hi, sry this took so long. i thought it mite be shorter but it isnt to bad. again im running slow on ideas so it may take a while 4 the next chap. hope u enjoy.
Chapter 7: when love strikes and tears fall.
Kelly and Len were eating some of the fruit that Len gathered earlier and were cooking a pheasant over a crackling fire Kelly had burnt. Len was stunned by what Kelly had told him just a few moments ago, he couldn't believe that anyone could maybe have a worse childhood than himself. From some of the things she told him, he could empathise with. For example: her grandfather treated her with no remorse or respect as so his father did to him, she had the deaths of many on her shoulders like he has and both their paths are as clear as a muddy swamp. He sat there just looking at her trying to think of how someone so… dare he think it, beautiful could be in so much despair. Kelly looked up felling his eyes focused on her and returned the gesture. They both stopped eating and stared deeply into each other's eyes trying to read the other's thoughts. Len then realised that he was letting his guard down a bit, which he normally never did with anyone, and broke the glance blushing violently. Kelly saw how red he turned and started to giggle. "What are you laughing at?" trying to hold back the redness of he cheeks but only to make it worse. "Come on, you really think its just the light from the fire making you go red? I'm not as dumb as I look." Len frantically tried to cover his face from the overwhelming embarrassment. Kelly crawled over to him and pulled back the blanket he was so pathetically struggling to pull over his face. She smiled at him sweetly also looking like she was sorry. No matter how sorry she was Lens blushing still would not cease. He coward away from her feeling a little intimidated but didn't go far on the account of the rocky wall behind him. She lent back seeing that she had upset Len and pushed herself up walking towards the roasting pheasant. She poked it with a stick and claimed it well done. She was determined to get Len to get closer to her and let his emotions out, but he was a hard nut to crack. She tore the two legs of the pheasant and walked back towards Len. He finally pulled himself together and sighed in relief when Kelly held out the golden pheasant leg. He thanked her and took it. Kelly sat down next to him and they both started to eat again, taking the occasional glance at one another between bites.
Kelly couldn't sleep as the pain from her eye suddenly caught up to her. It was excruciating. She tried to take her mind off it but to no success. She tried everything from ignoring it to washing it ten or twelve times, nothing seemed to ease it. It wasn't swollen and she could see fine with it, which was strange seeing as the cut was very deep. All there was, was a red scar across the right side of her face in a perfect curve. Normally with wounds like this she would cry and the pain would go and no scar would be left behind. She looked sadly over to Len who was fast asleep. He was so peaceful almost as though he wasn't breathing. The only way you could tell he was just asleep was by the occasional moaning under his silent breath. Thinking of Len made the pain go away but only temporarily as she curled up to her knees wishing it would stop. Piercing knifes stabbed at her brain making her whimper, tears falling from her sore, reddening eyes. Her cries of discomfort stirred Len from his hazy dreams. He sluggishly rubbed the sleep from his eyes the looked towards the moaning figure a few meters away from him. A look of concern formed on his face. Amongst other things that had changed because of this girls presence in Lens personality, wanting to comfort Kelly instead of complain like he would do to Trey in times of need is one of them. He knelt down beside her and wrapped his arm around her back. Kelly jumped at the sudden warmth that became a blanket over her numbing skin. Her head turned towards Len so she could see his soft, inviting golden eyes and his subtle but courageous smile. "Its ok, what's wrong… Kelly?" Tears filled her eyes and she turned away in shame. She was trying so hard to hold back the tears from her eyes that she did not expect (and Len was not expecting to do it either) Len pulling her into his chest and placing his head upon hers. He held her in a tight embrace, almost protecting her from everything including the very scar that was causing her such pain. Then all off her sorrow and hurt vanished and all that was left were the two of them holding each other. Kelly could have sworn that Len had pulled her closer and that a single tear drop of his own had fallen on her hair. When it had sunk in what he had just done, he pulled away slowly turning a little pink and not daring to look at her in fear of dying of embarrassment. She giggled slightly at Lens blushing face and out of nowhere she kissed him sweetly on the lips leaving him paralysed in shock. Questions started to run rampant in his mind: 'why did she do that? Why do feel like this? Why the hell did I hug her in the first place?' Then he realised that none of it mattered anymore. He wanted all those things to happen even if it was only subconsciously. Everything seemed to fit now, when he found himself sleeping with his arm around her, why he felt so protective of her, he never saw her as a friend like Trey or Yoh he saw her as more. So he decided to gulp back his pride and listen to his heart instead of head this time. Kelly gave a look of utter confusion at the sudden blank Len was in but I didn't last long. Her confusion was replaced by surprise as Lens lips met hers in and intimate kiss. Short of breath at this sudden outburst from Len she tried to pull away so she could breathe. Just as she caught some air in her lungs she felt his lips rap around her own and his tongue slip into her mouth. He slowly pushed her to the stone cold ground that was soon warm from their body heat. He pulled away slightly teasing her. He stared again into her glazed ocean blue eyes that no longer seemed laid-back like her brothers, but now seemed sexually entrancing and longing for more. This time Kelly pulled him towards herself and began another intimate kiss. Len could feel her much larger chest mercifully digging into his own. He had never been this close to a human being before and the thing he like the most was that she hadn't either. Seeing as Kelly was just kissing him at the time he made the first move by sliding his hand up her tattered shirt and began to caress her warm body. After he had got away with feeling her back and sides that were as smooth as silk, he wanted to go deeper knowing Kelly was enjoying it as much as he was. He unhooked her bra strap and started to remove it. Against her own will she pulled away placing her hand on his lower arm. "No, I'm sorry but I cant just yet." Len had known that doing that might of been crossing the line and could see that Kelly was holding back the urge of letting him. Though he knew it was a stupid question he asked, "do you feel uncomfortable doing this?"
