• "I will not loose"
    The clashing sound of his sword hitting my daggers was ear shattering. The blow should have brought me to my knees but he wouldn't finish me off so fast. No the snake liked to toy with his prey before he took his victory. But I was no ones prey especially not his!
    I twisted away from him backing off in an effort to give myself time. I can't believe I let myself get to this point of weakness usually I was an even match for him. But I have been away from water for to long I was dehydrated and even now I was loosing more water sweat pouring from my skin.
    "You haven't been taking care of yourself, I warned you about the effects of a Sea nymph staying away from water to long. You could die and we wouldn't want that would we?" he said smiling as he raised his sword for his next attack.
    "b*****d," I spat at him. He was right and that just pissed me off all the more. I pulled out some of my throwing knives and ran at him I threw the first to try to catch him off guard and then tried to stab him with another.
    He deflected the first and dove out of the way when I stabbed at him. I was moving to slow. But luck was on my side he tripped over a rock when he dodged me and lost his balance. I took the opportunity and grabbed his arm flipping him. He landed flat on his back on the ground his sword knocked out of his hand.
    I jumped on him my dagger to his throat I could finally end this game of cat and mouse. The death of the war god of water would be a tragic blow to the side of evil. We would be one step closer to winning the war and I would be rid of him.
    Why then couldn't I slit his throat. I have him right where I want him now why can't I kill him! The same reason why it was that everytime we met in battle neither of us fell, neither fatally wounded, we never seriously hurt one another.
    I looked into his eyes and the truth hit me with such force that it knocked the breath from my lungs.
    It was like time froze and in that moment I knew what I had been without. My heart, it had been stolen from me a long time ago and it was only now in this moment that I had finally realized I had lost it. The injustice tore at my very soul how could I have not known?Tears swelled in my eyes but they did not fall.
    I lifted the dagger from his throat and rose to my feet backing away from him. My legs shook and buckled under my own weight no longer wanting to hold me upright but I would not come to my knees. I wanted to scream to the sky so that the whole world would hear me but I kept my mouth shut.
    I would not give him the pleasure of my dread. Nor the benifit of my pain, I will give him nothing! But as I raised my gaze I met his and saw eyes filled with understanding.
    He knew.
    He had witnessed my horrific epiphony and now knew, that I knew what he had known all along. That he had my heart. Not by honest means but by thievery and with this dawning knowledge he smiled for he had won.
    Had always won but I had been blind to it. But if he thought I would loose gracefully.......
    That I would admit defeat.......
    He was wrong! I will kick and scream and fight. I refuse to give in, to accept this loss.
    Never! I will keep fighting, keep struggling until the day I die and even in my grave I shall be in a state of unrest. Anything less and I would not be me.
    He must also have realized this for his smile turned into a grin and he started to approach me. I would not run my legs had grown tired of that so I stood my ground and prepared myself. But nothing could have prepared me for what happened next.
    He gently took my face in his hands and leaned in towards me. His lips met mine with such passion that mine reacted and I was kissing him back, without me even wanting to but.......
    In that brief moment there was no good or evil. No war no hate, just the feel of his lips moving against my own and the taste of him filling my mouth, and the feel of his tongue exploring me as I was him. The warmth of his body pressed against mine and the combined beating of our hearts.

    As I watched him leave the realization of my feelings tormented me to the brink of insanity. How could I love him?