the tears start to fall.
"… I didn't have the area cleared… I should have had the men fan out and made sure the area was secured..." How much he hated himself on not making sure the area was safe for them...
Hekapoo places her hand on his back hoping to give him some strength.
"It felt like I was holding her forever… until she moved me behind her… I… I… didn't know why…" Asuka looks out the window as she holds onto her wound tight.
"NONONONONONONO!?" Marco could feel her body weight in top of chest again as he starts to inhale deeply.
"There was an arrow that was flying at my back… some piece of shit was hiding like a coward waiting for the shot… Miia made that fucking dog suffer when she killed him!" His face turns to anger.
Janna was angry herself that this scumbag waited for Marco back to be turned on taking the shot.
The babies see something going on with their father, "Hey guys! Follow me!" Gidget didn't want them to see him like this… not again.
Asuka makes her way back to him as she leans her rear on the table looking down at him.
"That arrow passed through her heart and added a new scar on me" He pulls up his shirt showing the nasty scar and at the center looked pushed in more than the rest.
Star and Janna now understood why that mark was so ugly.
"Reaper… I'm… I'm… I'm dying…" He runs his hands along his hair a few times trying to calm himself down.
"It's… it's okay if you want… to stop…" Star hated to see him like this as she had tears in her eyes also.
"NO YOUR NOT DAMN IT, YOUR GOING TO BE ALRIGHT!?" His heart was pounding harder now feeling the pain in it.
Marco picks his head up and waves at them, "I… I can go on…"
"It's al… alright… I got… to… to… have you…" Marco wipes off his face to move on with the story.
"It happened so fast…" He hated how much his hand was shaking, Marco had to do something to stop it.
Hekapoo could feel his pain in the pit of her stomach, his fist slams on the table as everyone jumps.
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
"ASUKA… STAY WITH ME! PLEASE I NEED YOU, I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEED YOU! DON'T DO THIS TO ME… PLEASE! I'M BEGGING YOU!?" His hand were trembling with the pain that came from it, but it was able to help him move forward.
The room was quiet and no one dared to move.
Between his teeth, "God damn it… why… WHY THE HELL YOU DO THIS TO ME!? There… there was nothing I could do… she died in my arms as *sniff* as we cried knowing this would be the last time seeing each other *sniff*…" He covers his face not wanting them to see him at his worst.
*BANG*
*BANG*
"REAPER… AH… DON'T… AH… LET ME GO… AH… I… AH I… AH… I… I… I... lo-" He knew what she was trying to tell him... he only wished he could of told her the same right there and then.
Asuka places her hands on her face and cries just as hard as he does.
"… her last words… were… I love… and then... she just died…" The tears keep falling as he hears Asuka crying harder now...
Alright guys, that 14-hour flight really kicked my ass, but I was able to come up with two chapters on the ride. I'm here in Korea and found some internet that I can use and plan to get a new SIM card for my phone and use it as a hotspot.
So I'm 14 hours ahead of Mountain time back in the states, so if you PM me, it's going to take some time to get back to ya'll. Can you guys believe they had SVTFOE on the list of shows to watch on the plane?! I loved it and had a bunch of Korean people giving me odd looks lol.