A/N: Yeah so here's the next chapter. Again thanks for the reviews of COOL-STORY-BRO1993, Sentinel07 and captainwhiteshadow. I'll try not to make wrong grammars or misspell some words. Those who didn't noticed it, I've re upload some chapters coz of wrong spellings or wrong grammars.
"Hey Mitsurugi, what happened to your head? It looks like it has a little hump to it." as Maxi laughs hard at his friend.
"Well if you must know Maxi, I was..." before Mitsurugi could even finish his sentence, he then saw Siegfried who was popping his knuckles ready to beat the lights out of the samurai.
"(Gulp) Uhm... I mean... I just hit a tree this morning when I just got out of the bed. I guess I was still a bit sleepy hehe. (Bah, if you weren't my blood brother, I would've told everyone about that little secret of yours)." as Mitsurugi jokingly said to himself.
"Okay then. Whatever you say."
As the group was preparing to leave, Cassandra could not help but stare and smile at Siegfried, who was preparing to put on his armor and strapping back his sword. She remembered last knight how toed Siegfried's body was. Not only that but his long mane as well as it shined with the sun's rays. But the thing that makes him special for her is his face. A handsome figure with eyes that has the color of emeralds that was full of hope but seems to be in deep sadness. This didn't passed by Sophitia without her noticing it. She then bumped her sister to tease her of what she is doing.
"Hey! What was that for Sis?"
"You left your sword and shield in the tent when we already finished packing up. I thought that I should give them to you right away because you are just standing for a quite a while, staring there as if you are daydreaming of something." as if she doesn't really know what Cassandra was staring at.
"I was just going to pick them up when I am done with some work here." Cassandra then took her weapons from her sister. She then turned her face away as it was getting red because of embarrassment again.
"Okay then let's head off to Zenith!" as Maxi leads the way.
Along the way, Siegfried keeps looking at Cassandra as he admires her beauty. He just can't take his eyes off her until he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"HEHEHE... Now I see why you keep looking at her... You just can't take your eyes of that perfectly proportioned body of hers. She does have a nice behind and front after all..." as Mitsurugi mischievously laughed and whispered at Siegfried. Suddenly the samurai then felt a sharp pain in his face. It was Siegfried who gave him a knuckle sandwich.
"Ouch! What was that for?"
"Don't ask as if you didn't know. You started it!"
"Why you little..." as Mitsurugi growls at Siegfried and the knight doing doing the same thing.
"Enough talk! Let's settle this!" as Siegfried draws Faust.
"You would've wished that you didn't ruined my pretty face!" the samurai then draws his katana. and enters his stance.
As the two warriors were about to commence their battle, they suddenly blacked out for a while after receiving a beating from Sophitia. " I didn't left my children back home at Athens just to be looking after two more while taking on this journey!" As Sophita's face turned into somewhat of an alter ego of herself. "Let's stop here for a while until those two wake up. I guess I still don't know my own strength yet." as Sophitia giggled and returned to her normal self.
"He... hey Maxi... re.. .remind me not to complain a lot and acting like a child next t... time. I... I don't want to get on Sophitia's bad side and end up like those two."
"Y... You've said it. Re...remind me as well won't you? Your sister can really break a man down with her bare... hands." as the two whispered to each other with fear and nervousness.
By noon, the group arrived at the city of Zenith.
"Ah there she is people! The city that has everything you need known as Zenith. Mitsurugi, Siegfried and I will look around and try to look around the City."
"Okay then we will get us some rooms at the inn. Just meet us there okay?"
"Wait!" halted Siegfried. "Can't we go first to the clinic?" with their faces looking like a swarm of hornets stung them and their body that was still throbbing from the beating that they experienced courtesy of Sophitia.
"Yeah! I think our bodies can't take much more of this pain caused by that ruthless Spartan - Amazon." Sophitia then glared at the two, threatening to cause them more pain.
