This story is toldat Viron's point of veiw. But the italic is expressedin both Viron's and the Prince's thoughts.
The "XXX" represents that someone is about to go into a little memory state or is coming out of one.
By the way the story picks up right before Viron left the Prince.
I hope you have enjoyed my story so far.
Someone I Once Loved
Fire and Brimstone fall from the sky.
Hell will sweep the earth with an untamed flame.
Is despair worth this price taken.
Is it worth calling love when she doesn't feel the same way.
We both follow the road to regain are lost love.
Farrah, Myami…
"B-but h-how?" the prince said in a broken voice. But before I could respond Marion rushed in the room and begun to speak.
"Viron," he called stopping to take a breath, "we have a visitor and she wants that dagger." I was in such shock that my concentration broke away from the prince.
"Marion is it really her?"
"Yes, but it's no greeting call. She has already taken out most of my men."
"Lets go!" I exclaimed and ran out of the room. Marion and I ran towards the entrance first stopping by his room. He rarely had a weapon on him even though he was fierce warrior. I knew him ever since I was a child and he was one of two people to ever give me a challenge in a fight. But he never really liked sparring or even defending himself with weapons. Instead he enjoys collecting weapons and mastering how to use them, rather than actually use them. His ways has always confused me but I never once questioned them for the simple fact that he was my friend. Reminiscing about the past brought me to the attention that I left the prince in a open cell. Then I figured I wouldn't have to chase him cause he would seek me, now that he knew that I had the dagger of time.
As we reached the exit needing only to make a left we were cut off by 'her' riding on her black stallion. She turned and glanced at us laughing a disturbingly horrible laugh. We steadied our rush and ran to the exit while un-sheaving our swords. She turned and looked at me smiling slyly as she tied her horse to a broken column. When she was through she drew her katana and pointed it between us.
"I have come to retrieve the dagger and relieve you of your lives." She said without any emotion.
"Tell me, why have you come here?" Marion demanded surprising me, as if he had forgot what we did to her.
"Why I do is no longer your concern." She replied hastily and leapt in the air holding her sword at an angle. Marionreplied and leapt into the air to meet 'her' sword. But he was to easily pushed back towards the ground.
"Marion," I began, "don't hurt her, just try to get her sword away from her." At the time I didn't realize that he wasn't holding back, forall I could think about was her well being.
"Hurt her! I'm trying not to be hurt." Marion shouted as he stumbled back to the ground. "Viron don't let your emotions interfere with your perception of her skill." Marion said this with an astonishing fear in his eyes. At first I thought he had allowed her to push him back. But with those words I realized that I had blinded myself from her true power. I then recalled the scene of my men bleeding to death as palm sized shuriken lay embedded in their skulls and laced around their necks. I couldn't help but think about how her skills could improve in just five years, from where I first met her in Japan.
X X X
I remember when I first met her, she was being tossed out of a local training facility for being a female."You stupid, no good, bull-hearted bastards!" she yelled wiping her kimono as she rose from the ground. Yet this was a mistake cause women were supposed to mind their tongue towards a men.
"You stupid bitch, how dare you speak to me like that." The man who tossed her out said preparing to slap her. Then I intervened and grabbed his hand. "W-what? O-oh Viron, um this matter doesn't concern you please leave this to me." But I could never stand my people's laws and seeing a man hit a women or any other person weaker than them disgusted me.
"Sorry, to disappoint you but this is my women you're about to lay hands on." I said looking down at 'her' as a crowd grew around the scene. He quickly apologized to me and retreated into the building. When I turned around to look at her she had already disappeared into the crowd.
"Don't get involved with her." Marion said coming from behind me.
"Why not?" I said grinning still searching the crowd for her beautiful face.
"Because that's the Arch Imperialist's daughter." My face then drew blank because I had intended to kill this very imperialist in the upcoming months.
X X X
I then snapped back to reality and charged in on her as she pushed back Marion. I made contact with her blade but she threw me off balance and recoiled into the air. She flew back into the rays of the setting sun and suddenly I felt blinded. The blinding force threw me back into the ground as it did Marion. I had felt this type of power before but I never knew it could me used by mere mortals. I feared the worst for 'her' as I rose back to my feet.When I returned to my feet I rushed her hoping to catch her before she landed back to the ground. Nevertheless she evaded my attack by floating backwards as if she had jumped on air. Just before Marion attacked her, she glanced at the prince as he ran mesmerized out of the building. After Marion slid across the ground I saw the prince still her horse and ride off towards Azad, which was west towards the sunset. I then sheaved my sword and walked over to help Marion off of the ground.
"What are you doing?" he said as I lifted him from the ground, "Why have you stop attacking?"
"Her horse." I explained believing that was enough, "She's going to go get her horse."
"What are you talking about?" he said in disbelief. Then out of no where she came out of, to no surprise to me, she rode a horse from my stable grounds towards the descending sun. I remember how she first came upon the black stallion a few years after we met. Ever sense she tamed it, it had become like a family member to her. She would stop everything to get the stallion if it was in danger. Though I doubt that the prince would harm the horse he would now have to face 'her', and with this new personality I doubt it would be pretty.
Although she was gone now I knew she would return, however this little intermission would give me time to grasp the situation. I came to a quick understanding at why she wanted to kill me but why she wanted the dagger, and for that matter how she knew of it, confused me.
"Are you seriously going to let her leave?" Marion asked as I stood there in a daze.
"Yes." I replied simply and turned to reenter the building.
"Why?" he asked in a rage, "And why didn't you go all out? If you didn't notice she's after your life!" But I didn't respond, I just whispered quietly to myself.
"Myami…"
I'm sorry ifViron's past was cut short but more will be explained about him and the other characters (Myami, Marion, and the black stallion) later.
