A/N -This is the first of two instalments.

Battle Of The Empires

By Rise of the Blossom

Prologue

There was death all around her. There was the death of her people, the death of her allies and the death of her enemies.

"We need to move, now!" A deep voice yelled as two strong hands shook her body.

She wanted to move, she really did, but she couldn't. It was like she was frozen to the ground and with every attempt at moving, the ice just got stronger and even harder to break.

The person who shouted at her a moment ago was shouting again, but the voice sounded as though they were underwater. She looked up to see the angry face of her lover and ally. She could remember all of their passion filled nights together and it seemed like time had slowed down the moment their eyes connected, the screaming, the battle cries, the on-going war, none of it seemed to matter to her now. She lifted her hand with the strength his presence gave her and stroked his God-like face, relishing in the warmth she felt as their skin touched. She smiled softly and stood on the tips of her toes to taste his lips with her own but just as she got to less than an inch away from his full lips, pain soared through her. It was like nothing she had ever felt before in her life. She tightened her grip on her lover but as her strength drained, her grip loosened.

And that was when she knew she was dying.

"I love you," she whispered before everything faded to black.