The following review has been submitted to: Embracing Hearts Chapter: 12From: zygh ()good chapter...the little dragon dude is cool...he was cool in the movie too...its cool the that it takes you so long to update...I'm wonderful? Sniff Sniff starts to cry ok ok i'm done crying now...now I have to go finish my student "project" for class...update soon...
AN: Man....I feel guilty. Its been a while since I've updated. Thanks Zygh for your review! Keep reading! I love reviewers. AND YOU ARE WONDERFUL! Anyone that enjoys my story is WON-DEE-FULL!!! heheheeh So, how'd your project go?? What was it on?? If I may ask. But, had to adjust the first two weeks, and every weekend I come home. (I stay in the dorms) I've met some interesting people. I like it. The newness and strangers. Now, algebra... ME NO LIKE. Sorry to those that like it, but I hate it.
Chapter 13 Cleaved
The heartless popped up out of nowhere. I swung aimlessly at them trying to hit at least one of them. Let Riku handle the big dude. I looked up to where he was 'supposedly' hovering to find him gone. Looking around frantically, I found him. He was getting up off the ground. Somehow, he was knocked flat by the giant of a man.
The man turned to me. His eyes flickered golden lightning. The sword turned yellow and flickered with bolts. My own eyes widened, not yet comprehending. (After all, there wasn't magic in our world.) Suddenly, the sky vented several lightening bolts, with its vengeance, targeted upon me. The static circulating in the air made my hair stand up (literally). I was jerked up onto my toes by an unbearable pain. Screaming with agony, I felt the bolts tearing through by body. I noticed, through a red haze of pain, that the Heartless had backed off to allow this torture. Finally, it stopped and I collapsed to the ground. Air tore through my swollen lungs while I shook. I heard feathers rustling as Riku readjusted his wing. A hand rested on my shoulder comforting. Riku looked down at me with concern. Giving a brief shrug and smile, I motioned for him to go and kick this guy's butt.
I heard hoofbeats sending a staccato beat upon the soft soil. Standing, I saw Mulan with her horse running full speed to the giant. Riku so busy with the giant's lightning, and attacks he didn't notice the man's second sword in his other hand that suddenly appeared. Alarmed, I thought to call out to Mulan as it descended upon her. Foolish girl! She could never fight this man. Figuring there wasn't enough time to call out, I ran towards her. 20..10...5...2 feet away. Slow moving, the blade cut through the air and was almost there on top of her. The bolts from the sword made her hair stand up like mine previously did. The horse neighing, bucked frantically and succeeded on getting her off. She hit the ground with a force that made me wince. Horror was in her face as she stood up with her sword ready. It was nearly there. Then I reached her. I grabbed and threw her ten feet away, with such a strength that even surprised me. I felt something hit my armor and knock me on my stomach. The man's blade bit through the armor and reached both skin and bone. It felt as if it was going to continue to cleave me in half. The lightning lining the sword's edges made me convulse with shocks. I saw Mulan's look of awe and horror at the sight before her. Everything was red. Riku figure above me was even red. Everything....red.... I felt the blood spew out of my mouth as I screamed and gasped for breath. Then the pressure and pain stopped. I felt the blade retreat from my back. A good kind of darkness fell over my eyes, as I sunk into the earth.
Riku was busy with the huge giant. He knew the first time that he looked at him that he was trouble. Apparently, Tessa didn't think so, but she felt an animosity towards Riku at that moment. What did he do? Girls... a mystery that will never be solved. (Guys never know what they do wrong...they are just as mysterious to women.--AN) The man's eyes crackled with coldness and without mercy. Tessa's eyes in contrast weren't so cold. They were warm and inviting. Why am I thinking about her eyes?? After all, she had acted weird around Mulan. Why? Avoiding the concentrated lightning, he swerved all over. The huge sword swung at him and missed as he jabbed, blinding the man's eyes with two jabs. The man screeched and stumbled in agony. Then a huge smile broke through his pain. Confused Riku looked at him. A shrill shriek filled the air, making him pause. It was so inhuman that it made his hair stand on end. Then he understood the man's satisfied smile. A brief look at his other hand showed a second blade held in its grip. How did that get there? Who was down there? Mulan?! Even worse...Tessa!? Growling, he flew down as fast as he could. The lightning swirled around a bloody figure pressed into the earth. The blade kept descending deeper into the small body. Acting on instinct, he used his two blades to push up on the bigger one. She was still, as he swung the man's arm back. Kneeling briefly, he heard the shallow breathing and saw the pouring blood. Blood...BLOOD! Why was there always BLOOD?! Riku made a noise in his agony and sorrow. Piercing the air with his dark form, he rose up before the giant and with an godly speed and slit his throat.
