Queen's Blade
Chapter: 8
A shadow of a Death Person
Part 1
Three weeks after the death of Silver and the split of the group the Queen's Blade tournament finally begun today with the opening fight's and a blond haired girl, her armor bears a cat motif. She wears a metal cat eared headband and a golden necklace with a sapphire pendant. On her torso she has a metal bikini top with parts of it painted blue. She wears a white and black striped vest that has high ends and is open on her torso, but closes and forms a front and back tassel as it gets lower. She has a white and black striped full length glove on her right arm, and a metal armguard on her left arm. She has black panties, with an ornate black belt over the tassel, and bandages on her thighs with white and black striped shoes. a white tiger striped dr stood in front of a window and was waiting for her summoning into the first battle. She recall everything what happen until today the betray from Echidna, the meeting with her sister Leina and the meeting with a man from east. But there was something in the air of this day what didn't let her any rest...
14 day's left...
Three people stood on a balcony and were involved in a conversation. An elf woman a little boy and the youngest Vance daughter.
"You been... saying some interesting things recently."
"Huh...?" the little boy repels
Suddenly the elder elf woman pat the head of the little boy and he begun to look on the mature looking woman
"She lets out the collections of her sorrow when she is suddenly provoked."
"AHH... You heard about that?"
"We elves have sharp ears, my lovely little boy "
She then turned her view to the blond girl and begun to smile
"But that is... What she is, the opposite of what she says?"
"Huh?" The elf woman confused the little boy with her word riddle and her sharp tongue..
"Right now, she's going to do what she likes once again." The girl pulled her glove claw on and licked her lips as she would she be ready kill again.
"Some day, she's going to retaliate violently..."
- Night time -
- near the forest of Gainos somewhere in the hills -
Some people were walking in the night time, so most of the group was carry heavy bag with gold in the inside. Three of those person where female and two were talking and one little girl was sulking, then she lost again some one important to here.
"So? You meet my sister, Risty?"
"And she beat you? Anyways Elina... was the complete opposite of me when we were kids."
"Ohh?" Risty begun embarrassed to lough
"Well... Recently, I can tell that she didn't like me when we bump into each other. I really don't want to remember it."
"Ahh.. but.." And Leina begun to defend her sister again...
"She was really cute when we were kids."
"Oh really? I can't believe that."
"Yes... she was certainly precocious and caused so much mischief." Leina begun to slip away in memory's of her childhood
"She would always stick close to me from behind and go 'BIG SIS! BIG SIS!' I would relatively listen to what she says.
"Hmm..."
"Our father was so busy and our mother was sick... and she quickly died. I acted like I was taking the place of our mother."
"Oh..." Risty respond as she pushed some vine's aside
"I see. A Siscon and an Oedipus complex now?"
"But, a place like yours would have folks loaded with money. They usually have wet nurses, right? I really don't get it."
"Yes... but she was incredibly scared of strangers back then. She never stuck close to any of the adults around her."
"Was that to blame?" Sylphi asked all of the sudden
"I may spoiled her way too much..." Leina face turned all of the sudden red for shame
"She was never separated from her older sister..."
"Leina..."
"..."
"Don't worry about it. It's not your fault." Sylphi took Leina's free hand "I guess that's how she was from the start."
"I see..."
"But most of all she was like a monster, like a beast praying for her hunt. When that the level is when you are not around her, than I don't want to know who she is action if you are around..."
"Haha... But still? She grew up and she totally... better with her life than I am. And yet, she doesn't hold herself back... I'm honestly jealous of Elina."
"... Hey... put an end to this. You in every way better than here, right guys, Sylphi?"
"Huh.. Yes"
"And if you want to be like her? We would lose you? That is a scary though..."
"Mn. ... But, I don't have her personality."
"What are you saying... Something like genetics in your family?"
"If I want to look like her, If I accept it without a word, I would think on how such a feeling would put me at ease... And I could, no I had protect him so as he had protected me in that night..."
"Leina..." Risty gave Leina a knock on her head and begun to speak
"They're folks like you in your family... That's bring the light of hope to us normal people. And I guess he saw that light too, that's why he decided to protect you from that giant man you told me about. Do you Understand?"
