"Ahm... We will just hang around here for a bit... You'll understand won't you Umi?"
She nodded and dived back home. Home... Back to where we all belong... I feel a huge ache in my heart as Umi disappears leaving me alone with Nozomi.
"Nozomi... Are you sure you can't return...?"
"I guess so... Umi's the last i'll see... Apart from you of course..."
In silence, we embraced each other till her tears would stop flowing down endlessly, "Nozomi..." The thought of not seeing our friends burn my eyes as I end up sobbing too, "What's going to happen to us?"
"I... Don't know..."
"Ehm! You bitches over there! We won't be letting you go so easily this time! We see your friends have all ditched you! Good thing that we gave you that poison!"
Boom...
The sound... Of gunfire deafens me... But I look to the side to see someone collapse in my arms, blood trickling onto me and my arms.
"Elicchi..."
What... My heart and mind couldn't process everything that just happened. Everything went too fast for me. What...?
"Oh look! It seems that your 'girlfriend' sacrificed her life for you, Mermaid bitch! What are you going to do? Attack us? Kill us?"
Nozomi was lucky it was only a shoulder wound, on her left. If it was me, i'm slightly taller than her and I would've got shot in my heart. The scarlet blood flowed onto my clothes. The fear and anger bubbled inside me. Till it erupted. Like a volcano.
"YOU FUCKING BASTERDS! FUCKING HELLLLL!"
Slash, Slash, thump, thump. The most satisfying sounds ive heard yet but never healed the pain in my heart. I swear on my life, I will protect Nozomi till the end of my life. No matter what it takes.
"E-Elicchi... Revenge... Doesn't help..." The angelic voice croaked quietly, I could hear her like my ears were tuned in to listening to her forever.
... I have no choice. I'll die either way...
Emerging from the castle, nine thousand troops, or shall I say pirates start to approach me, all carrying lethal weapons.
"Elicchi! They'll skin you alive! Please... Just leave me... Save yourself..."
"NO! I'LL NEVER LEAVE YOU! I will fight. It is my destiny to. It was my destiny to die for you…"
"ELICCHI! How dumb are you?! If you die, I'll die too! Just leave Elicchi!"
"So I won't die."
"Elicchi… Please… I'll die either way…"
"Do you even think I can live without you…? I'd rather die here with you…"
I charge at the front line, horizontally slashing hardly at them, taking 5 people out in a second. It all continues till…
Thump…
"ELICCHI!'
Everything hurt. It was a pain I never had experienced before. It spread throughout my body instantly and shook all the nerves inside me. Who knew the pain could be this unbearable…
When you lose a body part.
I wasn't watching the side. I wasn't aware. The consequences I have to face due to this. It's all my fault that this happened to me.
I can't fight without my left arm. I can't take on thousands of pirates like this. Weakly, I slowly retreated towards Nozomi, who hugged me tightly, as the blood spewed from where my arm once was.
"Elicchi… You baka…"
Swish
An arrow targeted straight into my heart, penetrating so deeply that you could see it from the other side of my body, making Nozomi shudder. I didn't even try and pull it out. I didn't try anything…
"I'm… Sorry… Nozomi…"