Authors note: Thank you all who reviewed. I thank you all so much. I wasn't going to update for a little longer, but I decided not to wait. Thank you all again!!
~ Moonlight Horror
By: Beast Trainer
Chapter 1: Xianghua and Talim.
Talim looked behind her once again. She could have sworn she felt a presence again. That was the third time in only five minutes, that Talim had felt a presence and Talim was becoming a little eerie and nervous.
" That's-that''s the thrid time in a row..." Talim whispered to herself. She looked around her setting once again.
She was in a huge forest, which she had entered not that long ago. The trees hung low as if trapping Talim in, and the air was thin. A breeze of wind could send anyone five feet in the air, and worst of all, there were almost no signs of life-or food for that matter. Talim in her opion, thought that the forest was creepy and quite frightening. But Talim kept saying to yourself that she would not get intiminated.
" I better hurry up if I want to get out of this forest fast. " Talim whispered to herself.
Talim looked forward again, took in a deep breathe, and continued to walk.
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Yunsung withdrew in a deep breathe of truimphant. So far he had followed this girl for about a day, and hadn't been caught by her. Yunsung felt convinent that it would stay that way as long as he kept up what he was doing...boy was he wrong.
Talim,or The Asian Girl, as Yunsung called her started to walk again. Yunsung jumped from tree to tree with ease, and with out making much noise...well not that much. Three times he had made a mistake, made a huge cluster of noise, and both three times Talim jerked her head back to see what the noise was.
Luckily, for Yunsung he was high up in a tree, and Talim hadn't yet decided to look up yet, or so if she had, looked upon the wrong tree. Still, though it was a great way to follow " The Asian Girl. " Yunsung couldn't help but feel the slightest bit creep out. The trees looked like they had faces that stared back at you evily. It may have been just Yunsung, but that was what he thought.
Tree to tree Yunsung jumped swift and fast. Yunsung caught a glimps of " The Asian Girl " eyes, and almost lost balance and fell off the tree. It wasn't the fact that The Asian Girl's eyes were so big and round, nor the fact they almost completely covered her whole face, but the fact they were a deep brown rich color.
Actually, Yunsung didn't even think about the fact her eyes were large until he reliezed why he all of a sudden stopped.
" What the hell am I thinking..." Yunsung asked to himself, so that only himself could hear. " That Asain Girl has big eyes anyways!" Yunsung tried to cover up, it was a little too late when Yunsung reliezed that he had said that a little too loudly. Talim turned her head around so fast Yunsung was almost startled by the qucik movement.
Yunsung quickly cupped a hand around his mouth, hoping that would help him not to make another sound loud enough for Talim to hear.
Talim looked left, than right. There was something in Talim's eyes that almost made Yunsung drool, fortunatly, Yunsung caught himself before he actually did drool which no doubt would have been embarrasing.
Talim relaxed herself, and let her shoulders shrink low, slowly, with much considerstion she turned forward and started to walk once again...for the fourth time in a row.
" Great, " Yunsung thought to himself " If I don't be more careful that Asain Girl is gonna catch me. "
It was then that Yunsung reliezed that he didn't even know the Asain Girl's name. On his way from escaping an old grumpy man, he had bumped into her. He reconized right away that she was not from were he was and quickly with alot of curiosity, asked her were she was from, not to mention forgetting to apologize for bumping into her.
" I am from Southeast Asia. " Was all she said.
Yunsung had already guessed that, but before he could say much of anything else she had turned and left. Yunsung though had yelled before she was out of hearing distance her name, she answered saying: Talim, yours might I asked? "
Yunsung called loud and clear: Yunsung. " And so she then left.
He next saw her talking to a sales person. He being who he was decided to eavesdrop on their conversation.
Talim was short a coin-for what ever she needed Yunsung interperted.
" But please sir, I need food for I will be gone for awhile, and I need that jacket, I am heading up north soon and winter is just around the bend." Talim pleaded.
But the spunky and stubborn man would not hear it. " No. You pay the price like everyone else. Now give me four coins or leave."
Talim tried to speak but he waved his hand infront of her face quite rudely.
" No, you pay or leave. Understand? " The old sale person persisted.
" But please sir I- " Talim was abrutily cut off.
