timepiececlock | "Confrontation At the House of Blue Leaves"

circe_tigana's Heathen Gods Challenge meets Kill Bill.

. Huzzah! .

I thought about making it funny. But really, KB is a movie that's all about pain and movement. So I went with that.

"Confrontation At the House of Blue Leaves"

Snow drifted down on the bones of the pirates, pale anachronisms that stood in the moonlight and watched a battle more brutal and more beautiful than ever they had witnessed hence.

The bodies of the two women turned around each other like dolphins at sea, blades that flashed like fins in starlight and hair dipped in oceans of sweat and blood. More shocking than the beauty was the hate that seeped into around them each time a sword cut the air. To see such viciousness manifest between two mere women—one in a harlot’s body suit, yellow like a bloodied sun, one garbed as finely as a queen of the Orient—it hushed the pirates, awed them so that they stood silently in the garden of The House of Blue Leaves, watching.

They watched as the battle ended as soon as it began, watched the lady crumble like a tower, watched the yellow woman walk on with her head held high. Only when it was once again just the garden, the corpse, and the snow in the moonlight did the pirates remember to pluck the coin from neck of the foreign warrior queen.