-Street Blader/Spiron X Fanfiction-
This is based on the SB plot by Lunar-Heart
-SB is a fanfic based on beyblade-
Summary: Kristy Maxell is alone again- the Night Gangs have taken everything from her... Her team is gone, and she finds herself trapped in a torrent of depression and guilt. Arcos Aruzuma, Guardian of the Westside Alleys, and Leader of the most feared Alley Gang in all of the Forbidden Alleys has taken the Northside neko under his wing. Can the darkness and protection of the Black Thunder safe Kristy from herself and the Night Gang? Or will she fallow the same fate of those of her former Shadow Blader team?
Catagory: Angst/Romance
Rating: R (for violence, language, and sexual themes)
Pairing:Arcos Aruzuma/Kristy Maxell
Chapter: 1 - The Stray Neko
AN: please RR, please note that there is character death in the first chapter! you have been warned XP
Hazel eyes followed the velvet soft snow flakes as they wisped their way around her body before gently landing on the balcony railing which she leaned on. A dark black veil had covered the Forbidden Alleys in a calm silence of the late evening- and the snow of late December danced around her chilling her frozen body further.
Kristy Maxell, redheaded neko, leaned on the railing of her bedroom balcony, standing in silence as she watched over the Alleys that were given to her Leader to watch over. She was being unusually nice to Vincent for the past month now… She hadn't dyed his hair any abnormal colour and she didn't even bother to argue with the blonde Shadow Blader, even if he was being irrational… Maybe that was because he could no longer think rationally… or be himself… not after the afternoon of November third.
Nanashi Kojii, younger brother to her leader, best friend to Kristy, and the innocent naïve child of the team- had died… no, not died- murdered. The Night Gangs of the Forbidden Alleys showed the innocent Shadow Blader no mercy when he ran into them after buying paints from the store- the scary thing was, it was late afternoon; still light, when the alley kids still owned the Forbidden.
Vincent had just come out of the grocery store and was heading towards the area where he said he would meet Nanashi… but instead found his younger brother, on the ground of the entrance of the Forbidden Alleys while three Night Gang members stabbed him to death.
Kristy shut her eyes at the memory. If only she had gotten there sooner…
One of the men who was towering over Nanashi was the Night Gang leader- everyone just called him "Boss" no one knew his real name; and the other two were just two tagalong's he dragged with him on his walk.
Unfortunately, her acute hearing heard Nanashi's screams of agony all the way from her balcony- and without hesitation, she had jumped down and raced her way towards his cries of help. But it was too late- the time she got there… all three men were dead… Nanashi wasn't breathing… and Vincent was covered in both innocent and tainted blood.
That was the first time she knew Vincent could kill… At first she was too stunned to cry, and too scared to move. But she was afraid of her own leader… he had killed… but then, she remembered looking down at Nanashi's maimed body- pools of blood…. Blood… everywhere… the stench made her want to vomit… Nanashi was gone… Death surrounded them… Blood.
She vaguely remembered her body shaking before she felt to bloody arms wrap around her. That was it… that was the last straw… she and Vincent stood alone in the North side crying… covered in blood… their only remaining hope on the team taken from them.
Kristy shook her head from her thoughts- she didn't want to wallow in that pain again… things were slowly getting easier… but it didn't erase the pain or the fact that she missed the hikari.
Suddenly a loud BANG broke Kristy from her calmed state, causing her to look over her shoulder and at her opened door, leading out to the hallway- the sound sounded like it came from the living room… last she checked Averus and Trista were cuddling on the couch… 'What the fuck are they doing to each other??'
But the sound was followed by a piercing scream which rang with fear and pain. It was Trista… suddenly before she had any time to react she saw Vincent race down the hallway heading towards the living room which seemed to be echoing with screams of pain and agony.
Kristy followed suit and raced out into the hallway, but the scene which unfolded in front of her made her stop in her tracks… just like that afternoon on November third.
Pinned against the far wall of the apartment was Averus; knifes embedded in his chest, upper arms, stomach and collar bone, as if holding him there against the wall which was now splattered in violent red blood. His eyes looked hallow… his expression as if trying to gasp for air unchanging; as blood slowly seeped from his lips… he was already gone.
Kristy tried to swallow the fear that was already consuming her, but then her eyes cast to the couch… Trista… her hair was cut short, she barely recognised her. A knife was sticking up from her stomach as blood spilled off the couch and on to the carpet below. One hand clutched around the knife, the other dangling off the edge of the couch- her eyes shut, and she could tell from her expression… that she felt immense pain before her life slipped through her fingers.
