Well whaddya know? I'm back! With T-shirts!
Seung Mina: Took ya long enough…
Silver pen (me): ¬¬ (crickets-a-chirpin')
Mina: What? I was just expressing my opinion!
Yunsung: OO she used big words! Shocker!
Mina: THAT'S IT! pulls out scarlet thunder
Yunsung: well, err, I, err, gulp BYEE! flee's like a coward
Talim: sigh I fell for the moron…
Silver pen & Sanput: I know….
Yunsung: HUH?
Sanput: ¬¬ what was that?
Yunsung: err nothing sir…
Silver pen: I have SUCH an over active imagination…anyway, I don't own Soul Calibur or any of its characters…
Talim: But if she did she'd be in it as well by now (as much of a weakling as she is…)
Silver pen: HEY! A GIRL CAN DREAM CAN'T SHE? sobs quietly anyway I almost forgot! Thanks are in order! Thanks to Naoki07, YinYangPisces, The-everglow (Your SC2 story so rocks), Spiralstars, PushMe ( sigh what are we gonna do with you) Nighttime Mistress and AsianRose2005 (thanks for the info!) Domo arigato!
"Welcome to my humble abode…" Assassin smiled gesturing towards a dark basement flat on a deserted street. Yunsung winced and walked down the stairs to the front door after Assassin, trying not to notice the distinct smell of cat piss.
The two walked into a small flat, nothing special, until they walked into a dark room.
"Ok what is going on here?" Yunsung asked, severely perplexed.
"This is what I have been working on all these years and it's almost finished. It will separate us from Talim for good!" Assassin grinned, his blue (I don't actually know but blue makes it more effective) eyes wide and eager which worried Yunsung slightly.
"Yunsung, are you familiar with the story of the fine silver line?" he asked. Yunsung nodded quietly. He'd told it to Talim while she was "unconscious"…
"Ok. There was a man and a woman, now the man was madly in love with the woman and vice versa, it's just the woman didn't know yet. He knew she would love her but since she was so rich and he just a poor young man she wouldn't give him the time of day. He knew deep in her heart she felt the same as he did so to tell her, he came to her and showed her, a fine piece of silver thread that went from her heart to his. It was so fine, almost like a spider web, but almost unbreakable all the same…That's like our love Talim. There's a line, a line that goes from me to you, and it's unbreakable. No one is going to come between us.
No one."
"Yunsung are you ok?" Assassin asked.
"Yeah, yeah Noah I'm fine. Continue what you where saying." Yunsung said smiling falsely, seeming almost to come out of a trance. Assassin continued.
"Well, after much experimenting, I discovered, something with the microscope I built…" he stopped suddenly to soak in Yunsung's look of awe and continued cockily.
"I discovered that the line…It was real…"
Talim sat on the back of a horse-drawn cart that reeked of cow pat and talked to Alun quietly.
"Which way and how much further do you think pet?" Talim asked Alun. Alun faced north east and twittered loudly 6 times. Talim sighed and looked up to see the direction the cart was going in. It was going north east. She smiled.
"Well we've got six miles to go Alun, and no matter what, we won't come back without Yunsung."
"Wait, what do you mean real?" Yunsung asked, his eyes wide and confused.
"Take a look for yourself." Assassin smiled. He turned on the light and there stood an enormous microscope and on the other side of the room there were two human sized capsules, hooked to the wall.
"What are those for?" Yunsung asked.
"All in good time. Now come with me to the microscope." Assassin said hurriedly.
He took Yunsung showed him where to look. Then he positioned himself in front of the microscope and told Yunsung to look.
Yunsung focused the lens and what he saw made his jaw drop. He saw none other than about three fine silver lines. He magnified the picture a little and he could see a name on each one. Mother, Father and Talim. Talim's was the brightest.
"Wow…You do still love her don't you?" Yunsung said pityingly.
"Try as I might to stop it that line is unbreakable…At least that's what I thought. I discovered these lines can be severed. I realised when I painfully severed the line from me to my old dog. They must be severed by a sword, but not just any sword, By Soul Edge." Assassin said, trying so desperately to hide his twisted smile.
Yunsung looked up at Assassin and asked quietly,
"Do you mean to tell me, you have…S-Soul Edge…here?" Assassin nodded and Yunsung sat on the floor, contemplating what to say.
