Les Guardiens de Ordre: A story of Loyalty, Honor and Love
AN: Elow minna! Next chappie is here again! I'm really glad that you liked the first few chapters… including it's RK counterpart. I'm really sorry if I wrote the Rurouni Kenshin counterpart in the exact same story. I wanted to view the story in both ways, in the anime RK style and the original pRO style. And by the way… Mizu paired with??? Well, I'm not about to divulge the pairings ahead of time! Read and find out! /gg
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Chapter 3: Prisoner or a new guild mate?
Freedom is what I seek
Yet I am confined in another cage
Where am I to go?
Fate is cruel
I need release
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Blinking against the bright sunlight, Blessed sat up from her bed and looked at the window. It had been a month since Mizu left their guild… and the rest of them are still feeling the after effects of her sudden departure. Most of them are still the same but there are just things that would never be the same without their most mischievous clan mate. Hatred had instigated a search party to look for her. Some of them had scattered all through out Midgard just to look for her. All to no avail. Aside from Mizu's departure, Blessed's heart lay in a turmoil due to her recent break up with Fubu. She hugged the stuffed rabbit in her arms and wept quietly.
Where are you sis?
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"Why don't you go to her?"
Jakkk watched Dark from the corner of his eyes. He had been sitting on the branches of the tree right across Blessed's chamber. It had been an unconscious habit which he has formed ever since Bless broke up with Fubu a week ago. He clenched his fists, Fubu was his friend, but… damn… he didn't have to that to Bless.
"Oi! Earth to Jakkk…!"
The hunter turned to face the assassin seated behind him. "It's not yet time…" he blandly told his friend.
Dark sighed and looked at his best friend, "Jakkk, take advice from someone who made almost the same mistake."
The hunter looked at his friends curiously.
"Don't wait for too long or you might lose your only chance… because sometimes, your first chance… is your only chance."
Jakkk turned back to look at the sobbing priestess and understood what his friend meant. Dark could have told Mizu what he had felt all along but due to his personal insecurities, he never got the chance to tell her what he truly felt.
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"Owww… my aching head…"
Lifting her body to a sitting position, blue eyes scanned her surroundings. A hand unconsciously moved to her stomach and winced. Moving her legs to the edge of the bed, she noted that her weapon was missing and her armor was on the chair beside the bed. Padding slowly to the window, her eyes widened as she took in her surroundings.
"Oh… my…God…"
"Welcome to the lost city of Morroc."
Spinning around, she saw a tall and obviously handsome blacksmith standing by the door. She blinked and swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat.
"Who are you?" she asked him quietly
"My name is Sano. Blacksmith and third in command for the Underground Assassins."
The young girls mouth gaped open. "Underground Assassins?"
"Quit pushing around you little brat." Came a small hiss behind the closed door.
Sano's eyes moved to the door and sighed. Looking back at the curious priestess, he chuckled and slid the door open.
"And this is Misa and Hiko." At his words, the latter tumbled into an undignified heap at his feet when he slid the door abruptly. The young huntress and the small wizard flushed brick red at being caught peeping into her room.
The priestess tilted her head to regard the three cautiously. They looked friendly… but appearances can be deceiving… they are in fact members of the Underground Assassins. The Underground Assassins are known all throughout Midgard due to their ferocity and being lethally deadly. Before she could ask what she was doing inside their castle, she caught sight of the knight lurking in the shadows behind the blacksmith. At the same time, a tall, alluring wizard appeared beside the knight and looked at her in such a way that made her blood boil.
The knight moved forward from the shadows and revealed his tall lean frame and his icy blue eyes. She tried to read what was in his eyes, his face… but she could not detect any emotion whatsoever. She shivered internally when his dark voice complimented his icy blue eyes.
"Our GM wishes to speak with you."
Shino watched the young girl eye each of them cautiously, he could clearly see in her eyes that she was curious with them, her eyes also showed her mirth when Misa and Hiko tumbled inside the room, from curiosity and caution, he saw that she was also trying to gauge his emotions. Scrutinizing him as he stepped into the light. He also saw the was her own sapphire orbs flashed in anger at Kitsune's direction. Right now, he couldn't help but admire the way she stood her ground and the way she eyed him directly… defiantly.
"And just who is your GM and who are you?" came her icy tone
Still impassive, Shino answered her in his usual dead voice. "My name is Shino, second in command, and the woman behind me is Kitsune." he added when her eyes moved from his to the woman standing behind him curiously.
Sano stood quietly and watched the girl speak with Shino. He looked at her and watched and tried to gauge her. Was she ultra brave or was she just plain emotionless? Back straight, she looked at Shino straight in the eye and watched as she asked him yet again who their GM was. Sano couldn't contain to shiver with the iciness in her voice.
Damn, this girl can drop the room temperature with her voice only. He thought as he continued to watch the young priestess.
"Our GM is none other than the famous assassin, Shinta."
Misa glared at where the breathy reply came. Trust that fox to make things worse. She glanced anxiously at the priestess before her, still standing defiantly before them, she thrust her chin higher as to accent her defiance.
"That murderer?"
Their eyes widened at her words, Kitsune smirked and moved inside the room and looked at her up and down. "Hmmph. I don't understand why our GM still let you live. You are too weak and aside from that you don't have any ounce of respect in you body."
"I only give my respect to those who deserve it."
