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Title: Unforgivable Sinners
By: Cmdr. Gabe E.
Summary: Yuriko / Lady Deathstrike surfaces from the Alkali Lake Base, wounded and barely alive. She suddenly finds an unconscious battered figure on the shore of the lake --- the man is Col. William Stryker. Will he be the key to her past? Or will she be the key to his? What will come out of such a reunion? And what of Logan's past?
Note1: This fanfiction occurs entirely in the X-Men movie-verse . 'nuff said !
NOTE2: Since fanfiction.net has difficulty in displaying italicized words (which are supposed to be characters' unspoken thoughts), I decided to upload chapters 1 – 10 again and enclosed all unspoken thoughts in .
So from now on, /"This is going to be an unspoken thought."/.
I fixed some of the scene dividers too =).
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CHAPTER I: Come sweet death
Yuriko would do anything to make it stop. She had lost count of the times she had thrusted her sharp adamantium claws within the torso of the man Stryker called Wolverine.
She cried inside as she saw him wince in agony. For he was just like her -- - both of them compelled to fight and both of them created by the man she hated the most, William Stryker.
The only difference was, that she had no choice but to fight for something she never believed in. Night and day, images of her victims flashed in her head, some of them begging for mercy as she sliced and gutted the life out of them. Will she never be free of the hell that had been bestowed upon her?
Her conscious mind wished nothing but death upon herself. After all, she felt as if she'd been dead anyway. Long dead. She couldn't even remember what life was like before Stryker mutilated her body and her being. Perhaps Wolverine could be the one to give her that freedom.
But hope for that freedom started to drift away as her uncontrollable body continued to lash on her fallen foe. She knew victory will soon be hers and that he was going to die. That thought gave her nothing but misery and hidden tears.
The cycle would never end. If she wins, she would forever live as Stryker's bringer of death. Nothing more ... Nothing less.
The final blow was only a second away. She raised her claws up in the air, ready to strike him down. And in that split second, she was able to whisper something through her delicate, crimson lips.
"I'm sorry... Forgive me."
Yuriko's eyes suddenly opened wide with shock as she felt something cold, warm and solid pierce through her stomach. She knew it wasn't Wolverine's claw. She recognized it as something else.... She recognized it all too well, especially when the hot, liquid adamantium started to make its way into her inner organs, the thickness of it suffocating her from the inside.
Perhaps wishes do come true....
And at that moment they did. For a moment, she could feel, she could smell, she could taste, she could see, she could think what she wanted too. She was finally free. If only she could thank the man who had given her life.
Yuriko made a last attempt to look into Wolverine's eyes. To show him that she, too, was a victim, a pawn in the game of humans vs. mutants. But it was too late. The last thing she saw was the sadness and regret in the eyes of her foe. Maybe in another life, she would meet him again, as a friend and as an equal.
Then the darkness clouded her mind as pain and suffocation overwhelmed every inch of her body.
........But alas, death doesn't come to soon for someone such as her........
.........For Lady Deathstrike was built to perfection ........ never to die or whither away as long as time stood by her side.......
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Every second seemed like forever as she lay there in the tank. Wolverine had left her there to die, but death never came. Seconds turned into minutes, and the minutes just kept on going.
She was finally free from Stryker's control, free to think for herself and to live her life as she saw fit. But there she remained, like a drowning statue, waiting for a death that never came.
/"Why am I still not dead?"/ She thought to herself. "I...I....should be dead by now....Dead moments ago...."
She suddenly felt her entire body twitch. Then every part of her jerked like a rag doll as if she was being electrocuted under water. She threw her head back and screamed, the water clouding her voice. Her eyes stayed open for she couldn't close them. Her body was controlling itself now. No, it wasn't Stryker's mind-controlling chemical --- it was something else.
She could feel her body doing something from the inside. She didn't know what it was, but it brought her great pain, as if her body is trying to regurgitate itself.
The water in the tank started to boil as Yuriko's body struggled to heal itself. The heat caused her to cry out even more.
/"When will my torment end?!!! Is it not enough that I have suffered so much."/
Then at that moment, she felt it....She felt death creeping up her spine. The pain and the process that her body was going through was already too much to bear. If she wanted to, she could let go, let go and finally die.
The one thought that lingered in her mind was FREEDOM. Freedom through death. And that chance was finally given to her for real.
/"So this is the end... I will finally be able to rest. I am so tired."/
Then she remembered Wolverine. She remembered how he struggled to live for his future. In her mind lingered the zeal in his eyes as he fought for his survival. Even when he knew he had no chance, he still fought --- fought like he was going to win --- fought like he would see the next sunrise.
In their fight, she looked at him as an equal. Perhaps it was her time to prove that they truly are in the same path.
She wanted to live.
Yuriko's eyes were suddenly filled with determination as she fought against the pain that the healing process was putting her through. She clenched her fists into tight balls as her body disposed and absorbed the adamantium that had filled her from the inside.
While she looked forward to her upcoming freedom, a single thought kept on running in her mind. /"Someday we'll meet again....If not now, then some time in the future....And I shall thank you personally, Logan."/
The underwater base suddenly shook as water started to seep through its cracks. The dam that had served as one of the base's primary structure gave in to the natural force of the large body of water that pushed against it.
A few minutes passed, and the base was nothing more but a modern day Atlantis --- A wonderful, powerful structure that was doomed to drown under the force of man and nature.
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TO BE CONTINUED !
