[Kanji_The_Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Kuroneko

***Tatsu I'll let you write about Shima's death and how/why you got that crystal in your arm. I should be back on line at 2 or 3 pm see ya then***

Nozomi and myself watch as the SilverDragon lands in the Thauk Sul forest....This is it, this is the day I lose Shima. I was just a kid. I couldn't fight that well. There was no way I could save her. I watch as history replays itself beneath me. All I can do is watch, as Shima dies...again.

The SilverDragon booms into the forest. His giant feet quake the earth. Animals run in fear of their little lives. Akuma laughs in the most terrible roar my ears have ever listened too. "WHERE ARE THE PURE BREEDS?!!?!" hisses Akuma, his voice echoes throughout the forest. "WHERE ARE THE ELVES?!!!" Akuma hissed again. He marches through the forest destroying all wildlife. He is here to kill all the Elves taking refudge. His mission was to kill them and stop all magic from being created.

He feared the Elves, their power was a great source. My Shima was an Elf. A Pure breed. There was no way she was going to escape. I look towards Thauk Sul. I can see myself and Shima exiting her house. I have both my arms, and both my eyes. I'm surprised at how scrawny I was. Sora was tightly gripped in my right hand, Shima was clinging to my left. I could hear us talking.

"Run Shima! Run to the Wood Elves in the south! Go! I will buy you time!" I could hear my young voice pleading with her to flee. "No Tatsu! I will never leave you! If I run he will follow me forever, if you fight him now, you'll die!" Shima cries. "I don't care!!" I snap "I can't live without you." Tears fill my eyes. I know what I was thinking. I was thinking that we were so young and or lives are coming to it's end....

There was no way we could escape from that massive dragon. I could hear his roars of laughter as he started torching Thauk Sul's puny homes of wood and stone. Shima refused to go, and I refused to let her stay. I watched myself charge into the forest with Sora clutched in both my hands. Shima ran behind me into the woods....

I watched myself again, it was so pathetic... I couldn't fight at all. I was trying to slash at Akuma's platted feet. Sora just bounced off of his thick shiny armour. Akuma laughed and backhanded me into a tree. Sora flew from my hands and I watched as I bounced to the ground, unable to continue.

That is it? I say to myself. That is all I could do?! I start to get angry. I was so overwhelmed by that dragon. He could of killed me so easily. But he finished me just by smacking me once. I felt so pathetic. What was happening next I ddin't want to watch. But my eye was so fixated on what was going on, that it couldn't look away. I was glued tot the spot unable to do anything. Shima ran over to me. Screaming my name.

She tried to get to me but the dragon came between them. He roared with laughter, it was making me sick. Shima put out her hand and said a spell in Elvish, a stream of light struck the dragon's head. He lurched back in pain. But he stepped forward with a grin, and the desire to kill the Elf. Akuma opened his mouth wide, a ball of fire started to gather energy and swirl in his jaws.

Shima cast another spell, but it was absorbed by the fire. Her face was in horror as the ball of fire whirled towards her body. Hearing her scream before the end was too much to handle...again....The fire struck her, she was covered in flames. She stepped back. She was going to try and cast a spell. But her body full of fire, fell to the charred earth. Akuma fills the air with his laughter and zooms off into the sky, flying at an alarming speed. In a few seconds all is quiet....

I watch myself get up and run over to Shima crying and screaming for her. She is covered in burns. Her skin is black and peeling. "Ta..t...su" She moans in pain. Her voice is almost non-existent. "Don't speak." I whisper. "I want you to have this." she continues. "It is a special jewel that has been in my Elven family since the dawn of time. It..it h-has the power to do anything, except bring b-back life." She smiles at me. "What are you saying?!" I cry uncontrollably. "I am giving you my soul, you can-can't live without me right?" Shima smiles, she is starting to go. "Shima what do you mean?" Shima doesn't answer me. Instead she puts the jewel to her heart. A dark blue light engulfs us. When the light fades, the jewel is sparkling, floating in the air before me. Shima's body is lying lifeless on the ground.

We couldn't hear what was happening now, but I remembered. Shima's soul was speaking to me from inside the jewel, but I could only hear her voice directly in my head. She was saying that she'd give me great power. In this state we could be together forever and a day. I watch myself fall to the ground clutching the jewel. I hear Shima say to me that she wants to be buried at the foot of the cliff that we were to be married. I carry her unrecognizable body to the cliff. I dig a deep hole and place her carefully, and lovingly inside of it. The dirt is compact on top of her grave. I lay a white rose over the ground.

I walk onto the cliff and sit down. I pull out a long dagger. I know what I was about to do. With my left hand, I lunge the dagger into my right arm. Blood splatters about. the wound is deep.

I can almost feel the pain over again. I take the little blood-red jewel, and stick it into the open wound. I then us a healing spell of light. The light heals my wound, but it placed the skin aroud the jewel so it could be seen on my arm. I stand up and clutch Sora "I will kill you Akuma!! You hear me SilverDragon?!! You will die!!" Everything goes black and we zoom back out of there...Will we be transported to somewhere else? To Nozomi's memories now?!