Fire and Ice

Pointing Fingers

~Nashi's continued~

The voices outside became louder, groups storming past the door.

"Open the doors!" A muffled women voice said from the other side of the wood entry.

The door handle jingle open with the sound of clattering keys.

A faint image of Wendy and three or four men came into the quiet empty room in a ruckus.

"Untie their feet and bring them here! They will be going to the gallos tonight!" She demanded.

We are going to the gallos tonight? Why did she change it to now? I though it was suppose to be tomorrow.

The men that were with her moved over to us and roughly cut the ropes on our ankles, harshly yanking us up to stand.

My legs were weak as we were escorted out of the room. Knifes held against our backs to make sure we didn't try anything.
But I wasn't planning too.
I wasn't going to try to do anything.

Wendy stormed forward in my view. Two men gripping to me, leading me forwards.
Lady Juvia was in the same condition, advancing at my side. She was crying heavy, silent tears. The only thing I could hear from her was the occasional sniffle.

"Wendy!" The queen called out.

Wendy swiftly turned around, rage and sorrow in her eyes.
"If your going to plead for your life, save your breath!" She roared.

"Wendy, stop! What is this going to do? If you do kill us, what will you do next? This won't make you feel better about Romeo's passing." called out Lady Juvia.

The bluette turned away from the queen, not moving forward.

"This has to be done." She mumbled.

"Wha-. . . why?" Juvia demanded, tears still marking her cheeks.

"Because she stole my future!!" Wendy cried pointing to me.
"She stole it from me! My future! I was going to be a married women, married to a man. . . that loved me. And I loved him. We were going to live happily ever after. Together, we could have had chi-"

She stopped there, not continuing to speak. All she did was stiffly stand there weeping.
Everyone went silent, only watching.

This definitely was my fault.

"I-if you. . ." Wendy began, pointing to me once again, finger shaking. "steal m-my future, I'll. . . steal yours."

~Storm's POV~

"Ack!" Reiki cried out after a few minutes for panting and silence.

"Reiki, what's wrong?" Nova asked rushing over to him.

My friend Reiki was using the building to hold himself up. Red stained that wall.

He must have got hit back there.

"Sit down, Reiki, let me look at it." Nova hummed softly, helping our red haired friend to the ground.

I moved over to so I could see what happened.
Turns out that during our last push to the door, Reiki's leg got snagged by a weapon of some kind.

Telling from the wound, it looked like it was caused by a knife. The cut was open about two inches and was bleeding profusely.

Reiki did not look happy or comfortable at all.
With face clenched and lungs wheezing, Reiki held to his injured leg in anger.

Nova took off her belt and looped it around Reiki's leg to slow the bleeding. Then wrapped her jacket around the cut itself.

"This looks to bad. We need help. At the bare minimum, Reiki would have to stay here." Our blonde hero murmured in a very serious tone.

"B-but. . . I have to go on. I have to help S-storm. . . get his loved ones. . . back." Reiki huffed weakly, face getting more and more paler.

"Storm." Nova said sternly.

"Yes?" I said looking into her strong yet worried eyes.

"I'll stay here and tend to Reiki. You go and save Nashi."

I didn't say anything regarding her comment. I looked away from her eyes at turned my gaze to  my injured friend.

Reiki lightly smiled and nodded his head.

"Go Storm, I'll watch over Nova for you." He chirped with a smirk.

"Yeah yeah, whatever." Nova said rolling her eyes and Turing her attention back to me.

Good old Reiki, always there to lighten the mood.

I nodded hard with confidence.

"Thank you."