The fox laughed breathily and glanced at her as she was nothing more than a piece of trash. "You're a scrawny little brat who doesn't know your own limitations. You don't stand a chance here with us."
A dagger whizzed by her ear and imbedded itself to the wall behind the wall.
A stunned silence enshrouded the room.
"One rule I keep telling to my self… there are no limitations." The young priestess came near Kitsune and grabbed the hilt of the dagger and removed it from the wall with a firm tug. The dagger had slipped into her hand and was thrown to the infuriating woman in a heartbeat.
"Watch your words with me next time witch. I don't care who or what you are… the next time you insult or look at me in such a way, I will make sure that my aim will not miss." She hissed to the woman who still stood shocked at what had happened.
She glared at the others who continued to look at her in shock. The only person who didn't look too shocked was the knight. Shino looked at her and regarded her closely. Now he knew what Shinta meant that she had potential. He looked deep into her sapphire orbs and told her in a quiet voice to follow him.
The young priestess merely looked at him.
Shino looked at her and waited, Sano looked at the staring contest the two were doing and decided to step in.
"Ummm, missy, if it's not too much trouble, could you just come with us so that you'll have the answers to your questions."
The priestess broke her stare with the knight and nodded silently. A part of her wanted to apologize to the others, but a bigger part of her voiced out that it was not yet the time and place. Later… later when she had all her answers. Following the blacksmith, she nodded slightly as she passed the huntress and the small wizard.
Her eyes straight ahead she watched the back of the knight and sighed. Looking out the windows as looked at the dessert sky as they continued to walk to the main halls of the castle. Entering a huge room, she saw that it was empty. Looking at Sano and Shino, she saw that the two had already exited and left her alone.
"Threw a dagger at Kitsune? Aren't you practicing your throws a wee bit early?"
Mizu turned to look around her and noticed that no one was in the room with her… or that's what she thought. Gritting her teeth, she cursed silently under her breath.
"Reveal yourself you damned assassin." She said through clenched teeth.
Landing gracefully before her, Shinta uttered a dry chuckle.
"What do you really want with me?" Mizu growled out to him
"Nothing really."
She looked at him as if he was crazy… in fact she thought he was crazy. "Then why the hell did you kidnap me? Wait, before you answer that, answer this first, you said you were going to kill me, why now?"
Shinta sat on the floor and looked up at her glaring form, "I didn't have any intention of killing you."
She stood there and gaped at him eyes wide.
"Someone made a deal with me to kidnap you… not kill you."
She closed her mouth and glared at him. "There's nothing you can do with me… why go through this trouble?"
"As I told you… I made a deal."
Mizu fisted her hands. "Who wanted me out of the way…?"
"No need for you to know. All you need to know now is that you will never be leaving the confines of this castle. You will never go back to your original guild. You are our prisoner here and here you will stay. And don't bother escaping by teleporting or warping out of here because we will always find you. Don't also bother to try and contact your friends… if you don't want us to kill them. You're welcome to roam around here if you want... this is after all… your new home. "
She glared down at him and felt tears sting her eyes, I could never go back to my home… she chuckled dryly.
The assassin looked at her as she chuckled dryly, tears falling down her beautiful face.
Turning to the window she looked at the sunset over the ocean. Dessert behind and a barrier of water in front. Tears fell to her face, "A prisoner…" she whispered, "Even if you hadn't kidnapped me… I would never, could never go back." She told him, her head bowed down.
Shinta looked at her and felt something in him as he eyed the softly crying priestess. He gritted his teeth, what the hell was wrong with him?! He would look at her and he would feel something different. From the moment he laid his eyes on her as he surveyed their castle up to the point when she had challenged him back at Glast Heim. Standing up, he turned his back on her and moved to go out of the room.
"Wait…"
He stopped before the door and looked at her
"Can I still train even while I'm still here?"
Eyeing the door in front of him, he closed his eyes and opened the door. Giving her his answer before he closed the door behind him.
Mizu stood before the huge glass window and stared at the almost orange tint of the ocean which reflected the sunset.
"Thank you…" she whispered after she heard the door close and his answer to her question.
'Yes'
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"Shinta…"
The assassin stopped to look at his guild mates.
"…."
"Is she going to stay here permanently?" Hiko asked him almost too timidly
He looked at child and thought about his question. "Yes."
Hiko smiled and returned high fives with Misa.
He looked at the two questioningly and shook his head. Turning to Sano he told him to return the priestess' weapon and looked at Kitsune.
"Is there something wrong Kitsune?" he asked her
Kitsune shook her head, "Is she going to be our guild mate?"
Looking at everyone, he shook his head. "She has no other choice. She will learn to live with us." Came the bland reply
"But the question is, is she to be our guild mate?"
Shinta looked at Shino and looked back at the closed doors. "That decision is up to her."
Sano grinned as he saw the glimmer of care in Shinta's amber orbs before he left. "Well, well, well… looks like our GM has now found his heart."
Misa looked at him and asked him, "What do you mean by that Sano?"
Looking at his friends, he merely smiled. "Just wait and you'll understand."
Opening the door their GM just closed a while ago, Sano called to the young priestess and grinned at her.
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AN: Chappie end! Hope you guys like this chapter. I also hope to get some more reviews… I hope… I hope… I hope… Reviews minna!!!!
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