"...Uhm... did I said ru... ruthless amazon? I... I meant caring... sweet... peace loving Athenian." Mitsurugi looked like a person who's gonna loose it because of fear of more beating that will follow. Spartans were popularly known as vicious Greeks who always prevail in battle.
"Of... of... course! That is... if the lovely Sophitia won't mind." added Siegfried.
As the Athenian nodded with a smile, the two then grabbed Maxi and ran as quickly as they can to get as far away from Sophitia as possible.
"You know you shouldn't have been so hard on them. They were relatively harmless."
"Well I just wanted them that they see things my way. Come on Cassandra. Let's go and get our rooms."
"Do we still even have enough money to afford enough rooms for all of us?"
"When Mitsurugi and Siegfried were still unconscious, I noticed that hey still have a lot of money with them so I took a little from their pouch, just enough to get us the rooms of course." as Sophitia had a little smirk on her face.
"Oh Sis! You're so naughty."
"It would be our little secret so keep quiet okay?"
"Okay Sis."
When the sisters arrived at the inn, they meet with the keeper of the inn and asked for two rooms. "So Cassandra, you and I will be staying at this room and the three men will stay at the other one next door okay?"
"Alright then. Whatever you say Sis." as Cassandra let out a deep sigh in disappointment that was noticed by Sophitia.
"Why is there a problem?"
"N...no! Of course not!" as Cassandra's face blushed again.
"Are you sure?" as if Sophitia is squeezing Cassandra to tell the truth.
"Of course I am. Why wouldn't I be? It doesn't look like I want to spend time with any of them. Sheeh Sis!" as Cassandra went to the comfort room to hide her emotions. Sophitia then just smiled at the way her sister is acting. She knows about what her sister feels towards Siegfried.
(Actually I wanted to spend more time with him and get to know him better.) as Cassandra looked up the ceiling of the bathroom with a smile upon her face.
Meanwhile, Maxi dropped the two at the clinic so that he can already look for supplies and will just meet them back at the clinic.
"Ouch! Easy there Doc! Be a bit gentle next time."
"HAHAHAHA! That's what you get when you anger an Athenian Mitsurugi." as Siegfried doesn't seem to mind the treatment on him.
"Try putting yourself in my state. Lucky for you, the bruises on your body are quite few because of that you're armor you wear."
"Well I guess Lady Luck was on my side that time."
"Really? It seems to me that it is another lady that was on your side. Seeing Cassandra trying to reason with her sister for your own sake,well that's just great. Just leave the old samurai to feel the wrath of that Amazon." as Siegfried just seem to smile and stare at the window.
"Hey bro is Sophitia was always like that when you first met her?"
"I don't know. Back then I wasn't open to any other emotions except for hatred, denial and vengeance so I didn't get the chance to know her well. But the thing I know for sure about her is that she cares so much for her family and would do anything to keep them from danger."
"So she is like Taki then. She had already told me about that thing that they did a few years back."
"So that's the name of that other warrior with Sophitia back then. You know her? asked Siegfried.
"Yeah. She's special to me. We go way back along with Maxi and with his bride to be Setsuka. The four of us used to be the most skilled and loyal guardians for the emperor of our country. We have fought and won many battles to spread his influence among our land. But as he conquered one area at the time, he became mad with power and decided to kill everyone that did not obey what he wants. Even a village of farmers that cannot even fend for themselves. One day we were assigned to destroy a monastery just outside the border of our kingdom that refuses to pledge their allegiance to him. They don't want to get involved in any acts of war by the emperor and let their monastery serve as a fortress for the imperial army. But we refused. According to our sources, the population in that place are children in majority. Everyone of us does not have what it takes to kill a child. But the emperor threatened us to be dismissed in the ranks and executed for treachery if we do not obey. That's when he had enough and decided to end his madness once and for all. We then hatched a plan to assassinate the emperor. We waited for everyone in the palace to be asleep. The killing was silent and bloodless as we killed only the emperor by strangling him to death that night and no one else followed.. After the empire fell, we then decided to go to our separate ways. Maxi and I went to explore the world. Taki as you already knew went with Sophitia to destroy the Soul Edge. Now she is back in our homeland and is now the head master of the Fu - ma ninja clan where she learned everything she knew about her style in combat. But I swear I will come back for her someday and ask her hand in marriage. Finally Setsuka become one of the political advisers of the new emperor and she guides him always to make the right decision. So that's our story."
