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Streets of the Capital
The Styx had made it past the waterfall and docked in the Flower Capital. Usually bustling, the dock had no life. It made their entry quite easy, able to avoid immediate detection. Upon arrival, Zalera changed the sails to a merchant ship to cloak their identity. Thankfully, a decaying ship looking like death fit in the drought.
The Grim led the way through the streets of the Capital, her cloak ever hiding the madness within. The streets were desolate and in peril. The rumored drought was real, even in the Capital. Wano was in shambles. The ever-strategist, Zalera, kept an eye out for a clothing shop they could raid for outfits to fit in, or someone they could steal clothes from.
The only living was a young girl unconscious in the middle of the street. La Spada would stop the group and turn, her mischievous grin growing. Suddenly, she disappeared, appearing right behind Akira. La Spada’s skeleton head over Akira’s shoulder and now looking past his shoulder towards the girl, La Spada whispered to the Shadow with her thick morbid tone.
With those words, the Grim took to the middle of the street. She bent in front of the girl and grabbed her by the crest of her back. La Spada’s boney fingers opened the girls mouth. There was a gentle green light illuminating her finger. Ice formed. As quick as it formed, a spark of fire, Fiero, melted the ice between the Grim’s fingers. This turned the ice to water that fell into the girl’s mouth.
Would she wake? If she knew what waited for her, would she want to?
The Styx had made it past the waterfall and docked in the Flower Capital. Usually bustling, the dock had no life. It made their entry quite easy, able to avoid immediate detection. Upon arrival, Zalera changed the sails to a merchant ship to cloak their identity. Thankfully, a decaying ship looking like death fit in the drought.
The Grim led the way through the streets of the Capital, her cloak ever hiding the madness within. The streets were desolate and in peril. The rumored drought was real, even in the Capital. Wano was in shambles. The ever-strategist, Zalera, kept an eye out for a clothing shop they could raid for outfits to fit in, or someone they could steal clothes from.
The only living was a young girl unconscious in the middle of the street. La Spada would stop the group and turn, her mischievous grin growing. Suddenly, she disappeared, appearing right behind Akira. La Spada’s skeleton head over Akira’s shoulder and now looking past his shoulder towards the girl, La Spada whispered to the Shadow with her thick morbid tone.
[La Spada] “Tha’ sight brings back memoriahs’. Tha’ time yah’ were helpless and clung to lifeah’. Do you remember when I devoured your parents souls? Yah’ were too weak to save them. Too pathetic to even die. Instead, yah’ clung to life and asked me to spareah’ yah’ life... Yah’ asked the one who took your light, Shadow. Do yah’ remember?”
[La Spada] “How delightful that was! Kuhahahahaha...”
La Spada devilishly brought Akira back to all those years ago. Hoping he would see himself in the helpless girl and his pain would rush back in memories. And La Spada’s eyes... enjoying the torture.[La Spada] “Of course, you are far from helpless now... A far cry from tha’ pathetic boy who took Myōhō Muramasa and slayed your fellow villagers in your quest to survive like a rat! Quite inspiring, truly. Your skills now even rival mah’ own... but you lack HATE.”
[La Spada] “Let me show you. I think I’ll play with her a bit. Kuahahahah!”
With those words, the Grim took to the middle of the street. She bent in front of the girl and grabbed her by the crest of her back. La Spada’s boney fingers opened the girls mouth. There was a gentle green light illuminating her finger. Ice formed. As quick as it formed, a spark of fire, Fiero, melted the ice between the Grim’s fingers. This turned the ice to water that fell into the girl’s mouth.
Would she wake? If she knew what waited for her, would she want to?
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