" No! Leave young lady or I will have the guards behead you. " The old sale person wagged his finger infront of Talim's face. Talim was about to begin again, but seeing the look on his face, and the determination in his eyes, took a deep breathe in and started to walk again.
Yunsung hearing all of this, felt quite bad for her. He thought for a secong what he could do, when an idea came to him. Quickly, Yunsung reached into his pocket and pulled out one golden coin.
He relocated Talim location fast, and did he thought might help her: He chucked the coin right at her face.
The coin, with the help of Yunsung's aiming skills, landed right at Talim's head.
" Owch! " Talim schreeked rubbing the back of her head. " What just hit me? " Talim looked around, untill she saw it. The golden coin laying on the ground right infront of her. Yunsung smirked as Talim crouched down and picked up the coin. Talim exaimed it carefuly and then smilled broadly.
" Now I have enough for all I need in just this one coin! " Talim rejoiced happily. She looked around as if trying to find out how it had gottne there, but found no evidence at all.
Talim than made her way back to were the stand was, with a huge smile on her face, but she was filled with happiness but also curiosity wandering how the coin got there, fortunatly for Yunsung, Talim didn't do anything about the curiosity she had within herself.
Yes, that was how he met her. Not the most romantices in the world, no, it wasn't, but to Yunsung it was just fine. Even though Yunsung had remebered almost everything about that, he had forgotten one thing: her name.
" Damn. " Yunsung thought " What was her name...um..Teler...no...um..tucka...no...Talik...no, but sounds close...um Taki..no...wait I know it's um um um...damn I don't remeber."
Yunsung finally convinced himself he didn't know the girl's name, which disapointed him, for an unknown reason, to him, it just did.
Oh, silly Yunsung. He should have been paying attention to were he was jumping to, because as Yunsung was jumping to another tree, he didn't notice the fact that the only branches on that tree was low to the ground, and of course, Yunsung didn't directly jump to that branch, this caused him to bang his head hard on the tree trunk. Slowly, Yunsung began to fall to the ground, but once he was off in the air, he went faced pace to the ground and landed flat on his ass.
Naturally Yusung tried to grab a hold of the trunk of the tree, but when his fingers slid around the tree all it did was scrap them.
" Och! " Yunsung cried, rubbing his ass. Yunsung looked up to see Talim looking strait at him.
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Talim thoughts of finding the soul edge; her goal at this moment was rudely interrupted by a loud boom. Talim spun around quickly and gazed into familar eyes. Talim was at first quite startled by his presence, but quickly she grew concerned of him.
" Och!" He yelled, than looked up. His face expression quickly changed by the sight of Talim, his mouth seemed to drop, his head shrunk to his shoulders and his eyes looked at Talim dumply.
" Um..." Yunsung started , than faked cough as if saying: you can talk from here.
Talim got the message, and smiled at him.
' I swear I think I've seen this guy before...' Talim thought, and then it clicked to her.
" Have me met before? " Talim asked walking toward him, still giving Yunsung a broad smile.
" Well, um...you see...I um..." Yunsung seemed like he just couldn't get the right words out of his mouth.
Talim could have sworn she saw him blush, but that quickly faded. Talim tried to convince herself that he was only blushing because of embarrasment, not because of another reason which I doubt I need to explain.
" Were you following me..." Talim asked, wondering if this would be the sound she kept hearing.
Yunsung looked nervously at Talim, then slowly, looking so innocent and cute, nodded. Talim just couldn't help but let out a small giggle.
" I will take that as a yes. " Talim looked at Yunsung, as if exspecting him to protest it, but he didn't.
" Do you...do you remeber me...? " Yunsung finally choked out a full and complete sentence. Talim was surprised that was the first thing he asked, but netherless she answered him.
" Yes. You were the person who chucked that coin at my head. " Yunsung's mouth dropped.
" You-you knew I threw that coin at you...how? " Talim reached out her hand, and Yunsung took it. Talim pulled him up but just smilled at his question.
" Some things you'll never know..." Talim answered, but before Yunsuing could say anything, a high pitch scream roared the air like nails on a chalkboard. Both Talim and Yunsung looked at each other alarmed. Talim started to run.
