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Chapter 20
Kouran stared up at the huge foreboding building that had caused so much suffering and turmoil within two worlds with anxiety clearly written on her face. A fair amount of time had passed since she had last seen Lily and she had no way of knowing if the girl was alright or not. This frustrated her more than anything.
All she knew was that things on her side were not doing so well. The world around her was becoming darker as Fenrir's will spread further and further into it, making it change from something of nightmares into lands worse than even the seven pits of hell themselves. Storms, ones stronger than any the human race had ever before seen were brewing in the sky's, the wind from which was exceedingly powerful. Even Fenrir's dwelling could be heard creaking under it's intense might.
None of this effected Kouran however, at least not in a physical way. She was, after all, a ghost. This did not mean it did not trouble her mentally however. She had been dead long enough to know that anything occurring within the realm of the gods would soon find its way to the world of mortals and if these storms ever found there way there-
Shivering she pushed the thought from her mind. There was nothing she could do to prevent chaos from reaching the world she had once called home. Only Lily was capable of doing that, only she had the power to restore the natural order of things.
'She just needs to believe in herself,' Kouran thought before she silently sent a prayer to the locked gods, asking them to protect the girl from another world.
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Her head was pounding with a migraine, her cheeks were stinging from tears and bruises, side throbbing with broken bones cursing and limbs screaming painfully. Overall her body was suffering greatly, but her mind was telling her to get up anyway and her heart was telling her she could not give up.
Clenching her jaw Lily fought the pain coursing through her body as she came to sit upon her knees. Her side was in such agony that it was almost unbearable. A hearty bruise was already beginning to form there and worse yet it felt as if her ribs had punctured her lung because even the simple function of breathing pained her.
With a sharp intake of breath she brought one foot to rest on the ground and placed her free hand on her knee and used Kouji's sword in the other for extra support as she slowly climbed to her feet. The process proved more painful than sitting up had and she found herself doing everything to keep herself from crying out and falling over.
Fenrir watched her closely, intrigued by the fact that her body was still allowing her to move after all he had done to it. The girl confused him greatly because of things such as this. She had come to his domain with little courage running through her veins and had even been frightened beyond movement when she had entered his presence, yet, here she was refusing to fall. He could tell that she wanted nothing more than to get out of this predicament, but, for whatever reason, she would not allow her body that satisfaction. She was going to stay and get herself slaughtered for little more than the false hope the former gods had put into her feeble mind.
Lily smiled wearily to herself as she came to stand firmly on her feet. It had been a struggle, but she was finally where she needed to be to keep herself going, even if it had used more energy than she had originally thought.
With a small groan she lifted her free hand to her face to inspect the injuries that already resided there. Her fingers met the warm sticky feeling of fresh blood as well as the caked feeling of that which had dried. This only led her to believe that her bloody nose was finally beginning to slow down and heal. This, however, was the least of her worries for within her mouth she could taste the unmistakable flavor of iron as it swam about her tongue. It was the one thing that told her without a doubt that she did in fact have some kind of an internal injury.
This did not bode well, but, when she thought about it, her first day within the world, if not her first meeting with Tasuki, had all lead to this. However no matter what agony her mind and body was to be put through she would never regret meeting the redheaded bandit leader. He had helped bring her life back on track and had given her the will to not give up on life when it had only just begun.
'Duck,' a voice suddenly emerged within her mind.
She did not know why, but she complied without questioning. Not a second after her movement did a gust of wind pass just over her head and the strong presence of Fenrir came to stand directly in front of her. Without thinking Lily whipped her sword around, but Fenrir jumped back in time to evade being gutted.
"How could you know?" Fenrir growled. Up to present she had not been able to detect his movements, much less get an attack of her own off, yet she had just done both, even if the latter had missed.
Lily wasn't quite sure herself. All she knew was that a voice had popped into her head and gave her the simple command of how to move. Whoever it had been she was eternally grateful for the help, especially since there was little doubt in her mind that the assault would have once again knocked her down and potentially kept her down.
