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Willow is told by a voice to rescue a girl, and so starts a journey that will give them all the highs and lows rpg games have to offer (I did finally find the happy ending so they WILL be getting it)
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1913
East of Fengtion, Japan.
The woman walked in the darkness, her red hair brushing her face. She wore a brown jacket that fell to her feet, tucked in close against the night air.
Suddenly, the woman felt woozy, a familiar feeling. A white hot pain struck through her head as a faint voice rung in her ears. With the pain, the woman fell to one knee as her fingernails dug into her skull as if she were trying to claw the pain out.
“Tr…n…res…u…...g…rl…”
The woman sighed as the pain left her head, “what is it with this damn VOICE!” she almost screamed at no one in particular. Having been the recipient of a few of these messages, the woman was able to decipher the message, ‘Train. Rescue the girl.’ Is what she had been told. ‘Rescue the girl huh? I guess I’ll give it a shot.’ The redhead personally didn’t see why she should be following this damn voice’s orders, it damn well hurt when it spoke to her, but sometimes it was pretty insistent. Besides, wherever the voice lead her, there was bound to be action.
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One month ago
Tara Maclay looked up at her mother, an agent of the Vatican. They had come to Rouen in France where they fled from a man calling himself Roger Bacon. Their contact in Rouen, Father Taylor, had told them to wait for Ethan Rayne, so, here they were. Waiting.
Tara’s mother studied her young daughter, this was not the life she had envisioned for her when she was born, she was an innocent in this dammit! While Tara had not had to fight, her mother had had her learn a few healing spells just in case they were needed. Roger Bacon was ruthlessly hunting down Vatican members, though Tara’s mother could not help but fear for Tara herself, she seemed just as important to Bacon as revenge. Already, she had helped Tara narrowly escape his clutches. The woman was brought out of her revere when a dark aura flooded her mind, ‘Bacon.’ “Tara?”
Tara looked up at her mother, “y-yes mother?”
Tara’s mother whispered, “run.”
Tara opened her mouth to argue, but she didn’t have time as a man with black hair and a top-hat walked out of the shadows. Tara watched wide-eyed as her mother ran towards Bacon, but she was cut down midstride by a telepathic punch. A diagonal slash of the man’s right hand left the woman bloody on the floor. The man smirked down at Tara and tipped his top-hat before phasing out into the darkness.
***
Here and now
Something had told the redhead that this train to Fengtion was the train she was meant to be on, that something? An ache in her head, as if a subtle reminder of the voice she had heard. So, anyway, here she was, a stowaway. She saw a man walk towards the front of the train, tipping his hat to an old female passenger. Willow crept let the man get out of sight, then crept out of hiding.
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Further up the train, four guards and a commander sat watching a young blonde girl, Tara Maclay. They had been told by the commanders in Fengtion to bring the girl to them. Tara sat silently, letting the Japanese talking wash over her.
“I don’t see why this girl is so important, why do they want her?”
“Dunno man, dunno.”
The commander cut in, “It is not for us to question the Japanese government, but I for one will be glad to get home.”
There was a thudding outside the door, this woke Tara up into the real world, this accompanied by a familiar presence. She shuddered, but still did not talk, they wouldn’t listen and there was nowhere for her to run besides. The door flew open and in stepped Bacon, a flying creature that defied description floating by his side. The guards ran towards Bacon as the commander stood up, gun in hand. Blood flying from his comrades flew hit his face, the commander fired at Bacon, bullet after bullet, but each shot he fired was intercepted by the man’s ‘pet’. Even when the gun only clicked, the man kept trying to shoot, a look of fear in his eyes. Eventually, Bacon was upon him and he met the fate of his comrades, dead and bloody. Tara gave a resigned sigh as Bacon picked her up over his shoulder and walked towards the front of the train where he would punch through the ceiling and begin to walk towards the back.
Just as Bacon left this carriage, the redhead was a few carriages behind. The floor ahead of her was full of dead bodies, stooping down, the girl picked up a Thera leaf (good for healing) and a Mana leaf (good for mental health) that she had seen on the floor. As she stood up, a skeleton with a scythe ran towards her, two well placed punches and a kick left the wind scythe a pile of bones on the floor. Walking into the front carriage, she found it empty. ‘Dammit! Where is he?’ She looked up as she heard footsteps on the roof, with a shrug, she made her own entrance to the roof and called out, “hey! Stop!”
Bacon turned, Tara over his shoulder. He quirked an eyebrow and his pet flew forward, buzzing around the redheads head. As the creature looked to attack, the woman’s right hand shot up, catching the creature and squeezing it to death. With contempt in her eyes, the woman threw the creature down and grounded it into the roof of the train with her heel. Bacon dropped Tara, “I was fond of him, girl!”
The redhead shrugged and made a ‘come get some’ gesture, she leapt forward landing punches and kicks that Bacon seemed to shrug off with contempt. Bacon raised his hands and the redhead felt a great drain in power. Bacon smirked as he began to speak a spell that would painfully finish this woman off until a white light came from Tara. The blinding light came from a stone her mother had given to her before she died, the stone floated through the air and attached itself in a gap in the pendant that was chained around the woman’s neck. This great light threw Bacon back to the end of the train, the redhead ran forward and planted her fist deep into Bacon’s face, feeling flesh give way and bone crack. The redhead picked Tara up and jumped off the train.
If the redhead had stayed on the train, she would have not been able to believe her eyes, the damaged eye of Bacon repaired itself, “Ow, that bloody hurt.”
***
The redhead landed and gently put the girl on the floor. Looking around, she could see that she was in a field, up ahead she could see a lock.
The redhead looked down at the young woman she had saved, something that the voice had also told her was to accompany the girl and protect her with her life, she didn’t see why, but she did see one thing, ‘this girl is hot.’
Taking a closer look at Tara, the redhead took in her blue dress and thigh-high white stockings, ‘I wonder if she’d mind if…no. Forget it, girl like that won’t be interested in you. Still…’
The redhead leant down to plant a kiss on the girl’s cheek, one kiss couldn’t hurt could it? As the woman made it down to one knee, Tara woke up.
Tara gasped, here was yet another girl who Tara didn’t have any recollection meeting, and here she was kneeling beside her with desire in her green eyes, seeming pretty intent on molesting her. The woman stood up and stepped back from her, “Hey, no need to be scared of me. My name is Willow, Willow Rosenberg.”
Tara only backed away from this woman, in a panic. ‘Why am I so damn popular?!’ she thought. As the woman, Willow asked again who she was, she could only stutter, ‘I-I’m n-nothing, I c-can’t d-do anything, j-just l-leave m-me a-a-alone.”
Tara hastily made it to her feet, Willow watched her run, confused, “Hey! Don’t go down there, it’s dangerous!” Willow shrugged her shoulders as the girl ran off, ‘well oh voice that likes to hurt me, seems she doesn’t want the company.’ Shrugging, Willow began to walk towards the lock she saw in the distance, she felt guilty leaving the girl alone but still…that was when she heard a blood curdling scream coming from the blonde’s direction.
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There can be no rainbow without rain, you cannot know true happiness until you know sadness first.
great update! more soon!
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