" Wait were are you going? " Yunsung questioned chasing after her.
" To see were that scream came from." Talim answered him, gripping her tonfas harder. That was the first time Yunsung noticed that Talim was carrying weapons with her. But Yunsung wasn't complaing about it either. Yunsung took his sword out of it's scabbard, then him and Talim sped off.
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Tears sped down Xianghua's face fast and rapidly. Blood now stained her clothing and the ground, as well and naturally her sword too. Xianghua some how mange to to get the " wolf " off of her arm, put with doing that, he took a chunk of her skin with him. The wound was bleeding madly and there was nothing Xianghua could do about it at this moment, and Xianghua knew it.
' These are no ordinary wolves...' Xianghua thought to herself. ' I could have handled ordinary wolves with no problem. ' But what Xianghua was facing with was a problem, she was stranded in an unknown forest being attacked by an unknown animal, the unknown parts bugged Xianghua tightly, but wisely she choice not to worry about it at that moment.
Another wolf charged at Xianghua. Xianghau rolled on the ground and just barely missed the wolf's pounce. Her wound stung as dirt entered it, dirt is never good for a wound. The leader of the pack charged again, Xianghua's blood still dripping from his teeth.
As surprising as it seemed to Xianghua, a small black figure jumped in front and slashed the wolf to one side. Xianghau looked up in astonishment, and the black figue, now no longer looked lilke a black figure, but a girl, or a extremely young women or as some people call it a teenager.
" Excuse me miss. " The girl said lending a hand ot Xianghua. Xianghua took in, and noticed another person, behind the girl a young man stood fighting off the wolves, probably trying to get enough time for her to escape. But this wan't the case.
" Your name please? "
" Xianghua. " Xianghua looked at the asian girl, and held her wounded arm with her free hand. " Your name? "
" Talim. " Talim smilled at Xianghua. I suppose this wasn't the time to get aquainted, but that was what they were doing. Talim turned around to face Yunsung who was struggling with the wolves. " That's Yunsung. " Talim explained, actually remebering Yunsung's name, unlike Yunsung had with her.
" You can stay here. " Talim said, then running to help Yunsung. Xainghua was puzzled for a moment, but feeling her wound ache, she stayed were she was.
It didn't take long for Yunsung and Talim get beat up almost as much as Xianghua . But just for the sake of this story, we'll just consentrate on Talim.
Talim slashed and swung at the wolves. Her fast pace was quick enough to get a hit out of the wolves,but not hard enough. The wolves would be tossed only a few feet, and would quickly get back on their feet and attack. Talim often thrust forward nocking the wolves harder to the ground but leaving herself fully open. Twice Talim was able to do one of her best combo moves. She thrust two times on the third time she would jump up while fully extending her leg. Between her legs she would thrust her arms down hitting the wolves on the back of the head with the pointy side of her tonfas.
Talim loved doing that move, but it was more complicated and the other two times she attempted to do that move, one wolf would pounce on her before she could jump up. Talim hated to hear Yunsung cry in pain which she heard often, because she had no time to help him. Yunsung was having more of a difficult time then Talim, maybe because Talim hadn't been fighting as much, or maybe it was because Talim was just simply stronger, which ever reason it was, Yunsung nor Talim didn't like it.
When I say Talim didn't like it, it wasn't like Talim was glad Yunsung was weak, no, she was extremely disapointed. It worried her that Yunsung would fall soon, and Talim would have to kill these wolves alone. Talim really never had much pride in herself, it was the way she felt.
' These aren't wolves' Talim hissed to herself as she knocked another wolf to the ground. ' These must be some kind of animals that I've never heard of...' Talim thoughts traced off and turned into another thought. ' What if the soul edge is some where around here...maybe that's why I've never seen these animals before. '
Talim out of no where stumbled to the ground. Talim's face landed hard on the cold, wet, muddy ground. Mudd smeered all over her face and blinded her eyes. She wiped away the mudd out off her eyes as fast as she could, and looked up to see the lead wolf only inches away from her.
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Maxi looked at the stars again. The clouds were moving revealing only a few stars, but Maxi enjoyed just looking at them, and daydreaming at the same time. Kilik still was by the fire awaiting Xianghua's return, nervously. Maxi himself was becoming a little conserned. They both had heard a high pitch scream, Kilik was about to dash off but Maxi stopped him. Kilik soon reliezed how stupid that would have been and sat back down.
