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Marshal Wallace ♊️
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"Koi" Greyson ♐️
Marshal
Breathe, bruh.
I keep my eyes away from everyone I pass.
I feel like everyone is lookin at me, judgin me.
Picking up speed brings me to my room as fast as I needed it to. I slide the door open, slip inside, and close the door behind me.
"Breath," I try to say.
I'm wheezing, gasping for air with my forehead pressed against the wood.
"Breath," nothing comes out.
When I close my eyes, how Sea helped me flashes through my brain.
"Breathe wit me friend," I can almost hear her voice as the memory helps me.
I raise my hands over my head. It opens my chest up.
"Breathe..." I finally get out.
I take in hella air and bang my fist on the door mad as shit.
I have nothing to say. Wait, I have so much to say... but I can't put it into words.
When I turn around; my body freezes.
If I thought Koi was trippin already, he really must be wildn more than I thought. I-
The feeling that was in my chest now rests uncomfortably in the bottom of my stomach as my eyes float from one end to the other.
"Red... with flowers..."
My sword... why is it here? Koi didn't order this did he? He said I had to beat Sea for it, right? What's going on?
There's a note on my bed beside it.
"Sea," I say what's written in cursive on it.
I'm- im confused.
The pile of chaos makes me weak. I kneel on both knees and pick the paper up. After opening the letter and reading her words, it takes a while for me to put everything together.
My shoulders slouch. Confusion stays in my gut right along with how scared I am.
"My sword... you left it- you left lotus just like that?" I ask myself.
Koi
"Why did you do that?" The dark parts of myself asks me.
I look at myself in the mirror, still shirtless... still wounded. Tears fall on they on.
"You know why I did it," I break.
I hold the sword I carried in the cafe with my left hand, then slide it open with both.
"Love," I read the words on it.
I feel his energy approaching and look down at my bare feet. The door to my weapon's room opens and closes with him inside. I harden up and dry my tears, then put my sword back on the hook it belongs on.
"We're going to see your mom soon," comes out real dry.
I think he should see her-
When I turn around my brows lift and my eyes widen.
"Sea left..." he grips his red weapon in one hand and a paper in the other.
He bites his lip while tears stay in his eyes.
"Sea left and I'm not giving my sword back," he says while taking some steps away from me.
My body goes still. Everything goes silent around me. I don't even realize that my breath gets stuck while my soul struggles to swallow what the hell he just said.
"I'm sorry," he bows and lays the paper on the floor in front of him.
I look down at it. When him and I make eye contact one tear falls from us both. He leaves me there and close the door behind him softly.
Marshal
I jump when I hear him yelling. I jump over and over again when I hear stuff hitting the wall and door.
Koi...
I turn around slowly and stare at the door while holding my blade real tight.
I don't know what to do.
I back away while keeping my eyes on the door. The same sounds keep leaving his weapons room. When my back hits somebody I jump again and turn back around with my blade behind my back.
"Grandmaster?" I ask.
More banging comes from where Koi is.
I wanna go in there. I wanna give up my blade now. Am I making dumb ass choices?
A breathy hiccup pushes from me. Grandmaster senses my worry and fear, then shocks me afterwords. He steps up to me and puts both of his old hands on my shoulders.
"My Marshal," he says; his tone and choice of words ground me.
I nod, unable to speak at the moment while the yelling and banging keeps on. My body jumps again from the noise getting louder. I try to turn around to potentially rectify this all, but Grandmaster keeps me still, facing him, with his hands still on my shoulders.
"Go to your washitsu Marshal. Take care of your blade. Leave my Koi alone..." he says.
Koi
Pick up, pick up.
"Ahh!" I slap the side of my head while listening to the ringing coming from my phone.
Sea!
I throw it across the room when she doesn't answer. My head hangs down with nothing but weapons, belts, tassels, and mess all around me...
I'm a mess inside.
"You're scaring your partner," Grandmaster's presence is revealed.
"I know," I keep my eyes on the floor, feeling rivers of fire circle inside.
Little does Marsh know... he's scaring me too.
My eyes connect with Grandmaster Awkanatwe's .
"You let Sea go..." I say with hella malice.
The guards would have caught her if you didn't let her go.
"I asked her what she wanted. I told her to do what she wanted-"
"Stop torturing me!" I tell him.
"I'm not torturing you. Don't allow yourself to be tortured," his words pull at my skin.
I stand.
"Leave," I tell him.
He bows to me. I don't bow back. My actions seem to make him soften up for a moment before his eyes get sharper... before his energy gets heavier and stronger than mine.
"Be careful now... you wouldn't want to figuratively or literally open those stitched wounds you have," he says.