"Risty..." Something what Risty told her made her feeling happy
"See you smiling again. That's the Leina we like..."
"Risty... Sylphi... It's thanks to people like you. That I got to know about "The World" my outlook had gotten really wide since I meet you both."
"Leina *giggle*"
"Hehe It's that's so hehehe..."
"YEESH, Why must I get involved with such complicated Folks?" suddenly Risty begun to complain out of embarrassment
"I'm sorry... Risty, Sylphi, everyone..."
"For what? It was your sister Claudette." begun to speak one of Risty's man who got an arrow in his leg
"Well, I thought that they were some sly folks in your family, but she is our natural enemy. Honestly, she disgusts me." Risty begun to complain
"Ch!"
"AHH... Don't talk about her like that."
"My older sister... is quite splendid. She's strong and faithful in her duties. She is fair to the people..."
In the same time as the group was talking on there way to the bandits hideout a another group of guards with Claudette on the top, riding in hurry somewhere.
"It must had to do with her upbringing. She's complex in so many ways. Perhaps I... wouldn't do something like this if not Sylphi woke me up and reminds me of my duty as a elder sister..."
Back to the group. Risty and the others made a short rest as she suddenly begun to peek around a tree as Leina was still talking like a little child.
"So you see, I do have a lot of respect for her. She would be next in line. That..."
And suddenly Risty pushed her to the ground...
"Sh!"
"AHH...!"
"Risty! Don't push me like that to the ground especially when on of your man is so close to me !"
"Sorry to interrupt your story, Leina. But behind that hill is our hideout and..."
"Huh..."
Inside the hideout burnt light and as Risty and her gang left the castle they made every light out so that nobody would find their hideout...
- Inside of the hideout -
In a certain room sat three people on a bed with a leopard design, playing strip poker and it looks like that the female blond teen was losing. As suddenly the female elf woman something begun to hear with her sharp ear's.
"..."
The other girl noticed it to trough her fine nose to...
"Ohh... so our guests have arrived...? hehe"
"Seems so... a herd of cute lambs."
The elf woman stood up and took those pieces of her armor which she lost and put them on...
"It smells after..." The blond girl grab to her pieces of armor and cloths she lost and got prepared to
"Well then..."
"We'd better get dressed and meet them."
As they were ready the boy who was with them, took a long sword as wanted to fight with them. But the elf woman turned around and stop him from being reckless...
"Frorel,"
"Huh..."
"You go hide somewhere. Don't get hurt now."
"B... But, I am also an apprentice! I want to do my role just a little bit..."
"You'll be in our way darting around like that. That's an order!" The blond girl command to her knight apprentice.
"An... order?" He respond disbelieved
"HAA! HAA! Well, they call themselves chivalrous thieves. I don't think that they'll get a child involved." The elf woman begun to laugh manically
"Would chivalrous thieves launch a surprise attack in the middle of the night?" she turn to the elf woman with a question
She than got all flustered and blushed...
"You're that worried? About little old me? hehe" But suddenly her personality switched to a dark and evil snake "Well, what of it..." She begun then to draw a picture with her blade into the ground "Image, you would go off and do your own thing and capture their fort when the bandits are away. And you are tired from that sort of work, you'd return home to fight them off..." She begun to lough purely innocent
"Huh... wow... This is worst..." the blond girl was just speechless of the pure evil inside that elf woman
"That was gossip generally speaking. I have my strategies. I won't say anything boorish." she turned her head back to the blond one "I don't mind with you moving at your own style. I'll be doing the same."
"We won't bother when the other is mutually in trouble? You can take it easy..."
"That's so 3" she throw the blond one a air kiss
The blond only though she wouldn't want to know it what her real plan was. For her was only one thing important the reunion with her beloved sister Leina. She than thought on that what Frorel earlier said to her, that there is a resemble with them.
"Be careful you two..."
"..." no respond from the blond one
"Yeah. Yeah. Later !" the elf woman turned one last time back to the blond girl, and noticed that she was deep in thoughs.
"Watch your back... as best as you can, little lady." Was the last thing she told her
In the meantime, Frorel was in the middle of following orders as he could hear from outside that the fight already begun...