Over an hour Xianghua had been. Maxi stood up. Kilik looked up at Maxi as if asking were he was going. Before answering Maxi did a quick strech, he then answered Kilik.
" I'm going for a walk I'll be back. "
Kilik seemed a little unsure, but before he could protest, Maxi was gone.
Maxi walked threw the thick forest with his weapon by his side. Like Xianghua and Kilik he went no where with out them. Xianghua used to always ask why he always brought them with him though he declared that he didn't always need them. Maxi would answer he brought them incase anything happened to her.
Xianghua would laugh, and try to trip Maxi. Maxi wanting her to feel better, purposely fell to the ground, and pretended to be beaten. Xianghua would cheer and do her victouriose dance, skipping around Maxi making sure he heard him loud and clear. While Kilik would just watch them,smilling.
Something alerted Maxi. Maxi quickly jerked his head back but saw nobody. Maxi grumbled to himself that he was being to sensative and alert to any signs of Xianghua. A shadow passed by Maxi quick and swift,but this time Maxi saw it.
Maxi was about to say something but before he could do almost anything, something or perhaps someone tackled him and sent his nunchaku flying about five feet away from him. The figure closed their fingers around Maxi's throat. Maxi of course tried to struggle.
But the more Maxi struggled to get free the tighter and tighter the figure's grip became. Maxi kicked and groaned violently, but it did no good. The moon shined upon the figure chocking him, and Maxi saw something that really scared him: it was a women.
It was the fact that Maxi was being beaten by a women that made him furoius, it shouldn't have but it did. Maxi attempted to say something but nothing would come out of his mouth.
" Listen! " The women yelled at him.
But of course Maxi didn't.
" Just listen to me or I'll pierce this knife threw your neck. "
Taking one hand off Maxi's neck, the women pulled out a knife that was hanging on her back like a backpack. Maxi looked at the women for another moment, then stopped struggling. She put the knife away.
" Listen to me. " She said. " Your friends are indanger! "
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Authors note: Thank you all who reviewed! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Please review. ^_^
~ Moonlight Horror
By: Beast Trainer
Chapter 1: Xianghua and Talim.
Talim looked behind her once again. She could have sworn she felt a presence again. That was the third time in only five minutes, that Talim had felt a presence and Talim was becoming a little eerie and nervous.
" That's-that''s the thrid time in a row..." Talim whispered to herself. She looked around her setting once again.
She was in a huge forest, which she had entered not that long ago. The trees hung low as if trapping Talim in, and the air was thin. A breeze of wind could send anyone five feet in the air, and worst of all, there were almost no signs of life-or food for that matter. Talim in her opion, thought that the forest was creepy and quite frightening. But Talim kept saying to yourself that she would not get intiminated.
" I better hurry up if I want to get out of this forest fast. " Talim whispered to herself.
Talim looked forward again, took in a deep breathe, and continued to walk.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Yunsung withdrew in a deep breathe of truimphant. So far he had followed this girl for about a day, and hadn't been caught by her. Yunsung felt convinent that it would stay that way as long as he kept up what he was doing...boy was he wrong.
Talim,or The Asian Girl, as Yunsung called her started to walk again. Yunsung jumped from tree to tree with ease, and with out making much noise...well not that much. Three times he had made a mistake, made a huge cluster of noise, and both three times Talim jerked her head back to see what the noise was.
Luckily, for Yunsung he was high up in a tree, and Talim hadn't yet decided to look up yet, or so if she had, looked upon the wrong tree. Still, though it was a great way to follow " The Asian Girl. " Yunsung couldn't help but feel the slightest bit creep out. The trees looked like they had faces that stared back at you evily. It may have been just Yunsung, but that was what he thought.
Tree to tree Yunsung jumped swift and fast. Yunsung caught a glimps of " The Asian Girl " eyes, and almost lost balance and fell off the tree. It wasn't the fact that The Asian Girl's eyes were so big and round, nor the fact they almost completely covered her whole face, but the fact they were a deep brown rich color.
