soyomu7

Chapter Seven

Ferio awoke in the arms of his sweet love. He kissed her bare beck and moved to her cheek.

"The sun rises my love, and with the moon I must go." Ferio whispered.

Fuu's eyes fluttered open. "You shant leave without a last kiss!" Fuu said as she sat up.

Ferio smiled and kissed her. Then he hurried to dress himself.

Fuu threw herself into Ferio's arms. "May you be safe."

Ferio kissed her forehead. "Please, just be happy."

Fuu laid down and pulled Ferio down upon her.
"It is the dawn of Saturday morn, all the castle lays asleep. Lie with me once more." Fuu whispered.

Ferio leered at her and then kissed her.

All of the sudden the door to Fuu's room swung open exposing the two lovers. There Lii stood in the door way along with Fuu's father, the king.

Fuu covered herself and whispered to Ferio.

"Make haste!"

Ferio shook his head and took in her hand Fuu's silver dress. He slide the dress over Fuu's head. Ferio then took Fuu's hand and kissed it, then he stood.

"How dare you enter my castle and sleep in the bed of my daughter?!" the king raged.

'Oh we did more than just sleep...' Fuu giggled to herself.

"I came only to rescue a princess." Ferio replied as he bowed.

Lii came closed. 'And what reason have to you believe that she needed any rescuing?"

"The girl was ripped from a new life that she had begun, one she wanted, unlike this one, the one she ran from." Ferio replied.

"You dare to touch my future bride?" Lii sneered.

"I love her, and I am will to do anything for her." Ferio replied as he bowed his head.

"Are you willing to die for her?" Lii said as he drew his word in the blink of an eye. Lii stabbed the sword into the flesh of Ferio's shoulder.

"Ahh!" Ferio cried.

Fuu sprang up from her bed and in front of Ferio. She had in her hands a sword of her own, this one small compared to her first.

"Remove your blade from the flesh of my beloved." Fuu insisted as she gritted her teeth.

Dark red blood dripped from Ferio's wound and rolled down the yelled tunic he wore.

"I am sorry dear Fuu, but this is for the best." Lii replied as he twisted the blade in Ferio's left shoulder causing it to make an ungodly noise.

Fuu swung her own sword and swiftly sliced into Lii's right arm. Blood coated her sword. Fuu withdrew her stained sword from him.

Guards hurried in carrying large swords and bow and arrows.

Fuu turned her own sword on herself, the steel tip aimed at her chest.

"Kill Ferio, and kill me also." Fuu said in a calm and cool voice.

Lii backed away.

"If we cannot be together in life, then in the eternity of death shall be our home."

Ferio clutched the gushing wound as she knelt down. "Do not die for me," he pleaded.

Fuu shook her head. "I can't live like this."

Tears filled Ferio's golden eyes. "Fuu! You have to listen!"

"Fuu dear, put down the sword," her father urged.

"I will bear no children to be born into this, with privilege comes tragedy." Fuu said as she shook her head. "Freedom given up for the good of the kingdom!"

"Then go," Lii said finally. "For either way we lose you, and better you live then you die."

The king looked as if he were about explode with anger.

Fuu helped Ferio to his feet and the two of them left the castle while the king and prince Lii watched.

"You do have a plan, do you not?" The king inquired.

Lii nodded. "Send a man to shoot Ferio down."

As Fuu and Ferio galloped off on the back of a black horse, they were cut off by a guard on horse back.

The guard had a bow and arrow ready, he pulled back and let it fly. Fuu sensed the arrow coming and shoved Ferio off the horse. The arrow hit Fuu right above the heart. It went straight through to her back. The arrow tip pointing out of her back. She slumped over and everything began to spin and dim. Blood ran down the sliver cloth of her dress.

"Fuu!" Ferio cried.

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Seven months later Fuu and Ferio were married an loving in another kingdom, were Fuu's family couldn't touch her. After surviving a nearly fatal injury she miraculously still was able to carry their child. She then gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby girl.

"Oh Fuu-chan," Ferio let out a breathy whisper.

He wiped the seat from his wife's brow. She held in her arms their new born. The baby's eyes were green and her tiny bit of hair blonde.

Fuu kissed the baby's forehead.

"And what will we call her?" Ferio asked.

"Yume, because she is a little dream." Fuu replied.

And so they lived happily ever after, but the really point is, that they simply *lived*.

*END*