"No, its just I feel it's going to fast, you know?"
"I glad you said that actually because I've never…"
He pushed himself of the ground staring at it after he sat up straight. Kelly sat up also no longer feeling any pangs of pain but was a little cold now they had stopped. Len had no need to finish his sentence as Kelly already new what he would say. He looked up into her eyes that were no longer burning passionately but were again carefree and comforting as though she understood him completely. She placed her hand on his chest and kissed him sweetly again. Then sunk to the ground with Len following in her arms. She snuggled into his strong chest with her arm wrapped around his waist. He looked at her blinking once of twice then started to run his fingers through her hair like it was the water up at the serene lake. He closed his eyes smelling her hair, the fragrance sending him into a peaceful dream where there was only he and the one he loves.
Kelly's eyes opened slowly to the gleaming sunrays entering the mouth of the cave. She sat up squinting at the strong orange light then looking towards the young shaman she now had so much more admiration and affection for. She smiled proudly seeing the so peaceful expression that lay upon his face. Kelly went to stand when Len pulled her down again his expression no longer peaceful but almost fearful.
"Don't go, you can't go, they won't get away with it, you shouldn't have left me." Kelly was shocked at the fear on his face and the discomfort of his body that seemed to be trying to keep her leaving. "Len I'm here, I'm not going anywhere, I've not left you, clam down." He did so but still held his grip tight making impossible to get up.
"I'm just going to get something, I'm not leaving you. You'll be alright." This seemed to have worked, as his grip became forgiving though his face still seemed in discomfort. Kelly thought nothing of it believing it nothing more than a dream gone badly as she walked towards the fruit and water. She scooped up some water and drank it deeply also picking up a peace of fruit and taking a bite. A rustle in the trees outside the cave made Kelly freeze like a rabbit hearing a fox. She turned slowly seeing nothing and decided to move closer bearing in her hands the Phoenix staff she used as a weapon along with the fruit. She lent against the wall lookingtowards the bushes she had heard it from. She scanned the surrounding area and in the trees and sighed in relief thinking it only to have been a deer. She turned to enter the cave again when something wrapped harshly around her mouth causing blood to drip from it as it pushed her mouth against her teeth. She struggled furiously attempting escape to call for Lens help. The sound of her fruit and staff clanging on the floor startled Len from his sleep. He saw Kelly being forcibly dragged away from the cave and didn't hesitate to act. "Bason we have to save her." Beside him appeared a giant Chinese worrier.
"Yes master Len" Len ran towards the man that was holding Kelly captive and performed spirit control upon his sword of thunder creating a giant kwan-do. He whipped his weapon whacking the man out of the way. He bent down to Kelly to see if she was all right when more thugs came from the bushes. One went to attack Len from behind with a pair of nunchaku with a large spirit control. Kelly jumped off her feet and pounded into the unsuspecting man. When she landed she tore off the gag and the rope binding her hands. She picked up her staff and went to join Len to fend off the shaman thugs. "These friends of yours?" Len was obviously being sarcastic but Kelly didn't seem to think it funny as a blonde hair women holding a rag-doll aimed at her. "Yeah Len, we're good buddies. We go way back," She spat these last words in annoyance as a giant suit of armour charged at her just missing her arm, "THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE THE URGE TO ATTACK ME!" Len cringed slightly as he fended off another lackey.
They were winning, seeing as they were out numbered 15 to 2 but were exhausting all their furioku. Kelly was to busy pounding the three girls and football guy and didn't notice a oversized dog monster charge at her, and colliding into her side braking a few of her ribs. She was knocked off her feet into a large bolder supporting some rocks above the cave. Len pushed through the priest and the Mexican doll controller and ran to her side but she was out cold. Then again out of nowhere the dog collided into them and therock braking through it and sending Len and Kelly flying into the back of the cave. Rocks crashed to the ground blocking the exit and causing dust and rubble to fly everywhere.
"Master, I'm sorry that we had to use our last resort." The priest spoke into a wooden circle with a star on it almost like it was a communicator. "Never mind. Either way the girl is mine. Did you send the message just in case?"
"Sir, I do not think that…"
"ARE YOU QUESTIONING ME! Do it, I know how lucky my siblings can get. Having that Tao around doesn't help either, unless you make him believe someone is trying to help. Do you understand?"
The priest bowed his head to the wooden circle and muttered "yes, master." Just under his breath. He signalled to an archer whom was also battling. He raised his bow and wrenched it back with an arrow that had a piece of paper attached to it. As fast as a lightning bolt he let it fly with perfect accuracy into a hole in the cave entrance that was as small as the arrowhead.
Len opened his eyes but choked on the dust that was blinding him. He waved his hand the get the dust out of his way and slowly an unconscious Kelly could be seen laying on him. He tried to lift her but the injury he sustained to his back was agonising. He lay back against the wall attempting to see more than a meter in front of him. When the dust started to clear he saw something shiny in the rocks. He lent forward and squinted his eyes to get a closer look but moved back as he saw it flying at him. It shot straight into where Lens head had been and almost took his nose off. He sat there and blank at it a few times before he saw the note attached. Slowly and warily he removed it,scared it might blow up in his face. To his relief nothing happen so he read it to himself:
Her wounds will not mend until her destinies met.
It is up to you to take her to my reflection.
Replenish her and she will no longer feel the pain you have witnessed.
None will feel pain again after her destiny is fulfilled as I foresee.
Take her to the people you trust if you truly love her.
i think i mite hav been a bit mean to Len at the start but he will just hav to live with it. i ve already made a name 4 the next chap and its 'a phoenix of the misled'. it may take a while but i will send it eventully. until next time bye.
