This one is quite dramatic. It nearly made me cry, and I wrote it! sigh I know, I'm pitiful and I have issues, lol. Do not own SC characters. Hope you like this one.
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Chapter 10: Restless Night (not what you're thinking, I'm not that dirty minded!)
Sophitia noticed that others were coming towards her and Taki as well, all coming in different directions.
"Run!" Taki yelled as she braced herself against her attackers. Taki's eyes widened as she realized that Sophitia moved into her fighting stance. "What are you doing? Run!" She yelled again as she ducked just at the right moment from a claw-like hand that swiped above her.
"No!" Sophitia yelled back as she guarded one of the demons as it pounced at her.
"Why won't you listen to me!?" Taki almost screamed in rage from her attackers fierceness and Sophitia's stubbornness. Taki fought in full fury against each attacker as four came after her at once. Sophitia guarded against two as they swiped their claws at her. She managed to hit them back whenever an opening was left for her, but that didn't stop them, it just slowed them down a bit.
"I won't leave you alone!" Sophitia cried back. Taki had managed to kill one of the demons due to her increase in rage; when a clawed hand thrusts itself towards Taki's stomach, she evaded by jumping over the clawed hand and over the demon completely, and as she landed to the ground she jammed her small sword into the demons back. The demon let out a horrible shriek of pain towards the sky and fell to the ground. This led to a good and bad thing; the good thing was that all their backs was facing her, so now she had clear shots of her last three. The bad this was now that all the demon's had lost their target before their eyes, they found a new target... Sophitia.
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Sophitia guarded miraculously against the both of them, turns out that the two that she fought were feistier then she had anticipated, her agility wasn't as well-toned as Taki's so she wasn't able to make a successful hit until she got the idea of running full speed up one demon's body and when she reached its shoulders, she kicked off of it, sending the demon backwards and losing its balance. When she landed, she thrusted her sword forward into the other demon's chest. The demon grabbed her sword and grunted in pain as it slowly fell to the ground, Sophitia pulled her sword back forcefully and breathed heavily.
"Sophitia! Look out!" Taki called her in a state of panic. Sophitia looked around her and, lucky for her, swung her shield upwards against another pouncing demon coming towards her. The huge impact made the demon fly through the air and landed roughly ten yards behind her.
Taki was able to leap on one of the two demons in front of her and drove it to the ground, she quickly thrusted her small sword into the fallen demon's neck and listened to it let out a shriek of pain. Sophitia and Taki ran towards the last one in front of them as the demon let out a loud, familiar roar at Sophitia. She growled at it loudly in return due to her frustration as she ran towards it. The demon swung its clawed hand at her shoulder as she threw her sword at its stomach, both made impact with their targets. Sophitia let out a loud grunt as its claws slammed into her skin.
Taki narrowly missed the sword that shot through the demon's stomach as she slammed her own into the demons back, she watched as her small sword went through its chest. The demon let out an ear-deafening shriek as it slowly fell to the ground.
Taki tried to catch her breath as she slowly walked over to the fallen creature for Sophitia's sword that was embedded into its flesh. She slowly pulled it out and walked over to Sophitia, who sat on the ground gripping her shoulder. She sat herself next to the blonde and handed the sword back to its owner.
"You're not bad, I guess I should learn not to judge you're gods' handiwork... or their choice in sentinels." Taki smiled. Sophitia smiled faintly back.
"Thanks." Sophitia looked at her, no real reason why, just because she wanted to. She watched as Taki's kind and beautiful face changed into one of horror. "What's the m- ARRRGGHH!!!" Sophitia felt a sharp, burning pain in her upper back as she was pushed forwards and into Taki's lap.
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Taki saw as the demon that they had forgot about pouncing upon Sophitia's back. As Sophitia fell forward and yelled loudly in pain, Taki pulled out her Mekki-Maru and thrusted it into the demon's temple. The demon fell to the ground limply. Taki let out a growl as she watched the demon's life slip away. She turned to Sophitia.
"Are you al-"She stopped as she noticed that Sophitia lay on the ground motionless. Taki could feel her heart beat faster in worry. Her eyes caught sight at four small holes in Sophitia's back, blood dripping from each. "No..." Taki hastily lifted Sophitia's shirt a bit to take a look at the holes without the fabric in the way. Her heart stopped as she saw that the wholes were actually bite marks. She gulped as she slowly turned Sophitia over to look at her face.