Kristy suddenly glanced at Vincent, who had just killed the last of the five men which had invaded their home and stole the life of her team mates…. They laid sprawled on the floor, and one of the men as still clutching the long locks of hair which he had cut from Trista's head.
It was the Night Gangs… they were out for revenge and Vincent and Kristy knew it.
Suddenly Kristy found her self being practically carried back to her own room, as the bedroom door slammed behind her and Vincent as he pushed her dresser in front of the door. It would hold, but not for long.
Kristy wasn't even sure what to do anymore… cry? Scream? Pass out? She suddenly felt so numb for the moment- practically all of her team was gone… and it wasn't even over yet.
"Maxell… Run." Vincent huffed through his ragged breaths; he was furious and already exhausted from killing the 5 men at once. "Keep running and don't look back!"
Kristy shook her head furiously once realizing what he was asking from her, "No!" she hissed, trying to hold back the tears, "I'm not leaving you or this team!"
"Maxell, there is no team- they are already dead-"
"Then I shall die with the team- as the Shadow Bladers!"
"Maxell this is an order! Get your ass out of that balcony now!" Vincent demanded as he glared at the stubborn neko before him
"Run with me then Vincent! Because, I'm not leaving without you- I'm not letting you die alone!" She couldn't help it, the tears were slowly coming.
"You know I can't do that baka neko! I'd rather die than to shatter my pride and run- from the Night Gangs no less! They killed my brother, and divided my team… And now as the Guardian of the Forbidden Alleys and as your Captain it is my duty to stand against them! I'm not running Maxell!" Vincent said through his gritted teeth, he didn't want to leave her by herself... he really didn't… but he couldn't run from this- he would die killing as many as he could.
BANG BANG – more Night Gangs had arrived.
"Now for this once, Kristy! Listen to me and run! I can't let them fully destroy all of us! Damnit woman, run!" Vincent was now yelling at her… he knew this would haunt her forever, oh he knew what would come of this… but he also knew, if anyone could survive on their own, it would be Maxell- and he would be damned to let her die as well.
Kristy let out a sob, "Vincent… I'm sorry for everything I've done to you- I was just having fun... I- I'm sorry!" She choked as she turned and ran towards her balcony, not wanting to break down in front of her leader- but it was already too late for that.
Her running away meant his death…
"Maxell…"
Kristy paused as she pressed her palms on the cold snowy railing of her balcony. Why did this have to happen? Why did she have to be alone again?
"You will always be a Shadow Blader. I have no regrets in taking you in." He said slowly, as he shut his eyes in an attempt to hide his own pain. He sighed heavily as he felt Kristy run into him and wrap her arm around him in a hug as she continued to cry, it was kind of awkward- and normally he would have pushed her away- but instead he hugged her back… because after this, they would both be alone… never to see each other again- the Shadow Bladers would be history.
"Now go!!!"
Within seconds Kristy had jumped the railing, and started to run… in no particular direction… She just kept running. She let out a hoarse cry of pain mixed within her tears as she heard the final agonizing cry of Vincent echoing its way from her apartment. He was gone… they all were… they all left her alone. She was alone- again. It was just like before she was Shadow Blader- only now, she felt even more scared than before.
At least when she was a stray, she didn't have fear- she roamed the alleys with ease and confidence... but now without her team… she was lost… broken… alone… afraid. Her weak body continued to carry her through the Forbidden, no longer carrying where she was going, no longer carrying where she would stop.
Now she could hear the pounding footsteps of the other Night Gang members chasing her through the vacant Alleys. The gentle snow that was once calmly falling to the alley floors somehow became a torrent of icy winds acting like the frozen hands of death as it clawed at her skin, slowly numbing her body.
She didn't realise how cold the winters got in Tokyo until that moment- she could feel the cold winds and snow slowly draining of warmth and the energy to run. But if she stopped… the pounding footsteps that followed her grew louder- and the morbid yells of the Night Gang grew closer.
They were going to kill her… and her body was slowly shutting down on her- she would not be able to fight back for very long. She hadn't noticed how exposed her body was… bare feet slapped the alley floors painfully; they were numb from the snow and slowly bleeding from the cuts she had received while running. She only wore her pair of jeans and a thin shirt, with its sleeves resting on her shoulders and cut out so they wrapped around her upper arm.
WHAM
Something hard and solid hit the back of Kristy's head causing her to stumble and trip forward. Luckily, thanks to her training, she managed to roll off of her shoulder and continue to tumble through the snow, until slamming roughly into an alley wall, before dropping back down into the frigid snow beneath her.
She moaned loudly and slowly reached her hand up behind her head to see if it was bleeding- it wasn't. She was hit with a snowball… and in her weak state, she fell because of it.
