Darker Than Black
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is not my own creation.
Another story for everyone to indulge themselves in…however I will warn you now this isn't anything like my other stories. This story may require an iron gut…Enjoy!
I sighed loudly as I scribbled away fruitlessly on the tiny blank corner of the page determined not to use more than 5 pages of previously living trees for this horrific torture known as maths homework. I would call the room I sat in with four other girls silent but the scratches of pencils to other sheets of paper were hellishly loud, accompanied with the ever flicking pages of the large volume nestled in Ami's lap as she analysed far more complex and advanced equations that none of us could ever hope to comprehend. More strands of my brunette locks blocked my view as I ran my hand through the thick mess continuously, an annoying habit I had developed whenever my intellectual progress had halted and even more annoyingly I had been doing it constantly throughout the course of this study session. It wasn't helpful that the brilliant blue sky outside started gloating its happiness by positioning the sun directly in front of me so that it's luminous rays blinded my emerald green eyes through the large window. I groaned into the paper I had used up, the 5 page limit seemed a bit ambitious as I now realised I was scribbling away at my eighth,
"Damn it," I muttered under my breath but Ami who was situated to my right heard me clearly and offered some much needed assistance to the spiralling abyss of numbers and equations I found myself falling into,
"Breath Mako-chan…" Ami whispered as she gathered my scattered workings for this particular question and scanned my scrawl for some indication of where I was going wrong,
"Ah here we go Mako-chan you're almost there you just need to add this fraction to that equation and multiply your answer by 72 which you get from the question up above, do you get that?" Ami finished looking into my electric green eyes to see if it had made any difference on my grounded stance within the mathematical world.
"Yes actually," I said in confusion, the simplicity of the actions Ami had taken were staggering, why hadn't she realised it before? Picking up a clean sheet of paper to start again in a more structured sequence of answering the question. I felt the sharp edge of the paper drag itself through the skin between my thumb and forefinger,
"Shit!" I flinched at the pain as the my fair skin became tainted with trickles of dark crimson blood spilling out from the seemingly invisible cut I had received.
"Oh Mako-chan that looks horrible!" Minako moaned her face scrunching up in sympathy as I rose to stop the flow in the bathroom.
However before I had reached the door, my vision reduced itself into a blanket of blackness, screams erupted from behind me as I whipped around in my blinded state feeling almost drunk as the room illuminated in a crackle of flashing white from the window, light streaking across my friends faces as they screamed again as the deafening booming of thunder exploded on top of us, causing them to dive under the table for safety…from a storm?
"Makoto! Make it Stop!" Rei yelled as a violent wind battered against the window accompanied by flailing branches screeching as they too hammered the glass,
"It's not me!!" I yelled back to my frightened companions but my voice was drowned out by another detonation of chaotic sound waves hit us forcing me to stumble back in the thick inky atmosphere, I had lost my footing harder than I thought as my back collided with the glass cabinet, shattering the fragile material and imbedding the torrent of shards into my soft skin, puncturing the pores and unleashing streams of what smelled and tasted like metallic liquid seeping down my body,
"Aah!" I chocked out to the isolating black, the lightning flashed, the thunder snarled and the wind roared; all of the elements congregating and effectively killing my sight and sound.
Dull quaking…the world beneath me was quivering…
"Earthquake!" Ami bellowed from somewhere far away in the midst of the endangering clamour but her warning came too late for me to find any sort of refuge as I was suddenly ploughed into another abyss by the caving roof: wood, metal and cement crushed my body. This was it. I was going to die…
The ground broke apart underneath the weight of the falling building and I found my barely conscience self hurtling downwards into somewhere darker than black…
The blackness didn't stop nor did it give any indication of solid ground before I collided face first into cold, wet concrete, smashing into the substance so hard that I felt my bones shattering instantly in many places in my body as the concrete dented considerably under my force, bouncing sickeningly back into the air I landed on my bleeding back, screaming my life away in pure excruciating pain.
