Chapter 43: The Fight Dance

Gwen looked deeply into Slavica's dark hazel orbs only to see on how broken her knight was. But she smiled when she saw how Slavica was trying to bring herself back whole again. She might be what she was speaking of but what lies deep within her, was the thing that attracts and made Gwen love her. Slavica's whole being.

"What I'm trying to say is that I don't care about you being a nightmare because you're my beautiful and wonderful nightmare…" Gwen began explaining to Slavica what does she meant by what she just told her.

"...I'll be with you through thick and thin of sorrows and joy. I'll be with you in sickness and health or whatever goes in between us. I'll be with you because of this growing affection and love that I have for you." she went on making Slavica cried wholeheartedly. She didn't mind being ugly like a crying hideous monster.

"Slavica Ishnovishki Baldisimo, can you be the one who'll make my morning through the night as bright as a morning sun and let me smile with no more blues in life?" Gwen wiped those tears away and asked something that made Slavica weakly sigh.

"That's too much expectation, Gwen…" Slavica sadly said but it made Gwen to chuckled and pinched her cheeks. Slavica pouted from her pinch.

"Don't worry, that was not the case why I asked that? I just want you to trust me with your vulnerability or anything - everything; share them all with me like what your love does for me. That's why I'm not expecting anything, my love. You have already given me a lot, and the most important thing you give me is your love. Thank you for that and that I have you." Gwen smiled before she kissed the tip of her nose.

Slavica couldn't form any words for what she just heard from Gwen but the beat of her heart was hard. It was like she was alive because of the lady that she just saved and she was not just saving her, she made her feel that she was changing for the better. Slavica could see the light whenever Gwen was with her and the more she stays beside her, she could believe in herself.

"Gwen…" Slavica smiled through what she was thinking and called Gwen's name.

"Yeah?" Gwen looked at her with a questioning tone but smiled.

"Are you proposing to me? Your message sounded like a vow." Slavica teased which made Gwen to chuckle sweetly. It was indeed pure love that warmed both of their hearts, especially Slavica's.

"Oh, was it? Well, maybe I am but don't worry, not for now. Maybe one day when both of us are stable in our relationship - wait, a second, are we a couple now?" Gwen answered but wondered what they were that made Slavica's turn to chuckle.

"What do you think?" she winked at Gwen who blushed instantly and playfully hit Slavica's shoulder.

"Well, to me we already are, how about you?" she honestly responded before asking Slavica in return.

"You didn't have to ask because that's what I already felt with you." Slavica smiled lovingly at her. Gwen might be blushing but this time, she was not hiding it from her or from anyone who was watching them from the bench side of the training field.

"Then we're good. Our mutual feelings were indeed growing day by day and night even though we're dealing a lot of monsters or fallen rogues, training, we can't deny it anymore, right?" Gwen nodded and even began stretching her body.

"Right, so shall we have fun again?" Slavica did the same thing and asked Gwen while smirking.

"Ohhoo, I thought you never asked." Gwen grinned and automatically her eyes turned pure white once again as if she was not getting tired whenever Slavica was her opponent.

"All cards on the deck." Slavica did the same thing but the aura that she used was totally different from what Gwen knew.

"Sure, my love." Gwen grinned wide when she sensed Slavica's mixed aura.

Slavica's aura was either good or bad because her dark knight's side was the fallen side of her while the neutral white was the Slavica everyone knew about. It was mixing making it look like it was having a taint of grey but it was totally just two auras mixing together. But with that mixed aura, it just excites Gwen more.

"Ready?" Slavica asked as soon as they both positioned themselves in the right distance.

"Yeah, but wait…let's make it more exciting and fun." Gwen answered but thought of something that made them look confused about what she was going to do.

Gwen clapped her hands and her bloody strings began to ring so loud that made the entire training field radiate in such power. Then after the ringing sound of bells from the bloody strings, it began to turn into such an upbeat melody.

"A music?" Slavica wondered that making Gwen grin while nodding excitedly.

"Shut up and dance with me, Vica." Gwen grinned before winking in a flirty manner that made Slavica arched her left eyebrow but smirking. She likes it.

As the instrumental of the melody started echoing around the field, it began making Slavica and Gwen fired up. Then the chorus of the song Shut Up and Dance by Walk The Moon began playing.

Oh, don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me

I said you're holding back

She said shut up and dance with me

This woman is my destiny

She said oh oh oh

Shut up and dance with me

"Seriously, that's why you asked me." Slavica chuckled as she channel the two energies that were mixing around her.

"Lovely, right?" Gwen chuckled as well and also readying herself on how to deal with the new sides of Slavica that she was facing at the moment.

Gwen used her blue orbs hidden beneath the white ones just for her to see completely what Salvica was releasing. Upon reading it, she began applying what she learned at the shooting training that she had with Slavica and began reactivating her energies that were scattered around the field on stand-by. It was her traps that Slavica was not sensing at all for the moment.

We were victims of the night

The chemical, physical, kryptonite

Helpless to the bass and the fading light

Oh, we were bound to get together

Bound to get together

When the first stanza of the same song began echoing, Slavica and Gwen vanished from their spot and only collide in the middle of the training field. But when they collide in the middle, a very strong impact made the entire field to be covered with dust. It was blinding but they were some sparks and clashing of swords that have been echoing around the thick dust around the field.