"Ahhh... It already started..."
Outside the elf woman stood in the middle of many beaten down handsome young man, who all belong to the bandit of Risty.
"Oh my... that big woman isn't here... I messed up right here..." She then heard more fight sound. As she walked away from those body's she noticed it that someone was watching here.
"CH!"
"Over there!" some of the still fighting man was yelling
"Hmm...? There's a presence. Here?"
"I'll be affectionate with you. Why don't you come out... little prince Ingo? Heh heh..."
On a other place the blond one hunted her prey down and was liking the blood off from her gauntlet.
"Heh... Heh... Heh... Bingo "
In the same time Risty and her group encounter the blond one and Risty begun to scream.
"WAAAAAAAA! WHY ARE YOU HERE!"
"Hi, it's been a while miss Risty. I so wanted to meet up with you."
"Why are you hanging out with that snake woman...!"
"Hanging out... Don't be making those sort of jokes." she got all angry
"I thought that she would have this place packed... I miscalculated things. CH!"
"EH... NO! Like I was saying, I have personal business." But Risty wasn't listening at all.
And because she was pissed of that she prepared an attack, she begun to spin around her lance in her hand and she continued
"WITH YOU...!"
She swung her weapon so fast that her dress flow up and exposed her black panty string, but Risty pushed her shield up just a second before the blond once lance could hit her. And so she dodged it.
"Ehhh..."
"Oh~ This time, you're being rather careful?"
The blond one let go with her hand from her weapon and swung her claw gauntlet against Risty to cut her.
"! Kuh..."
Risty made a quick jump backwards but didn't notice that the blond girl was already behind her, and she kicked her right into her back legs which brought Risty to fall.
"BOSS!" the left member of her cried out for her and run towards her to help her.
But the blond girl jumped on her hands and made a handstand, she than spread her legs and made a kick twist.
"WAA!"
All of Risty's man who wanted to help her got hit and flow back to the ground with heavy injuries. And the blond girl herself jumped back on her feet's and land in the middle from everyone.
"Eeeehh... boss..."
"Hmph... weaklings!"
"Man, are such weaklings."
She than walked to the on the ground lying Risty and took the bang which hang normally between Risty's well-formed big breasts.
"You know what... that Business is what I have with you? I'm sure of it you know what it is..."
The blond girl took to claw finger and prepared to take away Risty eye, but she stopped just a little away from it...
"...! hngh!"
The blond sat on Risty to hold her on the ground and begun to ask her.
"Where is she? Where is Leina? WHERE?"
"...!" Risty was under shock and didn't respond
"hehe... Your trembling makes you so easy to figure out..."
The girl become a truly demon as she took her hand a little away she prepared to push her claw trough Risty's chest...
"Well... I'll just have to make you learn your place. Your field of vision will be stained red..."
"Heh... you know who would teach you something like that?"
"...I'll have to ask your death body then..."
The girl prepared to kill her just as suddenly some one begun to scream...
"AAAAHHHH!"
She turned around and Risty screamed a name.
"Lei...! AHH... oh cra..." Risty covered her mouth and the girl suddenly stopped every action.
She turn around and begun to run to that scream. She know that scream and she found herself stupid, that she didn't notice it early. She didn't even look back at Risty.
"AHH! Wait a minute, you..." Risty had a hard time to stand up
That scream came from Leina, she saw something what looked like a ghost of something really familiar from a person that she begun to like...
But before she could react the blond girl came around the corner, and as the blond girl, Leina saw tears begun to fill her eye's.
"Sis... ...Leina..."
Leina instead she snap out of it and say her name...
"Eli..na?"
And the both Vance sister were again united. But there was still something terrible in the air...
After several stutter from Elina and Leina, Elina run towards her sister to hug her but she stopped then some one appeared behind Leina and grab her. The hands of this person slipt under Leinas armor and grab and massaged her breasts, her side and between her legs, which remind her on that event from some days ago.
"AHHHHHHHHH NO STOP I BEG YOU!" she begun to scream and slowly begun to raise her lust inside her body "N... No... AHHHHH!" And suddenly she begun to scream for lust and Elina was forced to watch.
