Sunday, October 28, 2001
Disclaimer: I do not own GW or SM.
Note: ~this is someone's thoughts~ Duo is not the main GW character, only right now. The others will have bigger roles soon.
CROSSES AND DAGGERS
CHAPTER TWO
by shyne
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Duo sat under the stinging, hot shower, letting the water wash over him. He hadn't bothered to take off his clothes, he just jumped in totally clothed. ~It was all a dream. It had to be. Right?~ He shook his head, his heavy braid still intact. ~It was so real. The tears, the blood.~
His tears slowly mixed with the water as he thought of the pain and accusation in her beautiful blue eyes. ~Man, was she beautiful.~ Duo thought dreamily. He knew that she was only part of his nightmare. Or was it a nightmare? He felt as if the dream was telling him something. He couldn't pass it off as a nightmare because his angel was in it. It wasn't possible that she could be part of his nightmares. No, his nightmares were full of fires, death, and destruction, churches. If only he was able to help her, but no, Duo again lets someone down. He had to find her, whether she was a dream or not. He couldn't just let her be tortured like that. He could picture her perfect body forever marred by scars, or worse. He couldn't let that happen to her. He wouldn't let it happen.
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Her name was Usagi. Just Usagi. She had given up her surname*1 years before. Some people called her the Prophet of the Light, others just called her crazy. Those who called her crazy soon believed though. It was only natural for them to become believers after her prophecies. That is why he captured her and imprisoned her, so she could foretell the outcomes of his plans. Around here, she was known as the Prophet. She guessed it was only suitable. It made sense. He had first wooed her, flattering her innocent heart. Father Abraham, the high priest at the Temple of Light, tried to warn her of his wicked heart, but she was a young, fool headed. Father Abraham had known that it was a useless battle to try to stop her from running away with the young man.
However, his words somehow got through to her and she stayed with her dear father. He wasn't her biological father, but he was her real father to her. She knew later that she should have just run away with the young, handsome warrior, it would have saved a lot of heartache. After a week, the young man returned, asking her to come away with him. She declined saying her place was with her father and her home, the temple. So, the ruthless man took away 'her place.' Her father was maimed and murdered heartlessly and the temple was burned to the ground, all in front of her innocent eyes. The followers were in panic, they banished her to the woods, blaming her for everything and why hadn't she foretold it. The followers and other priests and priestesses buried her father. She visited his grave often. That was when he caught her and imprisoned her. That was how she ended up here, in this god-forsaken cell.
She was so close. One of her angels had come, the braided one. She thought he was going to whisk her away, to freedom, but he left her alone to be beaten. She thought her angels were there to protect and help her. Although it was hard to remember with all the drugs they had injected her with, but she thought she had foretold a prophecy about her angels. Her head pounded in pain as she tried to remember the premonition, but the vision eluded her. Sighing in defeat, Usagi fell into a restless slumber, dreaming about her angels who never cameā¦
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Sorry if it is so short, I forgot I had this chapter, oops! So, I just updated it, sorry if there are any errors or if it sucks.
~shyne~
*1. Surname- last name