I was falling. There was nothing stopping my momentum. I was descending like a hawk upon a prey, but there wasn't any prey nor ground. Once in a while, a flutter of a memory would start then stop only to be repressed. Horrible memories were forming then popping. I could feel the ugliness forming before my eyes. I closed my eyes, but I could still feel their presence. Then there was a feeling of love emanating among the ugliness. Opening my eyes open I saw a flash of one. Turning my eyes in the direction of it... I saw two babies. They had tufts of red hair and scrunched up eyes from screaming so hard. I chuckled. They were in the hospital. Our father was there....smiling...
Just before he entered the war and died in "honorable service," he was a pilot just like his father. He flew around and helped give images of the city from above...no wonder "they" (army) wanted him. His eyes were greenish-yellow, and he had auburn hair. For being a red-head, he was absolutely gorgeous. No wonder my mother loved him so. I smiled at the thought of him. It was a shame that the twins didn't get to see him. I remembered the time that I said goodbye, the promise he made to come back. When he never did....there was the death notice...mom's depression and her regression into drinking. Even then, I knew that you couldn't drown your sorrow in a bottle. Why didn't she know that? She was older than I.
There was the twins as toddlers running around in their baby dresses. The memory popped, and light was coming back. I sobbed. I felt the Earth vibrate, but that seemed ages ago. Pain was as clear as a bell's chime. There was nothing dubbing it -no morphine, no lidacane- to ease the intolerable pain. I was angry at my mother for doing this to us. My baby girls didn't even feel the love of their own father. You did this! The ground was sucking me back into its black depths. I started pushing back on the soft earth trying to not let it swallow me. I felt someone trying to push me back down. Growling, I pushed up hard and got unsteadily to my feet. This effort caused my mouth to run with blood mixed with saliva. Riku looked at me surprised, yet concerned. He grabbed my wrist. I tried to shake his hand off. It wouldn't budge. I sank to my knees, weak, and dying.
"My baby girls.." I sobbed. Then remembering all those nights of pain, rage filled me. "THAT BITCH!" I lay back on the ground, watching the grass wave before my eyes.
Little red haired girls danced singing "ring around the rosy" in a broken livingroom. Our family was broken....and now that I am gone it may be fixed. I hope...something was pressed against my lips.
There was a tunnel in my vision. I started to fall again. Before I was completely under, I drank the liquid and coughed as its acrid taste went down. Falling, falling...Rising..Something was pulling me back. There wasn't a tunnel anymore. I felt someone support me. They were the arms of a warrior, a man-boy...Riku. I nodded and smiled at him in thanks, and then I passed out.
AN: Man....I feel guilty. Its been a while since I've updated. Thanks Zygh for your review! Keep reading! I love reviewers. AND YOU ARE WONDERFUL! Anyone that enjoys my story is WON-DEE-FULL!!! heheheeh So, how'd your project go?? What was it on?? If I may ask. But, had to adjust the first two weeks, and every weekend I come home. (I stay in the dorms) I've met some interesting people. I like it. The newness and strangers. Now, algebra... ME NO LIKE. Sorry to those that like it, but I hate it.
Chapter 13 Cleaved
The heartless popped up out of nowhere. I swung aimlessly at them trying to hit at least one of them. Let Riku handle the big dude. I looked up to where he was 'supposedly' hovering to find him gone. Looking around frantically, I found him. He was getting up off the ground. Somehow, he was knocked flat by the giant of a man.
The man turned to me. His eyes flickered golden lightning. The sword turned yellow and flickered with bolts. My own eyes widened, not yet comprehending. (After all, there wasn't magic in our world.) Suddenly, the sky vented several lightening bolts, with its vengeance, targeted upon me. The static circulating in the air made my hair stand up (literally). I was jerked up onto my toes by an unbearable pain. Screaming with agony, I felt the bolts tearing through by body. I noticed, through a red haze of pain, that the Heartless had backed off to allow this torture. Finally, it stopped and I collapsed to the ground. Air tore through my swollen lungs while I shook. I heard feathers rustling as Riku readjusted his wing. A hand rested on my shoulder comforting. Riku looked down at me with concern. Giving a brief shrug and smile, I motioned for him to go and kick this guy's butt.
