The Adrift Oath

Chapter IV: Celestial Partner.

"I'm fine... I'm fine" Fae muttered, wiping the blood that came out of her mouth with her forearm, accepting the hand Yulia gave her for support as she slowly crouched down

"You destroyed it..." Yulia whispered in confusion with her eyes snapped open, conflicted at the scene that just appeared while Fae raised an eyebrow to look at the gem pieces all around her scattered on the ground, wincing at the slowly parting away headache that she was enduring

"Guess I did" Too busy making sure she's not a soon to be corpse, Fae took a deep breath in, giving up on fighting the exhaustion she felt as she sat down on the ground back against the pedestal while her hand went on to bring her pack of cigarettes shaking it once to bring the tip of one out of the packet for her lips to take

Yulia, raising an eyebrow saw fire come out of the object that Fae had in her arms to light the cigarette between her lips, and after pushing the smoke down her lungs she let out the smoke with a relieving exhale

The spirit was still there, weeping and crying on all fours over the blade on the ground

Even after fighting with her to almost the death Fae couldn't help but feel some sort of empathy towards the distraught woman

One thing however caught her eye, the previously linked to the gem string of energy, was now going right towards her, and before she realized it, Yulia did too

"Fae, what..." Both her and Yulia locked eyes that were filled with confusion and surprise

"What did you do?" She added on as the former only scoffed, taking another puff of her cigarette before pushing it down her lungs

"I have no idea" She answered, letting out the smoke as she got herself up on the ground to slowly approach the spirit with caution

"I wish to fight you... no more..." The spirit muttered between her shivering intakes of air, her bangs covering her eyes that were looking down at the broken blade

"I'm glad to hear that" Fae said with a slightly cocked head, knees slightly bent to be ready to pounce away from harm's way which she hoped dearly wouldn't come again

"Fae..." Yulia, behind her tried to dissuade her from getting close to the proven dangerous spirit, Fae looked over her shoulder for a second and at Yulia's worried face before giving her a slow nod

"Can you, see this?" She asked the spirit, who slowly raised her head to reveal tears going down her eyes, the eyes that snapped open with an open mouth as she noticed the link of energy between her and Fae

And then all of a second she disappeared, leaving Yulia to grab the handle of her sheathed sword

Her eyes widening as she saw Fae's body get embraced in a blue silhouette, the latter raised her hands to see that same blue silhouette around them before seeing the spirit walk out of her

"I'm not linked to this place anymore..." She then slowly turned to face Fae with eyes open in shock

"Please..." Falling to one knee, she looked down on the ground as she put one fist on that same stone floor to kneel down in front of her new

"Take me with you, help me get my revenge and I swear on my honour-" Cutting her own words, she pursed her lips for a second before looking up at Fae with her bright blue eyes

"No, I swear on my pride that my soul and blade will be eternally yours" putting a fist on her chest armor she finished talking

"Whatever it is that you want, I'll fight for it no matter what!" With the expression of determination the phantom begged Fae for help, only for her to stutter on her words as her eyes looked at her