Actually, Yunsung didn't even think about the fact her eyes were large until he reliezed why he all of a sudden stopped.
" What the hell am I thinking..." Yunsung asked to himself, so that only himself could hear. " That Asain Girl has big eyes anyways!" Yunsung tried to cover up, it was a little too late when Yunsung reliezed that he had said that a little too loudly. Talim turned her head around so fast Yunsung was almost startled by the qucik movement.
Yunsung quickly cupped a hand around his mouth, hoping that would help him not to make another sound loud enough for Talim to hear.
Talim looked left, than right. There was something in Talim's eyes that almost made Yunsung drool, fortunatly, Yunsung caught himself before he actually did drool which no doubt would have been embarrasing.
Talim relaxed herself, and let her shoulders shrink low, slowly, with much considerstion she turned forward and started to walk once again...for the fourth time in a row.
" Great, " Yunsung thought to himself " If I don't be more careful that Asain Girl is gonna catch me. "
It was then that Yunsung reliezed that he didn't even know the Asain Girl's name. On his way from escaping an old grumpy man, he had bumped into her. He reconized right away that she was not from were he was and quickly with alot of curiosity, asked her were she was from, not to mention forgetting to apologize for bumping into her.
" I am from Southeast Asia. " Was all she said.
Yunsung had already guessed that, but before he could say much of anything else she had turned and left. Yunsung though had yelled before she was out of hearing distance her name, she answered saying: Talim, yours might I asked? "
Yunsung called loud and clear: Yunsung. " And so she then left.
He next saw her talking to a sales person. He being who he was decided to eavesdrop on their conversation.
Talim was short a coin-for what ever she needed Yunsung interperted.
" But please sir, I need food for I will be gone for awhile, and I need that jacket, I am heading up north soon and winter is just around the bend." Talim pleaded.
But the spunky and stubborn man would not hear it. " No. You pay the price like everyone else. Now give me four coins or leave."
Talim tried to speak but he waved his hand infront of her face quite rudely.
" No, you pay or leave. Understand? " The old sale person persisted.
" But please sir I- " Talim was abrutily cut off.
" No! Leave young lady or I will have the guards behead you. " The old sale person wagged his finger infront of Talim's face. Talim was about to begin again, but seeing the look on his face, and the determination in his eyes, took a deep breathe in and started to walk again.
Yunsung hearing all of this, felt quite bad for her. He thought for a secong what he could do, when an idea came to him. Quickly, Yunsung reached into his pocket and pulled out one golden coin.
He relocated Talim location fast, and did he thought might help her: He chucked the coin right at her face.
The coin, with the help of Yunsung's aiming skills, landed right at Talim's head.
" Owch! " Talim schreeked rubbing the back of her head. " What just hit me? " Talim looked around, untill she saw it. The golden coin laying on the ground right infront of her. Yunsung smirked as Talim crouched down and picked up the coin. Talim exaimed it carefuly and then smilled broadly.
" Now I have enough for all I need in just this one coin! " Talim rejoiced happily. She looked around as if trying to find out how it had gottne there, but found no evidence at all.
Talim than made her way back to were the stand was, with a huge smile on her face, but she was filled with happiness but also curiosity wandering how the coin got there, fortunatly for Yunsung, Talim didn't do anything about the curiosity she had within herself.
Yes, that was how he met her. Not the most romantices in the world, no, it wasn't, but to Yunsung it was just fine. Even though Yunsung had remebered almost everything about that, he had forgotten one thing: her name.
" Damn. " Yunsung thought " What was her name...um..Teler...no...um..tucka...no...Talik...no, but sounds close...um Taki..no...wait I know it's um um um...damn I don't remeber."
Yunsung finally convinced himself he didn't know the girl's name, which disapointed him, for an unknown reason, to him, it just did.
Oh, silly Yunsung. He should have been paying attention to were he was jumping to, because as Yunsung was jumping to another tree, he didn't notice the fact that the only branches on that tree was low to the ground, and of course, Yunsung didn't directly jump to that branch, this caused him to bang his head hard on the tree trunk. Slowly, Yunsung began to fall to the ground, but once he was off in the air, he went faced pace to the ground and landed flat on his ass.
