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Okay, let's continue this story.
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The weather was suspiciously nice when the group started the journey. The cloud appeared lazily while the sun shine cheerfully. Rei sighed to this world, look so much nicer when her situation almost in a pinch.
It's like they are supporting me to the trial... Rei spaced out in her own world again.
"It's a waste if you don't look the scenery of Valykrie right now." Haruka steadily kept up her horse with Rei's.
"Yea, they are beautiful." Rei nodded, considering she could only watch the scenery of skycrapers in Tokyo. The nature in here was better though the growth of trees relatively slower than the quantities of gold and silver. In Valykrie, gold is the cheap commodity and wood is more pricey to get.
"We will take a break here." Setsuna informed the rest of group. They already walked half day and now the sun was starting to set. The palce they are in now was not bad and have good spot to sheltered for a night.
"Okay," Haruka nodded and pulled away, she went to relied the message to others behind.
"Rei, I will divide the task to you. Mako and Ami will go preparing tents for camp, Haruka and Michi will take care the first round of watch... you and the commander search for woods to bonfire." Setsuna looked away and pretended not notice the frown in Rei's expression. Rei prefer not to pair up with the commander at least in this journey. Confused with her unsettled feeling, she got down and search for the blonde.
"Let's go." Mina said before Rei explained about their task for tonight.
"It's Setsuna's favorite putting up the woods task with me."
Rei followed the commander's step into the woods. She again, walked behind her, putting some distance.
"Do you remember this place?" Minako asked while cutting some branches out their way.
"This is the place we found you." The commander didn't expect answers from the ravenhaired girl.
"I don't know who I am anymore." Rei finally spoke up. She cofused between two identities and dimensions. She is Rei but which Rei? The one that used to being a senshi or the one who subtitute another for a messiah job?
"Who you want to be then?" Minako asked simply. "Where you want to stay, Rei?" She stopped on her track and turned to Rei.
"You unable to live in 2 dimensions at the same time." Minako blurted out.
"How do you know?"
"Sets told me."
"Anything else?"
"Just that, so please tell me. Where do you want to stay?" Minako seriously asking. Her hand silently clenched the sword to expect obvious answer.
"I... I don't belong here." Rei answered, shrugged from the commander's gaze.
"You want to get back?"
"Of course I did want to get back." Rei let out a breath and looked into the blonde commander.
"I wanted to go back desperately... But I just can not leave this place... and you. Known that I am the only hope for this dimension and known that the burden is too heavy to let go... I can not just escape from all of this, you know?" Rei admitted.
I don't want to leave you. Do you want me to leave? Of course, she wants me to leave, I resemble so much to that person. She can't bear it and wish me dissapear.
"What do you mean you can not leave me?" The commander's focus was distracted since Rei said the part.
"I don't know. I just feel it at the moment." Rei again, shrugged. She wanted to retreat from the conversation.
"Let's search some woods and go back." Rei walked away past Mina. Rei never noticed the blush on commander's face hidden in some layers of skin and blonde hairs. Rei never noticed the speed of beating of commander's heart that accelerated and almost explode in her chest. Rei never noticed, and Minako decided to keep it that way.
"Are you coming, commander?"
"Yes, in a minute."
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Rei couldn't remember how they can end up like this. The last thing she remembered was sleeping in her tent with the others.
"Rei! Duck!" Haruka shouted from a far, Rei quickly duck and Haruka's sword was flying above her. The sword stopped on the shadow's chest while the thing disappeared.
"That was close." Rei murmured thank you to Haruka and examining the situation they were into.
Makoto and Ami were fighting on her left, both of them using their element to defeat the shadows. Rei recalled her last lesson with Setsuna.
"The shadows are one kind of many kinds from black clan creature. They operated mostly on night, consuming valykrian soul. The more powerful the person, more eager they come to eat him or her. These things are the second most dangerous creature ever exists in Valykrie."
"What is the first?" asked curious Rei.
"…" Setsuna only smiled and swung away the topic.
Rei dodged to the right, her eyes caught the figure of blonde commander. She took out her chain and sword, even in the darkest night, she shining so brightly in Rei's eyes.
Rei finally took out her sword, she initially wanted to fight without any weapon. However, these things were very dangerous. Rei went to the commander side and fighting alongside with her.
"What are you doing?" Mina turned to Rei while her chain trapped one shadow and destroyed it in seconds. The commander was very strong.
"Fighting with you? Protect the queen?" Rei slashed a creature before her.
