Breaking the Shell
by ShoujoFushigi
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: He thinks she's dead. She thinks he's forgotten her. The truth is, she is alive, and it's not that he's forgotten her out of spite...
Prologue:
My One Regret
Ages ago, there lived a man and a woman of whom we do not know their names anymore, the syllables and characters lost with time. They possessed magical powers and knew how to handle them well, with the help of items created with special abilities like stretching and the ability to breathe underwater.
He was a powerful warrior, on the side of good. His moves resembled those of animals, and had a tiger instinct that couldn't be matched. Nevertheless, he had a forbidden weakness, and it was so strong as to bring him to his knees.
She was a witch, on the side of evil. With one strike, a man could fall dead at her hands. But he, the dragon warrior, was spared, for he had said that she was beautiful, but deadly. Ignoring the "deadly" comment, she focused on that one word-beautiful. No one had told her that before. She was constantly outcast for the birthmarks enhancing her eyes. She began to see him at night, and eventually, it happened.
They had fallen into a forbidden romance. She had a bounty on her head for slaughtering all the men in a village, and anyone who tried to protect her for any reason would be executed along with her. So, they had no choice but to hide their love.
Then, tragedy struck. In a fight with a warrior named Dashi, the woman was reported to have been killed. Shortly after, the man faked his own death and became a wanderer. He was a lone man, searching for the secret to eternal life, for he could feel himself aging, and also just having lost the woman he loved, he never wanted to know death.
And that's how he met Hannibal, and sold his soul for a soup that would keep him young forever. Of course, with his soul also left any memories of any love or really any feeling at all he had had about anyone.
Over a thousand years later, the woman was found-alive. Well, almost alive.
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