Touch the Sky

What You Want (Chapter 2)

"Alright men....and woman, listen up!" Bankotsu says as they turn a bend. "This is it, so don't fail!"

"Come on, I'd never lose in a real battle!" Jakotsu retorts.

"Well, you'd better not," Bankotsu hops down from the tank and runs off ahead.

Melody isn't sure what she's going to do during a vengeance battle amongst blood-thirsty mercenaries.

She had no weapons, not even a knife.

Ginkotsu, she finally learned the name of the tank man, makes it to the castle and the battle begins.

Melody faces off with a soldier and jumps behind him, wrapping her right arm around his neck and snapping it.

She takes his dagger from his body and smooths her chocolate-brown hair back from her forehead.

Luckily, she wore it rather short, just above her shoulders so that it wouldn't get in her way.

Melody looks and goes around a corner, running into another soldier.

"And here's a little girl, in way over her head," he says arrogantly.

She scoffs and smirks, "Come get me."

He lunges and she jumps back away from him.

Part of her felt she should feel guilty for murdering these men, but she couldn't help but enjoy overpowering them.

Melody blocks his weapon and shoves her knife up into his stomach, slicing it through his ribcage and gutting him like a deer.

Blood stained her face and clothes and she wipes the sweat from her brow.

Jakotsu walks over and glances down at the body, nodding in approval.

"Well, that's it for now," Renkotsu says when there're no more soldiers to kill.

"Yeah," Jakotsu sighs. He turns at the sound of horses approaching, "Ooh! It just got fun again!"

"Heh, I guess it's time for round two," Suikotsu concurs. He elbows Melody, "You ready?"

She's about to respond when she turns to see Bankotsu walk over, carrying a giant halberd with one hand.

"You three, step aside!" he says in a cocky tone.

"Whoa-ho, you got your companion back!" Jakotsu proclaims.

"Yep, and it's time to test it out," Bankotsu muses.

Melody can't help but stare at how large his weapon was.

He sees her gazing and smirks, giving her a wink.

A man in a mask on the back of a black horse, rides up with about forty soldiers in tow.

"You there, what happened to our lord?" he asks.

"One thousand," Bankotsu replies casually.

"What?" the man's getting mad.

"Our heads were chopped off if you recall," Bankotsu continues. "So I returned the favour."

"A curse on you!" the man points his staff at him.

He goes to stab him, but Bankotsu jumps up in the air, propelling his halberd in his fingers and coming down, slicing him to shreds.

Melody should probably have felt some sort of terror and fear towards him, but she didn't. What she felt was aroused.