"You should go with queen and Setsuna instead!" Minako's voice exploded, she was cursing over the creatures and kicked them away.
"I will fight." Rei answered stubbornly. There is something in those creatures that seem off. Rei jumped easily and landed far across the commander. The creatures tuned at her and made a new troupe toward Rei.
"Impossible are they smart like this…" Rei knew she was their target.
"Rei! What the hell are you thinking!" Minako screamed and horrified figuring what was Rei thinking.
"I know what I am doing!" Rei replied. This can be an exercise for her.
"No you are not! They are targeting you!" The commander said back with fury, she threw her chains around and destroying three at once.
Rei took a deep breath, she stepped back making distance between her and the creatures.
She has been practicing her element for three months.
She knows what she is doing.
From Rei's palm, a little fire sparked, then became lit of fire.
"Okay, I can do this." Rei smiled and move along the other hand. The right hand formed a pattern like fire, and Rei's left hand now holding a huge bow from fire.
"I love archery more than sword though." Rei took aim for the center of shadow's troupe.
"May you turn to ashes…" with that, Rei released her 5 fire arrows at once.
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"That was a huge firework…" Haruka said while her hands holding Michiru into hug, covering the aquanette from the big flash before them.
"Is that Rei's doing?" Ami asked to Makoto, her brain has calculated about the mass destruction in Rei's element.
The shadows were gone. All of them disappeared and the rest were running away. Minako stood in the same spot for few minutes. She never expected the blows Rei made. It was bigger than that time in the palace. The shadows, the second strongest creature from black clan were defeated easily by her.
"Rei…" Minako couldn't find her own voice and resulting only a soft whisper instead.
"I know what I am doing. You still want to scold me, commander?" Rei appeared from behind the tree. She took cover after releasing the arrows. Though not fast enough. There are some scratch on her arm and leg also a deep gash around her shoulder. Next time she should learn to never hurt from her own power.
"… I never know you will reach this stage of power." Setsuna appeared from nowhere. After put the queen to some safe place, she joined the fight.
"That was awesome, Rei!" Haruka ran along approach them with Ami and the rest.
"You almost like her! If the situation like this…no doubt, her sword will accept you as its master." Ami said happily.
Rei only looking at the blonde commander who, hadn't talking to her.
Feeling Rei was staring at her, Mina avoided the gaze and turned around. She left the group alone excusing to meet the queen.
"Commander was sulking again?" Haruka sighed in defeat. Michiru shook her head hearing Haruka's comment.
"Give her some time alone. The situation just like that time, Ruka…" Michiru gestured to her girlfriend. Michiru's eyes caught Rei's, she signaled the raven haired girl to go to their commander.
"Or, she could be with someone who is root of the problem." Makoto coldly added, watching Rei left to search Mina.
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"Commander." Rei found the blonde commander sitting under the tree. From a far, Rei was reluctant to approach the commander. She looked vulnerable and sad, like a defeated warrior from war.
"Do not… apologize." Mina said, knowing Rei only few yards from her.
"Okay." Rei just stood awkwardly at the spot.
10 minutes and no one break the silence.
"I hate this." Mina finally said something, Rei frowned. At least the blonde did not hate her.
"Why every time it always had to be you? The prophecy? The sword trial? The shadows? WHY IT HAD TO BE YOU? Could you be a normal girl that never burdened by this world itself?" Minako looked at Rei, demanded an answer. But Rei did not have any. The questions used to be hers and now, Minako asking the same things.
"I don't know either." Rei shrugged her shoulder and winced. She just realized her shoulder injured and now disturbing her movement.
"You should let us take care of those creatures," Mina's expression softened and revived from her spot.
"But they are too many, and Setsuna once told me that those creatures were very dangerous." Rei replied ignorantly.
"Okay… Let me check your shoulder." Minako carefully touch Rei's wound putting a slight touch to the raven haired girl's, Mina whispered.
"I hate seeing you hurt."
Rei opened her mouth, but unable to find a word to respond.
"I don't want you to die, Rei." Minako didn't care a thing about the wall. The wall she built to resist Rei's existence in her heart that has been growing bigger and bigger took over her heart.
The blonde commander embraced Rei passionately, and claimed Rei's lips with deep kiss accompany with salty tears.
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Okay.. that was looooonnnggg… I never expected this would turn out this long. Anyway I unable to update this story for next two weeks. Hope you satisfied with this piece. Hahahahahaha… please leave me some reviews guys, so I will know you like this or not.
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