The Unfinished Story by Char Marie Adles (best books to read in your 20s .TXT) 📕

a futon. I walked silently over to the form and took out one of my vials. I held the tip of my knife o the neck of the person. I moved his knife out of reach.
“Hello Prince,” I said.
The person jumped and wide eyes stare at me. I could tell Ryuu reached for where his knife had been. He looked ready to yell for guards.
“You best no do that Ryuu, Take a chill pill,” I said and put the knife down pulling off the cloth that covered my face. He stared at me as if he had since a ghost. He crossed himself and got on his knees praying to a god and his ancestors.
“Ryuu I’ve come to talk to you,” I said sitting in front of him.
He looked up with wide eyes.
“If you have come for my soul I ask that you grant me one last wish,” he said in a strangled voice.
Oh great! He thought I’m the god of death or something!
“Stop being stupid you nit wit. This is important. Ninjas have come to kill you to and to end the war, but I know that this won’t end it.” I said.
He shook his head. “Please ghost of Ash and Guider of Death please do not do this,” he wasn’t begging, he was just asking.
Fine I see he won’t give up on the death thing so I’m going to have to use this to my advantage.
“I have not come for you, but to save you from death. A deal that will give us both what we want.” I said.
“Anything, Oh Guider of Death,” he said bowing.
“This war needs to end peacefully. I need you to do everything in your power to do this. I will help as well. In return you live, agreed?”
He nodded. “Agreed.”
“Good. To start this put this in your drink in the morning and everything will happen as needed. It’s Magic,” I said as I gave him the vial. He took it in a shaking hand.
“If you do not do what we have agreed I will give you a fate worse than dying. You will burn forever.”
I slipped out of his tent and ran in the shadows of the camp. There had to be more than three thousand men.
I ran across field to the river and dived in. I swam with the current and got out on the other side. I found the biggest tent and went inside. I did the same thing I had done to Ryuu and when I left he was pale and shaking, glad to be alive. They would both follow their word.
I looked over the forest in the darkness of the night and saw the shapes of the ninjas in the trees and bamboo.
Good. Before they know it, it will be too late and it would all be over.

At the crake of dawn orders were given on both sides and two parties were sent out with messages to each side.
Dark hissing, angry clouds filled the sky threatening rain and lighting. I looked to the sky and realized that something was going to go very wrong.
The parties crossed the river to the opposite side and contained out to the other side. The twenty men of each side expecting to be cut down at any moment.
My face was set grimly as I watched to see if the plans I had made would work. But each side lined up in ranks and the call from their generals came and they ran to the attack. My hands clenched as I gritted me teeth. The war was still on.
I whistled. They were beside me in minutes.
“Ok then plan failed, now each of you is to stay low to the ground and get in the fight. Your targets are the leaders of each side. If we take them they have nothing. But keep them alive and hide them somewhere till I say so. We will need them. I’m going for the throats of the generals and the emperors. NOW MOVE OUT!” they left in a blur and kept to the ground, mixing in with the fight and going unnoticed.
The cries of thousands of men filled the air and I knew this was a real war.
Man fought with swords, cutting down their brothers, or being cut down by their brothers. Blood already flowed on the ground and bodies cooled in the rain.
I left and first when form a general of the other army. I dodged around people and under horses. I kept my eyes on the man on the gray stallion and who was cutting down men at his feet like they were snakes. I was only a few feet away from him and I sprang. I caught him around the neck and pulled him with me to the ground. I took out a knife and smiled in his face. He fought me off, but I kept coming. His sword ringed against my knife. I tripped in a hole and landed on my back looking up at him. . His foot caught a rut in the ground and he when down fell down. He fell on my knife and me. It went through his heart. I pushed his nasty body off me and smiled.
This is a war and war means death. I’m already dead and soon a can be with Kail.
“I’ll be with you soon,” I whispered and went back into the fight. I found Ryuu’s general fighting off men with his back to me.
This will be easy.
Everything around me was happening so fast, but to my eyes it all seemed to slow down. Like looking at a paused movie. Men yell battle cries to the air and raged forward. Horse fell and men cursed. Blood washed the land and turned it red.
I followed behind the general as he fought towards the center of the battle. Ten men against him. I slipped up behind him and then he turned and I smiled. But someone behind someone pushed and my knife missed, stabbing the man in his shoulder. But the man fell anyway and I saw his face.
“No,” whispered.
I dropped to my knees beside the general, staring in horror at the man and screamed.
The scream sounded as if it came from the every depths of Hell itself, and roared with the bloodcurdling cry of thunder, and the crashing of lighting over my every head.
In that moment everything stopped. No one fought; no one took a step, not even the pouring rain made a sound. I stood slowly covered in blood and my long hair dripping in the rain. I stared at them all, raging.
I bared my teeth in a snarled and lifted my head to scream with the thunder once more. Everyone was now looking at the center of the field, the center of the battle, at me. Men drew back from me and made a wide circle around Kail and me.
Kail…
“Bring me the Emperors!” I screamed at them. It was the scream of a demon. By side mixed together in fear and some started to run to the tents of the emperors.
I sank down to my knees in the mud and left Kail’s body into my arms.
“Ash?” he asked touching my face. “You’re here. I thought I would see you again when I died. You are beautiful, and you have come for me. I love you, my little one. I never stopped and now we can be together forever.”
I shook my head unable to speak. My tears fell like the rain.
He pulled me closer and our lips met. “You taste sweeter then my dreams.”
I buried my face in his neck and let the rain wash us in its tears.
“We here! You’re here! Kail!” I sobbed.
I looked up and his smiled at me. “Yes I’m here. I love you…” his eyes slowly closed and his hand slipped from my cheek. A small stream of blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
I kissed his lips one more time, and laid him softly on the ground and I sent up a small pray for him. I covered him with my cloak and stood, once again screaming my anguish into the sky. The rain poured even hard over everyone and everything. I didn’t care. Not anymore.
The two Emperors Ryuu and Jin Tang stood at the edge of the circle. I pointed at them.
“Come,” I snarled.
They did and they saw the wild look in my eyes.
I grabbed each one by the caller of their kimonos and lifted them off the ground.
“Look at what you have done! All those people dead. ARE YOU HAPPY?” I shook them in the air. “This is what you will do,” I put them on the ground on put my face inches from theirs’, “You are going to form one Empire. Ryuu shall be the emperor and this war will end here! I’m have been tortured and nearly killed so many times, and the last thing I had ever held dear is gone! I am past insane and beyond any reason, you will do what I say!”
Their wide fear stricken eyes looked at me. They were so scared they couldn’t even nod.
I dropped them and glared. They scrambled to their feet.
“Swear right here that you will do as I said!”
“We swear,” they said together.
“Good,” now call off both side and head to the palace closest to here.”
And so it was done. The men packed up. Buried the dead and I sat in the mud Kail’s body in my arms. I had no tears to cry, but I knew that now I was truly hollow and empty. The ninjas came to me slowly and just stood there. None said a word. Then one touched my shoulder. Little Rin.
“Big sister, “he said quietly, “They are leaving.”
I nodded, but didn’t move.
“Arrow?”
“Yes, Leader?”
“Carry Kail for me. Be careful with him. I want him to forever sleep in peace.” I said. My voice was as dead as I was inside.
He took Kail from my arms and I stood only to fall into the muck at me feet. Hands tried to help me up, b but I snarled, “Leave me be.”
I dragged myself out of the mud and started to walk. Then I started to run. They followed close behind. All thirteen of them.
We reached the Imperial City wit out stopping in five days. No one came near me and I didn’t eat nor drink. I