"I understand you're unsure but my plan is simple. We have to both of us sever our lines from Talim. We'll be free! The only catch is she has to be here. Yunsung we can get rid of this hole in our hearts! We can get rid of it for good I swear to you! All we have to do is get Talim here. But before that of course I have to teach you how to use Soul Edge. All I need is your help. Say you'll do it." Assassin said pleadingly. Yunsung thought, and thought, but he was too mixed up.
"I'm sorry I can't decide now. Is it ok if I sleep on it? It's almost 11 after all." Yunsung sighed. Assassin nodded understandingly and showed Yunsung to his room.
Yunsung changed and slept surprisingly easily.
Around an hour later, Assassin crept into Yunsung's room and gently tapped him almost the same as he did to Talim. Yunsung twitched slightly but didn't wake up. "We begin training soon." Assassin whispered, and walked out of the room slowly.
As he left, that sick, twisted, sadistic smile that was usually spread across assassin's face, began to slowly creep across that of Yunsung's.
Seung mina sat in the kitchen peeling potatoes furiously. She was angry she couldn't go with Talim but more angry at Yunsung. How could he be such a jerk? He had come so far and everything was perfect. Worse still, Sanput tried to view the future and he suddenly stopped, saying he sensed too much evil. Seung Mina just hoped Yunsung had nothing to do with it.
"Kid, wherever the hell you are and whoever the hell you're with, if you break that girl's heart again I'll literally break yours…"
"So you honestly will do it?" Assassin asked eagerly. Yunsung nodded eagerly.
"I so want to be free…Just to get her away from me completely." Assassin smiled at this response.
"Lets start training." He said happily.
The two trained in Assassin's laboratory for hours each day. He taught him the perfect stance to balance the weight properly, How to strike, and most importantly, accuracy. They examined Yunsung's silver lines and saw he had one for his mother one for his father despite their passing, one for Talim, one for Kalana (he couldn't help but love her kooky, dottiness and energetic attitude) and scarily enough, one for Seung Mina. When assassin told him this he was horrified.
"What? No!" he protested over and over.
"It seems it was fading though." Assassin grinned. "You used to have a crush on her didn't you?" Yunsung opened his mouth then went red and looked down at his shoes and said,
"Only when I first started at the dojo… But I suppose I do love her like a sister… Just barely…"
Assassin laughed heartily and they continued with their training.
Talim arrived in the dingy end of what looked to be quite a large city. She was wearing her green, white and red outfit and as the upper half consisted of naught but a belly top, she felt rather naked. But no man dared approach her as they saw the bladed Tonfa's in her hands. She looked to Alun and began to talk to him. People stared at her and some children laughed. One very slutty girl her age walked over with her boyfriend.
"What are you doing? Talking to animals doctor Doolittle?" She sniggered. Her boyfriend flicked his black hair out of his eyes and sniggered quietly as well.
Talim was itching to use her Tonfa's but instead whispered something to the wind in Tagalouge and suddenly the breeze turned into a gale and caught the girl off balance so she fell in a huge puddle of dirty water. Her boyfriend laughed loudly. He looked at Talim.
"How'd you do that?" he asked. Talim shrugged.
"I guess even the elements love a nice girl." She winked and walked off.
"Huh! I guess I learned a little more off Yunsung than I thought! I'd never have said that a few weeks ago!" She giggled to herself.
Talim walked until she saw a small park so decided to rest her feet.
She sat on a park bench and thought for a while. She stroked Alun's beak and fed him with seeds from a pouch tied round her waist. A small girl walked up to her and asked,
"Can I feed your bird?" Talim smiled, nodded and gave the little girl some seeds to feed Alun who accepted gratefully.
"Sorry about that, my daughter just loves birds!" The girl's mother said.
"Its fine, Alun loves children!" Talim grinned. She waved to the woman and her child as they walked off and looked at everyone else in the park. There was a family having a picnic, some friends chatting, a few boys and girls on their bikes and…a couple kissing. Talim started to feel sick and had to walk out before she started crying.
"I don't think I can take this…" She whispered to Alun. She looked up in the sky. It was very dark. She walked round lots of hotels, hoping they'd show her sympathy as she never used money there fore had none. Alas none showed the slightest amount of pity and she was forced to sleep rough. She found a large cardboard box that was completely dry and used it for shelter.