"...Hah!" She know that she shouldn't watch "Sto...! WAIT A MINUTE! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! You unchaste Elf!"
The elf woman stopped to fondle Leina and turned her view to Elina
"Hmm?
Until Leina begun to beg...
"Echidna! Stop it... already... Nghhhhh..." And again Echidna begun you grope her everywhere and Leina cum a second time...
"What? Aren't you being mean, little Leina?" Echidna begun to rub her head against Leina beautiful body, which brought her to a crying lough.
"We haven't talked to each other in a long time and you scream and try to run."
"AND YOUR GREETINGS US NOT SEEING EACH OTHER IN A WHILE IS THIS! AND DON'T FONDLE ME LIKE THAT! I GONNA..." And again Leina cry out in pleasure with a panicked watching sister...
Leina than got an use to it and begun to yell onto Echidna "When you naturally commit sexual harassment when you met someone, anyone would try to run away!"
Echidna began to sulk
"Well, I bet if he would touch you like this you wouldn't struggle...?"
"Like I said, I am not..." before she could end it, Elina interfered...
"WAAAAA! CUT THAT OUT ALREADY!" She was screaming and crying in the same time... "LET GO OF MY SISTER!
In the same time the read head came around the corner, still wounded from the fight with Elina. She couldn't believe her eyes from the scene right in front of her..
"LET GO OF MY SISTER!"
"Huh..."
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! If you got regrets, then tear her off of me!" Echidna snap back with a faint smile towards Elina
"Waa... What is this..." Risty just thought are they stupid?
She saw how Elina was trying to cut Echidna into pieces with her claw glove, but with no chance of victory than Echidna was using her guard to shield Leina and herself...
"WAAA! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"
"HEH HEH! No way! I can take it."
Risty begun to found the whole situation where she is in stupid and cry out to Leina...
"Hey Leina? You're... not hurt, are you?"
"Ahh... Risty!" she respond towards the red head
"Thank goodness... I heard you scream. I was sure that something bad..."
And than Leina noticed her injuries.
"..."
In the same time Echidna and Elina were still fighting until, Echidna noticed that Leina slip away from her hold and both begun to stare..
"Ohh?"
"AH! SHE ESCAPED!"
They both saw that Leina run towards the red head Risty.
"Are you alright!" Leina saw her injuries and was worried she didn't want to lose someone again
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine. Sylphi used one of her heal spell.."
Leina took a better look on her wound and saw that she wasn't completely healed.
"Certainly... this is..."
"Ahh well... I hear you screaming and I run away before she could finish her job..."
They were so busy with each other that they didn't notice Elina stood in front of them with her lance over her right shoulder.
"Hmph..."
As Leina and Risty noticed Elina again, they gave her all of their attention.
"What? There was one person more with you, I had better give this person some of my time to, but so kind I am I just take you." Elina spoke with a rude attitude
"..." Risty begun just to glare
"Elina...!" And Leina was disappointed.
She begun to think why is everyone going crazy, first those bandits, than that man who killed Silver and now Elina and Echidna, she even thought that maybe Echidna was the person who attacked Silver in the first place.
"Anyway's what's more important is..." her mood become to be darker again and she begun to glare to the both
"Risty... can you run?"
"Sorry."
Risty took her arm around Leina and Leina her arm around her waist to carry her. That view was way to much for her and she begun again to scream...
"YOU... GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF HER!"
"Huh...!" both girl's respond
"ARE YOU NOT LISTENING! LET GO OF MY SIS, YOU GORILLA LADY!"
That gave Leina's passion the rest and made her angry...
"DAMMIT, ELINA!" she screams back at Elina and she got scared and jumped back like a little child
"WHY MUST YOU HAVE SUCH A SHARP TONGUE!"
Risty looked surprised at Leina...
"NOW APOLOGIZE TO YOUR SISTER'S FRIEND!"
"Ohh..." Elina got shocked
And than it begun both Vance girl's begun to fight with a watching Echidna...
"BUT... SHE'S ALL OVER YOU...!"
"WHAT YOU LOOK FOR ISN'T WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!"
"Oh my... This sister squabble is no different from when they were kids..." She begun to blush and lough
"It's only their bodies that has grown."
