Kingdom Hearts: Army Of The Roses

Horrid Divination?

A horrid churn stirred the air; a weight weighed heavily on his bones, tire, exhaustion, and brittle slowly began to seep into his flesh: he could not hold for long.

Rising from the acre of smoke — driven by the scent of blood — a Wyvern arose from the ash. Winding up a spire, the ink-hued dragon took his perch atop a castle tower. Lying to the dirt below: fallen allies, each stood not a chance to fight the warrior before their door.

His cadmium eye rose to the sky to catch the invulnerable man leaping from the mystic ward. Ready to cleave Ashai's head clean from his flesh were his shields. Thankfully...

Like a thunderous whip, his tail struck the warrior from the air. With a wicked crack the knight was sent to the dome of the world. Soon after, on wings of embodied Lust, Ashai drove his skull forth! Ramming the human-fleshed man between the mystic cage and the rage of a dragon. Dragging the mortal, grinding him against the ward, Ashai sent him fleeing across the sky and cratering into the ground.

Landing, the Wyvern approached the prey.

"Hofiba! Fool, mortal flesh stands no chance against me!" Stampeding on, the battle ensued. However tricky it was for one another: Ashai's immense strength balanced across the ample to break the armor of the fortified fighter. However, the time it would take for the victory? It... Was not in his limited favor.

Both heavy, battered, and bloodied; stood atop crippling exhaustion.

"I... Nis... Allow you to beat me! To wait... To trap!..." His fears of this one's woven snare for the parted-party's return would have to wait. For the Knight himself was impatient, and tired just the same.

"Shut it, beast!!" The Wyvern could not let his defeat come: he could not let his Itov to return just to be ensnared.

Leaping forth, the two met: driving his shield into the dragon's maw, he trapped himself right where he wanted to be held. As for the other: chippings of teeth fell into Ashai's gullet while he took off, with his mighty wings bringing the two higher and higher, he clamped his jaws around the man and his imperfect armor. Gripping so terribly; as the armor began to crack itself, he skidded and slammed his head into the ward. A chilling snap found the wind.

The Wyvern began his plummet from the sky. Shaking the earth beneath as he crashed. The suit rolling from the beast's maw, unmoving and limp. Ashai, however, still drew breath... His hearts though... As one dripped its cries of pain across his scales, the other too began its last breaths: murmuring in his chest, the suffering overwhelmed him. The blood of the Wyvern was simply too much for his flesh to bare any longer.

Stirring awake, he cried out in agony as he crawled. The whines so sharp to shatter glass at its touch.

"Itov!!" He wailed out, no longer feeling one of his vitals.

"Ito~ov!!" He roared before he collapsed, unable to withstand any longer. He slowly, whimpering away, curled into himself. Tears pouring into his scales, glossing his eyes in a haze.

'Itov...' He tried to cry but had no strength to speak.

Finally, as his last heart took its last breath... Ashai lied as still as stone...

Unmoving...

dead...

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Eyes parting, Ashai sat himself up.

False visions... Of a dream?

He looked down to his side, Katsuo, his 'Itov', lay so still near. Asleep.

Couldn't be... A nightmare?

He took a reassuring breath. Lying back down, the slumbering man was quick to turn and cuddle Ashai's side.

Or perhaps... A premonition?