SORCERESS OF HIS HEART
Chapter 2: My Heart is Lost to You
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
Song Lyrics
Maybe it was the moonlight
The scent of you on the breeze
Maybe it was your shadow that fell over me
The moonlight danced in the girl's baby blue eyes. The eyes... that what caused him to pause. They were BLUE. Not a regular blue; but blue as the clear summer sky. In them, he could tell any emotion. The sweet and spicy scent of her invaded his nostrils. They way she stood: shoulders back and her chin tilted in such a way that showed an air of confidence. The light from the torches only made her more alluring, giving her peach colored skin a heavenly glow. A thought struck Gohan that she was about as old as he. The steady rise and fall of her chest from her breathing told him she wasn't afraid, but calm.
"You know my name?" Gohan asked from his position behind the aimed bow and arrow.
"And why you're here..." Videl replied, "You are going to aim for my heart, right? And watch as my blood color the rugs. The take my heart back to your people, as proof that I'm dead."
Such a beautiful stranger
Eyes darker than coal
Your first look 'cross the desert
Into my soul
She'd never seen such a man, from any corner of her wildest dreams. His torso bare, save for the strap holding the arrow filled quiver crossing the hard-as-steel mass. Muscles rippled and tanned perfectly along his arms and chest. She'd be willing to bet 50 blood rubies that the rest of him was matching (thus causing a small blush to heat up her cheeks). His black hair defied gravity, save one piece that hung between his black eyes. On his right arm, he wore a gold armlet representing his heritage, and his hand was covering in a leather fingerless glove, as on his left hand.
Time seemed to stop as the two stared at each other.
Mi Corazon perido en ti
My heart is lost to you
You have captured my love completely
My heart is lost to you
Oh My heart is lost to you
Gohan felt his heart race. Videl felt hers do the same. They couldn't tear their eyes from the other.
Maybe it was the music
They way it moved with your hair
Or the heat of the moment that hung in the air
The wind tossed Videl's black hair, grazing her face and the top of her breasts. The night's chorus sang to them, caressing them with a warm breeze, but also an oncoming beat of many feet drummed.
"Intruder!" Called one of the guards, snapping the two out of their trances. "In the sorceress' tent!" Five armed guards entered the tent from behind Gohan, who turned and let fly the arrow he had. Videl gasped as it stuck true in the guard's heart. This man was deadly. Stuffing the bow back into its place at his back, Gohan then unsheathed his sword and hacked away at the oncoming men like they were mere weeds.
When I saw you there, dancing
Mesmerized by your gaze
There was some kind of magic that lead me away
Gohan's moves were timed perfect: able to dodge and out maneuver the bumbling men. Even Tomah himself came barging into the tent. Gohan easily dodged the other warrior's blade. Videl noticed Gohan's expression was calm, bored even! She had to dodge an airborne vase, letting it crash into the table, watching it as it flew past her. Turning back to the fight, she felt an iron grip wrap around her waist and pin her arms to her side. A sharp pain her neck caused her world to go spin and go black. One thought came before unconsciousness: Freedom.
Mi Corazon perido en ti
My heart is lost to you
You have captured my love completely
My heart is lost to you
Oh My heart is lost to you
Mi Corazon perido en ti
My heart is lost to you
You have captured my love completely
My heart is lost to you
My heart is lost to you...
Videl came too, groaning as she did so. A leather bedroll shifted as she did. Opening her eyes to the sight of her kidnapper, with his back turned to her, tending the fire caused her to sit up quickly. A smell of cooking meat drifted up her nostrils. Her captor adjusted the logs on the fire.
"You got lucky, you know," he said without turning. "I could've killed you. Had those poor excuses of life forms didn't show up."
"I-I know," Videl replied, running a hand over the back of her neck and finding it tender, "You hit a pressure point?"
Gohan frowned and turned towards the girl and once again he was lost in her blue eyes. "Yes." Silence. "Today we head for Gomorra."
"Gomorra?"
"I'm sure you've been there. Big city, just north west of here. I need supplies if I'm going to keep you with me." Gohan stated, glancing at her from out of the corner of his eye. She didn't seem scared.
"I take it you'll use me first to get to Tomah," Videl said bitterly, "Makes me feel so much better. Somewhat cliché, isn't it?"
"Sorceress, I'm an assassin. Hired to kill you. But now I find you're more useful to me alive at the moment. Don't make me change my mind."
"My name is Videl. Not 'sorceress.' That's just my occupation." Gohan looked at her fully, noticing her scowling at him. It reminded him very much of his mother, making him miss her cooking at the moment. Videl looked to the ground.
"Thank you" Those words were a mere whisper, but
with his saiyan hearing, Gohan heard it.
"Why are you thanking me? I just kidnapped you and threatened to kill
you! I'd be expecting you to demand me to take you back to that sorry warrior
you call your king!" Gohan asked, flabbergasted, a look of total shock
lining his face.
"I'd never return to Tomah! He's kept me prisoner since I was a child! His father had kidnapped me and passed me down to Tomah after he died a few years ago. I was torn from my family, my village and all my dreams!" Videl's eyes flashed angrily "I even watched as those bastards murdered my mother!"
Gohan watched her. She was definitely different from what'd he'd thought her to be. Interesting...
TBC
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She could feel his rock hard chest almost molded to her small back. The touch of his skin to her seemed to have a dazing effect. God help her if she was going to get back home in one piece, and alive for that matter.