Chapter 14

Forgotten Tomorrow

It was a beautiful site, the mountains in the distance, the temple glowing a dull blue glow…. And the purple armoured women reborn, by Sky's side.

Wu's hair didn't have to low ponytail he was so used to, her long hair flow freely in the wind, her face glowing brightly.

Wu closed her eyes and took a deep breath. The only and glorious in all of Dirge, her breathing again.

'It's quiet tonight.' peaceful even. 'It won't last. Since your Master has already unleashed his hounds.' Sky smirked.

'It's a good thing we got here first though, I don't like the idea of you walking out into there arms. I would need a dashingly clever plan to get you out of that.' Because he could never stand her walking away from him again… ever.

Wu turned to look out into the mountains. 'You seemed… less… surprised when I stepped into view.' She frowned as if suppressing a doubtful thought.

'I thought about our conversation earlier. Remember?' He jibbed her with his elbow she giggled her musical laugh. ' I asked you what you wanted for yourself when this was all done.'

She laughed, ' I do remember, I also remember you didn't believe me.'

'Sky nodded. ' You were joking then, since then you've been more serious.'

'When Dawn Star began having visions, I just knew you were fighting you're your way back. What else could see be seeing?'

Wu batted her beautiful eyelashes. Sky kept his lips moving so he couldn't place them somewhere else. 'So we followed, with a new Emperor's army on the way. I don't know how we'll survive, but we'll find a way.'

Wu smirked looking up at his through her eyelashes. ' There is a way, like always we have to find it.'

He placed his hands caressingly on each cheek feeling the smooth texture, the faint glow almost visible through the depths of his fingers. ' What ever happens.' He whispered, ' I'll be with you till the end.' He pressed his forehead against hers and closed his eyes. ' The only thing.' he whispered ' Is that you made it back to me. I knew death wouldn't stop you my spirit monk…'

He opened his eyes and Wu's dark glorious eyes stared back into his. ' I did,' she whispered back, as soft as wind, ' It wasn't easy, but I had to see the Sky, my own personal sun again.' Aw. To her, he wasn't broken. To her, he was the counter to negativity in her mind, as she was to him.

He had no doubt that she loved him too.

'If you can tell me all about it… in a bit,' he placed her at arms length, his arms at her shoulder a blob building in his throat. ' I never did say what I wanted to in the Palace you know.'

Wu rolled her eyes at him, as if she was saying "No Shit".

'Of course you did.' Sky breathed the sun slowly descended towards the mountains, the red sky making a tiny pool as if about to explode, it began reaching… ' You even gave me a second chance to spit it out.'

'When I saw you were.' Something caught in his throat and his eyes watered. Wu noticed and cradled his face in her palm. A silent. "I'm Here Now" He smiled, grateful. 'I thought I had missed my chance to tell you I had fallen in love with you.'

Wu's face took on the delicate pink he loved so much. 'That you were in my every thought, that I kept you in my sight, just to know that you were there. That you… had become everything.'

Wu's eyes watered this time, and spilled over. They were tears, but unlike when Zu passed on. She was smiling wide at him.

' When you fell it was like a part of me shattered.' He replayed the scenes of the shattering, crying, courtesans, and being really unable to see anything. ' I thought that… well that piece was gone forever.' He suddenly felt victorious at the perfect beauty he would never deserve but somehow obtained.

'But we have another chance. I love you, and I never want to let you go.'

Wu staggered and her heart pounded so loud he could hear it, or was it his own? He could not tell.

She smirked, calm as ever. ' I liked that. Say it again… please?'

Sky laughed, carefree. ' That I love you? Gladly… but there is something I've been waiting a long time to do…come here.'

They stared at each other lovingly, Wu blushing and cocking her head a fraction to the side and looked at him through her eye lashes again.

Suddenly, Sky's lips were on hers, his arms wrapped around hers, their heart beating as one.

His tongue found it's way, like a dagger of love, through her parted lips making her bend her head back, her fingertips sinking into his arm… her hand through his hair…

When they broke away they looked at each other. Wu took Sky's hand, and she lead him away ever so gently towards the temple, away from the other's tents… By then the Sky blooming with Lotus Blossom colours.

'Wu…' Sky whispered as she pulled him. ' Won't your Great Mistress be watching In her own temple?'

Wu smiled. ' If she really is my Great Mistress, she will look away for one night.'

And there, in the temple of the Water Dragon, near the fountain, behind the statue of Wu's own Mistress. The Temples open walls shined Pink Blossoms into the Dying Sky night, until it was hushed black, hiding the second bloom.

Of Pink Lotus Blossoms on The Deepest Sky.

Sky sat up in his tent, somehow unsure how he had gotten here, and if that night was a dream.

His heart shattered in the darkness, great he had finally snapped.

He sniffed the air, it smelled like sweat, winter air and well to be honest the strongest smell was sex.

He sighed and started fumbling with a match, wishing he knew Wu's Dire Flame. When he finally lit his lantern everything was set to a soft orange glow.

Wu, fast asleep was all tangled up in the blanket. He ankle and her waist curled up in loops, every other part of her uncovered, as she shivered slightly.

He looked at the delicate form of his love, from her ankle to her calve to her thigh, her strong core breathing in and out with deep sleep.

He looked at her angel face, shot with words. Her lips that miraculously curved perfectly around his own lips, her lashes, so thick they could be a black forest… her tanned skin colour, shining with the thin layer of sweat.

Her collar bone curved perfectly, not that she would allow anyone but him to see it under her robes. He smiled his eyes gazing at her perfect breasts for a moment, and smirking he laid on his back, smirking at the sealing, having never been aware of his own body so much before.

He reached over and pulled the covers over her, kissing her lips for the hundredth time, the War completely forgotten. That could wait for the morning.

The first time he realized Wu was moaning.

He searched her body for any kind of wound. Sure there was a little blood on the temple floor… but that was natural.

'No… It's not my fault… please don't make me hurt them…' Wu moaned, cringing into herself.

'Please! Lin! Woo! Wen!' Wu cried thrashing in the bed.

'Wu! Wu! It's okay! It's okay! Your okay!'

A shimmering mist came in, in a way to sinister to be accepted. Sky cried out trying to get away from the mist, it swirled around his head, And he heard the laugh of the man Wu killed Wu once. Master Li. Surely him along with her this time… But he'd rather that then be without her again.

Sky fell onto his blanket's and pillow, knocked out by Master Li's mist to summon Wu to her personal hell.

In his dreams, he relived the night he had spent in the temple with Wu, that glorious night. Until the dreams shifted, and he wondered around a burning village, people he had never met crying for help, blood everywhere, and fighting to the west.

Sky staggered around the memory of the burning of Two Rivers, as horrified as Wu ever was.

Heyy, This is Scarlett... obviously. Um.. I wanted to try something different so the next chapter is a little different then the rest of the story... you'll all see what I mean by hopefully the end of the weekend :)

Scarley ;)