I heard hoofbeats sending a staccato beat upon the soft soil. Standing, I saw Mulan with her horse running full speed to the giant. Riku so busy with the giant's lightning, and attacks he didn't notice the man's second sword in his other hand that suddenly appeared. Alarmed, I thought to call out to Mulan as it descended upon her. Foolish girl! She could never fight this man. Figuring there wasn't enough time to call out, I ran towards her. 20..10...5...2 feet away. Slow moving, the blade cut through the air and was almost there on top of her. The bolts from the sword made her hair stand up like mine previously did. The horse neighing, bucked frantically and succeeded on getting her off. She hit the ground with a force that made me wince. Horror was in her face as she stood up with her sword ready. It was nearly there. Then I reached her. I grabbed and threw her ten feet away, with such a strength that even surprised me. I felt something hit my armor and knock me on my stomach. The man's blade bit through the armor and reached both skin and bone. It felt as if it was going to continue to cleave me in half. The lightning lining the sword's edges made me convulse with shocks. I saw Mulan's look of awe and horror at the sight before her. Everything was red. Riku figure above me was even red. Everything....red.... I felt the blood spew out of my mouth as I screamed and gasped for breath. Then the pressure and pain stopped. I felt the blade retreat from my back. A good kind of darkness fell over my eyes, as I sunk into the earth.
Riku was busy with the huge giant. He knew the first time that he looked at him that he was trouble. Apparently, Tessa didn't think so, but she felt an animosity towards Riku at that moment. What did he do? Girls... a mystery that will never be solved. (Guys never know what they do wrong...they are just as mysterious to women.--AN) The man's eyes crackled with coldness and without mercy. Tessa's eyes in contrast weren't so cold. They were warm and inviting. Why am I thinking about her eyes?? After all, she had acted weird around Mulan. Why? Avoiding the concentrated lightning, he swerved all over. The huge sword swung at him and missed as he jabbed, blinding the man's eyes with two jabs. The man screeched and stumbled in agony. Then a huge smile broke through his pain. Confused Riku looked at him. A shrill shriek filled the air, making him pause. It was so inhuman that it made his hair stand on end. Then he understood the man's satisfied smile. A brief look at his other hand showed a second blade held in its grip. How did that get there? Who was down there? Mulan?! Even worse...Tessa!? Growling, he flew down as fast as he could. The lightning swirled around a bloody figure pressed into the earth. The blade kept descending deeper into the small body. Acting on instinct, he used his two blades to push up on the bigger one. She was still, as he swung the man's arm back. Kneeling briefly, he heard the shallow breathing and saw the pouring blood. Blood...BLOOD! Why was there always BLOOD?! Riku made a noise in his agony and sorrow. Piercing the air with his dark form, he rose up before the giant and with an godly speed and slit his throat.
I was falling. There was nothing stopping my momentum. I was descending like a hawk upon a prey, but there wasn't any prey nor ground. Once in a while, a flutter of a memory would start then stop only to be repressed. Horrible memories were forming then popping. I could feel the ugliness forming before my eyes. I closed my eyes, but I could still feel their presence. Then there was a feeling of love emanating among the ugliness. Opening my eyes open I saw a flash of one. Turning my eyes in the direction of it... I saw two babies. They had tufts of red hair and scrunched up eyes from screaming so hard. I chuckled. They were in the hospital. Our father was there....smiling...
Just before he entered the war and died in "honorable service," he was a pilot just like his father. He flew around and helped give images of the city from above...no wonder "they" (army) wanted him. His eyes were greenish-yellow, and he had auburn hair. For being a red-head, he was absolutely gorgeous. No wonder my mother loved him so. I smiled at the thought of him. It was a shame that the twins didn't get to see him. I remembered the time that I said goodbye, the promise he made to come back. When he never did....there was the death notice...mom's depression and her regression into drinking. Even then, I knew that you couldn't drown your sorrow in a bottle. Why didn't she know that? She was older than I.
There was the twins as toddlers running around in their baby dresses. The memory popped, and light was coming back. I sobbed. I felt the Earth vibrate, but that seemed ages ago. Pain was as clear as a bell's chime. There was nothing dubbing it -no morphine, no lidacane- to ease the intolerable pain. I was angry at my mother for doing this to us. My baby girls didn't even feel the love of their own father. You did this! The ground was sucking me back into its black depths. I started pushing back on the soft earth trying to not let it swallow me. I felt someone trying to push me back down. Growling, I pushed up hard and got unsteadily to my feet. This effort caused my mouth to run with blood mixed with saliva. Riku looked at me surprised, yet concerned. He grabbed my wrist. I tried to shake his hand off. It wouldn't budge. I sank to my knees, weak, and dying.
"My baby girls.." I sobbed. Then remembering all those nights of pain, rage filled me. "THAT BITCH!" I lay back on the ground, watching the grass wave before my eyes.
Little red haired girls danced singing "ring around the rosy" in a broken livingroom. Our family was broken....and now that I am gone it may be fixed. I hope...something was pressed against my lips.
There was a tunnel in my vision. I started to fall again. Before I was completely under, I drank the liquid and coughed as its acrid taste went down. Falling, falling...Rising..Something was pulling me back. There wasn't a tunnel anymore. I felt someone support me. They were the arms of a warrior, a man-boy...Riku. I nodded and smiled at him in thanks, and then I passed out.
