Teen Yojimbo sighed, once again. The lump of his forehead still hurt. This crazy legless girl, surely knew how to throw pebbles.
They were in a cozy room, simple but spacey and warm. The paper walls depicted Queen Nagaishi fend off a primodoral monstorsities and predatotr kings.
Lanterns with
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The girl stared without any expriession at the lanterns. She hasn't ate nor slept for days. Maybe she seen over and over the blood and flash rain in which she apeared in this realm.
Yojimbo himself were shaken.
He didn't knew what to do. This girl was a broken doll, with a sentient entity inside.
Yojimbo KNEW this. When he reached for her, even as she bled to death she growled and fought like a beast. This rage and pain, could come only from a broken sentient mind.
Yojimbo was helpless. Ever since he cleaned the little girl, and put her in this room she stopped moving and reacting to anything.
He didn't knew the girl. She was from the alien specie, that sometimes, summoned his kind, but he felt obliged to be by her side. Yojimbo felt strange sense of respect to this legless girl.
But she looked paler and paler, and she will probably waste away soon enough.
And then he heard humming, getting nearer and nearer.
Yojimbo already bowed deeply.
In white mist a beautiful woman has entered the room.
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"Your highness... Nagaishi-Dono...' The young rabbit Samurai mumbled with awe.
"Rise up, Yojimbo-Chan.' The queen said with a sweet voice of honey collected under the moonshine.
"Your Master say, that you are negleting your trainings for a 3 days. It's because of this human. Isn't it?' She has asked, her left paw opened up, exposing set of tiny claws. Fools wouldn't think much of it. But Yojimbo knew, those claws tore rock and metal as easilly as it tore paper. He was worried.
"Yes. She is very hurt. I barely have stopped the bleeding. She hasn't moved. I can't just... leave her like this.' Yojimbo said with folded ears.
'Do you think we are a monastic order? That charity is one of our sacred duties?' Nagaishi has asked, and hopped silent as blank dreams toward the broken shell of the girl, almost floating.
Yojimbo felt his heart sink down.
"We aren't anything more then tools for the humans. There is no reason for us, to treat them diffrently. And this tool is broken and wasting your time.' She explained as if, answering to his rebelliouse thoughts.
Nagaishi, raised her paw to slash the girl, who didn't seemed to even notice her.
"NO!' Yojimbo jumped and drawn his sword in defensive stance between his queen and the alien child.
Nagaishu stopped, tilting her head, with a dangerouse smile.
"No? How... intresting.' She placed her paw over his heart. "You still fear and respect me, and yet resist me. What give you such a courage?'
Yojimbo shook. "...I just feel this isn't fair. She IS a fighter. She lived through hell. She can be a great warrior!"
Nagaishu smiled. "How curiouse. Let's see.' She summoned from the mist a harp. "I'll heal her mind."
"I thought you.. aren't doing chairty.' Yojimbo panted.
"I am not. This is an investment. It will be up to her, if to succumb to numbness, or to live and fight."
*****
[Little Girl's mindscape]
Little girl sat and sobbed. Rain of blood kept raining, and she was all soaked in blood. This blood was her father, mother, siblings and herself.
And she was the cause of this rain.
Blood. Flash. This is what remained of everyone.
And then.... she has heard this beautiful music. And a pretty bunny in blue robes has appeared.
The rain stopped all of the sudden.
The little girl has raised her eyes. "Ah. Well, you haven't lost ALL of your sanity. Good." The pretty bunny said with a smile, which the girl interperted as friendly.
The girl didn't answered staring.
"Well... here are your options.' A black hole apeared behind the girl.
It was an endless pit, but seemed... comftroable. Clean. The girl was so tired.
"You can let go. This is the pit bliss. You won't be you, anymore. You already have thrown to there so much of yourself, you should stop tear yourself and simply jump into there. You will forget everything, and won't be you. No more blood rain. What do you say?'
The girl looked back. It seems, that there, her family were happy. They even called her name happily, all while the lullaby in the background clearing this hellish mindscape.
The girl, started crawling there, sending hand to the reaching hands of her loved ones.
She stopped all of the sudden. "What the other option?'
The pretty bunny smiled, and gestured toward a battle scene. Unending battle scene, with bloody weapons everyhwere. "To remain torn, and go for unending battle. You will probably will never be at peace. And you will serve ME."
It seemed so hard and impossible. There were no compassion. Only unending struggle. Behind her family offered an unending comfort with them. They called again and again her old name with love and care.
She started to turn back
But for a moment took a look into the pretty bunny's white eyes.
They were
mocking her. She could read them. "Come on, little girl. Dissapear."
And as she thought that, the
pale eyed man apeared in the zone of the unending struggle. "You already half dead. You are ugly. Die already." He said softly.
"#$%# please don't!" Her mother begged.
A spear has apeared in the girl's hand, and she
flew forward, letting her past succumb into obivlion.
She stabbed the pale man, and blood again showered her. But now, it felt
good.
"You are just little helpless girl! You can't do that!" The pale eyed man said with a statisfying horror.
"I can do anything! I never helpless!" And the little girl murdered him over and over with new weapon each time.
The pretty bunny has tilted her head with an amused grin. "So, Yojimbo-Chan's instincts were right." She wishpered. "With such spirit your body is just a minor detail."
*****
Yojimbo barely held himself awake. Of course, he knew, that if the Queen would have wished him asleep he would have been.
The girl eyes closed. Forever? Yojimbo wondered with a worry and dissapointment.
The girl's eyes suddenly have opened. Focused. Fierce. Her eyes teared, and she smiled. Her belly rumbled with hunger.
Nagaishu, petted her forehead. 'What is your name little one?'
The girl looked confused for a moment. Name?
It mattered so little. She looked again at the lamp carrying the kanji.
"Usagi." She said.