My crackling scream turned into savage coughing as I felt my throat constricting and choking of the spurts of blood being pumped up from my depleting lungs. I rasped heavily trying to regain some oxygen to keep my limp body alive, my torn skin, my crushed bones my ruptured insides burned viciously with every gurgling breath I inhaled. The sounds of the storm and the trembling pulsation of the earthquake were now eerily silent, the only things I could hear in my prison of black was the pitiful sounds of myself desperately hanging onto life. The intensity of my pain was being reduced slightly by the fearful amount of adrenaline being pumped rapidly around my dead body, my mind was propelling its' sanity to the boundaries as it calculated every sort of fear fuelled question possible.
Harsh clinking and softer tapping brought my sluggish mind into shuddering terror: I was not alone in this terrifying screen of nothingness. Suddenly cruel light glared down on my broken frame, the light attacking my eyes that had been cut off from any sort of vision for what felt was a long time. The green eyes with speckles of blue in the middle of the pupil signalling the signs of actually blindness started alarmed up at the smirking face of a woman with black hair held together in a lose bun. Her eyes were the definition of black holes as I felt the lingering sensations of life being sucked into them as she studied me in amusement.
"Wh…o?" I croaked out before another serious of raging coughs racked my form spilling more blood from my punctured pores,
"Me?" Said the woman in mock surprise, "I'm no one someone who is going to die will need to know," She giggled walking around my body the clinking of chain were heard but they were frighteningly close but whatever was connected to them remained illusive to the austere light bathing my form highlighting its extreme vulnerability to the unknown depths of the darkness.
"D…die?" I gurgled as I spat out a mouth of black clotting blood with more oozing from my mouth as I tried to keep my eyes on her moving figure,
"Oh yes anyone who sees me will die, can't have survivors spreading the horrors of my powers to the world now…" I could only stare at her as the shortness of breath was increasing with the previous two utterances I had made,
"I'll have fun with your friends too, don't worry," She laughed happily as though she was frolicking in a fair ground, my eyes widened at the mention of my friends but I had to close them immediately as pain shot through my orbs, "I have been bored for a long time and I think you and your friends are exactly the sort of entertainment and dinner requirements for my pets, isn't that right Raiju?"
A guttural roar emitted from the darkness lingering above my head but nothing came into view, this time the world wasn't trembling I was. I was quaking physically through the burgeoning fear in my defenceless body. The clinking of chains being unclipped and dropping onto the solid ground filed my ears over the pounding fear and adrenaline,
"Well Kino Makoto, aka Sailor Jupiter too bad I couldn't enjoy watching you die with a fight but I'm sure Raiju won't mind playing with her food for a while, goodbye," The woman snapped her fingers and the darkness came alive, lunging out and grabbing my form with huge, powerful jaws brimming with razor sharp fangs, tearing through my flesh effortlessly. One large fang pierced through my throat so even if I wanted to I couldn't scream out at torturous pain being inflicted by this beast.
Raiju swung her head launching me into another cavern of darkness that suddenly became illuminated and in my dieing moments I looked up into the beast's face to see it's bristling black fur with silver lightning streaks zig-zagging down its back, what a way to go I thought as I lay there suffocating on my blood…killed by an animal that possesses my own element…
A huge clawed paw smashed down into my chest crushing the last of my ribs and sending extreme currents of electricity through me, while teeth returned to pierce my leg until the pain increased significantly and my body didn't feel as heavy anymore. Raiju was chomping down my leg; blood spurted down the beasts' mouth as it devoured the severed limb. The noise of the bones cracking was all I heard until the feline came back to my side and in one movement cleanly separated my body into many pieces with splashes of black and red blood splattering on my face and Raiju's but thankfully ending my torment…
Raiju -A Japanese demon whose name means, "thunder animal". It is a demon of lightning in the shape of a cat, badger or weasel. During thunderstorms it becomes extremely agitated and leaps from tree to tree. If a tree shows the marks of lightning, people say that Raiju's claws have scratched it open.
I told you it was different…well? –Dark Shadows 01