Naturally Yusung tried to grab a hold of the trunk of the tree, but when his fingers slid around the tree all it did was scrap them.
" Och! " Yunsung cried, rubbing his ass. Yunsung looked up to see Talim looking strait at him.
~*~*~*~*~*~*
Talim thoughts of finding the soul edge; her goal at this moment was rudely interrupted by a loud boom. Talim spun around quickly and gazed into familar eyes. Talim was at first quite startled by his presence, but quickly she grew concerned of him.
" Och!" He yelled, than looked up. His face expression quickly changed by the sight of Talim, his mouth seemed to drop, his head shrunk to his shoulders and his eyes looked at Talim dumply.
" Um..." Yunsung started , than faked cough as if saying: you can talk from here.
Talim got the message, and smiled at him.
' I swear I think I've seen this guy before...' Talim thought, and then it clicked to her.
" Have me met before? " Talim asked walking toward him, still giving Yunsung a broad smile.
" Well, um...you see...I um..." Yunsung seemed like he just couldn't get the right words out of his mouth.
Talim could have sworn she saw him blush, but that quickly faded. Talim tried to convince herself that he was only blushing because of embarrasment, not because of another reason which I doubt I need to explain.
" Were you following me..." Talim asked, wondering if this would be the sound she kept hearing.
Yunsung looked nervously at Talim, then slowly, looking so innocent and cute, nodded. Talim just couldn't help but let out a small giggle.
" I will take that as a yes. " Talim looked at Yunsung, as if exspecting him to protest it, but he didn't.
" Do you...do you remeber me...? " Yunsung finally choked out a full and complete sentence. Talim was surprised that was the first thing he asked, but netherless she answered him.
" Yes. You were the person who chucked that coin at my head. " Yunsung's mouth dropped.
" You-you knew I threw that coin at you...how? " Talim reached out her hand, and Yunsung took it. Talim pulled him up but just smilled at his question.
" Some things you'll never know..." Talim answered, but before Yunsuing could say anything, a high pitch scream roared the air like nails on a chalkboard. Both Talim and Yunsung looked at each other alarmed. Talim started to run.
" Wait were are you going? " Yunsung questioned chasing after her.
" To see were that scream came from." Talim answered him, gripping her tonfas harder. That was the first time Yunsung noticed that Talim was carrying weapons with her. But Yunsung wasn't complaing about it either. Yunsung took his sword out of it's scabbard, then him and Talim sped off.
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Tears sped down Xianghua's face fast and rapidly. Blood now stained her clothing and the ground, as well and naturally her sword too. Xianghua some how mange to to get the " wolf " off of her arm, put with doing that, he took a chunk of her skin with him. The wound was bleeding madly and there was nothing Xianghua could do about it at this moment, and Xianghua knew it.
' These are no ordinary wolves...' Xianghua thought to herself. ' I could have handled ordinary wolves with no problem. ' But what Xianghua was facing with was a problem, she was stranded in an unknown forest being attacked by an unknown animal, the unknown parts bugged Xianghua tightly, but wisely she choice not to worry about it at that moment.
Another wolf charged at Xianghua. Xianghau rolled on the ground and just barely missed the wolf's pounce. Her wound stung as dirt entered it, dirt is never good for a wound. The leader of the pack charged again, Xianghua's blood still dripping from his teeth.
As surprising as it seemed to Xianghua, a small black figure jumped in front and slashed the wolf to one side. Xianghau looked up in astonishment, and the black figue, now no longer looked lilke a black figure, but a girl, or a extremely young women or as some people call it a teenager.
" Excuse me miss. " The girl said lending a hand ot Xianghua. Xianghua took in, and noticed another person, behind the girl a young man stood fighting off the wolves, probably trying to get enough time for her to escape. But this wan't the case.
" Your name please? "
" Xianghua. " Xianghua looked at the asian girl, and held her wounded arm with her free hand. " Your name? "
" Talim. " Talim smilled at Xianghua. I suppose this wasn't the time to get aquainted, but that was what they were doing. Talim turned around to face Yunsung who was struggling with the wolves. " That's Yunsung. " Talim explained, actually remebering Yunsung's name, unlike Yunsung had with her.
" You can stay here. " Talim said, then running to help Yunsung. Xainghua was puzzled for a moment, but feeling her wound ache, she stayed were she was.
