Chapter 2: Dawn's Thunder

Dawn's light reflected off of her violet eyes, the most dominant color of the sunrise was red mingled with oranges, yellows, pinks and smidgeon of purple. As the light changed it turned dark blue to the light sky blue. The sun rose a bit higher on the horizon and as it did she noticed out of the corner of her eye that Hak was sitting next to her, his Hso weapon laying on the ground in front of him. Her mind replaying the words from her dream that had been repeated from what he had said in the box.

"You've grown stronger, I think."He half laughed as he leaned towards her. "Your sword fighting." He said. "It's stronger than before." He reach his hand up and touched her cheek. "I'm glad you had me teach you." He leaned forward and kissed her forehead."You need to know, I care." His lips touched hers gently before he pulled back, his eyes danced with mischief then his lips were on hers again; only more forcefully. His hand tipped her chin back, while his tongue found it's way into her mouth and plundered it.

Yona's cheeks lit up with the half memory, half dream that was flittering around in her mind before stifling a slight moan that threatened to make it's way out through her mouth. Clamping her lips shut and holding her hand over her mouth, she counted to ten to calm herself down. After counting she looked towards Hak, who now was laying back on the ground looking up at the sky, his hands behind his head and legs propped up. He had a slight smile on his face and that alone made her feel happy. That even though they weren't talking, which often led to them bickering, that in this moment of silence he could find happiness in her presence. It made her heart skip a beat because his happiness made her happy. He has so few of these moments since that night. She watched him out of the corner of her eyes, a smile came across her own face. I'm glad. I'm so very glad he can find happiness, even if it's a little bit and only for a moment. Her eyes went to his weapon that was laying half forgotten. One day he won't need that. Her eyes glared at the weapon. Because I'm going to get stronger and when I am strong enough to stand on my own, I'll be able to stand by his side as an equal and he won't need to be protecting me. She smiled at that thought.

Hak's eyes drifted from the sky to Yona and found his heart give a hard thump in his chest causing his cheeks to redden. Her red hair was dancing in the wind. She had a slight smile on her face and her cheeks were red. His eyes soften at the picture she gave to him. Beautiful. He thought. She'd always been beautiful, but now she was gaining a new kind of beauty; strength. His eyes drifted over her figure, lately he'd been noticing small dips and curves of her waist and back. Her arms were becoming more defined. Her face had lost it's child innocence and was now thinning, but held beauty in it. He licked his lips as his eyes traced the curves of her body up to her lips. He shook his head suddenly and sat up quickly causing her to look at him.

"Hak?" She questioned him as she tipped her head to the side.

"We should get back, Princess." He stated as he slowly pushed himself up off of the ground.

"Eh?" She asked. "But the sun is still rising."

"And it'll continue to rise until it sets tonight." He stated as he picked up his weapon and shouldered it. Looking down upon her face he smiled as he held a hand out towards her. When she slid her hand into his, Hak could help the shudder of pleasure running up his spine. Once she was standing on her own he had planned to remove his hand from hers, but some plans don't always go to accordance. Her fingers were intertwined with his as they walked from the edge of the meadow cliff towards the forest where their campsite was and where their companions waited for them.

Yona was the one to notice her hand was still tightly held within Hak's. Her cheeks flushed but she said nothing as they walked in silence. Suddenly a rumbling sound was heard. Lifting her head Yona saw the dark clouds moving quickly towards them. "Hak." She started to say.

"Let's go." His voice was hard and it ordered her to quicken her pace as the thunder storm began to take form above their heads.

M-Angel: Another short and sweet chapter. Don't worry the M rating will be coming up soon.