deep in the sea (I give you my heart) // jenlisa

Chapter 16: Happy (Bounty) Hunting

A/N: This is a double update. Go read chapter 15 if you haven't yet. Next will be up tomorrow, take care!

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The scratching of her quill on the paper was the only sound that echoed through Jennie's room. Lisa sat at her girlfriend's desk, cheeks still burning from her previous embarrassment of literally getting caught shirtless with Jennie.

Jisoo's reaction wasn't necessarily bad, but it defiantly wasn't what Lisa had hoped. She was obviously upset that her best friend managed to lie to her about such a major detail in her life for weeks. Lisa didn't mean to hurt her; she was just trying to respect Jennie's wishes to keep them a secret.

The guilt still weighed heavy on Lisa, though. She mentally made a note to find Jisoo once Jennie was done talking to this mysterious new captain. She wanted to apologize, and explain herself a little better; she appreciated Jennie standing up for her, but her aggression towards the topic made it so she very poorly explained their reasoning for such secrecy.

Biting her lip, Lisa tried her best to focus on her notes and thoughts about the letter Jennie had requested she read. Her girlfriend had only left about ten minutes ago, but Lisa longed to have her presents there to calm her anxiety about the current situation.

She wrote furiously, trying to get a rough draft of what Jennie could possibly reply with as quickly as possible. The only thing that made her pause was the sound of boots thundering up the steps just outside Jennie's door.

Lisa had about thirty seconds to stand and move around the desk, about to go investigate who was running up the stairs when suddenly the heavy double doors burst open.

Three men with their swords drawn stumbled into the room. The men and Lisa both froze in place, eyes wide as they processed what was going on.

A raid... Someone is raiding the castle!

Was all Lisa could think before her hand was on the sword at her side, drawing it in one fluid motion. Just as the tip of the saber left its scabbard, the first man lunged forward with a yell.

He swung at her left side, his blade curved almost into a 'C' shape. Lisa blocked the blow smoothly, but with the curve of the man's sword, hers skittered off of it instead of the steel biting together. Lisa only had a split second to suck her gut in, arching backwards as the sword sliced just where her gut had been.

The man's body twisted with the momentum of the missed swing, Lisa risking her balance to slash diagonally to the right. Her silver blade slashed through the man's back and shoulder, dark red liquid instantly spurting from the wound.

He screamed, twisting to clutch at the wound without thinking. Lisa gripped her sword's handle with both hands, reeling back before swinging it low like a baseball bat into the side of the man that was turned to her.

Lisa prided herself on her strength- she worked out nightly, doing fifty pushups before bed –but never had she been able to slash a man almost completely in half.

It must have been adrenaline or something.

Her sword stopped just past the man's spine, the crunching of his ribs and vertebra vibrating through the blade into her gripping hands.

Swiftly she pressed her captain's boot to the dead man and kicked him off her sword. She only had half a second to turn her attention to her new opponents. Lisa brought her saber up just in time to block the downward blow of the second man, parrying his attack before slashing at the third man that rushed her from her right.

Her blade slashed the third man's chest, his feet slipping on his friend's blood so that he crumpled into a ball at her feet. She didn't have time to stab down at him, already parrying another blow from the second man.