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It was any normal day. Kohaku was looking for herbs, against her father’s wishes, with Chrome and 6-year old Suika. Kohaku had a small pouch where she would put the herbs Kohaku had already found Suika. The two of them were looking frantically for Chrome as the storm clouds were rolling in.
“What have we done to make the gods so mad with us?” Suika asked Kohaku.
“I don’t know Suika, Just stay close ok?” Kohaku answered in a panic. “CHROME!” CHROME WHERE ARE YOU!?”
Please, please, be alright.
“CHROME!” Suika joined in.
“This is serious! The storm it’s-!” Kohaku started to say when-
CRAcskk!
“AHHH!” Suika tripped on a root stick out of the ground.
“Suika!” Kohaku turned around the check up on the little one.
“My- My leg,” The younger one cried through her watermelon mask. “Kohaku- I want to go home,”
Kohaku looked in horror as she thought about her options. “Can you stand?” Kohaku asked.
“No,” Suika sobbed.
Kohaku pulled Suika into a hug to try and stop Suika from crying so hard. Kohaku was panicked. She had to find Chrome but Suika was also hurt and couldn’t stand.
Suika dug her fingers into the fabric of Kohaku’s dress. “I-I’m scared,” She muttered.
“It’s going to be alright Suika. We’ll find Chrome and we’ll go home. I’ll have Ruri read you and bedtime story. Ok?” Kohaku tried to comfort Suika.
“Bu- but I can’t walk,”
“I’ll carry you,” Kohaku replied. Kohaku looked into Suika’s watermelon mask “It’ll be alright Suika,”.
“Promise?” Suika asked, reaching out her pinky.
“Promise,” Kohaku hooked her pinky with Suika’s. “But we got to find Chrome,”
“Y-ya,” Suika mumbled. “Let’s go find Chrome!”
Kohaku picked Suika off the ground the carried her on her back.
Please be alright Chrome. Please.
“Chrome! Chrome!” They called.
Chrome admittedly was a bit lost. He had found a great spot to look for new materials! Chrome wondered into a new cave he hadn’t seen before. He was just going to find some on the orange rock and wait for Kohaku to find him he noticed a few colored rocks by his feet. One was a unique shade of blue too. One Chrome hadn’t seen before.
Ohhhh this would be great for my collection. Ohhh! I wonder if it’ll add a color to the rainbow bridge when I burn it
And so he went a bit farther into the cave to find some of the blue rocks, completely forgetting the warning of the storm rolling in.
CRAcskk!
“What the…? OH SHIT THE THUNDERSTORM!” Chrome took had many rocks had his hands could hold and ran out of the cave.
“Ughhh dang it Chrome,” Kohaku groaned. “Where could he be,” Kohaku’s arms were starting to fall asleep from caring Suika around too.
CRAcskk!
Again the sound of thunder vibrated throughout the forest, but this time it was followed a light drops of rain.
“No,” Kohaku muttered. “No, no, no, no!” Kohaku panicked.
“Kohaku, have we angered the god?” Suika asked.
“No, but have to find Chrome quickly,”
“Kohaku?! Suika!” A faint voice shouted.
“Chrome!?” Kohaku shouted in response.
“Kohaku??! Where are you?” Chrome’s voice asked.
“I can’t-,” Kohaku started when she saw a flash of Chrome’s shirt blue. “Chrome!! Stay still!
“Huh?”
Kohaku slid down the hillside and down some paths to get to Chrome. A few branches hitting her on her way. The rain started to rain down harder and harder. The soil became less and less solid as she ran. Kohaku would see the brown of Chrome’s hair.
“Kohaku?” Chrome asked seeing Kohaku running.
“Chrome!” Kohaku sighed in relief when she finally found him.
“Woah, are you ok?” Chrome frantically asked. “Woah Woah!”
Kohaku slid into Chrome, Suika sill on her back.
“Don’t you dare ever scare me like that again!” Kohaku shouted, leaning her head on Chrome’s chest. “I-I was so scared,”
“Kohaku I didn’t- Oh shit-,” Chrome mumbled. “Kohaku behind you…,”
“Huh?” Kohaku turned around when she heard a twig snap.