Sophitia's eyes were glazed over and her face was extremely pale. One would think she was dead if it hadn't been for the slow, uneven breaths that Sophitia took in.
"Sophitia?" Taki called her in a gentle voice, hoping she would hear a response. Sophitia tried her best to speak.
"Taki?" Her voice was uneven as well and even sounded like a slight whimper. Sophitia didn't look up at her as she spoke; they stayed in the same place, staring into the sky. Her breaths slowly became sharper and deeper. "What's happening to me? Why do I feel so weak? I can't even get the energy to focus my eyes. It feels like a sharp, cold feeling is running through my body. I feel... paralyzed." Sophitia's tone showed how much fear she felt. Taki cradled the younger woman within her arms, laying her head upon her chest.
"Don't worry, I'll carry you back to that waterfall you love so much. You can rest there." Taki spoke in a soft and gentle voice into Sophitia's ear as she slowly rocked her back and forth. She felt Sophitia's breaths become quick and almost a hysterical manner.
"Taki I'm scared." Sophitia almost whimpered in such a tone that made Taki almost cry for her. She placed her head on top of Sophitia's and ran her fingers through her blonde hair trying to comfort and sooth the frail looking beautiful woman within her arms.
"Hush now." Taki gently kissed Sophitia's forehead. "Everything's okay. When we get to the waterfall you can rest in my arms. Everything's going to be fine." Taki continued to speak as softly as she could, although she knew very well that things weren't 'okay' at all. 'Please, both my gods and the gods of this foreigner, please don't let what the book said be true...'
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Taki carried the hysterically breathing woman in her arms, all the way back to the waterfall. Taki knew that she would rest easier here. Taki laid the both of them against a tree, Sophitia leaning against her, her head on Taki's shoulder. Taki didn't want to sleep; she wanted to watch the younger girl the whole night, in case something should ever happen.
Sophitia looked around the best that she could, she wanted so see the waterfall before her. She recognized the spot they were laying on. 'This is where Taki and I almost...' She remembered how much Taki had done for her; from housing her to helping her through this fearful moment. She couldn't because she had so little strength, but she wanted to wrap her arms around Taki and hold her in an embrace as a thank you. The only thing that she could do, even with what little strength she had, was bury her face within Taki's chest.
Taki gasped as she felt Sophitia rub the side of her face against her upper chest. Taki placed her fingers underneath Sophitia's chin and angled her so that Taki could see her face. Sophitia's were still glazed over a bit, but Sophitia tried to look at her nonetheless. Taki's hand that held her chin traveled to Sophitia's nape. Taki looked at her with her soft gaze, then slowly bent her head down. Sophitia whimpered as she felt Taki capture her lips with her own. As soon as she felt Taki's soft lips she closed her eyes, she loved that it was Taki comforting her, she wouldn't have wanted it to be anyone else, she loved the warmth Taki's lips gave.
She sighed as Taki pulled away. Taki continued to look at her as she caressed Sophitia's cheek with the thumb of the hand that held her nape. She gave her a soft smile. "Try to rest now, I'll watch over you." Taki assured in a soothing voice. Sophitia agreed by closing her heavy eyes as Taki rested her head back on her shoulder. Taki soothed her to sleep by running her fingers through her blonde hair. As she did so, she prayed again, hoping that the book was wrong.
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Pretty dramatic/romantic eh? Told ya! Lol. I particularly liked writing this one, it all poured out easier. Most of the chapters I've written were difficult to write. I hope you liked this one.
To Silvermoonlight GJ: About Ivy, yes I remember you writing her as an evil woman. I was officially shocked when Suzuka said that Ivy told her how to release the evil part of a sword that is fused with Soul Edge, I never really pictured Ivy doing that considering her past by Soul Calibur's terms. But it certainly was a twist for me, so it worked ;) And thank you for making me feel better about complicated storylines, your reasoning on that makes sense. And don't worry about the glitch, I picture more coming like that :) And about the whole Sophitia and Taki going 'further'... heh heh.... The story, I realize, is going to be longer than expected... so that won't be happening for a while, thank goddess, I almost didn't survive the LIME, I need time to recuperate. LOL
Besides, I already got somebody calling me a 'perv' because of the pocky scene in Meeting of the Dirty Minded (which I actually got for a manga book), so I need to try and settle myself down a bit, as difficult as that may be, lol.
Ahem... Did you get all that Silvermoonlight? LoL.