It didn't take long for Yunsung and Talim get beat up almost as much as Xianghua . But just for the sake of this story, we'll just consentrate on Talim.
Talim slashed and swung at the wolves. Her fast pace was quick enough to get a hit out of the wolves,but not hard enough. The wolves would be tossed only a few feet, and would quickly get back on their feet and attack. Talim often thrust forward nocking the wolves harder to the ground but leaving herself fully open. Twice Talim was able to do one of her best combo moves. She thrust two times on the third time she would jump up while fully extending her leg. Between her legs she would thrust her arms down hitting the wolves on the back of the head with the pointy side of her tonfas.
Talim loved doing that move, but it was more complicated and the other two times she attempted to do that move, one wolf would pounce on her before she could jump up. Talim hated to hear Yunsung cry in pain which she heard often, because she had no time to help him. Yunsung was having more of a difficult time then Talim, maybe because Talim hadn't been fighting as much, or maybe it was because Talim was just simply stronger, which ever reason it was, Yunsung nor Talim didn't like it.
When I say Talim didn't like it, it wasn't like Talim was glad Yunsung was weak, no, she was extremely disapointed. It worried her that Yunsung would fall soon, and Talim would have to kill these wolves alone. Talim really never had much pride in herself, it was the way she felt.
' These aren't wolves' Talim hissed to herself as she knocked another wolf to the ground. ' These must be some kind of animals that I've never heard of...' Talim thoughts traced off and turned into another thought. ' What if the soul edge is some where around here...maybe that's why I've never seen these animals before. '
Talim out of no where stumbled to the ground. Talim's face landed hard on the cold, wet, muddy ground. Mudd smeered all over her face and blinded her eyes. She wiped away the mudd out off her eyes as fast as she could, and looked up to see the lead wolf only inches away from her.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Maxi looked at the stars again. The clouds were moving revealing only a few stars, but Maxi enjoyed just looking at them, and daydreaming at the same time. Kilik still was by the fire awaiting Xianghua's return, nervously. Maxi himself was becoming a little conserned. They both had heard a high pitch scream, Kilik was about to dash off but Maxi stopped him. Kilik soon reliezed how stupid that would have been and sat back down.
Over an hour Xianghua had been. Maxi stood up. Kilik looked up at Maxi as if asking were he was going. Before answering Maxi did a quick strech, he then answered Kilik.
" I'm going for a walk I'll be back. "
Kilik seemed a little unsure, but before he could protest, Maxi was gone.
Maxi walked threw the thick forest with his weapon by his side. Like Xianghua and Kilik he went no where with out them. Xianghua used to always ask why he always brought them with him though he declared that he didn't always need them. Maxi would answer he brought them incase anything happened to her.
Xianghua would laugh, and try to trip Maxi. Maxi wanting her to feel better, purposely fell to the ground, and pretended to be beaten. Xianghua would cheer and do her victouriose dance, skipping around Maxi making sure he heard him loud and clear. While Kilik would just watch them,smilling.
Something alerted Maxi. Maxi quickly jerked his head back but saw nobody. Maxi grumbled to himself that he was being to sensative and alert to any signs of Xianghua. A shadow passed by Maxi quick and swift,but this time Maxi saw it.
Maxi was about to say something but before he could do almost anything, something or perhaps someone tackled him and sent his nunchaku flying about five feet away from him. The figure closed their fingers around Maxi's throat. Maxi of course tried to struggle.
But the more Maxi struggled to get free the tighter and tighter the figure's grip became. Maxi kicked and groaned violently, but it did no good. The moon shined upon the figure chocking him, and Maxi saw something that really scared him: it was a women.
It was the fact that Maxi was being beaten by a women that made him furoius, it shouldn't have but it did. Maxi attempted to say something but nothing would come out of his mouth.
" Listen! " The women yelled at him.
But of course Maxi didn't.
" Just listen to me or I'll pierce this knife threw your neck. "
Taking one hand off Maxi's neck, the women pulled out a knife that was hanging on her back like a backpack. Maxi looked at the women for another moment, then stopped struggling. She put the knife away.
" Listen to me. " She said. " Your friends are indanger! "
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