"It's so cute."
"You're mean... sis." Elina begun to cry "I... I finally got to see you..." She tried to hold the tears back but... "Weren't we all worried about you? Leina, my big sister!"
Leina doesn't know what she should answer...
"That is..." she stopt and begun to think and than she begun to speak... "Naturally... I threw it all away when I disappeared and ran away from home. I do think that what I did is inexcusable..."
Elina begun to interrupt
"If you think that, then you can come back to our estate...? Dad and elder sister are both worried about you..."
Leina felt lonely and sadness in her heart...
"...What... they all worried about... is not 'ME'. They think of me as 'The next in line to the family name Vance'."
"What are you saying...!"
Elina didn't understand a single word what her sister Leina was saying. She could not understand how her sister could become such a person. How could be a bright girl become so sad and lonly...
"That's not True..." she said
Everyone was watching with there own interest. Then neither Risty or Echidna know the reason why Leina wanted to become like her mother. Even though Echidna had a idea why Leina is so sad. And she thought about the only one man that she ever fall for...
"There aren't many people. But for me," Elina continued to speak and slowly hold Leina's hand. "You are the most... special person to me, sis." she was holding Leina's hand and put one on top of Leina's sword hilt...
"Yes... I'm sorry... Elina..."
"Why apologize...?"
"..."
"Please... I want you to be beautiful, sis." Elina continued to manipulate her sister with flower words... "It'll be fine for you not to know about the no good common world... I don't want you... to bear such a heavy sword, your face smeared with mud, or to have you take up this armor!"
"...!"
"Hey? I'll take up all of these disgusting things."
"That is..." Elina wasn't listening want her sister wanted to say, she just continued
"I'll grant whatever you need! So please!"
Leina suddenly push her arm back and made a step backwards to free herself from Elinas hold...
"That is... something that I do not want! I want to live my own live and... I want to see his face again..." Leina begun to yell and everyone could see that she was holding back tears...
"...!" Elina got shocked from this let down
"Umm..." Leina she didn't say something, she instead saw the shadow from him as he saved her from that bandit leader... This memory gave her straight to say what she really want... "You must understand, Elina. We... we're not how we were when we were kids."
Elina was sulking and Echidna stood against the wall and on the other side of the wall, there was someone in a red hood-jacket who was listening the whole time...
"I chose this road as a wandering warrior, with my own will until the very end. First, I wanted to live like mother a free live, than I meet people who suffer because us the noble, than I meet Sylphi and him. I also have come to understand this. First I didn't wanted to believe, but now that you stand in front of me and saying those things. Is it just as I thought and feared..."
Elina didn't understand a single word, the only thing what she understand was 'I can't be together with you'.
"You are not on the right path." Elina wasn't listening anymore she was full of anger...
"Elina?"
Everything was silent and even the person who was out from the shadows listening know that is just can get ugly...
Echidna who stood on the wall watched Elinas back and was proud of Leina...
"She finally said it... So, now what? Little Elina?"
"Y... It's... It's your... FAULT!" Anger overflow Elina
"ELINA!" Leina begun to scream
Elina rushed toward and swung her lance on Risty, as a result to kill her. But Risty could in the last second use her shield. But even that wasn't working than Elina's weapon crushed her shield
"...!"
"You're to blame... For tempting my sister!"
A battle begun and Echidna was enjoying herself by watching.
"You'll have to take responsibility. Her eyes are wrapped from the truth..." Echidna begun to smile as she saw how the bandit Risty and Elina the tiger were fighting "Hmm... This is a surprise and yet so common. Don't you think, my boy." Echidna rise her sight and looked on the top of the wall. "But... your eyes are open after all you know the truth..." Echidna spoke to someone as would someone listen
In the meantime the fight between Risty and Elina continued, Risty had a hard time to dodge Elinas thrust from her lance.
"GUH! HEY! DID YOU EVEN LISTEN TO WHAT LEINA SAID! SHE THOUGHT ABOUT IT ON HER OWN AND CHOSE HER LIFE...!"
Than Elina used again her claw gauntlet...
