Wandering Warrior

Round 6

    She couldn't hear her trees crying anymore, they had gone silent long ago. She'd lost her sanity once or twice when she'd been surrounded by the bodies of her family and friends. The humans hadn't seen her, on her knees, covered in mud, clutching dead plants to her chest amidst the destruction that had been wrought on her forest. She'd been staring wide-eyed at nothing.

    They had walked right through her. Had seen right through her.

    She'd fled but the humans had followed, killing everything around them as they rearranged her forest to their liking. They used her friends to build homes of sticks and stones until all that was left was her old, oak tree.

    This was it for her now. She'd been reduced to an area the size of a pebble, her domain was all but obliterated. Her strength was all but gone, the little she'd used to lure Ryu to her had been taxing. That he had returned like he promised had been worth the effort. To see him one last time.

    She had smiled as he spoke of protecting her, saving her. He wanted to bring her home. His home. He didn't try to hide the love in his eyes as he spoke those beautiful words. She had never been loved by a human, nor had she loved one in return. It was then as he gathered her close to his heart that she decided she would bless him with one last gift.

    He was gentle with her as he pressed his mouth to hers. So gentle. His fingers were trembling and touching her as though she were made of glass. She tried to help him undress as she reached for his thick waist, her fingers working the knot of his black belt.

    His big hands joined hers and he was swift in undoing the knot. She was able to pull his belt away at the same time that he removed his top. They both reached for his pants at the same time and he pulled them down to his knees exposing his already engorged penis.

    The blood rushed to his face and he had to clench his eyes closed for a moment. His chest expanded as he took a deep breath. She'd begun gathering her powers around her, everything that she had left she brought forward. They had both begun glowing in a fluorescent blue hue that when he opened his eyes, he gasped in surprise.

    She pushed a finger to his lips, shushing him before he spoke. Big drops of water dripped from her eyes as she leaned forward and put her mouth to his. "I thought I told you to make love to me..." she whispered against his mouth, tiny blue petals appeared around them, dancing in the non-existent wind.

    He shifted his eyes from hers to look around them at the dancing, floating petals. His lips parted slightly and he glanced around in both awe and trepidation. His eyes returned to hers. She knew he was going to speak, ask questions she did not want to answer, and so she moved quickly.

    She climbed up his body and wrapped her legs about his waist and her arms around his neck. She was already wet for him so it as easy to ease herself onto his shaft without using her hands. He grunted and his body tensed. His big palms grabbed her ass, one cheek in each hand and clenched. She moaned as he pushed her onto him, grinding against her, using his pelvic bone to push against her clitoris.

    "I l-love you," he stammered, his breath hitching, his body breaking out in perspiration. She weighed almost nothing atop of him. He trembled as she moaned in pleasure.

    She arched back against his arms, her hands on his shoulders. She closed her eyes and released her power at the same time as she started bouncing on him. He grunted again, his heart was pounding to a tattoo that she could feel. She loved him too.

    "Kaze!" Her name was spoken like a prayer as the blue light intensified between them. Her hands began giving off that same light that surrounded them.

    "Ryu," she whispered his name on a sigh. His muscles locked, he made a gargling sound and she smiled a brilliant smile when he suddenly burst into the same blue flames as before. She had been expecting that, counting on it.

    She increased her movements, clenching her pussy, milking him for what he was worth, trying to force his flames to erupt like before, engulfing them both. It was crucial. She did not have much time, not anymore.

    He groaned as he buried his face in her neck, his arms tightening, his fingers clenching. His fire finally exploded and surrounded them both. She used the rest of her magic and screamed. He screamed too.

    Lightning suddenly exploded around them, from a clear sky. Striking the giant oak that had stood guard over her forest for millennia, the ground encompassing them and finally them. Ryu was blinded, deafened and burned, yet he could not move, did not move.

    The body of Kaze vanished in his hands, reduced to just a bright blue light. With his eyes closed, he did not see the light shimmer and disappear over his skin as it touched him. He did not see his hands exploding with blue white energy until he'd jumped to his feet.

    His eyes turned white and he was surrounded with the dancing petals. His muscles locked and without being able to control himself Ryu took a step forward, stomping his feet into an unfamiliar battle stance. His hands waved into a circle, one arm high the other low. Blue light exploded from between his fingers as he formed them as though he were holding a sphere, his torso was slightly turned to the side. He did not control his voice, and found himself screaming a word he had never heard before just as a ball of blue energy exploded from his hands as he punched them forward, connected at the wrist with fingers splayed. "Hadoken!"

    The old oak that was split from the lightning strike took the ball of blue fire that appeared from his palms and vanished as though it had never been, leaving nothing but a husk of a trunk, the rest disintegrating before Ryu's very wide eyes.

    His mouth hung open in surprise and shock as he stared, horrified, at what remained of the tree that had been her life force. He dropped to his knees, his pants had fallen off him when he'd jumped to his feet.

    "Ka...ze..." His voice broke.

    The flames surrounding him died, the petals vanished as they touched his skin, turning to ash that fluttered in the gentle breeze. He gazed about him in shock, his big body trembling and not because of the cold.

    "I love you Ryu..." the wind whispered, swirling around him, twigs and leaves circled him in a very unnatural pattern before falling to the ground, dropping around the naked warrior like a puppet whose strings had been cut, the magic gone.

    He was alone.

    His breathing was laboured. His eyes filled with unshed tears. There was a burning heat in his chest where his heart was. His hands clenched uncontrollably, and briefly he saw the outline of blue fire along his fists. Adrenaline pumped through his veins, his heart was slamming against his ribs.

    And then a calm. His pulse eased, his breathing relaxed.

    The flames brightened around his hands and his heart soothed. Visions of Kaze as she had been two years ago flutter across his mind. The brief amount of time they had spent together in sharp focus. He gasped.

    The wind danced around him, fluttering his hair and the tails of his headband. He closed his eyes, the water leaving twin trails of tears on his rugged cheeks. He raised his face to the wind, letting the breeze dance over he skin. His breathing slowed and he arranged himself so that he sat cross-legged on the ground, his blue-flamed fists on his knees. That he was still naked mattered for naught.

    He focused on her. Breathing in and exhaling in a controlled manner. His memories of her was mixed with her own memories. He had never seen her dance, but he had the memory. She twirled on one leg, the other leg extended. The leaves spun about as she laughed, her smile wide and mischivieous. He recognized her movement as his own. And then he understood everything, and he sobbed one brief cry.

    Ryu knew what she had done. She'd given herself to him. Had let him consume her. His yokai... she was one with him. Her memories his own.

    The Hadoken was her last gift.

    The last of her power.