Phasma+by+Nudoru

This is a short story that I wrote for Moon-Crescent-Roleplay. I might turn it into a full book eventually.

Sharay looked down at the once-beautiful meadow, her heart sick inside her. Blood and fire had transformed her childhood playground into a graveyard for the vengeful dead. And it was her fault. She licked her dry lips and turned to look at the stranger who had led her there. Her brown eyes wild, she shoved the cloth-wrapped object in her hands into the stranger's arms. "Take it!" she screamed. "Take it and go!" The cloaked figure held the sword, calmly staring her down with eyes she could not see. Just as quietly, he began unwrapping the sword with one hand. "Stop! What are doing?!" Sharay cried, grabbing his arm. "You'll bring the full force of the curse down on us! Look at that!" She yelled, pointing at the ruined field below. "If I had never brought that-that //thing// back, this never would have happened!" With a twist of his wrist, the stranger broke her hold, and continued unwrapping the sword, the cursed Phasma. Sharay's next attack was stopped by a single word.
 * Phasma by Nudoru**

"No."

Sharay flinched as though she'd been struck, watching in silent horror as the last of the cloth fell away from the dreaded weapon. Phasma's blade was laid bare to the world, icy gray and terrible. The hilt, held calmly by the stranger's hand, was of gold. It was the Conquering Sword, the Cursed Blade, and the cause of the world war in front of her. She staggered backwards and fell to her knees, shaking. "Why...?" The sword sunk into the ground in front of her, causing her to jerk back. "Phasma is not to blame for this." Looking up, Sharay could see the stranger's eyes for the first time; steel gray eyes that perfectly matched Phasma's blade. Was this the Bringer? The one she had been running from all this time? //I played right into his hands, like a fool!// "Phasma did not do this." he said, gesturing at the carnage below them. "People did. Greed, avarice, pride, call it what you will. There is no curse, save the sin that lurks in every heart. //That// is why they died." And before Sharay's astonished eyes, he broke the sword in half.