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Beaten
By: Crystal of Psyche
Chapter 6: Losses
Author's Note: Just had a break through guys! So I'm not out of my writer's block! I seem to get a lot of those don't I?
Ashley carefully slid down the tower wall clinging to the sheets that she had made into a rope. But she found something very hard to do. The shoes that she was wearing were no good for climbing. Harry had made her dress into something fit for a princess. She had no objections to beautiful clothing.
"AHH!" Her left foot slipped and her shoe came off. She watched it fall to the ground.
"Oh no! I'm out of sheets!" She looked down and noticed that she wasn't even half way down. She saw one of those tent-like things and attempted faith. She wiggled her other shoe off. And started climbing down the wall without clinging to the sheet.
'Good thing, me and Bit would climb out the window on the third floor in the orphanage.' She thought to herself, as she continued to climb down the endless tower. When she had a quarter of it left she slipped once again.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" She screamed all the way down until she landed on the tent. But instead of plowing threw it she landed on it and she rolled off it onto the ground. She stood up, and brushed herself off. She started to walk shakily out the gates.
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Bit, Leena, and Jamie rode quietly through the forest on horses. Finally Jamie spoke up.
"Guys thanks for letting me come!"
Leena smiled at him, "Don't worry, we need all the help we can get!" Bit didn't seem fazed by the conversation going on. Leena was starting to get worried that he wouldn't keep her promise.
"Yo Bit where are we going!?!" Jamie yelled to get his attention.
"To find Ashley."
"Yeah….right…….And how are going to do that?"
"To look for her." Jamie's sweat dropped. He could not get a decent conversation going with this guy. He looked over to Leena and shrugged. Leena gave a determined face and rode up next to Bit.
"Bit?"
"Yeah."
"FOR GOODNESS SAKE BIT TALK TO US!!!!!!!!!"
A little surprised at Leena's out burst, he stared at her, "Whoa Leena cool it! I'm just trying to figure out where to go. We're kinda walking into a field full of booby traps with a blind fold covering our sight."
Leena huffed, "At least you gave a full sentence." Bit sighed and kept his eyes focused on the path in front of them. For some reason he felt like they were being watched.
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Ashley stumbled through the forest area that she had been traveling in for the past two hours. She kept on stubbing her toes on roots or something. She looked behind her and saw the tower far off in the distance. She smiled to herself.
'HA! Take that Harry! I wish I could be there to see your face! I'm coming home Leon!' She thought proudly, but she didn't see the root in front her. Her foot got caught underneath and she went tumbling down, rolling down the hill.
THUD! She had hit her head on a rock and lost consciousness. A couple a shadows loomed over her body.
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Bit didn't take his eyes off the forest around. Now he was certain, that something was out there. And to make matters worse Leena and Jamie doesn't have a clue of its existence. Suddenly there was a rustle of leaves.
"LOOK OUT!!!!" Bit jumped off his horse towards Leena and knocked her to the ground. Leena watched her horse run off, and where the horse was was about fifteen arrows stuck in the ground.
"Whoa, thanks Bit," Leena said in disbelief. Bit got off of her quickly, picked her up, and drew his sword. He looked from the left and right, and all around. He was waiting for something.
"Bit what is it?" Jamie said as he was now next to Bit with his sword drawn. Leena stood behind the two men. Suddenly an arrow went flying through the air towards them. Bit moved his foot slightly avoiding the arrow only by a few inches. Suddenly people in dark clothes jumped out of nowhere and started attacking.
"Jamie you take the ones on your side!" Bit shouted as he engaged in combat.
"Right!" Leena backed up against a tree hopefully getting out peoples way. She didn't know how to fight, and she doesn't even have a weapon. She felt hopeless. Bit was in the heat of battle, but something had caught his eye. In a tree was a person with a bow, it was strung and was about to be shot. Bit followed the aim of the weapon.
"LEENA!!!!!" Bit had lunged in front of just in time for the arrow to go straight through his shoulder. He fell to the ground and quickly got up but fell to one knee because of the pain.
"BIT!!!" Leena cried out as she saw him in pain. She ran to him, thankfully the bandits had retreated. After Bit saw that all of them were gone he fell on his back and cried out in pain.
"It hurts," he gritted through his teeth. Leena ran to his side and looked at his wound. The area around the wound was stained with blood.
"You took the arrow for me, it was supposed to hit me but you blocked for with your own body," Leena stuttered softly her eyes starting to get watery.
Bit noticed that she was about to cry, he put a hand on her cheek, "I would risk my life to save your own." Leena had burst into tears, and hugged Bit.
She let go of him and sat on her knees, "Take off your shirt we need to get that wound cleaned and bandaged." There was a hint of red on her face as she said this to him. He blushed slightly to.
"Uh guys, " They looked at Jamie who was feeling uncomfortable around the two at the time, "I'm going to try to find the horses." He ran off to look for the horses.
Leena turned to face Bit and motioned for him to take off his shirt. He lifted it but had trouble around his shoulder. After he got it off, Leena couldn't help but to noticed his muscular chest. She quickly focused her mind on the arrow.
"This is going to hurt."
He nodded, and closed his eyes, "Do it." Leena took hold of the arrow and yanked it out. Bit let out a big grunt and Leena was helping him lay on his back. He was losing consciousness but he was trying to stay awake.
Leena put her hand on his head, "Go to sleep. Don't worry, it's better if you don't feel the pain." Bit eyes slowly closed. Leena smiled to herself and began bandaging the wounded warrior.
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She slowly opened her eyes; her sight was blurry at first, and then looked around. She was in a tent of some sort. She saw a man, looking at a few things on the other side of the room. His messy brown hair was covering his face, She felt her head; there was a bandage on it.
The young man noticed that she was up and walked over to her, "Hey, how do you feel?"
"My head hurts." She said as she rubbed her head, her long red hair got in the way.
"Well after hitting my head on a rock I would think that my head would be throbbing too." He smiled slightly, but it faded when she didn't smile, she only looked at him with confused green eyes, "what's your name?"
"I don't know…."
His maroon eyes widened slightly, "Do you remember anything?"
"Gallion…that's it, just that name."
"Well Gallion is a city far from here, maybe that's where you live."
"I don't know."
"Well, you need a name, let's see.." he thought for a second then snapped his fingers, "How about Shiko?"
"That's sound cool what does it mean?" 'Shiko' said with excitement in her eyes.
"Rock."
"Oh…….OH I GET IT!" She said pointing to her bandaged head. He nodded smiling.
"By the way my name is Raiko."
"Nice to meet you."
"Don't worry Shiko I'll take care of you."
Author's Note: Another short chapter…….*grumble*……….OH WELL!! I hope you like this one! Especially that B/L moment too! And to tell you that the girl that lost her memory was Ashley, just to let the people who didn't know that. Please Review!!!!!!!!