Siegfried remained silent and was astonished on what has Mitsurugi has already accomplished and the people he met throughout his life.
"Wow, and here I thought that you have started to have feelings for Sophitia. HAHAHAHA!"
"That trick won't work on me amateur!" as Siegfried became silent.
"Hey can I ask you something as well?" Didn't you admired Sophitia when you first met her? I mean I have to admit her beauty can be compared to a Goddess even though she's like that."
"To tell you honestly, I did. But as I've told you already, my main purpose back then was Soul Edge and my father and nothing else. But if my circumstances were different back then, I might have courted her. Now she is already married and happily living her life with her husband and children ." as Siegfried became a bit depressed.
"So you're just going to leave it like that? You're not going to try and win her back?"
"The last thing I want to do is to destroy a family living happily in peace. But there's something about her sister Cassandra that I just couldn't stop by feel happy about. Even when when I was with Sophitia, I didn't got the same feeling that I am feeling now with her sister. I don't know if it's her angelic beauty or her heart of gold to the people around her. She always tries to make everyone to feel good inside and..." before Siegfried finished what he is saying, he then put his palm on his face, noticing what he have done. "Oh crap!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! I knew it! I knew that my gut feeling was right about it. You do fancy Cassandra don't you?" as Mitsurugi continued to laugh at the mistake of the knight.
"Damn it Mitsurugi! Fine since there's no point in hiding it to you, then yes I do. But I still don't know what I truly feel for her. It could be that of it could be fear. Fear that she would hate me when she learned about who I was. Worse than that, she might try to kill me. As you know they were sent by their gods to destroy me and the sword for the sins that I have committed. Of course I cannot fight and hurt her if that would be the case. I just don't know what to do." Siegfried then buried his face into his hand .
"(Sigh). If you really have feelings for her then sooner or later you have to tell her the truth. The only thing you can hope for is that she can see right through you and will see the real you like I have." then Mitsurugi laid his hand on the shoulder of Sigfried. "Everything will turn out just fine. Trust me. Just do whatever it is that you feel inside."
"Thanks..."
After a while Maxi returned to the clinic.
"Hey guy's I'm back!"
"Yeah. We noticed Maxi. So got some information on Ostrheinsburg and Soul Edge?"
"Nah. People around here seem to haven't even heard of the place but I found a way to make us a little moolah. Mitsurugi you remember that last man standing thing back at the army don't you? Well they have a tournament later this night at the local bar. A 30 man battle royal to be exact.
"Ah... Finally something exciting to stretch out these arms of mine." as Mitsurugi stood up and started stretching out his arms.
"Hold your horses there Mitsurugi. You even haven't fully recover yet."
"Don't worry. These fools aren't as deadly as Sophitia even if they attack me or Maxi at the same time. Right?"
"Yeah. This is just kids' play for the both of us so don't worry too much Siegfried." Mitsurugi then turned to Siegfreid about to whisper something to him.
"Plus, you'll have the night all alone with Cassandra hehehe." Sigfried then shoved his face away. "Fine just get that prize money."
The two nodded. The three then went back to the inn to rest for a while and spend a little time and waited for the sun to set.
A/N: To respond to the review of COOL - STORY - BRO1993, I intended for Mitsurugi to be a bit nice. I made his character a bit mischievous and less serious. Just wanted him to be a bit different from his usual serious self. Anyway I still appreciate your reviews and hope that you will still continue on reading my story. The next chapter will be published shortly... Till then.