"IF SHE NEVER NEVER MET YOU, SHE WOULDN'T THINK OF SOMETHING SO RIDICULOUS!"
Risty could evade from Elinas gauntlet attack and used the opening to strike with her morning star.
"YOU STUPID IDIOT YOU'RE GOING OFF AND DOING YOUR OWN INTERPRETATION...!"
Elina jumped back
"Ugh..."
Suddenly Leina begun to scream
"STOP ELINA! RISTY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!"
Leina wanted to bring an end to this fight but she couldn't make it then nobody wanted to listen to her and Echidna found the whole situation stupid and boring to...
"... This is... This is the blindness from a love triangle. That is the sort of aspect that is being shown... just look what you did, boy."
The battle was still on and Elina had the upper hand she drag Risty more back until they made it to a destroyed side of a wall were a cliff was, and still Elina didn't respond to Leinas begging both should stop. Even Echidna didn't done something, she was just watching.
Just in the moment as Elina wanted to push Risty over the cliff a wall appeared out of nowhere in a blue lightning glow and Risty smashed against it...
"OHH...!" Risty passed out from the crash...
"That was a close one, brother." spoke a female voice
"Yeah..." respond a familiar voice
Nobody noticed that there was now a wall where just a second ago, no wall was.
Elina used in that second her lance, as Risty smashed against the wall, to give her the death blow...
"NOW YOU GO ON AND... DISAPPEAR!" She swung her weapon on Risty
But suddenly Leina jumped between them and dodge the blow with her body, just in that second pain rushed trough her body... Elina herself noticed what she did and came back to her sense
"Uh... No..."
"Lei... no..." Risty respond before she passed out...
Leina herself was holding her body in pain, her armor was this time harder to break but still not perfect...
"HACK... Eli...na." Leina fall to the ground and sat in pain on the ground
"Ahh... I... I'm sor..." Elina suddenly let go of her weapon and rushed to aid her sister "S... SIS... SISTER...!"
Leina begun to caught blood as Elina was holding her and asking her if she alright...
"AHH... NO WAY! ARE YOU OKAY!"
*cough*
"ARE YOU HURT! I injured my sister..." Tears begun to run down from Elina's face.
Elina put one hand on Leinas forehead to check is she still alive, she was and she heard that Leina was saying a name... She suddenly realized it. Right now. Her sister was in front of her eyes. And she wasn't moving...
She know somehow she won't have another chance...
"A'm I really that worst..." She then grab her weapon... "I'm so sorry... Sis.
"S... Silver..."
Elina hug her sister and Leina came beg to her sense
"Endure this just a bit, until we get back to the estate."
"Huh..!" Leina couldnt move anymore, then Elina used the second use of her weapon to tied her up.
Leinas body was tied up with her arms on her back, to the worst pose she know, with her butt into the air, she couldn't stand up than the leash made it impossible to rise her upper body.
Elina herself saw tired and empty down on Leina.
"E..ELINA! Let me go..!"
Elina turned around and walked towards the passed out Risty...
"My sister is a kind person... She'll protect someone like you... But myself, I cannot forgive someone like you..."
"N..NO! ELINA STOP!"
Suddenly a shadow appeared behind Elina and attacked her and she passed out
"...!"
"NO ELINA!" Leina begun to scream...
some time later...
Elina heard some voice and slowly came back to her sense...
She saw three pair of legs...
"Oh..." she begun to moan and ask herself did she passed out "I can't feel... my right arm...Why! and who belongs that voice..."
"Damn you... What is it... That you are planning!" the unknown voice spoke... "I won't permit... such an agenda...!"
Elina raised her head and she saw three people a mature woman, a child with a sword and a girl with a dagger in her hands...
"Frorel... and elder sister! Why are they here...? And who is that girl...?"
Elina had a hard time to hold her eyes open, then her entire body was in pain. But see try it again and took another closer look.
The three stood in front of Echidna, who had Leina over her shoulder, the girl was shouting Leinas name, she should wake up.
"Oh dear... things won't calm down here..."
Elina could see with her last piece of her energy that Leina was unconscious and before Elina fall herself into unconscious. She asked herself one last question...
"WHAT IN THE WORLD... IS GOING ON...?"
To be continued...