Chapter 12

Ready, Get Set… Don't go

Sky's head rested against a rock in the forest. He had been wandering around The Great Forest for days now, trying to find relief.

He looked at the sunshine glimmer through the trees, throwing different colours and shapes across different objects.

Beautiful. If Sky's shattered being didn't have a pit in the middle of his chest, where his heart should have been.

'Sky… I love you…' Wu's voice whispered again. He smiled like he always did at his delusions.

'I love you too Wu.' Sky thought in his head, knowing his rough voice would break the velvet folds of music in his head.

Dawn Star was in the river washing, thinking no one was there she was naked. A Devine sight to other men normally.

But Dawn Star had no hold on him. He just saw Wu's face.

Well, he didn't want to bother her. So he moved himself along.

Dawn Star and he had become close in these two weeks after Wu's death. She had let him shatter to pieces the night, the funeral she sobbed along with him, and she had personally ripped him out of two courtesan's bed and having Whirlwind drag him out after that.

Even those night's with the Courtesans didn't work, (Other then Dawn Star screaming in his ear) because every time he did it he always saw Wu looking devastated at him.

Sky rubbed his face in his hands. Why wasn't this getting any better?

Dawn Star was having nightmares too. About Wu in the Spirit world fitting her way back to him. Though he smiled at the idea, Dawn star was shaken by them.

He pulled out a bottle on wine. Feeling the burn in his mouth but then spitting it out again. Wu had hated wine after getting so angry after Hou's. He had grown to like the taste, but hate being drunk.

Oh Wu.

He touched the new scar the ran down from his temple to almost his jaw line. He had earned it picking a fight with the last Lotus Assassin's in Tien's Landing.

That night Sky stumbled into Tien's Landing where a beautiful Courtesan came up to him.

'Hey Tall Dark and Handsome. Need some stress relief?'

She had short hair and wore a very thin kimono, leaving nothing to imagination.

She pushed him against the wall ripping off his shirts. She started kissing his neck, his chest, his stomach…

There was a bang, a scream and Whirlwind's drunken howl.

Sky received a sharp pain to his head and he was out before he hit the floor.

How foolish to try this again, secretly he knew it wouldn't work. But he got to see Wu in some type of form anyway.

His dreams where just black at first. Then he was back in that forest in the morning sunshine.

Except this time Wu stood in the middle of the meadow.

And Sky saw the beautiful scene for the first time.

Wu smiled and looked at him her hand tracing the new scar.

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. She looked at him sadly. Sky pressed his finger to her lips. 'Shh… it's okay.'

She beamed and touched his face again. He saw things this time.

Enemies that she was fighting, Enemies he's have to fight to get to her for what? Her fighting with the secret flaw…

She had left her heart open to glow and shine, but people who openly love are taken advantage of by the people who openly hate.

She corrected it, only letting people see that she trusts.

But all the knowledge in her mind flowed to his, and suddenly he wasn't the counter piece to her dance at all. He was her partner.

She beamed, and an older handsome looking man with dots n his forehead walked in and rolled his eyes at the silent Wu.

'I thought you of all people would focus on speak other then appearance.'

Wu rolled her eyes and the howled with silent laughter nodding.

Sky pulled her close, he couldn't really feel her since it was a dream but Sky felt better anyway, he leaned his head on her hair and looked at who was obviously an Abbot. 'Who are you?'

The Abbot smiled and Wu looked up at his with an expectant look. The Abbot scowled playfully at her 'I am the Abbot, Abbot Song, But also… Wu's father.'

Sky looked down at Wu who looked back at him with a look that said "Messed up right?"

Sky laughed and shook his head, he hadn't smiled so much in weeks.

'We will tell Dawn Star your next destination. We may see you again Sky.' The Abbot said faintly, as if he didn't plan on it. Wu smiled and nodded vigorously.

Sky placed his hands on Wu's face. 'Please don't leave.'

Wu rolled her eyes and shook her head the mouthed. "I have to for now, I'll be back."

Sky didn't argue just looked at her with an agonized face. 'Soon Lotus Blossom. Wu, I need you to come back soon.' His lips pulled up in a pained smile. 'And work on the mute thing, the mouthing isn't working for me.'

Wu laughed and nodded then frowned, pressing her forehead to his. She mouthed. "Tell Dawn Star I love her and miss her okay?"

Sky nodded, saying nothing this time.

"Thanks."

'How's Zu?'

Wu shrugged and started fading, "I don't know, not at Dirge."

Sky frowned, Poor Zu.

Wu became a shadow but she rushed forward for one thing, she quickly pecked Sky on the lips, and he was suddenly hurtled into consciousness.

'Oh you awake idiot? Another one really?' Dawn Star snapped as he opened his eyes to her helping Hou wit dinner.

'I don't know what you were think-'

'Your going to have a vision of where our next destination is.'

He would have let her go on, but she needed to know.

Dawn Star paled, and he knew she already did. 'How?'

'Wu came to me in my dreams, She told me everything I needed to know.' Including her now flawless fighting ways…

Then he noticed that everything was packed and the Dragonfly was humming behind them. Sky smiled he must have been out for a while. 'Where are we headed Dawn Star?'

Dawn Star smiled back. 'Dirge'