A lion looked back at her.
“I thought lions only moved in packs,” Chrome whispered.
“Must have gotten separated,” Kohaku whispered back.
“What do we do,” Suika asked.
“Chrome…,” Kohaku whispered. “Take Suika and run home,”
“Right right,” Chrome took Suika from Kohaku’s back and put her on his. “What about you,”
“I’ll be right behind you,” Kohaku reassured. “Just run,” She reached for her danger. “I’ll be fine,”
“Kohaku,” Suika looked at her, wide-eyed.
“It’ll be ok Suika,” Kohaku tried to sound confident.
CRAcskk!
The lion leaped forward. “Just run!” Kohaku shouted, unsheathing her blades.
Chrome and Suika made a run for it back to the village and Kohalu stood her ground as the Lion charged. Only moving out of the away at the very last second. A flash of light illuminated the lion’s snarling face looking at her. The lion looked starved and desperate for food. Kohaku held her blades closer to her face waiting for the next strike.
“I’m sorry but I need to get home,” She mumbled. "Back to my sister, back to Suika, and back to...,"
The lion just growled in response and got ready to attack once more. The rain kept falling but was as if it wasn't even there.
CRAcskk!
The lion lunged at Kohaku once more but Kohaku jumped into the trees and used a branch to swing around. Kohaku would just get away in the trees but the rain made the branches too slippery to jump across. The lion roared at her, getting on its hind legs. Kohaku glumped. It was the other thing standing between her getting home back to everyone.
Suika, Ruri, Chrome…
Another lighting bolt hit the ground that Kohaku took the second of the lion being blind to attack.
“AHH!” Kohaku jumped down from the branch with her danger over her head.
CRAcskk!
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“And you just left her?” Kokuyo shouted at Chrome.
“She said she was right behind us!” Chrome shouted back.
“And you left a girl to fight a lion on her own?” Kokuyo protested.
“What else was I-?”
“Kohaku!” Ruri and Suika yelled.
Chrome turned to look behind him. Ruri and Suika rushed to hug Kohaku was standing in the doorway of the priest’s hut.
“Oh thank god you’re alright,” Ruri hummed.
“I’m fine. I’m fine,” Kohaku hugged both of them.
“You sure?” Ruri inspected Kohaku’s face.
“Yes yes Ruri nee,” Kohaku laughed.
“Kohaku what were you thinking? You could have gotten killed!” Kokuyo pestered Kohaku.
“Father ple- Asckk! ARkkk!” Ruri collapsed in a coughing fit.
“Ruri,” Kohaku knelt down next to her sister. “I was trying to help,” Kohaku explained. “I don’t know anything about Chrome’s sorcery but maybe he’s on to something,”
“Do you really-!”
“Father! Enough!” Ruri shouted over her coughing fit.
“Priestess, you shouldn’t be shouting,” Jasper stated.
“No Ackkk Jasper, I’ll be ok,” Ruri replied. “Father, Kohaku was just trying to help me, and everything ended up being alright so don’t worry about it,” Ruri tried to stand back up on her feet. “Besides Kohaku learned her lesson right?”
Kokuyo sighed. “Kohaku, We’ll talk later. You too Chrome. Just get Suika home,”
“Right right, come on Suika,” Chrome motioned Suika to follow.
Kohaku joined to walk Suika to Kaskei’s place so he could watch over her. The rain had lightened up.
“So… what happened?” Chrome asked.
“I may or may not have just killed a lion,”
“Woah! No way!” Chrome marveled. “That’s sooo cool! You really are amazing Kohaku”
Kohaku blushed a bit. “Yeah yeah, here’s your herbs,” Kohaku handed Chrome the pouch.
“Dang Kohaku!” Chrome smiled. “Got all of this and defeated a lion? Impressive,”
“Just try to make something out of it,” Kohaku playfully rolled her eyes.
“Would that make you a lioness then?”
“... don’t call me that,” Kohalu deadpanned.
“Why? I rather like it,” Chrome huffed.
Kohaku smacked Chrome over the head. “Call me that again, I dare you,”
"Owww!"