Kristy found her self barely wheezing- it was so hard to breathe and the cold weather was making it much worse. The snow crunched ominously around her… she knew she was surrounded now.
Five men towered over the weak neko-girl, snickering and growling in a way that made the redhead shiver- but it wasn't from the cold.
"Look," The one closest to her kneeled in front of her, "She's been crying." He mocked.
Kristy twitched subconsciously at this… how dare he…
The four others around him snickered as he continued to stare at her, even though she refused to look up at him. "Hah, I heard about this brat- she's the weakling of the group." He smirked, his dark hair swaying in the ominous wind, "It's almost pathetic that we have to get rid of this one. At least the others put up a decent fight- but all this one does, is run..." he mused.
They killed her team… her friends… her family…
"Maybe it's because she's too weak to put up a fight." Another laughed, "Without the others dead she's nothing."
And now…. Now they were mocking her- calling her weak…. Laughing at her…
After she ran away from her foster home, she vowed she would never give into death; she would never be weak again….
The one closest to her smirked, and slowly reached out and roughly pulled her hair back to get a better look at her, "Isn't that right, little one? You're afraid aren't you?" his smile was making her insides churn with anger and hatred. "You know you're defeated so you run, in hopes that we might spare you?" he snorted at this, "You are almost too pathetic to waste my blade on you." He snarled spitefully.
He had taken everything from her… this man that pulled painfully on her hair… he killed the ones she loved…
'You will always be a Shadow Blader. I have no regrets in taking you in.' Vincent's voice… she could hear him.
The man pulled back harder on her red hair, "You truly are pathetic girl," the man hissed with an evil glint in his eye, "You let your team die! You just ran like a lil baby! And you let them die! Now it's rightfully your turn…"
'Then I shall die with the team- as the Shadow Bladers!'
'Maxell this is an order! Get your ass out of that balcony now!'
Something snapped inside of her- she was given an order by her leader, and as a Shadow Blader she was not about to disobey him- not in this situation. He wanted her to live as long as possible- but now it was her time. She would die as a Shadow Blader- only this time… this time she would die fighting!
Kristy lunged forward at the man, landing her strongest punch square in his fast- she felt his nose crush beneath the impact, with the sickening crack. She then briskly turned, and thrust her forearm against his elbow, both hearing and feeling it too, snap with the force.
The man screamed in agony as Kristy pounced up to her feet, panting from exhaustion and furry. The four other men stumbled back for a moment as their leader (whom Kristy had known to be one of the higher ranking Night Gang Members) wheezed as he clutched his right mutilated arm.
She knew she had made them all very angry- and they would have no intention in holding back when they killed her… but she would fight them as long as she could.
"You just made a very big mistake bitch!" The wounded Night Gang Member hissed at her through clenched teeth, "Now, you are going to suffer before you die- and I promise you, you won't die a virgin tonight either."
At his threat, she found herself pressed up against the wall as she glared at the other four men who slowly approached her.
Kristy only managed a few blocks (her forearms were now bruised), before all four men had pinned her down in the freezing snow, which made it all the more worse- as she felt her body slowly become numb and weak. She felt their large hands pry at her body in ways no others had touched her before- and each time she began to struggle, she would earn a harsh blow to the ribs and stomach.
She moved her body so she could punch one of the men, but he had grabbed her wrist and slammed it painfully to the snow covered alley floor, causing her to cry out in pain and fear.
"Stop it!!" She screamed angrily- of all the times she needed her team… they were gone though… the wounded Night Gang Member was right… she was alone and helpless without them… She would did here tonight… she would die at the perverted hands of the Night Gangs- and there was nothing she could do.
'Now for this once, Kristy! Listen to me and run! I can't let them fully destroy all of us! Damnit woman, run!'
She shut her eyes, letting tears stream down her face- her body still tense as she felt her shirt being ripped off of her. 'I'm sorry Vincent… they destroyed us all… the Shadow Bladers are gone.'
Kristy let out a loud yell, mixed with pain and guilt- it echoed over the forbidden alleys… but it didn't matter, and she knew it- no one would come… she was a stray again, she belonged to no one… her home in the North Side had left her to die…
Suddenly the hands stopped their prying, just as her jeans were removed- it stopped. She slowly opened her eyes to see why.
Never in all of her years in the Forbidden Alleys had she been so relieved to see such a site. There glaring at all five men around her was a tall teen- long black girlish looking hair, flowing down his back- two well-toned muscular arms folded over his rippled chest- and a pair of the iciest eyes you would ever see glared at them.