"Hey, hey girl!" She heard just as she was about to sleep. She looked up and saw a group of children her age and older. There were two girls and three boys. All in dirty ripped clothes.
"Erm. Hi…." She smiled. The tallest girl kneeled down and asked kindly,
"I've never seen you here before. How come you're sleeping rough?"
"I've never been here before. I'm not what you'd call a "city girl". I'm looking for someone and I've got nowhere to stay so here I am…" Talim sighed meekly.
"Well come with us! We'll help you to where you're going!" One of the boys said. He had the same smile as Yunsung which made Talim smile. She took the oldest girls hand and they walked her to the homeless shelter they stayed in.
They were about to sleep when the young boy came to talk to Talim.
"Hi…err…what's your name?" He asked.
"Talim. What's yours?" she replied.
"Hugo. So who exactly is it you looking for?" He smiled. She loved that cheeky lopsided grin; it made her go weak in the knees.
"Err…My boyfriend…" She said quietly. Hugo's smile faltered.
"Oh… Ok. It's just you're so pretty and…sorry…" he sighed, going slightly pink. Talim smiled.
"No it's ok. At least you were polite about it…and you're really cute…" Talim said apologetically. Hugo went even redder.
"Are you sure you won't reconsider?" he asked, kindly stroking the back of her neck. Talim sighed. Hugo leaned forward and tilted his head. Slowly, Talim closed her eyes and Hugo's soft lips began to touch hers when she realised what she was doing and pulled away quickly.
"I see you won't… Look, let's forget that ever happened ok?" Hugo sighed. Talim nodded.
"I'm sorry, I'd like to…really like to…but Yunsung's my world…I'm sorry…" she sighed. Hugo smiled and nodded understandingly and went to sleep. Talim lay down and as she drifted off thought,
"Yunsung you sooooooooooooooo better be worth that…"
Yunsung spun the huge wooden paddle round his head and practiced becoming more familiar with the size of the sword. He had become a lot more muscular with his training and after he got tired asked Assassin,
"When exactly am I going to use Soul Edge?" Assassin walked into the laboratory where Yunsung was, walked over to a small cupboard and opened it.
"Why, now of course!" he smiled. He pulled the hideous blade out of the cupboard and handed it to a wide eyed Yunsung. As Yunsung clasped his hand around the hilt, the huge yellow eye opened and Yunsung began to grin. Assassin turned around and chuckled quietly to himself,
"Everything is falling into place….
The next day Talim woke up with the rest of the children. They took their small breakfast of toast and orange juice they were provided and went looking for Yunsung. Talim asked Alun where to go. He pointed straight on and tittered loudly once.
"Ok that's one mile straight on!" Talim smiled. The youngest girl gawped.
"You understood that?" she asked in awe.
"Sure. He points the direction you walk and he titters loudly if it's a few miles or quietly if it's a few metres or yards and if it's within sight he'll fly there and you walk to him!" Talim smiled. They all looked surprised but grinned all the same and they continued to walk. The area got seedier as they walked and the air was ripe with the foul stench of stale second hand smoke and alcohol. Talim's face fell when the smell hit her nose and the children laughed.
"Yeah it's horrible isn't it? We know but you kinda get used to it!" The youngest boy laughed. Talim laughed herself as they continued on.
About half an hour later they stopped and Talim again asked how much further. Alun flew off of Talim's finger and perched by the door of a basement flat. Talim swallowed and Hugo held her hand which she squeezed gratefully.
"Yunsung, here I come…"
Assassin felt a welcomed twitch in the back of his throat that meant the next guest was arriving. He smiled evilly and turned to Yunsung who was busy slicing through threads that assassin had stretched out for him to cut. He walked over Yunsung and put his hand on his shoulder and said. I believe, you're ready to cut the threads. We shall start…" he started. Then they heard a loud bang and some shoes scuffling along the floor. Yunsung stood ready with his Dao and the door swung open, and who should be there, but the love of his life.
A small hint of a smile appeared across her face when she said,
"Morning sweetheart."
We'll that's it! BTW if u recognise that silver line story I got it from….don't shoot me…..Eastenders….Alfie said it to little Mo…don't shoot me! But I didn't remember it much so I was just pulling things outta checks for little kids my ass so yeah… aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway I shall finish this fic if it's the last thing I do! Buhbi!