Lights in a Starless Sky - A Honkai Impact 3rd Fanfiction

Act 19.5: Lament

MATURE WARNING: This sub-chapter involves a scene of Sexual Intercourse and involves multiple mentions of self-harm and suicide. Viewer Discretion is highly advised.

4AM: Hangar, Shicksal HQ

Perceval sat in the hangar, contemplating where he could go. The cold air nipped at the burned skin on his neck and tugged at his hair, the stars were invisible, clouded over by deep grey streaks of sky. He couldn't return to St. Freya, that would be the first-place mercenaries and even the Immortal Blades would look for him. He stood up and exhaled. "A nomad life it is then. ARC City will do fine..." As he made his way to the edge of the hangar, he heard running footsteps behind him. Durandal appeared, clearly distraught. "Is it true? Did you really commit treason?" The Knight shook his head. "Not in the way you would expect. I disobeyed Otto's orders in order to save Theresa and her students." Durandal looked up in relief. "Then we can talk to the Overseer, tell him it's a misunderstanding!" Perceval turned his head away. "I tried, Bianka. He won't listen." Her heart sank. "Y-You're really going to leave?" Perceval paused. "I don't... I don't have any other options." Durandal took his hand. "You do." He looked the Valkyrie in the eyes, she was desperate. "Run away with me. We could live a normal life, please, just don't go." Perceval wanted to, but he knew he couldn't. "And live under the constant threat of Shicksal? I can't endanger anymore lives, let alone yours." She gripped his hand tighter. "You won't. Please, just don't leave." Perceval turned back to face her. "I have to. It's too risky to stay here." Durandal frowned. "I'll protect you, I promised you that remember? Back when you took me to Australia?" Perceval shook his head. "I feel guilty enough doing this! Do you really want to get kicked out as well?" She threw herself at Perceval, burying her head in his chest. "I don't care! I just need you, that's all!" The Knight put his arms around her. She pulled him to the ground, her head still in his chest. "I can't picture myself going on without you, Perceval... You've made my life so much better..." Durandal sobbed slightly, Perceval's embrace tightened. She brought her face away and looked up at him. "If... If I found out that you'd been killed while you were on exile... I would kill myself." Perceval frowned at that notion, his blood boiled at the mention of his lover harming herself. "You wouldn't dare. You're the only hope Shicksal has against the Hon-" She shouted. "I would, Perceval! I don't care about Shicksal's expectations of me anymore! I just need you to stay with me!" Tears ran down her face, she sobbed and placed her head against his chest. "You mean the world to me, I mean that. I-I can't go on without you." She punched him in the chest. "Please... Don't go. Don't leave me here... I can't stand life without you, please. Please!" Perceval pulled Durandal close to his chest. "I can't stay forever. I'll stay one more night, early tomorrow I will have to leave." The Valkyrie looked up sadly. "But... Will I ever see you again after that?" Perceval nodded, smiling emptily. "I swear to you. You will see me again." The two kissed, sitting on the cold steel floor of the hangar. They wrapped their arms around each other, tightly moving into a loving embrace. They broke away and stared deep into the other's eyes, Durandal leaned her forehead against his. "Perceval..." Her breath quickened. "Tonight... Will you let me have you?..." Perceval brought his lips to hers, their breath exchanging. He broke away. "I'd be glad to have you again..."