"Arcos…" she managed to whisper out. She knew he had heard her- he was the only one besides herself that had such acute hearing, that they could hear even the faintest whisper.
His eyes narrowed at hem men, "I don't think the Shadow Blader will be very impressed to find out you idiots are raping the North side neko... In my alleys no less." His voice was smooth and calm- he seemed unaffected with the fact that he was out-numbed four to one.
The leader, who still looked like he was remotely in pain stood up fully to glare at Arcos in return, "All the Shadow Blader's wont even shudder at that fact, because they are all dead." He smirked wickedly, "And this little one is next."
Arcos took a moment to process the information as he put the puzzle pieces together- the younger hikari Kojii Brother had died last month- and if he remembered correctly, Vincent had killed the Night Gangs leader…
"So you killed the Shadow Bladers for revenge?" Arcos quirked an eyebrow at this; now the Forbidden Alleys and the Northside no longer had a Guardian… Well, that was interesting. There would be some definite changes around the alleys thanks to Vincent's murder.
"Aren't you the quick thinker?" The man snarled at the black-haired teen.
Arcos twitched at this, he hated being mocked. "I suggest you hand the girl over to me quietly." Normally he wouldn't do this- but under the circumstances, he knew the rest of the Alley kids would be furious with him if he left the only remaining Shadow Blader to die, when he could have done something.
Alley murders were forbidden when it came to the kids… and if Arcos left her here alone- he would be considered a murderer himself. Not only that, but his best friend Rayden Clyde shared a liking towards the neko-girl; even if they did argue and tease each other all the time, they held a mutual friendship- and he knew Rayden would not be at all happy if the neko was raped and killed.
Besides, even he had had a small liking towards her- he rather enjoyed the fact that she enjoyed to dye Vincent's hair different colours each month- in fact his Black Thunder Gang often bet each other on which hair colour Maxell would dye it next. Plus the fact that she was awesome with blackmail material had always quirked his interest.
But now the men around her were wanting to steal her innocence… ah yes… he knew what that felt like all too well- he had experienced it many times before he had become the Guardian of the Westside and Leader of the Black Thunders. No kid should ever go through that pain or humiliation… not even the neko-girl.
His fists were clenched as he glared at the men around him. "And why should we even bother doing that, let alone listening to some alley kid?" The man sneered back, "She's our prey! Go find a prostitute or something, but this one is ours."
"Maybe you are the one who should heed your own advice." Arcos snarled back, reaching for his knife in his back pocket.
"You're out-numbed kid! Fuck off—ahhhh." Suddenly the man fell to the ground as blood poured from his throat, staining the white snow with its crimson colour.
Arcos slowly let his tongue slide over the blood stained blade, cleaning it, as he glared back at the Night Gang Member's lifeless body, "I'm not a kid." He hissed, before his eyes narrowed back at the four men around the neko-girl, who were now on their feet, and lunging at him with their own knifes.
Kristy watched in horror as four more murders were committed before her eyes once again, she shut them tight and covered her ears in attempt to shut out the sputtering cries of pain and death….
Silence…
Footsteps…
Silence…
Kristy whimpered as she felt a hand slowly raise her chin to meet icy blue eyes. "You're safe now." He whispered, not softly… but not coldly either.
She shivered beneath his touch- she had nearly forgotten why Arcos Aruzuma was the most feared teen in all of the Forbidden Alleys. He had killed many… and it was rumoured that he had his own bone collection as well as a fetish for blood—and it was proven when he licked the metallic liquid off of his blade after killing the wounded man.
"Arcos…" she managed to choke out.
Arcos let out a loud sigh, as he slowly wrapped one arm around her; and as if one cue, Kristy found her self falling forward in her weakness, her vision becoming horribly blurry. She was passing out, but she was scared… she didn't want to die, alone in the Westside alleys…
But she wasn't alone… Arcos wrapped his other arm around her, and slowly stood up with her in his arms bridal style. He stared down at the girl who was struggling to stay awake.
He growled slightly, "Dammit woman, for this once believe me… You're safe- you can stop struggling now." His voice grew slightly softer at this, as he watched the redheaded neko girl, slowly slip away into unconsciousness.
AN: Alright everyone, tell meh what you think? To be honest, this has got to be one of my better fanfics- plus im obsessed with the Arcos/Kristy pairing. RR pweeeze??? I luvvies yew!! XD
Kristy Maxell © mystic-water
Vincent & Nanashi Kojii © SparkyKnight
Trista Kansaki © Blue-Winged-Angel
Street Blader, Arcos Aruzuma, Rayden Clyde © Lunar-Heart
Averus SilentStorm © ??? 0.o
Beyblade © Aoki Takao