Simple and Clean
Chapter 5:A SOLDIER 1st Class's strength and a will to Survive!
Sakoura's P.O.V.~
I stood there, slightly shocked that Sephiroth wanted me to fight him.
"But-" He lunged at me. I brought my sword up and blocked Masamune from striking my head.
"But nothing. I might have been one of the few who'd fight to save you but now...you need to prove to me you can defend yourself!" He applied pressure, forcing me to back off.
"Sephiroth, I don't want to do this."
"What a shame. I wasn't asking you if you wanted to fight. I'm telling you. You don't have a choice today...fight or be slaughtered!"
I couldn't believe Sephiroth would turn on me that easily. I sighed and got in my fighting stance.
"Very good. Now let's see how you compare to a SOLDIER!" He lunged at me, bringing Masamune up from the bottom left to the upper right. I dodged and prepared to plunge my sword into his gut. He parried my attack by flipping his sword, as if going to shove it into an enemy below him, and blocked.
"Very basic moves. You've got a long way to go." Sephiroth stated and smirked.
'If only you knew how wrong you were Seph.' He pulled the sword up some, and plunged it at my head. Only now, he put me at a disadvantage. He pulled the front part of his sword up, deflecting my sword and knocking it into the sky. I looked up. Sephiroth brought his sword up, again, in an effort to slit my throat open. I pulled out NightSky, my other rapier similar to Moonlite. Moonlite had a creamy pale inner coloring with a sky blue color surrounding it. Written in the pale coloring of Moonlite, was-in Japanese-'Moonlight of the Night Sky'. NightSky was quite the opposite. It's inner coloring was midnight blue with a dark pale black outer coloring. In NightSky's inner coloring was, in Japanese, 'The Moonlight's NightSky.'
Sephiroth looked at the similar sword in my hand. He smirked. I pushed him back. We stood five feet apart, eyes never drifting from one another's frame.
"So you have more than one sword?" Moonlite landed in between us, the sun's rays glowing against Moonlite's pale interior. The symbols on Moonlite began to glow. The edging of the sword started to glow as well. It then started glowing on and off, on and off...like a heartbeat. The symbols on NightSky began to glow, like a second heartbeat. Shadows started to move on the ground, moving up and forming creatures we were all too familiar with...Heartless. I ran towards Moonlite and yanked it out of the ground. I looked at Sephiroth to see him fighting off some heartless. I turned around in time to see a Soldier heartless leaping at me. I brought Moonlite up and slashed through it.
Soon enough I was surrounded by them. They all seemed to be waiting for me to make a move. I learned some things about them the hard way. Making the first move against a Heartless horde could be your last...They all started moving in rhythm with each other. I held Moonlite in my right hand tightly and flexed my other hand that was holding NightSky. They stopped a little ways behind me. I had expected them to attack me. I spun around and my mouth opened a little in shock.
"What the...w-what is that?!" I could see Sephiroth staring at it, just as shocked.
We saw something coming out of a portal. It's claws raked the earth in front of the portal. It pulled it's head through. It's head was wolf like, but there were no eyes. It pulled the rest of it's body through. It's body was liger like but it's tail was snake like, only it had a spiked tip. There was acid dripping off of the tail tip. Poison acid.. A lovely touch.
It's tongue snaked it's way out of the mouth. It's tip was V-shaped. It hissed at us.
Sephiroth looked at me the instant I looked at him. "Run!" The Heartless attacked the beast only to be defeated in one paw swipe. On its forehead lied a mark, a similar design to a cross. Only it was neon colored. I guess you could say it was cross like with sharp blades at each end, two on each side and meeting to form a triangle tip. Sephiroth and I took off running. We made it to the Crystal Fissure only to hear it's paw steps stop.
"I think we're safe. It's too large to fit in here." Sephiroth said in between breaths. I looked at the thing we had just run from.
"I beg to differ Seph." It lashed it's tail in the cave. We took off, but I barely escaped because a spike struck my side. I continued after Sephiroth. We were halfway up the Bailey when the thing's tail lashed at me and knocked me into the wall. I dropped to the ground. I got up slowly only to stare at the symbol of the beast.
'Join us Strife. You are one of us. Do not deny the beastly instinct within you. You can not escape your fate or the inevitable end!' It roared at me. The thing used it's tail and swiped me into the wall making me bang my head hard and fall to the ground. I placed a hand on my head. I could feel something warm and sticky, but it smelled terrible...blood. I looked at the creature only to see it fighting with Sephiroth, who looked pissed off. I lost consciousness as the beast's thoughts echoed once more. 'A poor excuse of our kind. You will meet the end, Strife. We are relentless and will hunt you until you give in.' Falling into an abyss of nothing. Sounds ok? Seeing not a damn thing, not feeling a heartbeat. Practically dead. Living or Nobody? Who's to say. I can't feel a heartbeat, I can only think. My emotions have gone numb, my body limp. It's like.. a repeat. I've seen this shit before. So why don't I remember it? I can hear a faint pulse like noise far off, like it doesn't exist. A heartbeat...no...it's more than a heartbeat. It's his heartbeat....
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Well peoples, this is the first part of the huge picture. I didn't want the Sakoura and Leon's relationship to take off that quickly. So in all, this is practically like a Prologue book, but referred to as Book 1: Simple and Clean. I'll start book two after I get some reviews on this book.