She had barely re-striated herself when the voice from before re-entered her mind, 'left.' Side stepping she once again found that she had dodged another assault. 'Back, left, jump, left, duck' the voice commanded one at a time as each assault came at her and with each one she complied with little delay, even if her body complained greatly.
Fenrir grew agitated with each attack she evaded. It did not seem logical that she could be doing so well and by the look on her face he knew she still could not see him.
Clenching her jaw Lily withheld crying of pain. All the movement might have kept her from gaining another injury, but the ones she currently had were utterly displeased with her and were sending surges of pain to her brain to make her more than aware of this fact.
'Sword,' the voice from before suddenly said with great haste.
Swinging the deadly weapon in front of her she heard the frightening yet satisfying sound of Fenrir's cry. Whether she had actually gotten him or simply surprised him would remain unknown to her however.
Blood trickled down the wanna-be god's cheek from a cut just under his eye. The cut was a minor one, just deep enough to let blood trickle, but the fact still remained that he had been injured by a blind-sighted girl. Snarling like that of a crazed wolf Fenrir charged forward at the girl, who still had her sword out as if to fight.
With a simple, but extremely hard, swipe of the back of his hand the sword was dislodged from Lily's grasp, an action that sprained one of her wrists. He was not at all surprised when she dodged two of his blows, but his third movement was deceptive on his part. He made the initial movement to swipe Lily's feet out from under her and she jumped to evade it, but she had no way of know that he had just tricked her. With a smirk he quickly corrected his stance and threw a powerful punch.
Unable to dodge due to her body being completely off the ground the voice in her head cursed and yelled for her to throw put her hands downward. As the dozen times before she complied without question, but she was not ready for the force behind Fenrir's assault.
The initial target had been the top of her chest, a blow to which would have broken her collarbones and, most likely, her sternum, but with her hands knocking into his the blow was redirected. It's unfortunate that she hand not put more force behind the block because if she had the blow could have been countered all together. The fact was, however, that she had not and it was because of this that a powerful blow was dealt to her tender stomach region.
For the third time in less than an hour the air was knocked from her lungs, but this time she was also sent flying through the air only for her back to smash into a column a few short yards away. A cry of pain would have been uttered had air been within her lungs, but the necessary substance had yet to re-enter her body to allow for even the most basic of operations to continue functioning properly. It was because of this that it was no surprise that her body fell to a crumpled heap upon the cold and hard ground of Fenrir's palace.
Coughing as if deathly ill her body tried to bring oxygen back to it. Her coughs were anything but dry however with blood splattered from her mouth violently.
When enough air had filled her lungs she forced her body to come up so she could sit upon her knees. The movement was unintelligent on her part, for her body was not ready to bear it and she was forced to put a hand out to keep herself from collapsing back onto the floor, her other hand wrapped around her stomach loosely. The blow had broken her lower ribs and it felt as it had also done more than a little damage to the soft organs that lay within her abdominal area.
As she took in a sharp breath she found her throat had became clogged and the only way to clear it was to allow herself to throw up. The contents her body released were not what usually consisted within vomit though, it consisted solely of blood and it was a rather large quantity of it. Tears poured from her closed eyes as she continued to choke upon her own blood.
Her body was done. It could no longer fight, no matter how much she would will it to. Her injuries were far too severe and her energy was nearly gone from her body. There was no way she could save anyone now, not even herself.
This fact brought the helpless girl to sobs as she continued to cough upon her blood. Despite everything she had tried, everything she had done, Fenrir was going to win and take the world as his prize.
Her tears dripped to the ground and like before they were once again aglow, however this time they did nothing to ease her mind or raise her spirits. They simply fell from her face to mix within the blood that had collected in a large pool below her.
She was dying and there was nothing she could do about it. 'Tasuki… I'm sorry,' her mind cried as her body physically did.
And with that thought said within her mind two arms wrapped around her gingerly as if an angel had finally arrived to ease her of her pain.
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