Drabble Post - Warrior
Apr. 24th, 2008 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kristenskAnother drabble. This one is a companion to "Survivor" and thus part of my Bleach crossover universe. Though there's very little Bleach to it, and it's largely a character study.
Warrior - Bleach Crossover
She was seven years old when she first saw them. Shadowy figures moving among the rubble that had once been a school. She heard her schoolmates crying and the figures answering in quiet voices. At the time, she thought they were more rescuers.
It was days later that she learned not only her class, but her entire school was dead. In her shock, she forgot the shadowy rescuers.
But, as time passed and she became a full-fledged warrior, she saw the shadows more and more. Wherever there had been homunculi, she found the shadows. They appeared by the bodies of her fallen comrades. They hovered at the edges of her vision and dogged her steps.
Slowly, she realized what they must be. Soul reapers, come to claim the dead and stalk the dying.
She hated them.
Not for what they did.
She hated them because they meant she had failed.
Warrior - Bleach Crossover
She was seven years old when she first saw them. Shadowy figures moving among the rubble that had once been a school. She heard her schoolmates crying and the figures answering in quiet voices. At the time, she thought they were more rescuers.
It was days later that she learned not only her class, but her entire school was dead. In her shock, she forgot the shadowy rescuers.
But, as time passed and she became a full-fledged warrior, she saw the shadows more and more. Wherever there had been homunculi, she found the shadows. They appeared by the bodies of her fallen comrades. They hovered at the edges of her vision and dogged her steps.
Slowly, she realized what they must be. Soul reapers, come to claim the dead and stalk the dying.
She hated them.
Not for what they did.
She hated them because they meant she had failed.