Title: Unforgivable Sinners
By: Cmdr. Gabe E.
Summary: Yuriko / Lady Deathstrike surfaces from the Alkali Lake Base, wounded and barely alive. She suddenly finds an unconscious battered figure on the shore of the lake --- the man is Col. William Stryker. Will he be the key to her past? Or will she be the key to his? What will come out of such a reunion? And what of Logan's past?
Note1: This fanfiction occurs entirely in the X-Men movie-verse . 'nuff said !
NOTE2: Since fanfiction.net has difficulty in displaying italicized words (which are supposed to be characters' unspoken thoughts), I decided to upload chapters 1 – 10 again and enclosed all unspoken thoughts in .
So from now on, /"This is going to be an unspoken thought."/.
I fixed some of the scene dividers too =).
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CHAPTER I: Come sweet death
Yuriko would do anything to make it stop. She had lost count of the times she had thrusted her sharp adamantium claws within the torso of the man Stryker called Wolverine.
She cried inside as she saw him wince in agony. For he was just like her -- - both of them compelled to fight and both of them created by the man she hated the most, William Stryker.
The only difference was, that she had no choice but to fight for something she never believed in. Night and day, images of her victims flashed in her head, some of them begging for mercy as she sliced and gutted the life out of them. Will she never be free of the hell that had been bestowed upon her?
Her conscious mind wished nothing but death upon herself. After all, she felt as if she'd been dead anyway. Long dead. She couldn't even remember what life was like before Stryker mutilated her body and her being. Perhaps Wolverine could be the one to give her that freedom.
But hope for that freedom started to drift away as her uncontrollable body continued to lash on her fallen foe. She knew victory will soon be hers and that he was going to die. That thought gave her nothing but misery and hidden tears.
The cycle would never end. If she wins, she would forever live as Stryker's bringer of death. Nothing more ... Nothing less.
The final blow was only a second away. She raised her claws up in the air, ready to strike him down. And in that split second, she was able to whisper something through her delicate, crimson lips.
"I'm sorry... Forgive me."
Yuriko's eyes suddenly opened wide with shock as she felt something cold, warm and solid pierce through her stomach. She knew it wasn't Wolverine's claw. She recognized it as something else.... She recognized it all too well, especially when the hot, liquid adamantium started to make its way into her inner organs, the thickness of it suffocating her from the inside.
Perhaps wishes do come true....
And at that moment they did. For a moment, she could feel, she could smell, she could taste, she could see, she could think what she wanted too. She was finally free. If only she could thank the man who had given her life.
Yuriko made a last attempt to look into Wolverine's eyes. To show him that she, too, was a victim, a pawn in the game of humans vs. mutants. But it was too late. The last thing she saw was the sadness and regret in the eyes of her foe. Maybe in another life, she would meet him again, as a friend and as an equal.
Then the darkness clouded her mind as pain and suffocation overwhelmed every inch of her body.
........But alas, death doesn't come to soon for someone such as her........
.........For Lady Deathstrike was built to perfection ........ never to die or whither away as long as time stood by her side.......
= = = = = = = = = = = = == = =
Every second seemed like forever as she lay there in the tank. Wolverine had left her there to die, but death never came. Seconds turned into minutes, and the minutes just kept on going.
She was finally free from Stryker's control, free to think for herself and to live her life as she saw fit. But there she remained, like a drowning statue, waiting for a death that never came.
/"Why am I still not dead?"/ She thought to herself. "I...I....should be dead by now....Dead moments ago...."
She suddenly felt her entire body twitch. Then every part of her jerked like a rag doll as if she was being electrocuted under water. She threw her head back and screamed, the water clouding her voice. Her eyes stayed open for she couldn't close them. Her body was controlling itself now. No, it wasn't Stryker's mind-controlling chemical --- it was something else.
She could feel her body doing something from the inside. She didn't know what it was, but it brought her great pain, as if her body is trying to regurgitate itself.
The water in the tank started to boil as Yuriko's body struggled to heal itself. The heat caused her to cry out even more.
/"When will my torment end?!!! Is it not enough that I have suffered so much."/
Then at that moment, she felt it....She felt death creeping up her spine. The pain and the process that her body was going through was already too much to bear. If she wanted to, she could let go, let go and finally die.
The one thought that lingered in her mind was FREEDOM. Freedom through death. And that chance was finally given to her for real.
/"So this is the end... I will finally be able to rest. I am so tired."/
Then she remembered Wolverine. She remembered how he struggled to live for his future. In her mind lingered the zeal in his eyes as he fought for his survival. Even when he knew he had no chance, he still fought --- fought like he was going to win --- fought like he would see the next sunrise.
In their fight, she looked at him as an equal. Perhaps it was her time to prove that they truly are in the same path.
She wanted to live.
Yuriko's eyes were suddenly filled with determination as she fought against the pain that the healing process was putting her through. She clenched her fists into tight balls as her body disposed and absorbed the adamantium that had filled her from the inside.
While she looked forward to her upcoming freedom, a single thought kept on running in her mind. /"Someday we'll meet again....If not now, then some time in the future....And I shall thank you personally, Logan."/
The underwater base suddenly shook as water started to seep through its cracks. The dam that had served as one of the base's primary structure gave in to the natural force of the large body of water that pushed against it.
A few minutes passed, and the base was nothing more but a modern day Atlantis --- A wonderful, powerful structure that was doomed to drown under the force of man and nature.
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TO BE CONTINUED !