She took my arm

I don't know how it happened

We took the floor and she said…

"Seriously…who would have thought her chosen music will make us dance with our all might over this intensified training. Only she could pull them out from me. She's indeed promising awakened ones." Slavica muttered to herself when Gwen literally managed to grab her wrist and pulled closer to her body.

But they didn't dance or even kiss because when Gwen does that, Slavica was already upside down and made the center of the training field to be dug up really deep. In short, Gwen slammed on the ground with heavy pressure that she released from her hand.

Oh don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me

I said you're holding back

She said shut up and dance with me

This woman is my destiny

She said oh oh oh

Shut up and dance with me

As the chorus went on playing again, Slavica made her counterattack by using the ground to be quick sand and made Gwen loses her balance. But sensing the change in the ground, Gwen jumped over her bloody strings but Slavica anticipated that. She released a very thin energy flow wrapped around Gwen's ankle and pulled her drastically down. It helped her to be pulled up and another slamming noise at the wall echoed around the training field.

"That hurts." Gwen groaned when she back landed on the wall but she managed to reduce the impact when she cloaked herself with her bloody flame.

"That's new. You're whining already." Slavica chuckled as she teased Gwen's sudden whining from her down.

"YAH! I didn't take any rest after dealing with Jefferson's fallen side. Then going all outs with you, twice, seriously, my body was getting numb." Gwen clicked her tongue as she get up from her feet but Slavica was already made her sudden kick to her side.

"You're the one who was asking for it." Slavica pointed out and Gwen rolled her eyes as she blocked Slavica's kick but she was still being sent off to another side of the wall.

"Whatever." Gwen clicked her tongue in annoyance but instead of landing on the wall, she used her bloody flame to prevent her from smashing into it.

A backless dress and some beat up sneaks

My discotheque Juliet teenage dream

I felt it in my chest as she looked at me

I knew we were bound to be together

Bound to be together

It was Gwen's turn when she bounce back and made a counter stance to Slavica. From the sudden kick that she received, she did the same thing but she added pressure and power to her kick. Slavica used her sword to block it but the heaviness from the pressure that Gwen mixed on it, made Slavica almost loses her balance.

"Dammit, it's getting heavier and more powerful each time I cross with her." Slavica muttered to herself which made her think about doing a long range but it will take time.

"Stop thinking, my love, and be head-on on me." Gwen heard what she was thinking that made her say it that way which made Slavica sigh.

With one strike from Gwen, Slavica stood still on her ground which made them rest on their ground for a moment. Slavica looked straight and deeply at Gwen. She was not reading her or anything but she was indeed feeling her heartbeat whenever she looked at Gwen. She smiled at what she was feeling.

Oh, c'mon girl

Deep in her eyes

I think I see the future

I realize this is my last chance

"It was my last chance…chance to change for the better…and a chance to love truly." Slavica muttered to herself as she put her right hand above her left chest. She was feeling the heartbeat that made her close her eyes.

Doing that something changes around the air that was swirling around Slavica. She released a kind of wave that was deflecting what she used earlier. She decided to lift the worries and fear that was hunting her to the highest heaven just to take the chance of changing with the person who made her feel them again.

"Thanks for this gift. I will take care of it, just let me. Help me, teach me and I will forever be grateful for this love that I am having for Gwen. my personal bright wisdom, my Sabina, and my bright morning star, my Polaris." Slavica whispered lowly but it was very clear to those sensitive ears that were witnessing their intensified fight dance.

When Gwen sensed that, she found herself relaxing from her fight stance and just stood there while watching the love of her life change for the better. She somehow felt proud of what she was witnessing around Slavica at the moment. She was grateful for everything that was happening to her lately.

"I did fall in my sorrow and lonely life but there's a reason for going through those heartaches and failures…regrets or whatever negative perspective that I had once in my life…" Gwen told herself while watching the beating energy that changing around Slavica.

"...it was for this moment. It was for the moment of meeting the person who'll be with me, my better half that I'm going to love unconditionally." She cried silently because she realized that with every setback that she went through after she loses her adoptive parents, she will gain very huge gifts that she had never thought she would have any more. One of them was loving Slavica.

Feeling the love radiating over Gwen's chest, she also put her right hand over her chest to feel the beating of her heart while staring at Slavica. She also began releasing her usual energy and the beating wave that she was releasing finally synced with Slavica's. It was like one heartbeat that was echoing through the energy wave that they were releasing. Mutual feelings.

"Let's make this fight dance radiance, my love." Slavica smiled lovingly as she offered her hand gently even though they were in the right distance from each other.

"I would love to share and make them with you too, my love." Gwen agreed and reached out to the offered hand of Slavica.

Then both of them vanished on their ground and went on their fast movement. They could not be seen by any form of sight except that vibration that they were leaving through their contact. It was like they just repeated their first contact but the only difference was the clashing of their aura. They were bright and it was getting brighter whenever it was mixed as one.

"What's the meaning of this?" Jefferson wondered because he had never seen anything like what Slavica and Gwen were releasing.

"I had never seen this kind of bright energy before…" Nejin agreed because he was totally sensitive to his surroundings and what they were showing to them was something they had never encountered before.

"I know, only Gwen could bring that light to our organization." Alys agreed to them and smiled at what kind of light Gwen was bringing to their group.