As they moved into Durandal's room, the two sat down on the bed and passionately kissed. They stripped each other of their clothing and continued to kiss. Their hands running over the other's bodies, relishing in their lover's grasp for what could be possibly the last time. Durandal sat on Perceval's lap and wrapped her arms around his neck, Perceval inserted himself into Durandal. She moaned quietly. The Knight moved his hands to her waist. "Bianka..." She looked down at Perceval. "Perceval... My... Lovely knight." She started to move slowly, causing Perceval to groan. Durandal started to moan louder, she closed her eyes and reared her head. "Gah... Ah~" She looked into Perceval's eyes and panted. "Perceval... A-Ah~" The Knight intertwined his hands with hers, reached his head up and planted several small kisses on her neck. She twitched, causing her to clamp tighter around Perceval's length. He placed his lips on hers, Durandal's tongue thrashed violently against his own. She couldn't restrict her carnal urges, she wanted nothing more than to be with her lover. Perceval moved his own hips, pushing himself deeper into her. "Bianka... I love you... So ve- Ugh! So very much." He grunted as he moved further into Durandal's entrance, the Valkyrie also experiencing spasms of pure pleasure. "Ah~ God! Perceval, I love yo- Mmn... A-Ah~ I love you too." Durandal's hands gripped harder on Perceval's own, she leaned down and kissed him again. Perceval pushed himself further against Durandal's soft lips, he could feel her expelling breath as she moaned. Her cries muffled by their combined mouths, as she pulled away, she let out a loud, strained moan. "Gah.. A-Ahhhh~" Durandal leaned forward onto Perceval, resting her head on his shoulder. She kept moving her hips while panting heavily, she unravelled her hands from Perceval's and wrapped them around his neck. Perceval felt a swelling feeling run through his body; his throat felt hot. He felt himself twitch from pleasure; his hands moved to Durandal's shoulders. Tears ran down Durandal's face, Perceval wiped the tears from her face. "Don't cry, Bianka... Don't cry because I'm leaving, smile because I'm here with you now..." She closed her eyes while panting shakily, then managed a small, sad smile. The Valkyrie held Perceval's head in her hands, she leaned her forehead on his. "P-Perceval... A-Ah... Perceval..." Durandal continually called the Knight's name, almost as if her passion induced chanting would prevent her lover's inevitable departure. Perceval planted several light kisses on Durandal's collarbone, she shivered and gasped. The Knight leaned slightly forward and whispered softly into Durandal's ear. "I love you... Bianka, I love you so dearly..." Durandal twitched and panted heavily into the Knight's ear. "I love you too... I love you more than anything... G-Gah~" The two leaned in and kissed as they neared their limits, Perceval felt Durandal tighten around him as she continually began to moan louder. "Nyah... Hah... P-Perceval... A-A-AHHHH~" Perceval groaned. "B-Bianka... A-AH!" Durandal's back arched and her nails dug into his back, Perceval twitched and pulled her deeper onto his length. Durandal's walls again tightened around Perceval, pulling his fluids deep into her. She writhed in pure pleasure, a wave of heat rushing throughout her entire body. "A-Ahhh~ Hah..." Durandal collapsed onto Perceval, pushing him down to the bed. Perceval put his arms around Durandal, wrapping her in a tight embrace. "Bianka..." The Valkyrie nuzzled against his chest. "Perceval... I don't want you to go..." The Knight stroked her blonde hair. "I don't want to go either. But I have to." Durandal laid on top of Perceval and held his face in her hands. "Just promise me one thing..." She leaned her forehead against his. "Promise me that you'll come back. That you'll come back alive. Please." Perceval gave her a quick kiss on the lips. "I promise you." He pulled her closer to his chest. "I love you so much, Bianka." The Valkyrie looked sadly at the Knight. "Can I..." She brought her lips to Perceval's collarbone, he nodded. "Go ahead." Durandal softly kissed the skin by his collarbone and sucked lightly on it, forming a small love bite. She ran her fingertips over her neck. "Give me one too..." Her voice was soft and slightly shaky, Perceval ran his soft lips up to her own collarbone and formed a love bite just below it and just above the curve of her left breast. The two lovers looked at each other sincerely and kissed each other lightly on the lips, then held the other tightly in their arms. Durandal slumped and leaned her head into the Perceval's chest. "I can't believe you have to go... You've been back at Shicksal for only a few months, now... You're leaving again..." Perceval ran his hands through Durandal's hair. "I know... And I hate it." The Valkyrie frowned and ran her fingers across the Knight's muscular and slightly scarred chest, Perceval closed his eyes. "I hate that I have to leave like this. Especially because we just started a relationship with each other." Durandal buried her face in Perceval's chest. "I understand you have to leave... But... It hurts me." She shuddered and her voice trembled. "It hurts me more than seeing you in a nightmare." Perceval turned his face away; he felt his face heat up. "It... It makes it harder that I may be gone for a l-long time." Durandal brought her hands to Perceval's face and turned his head towards her. "Perceval... We'll see each other again." The tears that dripped down her face didn't convince the Knight whose own cheeks were stained with tears. "I-I know..." The two of them lay in the other's grasp, crying and sobbing violently. Perceval brought his hands to the back of Durandal's head, he pulled her into a kiss. They remained connected and kissed for as long as they possibly could, afraid that the other may somehow slip away from them. Reluctantly, they broke away and gasped for air. Perceval looked sadly into Durandal's eyes. "I love you..." The Valkyrie sobbed. "I love you too..." They wrapped their arms around each other and caressed the other in their grasp, Durandal slipped under the bed sheets and pressed her body against the Knight's. Perceval kissed Durandal while choking back sobs, the Valkyrie pushed herself further against Perceval's lips and began to cry uncontrollably. Perceval sobbed loudly as he broke away from the kiss. "B-Bianka... I don't want to leave... But I have to..." Durandal leaned her head on Perceval's shoulder. "I know... You have to leave to save yourself... But its going to hurt you in the process. God..." She sniffled; Perceval felt her tears running down his shoulder. The Knight shuddered. "I know what I have to do... But I don't..." He leaned his head against Durandal's. "I... I just... I-I don't know if I can do it!" He sobbed and cried loudly, Durandal shifted Perceval's head onto the pillow next to her and stared deeply into his tear filled, hazel eyes. She cupped his head with her hands and kissed him lightly on the forehead, her lips trembled, her hands shook violently. "P-Perceval... You are the strongest person I have ever met. I know that you can bring yourself to do what's right. I love you, Perceval... My darling..." Perceval shivered and cried louder, he bowed his head and leaned his forehead against hers. "I-I love you too, Bianka... Darling..."

ACT 19.5: END